My Endless Life

Like the heroine in most stories.

Emma is Ronnie's best friend, best childhood sweetheart, and... the person who loves Ronnie the most.

They grew up together, did stupid things together, were scolded by the dean together, and set unrealistic dreams together.

Although Ronnie is a little stupid, a little stubborn, and doesn't understand Emma's thoughts about him, Emma does like him.

She had also fantasized about expressing her feelings to Ronnie when they grew up a little bit and they both became fog explorers.

But no one could have imagined that they would encounter such a thing today...

You have obviously worked hard for Ronnie until today, and you have obviously tried your best to survive just to be able to see Ronnie again.

But in the end, he turned into a lizard-like monster.

The arms turned into claws, and the body was covered in ugly scales.

Even sanity is disappearing.

I'm afraid I can't hold on much longer, Emma thought.

Therefore, before she completely turned into a monster and she could still say what she wanted to say, Emma planned to let Li Qi take his own life.

It's better to die as a human than to live as a monster.

It's just a bit regretful...I couldn't express my feelings until the end...

Emma thought so, looked at Ronnie who fainted, closed her eyes, and waited for the end of her life.

But after a while, Emma didn't feel any pain.

Opening her eyes and looking in front of her in confusion, Emma was startled.

The boy with brown hair and golden eyes appeared in front of her at some point.

"Li...Qi...what are you...doing?"

Emma asked with difficulty while her rationality was still lingering.

Why hasn't the other party taken action yet? Obviously he has the strength to kill himself.

Or is it that he can't do it?

But how is this possible? Although she has not been with Li Qi for a long time, Emma does not think that Li Qi is the kind of person who hesitates when making key decisions.

When Emma was confused, she heard Li Qi ask:

"Do you want to live?"

"…What?"

"Do you want to...keep your consciousness and survive?"

Li Qi asked again.

Emma finally understood Li Qi's question, barely holding on to her consciousness, Emma asked:

"You...have a way...to let me live?"

"Yes, but to be clear in advance, that is just a guess of mine. Whether you can survive in the end depends on luck, and even if you survive, you will not change back to your previous appearance. Even so, do you still want to Will you survive?"

"..."

Even if he survives, there is no way to return to his original state.

Emma, ​​who was restrained, turned to look at the arm that had turned into a dragon claw, and then looked at Ronnie who was unconscious on the ground.

Ronnie was now being cared for by Carol, and to Emma's surprise, Carol didn't seem to notice Reacher's conversation with her.

It seemed as if the scene happening before her eyes was just Emma's own fantasy.

Regardless of whether this was fantasy or reality, Emma considered Li Qi's words.

No one wants to die if they can live, including Emma.

She just didn't want to become an irrational monster. If Li Qi could change the status quo and preserve her consciousness and life, then Emma would certainly be willing to live.

Her throat was a little dry, and Emma asked with difficulty:

"What...are you going to do?"

"This is not a question you need to consider. Do you want to live or not? You just need to answer this."

Li Qi crossed his arms and asked softly.

The surrounding fog is slowly dissipating, and it seems that the duration of the fog area is coming to an end.

The fog that descended on the safe area was about to disappear, leaving little time for Emma.

Looking at Ronnie again, Emma's eyes showed rare tenderness. Finally, she turned her head and said firmly to Li Qi:

"I... want to live!"

No matter what, she wanted to be with Ronnie.

Even in the future, it may turn into a monster even more terrifying than what it looks like now.

…

The fourth floor of the fog area, somewhere underground in the misty snowfield.

In the brightly lit underground base, the young man with short dark green hair looked at the broken gems in front of him and remained silent.

"President, Qianmian is dead?"

Behind him, a woman with a high ponytail wearing a deacon's uniform frowned and asked the young man.

The young man took off the broken gem from the high platform, lifted it up and observed it under the light.

The cracks in the gem reflected mottled light under the light. The young man observing the cracks suddenly asked:

"Lubino City, are there any noteworthy masters?"

"According to the investigation, the strongest person in the local association is just a fog-level fog explorer who holds a special relic. Counting the exploration team that briefly stopped in Lupino City some time ago, there are only three to five noteworthy strong people. That’s all, you should know their names, President.”

"Yeah, but that's why I'm surprised..."

The young man held the gem in his hand with a smile on his face: "Why did Qian Mian die so easily?"

"…Do you want to investigate? Kyoka seems to have disappeared in Rubino too."

the deaconess asked again.

The young man played with the gem in his hand, shook his head slightly and said:

"No, I already know almost what I want to know. Let's just start the next plan."

"Now?"

"The coming of the fog zone is irreversible, this has been confirmed. Next... we just need to eat up the safe zone bit by bit step by step, so... it's time to talk to those 'cowards' on the third floor."

The young man said lightly.

Hearing this, it seems that he intends to include all the cities currently near the fog zone into the scope of the fog zone, and also to do something about the 'ancient civilization' on the third floor.

The deacon was not surprised to hear this, she nodded and wrote down what the young man said.

The young man threw the gem up and caught it, while talking to the deacon.

After a while, when the gem fell into his hand again, the young man paused and asked as if he suddenly remembered something:

"By the way, the boy who made the 'special tool' seems to live in Rubino?"

"Yes, Jinghua is the one who is responsible for winning him over, but now Jinghua has disappeared... Should we send the intelligence department to find him again?"

"Hmm..." The young man pondered for a moment, and finally shook his head and said: "Forget it, at best he is just a special kid, let's talk about it later."

The young man said, waved to the female deacon casually, and then looked at the gem in his hand again.

He can easily kill Qianmian, who is the least likely to die. It seems that there is another interesting guy in the safe zone.

I don't know if we will have a chance to meet in the future.

The young man thought, and threw the broken gem into a trash can not far away, just like throwing away an ordinary garbage.

...

The fog zone fell in Rubino City, and the fog explorers who turned into monsters in the fog zone were unable to return.

This incident shocked the entire fog explorer association.

But compared to the fact that most of the fog explorers have turned into monsters, Rubino City still has other things to do.

That is evacuation.

The fog zone cannot be stopped from coming. Even if there are no people from the Light Chasing Society behind the scenes, the fog zone will slowly erode the entire Rubino City.

This city will no longer be safe in the future, and it is only a matter of time before it becomes a fog zone.

In order to protect the people in the city, the kingdom had to arrange personnel to evacuate the entire Rubino City and move the residents of Rubino City to a more rearward location.

But this matter is not so easy to accomplish.

How to appease the residents in the city, how to transfer the materials in the city, and how to plan the evacuation route are all issues that the upper decision makers need to consider.

It seems that the kingdom, which has never experienced a large-scale evacuation, was stumped on this issue for a while, and it has not drawn up a complete plan for several days.

Until Li Qi threw an evacuation plan on Maru's desk.

"This... this... you wrote it?!"

Maru held the evacuation plan written by Li Qi with trembling hands, his eyes full of shock.

Li Qi replied:

"I just wrote it for fun, but it should be a little better than the plan you made. You can use it if you want, or not."

The plan Li Qi took out was a modified retreat plan based on the plan of England's great retreat in the previous life.

The original compiler was Ilona, ​​the second princess of England. Li Qi had a little understanding of that retreat in his previous life and remembered some details.

Now with a little modification, the plan can be perfectly transferred over.

If nothing else, at least the retreat plan drawn up by Ilona is much better than that of people in this world.

After all, Ilona is also the protagonist of the era in a sense.

Listening to Li Qi's answer, Maru just felt incredible.

He didn't know Li Qi's experience, but no matter what, he was just a teenager.

He had never left Rubino, and according to the investigation, there were no suspicious people around him.

But whether it is the combat experience and strength he showed, or his calmness and indifference when facing danger, they are not consistent with his current age.

Now he has come up with a planned solution that is perfect for Maru.

To be honest... Maru doesn't understand Li Qi.

He is even a little scared.

If Li Qi was willing to pretend before, pretending to be just a slightly smart and rebellious teenager.

Now Li Qi doesn't even act!

He doesn't hide his uniqueness at all! It's as if... he doesn't care about these anymore.

Maru doesn't think it's because Li Qi trusts them.

Maybe from the beginning, he never trusted Maru and others.

"Li Qi... I..."

Holding the plan, Maru felt his mouth was a little dry. He opened his mouth to say something, but was interrupted by Li Qi.

"No need to say anything. I have no interest in your experiences or what you have hidden. I just hope you can fulfill your promise to me."

"...Promise?"

"Take me to the third layer of the fog area to find the remains of the ancient civilization. Don't tell me you forgot."

Li Qi's eyes became more dangerous.

Maru immediately replied: "I didn't forget, but... we need time to retreat first..."

Rubino is going to retreat, and Maru and other members of the exploration team need to take the responsibility of leading the retreat. It will not be possible to organize the exploration team to go to the fog area for a while.

Li Qi also knew this, and he replied:

"So I didn't ask you to take me there immediately, as long as you haven't forgotten."

After that, he prepared to leave Maru's office.

At the moment when Li Qi was about to leave the room, Maru suddenly stood up and asked:

"Li Qi, who...are you? Are you...really the child of Geer and Chris?"

"I?"

Li Qi stopped his hand on the door handle, thought for two seconds and then replied:

"Just a traveler pursuing 'mystery'."

He said this, ignored Malu in the office, opened the door and left.

Thanks to ‘I have no name’ for the tip! Thanks!