Chapter 250

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Protagonist:

Xuan Ge

Real world, inside a Pinocchio Hotel room.

Dahlia propped her chin with one hand, head tilted, eyes unblinking as she stared at Xuan Ge's face, eyes closed in deep sleep, a soft, limp complaint escaping her lips.

"So boring~~"

Her gaze slid down along his brow bone, then froze when it reached the corner of his eye.

There, a very faint, barely discernible glimmer caught the lamplight.

Dahlia froze for a moment, straightening up slightly.

She reached out, her fingertip lightly touching the corner of Xuan Ge's eye, wiping away that trace of moisture, her voice unconsciously turning even lighter and softer:

"Oh my~~ why are you crying? Don't be afraid~ don't be afraid~ I'm here~"

She pushed Black Swan, who was also leaning against Xuan Ge's shoulder with eyes closed, to the side.

Black Swan's body tilted, like a displaced ornament, sliding silently onto the sofa armrest.

Dahlia didn't spare her another glance, both hands carefully moving Xuan Ge's head from the sofa back and gently resting it on her own thigh.

She lowered her head to look at his face, her palm patting his shoulder rhythmically, humming an off-key tune, like coaxing a sleeping child.

Inside the Memory Realm.

Black Swan braced both hands on Xuan Ge's shoulders, her whole body half-bent at the waist, chest heaving violently.

The scene of that Arrow of the Hunt tearing through the air just now was still branded behind her eyelids; close her eyes and she could see it.

She took a deep breath, then another, her voice finally steadying.

Xuan Ge's palm lightly patted her back: "Stimulating?"

".... More stimulating than Huang Quan." Black Swan swallowed, nodded, a half-swallowed shock still stuck in her throat.

In Huang Quan's memory she was being plucked, unable to escape.

But here with Xuan Ge——it was facing the Hunt Aeon's light arrow head-on. This was already not the same level of thing.

"Emperor," she braced one hand on her chest, lifted her head to look at him, eyes still holding the lingering aftermath of that arrow, "Why would the Hunt send down a light arrow?"

However you looked at it, that arrow didn't resemble a blessing, more like it wanted to reduce Xuan Ge to dust on the spot.

"No wonder you're Dahlia's female colleague." Xuan Ge suddenly blurted this out.

Black Swan froze, brows furrowing slightly: "Why do you say that?"

"Dahlia comes openly, while you're the quiet——"

A meaningful wicked smile curved Xuan Ge's lips.

Black Swan understood instantly, ears reddening, raising a hand to press her index finger directly against his lips, forcing that last word back down:

"Alright, Emperor, don't say that word."

Xuan Ge's mouth corners still curled upward even with his lips blocked; he didn't struggle, waiting for her to withdraw her finger before explaining:

"Actually that light arrow wasn't much, just killed me."

"Killed? But.... but aren't you the one who became a Skyward General?" Black Swan's confusion, this didn't make sense.

"That light arrow severed my obsession with Destruction on the causal level. Although I died, it was as if dead."

Finishing these words, Xuan Ge's brows suddenly furrowed slightly.

The corners of his mouth pressed downward for a micro-instant, cursing inwardly:

Dahlia you! What are you taking my clothes off for!

Wait!

Black Swan keenly captured his body trembling lightly, immediately pressing: "Emperor, what's wrong?"

".... No, nothing." Xuan Ge coughed lightly, suppressing the strangeness in his throat, swiftly changing the subject, "Still want to watch?"

Watch, watch quickly.

I need to go out and deal with Dahlia.

"No need, Emperor." Black Swan shook her head.

She indeed still craved his memories, but the upcoming content wasn't something she could touch.

The Third Abundance War, and Xuan Ge becoming the Monarch of Extinction.

These two memory segments——let alone peeking, just thinking about them, that Path-level pressure already weighed heavily on her chest.

One, her strength wasn't enough; two, she already owed Xuan Ge a life.

Xuan Ge let her view the memories, and protected her the whole way;

If he hadn't, she would have died at Polka's hands the first moment.

The second gate was the Hunt's light arrow, let alone the scene behind with the Feather Emperor's billions of cause-and-effect lines detonating.

Going in alone, she'd be dead either way.

Although Xuan Ge had comforted her with "Polka can't see or hear you," recalling that comfort now, it was debatable.

Polka also plays with causality.

"Really not watching?" Xuan Ge asked again.

"Not watching, Emperor. I'm already very satisfied." Black Swan still shook her head, an untroubled smile hanging on her lips.

'You're satisfied, but outside there's still a Dahlia working tirelessly for her satisfaction.'

Xuan Ge complained inwardly, his face revealing nothing.

"Take a look at the scene of my ascension to the throne." He changed his phrasing. "The Memory Aeon Fu Li came to record it personally. Don't you want to see?"

".... Heh." Black Swan suddenly chuckled.

She vaguely perceived a trace of something unusual, but couldn't tell what it was.

Since Xuan Ge wanted her to stay in the memory and continue watching, then she would watch.

She nodded. "Trouble Your Majesty, then."

Xuan Ge secretly relaxed, raising his hand in a wave. The view shifted.

Two people stood side by side at a high point of the Luo Fu Lin Yuan Jing. Below lay ice steps covering the sky and earth.

The hundred officials shouted in unison. Xuan Huang ascended the throne.

The Memory Aeon Fu Li attended in person, leaving behind that eternal shutter sound in countless people's memories.

Black Swan was watching, entranced. Suddenly——

"Mmph~~"

An extremely short, extremely soft and glutinous sound leaked from her throat.

She violently covered her mouth, not daring to look at Xuan Ge beside her.

——Damn Da Li Hua! What are you doing!

I'm still.... First Moon.... ah

Her heart exploded into chaos, yet she couldn't utter a single word.

Her body was clearly being manipulated by Da Li Hua in the real world.

That strange, uncontrollable.

Was passing through the thin barrier between memory and reality, surging up wave after wave.

Black Swan bit her lip, enduring desperately, nails nearly digging into her palm.

"What's wrong?" Xuan Ge tilted his head to look at her.

He had just been enjoying the sensation from outside, conveniently listening to the Xian Zhou populace's roaring chants of "Xuan Huang," and indeed hadn't noticed Black Swan's faint anomaly just now.

"Your Majesty~~ ah~~ I'm fine~~" Black Swan answered with her head lowered, her voice pressed thin and flat.

She truly couldn't hold back any longer.

This bastard Da Li Hua, just what position did she put her in!

And that warm airflow of each breath, every frequency she felt clearly.

One inhale, one exhale, both nearly made her.....

Finally——

Black Swan raised her head, her eyes already veiled in a layer of mist, pupils unfocused as she looked at Xuan Ge, voice soft and alluring:

"Your Majesty~~~ Da Li Hua is outside...."

"Ai." Xuan Ge lightly sighed.

He knew Da Li Hua had suddenly gone quiet for a reason; turns out she went to poke Black Swan.

He raised his hand in a wave, bringing Black Swan out from the past memory.

The real world.

Xuan Ge opened his eyes.

Then he froze.

Da Li Hua's long hair was disheveled, cheeks flushed, eyes hazy.

"Da Li Hua you——!" Black Swan opened her eyes at the exact same instant.

The curses hadn't even formed properly when she suddenly stiffened all over.

She perceived something.

Her lips moved, opening stupidly: "Your Majesty.... where...."

Finished speaking, her pupils trembled. She lowered her head, all the way down, looking toward Xuan Ge's neck.....

"Hehe——" Da Li Hua forcibly pulled her scattered focus back, the smile at the corner of her mouth deepening.

"I didn't shortchange you. This position has always been mine——"

Finished speaking, Da Li Hua finally couldn't hold on any longer.

Ceiling: ".........."

Black Swan covered her face with both hands, the skin showing through her fingers red enough to drip blood.

Whether to get up or not get up now, she completely didn't know.