Chapter 53: I Beg You to Leave Quickly! I Really Don't Want to Kill You!-Eu errei! A destruição do mundo é toda culpa minha(A pequena borboleta do sonho)

Just as the deduction process had foreseen and the achievement description of [Head Connection Master] had detailed, the headless knight, in full view of everyone, brazenly reattached his head!

Zhou Quan's heart sank to the abyss.

This is bad!

He had not wanted to make an enemy of the headless knight. If they had managed to control the knight's head, he could have used it as a bargaining chip to trade with him, and this battle might have come to a close right there.

However, this pleasant fantasy was shattered.

The headless knight had reattached his head and was now a knight named Yulens who could finally make head or tail of things.

The green glow gradually dissipated, revealing Yulens's figure.

Eerie green flames burned over his body. The meager remnants of human flesh and blood had been reduced to ashes, leaving only a skeletal frame, yet he looked far from frail. His body had expanded to a staggering height of five meters, towering even higher than Zhou Quan transformed into the Old Covenant Wolf King!

"Let's run!" Zhai Qingwu complained. "We couldn't even beat him when he was headless, how are we supposed to fight him now that he has one?"

Zhou Quan gritted his teeth and said, "I'm not leaving!"

Up to this point, he had made every effort within his power, yet everything had unfolded precisely according to the Evil God's script, without the slightest deviation.

Since the Evil God's script was unshakeable, the corresponding outcome—that he would defeat the headless knight—would also remain unchanged.

Although he did not know what would happen next, victory would undoubtedly belong to him! Most certainly!

"You go!" he shouted to Zhai Qingwu. "It's too dangerous from here on out. I don't want to drag you down with me!"

Seizing the divine remains was a choice he had made himself. Now that the situation had reached the pinnacle of danger, he refused to implicate Zhai Qingwu.

"You said it yourself!"

Zhai Qingwu flicked her finger without a moment's hesitation. A black thread darted from her fingertip and burrowed into the ground beneath her feet.

Instantly, her body vanished into thin air.

Zhou Quan pressed his lips together.

He knew this was the curse of the Lost Land, which could render a designated area and everything within it invisible.

It was precisely by relying on this curse that they had...

A sudden change occurred!

A stone pier flew through the air like a cannonball, instantly smashing into the exact spot where Zhai Qingwu had been standing a moment before.

Boom!

Accompanied by a deafening roar, the stone pier shattered into countless pieces.

"You kill my companion and think you can escape? That is an absolutely unforgivable act!"

Yulens roared at the top of his lungs.

Zhou Quan was startled. He stared nervously at the spot where the stone pier had landed. After two agonizing seconds, seeing no sign of Zhai Qingwu's corpse, he felt a slight wave of relief wash over him.

She should be fine; she must have escaped...

"Mr. Yulens!" Zhou Quan turned around, facing the menacing Yulens entirely by himself.

At this moment, his mood was exceptionally heavy.

"Although I know it's practically impossible, I still have to ask: can you give up the divine remains and leave this place, just pretending you were never here?"

He pleaded, "I'm begging you."

"If you agree, I can kneel down and kowtow to you—as many times as you want!"

An invisible sense of guilt bent his spine, lowering his attitude into the very dust.

"Huh?" Yulens tilted his head. "Are you saying I should tuck my tail and run away like a coward, turning a blind eye to the death of my companion?"

He let out a cold snarl. "That is something a wolf cub should do! Not a knight!"

Zhou Quan fell silent.

Yulens was a righteous knight, and since his companion had died at their hands, it was only natural that he would not reconcile with them.

When he had attacked Red Hat, he had no idea that Red Hat was Yulens's companion.

In fact, until he saw Yulens with his own eyes, he hadn't even realized it.

Red Hat had been too vicious!

Not only had he slaughtered nearly everyone coveting the divine remains, but his methods against the Special Operations Bureau were also extraordinarily cruel—he didn't look like a good person at all!

Yet, looking back now, was Red Hat necessarily a bad person?

If he weren't a good person, how could he have become the companion of Yulens, a knight of justice?

Perhaps Red Hat had his own unavoidable reasons for fighting over the divine remains, just as Zhou Quan had to protect his own family, forcing him to wipe out all competitors!

Putting himself in Red Hat's shoes, if he were in the same position, he might also have mercilessly struck down other competitors.

At this moment, Zhou Quan's face was filled with profound remorse.

The deduction hadn't mentioned Red Hat, which meant Red Hat didn't actually have to die. It was all his fault; he had mistakenly killed a good person!

"I'm sorry!"

He apologized repeatedly, every single word coming from the depths of his heart, extraordinarily sincere.

He had already realized the full extent of his mistake.

"I'm begging you!"

"Just leave!"

"If you don't leave, I'll have to kill you!"

Plop!

He dropped to both knees, saying word by word, "I'm begging you, please go!"

Zhou Quan's voice was trembling.

Even if there were the slimmest chance of persuading Yulens to leave, he would rather not go to war with him, even if it meant sacrificing his own negligible pride!

Yulens, please just leave!

I'm begging you to go!

I really don't want to kill you!

"Uh, is this some kind of trendy new threat?" Yulens looked slightly bewildered. He scratched his head, the flames within his eye sockets flickering faintly.

Suddenly, a dark figure appeared behind Yulens.

The second teleportation!

Clang!

The dark figure viciously clawed at Yulens's back, its slender nails raking across his armor and sliding off to both sides, kicking up two trails of sparks.

MISS!

"Hey, what are you doing?" Yulens waved his hand casually, as if swatting away a fly.

Thud!

The dark figure went spinning through the air as it was sent flying.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

A round of coughing echoed from not far away. Fu Qingshan had stood up at some unknown point.

Leaning heavily on his saber, his face deathly pale, he said, "Stop begging him. No one can keep their sanity in front of the divine remains; he isn't going to leave."

"Well said," Yulens remarked casually. "Furthermore, all of you are going to die to accompany my companion in death."

My companion is dead, so now there's no longer any mood to discuss right and wrong...

Zhou Quan trembled.

"Let's join forces, or none of us will survive," Fu Qingshan paused for a second before adding, "Qin Xue, you help out too."

Qin Xue nodded. "Understood!"

After Red Hat's death, the bone cage lost its magical sustenance, allowing her to regain her freedom.

"Join forces?" Yulens said with utter contempt. "I'll kill you first and see how you plan on joining forces!"

There happened to be a stone pier right by his foot.

In an instant, he lashed out with a fierce kick, sending the stone pier shooting forward like a football driven by a powerful volley.

Fu Qingshan's pupils dilated.

The stone pier grew infinitely larger in his vision, and time seemed to slow down.

"Hah!"

He rolled away in a clumsy, desperate scramble, dodging the projectile by a hair's breadth.

Boom!

The stone pier smashed into the spot where he had been standing a moment before, gouging out a deep crater in the ground.

Fu Qingshan felt a lingering wave of terror, thinking that if that stone pier had landed on him, the consequences would have been unimaginable.

He raised his head to look at Zhou Quan, only to find that Zhou Quan was still kneeling on the ground.

"Why are you still kneeling? Get up!" he snapped in exasperation.

He had seen spineless people before, but never one quite this pathetic!

Zhou Quan wore a look of utter defeat. He already understood that tonight's outcome could no longer end peacefully.

He stood up, gazing at Yulens with a face full of agony.

He spoke slowly, "I'm sorry, it's all my fault. I don't want this, but I have no choice..."

Not far away, the dark figure also opened its mouth, speaking the exact same words, perfectly overlapping with Zhou Quan's voice.