1325 Awakening

The two looked at each other under the pale lights of the laboratory.

Suddenly, Xia Yingluo asked, "Can you promise me one thing?"

Wei Lingnan's voice was a bit weak. "What's the matter?"

Xia Yingluo was slightly disappointed. He didn't promise immediately but asked what it was. But how could she demand so much of him? The man was so cruel to her, it was good he didn't refuse without asking. She suppressed the disappointment in her heart and said quietly, "Don't make things difficult for my family after I die."

Wei Lingnan's answer was rigorous. "If they don't find trouble with Ah Luo."

She should have known. Xia Yingluo felt cold in her heart, how could her family not find trouble with Gu Jinxiu? Presumably, Wei Lingnan also knew, once she was in trouble, the anger of the Li and Xia families would be directed at Gu Jinxiu. "Then can you promise me not to harm their lives?"

Wei Lingnan was silent for a moment, and he still said, "On the condition that they won't threaten Ah Luo's life." This was the limit that he could agree with. If it were an ordinary person, he would kill them if they dared to so much as touch a strand of Ah Luo's hair. He was only able to tolerate Xia Yingluo.

But Xia Yingluo was obviously disappointed with this answer.

"Yes." She smiled at herself. "What else could I ask for from a beast like you?" They obviously wanted to kill her first, but didn't allow her family to fight back for revenge? Xia Yingluo looked at Wei Lingnan. The man in front of her was so strange and chilling. "If…" She looked at Wei Lingnan's eyes and said slowly, "I said Gu Jinxiu was pretending, would you believe me?" Would he let her go?

This time, Wei Lingnan turned and walked outside. "Have a good rest."

He didn't believe it.

Or, in other words, it wasn't important whether he believed it or not. He just wanted her to die anyway.

Xia Yingluo's heart was cold and painful as if a large piece of ice was pressing the softest part of her heart.

"Wei Lingnan," she said, looking at his long and elegant back, and whispered her last request. "Erase my memory about you and let me die cleanly."

The man's footsteps paused, then he left without looking back.

The laboratory door was closed again and Xia Yingluo curled up on the ground, with a mocking smile still on her face. But there was faint sheen in the corners of her beautiful eyes. Behind the huge transparent glass wall, researchers outside the laboratory pointed at her, but she didn't want to bother with them. As time passed, she maintained the same posture and remained motionless. Nutrition was injected into her blood, and the burning sensation became more and more intense, making her suspect that she was in purgatory.

She was in a daze and didn't know if she was awake or asleep.

As if it was a long dream, she dreamt of the dark purple mysterious Skatana Planet. And unlike many previous dreams, this time it was clearer and more immersive.

She dreamt that she was born on a huge tree, and the day when she and her fellow sisters broke through the white fruits, all the people of the Skatana Planet were flared up and fell to the ground, calling them princesses in awe. She was the thinnest of them and was squeezed to the corner by her sisters. She stumbled and started an unknown life.

She accepted her guardian, Nan, who was dripping blood on the barren land.

This guardian, who was just as weak as her, accompanied her. They grew up together, he protected her, fought for her, and they died together…

Until later, his stare at her was no longer so simple.

It wasn't the respectful look a guardian should look at a princess, but a man looking at a woman.

She knew Nan's heart very well. Nan wanted her, wanted to breed a new World Tree with her and become her husband. But this was impossible. He was a guardian, and from the oldest law on the planet, it was strictly stipulated that he was not qualified to own a queen. Just based on her mind—

She was reluctant.

She couldn't bear to let him be a husband.

Skatana's marriage system was very strange. Only the Queen could have a husband, and that person was not so much a husband as he was food. After experiencing life and death duels, the strongest who was fortunate to be the queen's husband was only qualified to spend one night with the queen. After this one night, the queen would eat him directly and tear his flesh and blood with her teeth. Every inch of the food was eaten cleanly, and no bones were left. Then, she would give birth to a new World Tree, planted in their newly-married place. It would blossom for 100 years, bear fruit for 100 years, and after another 100 years, a new tribe would be born from the fruit. This was the heritage of the civilization of the Skatana Planet.

She was reluctant to turn Nan into the nutrient of the World Tree.

She didn't know how to deal with the day she lost Nan and panicked even at the thought of it.

For a time, she had felt that the planet was unfair to her and gave Nan such a perfect identity—a guardian, who did not have to participate in the mate selection competition. But she didn't expect Nan to be so attached to her that even the people on the planet rumored that he was in love with his Queen?

According to the law, his body would be discarded in the black hole of the universe and never return for having such thoughts beyond him.

She deliberately gave Nan the cold shoulder and alienated him. She didn't want to give him a chance to think wildly.

She thought that this was the best protection for him.

But who knew that he was so persistent and launched that rebellion…

The thought of the rebellion made her close her eyes painfully as if she was looking at that day again. Nan had killed everyone and rushed to her throne. He was bathed in blood, and looked down at her with imperative in his eyes. "Ah Luo, you are mine."

She was horrified by his actions.

Not only was she shocked, she was also angry.

In order to obtain an identity that didn't belong to him, he turned against everyone! They were all outstanding warriors of the Skatana Planet!

"I won't be with you even if I die." She remembered it was her answer at the time.

Yes, she hated him, hated him for ruining everything. More importantly, she felt that she was a sinner on the planet. Instead of protecting her people, the queen had brought them unprecedented disaster. She felt so guilty that the energy in her body exploded to death. At the last moment of her life, she saw Nan's discolored face and heard a heartbreaking "Ah Luo—!"

It held a great energy resonance.

Even the World Tree resonated, and the high-frequency resonance detonated the entire planet, making a loud noise—

The entire Skatana Planet no longer existed.

Silence.

Deadly silence.

Xia Yingluo didn't know how long she was unconscious for. When she woke up again, there was no one outside the laboratory's transparent glass wall.