Chapter 148: The dust settles

Uncle Johnny finally… My heart first relaxed, then rejoiced, but then it became heavy again, because in my current situation, even if Uncle Johnny woke up, what could he change?

This was just a momentary change in my state of mind. In my perception, the relative state between you, me and Patel is such that even if it lasts for five seconds, Patel will be enough to kill me. Before that, he can also tear off my arm… But in the end, I can’t say what I was feeling at the moment. I closed my eyes in resignation and waited for the last moment of fate.

But there was no pain as I expected, and nothing more intense happened. Everything was eerily quiet.

My heart was beating very strongly, and although it was only a short period of less than two seconds of silence, I could already detect a strange smell. The cold feeling of Patel’s claws on my arm was still there, but… I couldn’t help but open my eyes. I couldn’t believe what I saw. Patel was in a state of paralysis, as if something was forcibly pressing down on it, creating a short period of stillness.

But its body was trembling slightly, as if it was trying to get rid of the oppression.

“Get out of here!” I heard Mr. Johnny’s voice from behind me. I was already under a lot of pressure, and now I finally felt a sense of relief. I didn’t dare to hesitate, quickly withdrew my arm that was almost exhausted from pinching Patell’s throat, and immediately stood up, running in the opposite direction without looking back.

Although I didn’t know how Uncle Johnny did it, the sudden relief left my mind blank, and I didn’t want to think about anything.

“Remember what you have to do later.” I ran towards Uncle Johnny, and before I got there, Uncle Johnny’s voice came into my ears. I looked up and saw Uncle Johnny in front of me. I suddenly realized that he seemed to have aged a lot in an instant, and this change was still continuing…

“Uncle Johnny, you…” I couldn’t help but say in a frightened voice.

“Don’t ask anything. Stand back. This is the time for me and Patel to settle our score. Thank you for helping me hold out for so long. I only have this one, last…” As he said this, I suddenly heard Patel’s roar again behind me. Then I saw the circle behind him, and everyone’s faces suddenly changed. Then there were footsteps…

Patel broke free of Uncle Johnny’s restraint and stood up? I knew how powerful it was when I had faced it head-on at close range. The relaxed mood I had just felt was gone, and my face changed instantly.

“It’s not that easy!” Suddenly, Uncle Johnny shouted behind me, then he made a hand gesture similar to a Taoist sacrifice, pointing his fingers at his chest and shouting, “I said, I only have this one and final blow!”

Then, I suddenly felt a huge force surging from the center of Jonny’s chest. This force did not appear out of thin air, but seemed to have fallen from the sky and landed on Jonny’s chest, carrying the scent of a long and distant past.

“They… are coming.” Grandpa Johnny’s eyes flashed with an extraordinary brightness, and then I seemed to hear the sound of footsteps rapidly retreating behind me, followed by a faint, slightly explosive sound in Grandpa Johnny’s chest.

At that moment, Grandpa Johnny, whose hair had already turned completely white and whose face was lined with wrinkles, suddenly wilted. An even more astonishing change occurred. His once muscular body began to shrink, turning into the kind of body that is truly old and skinny and weak body, and the pale hair was falling out one by one, becoming sparse… I looked at him with my eyes wide open, my heart filled with inexplicable sadness. I watched as the middle-aged man in front of me instantly turned into a real… old man who was about to die!

My throat rolled, and I wanted to say something, but before I could say anything, a powerful soul force with only the will to destroy suddenly burst out of Uncle Johnny’s body, rushed past me, and quickly rushed behind me… At that moment, I was shocked by the overwhelming power and my mind went blank.

The power was so strong that it caused an absolute change in the material world, and it was so fast that I distinctly felt a gust of violent wind blowing past me as it erupted, but it was only after a split second that I was knocked down by the wind and fell onto the rock…

I heard a dull sound behind me, and couldn’t help but turn around to see that it was the coffin that had been blown into the sky by the wind… At the same time, I also saw the figure of Pater, who had now reached the edge of the rock, as if about to jump into the water, but at this moment… even if I hadn’t opened my heavenly eyes, I would have seen that the power had suddenly rushed into Pater’s body.

The world stood still for a moment, and then there was a loud thud as the precious ebony coffin fell from the sky to the rocks… and then a sound of cracking and breaking.

Then I saw Patell, who was facing away from us, suddenly turn around. On his horrified face, the expression was frozen in a moment of panic… He looked at Uncle Johnny and actually spoke: “In the end, I still couldn’t escape the fate of the Divine Guards?”

His voice made my whole body shiver. I can’t describe the sound of his dry vocal cords, even though Patel’s English was so pure and his pronunciation so standard.

Many years later, I heard a Spanish dark song by chance. The background story of the song was about a terrifying castle on a cliff by the sea. The girl met a terrifying lich in the castle. In the middle of the chanting, the identity of the male singer lich was revealed, and then suddenly he began to speak in the voice of the lich… It was so sudden that I was not even mentally prepared, and even I was suddenly frightened.

Not for anything else, just because the male singer imitated the voice of the demon, just like the voice of Patel at this moment, like the sound of pure muscle and bone collision.

“There is no fate of the guardian, only your own fate.” I was still immersed in Patel’s voice, but at this moment, the voice of Uncle Johnny had already sounded. Compared to the old Uncle Johnny, this voice had become a real old man’s voice, full of vicissitudes, calm, a little weak, and a kind of penetrating mixed in, but inexplicably made my heart warm, breaking free of this cold feeling.

“Do you know that I don’t accept it?” Patel’s face was no longer filled with fear, but rather a look of extreme pain and a very extreme expression.

I knew what it was not convinced of because I guessed that the last blow of Uncle Johnny must have used the power of the seed planted in their bodies when Patel became a god-guard. Patel was defeated by this power, and it felt that no matter what Uncle Johnny said, he was just making excuses. It lost because of its identity as a god-guard.

I thought that Uncle Johnny would explain to Patel what he was arguing about, but I didn’t expect him to just shake his head and say very simply, “Patel, we are all old now, and it is time for us to die. But do you think you are happy? Are you content? Are you at peace? If not, what would you think if you had a different life?”

Patel looked at Uncle Johnny, and for the first time, his expression became a little calmer. Was he thinking about something?

But Grandpa Johnny didn’t give Patel the chance to think. He just looked at the sunlight filtering through the clouds and said, “I’m just saying, if you had chosen to go abroad with Zia, or if we had never been chosen, or if we had stayed at the manor… maybe there would have been a lot of unpleasantness, but maybe we would have really achieved our own happiness. But there are no ifs in life, right? In the end, what you are looking for is just a touch of emptiness in your hands! Will the rest of your feelings be like a sentence from China, “If life were only like the first time I saw you?”

Patel looked at Uncle Johnny, and for the first time, a rare sadness appeared on his face. He didn’t speak again, but instead looked at his palm in a somewhat nervous and dazed manner… Then, a faint sound of cracking came from Patel’s body, followed by another… and then, a continuous sound of cracking came from Patel’s body.

Its body first trembled slightly, then began to shake violently. Strangely, it seemed to calm down, and even the pair of terrifying eyeballs became much more peaceful. It just looked at Uncle Johnny, as if it had a lot to say, but at the moment it was silent…

“Collect the soul.” Standing there, Grandpa Johnny looked like a desolate tree in the wind, and he said to me in a very calm voice, but his eyes were only looking at Patel.

But I clearly saw that when Master Johnny was talking, blood kept gushing from his mouth. He didn’t care, and didn’t even bother to wipe it off.

I no longer had the strength to collect the soul, but I glanced at Xiao Chengqian. Xiao Chengqian understood, walked over to the magic weapon left behind by the master, which was similar to a soul-collecting banner, and held it, ready to start collecting the soul and then collecting the soul…

The sound of Patel’s body bursting continued to ring out, and finally, the sound of bursting finally stopped. Patel’s eyes also dimmed at that moment, and at that moment, his body seemed to have lost its support, and he fell heavily in the direction of Uncle Johnny, raising a cloud of dust…

Is this the end of the dust settling?

At this moment, a pure purple energy overflowed from Patel’s body, gathered in the sky, and then quickly disappeared… At the same time, Xiao Chengqian’s chanting finally began.