Ren Jie staggered, walking on the devastated streets of Jincheng...

He had no destination, he didn't know where he should go, and where did he get the strength to support himself to take one step after another.

He looked at the dilapidated scene around him. The Stars Guild branch he had visited had turned into a big pit...

Both sides of the street where illegal parking was reported were full of scrapped cars and broken limbs. In the park... the bicycle fell on the ground, the rear wheel was still spinning, and the deformed stroller was stained with blood...

Liberty Square was crushed by the toppled building, and the Si Yao Hall of the Third Battalion collapsed and burned in the fire...

The newly purchased two-story building turned into ruins, and the old residential area where I had lived for nearly ten years, the former site of Anning Laundry, turned into a huge pit, with soil turned outwards and white smoke rising...

The dilapidated Jincheng gradually resembled the appearance in his memory, but Ren Jie could no longer find what it once was.

Suddenly, Ren Jie's feet were tripped by something unknown. He stumbled and fell heavily to the ground, splashing with blood. Half of his body was stained red with blood.

Looking back, Ren Jie realized that he had tripped over an arm...

I saw a man with only half of his body left, stretching out his arms and holding a girl tightly. The girl was holding a child in her arms, and the whole body was bitten by locusts. The insects were chopped to death... But these three

Everyone... is also dead...

The child was badly corroded by digestive juices...

However, even after death, the hands of the man and woman were still tightly held together and never let go...

Ren Jie... tripped over the hands held by the two of them.

I saw Ren Jie lying on the ground covered in blood, staring at this scene in a daze, pursed his lips, slowly closed his eyes, and lay on the ground... motionless...

Ren Jie... doesn't blame the little girl.

She was right. In the eyes of ordinary people who had suffered a disaster, she was indeed no different from a devil...

Retrieve the Pearl of Knowledge? Gather the earth's veins and let Daxia ascend? Won the King of Gaotian and win back a piece of land for Daxia? One by one... one by one...

It is indeed an achievement, but what do these things have to do with these ordinary people?

The general trend of the human race, the center of the storm, these are too far away from ordinary people in the market.

In the eyes of ordinary people, they only know that a natural disaster has broken their peaceful life, their loved ones and everything they care about have been taken away, and their original families have become torn apart...

And all of this is because of himself and the revenge of the demon clan.

Ren Jie can fight with powerful people in the mighty realm, and even bring the head of a demon lord from the mountain and sea realm to Feifei...

But...what's the use of this?

No matter how powerful I am, I can't give Feifei a living father who can celebrate her birthday with her...

If I were an ordinary person and was robbed of the sister and mother I care about in this disaster, I would definitely hate the demon clan, but... I would also definitely hate the guy who caused all this to happen, right?

Ren Jie thought of the light spear spinning towards his home during the Battle of Jincheng...

Many years later...that spear of light hit Ren Jie's own heart...

"Justice without the support of strength is pale and despairing... So... is this what it means?"

Ren Jie smiled bitterly and struggled to get up from the ground. He did not stay here any longer, but wandered aimlessly in Jincheng as if he had lost his soul.

The city... was empty, and the silence was unnerving.

In a daze, somehow, Ren Jie had arrived at the foot of a mountain called Pagoda Mountain, which is the highest mountain in Jincheng...

It has not been destroyed. Even if Jincheng is destroyed like this, it still stands here...

His eyes were empty, but he climbed up the steps and came to the hillside in his memory.

Yeyue's tombstone stood there quietly, with green grass in front of the grave and wild flowers in full bloom...

I saw Ren Jie sitting next to the tombstone, holding his knees with both hands, resting his chin on his knees, looking along the hillside towards the broken Jincheng...

The matchstick building where the two of them looked at the Jincheng night together also fell into ruins...

The charming and gorgeous night view of Jincheng no longer exists.

Just listen to Ren Jie say hoarsely:

"I thought that the next time I came here, it would be when the moonlight shines on this hillside..."

"Sorry... I haven't done it yet. This battle... a lot of people died. Jincheng's casualties exceeded 10 million. According to rough statistics, the casualties in the 33 Spark cities in Daxia even exceeded 50 million..."

"We... only have a total of 500 million people... they... could have survived..."

Having said this, Ren Jie couldn't help clenching his fists, his eyes filled with pain.

"I'm so useless...I couldn't protect your beloved Jincheng, and I couldn't protect the night."

"I naively thought that as long as I moved forward regardless of everything and kept getting stronger, I would be able to fulfill our agreement one day, but I was wrong..."

"This world is not what we imagined at all. When you gain something, you will definitely lose something..."

"But if I don't seize the Pearl of Knowledge and don't blow up the twenty-one cities of Shanhai, will the situation get better? Will things develop in another direction? I don't know..."

Having said this, Ren Jie's eyes were filled with tears:

"I'm sorry...I disappoint you. I really don't know if I can continue on. I'm...afraid of making another choice...let alone lose anything..."

"I really just wanted to respond to everyone's expectations. I worked really hard and didn't dare to relax for half a quarter of an hour, but I found that I couldn't respond to everyone's expectations..."

"You know? Today that little girl said I was a devil, a damn devil... I was the one she said she hated the most. I'm so sad, ugh~"

Ren Jie finally couldn't help crying. He hugged his knees and kept sobbing. His shoulders were shaking and tears were pouring down.

No matter how Ren Jie wiped his tears with the back of his hand, his eyes were always moist...

He whimpered like a wronged kitten, a dog that couldn't please people no matter how hard it tried.

Ren Jie was seen sobbing and beating his heart:

"It... hurts here! It hurts like cutting it with a knife or burning it with a soldering iron... Wow~ Wow~"

Ren Jie cried wildly, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably. Ren Jie's cry echoed in the mountains, and there was nothing else.

Only the tombstones on Pagoda Mountain silently accompanied him, witnessing Ren Jie's most vulnerable moment...

All the strength in Ren Jie's body seemed to be drained away at this moment. He just lay on the grass, next to Ye Yue's grave, hugging his knees and curling up into a ball, crying very sadly...

At this moment, he is not an omnipotent god, nor is he the so-called blazing sun, nor is he the third devil.

He is just a child under twenty years old. He doesn't want others to see his weak side, so he can only go to the deserted cemetery alone, talk to people who are no longer there, and vent the chaos in his heart with tears...

Looking down at this hillside, you can see Ren Jie huddled next to Yeyue's grave. The night wind blows slowly, and the tree crowns sway, making bursts of rustling sounds.

The wind was as gentle as a girl's hand, gently blowing over the grass, brushing over Ren Jie's shoulders, cheeks, hair, and ears...

The wind... seemed to be comforting him softly, and even the night before dawn became particularly gentle...

At least...at least this moment...
Chapter completed!