Chapter 376

Mualani: "Will General General Feixiao eventually die in the process of going mad?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "..."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "If we cannot find a way to cure General Feixiao, then that is her final fate."

The video continues.

[And to repay her for saving your life, you intend to exhaust all your efforts to challenge this unsolvable mystery.]

Hu Lei already knows Seeing Jiaoqiu's obsession.

[Hu Lei... do you know what the most pathetic thing is about being a physician?]

[All this time, I have spent my entire life's learning trying to snatch those dying lives back from the hands of monsters like you.]

[I sit slumped in exhaustion, my hands trembling, wondering if everything I’ve done has any meaning.]

[But then, they rush back to the battlefield once more.]

[And then, I hear the news of their deaths.]

[They die under your claws and fangs, in the flames of crashing star-skiffs, in the light-arrows of the Reignbow Arbiter...]

[I am like a futile idiot, scooping a fish called 'life' out of a cauldron named 'death'—only to watch it struggle and jump back into the boiling broth.]

[I ask myself, what makes them rush toward death without regard after their wounds have healed?]

[Why not cherish a life so hard-won?]

[This makes me feel lost, empty...]

Stelle: "I didn't expect Dr. Seeing Jiaoqiu to have such moments of despair."

Lumine: "The people you just saved rush back to the battlefield before long, until the news of their death arrives."

Lumine: "Then what is the meaning of saving them?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Indeed. If the people I save are destined to die again, what is the meaning of saving them?"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "That is exactly what I thought at the time."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "So, carrying that question, I stopped practicing medicine with a dead heart."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Until I was awakened by General Feixiao."

Dan Heng: "A physician, even if they can bring the dead back to life and regrow flesh and bone, even if their medical skills are divine and they heal many people..."

Dan Heng: "They cannot heal the pain of war..."

Silver Wolf: "So studying medicine can't save this world!"

Silver Wolf: "To change all this, you must have powerful strength!"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Yes... one must have the strength to change all this."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "Only then can we reduce these kinds of tragedies."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "I am just a physician, a cook; I could never hope to have such strength in this lifetime."

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "But General Feixiao has it. She has the ability to change all this!"

Seeing Jiaoqiu: "And I must have the ability to heal her!"

March 7th: "I think I understand Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu's thoughts now."

March 7th: "This is Mr. Seeing Jiaoqiu's obsession all along, isn't it?"

The video continues.

[Heh... I smell a despair that runs deep into your marrow.]

Hu Lei listens to Seeing Jiaoqiu's account with interest.

[In the end, I understood that there is value in their departure.]

[They press the weight of their departure onto the hearts of us who are still alive, giving us more strength.]

[They use the coin of death to exchange for more...]

[This is everything I do now, staying close by your side, just to witness one result with my own eyes: your death...]

[Your death also has value.]

[It will exchange for the safety of the Wardance Ceremony; and for the General Feixiao I have healed.]

Seeing Jiaoqiu looks up,

gazing calmly at Hu Lei.

[Hmph, the thoughts turning in your pathetic brain are exactly as I expected.]

Regarding Seeing Jiaoqiu's statement,

Hu Lei scoffs with disdain.

[You knew all along?]

Seeing Jiaoqiu raises an eyebrow.

[Indeed, because no one knows the value that death can bring better than the Borisin.]

[And for a physician like you who has seen death so often, simple fear cannot deter you.]

[What a pity.]

[The moment I finished listening to this story, a trace of respect for you actually arose in my heart.]

On Hu Lei's face,

a rare expression of admiration appears.

[In that heart of yours flowing with poisonous blood... can the emotion of respect also arise?]

Seeing Jiaoqiu's eyes seem to carry a hint of mockery.

[Of course, because I faintly smell the scent of my own kind.]

[It is a pity that you are, after all, just a weak and powerless fox.]

[As the ancient wolf proverb says: Grant the wolf a dead end, and it shall find a way forward.]

[Feed the wolf with the count of the dead, and it shall be sated.]

[To live in cowardice is to have no life; to fight to the death is to endure for ten thousand generations.]

Welt: "The ancient wolf proverb, is it?"

Welt: "Sigh, Hu Lei is about to make his move."

Stelle: "Does Hu Lei mean he wants to kill his way to a new path?"

Stelle: "Damn, isn't that just brute force?"

Aventurine: "Rather, one could say this is the resolve of an alpha wolf."

Aventurine: "He is worthy of being the leader of the Borisin."

Aventurine: "Setting aside everything else, at least this spirit is truly extraordinary."

Black Swan: "How could the leader of a force that once pushed a behemoth like the Luofu Xianzhou Alliance to the brink be an ordinary person?"

Black Swan: "The terror of the Abominations of Abundance can never be easily ignored."

Boothill: "What a fine 'ancient wolf proverb'!"

Boothill: "Damn it, a bunch of wolf pups, acting all noble."

Boothill: "Their nobility is built upon the bones of countless innocent people!"

Boothill: "They are just a bunch of beasts!"

Keqing: "It would be better if a race that tramples on the dignity and lives of others so wantonly just disappeared."

Keqing: "I hope the Luofu Xianzhou can completely eradicate them."

The video continues.

[This is also the reason I am keeping you alive for now. I will show you the greatest respect a Borisin can show an enemy:]

[Devour your flesh and blood to nourish our sinews and bones, shatter your visions, and carve out our hunting path;]

[I will let your dead souls witness that the future belongs to me!]

Hu Lei's emotions become increasingly fervent.

[My lord! The comrades responsible for the extraction have sent word—the arrangements at Scalegorge Waterscape have been discovered, we must move immediately!]

At this moment, Mudu, having received the news,

reports hurriedly to Hu Lei.

[None of this is beyond my expectations.]

[Mudu... what is that sound?]

Suddenly, an inexplicable sound arrives, leaving Hu Lei somewhat puzzled.

[It is the Competitive Edge ship.]