Looking at all this, Dongfang Ruo could hardly believe her eyes, especially when she climbed up the stairs and came to the man and woman hugging each other, she felt vaguely that the two hugging people were somewhat familiar.
"who are they?"
Lin Sen: "They are the origin of the Central Curtain and the starting point of all this."
Dongfang Ruoke didn't like this answer. She was about to ask when she heard Lin Sen continue: "Do you think this is an ideal country?"
"Why are you asking these questions all of a sudden?" Dongfang Ruo frowned. She looked around the man and woman carefully and confirmed the familiarity, but she still didn't know who they were.
Lin Sen: "The Central Curtain believes that in the realm of pure heaven and fire created with Sailosh as the base, human beings can obtain eternity, and no matter what kind of disaster occurs, in the end, as long as the Central Curtain is still there, the world will restart and return to its original state.
to its very beginning."
"So?" Dongfang Ruo stopped and looked away. She looked around and suddenly felt dizzy when looking down from the top of the golden spire.
'Why is it so high? You were clearly down there just now...'
"So, let me ask you, do you think this is an ideal country?" Lin Sen smiled and repeated the previous question.
Dongfang Ruo withdrew her gaze, stabilized her mind, and then thought for a while before replying: "If the world can really be restarted, all these doomsdays and disasters will be fake, and there will be nothing wrong with that. I will even feel very sad.
I'm happy, after all, we were completely defeated and we are no match for Han Kongwen and the others."
Lin Sen nodded, he thought so too, but this was not the answer he expected to hear.
"Yes, in almost infinite reincarnations, civilization goes from birth to prosperity to destruction, over and over again. As long as you can understand the true meaning of this cycle, it is indeed an utopia... But... after seeing them, you
Aren’t you curious about what the real world is like?”
Dongfang Ruo looked at Lin Sen: "Isn't this the real world?"
Lin Sen shook his head: "Of course not. How can the central curtain easily allow people to glimpse the real world?"
After hearing this, Dongfang Ruo said curiously: "Then you are saying that in fact, what I see now is just a figment of my imagination. The real central curtain is not like this?"
Lin Sen still shook his head: "No, the central curtain you see is indeed like this, and Sailosh's body is indeed what you see, but the difference is that in addition to these, what you see when you walk out of this room
Everything is created by the central curtain."
"Oh... So that's it..." Dongfang Ruo fell into deep thought after hearing this. After a long time, she suddenly smiled: "You know, after listening to what you said, I feel that all this is like the reality of "The Other Side of the Mirror"
version, I’ve played that game once.”
But Lin Sen did not laugh. He said lightly: "Actually... there is no so-called "The Other Side of the Mirror". Qin Qing and the others just inherited Han Kongwen's last wish and tried to show everyone the true appearance of the world.
"
Dongfang Ruo's smile stiffened at this moment, and she put away her innocence in embarrassment, and then said: "You mean... when we think that "The Other Side of the Mirror" is an illusory world, in fact we ourselves are the fictitious world.
?All this is just a script, a stage play? We are all puppets?! Ha...Lin Sen! Do you know what you just said? Do you know what you are talking about?"
Lin Sen looked at Dongfang Ruo seriously, then nodded silently.
If Dongfang is very smart, she has actually guessed that there might be such an ending... But she keeps denying it! Because only denial can give her peace, otherwise people will collapse when they lose their true understanding of the world.
It will fall into a huge depression and distortion. In that state, the human mind cannot persist for long... let alone a being with excellent cognitive abilities like Dongfang Ruo?
The spiritual world collapsed. Dongfang Ruo suddenly remembered something in a daze. Looking into Lin Sen's eyes, she seemed to find a trace of unreality in the tranquility, a trace of silence in the depths of the eternal night.
The light was bright, so she stepped forward, grabbed Lin Sen's hand, and said eagerly: "You deny the true nature of the world. This is paranoia! It is extreme thinking! Ah!? Asen! You can't do this! What you understand
This is all fake! Look at me! Ah!? Look at me! Me!! I'm not fake, right!? We were playing the sieve game before! Have you forgotten?"
Lin Sen tried his best to smile. He was in pain.
Dongfang Ruo saw a glimmer of hope and smiled. She quickly took out the sieve, held it tightly and said, "Guess! Guess which number I will see first!"
Lin Sen said nothing. He raised his hand, held Dongfang Ruo's hand, and looked at her quietly.
But Lin Sen's tranquility could not be conveyed to Dongfang Ruo.
Dongfang Ruo felt horrified and frightened! But she was still trying hard to keep smiling, because she knew that if she gave up at this moment, it meant that she had to accept that it was all a dream under the curtain of the center!
What it means more... In the real world, maybe she has never existed...
"A Sen... don't be like this... don't be like this..." After Dongfang Ruo persisted for a while, her eyes turned red and she began to cry. There was not much reason, and it was not because of fear... but from Lin Sen's palm.
I felt a deep loneliness and sadness in my heart.
"None of this is true! Asen! Look at me! As long as we defeat the central curtain, we can return to the real world! By the way! Didn't we say we would return to Earth together? Right! Homecoming
The plan hasn’t started yet! Huh?”
Lin Sen looked at Dongfang Ruo silently. After a long time, he suddenly said: "Three."
"What?!" Dongfang Ruo was startled.
"Three." Lin Sen smiled: "I guess it's three..."
Dongfang Ruo came back to her senses. She tentatively rejoiced, but she immediately felt that Lin Sen's smile seemed to disappear at any time. It was like fireworks in the cold wind, giving people a sense of vulnerability that was difficult to protect...
However, Lin Sen's smile was very peaceful, and through the warmth of his palm, it spread to Dongfang Ruo's heart little by little.
Only then did Dongfang Ruo smile again...
But……
When she slowly opened her palm, she saw...
There were only three on the sieve she was holding...
A haze like falling into an ice cave enveloped my heart!
Dongfang Ruo suddenly raised his head! Only to find that Lin Sen was gone. There was only a mirror in front of her... In the mirror stood herself, standing there quietly, smiling.
"Ah Sen?! Where are you?" Dongfang Ruo hurriedly stepped forward, but was blocked by this invisible mirror.
The insurmountable barrier between heaven and man plunged Dongfang Ruo into complete chaos.
"Assen!!!!"
Dongfang Ruo kept tapping the mirror in front of him and calling Lin Sen's name!
But in the end, when she burst into tears and fell to her knees exhausted... Lin Sen did not appear again.
…
He just sat on the ground, staring blankly at himself in the mirror.
Dongfang Ruo touched the corner of her mouth and wanted to laugh, but she coughed out a sad note... She raised her hand and touched the mirror, looking at it, her eyes suddenly became hazy.
This is?
If Dongfang raised his head, he would only see heavy snowfall...
Time flew by her like a howling cold wind.
Only the man and woman clinging to each other maintain their eternal posture.
Quietly, Dongfang Ruo was aging rapidly, and she could even feel the feeling of her skin gradually drying up and folding... The feeling that the power of life was gradually fading away became a reality that comforted her soul.
…
"Asen..."
I don’t know how long has passed... maybe a blink of an eye... or tens of thousands of years... or even longer...
When he heard the call, the person kneeling on the ground slowly stood up.
But that is not Dongfang Ruo, or in other words... Dongfang Ruo has never really existed.
Lin Sen held the sieve and stood on the golden spire. In front of him was the central curtain that was glowing with blood under the setting sun, and behind him was the vast pure white wilderness.
His ideal country disappeared...
As he began to accept the real world, everything just disappeared.
…
From this moment on, he began to realize clearly that those things that he could not let go of would still leave him in the end, even if they were extremely real and reappeared in the dream created by the central curtain.
Because he has had a glimpse of the real world, he can no longer deceive himself and immerse himself in the lie.
Quietly looking at the pair of people leaning on each other in front of them.
Lin Sen slowly raised his hand and touched the girl's face.
I can still vaguely feel the warmth on her lips... The ignorant lingering in my memory is still so clear, as if everything is still yesterday after so many years.
The Ningxi Swamp has turned into a field full of flowers, but it is winter now, and Lin Sen can only see a vast expanse of white, extending to a very far place.
Looking up at the sky, there is still a ring of impact created at the moment of Sionsh's birth!
It shines like a crown!
And in that crown, the blue starry sky is so clear and dazzling!
Just look at the sky quietly for a long time...
Suddenly a whistling sound came from the distance.
Lin Sen opened his eyes, turned around, and saw the flames burning under the bloody armor.
The one-eyed woman standing on the shoulder of the bloody mecha was like a madman galloping across the sea. She stared at Lin Sen for a long time and then said loudly: "Hey! Don't you want to live? How dare you come here alone?"
Lin Sen looked at her blankly, that figure was so familiar, but at this moment it was extremely strange.
Seeing that Lin Sen was silent, the woman in a dark suit jumped off the mecha and came to Lin Sen. She then placed her hands on her hips and looked around him again and again.
It wasn't until Lin Sen felt uncomfortable that the woman exclaimed, "Oh my God, you're not wearing protective clothing. Why are there no traces of infection at all?"