Are the 'cicada pupa' and 'companion exchange' meant to give trial participants a chance to understand each other?

Youlan really wanted to sneer at this conclusion, but looking at Ash's serious expression, she found that she couldn't laugh.

After a moment of silence, she sat down in a chair farther away from Ash and said, "What do you want to talk about?"

"Can you take off your mask?"

"No." Youlan shook her head: "I will not reveal my name, appearance, and any key information that can point to me. Not only to avoid miracles such as the prophecy faction, but also for..."

"for what?"

"When Yin Deng is willing to tell you her real name, she will also tell you the answer."

"Okay." Ash didn't expect to be able to get key information by just talking. After all, he wasn't Igula. "What will be the outcome of this trial?"

Youlan smiled and said, "You obviously have your own judgment, why are you asking me?"

Ash was startled and stared at Youlan suspiciously. Youlan lowered her head shyly: "Don't stare at me like that. I'm wearing a mask..."

"No, I just think your tone is similar to that of the spectator." Ash said, "Every time I ask a question, he always shuts me up with this sentence."

Youlan blinked, "But we are both right, right? If the answer we give is different from your judgment, will you change your judgment? If not, then what is the point of our answer?"

"It really doesn't make any sense." Ash nodded happily: "But I'm used to starting the conversation with more superficial topics, and then gradually going deeper. In this way, maybe you will subconsciously reveal some important information..."

"A psychic's speech skills?"

"Maybe. After all, the closer you are to someone, the fatter you get. I unconsciously picked up a lot of his bad habits." Ash said, "But it may also be that I like chatting with my friends."

"There's no need for any meaning or purpose. Isn't it meaningful to just chat with each other?"

Youlan suddenly laughed and said, "You sound like a magician who has never experienced loneliness."

Ash suddenly became nervous, feeling as if he had been seen through by the mirror owner.

However, Youlan did not continue the topic, but said very straightforwardly: "This is the Divine Fire Trial left over from the Gray Fox Age of Gods. It is a subsystem of the Divine Fire System. Although it cannot directly determine the great method that will govern the next Age of Gods, it also has a crucial impact."

"It is indeed related to the divine fire..." Ash was not too surprised, nodded and said: "So, your ultimate goal is to become a Dafa?"

“We can’t say it’s the ultimate goal, but Dafa is indeed a stage in our plan.”

"Can you tell me what exactly you are pursuing?"

"Yin Deng has already revealed this to you, right?" You Lan said, "We believe that this world is just a dream of the Lord God, an illusion of all living beings. What we pursue is to burst this dream and return everyone to the eternal future."

"This is actually what I don't understand the most," Ash said, "assuming that you are right and the world is indeed a dream, this view can only explain why you are so reckless. Destroying life is as easy as breathing, and creating disasters is as easy as eating. After all, in a dream, you don't need to care about the consequences."

"But I can't understand why you want to burst the dream. What's wrong with letting everyone be born, grow old, get sick and die in the dream and then return to the virtual world? If you are in a hurry to get out of the dream, you can also return to eternity directly."

Youlan shook her head slowly.

"Have you ever met the Heroic Soul Commander in the Continent of Time?"

Ash was startled, then nodded: "I've met a few."

“Then you should understand that death is not the end, and eternity is also slavery.” Youlan said: “Only by piercing the dream of reality can we completely sever the shackles between the Lord God and us, and see freedom in eternity.”

"So, what you pursue is not power, fame, status, or achievements in this world, but eternal freedom after death?"

"You could say that."

Ash realizes that there is an irreconcilable contradiction between him and Silver Lantern. He cares about reality, while Silver Lantern is completely disappointed with reality. However, she also realizes that the virtual world is not a utopia of peace and tranquility, so she tries to create a better future by destroying reality.

To use a gaming analogy, Yin Deng is like a player who knows special cheats. She believes that as long as she completely destroys the first level, she can get a better identity and career in the second level.

More importantly, she had no attachment to the first level.

If you think about it carefully, all Senluo people have some world-weary characteristics to a certain extent. After all, another way of saying "burning faith" is to die early and be reborn early.

Yin Deng grew up in the Fire Temple. When she opened her eyes, she saw the devastated wasteland of the apocalypse, the constant wars between sects, and the darkness that strangled the alienated and weak, as if the world had always been so bad.

However, everyone knows that many years ago, this world was still the peaceful and harmonious Age of the Gray Fox Gods, and they can even recall that beautiful past from the Gray Fox Legacy... Compared to living in darkness all the time, these Senluo people who can glimpse the glory of the past from time to time naturally hate the wasteland era more.

To the Senluo people, reality is indeed a garbage game.

Unless Ash can make Silver Lantern indulge in illusion again, Silver Lantern will be destroyed in this world!

Seeing Ash lost in thought, Youlan smiled and said, "So, it's not that easy for people to understand each other, right?"

"No, you helped a lot." Ash said, "At least you made me understand that Silver Lantern is not an indescribable monster, but an ordinary person with weaknesses."

"I feel like I have harmed Yin Deng." You Lan said, "As compensation, can you answer a question for me?"

"My dream is to grow old with the one I love!" Ash answered immediately.

Youlan blinked: "So my question is, who is your beloved?"

Ash's eyes flickered, and he spread his hands and said, "You wouldn't know him even if I told you."

"But you hesitated." Youlan stood up. "I guess you hesitated because you are not sure who your beloved is..."

"Or are you hesitating because there is more than one candidate?"

Ash picked up the pillow next to him and threw it over. Youlan dodged it nimbly and floated into her bedroom like the wind, leaving behind a silver bell-like laugh: "Good night, Ash."

"Good night, Mirror Master."

…

Ash returned to his bedroom and locked the door. After washing up, he found that he had exceeded the agreed online time, so he quickly lay down on the bed, opened "Aurora's Magician's Manual" and chose "Virtual Realm Exploration"!

Soon, Ash opened his eyes in the dream bubble and saw his three teammates around him.

"Viewer——!"

Diya rushed over and hugged him instantly, her eyes misty with tears, "I didn't mean to hit you yesterday!"

"It's okay. Didn't I almost hit you yesterday?" Ash said, "It's all the fault of the "Love and Hate Reversal". After all, the reason why I suddenly encountered this curse affix is ​​because of my semi-tactile identity. This time I'm the one who implicated you."

"If I continue to encounter curse affixes frequently, I will have to consider whether to temporarily withdraw from the team and let the three of you team up until I solve the semi-tactile curse and come back..."

"No!" Diya hugged him tightly and shook her head firmly: "You have helped us a lot, this time it is our turn to help you! Don't you agree?"

"Yes." Weisser responded quickly, "Without the captain's help, my exploration speed would definitely be difficult. If the price I pay is just to help me get through the curse affix, it's really worth it."

Two of the three operators had already expressed their opinions, and then everyone turned around and found that the red-haired sword lady had quietly walked away. When they caught up with her, they heard the sword lady's calm voice: "Don't be lazy, start looking for affixes."

The witch followed her and said, "But we were talking about last night..."

"Don't talk about last night!" Sonia slashed at Diya's forehead with a knife.

But when she looked up and saw Ash's expression of wanting to laugh but not daring to, her face suddenly turned red as fire, and it seemed as if steam was coming out of her head. Then her right hand subconsciously reached for the hilt of the sword -

"I hate small talk." Ash said righteously, "Hurry up and explore the affixes. We need to make up for yesterday's shortfall today. The goal is ten bubbles!"