Chapter 2951 [To Me]
In the magnificent star hall, Chu Rui stood in front of the scales at a loss. When she was about to say something, the witch had already spoken.
The words "Zheshangzhe" don't sound very reliable.
"You want to save people, right?" The witch holding the wand ducked down the steps and appeared in front of the scales, with her hands spread wide open. "No problem, I can satisfy you with anything."
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"Really, really..." Chu Rui's face was almost full of joy and anger.
The moment she raised her eyes, the witch suddenly appeared in front of her veneer, lifted her chin with her fingers, and chuckled: "But what can you give me."
"I..." Chu Rui opened her mouth.
She seemed to have exhausted all her courage before entering this magnificent hall - she had no time to think about anything else - about the sacrifices.
Sacrifice... Kaguya Qianfeng directly used human lives as sacrifices, or they were important materials from the high-level aliens killed on the way to escape.
But that's because Kaguya Qianfeng has the ability to obtain sacrifices... She, what does she have?
"I...can I collect sacrifices for you later..." Chu Rui said timidly: "I...I have no money and no treasures with me now..."
"You still have yourself." The witch narrowed her eyes and interrupted directly: "To me, the soul that is willing to sacrifice for others is the most valuable. You can choose to give up yourself and exchange one life for another. So what do you want? I can guarantee that the person I want to save will be alive and kicking immediately.”
Chu Rui didn't know what to say and stood blankly on the spot.
"How about it, have you thought clearly about whether to do it or not." The witch's smile was full of teasing, "If you hesitate, you can leave here now and come back later when you find treasures or sacrifices of equal value - of course , I don’t know if the brother Huai’an you want to save can hold on until then.”
Chu Rui subconsciously looked at the calm and balanced scale. Her habitual avoidance made her murmur to herself: "It's difficult...is there no other way?"
"I don't know about other places, but not here." The witch sneered: "Before you want the best of both worlds, you must first have the ability to break the rules, but unfortunately you don't have it. Your purpose is already clear when you walk in here Just to borrow my power. But why should I help you for free?”
Chu Rui looked embarrassed.
"Your hesitation proves that you still miss yourself. You came here because you couldn't convince yourself not to save yourself." The Witch said casually: "After knowing the result, you still want to have both, that is selfishness and greed... Little princess, you may just be your own little princess.”
Chu Rui instantly fell down on the main hall. The witch's words were not profound, but they were like a sharp knife, piercing her heart.
"He is really a real and ugly person." The witch narrowed her eyes, as if a shadow was attached to her, and pressed herself against Chu Rui's body, whispering in her ear: "But we don't need to blame ourselves. and guilt, because this is what we are like. The great deeds of saints you have heard about are true, but there may only be one such saint among millions of people, so it is no big deal to accept your own selfishness and ugliness. Giving up your brother Huai'an is your most correct choice. You have obtained the black card. When you have more powerful abilities in the future, just like your former master Kaguya Qianfeng, whether it is plundering or not, It doesn’t matter if you take human life for granted...because I will serve you.”
"Give up..."
"Yes, give up this unrealistic idea." The witch's magic voice sounded slowly, "You are a woman, what's wrong with you only loving yourself? In this powerful world, in order to survive, for your parents, for What’s wrong with you? It’s just this world that’s wrong!”
"It's the world that's wrong, not me..."
"That's right, it's just this world that's wrong, and it's Brother Huai'an who's wrong." The witch gently bit her ear with her lips, "Why should I save you beyond my means? Why should I sacrifice my own death to save you?" Uneasy... Why do I have to appear in front of you even though I have no ability to protect you? You are in the dark, you have never seen the light, why do you want to become that fleeting meteor?"
A drop of hot tears slipped silently from the corner of the little maid's eyes.
The witch gently grabbed her hand at this time, "Since he chose to save you even at the expense of himself, then please ask him to carry out this belief to the end, don't you think so?"
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"You...what are you going to do..." Chu Rui seemed to have been drained of all her strength. She didn't even know if it was her own hand that was raising or because the witch was grabbing her arm...
"Sacrifice, sacrifice your brother Huai'an to me." The witch whispered softly: "Look, he is right next to you, just like a living sacrifice. He is an excellent sacrifice at your fingertips. . Shouldn't you let the person who sacrificed himself for you survive? Let him... become your blessing and fulfill everything for you. You can leave this place right away. In a dangerous place, you can go back to your parents right away, and you can go back to a carefree life... everything will be so beautiful.”
Chu Rui's eyes were blank, and she let the witch hold her palm and slowly stretched out towards the scales... This was the space of thoughts, but at this time she could clearly feel the Huai'an tightly held in the entity. The temperature of my brother's hand.
Rough... roomy palms.
"Just like this, let it go gently, slowly, and your dream will come true. It's easy, it's easy..." The magic voice sounded slowly: "You won't feel guilty, this is what you deserve, You won’t be upset, because you will soon forget, because we are used to forgetting pain, and time... time will eventually heal you.”
——Woof!
——Woof woof!
The sound of a dog barking suddenly came to mind in this nearly a thousand holes in the heart - Chu Rui suddenly raised his head and broke free from the witch's hand.
The witch...the witch was startled.
Chu Rui was seen lowering his head at this time, holding his heart hard, and instantly left this magnificent hall - no sacrifice... no transaction.
"This...TM can turn over?"
The witch looked at the absolutely balanced scale as if in a daze, speechless for a long time.
……
The man sitting at the desk frowned, and with his extremely sharp senses, it seemed as if the girl was "back" again... He looked at her suspiciously, but couldn't see any clues.
But Chu Rui was silent at this time, but there was a black card in her hand at some point - in front of the person who was sitting at the desk, the girl gritted her teeth and tried to tear the black card away resolutely. open.
It was very hard, extremely hard, but she still couldn't tear the black card apart, even if she could just bend it slightly.
"Such a thing...I...I don't want it!" She didn't give up, she just used up her meager strength, "I...I want to rely on myself!"
Click——!
On the black, extremely tough card, a small break appeared in an instant, and then it collapsed directly as if it was out of control! The card that was torn into two halves burned instantly, leaving no trace.
Chu Rui took a deep breath and held the young Huai'an's hand again. She stopped crying. She just silently grabbed the large and rough palm and pressed it against her forehead. "Will you blame me for not letting go?" Myself, you will blame me, right... But Xiaorui is so ordinary Alone... Brother Huai'an, you must hate me, hate me for refusing to see you until death... So, wake up, wake up, beat me and scold me, wake up and take revenge on me... Let me use the rest Time to atone for my sins and shame. Please... wake up."
A slight moan came from the young man's mouth.
He was still unconscious, but had some slight reaction.
Chu Rui felt mixed emotions, "Brother Huai'an, you...you heard what I said..."
"You can't save him." The voice of the man lying at the desk was heard calmly.
Chu Rui was startled, and realized that at some point, the man sitting at the desk had stood in front of the young Huai'an... He stretched out his palm, and a thin black light was emanating from his palm, covering the young Huai'an's face. On the body.
"It's you...you can save Brother Huai'an!" Chu Rui was surprised and happy.
"Save?" The man at the desk shook his head: "I don't know, but I can make him the same as me... an apostle, no, maybe just a half-apostle. Sorry, I can't fully understand it yet, but if I can simply make him There should be no problem if he comes back alive.”
"Will...will it become like you?" Chu Rui asked tremblingly.
"Yes." The man at the desk nodded, "But it's not because of you, but because I think that maybe I also need a companion... This person seems to have been with me for a long time."
"As long as I can survive..." Chu Rui muttered to herself.
At this moment, the palm of the man lying on the desk cracked instantly, and then countless ugly granules grew crazily out of the cracks in the palm... The crazily proliferating granules turned into tentacles covered with mucus, which were directly from the young Huai'an. Get into the wounds on the body.
"No!" Chu Rui was shocked.
But she saw the person sitting at the desk looking back, and an invisible force instantly lifted Chu Rui out... She instantly flew dozens of meters away, spit out a mouthful of blood, and when she looked up again, Brother Huai'an's The body was still completely penetrated by the terrifying fleshy tentacles.
At this moment, when she saw the person sitting at the desk, she seemed to be seeing a shapeless, ever-changing... monster lurking in the thick black fog.
ah--!
She hugged her head and screamed, as if she couldn't breathe... something seemed to be swallowing her inside.
"A good feeling of fear." The person sitting at the desk took a gentle breath at this time.
"Monster, monster... let him go, let him go!" Chu Rui was going crazy. She didn't have any moves, she just poured all her strength into her legs - bumping.
The man lying on the desk casually waved his hand, and Chu Rui was knocked out again... Her whole body was limp, and most of her internal organs seemed to be damaged... Even her sight was mostly stained by the blood pouring out of her eyes.
Blood red...dim...
——Ah...
——I understand...
——It turns out...
——Incompetent people…
——No matter what decision you make...
——It's all...wrong.
She lay quietly on the green grass... and the world seemed to suddenly turn over, and her whole body fell... into a pure white space.
……
"Am...am I dead?"
"You're awake."
She turned around, but only saw a silhouette... a man sitting with his back to her, painting in this empty and pure white space.
He has black hair and sounds like he is young.
The way to paint is... oil painting.
The palette on the young man's palm is already colorful, as if he has been painting for a long time.
Chu Rui subconsciously walked towards the black-haired young man who was painting, and asked cautiously: "Is this...a fairy palace?"
"This is the place where you will die." The young man said calmly: "It is the most real place for you. You can have enough time to recall everything you have experienced here. Don't worry, there will be enough time. , and no one bothers you ”
"Memories..."
Doors appeared in front of Chu Rui's eyes in an irregular manner, diagonally, vertically, horizontally, and even suspended in mid-air.
"Open it and take a look." The young man continued: "Any one will do."
The voice seemed to possess magic power. Chu Rui hesitantly stretched out her hand and carefully opened the door closest to her.
——Doctor, doctor! What's wrong with my wife... I must, I must keep the big one!
——Where can there be so many scenes? It’s just an ordinary disembowelment...
——That's it...
"This...is this?"
"What happened when you were born."
Chu Rui was startled. Inside the door was a delivery room that didn't look very complete but was clean. She whispered: "It turns out that this was how it was when I was born..."
Suddenly a baby cries... Under the spotlight, in the amniotic fluid and blood, the ugly duckling-like baby has not yet opened its eyes, formally looking at the new world.
Chu Rui had already burst into tears unknowingly... It turned out that seeing her birth with her own eyes was such a feeling, as if her heart was filled with something.
She subconsciously looked at the door next door, with a hint of hope, and quickly pushed it open without any further hesitation.
——Old woman! Do you know how to prepare milk powder? Didn’t it say that the temperature cannot exceed fifty?
——You can do it, can you come on? You just gave birth to a baby and you have become an old woman. I think you dislike getting old after giving birth, right?
Chu Rui couldn't help but burst out laughing. She wiped her eyes and smiled bitterly: "It's still like this. We have been quarreling since we were young. How funny!"
Smiling and laughing, even the speed of wiping could not keep up with the speed of tears pouring out.
"What's wrong with me...what's wrong with me...I'm obviously very happy..."
She opened another door.
When you are babbling, when you are starting to toddle...those are the easiest times to forget.
When you are happy.
——The boss ran away this year, and there are not many spirit stones left... This year, it’s so sad, eh!
——Spring has arrived, and the harvest in Lingtian is almost done. Maybe we can breathe again... Xiaorui, my dear, take some dumplings and send them to the child in Huai'an. That child is so pitiful.
——I don’t have enough to eat, so I can take care of others.
——You, you, you woman!
When you are unhappy.
——Let’s set off fireworks!
——But...but where did the fireworks come from?
——I picked it up, look! Fairy wand!
--Wow!
When we were childhood sweethearts.
——I didn’t... didn’t pass the exam, yes, I’m sorry.
——It doesn’t matter, our Xiaorui is the best!
The first time I didn’t know how to go ahead.
——You are so beautiful, can you work as a maid for the great monk?
——But I...
——You just need to tell your family that you are cleaning in a rich man’s apartment, right? You also need money to help your father treat his illness, right?
——Okay...Okay.
When you feel anxious.
——This is...this is the latest model of fairy clothes!
——What, it was a gift from our master.
I don’t know why I started to feel jealous.
——He worked hard to carry animal materials inside the city gate.
——She was on her way to buy daily necessities.
When passing by.
——Have you thought about it? This time Master Qianfeng comes back, will you serve him?
——I...I'll think about it again...
Maybe...maybe it's time to make a change.
She closed the door instantly... the sound was particularly loud.
"Don't you like these bad memories?" the young man who was painting suddenly asked.
Chu Rui slowly sat down against the door, hugging her knees tightly, "I just don't like myself like this."
"There are still many things you like about yourself." The young man painting smiled slightly, "There are still many doors."
"No need." She buried her head, "The more you see yourself that you like, the less you will like yourself now."
"Would it be better in turn?" The young man who painted said again: "Only the bad doors will be left."
Chu Rui raised her head subconsciously, but still could only see the young man's back - she had opened many doors of memory, from childhood to adulthood, and logically had changed many positions... However, she could never see the other person's face. Face - even in profile.
"Wouldn't that be... more painful?" She murmured to herself, "Even if I die, I have to carry these bad memories with me."
"Then why don't you forget everything." The young man said again: "The good and the bad, only a blank is left."
Chu Rui said in a daze: "Can...can this be done?"
"It is said that after a person dies, he should drink a bowl of soup and forget everything about his life." The young man said slowly: "Then he will start a different life again in a blank space."
"After a person dies..." Chu Rui said subconsciously: "Shouldn't the soul go to the [Ninth Prison]? I heard the adults in [Qionghua Pavilion] said... Unless it is to seize the body, otherwise..."< br>
"So it's a legend." The young man smiled lightly: "It makes people feel beautiful."
"Sounds good." Chu Rui nodded subconsciously, "If you can forget this..."
"Do you want to drink this bowl of soup."
"I...can I? No, it's a legend?"
"Yes, it's a legend, but I didn't say it doesn't exist." The young man said while painting: "I like to collect some bits and pieces. You can leave these doors of yours to me, and then I will give them to you. A bowl of soup like this.”
"It...what use are they to you?" Chu Rui asked blankly.
"Are they useful to you?" the young man suddenly asked.
Chu Rui thought deeply: "If I am still alive, these things are probably... probably my most precious things."
"Yes, it is the most precious thing." The young man stopped his hand at this time, and the palette and brush fell on both sides at the same time. "It is everything that makes up you, your complete life. I think it is unique."< br>
"I'm just that ordinary..."
"There will be people who like to record ordinary things." The young man stood up, "It's like this."
Chu Rui stared blankly at the completed painting.
That's what she looked like when she wiped her nose and cried.
"It turns out that I look like this..." She subconsciously approached and reached out to touch herself in the painting, as if to wipe away her tears in the painting. "Am I... going to cry like this in the future?"
"They all cry."
"Can you... laugh?"
"They all laugh."
Chu Rui said softly: "Will everyone... meet you when they die?"
"You will meet yourself."
Chu Rui trembled: "Am I really...dead?"
"On your deathbed, there is a lot of time here. You can stay here for a long, long time, but there will always be a moment when it ends."
"I seem to have a lot... a lot of things I want to do, but have never done." Chu Rui smiled bitterly, "I always feel that I am unwilling to do so."
"The regrets of a life lost young will be more than that of an old one."
Chu Rui said quietly: "But I...but I really don't want to give up..."
"That's why it is precious." The young man whispered: "It's like I took it away from you."
"What would I become if I didn't choose to drink?"
"Maybe it will turn into free soul power and be added to the guardian spirits of major cities. Maybe it will be taken to the [Ninth Prison]." The young man said calmly: "Maybe it will gradually disappear without leaving any traces. There will always be some It’s too late for the soul to find its home.”
"Why...why..."
"Because [Canglan] has no way of reincarnation yet."
"I... don't understand."
"It doesn't matter." The young man said softly: "You can stay here for a long time, maybe you will figure it out."
"No need." Chu Rui shook her head and looked back at herself in the painting.
The tears shed by the girl in the painting slowly flowed out of the painting and into her palms, swaying like clear water from a spring.
"I...will I meet my parents again in the future...in the new world."
The young man slowly opened his hands, and instantly an extremely huge door appeared behind Chu Rui.
Chu Rui stared blankly.
The young man said softly: "You will no longer be their child, but you will have a few chances to meet in the vast sea of people, but you won't care, because you are no longer [Chu Rui]."< br>
"In this way..." Chu Rui whispered: "Then brother Huai'an also...me, can I repay him in the new world?"
"If you are willing." The young man waved his hand... As he waved, the huge door slowly turned and turned to the other side. "You will still pass by your parents in this life in the vast sea of people." But I will meet Zhao Huaian in the sea of people.”
"If this is just a dream before I die." Chu Rui showed a bitter smile, "I really hope I won't wake up from this dream."
The palm holding the tears slowly moved to his lips.
Door after door of memory gradually disappeared with the flow of tears. In the hazy state, Chu Rui murmured to herself: "Huai'an..."
The girl suddenly dropped her hands, turned around expressionlessly, and slowly walked towards the open door. As she walked, the door of memory disappeared faster... everywhere, but in twos and threes, to scattered.
The young man casually opened one of the few doors and looked inside.
——Huai'an, from now on, please call me Huai'an, okay? Brother Smelly Huai'an said he was going to work and support himself, so he wouldn't even accompany me!
——Woof woof! Woof!
The barking of the dog and the girl's laughter also disappeared with the disappearance of the memory door.
The young man walked to the painting and wrote its name on it.
——[To me]. (End of chapter)