Mr. Melancholy Wants to Live a Peaceful Life - Chap 99
Hearing Yu Hua, “Guan Shaoguang” whispered, “My own thoughts? I don’t even know what I’m thinking.”
All of his memories were so clear, scene after scene endlessly replaying in his mind. The app in his hand occasionally notified him on his mission progress. If he didn’t complete the mission, he would be wiped out. All of his materials were written down in the app, as though this was his whole life.
The Guan Shaoguang in his memories was Yu Hua’s friend. The two of them had helped each other pass levels all the way. At the beginning, both Guan Shaoguang and Yu Hua’s abilities had been very weak, but Yu Hua’s ability had aided his teammates from the start, making them become more powerful. Adding in the fact that he constantly accepted new teammates, his weak period had passed fairly smoothly.
Then Yu Hua had changed bit by bit, and Guan Shaoguang’s thoughts had also constantly changed. From beginning to end, he had always trusted and faintly worshipped Yu Hua. He had thought that with such a strong power, having received all of their “allegiance,” he should stand up and protect everyone so they could all clear together.
But Yu Hua had not only not helped everyone clear, he had held everyone back. Guan Shaoguang’s worship had turned to disappointment, and he suffered from having previously given his ‘allegiance.’ His power could be taken away by Yu Hua at any time. He didn’t dare to act.
The System issuing its Level 500 assignment had torn through his last layer of caution. The System had promised that during this level, it would suppress Yu Hua’s ‘control’ power so they could do battle without any qualms.
Everyone admires the strong, but when they have the opportunity to become strong themselves, they’ll choose betrayal without any hesitation.
The reasoning was simple. Because Yu Hua didn’t conform to their ideals, then they would kill him and replace him, realize their ideals themselves.
Friendship seemed so fragile before power and personal benefit. They had acted in the end, engaged in a hopeless battle with Yu Hua. In the end all five of them had been wiped out. Yu Hua had also been seriously injured.
Guan Shaoguang had thought that after their deaths, Yu Hua would definitely become insufferably arrogant. In the end, he would replace the System and become an even more fearsome being. But 2,410 years later, the Yu Hua that “Guan Shaoguang” had seen was a mediocre married man who would enter the little world in order to rescue an insignificant child and dog, and the dog was a ridiculous Destroyer who had once attacked Yu Hua.
He had used his time ability to see Director Ha’s past and had seen an equally autocratic but not cruel Yu Hua.
Yu Hua would absorb the Destroyers’ System abilities, shatter their delusions, and at the same time use his actions to tell them to atone for their crimes and live well. He would use high pressure policies to force the levelers to submit, but they would quickly get accustomed to the differences between the new world and their original worlds.
Yu Hua never expressed it in words, but he showed the Destroyers with practical actions that the past was already past, in the future, they could still live steady, realistic lives.
The clash between the different memories had caused an extremely conflicted emotional state for “Guan Shaoguang.” He began to consider. Had the past Guan Shaoguang truly not understood Yu Hua? Had Yu Hua never changed? Did he, a duplicate of a person, still have hope?
The memories implanted in his brain told him to hate Yu Hua, kill Yu Hua; the System’s mission told him to make Yu Hua undo his seal at any price.
Between the two orders, a third thought had slowly arisen. If the seal was entirely undone and Yu Hua became that powerful, would he be able to eliminate the System?
At some point, his mission had changed from being forced by the System to his own will.
“Why would you seal yourself?” “Guan Shaoguang” looked at Yu Hua. “You’re so powerful. If there’s one person among all the hundreds of thousands of worlds who can defeat the System, then it must be you. In that case, why would you seal yourself, be perfectly willing to be an ordinary person? Why didn’t you kill It? Why didn’t you…save us?”
He couldn’t hold out anymore. He reached out a pleading hand towards Yu Hua.
Having witnessed this fearsome power with his own eyes, seen four natural law grade masters with the support of the System all killed by Yu Hua while he had only undone 80% of his seal, “Guan Shaoguang” couldn’t resist wanting to give his “allegiance.”
The true Guan Shaoguang had been a natural law grade master. His great power had made him want to replace Yu Hua. The duplicate Guan Shaoguang may originally have been only an ordinary leveler with an ability related to time. He wouldn’t have the vain wish of replacing Yu Hua; more than that, he wanted someone to come to his rescue.
Yu Hua stepped over the bodies of his four colleagues and raised his hand over “Guan Shaoguang”’s head. He was silent for a long time.
Far away in the little world, You Zhengping suddenly found that the black grains that had been surrounding him were passing through the spatial passage he had created, spilling out of the little world bit by bit, sinking into Yu Hua’s body.
You Zhengping had awakened these human emotions and opened a passage for them, letting them return to their original place.
But Yu Hua seemed not to have noticed this change.
Yu Hua only suddenly remembered many things while in a trance. When the black grains had entirely sunk into his body, he slowly spoke: “I can’t save you.”
“You don’t want to save us?” “Guan Shaoguang” raised his head to look at him.
“No.” Yu Hua shook his head.
Grasping natural law power, he had undertaken the hatred of the thought group. He had attempted to consume the System, but he had found something unexpected. All the levelers closely tied to the System, each part affecting the whole. If he eliminated the System, it would amount to eliminating the countless worlds the System had occupied and the levelers under the System’s control.
A single person’s power was limited. However strong he was, he still couldn’t save everyone.
Unless another leveler or several of them came to hold natural law power and were willing to protect all those people and worlds from being touched by battle while he fought the System to the death.
He had been waiting for his companions to become powerful while suppressing all the levelers, patiently waiting for level 500.
Unfortunately, what he had waited for turned out to be betrayal.
In his disappointment, Yu Hua had sealed his frustrating humanity, and divinity had begun to take the ascendant.
And divinity was nothing to crow about. For the other worlds and the levelers, the System also amounted to a god.
The root of divinity was after all compliance with the universe’s scientific laws for the creation and change of all living beings. All of creation came into existence, then all of creation came to the same end. Everything had its origin in the Bing Bang, the explosion of extremely high density matter, and in the end was attracted and coalesced into all living beings. Around and around, multiplying without end.
The bodies of his former companions lay on the ground. Yu Hua, gradually recovering his humanity, looked at his own hands. He had in the end lost to divinity, lost to the constantly consuming, increasingly stronger instinct and desire.
Everyone lost themselves to power. No one was an exception.
“You’re as strong as a god. If even you can’t save us, then what should we do?” “Guan Shaoguang” didn’t understand Yu Hua’s thoughts. He only knew that he had been refused by Yu Hua with “I can’t do it” as the reason.
“I can’t even save myself. How could I save you?” Yu Hua said dully.
How much longer could he defeat his divinity? It was only a matter of time until he was submerged.
If he let his power continue to expand, he would definitely become a second System. Then it wouldn’t matter who won or lost. The outcome wouldn’t change.
“You ask me to save you. Who will come to save me?” Yu Hua asked himself soundlessly.
He said these words in the direction of the little world. Even though there was no sound, You Zhengping still heard. Seeing Yu Hua like this, You Zhengping went around and around in agitation.
You Zhengping felt that Yu Hua was currently standing at some boundary. If he took a wrong step, there would be an abyss.
He didn’t know whether he could resolve such a deep ideological problem, but right now, he ought to be beside Yu Hua. He couldn’t let him struggle to think it through by himself.
Yu Hua had always been the sort of person to easily get stuck bashing his head against a brick wall. At the least weight on his mind, he would go investigate worst cases; when he had discovered that there was a secret between them, he had gone to watch suspense dramas on the ethics of a wife getting back at her husband. Was that the kind of TV drama a normal person resolving an emotional problem should watch?
You Zhengping tried several times to break the barrier between the little world and the outside, but he couldn’t find a way to break it. Yu Hua’s human emotions had forgotten him after sinking into Yu Hua’s body. It was all a lie about wanting to be together!
He was as agitated as an ant in a boiling pot. The power gap was too large. Even with his spatial ability, he still couldn’t break through the barrier.
When You Zhengping was at the end of his tether, a vast power suddenly welled up from inside his body. No, it wasn’t from inside his body. It seemed to come from somewhere deeper. It seemed to be a power carved into the depths of his soul from the time he was born.
Each time he had a breakthrough during combat, there was also this power like divine aid making him understand a new power over and over.
This time was the same. With the aid of that propelling force, You Zhengping used his spatial ability to open the barrier between the little world and the world outside. He appeared in the sky above the wilderness, charging into Yu Hua’s field of vision.
Yu Hua, who had just asked “Who will come to save me?”, suddenly saw a crack in space rip open in the sky. A person walked out of the space. The blood red sunlight shone on his hair. In a trance, he had the feeling that a rainbow had ascended into the sky.
“You again!” “Guan Shaoguang” said hatefully.
You Zhengping had thwarted “Guan Shaoguang”’s plans again and again. If not for him, Yu Hua might already have died or awakened 100% of his power!
You Zhengping ignored “Guan Shaoguang.” He fell into Yu Hua’s arms and tightly clutched his hand. “I’ll save you.”
When the words came out of his mouth, You Zhengping felt a little awkward. He had always thought these vague words had no purpose. He clutched his head and struggled to organize his wording. “I’m sorry, I saw your memories. It’s like I’ve intruded on your privacy. But I want to say that you do have companions, our Protection Organization…”
At this point, You Zhengping stopped again. He thought that the Protection Organization and Yu Hua weren’t friends. They had always taken precautions against each other.
Fortunately, Yu Hua was looking at him patiently from beginning to end, waiting for You Zhengping to organize his wording. Right now, Yu Hua seemed to need some positive speech.
“I can’t say it clearly!” You Zhengping pointed to his own head and said, “You can use all kinds of abilities, right? You’ve already defeated Guan Shaoguang, so can’t you break through the limits of the time rules? Look at my memories, look at my thoughts—all the education I’ve received, my past with you, it’s all here. I don’t know whether I can save you, but you’re clever, if you understand the future a little better, you’ll be able to find a way, right?”
Yu Hua saw his urgency and suddenly gave a light laugh. He quietly said, “I wanted to look in the little world. Even though you were restricted by the time rules and couldn’t say, they couldn’t prevent me from investigating on my own. But are you really willing to completely open the doors to your thoughts to me? Just a bit of resistance, and your mind will be injured.”
“Go ahead and look!” You Zhengping raised his head compliantly.
Yu Hua gave Guan Shaoguang a cold look and casually knocked him out. Then he pressed his forehead to You Zhengping’s.
He held too many powers. Reading memories was a very simple one. His consciousness poured into You Zhengping’s awareness—
“I’ve fallen in love at first sight with him, hurry up and help me think of a way to ruin the blind date!”
“Do you people have any decency? I’m going on a date, and you still want to follow?”
“Cen Xiao, lend me some money, I defaced a tree in the park and I’m being fined.”
“Ow, my waist. You had all better start exercising more. When you start dating, you’ll understand how important your waist is.”
“Cen Xiao, Cen Xiao, help me think of a way to propose! Should I just take him to the Bureau of Civil Affairs?”
“Wise up a little, why do I have to take you guys on my honeymoon?”
“I’m saving up my salary to buy a phone for Yu Hua. I’ll have to tighten my belt for a while. You guys can help me out with some food, right?”
“Yu Hua has been ignoring me recently. He didn’t even kiss me this morning. What do I do!”
“The first Destroyer has appeared. I have to throw myself into battle once more. To protect Yu Hua’s peaceful life, I can’t tell him.”
“Hiding things from Yu Hua is exhausting and feels so awful. I can’t bear it any longer.”
“So Yu Hua is the black-cloaked man. I…I don’t know that, I don’t know that, I don’t know that! All right, I don’t know!”
“Seeing Yu Hua oppressing the Destroyers makes me feel secretly pleased. Nicely done, go on, go on, don’t stop.”
“When can we get rid of the System? The Maldives tickets are about to expire.”
“Is the last Destroyer with natural law power where Yu Hua is? I have to go save him now!”
“Guan Shaoguang says that Yu Hua is so strong he doesn’t need me to save him. Is his strength what I depend on him for? No, it’s clearly his cooking I depend on him for!”
“I may not be as strong as you, but whatever you do, I’ll be with you.”
“In a peaceful life, I’ll be with you. Trapped in a little world, I’ll be with you. Fighting the System, I’ll be with you!”
Yu Hua slowly opened his eyes. So this was where his lost humanity was.
Author’s Note
The duplicate Guan Shaoguang: You’re a god, so you should save us.
You Zhengping: Haven’t you studied history? It’s never a single person who determines history—it’s people. What is this cult of personality you have going on? Power comes from uniting!
