Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 546 Awakening
Xin Lailai felt as if she had had a strange dream.

In his dream, he turned into an abyss creature.

In the dream, it was caught, stripped of the strength it gained from the power of the abyss, and was asked to train from scratch step by step.

In the dream, it picked up a long sword, fought continuously, drank the blood of its opponents, and continued to fight one opponent after another, growing at an unimaginable speed.

In dreams, it often dreams of a human being, and dreams that it becomes the other party's opponent in various identities.

Sometimes it is a human emitting a strong aura of death, sometimes it is a dark afterimage that can change the flow of time, sometimes it is the king of the wild gods sitting alone on the throne, and sometimes it is a strange humanoid creature emitting a magnificent light like the starry sky...

It constantly fought with the human in dreams using these identities, sometimes winning and sometimes losing.

Ten times... a hundred times... a thousand times...

Its strength continued to grow, and its number of wins in the dream began to increase. However, no matter how many times it won, it never felt bored or uninteresting, because no matter what method it used, the human in the dream was resisting with all his might. No matter how many times it defeated the opponent, the opponent's eyes were always full of indomitable spirit and resistance.

So, it began to search, trying to find an unyielding gaze similar to the one in its dreams among the opponents assigned to it by those who had captured it, trying to find a joyful battle to the death that could rival the battle in its dreams.

Skill masters, creatures from the abyss, children of the world...

It began to challenge all kinds of strong people, but the desire in its heart not only could not be quelled, but became even stronger.

Because...those so-called powerful enemies simply can't satisfy it.

So, it started to speak and put forward its needs, and the other party responded to it like this:

"It's useless. Even if you defeat many opponents, you won't feel satisfied~!"

"Because, what you desire is not just a life-and-death battle, but ~ an enemy that can resonate with your will and desire~! Hahahaha!"

At the end of the dream, Xin Lailai only remembered that he seemed to hear a burst of piercing laughter that made him feel extremely cold and even nauseous. Then, he saw the last scene he could see in this dream:
——That was him.

In the picture, he who had lost half of his body was standing in front of "himself", supporting each other with Ling Yuzi, and together they made a gesture that looked like shooting, with a rapidly expanding flame at their fingertips.

Then, he saw a dazzling fire blooming in front of his eyes from a first-person perspective, and the entire dream was instantly plunged into darkness. Only a voice that seemed to be a mixture of hundreds or thousands of voices sounded in his ears:

'carefree!'

boom--! !

The next second, the roar of the exploding flames covered everything, and the scene in front of him shattered instantly, causing Xin Lailai to suddenly open his eyes and sit up.

"Hiss! What was that just now... huh?! Where is this?"

Xin Lailai, who had just woken up, covered his forehead, feeling that his memory of the dream was rapidly becoming blurred. However, before he could figure out the key point, he was suddenly attracted by the scene in front of him:
Soft light poured in from the window, and a refreshing fragrance filled the room, diluting the faint pungent smell of disinfectant.

Looking down, she saw that he was wrapped in bandages and wearing a white hospital gown. He was lying on a snow-white and comfortable single bed, staring at her blankly.

what's the situation……

He remembered that he should have passed out in the battle with Jiren Yuanying. Even if he didn't return to his exclusive room, he should have been in Paradise, but here...

Xin Lailai looked up at the scene outside the window, then looked at the unusually gorgeous starry sky on the horizon and fell silent.

Obviously, where he is now is not in paradise.

"Lai Lai! Great, you finally woke up!!"

Suddenly, an excited and joyful voice sounded from Xin Lailai's mind, and then Ling Yuzi's figure appeared directly in front of him, hugged him tightly, and then choked up softly:
"The doctor said that your injuries have stabilized, but I don't know why you haven't woken up. I can't hear your voice at all in the soul space..."

The white-haired girl choked slightly, with tears of joy reflected in the corners of her eyes. Because her injuries were relatively minor, she woke up much earlier than the young man. In addition, the solemn expressions of the doctors during each treatment and the words they said in the final diagnosis that there might be a problem with the root cause made her dare not even sleep during this period. What she tried most every day was to communicate with the young man's consciousness, which was like a pool of stagnant water.

"I'm sorry for making you worry, Ling Yuzi."

Xin Lailai felt the warmth coming from the front of her, gently hugged Ling Yuzi's petite body, stroked her soft hair, and said with some self-blame.

"It's okay, Lailai, as long as you wake up..."

Ling Yuzi shook his head gently, loosened his hands slightly, looked up at the young man in front of him, and showed a warm smile.

"Ah."

Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai didn't say anything else, but closed her eyes and hugged the other person quietly, feeling the warmth coming from the other person's soul. Ling Yuzi tilted his head slightly so that he could just snuggle in the other person's arms, gently closed his eyes, and felt the beating sound coming from the other person's chest.

The two of them snuggled up to each other like this, and for a moment, the atmosphere in the ward gradually became warmer. After a long while, Ling Yuzi finally let out a long sigh and sat up from Xin Lailai's arms with a look of satisfaction.

"How's it going? Do you feel better?"

"Hmm~! The scarce Lylex has finally been replenished!"

"Pfft, I've never heard of such a thing. Could it be that Ling Yuzi saw this in some weird book again?"

"Well, if we're talking about Lailaisu, this word is what people think of when they're looking through your past memories..."

"Ahem! Okay, stop talking." Xin Lailai sensed the fragments of memory belonging to Ling Yuzi flashing through his mind. His eyelids twitched suddenly, and he coughed lightly to stop Ling Yuzi from continuing.

——It was a close call. I almost had to face my fifteen-year-old self who loved painful literature and wrote a diary full of whining.

“Come to think of it, I have actually been unconscious for so long, and Brother Ritian and the others actually received that distress signal…”

Xin Lailai looked at the hospital gown on her body and the obviously newly put on bandages wrapped around her body, with a look of emotion in her eyes.

During the intimate time with Ling Yuzi, they had completed the exchange of memories, and he was able to sort out what had happened during this period and why he was lying here.

To be honest, if it weren't for the clear display of Ling Yuzi's memory, Xin Lailai would never have believed that there would come a day when she would be escorted by dozens of the strongest and most powerful people.

Yes, escort.

According to what they heard from Ling Yuzi, they fainted immediately after defeating Ji Ren Yuan Ying and fell into an extremely dangerous near-death state.

Under normal circumstances, when encountering such a thing, the safest way would definitely be to bring him back to Paradise, and let Paradise personally save his life. The problem was that their physical condition at the time was so bad that they could not withstand Paradise's teleportation. Even the slightest spatial fluctuation could cost them their lives.

Therefore, in order to save their lives, the powerful people who came to rescue them at that time had to start treatment on the spot first, temporarily stabilize their conditions so that they would not die on the spot after a few swings, and then escort them in groups to the nearest transit station notarized by the Void Tree, where they could receive further treatment.

To use what Ling Yuzi heard from Yamu and others and 04296, the scene at that time was so big that it almost scared the managers of the small transit station they were at, thinking that something big had happened. Dozens of the strongest and most powerful people in the Paradise camp suddenly appeared, and when they found out that the purpose of those people was just to send a second-level pioneer, the look in their eyes almost made them suspect that they were the illegitimate children of some strongest person.

When the other party discovered that his injuries were so serious that they were no different from a corpse, his face turned so pale that it seemed as if he was about to run away, fearing that he would die in this small transit station in the next second.

As for what happened afterwards, there is basically nothing much to mention. It's just that after undergoing several operations in which he was unaware but the attending doctor kept wondering if he was hallucinating, his physical condition finally stabilized and he stayed in the hospital at this transit station for a whole month.

Yes, that's right, one month.

According to Ling Yuzi's memory, the other party was out of danger on the twelfth day and woke up in just one day. However, he had to be rescued for three whole weeks. The doctor who treated him almost invited his teacher's father's great-grandfather to come out of retirement before he finally cleared away the abyss that had already eroded his body to the core.

By the way, the doctors seemed to shout the most during this period, such as "Quick! Hurry up and record the phenomenon just now!" and "The research direction for the next topic has been found!" The most experienced doctor even performed a magical transformation from "I have seen all kinds of scenes" to "I have never seen such a scene" and then to "Whether I can leave my name in history depends on this time."

After all, without the corresponding inheritance or innate ability, he broke into the shallow erosion area of ​​the abyss as a second-level cultivator and lived for several days, and was finally rescued. It can be said that there are only a few such cases in the entire star realm. It is no exaggeration to say that the data left by his operation alone is estimated to allow this treatment hospital to not worry about funding issues for the next three years.

As for their accommodation and medical expenses for this month? There was enough data to apply for more than a dozen different projects, plus the fact that they were sent here by a large group of the strongest and the most powerful. Not to mention collecting money, in the first two weeks, even the transfer station manager who had just been promoted to the most powerful and had worked hard for half his life to get to this position had to visit them once a day on time, for fear that something might happen to them here.

To put it bluntly, just based on the scene when he was escorted here, even if those strongest and most powerful ones just patted their butts and left afterwards, they would probably be able to enjoy VIP treatment here, not to mention...

boom--! !

"Sister-in-law, did you say Brother Lailai has woken up?!"

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of a door opening, and the figure of 04296 suddenly rushed in from outside the door. Behind him was the majestic-looking Kagus and a bandaged man covered in a cloak.

"Haha! Good boy, you actually woke up, and you look pretty good!"

04296 rushed in and looked at Xin Lailai sitting on the hospital bed. His eyes lit up, and he walked to Xin Lailai with a big laugh and patted Xin Lailai on the shoulder.

"I'm sorry to have worried Brother Ritian. This time, thanks to you, otherwise we would have been in danger."

"Why are you being so polite! Don't you see who you are, my brother? Besides, your brother didn't suffer any loss this time. On the contrary, thanks to you, he gained a lot of face in front of other people! Haha!"

04296 laughed heartily, and Xin Lailai couldn't help but smile when he saw this.

"Brother, you don't know how shocked those guys were when they saw you kill that abyss creature! Some of them even kept asking me about your situation on the way. They were so nice to me that they almost came over to serve me tea and water! And..."

In the ward, 04296 and Xin Lailai were talking to each other, and hearty laughter continued to ring out from the ward. After more than ten minutes, 04296 took the initiative to end the topic, glanced at Kagus and the bandaged man behind him, then looked at Xin Lailai in front of him, and said with a smile:

"Okay, let's stop here for now. When we get back to the park, we can have a drink together."

After saying that, 04296 looked at the bandaged man and then moved aside.

Seeing this, the bandaged man nodded slightly, took the initiative to step forward, looked down at Xin Lailai in front of him, and spoke in a slightly gloomy voice:

"Xin Lailai, hello, I am Yuan from the Paradise of Death, my real name is Moro Dika, and I am the current holder of the Abyss Devouring Scythe. I am currently at the top level, and I am expected to be promoted to the super top level within five years. You can just call me Yuan. I have something to tell you."

The most powerful one? Or the legendary magic sickle system? !

A calm self-introduction sounded from the ward, and when Xin Lailai heard the other party's identity, his breathing was choked and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes. Ling Yuzi, who was sitting in his arms, also widened his eyes.

Because Yuan had never spoken, and 04296 had not taken the initiative to introduce herself, she had always thought that the other party was just an extremely powerful person who had a very good relationship with 04296. But now the other party suddenly revealed his identity as a top-level powerhouse, and even specifically wanted to talk to Lai Lai...

In just a moment, the two of them understood that Yuan came to them probably to tell them something extremely important, so they immediately nodded seriously and listened attentively.

Then, I heard the other party continue:

"Xin Lailai, let me ask you, are you willing to... become the inheritor of the Demon Scythe system?"

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(End of this chapter)