Across Deep Space: Four Men and a Play

On the night when Xia Jiu was absorbing the core, Li Shen appeared at the top of the Thorn Tower.

He was waiting for God's prophecy, but when he received the prophecy, his expression became extremely solemn and there was a hint of powerlessness in his expression.

He had a dream at night, a dream completely different from the present. In the dream, he became an ordinary person, a doctor. He got to know a girl but hurt her because of losing control of his power. Out of guilt and fear, he chose to leave with his parents. When he saw her again, he still couldn't help but be moved. He restrained himself again and again, but couldn't help getting closer.

When the girl pulled him aside and sincerely expressed her feelings, he could no longer restrain himself. He hugged the girl tightly in his arms and decided to protect her at all costs.

Even if the gods don't allow them to be together.

He also saw the girl's face, the disrespectful girl Xia Jiumeng who broke into the tower.

In an instant, the dream collapsed and he fell into endless darkness.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already bright outside the window.

Li Shen sat up, holding his chest, feeling the unusual beating take a long time before returning to normal.

He sat in the hall for a long time without turning a page of the book in his hand, and the lively figure of the past was nowhere to be seen.

Feeling something, he put down the book and walked up the stairs to the top of the tower.

Top of the tower.

Xia Jiumeng looked at the blooming jasmine and felt an indescribable conflict in her heart.

She didn't want it to bloom, but she was reluctant to let Li Shen live without knowing his future and past.

But when the flowers bloomed, Li Shen's fate came to an end.

For a moment she even thought of destroying the flowers, but she couldn't bring herself to do it.

She knew too well that Li Shen was waiting for this jasmine to fall into deep sleep and wake up again and again in anticipation.

When Li Shen reached the top of the tower, he saw her back, which looked inexplicably sad.

"Li Shen, the flowers... are blooming." Xia Jiumeng heard the voice and turned around to force a smile.

Li Shen looked at her without saying a word, staring at her in a trance, as if he didn't know her.

After a long while, Li Shen finally asked, "Are you unhappy?"

"You can leave here now."

Xia Jiumeng shook her head. "Not happy."

She raised her head to see Li Shen's reaction, but saw that his eyes were looking at her as if they were lit by a bright lamp.

She knew that Li Shen had recovered his memory.

In fact, she also saw it when she looked at Jasmine.

In those illusory scenes, Li Shen met her again and again, fell in love with her, but watched helplessly as her fate was changed by "God" and she died tragically before his eyes.

Crazy and angry but unable to stop it.

"Why aren't you talking? Aren't you waiting for the flowers to bloom?"

Li Shen lowered his eyes, as if he was looking at the flowers and as if he was looking at her.

"The wait is finally here."

"But you're too late."

Xia Jiumeng: “…”

She didn't know how to answer this question.

"Can you go somewhere with me?"

"Where to go."

Li Shen didn't answer, but just raised his hand slightly. A feeling of weightlessness made Xia Jiumeng subconsciously grab his arm.

When she opened her eyes again, she and Li Shen appeared in a fantasy world full of jasmine buds.

I didn’t choose to enter the Caomuji environment last time, but after going around in circles, I finally came in.

After following Li Shen for a while, she looked up at him and couldn't help but shout out.

"Li Shen."

He paused, the expression on his face strange yet familiar.

He is like a prophet who has just awakened, and also like... Dr. Li who is forbearing and restraining his love.

For a moment, she couldn't tell whether he was the prophet of this world or that stupid Dr. Li.

He paused when she called his name a second time.

He turned around and looked at her seriously, his yellow-green eyes as clear as a transparent lake.

"I want to confirm one thing."

As he spoke, his hand touched Xia Jiumeng's face, and his movements were cautious, as if he was touching some fragile treasure.

"what?"

"Make sure I won't lose you again..."

Li Shen didn't know when he took off his gloves. His rough fingertips with thin calluses gently stroked her eyebrows, as if he wanted to imprint her current appearance in his soul forever.

Xia Jiumeng smiled and said, "Of course you don't..."

But before she could finish her words, an irresistible pain and a dazzling blue light plunged her into darkness in an instant.

The second before she lost consciousness, she had only one thought in her mind: she was really angry!

Li Shen's heart broke when he saw the girl fall, and he caught her with panic in his eyes.

After feeling the unusual coldness of the girl in his arms, he pulled up her sleeve without hesitation.

The girl's body was covered with pitiful and strange blue lines.

Just as Li Shen wanted to use his strength to stop the strange pattern, the 'Creation Core' on the scepter suddenly lit up with a blue-purple halo.

This is Astha warning him.

A prophet cannot peek into his own destiny, but this girl's fate is connected to hers, and he cannot interfere!

But he couldn't let her fall in front of him!

No matter what the cost!

Even if punished by God.

A golden line of destiny appeared on Xia Jiumeng's wrist, revealing memories hidden by darkness and fog.

In his endless life, girls appeared again and again, met him and fell in love with him, but God did not allow it.

Changed her fate and caused her to die again and again.

As a tool, he was not allowed to have emotions, and his memory was tampered with and erased time and time again.

Eventually, these memories transformed into Jasmine, who was unable to bloom, and was trapped in the Tower of Thorns with him.

"This time, I won't let you disappear again."

As Li Shen spoke, he endured the pain brought by the Creation Core and injected all the strength in his body into the girl's body to suppress the spreading lines for her.

……

When she opened her eyes again, Xia Jiumeng looked at the somewhat familiar ceiling and her mind was confused for a moment.

The next second, the pain that erupted before she lost consciousness, her own blue-purple light, and Li Shen's frightened and worried face made Xia Jiumeng sit up suddenly.

"c."

He got out of bed and walked to the mirror, unzipping his collar. He saw that his entire chest was covered with strange blue lines, even on his neck and arms.

Xia Jiumeng's face turned dark in an instant.

OK OK.

You must kill her, right? You can't afford to play with it, right?

She didn't believe it.

Destiny cannot be changed! ?

I'm going to go against it!

She was so angry that she completely forgot Xiao Qi's reminder that the ending could not be changed.

Now she just wanted to catch that so-called god and give him a good beating.

Spread all the remaining cores on the bed in one go.

He just lay down on it and absorbed it without restraint.

Countless mental tentacles invisible to the naked eye extended from her body to those cores. In just a moment, those cores turned into a pool of powder.

Xia Jiumeng's mental power began to grow continuously and hit the S-level barrier.

"Snap." After a crisp sound, the blue lines all over Xia Jiumeng's body disappeared instantly.

The blue-purple ice pattern that originally resided in the heart was instantly devoured by an extremely strong flame, and disappeared completely without even a chance to struggle.

Xia Jiumeng knew that this was the ice crack disease caused by the "God" who killed her, and now it was directly solved by her advancement.

Just as he was about to stand up and laugh, he realized something was wrong with his body.

An indescribable hot flash swept over her body, and her legs went weak and she fell to the ground.

"Well...it's so hot..."

Her whole body turned pink and fine beads of sweat appeared on her body, as if she had just come out of a steamer.

"Didn't I stop the fire power conversion?"

"what happened?"

The heat all over her body made it impossible for her to think clearly about what was going on.

She just felt very hot all over, as if she was going to die from the heat. Her body also became very uncomfortable, with an itch that could not be scratched.

She took off her coat and rubbed herself against the ground in her skirt, trying to cool herself down with the cold floor.

"No... it's no use... it hurts so much..."

Xia Jiumeng's eyes were misty and the corners of her eyes turned red.

"Li Shen..."

"Li Shen... I feel so uncomfortable... Where are you..."

"Wow, I feel so uncomfortable..."

She couldn't help but sob softly in grievance. She couldn't understand why Li Shen ignored her.

After humming for a while and seeing that she couldn't call Li Shen, she could only stagger to her feet by holding on to the wall.

Suddenly she smelled a faint scent of jasmine in the air, and subconsciously she stumbled towards the bottom of the tower following the scent.

In a daze, she saw a dark iron gate and heard some strange sounds from inside, but she was not curious at the moment. She only knew that the closer she got, the stronger the smell of jasmine became.

But the cold iron gate blocked her way forward, so she pushed the gate down with a force of her hands.

"Bang!" The heavy sound of the iron gate falling to the ground made Li Shen, who was enduring the pain, couldn't help but look up at the source of the sound.

Xia Jiumeng was seen with her whole body flushed and her eyes blurred. She was only wearing a cool short skirt and was standing at the door staggeringly.

When Xia Jiumeng opened the door, she saw Li Shen leaning against the corner with one hand handcuffed by an iron chain. The surrounding walls, floors, and windows were covered with black ice crystals, which seemed to have life and were still growing.

As soon as she came in and saw Li Shen, she felt even more aggrieved and stumbled towards him.

"Li Shen... I feel so bad. I called you... why did you ignore me... and hide here..."

She didn't notice at all that Li Shen's eyes were red and there was no emotion in them.

I just wanted to tell him about my grievances. When I got closer, I found that his hands were emitting white light. As he groaned and clenched his palms, black ice crystals around his body continued to grow and then pierced his body.

Xia Jiumeng tilted her head. "What are you doing?"

At this moment, she didn't quite understand Li Shen's behavior.

Li took a deep breath and said, "This is...Asta's punishment..."

"Well......"

"I don't understand..." Xia Jiumeng shook her head. She didn't want to think about these things now. She felt so hot and uncomfortable.

"......" Li Shen closed his eyes, trying to make himself look more normal before continuing, "...It's dangerous for you to be here. I could lose control at any time. You should leave first..."

"I'm...okay. I'll come find you when I'm better."

"No!" Xia Jiumeng refused directly.

"what...!"

Li Shen wanted to say something but was pierced by unbearable pain and couldn't help but scream.

Xia Jiumeng stared at the ice crystals on his chest and muttered, "I'm so hot, your body must be very cool, there are ice crystals on it..." After she finished speaking, she hugged him without waiting for Li Shen to react.

The moment she hugged him, Li Shen calmed down. He felt helpless as he looked at the person hanging on his body.

"Why don't you leave? You are indeed the most daring person to enter the Tower of Thorns."

Xia Jiumeng didn't listen to what he said and just felt very comfortable.

He felt so cool, and the itchy feeling in her flesh and bones was much better when she hugged him. She couldn't help but rub against the man's chest.

But soon that uncomfortable feeling came back.

She couldn't help but tremble all over. "Li Shen, no...it still feels so bad..."

"what happened....."

"Li Shen..." She couldn't help but ask the man in front of her for help.

But Li Shen did not respond, he just closed his eyes and endured the pain of ice crystals piercing his body.

Xia Jiumeng was dissatisfied. "You ignored me because of these ice crystals."

"Then I'll just destroy it."

She was now irrational and just stubbornly wanted to make herself feel better. Seeing that Li Shen endured the pain and ignored her, she angrily mobilized her mental power, transformed it into fire power and injected it into Li Shen's body.

"this......."

Li Shen, who was nearly fainting, opened his eyes when he felt a strong heat source. He saw his girl putting one hand on Bing Jing Hengsheng's chest, and an unknown red light was melting the black crystals.

He was stunned for a moment. How... could this be possible?

No one has ever been able to resist Asta's power.

The red light melted all the ice crystals in the room like a flame. The extreme high temperature melted Li Shen's handcuffs, and he fell to the ground in an instant.

Xia Jiumeng was also dragged down by him.

Her head was dizzy and she was about to look up to express her dissatisfaction when she felt the cool and warm touch of her lips, which was especially like her favorite QQ jelly. She couldn't help but take a bite.

"Well."

The man's groaning seemed to please her, and she couldn't help but laugh.

The cool feeling of kissing the man's lips seemed to make her understand how to relieve herself from this indescribable hot and itchy feeling.

She began to pull at the man's clothes with her slender hands without any instruction.

He was humming that it was in the way.

Li Shen was rescued from punishment by her. When he came to his senses, he saw the girl tearing her clothes and was stunned for a moment.

In the moment he was distracted, his shirt was torn to shreds.

Li Shen: "...What are you doing?"

Why did she rip her clothes???

Xia Jiumeng grabbed Li Shen's wrist and pushed him to the ground, propping herself up and saying fiercely, "Don't move!"

Li Shen blushed instantly "........"

Because of this posture, he could instantly see the beauty of the girl's white neck, which was whiter than the first snow in the warm sun...