I am the villain in the book

"Quick!"

"Everyone, hurry up!"

"Da da da! Da da da!"

"Prepare to meet the enemy!"

One of the deputy generals glanced back at Wei Changtian, who was still sitting with his eyes closed, and slowly drew the saber from his waist.

"Remember, our mission is to protect this man!"

"We must not retreat unless absolutely necessary!"

"If we retreat, His Majesty will have to withdraw the formation! You all know what that means!"

"Understood!"

"Understood!"

Two "Understood" responses rang out in succession. Although the three men had not discussed Wei Changtian's identity in even a single sentence, they must have had this question in their minds.

Looking distantly at Xu Suisui standing on the city wall, they all sighed silently.

Xu Suisui herself had no time to look at them at this moment. Her eyes were fixed on Wei Changtian, and her expression was already extremely tense.

Judging from the firelight in the distance, the scouts from Qian and Hui would arrive in at most a hundred breaths.

But Wei Changtian still showed no sign of waking up.

With so many people around, Xu Suisui certainly couldn't shout anymore, so she could only clench her fists and pray incessantly in her heart—

"Wake up quickly..."

"Wei Changtian, I beg you..."

"Wake up..."

"..."

Within the illusion.

Just as the battle outside the North City Gate was about to erupt, Wei Changtian had also followed the man and woman to the milky white light screen.

Like the portal in "Doraemon", or the wormhole in a science fiction movie that can traverse time and space, the other side of this light screen seemed to contain another world, a world that Wei Changtian missed very much.

What would happen if he walked through this light screen?

Could he really travel back? Or would he fall into the depths of the illusion and be unable to extricate himself?

Wei Changtian didn't know, and didn't think about it.

He just walked closer and closer until he slowly stood in front of the light screen.

"Son, we're going home."

Sensing that he had stopped, the woman also stopped moving forward and turned back to smile: "Mom has been waiting for this day for a long time."

"Yes, our family is finally reunited."

The man also urged softly from the side: "Son, let's go."

"..."

The gazes of both of them were extremely peaceful, and their voices revealed joy and happiness.

However, Wei Changtian did not take another step forward. He just lowered his head and, after a long silence, slowly said:

"Dad, Mom."

"I'll see you off here."

"Son, you..."

The woman's eyes widened in disbelief, and she paused for a moment before grabbing Wei Changtian's hand in a panic.

"What's wrong? Why do you say that?"

"You, you don't want to go back with Mom and Dad?!"

"Yes."

Wei Changtian nodded, raised his head to look at the woman with a flustered expression, and replied softly: "I can't go back."

"Why can't you?!"

The woman's expression became even more urgent: "Don't you want to be with Mom and Dad?!"

"Mom and Dad can't live without you!"

"Son, be good, be good, come with Mom and Dad!"

"Mom begs you, come home with us!"

"Be good, come home with us..."

"..."

From surprise to panic to final pleading.

The woman's voice grew louder and louder, and her tone became more and more urgent and humble.

But Wei Changtian still didn't move. He just looked at the increasingly hideous faces of the man and woman and shook his head bitterly.

"Dad, Mom, I want to go home."

"But I know that this isn't my home behind this, and you aren't them either."

"I knew it from the beginning."

"I'm sorry..."

"..."

While saying "you aren't them", he was still calling the man and woman "Mom and Dad".

Wei Changtian's words sounded somewhat contradictory at first, but they also expressed his feelings at this moment.

Even though he knew it was fake, he still wanted to look at them a few more times and listen to them say a few more words.

It was just that when it was time to wake up, he still had to wake up.

"Son! We are your Mom and Dad!"

"How could you think that way?!"

"Go! Go home!!"

"Hurry! Hurry up!!!"

Clutching Wei Changtian's wrist tightly, the woman suddenly became hysterical, shouting and trying to drag Wei Changtian into the light screen with the man.

However, not only was Wei Changtian not dragged by them, but he also took a half step back gently.

"I'm sorry, I really can't go."

"..."

"You! You unfilial son!!!"

"Wuwuwu! Son, come with Mom! Mom begs you!!"

"Ah!!!"

"Drag him away!!"

"Drag him away!!!"

"Mom and Dad can't live without you!!"

"Go! Hurry up!!!"

Distorted and shrill screams, fierce and crazy expressions.

The faces of the man and woman gradually became distorted in Wei Changtian's eyes, and in the blink of an eye, they lost their "human" appearance.

Faced with such two terrifying phantoms, most people might feel fear at this time.

But Wei Changtian's expression didn't change at all. He even slowly bent his knees and knelt in front of the two of them.

"Dad, Mom."

"I don't know if you can hear me."

"If I can't go back, then you must continue to live well."

"I'm doing very well in this world, so don't worry."

"And if I can go back, then I will definitely go back."

"Don't worry."

"As long as there is a tiny bit of chance, I will definitely go back..."

"..."

"Dong, dong, dong..."

In the midst of the man and woman's chaotic and painful screams, Wei Changtian kowtowed three times heavily to them, and then stood up and retreated step by step.

And as he took each step, the surrounding original real scene became blurred, until it returned to the original pure white appearance.

In the distance, the two figures were only the last outline, and everything returned to calm before the illusion was about to shatter.

It was at this moment that Wei Changtian suddenly heard a voice again.

"Son, go."

"Mom and Dad love you..."

"..."

A smile appeared on the corner of Wei Changtian's mouth. He didn't say anything, but closed his eyes and slowly opened them again after a breath.

"Boom!!!!!"

The next moment, an aura that seemed to be able to sweep away thousands of troops and horses, belonging exclusively to a second-rank martial artist of the "Dominating Mountains and Rivers" realm, shot straight into the sky from the pile of corpses filled with flesh and blood, under the gaze of tens of thousands of people.

The滔天turbid waves came, turning rivers and seas, mountains were destroyed.

In the second year of Taichu, on the twenty-sixth day of March, at the hour of Yin.

On the eight hundred and thirty-first day after the transmigration, Wei Changtian reached the second rank outside Fengyuan City.