Chapter 853 [Extra: Lord Zero’s Perspective]
The vast universe is like a huge lonely grave, with crowds of people coming and going. As the seasons change, more and more people are buried there.
He stayed there and became a gravekeeper.
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The memories from ten thousand years ago are a little vague, but Zhan Taiyan remembers that he once had three or five good friends.
The little emperor on earth always carried a pot of tassel wine and, in the dim morning light, he would climb to the highest point of the Forbidden City to bathe in the brilliant rays of light.
The little fox in the fairyland always loves to go to the Peach Palace to steal crystal grapes. He scratches them with his furry claws and runs hurriedly to his Vanity Ridge.
But after a hundred years, the emperor had long since turned into a withered skeleton, and the little fox who loved to offer treasures ultimately could not survive the twelve thunder tribulations.
He personally picked up the remains of Si Zhongkang, the young emperor who ascended the throne. As his country was destroyed and his city was lost, he could not enter the imperial mausoleum as a criminal. So he simply burned Zhongkang's body and let the ashes drift with the wind in the dim morning light to the city of Jinling, which he had once defended with his life.
During the Spring Equinox, an inconspicuous gray stone tombstone quietly appeared under the grape trellis in Nanshan.
Later, Zhan Taiyan met another stunning young emperor, who was full of the shadow of Si Zhongkang. When talking about Liusu wine, the young man in white clothes smiled and said -
"The one who understands me is Brother Zhan Tai."
Zhan Taiyan became good friends with him, but he no longer had the desire to climb the Forbidden City Tower to watch the morning light.
Thirty years later, he collected the remains of his friend again, but this time, he arrived in time and the friend was still alive.
"Zhan Tai... I have one last request of yours. Please bury me and Dong Niang together."
Dong Niang was his childhood sweetheart whom he was willing to give up his position as crown prince to marry. Unfortunately, she fell into the hands of the defeated army and died tragically on the eve of his enthronement.
Zhan Taiyan knew very well the reason why his good friend "never had a queen in his life" and said hello.
The snow was falling heavily, and apart from the white snow, there was only a hint of black between the sky and the earth.
Zhan Taiyan, wearing a black fox fur cloak, stood in front of the two people's joint tomb, looking at the names engraved side by side on the stone tablet. The corners of his friend's mouth turned up with satisfaction when he heard him say "OK" flashed before his eyes.
In the underworld, they became two people again.
The wind, frost and snow were heavy. The man held up a bone umbrella and turned to walk into the white snow. The sky and the earth were vast, and he was like a lonely boat slowly swallowed by the heavy snow.
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In the next hundred years, Zhan Taiyan met many "Si Zhongkangs" and many "little foxes".
But they knew neither about tassel wine nor about the fairyland.
At first, Zhan Taiyan was willing to confide in others, but as he met more and more people, his desire to share was eroded bit by bit by time.
People are like this. When you share the same news with the first person, your face is full of joy, but when you repeat it to the thousandth person, the joy is almost gone.
After seeing off his close friends one after another, Zhan Taiyan did not make a single friend in the next hundred years.
He was not a qualified craftsman, and he didn't want to build a city wall that would collapse sooner or later.
After a long time, Zhan Taiyan began to envy the people in reincarnation. He stood by the Wangchuan River for half a day. He made a gesture to seal his memory and lined up to cross the Naihe Bridge.
But he is different from others after all. His reincarnation is just a cover-up. Every time he dies in this life, the sealed memories will break out again.
In the face of life and death, which everyone fears, his "reincarnation" is more like an insignificant little game.
As an immortal god, he can never truly enter reincarnation.
………Dividing line…………
This chapter explains the past of Lord Zero, and 001 will appear in the next chapter!
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