643: Chapter 643 The Meaning of Life

An Ran was stunned: "You—what is going on with you? Clearly, you have already been swallowed by despair—"

Chen Yi slowly stood up and brushed the dust off his knees.

He looked at An Ran and shook his head: "Swallowed by despair? Yes! If I hadn't experienced the illusion in the Ultimate Darkness Zone, I might have truly been swallowed!"

At that time, in the illusion of the Ultimate Darkness Zone, he had seen the scene of his companions falling one after another before him.

However, the fact was that the future scene did not happen!

As long as he had enough strength, he could definitely change the future!

This was also what he was thinking in his heart right now!

An Ran looked at him, her pale golden eyes filled with disbelief.

"No—impossible! I clearly already felt the aura of despair, why can you—show such an expression? Why, even though you clearly know the ending is destined to be a parting, can you still hold onto hope?"

Chen Yi looked at her, was silent for a moment, and said: "Yes! Looking at all of this alone, perhaps one would truly feel despair!"

"But An Ran, as a truly eternal existence, perhaps you don't understand that the meaning of life does not lie in the ending, but in the process!"

"Indeed, no matter who it is, including myself, the final ending cannot escape death!"

"But we can still obtain our own happiness within the limited time!"

"You saw the ending where life will eventually die, but you ignored the infinite beauty that life creates in the process from birth to death!"

"These processes are the meaning of life, the value of life!"

Hearing this, An Ran's expression became distorted.

Madness, confusion, anger, and fear began to surge in her eyes—

She seemed not to believe at all that someone could break free from such despair!

"No! This is wrong!"

"Your friends will eventually die, your home will eventually be destroyed, and even the proof of your existence will disappear in the long river of time!"

"Everything you do is meaningless!"

Chen Yi looked at her, his eyes devoid of anger or mockery, only pity!

Just like she had looked at him before!

"That is just your stubborn thinking!"

Chen Yi said earnestly, "If all life were really like you, only seeing the end, then no one would think about progress, and there wouldn't be the scene we have now!"

"Wrong, wrong, wrong!"

An Ran shook her head frantically, "There's no need for a process with that kind of ending! The ending is the only truth! The process is just a false illusion! All life will eventually perish, all civilizations will eventually be destroyed, everything will eventually return to nothingness! This is the only truth!"

As soon as these words were spoken, countless cracks suddenly appeared in the space of the illusion.

The chains that bound Emilia and the others also began to loosen at this moment.

The four women exerted force simultaneously!

Silvery-white light, pale red light, pale blue light, and blood-red light intertwined, completely shattering those chains!

They fell from the air and landed steadily behind Chen Yi.

"Chen Yi!"

"We're here!"

"We've always been here!"

"We won't let you be alone!"

Four pairs of eyes looked at Chen Yi, with no hesitation, no fear, only determination!

Even after seeing such a despairing future, it couldn't affect them in the slightest!

Because that was illusory, and the present was real!

They were still alive, they were still together, they could still fight side by side!

An Ran looked at them, even more unable to understand.

Why?

Clearly the ending was so despairing, but why could they still believe in the future?

Why could they still work hard for it?

Why could they still show such expressions?

What exactly did they see?

What exactly did they believe in?

She didn't understand, she couldn't understand no matter how she thought about it!

Chen Yi looked at her, like an older brother looking at a lost younger sister, and took a step forward.

"An Ran, come back! Come back now, it's not too late!"

"You are just lost, your true heart is actually not bad!"

"You have just seen too much despair, and that is what created the current you!"

"There are still many wonderful things in the world waiting for you to discover!"

An Ran looked at him, her lips trembling slightly: "Wonderful things—do I—do I really have the qualifications to see them?"

Chen Yi nodded and said: "You do!"

"An Ran, do you know why you are alive?"

"It's not because you were created, it's not because you have a mission, but because you have a kind heart!"

"You feel sad for the short lifespans of those humans, you feel pain for the destruction of those civilizations, and you feel despair for the passing of those lives!"

"All of this is because you are too kind! You carry all the pain on your own shoulders, you hide all the despair in your heart!"

"You are too tired! You just want to help them, you just want to make them happy, but you haven't found the right method!"

"Come back, don't let despair swallow your heart anymore!"

Hearing this, An Ran's tears finally flowed down.

"I—I just—I just wanted to let them no longer suffer—no longer despair—"

Chen Yi said softly: "I know, you just wanted to let them be free! But do you know?"

"True liberation is not death, but living!"

"It is being with the people they love, laughing together, crying together, growing old together, that is true liberation!"

An Ran looked at him, tears flowing uncontrollably: "But—but they will all die, they will all leave, they will all—"

Chen Yi interrupted: "Even if they will all die in the end, so what? The time they spent together was real!"

"Their laughter was real, their love was real, those will never disappear! Even if the people are gone, those memories remain!"

"Even if the memories are gone, the traces of them having existed remain; as long as one person remembers, they haven't truly died! These are all proofs that they once existed!"

"Everyone who has been loved by them will remember! So An Ran, don't be afraid, don't be afraid of losing!"

"Because you have never truly lost; those you loved, those who loved you, are always in your heart!"

"Just like this Xinglan Sea, although you passed through here in a hurry eighty million years ago, your legends and achievements still remain here now; aren't these all proofs of your existence?"

As soon as these words were spoken, An Ran completely broke down.

Tears gushed out like beads with a broken string.

She stood there, head bowed, just like a child who had done something wrong, seemingly finally realizing her mistake.

That pair of eyes, filled with endless sorrow, finally gradually returned to clarity at this moment.

The darkness accumulated over thousands of years, the despair settled over thousands of years, was gradually dissipating from her eyes bit by bit!