Chapter 61
Lu Xiuying led everyone to run towards the demon clan's territory. He thought they would really reach the Adventure Avenue, but he didn't expect that after running for only a few minutes, he saw black air swirling in front of him, like a tornado, which was extremely spectacular.
Without waiting for anyone to ask, Lu Xiuying took the initiative to speak: "I haven't seen this before when I came here."
"That's what appears after triggering the hidden mission." Mu He responded, "The mission target should be there, keep running."
With a clear goal, running feels much easier.
After a while, everyone rushed to the center of the black "tornado" and saw a person there.
He was a man in gorgeous robes. His snow-white robe was embroidered with delicate blue patterns, which were layered and looked very beautiful.
His long hair, which turned from white to blue, was spread out behind him. On his head stood a pair of furry fox ears, with some blue dotted on the tips of his ears.
Then behind him, nine tails were dancing in the air, which was very domineering!
Obviously, he is the man Wumei is looking for, because he has occupied Wumei's heart and bones and turned into a demon.
——Gu Qingheng. @Infinite good articles, all in Jinjiang Literature City
[It's him! You helped me find him!] As soon as Wu Mei saw him, she immediately jumped off Mu He's wolf back and almost floated in front of Gu Qingheng.
The two stood face to face, one in white and the other in black robe, one with a blue pattern on his forehead and the other with bright red eye shadow in the corners of his eyes. The sense of CP was extremely strong.
System: [Congratulations on completing the mission "Find Gu Qingheng"!]
After completing this task, everyone gained another wave of experience, but this time the experience gained was not as much as last time - Mu He looked at his level, which was still 42.
Gu Qingheng saw Wu Mei, his face expressionless, his voice unusually cold: [You're still alive?] He paused, [You've been possessed by a demon.]
"Yes, my soul has remained undimmed for thousands of years, and has successfully become a demon. I'm sorry to disappoint you." Wu Mei said, sneering, "Gu Qingheng! I'm going to kill you!"
As she spoke, she waved her hand and condensed a ball of black energy to attack Gu Qingheng. Gu Qingheng simply waved his sleeves and blocked her black energy.
Mu He took the opportunity to check Gu Qingheng's information: a level 99 demon mage.
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"Should we go up?" Bai Zhuo asked tremblingly.
Yuan Yitong responded to him: "What the hell. It's a fight between gods, don't get involved."
Obviously, he also saw Gu Qingheng's terrifying level.
"There is no mission at the moment, let's wait a moment." Mu He said as he took a few steps back. Everyone followed him and retreated together, silently admiring the fighting figures of Wu Mei and Gu Qingheng from a distance. In the end, of course, Wu Mei was knocked to the ground by Gu Qingheng.
"Since you've been resurrected, why seek death again?" Gu Qingheng said.
Wu Mei struggled to get up from the ground, and responded with his remaining health remaining: [Killing someone means killing someone. You killed me, and I'm going to kill you. What's wrong with that?]
[You can't kill me.] Gu Qingheng said this, turning his back. Nine magnificent tails swung behind him, and a black aura swirled around him before gradually disappearing.
Without the black aura to contrast with him, his figure became even clearer: [I'll kill you because you've gone too far. Although you saved my life, don't even think of enslaving me—if you're doing me a favor just to humiliate or torture me, then that's unnecessary. I'd rather die.]
"I gave you your life!" Wu Mei shouted at the top of her lungs. "To save you, I dug out my heart and gave you my bones, sacrificing nearly a thousand years of cultivation. You were born because of me, so you should be used by me!"
Gu Qingheng frowned, obviously disagreeing with her.
Wu Mei continued, "Your heart is mine, your bones are mine, your demonic power, your cultivation, all are mine, so you are mine too! If I let you die, you will never live again!"
Gu Qingheng responded in a voice of intolerance: [I don't want to live, but you insist that I live. Now that I'm alive, I don't want to be controlled by you! After all, saving me is just one side of your story. How can you prove it?]
[You!] Wu Mei stumbled back two steps, gritting her teeth. [Okay, just wait, I'll prove it to you!] As she spoke, she turned her gaze towards Mu He, startling Mu He and the others!
[If I want to share my memories with others, I need a medicine called "Moon Dream Life." To make this medicine, I need "Moon Dream Grass." I'm too weak to move, could you help me collect some?]
Mu He nodded, of course: "Okay."
System: [Quest Progress 3: Pick Moon Dream Grass. Quest Tip: Moon Dream Grass glows at night, so there should be some nearby.]
After accepting the task, everyone took a few steps away from the two NPCs before they could find their voices again.
Yuan Yitong: "Exciting."
Bai Zhuo: "This client is a bit scary..."
Yan Ziyue: "I still don't understand how this mission has anything to do with love?"
Lu Xiuying: “Me too.”
Fan Shu: "Is it because I lost my heart that I lost my love?"
The wolf smoke rose: "Who cares? We'll just do whatever the mission tells us to do."
Mu He walked up to Feng Xiyan and saw that he looked like he had nothing to do with it. He couldn't help but ask, "What do you think the truth is?"
Feng Xiyan responded simply with three words: "I don't know."
"You don't even take a guess?" Mu He was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Feng Xiyan looked at him, thinking that if he could guess, Murong He would not have quit the circle...
Of course, I couldn't say this out loud, so I could only helplessly respond: "I can't guess, what do you think?"
Mu He thought for a moment and said, "I think Xiao Shu's guess is quite right. Since this mission is called 'Love Has Entered the Bone', it must have something to do with love. Wu Mei lost her heart and therefore lost her love. This statement makes perfect sense. Before she lost her heart, she must have loved Gu Qingheng. The problem is that Gu Qingheng seems to have no love for her, only hatred?"
Feng Xiyan: "You are right, that makes sense."
Mu He: “…”
Okay, it can be seen that Feng Xiyan is too lazy to guess.
But then again, after all the guessing, what matters in the end is not who is smarter, but whose thinking is closer to the plan, which is meaningless.
It’s better to focus on completing tasks and earning experience.
The group found Moon Dream Grass in a nearby forest. There were monsters around level 45 near the Moon Dream Grass, which was not difficult for them, a group of people around level 42.
Thinking that the ultimate goal of the task was to level up, they did not deliberately avoid these monsters. They collected all the Moon Dream Grass while fighting them.
System: [Obtain Moon Dream Grass 200/200.]
At this time, Mu He had reached level 43, and Lang Yanqi, who had the lowest level, had also reached level 42.
They returned to Wumei and handed the Moon Dream Grass to her, and gained another wave of experience, directly reaching level 44!
System: [Congratulations on completing the mission "Picking Moon Dream Grass"!]
Wumei, who obtained the Yuemeng grass, refined the grass into a flower-shaped pill out of thin air, which is the "Yuemengsheng".
When she picked up the pill, Gu Qingheng turned around and looked at her.
She looked him in the eye and said, "I will now prove to you the terrible price I paid to save you!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she put "Yuemengsheng" into her mouth and swallowed it in one gulp.
The next second, a dazzling white light exploded from her body, engulfing everything around her - engulfing Gu Qingheng, Mu He and others. @无限好文,全在Jinjiang文城
"Hmm? Did we enter the dungeon?"
Before the light disappeared, Mu He couldn't help but ask.
After the light disappeared, he looked at the unfamiliar scene around him and instinctively wanted to open the map, but found that there was no map for this place - it seemed that he had really entered a copy.
"It should be the memory of Wu Mei." Yuan Yitong said.
As if to confirm his words, not long after, everyone saw a girl with a pair of furry fox ears skipping towards a small wooden house.
"Follow her." After saying these three words, Mu He took the lead and chased after the girl.
The girl has a face extremely similar to Wumei's, and she should be the former Wumei.
She didn't wear red eyeshadow or lipstick, and she looked much more plain and elegant than Wu Mei.
She was wearing a light blue robe dotted with white gauze and walked into the cabin with her furry tail wagging.
Mu He followed him in and saw a human man who looked exactly like Gu Qingheng lying in the wooden house.
"Qingheng Qingheng! I picked some fruits and there's still dew on them. Come and eat them!" Wumei's voice was pure and lovely, like a child who knew nothing about the world.
Gu Qingheng was woken up by her. He rubbed his eyes and sat up from the bed. He looked at her helplessly, but his eyes were more doting: "Didn't I tell you? Don't go out alone. It's too dangerous. Wait until I wake up and we can go out together."
The gentle voice was completely different from that of Gu Qingheng who had transformed into a demon.
As soon as he heard his tone, Mu He knew that Gu Qingheng was in love with Wumei at this time.
"I can't bear to wake you up~" Wu Mei smiled and fed Gu Qingheng a fruit. "Besides, what's the harm in accompanying me even if you, a human being? If you really run into danger, won't I be the one to protect you?"
Hearing this, Gu Qingheng was obviously stunned for a moment, and after a while he said "hmm" lightly: "Yes... now I can no longer protect you."
Wu Mei tilted her head, her furry ears twitching. She obviously didn't understand what Gu Qingheng meant, but she quickly passed over the question and talked about something else: "Qingheng, you said we were lovers before, right?"
"Yeah." Gu Qingheng responded and smiled at Wumei.
"I think so," Wu Mei responded. "Although I don't have any memories of the past, I feel very happy when I see you. I think I must have fallen in love with you a long time ago."
"It's okay, take your time." Gu Qingheng said, gently raised one hand and touched Wumei's head, "If we can fall in love once, we can definitely fall in love again. Wumei, I love you, so I am willing to wait for you - before you fall in love with me again, I will wait no matter how long it takes."
As Gu Qingheng finished speaking, the picture suddenly froze, then slowly dimmed. When it lit up again, it was ten years later.
Wu Mei, who had become much more mature, walked into the wooden house with fruits and dew in her hands, just like she did ten years ago: "Qing Heng, get up and eat."
Gu Qingheng also sat up from the bed like he did ten years ago.
However, as soon as he stood up, before he could say anything, Wumei kissed him on the forehead.
Gu Qingheng was stunned for a moment, raised his eyes to meet hers, and couldn't help but smile: "Good morning, Wumei."
Obviously, at this time, the two had fallen in love, and their every move showed their intimacy.
And usually at times like this...
"The torture is about to begin." Yuan Yitong said to ruin the atmosphere.
Sure enough, the next scene showed two men with dragon horns on their heads, beating Gu Qingheng to the ground. “Qingheng, I told you ten years ago, don’t let me see you again, or you will die!”
"Qingheng!" Wumei, who was also injured, struggled to crawl in front of Gu Qingheng, protecting him, and stared at the two of them angrily, "Who are you! Why did you hurt him?!"
"You don't need to know!" One of them said, looking past Wu Mei at Gu Qingheng, and said, "His heart was dug out, there's no way he can survive. Let's go."
After saying that, he left with another person.
After the two left, Wu Mei lifted the dying Gu Qingheng into her arms, tears streaming down her face as she looked extremely sad. "Qingheng, don't die! Qingheng, I don't want you to die! What should I do? What should I do?"
Wu Mei cried for a while, and suddenly thought of a solution: "Your heart was dug out? Well, then I will give you my heart! I am a monster, even if I lose my heart, it is not so easy to die! Yes, I will give you my heart!"
As she spoke she stood up and really began to dig her heart out.
Under her control, the black energy gathered in her chest and quickly lifted a red ball out of her body.
The red ball glowed, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, and under Wumei's control, it flew towards Gu Qingheng on the ground and sank into the hole in his chest.
"The human body cannot bear the heart of a monster. I will give you my bones!" Wu Mei said, and took off some things that were shining with white light from his body, and inserted them into Gu Qingheng's body one after another.
Although Gu Qingheng was still unconscious, the wounds on his body had disappeared.
After completing the heart transplant, Wu Mei staggered to Gu Qingheng's side and knelt down. She stroked his pale face with her slender fingers, closed her eyes, and blinked a tear. "Gu Qingheng, you must live well. As long as you can live, I will be willing to be torn to pieces."
After the words were spoken, the picture froze again and went dark.
It was two days later when the light came on again.
Gu Qingheng woke up from the bed in the wooden house. When he opened his eyes, they turned into a charming blue. His hair also changed from black to snow-white, and he had a pair of furry ears on his head.
He sat up from the bed and turned around to see the woman standing by his bed. She had the same silver hair and fox ears as him. Her face was expressionless, not even a trace of blood, and her eyes were terrifyingly cold.
"Who... am I?" Gu Qingheng asked her.
Wu Mei responded in her emotionless voice: "Your name is Gu Qingheng, and I saved you. You are mine, and you will never be able to escape from me in your lifetime."
The copy ended here. After it dimmed and lighted again, everyone returned to the game world.
"So... Gu Qingheng lost his memory after being resurrected by Wumei?" Mu He was speechless.
Fan Shu shrugged: "It's true that I lost my love because I lost my heart... It's tragic."
Yan Ziyue: "The person was saved, but the love is gone. It's really tragic."
Without waiting for them to continue expressing their opinions, Wu Mei began to question Gu Qingheng: [Did you see that? I saved you! If it weren't for me, you wouldn't be alive today! So why are you killing me? What gives you the right to kill me?]
Gu Qingheng remained silent for a long time.
Wu Mei: [Gu Qingheng, I hate you! I paid such a heavy price to save you, but not only did you not repay me, you even killed me! I hate you, I want you to pay with your life!]
Gu Qingheng closed his eyes and sighed deeply: [I remember...]
After he said this, the nine tails swaying behind him suddenly became one, swinging down and dragging on the ground.
At the same time, his name turns red - this means players can attack him!
Mu He was stunned for a moment, and clicked on his message in disbelief, and found that his level had changed - it was originally level 99, but now it has become level 50!
After Gu Qingheng opened his eyes again, he looked at Wu Mei in front of him with a complicated expression: [I am sorry for you... If you really want to kill me, then kill me - take back your heart and your bones from me.]
[I couldn't ask for more!] Wu Mei said, then looked at Mu He and the others and gave the next instruction, [Help me kill him! Avenge me!]
Mu He: “…”
Brother, if you really kill him and get his heart back, then we will be the ones you want to kill...
He wanted to refuse, but he seemed unable to refuse.
Because, even if he didn't answer, the mission would still be carried out.
System: [Mission Progress 4: Kill Gu Qingheng. Mission Tip: Gu Qingheng has just regained his memory and is in a weakened state. Kill him quickly.]
"Oh my god, this mission..." Yan Ziyue felt that he couldn't continue. "This progress is too uncomfortable, isn't it?"
Lu Xiuying didn't have any psychological barriers: "Kill him."
Yan Ziyue: "...I can only kill him."
The mission asked them to kill, do they have any other options?
"Is there really no other option?" Mu He flipped through the mission prompts, feeling uneasy. "If we really follow Wu Mei's orders and kill Gu Qingheng, what will she do after she gets the heart back?"
Yuan Yitong quickly replied: "Destroy us all."
Mu He: "What if we don't kill Gu Qingheng?"
Yuan Yitong: "They were wiped out by Gu Qingheng."
Mu He: “…”
Fan Shu had already become a Buddha: "It's all going to end in death, so kill him."
"Alright." Mu He stopped struggling and made up his mind. He rushed towards Gu Qingheng first and knocked him into the air with one blow. Then he used two buffs and a Moon Wheel Slash. "Don't just stand there. Kill!"
Upon hearing the command, everyone immediately reflexively released their skills towards Gu Qingheng, crippling him in minutes.
After Gu Qingheng's health turned red, his name turned back to green, which meant that the player could no longer attack him.
Mu He and the others instinctively took a few steps back, leaving him room to perform. He then floated into the air with his remaining health.
[Wu Mei, perhaps this is our destined ending... I have nothing to say, I just hope you are well.]
As soon as he finished speaking, a dazzling white light suddenly burst out from his body. Then, red and white light balls separated from his body, floated towards Wumei, and sank into her body.
After this scene, the white light on Gu Qingheng's body became more and more dazzling, spreading out in all directions with him as the center, and once again engulfing everyone present.
"Is it Gu Qingheng's turn to reminisce this time?" Mu He guessed.
"After all, Wumei also lost her memory. I guess it's to restore her memory before she lost it." Fan Shu responded.
Yan Ziyue: "Tsk, these two are really troublesome..."
As they were talking, the scenery before their eyes changed - everyone once again came to the memory copy.
This time, the Gu Qingheng who appeared before them was not a fox demon, nor a human being, but a dragon.
Everyone: ...
The first line of my memory reads:
[The fox demon Wu Mei and the dragon clan member Qing Heng first met by the shores of Indigo Lake. After ten years together, they fell in love.]
——This is the beginning of their love.
Unfortunately, just when their love reached its peak, Qingheng's heavenly tribulation came.
For a moment, there were lightning and thunder, and terrible lightning struck one after another, like the roar of heaven.
The deafening sound seemed to hit everyone's heart.
Mu He looked at this spectacular scene. If he hadn't known that it was in a game, his legs would have felt weak.
Amidst the lightning and thunder, Qing Heng hung in mid-air and said to Wu Mei on the ground, "Wu Mei, go! I have dragon scales to protect me, so I'll be fine! But if you are struck by the thunder, you will surely die!"
Wu Mei took two steps back worriedly, but she didn't dare let Qing Heng disappear from her sight: "Qing Heng! Focus on overcoming the tribulation, don't worry about me!"
The next second, Qingheng transformed into a dragon and shuttled through the thunderclouds.
The thunder and lightning became more and more frequent, leaving it burnt on the outside and tender on the inside.
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It let out a high-pitched dragon roar and shuttled between thunderclouds for a while. Finally, it could no longer bear it and was struck directly from the clouds to the ground by a thunderbolt, turning back into human form.
Then, another one!
"Qingheng!" Seeing this scene, Wumei could no longer stand idly by. He quickly rushed to Qingheng and blocked the lightning for him!
Then she was instantly struck and flew far away, falling straight to the ground and falling into a coma.
After this strike, the thunder gradually subsided, and the dark clouds covering the sky and the earth quickly dissipated, revealing a clear sky.
Qing Heng woke up from his coma and stood up from the ground with bruises all over his body. He stumbled a few steps before he stood firm. Then he began to look for Wu Mei everywhere: "Wu Mei? Wu Mei!"
Soon, he found it.
He ran to Wu Mei and knelt down beside her. He lifted her, who was barely breathing, into his arms and checked her breath. When he found out that she was beyond help, he was heartbroken: "Wu Mei! Wu Mei, wake up!"
"I wanted to transcend the tribulation and ascend to heaven, but I never thought the price would be losing you!"
"Without you, what's the point of my ascension!"
"It's better not to be an immortal!"
After Qing Heng made his decision, he lifted the low-health Wu Mei from the ground and stood up to look into the distance. "Wu Mei, I will find a way to save you! Even if it means expelling me from the immortal list and removing my dragon bones, I will still save you!"
After Qingheng finished speaking, he walked away holding Wumei.
The screen gradually dimmed, and when it lit up again, Qingheng was no longer a member of the dragon clan, he became the human Gu Qingheng.
Gu Qingheng held Wumei, whose health bar was full, in his arms and walked forward silently, with his former compatriots following behind him.
One of them looked at his back and cursed: "Qing Heng! To save a demon woman, you gave up not only the immortal path, but also your identity as a dragon. You are a disgrace to our dragon clan! Don't let me see you again, or I will kill you!"
Gu Qingheng paused, without even turning his head, and said, "Just come, I won't regret it."
Then, the scene changed and the scenery became the familiar wooden house.
Wu Mei woke up from her bed in the cabin and looked at the human man beside her. She was stunned for a long moment before she spoke: "Who are you? Who am I...?"
Gu Qingheng was stunned for a moment: "Amnesia?" He paused, then smiled helplessly, "It doesn't matter. As long as you are still alive, it's better than anything else. My name is Qingheng...Gu Qingheng."
As the words fell, the screen went completely dark.
The next second, everyone was asked to leave the memory copy by the system and return to the game world.
Mu He raised his eyes to look at Gu Qingheng in mid-air. His glowing body was completely shattered and turned into scattered starlight.
Wumei, who had recovered his heart, looked at the direction he disappeared in, staggered and knelt on the ground.
System: [Congratulations on completing the mission "Kill Gu Qingheng"!]