Your Majesty, drink the medicine quickly

Chapter 41 Redemption
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  Amidst the violent shaking, Li Pu followed Katerina to a stone staircase not far outside the library, and headed towards the underground area of ​​the shelter.

The moment he stepped into the stairs, Li Pu looked back and saw that the hall behind him had begun to collapse.

The survivors who were tidying up the carpet were still working numbly, and the falling gravel soon crushed their bodies.

The rubble covered the corpses, but pieces of mycelium wriggled out from the gaps in the stone piles, and re-condensed into the bodies of the survivors.

Only then did Li Pu notice that the faces of the survivors looked exactly like Katerina.

These survivors are not human at all.

In other words, they are no longer human.

Their spirits and bodies have been gradually assimilated by the radiation of the old god's power.

Like a small animal that dies in decay, the corpse will eventually become a source of nutrients for spores and become part of the decay.

More and more rubble was falling, and the 'survivors' were constantly being crushed by big rocks, and then they kept getting out and reuniting their bodies.
  Li Pu withdrew his gaze and walked down the stairs.

"Is there anyone alive here?"

The passage above was gradually buried by rocks and soil, and Li Pu knew that the above-ground area of ​​the shelter had completely collapsed.

"Yes." Katerina said.

The two of them walked down the rotating stone staircase, passing through some floors without stopping.

It wasn't until they came to a deep cave that Katerina stopped.

"Going through here is the 'last fortress'."

This cave is unusually wide and looks like an underground botanical garden with many plants growing there.

Fungi and plants coexist peacefully here. Among the tall fungi and trees, you can also see some laboratories that look like bookstores.

Since there are many "sun stones" entangled with thorns embedded in the cave, various fungi and plants have grown vigorously under the power of the sun stones.

But now, these fungi and plants have withered.

Plaque is just growing here.

[Li Pu discovered from the narration that there is a wonderful power here that blocks the chaotic power of the doomsday. The plaque here grows naturally. 】

[The rules here are in order. 】

"There is no living space for plants outside, so everyone collected the plants here, hoping that future generations can see the flowers." Katerina said, looking at the withered plants.

The plants here seem to be experiments, and they can grow normally under chaotic laws. The power that Li Pu felt against the Law of Chaos came from these plants.

Plants grow normally here and decay and wither normally.

They are also blooming but unable to produce fruit.

The things in the botanical garden are all species created by artificial intervention. The plants here don't bear fruit properly.

Li Pu found some medicine bottles on an experimental table. Judging from the narration, this is a potion extracted from the 'divine wings of holy angels'.

It turns out that people created these plants through research on the old gods, and expected that these plants could smooth out the chaotic laws of the doomsday and restore order to everything.

Just not quite there yet.

[These experiments are to fight against the doomsday. But now it has no meaning. 】

[But you discovered another option - these plants studied by magicians are also Katerina's divine wings! It is part of His body! So, if you plant a seed in Katerina's Garden of Eden. Then when Katerina dies in the end, He may be reborn in the Garden of Eden! 】

[But He will also be alone forever in the uninhabited Garden of Eden]

Shaking his head, Li Pu rejected this option.

"In the last moments, did you find a plant that can grow in a doomsday environment?" Li Pu asked.

Li Pu knew that if they thrived in the apocalypse, the laws of chaos would be smoothed out—and people would defeat the apocalypse.

But what's the point? No one exists anymore. There is only such a small area left in the world.

And even this small area is about to collapse.

More realistically, these plants are not yet finished products in the laboratory.

"The plants can't produce fruit. They can't reproduce normally."

Katerina said regretfully: "Mary and her daughter Amy have been taking care of this place. They tried to cultivate the finished product in the last time."

During the conversation, Li Pu and Katerina passed by a huge bookstore laboratory.

Li Pu heard a voice coming from inside.

It seemed that the last two researchers were discussing the growth of a certain plant.

[Amy: "Mom, the last batch of plants has also withered, but the mustard has produced a few seeds."]    [Mary: "(exclamation) We have finally cultivated plants that can grow naturally in an environment of chaotic laws! (Exclaiming) Amy, you can’t eat it! This is the only successful experiment in the entire laboratory! Provide precious food for people in the apocalypse!"]

[Girl: "But Amy can't wait until these fruits grow up. Mom, there is no land left to grow plants. Does everything we do really make sense?"]

[The mother finally told her child the cruel fact. 】

["Amy, our world is over." Mother said: "Everything is meaningless."]

["But in the future, there may be people from another world discovering this place."]

[Amy: "Is it like the Tadar people discovered the old world many years ago?"]

[Mother: "Yes, maybe."]

[Amy: "Will there also be a mother and father?"]

[Mother: "There will be no more Amy. There will be no more mother."]

[Amy: "It turns out that there is a world where Amy no longer exists."]

[Mother: "Yes, a world that belongs to others, cough, cough, cough."]

[The severe illness finally took away my mother’s life on this day. 】

[Before she died, she told her daughter a final story. A story about another world. 】

["Many, many years later, a group of desperate survivors in the new apocalypse accidentally opened a sealed ancient ruins."]

["In the ruins, they accidentally discovered some seeds and precious knowledge."]

["In that world, there will be plants. People will be able to see beautiful flowers blooming in the fields."]

["People in that world will have enough to eat because of our research."]

["They have a glimmer of possibility to survive the end of the world, and hope is in the seeds."]

[Amy has always been an obedient child. She carefully preserved the seeds. 】

Li Pu opened the door, and there was no one in the research room.

All the plants in the room had withered and rotted. There were only two plants, thriving amid the decay.

The flowers are one big and one small, and the little flowers hold a bag of seeds tightly on their vines.

"Mary and Amy succeeded." Katerina looked at the bag of seeds, her eyes filled with disappointment: "But we can't keep anything."

"Because, after a while, the archangels, no, it should be said that the executors will come over, and they will clean everything up."

Katerina's voice was full of helplessness: "Even if we defeat Him and leave the things behind, it will be meaningless. Because there will be no more descendants, and there will not be another new world."

【This is the real Badend. 】

Li Pu didn't know why the archangels wanted to clean up this place, and he didn't know why the new world would no longer be born from the old world.

But he vaguely felt that all this might be related to some things he had changed back then.

[In other words, you failed to completely change everything.]

‘Why should I change everything completely? The good or bad of this world has nothing to do with me! '
  ‘I was forced here! '
  ‘It has tortured me all my life. Now, the world that should have been destroyed has come to an end, and I should leave too. '
  Taking Katerina away in the end was the last thing Li Pu wanted to do.

He felt that the reason why he wanted to take her away was because she helped him when he needed help the most. Give yourself a chance to come back here and bring back a bottle of potion that can save yourself.

Therefore, I wanted to give Katerina a good ending because I wanted to repay her.

But actually, this is not the real reason.

He didn't know that he wanted to take Katerina away not entirely out of repayment.

It’s because Katerina represents the stories of those who once fought so hard to protect this place, and those who struggled desperately in the darkness to give others hope and a future.

He didn't realize that after seeing so many things, he had been touched by the story of this world.

Deep down in his heart, he didn't want to see these people meet such a bad ending.

——Just like the man who was paralyzed on the hospital bed and shouted, "I can't be saved, who can save me!" ' the same desperate cry of man. People in this world are also struggling desperately.

When Li Pu shouted, a hand stretched out from the world and pulled him up, allowing him to see his hope.

This world also needs a hand!

They will save each other.

"Let's go to the last fortress."

Li Pu took away the bag of seeds: "Amy, hope exists."

(End of this chapter)