Chapter 176 Selection
The process of taking the painting is actually very simple, at least Xia Xiu really thinks so. At this time, he has quietly slipped into the monitoring room; Previously, I knocked some of my buddies who were on shift unconscious and left them at the door.
“Haah——”
The security guard responsible for surveillance couldn’t help but stretch out on his office chair, and while the other person was stretching, Xia Xiu stood there Behind his back, when he lazily put down his hand, Xia Xiu's knife had already landed on the carotid sinus on the side of his neck.
The security guard's blood pressure dropped sharply, and then he fainted due to lack of blood supply to the brain.
After knocking out the security personnel, Xia Xiu slowly began to delete some surveillance videos, and then disconnected all the monitors around the second floor.
Poof——
“It’s done.”
When the content on the last screen went dark, Xia Xiu stood up and clapped his hands.
"Jam should have taken care of the patrols, and Valente should have taken care of the sirens."
Xia Xiu walked towards the hall on the second floor where "Eternal Smile" was stored. When he arrived at his destination, Valente happened to appear here.
“It’s all done.” Valente asked first.
"Well, that's all taken care of. All that's left is to get the painting." Xia Xiu nodded and replied.
Then, both of them looked at the "Eternal Smile" embedded in the wall. The soft light emitted around the glass cover was enough for them to see every detail in the picture clearly.
When you look at this painting, you will feel very strange. In front of this famous painting, no matter which angle you look at it, her gentle eyes are always looking at you with a smile, so vivid and vivid, as if she is the real person. By your side.
Xia Xiu and Valente both stood in front of the painting and watched quietly for a while.
"Abraham, what do you think of this painting." Valente asked Xia Xiu who reached out to pick up the painting.
"According to my observation, her smile contains 83% happiness, 9% disgust, 6% fear, and 2% anger." Xia Xiu, who took off the painting, replied casually.
After listening to Xia Xiu's comments, Valente was stunned for a moment. At this time, Xia Xiu had already taken the painting and left. He looked at the other person's back and shook his head with a smile.
“This guy is really...”
"Hurry up and follow." Xia Xiu turned around and urged Valente, who was laughing.
“Coming.”
Valente quickly kept up with the opponent.
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Inside the Painting Gallery of the Louvre.
"Meow, I saw a lot of people piled on top of each other, meow."
This was Snow Child's first words after seeing Valente and Xia Xiu. At this time, there were people everywhere in the Louvre. The people who were knocked unconscious formed a human tower, and after hearing these words, the two people couldn't help but look at Jiamu who was lying on the side.
"Sure enough, there are dogs just like their owners." Valente glanced at Jiam who was wagging his tail and pretending to be innocent and said.
"I don't agree with what you said. This is obviously his own bad taste. I won't take the blame." Xia Xiu stretched out his leg to symbolically kick Jiam lightly.
After a brief fun, they changed the topic to the main topic. Ever since they came in, Snow Child’s big flashing eyes have been looking here intentionally or unintentionally. She looks like this now It's the same as when a child receives a gift. He obviously cares about the gift in the hands of the adult, but he has to pretend to be careless.
"You want to see paintings." Xia Xiu looked like a funny adult at this time.
"Meow, I want to see it!" Snow Child nodded excitedly.
Xia Xiu put "Eternal Smile" away, and then he slowly took off the white cloth covering the portrait under Xue Hai's expectant gaze.
“Meow!”
When he saw the portrait, Snow Child’s breathless nostrils finally relaxed.
Snow Child watched "Eternal Smile" with light steps: an elegant woman sat on a semicircular wooden chair, with a railing behind her separating the characters and the background.
When Snow Child looks directly at the mouth of the woman in the painting, he will feel that she is not smiling; however, when he looks into her eyes and feels the shadow of her cheek, he will feel that she is smiling.
A very magical painting, the human who painted this painting is definitely a genius!
"How's it going? Does it look good?" Xia Xiu said to the somewhat fascinated Snow Child.
“Meow, it’s beautiful.” Xue Hai recovered from her obsession and nodded towards Xia Xiu.
"Meow, the paintings in the painting museum are actually comparable to this painting, but its concept is different from the paintings here."
Snow Child said infatuatedly as he looked at the paintings. , Xia Xiu and Valente both noticed that when Xue Hai saw "Eternal Smile", her big bright eyes flashed with satisfaction, and her figure began to emit a burst of fluorescence.
The figure of the snow child began to become a little transparent.
“The Louvre Museum of Painting does contain many paintings by famous artists, but the wheel of the times keeps moving forward. In fact, these are not the only outstanding paintings. There are many excellent schools outside, and there are many that make An amazing painting," Valente said from the side.
While Valente was speaking, he had also walked up to Snow Child and squatted down. He stroked Snow Child’s head and said to Snow Child in a sincere tone:
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"The outside world is very big. Outside the Louvre is the Capital of Flowers, and beyond the Capital of Flowers is France. And France has its center and the world."
"Beyond the vast world , you have countless choices.”
Valente’s performance today is different from usual. His performance now is too positive, while Xia Xiu is just watching quietly.
[God's Perspective] stated: Snow Child has a chance, a chance to get rid of her shackles, and this is also a choice for her; the [Dragon Slayer] who possesses the [Holy Sword of Barumk] ] can cut off the shackles of the earth-bound spirit, and cutting off the shackles requires the consent of both parties.
[God’s Perspective] Although it is like a task issuer in nature, its essence is just a manifestation of the destiny narrative ability of [The Crimson King]. It does not actually put forward task requirements. It has never been used again. Which sentence really mentions that [mercy] can be achieved by helping the snow child to be free.
The so-called eight virtues, the more they involve the virtues of human nature, the more abstract the conditions mentioned.
[Pity]: Sympathy for the weak, a knight must have a broad and tolerant heart, and the justice in his heart should be the knight's code of conduct.
What kind of behavior can be considered as a code of conduct that satisfies the justice in the heart?
Valente Bernard is facing such a problem now.
Valente and Xia Xiu actually noticed a problem before they picked up the painting. The snow child was too pure, she was just like Bai Xue.
The painting gallery of the Louvre is everything to Snow Child, but the outside world is unfamiliar to her.
Valente and Xia Xiu told her that if you don’t get out, you will die.
But what is death to the Snow Child?
Xuehai has not received education about death, she has not seen the passing of life, and she has not experienced pain.
Is death a disease?
It seems not, because no one seems to have suffered from this disease, and no one has told what this disease is. Those twisted existences that "resurrected from the dead" do not seem to have been exposed to death. They are just monsters, and they do not know death.
"Meow, choose..."
The gradually dissipating Snow Child raised her head and glanced at Valente. She saw the pity in his eyes. He rubbed the other person's hand. "Haven't humans ever been so scared that they are about to collapse because they live in infinite choices?"
The Snow Child looked directly at Valente Bernard and said.
"The vast world has everything you want, but there is no end... There is no end at all."
"There is a world pressing on you, and you don't even know where it will end, and Can you accept the end calmly?”
“Too many choices and too complicated judgments, it’s painful.”
Facing Xuehai’s question, Valente asked. Silence fell.
“What stops me is not what I see, but what I cannot see.”
"The meaning of my existence is this painting gallery. The outside world is too big."
Xuehai is clear about her choice, just as her destiny is clearly visible in front of her.
All things are burdened by the secular world. This is the fate of all things. Snow Child rejected this fate and chose purity.
Snowchild's figure began to turn into a little bit of light, and now, there was another choice before Valente Bernard.
Take out the [Holy Sword of Barumuk] to cut off the fate of death, or respect the death of the snow child.
Valente shook his hand. He wanted to summon the [Holy Sword of Barumk] now, but when he looked at Snow Child who shook his head, his movements froze.
“Thank you...”
The snow child finally turned into a point of light and disappeared in the Louvre. Valente’s hand tightened at some point.
[God's Perspective·Private]: The knight's [compassion] allowed him to make his own choice.
[God’s Perspective·Private]: [Mercy] has been unlocked.
From Xia Xiu's perspective, the [God's Perspective] scrolling text and sound broadcast appeared again. He did not pay attention to these. His attention was always on Valente.
“Let’s go, we have to return the painting.”
“Yes.”
Valente responded silently, and the two of them just sat there in silence. "Eternal Smile" was placed on the second floor of the Louvre, and then they left directly outside.
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Outside the Louvre.
When two people and one dog walked out of the Louvre, the moonlight hanging on the sky slanted down towards the two of them. Valente Bernard, who was bathed in the moonlight, looked at Xia Xiu and said something.
"Hugh Abraham, if it were you, what would you choose?"
Listening to Valente's question, the blond young man looked up at the moon in the sky.
“I don’t know, people can only know what they will do when they have the right to choose.”
The blond young man turned his head and stared at Valente, and Valente saw another kind of purity from his golden eyes.
“Valente, it is impossible for a person to judge in advance the position he is going to take. Here, one can only get a description of mental suffering in its pure state. This description has not yet been mixed with Mixed with any metaphysics and any belief."
"I may choose to save Snow Child, and then experience life, understand life, and let her understand the beauty of life; I may also respect Snow Child's current choice and let her. Welcome death with that purity."
"It is meaningless to keep thinking about this problem. When we make a choice, we can only keep moving forward and cannot look back."
After listening to Xia Xiu’s words, Valente asked him.
"Can you never look back? Abraham, can anyone make a choice without regrets?"
"Valente, I don't know."
Xia Xiu just shook his head Shaking his head, he did not answer the other party's question directly.
When Xia Xiu came of age, he made up his mind to live in that cold and burning limited world, and when he came to Terra, he also decided to live in this more difficult world. Living in a cruel world, he is always an upward climber. All he can do is not look back, but he cannot truly not regret.
“Abraham, sometimes I feel that you are like an outsider. You seem to be separated from the world. The world is absurd and meaningless to you; just like people to the absurd world. Powerless, therefore hopeless and indifferent to everything.”
"But sometimes I feel that you are more pure than anyone else. You have a unique trait."
Valente looked deeply into the golden eyes of Xia Xiu in front of him. He felt that the blond young man in front of him had a certain quality that he didn't know how to describe, and when he saw Snow Child, he vaguely sensed what that quality was.
"Abraham, what is your destiny for you?"
Xia Xiu was stunned. His golden eyes reflected Valente's complicated eyes, and he thought about it. I thought, and then slowly said my answer.
“For me, fate is a sleeping slave.”
Valente said nothing more, he continued to move forward in the moonlight.
Xia Xiu looked at Valente's back, he shook his head, and then raised his feet to follow him.
At this time Valente already knew the answer.
Hugh Abraham has a purity that transcends ordinary people. This purity gives him a divinity that transcends human nature.
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The next day.
Luyuan·Main office area (basement level): office space for administrative staff.
In the office of the non-natural sciences group.
【Ding——】
【You have a special email! 】
Albert Loungen received an email from one of his graduate students.
Professor Laugengen slowly opened the email sent to him out of curiosity. He first skipped the useless greetings at the beginning, and then focused on the most essential part.
"Details on the Return Location of Mr. Night's Demonic Shock"
Professor Loungen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He is a student who really doesn't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. He There is no email sent to myself that does not ask for help.
It’s just that he didn’t expect that the other party was so brave and his wings were so hard, and now he dared to target Mr. Night.
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(End of this chapter)