Chapter 290 - I’ve Died Once
Chapter 290: I’ve Died Once
Gu Xiqiao looked up at Dubhe with an indifferent look on her face.
This was the second time that she had heard him say that she should just die.
“You’re an outsider,” Dube said, looking at Gu Xiqiao with a cold expression. “As long as you live, the world will not be at peace. If it weren’t for Jiang Shuxuan protecting you, I wouldn’t have let you live to see today. More than ten thousand people in this town have died because of you, don’t you feel any guilt at all?
Gu Xiqiao didn’t answer him, and vanished from the spot. Since Dubhe was the descendant of the Greedy Wolf star, the people there should be fine already. Because she didn’t need to worry anymore, she left.
When she reappeared, it was in front of Yi Bing. He was still holding back the waves, and in front of nature, any single human being was naturally insignificant.
Yi Bing, Jiu Tong, and some others had worked together to forge a defensive formation, but it had been quickly shattered. Yi Tong and the others were trying their best to rescue everyone, and Yi Tiao was directing a chopper to send people to safety.
“Miss Gu?” Yi Bin could see Gu Xiqiao, who had always been calm and composed, she seemed to be faltering at the moment and so he couldn’t help but call out to her.
Gu Xiqiao shook her head, coming back to her senses. She nodded towards Yi Bing, then reached out to reinforce the barrier. With her help, the situation improved by a mile. But W Town was still being swallowed little by little.
Gu Xiqiao seemed to hear the cries of countless people, and she thought back to the time when she had first arrived there, when the town was peaceful, and the innocent laughter of the children.
Right now, all there was was devastation.
This didn’t happen in her last life, right? Even after so long, Gu Xiqiao found that her memory of her past life was crystal clear. The tsunami in W Town was not a trivial matter, and if it did happen, the news would definitely have reported it.
However, she couldn’t find anything on it no matter how many times she looked back in her memories.
Gu Xiqiao felt her heart calming down slowly, starting to contemplate Dubhe’s words seriously. His words still lingered in her mind.
The first time he had wanted to kill her, she hadn’t cared much for it. But this time, hearing him say it so clearly, she shouldn’t exist, she was an outsider.
That’s right, ever since she had been reborn, she had made a lot of changes, especially to these ten thousand people here.
[Don’t listen to his nonsense, Beauty Qiao!] Jiji could feel Gu Xiqiao’s thoughts, and it immediately refuted her in her mind. [These are not your fault, even if you weren’t here, it would still happen!]
‘But it didn’t happen in my past life.’ Gu Xiqiao replied faintly.
Her gaze was calm, and she instantly blocked the connection with Jiji. As Jiji’s host, she naturally had the ability to do so.
***
Jiji, who was far away in the desert, looked at the abyss with a sad look in its eyes. “Master Jiang, hurry up and come out, that nasty Dubhe ghost has appeared again!”
It lingered around the edge of the abyss, not being able to do anything else.
When Yi Bing had brought the news to them the other day that there was finally movement in the desert, Jiang Shuxuan and Gu Xiqiao decided to split up into two groups. But he refused to let Jiji follow Gu Xiqiao, and so it could only follow Jiang Shuxuan with great reluctance.
Jiang Shuxuan was still investigating the source of the malicious aura in the abyss, and Jiji was anxious. It suddenly stopped its pacing, stretching out its mechanical hands.
Five minutes later, a flaming red bird appeared in front of it.
Xixi had been breathing fire at Peace Manor, then an unexpected suction had engulfed it, drawing its entire body into space. When it appeared again, it saw the mechanical head in front of it, but the fire that it was breathing couldn’t be held back and it spat out.
Fortunately, Jiji dodged it quickly, not getting sprayed by it at all.
“What did you bring me here for?” Xixi looked at Jiji, standing by the abyss. It looked to the bottomless pit, both eyes darkening. “What dense evil!”
“Don’t bother about this first, hurry up and go to Beauty Qiao!” Jiji’s voice was urgent.
Xixi turned back at it. “Jiji, what’s wrong with you?”
“That d*mn Dubhe is telling Beauty Qiao that she doesn’t belong in this world, and all the disaster that’s happening is because of her. I think Beauty Qiao is starting to believe his words!”
“What are you talking about?” A low voice came from behind them suddenly.
Jiji turned around to see Jiang Shuxuan had come out, and he was walking towards them with a dark look on his face, his face hard like a layer of ice.
Seeing him was like seeing a savior, and Jiji felt aggrieved for Gu Xiqiao. “She rushed over to W Town once she heard what was happening. Dubhe is telling her that she’s an outsider, and she’s the cause of the disaster, she’s believed his words already.”
It was all wrong, as Gu Xiqiao’s system, there wasn’t anyone who knew how much she had already paid in her life.
All the missions had been given by the system, and every single one of them was given to make the world a better place. It didn’t understand, if Gu Xiqiao was the cause of the disasters, then what about the others? A source of destruction?
“If Dubhe is in front of me now, I will definitely kill him,” Jiji said to Xixi.
Xixi was quiet, but the fire started to crackle with black fire.
Jiji knew that this was just the starting point of Xixi’s anger.
Jiang Shuxuan nodded his head. He didn’t look at Jiji again, but started to walk forward a few steps to find the guards that the ancient martial arts world had sent, and gave them some instructions.
Jiji watched as Jiang Shuxuan came over after exchanging some words with the guards. There was nothing on his face to betray what he was feeling right now, but his eyes were so very dark. Even the sand he walked past had turned into ice.
“Let’s go.”He lowered his head, looking down at Jiji and Xixi, then he waved his hands.
Jiji and Xixi only felt a flicker before the scene in front of them changed. They had clearly been in a desert, and now there was the sea in front of them, rushing towards them.
“Xixi! Fire!” Jiji shouted immediately.
Xixi looked at Jiji with a flat look. “The brain is a good thing, you know? I hope that you also have one.” Such a big sea, was it even any use to breathe fire? Could it possibly evaporate the entire ocean into steam?
Jiang Shuxuan was standing between the two without a word, his gaze on the direction to his left. She was helping Yi Bing reinforce the barrier right now, her face still clear and bright as it usually was. Only, there was something missing. Her eyes were calm, a little too calm.
As though she had felt his gaze, Gu Xiqiao turned her head, surprise showing on her face first, before a smile bloomed on her face and she nodded at him.
She was acting just the same as usual, like nothing had happened.
Jiang Shuxuan’s eyes were still dark, and at the same time, a surge of energy poured out from him.
Jiji and Xixi discovered the waves that were about to sweep over them were frozen suddenly, and the entire scene seemed to stop for a minute. The waves would never sweep over again.
Yi Bing and the others were taken aback for a moment, before they saw Jiang Shuxuan. “Big boss!”
“Go on and aid the people first.” Jiang Shuxuan turned away from Gu Xiqiao, giving his instructions.
Yi Bing and the others could read the atmosphere, and they nodded before leaving to do what he had ordered.
Gu Xiqiao stood where she was, looking at a few people who were stranded on an electric pole not far from them. She walked to Jiang Shuxuan’s side. “Brother Jiang, I’ll bring Xixi to rescue some people.” As she said that, she poked at Xixi, urging him to change its size.
Xixi concentrated on enlarging itself, then followed her to do what she said.
Jiang Shuxuan stood in the spot, watching her leave. When she moved out of his sight, only did he move his hand to wipe the blood at the corner of his mouth.
“You took care of it for her this time, but what about next time?” A voice came from behind him.
Jiang Shuxuan turned around, looking at the man who stood in mid-air by the edge of the frozen waves, donning a green robe and looking unhuman like.
“What did you say to her just now?” Jiang Shuxuan didn’t bother replying to his question, asking him one back.
Dubhe was surprised, and his eyes were deep. “I didn’t expect that she would even tell you this. That’s right, I told her that she’s an outsider to this world. You know all of this, don’t you?”
Jiang Shuxuan walked forward slowly, his face paler than usual, and there was still some red at the corner of his mouth. There was just a blank expression on his face.
When he was about to pass Dubhe, he suddenly stopped, looking at him straight in the eyes. “Dubhe.”
Dubhe couldn’t tell what Jiang Shuxuan was thinking, but when he heard Jiang Shuxuan’s faint voice, it made him feel uneasy inside. He suddenly recalled the words that Jiang Shuxuan had said almost half a month ago, about how he would destroy the world, then he was suddenly silent.
He naturally knew that the Jiang family could do anything they said they would.
Jiang Shuxuan turned his gaze to where Gu Xiqiao was. There was still no anger nor joy in his face, but his voice was more relaxed than before. “Although the Dubhe clan is strong, it is not without weakness. Master Dubhe, I don’t think I’ll let it go.”
Dubhe stood rooted to the spot, watching Jiang Shuxuan’s retreating figure, a thoughtful look in his eyes.
“The Jiang family is crazy, as expected.” Dubhe thought about it for almost half a day, frowning.
He slowly walked to the terrace next to the hotel beside him, finding Jiang Shuxuan and Gu Xiqiao both on it.
Gu Xiqiao was holding a silver needle, helping an old man who had fainted. After inserting it for a while, the old man slowly started to wake up. After that, she turned to another person to help bandage their legs.
The people were gradually getting rescued, and Dubhe stood in a corner, seeing the smiles on the face of the people on the terrace. It was different than what he had imagined it would be.
At this time, a helicopter flew over above them, and Jiang Shuxuan pulled Gu Xiqiao up by the arm without a word.
After the two left, Dubhe finally emerged in front of everyone. He went to the children who had been surrounding Gu Xiqiao just now, and asked, “You seem to like the lady that was treating people just now?”
“Are you talking about Miss Gu?” Hearing his words, the child’s eyes lit up instantly. “She’s the one who saved us, and everyone here has also been saved by her!”
The boy’s word attracted a few others around them to look over, faces full of smiles. “Miss Gu is our savior, she’s the one who found someone to bring the helicopters over!”
Dubhe looked at the people in front of him, with surprise in his eyes.
He really had underestimated her, for someone from the outside, she actually had this kind of capabilities.
***
In the helicopter, Gu Xiqiao was looking at Jiji. “You know, don’t you, Brother Jiang?”
Jiang Shuxuan looked at her, not saying a word.
“I’m someone from outside of this world.” Gu Xiqiao closed her eyes slowly.