NOVPUBChapter 517: Chapter 515: Two Tower Guardians
Chapter 517: Chapter 515: Two Tower Guardians
Sally had wanted to intervene.
However, seeing the destructive force with which the two of them fought, she watched as the Black Tower vanished by half, and it was only a matter of time before the other half would follow.
“Keep fighting!” Sally now had some doubts; perhaps the one and only World Card wasn’t here after all.
From a distance, Yang Suomi and the others were dumbfounded as they watched the Doomsday Black Tower collapse.
Qianqixiya activated her live-streaming function and broadcast the collapse of the Doomsday Black Tower. What started as a livestream watched by just a few people quickly shot up the popularity charts. In no time, the viewership spiked to tens of millions, propelling it to first place…
A massive, snow-white Nine-tailed Celestial Fox appeared on the livestream, and in the same frame, a dark figure was battling it, causing uproar in the chat room—
[…Wait, wasn’t the Tower Guardian of the Doomsday Black Tower a woman? How did it turn into a Fox Demon? Who’s that player challenging the tower?]
[There are two Tower Guardians, one is the mysterious Guardian that has never appeared, and the other is a woman. Our guild fought the woman, and we were miserably defeated…]
[Our team also encountered the female Tower Guardian. Could the other mysterious Guardian be the Fox Demon?]
[I mean, when did the game ever have such a beautiful Fox Demon setting, and why wasn’t it promoted? I absolutely love it, foxes are my favorite!!!]
[My God, thirteen tails! What kind of monster is this… I want to fight it too!]
[Why is the teleportation point locked over there?]
[The Doomsday Black Tower is gone!!]
A grey-white silhouette flashed by, and the livestream screen went dark!
Sally suddenly felt a chill run through her entire body.
“Huanhuan, stop fighting for a moment!” Sally called out from within Qing Linghuan’s fox fur. A man with grey-white hair and white pupils wasn’t far away.
The moment Sally saw him, she immediately shouted at Welly and Qing Linghuan, “Stop fighting, the real enemy is here—”
Qing Linghuan and Welly ceased their fight at once.
“The mysterious Tower Guardian?” Welly looked towards the direction behind the Guardian, where a corpse lay spread-eagled, surrounded by scattered items.
Yang Suomi and Wawat were virtual players, so their deaths only resulted in the loss of collected items and a return to the Revival Point.
The corpse belonged to Qianqixiya, who had entered the game in her real body.
Shocked, Sally blurted out, “Is that Qianqixiya or Alice? She’s real too?!”
“Who?” Qing Linghuan asked.
“A player I met in the game, who was supposed to be a virtual character.”
“Games have to be played for real for them to be thrilling,” Qing Linghuan replied.
Sally: “…What if you die?”
After all, the game world was merely entertainment for Sally and her sister; their real life was in the actual world. Those players who truly entered the game were at their wit’s end, desperately fighting to change their fate and return to the real world, to truly live.
[Host, Xiaomei’s upgrade is complete.] Xiaomei informed Sally.
Sally had grown accustomed to Xiaomei’s sudden upgrades and completions, and asked, [What data do you have on this Tower Guardian?]
[Xiaomei has also been unable to calculate where this data originates from, which is why the upgrade was needed. Now, I can review all past data, and indeed, I found a corner of data that had been covered up before.
Host, you once visited a world that was completely frozen over. That world had only one Tower Guardian.]
[…I don’t remember.] Sally replied.
Xiaomei answered: [That’s because the Host was affected by his Memory Severance, forgetting everything about him, and he even asked Xiaomei to erase any trace of his existence.]
[Then why has he reappeared in the game?]
[His data is rare, so Xiaomei used it as a reference…]
[This isn’t referencing, it’s Ctrl+C! And you should have listened to him!]
[The Host need not worry, the Amulet created by Little Manman’s Sacrificial Eye didn’t show the future, but the past!]
[What?] Sally was perplexed.
[The true name of this Doomsday Black Tower—it’s the Calendar of Oblivion.]
[…]Sally’s heart fluttered slightly.
[Do you mean he didn’t take my child from the future, but that this has already happened!]
[Yes, the one taken out at the time was Little Shiqi.]
Sally transformed into her human form and stood up from Qing Linghuan’s back.
The Tower Guardian, upon seeing Sally, suddenly stiffened, and in a deep, husky voice, rough with long disuse, he croaked, “Yan… Yanyan!”
Upon those two words, Qing Linghuan and Welly simultaneously turned to look at Sally.
For Sally, only one identity could make her agree to be called by that name.
To Qing Linghuan and Welly, Sally said, “I just remembered, I might know him… I’ll try to resolve it with words first; if that doesn’t work, then you can take action.”
“There’s no need,” Welly withdrew all hostility, returning to his usual self, with an indifferent look in his eyes.
“…Are you sure, Yanyan?” Qing Linghuan had also returned to human form and asked with concern.
“Yes.” Sally clenched her fists, suppressing the fear in her heart, and walked step by step towards the Tower Guardian.
…
“What is your name?” Sally asked.
The Tower Guardian replied, “Bai Ren.”
“Why do you call me Yanyan?”
“You asked me to,” he said.
“…” Did I really have to be so loose-lipped? Could such a name be given away so casually?
“Why did you become the Tower Guardian here?”
“Yanyan once said that we would meet again one day and asked me to wait here for you.”
Sally wasn’t sure if she wanted to reclaim that piece of memory.
She raised her hand to tuck a lock of hair behind her ear, “So… is the World Card with you?”
“Yes,” Bai Ren replied. Then he raised his hand and pierced through his chest, taking out a card from within.
In a world of ice and snow, a black tower soared into the sky, incomparable to the present Black Tower; indeed, this was not the same Black Tower from the Sacrificial Eye.
A man with silver-gray hair holding a giant white blade stood amidst the snowstorm, his ice-cold eyes looking up at the sky as if expecting something.
Sally’s tears fell uncontrollably, landing precisely on the eyes of the man in the card.
Bai Ren’s figure began to turn transparent from the feet up…
Gazing at Sally, he raised his hand to caress her wet cheek, “Yanyan, have you ended your journey?”
“I…” Sally lifted her head to look at his face, stunning as an ice sculpture, and with a choke, a beautiful smile appeared on her face, “Yes, it’s finished.”
“That’s good,” Bai Ren’s cold lips curled into an extremely faint smile.
Suddenly, a fierce blizzard struck, mixed with dense offspring of the Cold Frost Virus.
[Host, be careful! The Cold Frost Virus is coming!] Xiaomei warned Sally.
However, before Sally could react, Bai Ren turned towards the Cold Frost Virus and charged into it.
In his hand appeared the giant white blade from the card, turning all the offspring viruses into pieces of ice…
Welly and Qing Linghuan each took up their weapons to slay the venomous bugs.
[Host, lend Xiaomei your body, and I’ll go clean up the Cold Frost Virus.]
[Okay.]
Sally’s consciousness entered a snowy, icy world.
She took one step at a time, walking towards a blurry gray-white figure in the distance… but no matter how far or long she walked, that figure remained out of reach.
