Apocalypse: My Items Can Upgrade Infinitely

Chapter 389: Chapter 203: Mental Realm: Particle Control, Tier Three Awakener

But perhaps it was just a repetition of its last words, a warning for Lin Feng to be careful when using his powers.

All in all, this journey into the Spirit World had been quite rewarding, as Lin Feng had truly activated his own powerful Mental Realm.

Yet, Lin Feng couldn’t feel any joy.

Especially after seeing He Yiwen again. After trying with all his might, he had finally seen her familiar face once more. This sent a ripple through Lin Feng’s quiet heart, a ripple that spread and grew into a surging emotional tempest, churning within him.

Lin Feng had, in fact, already begun to accept that his parents were dead. But then, hearing He Yiwen’s voice in the Spirit World had given him a sliver of hope—a reason to keep going in the face of desperation.

Lin Feng had thought that if he just worked hard enough to Upgrade, to grow into a powerful existence like a Cosmic Life or even one of the Deities, he might be able to save his parents.

However, after granting him that hope, reality cruelly taught Lin Feng the meaning of powerlessness.

He Yiwen was already dead. The Spine God itself had told him this was a fact of the past, while his own father, Lin Yu, was still missing, his fate unknown.

Time can only flow in one direction. What has already happened is an immutable fact, something that not even Deities can change.

Unless one could twist the physical Laws of the Real Cosmos, it was irreversible history.

Hearing his mother’s voice again, seeing her familiar face—all of it only served to deepen the sense of powerless frustration in Lin Feng’s heart.

"What on earth happened?"

Seeing the lost look still on Lin Feng’s face, Chen Yanyan asked again, though her tone was much gentler this time. She could tell his dejection was more a matter of his Spirit and will, not that something had gone wrong with his advancement.

Lin Feng took a deep breath and looked up into Chen Yanyan’s worried eyes. The melancholy in his heart began to fade. He took her delicate hand in his and slowly began to speak of the past that had troubled him for so long:

"As you know, my parents went missing in an accident long before the apocalypse started."

"But during my Awakening, in the Spirit World... I met my mom from the past..."

"’Your mom from the past?’" Chen Yanyan couldn’t help but ask, clearly unable to understand what those four words meant.

Lin Feng briefly recounted his experience inside the black celestial body and shared his theories based on what he now knew.

However, he left out his conversation with the Spine God.

He didn’t want Chen Yanyan to learn the dark truth hidden behind the Zerg Race invasion. The feeling of glimpsing the world of Deities would leave an indelible shadow and an incredibly heavy psychological burden on a fledgling existence that had only just learned to raise its head.

This was especially true for a Spiritual Superpower Awakener like Chen Yanyan.

Hearing Lin Feng’s theory that her future mother-in-law was most likely dead, Chen Yanyan began to understand why he was so emotionally turbulent.

There is nothing crueler in this world than to be given hope, only to have it ruthlessly snatched away.

Survivors who had lost loved ones during the Zerg Race invasion all carried psychological scars to some degree. This was especially true for the more sensitive, emotional ones who cherished their relationships.

That was why so many young people had eagerly signed up to join the Thirteenth Division, becoming fresh recruits stepping onto a brutal battlefield.

The young had a high chance of escaping with their lives, but their families were often crushed in the wake of the Zerg Race’s expansion, their bodies rendered into Biomass.

But when a person has nothing left to lose, that is when they become most reckless.

But killing the bugs was only a way to vent their anger and mask their grief; it wasn’t a real solution.

That was why Lin Feng had let them choose whether to stay or leave, in part to reduce the team’s collective psychological burden.

However, powerful yet extreme individuals like Shen Jie were not at all uncommon.

Even Lin Feng himself couldn’t truly accept such a cruel reality.

Chen Yanyan sighed to herself and held Lin Feng in her arms as he cried silently, holding him until he fell into a deep, exhausted sleep.

「In the small hours of the morning」

Chen Yanyan stepped outside the Battleship, took out her phone, and dialed Han Yuxin’s number.

"About that thing you mentioned before..."

"...the one about Awakeners having children..."

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