Chapter 128 Queen: Are you going to save even the devil?
The surface world, Night Tide Prison.
"clang--"
The DM system's bell rang, like the prelude to doomsday.
A huge phantom of the Holy Grail was suspended above each city circle. No one knew what the free DM system wanted to do now. The rippling blood pool was the blood of countless players who participated in the devil game. The real countdown officially began. Even if there were only nine out of ten tokens of the Ten Commandments, the Senate still forcibly started their Garden of Eden process on the Wheel of Fortune.
The voice of the DM system was laughing the whole time. That strange and ethereal voice spread to every corner of the surface world, sad yet joyful.
The Holy Grail is gradually filling up, and more and more demon games are directly logging into the surface world. Without the help of the demon apostles, the DM system's game coverage efficiency has become even faster.
Hong Xin gritted her teeth and looked at the statistics of the DM Holy Grail on the data board. According to the speed at which the Holy Grail was being filled, within the three days of devouring and the four days of re-creation, the seven days of the new Genesis were slipping away.
After seven days, the inner and outer worlds that were deliberately separated by the world consciousness using the Ten Commandments will merge into one. The souls of all living things, including demons, will become shadows for those living in the wheel of fate. The so-called "elders" will take back their past titles and become the new gods of the new world, completely seizing the price and resources for freedom from fate.
This is the real [Judgment Day].
No one could have imagined that the so-called "Judgment Day" at the end of the war between humans and demons was actually a siege by fate against all existences in the inner and outer worlds.
"...Our real enemy, what exactly is the Senate?"
Saotome Rin and Xuedie looked at Hongxin, trying to get to the bottom of the matter without any malice.
"Ms. Zhenhong is not in the surface world now. It must be because she is stuck on a mission at the Senate. Before she returns to the surface world, we must find a way to identify what our enemy is now."
Jade thought for a moment and helped explain to her two Night Island companions.
“…I can’t describe it.”
Hong Xin did not avoid this question, but she was not good at explaining these things. Moreover, one of the reasons why the existence of the Senate was not fully announced was that they were actually an abstract, conceptual existence.
"There are many speculations about the Senate on the Internet. Some say they are gods from various pantheons believed in by humans in mythology. Some say they are historical celebrities who have survived from ancient times and have immortal bodies thanks to the power of the Wheel of Fortune. Some say they are..."
Saotome Rin clenched the knife at her side. It was the hope that Wonder had left with all his might, and the only token of the Ten Commandments. Tian Congyun said: "There is nothing in this world that cannot be described in words. No matter what, we will try our best to understand."
Red Heart sighed, and Meihua's gaze also stayed on her. It was obvious that she was also very curious about this. After all, for the entire Sun Law Enforcer Bureau, except for the three chairmen and the secretary general Zhenhong, only Red Heart, as the leader, was allowed to enter the depths of the Leather Tower archives and know the secrets hidden in this world.
"They are the gods that humans once believed in and the humans who made outstanding contributions, but not entirely... They are just a concept that has been confined by the Wheel of Fate in the space where the Wheel of Fate is located and metaphysically compressed. If I were to describe them in more common language, I would rather call them the shadows of the soul."
Several young people, even Meihua, showed doubtful expressions: "The shadow of the soul?"
Red Heart nodded. "Yes... Those with distinctive and powerful soul tags in history have their special fates outlined by the Wheel of Fate and have had part of their souls and consciousness copied. They are recorded deep inside the Wheel of Fate, just like the files in the Leather Tower Archives."
Blood Butterfly shook her head: "If that's the case, then I don't understand why these beings who can almost be called 'heroic spirits' and have made outstanding contributions in the ancient history of the confrontation between humans and demons would choose to use all the lives in the inner and outer worlds as the foundation for their own creation of the 'New World Eden'?"
Emerald was equally confused: "But they are supposed to be the most selfless, right?"
**
Wheel of Fortune Core.
"They are clearly the leaders of mankind and the heroes who selflessly give everything."
In his memory, on the dilapidated platform above the ocean, Youyu saw his teacher Jack with an unprecedented look of confusion.
King seemed to have heard something funny. He turned his back to Queen and Jack and began to chuckle. The laughter was not loud, but it carried a kind of sadness that could not be felt by others. The sadness was deep and light, just like a person passing by hurriedly in the city holding a transparent umbrella on a rainy night, looking up to see the cherry blossoms floating in the rain, illuminated by the warm light of the street lamps.
“…King.”
King's mood was not right. Even Youyu and Fanlan who were observing noticed it. It was even more impossible for Queen and Jack who were deep in this memory not to have noticed it.
"Allow me to correct you. You have all been to the Wheel of Fortune where the Senate is located. You know that they are just shadows carved by time. You have also seen the four colors engraved on the dial. In the hall of the Wheel of Fortune, in front of the core of destiny, there are four kinds of light balls emitting faint light on the ground."
You Yu thought for a moment and recalled the scene just now. In the intertwined threads of fate, there were indeed four colors representing wind, water, fire and earth.
"I've said this... you all should understand, right?"
King suddenly turned around, with an extremely bitter smile on his lips. His blurred face, which had never been directly exposed to the public, was now clearly visible under the lighting of the Night Tide Prison: "I laughed because the so-called leader of mankind, the Senate, even has positions for four demon kings, but there is no position for every human being. It's really funny."
You Yu felt a chill rushing down his spine. He tried to raise his head to look at Senior Fan Lan beside him, but Fan Lan was obviously even more shocked than him. He stood there motionless, almost turning into a sculpture.
"What... does this mean? This is a lie, right? This is impossible, right?"
You Yu murmured, he no longer knew what made him more excited and suffocated, the location of the four demon kings in the Senate revealed by King or King’s true appearance.
The former means that the Senate is not the leader and trump card of mankind as they imagine, but is just a record of the Wheel of Fortune that records the souls that are strong enough in the long river of time. The latter...
Youyu stared at the pair of eyes in a daze. King just looked forward like that. His sight did not fall on the Queen and Jack in front of him. Instead, the pair of cobalt blue eyes penetrated time and space and entered Youyu's eyes.
Cobalt blue eyes, long black hair.
King has a face that Youyu is extremely familiar with. The fragments of memory in Youyu's mind began to explode. He remembered the boy who had a sequelae attack he met by chance on the street corner of Night City on the first night of Night's Heart. Bai Ye was sitting there weakly, but when he heard the clover he offered to her, he smiled palely.
You Yu seldom speaks his mind, but when it comes to Bai Ye, when he first sees Bai Ye, he knows clearly, as evidenced by the Wheel of Fortune, that the man in front of him will definitely become his companion, because they have the same eyes.
Passionate and righteous to the point of madness.
It's just that his madness is reflected in the way he deals with things in his daily life, and Bai Ye hides those passionate emotions deep in his heart, just like the boiling Tang Hongshan Mountain, under which is buried the burning demon king, but on the surface it is still quiet and peaceful, and one can even hear the sound of the Japanese drum music coming from the night.
But the King in front of him, the culprit who dragged both the surface world and the inner world into the abyss of destruction, has a face that belongs to Bai Ye.
"clang---"
Youyu and Fanlan felt as if they heard the sound of a bell.
The ocean beneath his feet began to boil, and crazy fish-like monsters rushed out of the ocean and rushed towards the three people in the Night Tide Prison. You Yu's eyes swept over the fish monsters, he blinked, and rushed out suddenly amid Fanlan's shouting, and grabbed a soul that was as illusory as his.
"Shui Se! Wake up, are you okay?"
Youyu looked at Shuise in front of him and raised his hand to slap him to wake him up, but he didn't expect Shuise to wake up faster than him. Before Youyu could do anything, Shuise's eyes widened as if he woke up from a shock, and he started screaming the moment he saw Youyu.
"Youyu! Youyu! I was underwater just now and saw so many golden threads hanging from the water surface, turning many people in the Muse Band into monsters! But if the tragedy of my people is the direct result of the Wheel of Fortune and the Senate, then Queen——!"
Shuise's voice quieted down the moment he saw Youyu shaking his head. Youyu looked at the three people who were still standing on the platform like a motionless boat in the rough waves, and sighed.
Shuise stared blankly in the direction of Youyu and Fanlan's gaze. He didn't even have time to ask why Fanlan was here, because a fact more terrifying than Fanlan's was right in front of him.
King has a face very similar to Bai Ye's.
"They... may not be the culprits we thought, and..."
As the young man's voice fell, Jack, who was standing next to King, also spoke with an expression of disbelief that could almost be described as grief: "How do you know that they will become like this? You won't do such a thing. Don't forget that before the Night Tide Demon King left, he also told us to protect his followers -"
King lowered his eyes and looked at the fish monsters who only knew primitive instincts, without saying a word.
Queen's voice was also trembling. She knew more than Jack, but she still had no clue: "Those golden threads just now... that was a direct action of the Wheel of Fortune. Why aren't you surprised at all... Did you know it long ago?"
"Perhaps."
King sighed, and Queen's pupils shrank in extreme shock. A terrible idea emerged in her mind. Although Jack knew nothing, he instinctively blurted out according to his understanding of his friend who founded the Sun Law Enforcement Bureau together: "You will not give up Yechao's followers...right?"
After a long time, until the fish monsters were almost rushing in front of them, King spoke: "Yes. And..."
He paused: "I joined the Senate."
Queen and Jack instinctively sensed something was wrong: "Wait, what are you going to do? Isn't what the Senate did disgusting enough? Why did you agree to them? What are you going to do?"
Jack, who hated the Senate the most and was upright, was the most emotional: "Don't you want to save them, but want to go along with the Senate?! Have you forgotten that Night Tide was not the name of the prison?! Night Tide is the city circle built by Night Tide Demon King, our mutual friend. It was once so beautiful, but the damn Senate took advantage of Night Tide's choice to become a human being--"
King sighed, "I know, the city is gone now. It sank into the sea."
Jack couldn't believe it: "Then you still——"
Queen looked at him seriously and said something shocking: "The plan we want to achieve is to overthrow the Senate who is trying to do whatever they want with the Wheel of Destiny in their hands, but... do you want to save even the demons of this world?"
She seemed to be thinking about something, and suddenly laughed: "It seems that we are not on the same path as each other. Each of the three of us has chosen our own path."
King was slightly startled, and he seemed to have suffered terrible torture in his heart. For a moment, Youyu almost felt that he was going to break here, but King was only in a daze for a moment.
"Why do you think so?"
He gave a cruel smile.
"Why don't I want to turn them into demons and then kill them all more logically?"
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