AWITTGABAGIWOBAFOAP Chapter 56
by VolareChapter 56: Ningwan…I missed you so much! Punish me severely…
Why…
No one could answer Siren’s question. The tragic ending was predestined, like a Möbius strip, unable to escape the dead end.
“King…I’m sorry…I’m willing to offer the Mermaid Pearl to your beloved…” The mermaid princess regretted it deeply, only able to apologize helplessly. She wanted the King to live, even if he was full of hatred for the world, even if she had to atone for her mistakes, it didn’t matter.
Please let the King live, because Landis must be immortal.
This was Siren’s responsibility…
The silvery-white fishtail shimmered with tiny, sparkling light in the water. Siren was silent, swam over, and bent down to hug Hydra. The body, so light it was only a skeleton, weighed heavily on his heart, making it difficult to move.
Siren shed the tenderness in his eyes and didn’t look at any of the fish. He just slowly swam towards the altar, his thick fishtail sweeping across the surrounding rock walls.
With a bang! The rocks shattered, and the King’s silent anger spread through the air.
The surrounding merfolk wore greedy expressions, but also feared Siren’s power, hiding and revealing bright pupils, grinding their teeth.
The mermaid princess seemed to understand Siren’s intention, lowered her eyes, looked at the bone spurs in her hand, and stabbed them into her chest without mercy. She announced loudly, “I will end my life to atone for my sins. I don’t ask for your forgiveness, I only wish Landis immortality!!!” Her tragic words echoed in Landis, as the waves surged and carried her away from the surface.
Siren didn’t linger, as if nothing that happened was enough to stir even half an emotion.
After the mermaid princess died, the scene was a chaotic mess. Song Ningwan was powerless to stop it all and could only follow.
He didn’t know what Siren wanted to do.
He watched the King pass through a field of red coral, swaying in the sea breeze. His fishtail stopped on the intricate patterns of the altar, and he squatted down, his expression exceptionally calm.
Hydra was encircled in Siren’s fishtail embrace, and he lowered his head from time to time to plant a kiss.
“Hydra, didn’t you used to love my tail the most? Why aren’t you talking?” Siren deliberately stroked Hydra’s body with the tip of his tail, knowing that there would be no response.
“It’s okay to close your eyes, my dear.” Siren kissed Hydra, his eyes filled with reluctance, as if experiencing a life-and-death parting.
He looked down at his white fishtail and unhesitatingly pulled off a King Scale from his abdomen. In an instant, pain swept through his body. Siren endured the trembling and continued to pull off the second scale.
As the scales fell and piled up into a small hill, the beautiful silvery-white fishtail was now bald. Siren didn’t move throughout the entire process. Even though the pain was so intense that he lost sensation, he shook his head and whispered, “I’ll share the pain with you…Hydra, hug me.”
As expected, he received no response. Siren continued to replicate the “ritual” that the tribe had performed on Hydra, experiencing the pain his lover had felt.
When his beautiful fishtail became ugly after losing its scales, Siren covered his lover’s eyes and kissed him to soothe him, “Accept the curse and be granted new life.”
“My Hydra, be resurrected.”
The sacrificial cave was collapsing and shaking non-stop. The King and his lover were one dead and one mad. Landis was destroyed from then on.
!
So, the wounds and broken fishtail on Siren’s body were all self-inflicted.
Song Ningwan reached out helplessly, but could only watch as the rubble buried everything. Space fragments shattered, and as the force pressed on his shoulders, becoming heavier and heavier, his blurred consciousness gradually cleared.
“Li Ming!” Iris’s panicked voice echoed in his ears. Song Ningwan was stunned. Before he could recover, he was pulled by the wrist and rushed out of the altar.
On the altar behind them, Siren was still not in his right mind, frantically crashing into the walls.
Song Ningwan didn’t have time to think too much and could only let Iris lead him away. Behind them, a large area of boulders collapsed, completely burying the altar, burying ten thousand years of verdant youth and unwilling resentment.
Regrets, grief, and remorse would never see the light of day.
Siren and Hydra both died. From then on, Landis was completely destroyed.
The tunnel was dark and deep. Song Ningwan was pulled along, running aimlessly, but in reality, his mind was already wandering.
Was it over?
So, the reason Hydra chose to die was to free Siren, because he knew that Siren would definitely commit suicide out of love, even if the King was not in his right mind.
This tunnel was endless. Iris let go of Song Ningwan’s hand and let him run on his own. After relying on her senses to find Pulan, she stopped.
“Lan, can’t we get out?”
Pulan nodded. “We can’t go any further. The illusion is broken, and the waters outside the tunnel are full of fish-person contaminants.” In the darkness, the girl’s voice sounded weak and hoarse.
Iris didn’t give up. She roughly treated some of the wounds, injected medicine into Pulan, and pondered, “Coming to the surface this time, not only didn’t we get the Mermaid Pearl, but we’re also trapped. But, every cloud has a silver lining.”
Every time Pulan’s vital signs dropped, she had to inject medicine. Song Ningwan was a little puzzled, “What kind of medicine?”
Hearing Song Ningwan’s question, Iris didn’t look up, pulled out the needle, bandaged the wound to stop the bleeding, and jokingly said, “This is classified. If you want to know, it’ll cost you extra.”
Just after the injection, Pulan felt dizzy and couldn’t stand still. She leaned against the wall and squatted down, closing her eyes to recover for a while. At this time, she spoke up, “I can’t leave here. Support probably won’t come. Leave me here, you guys go.” Her expression was hidden in the shadows, obscure and unclear.
Iris was stunned, her face filled with surprise and disbelief, “Lan, you…”
“We’ll go to the main city area. There must be a way to cure you. Look, everyone says Landis is fake, but it really exists. Lan, don’t give up easily.” Iris said seriously, accurately finding the girl in the darkness, gently lifting the bangs that covered her eyes, her movements gentle. “You don’t need to put on your armor in front of me. You’ve never been a burden.”
Pulan didn’t speak.
After comforting Pulan, Iris remembered that Song Ningwan had been acting strangely all along and planned to test him, “Your companion is a contaminant. Didn’t you notice at all?”
That was for sure, otherwise why would Song Ningwan have let Xie Xiaoyu stay behind alone.
No wonder he always fell into illusions on 001. It turned out that Hydra was responsible, after all, he was hiding Siren’s Mermaid Pearl.
As for why Hydra was hiding in the research institute’s team, it was unknown.
Wait…
Song Ningwan seemed to have overlooked a problem all along, and that was Ka’lier.
Why was he so certain that Ka’lier was dead and needed the Mermaid Pearl to reshape his body?
These were all illusions created by Hydra, as well as 001 actively proposing the plan.
After Song Ningwan died, only Ka’lier had the opportunity to contact 001, so naturally, he could tamper with things.
And combined with what Hydra said, it would have been nice if Song Ningwan could have picked him up…
Even though the two had never met.
This meant that Ka’lier and Hydra had known each other for a long time. They most likely reached some kind of deal.
Thinking of this, Song Ningwan subconsciously took out the metal heart in his pocket and ran his fingertips across the surface of the metal pattern, feeling the unevenness.
That’s not right.
This wasn’t a first-generation metal heart. Song Ningwan’s mental state was explosive at the time, so of course he didn’t notice the details.
So it was all fake from the beginning. Ka’lier was lying to him again, setting up illusions to expose the inner trauma of his childhood experience, making Song Ningwan sensitive and lonely.
Then Ka’lier appeared and gently confessed his love. The wary Song Ningwan accidentally killed his lover, and he would subconsciously feel guilty, doubt himself, and even fall in love with Ka’lier.
He really was a little liar. He not only schemed Song Ningwan’s feelings, but also PUA’d Hydra, saying that Siren was a scumbag, thus causing this tragedy to happen.
At the same time, he destroyed Landis’s source of contamination, his heart chillingly terrifying.
He almost fell for it.
Others might not understand why Song Ningwan was so hard-hearted and could kill his lover without changing his expression, but only he himself understood that Ka’lier’s program had been infiltrated by a dangerous virus. He was a pervert, a madman, who could disguise himself, was disobedient, and would use any means to achieve his goals.
You can never see through the true heart of a cold machine.
Ka’lier, what exactly do you want to do?
“Li Ming, do you have any clues?” Even though Iris knew Song Ningwan’s name, she wouldn’t expose it, because everyone has secrets.
“No.” Whether it was an illusion or not, a familiar mental force quietly wrapped around him, tightly entangling Song Ningwan’s brain, unwilling to leave.
Just as the three of them were at a loss, the light of day illuminated the tunnel, and the sound of roaring engines filled the sky.
Song Ningwan looked up and saw a giant mech breaking through the sea surface and landing, crushing the tunnel and emitting a silvery light that illuminated the seabed.
Except for Song Ningwan, everyone else was shocked. It was an unspeakable earth-shattering event–001 had arrived.
“How is this possible?” Iris exclaimed. It was like a magnificent dream, a Etherealcloud, but it was real and vast.
Even Pulan, who usually didn’t show her emotions, widened her eyes at this moment.
Song Ningwan released his mental power to take over the control of 001, but it was sucked away by another force, unable to escape.
As the giant mech crashed down, stirring up dust, a tall figure appeared after the mechanical door opened.
At this moment, two powerful mental forces converged and instantly spread out, enveloping the entire Landis.
Thousands of fish people began to wither and fall into the seabed. The source of contamination was successfully purified. The swamp of death gradually solidified, and wisps of black air receded from the sea surface. The heavy black clouds dispersed, and the sea surface instantly became turbulent, stirring up thousands of piles of snow.
Landis saw the light of day again.
Song Ningwan waved his hand to disperse the dust. Suddenly, his waist tightened, and he was strangled around the neck. A wet, hot temperature came from the corner of his mouth.
“You…” Just as he was about to make a sound, Song Ningwan realized that his throat was dry and filled with a fishy sweetness, so he coughed.
“Ningwan, I missed you so much, so much…” Ka’lier bit Song Ningwan’s lip, then leaned over and licked the droplets of blood, the fishy taste spreading on the tip of his tongue, sweet and addictive.
Ka’lier didn’t seem to think it was enough. He wanted Ningwan to treat him roughly, to have those wide palms caress his lower back, making him tremble. This kind of physiological stimulation struck his heart directly.
If he was held by the legs and punished severely…
“Ningwan…” Ka’lier blushed, kissed him affectionately, but was slapped away, a burning pain on his face.
Hearing Ka’lier’s excited voice, Song Ningwan had a splitting headache. It really was a long-awaited reunion, you little bastard.