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Chapter 253: A Gentleman is Like Jade (I)

Her vision was filled with bizarre and dazzling images, and He Si's brain stopped functioning in the gradually weakening chanting. In a daze, she felt that the owner of the voice had left her, which made her vision turn from bright to dark, and then to pitch black. Instead, a bright fire ignited in her brain, but there was no heat at all, it was a cold flame, like fireworks, spreading a dazzling white in her brain.

This coldness attacked from the top of her head and quickly seized all her senses. He Si felt like a small boat, drifting aimlessly on the cold sea in the middle of the night, powerlessly going with the flow, not even able to feel sadness - she seemed to have just defeated the demon that had haunted her for life, but she felt nothing. She had never expected such a bleak victory.

"help!"

The sudden female voice was rapid and hoarse. He Si felt as if a wave had hit her, causing her small boat to sway, but she was not thrown ashore and was still drifting in a daze and at a loss.

This was the scene Jun Jiuzi saw when she rushed into this world. The woman with out-of-focus eyes knelt in front of the white-haired Fan Yu, still in the aftermath of the world's collapse.

"Fan Yu!" she called again, this time with a trembling voice. She stretched out her hand, but did not dare to check Fan Yu's breath. Instead, she put her hand on his shoulder.

This call did not wake up Fan Yu or He Si, but it did wake up Qin Jian. He woke up from his momentary daze and saw Jun Jiuzi squatting beside He Si, trying to pull the motionless Fan Yu. He turned his head again. The virtual world was melting away, and the real world was invading. The world lines formed by cracks were twisting and retreating, and they were already in front of them, like waves, taking away all the redundancy in the illusion, including the mirror fragments left after Yanyan's body was shattered, which also disappeared in front of him.

"Teacher Qin," it was Guan Zihe who spoke this time. Her eyes, which rarely showed emotions, showed panic. She looked at Fan Yu and asked, "What should we do?"

Qin Jian looked in the direction of her raised fingertips, and just like the broken lenses that had already disappeared, Fan Yu's outline was fading, one of his legs had become transparent, and his entire body seemed to be about to dissipate in the wind at any time, along with the dagger in his hand - he sacrificed himself in this world, and now this world was facing collapse, and he was about to be wiped out forever.

This thought made Qin Jian panic for a moment. He instinctively wanted to grab Fan Yu. He glanced at Guan Zihe and saw the withered hand on her shoulder. It was He Si who brought it out from an illusion that had also collapsed. Qin Jian's movements were even faster than his thoughts. When he reacted, he had already pulled He Si's hand and placed it on Fan Yu's shoulder.

Sure enough, the process of transparency slowed down, and even gradually reversed, and Fan Yu's eyebrows became clear again. Qin Jian breathed a sigh of relief. He was right. He Si was the interface between the illusion and reality. Since she had brought Xiao Jiu and Xiao Shou out of the illusion, she must be able to bring Fan Yu out, even if it was a corpse that had lost vital signs. Thinking of this, the boulder pressed on Qin Jian's chest again, making it difficult for him to breathe. But he quickly shook his head, threw away these useless thoughts, and held He Si's hand even harder.

He Si felt the warmth on the back of her hand. This thin warmth climbed up her arm, spreading from her limbs to her heart, melting her chest which had been frozen by frost. The moment her heart started beating again, the ice that had frozen her turned into tears, which rolled down her eyes. Sadness came back, and she cried silently without making a sound.

"Ah Si, we have to take him out."

Guan Zihe also realized He Si's ability and hurriedly said, "Now is not the time to cry, He Si, look at us!" "Miss He... only you can take him out."

A deeper male voice sounded. He Si raised her head and saw Fan Yu's face through her tears. She was startled and quickly wiped away her tears, only to find that the person was Deng Yizhi.

"What?" He Si asked back instinctively, but immediately realized that everything in the illusion was disappearing, and the people left here would also disappear completely. They had to take Fan Yu out, regardless of life or death.

With the last glimmer of hope in her heart, she immediately stretched out her hands through Fan Yu's armpits and tried her best to drag him back to the real world. The remaining four people helped to support him on both sides. But Fan Yu was tall and strong, and He Si and Qin Jian had just experienced a fierce battle and had not recovered their physical strength. The others were all in a panic. For a moment, no one could drag him at all. Seeing that the crack was approaching, He Si heard Qin Jian say two words amid Xiao Jiu's excited bird calls: "Become a cocoon."

The huge and bright ball of light warmed He Si's body. She concentrated all her thoughts on her fingertips. Silk threads flourished and quickly intertwined. At the last second before the crumbling world disappeared, the silk threads entangled and closed, like a huge cocoon, wrapping her and Fan Yu together.

"Asi."

After an unknown amount of time, He Si heard a tentative call. She looked at Fan Yu's closed eyes and sighed softly, knowing that they had safely left the illusion together. The tightly woven cocoon loosened up due to this and turned back into silk threads, hanging down one by one. Inside the silk cocoon, some people turned into butterflies, while others left and never returned.

Qin Jian took a step forward and wanted to support Fan Yu's body, but he didn't expect that a figure was faster than him. Before he could reach out his hand, Deng Yizhi had already supported Fan Yu's shoulders and carefully let him lie back on the ground.

In the indifferent silence, Qin Jian looked at Deng Yizhi's back, his eyes fell on the ancient jade engraved with a phoenix holding a snake pattern on his waist, and knew the reason why they entered the broken illusion from different entrances at the same time at the last moment - just as Fan Yu suggested, the sixteen-section dragon and phoenix jade pendant was finally removed.

"He... Fan Yu, what happened to him? I heard him calling me when I first entered the illusion. He is injured, right? He will heal himself in a while, right?"

Although she had seen the ending from He Si's face, Jun Jiuzi still couldn't face it. She couldn't believe that the person who had attended the Christmas dinner with her a few days ago was gone forever. She could only look around helplessly, trying to find different answers from other people's faces. But others just lowered their eyes secretly and avoided her sight. Only Deng Yizhi, who was squatting on the ground, raised his head and said calmly in her expectant gaze: "He's fine."

"Is he okay?" This was the answer Jun Jiuzi expected, but when she looked at Fan Yu lying motionless on the ground and the sad expressions of the people around her, she didn't know whether she should believe it or not. Even Qin Jian, who always had an indifferent expression, showed an expression of disbelief.