Bai Liu released the sphere carelessly, and it floated and touched Bai Liu's face. The sphere instantly changed from white to translucent, and different colors flowed on the light film, like a bubble refracting the sunlight.
The bubble floated into the depths of the universe and merged with the other spheres into a band of light, and could no longer be distinguished.
"I was born from these things." Bai Liu sat lazily on a spectator chair behind the water-patterned wall. He lifted his eyelids and smiled at Bai Liu behind the water-patterned wall. "Of course, you too."
"I have existed for a long time. I don't remember how I became an evil god. From the time I can remember, I have been a god."
Bai Liu took off his gloves and opened his palms towards Bai Liu. There were seven or eight trembling, weak spheres still struggling, trying to surge out of his palms. Bai Liu lowered his eyes and held the spheres in his palms that wanted to struggle and escape.
The sphere was squeezed by Bai Liu so hard that it let out a slight scream, then exploded into countless points of light and disappeared in Bai Liu's hand.
Bai Liu smiled and raised his eyes: "Just at that moment, ten world lines that you were in were destroyed in the palm of my hand."
"Interesting game, isn't it?"
"I don't think it's interesting." Bai Liu answered him calmly.
"Hmm." Bai Liu put on his gloves and touched his chin thoughtfully. After thinking for a while, he smiled again, "Well, then it's not interesting."
"I don't find it interesting either. It's very boring."
Bai Liu calmly asked back: "Aren't you going to introduce the background of the game to me? What about your other villain settings?"
"Like, what is your purpose?"
"I thought you weren't interested in me." Bai Liu leaned against the back of the chair, his legs casually crossed, his long hair drooping from his shoulders, his head tilted slightly with his forehead resting on his right hand, smiling, "Of course my goal is to escape from this endless boring life."
Bai Liu lowered his eyes and looked at his right hand: "Whether I want it or not, world lines will continue to emerge from my palm, as if I created these world lines with my hands."
“But that’s not the case.”
"I am just a door. These existing world lines need to pass through my door of time and space, from the other side of the door to this side of the door, before they can start to operate. Otherwise, they will collapse on the other side of the door."
Bai Liu raised his eyes with a slight smile on his face:
"Because the other side of the door is an inorganic abyss, darkness, and bottomless evil. The species in the world line there will stay with the unspeakable evil of the past forever."
"They will go insane and eventually destroy themselves."
"I was initially very interested in trapping these world lines on the other side of the door and watching them destroy themselves, but after watching it for a long time, such a program became boring."
"So I started putting the world line on this side of the door."
Bai Liu raised his index finger and pointed it at the water-patterned wall. The ripples on the wall expanded in circles. On this side of the wall, one could only vaguely see balls flowing out from Bai Liu's fingertips as he pressed on the wall. He whispered:
"This side of the gate holds the objective logic and truth of the operation of the stars and everything in the universe. World lines here can gain light and survive for a long time."
"Some different changes can occur on this side of the door in the world line. They will develop into rich species that are completely different from those on the other side of the door, such as dogs, cats, roses and Ganoderma lucidum."
“I really enjoy observing different species in different world lines. I find them all very interesting.”
Bai Liu lazily rested his chin on the back of his hand. He looked at Bai Liu and chuckled, saying, "Of all species, I think humans are the most interesting."
"Other creatures only need some visible external things to survive, such as sunlight, air, water, food, and shelter. Only humans, in addition to these external things, also need some invisible things."
"Even if you are given enough sunlight, air, water, food, and shelter, if a human being is left alone in a world line, or if a human being is abandoned by all the collectives, it won't be long before this human being commits suicide in pain."
Bai Liu smiled and said, "In addition to material things, you also need your peers and love to survive."
"This is really interesting. This is the first time I have seen a creature with such a fantasy-like need. I am very curious about you and would like to know what exactly causes this need and under what circumstances it will be abandoned."
"So I conducted a lot of experiments on you in many world lines and found the fundamental reason why you have this need." Bai Liu raised his eyes and smiled, "Because you have souls."
"I try to create souls."
"But even if I imitate a human in the world line and fabricate an identical shell, inject the same memory as this human into this shell, and then put him into the identical world line I created, this creation still cannot produce a soul."
"Even if I unify all the factors, this creature I created still cannot produce a soul. The production of a soul seems to require you humans to form it autonomously in a naturally formed social environment without my intervention."
"In all my life, I have never seen anything that I could not create, that I could not possess, and now it finally appears."
Bai Liu raised his lips and said, "This is really interesting."
“The most valuable things are those that I cannot create or own.”
"I have observed many world lines and discovered the law of the birth of human souls. That is, when a human has two specific strong emotions, it is likely to have a soul."
"Human society calls these two emotions love and pain."
"In order to test this theory, I began to descend into every world line as an evil god, and asked them to sacrifice to me with [pain] or [love]. In exchange, I would meet their requests for some external objects."
The smile on Bai Liu's face deepened: "But soon, I found something more interesting happened."
"Soul, love, and pain, these three things that I cannot create myself, I think are the most valuable, these human beings are willing to sell their love, pain, and soul for some external things that I casually give them."
"Even in the end, they themselves were no longer able to generate love to sell to me, but in order to continue to receive my material rewards, they chose to torture their own kind and offer their pain to me in exchange for my mercy."
"It is clear that comrades and love are essential conditions for their own survival, but they can abandon all of these for external things and fanatically pursue me, this evil god."
Bai Liu smiled and looked at Bai Liu across from him: "The tendency of humans to commit self-destruction is very interesting, isn't it?"
Bai Liu just looked at him coldly: "This kind of fun won't satisfy you for long, right?"
"Indeed." Bai Liu sighed with regret, and he shrugged his shoulders. "Because soon, these humans began to kill each other and abuse their own kind under the call of me, the evil god. Their hearts were filled with evil and darkness, and they could no longer produce the high-quality emotions and souls that I wanted to see. They became like monsters full of desires."
"Originally this side of the gate was full of light, but amidst the smoky struggles of this group of humankind, the universe on this side of the gate began to lose its truth, logic, and light, and soon became dim."
Bai Liu smiled and said, "——It became as dark as the other side of the door."
"And on the other side of the door, because all the world lines passed through me and arrived here, there are no longer a lot of world lines over there, and it has become brighter."
Bai Liu asked calmly, "Isn't it because you, the evil god, didn't intervene that the other side of the door has resumed normal operation?"
"I don't mind if you say so." Bai Liu smiled, "Anyway, in the end, the universes on both sides of the gate exchanged, and I've had enough of humans. I'm beginning to find the entire universe boring, so I want to find a successor to continue making the gate for me."
"I think the previous evil god might have also reached this point, so he chose me to be his successor."
"But to become a Gate, or the next evil god, you must meet a hard condition."
Bai Liu smiled and looked at Bai Liu: "——That means he must be able to bear the difference in the universe on both sides of the gate without collapsing. He must be able to accommodate the desires and evil of the entire universe. At the same time, this successor must be more valuable than me."
"So I also hope that this heir is a human being with a soul."
"Is this request worth it?" Bai Liu raised his eyes, "Is it your request?"
Bai Liu raised his lips: "Yes."
"If the thing sitting in my seat is a piece of junk cheaper than me, then it will be devoured by me when I wake up one day."
Bai Liubai crossed his hands in front of him in boredom and said, "Because it is too boring to exist in this universe, I hope my heir can kill me."
"But I searched for a long time and still couldn't find an heir who met my requirements."
"Finally, I was really bored to the limit, so I decided to try to create one myself." Bai Liu said with a smile. He stood up and walked slowly to the wax statue sitting on the chair behind him, and spoke in an orderly and emotional manner.
"I stripped away most of my divine power and gave it to this creation, sculpting it into the kind of appearance I like best, giving it a perfect body, and endowing it with the highest qualities that humans have ever praised."
Bai Liu stretched out his right hand and gently touched the wax statue's facial features. He lowered his eyes and looked at the wax statue:
"I gave him all the best things I had learned from human society, trying to make him my most perfect and valuable creation."
The wax statue's blurry face began to slowly melt and take shape, turning into delicate facial features. Wax dripped from the back of its head, and its long silver-blue hair loosely fell to the ground along with the wax. The wax statue's left and right hands took shape as they melted, white and strong, unconsciously drooping to the side of the chair. The wax statue's eyes were closed, and its chest began to slowly rise and fall from stillness, like a sleeping statue.
Bai Liu placed his hands lightly on the back of the chair and looked at Bai Liu with a smile:
"I call it the embodiment of my good will and name it Tawil."
The author has something to say:
The original setting in the Kremlin mythology is that Tawil is the embodiment of the good side of the Jews. I made some changes here and he is a creation.