Chapter 396: Her Ghost Boyfriend (22)
Bai Yao said in panic: "This shouldn't happen. He obviously knew that there was something wrong with the tower. He shouldn't have gone in!"
Anna: "He really shouldn't have gone in, but something unexpected happened."
Twenty years ago, in the Silent Forest, cracks appeared on the ground and quickly spread outwards. A large amount of dark aura surged out, and the towering white tower was about to collapse.
The magic power was unbalanced, and Sofia was the first to feel the pain. She fell to the ground, her face twisted in pain as if her body was being torn apart. "Gerald, you must go into the tower with a heart to save the world! Only if you are willing to be a sacrifice, the curse of the forest can be stopped!"
Hejin lay on the ground powerlessly, with many wounds on his body, which were the injuries he suffered in the battle with Gerald. "Gerald, if you don't go in, everyone outside will die."
Gerald asked: "Why me?"
Anna stood in front of a crack and said He smiled and said, "Gerald, don't you understand? People outside spent twenty years turning you from an ordinary person into a brave man who saves the world, just so that you can walk into the tower today, complete the final sacrifice ceremony, and calm the anger of the forest."
The people of the empire saw the benefits of the magic stone, but these magic stones only exist deep underground in the forest. Humans, whose greed can never be satisfied, do their best to mine the magic stones under the forest. One forest after another collapses in the roar of machines.
Animals are displaced, and the air is full of waste gas and dust brought by magic machines. Under the prosperous appearance, in the hidden corners, more and more people and animals are affected by irreversible industrial pollution and become mutated monsters.
Finally, the Silent Forest was all that remained in the Empire.
A huge Empire, only the Silent Forest was left, but this was not enough to make them reflect on their greed that would never be satisfied.
So the "world" cast a curse.
The people in the Empire will die one day, as a punishment for their disrespect for life, and the only way to resolve the curse is for the people in power in the Empire, the royal family that allowed all the "massacres", to have a bloodline that has the heart to save the world and is willing to sacrifice itself and be witnessed by the "world", then the curse can stop.
Gerald is not an orphan of the common people, he is the bloodline of the king, but also an unimportant bloodline.
In order to make him believe that he is the savior and has the faith to save the world, he was raised in the town of Orton, which is closest to the Forest of Tranquility, since he was born. All the residents in the town are just actors who push him to "become a hero".
They wove a golden dream of a hero for Gerald for twenty years. His thinking, his personality, and his consciousness were all made into what others wanted, and none of these had anything to do with him personally.
For twenty years, Gerald lived in a huge lie.
There was no dragon, no princess, and no hero.
Even the teammates he thought he met by fate and should cherish were just pawns sent by the royal family to push him to the established path.
After being in a trance for a long time, Gerald strangely found that he did not have much emotional fluctuations. In fact, the moment he learned the truth, he felt unprecedented relief.
He is not a hero.
He is not a savior.
He can throw all those hopes and expectations behind his head.
Sofia and Hegin kept begging him to go into the tower to complete the sacrifice, otherwise everyone would die, but soon, the cracks in the ground expanded, Sofia fell into the cracks filled with magma, and Hegin was killed by the falling trees, and even his body was crushed.
The roar of the collapse continued, but Gerald felt that the world was so quiet for the first time.
He walked out of the Silent Forest. He couldn't wait to find Miss Honey and share with her the good news that he was not a hero. But when he stepped into the town of Orton, the scene in front of him stopped him. The
houses in the town collapsed, the ground was shaking, and the people who wanted to escape by airship also fell from the sky because the airship lost power.
All the magic stones have lost their power. After losing these magical tools that they rely on and are convenient, in the face of disaster, humans are just as small as ants.
The cries of pain and fear mixed together, and the town has lost its superficial happiness and peace.
Not only the town of Orton, but the entire empire, everything is collapsing with the cracks spreading on the ground. People who fall into the cracks where magma rolls are so weak that they are not even as strong as a reptile.
Gerald didn't care about the lives of these people. When someone knelt on the ground and hugged his legs to ask for help, he could kick them away coldly.
It was at this moment that he suddenly realized that he was no different from those people in the royal family. They were just as cold and didn't care about the lives of others.
Indeed, he had never been a son of light, nor a good person. It turned out that when he accepted his true self, those so-called moral senses were abandoned, and he felt that his steps were so easy.
The black-haired couple hurriedly avoided the collapsed house with their child. The woman accidentally bumped into Gerald. The child in her arms was about to fall into the crack. She shouted: "My child!"
A strong arm caught the baby in the cradle.
The half-year-old girl opened her dark eyes. She blinked gently, her long eyelashes fluttered slightly, as if a butterfly flapped its wings. She stretched out her hand, as if she wanted to touch the young man's bright golden hair. Then, she smiled widely, unaware of the danger.
The child was soon taken back by her parents. The father thanked them quickly, grabbed his wife's hand and continued to run.
Gerald suddenly asked, "What is your child's name?"
The young parents paused slightly, and the mother replied, "Bai Yao."
They ran away, but the town of Orton was surrounded by a mysterious force. They seemed to have hit an air wall, and cried desperately while holding the child.
Not only in the town of Orton, but also in other cities, it was as if everyone was trapped, and they would eventually die in the angry magma.
The mayor was a middle-aged man. He dragged his injured body to Gerald, fell to the ground again, and said with difficulty: "Gerald, the curse, the curse will take the lives of everyone in the empire... You must, must return to the tower..."
Gerald ignored the people on the ground. He just stared at the family of three over there, or more precisely, the baby girl in the cradle. He suddenly understood a lot of things.
He suddenly laughed.
The golden hair was prettier than the color of the sun, the smile on his face was warmer than the sun, the rippling waves in his green eyes, the glittering light in them was brighter than the spring day in April.
So, he turned around, facing the opposite direction of the others running away, and walked into the forest full of holes alone with his broken body.
He chose to go to the tower, not to save the world like a brave man.
He chose to walk towards the established path of death in order to exchange for a world where she could live.
When the definition of "sacrifice" really emerged in his soul, the tower accepted him, the curse stopped, the cracks in the ground closed, and the world returned to peace.
In order to cover up the scandal, the royal family continued to portray him as a brave man who sacrificed himself to save the world after his death.
No one knew that the reason why he finally accepted the fate of a sacrifice and went to death was that a girl needed a stable world to grow up.
This world should have a blue sky, warm sunshine, and what should be there -