Chapter 596 Tell a Story
Milo didn’t know how long Emma had been in the abyss like this.
I guess Emma herself can’t remember clearly.
Many of the injuries on her body had long since healed, while many were obviously newly added recently.
It is hard to imagine how the sick and weak girl in the past could withstand all this.
A lot of the bitterness and pain can only be transformed into venting howls at this moment.
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I don’t know how long it took.
By the time Emma's sobs subsided a little, most of Milo's shoulders were soaked in a mixture of tears, nose, and saliva.
He said nothing the whole time, only patting Emma's back with his hand.
After holding it in for a long time, he finally said:
"Sorry."
Before he could say the clichéd second half of the sentence, "I'm late."
Emma, who was buried in his neck, interrupted him in advance.
“Shut up.”
"Okay."
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After a long time, Emma suddenly remembered the shot she had accurately hit Milo in the back.
She anxiously asked Milo to turn around and check her.
At that moment Milo even saw real fear in her eyes.
Milo also struggled a lot to explain why the bullet did not leave a hole in his body or break his spine.
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After crying enough, Emma seemed to be completely back to normal, except for the slight redness and swelling in her eyes.
Her way of expressing emotions is still so lacking, but only Milo knows how terrifying and helpless the situation must be for Emma to cry like that.
Of course, the so-called return to normal does not mean that you will completely turn back into the 24-hour unsmiling guy.
In the abyss, from the moment she saw Milo, she never let go of Milo's hand.
And all the time before that, the thing she had been holding on to, even when sleeping and resting, was the gun.
......
"Can we go back?"
Smart Emma has long known that this is not the world she knows.
She can interpret the Noscia equation, which means that many truths and mysteries of the universe have been stored in her mind and become a part of her. She can even have a superficial understanding of what kind of world she is in, touching Came across some concepts of chaos here.
Because of this, she once fell into such complete despair.
It is precisely because of this that Milo's appearance seems so sudden.
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“Of course.”
Facing Emma's worried question, Milo's answer was quite relaxed and concise.
But perhaps it was Milo's overly determined tone that made Emma notice something.
She looked into Milo's eyes with some doubts:
"Actually, you're not sure, right?"
"Are you kidding, I can If you can get in, you can get out naturally." Milo patted Emma's head, and then turned his eyes to the end of the corridor.
At this moment, the figure of the "boy" had already disappeared.
Even the green crystals in the hall in front began to collapse and shatter. Many Etta's corpses were piled up and stacked on top of each other, and the smell of rotten corpses hit their noses.
Farther outside, the living corpses that were led away returned.
And this time, it is not only the living corpses that are active in Nanwei City, but some long-hidden evil in the distance is also beginning to move.
Milo did not take Emma out of the law enforcement headquarters. He led Emma up the stairs to the top of the law enforcement headquarters.
"It's just a little troublesome."
"Huh?"
"Nothing."
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Milo kicked open the door to the top rooftop .
At this time, it had stopped raining outside, and a complete crescent moon was rarely revealed in the gray sky. It was brighter than the moon in Nanwei City in Milo's memory, so that the visual effect was somewhat unreal.
"Why do we have to come up to the roof..."
Emma stopped mid-sentence, because now she was on the top floor of the law enforcement headquarters building, and she had already noticed something strange about the city. .
It is certainly a terrifying thing to be chased by the living corpses in the city like a tide, but if it is like now, all the living corpses in the streets, houses, and floors stop where they are, using Those rotten or semi-rotten eyes staring straight at you will be another form of creepiness.
Then there is the green light that covers half of the city.
It was the will that had transformed into a little boy deep in the law enforcement hall.
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“The Green Dead.”
Emma blurted out.
This is what the people in the shelter call that thing.
"There are two terrifying creatures in this city. One is Glaaki, and the other should be it."
Emma looked solemn.
That time at the confession dock, she had fallen into Glachi's dream, and with her in-depth interpretation of the Noscia equation, she knew how terrifying and indifferent these life forms that spanned the ages were. A kind of existence.
If there were two such things in Nanwei City at this moment, what she and Milo would have to face would be a nightmare-level dilemma.
However, unlike before, Emma did not feel any fear or cold at the moment.
And this has nothing to do with Milo's fear-devouring instinct.
“Well——”
Milo, on the other hand, did not pay attention to the green light on the horizon like Emma did.
He took off his coat and spread it on the steps, motioned Emma to sit down, and then carefully helped her remove the soaked torn bandages on her palms.
“Tell me if it hurts.”
"Yes." The latter responded softly.
"I think there is something we need to talk about." Milo mentioned to Emma seemingly casually.
"Okay, I'm listening." Emma nodded.
"This may be a little complicated to talk about."
Milo put the bandage removed from Emma's palm and wrist on the ground and twisted it into a circle, pointing at it Said:
"That's where we both are now."
"Yeah, yeah." Emma nodded again.
Then Milo pointed to the water on the balcony on the next floor and said: "That's our hometown. I don't mean Nanwei City, but the whole world. There is almost a gap between these two places. There is no connection, I mean almost..."
"As for why this happened? To put it simply, someone is forcing me to make a choice." "Someone is serious? He looked into Milo's eyes.
"There are quite a lot of people, of course not all of them are people." Milo grinned, and he gently held Emma's two hands that were white and wrinkled by the rain.
"What choice?" Emma asked.
Seeing the rolling green light in the distance gradually becoming richer, Milo paused and replied:
"Mei Gao, of course the Mei Gao you are rescuing may not be the same. It may not be that child, but Mego is in a certain corner of this world. I have to tell a not very interesting story, which is about a fallen civilization..."
"This The arrogant civilization used some unknown means to make the female relatives of their race pregnant with the child of a certain god, and believed that the child was a man-made god, but in fact it was not, because on the day the child was born, His biological father will be attracted by his cry."
"As for the child's biological father, that god, he has many titles, including 'Judgment Star', 'Herald of Destruction'...'Blood Moon', but his real name is "Gheroth"."
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When Milo said the name "Gherros" lightly, noisy wailing suddenly sounded in Nanwei City. Behind the wailing and crying, there seemed to be countless babies crying. The sound was sharp and harsh. Crying heartbreakingly.
Even Emma was startled by the cry that suddenly echoed throughout the city.
She looked at Milo and asked seriously: "What will happen if Gherroth comes?"
Milo shrugged: "No one knows, everyone has their own theory. The most widely circulated theory is that the end of the world is coming, but the theory circulated in some special racial civilizations is 'glory rebirth', which is almost certain." What's more, it will bring ominousness and destruction..."
"So that the superiors chose a more decisive way, that is, to bury the entire civilization before Meigao was born. This may be It’s only part of the reason, but it’s definitely a relatively crucial part.”
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Emma looked at the balcony on the next floor thoughtfully.
Then, she asked Milo: "For the world on the next floor, Meigao is dead, but for the rooftop, it is not. Moreover, Meigao here can pass through some kind of The way appears over there, right?”
"Simply a genius."
Milo feels that his expression is obscure and abstract enough, but even so, Emma can understand it thoroughly. It can be said that he crushes most humans in terms of IQ and sanity. .
"Then what do you mean by 'choice'?" Emma did not respond to Milo's sigh at all, but continued to ask.
“Here.” Milo pointed to the roof: “This chaotic world is called the abyss, and as far as I know, there is only one way to get rid of the abyss, or to prevent the abyss from affecting the real world. One way is to destroy everything here and let the apocalypse come here."
"What happens after the abyss world is destroyed?" Emma continued to ask.
"After destruction, souls that do not belong to the abyss can return to the real waking world." Milo replied.
But Emma suddenly fell into silence.
After a long time, he spoke again:
“But I didn’t come in the form of a soul, right?”
“Yeah.”
Milo nodded.
"Have I become part of the abyss world?"
Emma's voice trembled slightly. She was trying her best to restrain it, but Milo could still feel it clearly.
"I understand what you mean by choice. In fact, you don't need to tell me this."
She began to dare not look into Milo's eyes anymore, and put herself His hand withdrew from Milo's.
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Milo was stunned for a second.
Then a look of surprise quickly appeared on his face, and then turned into an uncontrollable playful smile.
"Oh no, pfft... What on earth did I do before that made you have this strange understanding of me, this strange understanding of taking the common people as your own responsibility?"
"...?" His words made Emma stunned for a while.
——Did I understand it wrong? But, isn’t it said that the only way to prevent Meigao from appearing is to destroy the abyss world, and I have become a part of the abyss world. This is the choice before me...
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It is indeed such a multiple-choice question.
This is also the true meaning of Crowe's words before sending Milo into the abyss - "It's all about choices."
The conditions that contributed to this entire bureau were too complex.
Not only must the original Destroyer in the abyss be eliminated first, but Emma must also accurately enter the world where Mego is.
The most incomprehensible thing is Crowe's last step - he personally sent Milo into the abyss.
Perhaps this can also be explained by the phrase "everything is about choice", but similarly, he gave Milo the choice to destroy this abyssal world.
All signs indicate that behind Crowe, above the order, there may be a more terrifying pair of hands controlling and orchestrating all of this.
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Of course, the choice is just Crow’s word.
Milo's purpose was clear from the beginning, to bring Emma back.
Even after learning the truth about the blood moon "Gehros" through the "Luoyan City Teaching Book", he still remained unwavering.
According to his own words, that is——
"Why do you have to make sacrifices if you know the truth? What does it have to do with me whether the big red ball comes or not? Really..."
"I am telling you this to make you smart. Please help me think of a way to get us out of here smoothly and safely. I’m not here to tell you to die, do you understand?”
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Emma raised her head again and stared at Milo for a long time.
She couldn't help but feel a little stunned.
——Yes, it seems that this is more like Milo's style... Even he himself has not wavered at all, why did I doubt it first.
"So I can still go back...right?"
After Emma said these words, even she probably realized how stupid this question was, because Milo's The attitude has been expressed clearly enough.
So she quickly added: "You don't need to answer this question."
In exchange for Milo's chuckle.
Milo did not say anything, but a not-so-smart thing above Nanwei City couldn't stop talking.
Further above the series of wails of living corpses and the cries of babies, a majestic voice whose gender could not be distinguished struck like thunder, causing half the city to tremble:
"Feeling annihilation is the only way you can go, don't struggle pointlessly."
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Those green streams of light began to combine and condense on their own in the high air, forming some materials that could flow and have a crystalline structure.
Some clearly visible rune totems also emerged one after another.
It was these runes that allowed Milo to recognize the identity of the so-called "Green Dead".
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“Hey, I was wondering why half of Celephasis was destroyed but its patron saint didn’t appear...it turns out it fell into the abyss.”
Milo patted Emma on the shoulder and told her to stay where she was.
Then with a ferocious smile on his face, he picked up the crowbar and threw it in the direction of the green shadow high in the sky.
(End of this chapter)