Chapter 740
Chapter 740
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>Translator: Ryuma
>Chapter: 740
>Chapter Title: Hongzhong
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“Red Middle! Trust me! Don’t run! I’m not trying to harm you! We already agreed on this before!”
His body nearly crawling on the ground, Li Huowang exerted every ounce of strength to earnestly explain himself to the other.
But the Hongzhong at this moment was completely different from the previous vanished Hongzhong.
He looked at Li Huowang, the corners of his mouth curling up slightly. “Heh heh heh, trying to trick me? You’re still too green. I~don’t~be~lieve~you~.” With that, he started moving again, gradually putting distance between himself and Li Huowang.
Seeing this, Li Huowang nearly spat blood. He’d finally gotten him to agree to come along, but the moment the time was up, the guy forgot everything that had just happened!
He couldn’t even spare a thought for the Death Si Ming looming overhead right now. Gritting his teeth, he chased after Hongzhong with everything he had.
“Don’t you feel how different things are overhead now? Do you really want to keep looping in this godforsaken place forever? Trust me! I’ll get you out!”
“You tricking others doesn’t mean others are tricking you!! Think about it properly! Think about our situation! Is it better for you to stay stuck here, or come out with me?!”
Despite Li Huowang’s earnest pleading, Hongzhong remained unmoved, trying to get as far away from Kui Lei’s shadow as possible—and likewise from Li Huowang.
Li Huowang knew the other wasn’t listening to a word he said. The previous Hongzhong had seen the records on the giant pillar, but this one had no clue what the past version of himself had gone through.
In this situation, Li Huowang realized that no matter how much he said, it would only breed more suspicion.
As the buzzing of the prayer wheel by his ear gradually weakened, Li Huowang gritted his teeth and forcibly stood up against the Si Ming’s pressure.
The melting on Li Huowang’s body accelerated, but he couldn’t worry about that now. He chased after Hongzhong with all his might.
Walking was faster than crawling. Once Li Huowang finally caught up to Hongzhong, he pounced directly, pinning the guy down hard. “Stay put!”
Since the soft approach wasn’t working, he’d have to go hard.
“Alright, I get it. What you’re saying is true. Let go of my hand, and I’ll go with you.” The current Hongzhong looked at Li Huowang’s face as he spoke.
“Don’t pull that on me! It won’t work! I know you don’t believe me right now! You’ll run the second I let go!” Li Huowang, melting like a candle person, glared at him fiercely.
“You think I’m tricking you? Fine, assume I am! But no matter what, we need to get out of this place first! Get out of Kui Lei’s range! Once we’re out, I’ll explain everything properly!”
If they stayed any longer, forget explaining to Hongzhong—he’d probably scatter to the winds mid-sentence.
Hongzhong looked at the Li Huowang before him and finally nodded slowly.
Once Li Huowang started moving again, Hongzhong finally stopped dragging his feet. The two worked together to inch outward. As they moved, Hongzhong’s body began melting too.
Soon, they had no time to guard against each other. They threw everything they had into escaping this place first.
The melting parts of their bodies started sticking together, making the two of them look like conjoined twins.
Yet no matter how far they went, the melting speed didn’t slow much.
Though there was no mirror now, Li Huowang was certain he no longer looked human.
“What the hell did you do to piss off this thing before? Daring to mess with a Si Ming? Are you insane?” Hongzhong complained in dissatisfaction.
“How could we have messed with it?! This thing just showed up out of nowhere!” Li Huowang answered with difficulty.
The two struggled onward under the Death Si Ming’s pressure. Under the threat of life and death, they fell silent.
Just as Li Huowang thought they might gradually make it out like this, something unexpected happened—a gaze shot down from above. “Kui Lei’s looking at me?”
The moment this thought arose, Li Huowang froze. He felt his body completely unable to move, and his consciousness began melting away with it.
He was about to die. It was that unmistakable feeling everyone on the brink has.
In his near-death state, Li Huowang’s gaze involuntarily shifted upward. The Death Si Ming, which he couldn’t even glance at before without buckling, now seemed unusually intimate. The warmth radiating from its nearness felt like his mother’s embrace.
Gradually, Li Huowang saw himself drawing closer and closer. A smile crept onto his face.
As he got nearer, the thing on the ceiling began to change. It flattened out, turning into a pitch-black mirror right before his eyes.
In that mirror, Li Huowang saw his ink-black self. Their eyes met, and Li Huowang comprehended some heavenly principles, some rules within.
The mirror was part of him, and also part of Kui Lei. Every living being carried “death” with them from birth; every living being was part of Kui Lei from the start.
And the aggregation of all “death” was Kui Lei. The world changed endlessly, but death remained unchanging—death was eternity.
He didn’t know how long he stared, but just as Li Huowang was about to see in the mirror exactly how he died...
The mirror shattered as if shoved by something else, and that immense warmth vanished.
Only then did Li Huowang, feeling reborn, realize that the thing overhead had somehow completely disappeared.
Suddenly, Li Huowang felt the ground drop out from under him. With a powerful sensation of falling, he plummeted downward at extreme speed. Turns out, only his face had floated up; his body was still attached below.
When he came back to his senses, he found himself standing in place for who knows how long.
Suddenly, the two collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath, overjoyed to still be alive.
“What... exactly just happened?” Li Huowang struggled to recall everything from before, only to find his memory of it fragmented.
Though he didn’t know why, it seemed he’d dodged a disaster.
“Ji Zai’s doing?”
After catching his breath somewhat, Li Huowang thought for a moment before asking the Hongzhong beside him, “Do you know this thing’s pattern of appearance?”
“Didn’t you say it yourself? My memory only lasts an hour. You think I’d know what happened before?” Hongzhong looked at Li Huowang with mockery.
Hearing this, Li Huowang dropped it. The current Hongzhong had no brains to speak of—his were all carved on the pillar.
But regardless, surviving contact with a Si Ming was pretty lucky.
Whatever, forget it. Better not dwell too much on anything Si Ming-related.
With the death crisis past, it was Hongzhong’s turn next. The gasping Li Huowang turned to look at the Hongzhong mahjong face slumped on the ground beside him.
(End of chapter)