Chapter 235: Mom, I Can't Go On Living

*Crack! *

A crisp sound echoed through the ship's space. Ye Nan felt a pain in his left side, let out an "Ah," and flew out.

The Alien Queen had broken free from the paralysis. The moment her body recovered, she immediately whipped her tail, striking Ye Nan.

"Ye Nan!" Ororo shouted.

Ye Nan's combat power might not be the strongest of the three, but he was their meat shield. If this meat shield died here, their chances of escaping were practically zero.

"You must not be okay. I still plan to take Duanyan away." Ororo prayed silently in her heart, while she herself didn't stop. A series of blizzards and thunder fell, striking the Alien Queen and making *crackling* sounds.

"Annoying pest."

The Alien Queen turned her body and crawled toward Ororo step by step.

Because her body was too large and clumsy, she couldn't walk like a human and could only crawl. But precisely because her body was large, her crawling speed was quite fast.

In a few moments, she crawled onto Ororo. Her massive body, combined with the aura she emitted when angry, felt quite like dark clouds pressing down.

In fact, Ye Nan wasn't dead. After his body was swept by the Alien Queen's tail, he felt waves of sharp pain, but his body was, after all, extremely tough with superb recovery ability. The successive blows had only left him temporarily unable to move.

But once the Alien Queen set her sights on Ororo, he could no longer rest and recuperate.

Ororo needed him, and he needed Ororo. The two were mutually dependent. If Ororo died, his chances of winning would be slim to none.

"No, I can't let her attack. Ororo cannot die."

Ye Nan struggled to crawl up, his whole body in sharp pain. He gritted his teeth and tried hard to stand up from the ground.

"Kill, kill the Alien Queen."

A surge of blood rushed up from the bottom of his heart, providing him with immense energy. The injuries on his body seemed to heal in an instant.

In reality, his injuries hadn't healed at all; he was just forcibly suppressing the pain.

Ye Nan stood up abruptly, his eyes blood-red. He lifted his weapon, each step feeling heavy.

Sensing the movement behind her, the Alien Queen hurriedly turned her head, one head facing Ye Nan, the other facing Ororo.

"In this state, you still want to fight me?" the Alien Queen mocked.

"What exactly gave you such great courage that you don't fear life or death?"

"Because I am not a beast." A smile tugged at Ye Nan's face.

Ye Nan's words successfully enraged the Alien Queen. She moved her massive body and crawled over.

Seeing the Alien Queen, Ye Nan gritted his teeth, lifted his weapon, let out a roar, leaped out, and stabbed his weapon in fiercely.

"Go to hell!" The Alien Queen's tail whipped over, piercing through Ye Nan's stomach and shredding his already tattered abdomen to pieces.

"The one who should die is you." Ye Nan threw the weapon in his hand, stabbing it into the Alien Queen's head.

*Hiss! *

The Alien Queen wailed in pain, her massive head shaking continuously. But the weapon had burrowed into her skull, piercing the brain hidden inside. That heart-wrenching pain made her exceptionally furious.

Gradually, the Alien Queen's head shook slower and slower, as if she had suddenly lost all strength.

"This battle is finally over." Ye Nan felt a sense of relief, and a wave of exhaustion rushed up. He urgently needed to find a place to sleep.

"The battle isn't over yet. The winner should be me..."

The Alien Queen's other head suddenly burst out from her body, accompanied by countless pink tentacles.

"Offer me your genes."

"Lightning!" Ororo waved her hands, and a bolt of lightning descended from the clouds, striking the Alien Queen's head and making her tremble.

"Damn it, you're ruining my good deed again."

Countless tentacles rushed from the other end of the Queen's body, and in the blink of an eye, they were upon Ororo.

"Lightning!"

In her haste, Ororo summoned another bolt of lightning, striking the Alien Queen's tentacles and making them flail wildly in the air.

"Careful!"

A cry of "Careful" came, and a figure appeared behind Ororo, tackling her. A tentacle pierced through the figure fiercely, injecting a large amount of toxin into him.

It turned out that one of the Alien Queen's tentacles had extended from under the steel plate, preparing to ambush Ororo. Duanyan, who was nearby, saw this and didn't even think before throwing himself over, blocking the tentacle.

"No!"

Realizing what had happened, Ororo roared. She grabbed Duanyan in her arms, her jade-like hands pressing continuously on his body, helping him block the loss of blood.

"You must not die, you cannot die."

"It's useless. Her tentacle pierced my heart. I have no way to live," Duanyan said weakly. Waves of cold and emptiness washed over him; he clearly felt his life slipping away.

"Actually, I don't want to die. I want to live."

"No, you won't die. You will definitely live," Ororo said loudly. "I don't allow you to die. Didn't you say you, Duanyan, are a cockroach that can't be killed? You have Wolverine's genes; your vitality is tenacious."

"Actually, I really don't want to die," Duanyan said, his voice rising and falling. "Since I have memories, there has been a thought in my heart—that I must live well. I don't know where this thought comes from, but I know this thought is a promise, a very important promise."

"But now, this promise cannot be fulfilled. I'm sorry to the person who made me make this promise."

"Don't talk nonsense. You won't die. I'll take you away. I'll take you to Professor X; he must have a way to save you." Ororo's voice choked. She knew Duanyan couldn't be saved, but she didn't believe it.

"There must be a way, there must be a way."

"I can't hold on anymore, but I'm happy. I just realized that death isn't scary. The saying 'there is great terror between life and death' is wrong." A smile curled at the corner of Duanyan's mouth, but following the smile was more blood being coughed up.

"But I don't want you to die. Let me do one more thing for you before I die."

"Mental Blast."

Duanyan's gaze focused, then became dull.

He was condensing all his mental energy into a ball of self-destructing energy, drilling into the enemy's mind to trigger a self-detonation and destroy their mind.

Because he had condensed all his spirit, the power of this move was unimaginably huge. But as a price, the one who lost all their spirit would become an idiot. He didn't care anymore; he was going to die anyway, so what did it matter if he became an idiot?

"Originally, I planned to use this move to deal with Professor X at the moment of death. I didn't expect to use it here."

All of Duanyan's spirit turned into a seed, drilling into the depths of the Alien Queen's mind.

"What is this?" The Alien Queen felt something drill into her mind. Just as she was preparing to check, she heard a *pop*, her vision went black, and she knew nothing more...

"So that's how it is."

At the moment his spirit was completely destroyed, Duanyan finally remembered his memories before the experiment.

It was a famine. His mother was lying on the cold ground, using her own blood and flesh to feed him, giving him life.

"Promise Mom, live on. No matter what, you must live on."

This was his mother's belief, his mother's love for him, and his mother's final hope for him.

"I'm sorry, Mom. I can't go on living."

With the mental blast, Duanyan's consciousness completely dissipated. From body to soul, everything was destroyed. In Chinese terms, his soul had scattered.

"No!" Ororo roared, weak and powerless. At this moment, the moment Duanyan completely died, she lost all her strength and support. She collapsed on the ground, enjoying the final warmth with Duanyan.

*Hiss! *

The Alien Queen crawled slowly toward Ororo. She no longer had malice, mockery, or smiles; everything had been lost from her.

Duanyan's final strike had severely wounded her mind, wiping away all her wisdom. The current Alien Queen was just a monster dominated by bodily instincts, no longer worthy of being called a sentient being. She was even worse than the Aliens outside that only knew how to kill.

However, she was powerful. Duanyan's final strike hadn't completely destroyed her; she could still move. She was about to win this game, even though the person who designed the game had, in a sense, already perished.

Ororo's heart was as dead as ash. Facing the approaching Alien Queen, she didn't even have the slightest reaction.

"Careful!" Ye Nan roared and rushed over.

His eyes were blood-red, his hatred reaching the heavens.

Duanyan's death, Duanyan's attachment to the world, and Ororo's despair all greatly stimulated him. He couldn't help but think of himself—if he died, would he still be attached to the world? Would his women be as despairing as Ororo?

The final result was "Yes." So, no matter what, he could not die. He had to kill the enemy.

Step by step, carrying monstrous killing intent, the cold seawater flowed out from beneath the cave, submerging his feet entirely; yet even so, it could not calm the killing intent in his heart, not even in the slightest.

Sensing the killing intent from behind, the Alien Queen's head turned, and she lunged fiercely at Ye Nan, biting into his shoulder.

Having lost her wisdom, she had less nonsense but more decisiveness.

"A beast is always a beast."

Ye Nan said coldly and ruthlessly. He grabbed the Alien Queen who wouldn't let go of his body, exerted force with both hands, and forcibly tore the Alien Queen's head from the tumor.

*Hiss! *

The Alien Queen shrieked and then lost all signs of life.

"Is it completely over?" Ye Nan muttered, but his heart didn't relax. Having guessed wrong time and again, he had developed a habit of caution.

*Crack! * As if something had split open, a white figure leaped out from the Alien Queen's body. (. Your support is my greatest motivation.) ===== CHAPTER 236 =====