Chapter 187
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This was the best solution. They were deep underground, surrounded by the flesh and blood of the Anomaly Lord. They couldn’t escape the attacks from all directions. The only thing they could do was to quickly devour the heart of the Anomaly Lord.
Lou Yan thought coldly.
After the revival of the anomaly within him, his heart would possess strong anomaly power. At least, it wouldn’t just increase Fu Xuezhou’s mental power by a mere 10 points like the fake Lou father. Fu Xuezhou could simply kill him and consume his heart before leaving. Then, there would be no more Anomaly Lords in the world, and Fu Xuezhou would benefit as well.
Lou Yan felt that Fu Xuezhou had no reason to disagree.
Seeing Lou Yan devouring his own heart, the Anomaly Lord gave up on Fu Xuezhou and launched a second attack towards Lou Yan in anger. However, Fu Xuezhou, covered in blood, rushed over and once again protected Lou Yan from the ubiquitous attacks of the Anomaly Lord’s tentacles.
Once again, the man who had been heavily injured fell onto Lou Yan.
The man’s head leaned against Lou Yan’s shoulder, his breathing slow and heavy, blood dripping, staining Lou Yan’s body all over.
“Lou Yan…” Fu Xuezhou’s voice was low, pausing for a breath after each word. “You’re infuriating.”
Lou Yan looked coldly at the man on his shoulder, his expression unchanged.
His brain seemed to have preserved his sanity after passing through countless chaotic spaces, but his personality had been distorted by the anomaly power.
Lou Yan even felt that Fu Xuezhou’s actions to protect him were somewhat foolish.
He was a dying man. Why did Fu Xuezhou sacrifice himself to protect him? Lou Yan was confident that he could consume the heart of the Anomaly Lord before it killed him. But if Fu Xuezhou died, who would deal with the anomaly transformation within him?
Fu Xuezhou’s hot breath sprayed gently on Lou Yan’s neck. Suddenly, he raised his hand and grabbed Lou Yan’s slimy wrist, slowly pulling out the bone spikes from Lou Yan’s palm.
“Ugh, ah!”
The Anomaly Lord let out a scream.
The bone flowers on the bone spikes eagerly closed, madly trying to approach the heart of the Anomaly Lord. Fu Xuezhou grabbed the tip of the bone spike, and the bone flowers on it immediately bit into Fu Xuezhou’s flesh, quickly gnawing away at his hand, leaving behind stark white bones. However, Fu Xuezhou didn’t let go. Instead, he tightened his grip on the bone flowers with his fingers, while his other hand grabbed the heart of the Anomaly Lord that Lou Yan hadn’t finished eating and swallowed it in big gulps.
Devouring it without chewing.
The Anomaly Lord roared angrily and swung its tentacles at Fu Xuezhou again. Fu Xuezhou’s body was once again pierced by countless tentacles, and he suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood mixed with flesh. Yet, he continued to gnaw at the heart of the Anomaly Lord without interruption, and his grip on the bone spike in Lou Yan’s hand became tighter and tighter.
Time and time again, Lou Yan thought Fu Xuezhou would die directly in this bottomless darkness, but Fu Xuezhou remained motionless, leaning against him, stubbornly staying alive. Not only did he survive, but he also finished devouring the heart of the Anomaly Lord and snapped off the bone spikes covered in bone flowers in Lou Yan’s hand.
The pain of the broken bone spikes momentarily blanked Lou Yan’s mind, giving him the sensation of someone scraping meat off his bones with a small knife, almost causing him to faint from the pain. After the pain subsided, Lou Yan’s arm continued to twitch involuntarily, but he snapped back to sobriety from his frenzy state.
Fu Xuezhou hoarsely said, “Don’t move.”
Lou Yan felt a heavy arm moving up along his palm, breaking off all the bone flowers and bone spikes growing on him. Lou Yan trembled with pain, his consciousness fluctuating between clarity and haziness. It felt as if all his bones were being pulled out and smashed inch by inch by Fu Xuezhou. Lou Yan couldn’t help but shudder and cry out, “It hurts… it hurts so much…”
“Hold on.” Fu Xuezhou bent down, starting to break off the bone spikes and bone flowers growing on Lou Yan’s legs.
His hands moved urgently and swiftly over Lou Yan’s body, pulling and tearing at the bone spikes mercilessly. Lou Yan’s pain made him curl up his body, uncontrollably falling onto Fu Xuezhou’s back, feeling the slippery sensation of blood all over his hands.
Lou Yan, whose consciousness was still unclear, tried to stand up but felt Fu Xuezhou’s broken wing.
Fu Xuezhou’s wing… broken?
Lou Yan subconsciously touched the wing, feeling that two-thirds of it were broken from the base. He also felt deep blood holes and exposed white bones.
Fu Xuezhou’s breathing was heavy, and he suddenly exerted force to break the last bone flower in Lou Yan’s palm. Lou Yan gritted his teeth in pain, his veins bulging, “D*mn it…”
As the pain intensified, Lou Yan became increasingly clear-headed. When the pain slowly faded away, Lou Yan noticed that the entire underground was beginning to shake strangely, with soil and rocks falling on them continuously.
“Fu Xuezhou?” Lou Yan’s voice was hoarse and unpleasant, “It seems like Paradise is collapsing, we need to get out quickly.”
In the darkness, Fu Xuezhou didn’t respond.
Lou Yan’s heart tightened, and he reached out to feel for Fu Xuezhou’s presence, “Fu Xuezhou? Fu Xuezhou!”
After a long while, Fu Xuezhou finally responded in a low voice, “Mmm.”
Lou Yan inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief, about to ask if Fu Xuezhou could hold on, when Fu Xuezhou hoarsely said, “Hold me.”
Lou Yan hesitated for a moment before embracing him. Suddenly, they floated up, carried by Fu Xuezhou’s intertwining tentacles, quickly climbing out of the underground. The anomalies that had blocked the entrance had already turned into a pool of blood, and the sky outside had turned from daytime to darkness.
The rain had stopped.
Lou Yan looked up at the sky, which seemed to be getting closer and closer. After coming out, he realized that the ground was also trembling.
Skyscrapers collapsed, the ground cracked, and the city was gradually collapsing and disappearing.
Lou Yan turned his head and saw a distant fire burning dimly in the darkness.
Those fires seemed to be the ones Fu Xuezhou had set before. Unexpectedly, they not only were not extinguished by the heavy rain but also continued to burn until now, burning more and more vigorously. In this dark and almost destroyed city, the flames of hope burned brightly, freely dancing and attracting the remaining humans.
Faint cries and calls for help could be heard in the air.
“Is anyone there?”
“Help! Where is this place?!”
“They’re dead, all the anomalies are dead!”
“Waaahh, is there anyone still alive?!”
Lou Yan listened to these voices somewhat dazedly. The Anomaly Lord’s heart was gone, the Anomaly Lord was dead. With the death of the Anomaly Lord, all the anomalies in Paradise that relied on the Anomaly Lord to survive were completely wiped out.
Unbelievably, they had actually killed the Anomaly Lord.
What about outside? Would the anomalies outside also disappear?
Had the era of Anomaly Resurgence come to an end?
Lou Yan’s emotions were tumultuous and exhausted. He suddenly remembered that Fu Xuezhou hadn’t said a word since they came out. He quickly turned his head but found that Fu Xuezhou was nowhere to be seen.
“…Fu Xuezhou?”
Lou Yan frowned and called out, receiving no response. His heart suddenly pounded twice. He cautiously approached a nearby tree, and when he looked down, he saw Fu Xuezhou leaning against the trunk, covered in blood, eyes closed as if dead.
Half of his body was anomaly, half normal. The black tentacles scattered around him were chopped into pieces, of varying lengths, not a single intact one could be found.
One of his wings was completely broken, and the other barely hung on by a thread. Fu Xuezhou’s body was pierced by countless blood holes—too many to count because his whole body was covered in blood, making it impossible to distinguish between wounds and unharmed areas.
Fu Xuezhou’s face was smeared with mud and blood, his silver hair dirty and hanging messily on his face and chest. The shadows of the trees swayed slightly on him, occasionally a few rays of moonlight shone through the leaves onto his chin and shoulders.
His chest was calm, without any movement.
Without exaggeration, Lou Yan’s heart skipped a beat twice. He approached Fu Xuezhou and squatted down beside him, reaching out to check Fu Xuezhou’s breath.
As he reached out, Lou Yan found his fingers trembling. He felt cold. Why? Was he trembling because he was cold? Or was he trembling because he was afraid Fu Xuezhou might be dead?
Ha, what a joke.
Fu Xuezhou’s face was cold, but could Lou Yan feel his breath? It seemed like he could… but also like he couldn’t.
Lou Yan’s fingers were too cold and stiff; he couldn’t feel the warmth of Fu Xuezhou’s breath. But it was okay; there was still his pulse… yes, there was still his pulse.
Lou Yan immediately reached for the carotid artery on Fu Xuezhou’s neck, but as soon as he touched it, Fu Xuezhou grabbed his hand. With closed eyes, Fu Xuezhou opened them, staring quietly at Lou Yan with blood
“…So, you’re not dead,” Lou Yan stiffly tugged at his lips, revealing a rather unsightly smile. “Seeing you motionless, I thought you were dead.”
Fu Xuezhou responded with a grunt, his eyes tiredly half-closed. “Can’t die.”
Suddenly, Lou Yan’s throat felt itchy, and a wave of soreness and fatigue swept over his body in an instant. He coughed softly a few times, leaning against a tree nearby like Fu Xuezhou. “How are you feeling now?”
“Not great,” Fu Xuezhou replied. “The power of the Heart of the Anomaly Lord is too strong, disrupting the balance of other anomaly forces within my body.”
“So that’s why your injuries are taking so long to heal?” Lou Yan only noticed how much pain he was in after lying down. He had several severe injuries, but he didn’t bother to check them. He simply looked up at the swaying branches and leaves, engaging in meaningless chatter with Fu Xuezhou.
“Yeah,” Fu Xuezhou replied again.
“When do you think you’ll be better?”
“Uncertain,” Fu Xuezhou sighed softly. “I just need the anomaly forces within my body to reach a balance again.”
Lou Yan licked his dry lips but tasted blood. He chuckled silently. “Fu Xuezhou, do you think that after the Anomaly Lord dies, all the external anomalies will disappear like those in Paradise?”
“No,” Fu Xuezhou gave an answer that Lou Yan didn’t like. After a pause, he added, “But after the Anomaly Lord disappears, new anomalies won’t arise. The existing anomalies won’t become stronger.”
Lou Yan’s eyes lit up. “So as long as we kill all the existing anomalies, we can put an end to the resurgence of anomalies?”
“Correct,” Fu Xuezhou replied.
That “correct” filled Lou Yan with extraordinary strength. He felt as if all the discomfort and fatigue in his body had disappeared. He was now full of energy, ready to go out and defeat other anomalies immediately!
Hahaha.
Finally, there would be an end to this d*mn resurgence of anomalies!!!
Lou Yan felt all the pent-up frustration dissipate and couldn’t help but want to laugh out loud. His eyebrows lifted, and he chuckled several times, almost wanting to immediately tell all his friends about this news. But as he laughed, he suddenly remembered Fu Xuezhou’s world-destroying deeds, and his smile slowly faded, his lips straightening.
After an unknown amount of time, as the fire in the distance grew more intense and the buildings in the Paradise of Bliss were about to collapse completely, Lou Yan suddenly asked:
“Fu Xuezhou, now that the Anomaly Lord is dead, will you still destroy the world?”
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