The flames in the tower, though pale, were as brilliant as fireworks.
People gathered together, looked out at the attic where pure fire was burning, and cheered.
Everyone's face was filled with excitement, excitement and hope.
They knew that this was the birth of a new shrine maiden and the continuation of the island.
The new Son of God will command the pure fire to purify the island of Kazushima and protect everyone.
People sang songs and were sincerely happy for the succession of the Son of God.
They had seen the new Son of God before, with short black hair, amber eyes, young and beautiful. They believed that this Son of God would definitely protect them and bring a ray of light to this dark end of the world.
Under the treetops of the sacred cherry tree, Baobao looked at the flaming tower with a serious expression.
“Is this what it feels like to lose something?”
She murmured to herself.
"I changed her clothes myself, sent her up to the attic, and locked the door. I could clearly hear her pleading, her despair, and her curses. I witnessed her death with my own eyes."
Lu Ban on the side looked at Bao Bao, then looked at the cheering crowd.
This deception will continue for many years until the island is destroyed.
One girl after another will be burned by the pure fire and turned into firewood for the divine cherry blossom.
Under the witness of Leopard, the death of the little witch has become a fact that cannot be erased or changed. No existence can tamper with it, not even herself.
She couldn't even invent an imaginary being to keep her company.
Lu Ban originally thought that Bao Bao was just a fun-loving person who was just joking, but he didn't expect that she would actually get so into the role.
Maybe all Outer Gods are like this. As long as they want, they can even become tools.
After thinking about it carefully, Lu Ban understood a little more.
Just like when he is reading a novel, watching a movie, or playing a game, if he encounters a memorable plot and is touched, he will want to share this feeling, even at the cost of tricking others to come and see it.
At times like this, a situation that clearly makes you heartbroken will make you happy because it causes other people to break down their defenses.
This kind of devil-like behavior may be the complexity of human nature.
But to Baobao, she is the player. Both Lu Ban and the little witch are characters in the game.
She can experience profound joys and sorrows because she is immersed in the plot, but she is just a player.
When you turn off the game, everything returns to reality.
Even Leopard would reminisce about this plot and trick others into experiencing it, watching them burst into tears and laughing.
Of course, Baobao can also open a modifier, whether it is Fengling Yueying or Lanlv modifier, to change this imperfect plot into what she wants, or even go directly to the author, beat him up, lock him in a small dark room and change the plot according to her own ideas.
But this is not what Leopard wants.
Just like when people watch a magic show, they don’t really want to figure out the trick, but they want to be deceived.
What she expects is the thrill of that moment when a story beyond her control strikes her heart, and the joys and sorrows played out on the stage of fate that no one can predict.
So Leopard even deceives himself.
Lu Ban witnessed all of this.
Silver words appeared in the field of vision.
【Witness the budding: 1/1】
【Congratulations on completing the task】
He was able to return. Lu Ban called out "Baobao". She wiped away her tears and soon turned back into the lazy and cunning girl she once was.
[Do you choose to return? ]
【whether】
He chose to return, and after a moment, clear flames ignited around him, surrounding Lu Ban.
He saw the surrounding scenery being burned by the flames, fading, and then starting to flow again.
He saw one priestess after another climbing up to the attic. Curses and pain filled Shenying and turned into nutrients for Xia.
He saw those he knew meet their end.
He saw that despite this, this world would still be destroyed with a sigh, and would disappear without a trace, and no one would be able to find any trace of its existence.
Lu Ban looked at all this and suddenly had a similar feeling.
When he is separated from these, he will be able to see everything clearly.
He had a new understanding.
On the side, Baobao was still holding Lu Ban's hand, observing this bizarre foreign land with great interest.
Lu Ban thought that the so-called Old Ones and the so-called Outer Gods were able to possess such great power because they were independent of all worlds.
These foreign lands are like movies to those great beings.
They can adjust the progress at will, fast forward, pause, rewind, and watch the same clip repeatedly.
And when they see the details of those fragments, they will remember and fix them.
But there are so many movies, and not every one of them has been seen by anyone.
Sometimes, audiences have only heard the plot outline of certain movies and know the general plot, but not the details, just like a cat in a box, whose life or death is uncertain.
Therefore, in order to make the movie develop in the direction they want, some viewers will use their power to find someone to tamper with the contents of the film.
Different audiences have different preferences. Some like tragedy, some like comedy. Conflicts and contradictions allow them to constantly and indirectly change the content of the movie.
This is the origin of God's Chosen One.
If you want to break away from the movie and become a viewer, you need to travel through the foreign land and completely break away from it.
This is sublimation.
Taoist Heming once said that the way to become a god is to leave an indelible mark on the world and sublimate into a conceptual existence.
But now it seems that it is only an incomplete path to becoming a god. Such gods can only roam in foreign lands within a certain range, but cannot reach the height of true gods.
The real gods are the players.
The audiences, readers, and players in this foreign land are none other than the Old Ones.
As for foreign gods like Baobao, they are directors, screenwriters, and actors from foreign lands.
Lu Ban wanted to protect the world he lived in from pollution, so he provided foreign pollution in advance and raised the erosion threshold of the entire world.
But if we really want to free the world from the influence of pollution, we must present this exotic land to the "audience".
It was written, photographed, and narrated by a creator, observed and solidified by countless Old Ones, forming an unchangeable work.
Lu Ban must transform from being a part of the alien land to becoming a "director" who can control the alien land.
He must usurp the script-writing pen from the hands of that unknown higher being, and write the end and conclusion of this world with his own hands.
He must become the Great Old One who is superior to the Great Old Ones, the God above Gods.