Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

"Well... it's amazing."

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As the Xihe girl rowed, the positions of the two "people" no longer changed - at least it seemed that way: on both sides of the Red River, those pink or red, flesh-like plants and the pale earth kept shaking and shifting, making it difficult for the nameless person to tell his position on the river.

Time also became difficult to discern—the thick fog above my head had not changed at all, the direction of the light remained the same, and there were no shining stars to serve as a reference for the passage of time.

I don’t know how long has passed...

Suddenly: rain fell from the zenith.

One drop, then another—then hundreds and thousands, until everything was covered.

The red river around me began to form ripples, which then collided with each other and broke apart. Behind the mist in the sky, dark rain clouds gradually formed.

The rain gradually got heavier - between the zenith and the river surface, a continuous rain curtain like a pearl curtain was formed, standing between heaven and earth: no matter where it was, it could be considered a heavy rain.

The anonymous wiped the water drops off his face: this cold tide was completely different from the warm river below him, and even made him shiver:

"It's raining? Weird, why is it raining?"

The girl from Xihe waved the two huge leaves at her side, caught the falling raindrops, and splashed them around - but she had no intention of blocking the water drops for Wuming:

"This is your turtle breath... Isn't it possible for anything to happen? Even if frogs and talking shoes suddenly start to rain down, I think it's very reasonable. However, I think it might be your subconscious mind that's playing tricks on you: maybe you're having a lot of thoughts and feeling sad, but you just don't know it."

"After all, what you think about during the day you dream about at night..."

The Nameless Man could feel the raindrops gradually changing from falling straight down to hitting his cheek diagonally - the rain curtain no longer fell straight down like thousands of lines, but kept shifting left and right; a storm was brewing in the air:

"Why do I feel so sentimental in your mouth? Okay, okay, it's just raining."

That being said... this was his "first time" to see such a heavy rain: it was also possible that he had experienced it before and just forgot it along with the river water. The Nameless Person put his palms together with interest, collected a pool of rainwater in his palms, and then shook them back and forth, causing a vortex to swirl in the small pool.

So the Nameless Man and the Xihe Girl began to play, as if they were children who had grown up in the Atacama Desert in Chile and had never seen rainfall.

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The silence and harmony lasted only for a moment, and the Xihe girl started a new topic. She lowered her head and leaned close to the ear of the nameless man who was concentrating on playing with the rain. The Xihe girl didn't breathe at all, so she didn't make the nameless man's ear itchy:

"I have a hunch: as long as you fall into that ridiculously large black hole ahead, you will wake up..."

"But, are you really going to wake up? And leave here?"

Without waiting for the anonymous person to answer this abrupt question, the Xihe girl continued. She spoke so fast that it even sounded like she was singing a rap song:

"I mean, I don't think it's like in the turtle's breath, where you can soak in the hot springs comfortably. Once you go out, you may have to fight with all kinds of strange things... and kill them until blood flows like a river? Damn, isn't this river red now? Does it symbolize the killings you will commit in the future?"

The anonymous person felt a little dizzy from the hypnotic questioning in his ear. But then, he was brought back to his senses by the cold and wet rain:

This plant with a human face and the ability to change shape only seems to be thinking about itself - the Nameless Man thought back to his previous position which had not changed since he woke up, and the webbed feet that the girl from Xihe had transformed into in order to paddle on the water... It was obvious that she had other intentions, right?

Nameless rolled his eyes. As the only two people in the world, he was too lazy to play tricks with the Xihe girl and asked directly:

"Ah? I think you're thinking too much... And, let me tell you; why do you keep trying to stop me from finishing my turtle breathing?"

In response to the anonymous accusation, the Xihe girl was so anxious that she waved the leaves on both sides - they swung left and right in a cross-like manner, which was extremely funny:

"You still say I think too much? It's obvious that you are a very suspicious person! I'm sure I'm not thinking too much, it's like an instinctive reaction - hey! Think about it, buddy, you are imagining it; that is to say, you don't want to leave here at all?"

Nameless rubbed his nose - according to the logic of the Xihe girl, her words were not without reason. But... was the real me so obsessed with this dream that I tried every possible means to prevent myself from waking up from it?

"……I have no idea."

Anonymous couldn't think of an answer, so he shook off the rain water in his hands and soaked both arms in the river.

Huh! The Xihe girl's movements were agile and nimble, which was inconsistent with her plant-like appearance. She turned her head sharply to the other ear of the Nameless Person:

"Maybe... I mean maybe? Is there a possibility that you are actually living a very painful and depressed life outside of Turtle Breathing. Nothing is possible for you, and you have never felt real happiness... But now, floating here makes you feel relaxed. So you don't want to leave at all?"

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Chapter 288: Greed (Part )

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The anonymous person began to feel a little impatient with this tumor growing on his body, which seemed to be able to talk. It seemed that nothing good could come out of her mouth, and it was not of much help to the current situation:

"Eh? No, you're exaggerating, aren't you? Um, although I don't have any memories... but I feel like most people don't live very happily. After all, we're not living in some paradise. So, I'm not so fragile that I want to stay in a dream for the rest of my life."

The Xihe girl did not wave her mimic leaves to threaten the Nameless Person again, but rested her chin on the ground, looking thoughtful:

"That's true, but I have a feeling. When you get out, you're going to face bigger problems. And you're going to need to find a real solution. It's best if it can solve everyone's pain and troubles... If you plan to get out, you'd better start thinking about it now."

"No way, is there such a specific premonition?"

The Nameless Man followed her example and propped his head with his fists - but it was empty, and he could not sense any information from the outside world:

"Your premonition is quite complicated and clear? Are you kidding me? I don't even have a premonition whether the temperature will get lower or higher tomorrow. At most, I have a premonition that the rain will not stop."

The Xihe girl suddenly raised her huge leaves and reached them toward the sky like two hands:

"What's that saying? 'With great power comes great power' - not that great power means great responsibility! In fact, you don't have to take any responsibility and can do whatever you want. But, I see that you have a bad character and are not free and easy at all. You should think carefully about what to do in the future."

The Nameless Man finally realized that the Xihe girl was actually talking to herself most of the time and was not answering the questions he asked. As a person drifting in this empty world without even a little memory, the Nameless Man had no idea how powerful he was:

"Why do I feel like you're hiding something from me? You don't have any memories, do you? Why do you have so many jingles?"

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After Anonymous asked the question——

The girl from Xihe was silent, which was unusual for her. After the raindrops had fallen for an unknown number of times, she spoke again:

"If only I had my memory."

Then she lifted her flippers and slapped the water around her even harder—so hard that it even made Anonymous think she wanted to go upstream and drive them both toward the upper reaches of the Red River.

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The sudden abnormal reaction of the Xihe girl puzzled the Anonymous: perhaps it was due to his innate sensitivity... even though he had no memory, he was able to quickly realize the reason for the Xihe girl's depression after recalling their conversation.

The Nameless Man realized that even though he was unaware of the past, he could still be considered a continuation of his true self. Even if he woke up from this dream, there was still a possibility of "continuing to live" in some sense: but the "Xihe girl" in front of him was nothing more than an image he imagined, a complete nothingness.

When Nameless finished her tortoise breath and woke up, her existence naturally ceased to exist: it was completely annihilated into the void.

"That should be the case..."

Anonymous found it somewhat amusing that he still followed logical thinking in his dream.

But he didn't like this depressing atmosphere. As the only "companion" at this time, the Xihe girl kept silent, and the anonymous person also became depressed.

I can’t feel the passage of time during this tortoise-like breathing - so it seems there is no harm in waiting a little longer.

"Then float for a while longer?"

The Nameless Man scratched his head and nudged the Xihe girl behind him with his elbow.

"Oh? Oh... OK, OK, let's make more bubbles then."

The Nameless Man raised his head and let the endless torrential rain from the sky hit his face.

It was at this moment that a flash of inspiration once again penetrated his brain.

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In the pouring rain, an idea suddenly came to him.

"By the way - you performed so many strange transformations earlier..." Nameless raised his hand and tapped the bird claw that had pierced his shoulder flesh; "Then can you also make sharp objects? Like a knife or something?"

"What are you going to do?" The vine, with the agility of a snake, reached out to the nameless man. "Let me make it clear to you first - I'm not stupid enough to conjure up a knife and lend it to you to cut myself off, am I?"

The Nameless Man wanted to roll his eyes fiercely, but the falling rain hit his eyes - so he pushed the Xihe girl's face away:

"Why are you thinking so much? I just want you to do me a favor - can you see if you can cut off my head?"

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"……what?"

Faced with this unexpected question, the Xihe girl moved her "body" around the anonymous person, as if she was trying to check if there were any wounds on the front and back of his head.

"Are you crazy?"

The Nameless One grabbed her leaf and gestured around her neck:

"Tsk, why don't you understand what I mean? Look - although you said we were in 'Turtle Breath', you yourself don't know what Turtle Breath specifically means..."

The girl from Xihe suddenly spoke, interrupting him - this was a rare interruption in their conversation:

"I told you, it's probably like a dream."

The Nameless Man patted the branches that the Xihe girl turned to in front of him, then pointed forward, aiming at the end of the crisscrossing Red River:

"Hey! What you said is similar to a dream, right? - But you also said that you think we will wake up only if we fall into that black hole, right?"

The Xihe girl turned her head and turned her face behind her:

"Oh...oh? What on earth do you mean! Don't keep asking me what I know."

The nameless man splashed the scarlet river water around him—even though the heavy rain in the sky had not stopped and the water level showed no sign of rising:

"Well, we have no idea what's going on right now, and we can't be sure what this turtle breathing is - but if we are really dreaming and can only wake up by falling into the waterfall..."

"I've always wanted to try what it feels like to have only a head. I've heard a line from a movie before: 'If the knife is sharp, the blood spurting out of the wound will sound like the wind, which is very nice.'"

"And if this isn't the so-called 'turtle breath', but just a dream - then if I die in the dream, won't I be able to wake up?"

After saying this, he folded his arms and lowered his head slightly - looking like he was in deep thought.

The Xihe girl looked at the anonymous person thoughtfully. Suddenly, she raised her eyebrows fiercely and pointed a bud like an arm at the hazy sky:

"Damn it, you're kidding me! You actually think I lied to you before, right?!"

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Chapter 289: Greed (Part )

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Not long ago, before Anonymous took a nap, the Xihe girl who lived in his spine stretched out her body and extended her visual tentacles vertically into the sky to observe everything in the distance - she also shared her vision with Anonymous so that he could also see everything.

Anonymous still remembers the scene that came into his eyes at that time:

The spider-web-like river channels connected all directions, dividing the soft and undulating land into small rectangular blocks. Scarlet lines were densely covered, and on each line was a river that was either slow or fast... The common point was that these rivers all went to the same place: a waterfall as huge as a mountain and surrounded by a ring.

The Xihe girl suddenly raised two leaves and slapped the nameless man's cheeks alternately:

"As soon as I cut your stupid head off, you want me to lift you up to the top so you can see what's going on around you - is that right? Do you think I didn't give you real vision before?"

The Nameless Man dodged the sudden "slap" in a panic. The branches of the Xihe girl grew on his spine, but they were as flexible as snakes, making it difficult for him to resist even if he raised his arms. If it weren't for the fact that the vermilion river water had a density and buoyancy far beyond reality, he would have fallen headfirst into the water:

"Okay, okay, stop it! Just tell me whether you will help or not - to be honest, I don't even know who you are!"

"Didn't I say that I thought it was a product of your imagination: that is to say, I know you very well!"

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That being said...

Although the Xihe girl was very resistant and very dissatisfied with the suspicion implied by the anonymous person, she still raised the leaf to the anonymous person's face.

Only now did Anonymous realize that the edges of her leaves were so thin - when viewed from the side, one could not even see the thickness of the leaves.

"Hurry up and do it!"

The nameless person grabbed the leaf and pulled it to his neck. Although the Xihe girl looked impatient and irritated, she still moved the leaf left and right like a carpenter's saw.

Gaga...click.

The Nameless Man did not hear the imagined sound of blood vessels rushing out of arteries like the wind brought by the sharp knife: in fact, the sharp blade transformed by the Xihe girl was actually much duller than it looked, and it took half grinding and half cutting to separate his head from his body.

There was no small stream of blood spurting out like a fountain: the arteries were clearly visible from the broken cross-section, but the red color in them was stuck in the blood vessels like jelly and never flowed out.