This was the first time Li Qi had ever seen such a large-scale rain of bloo*d.
She trembled as she wiped the blo*od from her face, and when she looked up, she saw that the sky, which was already scarlet to the point of being frightening, was about to turn into sticky blo*od.
The god of doom was coming.
Li Qi realized this instantly.
There was no other possibility.
The god of doom must have already succeeded in ki*lling the butcher and realized his purpose of continuing to sink into madness.
This chance for a do-over that she had been given was simply useless in the end.
Everything she had done before to stop the god of doom was just in vain.
Li Qi looked numbly at the god of dooms, who had stopped fighting and were walking through the rain of hell without a care in the world.
She knew that perhaps in the next second, the entire world would turn into the bizarre world of b*lood and flesh that she remembered.
Every building was covered in slimy flesh and bl*ood, entwined with bulging veins like some kind of growing creature.
There were also flesh-and-bl*ood monsters wandering the streets, each of them brutal and murderous, with nothing more than a maniacal laugh.
Even seemingly normal human beings were just pre-apocalyptic madmen.
Madness would be the dominant theme in the world.
Because the god that dominated the world was madness itself.
Ka-ra-ra…
The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became, and then the desperate Li Qi heard the sound of something breaking.
When she looked up, she saw the bloo*d-red sky crumble, creating wisps of cracks.
It was as if a barrier covering the entire world was about to be crushed to pieces by something.
Her eyes widened in fear as she saw more and more mirror-like cracks in the sky.
She understood that it was signaling the imminent arrival of the god of doom through the world barrier.
Rustling-
Li Qi also heard the voice of the god of doom.
It was just like the time in her memory when she had faced the god of doom directly. His voice was filled with madness.
But this time, Li Qi felt that there was something strange about the sound.
Mixed with a sharp and abrupt tone of voice, it actually gave people a feeling of extreme shock and sadness.
Li Qi knew that this must be an illusion.
The god of doom wouldn’t be shocked, much less aggrieved.
He would only take pleasure in the madness to come.
She shook her head,shaking off those inexplicable and ridiculous hallucinations in her mind.
Then she stared dead-on at the cracks in the sky, praying that they wouldn’t continue to crack.
Once the sky completely shattered, the god of doom would enter this world through the cracks, infecting the entire world with madness.
Repeating the mistakes of the previous world.
Li Qi actually understood that this prayer was nothing more than her own delusion.
No matter how much she prayed, the doomsday that was due would come sooner or later.
But that was the only thing she could do, unrealistically deluding herself that the end would be a little later.
On the other side of the hotel.
Jiu Shu’s reply was a bolt from the blue for the god of doom.
It completely shattered his slightly inflated self-confidence.
He looked at Jiu Shu, who got up with a natural expression and was ready to leave, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Like a large dog that couldn’t believe it after being abandoned by its master.
“Wait, wait!”
“Wait!”
The gods of doom blocked Jiu Shu’s path, their previously victorious expressions becoming anxious and uneasy.
“… Why?”
In the banquet hall, the words spoken in unison carried a bit of grievance and confusion.
He didn’t know why Jiu Shu so favored Lu Yuan.
If it was the same soul, then couldn’t he take his place?
Why did he only favor Lu Yuan so much?
Or was everything before just a joke?
He didn’t love him at all, and the only person he loved was Lu Yuan.
“Of course I love Lu Yuan.”
Jiu Shu looked at the god of doom with an arched eyebrow, and his voice was gentle.
In contrast of the near-desperate gazes of the people in the banquet hall.
He admitted it.
Jiu Shu admitted that the only person he loved was Lu Yuan.
Never before had the god of doom been so frustrated.
He shouldn’t have been so frustrated in the first place.
After all, his original plan had only been to slowly discredit Lu Yuan so as to gain Jiu Shu’s affection.
However, after obtaining Jiu Shu’s confession, he, who was mesmerized, only wanted to monopolize Jiu Shu, but as a result, he obtained a result that could be described as cruel.
Crack–
The cracks in the sky became more numerous.
Far away from the world, the god of doom’s main body pressed against the barrier.
The tentacles, which had all been agitated to the point of knotting, wilted back into a mass of flesh and blo*od.
Almost spreading itself out into a flowing liquid.
Looking out at the world behind the barrier, the world with Jiu Shu.
Rustling—a strange sound like a whimpering sob echoed in the sky above.
Looking far away from the city of H, countless pairs of open eyes could be seen vaguely through the gaps and were continuously flowing downwards with thick bl*ood.
Pattering-
The god of dooms on the side of the road all lowered their heads as well, as if they were caught in an extremely low mood that they couldn’t pull themselves out of.
Li Qi was nearly broken by all this.
She didn’t dare to look up, afraid to meet those eyes that kept blinking.
Inside the hotel.
Jiu Shu glanced at the sky outside the ballroom.
There was a pause before he continued slowly, “I love you just the same.”
“!”
The guests, who were still hanging their heads down, were stunned and raised their heads.
Revealing reddened eyes and tears swirling in their eyes.
Their emotions rose and fell, like they were on a roller coaster.
Jiu Shu couldn’t help but soften and gently rub the low-slung head of the chestnut-haired god of doom in front of him.
The action was intimate, as if he were treating Lu Yuan.
It seemed he truly loved him equally.
In the sky of H City, the speed of the cracks collapsing slowed down a lot.
Apparently, the god of doom was an easily coaxed target.
“As far as I’m concerned, you are one and the same; all of you are my beloved.”
“Can you understand me?”
Jiu Shu hoped that the god of doom would understand.
He looked at the dark group of people in front of him.
Each face wore a similar expression, yet each one was not the real god of doom.
Lu Yuan sighed. “I just want to see the most complete you.”
For this object of discipline that was like this in every world, Lu Yuan had actually grown familiar with dealing with it.
Coercion was sometimes counterproductive.
One could only soften the blow.
This was also the reason why he hadn’t immediately revealed himself in the past few days.
He was waiting for him to see what he wanted.
Then, only then, could he further fuse the two of them.
“If you love me, let me see the most complete you, can’t you?”
Saying that, Jiu Shu sighed with furrowed brows.
It made one want to grant him everything he asked for, just to stop his sadness.
“……”
The god of doom’s mind, which had changed moods several times in a short period of time, was a little unable to react and looked blankly at Jiu Shu.
It wasn’t until a few moments later that he finally came back to his senses.
However, he still didn’t know how to answer for the time being.
He could only look at the lover in front of him with heartache.
Reaching out his hand, he wanted to smooth the sorrow on his brow.
Then several hands collided together.
Each hand didn’t budge from each other.
“I’ll do it!”
“You let go! I’ll do it!”
Jiu Shu looked at the god of dooms, who had started arguing again, and revealed a kind smile.
His voice was so gentle that it instantly silenced the gods of doom. “Now, can you answer my question first?”
“I know you can change back to your full self.”
Jiu Shu had studied the contents of the original book and the spin-off game and still had a certain understanding of the abilities of the god of doom.
Although he had fallen into madness, he was ultimately a god.
As long as he wanted to, he could regain his sanity.
It was just like the truth of the game that gamers had once guessed.
There was only one reason why the god of doom had allowed the male and female main characters to enter that metropolis, which was filled with all the original’s flesh and blo*od monsters, and drive away the Butcher.
He wanted to remove what he didn’t want—the butcher.
The butcher was the key to the god of doom’s return to sanity.
In Jiu Shu’s opinion, in fact, the flesh and blood metropolis in the game wasn’t so much a microcosm of the apocalypse but rather a projection of the god of doom’s spiritual world.
The entire city revealed the mad and paranoid mental state of the god of doom.
The butcher, on the other hand, was the only orderly and indifferent being in the City of Flesh and Blo*od.
He slaughtered all the hideous monsters and all the human beings who tried to fulfill the mission of the god of doom.
The butcher was the sanity of the god of doom, and the god of doom was the insanity that came from losing one’s mind.
Only the fusion of the two could be the most complete god of doom.
But the god of doom resisted the fusion.
He seems to firmly believe that only the self that maintained insanity was his main self, so he was unusually resistant to the butcher.
And the butcher, as a part of the god of doom’s soul, suffered from a mental breakdown even after he became human.
He has never experienced a normal human life in his short life and has always hovered on the edge of insanity.
It could be said that both the Butcher and the god of doom’s were influenced by each other.
The god of doom’s unstable mental state led to Butcher’s madness.
The butcher, on the other hand, held the god of doom in check so that he wouldn’t go completely insane.
So after the butcher’s death, the god of doom finally descended into madness without a care in the world, bringing about the end of the world.
In the Flesh and Blo*od capital of the spin-off game, the Butcher, who had risen from the dead, then represented the god of doom’s sanity, which could be restored at any time.
By driving away the Butcher, the last of the gods of doom’s sanity was also driven away.
Jiu Shu analyzed from the demeanor of the male and female main characters that he had met before that the two of them had probably gained memories of their previous lives, which was basically equivalent to being reborn.
The male lead, Li Sheng, probably didn’t know the truth about the god of doom’s madness.
The female lead, Li Qi, on the other hand, was someone who knew the truth.
That was why she tried to stop the god of doom from killing the butcher again and again, and she even ran to the TV to expose the truth.
But unfortunately, her power was completely insufficient to change anything.
Jiu Shu could tell from his previous experience of being injured inside the church that the god of doom was truly in a madness that he couldn’t pull himself out of.
A level that even he couldn’t recognize.
It was also only after possessing a human that he could truly communicate.
Thinking of this, Jiu Shu raised his eyes and looked at the long, silent god of doom before him.
The god of doom delayed in answering his question, obviously caught in a tangle.
To him, getting rid of madness was worthless compared to a lover, and he could become sane for Jiu Shu.
However, the matter of turning back into a single soul with Lu Yuan made him incomparably torn.
The god of doom’s crazy brain only had the desire for exclusivity for his lover.
The matter of allowing him to share his beloved with Lu Yuan was something he couldn’t accept in any way.
However, this was the request of Jiu Shu.
In the end, the god of doom looked at the lover in front of him, and he agreed, “Okay.”
However, devouring Lu Yuan was also considered complete; he didn’t deceive Jiu Shu.
“Then let’s restore Lu Yuan first.”
“…… Okay.”
The god of doom agreed with incomparable difficulty.
He stopped the murmuring voice of his main body to Lu Yuan and stopped trying to disturb Lu Yuan’s spirit.
Then, Lu Yuan’s eyes under the bandages opened.
He quickly regained consciousness.
“You’re awake.”
Jiu Shu looked at Lu Yuan, who had finally woken up, and kissed his forehead soothingly.
Even through the bandages, one could see Lu Yuan’s somewhat dazed expression for a long time before he came back to his senses.
“Hmm.”
Looking at the love of his life in front of him, Lu Yuan responded earnestly.
He had just had a very long dream.
There was no Jiu Shu in his dreams; only madness and loneliness accompanied him.
Turned into a monster, he lost his sanity and feelings, only knowing that he spent his days wandering in an apocalypse made of flesh and bl*ood.
Day after day, repeating ki*lling and death.
Lu Yuan had thought he had gotten used to all this a long time ago.
But after tasting the taste of happiness, he realized how horrible the madness in his memories was.
It made him become emotionless, only knowing how to kill and sink into pain forever.
He didn’t want to become what he was in his dreams.
Jiu Shu had given him another option.
But was such a beautiful life really not a dream?
Would he wake up and really become that monster, and everything now was just a fantasy of his?
“Jiu Shu.”
“It’s me.”
Jiu Shu seemed to see the bewilderment in Lu Yuan’s heart.
He interlocked his fingers with Lu Yuan and repeated to him the words of love that he had said countless times: “I love you.”
“I love you too.”
Lu Yuan got up and hugged the love of his life tightly in his arms—the only way to get out of those nagging nightmares from earlier.
To get some sense of what was really there.
He wanted to stay this happy.
“Jiu Shu.”
But it was not to be. Lu Yuan heard the voice of someone else calling out to his lover.
The tone was ambiguous, to the point of being tiresome.
The pitch-black eyes under Lu Yuan’s bandages looked at the god of doom beside him.
Each one was staring at them with an expressionless death stare.
They locked eyes with Lu Yuan.
The same somber eyes held a loathing for one another.
The god of doom frowned in disgust, his expression growing more and more grim where Jiu Shu couldn’t see.
It didn’t matter; it was just a matter of briefly letting Lu Yuan take advantage of him for a while; he’d wait until the fusion completely devoured his consciousness.
“…… ” The god of doom thought so, but realized that Jiu Shu seemed to be slow to respond to him.
It was as if he had been abandoned as soon as Lu Yuan woke up.
Not being cared for when he lost his utilization value.
Actually, it didn’t matter.
As long as he waited until the fusion was complete, everything would be fine.
Sooner or later, Jiu Shu would be his lover, and they would have only each other.
The god of doom soothed himself.
Snap-snap-snap.
Jiu Shu turned his head and saw the circle of the gods of doom around him, all expressionlessly shedding tears.
The fierceness that remained in their eyes from the confrontation with the Lu Yuan was still there, but the circles around their eyes were already so red that they couldn’t be seen.
It seemed like he’d always been a crybaby.
Jiu Shu thought helplessly.
“Jiu Shu.”
The god of doom called out again, with a sobbing voice.
Lu Yuan, on the side, frowned as he listened.
He didn’t know what tricks the fake god of doom was playing again.
He could tell that he was imitating him by calling out to Jiu Shu like that.
However, he wasn’t him, and it was impossible for Jiu Shu to respond to the god of doom.
In the next moment, Jiu Shu’s voice was heard in Lu Yuan’s ears.
“Uh, I’m here.” Jiu Shu responded in a warm voice.
“!”
Lu Yuan’s body stiffened, and the pitch-black pupils under the bandages widened slightly.
“Lu Yuan, did I not tell you that you and the god of doom are the same soul?”
Jiu Shu looked at Lu Yuan and softly explained the original story.
“I wish to see the most complete you; is that okay?”
Looking at the serious-looking lover in front of him, Lu Yuan became silent.
The scene from the dream once again surfaced in his mind.
For Lu Yuan, the greatest fear was to change back to what he was in the dream.
The monster that had lost itself.
Fusing with the god of doom didn’t seem far from such an end.
“I can if you wish.”
If it were Jiu Shu’s request, even if he had to lose his own consciousness and fall into the hands of the god of doom, he would agree.
Because he wanted to see Jiu Shu show a smile.
Even if the price was to lose the happiness that mesmerized him as it did now.
This happiness was originally given by Jiu Shu.
If he could get a moment of pleasantness from Jiu Shu in return, Lu Yuan would be satisfied.
“No, none of you will lose yourselves; you will just become more complete.”
Jiu Shu could see what Lu Yuan was thinking, and he gently stroked Lu Yuan’s cheek with incomparable gentleness.
[They don’t think so, Jiu Shu; why are you still so stubborn? Haven’t you understood after these few worlds?]
[Even if his split consciousness is restored briefly, it will become split again in the next world.]
[You’re just doing nothing.]
[Besides, don’t you think it’s good? Only by never recovering will He always need you and always love you.]
The system’s voice that suddenly appeared had a compelling undertone to it.
[If he recovers, he won’t need you anymore either.]
Jiu Shu listened to the system’s voice indifferently, restrained the emotions in his eyes, and casually banned the system that had escaped the ban once again.
To Jiu Shu, he just wanted to do so; it had nothing to do with the so-called need or not.
The system that was banned again jumped up and down in anger.
Dam*n it! Da*mn it!
This damned taskmaster!
The system was so angry that its data stream exploded, and it could only use its anger to cover up its inner panic.
It didn’t know just how much this tasker had seen from its database, nor did it know if he had found the truth or not.
It hoped he hadn’t.
But even if it hadn’t found out the truth, everything this taskmaster had done was making it more and more afraid.
It hoped he would never return to normal, but this taskmaster kept going against its wishes.
And there was simply nothing it could do with the taskmaster!
“Alright, god of doom, it’s time to start what was promised before.”
Jiu Shu sat up from Lu Yuan’s embrace and looked at the red-eyed god of doom beside him.
Jiu Shu knew that in order to be restored to wholeness, it would require the god of doom to project his spirit world into reality.
In fact, it was almost equivalent to the doomsday of the previous life.
It was just that the doomsday of the previous world was the complete descent of the god of doom’s main body, infecting every corner of the world with madness.
And now it was only necessary to replicate one of the flesh and bl*ood capitals in the derivative game.
It was in that Flesh and Blo*od Capital, which represented the god of doom’s mental state, that Lu Yuan and the god of doom could truly recover their full souls.
“I’m eager to see the real you, not these false skins.”
“I’m looking forward to our real meeting.”
Jiu Shu’s gaze was warm.
The eyes filled with love made the god of doom lower his head, a little embarrassed, but the corners of his mouth hooked up.
Just a moment ago, his face was full of aggression, but now his cheeks were already slightly red.
The love of his life was looking forward to meeting him.
This matter was enough to make the god of doom’s essence spin in circles with happiness.
Click-click-click-
Li Qi on the streets of H City watched in stupefaction as countless eyes turned in unison at the sky that had managed to stop raining.
It was almost as if the body made of the god of doom’s flesh and blo*od had rolled shyly on the barrier.
It was an illusion.
She thought dully.
And after this moment of dullness, Li Qi suddenly felt a chill run through her body.
The whole world went dark after seeing the crack in the sky grow wider and wider until the final clicking sound.
Like the end of the world as remembered.
The sun was drowned in the color of bl*ood.
The end had come.
The metropolis made of flesh and blood reappeared in front of Li Qi’s eyes.
She fell to her knees, trembling, unable to utter a single sound.
It wasn’t until the end that she let out a sad wail before fainting, “god of doom, oooh!”
god’s judgment had finally come.
In the hotel’s ballroom, blo*od and flesh gradually wrapped around the entire building; even the floor and walls were covered with writhing growths of blo*od and flesh.
Countless eyeballs swiveled to look at their lover sitting on the couch.
“Feeling alright?”
Jiu Shu inquired concernedly about Lu Yuan.
The god of doom also looked at Lu Yuan with an icy gaze.
In the Capital of Flesh and Blo*od, He and Lu Yuan’s level of spiritual synchronization was even deeper than in the real world, and their distaste for each other was even more obvious.
The god of doom could sense Lu Yuan’s love for Jiu Shu.
He seemed to realize at the end that he would be devoured after the fusion, realizing that he would lose everything he had now.
In response, the god of doom could only show him some pity.
After all, he was just a human incarnation that had split off, and it couldn’t be helped that he would be devoured after fusion.
Jiu Shu could only be his.
“I am fine; I just feel synchronized with many thoughts that don’t belong to me.”
“What thoughts?”
Jiu Shu felt that Lu Yuan spoke much more fluently.
“It seems like a voice is saying that He will deliberately devour another consciousness when they merge.”
“……”
Lu Yuan covered his head in pain and paused for a moment, and then he continued, “It also said… that I’m a despicable existence.”
“!!!”
The god of doom looked at Lu Yuan in shock.
There were clearly no such words!
Thank you for the update~