Part 2
He wasn’t touching his neck, but the camellia necklace made of Purple Pomelo Stone that Shu Changze had left him, which could suppress Pheromone Disorder Syndrome!
“Places where mutant creatures appear leave behind Purple Pomelo Stones with corrosive shells. It suppresses not the Disorder Syndrome, but the unstable structure in the gland, right? I’m afraid the necklace was also a hint you left for me.”
“No wonder there is such a large deposit on Dragon Spine Island.” Lu Wanqing suddenly realized. “You arranged everything long ago, just waiting for this day.”
“Let’s try and see if it’s really like the results of their experiments.” Shu Ci took off the necklace, held the Purple Pomelo Stone on the camellia between two fingers, and slowly released pheromones.
Jasmine wrapped around the energy fluctuations in the air, drilling into the gaps between Shu Ci’s fingers.
Soon, the pheromones wrapped the energy and drilled into the necklace. The necklace glowed with a bright luster, no longer purple, but flashing with golden light.
“Since… mutant creatures are its accompanying products, if this can kill those disgusting guys, it can also completely solve it, right?” Shu Ci murmured.
He held his breath, condensing pheromones on the necklace in his fingers, then raised his hand and smashed it heavily onto the chains on Shu Changze! Once, twice, as if using the strength of a lifetime.
Crack—
A crisp sound came. A deep crack appeared on the chain. Shu Ci stopped his hand in a daze.
The three quietly looked at that crack.
Two seconds, three seconds.
Then, with a boom, the chain broke in two and fell straight to the ground from the golden chaos!
“Watch out!”
Lu Wanqing picked up Shu Ci. The shattered shackles that fell at his feet instantly transformed into silver-white wriggling creatures, splitting apart, multiplying in number, and attacking the two!
Originally, with Shu Changze’s obstruction, it couldn’t enter this cave at all. Now, it had broken directly into the interior!
The moment the chains shattered, the anxious Plot Consciousness outside was overjoyed.
It condensed all the mutant creatures and its own energy on the ice plain, also forming a huge chaotic sphere, colliding with the interior. The entire cave collapsed with a crash.
Dust rolled up. Lu Wanqing’s pheromones shuttled silently through it, stabbing into the fatal points of the broken chains like sharp blades.
“Where’s Dad?!” Shu Ci squinted, clenching the necklace in his hand.
After smashing the shackles for Shu Changze, the Purple Pomelo Stone immediately dimmed and lost its luster. Shu Ci felt the homeless pheromones drifting blindly in the air before returning to his gland.
…Turns out it was a disposable weapon.
“Here.” While coordinating with Shu Ci to resist the pressing Plot Consciousness, Lu Wanqing pushed aside the dust and moved to Shu Changze’s original position. “Underground.”
Shu Ci groped over and touched something cold and icy.
His fingertips hooked it, clenched it in his hand, picked it up, and froze.
In his palm was a sharp arrow. The arrowhead and shaft glowed with purple-yellow light, and the material of the fletching looked more like the golden fragments he had seen before, stacked layer upon layer, clamped at the tail end of the shaft.
“I leave myself and my wishes to you. This world, and my children, need freedom. The fletching condensing into the final shape means your companions have completed their mission.”
He heard Shu Changze’s voice, ethereal and weak. In this instant, he understood everything.
The Purple Pomelo Stone on the necklace lost its effect after saving Shu Changze. They had no other materials to restrain the Plot Consciousness, so Shu Changze, the World’s Original Consciousness, transformed into this arrow.
No, perhaps very early on, he had arranged this ending for himself.
To lead this world together with Shu Ci toward the future that should have belonged to them.
“Hold me tight, I’ll take you high.”
Lu Wanqing killed the creature flying in front of him, clamped Shu Ci’s waist with one hand, took out the equipped grapple gun from his pocket, and shot the lasso, hooking the nearest tree within range. Shu Ci’s feet immediately dangled in the air, and the two flew over the ice plain.
The moment they flew up, the cave completely collapsed, rolling rocks falling into the underground tunnel connected to the Chengxin Sea.
Just a second later, and the two would have plunged into the sea.
Shu Ci tightly gripped the arrow. The golden fragments at the fletching were condensing little by little. He slowly injected pheromones into it, and countless images flashed before his eyes in that instant.
Shen Lin updating the battle situation in various places on the territory-wide live broadcast to inspire people;
Marshal He and the generals of the eleven districts formulating plans together to kill mutant creatures everywhere with the fastest speed and most precise method;
And Shen Ti clutching his lower abdomen, gritting his teeth and commanding major families at the port to open factories to make weapons, mobilizing all transport capacity to deliver Purple Pomelo Stone weapons to the twelve districts.
In the same picture, Cui You’s entire arm was bathed in blood. One look and you knew he was attacked on the way.
His cynical expression was gone, resolutely protecting Shen Ti behind him.
…
The opponent seemed to realize that this couldn’t eliminate them at all, so it recalled all creatures, condensing them into a massive chaotic sphere, rolling toward the two.
Lu Wanqing’s materialized barrier blocked the sphere outside.
However, the opponent’s energy was too great. His gland energy almost reached its limit, faintly seeping blood.
The clear sky was instantly covered, turning dark.
Only the arrow fletching flashed with golden light, its shape becoming clearer and clearer.
“Don’t block it. If only I can sanction it, you’re just wasting energy like this,” Shu Ci said softly.
“Is the arrow ready?”
Lu Wanqing looked back, his expression peaceful as if he felt no pain at all, incredibly calm. “Although it’s a companion, its structure is no different from mutant creatures. Now that they are fused into one, I can disable the materialization and find the only fatal point.”
There was only one chance.
This meant he needed to trust Lu Wanqing completely, believing the position he found was accurate. As long as the arrow flew in the direction of his pheromones, it wouldn’t fail.
“Mn, I understand.”
Shu Ci stood on tiptoe, covered Lu Wanqing’s neck, and gently stamped a seal on the gland.
The sweet metallic taste of blood spread in his mouth.
Suddenly there was a sense of impending doom. At the end of the dim world, he kissed the most vulnerable place of his most beloved person.
Shu Ci stood firm, raised his thumb to dip in the blood at the corner of his mouth, and smeared it on the arrowhead, hoping it could better find the direction of the pheromones.
At the same time, the bow formed of pheromones gradually formed in his hand.
He pulled away from Lu Wanqing’s arms, set his hand, and drew the bow.
“Lu Wanqing, did you know?”
He looked unblinkingly ahead, nocking the entire arrow on the bow. The fletching was just a tiny bit away from the tail end to complete its shape. “I’m very rebellious. The more someone wants me to do something, the less I want to do it.”
The golden fragments disappeared completely at this moment.
All mutant creatures in other places across the territory had been eliminated!
Shu Ci burst out all his pheromones, injecting them into this arrow of Purple Pomelo Stone. In this instant, extreme pain connected to the World Consciousness struck. Every inch of his nerves felt like it was being sliced and tempered.
This arrow was continuously absorbing his pheromones.
He knew that only by completely lighting it up to that golden color like the necklace would he have the power to fight the Plot Consciousness.
Lu Wanqing’s barrier was also withdrawn at this time, shuttling through the air against the chaotic sphere like the wind. Shu Ci endured the severe pain, closed his eyes in the silence, and perceived the existence of his pheromones with his entire mental state.
The bow was drawn to the full.
The energy in his gland was almost drained dry.
“Found it!”
The moment Lu Wanqing spoke, the arrow left the string, flying from Shu Ci’s hand toward the chaotic sphere that blotted out the sun.
The two watched the arrow fly into the distance.
Countless combat trainings had allowed them to know the result by perception alone without using their eyes.
“You didn’t finish your sentence.” Lu Wanqing looked at him.
Of course, he knew how rebellious Shu Ci was.
If he didn’t have that spirit of “no one can control me,” they wouldn’t have reached this step today.
Shu Ci raised his hand to touch his gland. There seemed to be no energy left there; all the pheromones had melted into the arrow, breaking through the air.
Bang— With a sound, the chaotic sphere exploded violently in the air.
The arrow condensed with his pheromones completed its final mission, instantly turning from golden to dim, falling from the sky.
Shu Ci looked ahead and said word by word, “Saving the world is just incidental for me. I only want to end your fate, so you no longer cycle in loneliness. I want you to belong only to me.”
The arrow hit the ground with a clatter, and the Purple Pomelo Stone shattered.
The scent of jasmine swept through the human world.
At this moment, time began to flow, and the trajectory of the world ran anew.
“No.” Lu Wanqing pulled the nearly collapsed person into his arms, forcefully covering his exhausted, pale lips.
Precisely because he had experienced lonely cycles, experienced despair while walking through the hollow crowd indistinguishable from the dead, he could capture those eyes dancing with the fire of life that night.
For that glimpse on the Cold Dew night, he truly found the meaning of his existence. Only then could he, together with him, personally break the so-called fate that rode above his life.
In the corner forgotten by the plot, he received the world’s best gift.
“From the moment you arrived, I have belonged to you.”
End of Volume Four · End of Main Text
Author’s Note:
Foreshadowing collected, main text concluded! Thank you everyone for accompanying me through the summer, autumn, and winter of 2022~
There are still some unimportant small details to wrap up in the extras. The past of the elders and the side couple story of Shen/Cui will be marked in the directory.
Translator’s note: I’m not sure I will still translate the extra chapters. Head onto the extra chapters to read them: JJWXC
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“From the moment you arrived, I have belonged to you.” What a beautiful way to end this novel 🌼
What a ride! Thank you for translating 💕
Thanks so much for the translation. Loved the novel.
Hope you continue with the extras. Really want to see how shen/cui couple end up.
I will try. 🙂