Chapter 7

Chapter 7: The Wind Howled, the World Collapsed, She Called Out His Name, Xie Chenzhou

Sang Nian didn’t understand what was going on, she was about to approach them, but she was stopped by an invisible barrier after taking a few steps.

She subconsciously called out to the system.

“This dream is Xie Chenzhou’s past, it’s also the memory he’s most afraid of, the one he wants to escape from the most.”

Liu Liu said:

“You don’t have this memory, so the dream you saw before was the scene you imagined that you were most afraid of.”

The difference between the two is that every frame of this scene is real.

Sang Nian understood, “How can I get him out?”

Liu Liu: “Wait.”

She had no choice but to stand there and watch.

“Mother, I was wrong.”

On the other side of the barrier, five-year-old Xie Chenzhou raised his head, his pupils were black, and his childish face was full of fear.

He wanted to pull on his mother’s sleeve, but he didn’t dare, he begged pitifully:

“Don’t leave me.”

The woman just looked at him.

After a long time, she drew her sword, the tip of the blade rested against his throat.

Just an inch forward, and this fragile life would disappear.

Five-year-old Xie Chenzhou wiped the rain off his face and asked her in a small voice:

“Mother, are you going to kill me?”

She didn’t speak, the tip of the blade suddenly moved down, without hesitation, it pierced into his chest.

Blood gushed out instantly, quickly diluted by the rain.

Xie Chenzhou let out a short cry.

He trembled, grasping the blade, even though his fingers were covered in blood, he refused to let go, he just shook his head, repeating over and over:

“Mother, don’t leave me.”

“I’ll be good, I’ll listen to you.”

The woman kicked him hard, turned and left in a hurry.

He didn’t care about the bleeding wound, he struggled to get up and desperately hugged her leg, his voice was choked with sobs, but his tone was still cautious:

“Don’t leave me, okay?”

The woman kicked him away again, her voice was cold as ice, “If you dare chase after me again, I’ll kill you.”

Xie Chenzhou seemed not to hear, he continued to chase after her back.

He fell countless times, and countless times he crawled out of the mud, he called out “Mother” over and over again.

Finally, she said, “Wait here, mother will come back to get you after I’m done.”

Xie Chenzhou’s eyes were filled with hope, “Really?”

She touched his head and turned to leave.

She didn’t look back.

Not once.

Until her figure completely disappeared, in the endless rain, the small child lay on the ground, finally he cried.

The sound wasn’t loud, it was like a young animal whimpering.

Sang Nian gritted her teeth and shouted from the other side of the barrier, “Xie Chenzhou!”

Xie Chenzhou was oblivious, he curled up in the pool of blood and didn’t move.

Liu Liu said, “He can’t hear your voice, don’t waste your breath.”

The next moment, countless ripples appeared on the barrier, the whole world suddenly changed color.

The scene where Sang Nian was no longer that wilderness.

It was a bustling market, Xie Chenzhou was surrounded by a few children, all dressed in rags, at the entrance of a shady alley.

Xie Chenzhou didn’t die in that rain.

When he woke up, the wound in his chest had healed automatically, leaving only a faint scar.

He waited there for three days and three nights, the mother who promised to come back to get him never returned.

On the fourth day, Xie Chenzhou, who was dying, entered the city, and became a beggar who begged for a living.

But the little beggar Xie Chenzhou wasn’t welcomed by children his age.

“He’s a monster! Yesterday I saw him get beaten to death and thrown into a well, but today he’s alive again, he’s a monster!”

One child screamed.

The other children were scared.

“Hit him with stones, don’t let him come near us!”

“I’m not a monster…” Six-year-old Xie Chenzhou tried to defend himself, “I climbed up by myself, I didn’t die.”

A sharp stone grazed his forehead, leaving a gruesome gash.

Blood gushed out.

The alley suddenly became quiet.

The next moment, the wound on Xie Chenzhou’s forehead stopped bleeding, it healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was just a faint scar again.

The children screamed and pushed him away, running off.

With a muffled sound, Xie Chenzhou’s back slammed against the wall, he slid down the wall and sat on the ground.

He didn’t cry, he silently stood up, bent over and patted the dust off his clothes, he looked up at the gentle sunset in the sky.

After a while, he said softly:

“I’m not a monster.”

Xie Chenzhou began to wander around, desperately searching for the mother who abandoned him, searching for the blurry home in his memory.

He met a person while begging.

A young man dressed in fine clothes, with a gentle voice.

He touched his head, his palm was warm, he said he knew where his mother was, and he asked Xie Chenzhou to leave with him.

Xie Chenzhou left with him.

The journey was long and winding, when he came back to his senses, he was already locked in a cage.

There was never any mother to be found, it was just a lie to deceive an innocent child.

The man approached with a dagger, forcefully grabbed the innocent child’s hand, thin like a twig, and dragged him out of the cage like livestock.

Xie Chenzhou struggled desperately, the iron chains locked on his ankles clanged violently.

It was all in vain.

His fingers were cut off.

One, two, three…

Only when Xie Chenzhou fainted did the young man throw him back into the cage, he left with the severed fingers, satisfied.

Perhaps it was a month, perhaps it was a year, Xie Chenzhou’s lost fingers grew back one by one.

The pain of rebuilding bone and flesh was a hundred times more painful than the moment they were severed.

It was a long and agonizing process.

It was simply too painful.

Xie Chenzhou couldn’t sleep night after night, he tossed and turned on the ground, he sweated profusely over and over again.

On the day his body fully recovered, the young man came again.

He looked at Xie Chenzhou, his eyes burning like fire, “I was right, you truly are…”

He paused, then laughed, “From now on, your name is Undying.”

“Every inch of your flesh and blood will become a treasure that everyone will covet, in the future, countless people will regard you as a god.”

Xie Chenzhou bared his teeth like a small beast, “Get lost! My mother will come and kill you!”

It was the same dagger, this time, it cut off Xie Chenzhou’s tongue.

So, he couldn’t even scream.

The young man was still unsatisfied, he raised the knife again.

Xie Chenzhou opened his eyes wide, he covered his blood-stained mouth and kept backing away.

The young man frowned, he gently waved his sleeve.

A flash of cold light, Xie Chenzhou fell to the ground, he stared blankly at his legs scattered not far away, he realized with a strange tone.

Soon, he couldn’t see.

The young man had gouged out his eyes.

The dark and airless dungeon, the cold seeped into his bones, the small child lay in the pool of blood, he trembled, waving his mutilated arms, he kept making incoherent sounds.

The young man paced around him in circles, his white clothes were spotless.

He calmly observed the child’s reaction, occasionally lowering his head to write and draw in the small book in his hand.

Not far away, Sang Nian was trembling, she was gasping for breath.

Xie Chenzhou had just… been dismembered.

Right in front of her.

Right here.

Sang Nian’s stomach suddenly twisted into a knot, her face turned pale, she bent over and vomited, but she couldn’t spit anything out.

After a while, she staggered towards him, wanting to know what he was saying.

After a long effort, she finally pieced together three words from the broken and strange sounds.

He was saying“Save me.” “…”

Sang Nian squatted down and buried her face in her arms.

Every day after that, she hoped that someone would come to save Xie Chenzhou.

But no one did.

He was dismembered again and again, he repaired his body again and again, he prayed in the cold night again and again that someone would come to save him.

Anyone would do.

The speed of his self-healing became faster and faster, later, he could grow new legs in just three days.

This went on for seven years.

The small Xie Chenzhou grew into a young man.

A pale, silent, and skinny fourteen-year-old.

He no longer prayed to the wall, he no longer cried in pain, his expression was often numb, without a hint of fluctuation.

The distance between the barrier and him was gradually shrinking, Sang Nian had a feeling that the day she reached him completely, would be the day the dream ended.

The young man also became a man.

He was no longer satisfied with dismembering Xie Chenzhou’s limbs, his gaze began to fall on other places.

“Undying, your flesh and blood can save countless people,” he said, his voice was still gentle, “So, bear with it a little longer.”

The blade pressed against Xie Chenzhou’s chest, it slowly pierced in.

Xie Chenzhou’s pupils were black, his long eyelashes were quietly drooping, there was no light in his eyes.

A few steps away, Sang Nian desperately pounded on the barrier:

“Let me through! Let me through!!”

“Bang——!!!”

The moment the tip of the blade pierced in, a crisp sound came from the void, the barrier cracked like a spider web, countless fragments turned into spots of light.

Sang Nian shouted, “Xie Chenzhou!!!”

Not Undying, but Xie Chenzhou.

The young man blinked sluggishly, he raised his face inch by inch.

Starlight tore through the darkness.

In the dazzling and blinding light, a girl descended from the sky, she stretched out her hand towards him.

The wind howled, the world collapsed, she called out his name loudly:

“Xie Chenzhou!”

“I’ll take you away!”

“I’ve come to save you!”

She said.

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【Ding~ Xie Chenzhou’s favorability increased by 130000000——Warning! Xie Chenzhou’s favorability has exceeded the limit! System malfunction troubleshooting…】

【System is functioning normally】