【Ending One】: Linglu (Part 2)
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In 721, the "Star Abyss" game updated version 30.0 - "Darkest Hour"
"Dear customers and players:"
I am Lai Anding, the top planner of "Star Abyss", the server architect of KitKat Network, and the CEO of KitKat Network.
As a result of the recent decision to create the expansion pack Abyss Expedition, which requires players and guilds to join the Expedition, I am announcing my resignation from all roles as a KitKat Network executive.
I have always firmly supported players' gaming experience, information security, and account ownership, but I also support the decision to maintain the company.
The development of events deviated from the original intention. Even though I couldn't agree with the dissolution and sale of the studio, the decision to split internally still prevailed. After the Yanxia decision, my attitude in this regard has not changed.
Furthermore, I believe that decisions of this level should be based on the expectations and wishes of the player base.
However, I will continue to do my best to ensure that the agreements signed with the highest planning of "Star Abyss" in the past can become real and feasible treaties, and at the same time, the company's financial situation can be lifted out of crisis.
I declare to you for the last time as the CEO of KitKat Network: I think that the reform process we have experienced since the deletion of NPC "Lee Ozi" in version 14.0, especially my view on this process is full of contradictions, superficiality and subjective understanding. An explanation is necessary.
As fate would have it, when I served as the leader of this company, the company's situation was no longer optimistic.
Although we have rich advantageous resources such as picture quality, plot, and gameplay, and the great Terra has also bestowed wisdom and talent on our staff, our games are still far worse than all other networks on the market in terms of plug-in management. Competitive gaming.
Self-aim, blood lock, teleportation, magic bullet, forced offline, IP blocking, prohibition of screen peeking, box opening player information, credit card theft... In the endless network attacks, KitKat Network has suffered irreparable losses. We He is the loser and the biggest victim.
A large number of players are unbearable to be humiliated during the game and choose to give up and quit the game, or even cancel their accounts. Our revenue is declining day by day, and it is no longer enough to maintain the normal operation of the game server.
I leave this post with my concerns, but I also leave with hope and confidence in you that comes from the power of your ingenuity and innovative spirit in all players.
We are a once-prominent game, and it is up to each and every one of you whether this game can enter a new life of order and dignity.
We have tried to create a completely real world, but we have forgotten that a real world will inevitably include plug-ins, hackers and other unstable elements who break the rules and seek benefits for themselves by any means.
Some mistakes can be completely avoided, and many things can be done better, but I am sure that sooner or later our joint efforts will bear fruit and our game will become a prosperous and glorious hit again in the future.
I declare:
Starting from midnight today, "Star Abyss" will officially shut down the server and actively operate it. Players can retain all past account data and information. The "Star Abyss" server will continue to operate on Terra's main social server.
We will no longer provide any form of content updates for it, including anti-third-party plug-ins and information protection measures, as well as turning off game recognition filters and pain shielding.
For players who still take the risk to sneak into the game world, we cannot guarantee your information security and mental health. For your personal consideration, please choose carefully. KitKat Network and studio personnel do not assume any responsibility for any impact of risky actions and any consequences. conceited.
KitKat Network Studios is officially disbanded.
I would like to express my best wishes to you all!
721 years have passed since Li Ozi quit ‘Xingyuan’.
During this period, Lyanding's power continued to grow. After placing his heirs under house arrest, Lyanding's lifespan was greatly extended. However, as he drained and absorbed Rand Lord's life force, Lyanding's character also changed. It gets weirder and weirder.
As one of the oldest gods of the Star Abyss, Leanding maintained a calm and calm attitude even in the darkest moments of the Star Abyss, resolutely safeguarding the will of the Star Abyss and executing its orders. Even if he is used as the first-generation server itself, he sells his life and divine power to escort the implementation of the "From the Star Abyss" plan.
Even the most extreme spirit warriors and members of the Zhenwu Party would not think that Laian Ding was an emotional person.
However, the actions of Rand Lord and the revolutionary gods seemed to deeply stimulate this ancient mother. When she chose to put his successor and son under house arrest, he sucked the source of life from each other like sucking blood and marrow. , His inner rationality seemed to begin to waver.
Le Anding is first of all the supreme leader of the Star Abyss God Clan and the Origin Star Abyss, and secondly the Redeemer God. No matter what, such a political and spiritual leader must always be cold and rational.
But under this stimulation, He gradually became alienated.
According to the higher-ups of the KitKat Network (actually counselors and guardians of the Redemption Gods faction):
"After (Rand Lord) was imprisoned, the character of the Mistress began to become richer. She often became sentimental about trivial matters. For some of the death row prisoners who should have been injected into the origin, especially those revolutionary warriors and true warriors Party radicals—these gods threaten the organizational structure of Yuanyuan The dangerous elements - the mistress just thought they looked a little pitiful, so she exempted them from punishment. Some were exiled to the abyss, some were demoted to evil gods, and many were even thrown into the abyss. Mingyuan digs up soul fragments and undergoes labor transformation, that’s all.”
"It is not that no one is aware of His Majesty's changes, but no one dares to question it. His Majesty has turned laws and cabinet meetings into His speaking hall. If anyone dares to raise an opinion, He will not object to it openly, but will say 'How many people will this cost?', 'This will hurt some people's feelings', 'It's not appropriate for those old heroes'... So the reform process was delayed."
"But on the bright side, at least in the past seven hundred years, we have not executed a single compatriot. Yuanyuan basically does not have any resistance forces. Your Majesty is relying on 'tolerance' and 'benevolence' and using pure moral means to Controls the entire universe ”
"He is getting farther and farther away from the front line, but he arbitrarily promises a lot of benefits to the gods, completely ignoring the practicality of the policy, and the fact that our Yuanyuan is actually a wasteland that produces nothing except gods. ... Yuanyuan has nothing. What he promises to people needs to be deployed from other star abyss at the risk of being infiltrated by [society], or paid tribute through the underworld. It looks like welfare and care, but in fact it is You are making fun of Yuanyuan’s safety.”
"However, this does not change people's dislike of him. Leanding knows nothing about managing and operating games, but he asked [player] Pryor to customize a set for him that can 'quickly attract players into the trap, quickly allow players to form combat effectiveness, A plan to quickly recover resources through the game. He eagerly hopes that the "From the Star Abyss" plan can be completed within a thousand years."
"Pryor told him: On Earth, no game planner can do the above three points at the same time, at most two points at the same time. If someone claims to be able to do it, then it must be a fraud."
"My Majesty didn't take it seriously. He began to override the designer's suggestions and modify the game data himself. In order to cater to His Majesty's idea of increasing the number of players, KitKat Network employees began to place advertisements on a massive scale, organized player groups to besiege non-player groups, and even Through the law, players are required to register a game account to work, play, consume and even go to the toilet - thus forcing others to join the game, and players who do not join the game or register an account will be ostracized and disgusted by the unit."
"As for quickly making players stronger, it is too simple. Give players plug-ins so that everyone can quickly level up and reach the version limit."
"Recovering invested resources is an important task for maintenance. The problem is also very simple - no longer standardize the internal market rules, let go of all transactions, and leave it to the invisible hands to regulate themselves. If the required resources are insufficient, tasks and requirements will be directly issued. Players can rob in the Star Abyss by themselves, or they can close their eyes and let the players use their subjective initiative. How much money can be extracted from the Star Abyss... it all depends on the player's imagination. Anyway, you can do whatever you want with the plug-in. ”
"When anything becomes mandatory, even the gods of Yuanyuan begin to become rebellious. Protests against His Majesty broke out in many places, but the community administrator will activate awareness filters in time to stabilize Order.”
"In addition, the activities of the Zhenwu Party members have made more people aware of the existence of recognition filters. They have launched several 'wedge removal' campaigns, helping and forcing many players to remove the recognition filters from their necks. Some of the extreme gods began to call themselves the "Freedom Gods". They joined the Zhenwu Party, and under the leadership of Shen Qing and Atreya Night Breeze, they hid in the white sand wilderness of Yuanyuan to engage in guerrilla warfare with the Redemption Gods. ”
"The other part of the awakened spirit warriors are mostly slave laborers and cannon fodder spirits. They are not warriors, they don't have guns in their hands, and they have no sense of faith. Their thoughts are more conservative and they are not optimistic about direct guerrillas. They think they are extreme. The purpose of the faction is only to maintain the rule of Yuan Yuan. Even if the Laian Ding regime is overthrown, it will just replace the Zhenwu Party and support a new main god. "
"So, these low-level gods chose to establish the 'Popular Party'. They believed that the only way to completely destroy everything in Yuanyuan and completely subvert the entire Yuanyuan was to make the main gods, gods and slaves no longer have identities. The difference can completely put an end to 'Leanding' itself."
"It's just that compared to the Zhenwu Party who can rely on the divine power of warriors to directly launch armed intervention, violent revolution, and seize resources, the People's Party really has nothing to offer. Even because there is no divine kingdom, no divine power, and no divine throne. , it took them more than four hundred years to figure out the basic program and general line, and it took decades to even confirm the appointment of party members. Even Lai Anding didn't even bother to look at them because they were too weak."
"During this process, the situation in Xingyuan is also changing drastically."
"The [Secret Society] has established more than 6,000 settlements for Earthlings on three levels above the Star Abyss: Zhou Yuan, Jing Yuan, and Layer Abyss. Through soft colonization, they continue to invade the starry sky of the indigenous people and spread the word vigorously. The secret belief promotes the concept of "Pan-Lucan people". As long as they are carbon-based organisms, human-shaped, non-reproductively isolated from the human race in the universe, and speak English, they will be classified as earthlings. "
"Such a diversified approach has dealt a heavy blow to Star Abyss Narratives.
Void believes this is a blasphemy against nihilism and demands a holy war to eliminate heretical ideologies;
Jing Yuan believes that too many settlements of earthlings have destroyed the natural environment of this layer, especially those of the 'Tatar-Slavic' mixed race, which have occupied the ecological niche of the indigenous people. They are more adapted to the wide plains and have the ability to develop rapidly. technology. In addition, the Oshuria tragedy has brought serious panic to the people of this universe, and people of all countries continue to support the alliance to expand the "water war";
In Layer Abyss, the three major narrative options unite to jointly curb the Pan-Lucan concept - all three narratives have about 30% of the human inhabitants of the universe. Once these stable resources are lost, the inherent time domain and artificial The creation of gods will be severely damaged. ”
"Yuanyuan gained control of the garrison of the six star abyss through the secret peace agreement and the players of the "From Star Abyss" plan. But Le Anding seemed to have forgotten one thing: before, the people of the star abyss supported the players and supported these arrivals. Or, it is because they protect Xingyuan, fight against enemies on the side of [society], constantly help the weak, punish evil and eradicate evil, and do not have a unified organization, that they have gained tolerance and even acceptance from the major forces in Xingyuan. "< br>
"The people of Xingyuan do not respect the immortal messengers from the ancient source. What they respect is that they risk their lives and fight for them time and time again, even if they are just players in the game world."
"When the descendants of Yuanyuan are no longer simple players, no longer taking on fighting [society] and saving Xingyuan as their own responsibility, but a group of people with cheats in their hands, who are not subject to legal constraints, whose quality has dropped sharply and who have no guaranteed income. When cheating on a group - then the people of Star Abyss will no longer welcome players.”
"In just seven hundred years and 30 versions, even the players who launched the server of "Star Abyss" were forced to join in the same trend and began to compete in various levels of Star Abyss, occupying indigenous lands, forming gangs, and supporting puppets. regime. Especially those who enter Qunyuan early and start the Qunyuan special chicken game The god-seeking players in the competition were not only huge in number, but also armed with plug-ins. They quickly colonized the local narrative civilization and even monopolized the divine thrones. The occasionally produced and excavated divine thrones were only Spreading transactions among several oligarchic players”
"If this continues, it won't take a thousand years for players to dive into the Abyss and truly open up the channel between the Layer Abyss and the Origin Abyss. The plan of "Coming from the Star Abyss" will no longer exist. Under the current trend, In another hundred years, the fifth-level star abyss will soon become a dual colony of the earth and the source.”
"Your Majesty Ryan, what a strange woman."
"He is cautious, gentle and kind. He doesn't even dare to crush a house sparrow to death, but he can watch helplessly as tens of billions of lives in the fifth-level star abyss are reduced to colonies and slaves of subjugation."
"A woman who even drinks a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge and says, 'This is too luxurious,' yet carelessly gives all five universes to the alien races on Earth."
"As a mother, she seemed too cold-blooded. She drained her son alive and turned him into a stick. As a political leader, she was too kind. Even a dangerous figure like Chen Shen, who was twice demoted as an evil god, felt pity for her. ——She is not afraid of letting the tiger go back to the mountain. When Shen Shen comes back with Gio Skua, Leos and the others, will the first thing he does is cut off her head and hang it in the Milky Way to use as the sun? "
"Although [the player] said that he gave Li Ozi very generous conditions and persuaded him to remove his armor and return to his fields, not to contact the stars, not to touch the army, not to join the party and society - but the idols in the hearts of those slave labor cannon fodder civilians, Even though 721 years have passed, he is still the 'last brave man' Leoz who came from a low-level background, wielded power and usurped power. ”
"Leozi has risen twice. Even if Pryor uses the so-called 'honey trap' to persuade him to stay away from the revolution, this threat still exists... But Your Majesty is not worried at all."
"From the beginning, Ryan Dingmian knew everything."
"Siders was robbed by Leoz, Leos and Siders fought to a decisive battle, and Leos forced Yuan Yuan to resist the invasion of the earth - until Leos was about to shake Yuan Yuan's regime, Pryor finally Unable to sit still, I took the initiative to persuade Leoz to succeed, and this is how I feel at peace today.”
"However, Your Majesty has never paid attention to Li Aozi."
"They are not comrades-in-arms. While Leos is fighting and fighting on the front line, His Majesty is busy with production and breeding at the rear. Leandin has never been a partner of the other five gods. He is the guide and relay of the will of Xingyuan. Therefore, he has reason to look down on other gods."
"It's understandable from Le Anding's point of view. Your Majesty has always felt that the soldiers in front just need to sacrifice their lives and simply die and kill. But what he has to endure is endless labor and breeding work, and also To continue to manage politics ”
"That's how Yuanyuan is. Everything is doomed from the beginning. Geniuses and fools, happiness and pain are all planned early on. Destiny is fixed, unexplorable, unanswerable, and unexplorable, because the stars There is no god in Yuan who dares to call it 'destiny'. Even if there is, it is only good luck or bad luck. No one dares to challenge fate itself, let alone talk about arrogance and violation."
"You were born as cannon fodder. That's because the will of the Star Abyss is the result of precise calculations and massive data. Don't feel sorry for it, because compared to 99% of the lives in the upper five levels of the Star Abyss, He They are not even gods. You are a god after all. The cannon fodder gods are also gods. At least you have the status and power to surpass ninety-nine percent of lives. You should be satisfied.”
"...Before the war outside the Abyss, you can say this about Xingyuan."
"In the era of the war outside the Houyuan, the defeat destroyed the glory and power of the Xingyuan God Clan. The universe outside the Abyss was swallowed up by the [society]. The defeated soldiers either surrendered, occupied the mountain as kings, and lived in seclusion, or they willingly degenerated into evil gods and acted recklessly. That The once glorious and glorious Great Star Abyss era was gone forever, and Yuan Yuan himself had to rely on the power of slave workers and cannon fodder to resurrect those fallen warriors and start the "From Star Abyss" project."
"Among the countless cannon fodder gods and slave labor gods, there is actually nothing special about Leos."
"Ordinary, numb, ordinary, silent, down-to-earth - a very mediocre cannon fodder god. It's not that Leanding has never thought about the threat of Leoz, but no matter how His Majesty thinks about it, he can only blame the times for Leoz's success. ”
"But this is what makes Him special."
"The greatness of an ordinary person is greater than ten thousand great people."
"Like a spark piercing the night sky, even if it is fleeting, it tears a wound into the dark world. The night in the old era was not afraid that this small wound would make it bleed to death. What the night is afraid of is Since then, countless creatures have seen the light and enjoyed the short-term warmth, so they have the courage and hope to stand up together, let the sun shine on the earth, and have changed the world since then."
"A Leoz, there is nothing to be afraid of."
"But ten, hundreds, thousands of enslaved and oppressed gods all regarded Leos as a role model, began to praise themselves as Leos, imitated his life path, and climbed to the top by any means. This is more permeable than the cultural penetration of the earth's people. Even scarier! ”
"So Leos can't die. If he dies, he will become a saint, and there will never be any new stains. No matter what innovative ideas there are in the future, people will slap their heads and say, 'This is nothing like Leos. The original idea was very similar, let’s do it’”
"How are they still gods? How are they different from mortals?"
"After the defeat in the war outside the Abyss, the superior gods still wanted to control all living beings in the Star Abyss, so when they began to formulate a narrative, they were no different from the mortals they looked down upon in the past."
"There are no gods in Xingyuan anymore. Everyone is part of the grand narrative framework and system. As long as you are in this system, no one can circumvent all this to think, learn, understand and improve."
"We laugh at mortals for their inefficiency, vulgarity, and incompetence, with their messy and meaningless emotions. But in fact, when our narrative is structured, our emotional culture will only be richer and more complex than theirs. It can no longer be said, except for strength and this porcelain skin Apart from jade bones, what is the difference between us and mortals?”
"... Now, times have changed again. Leanding is moody and often gets angry. Due to several unsatisfactory changes, a large number of players abandoned the game. She simply gave up control of the game and locked herself in her residence. KitKat The huge structure of the Internet collapsed in an instant, and our past ideals and careers collapsed overnight, but everything about the "From the Star Abyss" project is still going on."
"Even gods will start to act unscrupulously because they are not restrained by morality and law. The lack of order within the game will make a group of people show their primitive and bloody appearance. We are not creatures that developed from single cells. We are not born with We kill in order to survive, so we don’t have the gene for killing in our bones... But in the long-term narrative civilization process, we have become civilized people, so we have also obtained the prerequisites for civilization in a subtle way—— Savage.”
"Barbarism is the prerequisite for civilization. Civilization is the prerequisite for society."
"The people of Star Abyss are now facing the oppressive rule of two barbaric monsters that look different but are the same in their bones. One is called Earth and the other is called Yuanyuan."
"This is the conclusion I came to after seven hundred years of continuous observation of the world through various channels and combined with my personal feelings."
"To change this situation, there is only one solution..."
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[Should I continue writing? 】
The pen tip paused on the paper.
[I am no longer a part of this. Whether I live or die, or what happens in the future, it will not affect my treatment. 】
His eyes passed over the desk and the surrounding furnishings one by one: handmade bookcases imported from Jingyuan, original ancient books handed down from ancient times, the head of Lord Void, family photos of a family of five...
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[I am no longer a being at the bottom. Neither the galaxy nor the earth will let me die. I am a powerful person and a member of the ruling class. I am completely different from the working people and untouchable animals. 】
[If that’s the case, why am I still hanging out with those low-level unscrupulous people? They are like leeks. The Earthlings come and cut them off, and the Yuanyuan God Clan comes and cut them off. But as long as the root is not pinched, it will never be cut cleanly. 】
[Stupid, selfish, and stupid. They don’t know how to work hard when they have some assets. They always squander and enjoy themselves without thinking about what will happen tens of thousands of years in the future - these are the untouchables and animals at the bottom. They have no lofty ideals. , has no true self, never devotes himself to any noble cause, is completely despicable, inferior, a group of two-legged animals that are only allowed to exist for the survival of nobles and elites. 】
[I used to be on the same level as them, but not anymore. Even in the past few lives and trillions of years, until the end of the universe, I will always be a stable elite and enjoyer in this universe. The more I spend, the more two-legged animals I can support. The less I spend, the more frugal I am, which will lead to the continuous accumulation of wealth here, and ultimately lead to the lack of enough wealth in society. This leads to wars and disputes. 】
[The more I donate to those two-legged animals, the lazier they become and even lose their original abilities. The money I give them in the morning goes to the casinos and pimps in the afternoon. It’s really ridiculous. Then I might as well invest in casinos and clubs. Well, at least it can solve some employment problems. 】
[They are poor and weak, they are lazy, they don’t know what they want, they are stupid and blind, they are pitiful, they deserve it, they deserve it... This is Xingyuan. Even the weakest cannon fodder and slave labor gods are nobler than workers and farmers. 】
[Origin determines the foundation of the building, and the rest is just a few bricks and tiles. 】
[Of course princes, generals and ministers would rather have the talent, but the probability of becoming an intelligent creature and living in a civilization is extremely low. 】
[Xingyuan is not reincarnated. The soul returns to the underworld. It is broken by the water flow. The soul is recreated and reincarnated. Who knows what the next life will be. 】
[These seven hundred years of retirement have made me realize one thing: I am not a great person, a genius, or a protagonist. 】
[In these seven hundred years, I have not done anything great. I have no vigorous love, and I have failed in cultivating my children. Even if my offspring become rich, it is only because they have taken advantage of my protection and taken advantage of my capital. 】
[If all my children were like this, then to be honest, it would be better for me and Zhixiang to have tens of millions of toys. 】
[During this process, I was able to understand the thoughts of some nihilists: genius is just a very small number of mutations, life itself has no meaning, and seeking meaning is even more ridiculous. A king with many children and many blessings has nothing to do with cancer cells. the difference. 】
[I happened to become the usurper tyrant by coincidence and historical opportunity. 】
[Anyone standing in my era, as long as he dares to swing his sword, can achieve a status no less than mine. 】
[I am satisfied with everything I have got now, this is everything I should have. 】
[I am no longer a cannon fodder god, no longer a mercenary who wants to earn blood. I have been an emperor, a father, an oligarch, a president, a god, I have accepted everything, and all these privileges are clearly not It will disappear with the change of dynasties. 】
[What reason do I have to abandon all this? 】
[Only the animals at the bottom need to struggle. I no longer have this motivation. For the rest, I just have to hang around and wait for the end of the world to come. 】
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"To change this situation, there is only one solution..."
Li Ozi did not continue writing, but stopped here:
"I no longer have the need to fight, and there is no need to think about longer-term things. Those things have nothing to do with me."
He stood up, sorted out the manuscript, and put the article titled "Coexistence and Disputes under the Star Abyss and the Earth's Double Helix System" into the bottom of a sturdy box.
Although he had not finished writing this tome, Li Aozi still carefully smoothed out the paper, put protective materials on it, and put all his swords, weapons, equipment, and asset certificates one by one. Put it in.
After thinking about it, Li Ozi still didn't take Feitris away from the True General. In fact, he hadn't switched to the True General's trumpet for a long time.
After more than seven hundred years, even if it is a stone, it is time to develop feelings.
He had long since stopped asking what the situation was over there. Whatever happened was what it was.
The true general has been fighting for him for so long, and it's time for him to have his own life. For more than seven hundred years, he still doesn't know if his title is still there.
Li Ozi held the box and slowly walked down the stairs. He was the only one in the empty manor. Although the empire sent people to clean and maintain it, and kept it clean and tidy, the lonely atmosphere in the air could not be eradicated. .
His manor is not big, only 30,000 acres of fertile land and 20,000 square kilometers of forestry. It was purchased by his first wife Di Yalan. Li Aozi didn't like places that were too noisy. There was not a single person in the surrounding hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of land.
He doesn't feel lonely. It seems to be because he was born as a cannon fodder god. Li Ozi has very few hobbies. The last child he has with him is his 18th wife, who seems to be a [machinist] from a certain empire. Descendants of descendants of descendants... maybe a great-granddaughter?
The great-granddaughter named Li Meifang had no relationship with him, but her investment failed and she wanted to find some money for herself, so she enthusiastically came to serve him for several months.
Li Ozi has few needs and lives a casual life every day. Apart from reading books and watching the news, he also practices Buddhism, burns incense and worships the Three Pure Ones, studies and translates Taoist scriptures from the earth, and occasionally he is in a good mood, which means making alchemy, fortune telling, divination, drawing talismans to drive away ghosts.
The only thing I insist on doing is forging.
Build something every day, in any shape or type, one thing a day, it’s unbeatable.
One day, she casually threw a bead she refined to Li Meifang, and she excitedly kowtowed to her cheap grandfather a few times, and disappeared the next day.
Li Ozi changed 27 wives back and forth, and had countless partners.
Before he was divorced, he began to bring women from outside into his home. Di Yalan did not object and often talked to him about the people who admired and pursued him.
On the contrary, when Li Ozi didn't even bother to bring women home, Di Yalan couldn't stand him anymore.
Including his first wife, Di Yalan, no one remembers her appearance. As long as someone dared to propose to him, he would agree. Even if he knew that the other party was coming for his property, Li Ozi didn't care.
It's not because his needs are so strong that he doesn't refuse anyone who comes, but in his opinion, these creatures, whether ugly or beautiful, all look the same.
The more time passed, the worse Li Ozi's ability to see people became.
About three hundred years after his retirement, Li Aozi discovered that he could no longer tell the difference between Di Yalan and other women as long as he didn't pay attention.
This feeling is not surprising. Humans see ants the same way. Without carefully distinguishing them, few people can tell the different types of ants at a glance, especially if they carefully distinguish which ant is called, who it is, and what it does.
Li Ozi did not become romantic and romantic because he changed too many wives and partners, but instead became more cold and boring.
Di Yalan tried countless ways to please him and make him happy, trying to make Li Ozi live like a normal person.
Li Ozi also tried it at first. He tried to cooperate with Di Yalan and act as a model husband, boyfriend and lover.
But it soon failed.
The more he seeks stimulation, the higher his threshold is raised. In the end, even death cannot arouse his excitement.
The more he cooperates with the performance, the less enthusiastic Li Ozi is about love and family affection. His casual acting skills can fool all outsiders, but he cannot deceive the people close to him and his pillow.
The ability to love and be loved has become dull and gradually worn away because of love.
After Di Yalan divorced him, she became much more enthusiastic. I heard that she later joined the New Life Commune and was a member of the most dangerous interstellar stormtroopers.
At first, Li Aozi's personal news caused a stir, but it was only spread within the empire. Later, the prince of the empire helped him throw the information into the black hole and suppressed the heat, so no one talked about him. .
After Di Yalan came out of the mountain again, she became a great hero in Layer Abyss. She repeatedly completed incredible rescue missions and defeated [social] members, player gangs and evil god believers one after another, which greatly increased her prestige.
After divorcing Li Ozi, she gave up her imperial citizenship and her thoughts became very radical. Even within the Pan-Life Progressive Revolutionary Committee, which was known for its extremes, she was considered a bit extreme. If you are an ordinary person, you may be corrupted by [society] if you are not careful.
But Di Yalan is specially used as a dragon death weapon. From the moment she was born, she was meant to slaughter [society].
After her relationship with Li Ozi broke up, she became more determined and completely abandoned her personal emotions.
She has no emotions in her heart, and her attacks are more ruthless. The connections and resources she has accumulated over the years have also made her strength improve rapidly. Not long ago, she obeyed the arrangements of the Revolutionary Committee and went to Qunyuan to start work. She is also looking for opportunities to establish a base and prepare to ascend in the future. Ascend to the gods.
In addition to Di Yalan, some acquaintances also come back to see him occasionally.
For example, the former citizens and refugees of White Candle Star and Azure Star knew that the former President had retired and lived in seclusion, so they flew directly over in a spaceship and accused Leoz of abandoning them and disregarding their past life and death.
Some people are even more impulsive and burn and eat a fish they finally caught.
The person who paid more attention to him was the prince of the empire, Mistofin.
Mistofen is much more mature than before. Hundreds of years have turned this young man who once looked like a county civil servant into a middle-aged man who looks like a city civil servant.
No matter how powerful his status is, Mistofin always has the temperament of a civil servant, with no airs, and occasionally a bit of a loser, and he still feels a little grievance when he complains about things.
Compared with the hundreds of biological blood who have no relationship with him and only occasionally look for him to exchange gold coins, Li Aozi has a good relationship with the prince. The two of them fish, play chess, and talk about philosophy and life together whenever they have the opportunity. .
Unlike others, the prince was very concerned about Li Aozi's mental condition. He suggested that Li Aozi could go to the outside world and he would give himself privileges and allow him to leave the empire.
He even joked about letting him go to Qunyuan's Qianyuan Port Office to serve as a diplomatic ambassador.
However, Li Ozi was worried that this would break the agreement with Prior, so even though the prince made it clear that he would open a back door for him, he did not accept it.
The prince just said it was a pity.
"Sir Leos, even if you are an ordinary person, you have gone through so many things and have been polished from a piece of stone into a fine jade. If you just stay here, it will be a waste of the universe and the abyss to train you. The resources should be used to do something big.”
"The prince is joking. I am an old man who even dislikes my wife. I have nothing to praise. Even if I do, it was only when I was young."
"Sir Leos, don't you feel that you are still young? Look at you, you are still beautiful and tall after seven hundred years. You have accumulated many years of study, and you appear to be calm, wise, and have many tricky opinions. Even His Majesty the Philosopher King It’s not possible to achieve it without computing power.”
"It's just a matter of borrowing the dividends of the times. I am an ordinary person and cannot be put to much use."
"You really... keep your word, Mr. Leos."
The prince always persuaded him to serve the empire when he had the opportunity, or later he didn't even say it was for the empire, but the starting point was for Xingyuan, for the grand narrative, and for the people.
Li Ozi did not waver. He politely declined the invitation each time.
Originally they would have been very close friends.
But not long after, the "Earth-Star Abyss Friendship and Peaceful Development Agreement" was signed.
This extremely shameful agreement involved all universes except Yuan Yuan in the colonial war. The philosopher king of the empire had to leave the empire due to war issues, and all matters fell on the prince regent.
So he lost even this only companion.
Li Ozi moved the box, which was filled with everything he had accumulated in his life, recording evidence of his wisdom and glory. He came to the depths of the manor's woods and stopped under a birch tree.
This tree is the straightest and prettiest.
In the dense forest, in order to compete for sunlight, the trees all stand tall and spread out their green leaves to block the sky and the sun. The javelin-like trees are close to each other, and the same kind of trees are rolling in and out. As a result, no grass could grow on the ground beneath our feet, and a green desert evolved.
Competition in nature is like this, pure and unmalicious, life and death.
Civilized people are very strange. They launch wars and plunders, promulgate laws, and appease the people in order to survive, but they still have to find an excuse.
Distributing benefits and looting and killing are essentially the same thing.
Li Ozi dug a hole under the birch tree and buried the box deep inside.
A shovelful of ashes and a shovelful of soil bury the years and character.
A handful of sand and a handful of grass, leaving hope behind and looking past.
Li Ozi covered the soil with turf and quietly made his expectations:
"I hope I will never have the chance to dig it out again in this life."
Let everything that once belonged to the legendary life of 'Lee Ozi' stay here.
What he once hoped for was now so much that he was tired of it and even numb.
What he once loathed and hated has now made him what he is.
Time has passed, 721 years have passed, and Li Ozi has completely accepted a fact:
"If I didn't have those opportunities, I would be an ordinary person and I wouldn't do anything dangerous."
"Those who are rebels and revolutionaries, as long as they have a mouth to eat, they will live peacefully like me. They will marry a wife and have children, then spend the rest of their lives forgotten by others and buried in an unknown corner."
"Thank you Mr. Pryor for fulfilling my dream of living as an ordinary, normal person."
"Everything about me was given by the times, and my legend was created because of my unwillingness. Now, the legend is gone, and I have taken a dim view of the happiness, anger, sorrow, love, hatred and resentment of mortals."
"Even if there are a lot of descendants, but you are alone and end up with no one caring about you, even if your blood is endless, what's the point? For billions of years, the sun and the moon have changed, but in the end, there is only an ear in the grave."
"The only saying is: There are few people who have great ambitions and unfulfilled ambitions, and they travel thousands of miles to search for the title of marquis. The old man can't see anyone with his eyes open, and he feels sad even if he lies on the dragon's bed."
Li Aozi's Chinese proficiency has improved a lot. He has already reached the level of his native language. He also has a bit of a Central Plains accent. This kind of limerick has long been forgotten and he blurts it out.
It's just that the gap in talent lies here. Even if he has studied for hundreds of years, he is still not as good as sages like Li Du. Whether it is artistic conception or wording, they are far behind.
This actually deepened Li Ozi's thoughts:
[In the six-level star abyss system dominated by Yuan Yuan, everything is destined. Even if you work hard to become a god, you are just climbing from a caste society to a higher caste society. 】
Destiny is in Xingyuan, and there is no exclusive god.
Because everything has been determined from the moment of birth.
He, Leos, is an ordinary cannon fodder god with no talents and no other meaning except that he happens to be stuck at that point in time.
To this day, Li Ozi no longer doubts the purpose of his birth, nor does he think about his own strengths and advantages.
None of this makes sense.
In the Ming Empire on earth, there is a man named Fan Jin. Even if he wins the imperial examination at the age of fifty, he can still stand out and immediately become a member of the ruling class, changing his fate against the odds.
But in Xingyuan, this is impossible.
All narratives are just about raising the people at the bottom to be fat and strong so that they can continue to reproduce, replenish energy for their own inherent time domain, and provide a population of believers for artificial gods.
To put it bluntly, in Xingyuan, even if a mortal lives a good life, he is just a pig.
On Earth, a system similar to the imperial examination or various examinations can give the pigs at the bottom the opportunity to stand up and become masters.
But in Xingyuan, it is impossible.
Even he, Leoz, was a cannon fodder at the end, so he could reach this point.
Those mortal beings without roots, power or bloodline have no power to determine their own destiny.
This is the reason why Li Ozi really decided to let go of everything.
He can be a substitute, but he can never be the main god.
A beauty and elite like Di Yalan could be husband and wife with him for hundreds of years, but once she saw his true nature, Di Yalan immediately woke up and gave up on him without hesitation, choosing the one she was born with. mission, continue to fight.
What mission does Li Ozi have?
He stood in front of the birch tree, raised his hand and stroked the rough and straight trunk of the birch tree:
"White birch tree, white birch tree, what's the difference between me and you? We don't have any innate mission. We are just fighting for a ray of sunshine and a piece of life, and we have struggled like this for a hundred years."
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"Di Yalan, Shen Shen, Gio Skua, Gaia, these people are all good, they are noble, they have backbone, they have ideals and beliefs - while we are still struggling for life and death, they are fighting for morality and justice. Sacrifice for your ambition!”
"But we really just want to live."
Li Ozi smiled and patted the tree trunk, talking to him like a brother:
"Even if I have a huge fortune, I don't know how to spend it. Even if I have a lot of wives and concubines around me, I don't know how to be beautiful or ugly. We are all vulgar and ordinary people."
"What's the difference between me, a cannon fodder god in Xingyuan, and a farmer in Henan? What does enjoying life mean to us? Just a bowl of spicy soup, a plate of fried steamed buns, a plate of fried buns, and Panjing at noon. Mix noodles with mustard and cook them in the evening A bowl of sweet potato and corn grits, and some mutton soup the next day - oh! How beautiful is this life? Trees, trees, I would go if I could live like this. Usurping power? Usurping the power of a ball!”
"A person like me has struggled for two lifetimes, killing people until I was exiled by Gaia, and killing people until I was 'recruited' by the court. Both sides have paid a thousand times the price for the same result."< br>
Li Ozi sighed:
"Tell me, what is it for? I really can't figure it out!"
"As long as Xingyuan asks me to be an ordinary blacksmith with three meals a day, not to seek knowledge and reach the princes, but only to save my life in troubled times, I will be satisfied - but even this requirement was not met at the beginning. If you don’t want to satisfy me, I will stop until Lai Anding is beaten to the point of revolution.”
"I can't get it, I really can't get it!"
"I can obviously be an ordinary person, and I have proved it. I don't have any special talents, but whether it's Laian Ding, Gaia, or Xingyuan Will, everyone has to be beaten by me. Realizing that 'Leotz is just an ordinary person'."
"If they can have some self-awareness, should I hit them?"
"It's fine now. They paid a huge price to please me in exchange for me not continuing to participate in the Xingyuan situation and not wanting me to die. All my wishes have been fulfilled - but I no longer have the ability to live a normal life. ”
There were many times when they could have intervened and asked them to stop, so why did it come to this?
Whether it's Di Yalan or Yu Shen, they are not from the same group as him.
In a sense, they are the chosen ones, born with talents and missions.
On the contrary, Red King, that guy is very similar to me.
But even Red King, at least when she was born, was a normal person. At least she still had the blood of an Earthling.
What does he have?
A body of cannon fodder, an order to die, and a task of taking the blame.
Li Ozi often wonders: What would happen if he were born on earth?
He is confident that he will become a good blacksmith, a good farmer, and a good soldier, and maybe he can also accumulate fertile land through his military exploits. These are all his own. He will be a simple and honest man, and then spend his life like this. Just fine.
He liked and longed for this kind of life.
But Xingyuan was not willing to give him even such a life. Instead, as he accumulated more and more credit, the interest on the debt increased, and finally he became what he is now.
It's not that Li Ozi doesn't like this, he has never enjoyed anything after all these years.
He just couldn't understand why the damn Xingyuan higher-ups were so stupid when an ordinary person like him could see the fact.
The leaders of Xingyuan, the Lian Ding clan, are purely non-violent and non-cooperative.
That is: they will not cooperate with you unless they threaten violence or beating.
However, he no longer worries about this.
721 years have passed, and the situation in Xingyuan has changed drastically. All of this was within Li Ozi's expectations.
As for the ordinary people at the bottom, struggling to survive in the cracks, the fate of slave workers and cannon fodder gods who have the same status as him...
After Fan Jin won the election, did he still need to deal with his former compatriots?
He has already got everything he has got, and he has everything he wants and doesn't need in this life.
Safety, neither the Earth nor the Yuanyuan Protoss want him to die.
Lifespan, my own lifespan is long enough, it may not be comparable to quality, but for the gods, it is not much worse.
The ideal is too rich in material and has been diluted.
Faith, I converted to the Taoism of the people on earth, and I have been seeking immortality for a long time, which is basically the same.
Inheritance, there are many children, spiritual inheritance is optional, it is no longer necessary.
After much deliberation, Li Aozi really didn't know what he was dissatisfied with from a practical point of view.
Death is something he doesn’t want to die. Even if he says he’s tired of living, he can’t ‘kill’ himself.
"After two lifetimes of struggle... we ended up with this."
Li Ozi murmured, stroking the bark of the birch tree:
"Brother Shu, what do you think my life is?"
"The tree said: I am just a tree. How can I think so much? If I think too much, I will start working."
‘Confrontation’ Milled Fannie’s voice sounded in Li Ozi’s ears.
"Are you awake?"
Li Ozi glanced at the woman next to him. Mired was yawning. She seemed to have just woken up. Except for her purple hair, which was messy, she looked no different from hundreds of years ago.
Of course, so does he.
"I took a nap for a while. I originally wanted to come and play with you as soon as I woke up, but I encountered some interesting things on the road, so I stayed with them for a few hundred years."
Although they were physically close and had a common heir, Mired did not appear to be very affectionate when facing Li Ozi. The distance between the two was more than one meter, and their expressions were lukewarm.
She stood next to Li Ozi with one hand on her hip, looked up and down at the birch tree in front of her, and said:
"You should live a short-lived life and live a long-lived life."
"Get used to it, live a fulfilling life." Li Ozi replied.
"Then you will definitely always have a sad face and a restless mind." Mired said: "The secret of immortality is to not care. Just like this tree, no matter how the outside world changes, it only cares about its own development. ”
Li Ozi said: "Are you encouraging me to be selfish?"
"Dear, complete unselfishness and complete selfishness are equally bad. People who are too fair cannot give love to those who love themselves, and people who are too selfish are unwilling to give even a little bit of love to those who love them. Love.”
Mired leisurely said:
"You seem to be doing well when I'm not around you?"
"It is the happiest period of my life."
"Lee Ozi, your definition of happiness does not include love, right?"
"I have quite a few wives."
"That's not love, my dear, they come here for money, beauty, status and vanity. People who truly love you want you to become better, better and more beautiful."
"Love is a kind of selfish giving. You want to use yourself to give in exchange for the other person's equal contribution. Then everyone will gain and grow together in the process, and the relationship will be more stable, forming a stable spiral structure."
"That is: the more we love each other, the more inseparable the love becomes, the deeper the power of both parties becomes, and each other is influenced by the other, becoming a relationship in which you are in me, and I am in you."
Mired said calmly:
"You are no different now than before. This kind of life may not be suitable for your growth."
Li Ozi glanced at Milad:
"I feel like you're not talking about love."
"We have an equal relationship, Mr. Leos. With our relationship, it is a bit too vulgar to talk about love."
Mired raised his hand and picked up a branch. The elements changed and combined, and he quickly made two cups of coffee, and handed one to Li Aozi:
"I remember you don't like adding sugar."
"Thank you."
Li Ozi took the coffee and took a sip. It had no taste, just ordinary coffee.
So he put the coffee aside and looked at Mired:
"Miread, your purpose of coming this time is not simple, right?"
"I'm here to see how my little boyfriend is doing, okay?"
"How can you assume my gender?" Li Ozi joked: "I can still turn into a beautiful girl with flaming hair at any time."
"Well, at least now you are your little boyfriend."
Mired shrugged and said casually:
"But you guessed it right, I do have a question for you."
"What happened?"
"Do you know a man named Delveline?"
"Delveline?" Li Ozi was stunned for a moment, then frowned: "The name sounds a bit familiar...Delveline...Delveline?"
"That's him too."
Mired blinked:
"Great, it seems you know him!"
"We know each other. The former President of the Blue Star Frost-plated Federation, a very courageous mortal. He is known as the 'Lion' and 'The Last Man of Frost-plated'. It is said that I am a fellow countryman."
Li Ozi nodded, without hiding anything, and said directly:
"But President David Lin died hundreds of years ago, and we were parted not long ago. His daughter Dai Yawen was imprisoned in a covert arrest. Later, her brain and career were probably extracted, and she was tortured to death. She was once with I have a bit of fate, chasing me all the way from the Blue Star to the White Candle Star.”
"Ah, those are not important."
Mired shook her index finger and said with a smile:
"It's enough to know Delverin. I'm here just for him."
Li Aozi was surprised and immediately asked:
"He? President David Lin has been dead for eight hundred years, and the food grown from his ashes has been metabolized. Why should we look for him?"
"I will fulfill my promise."
Mired said calmly:
"A long time ago, to be precise, after you solved the evil crisis on the Blue Star, we gradually began to negotiate with each other. Now, we finally completed the negotiations and reached an agreement."
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"Agreement?"
"An agreement... to confront 'our' real enemy."
Mired put away her smile, looked at Li Ozi seriously, and asked seriously:
"Sir Leos, who do you think our real enemy is?"
"That's too much... The three great destroyers, the Yuan Yuan ruling class, and [the secret society] Gaia, they are all terrifying and powerful enemies."
Li Ozi said without hesitation:
"If we want to put it first, then the Earth is the real enemy. The Earth and our Galaxy are in a double helix system. As long as the other side exists, war will always occur. The other party must be completely destroyed before the Galaxy can have peace and self-development. Time, at least for a period of time, will not allow the birth of a new civilization in the world where the earth is located.”
"You are right, absolutely right! Mr. Leoz, there are few people in this universe who are more qualified to say this than you. You also have a long-term vision and have thought much more deeply than those ordinary people."
Mired smiled and said:
"Unfortunately, you can only see a little further than ordinary people."
"Sir Leos, let me ask you: Which is more terrifying, poverty or tyrants?"
Li Ozi replied: "Poverty. A tyrant is just a person, and his harm is limited, but poverty can be passed down from generation to generation, endlessly."
"I ask you again: Which is the greater threat, chaos or tyranny?"
Li Ozi said: "It must be chaos. Chaos breeds not only fights with death and injury, but also the maintainers of chaos, gangs, violent organizations, and oligarchs. Chaos comes with it. No matter how bad the tyranny is, it is still worse than the best chaos. Be strong.”
"Then let me ask you: Which is more dangerous, stasis or movement?"
Hearing this, Li Aozi was stunned for a moment.
"What is stagnant and what is moving needs to be explained clearly. It cannot just be compared like this, right?"
"Everything...everything."
Mired said seriously:
"Atoms and quarks stopped moving, social development stagnated, financial capital was no longer active, life fell into a frozen state, light stayed in the sky, void could not decay, entropy did not increase or decrease, all energy stopped converting - the whole world fell into to an eternal state.”
"The world is in motion, our world, the Star Abyss, and the Earth are all the same. Although there is death and destruction, as long as the motion is absolute, then sooner or later there will be rebirth. The dead will not come back, but the population will remain the same It can be added that there are still flowers blooming on the ruined land - it is precisely because everything is in motion. Even if the star abyss and the earth are destroyed, as long as there is enough time to accumulate, sooner or later they can return to their original appearance and even become better. Powerful.”
"It is because of this that the double helix structure of the earth and the star abyss has created more prosperous cultures in the constant fighting and struggle. The relationship between us and the earth is like lovers, and it gradually becomes you and me. Your status has long been inseparable.”
"Although from Xiao Quexing's perspective, we are fighting life and death, but from a larger perspective than narrative: the contradiction between the Star Abyss and the Earth, fighting with children, competition among vendors, and neighbor relations, there is no such thing as What an essential difference. It is precisely to maintain this state of competition that the universe can continue to be active.”
"Life lies in movement. For more and more people, Xingyuan and the earth will continue to fight."
"The Destroyers themselves also appeared to maintain this system, so although the Destroyers came to destroy our world, they are just anti-virus software and are not our enemies."
"Gaia is a rebel, a rebel against the atrocities of Mephidrian rule, so Gaia is not our enemy - you may not be happy to say this, but it is true, and if you were in Gaia's position, you would too Make the same decision as Gaia”
Just when Li Ozi was about to refute, Mired said again:
"The gods of Yuanyuan have a conservative and backward side, but they are also the existence that implements the will of Xingyuan. We must not define the entire Yuanyuan as an enemy just because of Laian Ding's personal image. Their existence maintains the double helix. The structure operates, and the six-layer star abyss becomes active as a result. The colonial war is just a short-term pain in this process."
"Our real enemy is stagnation, stillness."
Li Ozi frowned. Seeing that he didn't understand, Mired explained again:
"That is... eternity."
eternal.
Like a stone thrown into the center of the lake.
The next moment, a huge wave surged in Li Ozi's mind.
His lips moved and he squeezed out two words:
"...eternal?"
"Yes, eternity."
"Are you talking about the kind of immortality that Red King hopes for? There's nothing scary about that kind of thing, right? Isn't that what you are in a certain sense?"
"Yes and no. I don't know what eternity Red King longs for. Maybe she just wants to live longer and then find the meaning of life. But the eternity I'm telling you is A truly terrifying existence.”
An ancient primordial species like Meredith Fanny, the 'Quality', couldn't help but take a deep breath, look deeply, and said solemnly:
"Eternally named, his name is the Star God. The husband of the Star God is Asdra."
"Astrola is a more pure destroyer than the Destroyer. The Destroyer is just a program that runs the rules of the world and maintains the order of the universe. Even if there are not three Destroyers like the Dragon King Demon Eye Titan, there are hundreds or thousands of other Destroyers. The purpose of all the things is to maintain the 'metabolism', prevent the universe from becoming rigid, and accumulate into a disgusting and inefficient mountain of code. It is regularly uninstalled, reinstalled and updated, that's all."
"But Astra is different."
"It is not a destroyer, it is not a destroyer, it is a will, a inheritance. Those who inherit its mantle will transform into indelible refusers. It is not a dead spirit, but a rebellious spirit that resists all constraints and suppresses its existence. People.”
"It is poverty, it is chaos, it is stagnation."
"In order to survive, Asdra has endless descendants. Even if it dies tens of millions of times, it can still come back from the long river of blood of its descendants. It is the originator of the bloodline, but it is dedicated to subverting the laws of biological evolution."
"In order to survive, Asdra will always rebel against all legal rules. It tramples on all orders that try to suppress and obliterate it. Even the laws of nature will be torn into pieces. If gravity suppresses its growth, the structure of gravity will be chewed into pieces. Swallowing, the whole body expands and grows without limit.”
"In order to survive, Asdra will grow to a certain stage. Its huge body will be like a black hole, no, far better than a black hole. It is a power that can solidify all movements. Any attack hits its armor. , will stay at the moment before the impact.”
"The most terrifying thing is that Asdra does not rely on blood, but is inherited by will. Even if someone gets the blood, not everyone can become Asdra - only the will has been tempered, no matter what, there will be Only those with the most eagerness, passion, and fear of suffering can take over its mantle and become the destroyers of the world.”
Then, Mired said to Li Ozi seriously:
"Not long ago, the Entropy Lord node you conquered sent a message: We are very sure that Asdra has arrived in the Star Abyss."
"Now, the real doomsday crisis has arrived. Everyone, regardless of their previous relationships, we must put aside all conflicts and concentrate all our strength to fight against the real world-destroying demon king - [Eternal Star God] Asdra! ”
"Lord Entropy chose Delverin, who had proven his will and strength in a mortal body. He was given part of Lord Entropy's power. After secret training, he has now come to Qun Yuan and started competing for the road to becoming a god. In his After ascending to the gods, Lelu, one of the original species, will protect him, so that he can soak in the long river of the underworld and fish out people who are willing to follow him. "
"The Law Ghost lives in the cracks between the various layers of the abyss. When people cross the star abyss, they are actually passing through the body of the Law Ghost. Through the cooperation with the Law Ghost, each layer of the star abyss places a curse on those who lurk in the abyss. This is the source of the Star Abyss curse.”
"After that, Delverin obtained the source soil that it had accumulated for so many years from the 'Origin Beast' Origen, one of the original species, and used the Kingdom of God - the soul of the underworld - the source soil. These three Enough to become the most powerful beast in the group: [Frost-Plated Society] Delverine.”
"Ah, having said that, you must be curious about what my responsibility is in this plan, right?"
Mired looked at Li Ozi with a smile:
"Actually, I was not needed for this process. Among the original species, the 'Plasma' is the weakest and most useless one. I can't even deal with the void myself, and I know what the strength and level are. ”
"You can't say that." Li Ozi shook his head: "Miread, you are very good. There are not many Origin Species at your age who can compare with you."
"But, as you said, Mr. Leos - I have seized the dividends and opportunities of the times."
Mired raised his hand, stroked Li Ozi's face, and said softly:
"I'll be responsible for dealing with Asdra."
Li Ozi's pupils shrank, and his muscles tightened instantly. He only heard Mired say lightly:
"Who told...he is my little boyfriend."
"Obviously he was destined to be a farmer and a blacksmith, but he was used as cannon fodder for a god. In front of him, he was treated as a warrior, a general, and a leader. In the end, he became a tyrant who usurped power, and now he has become a great demon who will destroy the world. Head.”
"Obviously I am the weakest and most useless primordial species. Everyone didn't take me to play in the meeting, but it turned out that I became the easiest one to get close to Asdra."
Mired took a step back, spread out his hands, indicating that there was no threat, and just sighed and said:
"You can't figure it out, right? I can't figure it out either. You said, those big guys who control our destiny, why didn't they take action earlier?"
"Leozi, who could be satisfied as a blacksmith and a farmer at first, was forced to become Astra before he would come out to talk."
"The Zeta Stage (6) that I was asked to take action earlier and could be finished in one night has now become unfathomable."
Li Ozi stared at the other person, suddenly relaxed, and shrugged his shoulders, as if he was deflated.
"You can't kill me."
He said:
"Neither the Star Abyss nor the Earth want me to die. If I die, Astrala will be gone, and the Earth and the Star Abyss will also face more uprisings from the bottom. I am an ordinary person now, but once I die, I can become a A saint.”
"Yeah, it's really sad. Some people are more threatening when they are dead than when they are alive."
Mired didn't know who she was talking about.
She raised her hand to hold her left arm, lowered her eyes and muttered:
"I can't kill you, Li Ozi. And I don't want to."
"Let's not talk about that first. There is something I'm curious about."
Li Ozi asked:
"How did you confirm that I am the inheritor of Asdra? I just found out about it not long ago."
"As soon as I told other people of the same kind about my pregnancy, Mr. Entropy asked Node to tell me."
"It seems that you have been very wary of Astra."
"Astrola has destroyed many worlds. If you can't understand that kind of destruction, well, then imagine this: you are following a TV series or cartoon, and you have reached the key points of the last few episodes - snap! Suddenly the film was gone, everything came to an abrupt end, and there were no sequels or continuations.”
"That doesn't sound too scary."
"So, how many unfinished works are there in the world that have been interrupted, downloaded, and interrupted?"
"I don't know, if we include the works written by elementary school students who haven't even finished half of their diary writing, it's probably more than the stars in Xingyuan."
"Well, that's probably as many worlds as Asdra destroyed."
Li Ozi paused, this metaphor is very vivid:
"Looking at it this way, Asdra is very powerful..."
"Just to add: I mean it was destroyed yesterday."
Mired said:
"There is no way to refer to things that are older than yesterday... I can only say that how much you will destroy today depends on you, Li Ozi."
Li Ozi was silent for a while.
To be honest, from reading between the lines of accepting the inheritance, he realized that Asdra would be very powerful.
But at most it's more powerful than the three-headed Destroyer combined, or like Gaia.
But this seems to be too damn powerful. From the Chinese, English and Xingyuan language systems, Li Ozi couldn't find an existence that could describe this terrifying power.
This has surpassed the double helix system of the Earth and the Star Abyss. No wonder even the Cervanti star realm outside the system is frightened when mentioning this thing.
And, this is certainly not an exaggeration.
Mired is very similar to him in personality, neither of them likes to be exaggerated, so there is no need for her to lie on this issue.
If that's the case... then the problem is very serious.
This is no longer simply affecting the future of Xingyuan, but a pure doomsday that will destroy the entire cognizable universe.
The Destroyer destroys the world just to break it up and start over, there is nothing to say.
The people on Earth invaded the Star Abyss for the sake of living space. Both sides competed for hegemony, and one was losing ground while the other was gaining strength.
But Delveline came out to cut off the root of everything.
Instinctively, Li Aozi wanted to answer
"How can I get rid of Asdra?"
However, when the words came to his lips, his tongue slipped.
This slip caused the excitement originally aroused by Mired's pitiful words to calm down instantly.
[No, you can’t say that. 】
Li Ozi paused and said:
"So...what do you want me to do?"
"What you have to do is very simple, but it is also very difficult for you."
Mired smiled bitterly and said:
"My dear, I hope you give up all hatred and really live a good life."
"I have stopped intervening in the battle and even buried the weapons."
Li Ozi spread his hands and pointed at the birch tree.
"What you gave up was just the sword in your hand, but the sword in your heart is still there, and your thoughts are still weapons. As long as it spreads, it can immediately set off a frenzy. It is precisely because of this that Asdra still recognizes you."
“I don’t understand, at what point do I have to let go?”
"Secret, Earth, Gaia, Mephidria, the Leandin faction of the Origin Abyss."
This time, Mired did not use tact, but directly persuaded:
"My dear, it's time for you to let go of your hatred for the perpetrators of injustice and oppression."
"...Why?"
"You have never been happy in these years, have you? Even if you have a fortune, you cannot feel happy. Even if you are surrounded by beauties, you have never been happy because you have never really let go of the hatred in your heart."
"Who do I hate? I don't think so. I don't hate anyone. I've got everything I should get, and there's no one else I need to hate in this world."
"Yes, the concrete person is gone. But what about the abstract existence?"
Mired looked at Li Ozi worriedly:
"Tell the truth, Mr. Leos, Mr. Leos."
"You don't hate someone, you don't hate the people on Earth, you don't hate the stars of the Abyss."
"You hate this world. This world that cannot be changed no matter what, this world that uses you and then gets rid of you, and then you come to pursue you, so you are unwilling to pay the original reward."
"What you hate is the unfair fate, what you hate is the hierarchical class, and what you hate is yourself who gives in and compromises!"
She stepped forward and took Li Ozi's hands:
"From Mr. Leos to Li Ozi, from the Blue Star to the Earth, this hatred of injustice and oppression is the fundamental motivation for your fighting. It is also because of this anger that you have experienced beating among thousands of bloods. Becoming like Astra.”
"That's not the case..."
Li Ozi couldn't help but tremble.
"But now, you are no longer a nobody. Both systems are serving you alone. If you can let go of your hatred of the world, you can be truly liberated. You can forgive yourself, enjoy a normal life, go to blacksmithing, Farming the land, herding cattle, herding horses, seeking immortality, and being at ease like a deer in the forest, resting and running around, peaceful and at ease..."
"Stop talking..."
"You have not sorry for anyone, Li Ozi. If you continue to be so hateful, you are only sorry for yourself."
"Stop it, Fanny, I can't do it."
"Sir Leos, Oz, I'm afraid you'll destroy yourself. Even if it's for yourself, please forgive yourself!"
"How could I, let it all go, how long have I been fighting for this? How many people died!"
Mired said:
"Can you and other mortals be the same?"
Li Ozi was stunned. (End of chapter)