148: Chapter 148 The Final Gamble
Agony.
A soul-piercing agony, like the most vicious curse, forcibly dragged my fading consciousness back to reality.
With great difficulty, I opened my damaged compound eyes.
What met my gaze was Lin Qingzhi's pale, bloodless, and exquisitely beautiful face, right before me.
I was being held tightly in her arms, protected.
Just like the last time, when Night Crow self-detonated, she did it again.
Using her fragile body, she blocked almost all of the... damage for me.
Her aura was extremely weak, as if it could be completely extinguished at any moment.
That heart, which had once beaten so tenaciously, was now barely audible.
"Go... quickly..."
Using the last shred of her strength, she transmitted her final... intent of this life to me through the Symbiotic Bond.
"Take the... star map... don't... worry about me..."
Her voice was intermittent and filled with weakness, yet it carried an unquestionable... command.
My heart—or rather, my soul that belonged to a human—was stung fiercely at this moment.
I looked at this girl in my arms who, for my sake, had repeatedly burned her divine soul and sacrificed her life without hesitation.
I looked up again at those two terrifying figures, like death gods, approaching us step by step.
A look of vengeful pleasure hung on Night Crow's face.
The Observer's eyes were filled with greed for the "token."
In their eyes, we were already two corpses that could be handled at will.
Escape?
Where could we escape to?
Right now, I didn't even have the strength to vibrate a wing.
Lin Qingzhi was even more spent, her lamp running out of oil.
We had truly fallen into a... dead end.
However, at this very moment, in this most desperate and helpless time, a madness—unprecedented and as brilliant as a blazing sun—suddenly ignited within my compound eyes, which were flickering with an eerie purple light and slightly unfocused from the heavy damage!
It was the kind of primal madness erupted by a cornered beast before death, a madness that sought to drag everything into hell!
I made a decision that even I found frightening, a decision that Lin Qingzhi could never have imagined!
I didn't choose to run.
I didn't even choose to put up any futile resistance.
Using my only still-movable foreleg, which was already twisted and deformed, I tightly hooked onto Lin Qingzhi's collar.
Then, dragging her cold and fragile body, I used my last bit of strength to proactively and crazily charge toward a direction that none of them expected!
That direction was exactly what we had discovered before, hidden in the basement of that abandoned small building...
The true entrance to the three-yuan singularity!
"Hmm? What is that bug trying to do?"
Watching my frantic actions, a trace of confusion and mockery flashed in Night Crow's eyes.
To him, I was merely making a final, meaningless... struggle.
However, Lin Qingzhi instantly understood my intention!
Her phoenix eyes, which had grown dim and lusterless, suddenly widened!
They were filled with extreme... shock and... disbelief!
"No! Mo Wen! Don't!" She used her last bit of strength to try and stop me.
But it was already too late!
Dragging her along, like a comet striking the earth, I slammed fiercely into that weak point in space that was emitting faint spatial fluctuations!
I would use my broken body as the key to open this door leading to the unknown and destruction!
No!
Just myself wasn't enough!
I suddenly lifted Lin Qingzhi's right hand—which had long been soaked in my blood and her own divine blood, and was imbued with the Ice Phoenix Charm—and pressed it hard against that weak point in space!
"Vwoom—!"
At this moment, the Ice Phoenix Charm and the mark of the singularity resonated perfectly!
That originally stable weak point in space instantly began to boil, twist, and swirl violently, like boiling water after oil had been dropped into it!
A pitch-black, bottomless energy vortex, like a black hole, slowly opened its greedy, giant maw filled with unknown and violent energy before us!
Then, I opened my own equally greedy... mouthparts!
I pushed the Devouring Law from the deepest part of my bloodline, inherent to the myriad manifestations evolution codex, to an unprecedented... extreme!
My goal wasn't to escape!
My goal wasn't survival either!
My goal was to take this entire unstable, about-to-be-opened three-yuan singularity, along with the final killing moves that Night Crow and The Observer were about to unleash, and...
Swallow it all!!!
If we're going to die, we'll die together!
But before I die, I'm taking all of you with me as... company!
"Madman!"
"He's a complete and utter madman!"
Seeing my actions filled with resolution and madness, for the first time, true fear appeared on the faces of Night Crow and The Observer, which had always worn the smiles of victors!
They finally understood!
I wasn't running away!
I was going to... detonate the entire singularity!