After Fang Xiaoling regained consciousness, she felt no strength in her body.
She sat up tiredly and saw a note in the crack of the bedroom door.
I got out of bed and picked it up. When I opened it, I saw it read: "As long as the team gives up returning to the real world, I will ask my father to rescue Li Mengli.
——Yu Yan”
"Don't even think about it!" Fang Xiaoling crumpled the note into a ball and threw it to the ground.
As soon as she opened the door and walked into the living room, she saw Li Mengli sitting on the sofa meditating. She slowly opened her eyes: "Sister Xiaoling, are you awake?"
"Mengli? When did you come back?" Fang Xiaoling walked up and looked at her with concern, "Are you okay? Are you injured?"
"It's all over." Li Mengli shook her head, "The Third Generation God King sent people to rescue me, and even built a private [Consciousness Transmitter] for my true body."
"You don't understand Meng Li. The third generation God King is not a good person either. He saved you because he was afraid that the team would go to the real world. And if you leave your true body anywhere, it doesn't mean you are safe..."
"I understand everything, Sister Xiaoling." Li Mengli interrupted her, "You have been sleeping for three days. I am waiting for you in the living room because of the instructions of the team."
"Assigned by the team? Why do you feel like I have been excluded?" Fang Xiaoling sat aside, picked up the cup on the coffee table and took a sip of water, "I didn't expect that I fell asleep for three days..."
"The team has already voted, and everyone's decision is not to go back." Li Mengli said, "Yu Ren's real mission this time is to convince the team to give up going back to the real world.
Apparently, he succeeded.
Sister Xiaoling, you will respect the voting results, right? "
"Hey -" Fang Xiaoling sighed, and after a moment of silence, she asked, "I want to know, who agrees to go back?"
"I don't all agree." Li Mengli said straightly, "Although I have suffered a lot in the real world, my answer now is still - forget it."
"Forget it?" Fang Xiaoling stood up, "What's wrong with everyone?
Do we really want those people to do evil in the real world? "
"Sister Xiaoling, the real world is hopeless.
Even if those nobles are eliminated, the resources will not increase. "Li Mengli said seriously, "The carnival of those few people will not last long.
Just let them fend for themselves.
The reason why I'm here waiting for you to wake up is because no one wants to mention the real world anymore. "
As she spoke, her expression dimmed, "I don't want to mention it, but after all, my kidnapping was one of the reasons why the team went to the real world before.
Now that I'm back, Sister Xiaoling, everything ends here. "
"Escape...Mengli, you are escaping!" Fang Xiaoling knocked on the coffee table and said, "Is the meaning of the team's existence just to survive?
What to do in Wanguijie? What about those people who innocently lost their legs? What about the babies? What about future babies?
Li Mengli, can you really hold back your thoughts? Maybe the small team is the only hope for Wanguijie. "
"We are also victims and have no responsibility or obligation to save them." Li Mengli said coldly, "Sister Xiaoling, for the civilians in the Wanjie Realm, perhaps ignorance is the luckiest thing.
Before the end of the world, the most miserable and fearful people are not the humans, but Noah. "
"What are these words?" Fang Xiaoling looked at Li Mengli for a while, then slowly shook her head, "No... this is not true.
You are not Li Mengli, you were sent by them.
This is a conspiracy..."
"This is not a conspiracy." Roland opened the door to his room, "What Mengli told you is the unanimous decision of all of us."
"Sister..." Fang Xiaoling's whole body was exhausted. Her eyes flicked around the coffee table and the ground, not knowing where to look.
With more tears gathering in her eyes, she finally looked at Roland.
"Sister, I don't agree with everyone's decision."
"We know." Roland did not look away. She folded her arms and leaned against the door frame, turning to look at Fang Xiaoling. "So, which one is more important to you, the Wanjie Realm or us?"
Fang Xiaoling did not answer.
she cried.
The crying became more and more heart-breaking.
It's not because she considers the victims of Wanguijie to be family.
But because her family chose to ignore the victims of Wanguijie.
she cries.
Not because she couldn't save it.
It was because she found that she really had a reason not to save him.
Li Mengli stood up and didn't look at Fang Xiaoling who was crying behind her, nor at Roland who was standing not far away. She just returned to her room silently.
Roland's thumbnails dug into the pads of her index fingers, and the pain reminded her that she must not move forward at this time.
She turned back to the bedroom and closed the door.
Fang Xiaoling's painful cries spread through every room in the house, but no one wanted to open their door to comfort her.
Roland walked to the window, took a cigarette from the cigarette case on the window sill and lit it. The smoke he exhaled floated out through the cracks in the window and was blown away in the cold wind.
Li Mengli sat in front of the dressing table, looking at herself in the mirror combing her hair. As she combed her hair, she suddenly stopped and her eyes were fixed on the fallen hairs of the wooden comb.
Li Mengling was asleep, but when she was woken up by crying, she just sighed, took out the USB flash drive under the pillow, turned over and threw it into the trash can next to the bed.
Xiaolan stayed up all night. After hearing the cry, the scissors in her hand paused for a few seconds. After cutting the game card, she picked up another game card from the scattered game cards on the ground and slowly repeated the action just now.
Li Xiaoyu lay on the bed with his eyes open, staring blankly at the ceiling, gently stroking the honey lying on his body with his hands, and murmured: "It's okay...it's okay...it will all pass...everything will pass..." Everything will be fine..."
The words Li Xiaoyu muttered in his mouth like a dream came true like a spell.
That night, Fang Xiaoling prepared a sumptuous dinner and invited Yu Ren to eat with her.
There was a lot of fun and laughter at the dinner table, as if nothing had happened.
From that night on, no one in the team mentioned anything about the real world.
Everything is really getting better.
Except for that weird but harmless thing - Fang Xiaoling's smile.
After that day, Fang Xiaoling always had a smile on her face, every day, every second.
You will smile after laughing loudly, you will smile during an argument, and you will still smile when you are choking on tears while chopping onions.
But what's even more weird is that no one in the team is curious about that smile, as if Fang Xiaoling always has a smile on her face.
(End of chapter)
