It wasn't that Chen Ruo didn't hear clearly, but that he was too confused to find the deep meaning of the words - the cruel facts were before him -
It was he who forced her away with his own hands! He forced away the girl who had always been sincere to him!
And the man's words were like a knife stabbing into the bottom of his heart, and blood flowed out when he drew the knife.
"I would rather run away than hurt you!"
"I would rather run away than hurt you!"
"I would rather run away than hurt you!"
This sentence kept circling in his mind. Everyone in the world said that monsters are bloodthirsty and will twitch and pull out bones when they eat them. It must be very uncomfortable for Yaoyao's nature to be fully stimulated... But she still chose to leave in order to protect him.
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When she left, was she still blaming herself? Was she still jealous of herself? Did she feel that she had harmed her?
Chen Ruo felt very sad. He had no chance to save him now, Yao Yao had already left, and most of the purpose of this group of people coming was to find clues about Yao Yao's whereabouts from him.
The cold blade gently scratched the blood mark on his neck, but Chen Ruo felt no pain at all. The pain on his skin was not as painful as his heart. He clenched the vial in his hand, but the man noticed that subtle movement.
, snatched the small bottle containing Yaoyao's blood from his hand, with a dark look of surprise in his eyes——
"The Masked Demon actually left you such a good thing!"
The young man subconsciously wanted to snatch it back, but was forced to sit on the ground by the blade——
"That's what Yaoyao left for me! Give it back to me!!"
The man threw the vial to an elderly white-haired old man behind him. The old man became excited when he saw the vial.
"You can't be wrong! According to legend, this is a blood crystal formed by the face-stealing demon condensing a drop of its blood in a year! It can change a person's appearance!"
The old man's voice struck Chen Ruo's head like a lightning strike. He had no idea that what Yao Yao left for him would have such an effect!
Thinking of the girl struggling to squeeze out a drop of blood, Chen Ruo still felt that it was a fuss, but now he thought about it, she actually condensed a whole year of cultivation into blood and gave it to him! Just so that he could survive after she left.
Have a new face!
But for a young man, it is better to use this ugly face to face the dangers and intrigues in the world with a brand-new face and stay together with the girl in this mountainous area for a long time!
It was as if a piece of flesh had been ripped out of his heart. Chen Ruo's eyes were covered with scarlet, and the anger almost completely burned away the little reason left in his body.
It's all these guys! If they hadn't framed him - if they hadn't chased Yaoyao, he and she would still be fine. Even if the final result he had to face was that she would live forever and he would age first, he would be happy with it! But now!
This peaceful little happiness was completely torn to pieces and can never be put back together.
Yaoyao must have been blaming him in the end, right? But...but he didn't mean it!
But who should he ask to explain now? The people he wanted to keep were gone! The people he wanted to get rid of came uninvited!
Looking at Chen Ruo who was completely stunned, the man just smiled mockingly——
"It seems that the face-stealing demon really cares about you... I have spent so many years of cultivation on you to change your face, it is really a loss to yourself and others!" The old man's fiery gaze was locked on the vial, and he walked away flatteringly.
Go to a man——
"Sir! We use this blood crystal as a curse, and we can lock the location of the Face-stealing Demon in less than three days! By then..."
Men are also very satisfied with the attentiveness of their subordinates - taking a long-term view to catch big fish is now the most profitable way to do it properly.
As he spoke, the old man prepared to open the vial, but found that he could not unscrew the cork.
"What...what's going on?! It can't be opened!"
As he spoke, the man's eyes fell on Chen Ruo, and he approached the knife again——
"Open the bottle!"
Chen Ruo smiled bitterly——
"I can't open it either."
"Why can't you open it?! Isn't this what the Face-stealing Demon left for you?!"
The old man screamed, it was really maddening to find that the blood crystal that he had gone through so much trouble to find was so close yet could not be found.
The boy's face is ironic——
"You drove Yaoyao away temporarily, and she didn't even have time to say goodbye to me. How could she tell me how to open a bottle?"
"This blood crystal is the result of many years of savings. Didn't she say a word about it all these years?"
Chen Ruo only felt that there was something wrong with this old guy's head——
"If I knew I wouldn't have used it earlier! Would I have waited until now?!"
In the end, the confrontation between the two people ended with the old man losing the upper hand. He retreated to the man's side, his face turned pale——
"Sir... I'm afraid this bottle has been banned. If you open it by force, the blood crystal inside may... not be preserved!"
The man's face was quite ugly at the moment, and Chen Ruo's expression was also very ferocious, like an enraged beast.
"Take this kid down. If the Face-stealing Demon is still around, at least we still have a hostage on our hands."
The old man did not give up immediately. He stood up and called for people to tie up Chen Ruo.
"Take it down! Search the cave again! See if there's anything else!"
After Chen Ruo heard about their plan, he was already stirred up in his heart, and at the same time he also made a decision——
Even if he dies! He will never let them find Yaoyao again!
Chen Ruo rushed out with a sudden step, knocked down the old man, grabbed the small bottle from his hand, and moved it to the edge of the cliff.
"What do you want to do?!"
The man also stared alertly at the young man who was only one step away from falling off the cliff, and there was a layer of sweat on his palms.
"I know two things now - first, you didn't catch Yaoyao..."
Chen Ruo smiled with relief, as if all the burden had been lifted off him.
"So what if I didn't catch you? Can you still stop me from pursuing you?"
"Second point, now I and the contents of this bottle are the only bargaining chips you can use to catch Yaoyao."
Smiling and shaking the bottle between his fingers, Chen Ruo took a step back again - he thought it was time to end.
During the days when Yaoyao was missing, he would inevitably have hallucinations. He was so greedy for the days with her, missed every moment with her so much, wanted to see her smile again, and wanted to see her smile again.
I want to hear her sweetly call me "Aruo" again...
But now these ordinary and sparse happiness in the past have completely become Chen Ruo's wishful thinking.
Now Yaoyao must be thinking that he is the same bad guy who took away her family, right?
But this was all his own fault. If he had any brains at that time, he would not have given Yaoyao the medicine rashly.
He was wrong, but the price was too high, and he could no longer afford it.
He clearly knew that Yaoyao would not come back, and even regarded him as a bad person, but he did not want to fight for a chance to defend himself. A big mistake had been made, and Yaoyao had a life on his hands after all... Even if she came back,
We can't go back to the past!
Then at least before his extremely bad life comes to an end, he must give Yayao a way to continue on!
If her life can get a little better after meeting him, then he will be extremely happy, but if the girl's fate becomes unfortunate because of him, his heart will be as uncomfortable as a hole being opened.
It was just a chance encounter at first, but unknowingly the other person has become an indispensable presence in life.
At least for Chen Ruo now, he can no longer make up for the harm he caused to the girl, even if this mistake was something he didn't expect at all - but after all, he was the one who hurt her.
So let's end it here, so that he can be tortured less, so that Yaoyao won't continue to be hunted down, and his conscience will feel much better.
He can no longer adapt to the world without her, but Yaoyao still has a long way to go. She should have had a lot, but too much was taken away by the so-called secular prejudice and fate.
He shouldn't have so much. He is a common man, even an ugly ghost below the common people, but the girl gave him the care of a family member and allowed him to have the same happiness as a normal person. Even after she left her
The road for Chen Ruo has been paved.
She knew that sooner or later she would leave, and she knew that he would be empty and lonely after losing her, so she gave him the power to regain his life.
Maybe the girl thought that Chen Ruo's life would be much smoother once he had a intact face, so good that he could make up for the hole left by her, so good that he would gradually forget that she even existed - she thought that was a good idea!
Maybe it's the demon after all? She doesn't seem to understand that such a substitution is unfair to him!
He has obviously created such a vivid memory and formed such a deep bond. Could it be that he is an object that can be replaced with other items at any time to her? Then everything in the past can be written off? What does he think of him as a prop?
?Items?!
What's the use of talking about all this now? The person is gone, and he no longer has any room for redemption or opportunity to explain.
Yes... there is no chance and no room left...
In the end, at least... don't be a burden to her, right?
Chen Ruo felt relieved, closed his eyes, and took a step back - the man's face was ashen.
"catch him!!"
The young man's body flew into the air in the next moment, and he grabbed the bottle and fell directly from the cliff.
Those people were still a step too late, and the young man fell from the cliff——
The feeling of weightlessness and the imminent death made Chen Ruo feel relieved. He could no longer endure the days of losing her, and if his miserable life would pose any threat to the girl...then don't do it!
Finally, he squeezed the small bottle tightly, with infinite regret and nostalgia in his eyes——
The fate between him and her really can only stop here...
The sound of the wind and the feeling of weightlessness were followed by pain tearing through the body. He walked without much pain.
"Boom——!!!!"
A moment later, the sound of the body slamming into the bottom of the cliff was heard. It was obvious that Chen Ruo had been shattered into pieces together with the bottle containing the blood crystal.
The members of the Demon Hunting Club fell into a dead silence as they watched Chen Ruo fall off the cliff.
The old man was even more heartbroken and lay on the edge of the cliff wailing——
"That kid actually committed suicide with blood crystals!"
Of course, to them, both the blood crystal and Chen Ruo are just props to lure Dongfang Yaoyao.
No one in the world will be sad for the young man's death, and no one will feel unwilling or regretful because of his insistence on going his own way.
The moment he did all this, he had already given up the opportunity to explain to the girl. Without the opportunity to explain, in her heart he would only be a villain who plotted against the girl.
Compared with his own impression in the girl's mind, he prioritized preserving her freedom.
He is selfish. He has been accustomed to locking the girl with him for many years. Maybe he is afraid of making changes. The girl is unwilling to go down the mountain, and he has never thought of leaving a corner of the world to go with her.
Elsewhere, if possible, he hoped that the two of them would live like this forever.
Such small hopes and humble prayers could not be fulfilled, and he no longer had the need to continue living in this world without her. After so many days of suffering, Chen Ruo also clearly understood the fact that he did not have her.
no.
There is no need to continue with the established ending. He has no nostalgia for this place without her. As long as he can do something for her in the end, he will be satisfied and happy. After all, the girl is thinking of him in the end, and he doesn't want to be more
Don't want to let her down.
Although he is destined to be let down, it is not a bad way to say goodbye - he died for her - even if she will never know it again.
The people of the Demon Hunting Association left the mountain stream, and the sound of horse hooves shuttled through the forest paths. Until sunset, the faceless woman with black energy on her body walked along the blood-red river - Yaoyao.
The spirit has been extremely weakened——
She could feel that this was Chen Ruo's blood, and it was his blood that was unmistakable.
But didn't he harm himself for his own selfish desires? But...but why...
It is absolutely impossible to still be alive with this amount of bleeding, but shouldn't he have joined forces with the people from the Demon Hunting Association... How could it be... How could it be...
She walked step by step to the mountain stream, following the water flow, and the blood slowly overflowed her ankles. The sunset glow was like blood, reflecting her empty cheeks, Chen Ruo's body, and the person tightly held in his hands.
The small bottle inside was broken into two halves. The blood crystals inside also lost their brilliance and were painted into ordinary blood scabs scattered on the gravel.
The moment he saw Chen Ruo's body, even though he had told himself thousands of times that the other party had betrayed him and there was nothing to pity or care about, Yaoyao still felt his legs go weak and he knelt on the ground.
Maybe the people from the Demon Hunting Guild had a falling out with him and pushed him off the cliff.
She could only think like this, and only thinking like this could make her feel better—at least it could turn the pain of betrayal in her heart into hatred and hatred for the Monster Hunting Guild.
Only in this way...she wouldn't feel sad when facing his body.
But she couldn't be sad, because the person she loved day and night was just gone. She would rather see him alive and standing on the opposite side than see him die miserably soaking in the cold water.
But the black energy around the woman's body slowly stretched out, lingering on Chen Ruo's body, making a longing sound.
Yaoyao was stunned for a moment, and then he couldn't hide the sadness and sorrow in his heart. He held the black air of nothingness and sobbed in his throat.
"Why... I can't keep anyone... I can't protect anyone... Neither he nor my parents... they all left me in the end..."
The black energy seemed to be taking care of its master's emotions, intertwined with Dongfang Yaoyao, which seemed to be able to calm the sadness in her heart a little. The other energy was still wrapped around Chen Ruo's body. After Dongfang Yaoyao recovered, he
Understanding the meaning of Hei Qi, he took a deep breath, stood up and looked at Chen Ruo lying on the ground with a determined look.
"Eat it, he looks like this...I...can't bear it either."
After receiving the owner's permission, the black energy immediately surrounded Chen Ruo, forming a bottomless pit under Chen Ruo's body, swallowing the young man's body. The woman stood quietly the whole time, without saying a word, until the young man's body was filled with black energy.
Completely swallowed.
The black energy with incomplete consciousness was perfectly completed after devouring Chen Ruo's body. It gradually became solid and built a male body bit by bit. The man knelt down in front of the woman, and the woman slowly
The ground was touching his forehead, pious and focused - "Can I just call you to death?"
The man slowly opened his eyes, a pair of golden pupils filled with unshakable determination——
"Yes, Master."
Dongfang Yaoyao laughed happily - she hugged back the life that had been living in her shadow -
"From now on, it's just you and me."
"yes……"
His consciousness gradually returned to his body, Dongfang Yaoyao slowly opened his eyes, and what caught his eye was a distorted, burned face.
She shouted almost subconsciously——
"Aruo?"
Xiao Yao didn't know who she was calling, so he thought she was sleepy and patted the girl's cheek anxiously——
"Wake up quickly! Someone is coming!"
Under Xiao Yao's reminder, Yao Yao immediately regained consciousness and jumped off the bench from Xiao Yao's body. The scar-faced girl protected the girl and slowly hid behind the rockery. Soon those who were tracking Yao Yao followed.
"Weird! I clearly saw those two little brats coming here..."
It was the voice of the man who was scared away by Xiao Yao before - and then several unfamiliar voices and footsteps sounded -
"Not found yet?! If we don't hurry up, that mortal and nightmare will soon break through our siege!"
"It should be around here! Search! If we can't find it, we have to retreat! It's important to save our lives!"
Now let's not talk about Yan Cha who is already crazy with anxiety. As long as Gui Ming breaks through the restrictions of the curse circle in a rage, they will probably be the first to be killed.
The nightmare is very powerful, especially now that they have seriously angered Gui Ming. If they don't catch Dongfang Yaoyao before he breaks free, I'm afraid they won't be able to escape Gui Ming's grasp even if they run far away.
What happened to Dongfang Yaoyao will definitely be repaid by Gui Ming!
The two huddled in the cave of the rockery, so close that they could hear each other's heartbeats——
Obviously, Xiao Yao knew that these people were coming for the girl next to him, so he held Dongfang Yaoyao's hand and smiled.
"I'll lure them away, you go to a safe place!"
Dongfang Yaoyao refused almost instinctively, and even held Xiao Yao's hand——
"No! Come with me!"
Xiao Yao looked serious, held Yaoyao's palm, and whispered——
"They won't do anything to me in broad daylight, but you, can you find a way out safely?"
Dongfang Yaoyao nodded first, then shook his head——
"I...you come with me..."
"They won't do anything to me!" Xiao Yao pointed to the scar on his face, "Maybe I can scare away those bad guys!"
In response to the girl's half-joking teasing, Yaoyao's face was more solemn than ever before - she pursed her lips tightly.
"Promise me that you will hold on until I come, and no one can hurt you."
Her promise was very light, but it seemed that it had traveled through countless time and space and was made in an illusory shadow.
Xiao Yao was in a daze, always feeling that the girl's eyes in front of him were old and mysterious, but he quickly gave up this idea.
She is just a child about her own age, and she is her new friend!
It was a rare fate, and she felt that she should go out of her way to help her. First, Xiao Yao really didn't take the people outside seriously, and second, because she really liked Dongfang Yaoyao.
Dongfang Yaoyao didn't stop Xiao Yao. She knew that if they continued to hide here, the two of them would be finished sooner or later——
So she had to ask for reinforcements, and Xiao Yao had to hold on until she brought Gui Ming over - she had to hold on!
Dongfang Yaoyao will never allow the powerlessness of the past to happen again!
"Okay~ I promise you!"
Yaoyao stretched out a little finger and solemnly said——
"Hook!"
Xiao Yao was stunned, then reached out and hooked her finger.
"Whoever lies is a puppy!"
Then Xiao Yao rushed out from behind the rockery and successfully attracted the attention of the group of people——
"Chase!!"
The group of adults caught up with Xiao Yao, and the girl ran all the way with all her strength. After confirming that those people were chasing her, she breathed a sigh of relief and continued to jump up and down on the rides she was familiar with.
Dongfang Yaoyao also escaped from the rockery and ran all the way. She could sense Gui Ming's current position and the murderous thoughts covering the entire amusement park.
Gui Ming will lose control if he continues like this!!! After confirming this, the girl did not dare to stop and ran wildly in the direction of the black-haired young man.
"Gui Ming...wait for me...don't hurt anyone before that...please!!!"
Yan Cha also realized the fact that Gui Ming was about to go berserk. A gust of wind blew, making the surrounding tourists tremble with fear——
"Wasn't it a sunny day just now...why..."
"That's right...the weather forecast didn't say it would rain..."
"It's so windy! It's so cold!!!"
Gui Ming is very angry now because these people from the Demon Hunting Association are challenging his bottom line again and again regardless of life and death.
He was originally a nightmare living in the shadow of Dongfang Yaoyao. Due to various reasons, he was given spiritual consciousness and body. He existed to protect his master.
But now these guys not only use mortals to persecute her master, but they are still pursuing her even after she was seriously injured, which is really annoying.
He didn't have a good impression of mortals to begin with, and now he didn't know who to vent his surging anger on - it was about to happen on these innocent people.
The howling black wind blew, and the surrounding vegetation withered - Yaoyao's disappearance was driving him crazy!