C1656 I Lost to Myself
C1656 I Lost to Myself
Even Meng Xiaoyao and Yu Xuening also stood up abruptly. They were stunned as they watched Yang Chen's death.
"Just what is he thinking …" Meng Xiaoyao didn't know if it was anger, confusion, or some other emotion. He clenched his fists tightly and was unable to calm down.
Tears welled up in Yu Xuening's eyes, but she smiled in relief and gratification. "Stinking brat, why are you so stupid …"
Jane was on her knees. Her face was pale as a sheet. She closed her eyes in grief. Tears streamed down her face. She bit her lower lip and kept shaking her head.
"I knew it, I knew it …"
At this moment, it was already too late.
Yang Chen's choice was out of everyone's expectations!
"Why …"
Athena asked in a soft, dazed voice, her eyes sparkling in the cold astral wind. She was still unable to believe the reality before her eyes.
At this moment, Athena felt as if all the energy in her body had been emptied out. Other than murmuring, her mind was in a mess.
When the Great Prophecy was no longer able to tell her what the future looked like, and the future had brought about an incomparably strong impact, she finally fell into a situation where she didn't know what to do.
Athena didn't know why, but she didn't dare to look at Yang Chen's gaze. She didn't dare to look at the fatal wound on Yang Chen's chest. She didn't know why she wanted to cry …
When a drop of sparkling pearl came out from her eye socket, it slipped and was gently wiped away by Yang Chen's finger …
"What, you're crying …"
Yang Chen smiled gently and relaxed. Although blood was continuously flowing out of his chest, he did not show any signs of unease or panic. Instead, he was exceptionally calm.
"Why would I do that? Didn't I already say, this is life … Since you can't stop, and I can't just watch you, no matter how you...
Then, besides killing you, I can only die …
"If I die, I won't have to shoulder any responsibilities and I won't let down anyone, so I naturally don't have to care about this. I also don't have to struggle as to how I should treat you and how you should live on …"
Athena raised her head, trying to stop her tears, but she could not.
The hand holding Paras' spear instantly lost all of its strength, and lightly trembled as it fell to the ground.
As Athena released her hand, Yang Chen's body fell from the sky along with the spear.
Athena was shocked and immediately used her Spatial Force to support Yang Chen.
Athena saw that Yang Chen's face was turning paler and paler. She could not help but realize that Yang Chen purposely kept his body from recovering!
His Memory Deriving Scripture had stopped working a long time ago, and Yang Chen had purposely let his body pierce into the lance.
After all, it was a Paras Spear. As long as Yang Chen didn't take the initiative to defend himself, it would be very easy to pierce through his body.
If this continues, it won't take long. Even if Yang Chen's physique is different from ordinary people, he will stop functioning due to excessive blood loss.
In fact, it was already a miracle that he could speak in such a tone when his heart had shattered!
Yang Chen, who purposely chose not to use his cultivation base, obviously had no intention of letting his soul live. With the death of his body and brain, his soul would slowly dissipate without the support of his cultivation base …
Suicide wasn't a difficult task for any expert.
Even if he had Memory Deriving Scripture, a technique that could bring death back to life, if Yang Chen was determined to seek death, no one would be able to save him.
"You really want to die? Is it worth it for me?" Athena choked with sobs, shaking her head non-stop, "Don't you hate me? I'm not Lin Ruoxi, and I'm not Seventeen either. I arranged the meeting between you and Lin Ruoxi all the way through using your feelings for Lin Ruoxi and Seventeen. Why would you do that …"
Yang Chen's breathing became weak as he laughed, "Even if you weren't Ruoxi and Seventeen, you still protected and gave birth to my daughter, didn't you … Whether you're doing it for me or not, I'm really grateful to you...
I can't let any woman in your soul die, and I can't kill my child's mother with my own hands …
If I let you kill me, perhaps you wouldn't be able to face your daughter. I don't want that to happen, so, suicide is the perfect choice for me. "
Athena could feel Yang Chen's life slowly slipping away. Her delicate body kept trembling. Deep inside her soul, she felt an intense agitation and started to become unstable …
An emotion deep within her heart that she hadn't noticed caused her to become a little lost and unable to focus her attention.
This man had never hated her before?
He was grateful to her!?
Yang Chen looked at her deeply. His vision started to become a little illusionary, a little ethereal.
Athena's tear-stained face allowed him to reveal a trace of a satisfied smile …
"Ruoxi …"
Yang Chen called out softly as if he saw Lin Ruoxi smiling at him.
At this moment, the passing clouds were like a beautiful painting that flashed before his eyes one by one …
Athena's delicate body quivered. She held her temple painfully with one hand, as if struggling for something …
Yes, the person he loved was Lin Ruoxi, or Seventeen, but it definitely wasn't her. This had nothing to do with her …
However, why was she sad for his death? Why was she crying for him? Could it be that it was simply because she had accompanied him through everything while he was in the dark …
No, wasn't this the ending she was looking forward to? Wasn't this what the future should look like? Hadn't she waited twenty thousand years just for today!?
But her heart really hurt …
Yang Chen didn't know that at this moment, Athena was experiencing an unprecedented shock in the depths of her soul.
The three souls began to interact, fuse, explode, struggle, suppress, and detach themselves from each other, all because of the same emotion that had been suppressed and hidden before …
Yang Chen muttered to himself. It was no longer important who the woman in front of him was. He had a satisfied smile on his face.
"Ruoxi, my life is very short, but too many things have happened. Some are good, some are bad, I can't remember most of them …
However, I am certain that the most beautiful things in my life, no, the only beautiful thing, is that I met you. Lin Ruoxi, even if you want to kill me now, you are still my most beautiful memory.
Everything that has happened today is my choice and has nothing to do with you. Don't let the future you be unhappy, sad or painful because of me, because that will cause me to die, and will be even more miserable than when I was alive … "
Athena had a splitting headache. Yang Chen's every word was like sharp daggers stabbing into her mind, making her unable to persevere any longer …
"Why didn't you stop me? You already knew my purpose, you already knew it. If you had told me your choice today, no, even if it was just now, I might have wavered in my decision. I might have softened my heart …"
Yang Chen's hands touched the pike on his chest. He was losing a lot of blood, causing him to lose consciousness and lose control of his body …
"Because I can't …" Yang Chen said with his eyes half closed, and laughed in a low voice, "You can't stop it right? Didn't you say that the future will not change …
You've persisted in this mission for twenty thousand years, how could I possibly make you give up just because of one sentence? I've used twenty years of my life in exchange for twenty thousand years. That's a good deal …
"It doesn't matter who you are or who you are. In short, I am willing to do this. This is also the last thing I can do for you …"
"No!" The woman tightly held her head, constantly shaking her head, and broke down crying.
All of the Sovereigns, upon seeing this, couldn't help but feel grief.
Yang Chen's voice became weaker and weaker, and there was a comforting smile on his face, "After I leave, don't make things difficult for those who are sad for me. Tell them, I'm useless, I'm sorry for them …"
"More importantly, don't make Lanlan become a motherless child. I told her before we came that her mother will be back soon …"
"Stop, stop …" The woman begged as she slowly kneeled in front of Yang Chen in the air. Her hands could not help but hug Yang Chen's waist.
Yang Chen could not stand any longer and bent down weakly. Yin Hong's blood dripped onto the woman's body and on her face. However, she did not notice and continued to cry.
Yang Chen closed his eyes and his voice slowly faded...
"Ruoxi, do you know? I've thought about it before, if one day, someone can truly kill me, then that person might only be me …
"I didn't lose to anyone, and I didn't lose to you either. I lost to myself because I couldn't do it, Ruoxi. I don't love you …"
His voice ended right there, like a kite with its string cut, flying off into the distance where it could no longer be found …
At this moment, the woman took a deep breath of the cold air, opened her eyes, raised her head, and hugged Yang Chen's cold body.
Staring deeply at the lifeless face of the man, her tear-filled cheeks pressed against his, gently kissing his cold lips.
The woman let out a face full of despair and smiled with great difficulty. She said, "Didn't I tell you earlier? If you stay with me, I will kill you. I've been having nightmares for so long, but you refuse to believe my words …"
"It's too late now, the nightmare has become a reality, yet you told me not to feel guilty, hubby, how can you treat me like this, are you deliberately hurting yourself, please, don't scare me, wake up, I'm Ruoxi …"
The woman's hysterical cry was torn into pieces by the wind.
No matter how she called him, there was no response from that man's ice-cold corpse …