Chapter 105 Lily of the Valley: Some people would rather die and hope that I die, while others would rather die and hope that I live.
"Then those feathered serpents are going to kill me ahhhhh!"
Shuise's shrill scream came from another direction. Linglan pressed her forehead with a headache. The light blue musical note field lit up. Shuise's scream had hinted at her location. She waved her hand casually, and vines grew wildly, pulling Shuise in the darkness directly to herself and Youyu.
"Huh, huh, it's so scary. I don't know what's going on over there. So many feathered snakes suddenly appeared. It's so scary."
Shuise felt that the sound of his own heartbeat had drowned out the roars of those feathered serpents. Youyu used the golden thread to pull up an endless line of fire and threw it high into the sky. Among the falling sparks, countless huge feathered serpents twisted and entangled together were seen hiding in the darkness. After sensing the sparks, they began to wriggle, looking like entangled human organs, which was extremely disgusting.
“It’s a bit disgusting indeed.”
Lily of the Valley stuck out her tongue and waved her hand. The vines roughly circled the group of feathered serpents. Sensing the familiar breath of the priest's bloodline, the feathered serpents instantly quieted down, and their movements became light and slow. If you didn't observe carefully, you might even think they had fallen asleep.
"Lily of the Valley..."
You Yu and Shuise stared at Linglan blankly. The other party no longer pretended that she had no connection with Mitchelan. They felt that Linglan's attitude was almost self-destructive.
"Well, there's nothing much to say. Those priests, that is, my ancestors, often use these vines to enter Mitklan, the resting place of the demon king Mitlan, to hold sacrificial ceremonies. Over time, these feathered serpent demon followers have become familiar with the scent of the vines, so they regard us as priests who come to offer sacrifices and will not attack us again."
Lily of the Valley smoothed the hem of her skirt anxiously. Even though there had just been a fight and she had experienced a high-altitude free fall, the corners of her clothes were not dirty at all, just a little messy.
I'm afraid the impact of the battle is not as serious as the turmoil in her heart.
"According to Wonder, when Bai Ye disappeared, he was swallowed by the bottomless black space just like us. So he is probably here now... But before we look for Bai Ye and Feicui and the others, can we listen to a short story for now?"
You Yu sighed, and he spread the golden threads around. The golden threads, shining brightly in the darkness, quickly spread until they reached the end of the darkness. Those golden threads would search for suspicious biological fluctuations similar to those of Bai Ye Feicui and others, and provide clues to the owner of the soul tag. But during the waiting time before that, You Yu thought that he might be able to do more for his companions in the detective agency.
"Yeah, yeah, Lily of the Valley, what's this hidden power of yours? It's so cool that you can calm so many snakes down at once!"
Shuise couldn't help it. He rubbed his hands and sat by the fire. His eyes, which were slightly frightened by the omnipresent chill of death, were now lit up by the flames.
“That’s not cool.”
Linglan sighed: "Do you know... the demon game incident that happened in Mo City ten years ago, which was above the Demon God level and whose level is yet to be determined?"
The "Green Mitterklan" incident happened ten years ago. It was a strange demon game incident that covered the entire Ink City, but was blocked by the Law Enforcement Bureau in full view of the public. On that day, the entire city of Ink City was surrounded by a strange dark green mist and lost contact with the surface world, but everything returned to normal in just one day.
There are many versions of this incident on the forum, but a large number of eyewitnesses only remember the process of waking up after falling into a coma, and have no idea what happened in the meantime when they were disconnected from the entire surface world. Even the information integration experts on the forum can only come to the obvious conclusion that the source of that day should be a demon at the demon level or above who took action personally.
"But actually... that was not a conspiracy of the Demon Apostles. Although I hate Demon Apostles, I can't really blame them for that incident. It was just... a mistake that shouldn't have happened."
Lily of the Valley hugged the fork in her hand, as if that would give her strength.
As the descendant of a priest with the power of "life and death", her family are all priests of the Tree House Tribe who have been working hard for thousands of years to awaken the Demon King Mitran. Thousands of years ago, after the leader of the Tree House Tribe mistakenly entered the other world and witnessed the majestic figure of the Demon King who fell from outer space before he fell asleep, the priests of the Tree House Tribe could no longer stop their pursuit of the "awakening of the Demon King". They believed that the majestic Quetzalcoatl Demon must be the great existence in the legend that protects the reincarnation of souls. Out of the power of faith, they wanted to get closer.
Perhaps because the time has lasted too long, the desire to witness the gods in the ancient beliefs with one's own eyes has gradually become extreme. The unfulfilled wishes of the predecessors for thousands of years have continued to this day, and the rooted seeds have become an extremely twisted obsession. As long as they can awaken their god, the Demon King of the Meteorite, the remaining scattered priests of the Tree House Tribe can do anything.
Including...considering one's own bloodline as the only "hope".
Not a person, not a life, just the hope of awakening the devil.
After the priests begged day after day, lily of the valley was born.
The lily of the valley with the soul tag of "vitality" has become the only hope of the priests. The Tree House Tribe has not produced anyone with a soul tag related to "life and death" for thousands of years. Therefore, they believe more that the lily of the valley is a gift given to them by the god of the underworld, the feathered serpent Mithran, and it is also a divine revelation urging them to work hard to awaken the gods.
"So they sent me, who was only seven or eight years old at the time, into the 'Sacred Snake Vine Cocoon' made of snake vines that feed on humans, hoping to achieve the eternal combination of 'life and death' in one person through 'death'. My mother and father... were the ones who tied the ropes around me and led me into the temple hall surrounded by vines."
Lily of the Valley sighed, but there was no sadness or sorrow in her eyes, only the feeling of facing this absurd reality.
Holy Cocoon... probably something similar to the thing that Qianmian created in the Dionysus Space...
Shuise and Youyu instantly realized why Linglan's strength had been trapped by the holy cocoon for so long. They wanted to reach out to comfort their companion, but were stopped by Linglan's usual firm gaze. They suddenly realized that Linglan, who had come this far, did not need any comfort at all, because she was already standing here.
At this moment, she was just stating the past, nothing more.
But... Youyu's eyes turned cold. He really couldn't let Qianmian go like this. No matter if it was Linglan or... Wonder, he would make Qianmian pay the price for it.
"I thought I was going to die. The oxygen in the holy cocoon was getting less and less. At that time, I couldn't control these terrible vines, so I could only struggle hopelessly in the suffocation. Just when I was ready to face death, an enforcer named K appeared in front of me."
Lily of the Valley shrugged.
The sacrificial ceremony performed by the priests opened the door to the underworld, the passage to the other world. As a result, a dark green mist spread, covering the entire Ink City and attracting law enforcers from the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau.
The K in his memory was a rather strange young law enforcer. He wore a law enforcer's coat and uniform, but he was not as nervous as the other law enforcers who came to deal with the Gate to the Underworld. He seemed quite at ease, but his face was pale, his voice was weak, and he was so shaky that it seemed like he would die in the next second.
It was simply a wandering ghost. Unfortunately, it was such a ghost that picked up the desperate Lily of the Valley deep in the vines, and took Lily of the Valley to the Ink City where the devil's followers were running around, looking for the Ten Commandments Token [Meteorite] hidden by the priest, the only thing that could remove the breath of death that was spreading from Lily of the Valley because of the half-completed ritual.
"Why do you have to meddle in other people's business? Anyway, the ritual has been completed. Even if you interrupted it, it can't change the fact that I only have 24 hours to live. Anyway, my birth was a mistake..."
Lily of the Valley sighed and looked indifferently at the law enforcer who pulled her out.
K shook his head.
"I am a law enforcer, and I will let you live."
"If I failed to save you, it's my fault, not yours...even though I've done a lot of wrong things, adults always do this."
K smiled wanly, but Suzuran realized that it was the clumsy man trying to amuse her.
So K took Lily of the Valley into the underworld where the devil was sleeping, and covered in blood, he walked to the ninth level of the underworld with Lily of the Valley.
At the top of the highest temple, K found the meteorite used by the priests as a source of energy for the ritual, and successfully removed all the breath of death from Lily of the Valley.
It's really strange that the people who gave birth to her would rather die than let her die, and use death to awaken their God, while a stranger who met her for the first time would rather die than let her live, and would risk his own life to seize that slight possibility.
But……
Linglan still remembers the man's sad expression. Although she had been saved, the other party had also paid a heavy price.
In order to use the token of the Ten Commandments, K, who had already been injured by the demon followers and priests, used up his last bit of soul particles and controlled the power of the meteorite to eliminate "death".
Her benefactor, with whom she had only been together for 24 hours, didn't even have time to say anything more. He just left a few words and then turned into flying particles and disappeared.
"I have no regrets. I have done everything I should do. I just hope you can...live well."
"Keep living girl, you are not my fault, nor are you your fault, and your existence is no one's fault."
Linglan took a deep breath and brought her consciousness back from her memories.
"The demon apostle obviously got the formation that the crazy priests used to awaken the demon king ten years ago. Last time, I could only watch K die, but this time I will not see anyone's life taken away by this twisted belief."
Lily of the valley clenched the fork in her hand.
"This is the mistake of my ancestors... I should be the one to cut it off."
Shuise had already started wiping her tears, Youyu also put her hands together and clapped. Linglan took a long breath and talked about the past that had been buried in her heart for so many years. She finally got a chance to catch her breath, as if she had unloaded a heavy burden and felt extremely relaxed.
"Don't act like that. It's so ugly."
Lily of the Valley sighed, she reached out her hand and continued to release vitality into Wonder's wound, her emerald eyes full of determination.
But her hand was blocked by an extremely thin ice sword.
No one knew when Faust's blue eyes suddenly appeared and stared into Lily of the Valley's eyes.
"Saint of the Jungle, since you already knew about the tragedy that happened ten years ago, why did you choose to save him?"
The condescending reserve leader or reserve chairman gently moved the sword to the heart of the still unconscious wonder.
"! Senior Faust! Can we talk first--"
Emerald, who was chasing after him, put down the torch in her hand and rushed over in panic to stop Faust, but her ankles were frozen by the cold blue ice.
"In other words, I am now fully qualified to ask, Linglan, Youyu, Shuise, what exactly is your current position?"
The silver-haired young man swept his eyes over everyone present with a scrutinizing expression.
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