Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 42 My whole life is for this moment

Seven minutes ago.

Aurora, holding the lantern tightly, broke the ice, plunged into the unfrozen river, and dived deep into the bottom.

Although the outside world has been eroded beyond recognition, the Unfrozen River is surprisingly clean.

The river water is so clear that when you look up you can clearly see the blood moon hanging in the sky, sparkling like blood.

Maybe it's because the river water has the ability to purify evil spirits, or maybe there's some other reason...

Aurora didn't care much anyway.

She held her breath and swam in the dark and calm river, swimming towards the place where black and gold were intertwined in her eyes.

Aurora was not afraid that she had found the wrong place.

Because the only place within sight is different in color.

Even though she had never learned to swim, Aurora could master this basic skill almost instantly.

Just like a sword, when she held the hilt for the first time, she instinctively knew how to use it.

This kind of thing is not difficult at all.

Soon, she arrived at the bottom of the Unfrozen River and came to the long, narrow object covered in rich black and gold colors.

Aurora pondered for a moment, closed her eyes, and then opened them again.

Her pupils shrank slightly.

——Doesn’t this look exactly like the child named Susie?

No, the ones here seem a little more mature.

Inside the crystal clear ice coffin, a girl lay with her eyes closed, her long golden hair neatly placed behind her, and a broken purple crown hung crookedly on her head.

Even in her endless sleep, her five fingers still tightly grasped the rusty and dim lantern.

Aurora held the lantern in her hand in front of her eyes and compared them.

exactly the same.

It's just that one looks newer and the other is older.

"you……"

As soon as Aurora opened her mouth to speak, the cold river water around her rushed into her mouth impatiently, blocking the rest of her words.

Aurora then remembered that she was underwater and closed her mouth tightly.

She leaned over and looked carefully at Susie in the ice coffin.

It looks really dangerous...

And according to his premonition, there should be tens of thousands of "Susies" chasing him down at this time. That is a terrifying number that he cannot kill even a thousand of them with one knife.

But why is there none now?

Aurora was a little confused.

But this doubt did not affect Aurora's doing what Yuan Qingzhuo ordered. After all, she didn't want to lose such an interesting opponent as Yuan Qingzhuo.

Aurora was too lazy to fight someone like Susie who won simply by numbers.

Mowing the grass with no double sounds cool, but it must be super boring when you actually do it.

Now, let's scoop it up.

After making this decision in her mind, Aurora used her toes to pry open the bottom of the ice coffin, and with a little force she made it float in the water.

The next thing is easy. Just bring it to the surface, knock open the ice coffin, and then cut her neck to make it more painful.

As for the breath-holding time?

For a Terran superman like Aurora, it doesn't matter if he just takes a good sleep underwater at a depth of 100 meters.

In just a few tens of seconds, Aurora jumped out of the water again with the heavy ice coffin.

First, the ice coffin fell into the snow and mud on the shore, and the next moment Aurora stepped on the top of the ice coffin effortlessly.

She looked at the distant Hydra shadow and heard a vague laugh:

"Aurora seems to be almost ready to salvage that her. What are you going to do?"

Aurora didn't think much, she just raised her fist and easily turned the ice coffin, which was difficult for ordinary people to leave a scratch on, into powder.

"Susie" in the ice coffin was exposed to the air, and the broken crown turned into ashes at a speed visible to the naked eye. The girl was still lying there with her arms across her chest, neither opening her eyes nor breathing.

Only the barely perceptible flickering candlelight in the headlight above his chest.

"You're not awake yet... That's good."

Aurora nodded, squatted beside her, drew out the blade, and gently chopped at the snow-white neck.

Flesh, bones and nerves were severed in an instant, and the almost stagnant blood slowly flowed out, and an invisible deep crack appeared in the ground here.

“Done!…?”

The relaxation on Aurora's face gradually disappeared, and she lowered her head again, staring at her neck that had healed at some point and the disappeared blood.

The snow-white neck is intact.

"Ugh?"

Didn't he kill her?

Accident, mistake?
No, how could I do such a stupid thing.

Could it be that the curse of the unfrozen river can reverse the inevitable death?
But Elric was not like that... She had just thought of him as a barely passable opponent playing with her, and ordinary beheading would not kill him. But if the "color" on his body was cut off, Aurora was sure that Elric would die on the spot.

But she had clearly just cut off the color of "Susie".

But now it is closed again... This is simply impossible, just like tearing a piece of paper into two halves and then returning to its original shape the next second.

Aurora became interested.

So another knife.

This time she saw it clearly, the skin and flesh were torn apart, the blood flowed out, and then all disappeared in the next moment.

Without any warning, it disappeared.

Only the deep cut that spans a hundred meters across the earth can demonstrate Aurora's terrifying destructive power.

"It's not a reversal or restoration, but some kind of 'replacement'... It's difficult."

Although she said it was difficult, Aurora's interest was obviously higher than before. She was thinking about what kind of recovery method this was and how to crack it.

Countless cuts.

Countless times of tearing.

Countless annihilations.

Even placing the blade across the middle of the severed limb and forcibly blocking the two parts that she had separated herself with her hands was of no use.

No matter what she did, no matter how Aurora acted, after a brief moment, Susie would be back to normal.

In just a very short period of time, Aurora, whose self-awareness and talent had reached an extreme, understood this extremely clear fact.

——She couldn't kill it.

Aurora stood there in a daze, automatically blocking out the laughter from Yuan Qingzhuo not far away.

Actually, there is nothing I can do.

She silently looked down at the peaceful face of the more mature Susie, almost wanting to get angry at it, but suddenly Aurora felt that this was actually a good thing.

Look, how novel.

It’s different from “can’t be cut”, it’s more like “can’t be killed even if you cut” - this is really the first experience for Aurora.

"How can I kill you?"

Aurora murmured softly, lowered the tip of her sword, sat on the snow, and poked the soft and delicate face with her fingers.

But her thoughts had drifted to the past and the distance.

When was the last “first time”?

Very recently, just a few hours ago, she saw Yuan Qingzhuo, and at that time he was the only color in her world.

That Aurora was very happy.

So, what about the next one?

I volunteered to come to Beiyuan to ask my father
That Aurora was full of expectations.

What about the next one?

……

Countless Aurora appeared in her memory, from the present to the past, and vaguely appeared in her dreams every night.

Yes, the key is in the dream.

First grade, second grade, third grade...

Laugh, cry, be happy, or be sad...

There are so many "Auroras", so many Auroras with different names, they are all her.

"Ah, so that's it..."

Aurora lowered her head in realization, as if she was looking into the eyes of a girl who was sleeping forever.

——There are so many of you in this world.

So many of you, you in so many different positions, they are all you.

It turned out to be the case.

Same as me.

In that case, let's kill them all.

Aurora casually threw away the red-soaked blade in her hand, fell to her knees, and raised her palm with great joy.

Then, chop it down.

It is difficult to describe what a gorgeous falling arc this is.

"My whole life is for this moment."

She whispered softly, dazed.

Yuan Qingzhuo, who was watching her, savored this delicious trick for two full seconds before laughing happily:

"cut--!"

There will be another update tonight, which is the end of the volume.

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