[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-worlds-apocalypse-online":3,"chapter-worlds-apocalypse-online-worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-711":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Worlds' Apocalypse Online",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1791407,2388,"Chapter 709 & 712 - Flower And Soup","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-711",711,"\u003Cp>As soon as the floating market lifted up, Gu Qing Shan also sighed in relief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the start of the fiasco, Little Dusk had already appeared next to him at some point, silently watching everything unfold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So it still came out after all” Little Dusk sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s the creature?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yeah, these arms are nothing but the creature’s skin, its real self should still be in a half-asleep state” Little Dusk replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan looked at her: “So you once managed to fight and won against an opponent with this level of strength? How unimaginable”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk fell into thought: “I had thought that the Desolate World Eater Demon Bug might be able to contain it, but seems like it already failed. I wonder if the Divinities still have other means prepared”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ignoring what the Divinities did for now, do we have a way to run away from here?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There isn’t, I’m still too weak” Little Dusk sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them suddenly felt something and looked back at the black market at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire black market, besides the control center in the middle, was plunged back into chaos again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Skirmishes, murder, robbery, sabotage…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone made a mad dash into the stores to seize whatever is useful for them, if they met with any resistance, they would fight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few others were enacting their revenge for one reason or another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So fights broke out all over the place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the location Gu Qing Shan chose was a particularly secluded area at the very edge of the floating port; there wasn’t anything worth stealing here, so no one bothered to come for now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Listening to the commotion and chaos, Little Dusk was confused: “It’s already a desperate situation where anything but death is assured, so why are they still doing this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan glanced back at her and asked: “Before you were sealed, did you not have a lot of contact with living beings?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I didn’t, besides fighting against various monsters, all I did from day to day was sleep…” Little Dusk stared at the bloody scenes all over the black market and asked again: “Why are they acting so insanely?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan answered: “This is just the nature of living beings”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The nature of living beings…” Little Dusk still couldn’t understand, “so when they’re in a desperate situation, living beings will always change so greatly like this?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No, they don’t change greatly at all, because this is how they really are—– only after the powerful ones have had their fill will things like this calm down temporarily”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Saying so, Gu Qing Shan took out something from behind the counter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A pot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together with various spices and cooking ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He formed a hand seal to control water and thoroughly washed the pot before he prepared the ingredients.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk asked in surprise: “What are you doing?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah— this is also a part of a living being’s nature” Gu Qing Shan replied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he arrived at the Strife Zones, he hadn’t eaten a proper warm meal, and after taking a bite of that terrible food just now, he couldn’t help himself wanting to make something to eat and wash away the taste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was going about it at a very decent pace, quickly finishing a few side dishes and a pot of hot soup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Since the enemy is too strong to face with raw strength, I need to eat something——- you can’t think on an empty stomach after all” Gu Qing Shan explained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk looked at the table full of food, twitching her nose slightly as she had a look of admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You can eat this much alone?” she asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not, come, eat with me”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan gestured for her to sit down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing that, Little Dusk acted a bit awkwardly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s with you?” Gu Qing Shan noticed she wasn’t quite herself, narrowed his eyes, and asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk hesitantly spoke: “I—– I’m probably not suitable for this”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan felt that a bit unexpected: “It’s just a meal, what is there to not be suitable with?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk looked at the steaming hot food and gently replied: “The Divinities told me that in my life, I should only be doing two things: fighting and sleeping”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fighting to vanquish evil, and sleeping to recover my stamina”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Other than that, I can’t participate in any activities of living beings, because doing that will slowly taint and corrupt me”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a brief moment of silence, Gu Qing Shan asked: “So you have never eaten food before?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I haven’t”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides fighting and sleeping, you haven’t done anything else?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…That’s not true either. When I gradually got used to observing the world, I could sense a certain change inside me”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What change is that?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk replied: “I began to feel that there are a few things I can get close to”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“For example?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk took out a card and gave it to Gu Qing Shan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan looked at it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The card depicted a bundle of pink flowers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lightly shook the card once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A bundle of pink flowers giving off a faint fragrance appeared in his hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How beautiful” Gu Qing Shan commented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He offered the flowers back to Little Dusk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk received the flowers, gently smelled them and smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There was a time, when I had just vanquished sin from a certain world, right before I left, I noticed a cluster of flowers, growing near where I had fought. And for some unknown reason, I decided to collect one of them”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From then on, whenever I come to any world, I would find and collect a few flowers from that world”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Divinities soon discovered this and were confused, asking me why I did such a thing”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How did you answer them?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk appeared nostalgic as she answered: “I said—— that I liked these flowers, and that I liked traveling between worlds”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“From then on, the attitude of Divinities towards me changed”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Changed?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They seemed to be avoiding me——– but some female Divinities also liked flowers, so why is it that they can like them, but I can’t?” Little Dusk asked in confusion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Facing her clear and pure eyes, Gu Qing Shan was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk continued: “After that happened, the Divinities sent me to this world to fight against that creature underneath the sand. As soon as I used all of my powers to seal that monster away, the Divinities appeared”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They sealed me away, forcing me into slumber——- until very recently”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan then spoke: “Then, let us return to the first question, the Divinities forbade you from doing anything but fight and rest, but did they ever eat?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ah, yes they did, the Divinities seemed to enjoy banquets and parties a lot” Little Dusk had a faint look of admiration as she recalled something.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan silently smiled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then poured a bowl of soup and placed it in front of Little Dusk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Try it” he told her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk was still a bit hesitant: “But I’ve never eaten anything before”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gu Qing Shan smiled: “I guarantee, the soup I make is definitely worth trying once”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk looked at him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk took a deep breath and muttered: “In truth, I’ve always been curious to know. What kind of feeling is ‘eating something’?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She picked up the bowl and carefully took a sip from the edge of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“How does it taste?” Gu Qing Shan asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly found himself feeling a bit anxious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since he first opened shop years ago, this was the very first time he felt such emotions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little Dusk stayed silent for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I… don’t know how to describe this feeling”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She muttered softly and once again picked up the bowl.\u003C\u002Fp>",1342,"2026-06-09T03:05:24.739Z",1,"novelbin.me","90d426f3cce14beb13060eec835294b25747804e2bf564bd00ffe8d4bc3ec777","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-712","worlds-apocalypse-online-chapter-710",1850,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fworlds-apocalypse-online-cover.jpg"]