"Beep, beep, beep..." The steam rises and the second pot of tea is ready.
Shen Ming'an opened the lid of the tea, and a few strawberries, blackberries, and mulberries floated on the water, like fruits floating up and down. He poured two cups and pushed one of them in front of Su Ming'an.
"I don't drink tea." Su Mingan refused.
Shenming An laughed, his smile as cold as ice: "...You will drink it eventually."
Su Mingan was puzzled: "Huh?"
...Why do you say that?
Shenming An lifted the lid of the tea, brushed off the tea foam, and said calmly:
“People always have something they want to hold on to more. When compared with new ideas, old ideas are like discarded tea foam, and they are easily thrown away with the excuse of ‘ideological innovation’.”
"You say you don't drink tea now because you are remembering a deceased person. But do you remember that only a few months ago you told another person 'your tea is delicious'?"
"Some things are so common that people will easily overturn their previous ideas."
"Just like you, Su Ming'an, how many people have you promised 'I won't forget you' to? Xiaohan, Alisa, Naraku, Tretia, Su Wensheng... just these five people, you have made almost identical promises of 'I will remember you' to them. And there are also the so-called 'most competent Knight of Light', 'the freest white bird', 'the brightest moonlight in Inaya City'... In just half a year, how many 'bests' have you met? If the time waiting for you is long enough, how many such 'bests' will there be?"
"I guess you can hardly remember what Liu Anna looked like at the beginning, and you can't even remember who she is, right?"
“The ideas that we once believed in will eventually become worthless after being washed away by time and with enough experience.”
"When you stand on the scale of 19 years old, looking back at your 15, 12, and 8 years old, it will be like seeing a completely different person. Not to mention a hundred years, a thousand years, or even ten thousand years."
"When you were a kid, you felt like the sky was falling when you failed an exam. What about now? You feel like failing an exam is no big deal at all, and being unable to save your hometown is the real sky falling. What about the future? Will you feel like being unable to save your hometown is no big deal?"
"People's ideas and will depend on external input. When you become 'me' and your horizons are broad enough, you will understand that the things you are currently confused about, insisting on, and hesitating about are actually not worth clinging to."
"So, will you drink my tea?"
Shenming An spread his palm and pointed at the steaming tea on the table. The red and black berries were swaying up and down.
…Drinking His tea means agreeing with Him.
Su Mingan looked away, his blood-stained hands still, and asked:
"You want to deny me?"
...God, you want to deny everything about me? The reason why I have come this far?
Shenming An spread his hands, lowered his eyelids, and showed a bit of compassion.
He said slowly:
…
"No."
"…I want to save you."
…
The red sun sets, and the last bright red covers the earth.
A few rays of light penetrated the cracks in the bark with the Tyndall effect and fell between them, like a gelatinous, bright pathway.
This is a kind of light with a sacred and quiet feeling, just like the effect when Jesus came in religious legends, so the Tyndall phenomenon is also called Jesus light.
The light shone down the passage, blocking their clear gazes.
"You still haven't answered my original question." Su Ming'an changed the subject: "You just said, [You hope to 'solidify' the ending of the Red Sun's arrival, so you created all this]. What does solidify mean?"
Shen Ming An answered without hiding anything: "Restarting is a way to fight against the Lord of the End of All Things, but every restart will be uncertain, and the rate of entropy increase may increase instead of decrease. Therefore, we need to 'solidify' each ending to ensure that each ending is almost the same. And the destruction of all members is the most stable, extremely orderly, and absolutely non-deviating ending."
Su Mingan said: "Is this why you killed everyone?"
Shenming An said, “Yes.”
Su Mingan followed up with, "Will I forget this precious information again when I reset it next time?"
Shenming An nodded: "Yes. The next time you reset, you still won't have any memory."
"How many days have I been in Rowasha?"
"I didn't count for you, so I don't know."
"How can I not forget all this?"
"I can help you. But the condition is that you have to swear an oath to me in front of the World Tree."
Su Mingan felt a sense of realization that "it's finally here".
Sure enough, Shen Ming An revealed so much to him just to use it as bait to tempt him - if you don't give something, you will forget all this precious information after the next reset.
So, give something, give something.
"What oath do you want me to swear to you?" Su Ming'an said calmly: "Send away authority? Give up the identity of the protagonist? Or completely submit to you?"
After all the details, there are only these few items.
It's nothing but coveting, coercion and plunder.
The white-haired young man, as cold as frost and snow, clasped his hands together, placed them on his knees, and stared at him.
He was just behind the gelatinous smoke, vaguely visible, with golden pupils being the only clear color.
Then He spoke:
"...Su Mingan, I want you to swear:"
“——【From now on, I only care about myself, only focus on my own strength, and only think about my own path to becoming a god.】”
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