Chapter 98
Long, long ago, before the world was formed, there appeared a golden chair. Or maybe a sofa.
This sofa is finely and gorgeously made. The wood is a sacred tree that is the only one in the world. The fabric is the finest velvet made from silk spun by a golden tailor. The armrests and backrest are inlaid with diamonds, crystals, gold foil and pearls. It is so beautiful that anyone who sees it will be amazed.
Where do these materials come from, you ask?
Nobody knows.
That sofa was there before there was a world.
Since this sofa is so beautiful, let's give it a more fitting name. Let's call it: Throne.
The world had not yet been created, so there were no inhabitants and no one had ever sat on it.
The throne remained alone until one day, an egg appeared on it.
Normally, only one individual will hatch from an egg.
But this egg is not normal.
After an unknown amount of time, the creatures inside broke out of the shell - two snakes.
One black and one white.
These two snakes were twins born on the throne, and they were meant to grow up together.
But they grew too fast, and soon the throne was no longer big enough to accommodate them, and was destined to only hold one snake.
What did I say earlier, remember?
Yes, the world had not yet been born.
Therefore, there are no other species except the throne and the twin snakes, so the rapidly growing snakes have no food source.
They all want to survive, want to monopolize this beautiful throne and become the leader of the world.
The black snake and the white snake devoured each other until only a body was left.
The twins' wills were still independent, and so they began a long war, fighting for control over this body and the future world.
The black snake and the white snake are equally powerful, and neither of them is willing to submit to the other. Winning and losing are common, and sometimes the east wind prevails over the west wind, and sometimes it's the other way around.
They couldn't decide who was the boss, so they had to reluctantly reach an agreement: the two would exist alternately and coexist.
I need to add that in the process of fighting for the body, the twins have already begun to build the world, and different species have appeared.
The Black Snake and the White Snake are so powerful that they created an amusement park, recruiting various races to enter and watch them compete. Yes, it is very interesting.
At first, both the black snake and the white snake just took it as fun and treated all the contestants equally, until one day, the white snake noticed a rabbit.
Did you know that in the food chain, the rabbit is the snake's food? That is, the snake is supposed to eat the rabbit.
But the white snake became interested in the rabbit, and while the black snake was asleep, he violated the ban and secretly left the throne to go to the amusement park.
The white snake transformed itself into another rabbit, stayed by the rabbit's side, and watched it pass through one competition after another - well, I have to admit that it was indeed a somewhat special rabbit.
This rabbit was originally very arrogant and looked down on other animals, including the other rabbit that the white snake turned into.
But the white snake pursued the rabbit in various ways, and worked hand in hand with the rabbit in life and death situations again and again - I mean, in difficult competitions. They developed something called love.
Later, just like all cheesy fairy tales, the white snake and the rabbit fell in love.
People in love, oh no, I mean animals, always want to be together every day.
The white snake could not imagine the days without seeing the rabbit, and was no longer willing to exchange flesh/body with the black snake.
So, the cunning white snake seized control of the body of the innocent black snake while it was sleeping, and took the opportunity to seal the black snake's consciousness into the swamp.
Do you know what a swamp is, little one? It's a place where you can't get out once you get stuck.
Yes, it's scary.
You also think that white snakes are hateful and black snakes are pitiful, right?
But the white snake only sealed the black snake's consciousness and could not kill it because the black snake was also very powerful.
The White Snake knows very well that the Black Snake will wake up one day or another and launch a fierce revenge, launching the ultimate war for control and eating its beloved rabbit.
In fact, Black Snake could sense what his twin brother was interested in while he was sleeping, but unfortunately the feeling was vague and he couldn't distinguish it clearly.
In order to save the rabbit, the white snake had to erase its memory and send it out of the amusement park.
For the rabbit's sake, it gave in to its brother for the first time and promised not to let the rabbit remember it and that it would never go to see the rabbit again. From then on, they were strangers; but the condition was that the black snake could not go to find it.
The White Snake once gave the Rabbit a gift, a hairpin.
This hairpin is not ordinary. It is not only an ornament, but also stores the energy of the white snake and sealed memories.
If one day the rabbit encounters an unsolvable danger, the hairpin will protect him.
But this comes at a price: once used, the rabbit's sealed memories will resurface.
Honey, you've noticed too, haven't you? Rabbit regained his memory, which violated the twins' agreement.
The white snake was hoping for a lucky break, hoping that one day he would be able to destroy the black snake and eliminate its consciousness, so that he could recognize the rabbit again.
The rabbit returned to its original world and lived a peaceful life, with little chance of encountering any danger. The hairpin remained just a hairpin, never to be used.
But the accident still happened.
Although the rabbit and the white snake are both male, the white snake is not an ordinary snake. In short, the rabbit is pregnant with the white snake's child.
...As for how you got pregnant, Xiao Lijue, that's not something I should tell you. Ask your dad when you get home.
(If you could go back. Ha.)
The white snake has very powerful strength, and so does the fetus with its blood.
If the white snake and the black snake were the only two gods in the world—metaphorically, dear, not that they were actually gods. They were just snakes—then this fetus was the third god that suddenly appeared, a third god that no one expected.
Its appearance will change the whole world.
You remember, I said that when the twins created the world, they built an amusement park, and it is still there.
The amusement park was affected by the energy of the Heir of God, which means the child of God, and the one that Rabbit was pregnant with, and began to become turbulent.
As we mentioned earlier, Black Snake's consciousness was sealed into the swamp by White Snake. Although this swamp was difficult to escape, it was not enough to kill Black Snake. The brave Black Snake had been struggling and resisting.
After the unremitting struggle of the righteous black snake, the evil white snake became weaker step by step.
The black snake might wake up at any time, so in order to prevent the black snake from knowing the existence of the rabbit and the child, it had to block its memory of them.
When the heir of God was three years old, the white snake finally couldn't hold on any longer, and the throne was taken away by the black snake that returned from the swamp.
Dear, think about it, if you were Black Snake and were locked up for so many years without knowing the reason, you would also be very angry, right?
So this cannot be blamed on the black snake. The black snake just did what everyone would do: it wanted to take revenge on the white snake.
Just like the White Snake couldn't completely wipe out the Black Snake, the Black Snake couldn't do it either; fortunately, the Black Snake found a method that was far more interesting than directly harming the White Snake - letting the White Snake's remaining consciousness witness in person how he found the rabbit that the White Snake loved so much.
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"And what happened next?"
Children always ask this question when listening to stories, and Li Jue is no exception.
The black-haired god smiled slightly. "Later, of course, the black snake found the rabbit and took it away."
Zizi asked: "So, did the black snake hurt the rabbit?"
The god said, "I don't think so. Dear, who do you think is the good guy and who is the bad guy in this story?"
Zizi replied: "They are neither good nor bad."
The god raised an eyebrow: "Oh? Why do you say that?"
The baby blinked his eyes, sincere and innocent: "Because they are not human."
God: "...That's not what I meant. Then, let me ask you another question. Who do you think is wrong, the White Snake or the Black Snake?"
He didn't know why he had to let such a tiny little creature prove the judgment that even the long years could not interfere with or decide.
But He really needed—almost urgently needed—an answer from the little cub.
The child propped up his cheek, thinking.
After a long while, he raised his little face and said seriously, "White Snake and Black Snake, do you really want to live together?"
The god didn't expect this kind of answer, or it would be more appropriate to call it a question.
He frowned. "I don't think so. They have wanted to kill each other since birth. If they were able to do so, they would have devoured each other long ago."
Li Jue said, "But they are the elder brother and the younger brother."
The god was stunned.
The child continued, his voice soft and milky, sweeter than candy: "Before Big Brother Snake met Bunny, Little Brother Snake was his only family."
"Big Brother Snake must also want to be with Little Brother Snake... um... in the world." He couldn't put it into words like "rule the world," so he simply used actions instead, holding his left hand with his right hand, solemnly, "Because, we are a loving family!"
On the throne sat twins, before brother turned against brother, before blood relatives turned against each other, before they killed each other.
Originally, they should be the two most similar and closest individuals in the world.
The black-haired god lowered his eyes and looked at him. After a while, the corners of his mouth curled up to reveal a smile, and then the smile became wider and wider, and the laughter became gradually more crazy.
He laughed so hard that he doubled over and cried.
"Sinlia, Sinlia, he is indeed your good son, as naive and ridiculous as you..."
The story he told Li Jue was full of strong personal colors and selfishness, ignoring all the parts about the "White Snake" wanting to ask the "Black Snake" to coexist with it countless times. He literally reversed black and white and put all the blame for trying to monopolize the body and completely kill the other one on his own brother.
Sinlia had made many concessions, hoping to coexist with his brother, to hold the world in his hands together, and to still have each other's company.
But He refused.
The attempt on Shen Yan blocked all room for maneuver.
As a "black snake", he was born to go towards darkness and become an evil god that is irreconcilable with the "white snake" representing light.
White and black, light and darkness, good and evil are destined to be unable to coexist.
"Perhaps we once had a chance to be brothers," Helper said softly, caressing the child's cheek. "Alas, it's too late now."
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