Chapter 173 Jiang Yu, the Coquettish

Chapter 173 · Jiang Yu, the eagle

Zheng Zha felt very sad.

He thought that even if he was not the strongest in the team, he could at least stand firmly in the second position. And given time, it was hard to say who would have a higher combat power between him and Jiang Yu.

However, now, his companions who were one period later than him have all opened the second stage. The gap between the second and the third is greater than expected - after learning that the Lord God divides the levels of reincarnations by whether the gene lock is opened. The importance of strengthening the exchange level is naturally placed below the gene lock opening level. But at this time, he was stuck at this critical position!

Damn!

The gene lock does not use rounding, and 2.9999 cannot be regarded as three!

——Why am I stuck here?

He gritted his teeth secretly. The previous technique that could use blood energy more effectively based on the gravity bomb could not make him feel better - he saw Jiang Yu sharing his experience of opening the third-level gene lock with others. And a sentence mixed in the communication suddenly floated to his ears with the wind, and it had a very strong presence.

"... The key may be to follow my heart. When I jumped down, I finally realized that I just didn't want to be content with the status quo..."

It sounds like it makes sense. Indeed, Jiang Yu seems to be a guy who is really not content with the status quo. Otherwise, he would not be able to distribute the T virus to everyone and take the lead in the return journey, so that "returning to the previous world to mine resources" has become a traditional practice of the Zhongzhou team. And... He has indeed felt a little timid recently.

That feeling seems to have started when he was defaulted as the implicit captain. After gaining recognition, Jiang Yu still rushed to the first place when encountering things as usual. But when it comes to the overall consideration of the team, he is much more cautious-when making plans, he will consider the role of each person, and when speaking and voting, and taking action, he will also check the status of each person one by one to ensure that no one will feel left out. And the most obvious manifestation is his awkward college student speech.

- This is normal... Jiang Yu is only nineteen years old. His blood was still hot, and he dared to take on the crisis and responsibility with an iron head.

——The duties and obligations of the team leader did restrain his nature. And the opportunity for him to open the third-order gene lock was to face his nature and follow his heart.

——Then...what is my nature, what is my heart?

The sad mood faded silently, replaced by confusion. Zheng Zha felt as if he had returned to the muddle-headedness before arriving in the reincarnation world. Indulging himself, being dissolute... Every day was no different from the day before, a boring and decadent life. The boundary line of decay and depravity was right under his feet, and he had even taken half a step out.

So...what changed all this?

Was it because of the life-and-death crisis? ——No, he didn't encounter much fear in the few hours in the biochemical crisis. Even the shock brought by the laser channel that almost took his life was quickly calmed down.

Was it because he met a new companion? ——No, Jiang Yu, Zhan Lan, Mou Gang... and Zhang Jie are all very good people. But I have been in the social dye vat for too long. To become a confidant, I have to wait until at least the battlefield under Umbrella.

So...

——It's Luo Li.

——Or to be more precise...the Luo Li in my heart.

Zheng Zha pursed his lips. He knew that the Sun Golden Sutra can revive the fresh dead. And the Undead Black Sutra can revive the dead who have been dead for a long time. One of these two books can be obtained by reaching out. And the other one can be obtained by just saying hello. And if I want, then with these two books and the corresponding ritual materials, the possibility of returning to the real world and bringing back the real Luo Li...is not small.

Maybe I can't do it, but I should want to do it-if the one I really love is really the Luo Li who died of cancer many years ago.

——But I have never thought about this...Even if I thought about it, I didn't plan to do it.

——Ha...There is no point in deceiving myself. If I really love the Luo Li of the past. Then, when the Lord God extracted her from my memory, what I saw should be the one who lost all her hair due to chemotherapy, was pale and weak, and as thin as a piece of dry wood.

The answer is yes or no.

The Luo Li I created was the Luo Li who had never had cancer from the beginning. It was the Luo Li who perfectly met all my fantasies about my first love, and loved me as I expected - ten years have passed! I have changed from sixteen to twenty-six years old, and my figure, body shape, appearance and temperament have changed. I look like two different people. If the Luo Li I created was really the original Luo Li, how could she let a stranger who only resembled her childhood sweetheart take her to bed without any resistance?

There is only one answer, that is, she was not herself from the beginning, but was set by her subconscious mind, loving the perfect creation of herself now. The person I have been thinking about is just a phantom in a dream, and the childhood sweetheart who died ten years ago... only has the same appearance.

Going deep into one's own heart is not an easy and pleasant thing. The most difficult thing for people to do is to admit their mistakes and inferiority - when Zheng Zha clearly recognized this. He felt as if a stone was pressing on his heart, and there were bursts of pain as if being pricked by many fine needles.

It felt like something was being betrayed...and something was being torn apart. The old smile has long been blurred in his memory, but when he went deep into his heart, he reached the bottom of his memory. He was shocked to find that the Luo Li who was still alive ten years ago and the Luo Li next to him were even different in appearance.

The legs are shorter, the chest is flatter, the curves are not so soft, the skin is slightly rougher and the tone is not as bright as the one next to me - there is no doubt that after ten years of dreaming, I have to complete it. , many additional parameters have been added that are different from the real Luo Li, but are in line with my own aesthetics and preferences. Perhaps, if we take this Luo Li back to ten years ago, there won't even be a twin-level confrontation between her and the genuine product.

Zheng Zha realized that he had done the right thing - the right thing was that he did not take Luo Li with him when he returned to reality.

In his original plan, in addition to introducing Luo Li to his parents, he also took Luo Li to visit the old couple whose daughter died of illness ten years ago - he felt that this might give those two Family friendships brought some comfort. It's okay to find any reason, at least it can make them alleviate the pain of losing their daughter a little bit.

Fortunately he didn't do that.

Fortunately, because of the operations of Chu Xuan and Cheng Xiao, he did not treat that return as a honeymoon vacation. Instead, it was regarded as a difficult business trip that needed to be handled with caution - he did not take Luo Li with him, and he did not say much. He just quickly completed the scheduled transaction, and then withdrew and returned to the world of reincarnation.

——I almost sprinkled a pinch of salt on the wounds of a pair of parents who might have barely recovered from the pain of losing their daughter.

——What will they think? I was so nervous that I found a replacement for Luo Li after all the hard work. And then force them to admit that it was their dead daughter and let them re-experience the grief in their memories?

-Will they hate me?

Zheng Zha's thoughts turned, and then he shook his head silently in his heart.

——No, Uncle Luo and the others won’t hate me. They would just pity me. In their eyes, I have gone crazy for Luo Li. And they will pity Luo Li next to me even more, because in their eyes, she will be a sad person who loves me so much that she is willing to give up everything in her past, and even undergo plastic surgery, just to become my first love in my imagination. .

——They will not expose it...they will only hold the mentality of compensation and guilt. Take care of Luo Li as your own daughter. However, the longer we stay together, the more painful it becomes. All I bring to them is torture.

His heart beat violently, and more pain overflowed. The negative emotions of self-hatred and disgust gather like an ocean, turning into a dark whirlpool deep in the soul.

——So...it's not because of Luo Li's arrival that I regained my fighting spirit.

——What makes me despair is my disgust and gradual integration into the mud-like corrupt life. What gave me the courage was the redemption brought about by the realization of the dream in my heart.

——I... long for that ray of light that pours into the depths of hell.

--or……

The dark whirlpool is right in front of you, and what makes up the whirlpool is the endless sea of ​​hatred. It is accumulated from a person's heart. Its quantity is very small but it may also be extremely large.

Then, take a step forward.

——Or, the fire that burns up hell!

Zheng Zha's will fell into a dark whirlpool.

And the next moment, the entire black ocean was burning with dark fire!

……………………

Zheng Zha's vision returned from divergence to concentration. The change in the mind does not last for a few seconds in reality.

Jiang Yu has finished talking about his experience and is now discussing the next step.

"Set is undoubtedly the last opponent we have to face." Jiang Yu said, and then the topic changed. "Then, Geb, the God of Earth, and Nut, the God of Sky. They are the targets we must deal with next... Considering the effectiveness of nuclear bomb blasts, it won't be a big problem to follow the same pattern. However, I think maybe we can take some more radical measures.”

He turned his head and looked at Zheng Zha.

"Zheng Zha, do you have any ideas?"

He just used his vocal cords to make sounds and speak in an ordinary way.

However, in Zheng Zha's field of vision, "not long after" Jiang Yu had already given the corresponding reply.

——If I were Jiang Yu...what would I say now?

The voice of reply became clear. And then, just simply repeat it.

"They are two, and we are two."

Zheng Zha pointed at Jiang Yu and then at himself.

"It's a one-on-one battle between the two of us."

As expected, he saw the shock in Jiang Yu's eyes - even though Jiang Yu's helmet obscured his face.