……

Amidst the wind and snow, the sea surface had frozen over.

Gu Yuqiu opened her eyes, feeling the slight chill of the wind on her body, and stood up to gaze into the distance.

At the edge of the horizon, rolling black clouds were interspersed with countless bright lights.

She smiled slightly, as if she had remembered something interesting.

Then, she turned around and looked behind her.

Broken walls and ruins, corpses strewn across the field.

The heavy snow buried much of it, but it couldn't hide the dark red blood. The faint sobs and painful wails were muffled by the wind and were not very clear.

Looking at this desolate and bleak scene, and thinking about how she felt when she first came into this world, it was hard not to feel a pang of emotion.

"If it were cleaned properly, it wouldn't seem much different from a strawberry sundae I've eaten before... So why did I throw up?"

The rumors are quite strong.

Gu Yuqiu's voice was too soft and faint.

Therefore, the last thing she said to herself was never heard by anyone else.

"If you're here to cause trouble, please leave now. This is only a warning to you this time."

A familiar voice pierced through the layers of wind and snow and reached her ears.

Gu Yuqiu looked over there and saw a girl dressed in thin clothes, covered in fresh snow, walking out of a temporary camp and staring at him with a resolute and indifferent expression.

Of course she recognized her.

But how could she possibly recognize her now?

This is Su Yan from many years ago.

Gu Yuqiu, thinking about the past, smiled slightly and walked towards the girl who had just saved a patient.

Su Yan remained calm as she carefully put away the scalpel she hadn't yet put down, preparing for the upcoming battle.

For some reason, even though she perceived the other party as very weak, she inexplicably felt a sense of impending doom.

As Gu Yuqiu approached step by step, Su Yan gradually became nervous.

If she hadn't been awake for over seventy hours straight and hadn't been constantly expending her energy treating patients, she might have had a little more confidence at this point.

She took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down, and looked at the short-haired woman who had come up in front of her, thinking, "You're not bad looking, are you? Why are you such a pervert?"

Gu Yuqiu said wistfully, "Who told you to like someone like me?"

Su Yan frowned slightly, wondering what those words meant.

Gu Yuqiu did not explain.

She took another step, hugged Su Yan in her arms, and kissed her already parched lips.

Su Yan was stunned.

Suddenly a gust of wind came, stirring up countless snowflakes and dust.

Gu Yuqiu has disappeared.

She suddenly felt full of energy.

……

……

One summer, at the beach.

Azure sea, silver sand, sunset.

The shadows of the palm and coconut trees were bathed in sunlight, appearing as deep as the darkest night.

Gu and Qiu walked on the reddened sand, their bare feet splashing through the waves.

She stopped somewhere, reached out her hand to the little girl who had fallen onto the damp sand, and said gently, "How about I apologize to you?"

Crimson blinked, looking at the person who had defeated her not long ago, at that completely different gentle gaze, and wondered if she was already dead.

Otherwise, why would such a hallucination occur?

She opened her mouth slightly, wanting to express many questions, but ultimately remained silent.

Gu Yuqiu looked at her, guessed what she was thinking, and felt a little self-deprecating.

Crimson finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked, "Who exactly are you...?"

"Shhh."

Gu Yuqiu laughed and put her index finger to her lips, signaling her not to speak.

Deep Red subconsciously pursed her lips, but after a moment she began to hate her own cowardice. Just as she was about to straighten her chest and continue questioning, she heard a sentence.

Gu Yuqiu leaned down slightly, whispered into her earlobe, "If I hated you, if I didn't like you, you should have died long ago."

The words fell.

Crimson opened her eyes wide, turned her head to look to the side, but could only see the setting sun sinking into the sea.

That person has long since vanished like smoke.

……

……

When autumn comes, the mountains and fields are gradually painted with vibrant colors, creating a beautiful scene.

A long-haired white cat lay on a pile of fallen leaves, looking like a ball of fluff from a distance.

It slept very comfortably, snoring softly, unlike anything one would expect in the wild.

It doesn't look like a stray cat at all.

Gu Yuqiu stood under the tree, quietly watching Songtang sleeping soundly, thinking to herself, "Of course I'm not a good person. I've done many things that I feel guilty about."

But I have never betrayed your trust.

She raised her hand, tucked her slightly disheveled hair behind her ear, revealed a sincere smile, and whispered, "Sweet dreams."

……

……

Countless memories, some etched in her heart and others forgotten, kept appearing before Gu Yuqiu's eyes.

It was only then that she realized her life had been rather dull.

So she gradually stopped paying attention to the story unfolding before her eyes, like an outsider coldly observing a world that had lost her.

The story then took a very different turn.

The old gods gradually became more unscrupulous, eyeing this new and vibrant world, whispering to seduce humanity and spread faith, thus igniting war.

However, she wasn't interested in any of these things.

After leaving Blood and Fire, Gu and Qiu went to Xin Chu.

It is winter.

One night, in the early hours of the morning.

The girl parked her car on the side of the road, opened the car door anxiously, and walked towards a tall building.

Not long ago, she received a message.

In a bar inside this building, a superhuman, greatly agitated, lost control and took a hostage, creating a very dangerous situation.

Gu Yuqiu watched her retreating figure, remained silent for a while, and wondered if this was the end of the journey.

Chapter 196: The End and the Return

The night rain continued, pattering softly.

The chill seeped into every corner, and the air seemed to be filled with countless shards of ice, making it slightly painful to breathe.

Lin Mushi walked through the dark passage, her thin lips pursed, her expression gradually calming down, no longer anxious.

Gu Yuqiu followed beside her, turned his head to look at her seriously, and realized that before she met him, she was not entirely naive, but rather quite mature.

"How did you become that kind of person? Naïve and idiotic, cute and childish, you can't really call yourself a giant baby, and you were so stubborn that you insisted I apologize to you. You already knew how amazing I was back then, right... Is right and wrong really that important? If it were me, I definitely wouldn't have persisted. Living, and living well enough, is the most important thing. And you're not the kind of person who hasn't suffered, so why were you so stubborn?"

Gu Yuqiu pondered these questions silently, gradually feeling lost.

The passage was dimly lit, with no change on either side, and the walk seemed endless.

These are questions she has thought about countless times, and which remain unresolved to this day.

Lin Mushi didn't notice her. She took out her communicator and whispered to the Special Affairs Bureau commander on the other end, trying to understand the current situation. She felt that time was passing too quickly.

Gu Yuqiu was somewhat unfamiliar with this version of Lin Mushi, because this was a story without her.

The two walked the last part of the road.

Lin Mushi pushed open the door and slowly entered.

Looking around, Gu Yuqiu still saw only a scene of utter devastation.

The blood was mixed with shards of glass, and the smell of alcohol mingled with the stench of blood.

The chandelier flickered intermittently, making the room even darker.

At some point, Lin Mushi put down the communicator.

She looked towards the end of the bar and found the superhuman holding the hostage. Thinking of the words she had prepared beforehand, she forced herself to calm down.

Just as she was about to utter her first words.

A helpless sigh reached her ears.

"So you're still such an idiot... thinking of negotiating with a madman."

Upon hearing this, Lin Mushi abruptly turned around and looked at the person who had spoken first.

It was a dark corner where a girl, whose face was obscured, leaned against the wall, her lips slightly upturned, her smile faint and indistinct.

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