One day, Li Ming, who was enjoying his relaxed university life, suddenly saw an "Exchange Forum" from outside the world. The users on the forum referred to Li Ming's world as a comic, h...
Chapter 115 Farewell I will become one of the gods.
"The retrospection will begin in 24 hours." The Pale Knight looked at Jiang Huai calmly and said, "You can meet your friends for the last time. This retrospection will change the fate of many people."
Jiang Huai paused after hearing this.
At this time, the two had returned to the "Corpse Paradise". The thick gray fog was still slowly wandering around the outer circle of the area, but now Jiang Huai could no longer treat it as an ordinary fog wall.
The breeze gently blew the hair of both of them.
On the white beach not far away, some corpses were trying to find their missing bones from the sand. They looked at the two people from a distance, then lowered their heads to search.
"Before that, I want to ask--" Jiang Huai turned around and said seriously: "Will I be able to see you again?"
The Pale Knight remained silent after hearing this.
After a long while, He gently shook His head and said, "It should be impossible."
Jiang Huai said in a sad tone: "Li Ming..."
The Pale Knight interrupted coldly: "Li Ming never existed."
This sentence instantly made the atmosphere at the scene quiet. However, the waves still gently hit the beach, and the wind and waves were still as gentle as before.
"You won't remember me." The Pale Knight sighed, "This matter will always come to an end. Even though it may be very important to you, to me, it is just an experience."
Yes, that's true.
Jiang Huai thought with regret: Compared with the billions of years of life of the Apocalypse Knight, the time He spent as a human was just a brief moment like a dream.
Seeing this, the Pale Knight gently comforted him: "One day in the future, when you return to the current sequence, maybe you will remember me. Or, wait until the day you become an angel."
"Huh?" Jiang Huai was surprised.
"You have the talent, even though I don't agree with it." The Pale Knight sighed, "Becoming an angel is destined to be a lonely life. You will witness the departure of your family, friends, and even the younger generations, until no one will regard you as a sibling anymore."
"All you will be associated with is civilization itself."
Jiang Huai murmured quietly, "This sounds lonely."
"Yes." The Pale Knight nodded, "So I suggest you think twice when facing this choice. This is not just your decision now, it will affect the rest of your life."
Jiang Huai said: "You too?"
"Me?" The Pale Knight paused after hearing this. He shook his head helplessly: "I don't have a deep impression of my civilization. I am a natural mythical creature, a natural angel, so naturally I have no feelings for civilization."
"Hmm..." Jiang Huai frowned unconsciously after hearing this.
This was the first time he knew about this. Although he knew about Li Ming's family situation, he knew nothing about the White Knight's past.
Jiang Huai: ...I feel a little restrained for some reason.
The Pale Knight's eyes reflected all of this quietly.
Perhaps to make up for the past rudeness in asking Jiang Huai to reveal his family background, He revealed: "I was born for the continuation of civilization. My civilization sacrificed millions of lives just to seek a new life."
Jiang Huai was stunned after hearing this.
He realized that the Pale Knight was thinking back to the rainy night when they had revealed their secrets to each other. At that time, both of them had actually revealed their secrets reluctantly, but he didn't expect that when he recalled it now, he would actually feel a little nostalgic...
"From the moment I was born, I was sentenced to death. They shaped me into a human appearance and gave me human cognition, all for the purpose of sacrifice."
The Pale Knight said calmly: "What they least expected is that when I was born, the planet had already fallen into decline."
"Hmm..." Jiang Huai was at a loss.
After all, this was his first time to experience this kind of situation. The world outside the earth was too unfamiliar to him. Jiang Huai didn't even know what words to use to express his feelings.
The Pale Knight said: "I am the last living being of my civilization. For millions of years, I have walked every soil on the planet and traveled every region of the planet. The crosses I have forged are enough to build another roof of the world."
"I continued to do this until the Abyss swallowed the planet. After that, I served the Abyss."
"I have been fulfilling this duty for billions of years. Over the past billions of years, I have followed the Abyss to defeat billions of disasters and pronounce judgment on billions of civilizations."
"Finally now—"
The Pale Knight looked at Jiang Huai with a smile in his eyes and said softly: "Thank you for your help. Let these words serve as proof that we have met."
Jiang Huai couldn't help but laugh after hearing this: "Introducing yourself before parting is not something a normal person would do."
“Is that so?” The Pale Knight murmured in confusion. “It seems that I have too little experience as a human. The difference between the cognition of mythical creatures and humans is really huge.”
"It's good like this." Jiang Huai shook his head. "Humans are very complex creatures. Although I don't know what other civilizations are like, I think it's good now."
"When we are lucky enough to meet again in the future, we will say goodbye again."
"Future..." The pale knight's expression was uncertain. Although he wanted to say that there was no future between them, seeing Jiang Huai's stubborn body, this angel who was still inhumane could not speak after all.
“Let’s talk about it in the future.” He said briefly.
However, Jiang Huai suddenly said: "Now I understand why you speak for the abyss."
"Um?"
"The Abyss has been kind to you. It was He who accepted you after you left civilization, and it was He who taught you how to survive in the stars."
"Yes." The Pale Knight nodded, "I am still grateful for His help."
Time is running out.
Jiang Huai quietly looked towards the passage he had come from. He knew very well that although they had said they would say goodbye in the future, this meeting would most likely be the last.
"Leave the Eye of Truth to me." The Pale Knight said calmly, "It's not easy to divide it now, so just consider it a parting gift."
"Okay." Jiang Huai responded.
Before stepping into the passage to go home, Jiang Huai looked at the pale knight standing in the wilderness behind him for the last time. His expression was still neither sad nor happy, but this time Jiang Huai would no longer mistake the other party for a disaster.
"Goodbye." Jiang Huai waved fondly.
The Pale Knight stared at the empty space in front of him in silence. After a long while, he sighed and said, "But we really won't meet again..."
Even if the people on Earth can leave the Milky Way within 500 years, there will be no trace of Him on the other side of the Milky Way. To be fair, this is the reality.
But let’s wait and see in the future.
A bit of bone-chilling coldness wrapped around the pale knight's left hand. He calmly looked to the side and asked softly, "Have you been watching all this time, Abyss?"
But the abyss did not answer.
He could not understand the meaning of the knight's words. His premature godhood made him extremely incapable of communicating with the outside world. He only knew that his friend was about to leave.
Maybe he still wants to keep Him, the Pale Knight thought.
"You won't be seeing me for a long time."
The Pale Knight turned his head and looked at the pale sand submerged by the sea in the distance, and said gently, "But don't be sad, I will see the real you soon."
"I will go to the virtual world where the gods live. There, we will truly meet."
The Pale Knight looked up at the sky calmly.
The deep blue sky and floating white clouds were reflected in the depths of His eyes again. This was a scenery He loved very much and He would never get tired of seeing it.
And when He first went to Shanghai, He saw the dawn on the train.
The sky that day was bright and beautiful, and it is unforgettable.
A new life, a new encounter, a new bond. If it really is a deception, then He also deceived the people He met in the beginning.
Leave the abyss and head to the virtual world.
This was not just a sudden idea of the Pale Knight. He had planned to go to the place where the gods lived more than a million years before his sister passed away.
But this road was too long. He, lacking humanity, could not persevere to the end, and he did not want to walk halfway, so he even forgot the reason for setting out.
“I will solidify the concept of death and perfect the rules of the Abyss.” He said, “The Three Degrees of Death, the Lost, the Unowned Realm… these will all become the history of the Abyss.”
He declared calmly, “I will become one of the gods.”
Only in this way can He reach the virtual world.
"When I arrive, I will give up my identity as Li Ming and give you my memories. Although memories contain many hardships, this is life."
The Pale Knight half-crouched down and whispered, "You will grow into a form that can understand the words of others."
"Thank you for protecting me when I was young, and thank you for your unchanging perseverance for millions of years. This road is long and difficult, and I can't even see the end, but from now on, I will share the burden with you."
Gods are not omnipotent, and the same is true for the abyss.
It's just that the creatures in the universe have been looking up to the gods for too long, so long that they have forgotten that the gods were once human beings. The Pale Knight is not the only angel in the universe, but from now on, he is God.
The chill that touched the soul gradually spread to the cheeks.
Although others could not understand the meaning of the Abyss, the Pale Knight could understand His actions. He asked in surprise: "Are you trying to reject me, Abyss?"
The Pale Knight frowned, "You're rejecting the name?"
Abyss agrees.
"That makes it easy for me to guess." The Pale Knight fell into deep thought, "Is there something that makes you dissatisfied? But only in this way can you..."
The Pale Knight's voice suddenly faded.
He thought of the comic forum where he, as a human, had never understood his origins. The Pale Knight asked in surprise, "Could he be the God's agent you chose?"
Baishan Cola possesses Li Ming's memories.
He even processed and beautified the logic of Li Ming's behavior. This matter was difficult to comment on at first glance, and it is still difficult to comment on now.
The Pale Knight disagreed and said, "He doesn't look very smart. I suggest you find someone else to act as your substitute. Of course, if you insist, I can only accept it."
Now the answer is very simple.
The Abyss recognized the gift of memory, but not the gift of identity. The identity of 'Li Ming' still belonged to Him, and the Abyss, who had received the memory, childishly selected a cartoonist as his agent.
The Pale Knight said helplessly: "...As long as you are happy."
Although He did not intend to leave behind too many deeds, the Abyss did not seem to think so. The Abyss even spread this story widely in the high world.
A bit weird, but acceptable.
"I will set off immediately." The Pale Knight stood up and said, "I will say goodbye to you here first, but it seems that I will be delayed for a while..."
The Pale Knight looked calmly toward the horizon, where a fiery cloud had already appeared.
The azure sky was gradually being tinted by dusk, and scenes from two different times, dawn and dusk, appeared simultaneously in the sky.
Here comes the War Rider.