TOMWDET Chapter 197

Launch

He absolutely couldn’t let himself become the one being targeted.

Su Li didn’t want to become the target in the crosshairs of an eight-times scope at all.

But after his words fell, the others all showed confused expressions on their faces.

“Cyril?” Egbert asked, not understanding.

Lan Zhe still remembered that Cyril would come a month later. “Speaking of which, it’s already been the thirty-eighth day since we entered monster beast society. With so many things happening before, we never considered going to pick up Cyril and Julius…”

Roy stared vigilantly in the direction Su Li had been looking when he spoke, “The attack you mentioned, are you referring to that thing from before, the explosion that was so loud we could sense it all the way in Tasahe City? That was something that kid Cyril caused?”

“Maybe Julius was involved too,” Su Li said.

“Just now, at the moment the ring shattered, I felt it – if I continued to stand on the same side as Clemens, I would definitely die.”

The aura of death was a vague thing, like being able to read joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness from an expressionless face, or seeing a pie chart of various emotions in someone’s eyeballs – it was all quite absurd.

But Su Li had somehow sensed it in that strange way.

And after he made his choice in that instant, everything seemed to be delayed.

Time seemed to have an indescribable sense of distortion at the moment he made his choice.

Su Li frowned as he searched his vocabulary, trying to find the right adjective to describe it, when Egbert spoke.

“So choosing to fall was a choice made after comparison? Compared to being killed by Cyril as a companion, you would rather die at Clemens’ hands?”

Egbert’s reaction speed was no longer Egbert-like at all.

Su Li was stunned by what he said.

Thinking with Egbert’s logic, there didn’t seem to be anything wrong with it.

Su Li gave up on his previous task of finding adjectives and began to think about whether his consciousness, which had operated at a speed comparable to the birth of four thousand stars in the universe, had ever had such a thought for even an instant.

Finally, Su Li decided to shake his head.

But Egbert had already naturally continued his line of reasoning.

“This must be the only possibility, otherwise Lord Su Li would have had no need to make the choice to abandon his power.”

“Your body can be passed through by elements, which means it can also be oppressed by elements. And if you wanted to exceed the natural falling speed, you could only choose to direct elemental force at yourself to accelerate your fall, but your body was as fragile as porcelain and couldn’t bear the oppression of elements at all.”

“Three choices… being killed by yourself, being killed by Cyril, or being killed by Clemens?”

“Was the only gentleness you had left for yourself just making the choice not to kill yourself with your own hands?” Egbert’s eyes were already filled with tears, ready to fall but not quite falling.

He placed both hands on Su Li’s shoulders, his gaze full of heartache.

Su Li was already dumbfounded.

Was there anything wrong with what Egbert said? It seemed like everything was wrong, but if asked what was really wrong, he couldn’t think of anything in a short time…

His dazed state was misunderstood by the other three as being seen through.

Roy said with an even uglier expression. “I would rather that when you were falling, little master, you were thinking about whether we would betray your trust, rather than thinking about how to make your death not hurt others more deeply.”

The two-star mercenary now looked like he should light up a cigarette, then instead of extinguishing the butt, stuff the whole cigarette directly into his mouth and swallow it into his stomach.

Only by doing this could he express his bitter feelings.

Lan Zhe added, “Did you make the choice the instant you saw Cyril?

After all, we neglected them for a whole eight days.

Because you felt guilty, you didn’t want Cyril to experience that feeling that tangles with soul and bone…”

Su Li firmly said no to this.

“I really don’t have as many thoughts as you imagine.”

Egbert had a “you do” expression on his face.

“There’s no need to deceive us with such kindness. As adults, we already have the ability to bear all negativity.”

“But I really don’t.”

Egbert: “If you really didn’t, how could you possibly say that your thinking speed was equivalent to four thousand stars being born per second in the universe? Even if I don’t understand it, I still know what stars are.”

Roy: “And me, I’m an adult who has experienced various life hardships, there’s no need for you to treat me so carefully.

The sufferings of the past have now become the composure to face everything calmly.

Being treated gently is certainly good, but your gentleness toward yourself is just not killing yourself…”

“Please cherish yourself a little more, little master?”

Lan Zhe: “You’re clearly so afraid of pain that you’d tear up from accidentally kicking a table leg, yet you chose the worst option among the choices.

That’s a monster beast, a creature that often tears apart opponents’ bodies with close combat when cruel.

I never knew you had this kind of courage.

Talking about being selfish – if someone like you can still be called selfish, then someone like me who actively shut out all of humanity because of bad impressions of humans, wouldn’t that not even qualify as selfish.”

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Others: Look, he’s finally showing the pain deep in his heart.

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Others: Has he become so sad that he’s lost his voice and can’t speak?

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Others: He can finally accept our comfort calmly, but overly empty words of comfort can’t really help him.

Therefore, we really need to work hard to strengthen ourselves, to make ourselves stronger?

Su Li looked toward Clemens.

When facing topics he didn’t want to participate in, the best approach wasn’t repeated verbal evasion, but straightforwardly changing the subject.

“Do you think you could still withstand such an attack?”

The [Tiger] clearly knew Su Li was referring to the attack that had recently blown away half of his body.

Clemens said, “I don’t know.”

The elemental power reserves were sufficient, but the mobile elemental cannon was too simple and crude – compressing elements and then releasing them, without considering elemental compatibility and bias at all.

This made it difficult for even the [Tiger] to be certain he could protect himself in such an attack.

“However, I definitely won’t let such an attack hit you.” Clemens didn’t pay much attention to the other chattering humans.

The [Tiger’s] mind was full of Su Li’s behavior of being devoted to battle.

If it was an enemy that absolutely had to be killed, then indeed, using any dirty tricks wouldn’t be excessive.

But if it was just an opponent…

Clemens, who had been led into the ditch, had long given up on escaping and even actively filled the ditch with a handful of soil to let the mud mixed with water trap him even deeper.

“You will survive. I will tell you everything you want to know. Whether it’s the reason for abandoning the Beast Tribe territories, or…”

“Or what?” Su Li looked up at him.

“I don’t know.” Clemens still said this.

There were many things he wanted to say, but the premise was being able to survive from the humans’ hands.

This statement was absurdly funny – the [Tiger], who was feared by countless monster beasts, now needed to consider not how to slaughter humans at will, but how to survive from human hands.

“You can choose not to face that attack head-on.” Su Li had already sensed something.

“But if I don’t bear it, there would be no need for me to create the current situation.” The [Tiger’s] field of vision was high, and Clemens could clearly see the scene when the mobile elemental cannon’s barrel aimed at him again.

Soon, the offensive that could pierce through him would arrive.

“You are ‘seeking death.'” Su Li said something that only the two of them could understand.

“Yes.” After a moment of stunned silence, Clemens nodded affirmatively, but then said, “However, I would rather personally explain the reason to you, rather than such a simple ‘yes.'”

“Then survive.” Su Li looked at Clemens.

He didn’t respond.

The [Tiger] only said, “Do you know that monster beasts form a special [Core] after death?”

Su Li knew.

Hidden by the fabric of his clothes, the red and blue intertwined object, gorgeous like a gem, had always been hanging there.

“If I’m still alive, then I hope that eventually all your curiosities can be told to you personally by me. And if I die, then the [Core] can also tell you all the answers I can’t speak now.”

Actually, the four words “can’t speak” were already equivalent to the answer.

Su Li suddenly laughed.

“This is really a scene that can’t make anyone happy at all.”

“I don’t want to say that I’ve already guessed those possibilities either.”

“Game planners who might have done character design and storyline editing are mostly heartless guys like me who can still view everything rationally no matter what they face.”

“Anyway, good luck.” Su Li glanced at the [Tiger] once more, and when the others looked confused and at a loss, Su Li jumped onto Egbert’s back.

The young man’s voice became deep, and Su Li said, “Run, run as far as possible, far from the previous attack range of the depression…

Five times the distance, don’t get close to this range.”

After Su Li finished speaking, he looked once more at the aquatic monster beast army in the direction of the Queen’s Palace from afar.

The moment Leia saw Egbert running with him, he would probably make some judgment about the situation.

Since that was the case, it was enough – everyone’s life and death would be left to fate.

Although he thought this way and acted this way.

But after moving away from the attack range, Su Li still shouted futilely at Clemens, “If you can survive, I’ll show you a true world with no gods, no anomalies, only humans, and only pure civilization——“

“Elemental filling complete.”

“Ballistic attack aimed.”

“Target: Beast King.”

“Confirm attack/Yes.”

“This is a strike condensing the collective will of numerous monster beasts and humans.”

“This is an unavoidable annihilation strike.”

“Confirmed by all Winged Tribe monster beasts——“

“Launch!”

The light column traversed the sky, aiming at the monster beast who calmly went to his death.

A strange voice rang in Su Li’s brain: Ah ah ah damn damn damn!!!

BOOM——

Between heaven and earth, only this sound remained.