Chapter 134: 132 The Conclusion of the Mysterious Disappearance Case

132 The Conclusion of the Mysterious Disappearance Case

"No! No! No!" Ma Hong looked at Drake, who was attempting to reclaim his human will. Incredulous and furious, he stepped forward to glare at Li Nuowei, who lay unable to move on the Sacrificial Altar, and demanded, "What exactly have you done!?"

"Everything I wanted to do." Li Nuowei smiled calmly. He looked up at the pitch-black sky, his pupils reflecting the myriad lines of meteors streaking across the night—each one brilliant, each one magnificent.

The story that could loop infinitely—he could have actually kept telling it forever. In this way, his life would have remained eternally frozen in that moment of eye contact with Drake. He could have enjoyed everything within the story he told, but the price would have been an infinitely looping life, and he would have slowly forgotten "the original self" within the cycle of the story.

Yet, humans are creatures that crave "pleasure"; to be addicted to joy and forget one's original heart—that, too, might not be a bad way to live.

But Li Nuowei felt it was enough. He had lived for too long and died too many times in the story world he constructed, and he had long since gained a deeper understanding of life and death. At the same time, he had indeed experienced the myriad flavors of life in the world he built, so even if he returned to the real world now, to his real-world age, he felt he had no regrets in death.

Ma Hong read the mockery on Li Nuowei's face and was consumed by rage. Seeing that the Aquila Meteor Shower in the night sky was about to end, and that he was about to miss the messenger from the stars and delay the revival of the great Anhai Divine Society's god, Ma Hong raised his own sharp claws, plunged them into Li Nuowei's chest, and dug out his entire heart.

Li Nuowei looked at Ma Hong with contempt, the vitality in his eyes rapidly fading, and whispered silently: "Your god is not great; humans are great..."

Drake, whose self-awareness was gradually recovering, saw the scene of Li Nuowei dying before his eyes. He lunged out like a madman, interrupting Ma Hong, who was holding the heart high and chanting prayers in a strange, unknown language. He retracted his sharp claws, clenched his fists like a human, and hammered furiously at Ma Hong's fake human face.

"How do you bastards have the face to keep living, how can you disregard the lives of others!?" Drake roared in his heart, though his mouth let out the sounds of a fish-man.

Ma Hong seemed to understand Drake's inner voice. While enduring the most brutal beating, he couldn't help but laugh wildly: "If we're talking about killing, you had a part in killing him too, our God's Child." Amidst the wild laughter, his face was rapidly deforming under the increasingly forceful punches.

"To hell with God's Child." Drake clenched his fists, which were covered in scattered Scales and torn skin, and threw one final, full-force punch, smashing Ma Hong's deformed head into a pulp. Flesh and brain matter exploded from the shattered head; the human skin and flesh were tattered, mixed into a messy sludge of complex white, blue, and red gore.

The sudden recovery of the God's Child's human will, the sudden death of their Anhai Divine Society leader Ma Hong... it all happened within just a few short minutes, catching everyone off guard.

They looked up at the sky in a daze; the Aquila Meteor Shower had ended, and the storm disaster quietly brewing on the sea had also dissipated in silence.

The messenger of the stars had not arrived, the sea was calm, and the Anhai god they called upon had not revived at the prophesied time.

They had failed; the prophecy was wrong.

The prophecy the Yellow Sand Truth School had given them years ago was wrong, and even if it wasn't entirely wrong, it was incomplete.

The Anhai god could not lead them to rule this world, nor could it awaken as the prophecy promised. Was the "deity" they worshipped just an overrated alien small-fry?!

Some Anhai Divine Society believers who could not bear the reality of the blow committed suicide on the spot. There was no need for the enraged Drake to kill them himself; most of them were practically dead by their own hands, and those who remained were no better off than the dead—they had gone insane.

Drake did not show mercy either, personally killing all those who had gone mad.

After slaughtering those damned believers, Drake stood at the edge of the cape, feeling the sea breeze coming from behind, his heart filled with indescribable numbness and melancholy.

They were all dead, he was dead too, and he couldn't go back either... was there any need for him to keep living?

Bang!

A gunshot rang out from the distance behind him. Before he could even turn his head, Drake felt something fly past his shoulder, leaving a stinging wound on his shoulder.

When Drake looked back, a group of Mysterious Investigators dressed in black, led by Yu Lianyun, were charging toward him.

At this, Drake just gave them a complicated look, then ultimately chose to jump off the cape without looking back, falling into the nearby sea filled with jagged reefs.

By the time Yu Lianyun and the others arrived, Drake was nowhere to be seen. Below the cape, the waves were crashing against the shore, the rocks were jagged, and the ocean currents blowing toward the coast were driving the waves to lash the shore incessantly. In such turbulent waters, even if Drake hadn't died, he shouldn't have been able to swim out of such a dangerous place.

"Tally the casualties at the scene and search for useful clues." Seeing that the only survivor had jumped into the sea and disappeared, Yu Lianyun sighed with secret regret and gave the order.

She turned back, looking at the youthful face of the boy on the Sacrificial Altar. His corpse was bitten and mutilated, and she felt a sense of unease, lamenting that a young life had died just like that.

Li Nuowei was someone she had been specifically entrusted by her superiors to meet when she came to Liuhua Port this time, yet she hadn't had a single normal conversation with him.

In the recent series of Mysterious Disappearance Cases in Liuhua Port, Yu Lianyun had wanted to learn more details from Li Nuowei, who had nearly been taken away by fish-men, but she hadn't expected that Li Nuowei would ultimately be taken by the fish-men and become their sacrifice, yet the fish-men's prophecies had not come true one by one.

"Although I don't know what happened, thank you for contributing your own strength to protect humanity." Yu Lianyun thought silently to the corpse, then she suddenly caught a glimpse of two Blessing Avatars crawling out of her own shadow, crawling toward Li Nuowei.

Seeing that the two gluttons had set their sights on Li Nuowei, Yu Lianyun hurriedly scolded, "You cannot eat them, absolutely not."

Hearing this, both Blessing Avatars wore cold, miserable faces, looking at Yu Lianyun for a long while before silently retreating, as if they had truly heard Yu Lianyun's simple request.

Yu Lianyun breathed a sigh of relief; she was terrified that those two would take the opportunity to extract some other important things from her, which would be a loss that outweighed the gain.

Wei Jiang, who was cleaning the shop, suddenly felt a prick in his ear. He looked back at Lin Ling in shock, "Boss, did he fail?"

"Quite the opposite, he was very successful." Lin Ling said with a smile.