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The black rain corroded everything on the earth, buildings collapsed, and lives disappeared. The black rain was so heavy that even the people's wailing and crying were covered.
"Stop..." Rosalin stretched out her hand tremblingly, trying to save the people fleeing in front of her, but her hand just touched the figures in front of her and passed through them directly. They were like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, visible but untouchable.
"Roar——" The storm blew up from the sky, and the dark green cirrus clouds began to compete with the darkness. The condensed thousands of winds blew away the black clouds and crushed the black rain.
The melodious sound of the piano also came from the sky, it made the sun shine again and eliminated all the filth.
"Quick, get out of the city! Monsters are attacking!"
"Where's the Alchemist! There's someone here who needs medical treatment!"
"Hurry, hurry, hurry! Fighters, follow me!"
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After the black rain disappeared, Mondstadt became noisy again. The surviving knights of the Knights of Favonius were repairing their nearly rusted equipment; alchemists and doctors were treating the wounded survivors; and the relatively healthy people were also cleaning up the ruins.
Countless people found their own positions after the black rain. The dragon in the sky had taken away the greatest danger, and the rest depended on themselves.
"Yes...Rustan! Go find Rustan!" A person suddenly appeared in Rosalyn's mind.
Someone who would listen to her singing on time in the square every evening.
But Rosalin ran forward, but suddenly, a huge resistance came from her body.
Her hands and feet began to become uncontrollable.
"You know better than me, the ending is already determined. Don't go and see, come back, there are still enemies outside!"
A cold female voice rang out from Rosalin's heart. The voice was steady and sharp, like unmelting ice.
Her voice was also trembling, and what she just said was more like an escape from reality.
"No! You are not me! I am Rosalin! I want to see Rustan!" Many new memories appeared in Rosalin's mind, but she quickly suppressed these beating memories.
Now, she just wanted to see Rustan!
"I am you! You are the lady! You want the Queen to give her everything!"
The lady's voice rang out again from the bottom of Rosalin's heart, and her words were like cold needles, piercing Rosalin's heart fiercely.
"I'm not! I won't be like you! No way..." Rosalin covered her head, and the memories in her mind gushed out uncontrollably. Those were the memories of the person named "Madam" over the past five hundred years.
"I'm Rosalin, I love singing, I came to Xumi to save people, I'm not a lady, and you're not me!" Rosalin's eyes were red, she squatted on the ground and kept grabbing her hair.
As if this could alleviate the pain in my heart.
"Why! Why are you such a coward! Those people died! For a better tomorrow! The pure white kingdom, you can see it too? Can't you?"
The lady's voice was no longer as calm as before, and now she sounded like a hysterical shrew.
She was also suffering from Rosalyn's pain.
The purest conscience in Rosalin's heart was tearing both Rosalin and the lady apart at the same time. This kind of pain was deeper and more mentally taxing than the burning of flames.
"Go and see! Go and see! Go and die! I will still be myself then!" The lady shouted in Rosalin's heart. Her voice became hoarse, as if the words she just said had exhausted all her strength.
The past self will eventually be buried in the past. As long as Rosaline sees Rustam's tragic death, she will be close to death.
At that time, the lady will be a lady, no longer Rosaline. All the unnecessary self-blame and pity for the weak will also disappear with Rustan's death!
But why do I feel a faint sadness in my heart?
The lady didn't know what state she was in now. She saw people crying and wailing, the roars of fighting, and the girl running forward in the collapsed streets.
With long flaxen hair fluttering, the past self was running towards the doomed end. And the present self was the instigator of all this.
Rosalin kept running forward. She didn't know where Rustan was, but she knew that as long as she kept running, she would see Rustan.
The streets of Mond were littered with rubble and debris, and blood mixed with black rain, dyeing the entire city a black and red aura of death.
Fortunately, everything was fake. She walked through the rubble and debris, and the deep poison on the ground could not contaminate her at all.
"So tired... so far..." Rosalin's limbs felt as heavy as if they were filled with lead. She obviously didn't run very far, but in her mind, she seemed to have been running for a long time.
Or maybe she subconsciously understood that Rustan's fate was already determined.
"I want to... go see Rustan!" Rosalyn shouted, swinging her limbs with all her might.
The invisible resistance was broken, and Rosalin's speed suddenly increased. The scene in front of her became more and more familiar.
The fountain that no longer gushed water, the black and corroded vegetation, the floor with holes and pits. Everything was so familiar, yet so strange.
This is where Rosalin used to sing, but now it is in ruins. Rosalin's eyes kept rolling and her body began to tremble.
Silent fear and despair began to envelop Rosaline, as if what she saw next would shatter everything she had.
Although her body was shaking uncontrollably, Rosalin was still looking around, and then she saw a figure lying quietly behind the fountain pillar.
"Click! Click!" Rosalin moved her extremely heavy body, suppressing the sadness and despair in her heart, and walked towards the direction of the figure.
Tears kept flowing from her eyes, blurring Rosalin's vision. Rosalin raised her hand stiffly and wiped her tears.
She hadn't seen Rustan for a long time, and she wanted to see him, just take a look.
Rosalin walked surprisingly slowly over a short distance of only a few meters. The figure lying flat on the ground became clearer and clearer.
Then Rosalin was stunned. That person was not Rustan, but a suit of armor carried out from a museum.
"Surprise!" Ember jumped up from the ground and said to Rosaline.
Chapter 182 The Correct Way to Open the Second Stage
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"who are you?"
"Why are you here?!!"
Two identical voices reached Yu Jin's ears. However, although the voices were the same, the emotions contained in them were completely different.
Rosalin was surprised and relieved to see the embers, but the lady was simply frightened.
It seems that the embers left her with a great psychological trauma.
"Why can't I be here?" Yu Jin asked the lady back, then he stretched out his hand and the lady's shadow peeled off from Rosaline.
Two identical people, but one is full of arrogance and contempt, while the other is full of youth and vitality.
In short, one is a 40-year-old menopausal woman, and the other is a 20-year-old girl who just graduated.
The lady looked at the embers that were looking around. The place where the embers were just now should have belonged to the dead Rustam, but now it has changed.
The destined ending has been broken. All of this is because of this guy in front of me!
"Rustan..., Rustan, can you save him? Please..., please save him!" The lady soon stopped worrying about why Yu Jin was here. There were too many mysteries about Yu Jin, and one more would not make much difference, and one less would not make much difference.
She looked at the embers with burning eyes, and a rare pleading look appeared on her proud face.
"No way, sister? He's a dead person from five hundred years ago! You asked me to save him, do you think of me as a wishing machine?" After hearing the lady's request, Yu Jin spread his hands helplessly.
Rustan was a real dead man! Moreover, he had been dead for 500 years, without any remaining soul, and completely disappeared in the long river of history.
If we really need Yu Jin to rescue him, I'm afraid another monster will pop up.
"You're lying! You can do it, right? You can!" For some reason, the lady suddenly became sharp, as if she was sure that Yu Jin could do it.
"Hiss, why didn't I notice that you have such sharp eyes before?" Yu Jin scratched his head, as if he had been discovered?
When the lady and Rosaline heard this, their faces suddenly lit up with joy. The gloom had lasted for five hundred years, and now they finally saw the light.
However, their joy did not last long, as an unspeakable fear emanated from Yu Jin's body.
Everything is quiet, and the memories have really become memories, frozen in this moment and gradually turning yellow.
The tiny sound of burning wood rose in the silence, and finally grew louder and louder, drowning out the thoughts of the lady and Rosaleen.
"I could do it in the past, but not now. Because I don't want to dwell on the past, now I just want to move forward."
"I'm not hungry yet. I don't want to eat."
Flame, the flame that burns everything, the flame that creates everything, the flame fueled by the soul appeared before the two people.
This flame burned countless souls, and finally forged the "monster" before our eyes.
"Now, do you understand?" The silent fear dissipated, just like the tide that had submerged the two of them receding, allowing them to breathe again.
"Besides, why should I help you?" Yu Jin's tone became cheerful again. He continued:
"Just because I'm gentle and easy-going doesn't mean I don't have preferences. Your favorability is at the bottom of my list. Is that clear enough?"
Yu Jin bent down and gestured on the ground with his hands, indicating that he had no affection for ladies.
"Then why did you come here?" The lady looked pale, as if she had not yet recovered from the suffocation.
“Sister, don’t you know your own problem? If I hadn’t come, you would have set the entire Fruit Wine Lake on fire.” Yu Jin stood up, and the yellowed scene was like a burned photo, swallowed by tiny flames.
The ember disappeared, and Rosalin merged with the lady again. In the endless darkness, a ray of light shone in.
The lady felt something in her heart, and she began to run towards the light. The light grew brighter and brighter, gradually filling her vision.
The pure white stabbed the lady so hard that she couldn't open her eyes. She raised her hands, closed her eyes, and took a big step forward.
"Wang, what happened to her?"
"I don't know, maybe I'm going to die. You're done, Lance Shanks, wait for the call!"
"Ah? Really? I didn't do anything!"
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The noisy sound reached the lady's ears. She opened her eyes and saw a big hole in her ice cocoon.
The sunlight shone into the ice cocoon through the big hole, illuminating the heads of Ember and Lance Shanks so clearly - the two were clinging to the ice cocoon and looking inside.
"It looks good, big sister. We haven't seen each other for so long, why did you change your hairstyle?" When Yu Jin saw the lady wake up, he took out a mirror and put it in front of her without saying a word.
Distorted makeup, fluttering curly hair, flowing and rising ashes. Everything is very different from her past.
"By the way, your hair is curled nicely. Where did you get it permed?"
"I chopped it!"
Ember and Lance Sanx sang in unison, commenting on the lady who had transformed into the Blazing Witch.
"Could you please move aside for a moment?" the lady asked calmly, looking at Ember and Lance Shanks who were commenting on her.