VIP Chapter 575: Galaxy Record (2)
Under the vast night sky, Li Wei’qi, who was no bigger than a fire dragon’s toe, looked up and reached out to it.
Her shadow seemed so “tiny,” while the fire dragon before her appeared so immense.
Then…
She seemed to “audaciously” speak.
She wanted to invite it to see the deepest part together.
With a romantic color of “exploration” as the theme.
Amidst a battle on the verge of breaking out, Li Wei’qi’s expression was remarkably calm.
“I will not let you reach there.”
Iaar’s reply was equally decisive.
Before her answer even landed, flames erupted from the dragon’s mouth and tongue.
The fire dragon, aiming for ultimate “burning” and “flame,” was determined to engulf the Li Wei’qi before it with this inferno.
“Is that so? What a shame. I thought someone would accompany me to the very deepest part, even unto death, just like he did.”
Li Wei’qi spoke with a slight hint of regret, lowering her head and sighing as she said this.
“Especially you, Iaar… We were friends the last time we met—oh right, I remember, in a sense, you are no longer the same person you were before the vertical axis separated us.”
She calmly stepped into the sea of fire, seemingly using no “magic” to defend against the flames, walking in with composure.
Iaar saw this.
Wanting only to kill Li Wei’qi here, she intensified her firepower.
“There’s no other reason. It’s simply because…”
The fire dragon’s mouth remained open, continuously spewing flames at Li Wei’qi, burning entire patches of grassland until they were scorched black, yet it showed no sign of stopping—
“Most likely, you’ve already been there, but you didn’t solve that problem. You won’t be able to do anything there on your second attempt.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Iaar, on her cockpit screen, saw flashes of Li Wei’qi’s blond hair amidst the continuous flames.
“!? ”
And her black military uniform, which hadn’t suffered even a “scratch” since she walked into the flames.
Even the blindfold she wore, the one most easily susceptible to “burning,” was completely intact.
Iaar was unaware of Li Wei’qi’s abilities. Since entering Zeroth Heaven, she had defeated all its guardian monsters with sheer physicality or the small pistol at her waist.
But precisely because she was unaware…
Iaar began to believe that Li Wei’qi must possess some ability to defend against her flames.
Apex of the Galaxy, Apex of the Galaxy, Apex of the Galaxy…
Iaar continued her attack, but her mind began to rapidly recall the name of the “dungeon” where Li Wei’qi had once lived, as told to her by Will.
As consciousnesses that create “possibilities” in dungeons, their every attribute might be a temporary, random refresh scam, but their names were not.
Names signified…
What was she so devoutly believing in as she acted!
As long as she understood the meaning of the name to Li Wei’qi, she could… decipher her method of action!
She looked at Li Wei’qi before her.
Li Wei’qi seemed to be strolling in the sky, stepping on stairs made of “air.” The flames touched her body but caused no “damage.”
She showed no fear of these flames, which were considered fervent throughout the world, and simply walked step by step towards Iaar.
“Alright. To put it this way, you trust Will more than me, that person who sweet-talked you all into a frenzy despite having no status whatsoever…”
Li Wei’qi stopped directly before Iaar’s external “eye.”
This wasn’t on the “eye” on the surface of the fire dragon.
After all, the fire dragon’s eyes were slightly separated, with enough space between them to seat a dozen Iaars. And if this were truly the eye, Iaar’s line of sight would be half-blocked by the dragon’s extending or opening mouth.
Therefore…
Iaar was actually looking out from the fire dragon’s chest, its heart.
Now, Li Wei’qi stood there as well.
Though she herself showed no eyes, always seeming like a “blind person,” she could always accurately pinpoint the real “eye.”
Iaar adjusted her position, not on the fire dragon’s “flame” output controls, but moved to its tail and feet.
“Goodbye, Iaar. If you hadn’t attacked me, perhaps I could have sat here and chatted with you, and finally shared everything beyond that door with you.”
Li Wei’qi reached out her hand.
Her palm aimed at the fire dragon’s heart.
“Small Black Hole.”
However, Li Wei’qi did not release the skill, which perhaps few people present would understand.
She seemed to have discovered for the first time that the fire dragon’s claws could also be used as weapons—only at this moment,
Iaar, in the cockpit, frantically operated the fire dragon’s various controls. Before Li Wei’qi could activate her skill, she made this already evolved fire dragon swat its palm—
It carried a…
Temperature so crimson red it seemed to “melt” the entire skeleton of the fire dragon, even causing the dragon’s claws to become so high-temperature and soft that they were about to turn liquid.
“!? ”
Li Wei’qi’s mouth opened slightly, revealing an expression of surprise.
“Galaxy… Galaxy… If your power… if what you believe in is truly the possibility beyond the firmament, displaying the world beyond the sky…”
*Bang*—
The fire dragon’s left claw was directly melted off!
It turned into a pool of molten metal and fiercely poured onto Li Wei’qi.
At such close range, Li Wei’qi was, on the contrary, unable to dodge Iaar’s ultimate high-temperature attack.
“Then you must have used ‘vacuum’ to negate my ‘burning’…”
“What if…”
“An attack with an ‘object’ that carries its own temperature, which you cannot dodge due to its proximity?”
*Thump. Thump. Thump.*
Iaar spoke, using her own heartbeat to time. About five seconds had passed, so Li Wei’qi…
Her answer did not come. Before her, there seemed to be some invisible, tiny black spot. Iaar instinctively pressed the eject button on the control panel.
A strange scene unfolded the moment she ejected—
She watched with her own eyes as the machine she had created, the enormous fire dragon, the feared fire dragon, was twisted and sucked into that tiny black spot, and then…
*Snap.*
Li Wei’qi’s hand closed, and Iaar, who had ejected herself, landed on the ground.
“How… How could this be…”
Li Wei’qi patted herself down and stood up. She even reached out and grasped the scalding liquid “claw” of the fire dragon on the ground.
She possessed the composure of a victor, as if, because of this,
“What a shame. If it wasn’t me you encountered, but some other cutie from Death Hall, such a powerful machine could crush everyone.”
Li Wei’qi, wearing gloves, played with the red, still cooling metal with her white gloves, as if playing with mud.
The “extreme burning,” “sufficient heat,” and “powerful flames” researched by the witch were so insignificant before her.
“Have you ever looked up at the sky?”
Li Wei’qi paused and looked towards the night sky of Zeroth Heaven.
Starlight and moonlight spilled onto her blond hair. She sighed.
“Unfortunately, the night sky here is Treya’s fantasy; all the stars are misplaced—and there’s no Milky Way, my favorite.”
“…”
Iaar slowly stood up. Her body was fragile, but she continued to listen to Li Wei’qi’s words.
“What should the starry sky, the galaxy, the universe look like? I’ve never known, but what I do know is that here, nothing embodies the ultimate imagination of ‘heat’ better than the ‘sun’ hanging in the sky.”
Li Wei’qi’s voice carried a sense of coldness.
Although she often added strange provocations, what reached the ears was a chilling indifference.
“But what the moving temperature fears most is not the extreme cold, but… distance.”
From Li Wei’qi’s fingertips, red, scalding lava poured down like beautiful flowing water. Upon touching the ground, due to the high temperature, it left a deep mark on the earth.
“Even the sun, at such a great distance from us, only warms our fingertips enough to dispel the winter cold. Further away, further away, is where heat cannot reach.”
She stood amidst the lava, in a victor’s posture.
“So, while it seems I touched it, I used a bit of human romance about the ‘universe.’ I regarded it as the sun, and when gazing at it, there was a distance between it and us, just as there is between us and the sun.”
She sighed with a lament that sounded like “regret for the insignificance of humanity.”
“Unreachable distance, unreachable weight, unreachable quantity—when people look up at the galaxy, they can only belittle everything they deem great.”
“We never truly know what these ‘unknowns’ represent, and we yearn so much to know all the unknowns.”
The lava had cooled, solidifying on the lava Li Wei’qi had raised, forming a small statue.
“Standing at the Apex of the Galaxy will always be a delusion. Behind this delusion lies romance for the universe.”
She did not choose to kill Iaar. Iaar without her mecha posed no threat, and her temperature itself could not harm her.
It was just that…
She sighed, explaining her stance.
“I want to go there, I want to go to the deepest part, I want to see the real galaxy, I want to…”
“Reclaim the ability to gaze at the true starry sky with someone.”
With that, everything seemed to come to a close.
*Click.*
From a distant door, the sound of a lock breaking could be heard. This also signified that Death Hall had been cleared, and Li Wei’qi could reach the final floor through that door.
“Goodbye. Everything beneath the galaxy.”
She turned around, leaving behind a crimson sculpture, and in the posture of a victor, walked towards the vast expanse of green land that had yet to be burned, towards the door she was determined to open.
“It’s just…”
“Where did he go?”
“The one who could… accompany me to gaze at the starry sky…”
The wind in the meadow blew her blond hair, causing starlight to fall on her black uniform.
“But… it’s a bit strange…”
“Why did Iaar seem to know it was me, as if she already knew I was coming, and stop me here?”
