My Endless Life.

Chapter 516 'Better'

More than thirty years ago, Meng An disappeared from the dream town.

No one knew where he went, and even the puppets he left behind only maintained their spirituality for a period of time before becoming mechanized, no different from those artificial idiots.

All Meng An left behind were the Dream Town and some alchemical dolls he had made.

Meng An disappeared, but along with him also disappeared the pollution that had plunged the entire world into crisis.

Afterwards, Zhao Hong summoned the Twelve Golden Immortals and asked about Meng An's whereabouts.

The Twelve Golden Immortals only said that Meng An had done a great deed, and that the humans in this world no longer had to worry about anything except facing the endless night and cold.

Pollution can no longer be a threat to humanity.

When Meng An disappeared, the pollution disappeared with him.

People who were familiar with Meng An and knew how magical Meng An was began to think that this child sacrificed himself to eliminate pollution and save all mankind.

Everyone thought Meng An was dead.

Although Xu Leying persisted for several years, she finally had to admit this fact.

It would be better to say that she had to admit it, because they simply didn't have the time to look for Meng An. All kinds of messy things almost filled up everything in their lives.

Although the world's pollution has disappeared, this is not a good thing.

Because when the external crisis that can unite humanity disappears, humanity itself will fall into chaos.

The world government, which had just been established, soon split into several factions. Xu Leying quickly became a backbone figure in one of the factions because she saved many people and because of Meng An, Zhao Hong and others.

She was gradually promoted in the following years until the World Government was disbanded and she became the Minister of Strategy.

Xu Leying doesn't like this position. To be more precise, she doesn't want to be a leader who leads anyone forward.

If she were asked to lead a few people and form a team, Xu Leying might be able to do it.

But if she was asked to command thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people, Xu Leying simply couldn't do it.

All she can do is to become a target of people's belief and admiration, sit on the throne built by people, and become everyone's 'spiritual idol'.

But even so, Xu Leying felt tired.

She didn't know how long this kind of life would last, or how long she would have to be an "idol". The endless "work" made her eyes lose their light.

The heart necklace also dimmed.

Whenever she asked herself why she did this late at night, Xu Leying would think of Meng An who came to her in person.

That strange child who looks like a child but is actually more like his elder.

She would wonder whether Meng An had made any sacrifices, and would wonder if she would still do the work she disliked if Meng An was here.

He even wondered if he would blame Meng An for bringing him to Bureau 057 and then abandoning him.

Xu Leying also thought about whether she would complain to Meng An or hug him and cry if she met him one day.

But today, when she actually met Meng An, all the complaints and dissatisfaction in Xu Leying's heart miraculously disappeared.

In the end, it was reduced to just one sentence:

"...Captain, welcome back."

……

After confirming Li Qi's identity, Xu Leying quickly welcomed Li Qi.

Then she was surprised to see Li Qi teleport all the black-robed people away with a snap of his fingers, and then opened the portal to the Dream Town Mansion.

"Let's take care of this first, and then we can go back and talk. I have a lot of things I want to ask you."

Meeting the teammates whom he hadn't seen for a long time, Li Qi smiled at them.

Yi Cheng used a few magic spells to clean up the scene, then stepped forward and hugged Li Qi's arm again, and asked with sparkling eyes:

"My half, where have you been? Why did you come back only now? Did you go to the demon world to seek help? Or did you go to heaven to slaughter all those hypocritical angels!?"

"..."

The smile on Li Qi's face froze.

He turned his head to meet Yi Cheng's sparkling eyes, opened his mouth, and had countless questions to ask, but in the end he only asked one question:
"…Have you recovered your memory, Muxi?"

“Humph, my past life is already clear, but the only one here is me, the Lord of Eternal Night… ah~”

Boom!
Before Yi Cheng could finish his words, Li Qi hit him hard on the forehead.

Li Qi hit her hard. Yi Cheng's forehead turned red. She covered her forehead and squatted on the ground.

“Wuwuwu…violence…violence prohibited…!”

"I heard from Sun Xiaoqing that your Chuunibyou has improved a bit. Why are you still talking like that?"

Li Qi showed no mercy.

After making sure that Yi Cheng had recovered her memory as Mu Xi, he had no intention of holding back and asked Yi Cheng in a bad mood.

Yi Cheng did not explain, the person who helped to explain was Xu Leying.

She looked at Yi Cheng in silence, then glanced at Li Qi, and then said:
"Is there a possibility that... 'better' is a relative term?" "?"

"I mean, we're used to her talking like that, and we can automatically translate what she means, so we think she's 'better', but is it possible that her... Chuunibyou has become even worse?"

Xu Leying organized her words and said helplessly.

The cost of a magical object cannot be eliminated, it can only be weakened or transferred in some way. This is how humans currently control magical objects.

Yi Cheng was one of the first people to come into contact with strange objects, and her price had been deeply ingrained and could not be changed at all.

That's why she has to bring an "interpreter" with her whenever she goes out to meet people. Otherwise, even if her ideas are fine, the words she speaks will turn into speechless "middle school language".

Li Qi remained silent upon hearing this.

In the end, he chose to skip this topic, helped Yi Cheng clean up the scene, and then took the two of them back to the Dream Town.

Li Qi, who possesses the core authority of AI, is in a sense a true "God" in this doomsday world. Therefore, he does not have to follow the rules of Dream Town and can bring people in and out from anywhere at any time.

He helped Xu Leying and Yi Cheng resolve the crisis and brought them back to the town.

Now, except for Zhao Hong who has passed away due to old age, and Xie Yan who has become the leader of the resistance army, the original strange object team has reunited again.

A reunion after more than thirty years.

Even though it was a reunion, everyone surprisingly had nothing to say about the past.

Xu Leying has become mature now, no longer the passionate girl who looked like she came out of a magical girl comic.

Not only her appearance, but her heart has also become more "adult", so she knows that Li Qi's appearance in front of them this time is probably not just to reminisce with them.

Everyone gathered in the Dream Town Hall.

Yi Cheng, who possessed Mu Xi's memories, perhaps finally met someone close to her, and kept following Li Qi, even sticking to him when they sat on the sofa.

Perhaps realizing that his immature words would hinder communication, Yi Cheng did not speak a word throughout the entire process, and Xu Leying helped to explain.

"First, let's talk about what this Demon Exorcist Association is."

Li Qi originally just wanted to reminisce with Xu Leying, but ended up saving the two of them by accident. He was also very curious about the situation of the Demon Exorcist Society.

To slay demons?

What demon are you trying to eliminate?

Is there a demon in this world?
Li Qi looked at Xu Leying, waiting for her explanation. Xu Leying organized her words:

"It's similar to a terrorist organization. Their main purpose is to destroy all the strange objects in the world and make the sun rise again... Oh, strange objects are called 'magic weapons' over there. They believe that it is because strange objects have taken away the rules of this world that the sun has never risen."

"So the 'demon' they are exorcising refers to the strange object?"

"Correct."

Xu Leying sighed when she said this:
“It’s not the same as before. Although we have been popularizing concepts such as planets and galaxies, and explaining to everyone that the sun is not not rising, but the planet is blocked by something...but with the passing of the elderly, fewer and fewer people believe in these things.

"The younger generation thinks that this is how the world should be, so the Exorcist Club has a strong market among young people."

The world was once on the verge of extinction, with a population of billions reduced to only a few hundred million, and even now it has not recovered.

The price of almost being cut off from civilization is that the new young people’s knowledge of everything is limited to books and some past images.

They have not experienced an era of peace, nor a society prosperous due to science and technology, so they are somewhat skeptical of the words of the older generation.

Most young people only believe what they want to believe.

Li Qi also has a deep understanding of this.

He thought back to the years when he was in the martial arts world, when technology had developed.

The rules of martial arts collapsed, there were no more masters, and even innate strong people were rare. Few people of that era would believe that there were once people who could fly, move mountains and fill the sea.

Because they haven't really seen it.

After reminiscing about the past for a while, Li Qi asked again:
"I see they are all using magic? No one seems to be using magic items? How come you have already mastered a complete training system?"

The group of people from the demon-hunting team that came to ambush Xu Leying, except for the leader who brought a teleportation item and a item used to set up a barrier, the rest of the people did not carry any items.

But they did use magic.

This made Li Qi a little curious. Could it be that the people in this world have already mastered a complete cultivation system?

"More than one set." When talking about this, Xu Leying smiled.

Li Qi: "? What do you mean?"

"Taoism, magic, and martial arts... We have mastered three special cultivation systems. Although each cultivation system requires the [Stone Tablet] as its core, we do have a way to cultivate extraordinary powers without using any rare items."

Xu Leying's smile was full of confidence and unconcealable pride.

Because unlike other organizations, only China has the method of cultivating immortals, and it also has three different ways of cultivation.

Other countries either have a single type or none at all.

This is also China's advantage.

(End of this chapter)