Chapter 2750 2751, Inheriting the Underground World (1)
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In the endless barren desert, stands an exquisite hexagonal building.
It looks like a pavilion, but due to the incongruity of the overall architectural style, it looks more like a tall tower with only the spire remaining and the rest of the building under the yellow sand.
And around this only remaining tower, there are many dead vines with dried and broken flowers.
Contrary to their fragile appearance, their roots and tendrils are all rooted deeply into the desert.
But inside the tower, in a room that is completely unsuitable as a living room due to air leakage from six sides, there is a round piece of furniture that almost fills the interior space, looks like a sofa and a table, and is covered with a white "tablecloth" .
And judging from the dilapidated curtains and gauze hanging from the roof, it seemed that it might be a... bed.
On the bed, a brown-haired girl wearing a pure white dress with no trace of the era's style was sitting on her knees. She tilted her head slightly and looked at Sherlock, who had just fallen from the sky and landed on his face.
"My name is Melina, who are you?" She asked in a tone and tone that were a bit unfamiliar and immature, but sounded like Melina's voice.
"I am...'Supreme Mage'." Sherlock finally said.
When he was walking with "Melina the Witch", he used the name and image of "Stephen Strange", and when he was with "Black Lantern Clee", he used the name and image of "Sherlock Holmes", and this is obviously different from Their younger Melina…
In order to avoid triggering a "time paradox" with unknown consequences, he can only call himself this now.
I hope she won't ask "What is your name?"
After all, in the "Holy Timeline", Keli's temper seems not to be very good.
"Supreme Mage? Is he very powerful?" Melina blinked.
...It would not be inappropriate to follow these words with "Can I eat it?"
It seems that this title does not exist at this time. Sherlock felt relieved and boasted: "As the name suggests, the Supreme Mage is the strongest among the mages. He can do anything."
"Really? Then you can definitely save the world, right?" Melina raised her finger and pointed at the door... the window... in short, it was a piece of yellow sand outside the tower.
It fits my stereotype of Melina very well. She is either saving the world or preparing a plan to save the world.
She seems to be easy to talk to now, maybe she can try to talk more in order to understand her past.
"Why do you want to save the world?" Sherlock asked.
"Because it was destroyed."
"..."
Because Melina's answer was so confident that Sherlock couldn't think of the error in her words.
"I'm asking... why you 'want to be saved.'" He tried to use words that couldn't be misunderstood.
"Huh?" Melina tilted her head: "So the 'Supreme Mage' wouldn't want to save the world when he saw it?"
Sherlock originally planned to say that it depends on the situation and analyze specific matters in detail, but thinking about what the current "Supreme Mage" - "Lord of the Ocean Dimension White Star" has done, he suddenly became uncertain again. Madam Vice-Principal was really serious when she saved the world.
Has she ever thought about the "reason"? No, she has never even thought about the "cost". Because the World Tree was burned, she directly took over the seven kingdoms that were about to be burned.
The load made her whole body...the whole mermaid was stunned and unable to move.
If not, there wouldn't have been such a big mess in Tokyo, and future Melina would have even gone all the way to deal with it.
Wait, is it possible that "unconditionally saving the world" is also one of the necessary conditions for serving as the "Supreme Mage"?
Is it too late to say that I am a passing fourth grader?
"It is the responsibility and obligation of the 'Supreme Mage' to save every world that is destroyed or about to be destroyed," Sherlock said casually, throwing the question back: "But you are not the 'Supreme Mage', and for what reason do you save the world?
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"Reason? Reason..."
Apparently Melina hadn't thought about this either. She fell into silence and began to think. Her originally bright and relaxed expression gradually turned gloomy as her thoughts deepened.
Just when Sherlock was about to interrupt with "It doesn't matter if there is no reason, I will help you as long as you want," Melina raised her head:
"Because this is what the 'mirror of me' is made of."
Huh? Ah? "I saw that the 'mirror me' was traveling in the universe sitting on this 'bed', saving every destroyed world," Melina raised her hand to pat the soft body beneath her: "And
Every world she encounters will be treated in exactly the same way
The perfect shape appeared 'over here', and I followed her approach, but could never succeed."
Even with Sherlock's thinking speed, the amount of information in these words can't help but be stuck for a while:
"This desert is..." The remains of those worlds?
"Well," Melina replied, "a grain of sand is a destroyed world."
"..."
Although he was a little shocked, Sherlock, who was somewhat well-informed, was not too surprised. Moreover, strange thoughts popped up in his head uncontrollably:
Didn't your shoes get into the sand when you just bumped in?
No wonder she is barefoot.
"Have you tried to save them?" Sherlock forced his thoughts back.
"Well," Melina pointed to the vines clinging to the outer wall of the "pavilion": "Before you came, I was trying to save the world of 'Bao'."
"What?" Sherlock tried to observe the vines and residual flowers that seemed to have been dead for thousands of years, but he couldn't see anything. "They are plants that can fuse with other living things," Melina said in a tone as if she was reading a manuscript.
Explained: “They devoured each other, assimilated, and eventually completely enveloped their parent star, stopped evolving and developing, and came to a standstill.
It stagnated until a huge meteorite crashed into the planet's atmosphere, turning the entire planet's vegetation into charcoal."
It seems... highly similar to the "dead plant planet" used by "Clea" as a "vehicle", no, it should be that planet's own ball.
"What attempts did you make to save them?" Sherlock asked even though he already knew the result. "I extracted the strongest individuals from each of their populations and gathered them together. Give them a suitable growing environment and inform them of the future of that world, hoping that they can find ways to save their own world.
"It's a way to create a world," Melina looked a little confused: "This is what 'Mirror Me' is made of."
"What's the result?" Although he knew the result, Sherlock still asked.
"They... have evolved a 'flowering' function that is not used on the home planet," Melina's expression became more and more confused: "After all the individuals bloomed to me, they all died."
"They are talking to you." Sherlock sighed slightly.
