After being poisoned by mushrooms, all the strange creatures became fascinated by me.

Before all the swirling pages had landed, the monster was swept up by the gale and descended from the sky.

Their burly, grotesque, swollen bodies made almost no preparation for landing; their robust physiques were their best protection. Their bent arms, like impenetrable walls, tightly protected the child in their arms, whose eyes could barely open.

"What is that?" In the control room, the scene of the falling object was projected in real time onto a large screen. The young man jumped up from his computer in shock. "A monster! A monster has kidnapped a child!"

The ID "Gu" is flashing in the lower right corner of the screen: Safe.

Gu Xiaomei tilted her head back, squinted to make out the familiar figures, her heart pounding, her eyes filled with joy.

Once again, Tang Li kept her promise.

"Do those children need help?" Qing Fengnian's urgent voice rang out behind her. High altitude, evil spirits, children—the combination of these three words could evoke anxiety and a protective instinct in almost any normal person.

"No," Gu Xiaomei smiled, "Can't you see? The monster is protecting them."

"But..." Qing Fengnian suddenly exclaimed, "What is this?!"

Like sunlight spun into threads, beneath the blue curtain, a dazzling net of light suddenly unfolded, almost covering their heads and enveloping the entire sky.

The tiny pears, each of their palms overflowed with a watery light, which gradually turned into golden rays, shimmering against the blue sky.

Extending from one Tang Li's hand to another; intertwined, woven into an all-encompassing net under the swirling wind.

Beneath the net, in the center of the hospital, stood a series of enormous shipping containers, their transparent bodies filled with a dark blue liquid in which were densely packed chunks of purplish-black flesh.

At that very moment, as if summoned by some unseen force, the purplish-black flesh that had been slowly wriggling suddenly became excited, like tadpoles turning into frogs. They sprouted countless tiny legs and began to kick and thrash in the deep blue water.

Clumps of purplish-black flesh floated to the top of the container, seemingly with a mind of their own, and repeatedly crashed into the lid, almost shaking the originally indestructible container.

The light net descended at an astonishing speed, quickly surpassing the monster and the child, and was only a few meters away from the ground.

"Step back," Gu Xiaomei said to the middle-aged man behind her, while she herself took a step forward.

As if sensing something, she raised her arm high, palm facing up.

—Until the lightest, lightest weight fell into her palm with a soft thud.

Little Tang Li sat there sprawled out, staring wide-eyed at Gu Xiaomei.

Gu Xiaomei could no longer contain her smile: "Tang Li, I see you."

Through the earpiece, Tang Li's weak voice seemed to come from a very distant place, yet a hint of laughter could still be heard: "Yes, I can see you too."

"Your hometown is beautiful. Well then, let me help you out again."

The net of light has finally descended upon this place.

The ethereal light pierced through the shipping container, penetrating the purplish-black flesh huddled together within. Divine grace enveloped those strange creatures, still devoid of sentience, like snow meeting sunlight. The chunks of flesh grew smaller and smaller, willingly stretching freely in the light until they vanished completely.

—That is the purest and most bizarre power accumulated over several years by gathering the power of the entire world.

At this moment, everything is offered as a sacrifice to the gods.

The tiny pears run across the land of the new world, their feet untouched by the dust of this foreign land. They ride the wind, hiding in the light; when the containers are empty, they go even further.

At that moment, a heavy thud finally sounded as the plane landed.

Gu Xiaomei suddenly stepped forward and saw the huge monster crash heavily to the ground. Its body, which was swollen and enormous from being soaked in water, had broken limbs and had obviously suffered a great impact. However, the child in its arms was still unharmed.

Zhuge Jiajia, without bothering to observe her surroundings, anxiously turned around to examine and feel the swollen body beneath her: "Liu Anbang? How are you?!"

Liu Anbang was bleeding from his mouth and nose and could barely move, but he was still alive. His eyes were clearly bulging and dull, but his gaze towards Zhuge Jiajia was full of tenderness.

She lived, he lived, and they finally embraced in the new world.

In that instant, Zhuge Jiajia could no longer control the trembling of her body. She covered her mouth, tears quickly filling her eyes, as if only at this moment did the overwhelming fear and anxiety strike her soul.

Behind the couple, more and more swollen human bodies carrying children landed.

Gu Xiaomei stood still, not disturbing them. She gazed lovingly at the children she had raised with her own hands, whose wishes had finally come true, and felt as if the huge weight that had been hanging over her heart had finally been lifted.

"That's wonderful, that's wonderful," she murmured, her eyes reddening, her voice almost a whisper.

At that moment, she realized that this was the best possible ending she had ever envisioned.

Little Tang Li stood with her hands on her hips in her palm, watching the group of people who were crying tears of joy.

She sighed maturely, shook her head, and patted Gu Xiaomei's head.

In the earphones, Tang Li, still in the sky, also sighed weakly.

"—Your expectations are too low, Xiaomei. Why don't you be a little bolder?"

When we are finally able to speak up and ask fate for its gifts, why don't we dare to have more ambition?

Suddenly, the net of light lit up, and in each cell, there was precisely a swollen, tattered human body.

—Since the gods have already banished you from His kingdom.

—Since you are no longer worthy to continue being the supernatural.

Tang Li said in a low voice, "Then I have no choice but to take back God's gift on His behalf."

then--

The light enveloped them, rendering those hideous and terrifying behemoths in bright colors.

Zhuge Jiajia was left outside the light. She slowly reached out and tentatively touched the net of light that enveloped her lover. The touch was cool and gentle, and ripples spread from her fingertips.

The enormous luminous figure grew smaller and smaller, even shedding the severed limbs it had just broken off, as if the swollen layer that had been soaking in the water was a thick, plump, and juicy fruit peel that had completely peeled away under the baking of the light.

After the fruit was removed, the pit hidden inside was revealed to Zhuge Jiajia again.

The little girl held her breath, feeling the trembling that had just subsided intensify and take control of her body.

So familiar, so familiar.

It's been a long time, so long!

Zhuge Jiajia wanted to cry, but she didn't dare. She was unwilling, afraid that she would miss everything in the blink of an eye. She gazed longingly at the last figure left in the light.

Really? Is this all just a dream I had before I died?

As the light faded, a man of medium build with calm and dignified features appeared.

— Liu Anbang revealed his figure.

Liu Anbang looked down at his hands in a panic and confusion. He groped himself from head to toe. His gaze inadvertently swept over the girl watching him, and he could no longer look away.

In that instant, he forgot everything, forgot the earth-shattering change that had just occurred to him, forgot to be wary and explore his surroundings; he stared greedily at the little girl.

Really? Is this all just a dream I had before I died?

The two saw fear, bewilderment, and the trembling and ecstasy of something lost and then regained in each other's eyes.

Then, as if hearing a starting gun fire out of nowhere, Liu Anbang burst into tears and rushed over, tightly clutching Zhuge Jiajia in his arms.

—It's so awful, so scary, like a big dog with its tail between its legs, howling and sobbing.

It was this familiar, long-lost wail that startled Zhuge Jiajia. Strangely enough, Zhuge Jiajia's heart calmed down just like that.

She thought, she thought, with a hint of smugness in her heart: Even in the hallucination before my death, I would never want to hear such an unpleasant howl.

Therefore, everything is true, and everything must be true.

All the confusion and doubt were shattered at this moment. Under the blue sky, Zhuge Jiajia hugged Liu Anbang's head and laughed through her tears.

—And so, and so, and so it is.

Friends, let us cheer for them and raise a glass to bid farewell to their magnificent past.

—Because time begins to flow from there.

—Flowing towards their endless new future.