The Soundless Shock

Wang Ye said nothing. Like a listener, he listened to Lu Wu pour his heart out.

Out of the darkness.

Who did not carry a few stories in their heart?

Perhaps one might feel that what they had gone through was already painful enough, despairing enough, suffocating enough.

But what about others?

Who was not the same?

Some carried those stories and stubbornly struggled to live, like rats.

Others became stories themselves, encouraging the survivors never to give up hope. At the very least... you were still alive.

"When Yaochi opened back then, I was overjoyed. I thought that if I could trick and kill the last batch of lackeys from Heavenly Court and Spirit Mountain, destroy their next generation, then I would have gotten my money's worth and could die."

"I was even a little impatient when it came to dying."

"Until... those notes of yours."

"I actually resented you. This cowardly piece of trash had finally found a reason to be freed, yet you ruined it."

"You dangled me along with a very fake hope."

"Heh heh, but I still believed it. I wanted so badly to take another look, to see Yaochi again—that paradise-like place where people lived and worked in peace and contentment."

"I even thought that if you had lied to me, I would kill you even at the expense of the bigger picture."

"But Heaven Group has been quite surprising now. Maybe I'm stronger than them, but... I'm not their equal."

"Perhaps I have found the motivation to live again. What is there to fear? At least, as long as I don't die, Yaochi will still exist."

"I want to live on and tell the world that there was once a Yaochi. They, too, were willing to sacrifice and die for humanity. Yaochi...