N-M Chapter 1776 Don't Leave Any Regrets
Chapter 1776 Don't Leave Any Regrets
Chen Ling looked at the anxious Li Shangfeng in front of her and sighed inwardly.
Li Shangfeng didn't want to owe this huge favor, which Chen Ling could understand... but he knew even more clearly that once everything was explained to Li Shangfeng, Li Shangfeng would definitely join the Twilight Society for the sake of the other Twilight Society members who had already died in battle, and for this debt of gratitude to make up for their regrets...
People often say that revenge only leads to more revenge, but at the Twilight Society, it has become a cycle of repaying kindness and gratitude.
He didn't want Li Shangfeng to give up his current stable life for them and return to that dangerous path... Li Shangfeng no longer owed the Twilight Society anything.
"Boss Chen!" Li Shangfeng looked at Chen Ling expectantly, "Please tell me..."
"...As you just said, you're still too weak right now." Chen Ling paused for a moment. "In a few years, when you've truly grown up, if you still want to know the truth and repay us... I will tell you everything."
"Then, how should I find you then?"
"You don't need to look..."
Chen Ling slowly raised his hand, something between his fingertips, and placed it in Li Shangfeng's palm... He looked at Li Shangfeng with a complicated expression and spoke softly:
"Someone will come looking for you then."
Li Shangfeng looked down blankly at his palm.
A blank playing card, without any face value, gleams in the sunlight.
……
After finishing their meal, Li Shangfeng carried Li Wanhua back to the abandoned factory.
Chen Ling said she would help Li Shangfeng repair the room a little, so she gave Li Laide an hour of free time, and then walked into the ruins with the brother and sister without looking back...
Li Laid stood alone, his forehead covered in question marks.
no……
Are you just going to ignore me like this?
Before, he wanted me to stay by his side every step of the way, but now he just casually said a few words and left... Isn't he afraid that in just one hour, he'll disappear without a trace?
But thinking of Chen Ling's terrifying strength last night, Li Laide gave up the idea of escaping. Besides, even if he tried to escape now, where could he go?
Given the security situation in the Chengtian Realm, he couldn't even leave by train.
With his stolen face on his body, Li Laide hesitated for a long time on the street, but finally walked in a certain direction...
Li Lai De was basically certain that those strange entities invisible to the naked eye were the "Twilight Society" that Chen Ling had mentioned, but he didn't know what had happened to make them look like this... Moreover, Chen Ling had mentioned before that the Twilight Society hadn't started recruiting yet.
If Chen Ling wasn't lying to him, then it meant that these people weren't from the "Twilight Society" of this world, but rather, like Chen Ling, came from the previous world.
Is it possible that they helped Li Shangfeng and his sister because they were members of the Twilight Society from the previous world?
Lee Ryder thought about it more and more deeply, and everything seemed to find a reasonable explanation at this moment. At the same time, another question inevitably surfaced in his mind:
If this world really was rebooted...
What kind of person was he in the previous world?
Will they remain unknown and helpless, or... become famous throughout the world?
As he pondered, Li Laid skillfully crossed the street and arrived at a familiar little house...
Bright sunlight streamed down on the earth. At this moment, a graceful figure with flowing white hair sat in a wheelchair at the entrance, holding a watering can in her hand, patiently watering the flowers in the yard. She exuded a tranquil aura of being detached from worldly affairs.
Upon seeing that figure, Li Laide's restless heart calmed down.
He stole a newspaper from a nearby newsstand, then leaned against a telephone pole across the street, pretending to read the contents of the newspaper, but his mind was actually on his mother in the yard... For him, this was the closest he could get to her.
He watched as his mother pushed her wheelchair alone, watering the garden from one side to the other, like a diligent gardener. Time passed slowly, and it took her almost the entire morning just to finish watering the garden.
Wait, all morning?
Li Laide suddenly snapped out of his daze, remembering the free time Chen Ling had given him—only one hour…
Just as he was hesitating about whether to go back to the repair shop, a calm voice sounded from behind him:
"Go meet her."
Lee Ryder was startled. He instinctively turned around and saw a figure in a brown coat standing behind him, his gaze following the figure in the yard who was packing up and preparing to go back inside.
"We're leaving the Chengtian Realm... We don't know when we'll be back." Chen Ling looked at Li Lai De with his ruby-like eyes, and spoke slowly, his voice carrying a strange sense of calm.
“With me here, you don’t need to worry about anything else. Apart from your mother, no one will remember that you were here.”
Before Li Laide could react, Chen Ling handed him an exquisitely crafted bionic mechanical leg.
"This is something I had Li Shangfeng make. Although it doesn't have the flexibility of a real human leg, once you put it on, daily walking and sitting won't be a problem... Take it to your mother."
Li Laide stood there, stunned.
He looked at the heavy mechanical leg in his hands, and an unreal warmth rose from the depths of his heart. Instinctively, he became wary of this apparent kindness from others, and looked nervously into Chen Ling's eyes:
"……Why?"
"For heretics like us, the love of family is more precious than life itself." A glimpse of the clear-eyed boy in theatrical robes from Frost Street flashed in the depths of Chen Ling's eyes as he spoke with a complex expression.
"I never had the chance to say goodbye properly to the people I cherished... and it was too late to make up for it later. But now you still have a chance. She is standing right in front of you, and you are only separated by a street."
"Lee Laid, don't leave yourself with regrets."
Li Laide was stunned. This was the first time he had seen any emotion other than calm on Chen Ling's face... The bitterness and sorrow in her eyes were like a thorn, gently pricking Li Laide and making him feel the same sadness.
What is this...? Mutual appreciation among kindred spirits, the sorrow of a rabbit dying and a fox dying, or empathy?
Lee Ryder didn't know what was wrong with him. He looked at the bionic leg in his hand and finally took a deep breath...
"……Thanks."
He walked straight to the house across the street.
In the courtyard, the mother, sitting in a wheelchair, was slowly packing her things. As soon as she looked up, she saw a strange young man standing in front of her, looking at her with complicated eyes.
"Hello... Is there anything I can help you with?" she asked softly.