The boy with white hair and white clothes, pale and thin, like a pale phantom, has no such thing as "self-esteem".
In other words, when he transformed himself into an undead creature...all his self-esteem and glory were completely shattered at that time.
"A life full of regret and shame. A meaningless way of survival. It's like a joke... the blood of the clown."
The young man whispered and breathed deeply.
"I--"
He paused slightly and slowly exhaled a cold breath.
With Yongsheng Gong as the center, the surrounding wheat fields suddenly dented, as if being attacked by air cannons. Then, frost covered them - the golden wheat fields were instantly covered with withered white frost marks.
It's like talking while puffing out smoke after smoking.
The young man's voice became hoarse, and a cold air naturally escaped from his lips and teeth.
"I...have been 'dead' a long time ago."
When the "eternal" things turned into "skeletons", when the Tower of Eternal Life turned into a tombstone...when he became Him, Midas' heart completely died.
"It doesn't matter even if I'm beaten until I vomit blood. It doesn't matter if my head is stepped on. It doesn't matter if my stomach is cut open and my internal organs are taken out... Even if feces and urine are poured on me, I will pretend to watch.
Even if you can’t, I can still smile for you.”
The pale young man said, showing a student-like, somewhat shy smile: "Look - it's such a smile."
He said and couldn't help laughing.
"I played my father, my grandfather, my great-grandfather... and at the same time, I played my son, my grandson, and my great-grandson. I have been acting like this for two hundred years.
"...That's all."
He whispered: "I sacrificed [honor], sacrificed [dignity], sacrificed [dream], sacrificed [family], sacrificed [sleep]... In the end, I sacrificed everything I got after the sacrifice. Before I
In the journey of sacrifice to offer an offering to nothingness, offering 'dignity' is the least painful thing for me."
——His heart has already died.
Annan realized this very profoundly.
Opposite Duke Yongsheng, the girl with blond hair and white dress put her hands behind her back, looking at him quietly with pity in her eyes.
It was the calm gaze when looking back after seeing everything clearly. It was condescending, as calm as the screenwriter reviewing the script.
"No reaction, Shuangyu."
The young man sighed: "I really didn't expect that you could enter this nightmare. Of course, maybe I also thought of... [Destiny is the Wheel of the Sky] Well, I also know that sentence. But... ah... who
I know."
He said and paused.
Later, Duke Yongsheng spoke again: "Actually, when I first saw you, I already had a premonition. So at that moment, I wanted to kill you... But in the end, I just took away the book
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"But you finally knew everything... saw everything clearly, and came to me."
"Besides, I'm going to stop this."
The blond girl squinted her eyes and made a sweet and soft voice in the moonless night.
"Ai Lei... no, Angelo. I've asked you many times."
"Ai Lei" asked word for word: "It's almost midnight, let me ask you again..."
"Do you believe me?"
A brief silence.
Three seconds of lag like eternity.
Then, Ai Lei gave the answer.
【Yes】
She firmly and decisively gave her final answer.
[I believe in you - no matter what difficulties I encounter, no matter what situation I am in... no matter what the circumstances, no matter what anyone says, no matter what I go through - I will also believe in you]
The rebel angel used the honorific title for his pope.
That was not an attitude toward the pope, but respect for a trustworthy elder.
"Then let zero o'clock come, Ai Lei."
Annan said word for word: "I swear... you will be safe and sound."
When he said.
The zero o'clock bell has already struck.
but--
"Ai Lei's" eyes gradually overflowed with rainbow-colored brilliance.
It was a burning light like a candle.
——This time, time did not go back.
Around Ai Lei, the world was painted with rainbow-colored brilliance in the blink of an eye. The streamers that seemed to be embedded in the "deep" world were also raised high like "wings".
And facing all this.
The boy with white hair and white clothes opposite him just sighed deeply.
"This is ridiculous."
He whispered: "Gods are not like gods. People are not like people. A betrayer is not like a betrayer. A secret keeper is not like a secret keeper.
"Angelo, you are my angel, my daughter...
"——You were born because of me. With your strength, how can you fight against me?"
he said.
The boy's pale face suddenly shattered.
Just like broken porcelain - what is revealed in the cracks is a gray color that is not consistent with Ai Lei.
But the amount of light was several times that of Ai Lei, dozens of times as much.
Just by exposing a gap, the light in it is enough to illuminate the "dark night".
"Each of us is born on this earth, and we are born, old, sick and die."
"Ai Lei" took over the conversation and replied in a leisurely voice: "But we will eventually leave the earth.
"We will no longer age. We will no longer get sick. We will... no longer die.
"We came from the wilderness of nothingness and marched towards the kingdom of all things... Human beings can reach the point where they are now. We have sacrificed and given up more than you in the past, and we will eventually be more in the future than you are now.
.
"Until the farthest future, we will eventually abandon everything we have now. Everything in front of us will become history.
"But that's not a betrayal—"
——That is the immortal bird, reborn in the fire.
Ai Lei's voice gradually became filled with heavy echoes.
The next moment, a rainbow-colored angel rose into the sky.
She fell to the ground in an instant, like a shooting star.
Duke Yongsheng just raised his left hand, and the gray light overflowing from the broken skin flew out like a monster, stopping her in the void.
The same truths of rainbow color and rainbow color clash and merge when they come into contact——
The entire nightmare collapsed and was reconstructed, half a colorful fairy tale and half a gray mime.
But in the end, the light overflowing from Yongsheng Gong was even better.
His voice was tinged with echo and a sharp metallic sound.
【Angelo, I betrayed everyone!】
he boasted.
The gray, absurd monster rumbled from top to bottom and crushed a corner of the sky. The whole world was like a broken specimen bottle.
It looked like an abstract boy, half weeping and half giggling. The smiling half of his face kept changing the scene, but the weeping half just cried quietly.
The roaring sharp sound covered the whole world like thunder.
【But you have not been betrayed by everyone!】
[We are walking on the same road, but I have gone further than you - you can't refuse me!]
"Is it really... so?"
"Ai Lei" suddenly smiled after hearing this.
She didn't use angelization.
Instead, he just whispered one sentence.
——Just one sentence.
That's what she once said to Annan...
"Dreams are the poison that makes good people confused and evil people crazy."
At that moment, the gray demon stopped.
And Annan is still chanting:
“Those who ignore morality for the sake of their dreams, those who go beyond the law for the sake of their dreams, those who betray their loved ones for the sake of their dreams…