Chapter 29: The Will of the Soul Shan Jue stopped Wu Lie. This secret pattern...
Shanju stopped Wu Lie.
This living being with the secret mark looks no different from a psychopathic murderer, holding the severed head of a god's corpse in its hand.
Of course, the head of a god is also a very precious thing - basically only possessed by someone in seemingly ancient legends.
But no one dared to stop him, and few people even asked him where he was going with the god's head.
But Shan Jue wasn't here for the brains. He simply wanted to ask, "When a living being like you, imprinted with a secret pattern, dies, where will the tower place the body?"
Wu Lie glanced at him twice and spoke for the first time: "At the bottom of the tower."
He didn't have much impression of Shanju, but he had indeed seen him in the information.
That was the most successful living being with a secret pattern imprint of the previous generation. In the interpersonal relationship network of ordinary society, there was a person named Shan Ju.
Shanju nodded, turned and left.
He was going to find a body and bring it home.
*
The black cat never came to see him, but Shanjue didn't think about this. He couldn't think about anything else.
The bottom of the tower was a place where corpses were stored, and Shanju walked down the stairs one level at a time.
It's so quiet here.
She must be bored staying here. She used to love making friends and chatting with people.
Shanju stopped.
He felt an indescribable nervousness, like a feeling of homesickness.
What if... she's not here?
Shanju hesitated for a moment, then walked across the corridor and turned the corner.
A chill hit me.
There are so many bodies stored here that the tower uses ice to preserve them.
Shanju slowly walked through countless frozen coffins.
Then he instinctively stopped in front of an ice coffin.
In fact, it didn't look clear through the ice, but was blurry. As he approached, the temperature rose and some water droplets seeped out.
Drops of water slid down the texture of the ice.
A bit of blue sky-like color was reflected along with the water marks.
——That’s the color of her eyes.
Shanjue looked at her quietly with her eyes half closed, without thinking anything.
...I should think about something at this time, like "love"?
He didn't even notice the black cat walking out of the shadows behind him.
He made a hissing sound.
Even though his soul hadn't given up resistance yet, he surrendered first.
Don't bother to wake up such a fool, he's just here to collect the reward.
Shanju blinked, turned sideways and saw the black cat. He understood: "Take it."
He doesn't need anything except this ice coffin.
The black cat swiftly took away his abilities and all his wealth.
That little property was payment for the IOU, very little, but it was all he had.
The black cat also left, and he was the only one left in the cemetery at the bottom of the tower.
Shanju looked around and put the ice coffin on his back. It was heavy and cold, but he felt nothing when carrying it, and even had an illusory sense of happiness.
After twenty-one years, we finally meet again.
“…Let’s go home.”
*
Shanju was finally able to take her body home, and he buried her under a tree.
According to the customs of the Rong people, people do not need to leave anything behind after death. The best ending is to bury the body under the tree and become the tree's nutrients.
That tree is enough to hold all the thoughts and love in the world.
It is said that the taller and more luxuriant the tree grows, the happier the people in another world will live.
Shanjue, with his hands full of dirt, slowly sat down on the ground, leaning against the tree trunk.
The last time he saw her was not before she died, but after she died.
After her death, she left behind obsession and concern.
At that time, he had already decided to join the Secret Mark Society. From then on, he would no longer be controlled by others, would not have to go hungry, and would not have to watch his companions die in front of him or be taken away.
"So, what are you going to give up?" her remaining soul asked him in the dream.
Shanju said, "I don't know yet."
There are very few concepts in this world that are important to him. To have enough power, he must give up concepts that are important enough.
But he had too little, so he was reluctant to let go of any of it.
But she said lightly: [Give up on "love", Shanju.]
[When I was dying, I was thinking, if I was gone, would you still miss me and like me now? After a long time, would you still like me as much as you do now?]
Shanjue reached out her hand anxiously, but was held down when she wanted to express her feelings.
She held up her finger, signaling him to be quiet.
【Shh——】
【I think you always, always love me, only me. 】
【Don’t fall in love with others, don’t be with others. 】
【I want you to never forget me in this life. 】
So I thought—
She smiled as gently as before.
【Give up "love".】
From then on, I lost the ability to love others, and it was enough to just love her.
He leaned against the tree, and every detail of their past was still vivid in his mind. He could no longer feel the joy he once had.
Obviously, he decided to have power because of her.
But this is the secret pattern, this is the law of God's language.
Humans will always have regrets.
Human beings are never satisfied.
A leaf slowly fell from the branch.
He closed his eyes.
It just landed on his eyelids.
He will guard her grave until they return home together.
*
Li An received a gift from the puppy.
It was the Doberman Pinscher who had come last time wearing a strange cloak and brought her a large piece of something that looked soft.
She reached out and pinched it, it was super light clay.
...Why would the dog bring her super light clay? It would be more reasonable to bring bones.
Suibian, who came back after collecting the debt, was speechless. Although he was a god of a lower plane, he was still a god after all.
In her eyes, the head of this kind of creature was only fit to be used as super light clay.
After saying goodbye to the Doberman who was no longer wearing a strange cloak, Li An was casually pushed into the secret room.
"What good thing is being hidden and kept secret?"
The black cat raised its head proudly: "It's definitely better than that pile of super light clay you have in your hand!"
After all, that was just the weight of a head, but what it held in its hand was the entire body of a god.
Li An has seen it.
She remained silent.
Random curiosity: "What did you see?"
It is not easy to see, after all, it is a strange thing that Li An saw after the distortion of his divine nature, but it can also be regarded as the truth in a sense.
Li An said casually: "You don't even know what the gift you gave is?"
She thought: "I need to take this apart first, otherwise it will be too messy."
After saying that, Li An started to take action.
After touching it with her own hands, Suibian finally knew what it was.
A large amount of paper is stacked together. At first glance, the quantity is quite impressive. The colors are even more colorful, and the materials are also varied, with different thicknesses.
As Li An sorted the pile of papers into different categories, she asked, "How do you go out every time? Why can't I open that door when I push it?"
She almost thought that this was a shady job that didn't even allow her to go out and relax.
I was so angry at the implication of his words that I almost opened my ears.
If it had the ability to trap Him, why would it still be here as a subordinate?!
"You can go out whenever you want. How can you be trapped here?"
This is Li'an's territory.
It was just that his divine nature had not yet awakened, and he vaguely felt that it would be dangerous if he went out, so he subconsciously trapped himself and told himself not to go out.
Li An looked at it suspiciously, but Suibian had never lied to her, so maybe it really was the power of idealism.
For example, a otaku instinctively cannot accept going out. After all, the people entering the store are all small animals, and there is no guarantee that there will be only small animals outside, or no people.
"Oh, yes, and this."
Black Cat took out his draft book.
Li An put her youth memoir aside and took it to the studio after she collected the papers.
He kept silent and lay on the pile of gold, looking at Him.
The godhead has achieved initial awakening, and divinity has subsequently revived.
This was originally its purpose in following Li An, but now it couldn't help but doubt, will this guy really not go astray?
His divinity does not treat humans as humans, nor gods as gods, and even treats them as cats - it is obviously a demigod too!
He chooses to distort reality.
Or maybe, in Li'an's eyes, this is reality?
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