About how my wife resurrected me as tentacles after my death.

Time begins to lose its meaning...

Then, Chen Yuan woke up.

Hmm... he seems to be dead, but not completely dead.

Because he came back to life...

However, the process of waking up seemed a bit strange...

He didn't open his eyes because he didn't have eyes.

He also had no sense of moving his limbs, because he had no limbs.

He is a... tentacle?

It's not a metaphor.

It was indeed a small tentacle covered with suckers, and it was dark purple in color.

The tentacles were only about the thickness of a normal person's wrist; he didn't know their length because he couldn't see his entire body.

Moreover... he was in a place... it seemed to be an altar.

Wait, I think I can move?

This discovery excited Chen Yuan.

He focused his mind and imagined himself raising his hand.

The tips of the tentacles did not lift up.

Okay, he just twists and turns unconsciously...

However, by twisting forward along the surface of the altar, it can be considered to be crawling.

The suction cups open and close, gripping the stone surface.

But it was too slow. He climbed for about half an hour and only moved less than a meter.

The edge of the altar appears to be at least ten meters away.

Hmm... it's like not climbing at all.

Chen Yuan stopped.

He died and then became a monster, trapped on a bizarre altar, unable to even climb down.

What is this, a new trick from hell?

He thought of Yu Wan again.

I remember her last appearance: bloodshot eyes, a broken expression.

No, he has to leave.

No matter where he is, he has to find his way back and find Yu Wan.

She can't live alone; she's so timid, so dependent on him...

Chen Yuan focused his mind again and drove the tentacles more violently.

This time, he abandoned all finesse and simply writhed wildly, trying to use brute force to pull himself off the altar...

Just when he was exhausted and almost ready to give up again.

Two hands embraced him.

It was human hands that gently lifted him up.

Chen Yuan's entire body froze.

He instinctively curled up, a primal reaction of the tentacles, and the suckers opened, gripping the arms that were holding her.

Then he saw it.

They have red eyes.

Hmm...? What's this... Wanwan?!

.......

Five years ago.

Chen Yuan died, and died a very serious death.

He remembered that he could still see things when he was dying, although his vision had begun to blur and darken.

Then he saw Yu Wan's face.

She knelt beside him, her hair disheveled and plastered to her cheeks, her face covered in blood and mud.

Her eyes were scarlet.

Chen Yuan remembered that these eyes were usually dark brown.

He wanted to say something.

"Hmm... Don't cry?"

Yu Wan cries the most; she'll even cry when it thunders.

Chen Yuan's consciousness began to dissipate...

He recalled the time when he first transmigrated.

That would truly be called an earthquake.

An engineer on Earth spent three years barely surviving.

Later, the remaining human forces formed an alliance.

However, people like Chen Yuan, who have no identity chip and are not registered, are not even qualified to enter the city.

He could only wander around the mining area outside the city, digging for minerals to sell for money, and eating garbage every day.

Until he used his knowledge of electronic engineering from his previous life to repair a broken energy regulator.

This allowed him to obtain the status of a "temporary engineer," and at least he was finally allowed to enter the city.

Then came the day Yu Wan was found.

On a rainy day, Chen Yuan had just finished a field maintenance task and was taking a shortcut through the old city's landfill.

He saw her amidst a pile of discarded metal parts and rotting fruit peels and vegetable leaves.

Huddled in a half-broken plastic bucket, soaking wet, hair plastered to his face, clothes so torn they barely covered his body.

He was shivering as he nibbled on half a moldy loaf of bread in his arms.

Upon seeing Chen Yuan, her eyes widened immediately, filled with terror.

But the next second, she grabbed a rusty iron pipe and, like a cat with its fur standing on end, stared at him, her teeth grinding together.

Chen Yuan didn't care. He was ready to leave. There was too much suffering in this world for him to save.

"I'm just passing by, do whatever you want."

Yu Wan was only nine years old at that time.

She stared at him warily for a full minute, then suddenly threw down the iron pipe and burst into tears.

Chen Yuan was somewhat bewildered.

Weren't you being fierce just now?

He then noticed that she had a deep wound on her calf that was still bleeding.

He sighed, took out a small first-aid kit from his backpack, and went over to bandage her wound.

Yu Wan was trembling throughout the entire process, but she did not attack him again.

After bandaging her up, Chen Yuan handed her the remaining half of an energy bar from his bag.

Yu Wan stared at the energy bar, then at him, and finally carefully took it, wolfing it down.

"Who...who are you?" she asked softly.

"Chen Yuan, an ordinary Alliance engineer."

"What...what is an engineer?"

"They're the kind of people who fix things."

........

From that day on, Chen Yuan had a little tail following him around.

Yu Wan is incredibly timid.

When it thunders, you should snuggle into his arms; when you see a patrol robot, you should hide behind him.

Even when she wakes up from a nightmare at night, she will run barefoot to his bedside and pitifully say, "Chen Yuan, I'm scared."

Knowing that Chen Yuan was tired from work, she would go out every day to rummage through the garbage dump for good food to give him.

It's small and cute.

Chen Yuan often thought that if he hadn't found Yu Wan, he might have given up long ago.

In this hopeless world, it's too hard for one person to survive...

But with Yu Wan by his side, he had to persevere, find food for her, and ensure she could at least grow up safely.

Although in the end, he failed to do it.

He really didn't raise them badly on purpose...

.......

On the verge of death.

My consciousness is becoming increasingly blurred.

Chen Yuan saw Yu Wan's lips moving, as if she was saying something, but he couldn't hear her.

He couldn't utter a single word.

Blood flows out of the body, taking away warmth.

Finally, with his last ounce of consciousness, before succumbing to complete darkness, he managed to utter three words:

"I love you......"

The voice was so soft it was almost inaudible, but Yu Wan heard it.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

It looked like she was about to cry, but she had already run out of tears.

She just knelt there, holding Chen Yuan's gradually cooling body, her whole being like a plaster statue damaged by the rain.

This was the last scene Chen Yuan saw.

........

What does death feel like?

Chen Yuan had thought about this question before.

There are heavens and hells like in religions, but that's too unrealistic.

He prefers to believe that he is the reincarnation of Qin Shi Huang, but has lost his memory.

In short, he really never imagined that death would be so... peaceful.

However, none of that matters anymore.

Because he came back to life!!!