Chapter 239

Qiao Suisui covered her eyes in sorrow, tears spilling continuously from between her fingers.

Her crying was restrained and weak. Luka had not seen her cry like this for a long time, and his own eyes immediately turned red. He held her tightly, stroking her back continuously. Laiboli comforted her softly from the side, while Ka'er frowned and looked away, though his eyes were already wet, not daring to bring up anything else to make her sad.

For a time, the atmosphere was oppressive to the extreme.

Qiao Suisui cried until she was exhausted and fell asleep in Luka's arms. Laiboli suggested carrying her into the inner chamber, saying: "Whether Sui Sui is willing or not, we cannot stay in the Federation any longer; only the Freedom Alliance is safe. Let's take her there tomorrow."

Sang Yan nodded in agreement.

At this moment, Ka'er only wanted to stay by her side every step of the way; as soon as she cried, his heart shattered along with her.

But just as Luka stood up, he froze in place.

"What's wrong?" Laiboli looked back at him.

Luka held the person in his arms, lowered his head, and called her softly: "Sui Sui."

Laiboli frowned, "She finally fell asleep, what are you—"

"She seems to have stopped breathing!"

Luka hurriedly placed her on the sofa and leaned down, pressing his ear against her chest, trying to hear the sound of a heartbeat.

Ka'er rushed over, placing his hand on Qiao Suisui's head to stroke it gently, but his face was full of urgency: "Sweetheart, wake up, don't play this kind of joke on me, okay? I'm really scared."

Sang Yan had already run out to call the medical team.

None of the men could believe she had lost her life just like that, but every doctor from the medical team shook their heads with sighs.

Laiboli grabbed one of the doctors by the collar and roared: "What kind of expression is that? Heal her! Save her! Save her for me!"

Luka knelt on the ground, his eyes vacant, just looking at the small person on the sofa. She was as quiet as if she were asleep; everything was so sudden.

Ka'er kept calling her, crying as he called, the veins on his neck bulging, his entire face flushed red from crying.

Sang Yan leaned against the wall and slumped to the ground in disbelief.

Qiao Suisui had still been forced to log out, but the development of the modern world was not controlled by the game or any props; the only thing affected was her own state of mind, so what she experienced did not differ much from the original timeline.

At this very moment, the memories in her mind only went up to Lan Ze coming to the modern world to find her. The only change was that Lan Ze did not draw out everyone's trajectory with a pen, but told her that he had discovered two worlds. As for what happened after she logged out on this timeline, it was not in Qiao Suisui's memory.

This meant that after she used the time retrospection to return to the past and came back, the 'her' on this timeline had not yet "woken up."

And she had clearly merged with the self on this timeline, so what about the self that was sleeping? "Sui Sui, Sui Sui."

Qiao Suisui came back to her senses. The impact of the massive amount of memories had caused her to briefly lose all perception of the outside world. At this moment, hearing Luka's voice, she saw him watching her with a face full of worry and tension.

"Where are you uncomfortable? Is it a headache?"

Luka did not dare to be negligent, fearing that what happened last time—when she suddenly left in her sleep—would happen again. He immediately got out of bed to find someone, but was pulled back by Qiao Suisui.

"Luka, tell me, what exactly happened during the time I was gone?"

Luka was startled. He turned back to hold her, stroking her head, his eyes filled with an unshakeable sorrow. He said softly: "You just woke up, wait until your body is completely better before..."

"I'm fine, really fine." Qiao Suisui gripped his lapel tightly, her eyes fixed on him: "Luka, what exactly happened?"

The man closed his eyes and sighed.

"You lost your breath in your sleep. We couldn't accept such a sudden fact. I, Laiboli, Ka'er, and Sang Yan, and even Lan Ze, were constantly looking for the cause and a way to bring you back to life.

Not long after, Zong Yan's battle lines had pushed to the border of Ausilan, but I had completely lost the heart to engage on the battlefield, so for the first time in my life, I chose to abandon the fight.

Zongfang sensed my abnormality and, not knowing where he found out about your situation, had a breakdown and went on a rampage, killing many people without distinguishing friend from foe. For a time, blood flowed like a river."

"And then?"

After she asked, she suddenly remembered the broken walls and ruins along the way; it was obvious that the war had ended a long time ago, but why were there no signs of life recovering in the Federation? And from just now, the entire Huangting had been empty, with only Luka and Ka'er's children. Where was Ashi? Where was Zongfang? Where were the others?

Luka's thin lips moved, but his hesitant expression declared his worry.

He was afraid—afraid that after telling her the bad news, she wouldn't be able to bear it, and afraid that she would leave again like last time.

Qiao Suisui saw his concerns and held his hand tightly, "Luka, believe me, only when I know everything can I change it."

Luka did not know the true meaning behind her words, but after hesitating, he chose to tell her everything.

"After Zongfang knew you had an accident, he insisted on taking your body away... Laiboli insisted that you were not dead and would not let him see you. Zongfang disregarded Zong Yan's combat plan and attacked the Ausilan Empire without hesitation. Laiboli was also immersed in immense grief at the time, and the two met on the battlefield. Zongfang was like a madman who had lost his chains; whoever stopped him, he killed."

"I saw with my own eyes as he plunged a surgical scalpel into Laiboli's chest. When I arrived, he could no longer be saved..."

Qiao Suisui's back was already soaked with cold sweat.

"Ka'er took your body away one step before Zongfang. No one knew where he went using the breaking prop. I searched for many years and never found him, but he left all the children in Ausilan."

"Zongfang couldn't find you and completely fell into a state of rampage. He seemed to hate this world, and he hated Zong Yan. He locked himself in the laboratory, and in just ten days, he developed a lethal toxin."

"He used Zong Yan's armaments to poison the soldiers of the Head of State's camp on a large scale. Three seconds later, the entire army fell into paralysis; five seconds later, their bodies stiffened. The toxin was gaseous; if smelled or touched on the skin, life ended in eight seconds. Later, I heard that he named this toxin 'Human World'."

Zongfang wanted to use this method to make everyone be buried with Qiao Suisui.

Beastmen believe that after death, one ascends to the Heavenly Dian to become a messenger of the Shoushen, so Zongfang sent her a 'Human World'.

"Zong Yan won a complete victory. Just as he was rewarding the army for their success, Zongfang poisoned their wine and killed all of Zong Yan's people as well."

"He killed indiscriminately, like a cold and numb devil, as if he had lost his chains and fallen into the darkest hell."

"But he didn't kill Zong Yan; instead, he handed the nine snake cubs to him to raise, and took the poison in advance, letting Zong Yan witness the entire process of his suicide. This was his revenge."

Qiao Suisui did not expect Zongfang on this timeline to be so extreme. She swallowed her heartache, and it was a long while before she found her voice, asking blankly: "Then what happened to those snake cubs now?"

(End of chapter)