Resurrection Empire-Chapter 1076 - 419: 001 Killing Machine

When Ren Zhong first heard this confession, he was deeply affected, even doubting if he was hearing things.

In his heart, Ma Xiaoling was just a carefree big sister, who had a strong talent for fighting and was quite clever, but always too lazy to think things through, treating others bluntly.

Ren Zhong treated her like a buddy, never imagining any romantic feelings between them.

In a timeline even Ma Xiaoling was unaware of, Ren Zhong took the final step in a romantic relationship to enter the depths of the Ma family.

Yet Ren Zhong kept this secret buried deeply inside, continuing to feel indebted to her.

Ren Zhong never forgot what happened but found it hard to bring it up. How could he tell Ma Xiaoling, "In a timeline you don't know about, we had a relationship. So, we should be together"?

After all, in Ren Zhong's perception, Ma Xiaoling was indeed a simple person. Back then, when she agreed to his request, her reason was "going all out for a brother."

While urging Ren Zhong, she said, "Hurry up. Once it's done, we can rest early since we have to leave tomorrow afternoon. In the morning, I'll make the most of the time to set up some minefields and build a few automated defenses."

And "Come on, who's afraid of whom."

Ma the big sister was incredibly carefree.

In a sense, she was also a master of disguise.

She truly was a natural born actress, even able to deceive a time-traveling observer like Ren Zhong.

It wasn't until now, having stepped half a foot into Ghost Gate and then pulled it back, facing life's choices once again, re-questioning her heart, confronting regrets, and deciding to truly die. After experiencing such intense emotional turmoil, Ma Xiaoling had nearly half an hour to let her mind wander freely, finally unable to hold back, tearing away her seemingly straightforward tomboy facade and deciding to be honest once.

Actually, if there was the slightest hope of continuing to live, she would never say it out loud.

Because she truly values her dignity too much to endure humiliation.

She knows Ren Zhong very well and knows his principles as a person, fearing mutual awkwardness after speaking out and even more afraid of rejection by Ren Zhong, who has a primitively pure view of love.

That would be too embarrassing.

Her courage completely derives from an absolute expectation of death.

Anyway, once I'm dead, he won't have the chance to laugh at me.

Anyway, he won't have the chance to reject me. He certainly won't have the chance to point at my nose and say, "I treat you like a brother, and you actually want to sleep with me."

It won't be embarrassing, so this is it.

With this belief, Ma Xiaoling wields the Plasma Gun shooting jets of plasma and engages in combat with the timely descending Snake-shaped Ruined Beast.

The sound of Qian Wangshen quickly swapping armor components with a robotic arm clicked by Ren Zhong's ears.

He raised his neck, gaze piercing through the unidirectional optical camouflage barrier, quietly observing Ma Xiaoling above, shining like a true Valkyrie.

At this moment, Ren Zhong's heart was filled with countless emotions.

He truly didn't know how to describe his feelings.

He actually wanted to ask Ma Xiaoling, "Are you straightforward or reserved and pretentious?"

From Ma Xiaoling, Ren Zhong realized that he was not invincible after all.

Despite being together for so long, he couldn't understand her heart until she said it herself.

Meanwhile, another kind of pain subtly arose in Ren Zhong's heart.

He was afraid and questioning himself.

The success was only one step away, no doubt about it.

But to deal with the Snake-shaped Ruined Beast in front of them, and six more Ruined Beasts possessing different abilities afterward, across Source Star, only Ma Xiaoling using the Electric Control Crystal could do it.

Ren Zhong knew that in three minutes an extremely formidable super-level Ruined Beast would appear, a creature unrecorded in Ruined Beast illustrations, shapeless but able to silently decompose all matter.

Only Ma Xiaoling could activate her Plasma Gun to its utmost, infusing terrifying electric currents into the Ruined Beast to make it manifest. Subsequently, Ren Zhong and others could join forces to kill it.

Moreover, during this process, besides Ren Zhong himself, everyone else would perish here.

So, in a certain sense, understanding this moment, if Ren Zhong wants to claim nine old frozen popsicles, Ma Xiaoling must die here, along with the already lost comrades.

Ren Zhong will have to face the true sacrifice he has been striving to avoid.