The corrugated ball exploded in midair.

From the moment Ye de felt his chest loose and was blown out by the blast to the moment he really fell to the ground, it seemed that there was only a moment, and the time was so short that he couldn't see what happened; It seemed as long as tens of hours. When he landed, he began to doubt himself under the impact of various ideas in his mind.

I didn't do a stupid thing, did I? Ye de got up from the ground, spit out the blood in his mouth, and looked back.

The next second, he ran towards the wall like he was dead.

... he can hardly see the open space.

Just like the severed arm of the middle-aged woman, the limbs that lose connection with the mutant will not proliferate; From the other half of the arm connected to Enron, it was frantically tearing and spraying out layers after layers, groups of arms.

The dense, layer upon layer, surging and swinging arms and hands covered most of the platform in the blink of an eye - as if enraged by the explosion, they were still splashing and spreading endlessly, both in speed and quantity, far more than when a middle-aged woman's arm was simply cut off.

In Ye De's plan, he should run to the wall as soon as he lands, and try to leave this platform before the spreading arm touches him - he doesn't want to die with the mutant.

He is indeed doing so now, but the open space between him and the city wall is being swallowed up by the turbulent mutant limbs around, like a small piece of reef rock standing in the sea at high tide, which will sink and disappear at any time.

Standing in front of the city wall, Enron seemed to see a comedy, and he laughed out of breath: "what are you doing? I'm afraid you don't die fast enough, and there aren't enough tricks to die? You struggled for a long time, just for this?"

When ye de couldn't answer a word and could only fight with the mutant body for speed, he said, "look at you like a headless fly, I don't have the heart to let you die, because I really want to know what you want to do with this. Your little bomb can only explode more me, can you -"

When his voice suddenly stopped, ye De's feet shook at the same time.

Just like the earth suddenly decided not to catch his footsteps, it gently retreated, letting Yede's next step step into the air. The rumbling dull sound woke up from his feet. When he fell to the ground, he clearly felt that the ground under him seemed to be finally stretched out, and moved out in the tremor.

His goal has been achieved - but unlike the plan, he hasn't had time to escape.

"What, what's going on?" Enron was surprised, and also responded, "has the earth platform collapsed?"

In just a few words, the whole earth table was completely disintegrated. At that moment, Yede's vision was completely blurred by the flying dust, a large number of arms thrown into the sky, and the sense of weightlessness; When he fell, he happened to see a clear scene, which was a large number of arms pouring down from the cracked earth platform like a waterfall - and Enron falling down together by them.

Yes, the earth platform collapsed, ye de thought with satisfaction.

The airflow when the corrugated ball exploded in midair only shook the earth platform at most; What really made it collapse was the endless arms that burst out of Enron - more accurately, the weight of the arms.

It seems that even the mutant has forgotten that his mutated limbs also have weight. This platform once collapsed because it couldn't support half a house. How can it support the mutated limbs like mountains and seas?

Enron now has only one arm with a large number of limbs bursting out. Even if he hurriedly stretches his other arm to grasp the wall on his head, no part he grabs can bear this weight - this is the reason why Ye de deliberately wants to blow up one arm of him: what he sees is the uncontrolled limb weight of the mutant after its rapid proliferation.

He wanted to turn the limbs of Enron into a weight that the latter could not resist, fall all the way into the void under the platform and into the haze layer under the void, and finally let the earth under the haze layer devour him.

Ye de just didn't expect to fall down with him now.

But maybe it's better.

The scream of Enron even pierced the dull sound of the collapse of the earth platform; Between the earth, dust and air, and in the sense of weightlessness of falling, ye de found that the large mass of flesh colored limbs below, which were as turbulent and twisted as a snake mountain, were rapidly reducing and shrinking - the other arm of the mutant was also rapidly lengthening upward, extending to the wall farther and farther away from them at the moment.

This guy reacted very quickly, and immediately knew to put away the mutant limbs.

In other words, has my heart stopped, ye de thought. He had never experienced this level of fear in his life, but strangely, he had never experienced this kind of silence in his life.

For example, now, he can feel his hand grabbing another corrugated ball, and his action is calm and comfortable, as if he is still standing on the ground; Ye de aimed at the lower group of arms that had not been completely folded, and threw them out again.

"I fuck you -" Enron screamed and scolded, and was quickly drowned by the explosion.

Ye de seemed to hear himself chuckle - but it could also be his illusion in the rapid decline.

After the explosion, everything returned to the state it was a second or two ago: as long as the limb of the mutant was broken, it would burst out involuntarily, and as long as it burst, Enron would fall involuntarily by the weight. He folded his limbs far faster than ye de threw the ripple ball. Besides, ye de didn't intend to give him another chance - he kept on, and the ripple ball fell on the big snake like arm one after another.

It's just that he has no chance to see the effect of corrugated ball again.

Even falling from such a high cliff is only a blink of an eye.

In a trance, ye de felt that someone suddenly grabbed his arm, propped him up and let him sit down. This strength was firm and gentle, as if he was afraid that if he caught it too hard, it would leave bruises on him - he turned his head and saw the familiar and bright eyes again.

"Yejing," he heard himself cry.

He is already an old adult. Just like this, he brings a grievance cry.

"Sit down," Ye Jing treated him now as if he were still treating him when he was four years old. He put his hand under his arm and let him sit down against the soft quilt. She looked at Ye De's face carefully for a while, gently stroked her hair behind his head, and then sat back, smiling and asking, "how old are you this year?"

"Thirty four." He also swallowed grievances like a child.

Ye de did not understand why he could only sit against the quilt. He hoped to climb over and climb back into Yejing's arm. Even if he heard her complain that "the child is hot to death", he could slowly fall asleep - but Yejing sat half a meter away from him, always separated by a section, so that he couldn't touch her.

Ye Jing nodded. "It's all adults. It's been so many years... So you survived well at the beginning?"

His voice seemed to be blocked by this question.

For so many years, ye de never dared to recall what happened after that day - he squatted next to Ye Jing's chair and quietly asked her if she still wanted to evolve.

He wanted to go back to the afternoon before taking out the haze water, lean on her lap and quietly spend more time with her in the sun. He thought that for various reasons, he couldn't spend so many afternoons with her in the sun, and he couldn't do it again.

"Sorry..." he whispered, "I regret it very much. But I don't regret it either. If time goes back, I can do it again, I will still collect haze water, and I will still give it to you and ask you if you want to evolve. I just hope to return your life to you."

"I know," Yejing looked at him as before, smiled and said, "I know everything. I'm very happy."

She paused and tilted her head. When she was looking for the next sentence, time filled her skin again. "I never thought I would spend my life in this way, and I never thought I would get this kind of return... I'm very satisfied."

"No... it's my fault." Ye de said again. He extended his hand to her, but Yejing did not move, as if he had no intention of holding his hand. "I don't know... I don't know that in the process of collection, I have long been infected."

Yejing still looked at him very softly.

"If I can do it again, I will go far."

Ye de thought he would want to cry, but maybe it was because everything came to an end. He finally met Ye Jing again, and there was nothing to cry about. He just murmured and recalled, "I have imagined many times in my mind that after giving you the haze water, I will leave Fanjia city immediately. Unless you succeed in evolution, I will never come back. In this way, you will never know that I am infected

"In fact, I'm not afraid of being infected. I'm an ordinary person with no potential value, which can't withstand the haze, so I won't evolve, nor become a degenerate species, but I'll get sick and die normally. So many people will die in a day, and it's nothing more than me." He looked at his fingers and said, "how did you find out that I was ill? I didn't even realize it... I thought it was just that I was too tired at work those days."

"I raised you a little bit," Yejing said with a smile, "how can I not see it?"

"But I'm not afraid," he said like arguing, "my wish is to let you evolve and let you really live for yourself once. You gave me my life, and I'm willing to do something for you with it."

"I didn't expect that in the end, I didn't do anything for you," he continued with a wry smile. "And in the life you gave me, you gave me your potential value. All this is just... To let me live such an ordinary child."

Yejing, like many years ago, turns his eyes when he hears something he doesn't like to hear.

"I don't even know what you did, how many difficulties you survived, where you found a new doomsday factor, and finally delivered your potential value to me." When ye de spoke, he hoped to hold her hand, but ye Jing did not move. "I can only lie in bed and let you run around in a daze, waiting for you to save... If I knew at that time, the price you saved me was your potential value, and the price you lost your potential value was..."

"That's all in the past." Yejing interrupted him and said softly, "now? Do you have any satisfaction and regret now?"

Ye de thought carefully.

"I saved Anna," he said, suddenly proud as a child. "She's safe. You must be happy to know."

Ye Jing laughed. "I'm very happy."

"When I think of the middle-aged people I saw in the city, I may have drunk with you; the old people I saw may have given you food before... The most important thing is that those children you raised grow up and have children again. Any young people I see may have started from you, because you live and breathe..." Ye de looked at her, He said, "I know they are not related to you by blood, but it's strange. It feels like you are still there, and your life continues with their continuation. I try my best to protect them, and I really try my best.

"As for regret... I'm sorry for Lin Sanjiu. I promised her that I would send the missing message for her afterwards, but I seem to be going back on my promise. The person she can't find seems to be very important to her... This is my regret."

"Really?" Ye Jingwei tilted his head and asked, "are you really going to break your promise soon?"

Ye de didn't quite understand her meaning, but looked at her blankly.

"Think again." Ye Jing pointed to his hands and said, "you've always been so stubborn that you walk to the dark. When I think you're about to hit the south wall, you can find a way to escape at the last minute."

I don't know when it began. His hands became red and white, and his veins were convex. It seemed that he was trying hard.

"No," Ye de jumped, looked up and said, "you - I want to stay -"

"When you really arrive that day, I will wait for you here," Yejing said with a smile, "I promise I won't go far."

This chapter will eventually be longer than I expected