Chapter 72: Sixty, what are you going to do?
Bai Wei quietly watched Ulu.
He still dug up the worm from the soil, and in a very short ti, the worm’s size had increased almost tenfold, becoming like a real giant earthworm.
But even so, the worm still died.
It was attacked by Ulu through various ans.
Fists, stomping, and even… teeth. This didn’t resemble the thods of a human, but more like a wild beast in a frenzy, attacking another creature.
Yet this creature itself was actually fragile, and Ulu easily reduced it to pieces.
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Yes, the worm was fragile, an adult could kill it with ease.
A child could do the sa.
So, after completing this unequal slaughter, Ulu didn’t feel any pleasure. He lay there in the perished flowerbed, the mud and leftover petals sticking to him, making him look as if he were a part of this land.
Ulu stared blankly at the ceiling, his eyes devoid of any liveliness, and after an uncertain period of Silence, he finally spoke slowly, his voice so hoarse it was almost incomprehensible, “Visas… is this the truth you wanted to see?”
“Yes.”
“All of it?”
“All of it.”
Ulu was dazed for a bit longer before he spoke again, “I understand now, I finally understand why you took three days to tell this truth.”
Bai Wei said nothing.
“You want to tell that my fate was sealed from the start. My mother and I… no, to be accurate, it was only my mother who wasn’t needed by the Church, so she had to, had to…” Ulu struggled to continue, “had to die twenty years ago, but she was bound to make survive, and I was bound to join the Church, bound to encounter Lu Ji, even if it wasn’t Lu Ji, it would be soone else, like that old man in the library, but essentially, he’s just another Lu Ji.”
“After joining the Church, no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t pass the exams to enter Somo City because everything I believed in was false. Rhein’s only criterion for selecting people was whether they closely resembled what they considered to be— ‘the favored by God’ template. And I wasn’t, so I’d always have to stay in that small town, becoming… the next Lu Ji, and then et the next version of my childhood self.”
“This is a future I cannot change no matter how hard I struggle, right?”
“The truth you wanted to see… is this.”
Bai Wei remained silent, knowing at this mont he didn’t need to speak, just listen.
“Hehehe, I was actually thinking just now, if I had killed that worm twenty years ago, would things not have turned out this way?” Ulu’s head tilted slightly, looking towards the large table from before, where hundreds of identical boxes still sat, “But now, it seems I’ve thought too much.”
Bai Wei finally spoke up, “Killing one or two, it’s useless, without solving the root cause, they’ll keep on coming endlessly.”
“What’s the root cause?”
“The successive Bishops of the West Cathedral.” Bai Wei spoke indifferently, “They have the power to create and control these worms.”
Ulu suddenly laughed, “I guessed it was so, and that’s why yesterday you proposed a deal to … the final deal, right?”
“So…” Bai Wei controlled his middle finger and slowly stood up, “Do you want to make a deal?”
Ulu murmured, “It seems, I have no reason to refuse, huh? After all this, what’s left that I can’t lose?”
“Which ans…”
“I refuse.”
“…Huh?” Bai Wei seed surprised.
“I said, I refuse.” Ulu looked towards the middle finger, grinned, revealing an extrely unsightly smile, “Visas, do you think you have control over everything? Do you think I have no reason to refuse? People like , with such filthy lives, who know everything, should go all out, right?”
Bai Wei’s voice remained calm, “It seems you don’t think so.”
“Of course… I don’t think so!” Ulu suddenly stood up, his emotions uncontrollably erupting, “Fate made this way, and you want to die for this kind of fate. No, Visas! I’m telling you, no!”
“eting you, is also part of my fate! But I reject this fate! You want to die for the past! I refuse to die!”
“You misjudged! Visas!”
“This life, no matter how rotten, cheap, or worthless, is also… the only thing left to by my mother!”
Ulu was hysterically bellowing at Bai Wei.
“I won’t give it to you! I’m not going to give it to you!”
“Hahahaha, Visas, you lost, you lost!”
Ulu was laughing.
Mocking.
Jeering.
He had finally beaten this self-righteous guy.
But at the sa ti.
He was also crying, crying like a child who had lost everything, wildly venting.
But now, there was no one left to comfort him.
Bai Wei waited until Ulu had vented everything before slowly asking, “So, knowing everything now, what do you want to do?”
What do I want to do now?
Ulu’s eyes flashed with a trace of confusion, but they quickly cleared.
He spoke slowly yet firmly.
“I want… to go ho.”
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I don’t want anything anymore, nothing at all.
Ulu was sprinting through the pouring rain in Somo City.
He had co to know everything, understood everything, and at the sa ti, he had decided to give up everything.
Fate or hatred.
I don’t want anything anymore, nothing at all.
He only wanted to go ho, to the place he had tried countless tis to escape from, back to… his mother’s side.
For that, he ran like a mad dog. He knocked down I don’t know how many pedestrians, fell down I don’t know how many tis, but quickly got up again and continued to run wildly.
He rushed back to the hotel at the fastest speed, burst into his room, and packed his luggage.
It was night, and it was difficult to leave the city.
But he didn’t care about that now; he wanted to leave imdiately, to go tonight.
After grabbing his luggage, Ulu hurriedly went downstairs and, just as he was about to leave, he heard the sound of sobbing from one of the rooms.
He stopped in his tracks.
Ulu slowly turned his head, looking towards that room.
The landlady Kay lay on the bed, with Lea crying on top of her.
“Auntie, auntie, please don’t go…”
Ulu stood silently outside the room watching.
Kay wasn’t dead yet, but it was clear she wouldn’t last the night, not even a few hours.
Ulu watched her struggle to lift her hand, gently caressing Lea’s head, trying to say sothing but unable to speak.
Then, as if sensing sothing, she slowly lifted her head and glanced in Ulu’s direction.
Ulu didn’t know if her unfocused eyes could see him, but he could still read the apology in those eyes.
Why apologize?
Ulu pursed his lips, paid no attention, and turned to leave.
Because this had nothing to do with him anymore.
He had to leave, now.
“Auntie… don’t leave , please, don’t leave alone…”
The foot Ulu had lifted froze mid-air, and once again he turned his head to look at the small figure.
How far can a person’s eyes really see?
Ulu didn’t know.
But now, he seed to see the past and seed to see the future.
The past and future had never been as clear as they were today, as if fate had everything already arranged.
At that mont, Ulu understood sothing.
“So that’s how it is…”
He murmured,
“So that’s how it is.”
Then, once again, footsteps echoed in the hotel, different from the disordered and irritated ones a few minutes ago, these steps were heavy and strong.
Lea instinctively lifted her head and hadn’t seen anything yet when she felt a warm, large hand rest on her head.
“Don’t cry, wait for to return.”
Then the large hand let go, along with the luggage he was supposed to take ho.
Lea imdiately turned her head but only saw a back figure heading out of the hotel.
“Where… are you going?”
Ulu looked back at Lea, then showed an unprecedented smile, as if he had seen through everything.
“To save Mom.”
He replied like this and simultaneously pushed the door open,
Then he stepped into the night, disturbed by the violent rain and howling wind.
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