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Chapter 738: Chapter 735: "Gone Everything.

[Kaius Tower · Ruins]

"Whirr—"

Stepping on the brakes, Lin Guang leapt out of his car, before him was a small abandoned three-story building. It was fenced around, and beside the villa was a small fountain.

—This was where he lived temporarily after losing the City of Gods. Every time he finished a journey, he would return here.

He pushed open the door, the walls of the hall were covered with countless photos and paintings. He carefully walked through this area to his room, meticulously storing away the porcelain dolls, postcards, ginkgo leaf bookmarks, and other items he had acquired on this trip.

In the end, he pulled out a drawer full of ginkgo leaves and wrote on the leaves.

[Catastrophe Year 71, one more year. I went to the legendary Peach Blossom Spring...]

After writing, he preserved the ginkgo leaves and closed the drawer.

A moment later, his hand drifted to the pistol at his waist with a look of hope, desire, and sadness in his eyes.

Often, he couldn’t sleep, so he would shoot himself. He had read a book that said, "If you have the same experiences, you can feel the same emotions as friends, such as reading the same book together, watching the same movie, going to the amusement park together. Such emotional resonance can help to deepen friendship."

Lin Guang understood—if he shot himself as he had hurt Lewis back then, he could perceive emotions similar to those of Lewis.

But he was still puzzled.

After shooting himself, all he felt was pain. Doubt and confusion filled his heart, like a program that had run on a wrong simulation, no matter how many times he tried to understand, he never got the correct result.

"Why." He murmured softly.

No one answered him, the room was very quiet.

He unwrapped the bloody bandage from his abdomen and glanced at the ferocious wound. Since leaving the City of Gods, he had taken only the photos and portraits with him, healing drugs were not at hand.

Suddenly, a noise of children squabbling came from outside the window, making Lin Guang frown.

In his long travels over the past twenty-some years, he had sheltered many children on the brink of starvation, raising them in the villa next to his house. He was not benevolent, he merely did it to curry favor with friends.

"So noisy!"

He threw open the window and shouted coldly downwards.

Below, a group of children playing eagle catching chicks looked up; some were almost of age, while others were just five or six years old. They were not afraid of Lin Guang but yelled instead:

"Big Brother! Come play with us!"

"Big Brother, is there chicken to eat today? I really like that flavor!"

They didn’t know what Lin Guang had done before, only that the white-haired Big Brother had taken them in, so they were not afraid of him.

"Shut up! Or I’ll kill you!" Lin Guang’s face showed a murderous aura, his fingers "snapped" ominously, a hint of bloodlust flickering in his pupils. Decades ago, he could have terrified an entire city of residents.

But these innocent children just laughed loudly, not a single one scared.

"Big Brother, you’ve threatened us so many times! You never actually do it!"

"I want to eat jam bread..."

No child was scared.

Because they didn’t know who he was, didn’t know what he had done, so they weren’t afraid.

Lin Guang took a deep breath and slammed the window shut. Ten seconds later, he gathered his things, preparing to head to the nearby abandoned city to look for usable resources.

If Lewis saw these children, he would certainly think differently of him...

Passing the first-floor hall filled with paintings, he reached out as if touching a treasure, wiping the dust from the edge of the golden frame, his fingers lingering on the brightly colored tempera paintings for a moment.

In the last twenty years, he had painted many pictures, all of which he treasured here. Every time he stood here, he felt a tranquility in his heart.

He opened the door and left the hall that resembled a palace of art.

"Vroom vroom—"

After Lin Guang left, the quiet, uninhabited ruins outside were suddenly filled with the sound of a large truck approaching. Dozens of burly mercenaries jumped down; they held firearms, stomping in thick black boots, with a very vigilant look on their faces.

"Captain, according to the detection, this should be the residence of the remnant from the City of Gods, Lin Guang." A man with a buzz cut wearing a headset said, "Lin Guang’s home was discovered by chance by Kaliel, do we really not report it to Doomsday City?"

A tall man with a scar on his face said seriously, "No need to report it, we can’t let Doomsday City snatch the benefits, we have to swallow it whole! Although we are an elite mercenary group, Lin Guang is a devil, with hands stained with blood, everyone must be cautious when we break in."

"He must have collected a lot of treasures from the City of Gods at his home, once we raid it, we’ll be making a fortune." A thin-faced man said.

"Captain!"

A young man responsible for scouting rushed over, pointing in the direction to the left: "Captain! There are a lot of kids over there!"

"What!" The captain was stunned: "Lin Guang is a devil! He’s actually daring to detain children!"

The mercenary group took precautionary measures and moved carefully towards the children’s living area.

"Quick! Get the kids out of here!" the captain ordered.

"Wait, who are you..." Lili, who was leading the children, said in confusion, "Friends of the white-haired Big Brother?"

"Little girl, we are here to rescue you," a blonde female team member crouched down, softly patted the child’s head: "Don’t be afraid anymore, you are about to be rescued from that demon, we will take you away from here..."

"He hasn’t done anything to us! He even gave us food—" a boy with a crew cut shouted loudly.

No one believed the children’s words.

Some even thought Lin Guang had brainwashed these children, because he was a demon, and demons could do anything.

They dragged the children away from this "dangerous area," holding their bodies, ignoring their struggles.

"Everyone move in and eradicate Lin Guang’s last stronghold!!" After all the children were rescued, the captain exclaimed loudly as if he was commanding an epic battle.

At his command, the team members rushed in. Lin Guang’s residence had no security system, and the few mechanics present were taken out by the team members,

After they burst through the front door, people couldn’t help but stop in their tracks, shockingly—gazing at the hall that was plastered with thousands of Acto photos and portraits.

"What a madman... Is he cursing the City Lord?" The female team member covered her heart.

"Lin Guang is probably out, we’ll set up the trap, and the moment he walks in, we’ll blow him to smithereens!" another member said.

Following one person’s cue, the group began preparing the explosive devices, and soon, the entrance, the villa’s surroundings, and the garden fountain were each rigged with powerful bombs. They found cover and waited patiently for half an hour, until Lin Guang entered the villa.

When Lin Guang pushed open the door, he didn’t sense anything amiss. In his memory, everyone kept their distance from him, no one dared to invade his residence, and moreover, the place was remote and hadn’t been approached by anyone for decades.

So it was only as he called out for the Mechanics while stepping into the hall that he noticed the sudden rise in temperature.

"..."

For a moment, the calm expression on his face shattered, and the emotions he’d spent twenty years adjusting began to plummet inexorably.

His eyes were clouded with emotions murky as sludge. It was as if his throat was being filled with mouthfuls of bitter liquor, and in this moment, there was only one emotion in his heart.

—Confusion.

"Why..." His words were just beginning when they were drowned out by a thunderous blast.

"Boom—!!!"

The deafening sound, accompanied by a burst of flames soaring sky-high, engulfed the entire hall in an instant, and the paintings caught fire, shattering like broken leaves. The building collapsed amidst the powerful explosion.

Standing amidst the swirling, fierce flames, his bandages turning towards charred black, his aura of Yuan Guang spread around him, he turned his head back.

Nearly forty years of accumulation, all the photographs, all the portraits... Lewis smiling, pondering, whispering, plain, speaking on a high platform, laughing at a dinner, playing the piano at a ceremony... This palace of memories that he had constructed stroke by stroke was annihilated in an instant.

Gone.

Everything was gone.

Between his blood-soaked limbs, he trembled and lunged for the nearest painting—it was the "First Encounter" he had drawn, depicting the villa garden in Zone Eleven, the colors vividly mapping out the intensity of the roses and the brilliant sunshine.

But now, only curls of charred black remained.

Only he himself, whom the flames couldn’t burn away, was left.

"..."

His fingertips contracted faintly.

Before him, only the encompassing blaze covering his entire field of vision remained. His face bore a mix of tears and smiles—as in this moment, he finally understood a feeling, deeper than any he’d ever experienced before.

...

—Despair.

...

...

"—If we forcefully brainwash him, it might destroy his Wisdom and memory, please provide a new strategy to the core," a voice came through.

Su Ming’an tried to force his eyelids open.

He couldn’t move his limbs, which seemed to be tied to the bed with dark straps, and a muscle relaxant had been injected.

"Is that so... For now, I’d rather not lose his Wisdom and memory." A voice came from beside him, soaked in the texture of red wine—it was a Deity speaking.

Su Ming’an tried to turn his head, but couldn’t move.

"Forcibly brainwashing him will only destroy his autonomous consciousness. I suppose, you wouldn’t want to see a walking corpse, or someone who always gives the wrong feedback and can’t perceive real Emotions. Lin Guang is proof of that," another person replied: "If you really want him to obey you, please try to break through his psychological defenses with a gentler approach first. He’s a very lonely person, you can start by befriending him in your Strategy."

"Hmm... This is more difficult than invading a World," the Deity murmured.

"..."

They seemed to continue murmuring something softly before one of them left.

Su Ming’an’s vision was blurry.

...The Deity actually wanted to reverse-Strategy him. It had always been him meticulously strategizing others.

At the moment, the progress of te4 "Shepherd of Utopia" related to the Deity had progressed to 70%. The te2 "Evil Dragon Enters Her Heart" tied to Dong An’an and Bi was at 80%.

Since te1 "Pioneer Immortality, Eternal Dawn" has always been at 99%, Perfect Passing is no longer an issue, except the Ruler’s Quest for the "Thing of Truth" remains without a clue. Su Xiaobi mentioned that the memory data of Acto was stored in the Core Area, and perhaps through it, he could gain Acto’s complete memories.

After Ninth World ended, Noel had to be taken away for Exploration, along with the disappearance of Edward...

He heard the Deity reciting poetry.

The sounds of a fireplace crackling and pages turning filled his ears, as the Deity’s voice, rich and resonant, intoned:

"He belongs to a kingdom, yet cannot dwell within;

He dwells in a kingdom, yet to it, cannot belong.

His name is Sin, like a stone rolling on the face of history.

He fled from his people,

When Darkness said, ’I am their land, I am the mystery of the land,’

How should he name a kingdom,

—No longer his, yet without which he’s nothing...?"

...

The voice’s intonation carried a profound sorrow.

Su Ming’an’s fingers twitched slightly.

"You’re awake?" The Deity’s voice paused, noticing Su Ming’an’s trembling fingertips. With a "snap" of the book closing, the Deity stood up.

"Drip."

A cold mechanical sound rang out, and the Deity seemed to operate something, prompting an electronic voice to emerge:

"—Do you choose to forcibly activate the Emotional Resonance system? Please note that under the current conditions, the subject is not suited to receive a large volume of data; rash activation risks a mental collapse."

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