Chapter 514 Lynch’s Choice
A deathly silence lingers in this strange void.
Lin Qi closed his eyes and smoked his pipe silently. In the darkness, there was only a little firelight that flickered on and off, like a ship's light that might capsize at any time in a storm.
I don’t know how long it took, but the human figure made of stars seemed to have made a decision. The will that came from it was as calm as the endless night:
“There are differences, but the essence is the same. We all wake up like this. "
"So, the appearance of the soul-shifter itself is paving the way for the resurrection of the gods?" Lin Qi sighed and nodded: "The old mother hopes that her daughter can wake up smoothly, so what happened just now? That performance was just to test whether I was valuable and whether I could carry her through this journey to the end.”
"Why don't you put it more bluntly? It's a conspiracy. Yes, when the Chosen One takes back the last exclusive divine power and finally reaches the limit of mortals, we will wake up from the depths of the Chosen One's will." Goddess Will responded calmly, "I was indeed testing your loyalty and ability just now. It is not easy to reach the end. There have been five failed attempts so far. I am not at ease with you because you..."< br>
"Hey, in my hometown, someone with a broken chapter like you will be sent a razor blade." Lynch rolled his eyes and asked, "When you wake up, where will the Chosen One himself be?"
"Mortal souls cannot withstand even one ten thousandth of the brilliance of the Supreme Will. The moment we wake up, your will will completely dissipate."
"Complete dissipation means...complete destruction of form and spirit?"
"..." Nyx, the goddess of the night, was silent again, and after a moment she replied lightly, "It's not that easy."
< br>“Huh?”
"This process has been successfully repeated twelve times, but mortals have never recorded it. It is normal to have no documented records, but there are not even rumors. Are you so smart that you have never doubted it?"
Lynch clenched his teeth on his pipe.
He originally thought that the Lord God Church deliberately erased this process, but looking at the other party's attitude, it was obviously not the reason.
"Dissipation is dissipation. Not only the body and spirit are annihilated, but all traces of existence will be erased. The supreme will will dissolve everything of the God's Chosen One at that moment. In the past, present, and future, the God's Chosen One will never be the same. It has never existed, at least in the perception of mortal beings.”
Huh~~~Lin Qi took out a long puff of smoke, leaned back on the chair and looked up at the darkness above his head.
"I have already answered your question, so what? What do you want to say?"
"Oh."
"???" There were obvious fluctuations in consciousness, and even more obvious doubts, "What do you mean?"
"Literally, it's me. Got it." Lin Qi asked calmly, "How else do you think I should react? Get furious and cry? I'm someone who has experienced big scenes. , it shouldn’t be a performance that is inconsistent with age and intelligence. Besides, to be fair, I don’t think it’s anything. You should be able to sense that what I said is not an excuse.”
"..." "Someone has said that all the gifts of fate have already been marked with a secret price. I have never doubted that this sentence is correct. There is no love for no reason in the world, and rewards must be accompanied by sacrifices. What did you just say? I didn't use the word 'conspiracy', and I didn't mean it on purpose, because I don't think your behavior should be disparaged. It's not a conspiracy, it's at best a transaction. You open your secrets to living beings and teach them to follow you. Steps, you have indeed given living beings the most powerful weapon against mystery, and have benefited hundreds of millions of living beings. So even if you have the possibility of profiting from it, you deserve it. Whether the benefactor benefits will never depend on the beneficiary being ungrateful or even turning around. For reasons of hatred”
“…”
"But the above is only true for all living beings. In my opinion, the only thing worthy of criticism about your behavior is that it is unfair to those chosen by God. Although for adults with normal minds, while receiving gifts, They should have thought about the cost and reasons. They did not think that in my hometown, it is called Li Ling Zhi Fa, so they themselves are also responsible for the final outcome, but you still deceived them and took advantage of their trust in you. Ha, this kind of concealment is even deceiving. , is the most unacceptable, Aunt Nix, what I said is right."
"...That's right, but I don't understand. Since you know it's just my test, you must be sure. If she won’t die, why do you still need to expose that you have discovered that she is lying to you and wants to use your existence to revive you?” Goddess Nyx asked faintly, “Although it is very difficult to understand the kinship between gods with the affection of living beings? It's ridiculous, but it also has certain reference significance. Don't you think that the 'old mother' you call will let you wake up alive after you are exposed? Or do you think this is just a dream and you are protected by Luna? , I can't do anything to you?"
"You see, you have exposed the fact that she and you are not colluding." Lynch slowly exhaled the smoke and chuckled. Said, "And did you misunderstand something? When did I say she lied to me."
"???"
"For some reasons, she did hide a lot of things from me, but she told me almost explicitly from the beginning that there was a problem here, and it was a big problem. Otherwise, I am not the omniscient Yog-Sothoth, how could I have guessed so accurately and guessed the answer right away? So she has never lied to me, and she has reminded me many times, but she just didn't say it clearly. It also puts the right of choice in front of me. I don't need to consider her favor to me. I can completely ignore the identity of the God's Chosen One and live as an ordinary soul changer until death, or until I am swallowed by the mystery. I chose this path myself, she didn’t choose it for me.”
The silence lasted for an extra long time, and it wasn’t until Lynch was about to fall asleep that the voice of the god entered his brain again: “So. , you actually know everything, but you still choose to continue to help her? You want to sacrifice everything you have to resurrect her.”
"Huh? No, I'm not a fanatical believer. Wait, there is no precedent for this among the twelve chosen ones. I already know that I really want to but would rather sacrifice." Seeing that the goddess refused to answer, Lin Qi Sighing, "It seems true, but I'm not that great. Although I will fight tooth and nail when encountering something, I won't sacrifice myself for the sake of illusory beliefs."
"Then you ..."
"Before I embarked on this path, she made a promise to me. She had other ways to avoid a bad ending. I would inherit Hongyue's divine power, but of course she had other results. , in normal terms, this is probably to stabilize my excuse or deception, but I don't think so. She has countless ways to make me believe her. There is no need to go to such trouble. She would choose such an awkward way. I would rather believe that she is such an awkward person. I have said it repeatedly just now, and I choose to believe that she will not jump repeatedly.”
"What if you believe it wrong?"
"I chose it, idol, and I accept the outcome calmly."
Lynch finally succeeded in making a goddess fall into confusion: "Then What exactly do you want to talk about today?”
"One is to tell the truth, so that the old mother can rest assured, lest you always target me in the future." Lin Qi frowned slightly and suddenly became serious, "The other is that I want to ask what means she will use to avoid the worst. The result? "
"Huh? "
"Or is there really a way to have the best of both worlds? If I become immortal, what will be her fate? "
(End of this chapter)