Wasteland Love Game

Chapter 282 276

As the protection measures of the nuclear reactor were lifted, the holy land was instantly submerged by radiation heat waves, and Chu Jianlai, who was deep in the holy land, was naturally not immune.

Facing the sudden radiant heat wave, Chu Jianlai had no time to escape, and was engulfed by the raging fire in an instant.

"boom--!"

His body was melted over and over again by the radiant heat waves pouring out, and healed and reorganized over and over again. The easy word "burning pain" could no longer be used to describe his feeling at this time.He opened his eyes suddenly, trying to look at the surrounding situation, but the eyes were burned into two black holes the moment they opened.

Chu Jianlai couldn't even growl, because once he opened his mouth, hot flames would pour into his throat and burn his vocal cords.

This was the first time he had endured such desperate pain since he gained immortality.He has nowhere to escape, but to be burned and reborn again and again in the fire.

"What the hell is going on, why didn't the planner tell me?" Chu Jianlai thought with his burnt brain that grew back:
"The momentum of the flames should rush out of the Holy Land. Are they still waiting for me outside?"

But he couldn't know the answers to these questions, and he couldn't think about them.Under the unimaginable pain of purgatory, even as an undead man, he couldn't bear it at all, and his consciousness was gradually dissipating.

When Chu Jianlai regained consciousness and opened his eyes, he found that the surrounding environment was completely different from before.At this time, he was no longer in the burning holy place, but in the courtyard of a certain rich family.

The construction style of the courtyard belongs to the type of classical fragrance.It is surrounded by blue tiles and brick walls, and green bamboos are planted in the courtyard.As soon as the wind blows, you can hear the sound of bamboo leaves shaking, which sounds ethereal and refreshing.

"I'm here. Why is it here?!" Chu Jianlai's eyes widened immediately, and he couldn't help but gasped.

Chu Jianlai looked at the beautiful and dignified scenery around him in disbelief, this courtyard was all too familiar to him.Every detail here is still vivid in his mind, and everything seems to have returned to ten years ago.

"Chu Family. Is this the Chu Family?!" Chu Jianlai's voice became trembling, and the ruthless face rarely showed obvious confusion.

At this time, the Chu family is still a scene full of human fireworks.The setting sun was about to set, and many servants were busy around. Smoke was coming from the kitchen not far away, and there was a comfortable atmosphere around.

Looking at the lively scene in front of him, Chu Jianlai realized that something was wrong.He quickly patted his cheek with his fingers, trying to calm himself down.

Soon, Chu Jianlai sorted out his thoughts, took a deep breath and said, "It should be an illusion again."

Chu Jianlai shook his head helplessly, then stretched out two fingers, ready to poke his eyes blind.

This is a common method he uses to break the illusion.Whether it is the temporary loss of vision or the severe pain caused by the broken eyes, he can quickly wake up from the hallucination and regain his sanity.

But at the moment when Chu Jianlai stretched his fingers to his eyes, he suddenly stopped.

He knew that once he sank into the illusion, he would never regain his sobriety.

However, compared to the purgatory scene in the real world, he still wanted to stay in the illusion for a while.

"Just stay for a while, take a look around before leaving." Chu Jianlai sighed softly, and walked in the courtyard of his own house.

Along the way, everyone around was doing their own work, and no one greeted Chu Jianlai on his own initiative.

But this also made him feel a little relieved. After all, thinking that these people were already dead, Chu Jianlai had no intention of talking to them.

In the past ten years, he has always imagined that he can return to his original home.He misses his venerable father, his considerate mother, his elder brother who takes care of his children, his lovely and lively younger sister, and the residents of Gusu Town who love them so much.

But he was horrified to find that no matter how hard he tried to recall the touch of "home", that touch and memory was always drifting away from him, and he even began to gradually forget the original appearance of "home".

Even when he was in a daze and hallucination, he would only see the ruined Chu family before his eyes.All the people he feels familiar with, even the relatives he cares about the most, will only appear in the form of a disfigured ghost, urging him to seek endless revenge.

The hallucinations day after day not only failed to comfort Chu Jianlai, but instead plunged him into greater grief and self-blame.

But for some reason, this hallucination brought him back to the time when the Chu family was not yet destroyed, and it was also the real "home" in his impression.

Chu Jianlai walked around.Looking at the familiar and safe home, he felt his eye sockets become a little wet.

However, Chu Jianlai understood that all of this was false, and he could not stay in the illusion for a long time after all.

"Let's leave it alone, sorry." Chu Jianlai apologized to someone, and then stretched out two fingers, trying to poke his own eyes.

At this moment, a girl's voice suddenly stopped him:
"Master? Oh, master, I found you! How did you get here!"

Chu Jianlai subconsciously stopped his self-harm, and turned his head to look at the source of the sound.

It was a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl who spoke to him.The girl was wearing the uniform of a servant of the Chu family, with two braids, and looked quite anxious.

Chu Jianlai remembered this girl.Her name is Lian Yuan, and she is a maid hired by the Chu family.Since she and Chu Jianlai are about the same age, the relationship between the two is relatively familiar.

But Chu Jianlai also remembered at the same time that this girl Lian Yuan was hacked to death with a hot knife in the end, her limbs were chopped off and her blood splashed all over the ground.

Even though I know it's hallucination, there's something subtle about having a conversation with a dead old acquaintance.

But Chu Jianlai still asked curiously: "You are in such a hurry, what's the matter?"

"Master, why did you come here so well? The whole clan is looking for you!" The maid named Lian Yuan ran to Chu Jianlai and said.

"Looking for me? Why?" Chu Jianlai subconsciously took a step back and asked with a serious expression.

Seeing Chu Jianlai's reaction, Lian Yuan was immediately amused, and joked, "Master, why do you put on such a dead face? Today is your day of great joy, you should be happy!"

"Overjoyed? Me?" Chu Jianlai raised his brows slightly and asked, pointing at himself.

"Yes, master!" Lian Yuan nodded her head like a pecking rice, with a bright smile:
"From today onwards, you are the head of the Chu family! Everyone has prepared the banquet, isn't this looking for you?"

"What!" Chu Jianlai stared in astonishment, his Adam's apple wriggled slightly:

"No, it's impossible. Why did my father pass on the position of Patriarch to me? At least I have to wait another five or ten years!"

But Lianyuan ignored Chu Jianlai's question, but said with a slight smile, "But... the only one left in the Chu family, young master, you survived~"

Her tone of voice was very natural, as if she was telling her young master, "Tonight I will eat braised pork with scallion noodles".

Hearing this, Chu Jianlai suddenly felt the pain of his head being struck by the five-layered lightning, his head buzzed continuously, and his vision gradually became blurred.

He wanted to continue to question, but the surrounding scene was distorted and changed in an instant.

Chu Jianlai suddenly found himself in the chair of a certain banquet hall, which was crowded with hundreds of people.

Each of them is dressed differently, but Chu Jianlai will never forget everyone in this life.They are all compatriots of the Chu family, the lonely souls who died in the Chu family massacre case.

However, the expressions of these people were all filled with joy, as if they were holding some kind of celebration.

"Why is my dear brother so depressed?" A young man's voice suddenly came from beside him.

Chu Jianlai subconsciously turned his head to look, but found a Taoist robed man with sword eyebrows and star eyes standing beside him with a sword hanging from his waist.

"Brother, why are you here?" Chu Jianlai asked tremblingly.

"My dear brother will be the head of the family. As the elder brother, I will definitely come back from the Taoist sect to see you!" The man in the Taoist robe smiled and patted Chu Jianlai on the shoulder, but Chu Jianlai felt that his palms had no warmth, and he was incomparably warm. cold.

Before recovering from the feeling of discomfort, Chu Jianlai felt someone gently tugging at the corner of his clothes, and asked coquettishly:

"Brother, after you become the head of the family, can you buy me delicious food every day?"

Chu Jianlai looked down, and found that his sister had also appeared beside him, looking up at him with big watery eyes.

"I..." I don't know why, but Chu Jianlai felt even more heartbroken.He subconsciously avoided his sister's sight and whispered, "I see."

Just when he fell into a complicated and confused state of mind, thinking about whether to dispel the illusion quickly, a middle-aged couple appeared in his sight.

At this moment, Chu Jianlai couldn't help wriggling his Adam's apple, and said: "Father, mother!"

That middle-aged couple was the current head and wife of the Chu family, and they were also Chu Jianlai's parents.

"Stop pestering Jianlai, let him prepare well!" Chu Jianlai's father told his children.

Chu Jianlai's mother walked to his side, and said softly:

"Jianlai, after you become the Patriarch, you can talk to us about any difficulties you have. Don't tire yourself out by going all the way to the end."

Chu Jianlai was silent, he didn't know how to answer.

He was very relieved to be able to see his family again, even in a vision of nothingness.But his heart kept aching, as if being pinched hard.

Chu Jianlai's father suddenly turned around and shouted to the guests in the audience:
"The time has come! I hereby announce that Chu Jianlai will become the new Patriarch of the Chu family! Today's young people are really better than blue. We, the older generation, should also retreat behind the scenes and hand over the stage to young people." Already! Hahaha!"

His father's hearty laughter immediately aroused the response of all the guests in the audience.They looked at Chu Jianlai and shouted in unison:

"Congratulations to Chu Jianlai for becoming the Patriarch of the Chu family, and may the Chu family flourish and rise steadily!"

The cheers of the crowd were like thunder, and Chu Jianlai subconsciously leaned back, feeling a little uncomfortable.

Immediately, his father stepped forward and patted Chu Jianlai on the shoulder, and said to him with a smile on his face: "Since you are already the head of the Chu family, then do what you should do as the head of the family!"

"What should the head of the family do?" Chu Jianlai looked confused, and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Avenge for us, for the people of Gusu Town!"

Chu Jianlai's parents, brother and sister walked up to him and said in unison.

Hearing this, Chu Jianlai's heart sank, and he shivered immediately, sending chills down his back.

Chu Jianlai felt a blur in front of his eyes, as if his vision was covered by a bloody curtain.He rubbed his eyes vigorously, only to find that the surroundings had already changed. The originally lively banquet had turned into ruins and raging flames.

At some point, everyone in the Chu family, including his parents and elder brother, turned pale and covered in blood.Some of them lost their heads, some had gun holes all over their bodies, and some had their limbs chopped off. They stood in front of Chu Jianlai in different ways, like a picture scroll of hell where ghosts walk at night.

There were also bursts of wailing outside the door, which sounded like the screams of the people on the day Gusu Town was massacred.Immediately, a large number of tragically dead corpses poured into the Chu Mansion one after another, gathering together with hundreds of people from the Chu family.

A dense crowd rushed in front of Chu Jianlai.These people with different faces knelt down and kowtowed to him in unison.

"Please Master Chu to avenge us!"

I don't know who took the lead to yell, and the others followed suit, so loud that the world trembled.

"Please Master Chu to avenge us!"

"Please Master Chu to avenge us!"

"Please... Patriarch Chu, avenge us!"

Seeing the scene in front of him, Chu Jianlai only felt heartbroken, and his face gradually became ferocious.

"Sure enough. Every hallucination will turn out like this in the end, and you won't let me go at all." Chu Jianlai covered his face, showing a rare fragile and painful expression:
"I'm sorry, it's my fault, it's all my fault. I've tried my best to kill and avenge you. It's all my fault. I know! It's all my fault! Stop talking! I know it all! I will Kill them all!"

He murmured deliriously over and over again, as if he were chanting a spell to exorcise ghosts.

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"Jianlai! Calm down!" Just as Chu Jianlai was in a state of confusion, he suddenly felt a powerful big hand suddenly patted his shoulder.

Chu Jianlai wiped away his tears, but found that the horrible scene just now had disappeared.

He is still standing in the flames of the Holy Land, and the radiation and flames are washing his body, making him reincarnate over and over again in death and rebirth, experiencing endless torture.

But when he turned his head to the side, he was surprised to find that his father was standing beside him, reaching out and clapping his shoulder.The flames continued to pass by his father's side, but did not cause any harm to him.

"Is it still a hallucination?" Chu Jianlai asked as if waking up from a dream.

"Whether it's a hallucination, it shouldn't matter to Jianlai~" Another hand patted his other shoulder, and this time it was his mother's voice.

"You guys." Chu Jianlai's eyes widened, and then his eyes were once again burned into a cloud of blood mist by the flames.He lowered his head, gritted his teeth and asked:
"What are you doing here? I will avenge you, go back and rest in peace."

"Jianlai, do you know that the treasure in your heart has any special functions?" His father suddenly asked in a serious manner.

Hearing this, Chu Jianlai subconsciously looked down.He found that his body was constantly being burned and repaired, but the layer of flesh surrounding the core of the earth remained intact.

The core of the earth is using his body as a shield to protect the core of the earth from being burned by fire and radiation by constantly repairing the flesh around his heart.

But at the same time, he also felt that the core of the earth was absorbing the surrounding energy.Although the speed of absorbing energy is not very fast, the core of the earth's core seems to never be full, and there is no sign of stopping at all.

"I know, it was this treasure that harmed our Chu family." Chu Jianlai replied with a heavy heart.

"The reason why this treasure was favored by the three sects back then was because of this 'infinite battery'. As for the core of the earth, it was just an unexpected addition." Chu Jianlai's father stood behind him said:

"Even this leaky nuclear reactor can absorb all the energy released in it, it just takes some time."

"So what should I do now? Wait here for the core of the earth to absorb all the radiation energy?" Chu Jianlai asked.

"But after the radiation leaks out, the whole city will be affected." Chu Jianlai's mother said:

"Everyone in this city will be affected by radiation. They don't have such treasures as the core of the earth, and the consequence of radiation exposure is sickness and death."

"But should I save them?" Chu Jianlai hesitated for a moment and asked.

If he was the one who was sincere and dreamed of becoming a knight, he might not hesitate to protect these common people.But now, even "should he be rescued" has become a troublesome question for him, because he feels that he is not worthy to protect others at all.

"Jianlai, do you still remember that I told you that as long as you can find the most powerful weapon, you can become a famous knight in the world?" His father suddenly asked:
"Let me ask you, what do you think is the most powerful weapon in the world? A sword? A knife? A gun? Or this treasure on your chest?"

"The most powerful weapon of a chivalrous man should be the consciousness of standing up for the common people, and the courage to make all the people surrender." Chu Jianlai gritted his teeth and said:

"But I am no longer worthy of being a knight, because I can no longer have such determination. I am not a knight, I am just a murderous executioner. My hands are already stained with the blood of the enemy, and I am not worthy to save anyone."

"Nonsense! Who said that to be a chivalrous man is to serve the common people? Who said that to be a chivalrous man is to make all the people submit to him? He is not the duplicitous fake literati of the Confucian school, is he?" Ming Sanlian asked:

"Your father is a rough man, and he can't understand the polite words of those fake literati, but your father also wanted to be a knight. The most powerful weapon of a knight is to find his own path and stick to it The perseverance to go on. Besides, who said that only by becoming a knight can you save people?"

Hearing his father's words, Chu Jianlai thought for a while, and felt his head tremble suddenly.

"If you want to avenge us, then revenge is your path. As long as you stick to this path, even if you enter the Tao with hatred, you can still be called a knight! It's just because you don't have the consciousness to live for all beings. Do you call yourself a knight? Just because you are spurned by thousands of people, you start to deny your kindness? Just because you kill someone, you can no longer save people? How can the name of knight be so inconvenient!" Chu Jianlai's father plausibly said Didactic.

"My dear brother, with your current strength, you should be able to forcibly close that metal gate." Another hand suddenly supported his back, and a young man's voice came from behind him.

"Brother." Chu Jianlai turned his head to look, only to find that his elder brother's figure appeared behind him.A young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes in Taoist robes was watching him from behind, with an extremely indifferent expression.

"As long as you close the gate, you can temporarily block the radiation leak in the reactor. And your companions should also find a way to seize control of the reactor, restore the protective measures, and save everyone in the city. "Chu Jianlai's elder brother said softly:
"Of course, all of this is your own choice. Killing people is not purely evil, and saving people is not purely good. They are just different choices you can make. But no matter what you do, as long as you can stand firm on your own path , become someone you can be proud of, and we will be proud of you."

"." Chu Jianlai gradually lowered his head and remained silent.

"Brother~" Chu Jianlai felt his clothes being pulled by someone.

He looked down and found that his sister had also appeared beside him, gently grabbing the corner of his clothes.

"Little guy, why are you here?" Chu Jianlai smiled palely:
"Don't worry, I will avenge you, and I will go to your grave every year to give you snacks."

"No, brother." The young girl stubbornly shook her head and said:

"I felt that my brother was in great pain and hesitant, so I came out and said a few words to my brother."

"What do you want to say?" Chu Jianlai asked.

"Brother, I have admired you since I was a child. So don't put on such a tangled face anymore, brother is handsome no matter what you do!" The little girl smiled cutely, as if there was light in her eyes.

"You are handsome in everything?" Hearing sister Tong Yan Wuji's praise, Chu Jianlai couldn't help laughing, and replied:
"Your brother is just a useless piece of trash, and he can't even protect you."

"Then be my elder brother in the next life, and you must protect me next time!" The little girl smiled innocently.

Hearing these words, two lines of black tears of blood finally couldn't help but slipped from Chu Jianlai's eyes.He sobbed sadly, unable to speak for a moment.

Since Truman was destroyed, he has labeled himself an "Avenger" and believes that he is not worthy of doing anything other than revenge.

Chu Jianlai felt that as long as he abused himself in this way and obliterated his former personality, he could atone for his mistake of stealing the core of the earth back then.

But he didn't realize until today that he had lost everything for revenge. His dreams, his pride, his sincerity, his benevolence, and his love for this world.

The chaebol association and various sects destroyed his family, but he destroyed everything he had because of self-blame.Whether it is wrong or right to do so, no one has ever told him the correct answer.

But maybe, he didn't need to know the answer from the beginning.

"Jianlai, we are no longer alive, so we can't give you anything." His mother shook his shoulder and said softly:
"I can only give you eight words. Mother, I actually regret it. If I had told you these eight words earlier, you might not have been so hesitant."

After a pause, his mother said seriously: "But follow your heart and don't ask about your future."

"But follow your heart, don't ask about your future." Chu Jianlai whispered:
"But follow the heart, don't ask about the future"

His parents, brother and sister clustered around him, watching him lost in thought.

After a while, Chu Jianlai finally raised his head.

His expression was extremely ferocious, and his knife-sharpened face was burned and reorganized over and over again in the flames.But suddenly, he laughed comfortably.

This is his comfortable smile for ten years because of something other than revenge.Fire poured into his mouth, burning his voice, but it couldn't stop him from laughing.

"Father, mother, brother, and sister, I know that you are not real, maybe it's a fictional personality that popped up in my mind." Chu Jianlai raised the corner of his mouth and said in a deep voice:
"Maybe I was just convincing myself just now, but I'm still very grateful to you. I really, really miss you."

"Now everyone in this city may be contaminated by radiation. They may suffer the tragedy of Gusu Town ten years ago. Complete families are separated, and children cry helplessly while hugging their parents' bodies , people who are seriously injured are slowly stopping breathing in desperation and I want to save them, I want to close that door."

Chu Jianlai hesitated for a moment, and said, "But the fire waves here are too big, and I can hardly hold on just standing where I am, so can I ask you to help me with one thing?"

"We are family members. If you have anything to say, just say it. Don't carry it yourself~" Chu Jianlai's mother replied to him with a smile.

"Dear brother, just do whatever you want. As long as it doesn't violate the morality of the ancestors, we will support you!" Chu Jianlai's brother also pushed his back, smiling heartily.

"Can you give me a push? Help me walk to that door." Chu Jianlai asked hesitantly, pointing to the huge metal door that was constantly emitting flame radiation.

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt that his shoulders and back on both sides were being pushed forward forcefully.Even his younger sister, who was only around his waist, gave his legs a hard push, trying to help him move forward.

Under this push, Chu Jianlai suddenly staggered forward, and the pressure brought by the fire wave seemed to be reduced a lot.

He turned his head to look, only to find that his parents stood behind and watched him with relief, just like the day when he was just learning to walk when he was a child, his parents watched him run farther and farther.

His elder brother stared at him with his arms folded, his long hair fluttering slowly in the waves of fire, and he had a calm smile like a monk on his face.And the younger sister was waving to him happily, still shouting something in her mouth.

Chu Jianlai closed his eyes, trying not to allow himself to look at any scenes behind him.But his footsteps gradually moved, step by step towards the huge metal door.

　Originally, I only wanted to write [-] words to apologize, but because I accidentally wrote too much and couldn't divide the chapters, so I sent them out together.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)