Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1456 - 716: Brother, Help Us Fulfill This Wish_4

"I..." Xu Ying hesitated for a moment, "I just don’t want to die..."

Xu Xin looked at her.

Xu Ying felt uncomfortable under his gaze.

"Alright, alright, since we’ve found and solved it, I’ll be honest now!"

Xu Ying, in a resigned tone, said, "Actually, the weapon I brought from another space-time probably can’t handle those scarlet crystal fragments! Satisfied now?"

"...I knew it." Xu Xin sighed.

He had suspected as much earlier.

"Why didn’t you tell us sooner?" Xu Xin asked.

"Well, I wasn’t sure, was I?"

Xu Ying said through gritted teeth.

"After we arrived, we discovered that the condensed scarlet crystals couldn’t be destroyed by nuclear bombs. At first, I was quite confident about my weapon, but later, during the cutting process, I realized my weapon couldn’t fully guarantee..."

"Didn’t you say it would create space-time rifts?"

"It does, but very small ones. I just checked, and for those large fragments, it seems unlikely..." Xu Ying whispered, "Luckily, we found the main cannon of a giant ship..."

"So, why didn’t you just be honest!"

"I told you, I wasn’t sure! I just felt I couldn’t guarantee!" Xu Ying glared at him, "Maybe it could work!"

"You could have just told me you couldn’t guarantee it, and it turns out it couldn’t!"

"You! I told you, my weapon was the last resort; it’s to be used when there’s no other choice! And if I said I couldn’t guarantee it, would you have used it then?"

Xu Xin fell silent.

Indeed.

If Xu Ying had told him that her weapon couldn’t guarantee the destruction of the condensed scarlet crystals, even if they hadn’t found a weapon with the potency of a giant ship’s main cannon, he probably wouldn’t have chosen to use it and would have looked for another way.

Because, if it truly had no effect, wouldn’t Xu Ying have disrupted space-time for nothing, sacrificed for nothing?

That’s definitely not okay.

If it were anyone else, he might give it a try, but not Xu Ying.

Xu Ying is his sister. Even if she’s from another space-time.

"That’s why I kept it to myself." Xu Ying bit her lip.

"...And then?" Xu Xin asked.

"? What then?"

"Then, why do you insist on solving everything before going back now?" Xu Xin asked.

"...Isn’t it for once and for all, once and for all, so when we go back we won’t constantly be worried if alien invaders will come to invade us, how annoying would that be!"

"Be honest."

Xu Xin didn’t believe that reason.

What nonsense of once and for all.

With their current strength, achieving this was already beyond everyone’s expectations.

Continuing further would just be insatiable.

Knowing when to quit is the right choice.

And now they have weapons capable of confronting alien invaders, and the invaders have lost their biggest support; with the World Tree for defense, they aren’t afraid anymore.

Xu Ying couldn’t possibly not understand this.

"...Because I don’t have long to live, I want to fulfill our wish before I’m erased."

Xu Ying suddenly calmed down, looking at Xu Xin, she spoke softly.

"My brother let me live up until now. In our space-time, everyone’s wishes are now all pinned on me."

"I want to witness... humanity’s redemption with my own eyes."

This sentence slowly made Xu Xin clench his fist.

"Not much time... huh." He whispered.

"Hmm. Not much time left."

"Even... in our World Tree, it’s no use?"

Elongating the time by a hundredfold, is that still not enough?

"I’m afraid the moment I enter the World Tree, I will... be erased." Xu Ying’s eyes dimmed as she spoke, "My body probably can’t support me entering the World Tree any longer."

"...Then, if you don’t enter the World Tree?"

"...I don’t know. Maybe if I’m lucky, I can last a bit longer."

"A bit longer... how long is that?"

"Hmm... ten days?"

Xu Xin fell silent once again.

She looked at Xu Xin, her tone carrying a hint of pleading: "So, brother, just let me be selfish this once, don’t go back now, help me... help us, fulfill this wish."