Third-rate Thriller Novelist

 

Chapter 50… Ending

Goodnight is still searching for the remaining survivors.

After being nourished by the flesh and blood of a dozen novelists, he has almost completely alienated into a monster by now.

Limbs on the ground, walking and crawling like a wild beast, the body stretched into a slender body like a snake, the bone spurs on the face and arms, the blue meridians bursting under the thin skin, and the whole body is about to be broken by forces that are not human.

He didn’t have much sense left, his eyes bloodshot; he sniffed like a dog and let out a frantic laughter from time to time.

Suddenly, someone blocked his way.

Goodnight raised his head, his turbid eyes staring at Yue Ze, the one blocking him. He looked at the burning book in his hand and suddenly burst out a sharp sneer: “It’s you again!”

“It’s always you, destroying our plans. We have been entangled for more than a hundred years! Both of us are over a hundred years old, and it is because of the worlds consciousnesses that we could maintain our youth and strength forever. Otherwise we would have long since turned into a pile of bones!”

“Frankly accept the stronger power of Death. Isn’t that good? You had to push me to this point!”

He smiled wildly, and rushed towards Yue Ze like a beast.

The burning book in Yue Ze’s hands, like a sword made of flames, immediately forced Goodnight away.

The flames burned Goodnight’s body, but the book burned faster!

Although the whole person was knocked into the air and forced to recede back and forth, the sharp laughter of Goodnight never stopped: “You are about to die! You are about to die!!”

“Under the great god, I can live forever. I will live forever! But you are burning your own life–“

Yue Ze didn’t speak, but kept pushing him back coldly.

When he came into contact with the cold lake water, the head of Goodnight that had been crazy suddenly calmed down.

After the fight just now, the two of them retreated again to the east of the town, in front of the statue in the lake.

The world’s crack, that had been torn apart until now, was just above their heads.

“Do you want to…” Goodnight suddenly understood everything, and gritted his teeth.

But without waiting for him to regret, the flame in Yue Ze’s hand was already burning to its maximum, and he flew forward suddenly, strangling him, and leaping along the statue towards the gap into the air.

The consciousness of the world of death had invested too much power in Goodnight, and it had even distorted his body and reason.

And Goodnight can’t control this power.

When Yue Ze carries his power, the burning flames, and rushes into the crack, the collision of their too strong powers will cause instant deaths for both of them.

This collision will also free enough power to reverse the damaged crack and let the death world’s consciousness take its own fruit.

Goodnight, who understood this, suddenly roared, the bone spurs of both hands tightly catching onto the head of the statue, dragging the two together in the air to a standstill.

As long as he waits until the flames go out, Yue Ze will die!

Yue Ze knew this too well, so he silently burned the book more ferociously, and even a layer of flames surrounded their bodies.

But his book is about to burn out.

At this moment of life and death, Shen Yu suddenly appeared, rushing into the air extremely lightly.

Yue Ze was shocked: “Go back now!”

Shen Yu, who had suddenly acquired flying skill, was affected by the barrier of world consciousness of the world of Death. Eventually his skill became unstable and he fell onto the statue.

But he didn’t delay, instead rushing to the head of the statue with agility, opened his book and desperately started using countless skills.

Throwing knives, electric shocks, bullets, ropes, vines, flying birds… Some of these skills belonged to him, while some came from others.

At this time, the crowd watching in the White Tower suddenly pointed to the top ranking in surprise and shouted: “Look, the rankings are changing!”

In everyone’s minds, the “Mint” had been already improving rapidly, yet his ranking was still changing. Flying as fast as the naked eye could follow, like a rising star, it reached the top of the tablet.

The name Mint actually squeezed out Anonymous’ name and firmly occupied the first place!

Suddenly someone realized: “Just now, all the novelists must have transferred all their skills into Mint’s book!”

“Everyone is using their only weak power; Saving the world!”

At this time, after experimenting with countless unstable skills, Shen Yu finally found a useful skill; with a single blow, the light blade cut off the bone spurs that were entwined around the statue.

These were cut off along with Goodnight’s limbs.

Goodnight, with parts of his arms missing, wailed frantically, and his strength reduced rapidly. Shen Yu took this opportunity to use a new skill [Wind] again.

The violent wind swept Goodnight up like a monster, along with the small flame that was about to extinguish. They flew to the crack together.

Yue Ze reacted at the right time, gently let go of his hand and, letting the squally wind to take away the burning book, he fell from mid-air.

The crack swallowed Goodnight and that little flame.

There was no earth-shattering scene as they’d imagined, just a dazzling white light, accompanied by an unwilling roar. Then the sky seemed to have been restored, whole again.

The consciousness of the dead world was finally sent back to his own world.

Yue Ze, who had escaped from death, still had blood stains on his face from falling from the sky, and the surrounding scenes began to slowly dissipate.

All the stories began to fall apart, and they were about to return to the real world.

Disregarding the surprised gazes of the others, Shen Yu rushed forward and hugged Yue Ze, who seemed detached, burying his face in his shoulder; his whole body trembled slightly, and his energy calmed his excited breathing.

Yue Ze lowered his head, touching his forehead, and a faint smile appeared.

The novelists gradually came out of the places they had been hiding in. Zhang Cuihua stood in the distance, looking at the two old comrades in arms who were hugging, and exclaimed: “Ah! What a great comradeship–“

Starscream’s eyes widened and looked incredible. She glanced at her, then stopped herself from talking: “…”

Zhang Cuihua was frowning upon seeing that expression: “What do you want to say?”

Starscream: “What kind of friendship…how do you see it? The atmosphere between the two…”

After her reminder, the nervous Zhang Cuihua, who was always dull about interpersonal relationships, couldn’t help but stare with round eyes, and looked again at the two people hugging each other.

The false world had completely dissipated, and Zhang Cuihua finally understood it.

Just before returning to the real world, she couldn’t help but burst out in foul language.

“F*ck ! When did they get involved with each other?”

…

Three months later.

Everything fell back to plainness, as if the various terrifying adventures in another world before were just a nightmare in the middle of the night.

Shen Yu, who had just participated in the new book launching conference, walked out on the street in the warm sunshine and stretched out comfortably, as if he was about to melt in the afternoon sun.

Not far away, a slightly nervous Yue Ze walked up, holding two ice creams that were about to melt in his hands.

Shen Yu blinked and looked at him.

The other party arranged his words and said solemnly: “Now the gaps between the different worlds have been repaired, and the remaining organisations of the Black Dragon Society are being gradually cleaned up by the state department. I have lost my special abilities and finally become an ordinary person. In the future, I will gradually experience illness and death, and end my life like an ordinary person ……”

Shen Yu interrupted him:” You came here deliberately, just to chat with me?”

“No!” Yue Ze’s gaze became more gentle and he handed over the ice cream in his hand, “I came here, this time, just to ask; would you like to have an ordinary date with me, as an ordinary person?”

Shen Yu looked down at the ice cream that was about to melt. After a long time, he slowly reached out and took it.

“Of course.”

——— end

 

Editor: Black.Cat

Translator’s notes : :

Hey everyone, hope you’ll have enjoyed the story. The main story ends here but there are 5 extras. Stay tuned….