Exusiai's Plans for the Future

Only after witnessing the battlefield firsthand did the warriors understand who had brought them peace these past few days. The Sea Siren did not complain that the warriors' unease and fear had made the Demons stronger; in their eyes, the warriors' very presence here was the greatest courage.

Upon first encountering Sea Siren, witnessing their immortality and formidable vitality, the Sami warriors couldn't help but feel terrified, yet thankful that this was...

"Don't worry about that, just get out of here. What's going to happen next is beyond your control, even if you have this big black bow."

Sea Siren's expression was equally grim, staring intently at the distant horizon as black snowflakes gradually fell.

What exactly happened?

"This is not something you can know. Go quickly, and don't look back, or you'll lose your mind if you see that thing!"

Pushing Typhon behind her, Sea Siren 233 cracked her fist, and all the Sea Siren relayed the news; dark clouds began to gather above their heads.

"Go back and protect Magellan! Don't let anything happen to her. Keep an eye on her at all times. If she experiences auditory hallucinations or has nightmares, be sure to talk to her and make her realize that this is our world!"

"What does this have to do with Mai-Mai? Explain yourself..."

"Ugh, why are you so annoying!" After Sea Siren #233 finished speaking, Typhon felt as if he had been hit hard on the head, and his consciousness quickly blurred as he fainted.

Typhon reached out and embraced her, handing her over to Ealchi, then tossed the large black bow to Ectilnir. Sea Siren #233 looked up as a gentle rain began to fall from the sky.

"Seriously, she's not that big, but she has a lot of problems. Take her back and protect Magellan. You're Sarkaz ... Cyclops, right? Then you should know why we're standing here."

After speaking with Ealchi, Sea Siren #233 looked at Ectilnir and said, "Don't talk to me about responsibilities and obligations. Just don't come here to deliver your food."

The wind brought a strange scent; it didn't have a specific concept of whether it smelled good or bad, yet it gave people a chilling sense of unease. A rootless flower swayed and flew to Sea Siren's front.

However, before it could even confirm its own state and pollute the surrounding space, Sea Siren grabbed it. Unlike other Rootless Flowers, it was a deep, dark blue, so deep that it was almost darkness.

"They've arrived."

Sami and the Columbia warriors were retreating. Even though some of them couldn't accept that they would be forced to retreat after only two or three days of fighting, no one dared to disobey the Sea Siren's orders. If it weren't for these older women supporting them in front, they would probably all have died here.

The pale blue petals drifted in from afar, moving on their own without wind. A heavy rain fell from the sky, forming a barrier. All the fluttering petals fell to the ground the moment they touched the rain, quickly withering away. One after another, Sea Siren emerged from the rain curtain.

"Isn't this considered serious???"

Looking at the Rootless Flowers petals that almost blotted out the sky, Sea Siren #6789 couldn't help but rub her arms. Although she didn't know what fear was, the scene in front of her made her feel uncomfortable.

"Nonsense, if they were really serious, it wouldn't be this bad. Izumik said they were in a hurry to find this place, so they decided to test everyone. Don't kill them, or they'll find out."

As Siren No. 666 finished speaking, the surrounding land gradually became strange. The collapse phenomenon that had already occurred became more severe. The laws of physics were distorted, the laws of mathematics were dequantified and blurred, the order of the material world was polluted, and even the land under their feet underwent a change.

The most intuitive feeling is gravity, followed by breathing and heartbeat, and then air pressure. These things are always the most obvious. Fortunately, the Sea Siren rely on the Sea of Life to maintain themselves.

"If these Rootless Flowers are allowed to drift away... Terra will be utterly destroyed."

These pale blue, Rootless Flowers were different from the previous vibrant purplish-red ones. A single flower was enough to envelop and assimilate the surrounding space for thousands of meters. Terra couldn't withstand that number.

"No matter how fast they try to break through Izumik's blockade, they can't possibly get past it. Be careful, that big guy is still behind us, it's coming!"

Space became distorted, and time became blurred. A distance of nearly a thousand kilometers was traversed in an instant. It was a black yet colorful sphere, seemingly a hundred meters in size, or perhaps a thousand meters. It had no mass and no fixed shape. In an instant, it determined its location in space and then began to permeate.

Its pitch-black exterior is dotted with starlight, and its eerie blue background is paired with strange red and white, like... a burning, living black sun.

"It has no weight; it's just a spatial projection. No wonder it was able to pass through the crack and get here without the door being open."

Sea Siren stared Demons at the Warp projection moving through the air. Each of its movements seemed slow, yet it left countless afterimages. Each movement was a leap that distorted space. Faced with this, the Sami warriors couldn't even hit it; the two sides were simply not in the same dimension.

"It looks like a preserved egg."

"What you're saying makes me hungry."

"Why don't you share your hunger pangs with the Brood? It's making me hungry too!"

The surrounding light was also distorted. If it were only this bad, it wouldn't have been enough to make Sami and Columbia's warriors retreat from the battlefield. This guy in front of them wasn't worth the Sea Siren's attention. He was just a projection. Izumik could sweep him down with a single tentacle.

The "big guy" they were talking about wasn't this thing.

"They're here!"

As Siren No. 1, who had rushed back to the battlefield from his vacation, finished speaking, all the Sea Siren felt a very uncomfortable sensation. It was like finding a pebble in your shoe halfway through a run, or riding a bicycle downhill and finding your head itchy but unable to scratch it because you're wearing a helmet.

The Sea of Life was churning, concealing its existence to avoid premature discovery, when suddenly a tentacle emerged from the black preserved egg.

"This is... using this preserved egg as a springboard to come into this world?"

I thought it would be a more ordinary approach, but it turned out to be so bizarre and straightforward.

The black Warp Shadow was torn apart by the expansion of the tentacles, eventually becoming a black hole-like entity with a diameter of thousands of meters. Even so, it was only enough for the tentacle to barely pass through.

In that instant, even without the perception of an observer, the collapse that occurred on Terra surpassed any previous record. Huge tentacles stretched out wildly, attempting to forcibly expand the passage but failing.

"Wow, that's really long... This section alone is almost 100,000 meters long, and this is just the beginning. How big must the main body be?"

"I suspect that if this thing were to appear in its entirety, it could shove Terra into the sea in one go."

This is indeed an unprecedented behemoth, with a diameter of one kilometer and a length of one hundred thousand meters. If we were to make a proportional comparison with the tentacles of the Mizuki, it would be about one-twentieth of that length.

"The entire field is two million meters... that's 2,000 kilometers... and this is just one tentacle."

Sea Siren couldn't help but click her tongue, looking at the tentacles gradually opening their eyes, the whites of which were the only part of the eyes covering the entire tentacles, and felt an indescribable discomfort.

It would be hard for anyone not to feel despair and fear when faced with such an existence. Most importantly, from the moment these tentacles appeared, all the Sea Siren felt that everything around them was being rapidly polluted and assimilated, from the material world to the dimension of time.

No ordinary creature could survive in such an environment; it would become deeply polluted in an instant, and even Mizuki wouldn't be able to save it.

But the Sea Siren felt no fear, and the link between their memories and the Sea of Life eliminated any possibility of contamination. This made them the best weapon against the Warp. Even though the monster before them had an eye larger than theirs, the girls were eager to fight, their excitement and anticipation barely contained.

They had been waiting for this moment for a long time, enduring so many days while deliberately suppressing their inner impulses; they were already bursting with pent-up desire.

"Sisters! Dinner's ready!"

The Warp hunts the real dimension, then the Sea of Life must hunt the Warp. The Sea Siren rushed toward the enormous tentacles in the next moment, and without the subspace even lifting a finger, they disintegrated into countless droplets of water mist.

They've been starving for almost a month, and they've been waiting for today to eat!

"You really eat...?" Mizuki, soaking in the bathtub, didn't know what to say. These girls were less picky eaters than she was. "It's alright, it hasn't gotten to the worst point yet."

Mizuki habitually rubbed his temples. He had been genuinely frightened. He hadn't expected that, with the door locked the Warp would choose to throw a projection directly from the unexpanded rift and use it as a temporary door. This was something the irrational the Warp couldn't do.

"As expected, this was a targeted probing attack; at least thirty worlds were destroyed this time."

This was merely a test, but Mizuki had already witnessed how Terra in the parallel world was torn to pieces by these tentacles. The level of the Warp is definitely higher than that of the Sea of Life. Just look at the Warp Shadow, which he has never even mentioned, and see what kind of existence it is. It cannot contend with the entire the Warp, but at least it should be able to deal with the most dangerous one.

The tentacles alone have already put some pressure on Mizuki. It's not that dealing with these tentacles is particularly difficult; the Sea Siren could easily devour them.

The problem is that Mizuki also has tentacles, and the tentacles extending from the Sea of Life are countless. The other side must have the same. This level of loss is simply insignificant.

Resolving this matter will ensure Terra's safety for the time being, but it will also make the other side more certain of this direction. With the Star Gate blocked, the shadows of the Warp cannot pass through, and most importantly, they cannot know the coordinates of this place.

But since the other party has already tested us, it proves that they are not far from here, Mizuki may have no choice but to make a decision.

"This is what they call an accident..."

With her eyes closed, Mizuki submerged herself completely in the water, connecting with all of herself scattered throughout Terra. The effects of the Warp were not limited to Sami; many Feranmut were showing signs of awakening, and Originium was becoming noticeably more active.

Just as Columbia's research had suggested, the Originium, which had previously rejected the Sea of Life, was now exhibiting the same frequency as him, further confirming a certain conjecture in Mizuki's mind.

An accident is called an accident because it always comes suddenly, catching people off guard. Facing it unprepared often leads to a less than ideal outcome.

If it weren't for Mr. K and Amash making Mizuki realize the seriousness of Sami's situation in advance, Terra would probably be dead by now. He didn't know the Warp would arrive so quickly, so he made all the necessary preparations from the very beginning, including the worst-case scenario.

One good news and one bad news. The good news wasn't so good, and the bad news was much worse. Nothing could be more unsettling than this. The fear was suppressed by Mizuki in an instant. As Seaborn, he shouldn't have such feelings of fear, but he wasn't the original Seaborn. He was modified, retaining his human emotions and personality, and then evolved into his current form.

"What were the Doctor and his colleagues thinking back then?"

Mizuki's hair spread out completely in the water, turning her entire appearance pure white. He was certain that the Doctor held expectations and hopes for him, and definitely had a backup plan. But the problem was that she couldn't remember what she had left behind.

No longer pondering these matters, Mizuki commanded the Sea of Life to extend its tentacles and gather the shattered worlds that had been destroyed. Most of them were destroyed by the purest physical attacks; planets were smashed into pieces, but pollution was actually less. Every little bit helps, so there's no reason to be picky.

The Warp seemed uninterested in these worlds; the shadow was selectively searching for the Mizuki, or more accurately, it was searching for this Sea of Life.

While keeping track of the situation with the Sea Siren, Mizuki glanced at the bathroom door, still worried that Exusiai things.

"So, you want to know what Mizuki is afraid of?"

Lemuen put down the letter in her hand and watched her younger sister sitting in front of the dressing table, gesturing with her hair.

"Yes, but I don't want him to tell me himself."

"Why?"

"If he's willing to tell me those things, it means..."

This meant things had reached their worst point, and there was no need to hide it any longer. Exusiai didn't say the second half of that sentence; she knew Lemuen understood.

"Sis, do you think my hair has grown?"

"It's a little longer than before. Why did you want it to be a little longer?"

"Because this way I look more like a married couple with Mizuki. Anyway, he'll take care of my hair, so I don't mind the trouble."

Exusiai glanced at the ring on her hand and suddenly felt all her worries subside. If that time really came, she would make her own choice.

Chapter 246 Exusiai's Future Project

"Have you packed everything?"

Mizuki glanced at them, and the girls all nodded. They were only coming back to stay for a while anyway, and even the La Pluma had its luggage packed in advance, ready to leave at any time.

"Then let's go. Hmm... Mizuki, how about we talk to the boss about buying this bar?"

Exusiai glanced at the tightly locked bar, then at the people around her, and made this suggestion.

"Then I'll talk to him about it later."

"Aren't you going to ask why?"

"It's more important to do what you want to do than to ask why."

Mizuki helped everyone load their luggage onto the car, then waved to Lin Yuxia, who was standing not far away to see them off.

"I was just thinking that since it's finally come to feel like a home, I might as well leave it here. Besides... I have a feeling it might be hard to come back in the future."

An inexplicable intuition made Exusiai feel a sense of emptiness. She loved Lungmen, and if it weren't for Mizuki, she might have lived there forever. But since she had fallen in love with someone who loved to travel, what could she do? She was also someone who couldn't stay still.

Mizuki understood Exusiai's thoughts and said nothing more. The Emperor was at the conference table at the moment. Today was the last day of the conference. Mizuki had already handed over the communication technology that she, the Doctor, Grandia, Gladiia, and Kal'tsit had jointly improved to Dario. Just relying on this one technology, this conference had been extremely fruitful for all the countries.

"Let's go, we can talk slowly."

It seems that Lemuen said something to everyone, and everyone tacitly agreed to let Exusiai and Mizuki sit together, with only luggage in the back row.

Not only Exusiai, but even Mizuki himself felt that once he left this time, it might be difficult for him to come back. He probably had this intuition first and then conveyed it to Exusiai. The connection between the two is now exceptionally close.

Starting the engine, Mizuki led the team away. Lin Yuxia watched them go, then breathed a sigh of relief. Now, no one in the Lungmen gaming circle could beat her!

"Mizuki, when do you think we'll come back next time?"

Exusiai looked through the rearview mirror at the rapidly receding bar and street scene. She remembered that the last time she left Lungmen was half a year ago; she rarely stayed away from Lungmen for such a long time.

"Actually..."

"Didn't we say before that we wanted to have a home in Siesta and then open a dessert shop in Laterano?"

Mizuki originally wanted to say that Exusiai, Texas, and the others didn't need to come with him. He was only taking the La Pluma back to Rhodes Island to settle down, and he could have left an Ender Avatar behind to accompany everyone, which would also be himself.

"Um."

"Then I thought, once you've sorted out all these troublesome things, let's get engaged first, and for the first ten years we'll live in Lungmen and run a bar business. If anyone dares to cause trouble, I'll smash a bottle over their head. That would feel amazing."

Exusiai rested her head on one hand against the car window. Mizuki couldn't see her expression, but he could guess she was very happy.

"Ten years from now, let's go to Laterano and raise the kids there. We'll open a dessert shop selling candied hawthorns and all sorts of pastries. My sister will take care of the kids. I'll be around thirty or forty years old by then. Every autumn, we'll take a walk on Laterano's Dusk Avenue. The fallen maple leaves and the wheat fields next to it are just so beautiful."

Aside from Mizuki, probably no one knows that Exusiai also has a fondness for that kind of romance. Lemuen didn't know either, because Exusiai only gradually became interested in these things after meeting Mizuki. Going to such places alone would only make her feel lonely, but going with someone else would bring her joy.

"Then we'll go live in Siesta for another ten years? What kind of shop will we open then?"

"Anything is fine, summer clothes, snacks, souvenirs, or barbecue. I'll check it out when I go there this time."

When talking about the future, Exusiai can always talk on and on for a long time. If there were other people around, she definitely wouldn't talk so much, but right now the only person by her side is Mizuki, and what can't she say to her husband?

"Hey Mizuki, what do you think? Isn't this kind of life wonderful?"

"I don't think it'll work." As soon as Mizuki finished speaking, she felt Exusiai's gun pointed at her waist.

Okay, okay, his other half can be quite fierce at times. No wonder Lemuen said that without Mizuki Exusiai be destined to grow old alone.

"What's wrong?"

"Not enough? Just thirty years?" Mizuki turned her head to look at the water gun pressed against her waist. "What about after Siesta?"

Opening a bar in Lungmen, buying desserts in Laterano, and grilling barbecue in Siesta —this kind of life is better than most people can imagine. How many people have never left their homes for more than ten kilometers in their entire lives?

"What else can I do?" Exusiai guess. I'll be fifty by then. Even though I'm middle-aged, there won't be many places I can go... Speaking of which, I definitely won't look this good when I'm old. Will you get old?"

"Probably not. This is a kind of immortality for me, in a different sense."