hsntnovel Chapter 158 Life: As long as you're alive, there are countless possibilities.
Chapter 158 Life: As long as you're alive, there are countless possibilities.
The bright red blood droplets looked like red plum blossoms blooming on Li Can's mecha. He took a step back, putting distance between himself and Wang Defa.
"How I know this isn't important. What's important is that the NPCs in the dungeon won't let you leave alive. Only I can save you now."
He leaned down slightly, looking into his increasingly uneasy eyes.
The fine lines at the corners of Wang Defa's eyes resembled withered tree branches, leaving behind several broken twigs as he blinked repeatedly.
Those slightly cloudy eyes, the whites of their eyes were no longer clear, and were usually dull and yellowish.
"You know how much influence I have now. I can still make you live secretly until the end of the instance."
"But until then, you have to make your own choices."
"To live or to die."
"To confess or to conceal."
Li Can didn't spout any grand principles, nor did he subject him to any inhumane and devilish torture or interrogation.
He had already figured out the general inside story through logical analysis, and now he had received feedback from Wang Defa.
In fact, even today or in the future, he will stubbornly keep his mouth shut and say nothing.
It didn't have much impact on Li Can.
He had already gotten the answer he wanted when Old Wang rushed up and started yelling at him about why he was doing this.
All the extra patience and questions we're asking now are just speculation. Of course, if we can learn more from other angles, it won't do any harm for Li Can himself.
Know yourself and know your enemy.
The current situation is the opposite of what I planned to do to capture Wang Defa; the enemy is in the dark while I am in the light.
Although Li Can is not on their planet, a large number of people already know of his existence, which is dangerous.
Wang Defa rubbed his cheeks repeatedly with his pierced hands, the loose skin on his old face turning red from the repeated rubbing.
Li Can could tell that he was very anxious and deep in thought at that moment.
"There's one more thing, I think you can consider this: even if you choose to reveal everything to me here today, it won't stop you from going back to Earth and continuing to perform your identity."
Li Can knew he was hesitating.
He had already been trapped in this laboratory for a long time, suffering from mental pollution and enormous energy depletion, and was on the verge of collapse.
Now all I need to do is add fuel to the fire, and make things even hotter.
Alternatively, you could analyze the pros and cons for him when he's already out of his mind, and make things clear. With this approach, he'll quickly side with you.
"What traitor or spy? Who knows? Even if you're exposed in front of me today, as long as you survive, there's always a chance for things to turn around."
"By the way, from my daily observations of you, you don't seem to have any antisocial personality disorder or expect the world to end. Rather, I'm more inclined to believe that you're doing things for others because you have your reasons."
"You must have had a very hard time on Earth... Is there someone or something threatening you by exploiting your weaknesses?"
"If that's really the case, don't you want to resist? Instead of passively doing things, why not take the initiative to change your destiny?"
"I've believed in a saying since I was a child, and I'd like to share it with you today."
"It all depends on human effort."
The mask of emotion that Wang Defa had maintained for so long completely crumbled under Li Can's final analytical remarks.
His voice trembled, and his gaze toward Li Can was filled with inquiry and complex emotions.
"What kind of monster are you? No wonder you were chosen from among thousands to be a transmigrator and a fate-changer sent to Earth ten years in the future..."
When Li Can saw that he had finally started to speak, his brows gradually relaxed.
Haste makes waste; Wang Defa's psychological defenses have been completely breached.
He picked out two cans of soda with a shelf life of over ten years from the storage capsules in his consciousness space and gave one to Wang Defa, who was twisting and sitting on the ground.
This thing was looted from the First Base.
In the early days of the apocalypse, food and other supplies were produced with extremely long shelf lives.
Excessive use of preservative chemicals.
However, in situations where people could die at any moment, the use of preservatives or not has long been irrelevant.
It's better than starving to death on the road to survival.
Wang Defa took the canned beverage in shock.
He held the jar up to his eyes and looked at it over and over again. Finally, after confirming what it looked like, he hurriedly pulled off the tab and gulped it down into his already parched stomach.
"Now you can continue. Don't worry, if you've decided to take a different path in the future, we might become allies in different times and spaces."
"As long as you are alive, there are countless possibilities in life."
Wang Defa let out a satisfied burp; the impact of the sparkling water revitalized his previously lifeless state.
The bubbles in the bottle were boiling, and then gradually dissipated.
As the tiny sound of bubbles bursting filled the air, Wang Defa slowly began to speak:
"You're right. There are people in the First Base who want to kill you. To be more precise, they don't want you to cause trouble and affect the destruction of Blue Star ten years from now."
"Even your existence, in the eyes of the survivors of our time and space, is an example of survival, a miracle of life."
"Including the issue you raised about using quantity orbs to close the copy rift, which is very tricky for those people."
"They believe that it's better to guide than to block, so from the moment you appeared on the Survivor Forum, they have urgently mobilized countless solutions to try to get rid of you."
"The final plan was to first lower your guard, and then find you here through a large number of dungeon players."
"My ultimate goal is to kill you."
Li Can nodded, feeling a little amused.
So many people want to kill him? Is this what it feels like to be the center of attention?
"I must be in high demand. It seems you're really lucky; you were randomly assigned to the same instance as me on your first mission."
Upon hearing this, Wang Defa showed no smile.
He gripped the empty soda can tightly in one hand, the metal instantly denting and making a crisp, piercing sound in the enclosed room, loud enough to drown out the rapid, anxious beating of his heart.
"Actually, I didn't want to be the first person to meet you. I wish we never had to meet in this lifetime."
"I'm just one of those opportunists. On the surface, I'm gambling for those two passes, but it's all a pretext to give us a reason to get involved."
"Of course, there are probably many people like me who are not loyal enough to be traitors, and not courageous enough to be themselves. No matter what happens, they just want to survive."
"Actually, when I first learned that you were Peach Blossom, my first reaction was that killing you was too complicated and too difficult, and I didn't need to risk my life."
"I was thinking that it would be good enough if I could just prevent you from getting through the dungeon."
"But there has never been much of an opportunity."
"You walk too fast, I can't catch up no matter how hard I try."
"Later, as you'll know, I discovered that you had disappeared and then returned, and that I knew about your conspiracy. That's when I had the opportunity to steal the corpse."