Translator: Dj2203
Editor: Dj2203
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She sincerely disbelieved Fu Ke’s words, suspecting her of ulterior motives. Du Weiwei, standing at the stairwell in a state of irritation, hadn’t noticed that the weather seemed even hotter than usual. She’d thought it had become cooler after a few days of rain, but it suddenly became scorching again.
The phoenix could be seen swiftly descending, and Fu Ke felt a faint ache on her skin.
Du Weiwei was overcome with excitement, her eyes stinging from the sight of the crimson glow, but she couldn’t hide her excitement.
Just as she saw the phoenix soar a hundred meters in the air, a sudden force surged from behind, catching Fu Ke off guard and pushing her back.
She was standing on the edge of the rooftop, where the guardrail was low, and the force sent her plummeting.
“Ah!” Du Weiwei cried out in agony.
Fu Ke, floating in mid-air, thrust her hands forward, sending a massive stream of water gushing out.
“Chiu—” the phoenix cried out, dodging the water column and soaring high into the air.
Controlling herself to land on the rooftop, she looked indifferently at Du Weiwei, who lay miserably on the ground. Her chest still heaving, it was clear she wasn’t dead yet.
However, her skin was cracked and peeling, like the scorching sun. Perhaps even worse.
“Oh, it hurts…” Du Weiwei shivered as she lay on the ground.
Fu Ke gave her a cold glance. Looking up, she saw that the phoenix had swooped down again, this time with its mouth open, clearly poised to spit fire.
Her eyes flashed.
Fu Ke swiftly soared into the air, charging directly at the phoenix. She then enveloped herself in water, but the water continued to evaporate, its temperature gradually rising to a scorching heat. Fu Ke had no choice but to abandon the water ball.
Gritting her teeth, she used her mental power to attack the phoenix’s brain.
“Chiu—” the ethereal voice was tinged with anger. Clearly, even though the phoenix was a divine beast, it had never imagined that anyone in this world could attack its brain.
Although it didn’t cause significant damage, it forced it to stop spitting fire. Suddenly, a pair of crimson eyes glared angrily at the perpetrator.
….
Hearing the earth-shattering cry, those who couldn’t bear the heat immediately looked out the windows. Only 707 didn’t move from beside Qiu Yi.
Xiao Bin’s heart skipped a beat. Du Weiwei hadn’t returned yet.
Feeling powerless, he slowly closed his eyes. After Du Weiwei attacked the squad leader, he felt more and more that she wasn’t the person he knew.
But she fabricated lies to deceive him, and he still wanted to believe her, as if to prove that the person he had fallen for was right.
Now, it seemed as if he had been wrong.
How could she have become like this? How could she have become like this!
Someone fainted from the heat, but no one cared for them. The weather was so hot, and even with the air conditioner on, it felt like the sun was still blazing.
Those who knew about the situation felt the heat, but they were even more worried: they feared the electrical appliances would explode.
Especially when he heard the ethereal bird song, resounding through the heavens and earth—clearly no ordinary bird could produce it.
Qin Long’s eyelids twitched constantly, having a feeling that something was about to happen. Feeling a little restless, he sat on the ground, eyes closed, to rest.
In mid-air, Fu Ke was blasted with flames by the enraged phoenix.
Although she dodged in time, the flames burned her left arm. The aroma of barbecue wafted through the air, causing Fu Ke to gasp in pain and instantly become furious.
“Damn it!” Fu Ke gritted her teeth, converging her spiritual power and water into a swift current that hurtling it towards the phoenix. The phoenix dodged left and right but was quickly bound by the ropes of spiritual power and water.
The phoenix’s massive wings struggled, and the ropes binding it snapped.
Fu Ke’s eyelids twitched slightly. It had only been a few seconds! Seeing her spiritual power nearly breaking, Fu Ke didn’t care anymore. She simply moved forward, keeping a relatively close distance, and moved the phoenix into space.
After successfully moving the phoenix into her space, Fu Ke breathed a sigh of relief. She looked at her burned left arm and sat down on the rooftop, grimacing. She then looked at Du Weiwei who was muttering to herself, seemingly mad. She almost wanted to kill her but felt that not doing so would be the worst for her.
Seeing the nearly disfiguring peeling skin, she knew that with the current state of post-apocalyptic medicine, she might survive, but she wouldn’t recover.
“I… I can’t see anymore, I can’t see anymore. Is anyone there? Is anyone there?” Du Weiwei twitched in pain. But when she heard Fu Ke’s footsteps, she opened her eyes and saw only darkness.
The footsteps faded. “Don’t go, don’t go! Save me!”
Fu Ke said nothing as she descended from the upstairs.
A sudden turbulence in the space sent Fu Ke’s head reeling as if from a violent blow, causing her to break out in a cold sweat.
She had originally intended to tell Xiao Bin that Du Weiwei was on the rooftop, but the turmoil in the space forced Fu Ke to quickly return to the exclusive restaurant.
A phoenix was suddenly thrown into the space. And the moment the phoenix entered, the ropes bound by her spiritual energy snapped.
The once fertile land within the space dried up and cracked. The space managed to isolate the phoenix, preventing the river from drying up and the animals from dying from the heat.
Even so, many died, most of them those closest to the phoenix.
The crops wilted, seemingly on the verge of drying up.
The separation of the phoenix and the restoration of the land required a tremendous amount of energy. Suddenly, a massive vortex appeared within the space, swallowing the ton of gold.
Even so, the vortex continued to swirl violently.
Fu Ke’s face darkened. The phoenix was a divine beast, a master. Even if she gathered all the gold in the world, she wouldn’t be able to contain it.
She feared the space would be ripped apart by the phoenix.
After all, no matter how vast a space was, it was still just a space, not a world.
Back at the Exclusive Restaurant, Fu Ke took one look at Zhang Zhongmin and threw him into the vortex.
Fu Ke didn’t know whether he could be thrown in or what would happen to him after being thrown in, but it was an emergency and she couldn’t care less.
She grabbed a handful of crystal cores and stuffed them directly into her mouth. After eating a lot, her arm recovered a little, but it was still obvious that it was burned, but not as horrible as before when it looked roasted.
She searched all the gold shops and banks in D City with her mental power. As long as there was gold, Fu Ke went to all of them and threw the gold into the space.
Zhang Zhongmin was thrown in and was spat out by the vortex not long after he was thrown in, but he still didn’t wake up and lay on the ground in the space.
….
Here the temperature in the base slowly dropped.
Liu Guo’an, however, remained cautious and refused to allow anyone to leave. Food and water were already there, and the water had been heated to a scalding temperature. The temperature hadn’t even dropped that much yet.
“I’ll go out and take a look,” Xiao Bin said, standing in the hallway, but he could see nothing. He had no idea where Du Weiwei had gone; she hadn’t returned yet.
When Xiao Bin left, nothing seemed out of place, if only the leaves on the trees hadn’t dried up strangely, he would have almost suspected Fu Ke again.
He searched everywhere but couldn’t find Du Weiwei. He had never imagined Du Weiwei would end up on the rooftop.
The phoenix struggled in the space, breathing fire, causing Fu Ke’s head to ache as if it were struggling. She secretly regretted her decision now, vowing never to be so reckless again.
The space itself was also becoming increasingly irritated by the phoenix’s torment. Fu Ke constantly replenished her gold supply, narrowing the area confining the phoenix until it couldn’t even stretch its wings.
After completely confining the phoenix, Fu Ke swiftly entered the space, extending her hands as if holding a bow, and the water condensed into an arrow.
Looking at the glaring phoenix, its crimson eyes, filled with anger and a hint of sadness, the bow in her hand instantly loosened its grip.
“The phoenix is reborn from the ashes, its flames becoming one. That flame is beautiful yet deadly. The phoenix’s very nature is to burn itself, to burn continuously.”
Lu Xun’s earlier words seemed to ring in her ears.
“Constantly burning, it must be very tiring?” Fu Ke suddenly spoke. She saw that the flames on the phoenix never extinguished. The land separated by space had been charred black, and she couldn’t feel the heat from this isolation.
Even though she couldn’t feel it now, Fu Ke still remembered the scorching heat when she was closer to the phoenix.
“Chiu—”
The phoenix’s sharp, angry cry answered Fu Ke, its struggles causing the entire space to tremble as if shaken by an earthquake.
“You’d feel pain too, wouldn’t you? Even if you could control fire, being surrounded by such blazing flames, burning with your own life, how could it not hurt?”
Even a divine beast still had flesh and blood.
The flame within the phoenix will not extinguish until its final moments.
Hearing Fu Ke’s voice, the phoenix’s struggles gradually subsided. Its crimson eyes glared at Fu Ke, but its emotions were unclear.
Fu Ke pondered for a moment, seeing the phoenix wasn’t struggling, and removed her contact lenses.
Her blood-red eyes blinked at the phoenix, a smile gradually spreading. “You’ve been through so much, why don’t you just live a little more comfortably?”
The phoenix was forced to squat on the ground, in an uncomfortable position. Even with Fu Ke’s softening attitude, and the phoenix not struggling; the space still didn’t allow it the space to free itself.
“Heh…” A human voice echoed, childish yet cold and mocking.
Fu Ke stared at the phoenix in surprise. She’d thought it was a blessing if the phoenix understood her words. She hadn’t expected the phoenix to actually speak.
But the voice sounded like a child’s.
“Human, what do you know?” Even now, bewildered and exhausted, the phoenix stared at Fu Ke with haughty pride, its crimson eyes gleaming with anger.
“Why should we Phoenixes bear the unhappiness and hatred of you humans? Every time it accumulates for five hundred years and our flesh and blood can no longer bear it, we will throw ourselves into the raging fire and then continue to bear the suffering of mankind in a new body!”
“Everyone says we are the messengers of happiness, but we have to bear all the pain!”
“How can we talk about happiness?” The Phoenix’s voice was now a little sad.
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