Facing Harvey's question, Ash sat in the sunshine outside the shade of the tree and looked at the necromancer with strange eyes.

"You're not the kind of person who speaks ill of others behind their backs. If you have any opinions, you always say them to their faces. If you think they're not strong enough, you'll ask Alice to come out and speak with you." Ash said, "I don't think Igula has offended you recently, has he?"

"I have no problem with Igulas," Xavi said. "I'm just curious about your thoughts."

"Why?"

"Ash, you are a good person." The necromancer said, "No matter if you were a cult leader in the past, you have never been a bad person in my eyes since I met you. Valcas, Igula, Liz, Annan... You are not a good person, but you have never done evil. You are so clean that you don't look like a Blood Moon person at all."

"I think Igula wants to ask this question, but he doesn't dare to ask it. What do you think of us two death row prisoners who have committed many evil deeds?"

"I just came up here to bask in the sun. I didn't expect to answer such an important question..." Ash rubbed his temple. "To use your words, since I met you--"

Harvey interrupted him: "In Gospel, we were restrained by An Nan and had no choice. After coming to Senluo... you should have remembered why the food factory town drove us out? Yindeng's framing was only one of the reasons. The main reason was that we were too presumptuous there."

“But you also considered the impact.”

"That's why we can't catch Silver Lantern." Harvey said, "Doesn't the Trickster know that a gas station can be a weapon of mass destruction? With his psychic powers, why would he lead Silver Lantern to sparsely populated areas instead of turning the crowds into his own weapons?"

"Even if we can't catch Silver Lantern, we will definitely find a way to eliminate the blood species." Ash said seriously: "I promise."

"That's not the point. The point is our natures." Harvey touched Alice's head and said, "Do you think I'm only satisfied with Alice? Now there's no Annan to constrain me, and Senluo doesn't even have a unified government. I have inexhaustible materials... If I weren't with you, in order to support my research, I would probably join a sect that doesn't affect my research, and become their thug to bring the undead disaster to this land."

"It's the same for the trickster. This world where order and chaos coexist is simply a wonderful paradise. Here, he can fully display his wisdom, tricks, and means and play everyone in the palm of his hand... If he was the only one who came here, he would probably be a small leader of the Four Pillars Cult by now."

Ash: "But you didn't do that."

"Yeah, we didn't do that, why?"

Alice took Harvey's cigarette butt and swallowed it.

"I'm a little different from the fraudster." Harvey took out a chocolate bar and ate it. "I'm like a dead leaf that falls into a river, floating downstream, regardless of whether the end is the sea or the mud; but he is a fish swimming upstream, and may even become a flying bird... He will take his own life into his own hands and will never go with the flow."

"But there is one thing we are the same. We have never treated others as human beings. A talking corpse, a prop that can be used... that's all."

"If one day we do something you cannot accept, how will you treat us?"

Ash said, "This assumption is so boring. Just like asking a relative what to do if your parents don't want you anymore."

"Have you forgotten that we are the Blood Moon people..."

"Ouch, but you know what I mean."

"Take the example of the food factory town," Harvey said. "If Igula drags the entire town into battle in order to catch the Silver Lantern, and if I choose to transform into a dragon lich that spreads the plague instead of a Hades Knight in order to stop the Silver Lantern...what will you do?"

Ash looked at him calmly without saying anything.

Harvey ate most of the chocolate bar, and Alice gobbled up the rest.

"When you hesitate, you have already made a choice in your heart," he said. "We are no longer companions in prison escape, nor are we indentured slaves, nor are we comrades you can trust unconditionally."

"No, I'm not hesitating. I'm just surprised that you guys were able to almost kill Silver Lantern even though you were so restrained." Ash clenched his fists and said, "Next time I meet Silver Lantern, I will take him down!"

"Huh?" Harvey blinked.

"I understand what you mean." Ash said, "If you hadn't taken me into consideration, you would definitely be much more brutal than you are now. I have never doubted the evil in your hearts. How could a person who was born in the environment of the Blood Moon not have a violent temper that hates the world and the world?"

"So, I'm honored to be your concern." The cult leader chuckled, "It feels like becoming your guardian."

"Of course trust should be given to those who deserve it. Since you have given me the chain, how can I refuse to become your shackles? Even if, as you said, you are going to do something I cannot accept..."

"I can also suppress you immediately." Ash's eyes were bright: "Don't underestimate me, Necromancer."

Harvey was stunned and couldn't help laughing: "Then I'll wait and see."

He reached out to Alice, and just as Ash was thinking about whether to turn around, he took out a harmonica.

"Where's the harmonica?"

"Products that surpass the Temple." Harvey said, "Their best-selling products are these luxury products with a certain level of craftsmanship. Unfortunately, they are chromatic harmonicas. I used to play the polyphonic harmonica."

"Oh...wait, you used to play the harmonica?" Ash frowned. "We all know each other so well, I won't praise you even if you brag about yourself like this."

Harvey pressed the transpose button with his thumb, and a melodious piano sound rang out. It sounded a little familiar, perhaps it was the song that was played in Broken Lake Prison.

Under the shade of a tree, a dark-skinned, curly-haired young man was playing a harmonica, with something that looked like a beautiful girl leaning next to him. But when he thought that it was the necromancer and his corpse, Ash felt even more scared - compared to an ordinary necromancer, a necromancer who could play the harmonica was obviously more terrifying and perverted.

But Harvey played the piano quite well, and Ash lay on the lawn leisurely, enjoying the rare leisure time. After several songs, the piano stopped playing, and Ash yawned and sat up, only to find that many believers of transcendence appeared around him.

They were about ten years old and wore the same blue and white uniforms, but with less outer clothing, only the ears and the back of the neck. They looked at Harvey curiously, urging him with their eyes to "encore" and "encore".

"Why are there so many children?" Ash asked.

"This is the basic education floor," Harvey said. "All children under the age of twelve receive education in classrooms on this floor. This is actually their playground."

So you went to the elementary school playground to smoke...

"So what now? One more song or leave?"

"One more song and then we'll go."

When Harvey blew, Ash suddenly realized that he had heard this song before. It was the theme song when he and Freya were watching a TV series. The rhythm was so magical that it left a deep impression on him. He sat there and beat the beats, and gradually the beats became a string. The children watching were soon assimilated by Ash, and a music class began in the stadium.

The song ended, Harvey was about to stand up and leave, when suddenly a little girl ran over, hugged him and gave him a kiss.

Alice had been tense and ready to fight, but she finally relaxed. Harvey looked at the little girl strangely, and the little girl's face turned red. She was stunned for a long time before she stammered out two words: "Good... Listen!"

After that, she quickly returned to her friend group and exchanged glances with everyone, without a single word in the air. They were communicating through the intelligent computing center, and there was no need for such an inefficient information exchange channel as speaking.

She was stunned for so long just now, probably because she didn't react at all - although the intelligence center will weaken self-awareness, it will strengthen impulsive reactions. Simply put, transcendent believers are a group of people whose bodies move faster than their consciousness. Before they have specific thoughts, their bodies have completed their goals.

Looking at these children running away, Ash suddenly fell into deep thought.

"Let's go, what are you thinking about?" Harvey asked as he put Alice back into the coffin.

"I just wonder, when I feel sorry for them for gradually losing their self-awareness in the future, are they also feeling sorry for me for not having the chance to evolve into a more intelligent being in this lifetime?"

"They definitely are." Harvey said with certainty, "Just like I pity you for not learning the Necromancer faction and insisting on eating shit."

"Yes, you have your hobbies, they have their ideals, and even I have the light of my life." Ash said, "If reality is really an illusion..."

"But I am also the protagonist who I cannot allow others to deny."