"Wh... why?"
Looking at Jiang Xing, whose body was almost half shattered, Yun You couldn't understand at all.
She had thought earlier, regardless of whether Jiang Xing was a vengeful person, that kind of drive for revenge wasn't enough to justify him doing sothing so irrational.
He had countless thods to seek revenge and could have waited for more opportunities.
Why did he have to smash himself to death here? To use his life to block Yun You's Dragon Gun?
A prisoner, a butcher who had committed countless serious cris, even suspected of killing his parents, how could he be willing to die for so illusory goal?
He was a felon, not a soldier or a death warrior!
Yun You couldn't understand.
"Ha..."
Jiang Xing clearly saw the little girl's confusion.
However, he ultimately didn't give any answer, just smiled and murmured, "I... don't have that kind of enlightennt you imagine, nor any lofty dreams."
"I did this only because soone asked to."
"I owe soone a debt I could never repay, thought about it over and over, and the only way to repay it was with my life, so I did just that, and nothing more."
"Moreover, my wish was just to witness a stronger existence... cough... cough..."
As he spoke, he suddenly felt an itch in his throat and couldn't help but cough up a mouthful of clogging blood mixed with organ fragnts.
Apprentice Death Gods are often very aware of their physical condition, knowing what injuries are severe and when there is no cure.
Jiang Xing understood that he was clearly beyond saving.
Half of his lung had evaporated, his heart almost completely carbonized, and though the artery on his shoulder had been forcibly cauterized shut, internal bleeding had long since begun.
His life was nearing its end, yet he did not feel sorrow; instead, his face was full of relief, as if... he was about to be freed.
"Earlier at Mokaka's camp, I wanted to witness your shot that could pierce the Garbage Mountain Cannon, but unfortunately, that tune started playing at the wrong mont."
"But now... haha, I got to witness it."
"Satisfied, satisfied!"
Jiang Xing supported his body, involuntarily grinning, revealing his final smile.
"In this life, there are no regrets."
With these words, the Guardian Death God lowered his head and passed away, never seeking help or pity from Yun You until his death.
"..."
Yun You remained silent, Jiang Xing's words echoing in her mind.
"I owe soone a debt that could never be repaid."
This might be the real reason Jiang Xing was willing to die, and that person might be the true avenger.
But now, Yun You really didn't have the ti to analyze and speculate further.
She raised her arm and planned to use the Dragon Gun again to completely destroy the nuclear missile.
However, just as she intended to sacrifice organs, a sharp contraction hit her heart, an unbearable sense of suffocation following, rendering her unable to pull the trigger of the Dragon Gun.
Yun You knew that this was her body warning her; she could no longer use the Dragon Gun...
Despite the Dragon Gun's formidable power, every ounce of energy in that laser ca from Yun You's own body.
The Dragon Gun operated by decomposing her body organs, extracting energy to function.
Having used the Dragon Gun twice today, her physical and ntal state couldn't withstand a third use!
Moreover, ever since Jiang Xing appeared, she felt her body gradually weakening, with her bones slightly softening.
Perhaps it was due to the radiation's erosion, or maybe the blood pollution... either way, the Dragon Gun was definitely unusable.
"Damn..."
The little girl clutched at her empty left eye socket, her stomach writhing in pain as if a thousand ants were gnawing at her heart.
She forcefully endured the side effects of the Dragon Gun, transforming it back into a scimitar, and then swung it towards the nuclear missile in the distance, employing the special ability of the Red Scale Scimitar.
Phantom Blade Man.
"Swish——!"
Instantly, a crimson glow appeared at the blade's tip, quickly coalescing into a humanoid phantom, slashing towards the distant nuclear missile.
Yet the uranium inside the nuclear device had already reached a critical state, with the high-energy particles it released barraging the surroundings like a storm of invisible bullets...
The phantom had barely flown forward before being riddled by these "radiation bullets," and when it neared the missile, only a tattered arm remained, the rest of the body vanished.
It dutifully wielded a slash, but the blade's power was less than one-tenth, leaving only a shallow cut on the missile's tallic surface.
Yun You shivered.
She instinctively glanced at Jiang Xing's body lying in the blood sea, only now noticing that his back, the part always facing the tal nuclear device, was already riddled with holes from radiation particles, seeping blood everywhere and faintly glowing green.
No wonder her body always felt weak, even her bones softening; the radiation levels of the blood sea had long exceeded what an Apprentice Death God could endure...
It wasn't hard to imagine that if the person near the nuclear bomb, swinging a blade at it, was Yun You herself, she would now share Jiang Xing's fate, her body penetrated by high-energy particles, and even with her Eating Ability to recover injuries, she might not withstand the radiation's erosion.
[It's too late, Yun Zai]
Master Zero sighed deeply.
It sensed that, in Yun You's current state, she could no longer resolve the situation before her.
[This nuclear missile has reached the point of explosion, with the radiation it's emitting forming a natural protective barrier around it. Without long-range, large-scale destructive weapons, it's hard to threaten it.]
[The situation can't be reversed, inform Mokaka and the others to prepare to contract the defense circle, scatter, and seek shelter below... this is the only way to increase the survival rate.]
Upon hearing this, Yun You's brow furrowed, her teeth gritting with a creaking sound.
She felt sowhat unwilling.
Despite the situation being favorable, the sudden nuclear crisis had completely disrupted her plans.
But now was indeed not the ti to worry.
After quickly organizing the information, Yun You sent the news of the nuclear explosion to Mokaka.
She instructed Mokaka to imdiately stop the performance and begin arranging defenses, dispersing all the "pilgrimaging" Floating Island residents, letting them find their own shelters.
After sending the information, the little girl took one last look at the Corpse Lake, regretfully biting her lip, but eventually turned around, pulling away with the drone, leaving behind a vast sea of corpses and blood, boiling amidst the radiation...
This nuclear explosion was sothing she ultimately couldn't prevent.
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