Chapter 1772 (1/2)
Chapter 1772
Parting Song
Once Meiduo got settled on the rock, Li Yundong sat down beside her and began recounting the story of how he and Su Chanout the parts about the Renyuan Jindan and the fact that Su Chan was a fox spirit
”And that's pretty much hoe ot drunk after a failed love confession…” Li Yundong chuckled and stared down at his hands”And then… voilaThere she was, the most beautiful woman I've ever ht?” Meiduo's sobs had turned into snivels
”Nah…” Li Yundong shook his head, then sonna lieFor htAs for her…I' chuckled darkly”I had nothing back thenLiterally nothing” Li Yundong shot Meiduo a look and waved a hand in front of his face”I don't always look like this”
Meiduo frowned”What do youhair?”
”NoI meant I was fat and chubby”
The way Meiduo's jaent slack was so cohed out loud
”B- But now you look so… so…”
Li Yundong shrugged”It only happened after I ical pill by accident
Meiduo pulled her robe tighter around her shoulders”But she accepted you when you were… chubby?”
”You cold?”
Meiduo nodded”A little…”
Li Yundong ruh his backpack and pulled out another towel, then offered it to Meiduo
”Yes, she did,” Li Yundong answered as Meiduo took the towel”Well, she did have an ulteriorsht”But I found out later that she had a change of heartShe abandoned her original cause and chose to be with me instead”
Soiven up the Renyuan Jindan for him
”Then why are you here? Why aren't you with her now?”
Li Yundong slowly looked up from his handsThere was a hint of boldness in Meiduo's tone, as though the question washer own impertinence, Meiduo blushed and looked away”I- Is she… Is she alright?” she asked in asighed”At least I know she's sootten Meiduo's attention as her eyes snapped back to his facePlastered across her face was a look of alarer before?”
Li Yundong ser every second she's withsat there in silence
”Brother Li?”
Li Yundong looked up into the night sky”I did soht consider questionable” He lowered his gaze fros that are punishable by death”
The look of alaritive?”
Li Yundong thought for a few seconds, then shook his head”No, I don't think I aitive from the Heavens, yesBut the law? Maybe notAs far as he could tell, the authorities had not called for his arrest yetHe had a feeling that he had Zhou Qin to thank for that
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”I don't get it, Brother LiYou're notany sense”
”I can't tell you the detailsAll I can say is that I did sos that pissed off certain powerful… parties” Li Yundong shrugged”And my punishment is death”
At least the He family hadn't put a bounty on his head
Meiduo was silent for a long whileLi Yundong turned his head to the side to check whether she was still thereFinally, Meiduo looked into his eyes”Is this what your trip is about? Are you trying to escape death?”
”No,” Li Yundong stated firmly”It's the opposite, actuallyThis trip is meant to help prepare ht survive”
He had never really discussed with Zi Yuan about his chances of surviving the Heavenly Thunder, but he kneas pretty slimHe Shao turned into ashes in literally just seconds after being struckWith the Jindan's help, Li Yundong ht last, what, a few minutes?
”What on earth did you do, Brother Li? And what kind of punish about here? Electrocution?”
Meiduo's voice pulled hi smirkedElectrocution pretty much su opened his hed and shook his head
”RightYou can't tell et it” Meiduo sounded disappointed
”If…” Li Yundong trailed offHe really didn't know the best way to say this
”Yes?”
Li Yundong cleared his throat”Let's say there's a man ns a powerful weapon”
Meiduo frowned”A weapon? What kind of weapon?”
”One that can destroy a person in an instantBut, at the sa death to its user”
Meiduo's baffled expressionand raised a palm”Bear with me for a second, okay?”
Meiduo smiled for the first time since their unfortunate ”accident”
”Okay,” she said
”Anyway, this man—the man with the weapon, well, let's call him Weapon Guy—encountered anotherkicked a loose pebble on the ground”Evil Guy… Well, Evil Guy was very wealthyAnd very powerful tooHe had a lot of influenceHowever, he used his wealth and influence to do bad things”
”RightBecause he's an evilnodded”He killed without remorseHe raped and violated women… and basically treated everyone else like trash”
Meiduo's face scrunched up”That's horrible…”
Horrible was an understatement
”Then one day, Evil Guy crossed the line and murdered two of Weapon Guy's friendsWhen Weapon Guy learned about his friends' deaths at hands of Evil Guy, he… Well, he lost itHe decided right then and there that he'd had enoughHe didn't want Evil Guy to hurt anyone else, so he killed Evil Guy with the weapon”
Li Yundong turned his head and saw Meiduo watching hile word, but he knew he had her full attentionShe looked like she was processing his words carefully
Li Yundong se her s for hiaze and kicked another loose pebbleThe pebble rolled away until it stopped at the edge of the brook”Sohteous prick who killed Evil Guy because he was looking for an eeance, because Evil Guy ht think that Evil Guy had it co, that Evil Guy's death is justified because he had too al systeled his head towards the sky”I guess the question is… Was Weapon Guy wrong in killing Evil Guy?”
The stars blinked down at him in a peaceful, almost idyllic,would've thought that he had gone deaf if it weren't for the sounds of the floater that ca was about to move the conversation forward, Meiduo spoke
”Killing is wrong,” she said softly”Buddha said that taking a life, be it animal or human, would lead to kar chuckled wrylyI thought so…
”He's brave though…”
Li Yundong looked down from the sky towards Meiduo and raised his brows
”The man with the weapon,” Meiduo said”I think he's brave?”
”Yeah?”
Meiduo nodded weakly
Brave but du the weapon would cost him his life?” Meiduo asked
”Yes”
Meiduo released a hum of approval”And yet he still did it” There was a brief pause”In a way, he sacrificed his own life to protect everyone else froazed at him steadily”He would rather suffer the kar a life than have anyone else suffer at the hands of the evilway to look at it