Once Chen Duo dies, the poison will lose its effectiveness. If he wants to survive, Liao Zhong can only kill Chen Duo.
Now Liao Zhong only has two choices left, either Chen Duo dies or he dies.
"Uh-wow-"
Liao Zhong spit out blood and slowly fell to the ground against the wall. His eyes were bloodshot, making his already not very kind face look even more ferocious.
"Chen Duo...you..."
"Original Gu...this is what you have studied..."
Chen Duo slowly approached while explaining, and gently stretched out his hand to lift Liao Zhong's hand holding the controller, "Come on, Uncle Liao...send me away."
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"Did you hear everyone?" Bi Youlong asked in a deep voice.
The scene changes again.
Sun Haoran listened silently to the conversation of several directors sitting in front of the gloomy board of directors sitting in front of their desks.
"Liao Zhong, as the person in charge of this incident, can be said to have completely derelict in his duties..." Bi Youlong took out a controller from his trouser pocket. This controller was exactly the same as the one in Liao Zhong's hand.
It's right to think about it. If they were not fully prepared, how could the board of directors be so confident in handing over a dangerous person like Chen Duo to Liao Zhong's management.
But Sun Haoran and others, who already knew the outcome of the matter, understood that the plan of these guys had failed. There were not many people in the world who could freely modify the magical weapons refined by others, and they just happened to meet them.
Now the controller in Bi Youlong's hand is just a decoration.
"You also have a switch in your hand..." Zhao Fangxu seemed a little surprised that Bi Youlong held the power of life and death of the Gu-body Holy Child. If it were normal, he might feel a little dissatisfied, but the current situation has proven that this is the case. Yes.
"I am the only front-line person among you...so I will always give the front-line comrades the greatest respect...If possible, I don't want to overstep their bounds, but in order to ensure that there is no risk and to ensure the safety of comrades, now has come to a point where I have to do this. It's time." Bi Youlong said, raising the controller in his hand to indicate that as long as everyone here nodded, he would press it without hesitation.
"Um……"
And when it came to a life-and-death situation like this, the directors would naturally not object and nodded in agreement.
However……
When Bi Youlong pressed the controller, Liao Zhong's voice still came from over there, and this voice was not talking to them, but obviously to Chen Duo.
"Chen Duo...don't give up..."
Liao Zhong's voice sounded extremely weak, but his tone was unusually firm.
Everyone on the board of directors was shocked when they heard this. Bi Youlong instantly realized that something was wrong and shouted: "Liao Zhong! Who are you talking to!? Is the Gu boy still alive!?"
"Liao Zhong!
"
"..."
There was no response there.
For a moment, the atmosphere in the office was as silent as death.
"I was careless..." Bi Youlong punched the desk hard, sending sawdust flying everywhere, "This stubborn donkey!"
He thought that Liao Zhong had someone change the magic weapon himself.
"What about Liao Zhong..." someone asked hesitantly.
"..."
Bi Youlong shook his head silently.
Everyone knew what he meant by shaking his head.
Liao Zhong was hopeless.
Because they were not fully prepared, they could only watch a comrade pass away.
This was partly because Liao Zhong himself was too impulsive and stubborn, but without their permission, Liao Zhong would never have had the opportunity to do so many things for Chen Duo.
Now Bi Youlong only regrets: "Damn it, I shouldn't have agreed to that guy's request from the beginning."
He wanted to smash the communicator in front of him as if to vent his anger, but was stopped by someone.
Zhao Fangxu and others stood up silently and bowed in silence together towards the communicator where the sound of heavy breathing came from.
From Liao Zhong's words and his silent expression at this moment, they could feel the man's consciousness, but this was stupid and could even be said to be a betrayal to the company.
But they are their comrades after all.
"Tell someone to seal off that area immediately. No one can be allowed to leave!"
After a few seconds of silence, Bi Youlong took out his walkie-talkie and gave an order in a deep voice.
"What a tragedy." Zhang Chulan couldn't help but sigh.
As Zhuge Qing said, it is precisely because no one made a mistake that it is the most sad and emotional.
There is nothing wrong with this matter, no matter which angle it is taken from.
Ma Xianhong just wanted to save Chen Duo.
The people in the company just want to save their comrades.
And Chen Duo... probably really wants Liao Zhong to 'send' her away, so that Liao Zhong will no longer be caught in a dilemma, and she can also be freed. After all, death may not be terrible to her. .
But in the end it backfired.
Several people returned to the floor where Chen Duo and Liao Zhong were.
The night wind at high altitudes makes people shiver all over, and this temperature is the temperature of death for Liao Zhong. The vitality in his body is constantly losing, and his body temperature begins to drop and will never get warmer again.
Several people's eyes were on Liao Zhong.
On his deathbed, this man wanted to reach out and touch something.
"right here……"
Sun Haoran looked at Zhuge Qing and Wang Ye beside him and asked: "Is there any way for us to hear Liao Zhong's voice when he was dying?"
"It would be great if there was such a convenient technique..." Wang Ye shook his head slightly.
"But... this is an interior scene. Try asking questions to the interior scene. You might be able to get a response, but... it's very dangerous. We shouldn't be involved in the past with cause and effect. It's just a matter of inferring from the side. Well, if you want to actively integrate in, no one will know the consequences." Zhuge Qing frowned slightly, "You want to try?"
"Wouldn't it affect you if I tried? You wouldn't mind, would you?" Sun Haoran asked with a smile.
"I mind, especially mind..." Wang Ye curled his lips, "But we have already boarded this broken ship, can we still imprison your thinking? In short, don't ask some terrible questions like Zhang Chulan did last time, just know What does a dead person think about before he dies? It shouldn’t be a big problem?”
"Haha... I try not to have distracting thoughts..."
Sun Haoran smiled awkwardly and jumped down from the air to the floor where Liao Zhong and Chen Duo were.
He walked in the direction of the two of them, but it was as if the whole world had nothing to do with him. Even though he had approached Liao Zhong and stared into those bloodshot eyes, the two of them still did not notice his presence.
This is because the time and space they live in are inherently different, and the past and future should not affect each other.
But the next moment, fate seemed to be intertwined by the power of heaven.
"What are you thinking about? Liao Zhong."
Sun Haoran asked murmuringly.
Then he seemed to begin to understand the thoughts of Liao Zhong, and the two people's thoughts overlapped with reality across time and space.
At this moment, Sun Haoran seemed to understand those eyes that turned red due to congestion.
He was obviously a dying man, but there was no despair in his eyes.
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"Is this what it feels like to have a poison planted on your body..."
Liao Zhong raised his head with difficulty and looked at the girl in front of him, reaching out his hand as if to comfort her, "I... understand... your... things are not going well... you want to... escape... I understand... but that Will mess up everything...Hold on...I will accompany you...You want to be...free...I understand...the person who can...heal you...I will accompany you...slim...but not impossible... There is no hope...to live a normal life like everyone else...your...happiness...what you have always wanted most...don't give up...absolutely...don't despair..."
"..."
Chen Duo was silent for a moment, raised his head slightly and looked up at the empty ceiling.
"Uncle Liao...it turns out you don't know anything...you taught me all kinds of things in the bunker...you said I learned quickly and praised me for being smart...are you lying to me? If you weren't lying... "
As he spoke, he looked down at the man in front of him, his eyes becoming a little angry, "Why do you think I'm a fool now? Why do you think I'm stupid enough to want a normal life? Speaking of which, a normal person's life What is life really like?”
"..." Liao Zhong's eyes froze for a moment and fell silent.
"Even if you can heal my body...can you still make this place normal for me?" Chen Duo pointed to his head, "Can you give me a so-called normal past? I never cared. Beyond the things you mentioned...for me...happiness should be something simpler to me...how can human beings think about...things other than cognition?"
"..."
Listening to Chen Duo's words, Liao Zhong remained silent.
Although his whole body was weakened by the severe pain caused by the poison, he still had the strength to press a button.
But he didn't choose to press it.
He just looked at the girl in front of him in silence, letting the diffuse black mist on her body envelope him.
This is the blackness of despair, and the girl in front of her has been living under such blackness since she was born.
At this moment, Liao Zhong seemed to finally understand. No...not that he finally understood. In fact, he should have understood a long time ago. He was just deceiving himself.
The so-called empathy is nonsense.
"I see……"
Liao Zhong smiled bitterly.
It turns out he was wrong...
Although he once tried to understand Chen Duo's pain and wanted to help him live like a normal person, but now it seems that it is all nonsense.
This is simply not a pain that ordinary people can endure. How can people who have been growing up in such pain... how can they become normal?
If you can't even understand, how can you talk about anything else?
Wanting the other person to live like a normal person seems to have always been his own wish.
What the girl in front of me wants...perhaps is simpler and more pure.
For example, it is enough as long as he stays by his side until death comes. Whether in the bunker, outside, as a temporary worker, or as a prisoner, as long as he is by her side, it is enough.
because……
He is the only light in this girl's life.
"But...am I wrong to think this way?"
Liao Zhong's eyes were a little distracted, and he was still extremely confused as he lay dying.
"The idea itself is not wrong." A calm voice remembered.
When Liao Zhong was dying, he seemed to have hallucinations.
It was a voice he didn't recognize, but he was already dying, so why did he care so much?
Maybe he should be grateful that someone came to comfort him before he died, although he didn't know who it was.
"Probably all normal people with good intentions would have this idea to let a poor child who has suffered a lot return to a normal life."
The man said calmly, but Liao Zhong seemed to think it made sense.
"But few people actually do it. Do you know why?" the man asked.
"Why...what?" Liao Zhong was a little confused.
"Because most people know that they can't do it, it's better to ignore it from the beginning than to give the other party unnecessary help. Why are hope and despair always discussed together? Because there is no hope... There will be no despair." The voice began to become cold and ruthless, seeming to deny everything Liao Zhong had done.
"..."
But Liao Zhong did not refute, just remained silent.
After a long time, the confusion in his eyes dissipated: "So that's it... I did something wrong from the beginning."
"No, I never said you did anything wrong." The voice was suddenly full of laughter.
"Uh..." Liao Zhong began to feel confused again.
"The idea itself is correct, and no one will say that what you do is wrong." The man explained, "Do what you think is right, what's wrong with it?"
"Then why...it turned out like this..." Liao Zhong was full of reluctance, but in fact he had already realized the crux of the problem.
“All failures in the world are caused by the lack of ability of those involved.”
That's right, the reason why he failed was simply because he didn't have the ability to achieve it.
He hopes to give the girl named Chen Duo a happy future where she can live freely, but such a future is far beyond his ability.
"So...is this really all we can do?"
Liao Zhong looked at the girl in front of him, thinking this in his heart, and his eyes became more and more distracted.
He knew that he was going to die.
"No...it's not over yet. As long as you are alive...there is still hope."
Liao Zhong quickly rejected his idea and threw away all the confusion in his heart.
He clutched the controller tightly and covered the buttons in his palm, as if he didn't want anyone to take away this last hope.
Yes, he was dying, but... the girl in front of him was still alive.
It doesn't matter if you don't understand, it doesn't matter if you don't have any hope.
Who knows if tomorrow will be better?
You have obviously deceived yourself and persisted until now, how could it end here? Liao Zhong was filled with unwillingness.
Anyone please save this kid.
Even in a future where I don’t exist.
"Don't worry, I will."
There was such a voice responding like this.
Liao Zhong slowly smiled, and he finally understood that it was not an illusion.
"Chen Duo..."
"Stay alive..."
Chen Duo looked at the man in front of him with confused eyes and opened his mouth, his voice getting weaker and weaker.
She doesn't quite understand why this man can still laugh... right now?
