This small world is finished.

-Sharks turn into bubbles too?

--It's true, but there won't be any sharks making that choice.

Because it's not worth it.

At this moment, Xu You realized the hidden meaning behind that answer.

She left the shark clan and cut her tail to pieces just to get a pair of human legs. She will leave the sea for eternity, bearing a curse that forbids her to speak a word when she comes ashore, and if any words come out of her mouth, she will be turned into foam and disappear into the world.

Is it worth it?

I'm afraid the sharks had their answer in mind, but Si Yu had no choice but to make another choice.

Xu You was like a man possessed, unable to return to his senses after turning off the projection screen for half a day.

Seven Eight looked at her expression and couldn't help but sigh deeply, "Eh, I've said it all, told you not to look but didn't listen."

Xu You ignored it, turned his back on it, crouched on the ground and hugged himself tightly, buried his head between his arms, and remained motionless for several days.

She seems to have suddenly lost her vitality and motivation, seven or eight are as quiet as chickens, do not dare to disturb her, silent and stay behind her, so disturbed that even the mood to play games, only to stare.

I don't know how long, seven eight by the switchboard to rush to the scalp numb, forced to call her head: "host, you ...... better or not?"

Stiff from holding one position for too long, she moved before lifting her head from between her arms.

Chichibu looked at her carefully and saw that she didn't seem to have anything different other than red eyes, but it looked panicked.

"Host ......" Seven Eight dry swallowed, began the next world words froze without saying, after a pause, had to open the mouth to pull something else, "Why don't we draw a prize first?"

Xu You hasn't drawn the lottery box that was sent to you by completing the S-rank rating in the last world, and it's not a good idea to just sit there now.

Xu You's expression was light, and after glancing at it, he nodded.

Slightly relieved, Nanashi rolled up in a hurry like a little eunuch and ran back with the cardboard box clutched with an eager face.

Xu You didn't even look at it, casually pulling a note out of the cardboard box and unfolding it - 5% retrospective, no zero points.

Seven Eight took a look from the side, his eyes staring like two eggs, "Wow, this this is good, the hand is absolute."

Xu You thought briefly for a moment, realized, and immediately got up and said, "Seven-eight, go."

Seven Eight, however, stopped her, "Wait host, do you want to reconsider?"

"Your quest for this world has been completed, complete the quest for the next world and collect all five worlds you will be able to return to your original world."

"There are tens of thousands of slips of paper in the raffle box, and retrospectively only this one, with a one in ten thousand chance of getting it, should be used with caution."

"Fear not, fear not, in case your next world fails, maybe you can still use it to change the situation, otherwise failing a world, you have to start over the first world again, and failing again can never return to the original world."

As a system, it has the responsibility to guide the host to a more secure path and finish the last world properly in order to end it all.

Xu You squeezed the note tightly, his tone firm, "Just this world, retrospectively."

"But your situation in this world isn't something that can be changed by going back 5%, and it'll end up the same way, and it's a waste of that feature."

One person and one system stared at each other for a moment, stalemate, seven or eight headaches, the face of the black ash to pick down: "Hey, line line line, listen to you."

It drew circles on the ground while teleporting Xu You, and muttered, "Grass, why is it so hard to bring hosts nowadays."

Xu You stepped into the teleportation aperture, and when the aperture faded and she had a sense of reality, she opened her eyes to see the dimly lit and abandoned temple interior, and she didn't have time to think about it, she wanted to go through the wall and out to the beach.

Just then, she heard a low murmur, "Mother ...... Mother ......"

It was the voice of the little beggar.

Xu You looked towards the corner and found a thin man cowering there.

What time period does this go back to exactly?

She floated over and waved her hand to ignite two wooden blocks on the floor, and the broken temple lit up with a dim flame.

Xu You lowered his head to look carefully, and found that the little beggar's lips were pale, but his cheeks were unusually flushed, and his breath was like a swimmer, as if he would break that breath at any time.

The little beggar seemed to feel something, eyelids moved, struggling to hold open, and when he saw Xu You, he smiled weakly: "The little ghost, you're finally back, I've been waiting for you for a long time ......"

This broken temple, this location ...... Xu You froze, instantly smoothing out the timeline.

Now they are still on the way to the palace, the little beggar gave her to steal the paper money and candles, then asked for a day off and night, but the late autumn night is extremely cold, the little beggar is not covered with clothes, and contracted a wind chill and fell ill.

Xu You let the little beggar to stay in this small temple, she used points into a doctor's dream, let the doctor to come to cure the little beggar, which is no big deal.

And the timing of her arrival in this wear happened to be on her way to seek a doctor, thus disappearing for several days.

Here is different from modern times, a small disease is enough to take a person's life, besides, the little beggar is still hard to drag from the wind cold to high fever, now has been sick to only the last breath.

"I'm sorry ...... It's me who came late ......" The sound of the last word trembled, Xu You's eyes and nose were sore, and his vision became blurred.

The little beggar stayed down, "Ghosts, ghosts can still cry."

Xu You wiped his face casually while holding her hand tightly, "I don't know, keep quiet for a while, I'll go find someone to save you!"

"Seven-eight, seven-eight!" Xu You anxiously messed up, "Save her, you have to save her!!!"

Seven Eight practically grabbed his head and broke it, "Can't be saved, neither I nor you are gods, you're just an ordinary ghost, you can't even save your own soul body."

"Hey, I've said it all, every time you step into the world again at that moment, the plot has been adjusted and changed according to the cause and effect, there are quite a lot of variables, don't easily move the mission that has already been completed, you might end up with a failed mission."

The little beggar strains to grab Xu You's hand, "You're going to disappear, aren't you?"

The affirmative tone made Xu You blink again.

The little beggar coughed a few times for a long time before he slowed down, and said in a dry, hoarse voice, "I seem to be sick and confused, and dreamed that you disappeared, outside one of the walls of the palace."

"I ......" Xu You clenches her hands together, unable to speak.

"Is it true?" She asked again.

When he met the young beggar's clear and young eyes, Xu You could not say the words to fool the past, and slightly nodded his head.

"What do ghosts become when they disappear?"

"A light wind," Xu You says, "but still between heaven and earth."

The little beggar looked at her, "Are you afraid?"

"I used to listen to the old man at the entrance of the village who said that there was a widow in the next village who borrowed a corpse ......"

Before the little beggar could finish, Xu You interrupted her, "No."

"Wait," seven eight like a sudden enlightenment, immediately crackling knock computer, and then said, "seems to be able to host, this beggar and you in the same year, the same month, the same day, the same birthdate, as long as she is willing to sign a blood contract with you on it."

Xu You a moment to understand, no wonder her soul body was so light that ordinary people can not see, only a small beggar can see, did not think that there is a cause and effect relationship between.

When Xu You didn't say anything, Nanohachi added, "It's not like you can make her healed as good as new when her life is in danger, and her body is going to be buried in the ground after she dies."

"But don't you worry, her signing the blood contract doesn't affect her entering the reincarnation and re-incarnating."

The little beggar gasped with increasing difficulty, and his face began to turn blue, "You are the ...... the best person to me besides my mother."

"I... I don't want you to disappear."

"My name is Xu You ," Xu You asked in a choked voice, "What's yours?"

"My father left me and my mother," said the little beggar, "and I don't want the name he made; my mother just calls me Yan A."

"Seven or eight, do a mirror image." Xu You said suddenly, with her eyes downcast.

"Ah?!" Nanohachi was confused by her sudden and serious tone, "No, you're not even done with your body right now, what's the point of making a mirror image, besides, aren't you making a mirror image in order to leave a good ending for the object of your mission?"

Xu You: "It's not mirroring me, it's mirroring Yan A's mom."

Nanashi stayed for a long time before realizing what she meant, "Wait, I'll see what I can do."

After a long time again, Seven Eight said, "This is a bit complicated, I first had to go into Yan A's memories and rummage through the images that belonged to her mother, then I had to change your face and mirror you to look like her mother."

"It's going to cost you the ten thousand points you got from this world's S-rank quests, and it's only going to last for one night, so the cost is high and the value is low, so I think you'll have to reconsider, Host."

Xu You said without hesitation, "Okay, mirror image."

Nanohachi ground his teeth, "Okay."

It took almost an hour to find out what Yan A's mom looked like and then mirrored it onto Xu You.

"Yan A, Yan A." Xu You gently called to her who was about to close her eyes.

Yan A opened his eyes with difficulty, fixed his mind, his eyes reddened at once, and choked, "Mother ...... Is it you, am I dying of illness, so you came to pick me up."

Xu You gently embraced her into his arms, touched her head, and tenderly said, " Yan A , Mother has always been by your side, and has never left."

The little girl who had been driven away and scolded, who lived like a handful of weeds, and who was so stubborn that she had never reddened her eyes, had two streams of tears running down her face in an instant, illuminated by the weak firelight as if they were two stars.

"Mother, Yan A misses you so much."

"Mother knows."

Yan A smiled weakly and said, "Mother, sing me another little ballad." Having lived in constant fear, without food or clothing, not knowing if she would survive tomorrow, she rarely slept at ease anymore.

"Okay, Mother will sing for you." Xu You hugged her tightly and gently chanted a soft tune based on the memories provided by Seven-Eight.

The darkness was both long and short, and the wind in the small, broken temple never ceased to accompany the soft singing as the wooden bars went out, leaving only ashes.

As the light of day broke, Yan A whispered, "Mother ...... I'm so tired, I want to sleep ......"

Her voice grew softer and softer, and finally, like a broken string, it was completely silent.

Only dead silence remained in the broken temple.

Xu You hugged the cold body in his arms and sat there until dawn.

--

Xu You climbed a hill and sat there for three days and three nights, watching from afar as the magnificent palace fell into ruins step by step.

The resentment in his heart finally dissipated, Xu You whispered, "Goodbye, may you live according to your heart's desire in the next life."

She turned her head away, leaving the smoky landscape behind her.

After more than ten days of long-distance travel, Xu You finally saw the sea from afar, and the scarlet of the evening haloed into the sea, the sky and the earth orange, yellow and red, as beautiful as a picture scroll.

She picked up the rod over her shoulder and threw the line, the straight hook missing into the water.

The moment the hook touched the water, it was clutched by a hand.

The fishing line was being pulled tighter and tighter, he swam towards her against the setting sun, Xu You also walked towards him, and at the junction of land and water, Si Yu clutched her hand in a death grip and stared at her without saying a word.

His eyes reddened from the ends of his eyes, and little by little, water vapor clouded the entire socket.

"Big Fish, I'm back," Xu You said, holding back a sore nose, "You still recognize me."

She's obviously all ...... switched bodies.

And yet he seemed to recognize her without a glance.

Si Yu hugged her tightly and asked cautiously and hopefully, "Back ...... Are you still leaving?" In the voice line that was taut from nervousness was obvious pleading and uneasiness.

His strength was so great that Xu You's bones ached from the hold, and it was only when she got close that she realized he was trembling lightly.

"I ......" Xu You was interrupted by his tears before he could continue.

A single pearl rolled down her neck and fell into her shirt, a slight weight but heavy on her heart.

"I'll do whatever you want me to do, I'm obedient."

"I can accompany you up the mountain to pick flowers and wander the earth with you, and I can have a pair of legs."

"So don't leave me behind, please, please."

With a cry of begging, putting herself as low as dust, Xu You felt a sharp pain in her heart and broke away from him, saying, "What are you talking about? I'm not going anywhere, so just swim in the water."

Watching the pearls fall down, Xu You couldn't help but reach out to pick them up, "No human leg is as good as your big tail."

"Are you really not going to leave?" Si Yu had some second thoughts, "But I dreamt that you disappeared."

Xu You lowered her eyes, her tone dropping considerably, "So there was a little girl named Yan A who gave me her body."

Si Yu was stunned, seeing her difficult expression, it was as if he had been stabbed into his heart by several ice blades, stopping his breathing in pain, and coaxing her with his hands and feet, "Do you like pearls, I can cry some more."

"I'll feel worse if you keep crying." Not wanting him to see her expression again, Xu You crouched down to pick up the fallen pearls.

"Then I won't cry." Si Yu said obediently.

After a moment of silence, Xu You squeezed the pearls tightly and said with downcast eyes, "But I only have fifteen years to live."

The ten thousand points gained from the S-rank quest were gone, it was impossible to be a mirror image to accompany him for the rest of her life, and the remaining three thousand or so points that she had swiped by her trust value were only enough for her to stay for fifteen years.

Feeling that her eyes were sore and hot, and the tears inside were about to fall out, Xu You closed her eyes.

Her whole curled-up person was suddenly embraced, and Si Yu Yu's chin rested on her head, and a gentle and soft voice resounded above her head, like the sea water that was slowly coming up to the beach at the moment-

"Then every day of your fifteen years is mine."

--

Fifteen years later.

The sun is warm, the sea breeze brushes your face, and the sound of the waves is long and continuous.

On a rocky outcrop next to the beach, Xu You narrowed his eyes, looked to Si Yu at his side, and said, "If I die, I'll be buried in--"

She pointed to a small hill on the seashore, "There, it's close to the sea, you can see the sea at a glance, so I can be with you all the time."

Her tone was relaxed, but she knew she was running out of time.

"You must live well, and I will become a star in the sky and keep watching to see if you have eaten well in the water."

"Good." His voice was extremely low, and his drooping eyelashes hid the emotions in his eyes.

Xu You mentioned it a few times before, but Si Yu never let go of it, fearing that he would decide otherwise, so he repeatedly chanted about it, and it was good to see that he finally agreed to do it. He said that Sharks don't lie, and that they are especially solemn about their vows and promises.

As long as he agrees, then there shouldn't be much of a problem.

Xu You put down her heart and watched the single digit points in her head keep cutting down, she smiled and said, " Si Yu , I suddenly want to see that Gongying Pu wreath that you froze into ice, go and bring it to me."

Si Yu nods and rises, jumping from the rocks into the sea.

Xu You slowly closed his eyes.

......

Si Yu took the wreath and saw Xu You's quiet and serene face, as if he was sleeping, only to never wake up again.

He wasn't surprised, only his breath shook with restrained pain.

He placed the wreath on her head and took her into his arms, facing the sea.

After a day and a night, it was the last time they watched the sunrise and sunset together toward the sea, their shadows stacked together on the rocks behind them as the Sun faded into the horizon.

As the last of the remaining light sank, Si Yu picked up Xu You and climbed up the small hill, he transformed into his sharp claws and dug a very large pit, gently placing Xu You into it and laying himself down in it as well.

With a final wave of his hand, the dirt on the side of the pit covered down and buried them.

Yeah, this is the first time he lied, and the last time, just to let Xu You go in peace.

As a shark, he was more afraid of being alone for the rest of his life than giving up his life.

He would not, and could not, make it through the days and nights of long, endless years, relying on fading memories.

--

After a few years, Gongying Pu grew all over that small slope, in bunches and clusters, facing the sea, swaying gently.

From time to time, there is a gust of sea breeze, the umbrella-shaped Gongying Pu seeds fall into the sea with the free wind, and then go far away with the light of the water.

I don't know how much time has passed, but the ocean has receded and become a field.

Someone reclaimed that small slope, cut off the Gongying Pu, and plowed through the soil, only to find two white bones clinging to each other inside--

One is in the shape of a human and the other has the shape of a striped fish tailbone.