Superpowers of Sky City

Chapter 416 Painful Memories
The farce caused by the desire of mystery is just a small episode on the journey. The Venus Star is expected to arrive at the next destination in two and a half days, the State of Blade Rain in the east of the United States.

With the experience of the last state, Gongsun Ce has basically believed that the strategy of "asking friends to choose a route by dice" is feasible.It is estimated that there will be no less opportunities for fighting in the next state, so apart from occasionally joking with his girlfriends, he spends most of his time on business: collecting data, repairing weapons, and developing moves.

Now it was the dead of night, Gongsun Ce pushed aside the design drawings and references stacked on the desk, and had a faint idea in his mind.In the past few days, he has been looking for the direction of the next move. The single thought seal is a move used to restrain others, but only hidden weapons are far from enough on the battlefield.

Gongsun Ce revisited his fighting style, and found that the Momentary Spiral, which was usually regarded as a special attack skill, was gradually unable to keep up with the current battle. The Double Star Turning Annihilation was too powerful to be used frequently. Now he urgently needs a medium-to-long-distance attack. effective means of output.Not seeking one-hit kills, but seeking stability and efficiency to threaten the enemy.Using this starting point to deduce the mind of the meme, he quickly determined the basic material for this move.

"Stable and efficient needs to be a long-standing relationship, and high output means it needs to be explosively aggressive. I study it from my personal experience..." Gongsun Ce wrote the starting point on the draft paper, "Pain will It was a good choice."

The so-called pain is the scar left by the past, it is the legacy, it is the pus, it is the reason that makes people mourn and roar.The pain once felt will not disappear, and the feelings will be diluted by time, but when the wound is touched, it is still as uncomfortable as before.The long suffering is suitable to be expressed in a "violent" way, such as thunder or artillery fire.

"Combined with Zero Island's experience, the concept of karma is very suitable as an auxiliary. Returning the damage to the villain who caused the pain is not a kind of self-satisfaction... The carrier cannon is very suitable..."

Gongsun Ce twirled the pencil in his hand and grabbed a design drawing of a cannon-shaped prosthetic body. He wrote all kinds of scrawled words on the paper, his eyes shining brightly.After clearing his mind, his inspirations are endless. This time, he drew up his thoughts in reality, and he only needs to step into his inner world to fill them up and complete the construction.

"It's done!" Gongsun Ce whistled, "Everything is ready, we only owe Dongfeng!"

Gongsun Ce furtively put the phone in the drawer, then poked his head out of the door to look around, making sure that the girls were already asleep and not nearby.The emotional breakdown after Du Xiangyin's research and development is still vivid in his memory. It is actually an emotion that can be relieved by self-regulation. He doesn't want to expose his weak side in front of the girls again.After doing all this, he climbed into bed and fell asleep peacefully.

·
Gongsun Ce once again stepped into his spiritual world, that simple "model house".This time he noticed some subtle changes in the house. There were tiny and detailed carvings on the stone walls, and there were patterns paved with stone bricks on the floor.Du Xiangyin turned into a shuriken and hung on the wall on the right, the gray flame in the fireplace was still flickering quietly, and the flame seemed to be a little more agile.

The creators told him that the process of spiritual practice is like building a "temple" in his heart to enshrine the deified aura. The more detailed and vivid the structure of the temple, the stronger the expressive power of the aura.Now these changes are undoubtedly a manifestation of his cultivation base, so Gongsun Ce is in a happy mood.He sat cross-legged in front of Nirvana, subconsciously stretched out his hand to the filthy Holy Grail, and then took it back.

——"Don't use the power of emptiness in your practice next time."

The warning of the Silent King before he left should not be underestimated. Who knows what the Eternal King will do when he is stimulated.Gongsun Ce instead put his hand into Nirvana, reviewing his past in an inefficient but safe way.His spirit sank in the icy flames, and he once again came to the practice site he built for himself, which was like a bottomless cliff piled up with murals, each mural was his past, a past he didn't want to look directly at.

Gongsun Ce's gaze swept across the scenes, including the embarrassment when he was reprimanded for his bad jokes, the embarrassment when his poor performance was punctured, and the long time ago, when he was a child in the chaotic city. The experience of starvation.These are undoubtedly "pains", slight and superficial pains, he intends to use this as a starting point to gradually deepen at a steady pace...

"!"

However, the situation suddenly changed at this moment, and the murals condensed by memories suddenly boiled like water, setting off disturbing bubbles.When the bubbles burst, black and red flames ignited, burning away the memories Gongsun Ce had prepared for him. A woman with black hair and black pupils walked out of the fire. Her performance was the same as before, but Gongsun Ce felt subconsciously uneasy.

"What's the matter?" Gongsun Ce frowned.

The Silent King stared at him with slow eyes as if he hadn't realized it yet.She stood still for a few seconds before slowly speaking: "You are practicing."

Gongsun Ce was hairy all over: "Yes, I am practicing. If you are interested, you can watch quietly. If you are not interested, can you please give me some private practice?"

The Silent King took a piece of ashes, as if he wanted to see the past that was burned by the flames.She looked at it for a few seconds, as if she saw something.

"I'll help you," she said.

There is no doubt that there is no malice in her words, and her arrival can be called a manifestation of goodwill.However, a terrifying sense of coldness penetrated Gongsun Ce's spirit at this moment, making him tremble.Gongsun Ce suddenly thought of himself who was on the verge of collapse because of communicating with the one-eyed man, and thought of those dragon worshipers, all those worries condensed into the mysterious smile on Mr. Lan's face.

I just chatted with them, Mr. Lan said, and they went crazy after they went out.

"No, stop!" Gongsun Ce roared, "I don't need your help!"

There was familiar confusion in the Silent King's eyes. "You are my kin. I will help you," she repeated.

The verbal communication had lost its meaning, Gongsun Ce immediately flew upwards, wanting to leave the spiritual space of practice as quickly as possible and return to the stable reality.But the kings are always the masters of the spiritual world, and all his actions are noises that are not even struggles in the eyes of the other party.The Silent King stretched out his hand again and touched his forehead with his fingertips. The black and red vicious information flooded in like a sea, and penetrated into Gongsun Ce's heart according to her will!

The depravity of many vicious envoys is not due to subjective will, but simply because they have no possibility of communication or understanding in the face of an overly large existence.The minds of those unfortunate encounters with great beings will be assimilated, distorted in an instant, and become miserable lives unintentionally dominated by constant principles.Gongsun Ce has experienced what happened to the unfortunate at this moment. He roared, roared, screamed, and sank in the crazy world.Everything he perceives is occupied by the extinguished Jieyan. The crazy and cold fire carries His kindness, but in the eyes of mortals, it is undoubtedly a natural disaster.He was burned and incinerated, like a skeleton in the fire turned into pieces of ashes with thoughts, the burning sensation went deep into the bone marrow, bringing unprecedented pain.He screamed, but couldn't make a sound, expressing that at this moment it became a torture even worse than Ling Chi.Every cinder suffers in Hellfire, every cinder feels His will.

feel the pain.

Achievement is powerful.

"—"

Ashes billowed in the fire.The flame manifests pain.All the pain he had experienced rushed to Gongsun Ce in every detail, and was burned into those weak ashes by Jie Yan.Being beaten, burned, corroded by chemicals, pierced, limbs cut off, the body mutilated, beaten to pieces... The pain poured in with the memories, and the ashes with consciousness got the same feeling, every time the pain All the experiences are repeated thousands of times in my heart, like endless torment in hell.

Suddenly the physical pain disappeared. They thought that hell had come to an end, but the picture that appeared immediately became clearer and more vivid.

He saw himself being ridiculed, despised.Running around the city alone.Because of his identity as a superpower, he was feared and despised.The mental pain came endlessly, he saw himself standing in the ground of the sky capital, Shigure Rei's right hand pierced his chest, and pulled out his heart.

"------"

For the first time, the motes let out a recognizable shriek.Countless ashes re-condensed into the form of Gongsun Ce. He was in the sky city, deep in the hell created by the angry sky. Qin Qianbai was about to be killed by the demons of the red mage. She turned her head at the last moment to let him go.

"no no!"

The painful memories continue and continue.He came three years ago, when the Nether Disaster struck, he and his elder brother fought side by side with everyone, but it was the second disaster that ushered in.Once again, he saw familiar people turned into crystals, and saw their desperate faces before they died. "No." See the hellish Superbia. "No..." Seeing the man in the white coat and tall hat standing alone in the beautiful hell, Yin let out a sneaky shrill laugh.

Gongsun Ce had a premonition of what he was about to see, he cried and begged, tearing himself apart, trying to escape everything he had ever seen.But Situ Yi, who turned into flames, smiled at him, so he finally returned to the battlefield of the Valkyries, galloping like light with the silver-haired and silver-armored knights.They defeated the manipulated companions together, encouraged each other together, and supported the hopelessness together, but all the good things were ended by malice, and the black dagger pierced her chest.

She fell in a pool of blood, like a lone star falling.

"--don't want!!"

This is real pain, not physical scars or mental humiliation, but you watching tragedy happen and watching her die, but you can only helplessly cry from the sidelines.

The hell of Jieyan is over, but the pain will never go away.Gongsun Ce tore his own flesh and blood in the fire. He could see both the soul and the real world. The two worlds overlapped in his eyes, making it impossible to distinguish each other.His body completely turned into a flame, and Nirvana flames also ignited in the world on the other side.He walked forward, howling like mad, he was going to burn out completely, become the ashes that burned everything.

"calm."

Stars twinkled in the boundless hell, and her voice reached the depths of the flames. "Maintain yourself." Starlight approached him, stepping through the flames of pain, her body was burned but she had no intention of retreating.She embraces the gray fire in both worlds at the same time.

"Follow the directions and get the job done."

The hellish scene was gradually dispelled by the soft starlight, and a trace of sanity miraculously returned to the fire.Flame stuffed all the feelings into the carrier he had chosen in advance, without caring about re-sculpting, it rose upward with the starlight.

He turned back into a human being, he saw the real body of Starlight, and saw the face of the silver-haired woman. "Don't die." Gongsun Ce begged, holding on to the tiny hope, "Elandia, don't die."

"I'm here, Ce."

Gongsun Ce's stars smiled at him.

He lost consciousness and fell in the dark.

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A bright star has been shining in the darkness, guiding the way to leave.Gongsun Ce's consciousness followed the light and returned to his body from the darkness.

The process of regaining consciousness was slow and painful, and it took him a long time to recognize his physical body.When the five senses recovered slightly, he felt as if he had become a zombie in the snow, and every bit of recovery of consciousness reminded him of the stiffness and coldness of his torso.He has faint senses, but he can't feel anything now.Gongsun Ce's consciousness was as quiet as a high fever. He vaguely guessed that he was being moved, heard the faint sound of water, and the outside world was spinning. He didn't know whether he was lying on his stomach or lying down.

He felt a warm embrace.

Then, consciousness emerged from the fingertips bit by bit, and the real sense of existence came back along with the severe pain. "...Cold." Gongsun Ce made a sound. "Loss of temperature... heat... recovery..." The sound of the water became louder.There was another kind of heat coming from around, seeping into his body.

Gongsun Ce finally woke up.

"Elandia!" he cried in horror.The woman caressed his back, and drops of water rolled down her hands. "I'm by your side, Ce." Dawn Knight's voice came, and he felt relieved.Then those suppressed emotions broke out, and Gongsun Ce trembled with pain.

"I thought I was used to it, I thought I'd accepted it," he sobbed, "but I can't, Elandia. It hurts every time I think about it. I've been dreaming every day since I left the kingdom , I dreamed of the dragon disaster and those battles. I always think of the captain, of Yulia and Sara, of so many people...they all died...

I don't want you dead, Elandia. "

"I know how you feel." The woman's voice was soft, "I am also in pain."

Gongsun Ce lay on the woman's shoulder, his sobs turned into howls.She has always spoken comforting words, never reproached.Gongsun Ce's pain flowed slowly during this process, and was once again suppressed in his heart.When the pain is gone, the rest of the affection gradually returns.He subconsciously felt ashamed and wanted to return to his usual state.

"I……"

"Continue to rest." The Dawn Knight said resolutely, her face blurred by the water vapor, "You are still extremely weak."

So Gongsun Ce relaxed and breathed slowly.

His perception and thoughts came back with the rise and fall of his chest, and now he has regained basic spatial awareness.He realized the source of the warmth and steam, and he was lying on his stomach in the hot water.He also discovered why he was able to lean on the woman's shoulders, and Elandia lay under him, hugged tightly by him.

"—?!"

Gongsun Ce looked at the gray pupils for a few seconds, trembling as if struck by lightning.Now he is fully aware of his current situation. He is lying on the body of Elandia in the bathtub filled with hot water.The feelings from all parts of the body let him know that each other is as sincere as a newborn baby, and their distance is so close that he can see the indelible blush on the woman's face without wearing glasses.

"Ah! Ah!"

Gongsun Ce screamed in panic. He wanted to let go and stand up at the first moment, but he forgot his current situation of being powerless.This stupid behavior only made him slide down another part, his head came near the white gully, and his hands fell from her back to her waist.

"Please don't move around, Ce." Elandia's voice was softer than usual.

"I--"

"Don't use superpowers." Dawn Knight said seriously.

Gongsun Ce immediately stopped his thoughts.It is too dangerous to mobilize the telekinetic power now, and if you are not careful, you will run away again.It took him a while to regain his composure, and the touch in his hand changed from tight and hard to soft before, letting him know that Dawn Knight was also nervous before.

"Why?" Gongsun Ce said incoherently, "We, how could I..."

"You have completely turned into Huoyan, and a part of you has even transformed into Jieyan." Elandia explained calmly, "I took emergency measures to return you to human form, but the spiritual impact has brought about physical changes. You Start to lose temperature, I am worried that the influence of external forces will stimulate him, so I will use physical means to give you first aid."

Gongsun Ce remembered the old stories he heard from the old people when he was young. It is said that when the weather in the north is the coldest, people will occasionally die by the river or lake, and some lucky ones will be rescued by the locals.At this time, it is useless to let them warm up or lie under the quilt, and pouring boiling water will add fuel to the fire.The locals will let them lie in hot water that is not boiling, so that the fragile body can absorb the heat, so as to preserve life.

But the Dawn Knight has no reason to go into the water with him, unless...

"My torch burned my clothes?" Gongsun Ce said desperately, "Aren't you injured?!"

"You didn't hurt me," Elandia said, "but you held on to me, and there was nothing else I could do."

Gongsun Ce wanted to bow his head and cry, but found that under the current situation, this action was no different from being rude.He whispered, "Thank you for not telling them."

"In my personal opinion, you should not want other crew members to see this... embarrassing situation." Elandia said softly, "This is all secondary, rest first."

Gongsun Ce also wanted to rest first, but the moment he realized the situation, he inevitably reacted.The reaction was extremely weak, but it was there and couldn't be ignored.

"Sorry." Gongsun Ce closed his eyes, "I'm very sorry."

"Don't worry about it." Elandia's response was very low.She guided Gongsun Ce to loosen his stiff fingers little by little, and after 5 minutes his zombie-like palm finally left the woman's body.At this moment, they were finally able to change their positions. Elandia sat leaning against the edge of the bathtub and helped his stiff body turn over so that Gongsun Ce would not sink to the bottom.

Now he was leaning on Elandia's chest, almost numb to the sense of despair in his chest.Gongsun Ce desperately tried to lose consciousness from his skin, but his newly recovered back was obviously not as obedient as his thoughts.

"Elandia, if you want to propose a duel to restore your innocence, I promise that I will never fight back." Gongsun Ce said dryly, "Please kill me."

"Think more before speaking, and speak less foolishly."

"I don't deserve you..."

"you're worth it."

The bathroom fell into an embarrassing situation, neither party knew how to speak, and there were drops of water dripping from the faucet.Elandia stroked his wet gray hair a long time later.

"Four years ago, you were not so tall." She said softly, "You just reached my shoulders then."

"I don't want to use this pathetic way to prove my growth." Gongsun Ce said stiffly, "At that time, I had to raise my head to communicate with you, because I can only look at your chest and talk when I look straight up."

"I know you didn't mean it then."

"...Most of the time."

"I'm surprised."

Gongsun Ce began to give up on himself: "What a surprise! I know I was stupid to death but you are so beautiful, how could I have no idea!"

"Oh."

Then the atmosphere froze again.Gongsun Ce forcefully ordered his arms to move to get them out of this predicament, but his arms drooped on both sides, as if determined to fight to the end.He took a deep breath and prepared to speak, but Elandia behind him spoke first.

"So when you were on the bridge last night, you were serious..."

"I'm not!" Gongsun Ce screamed, "I want to touch... but I don't want to... I used to be... ahhh! Please, let's not talk about this, you kill me!"

"It seems that you are still far from a gentleman."

Gongsun Ce couldn't see the other person's expression, but he speculated from this sentence that Ailandia had recovered a little bit of energy due to his tragedy.He said in a low voice: "I will never be the type you admire..."

"As a matter of fact, I don't like the manners of upper-class people."

What kind of man do you like?Gongsun Ce swallowed this sentence and told himself that he could stop thinking about it.He turned and said, "You've always been in control of my situation, right?"

Her response was familiar and predictable: "A reasonable guess. What is the evidence?"

"When the plane crashed on the day we first set off, you reacted earlier than Zero." Gongsun Ce sighed, "I had a vague guess at the time, but this time you came to save me and I am convinced. You are right There is no control over the surrounding environment, what you can perceive is my state, and the medium is of course..."

"My aura."

Gongsun Ce took a deep breath, and said with the blind belief that miracles would happen: "Please, Elandia, tell me that it wasn't you I saw in my dream."

Elandia said calmly: "That's the strength I left behind..."

Gongsun Ce heaved a sigh of relief.But he suddenly felt very bad, and the Dawn Knight dragged his tone a little longer, which meant that she still hadn't said a word.

"But there is my will in the power." Elandia said leisurely.

Gongsun Ce said tremblingly, "What is the reason?"

Elandia's arms wrapped around his body and pressed against his chest.

"Simply put, our hearts are connected."

"You kill me." Gongsun Ce repeated countless times, "You kill me."

(End of this chapter)