But this was unfair! This was the greatest betrayal of all those countless years of waiting, the deepest despair!
Yet in the end, she did not stop him.
Perhaps this was destiny, cursing each of them generation after generation, cursing those ancient hopes, leaving everyone forever unable to attain what they longed for.
The old man finally closed his eyes.
When he raised his head,
his eyes still held the faint memory of that slumbering sea, where he had watched the white-haired Lynn approach, step by step.
At that moment,
space tore apart, and the white-haired Lynn, yellow sand surging all over his body, fell before the shattered ruins of Dark Night City.
He struggled to his feet, panting.
He tore open his System Space.
He released all the Night Doctors he had sheltered within it.
The instant they emerged, they all saw the white-haired, turbulent Lynn. Yet when they rushed to reach him, they finally stopped in a daze, because they saw his eyes. An exhausted lifetime seemed to flow through them, making them realize with unmistakable clarity.
He was not Lynn.
But what kind of eyes were those? They looked as though he had forsaken everything he had ever possessed and was on the verge of collapse.
And at that moment,
a hoarse, desperate shout rang out from the devastated distance.
"You bastard, Brain!!"
When they turned, they saw the girl, Zhang Xixi, running desperately toward them from afar. Her eyes were red, and she looked as though she had just crawled out from underground. Mud mixed with rain or tears covered her entire face, yet even when she fell, she kept getting up and running toward them.
But at last, she stopped.
Trembling, she stared blankly at that familiar figure amid the surging, fragmented violet light.