Chapter 195
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“June 20, 20xx, Overcast, light rain, the port.
On my first day back inland, a man named Count Grey approached me and gave me a heart.
He said it was Fu Xuezhou’s heart.
I didn’t believe it and asked Count Grey how he got Fu Xuezhou’s heart.
Count Grey told me that it was an item Fu Xuezhou had exchanged with him in a business deal.
I was curious about what kind of business deal Fu Xuezhou had made with him to exchange his heart, but I was too lazy to ask about Fu Xuezhou.
Count Grey held Fu Xuezhou’s heart in front of me and said, ‘Fu Xuezhou is dead, and this heart is the most valuable thing he left behind. You must eat it. Only by eating it can you possess all the abilities Fu Xuezhou gained through 291 reincarnations. Fu Xuezhou is close to killing the Anomaly Lord, success is within our grasp, and you are the most likely person in the world to eradicate the anomalies. Only you can fully digest Fu Xuezhou’s heart and completely eliminate the anomalies at this critical moment! My request is for you to completely eliminate the existence of the anomalies!’
I looked at the heart and said to Count Grey, ‘The Anomaly Lord is already dead.’
‘No, I don’t believe the Anomaly Lord is dead,’ Count Grey insisted stubbornly, ‘Fu Xuezhou and I have different opinions. Fu Xuezhou believed that after the Anomaly Lord died, no new anomalies would be born, and as long as the old anomalies were killed, peace could be restored. This view is wrong! Absolutely wrong! I believe that the heart of the Anomaly Lord is the source of all anomalies power. If the heart of the Anomaly Lord is really destroyed by you, then all the anomalies will be annihilated in an instant. If there are still remnants of anomalies in the world, what if a new Anomaly Lord is born among them?! The fact that anomalies still exists means that the Anomaly Lord has not completely died!’
His words made me pensive.
I wanted to refute Count Grey’s words, but my intuition told me he was right.
So, I ate Fu Xuezhou’s heart.
…
After I ate Fu Xuezhou’s heart, Count Grey told me something.
I didn’t want to believe it.
The bloody taste in my mouth made me nauseous.
He must be lying to me!!! He must be lying to me!!! He’s definitely lying to me!!!
I hate Fu Xuezhou!
I hate Fu Xuezhou!!!
I will always hate him.”
…
Lou Yan’s breath hitched as he looked at the last few lines of writing on the paper, almost able to feel the collapse of another “Lou Yan.”
Fu Xuezhou was really dead…
Lou Yan’s emotions were complicated.
A thread of pain surged from his heart, which he deliberately ignored, focusing only on his confusion.
What kind of event could evoke such intense emotions from another “him”?
…
“November 20, 20xx, Strong wind, clear sky.
After five months, I have fully integrated the abilities of Fu Xuezhou’s heart.
I finally understand why Fu Xuezhou said this was his last rebirth.
Fu Xuezhou’s innate ability is [Phoenix Rebirth].
This ability gives Fu Xuezhou the power to destroy the world, and the world’s rebirth will also be born from his flames.
This is an ability that even the Anomaly Lord fears.
But Fu Xuezhou’s innate ability, [Phoenix Rebirth], has been used to its limit by him, and the remaining abilities cannot allow this world to return once more.
After I swallowed Fu Xuezhou’s heart, I also gained Fu Xuezhou’s innate ability, but [Phoenix Rebirth] degenerated into an ability that can only rewind time to a certain extent, and each time I rewind, I am accompanied by a burning sensation. I call this ability [Time Regression].
I have become the human with the most integration of the anomalies in the world.
Just like Fu Xuezhou once was, half of my brain is occupied by anomalies thoughts. Those anomalies fear me, humans fear me, and I can feel a drastic change in my personality.
I become colder and more indifferent.
Li Sanxin and I argue frequently. He is afraid that I will become an anomaly, and he is also afraid that I will die from the self-destructive frenzy of battle.
Haha, impossible.
How could I die before eliminating the anomalies?
The more anomalies I kill, the more certain I am that Count Grey’s words are correct. The Anomaly Lord has not yet died, and as long as it does not die, the power of the anomalies will not disappear.
Compared to the anomalies, what pains me the most are the memories I glimpsed from Fu Xuezhou’s heart.
…I still don’t want to believe it.
But…
It turns out that the chains binding Fu Xuezhou were formed by the past 291 worldlines, a drawback of [Phoenix Rebirth]. After I ate his heart, these 291 chains also transferred to me.
They came from all directions and bound me tightly. Every breath I take becomes incredibly heavy.
Will I regret it?
I won’t regret it.
I absolutely won’t regret it.”
…
Only the last page of the diary was left.
With red eyes and trembling hands, Lou Yan picked up the last page of paper and held it up to his eyes, but the blurred vision made it difficult to read the words.
It’s really strange.
Tears inexplicably flowed down, clearly—clearly there’s nothing to cry about!
Lou Yan forcefully closed his eyes, tears squeezed out and flowed down his cheeks. He pinched the bridge of his nose hard with his fingers, then opened his eyes to look at the diary again.
The writer of the diary seemed to have experienced something, and the handwriting on this page became especially messy:
“I don’t know what day it is today, or how many years have passed.
The anomalies erupted massively, and the anomaly transformation on my body can’t be stopped anymore.
I failed.
I will become a disaster for this world, I can’t stay here anymore. I don’t have the ability to start over the world, but I want to try my best to go back to some time.
Li Sanxin, you must remember what I said.
Kill me, eat my heart, and continue to fight against the anomalies.
Don’t be afraid.
No anomalies in the world is as scary as me. If you’re not afraid of me, you won’t be afraid of any other anomalies.
You can become very strong. Those anomalies will be afraid of you and dare not hurt you anymore. Don’t worry, I will also be with you after death, becoming a part of your body.
Don’t be afraid, Sanxin.
And never follow my old path.
…I suddenly regretted a bit.
…
…
I regret it, Sanxin.”
Lou Yan trembled violently, his fingers holding the paper turning white with force. He breathed heavily, feeling his chest tightening with each gasp.
His hands gradually lost strength, and the paper and cap fell to the ground. The last page of the diary fluttered lightly, and only then did Lou Yan see that there were two sentences written on the back of the paper.
The handwriting on the back became even messier, with some strokes missing, like an old person who forgot how to write, full of dullness and clumsiness.
Yet it was very sincere.
“Fu Xuezhou is like a bird without feet, unable to stop, can only fly until death.”
“I shouldn’t have killed him.”
…
Uncle Li knocked on the door enthusiastically and said, “Little Lou, are you hungry? Let me cook you a meal?”
“…No need, Uncle Li,” Lou Yan’s voice came from inside the room, heavy and hoarse, “I’m not hungry, you guys eat, thank you.”
Uncle Li tried to persuade him a couple more times, but to no avail. He shook his head and left.
Inside the room.
Lou Yan sat silently on the chair, his whole being merging into the darkness, quietly watching Duan Zege on the bed.
He had many questions to ask Duan Zege now. The information revealed in the diary clearly represented that the “Lou Yan” writing the diary was the future “Lou Yan” of this timeline himself, but there were discrepancies between the events in the diary and what Lou Yan had experienced.
For example, after pushing Fu Xuezhou into the extreme cold h*ll, Lou Yan also kicked a bag of supplies down, instead of leaving the North Pole with all the supplies. Another example was that the real Lou Yan had met Count Grey before, but the “Lou Yan” in the diary seemed to be meeting Count Grey for the first time.
But all of this had to wait until Duan Zege woke up.
Lou Yan didn’t want to think about the words in the diary anymore. He cleared his mind and thought about how to wake Duan Zege up.
For Duan Zege to wake up, the ghost baby in his body had to recover first. Lou Yan wondered if feeding the ghost baby with an anomaly heart could help it recover…
Duan Zege… Li Sanxin…
Lou Yan’s breath sank, feeling the room was getting stuffy. He stood up and left the room.
The sea breeze tousled his hair, and the tree in the yard rustled, its sound pleasant and soothing, lulling people to sleep.
Uncle Li and his family had already fallen asleep, their snores emanating from behind the door, interspersed with the faint sound of turning and grinding teeth.
Lou Yan stood absent-mindedly under the tree until the faint light of dawn, then he left Uncle Li’s house, ready to kill an anomaly to save Duan Zege.
There were no anomalies in Xiaoliu Fishing Village, so Lou Yan ran two kilometers away and found a takeout ghost.
This anomaly would disguise itself as a delivery guy and deliver takeout. Once people opened the door for it, they would welcome its slaughter.
This anomaly wasn’t very powerful, and Lou Yan easily dealt with it. After killing this anomaly and feeling it wasn’t enough, Lou Yan also took care of the hanging ghost in a nearby school. Carrying the two freshly dug, still beating anomalies hearts, Lou Yan headed towards Xiaoliu Fishing Village.
On the way, Lou Yan saw “Count Grey’s Shop” suddenly appear by the roadside.
Green plants covered the entrance of the shop, a playful sign hung above, exuding an adorable, fairy-tale-like atmosphere.
Lou Yan’s heart suddenly tightened, staring fixedly at “Count Grey’s Shop”.
Just like the content in the diary, Count Grey had actively approached him as soon as he returned inland.
Count Grey… Did he come to deliver Fu Xuezhou’s heart?
Lou Yan’s feet froze in place, his fingers clenched into fists.
He stood almost at a loss on the deserted street, as if the whole world had left only him, and only his tangled thoughts and emotions remained.
“Count Grey’s Shop” seemed to become a gaping mouth, once he entered, Fu Xuezhou’s death would become a fact.
Duan Zege said he would regret it, and the “him” in the diary also wrote about regret. Would he really regret killing Fu Xuezhou?
Fu Xuezhou once said that “boredom will make him destroy the world”…
Lou Yan suddenly hesitated.
The paper airplane that Fu Xuezhou had folded for him unexpectedly appeared in Lou Yan’s mind.
“It’s called ‘Don’t be angry’.”
The silver-haired man, bare-chested, lowered his eyes and flew the paper airplane to Lou Yan’s front.
Lou Yan grinned slightly.
He lifted his foot and walked calmly into “Count Grey’s Shop”.
He was no longer angry with this man, and he had long been prepared for Fu Xuezhou’s death.
So there’s no need to hesitate.
He wanted to know why he would regret, and also wanted to know what Count Grey had said to make the “him” in the diary somewhat collapse.
But Lou Yan felt that this time he wouldn’t be as affected.
Because at this moment, there was nothing for him to collapse about.
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