Chapter 113 Abyss… It turns out that “He” is really a child. …
The corpse angels hovering in the sky played a war song.
Corpses swarmed on the ground, but were quickly shattered by the jumping, rapidly changing arcs of electricity, and then became part of this pale wilderness again.
Seeing this, a few skeletons looked towards their masters.
Their master stood on a high ground, watching all this without sadness or joy, just like the billions of years in the past. So they thought: This may be another small episode in billions of years.
[Derivative: Corpse Guardian]
[Note: The guards of the Corpse Paradise. They wander around the Paradise all day long, maintaining its peace. Occasionally, they appear in the Abyss or other unowned areas.]
[Although they are guards, they also perform various duties such as scavengers and scouts. As derivatives of Plague Knight, they perform their duties faithfully and humbly stick to their mission. ]
The Pale Knight waved his hand to stop the guards from gathering.
He has realized that such behavior is meaningless. Jiang Huai's strength has greatly improved compared to when they parted, or in other words, he has returned to the level they met again last week.
"Are you finally willing to talk to me, Li Ming?" Jiang Huai said.
Because of the retreat of the corpses, Jiang Huai finally had enough energy to talk to the Pale Knight.
He wiped the sweat from his forehead with one hand, feeling a little exhausted. The moment he learned from Liu Mei that Li Ming had arrived in Shencheng, he knew without even thinking that the situation would develop into what it is now.
Jiang Huai was in Ningcheng recalling last week's purpose.
Although he had vaguely felt something was wrong before, he was more worried about the future and the people around him. When Jiang Huai regained his memory, he just felt absurd.
Why did his classmates suddenly become the Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
The battle of last week was still vivid in his mind. Even if Jiang Huai didn't want to believe it anymore, he could only accept that the humanoid disaster he was fighting was his roommate who died early in the past.
Perhaps, we shouldn't cry out for disaster.
But Jiang Huai was in a state of confusion at the time and had no intention of paying attention to this matter. He wanted to return to Lingcheng more urgently than ever before, but when he returned to Lingcheng, Li Ming was no longer there.
The whole city became a ghost town.
The streets and roads were in a mess. Modern high-rise buildings and the pristine old town were twisted and piled together, like different building blocks spliced together maliciously by a naughty child.
A bad expectation emerged in Jiang Huai's heart.
Jiang Huai thought at that time: Maybe he shouldn't have left Ningcheng.
Now he didn't even know how to face Li Ming. The relationship between the two of them had just begun to break the ice, but was soon blocked by a thicker and colder layer of ice.
Jiang Huai was in a state of confusion.
But even so, he had to go to Qingcheng. If everything was heading towards an irreversible end, at least... at least it would be a peaceful demise...
That meeting really became the last time he and Li Ming saw each other.
"My name is not Li Ming." said the Pale Knight.
"Hmm..." Jiang Huai remained silent after hearing this. After a long while, he smiled bitterly and said, "Can I ask your real name?"
"I don't have that."
"Um……"
"If you really want a name, you can call me the symbol."
Jiang Huai's eyes dimmed suddenly, but he still pretended to be normal and asked, "Then can you tell me why you named yourself 'Li Ming'?"
"Does this matter make sense?" the Pale Knight asked bluntly.
He swung the skeleton spear in his hand and pierced the invader in front of him. Electric arcs surrounded Jiang Huai and quickly took him away from here.
When Jiang Huai stood firm, he caught a glimpse of his fingertips that had suddenly turned white.
The dense burning sensation and the shocking pain passed through the skin and were transmitted to the brain. Jiang Huai looked up at the Pale Knight and said calmly: "You are indeed angry."
The Pale Rider did not answer.
He stared at Jiang Huai coldly, and then made the next attack. The battle between high-sequences was actually more like a confrontation between powers.
The vitality of the surrounding area quickly declined, and even the gradually retreating guards were implicated and killed.
Jiang Huai stared at the scene calmly.
For the Pale Knight, He does not care about the creatures in the realm.
The derivatives grew up in the wilderness, died in the wilderness, and were finally buried in the wilderness. Everything is the reincarnation of life, and after hundreds of years, the master of the domain will see them again.
This is also the law of the abyss.
The rapid electric current and the decaying plague confronted each other head-on at this moment. When they really faced each other, Jiang Huai found that the Pale Knight was not good at close combat.
All high-order calamities are not good at close combat.
Their confrontation has long been a contest between concepts, and battles involving concepts often end very quickly, because the strength of a concept can be identified at a glance.
The Pale Knight also realized this.
He did not choose to waste too much time, but immediately took a few steps back.
The Pale Knight raised the lance made of bones with one hand and announced coldly to the corpse angels hovering in the sky: "Now, it's time to descend."
The wind and snow engulfed the sky in the next second.
The fog wall in the distance quickly swept across the area, and the strong wind and blizzard instantly covered everything that was originally peaceful. It was not until this moment that Jiang Huai realized that he was in the center of the "tornado".
The wall of fog surrounding the sky is like the outer layer of wind swirling around a tornado, but because the "eye of the typhoon" is so vast, people ignore its existence.
The angels transformed from corpses played a requiem in unison in the sky.
This is the song of sacrifice they offer to the civilization of the passage.
"No--"
Jiang Huai's eyes suddenly widened. He must not let the "corpse paradise" come to the earth. This will be another "big selection", a doomsday judgment from the Knights of Apocalypse.
He ran towards the Pale Knight, and the bone spear in the Pale Knight's hand suddenly glowed.
The next second, heavy rain poured down.
The heavy raindrops fell on the lush vegetation, making the moss-covered bricks of the ancient city slippery and wet. Jiang Huai, who was caught off guard and relocated, tried his best to remain calm and looked around.
He witnessed the wreckage of a huge monster not far away.
A strange spider with a demonic eye was pierced by several spears thrown from the sky. It was a long time since his death, but the poisonous blood could still flow through the rain and pollute the entire street.
Where was he transferred to? Jiang Huai frowned.
"The disaster area I annexed in the past."
The words of the Pale Knight suddenly rang out. He walked over from the side of the spider corpse with a spear in his hand, then glanced at Jiang Huai coldly and said:
"To this day, this unowned territory still exists."
Jiang Huai scratched his cheek after hearing this.
He was a little confused and tried to probe: "...Do you think it's not good to fight in your own territory?"
"hehe."
There's no hope. Let this man die.
"I would like to continue fighting with you." The Pale Knight withdrew the bone spear in his hand expressionlessly and said coldly, "But some things should be said while I am still full of humanity."
Do you have plenty of humanity at the moment?
Jiang Huai was caught off guard after hearing this. He couldn't see the difference between the man on the other side and the Apocalypse Knight who lacked humanity that he had seen last week. Maybe the only thing missing between them was Li Ming.
But Li Ming clearly didn't speak like that.
"Heh." The Pale Knight said grimly.
He waved his hand to distort the territory and moved the pavilions and attics that could provide shelter from the rain. Jiang Huai watched helplessly as the skeleton of the Demon Eye Spider became farther and farther away, until it became the background behind the Pale Knight.
"Is there no way to deal with the ownerless area?" Jiang Huai asked doubtfully.
"Yes, but it's too much trouble."
The Pale Knight sat down at the stone table under the pavilion indifferently and replied: "Instead of wasting energy dealing with these, it is better to save a few more civilizations."
"As for the ownerless territory, the Abyss will take care of it."
"..." Jiang Huai fell silent after hearing this.
He obviously thought of something, but couldn't say it. Although Li Ming and he both knew that the ownerless area would bring endless troubles, Li Ming, as a knight of Apocalypse, didn't care.
A few living beings and billions of living beings from several civilizations.
The weight in the hearts of the Knights of Apocalypse indisputably tilted towards the latter. It was not that they did not want to save them, but compared to a few lives, an entire civilization that was affected and could still be saved was more important.
"The abyss..."
There was a change of color in Jiang Huai's eyes.
Although he was not able to actually communicate with the Abyss, Cui Yinyin in the second play later speculated that the reason why the Apocalypse Knight was forced to leave was because China angered the Abyss in the first play.
"The Abyss is like a child." Cui Yinyin concluded, "Directly communicating with the Abyss is extremely risky. Jiang Huai, think of Him as one of those unknowable gods of the K-series."
"The joy and anger of the gods are not something that humans can easily bear."
In reality, Jiang Huai turned to look at the Pale Knight and said seriously, "I didn't expect Him to be more normal when interacting with you. Is it because of your identity?"
"I really admire your recklessness."
The Pale Knight smiled after hearing this: "There are countless civilizations in the universe that want to communicate directly with the Abyss. But when the "leading ones" were all conquered by us without exception, the remaining civilizations have given up the idea."
"If you had communicated more with the Lost at that time, you wouldn't have made this stupid mistake."
Jiang Huai looked away awkwardly and said:
"I didn't expect this... and most of the Lost Ones refuse to communicate..."
"If you want to blame someone, blame your own civilization," the Pale Knight concluded. "It made a bad move. Normally, neither the Abyss nor us would leave early."
"There is usually a buffer period of several hundred years between the onset of the disaster and the end of the abyss."
"But what I didn't expect was that you couldn't even stop the first step of the disaster invasion. In this situation, even if I wanted to help secretly, I was powerless."
"...Ah." Jiang Huai was surprised, "So it can be resisted?"
"Yes."
The Pale Knight nodded and said, "If civilization can handle itself during this period, we will not end up like this. Although the Abyss is known in the universe as the 'ultimate great devil with unpredictable moods', He can still distinguish right from wrong."
The ultimate great demon god with unstable moods.
Jiang Huai thought to himself: He could hear the fear of the abyss from other civilizations. Their fear was so deep that they didn't even dare to use a too despicable name to avoid provoking the wrath of the abyss.
"Why is this happening?" Jiang Huai frowned and murmured.
His tense spirit finally relaxed a little.
Jiang Huai really didn't know that there would be such a huge difference between his own civilization and other civilizations. Maybe just like what Siren had mocked in the past, the values of civilizations are completely different.
"Because there is no magic."
Seeing this, the Pale Knight said indifferently: "Magic and science have always been the two focuses of civilization development. Science is the skeleton of civilization, and magic is the capillaries of civilization."
"Pursuing science alone can indeed make civilization develop rapidly; but a civilization without magic is like a country without an army, and can only be slaughtered by disasters."
"As early as the moment your civilization pursued science and gave up magic, this ending was determined. It thought it could rise to become a member of a higher civilization, but it didn't know that the suffering of the young bird was a fall to death without being able to escape."
The Pale Knight said coldly: "If you insist on saying who abandoned whom——"
"It is your civilization that has abandoned you as you are now."
"..." Jiang Huai fell silent after hearing this.
After a long while, he sighed sadly and said, "It sounds like there is no need to rescue him."
"Yes." The Pale Knight nodded in agreement, "If I wasn't the Apocalypse Knight who took over Earth civilization, the story of Earth civilization would have ended more than a decade ago."
Jiang Huai: “…”
Jiang Huai said in a bewildered tone: "Now I understand why the Lost Ones think that we can't escape destruction."
"They have the right idea." The Pale Knight disagreed.
Now there is absolutely nothing to talk about.
Jiang Huai experienced the embarrassment of a dull silence for the first time. He finally took a few steps forward and sat opposite the Pale Knight. The Pale Knight still looked neither sad nor happy, and it was hard to tell what he was thinking.
But Li Ming is obviously a person who expresses his emotions very openly... Jiang Huai was secretly depressed.
Jiang Huai asked cautiously:
"Can I ask why we have to talk here?"
"The reason is the Abyss." The Pale Knight replied: "If you and I continue to communicate peacefully and normally in my domain for too long, the Abyss will urge me to kill you and end this civilization."
Jiang Huai stiffened: "...It sounds bad."
"Yes, He has always been like this." The Pale Knight was used to it. "It is because of this characteristic of Him that we, the Knights of Apocalypse, cannot leave easily."
Jiang Huai felt mixed emotions after hearing this.
It turns out that "the moody Ultimate Demon God" is a description, not a metaphor. He had felt something was strange before, and it turned out that the strangeness came from here.
The lost, the ownerless territory, venting anger on others, urging destruction... So far, what Jiang Huai has learned from the Pale Knight about the actions of the Abyss are not very good.
Jiang Huai's expression was subtle: "...He must have made many mistakes."
"Hmm?" The Pale Knight paused after hearing this. He frowned and retorted, "The Abyss is never wrong. Even if He is flawed in some aspects, given His status, He could have cared nothing about it."
"..." Jiang Huai was surprised.
"I think you might be thinking of the Lost. I sympathize with their plight. Although I lack humanity and cannot offer any practical help, no surviving civilization in the universe is qualified to blame the Abyss."
"The abyss we are talking about now is a nickname for a god, while the abyss in the past was the kingdom of this god."
The Pale Knight spoke solemnly:
“When the god fled from the star field ravaged by disaster, he glanced at the desolate ruins behind him. He listened to the wailing of the creatures, witnessed their despair, and finally stopped.”
“He became the universe’s first and last wall against disasters.”
"If the abyss is really wrong, then it is also the fault of the universe. Because the god who created the abyss was not even one year old when he became a god. He himself was still a baby in his mother's cradle, so how could he distinguish between right and wrong?"
The Pale Knight looked at Jiang Huai and sneered, "He regards the children born with him after the catastrophe as his friends and tries his best to keep them. In the universe, the creatures call his behavior the 'Curse of the Abyss'."
"How ridiculous, don't you think?"
The metaphor that Cui Yinyin had just casually said to make it easier to understand suddenly became reality.
Jiang Huai lost his mind and said:
“…It turns out that He is really a little child.”
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