The Witch's Taste

Chapter 393 Resurrection, My Love
In my memory, it was raining heavily in the evening.

Chen Ziang found himself kneeling beside the ruins... to be precise, Xia Qingyu was kneeling beside the ruins.

Tears mixed with the rain and fell down her face.

Not far from the ruins, the remaining imperial embassy staff had called in the medical team and the excavation team, intending to clear the ruins and confirm the casualties below.

But these teams were stopped by federal agents who had heard the news: they claimed that the attack on the Imperial Embassy might have been an attack by terrorists, and that digging up the ruins without authorization would destroy clues at the attack site... The two sides are still negotiating and arguing.

Holding back the pain in her hands and heart, Xia Qingyu just kept digging at the concrete fragments with her hands, trying to pull the broken steel bars, until her hands were completely dripping with blood and her nails were broken into pieces.

Heart-wrenching pain came from his fingers. Chen Ziang gritted his teeth and endured it silently. He thought to himself, stop digging. How long will it take to excavate the ruins with human hands?

But gradually, an unspeakable sadness emerged from the bottom of my heart.

It was not Xia Qingyu's emotions in his memory, but his own sadness - Chen Ziang suddenly realized that he had never really understood Xia Qingyu in this life.

She's really good at pretending and lying.

"...Sister." Xia Zili's trembling voice came from behind.

Xia Qingyu stood up and turned around.

Her sister's figure was reflected in her eyes.The half-elf, who was nearly thirty years old, already had the temperament of a married woman, but this gentle temperament stung Xia Qingyu like a sharp knife.

She realized she had made a huge mistake.Even if giving Chen Ziang to his sister did not eliminate the imperial family's murderous intention towards him, there must be something in it that she mistakenly ignored.

It was this fatal mistake that killed the man she loved deeply.

........................

Chen Ziang was thrown out of his memory again.

Looking at the notebook, there were indeed torn pages at the back.

If he remembered correctly, Xia Qingyu in her previous life completely left Xia Zili after this incident and returned to the empire to take over the throne of emperor.

The sisters never saw each other again for the rest of their lives.

It was precisely because of this unexplained and decisive act of annihilation that Tsukimiya Suzuna mistakenly believed that she chose to "abandon her sister and kill her brother-in-law" because of her "dirty ambition and desire for power."

This misunderstanding was all due to Xia Qingyu's silence and lack of excuse, but at that time she was so heartbroken that she didn't care what her sister and Tsukimiya Suzuna thought of her.

Chen Ziang turned to the last few pages of the book and was once again immersed in the memory of his past life.

Xia Qingyu had returned to the Imperial Palace, and in the empty hall, she met with the old emperor who was nearing the end of his life.

There was no emotion in her heart. Even Chen Ziang, who directly sensed her heart in his memory, could only perceive a despairing nothingness and dead silence.

"You are finally back." The old emperor's tone was very ethereal, "You have been wandering outside for 30 years."

Xia Qingyu didn't answer.She just half-knelt on the ground, her head lowered, and her eyes focused on the infinite depths of the ground.

"The cabinet does not agree with my decision." The old emperor continued, "They tried to use all means to persuade me to choose a successor among all the alternative princes... As for which one it is, they actually don't care, because the cabinet Understand each prince's temperament and ruling opinions, and be prepared to assist any prince after he succeeds to power."

His eyes fell on the kneeling Xia Qingyu, with some kind of old and deep pressure. Chen Ziang could even feel something squeezing his chest.

"So, do you know why I chose you?" the old emperor asked quietly.

"I don't know." Xia Qingyu replied.

Her voice was hoarse and tired, with a slight tremor as if she had been tortured.

"I'm asking you." The old emperor's voice paused for a moment, "You must answer truthfully and you must not deceive me."

"If you succeed as Emperor of the Empire, what do you want to do most?"

Xia Qingyu's body trembled slightly.

Countless slide-like pictures flashed through her mind.

Gao Tianyuan fell into the sea of ​​destruction, the cold-blooded and cruel faces of the elven chaebols, and the painful cries of thousands of humans in the galaxy who were suffering or were about to suffer. Those twisted and sad faces were layered on top of each other, like resentful souls eager to take their lives.

But none of that could shake her mind.As her mind got rid of all distracting thoughts, there was only one picture left in front of her eyes:
Bloody fingers moved away the last remains, revealing the hands underneath that were white with death.

That was Chen Ziang's body.He was the person she loved deeply all her life, but was eventually killed by her.

Xia Qingyu's trembling body finally stabilized, and she slowly opened her mouth. Every word seemed to weigh heavily on the tip of her tongue:
"I...want revenge."

"I want to avenge his death..."

Her voice gradually became darker, until it was as vicious and fiery as the flames sweeping through hell:

"I want the entire Federation to collapse in flames and explosions just like that embassy."

"I want all Federation elves, whether old, male, female or children, to be buried under heavy ruins and suffer in extreme pain until they die tragically."

"I want their country to be exterminated and their species to be completely wiped out from the galaxy, leaving no trace behind."

……

The old emperor did not speak, but his gaze became heavier and heavier, as if he was almost speechless due to the impact of her evil words.

Until time seemed to have passed to the end, he said in an extremely tired voice:

"If this is your true wish..."

"...Then, you are indeed the person I have been waiting for."

Xia Qingyu was silent for a long time, and then sneered slightly:

"Heh, that's it..."

"Are you going to hand over the throne to me, an avenger who has lost his conscience?"

She suddenly raised her head, her eyes full of cruelty and violence.

The dim starlight quickly dispersed from her body, and soon turned into a few long ropes that were as real as substance, binding the old emperor's body and limbs tightly.

The material made of these rays was so sharp that when it wrapped around the flesh, it would also cut open the skin. Soon the old emperor turned into a bloody man, and his clothes were all dyed scarlet.

But the old emperor did not call out for the guards. He just gasped under the severe pain that spread throughout his body and tried to explain the reason why he did this:

"Because...the next human empire needs a tyrant who abandons his conscience."

"The overall national strength of the Federation is actually far higher than that of the Empire. Even if we try our best to catch up for so many years, there will be no possibility of surpassing it in hundreds of years."

"However, the fortunate thing among misfortunes is that due to the lack of integration among the major chaebols, most of the federation's national power cannot be immediately converted into military strength. Instead, it is consumed in various meaningless internal frictions, which is for us. It provides a window of time that must be seized.”

"Once the Federation and the Empire go to full-scale war, as long as the Emperor can go to war and expand military power at all costs, he will surely be able to suppress the Federation in the short term."

The long rope of starlight was still being tightened, and many wounds were already deep enough to show the bones. However, the old emperor continued to speak, but his face had become violently distorted. It was unclear whether it was pain or resentment:
"As the Federation turns to a disadvantage, the elves must turn from arrogance to fear. They will try to negotiate peace with the empire at all costs. Countless political brokers will roam within the empire, starting to complete the work for the major factions within the empire. The huge benefits that cannot be refused, until all the nobles and bureaucrats hope that the empire will cease the war... In order to absorb the benefits thrown over by the federation, they will also use all means to force the cabinet and the emperor to stop the war!"

"This is the biggest turning point in the fate of the empire! As long as the empire chooses to cease war, the Federation will take the opportunity to recuperate. Krublev and Bakht will put aside their aristocratic prejudices, reach cooperation and consensus with financial capitalists, and fully activate the war machine to expand the military until the military strength The entire process of reversing the disadvantage and crushing the empire in turn is expected to take no more than 50 years. Once this happens, the empire will never be able to reverse the outcome of defeat, and the human race in the galaxy will eventually face the end of the nation and its species!" "There are indeed many outstanding talents among the princes who can foresee this situation in advance. But their entanglements with the major factions within the empire are too deep. I can't bet on whether they will be able to defy everyone's opinions and stick to their own opinions... because I really What is needed is an avenger, a ruthless and cold-blooded tyrant, a cruel dictator who has a blood feud with the Federation and will never accept any peacemaking behavior in the future!!!"

"You do have reason to resent me. You resent me for luring the Federation to attack the embassy and killing the man you loved deeply. But don't forget that it was the Federation that actually killed him... You want revenge, and you can't let his blood be white. Liu. Xia Qingyu, you must destroy the Federation..."

The old emperor let out a final, calculated laugh from his throat, and then his limbs and head were cut off by the starlight rope, and his flesh and blood fell to the ground.

Xia Qingyu stood up, with the joy of successful revenge on her face, but it was soon replaced by a deeper feeling of pain and suffocation.

The old emperor is dead.

But she also fell into the old emperor's plan.

Chen Ziang's death originated from the old emperor's conspiracy, and the executioner was a federal elf who hated humans.

She killed the old emperor who was the mastermind behind the scenes, and of course she couldn't let go of the Federation. Although this was exactly what the old emperor wanted, she could no longer look back...

Because at this time, Xia Qingyu has completely degenerated into a witch, a witch who lives only for her obsession.

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Chen Ziang finally broke away from his memory.

Now, the experiences and obsessions of the three witches in their previous lives are completely clear.

In her previous life, Suzuna Tsukimiya was buried under the ruins of the Imperial Embassy with herself, and finally survived alone.

Her obsession was the last words of "save them" she left under the ruins before she died... Although Chen Ziang was not sure why he said such words when he was dying in his previous life.

Maybe he was really asking Suzuna, or maybe he was unconscious before his death. This cannot be verified.

Because of this, Tsukimiya Suzuna later drove a wandering fleet around the federal territory to save the humans imprisoned in the concentration camps, in order to fulfill the last wish of her beloved.

Xia Zili in her previous life was the last among the three to learn about her husband's death.

Her obsession was relatively vague, because Xia Zili didn't know who led the attack.

The Empire claimed that the Federation suspected that the embassy was a secret intelligence agency, so it bombarded it; the Federation claimed that the embassy was a secret intelligence agency of the Empire because agents conducted a surprise inspection of the embassy and took the initiative to detonate the installation in order not to leak secrets. bomb.

Xia Zili seemed to go crazy later.At present, it is only known that she killed all the members of the Krublev family, but there is no more memory... All her remaining memories are almost only the period when she was alive.

As for Xia Qingyu in her previous life, she only had time to rush to the edge of the ruins, and finally returned to the empire after confirming that she was dead.

She is the one who has the most information among the three, and is fully aware of her own death, but she is also the woman who is the most helpless.

Her obsession is to take revenge on the old emperor and the Federation who killed her.

Chen Ziang sat alone on the sofa. After sorting out the clues in his mind, he roughly understood why Xia Qingyu said nasty things to him.

Because from beginning to end, the old emperor was pushing her to hate the Federation.

Once he discovers that she loves him, he will die unexpectedly due to various "accidents". Behind these coincidences, there must be something to do with federal agents, which can lead Xia Qingyu to enmity with the federation. ——Thus achieving the old emperor’s plan.

Therefore, in order to protect herself, Xia Qingyu always deliberately pretended to be indifferent or even disgusted in front of her, and did not dare to show her love like Yuegong Suzuna or Xia Zili.

Despite this, her efforts to help the humans on the starship seem to have aroused suspicion in the Empire.

The explosion in the underground tunnel of the ruined planet was an obvious test.

Xia Zili's witch strength is no secret, and the empire must have foreseen that the explosion of the anti-matter energy warehouse would not be able to penetrate her protection.It's just that the empire didn't want to kill him at that time, but wanted to observe Xia Qingyu's attitude and confirm her thoughts through this kind of assassination.

The second time was the "weapon debugging" of the federal fleet. It was obviously not a test, but an unabashed attempt to kill someone with a borrowed knife.

Xia Qingyu realized that she had been exposed and could no longer pretend, so she immediately chose to die.

Because only her death can completely destroy the old emperor's plan, making it unnecessary for the empire to assassinate him...

Thinking of this, Chen Ziang suddenly seemed to have lost all his strength and lay down weakly on the sofa.

He didn't know what kind of determination and courage Xia Qingyu had in this life to be able to carry all this alone.

She obviously loves a man deeply, but she disguises herself in order to protect him. She is willing to endure his misunderstanding and hostility, and even uses words to destroy the relationship between the two, just to prevent him from having a good impression of her, or... Don't let yourself show your affection for him.

When Xia Qingyu used harsh and ruthless words to push herself further and further away, making her less and less understandable, and even couldn't help expressing disgust and disgust towards her, what was she thinking in her heart?

When Xia Qingyu watched herself and Suzuna Shili being intimate with each other, but for reasons she couldn't explain, she could only suppress her emotions and hide alone, what would she do?

Does she also feel lonely and sad when she is alone?Will you also be able to hold back your tears?Or is it that in order to maintain the disguise, you will pretend to be strong even when you are alone?

Chen Ziang stared at her diary. The last few pages had been torn out.The corresponding past life memory should be what happened after she became the empress of the empire.

Why did Xia Qingyu hide these memories?
He pressed his fingers on the cardboard of the notebook and suddenly noticed uneven marks on it.

Turning it over and checking it, there was no writing on it, but there was indeed some kind of indentation, as if it had been written hard on it with a pen that ran out of ink.

Chen Ziang stood up, found a pencil from the desk next to him, and carefully scratched the area with its side.

Soon, the bottom of the cardboard was blackened, and only the indentations remained white because they did not come into contact with the side of the pencil.

The handwriting composed is...

Chen Ziang read it carefully and finally read the above content:

"Actually, pretended hate makes people suffer more than suppressed love."

Chen Ziang stared at the handwriting in silence for a long time, until Xia Zili outside finally couldn't help but push the door open and come in:

"Are you OK?"

"...I'm fine."

"Chen Zi'ang, are you...crying?"

"No?" Chen Ziang touched his eyes and forced a tired smile.

"I just see that you look like you are going to cry at any time." Xia Zili said worriedly, "You have been in there for several hours."

"It's okay, don't worry about me." Chen Zi'ang was silent for a moment, until Xia Zili hesitated to leave, and then suddenly stopped her:

"Zi Li..."

"what happened?"

"If I remember correctly." Chen Ziang said slowly, "In the mysterious world, there is no absolute death, right?"

"You're thinking……"

"I want to resurrect Xia Qingyu."

(End of this chapter)