Chapter 137: A Joke (6,000 Words!)
"Boom"
With a whistling sound, a red light was falling to the earth.
The figure wrapped inside the light was none other than Hal Lodge.
He survived and regained his freedom.
The non-human, monstrous form of the divine "Messenger" forced him to hand over a large amount of life essence and transform it, and released Hal back to his hometown.
Today's Hal Lodge has the power to be infinitely close to the true god, and is almost immortal.
Multiple complex divine auras fused in his body, and Hal felt stronger than ever, and he was sure that even the strongest mutant hero Quaid could no longer defeat him, and even more powerful.
This harvest would have been a surprise for any mutant, but at the moment he felt nothing but sadness.
Hal Lodge, depressed.
The "heavy blow" brought by the insight into the truth almost crushed him, and the madness and optimism of the past were somewhat vulnerable in the face of cruel facts.
However, since he will be chosen by the young creator, there is indeed something special about him.
Sadness and depression were only temporary, and he returned to his hometown as quickly as possible.
After transforming into a divine creature, Hal Lodge could naturally ignore the distant space and distance, and before the depression and "grievances" in his soul overflowed, he returned to his home where he had fought many times, opened the window and entered, and soon saw a bulging figure on the bed.
Hal "Huh" relaxed a little, and said secretly: "Fortunately, there is no second person, I am not green." ”
The cold wind woke up Anna Armas, and after a few years, she finally saw her boyfriend again, I don't know if it was a delusion, at first glance, she felt that this guy had become very "weak", and her eyes were mixed with sadness, anger, depression and a hint of vague embarrassment.
She was familiar with the source of the embarrassment, the brief sign that every time the guy was out eating.
According to Quaid, Hal is supposed to be wandering in the depths of the universe, suffering the torture of loneliness.
Can you steal food in the dark and void universe?
Anna Armas immediately decoupled her thinking and imagined two possibilities:
Wandering into an exotic female?
Or, and the only Quaid who can locate him?
Anna Armas, who was thinking about it, didn't care about or prevent the sheets from slipping down, and the familiar and extremely nostalgic scene appeared in front of Hal Lodge's eyes, his eyes immediately turned green, and while crying and pounced, he did not forget to sigh:
"My dear, you are the most delicate and perfect XX doll in this false world. ”
Hal Lodge, who knows the truth of the world, spits out the highest praise for his girlfriend.
Then he saw a pair of white and tender feet stepping on his face, and the familiar greeting after several years: "FXXX...... Howl, come over and lick my XXX. ”
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After three days of tossing, Anna Armas, who was suffering from a severe water shortage, finally let go of her boyfriend, who had returned from suffering and torture.
Then, she also learned the "truth of the world" from the latter's mouth.
One of the rules of the new gameplay, the Courier does not prohibit Hal Lodge from telling anyone else everything he knows.
As the person who believes in Hal Lodge the most in this world, Anna Armas was stunned for a long time after listening to it, her brows furrowed, and she hesitated:
"Hal, you're going to be taken crazy. ”
"You're a crazy mutant in the eyes of all factions, especially since you did that to Quaid not long ago, and if you tell them that, you'll only think you've been wandering alone in the universe for too long, so you're completely insane. ”
"You want to gather those heroes and villains to find the 'Creator Projection' with you to save the world?"
"You won't succeed, if you tell the truth, you'll be considered insane, and you'll have to fight not only against the so-called Witztons, but also against heroes, villains, and even the whole world...... You're going to die, and you're going to die worthless. ”
With every sentence Anna Armas uttered, Hal's face fell for a moment.
Although his personality is very weird and he is usually used to being unscrupulous, he is not stupid.
Hal is well aware that everything his girlfriend says will come true in the near future, if he really decides to do so.
He looked out the window with a sad and helpless face, and he saw the city of De Niro at night, and many images flashed in his mind, Kevin, who loved to wear women's clothes next door, his favorite hamburger truck several streets away, and the mining company where he had been woolened many times...... Continuing to spread, he thought of more.
Hal Lodge is a bastard, but he still has a lot of good friends scattered across the city, some heroes and some villains.
He also remembered the events he had participated in, killed people, saved people, destroyed many landmark buildings, and even saved the world.
There is no doubt that the world is very real from Hal Loach's point of view.
But the harsher truth is that it is false.
Everything is fictional, fabricated, and it will be destroyed.
It's like the "garbage" in the laboratory, which is ruthlessly destroyed after all the use value has been squeezed out.
As a member of the garbage, can he accept such a fate?
This question was immediately born in the depths of Hal Lodge's mind, and it was immediately answered.
He jerked his head up, stared directly at the starry sky, and hoarsely said, "I don't have a second choice, my dear, I may really be going to be a savior." ”
I have to say that Hal Lodge is a handsome bastard, and this scene also made him glamorous.
It's just that in the next second, he suddenly turned his head again, looked at Anna Armas, and said with a very loud smile:
"My dear, now you know how lofty my praise is for you, in this false world, there is no XX doll that can compare with you. ”
"I'm going to have enough of it before it's destroyed. ”
The words fell, and the guy pounced on Anna.
In the room where the fierce movement began again, the transparent man Tang Qi shook his head with a dark face.
At this point, he could already guess most of the course of this epic tragicomedy world, and he also had insight into the mysterious information hidden in this world.
And as a single person, he has little interest in following the perspective of Hal Lodge, a guy who is always in the mood, and it obviously won't be a good experience.
"Time accelerates!"
The current god of epic, tragicomedy, and decay has exercised his divine authority.
From the next second, the image he was looking at began to jump in multipliers.
A true story, in a laboratory in the vast mystery, the world that once existed and then died out, began to be fully revealed.
Hal Lodge, as a bastard who is disgusted by countless heroes and villains, likes to play pranks, and acts without any fear, accidentally becomes a "savior".
The truth he has insight into is enough to make the strongest hero collapse directly.
But Hal holds on, and he sets out to try to save the world.
His first attempt, to share the truth openly and recruit a large number of teammates for himself, ended in failure without accident, and he tirelessly preached and explained, only to be recognized as crazy by almost all heroes and villains and the whole world, including several of his best friends.
On the second attempt, the madman began to use the power he had acquired, close to the true god, to spread the experience in his mind...... This didn't break the rules, but it was eliminated by an unknown force, it was the Engineer, and it didn't even come out to meet Hal, but only changed a few settings in the lab.
In the third attempt, Hal Loach had to use some drastic means, such as kidnapping the president and forcing the global public to listen to his "storytelling", which naturally caused the heroes to blow, although because of his skyrocketing power, the heroes could not help him at all, but in the process, Hal lost several good friends again.
In the fourth attempt, Hal made a more rational use of his new powers, and he began to search for "evidence", what is false is false after all, and when there is a seeker of knowledge, the lie will be broken...... This was in line with the rules, and the Engineer didn't change the settings again, just sent some powerful test subjects to stop him.
This time he succeeds and finds some evidence that proves the fiction of the world, but he falls into the most extreme agony, and he loses Anna Armas, the woman of this world who is incomparably compatible with his soul.
She did everything she could to help Hal and eventually died in an accident.
The emergence of evidence finally pried open a crack, and some more intelligent heroes, villains, and ordinary people believed in Hal Lodge, and finally more "insiders" appeared.
But Hal himself fell into depression, and he chose to give up.
The people who replaced him to save the world were the ones who knew they were in the know, they were considered fake, and they knew they were fabricated, but they didn't lack courage, including the strongest mutant hero Quaid, but they had a fatal flaw.
Their rescue operation does not conform to the rules of the game.
So, no matter what they do, there is only one end result, which is to become fireworks.
Time and time again, they will turn into flesh and blood fireworks to the end, exploding in front of the eyes of the depressed and decadent Hal Lodge...... This setting cannot be changed.
More and more "insiders" are aware of this setting, and they have all made the same choice.
Self-sacrifice!
Everyone, Quaid, who had punished Hal, did not run away from it, and after a failed rescue, it exploded in front of Hal's eyes.
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In Tang Qi's eyes, the speed at which the world screen jumped suddenly slowed down.
He wasn't reading books about the "We Are the Light" family at the moment, but he felt the same way.
These humans, unlike the real Captain Richard Parker in the vast mysteries, are the product of a laboratory, designed by the people of Witston.
The only deity that could be accessed was the supreme "Infant Creator".
But Tang Qi also saw the "light" in them, faint, but eternal.
The speed slows down, but the dead world is still fast approaching its end.
Familiar and unfamiliar people, they all know the unchangeable setting, but they all choose to sacrifice in front of themselves, which finally awakens Hal Lodge.
The "savior" who complies with the rules gets back on his feet, and with the nostalgia for his lover, for all the victims, he begins to do his best, even if he needs to burn his soul, he wants to save this world that has been fictionalized, played with many times, and used to entertain the so-called creator.
"Freedom, this world needs freedom. ”
Hal Lodge roared, and behind him, figures followed.
But more shadows stand on their opposite.
Anna Armas's prophecy was not wrong, and Hal had to fight not only against the Witztons, but also against other test subjects, against the whole world.
He wants to save the world, but the world wants to erase him, an "alien", this "madman".
Fight!
Big event!
Shockingly tragic, sad and painful, bloody and cruel...... Scenes flickered by.
Time passes rapidly in the experimental world, a hundred years or more, and the near-immortal Hal Loach is still fighting and struggling.
The insiders who followed him at the beginning were all dead, not from natural old age, without exception all died in battle.
But Hal Lodge was always followed by a figure.
Truth is contagious.
When the first crack is cut open and the glimmer dispelles the darkness, everything can no longer be hidden.
......
In the dark and void starry sky, the deepest part of the universe, Tang Qi still maintained the form of a transparent person, staring ahead.
The final curtain is here.
In this experimental world, there have been many years, and the incomparably deep and dark "curtain" is being torn apart little by little.
Faint lights are breaking through the blockade, like weak but incomparably resilient streams, passing through the barriers of those terrifying shadows, and although many of the lights are completely extinguished in the process, they do not stop.
The last "shadow" is a pair of silver-black palms.
It is a life form that light cannot even imagine, and it gently caresses it, and a large number of points of light cannot resist being erased permanently.
Among them, including Hal Lodge.
It seems, it's all over?
No, not really.
The deathly silence and darkness lasted only for an incomparably short time, and on the other side of the universe, more and more "fires" lit up.
It seemed that at this moment, all the test subjects had a self, and their souls roared, transmitting incomparably wonderful power across the vast sea of stars.
The light is shining again.
Hal Lodge and his followers, they were resurrected.
Like a leaping "wave", it crossed the hands that could erase everything, and came behind the curtain.
Hal Lodge, who tore through all the obstacles in front of him, widened his eyes and roared from the depths of his soul:
"Look at me, look at me, don't you want to look at each other?"
"Shit like a creator, FXXX your ass...... Turn around and give the great Hal a good stomach and meet this most delicious Hal essence. ”
Originally, according to the rules of the world, Hal Lodge could not desecrate the young Creator.
But at this moment, Hal, who tore the curtain, broke the rules, and the first thing he did was to blaspheme the Creator.
The game comes to the final node.
Clear the level and set the world free.
Hal Lodge got his wish and ushered in a "gaze", no, not a complete gaze.
Tang Qi closed his eyes at this moment, and what he saw in the afterglow of all things knew that the existence of the endless darkness was beyond what any life knew and thought, and the supreme existence that crushed all concepts and logics suddenly opened a pair of eyes.
As if to take care of the plaything in front of him, He did not fully open his eyes.
It's just a gap, a negligible gap.
But it was this gap that destroyed everything.
When the "mighty power" from the Creator's projection leaked out of the small gap, all the beings in front of it, Hal Lodge and all the subjects in this experimental world, evaporated.
There is no reversal!
No surprises!
Whether it's a comedy, a tragedy, or a cosmic epic, it all ends at this moment.
Behind the curtain, a cold, mechanical voice annotated the ending: "Game over, Experimental World SF1725 has been destroyed. ”
The Engineer is the Engineer, the main designer of the world, one of the few remaining members of the great race of the Witstonians.
There should have been some fluctuations in its voice, after all, the image of Hal Lodge being evaporated along with the world should be very similar to the scene when the Witston civilization was evaporated.
But it didn't, and the Engineer at this time was an immensely loyal servant of the Great Creator, just like the others.
"Essentially, it's just a joke, an unusually bad joke. ”
In the illusory realm, Tang Qi looked at the final curtain, his eyes lowered slightly.
In fact, before the final curtain came, Tang Qi had already anticipated this ending.
This is not the same as the story of Richard Parker, the nameless god and the "projection of the infant Creator", which are two dimensional beings.
Even though Hal Lodge is infinitely close to the true God, there are many wise and brave followers behind him.
But the existence he faces is incomprehensible.
Projection and ontology are no different from Hal Lodge and the experimental world, and they simply cannot afford a complete eye contact.
Crucially, this was the timeline of the extinction.
In other words, Hal Lodge was vaporized along with the world, an event that has passed for an unknown amount of time.
What Tang Qi is experiencing now, and what he is looking at, is only the epic and tragicomedy world recorded in a certain book, such as "Experimental Diary".
Both true and false.
The ending is scary and sad, but the story does fit the definition of tragicomedy and epic.
At this point, Tang Qi seemed to have come to leave.
"It's just a projection of the young Creator, and if you look at it with all things, you have the opportunity to get more secrets, but it's also a huge risk, and it's not worth it. ”
"I should go, epic, tragicomedy, and declining authority are all perfectly integrated into the fantasy country, which is a good bonus. ”
"But why do I always feel the urge to do something?"
Tang Qi, who was supposed to leave, followed his impulsive thoughts and looked at a corner of the universe that was being evaporated.
There, a familiar figure appeared.
Messenger!
As the only member of the Wattston Hierarchy who was allowed to retain the ability to reproduce bloodlines, she also seemed to be allowed to retain some emotion.
She came to say goodbye, in the form of a seductive angel that had changed when she had forcibly communicated with "Hal Lodge".
Before being evaporated, Hal Lodge did look at her, and then greeted her with a mouth that could still move, and greeted her very "kindly".
But before disappearing completely, Hal's eyes became gentle again.
Of course, it was not because of the messenger, but because behind the messenger, dozens of small figures were wrapped in a silver film of light.
The dozens of figures were immature children, playing in a huge, eerie room.
Every child has a different form.
They are all children of Hal Lodge and the "Messenger", because both parents have complex divinities in their bodies, and they are not normal life forms, and the children they conceive naturally become complex, and their forms and abilities do not overlap, showing different evolutionary directions.
Donkey began to move, and his non-existent figure immediately appeared at the side of the messenger.
The Courier is undoubtedly a very powerful Witztonian, but in the event of a "duel of powers", she will be defeated by Donch.
Although this is a timeline that has disappeared, because it involves the "young creator", even if Tang Qi is the current god of epic, tragicomedy and decay, and the dream master, there is still a trace of tension.
After discovering the existence of the Courier and the children, Donkey figured out what he was going to do.
He obviously can't change the fate of Hal Lodge and the world, but he can change the fate of a child who wasn't watched by the young Creator.
His gaze locked on one of the dozens of children.
"Human!"
Hal Lodge and the Courier have dozens of children, and there are even a dozen powerful beings born as demigods, but only one in human form.
It was a girl about five or six years old, with curly blond hair and a cute doll-like girl.
When Hal Lodge was evaporated, there were only a handful of children in the room, looking in that direction as the blood throbbed deep in their veins.
This girl is one of them.
She felt an incomparably strong sadness at that moment, but because of her innate intelligence, she resisted the urge to cry.
Just as she wanted to pretend to fit in with her siblings, there were strange sounds in the depths of her mind.
There seemed to be some kind of sound, so she involuntarily, stumbling towards the corner of the room, and soon her figure was covered by a "giant toy", she came to the silver-white wall, and subconsciously stretched out her palm to touch.
A scene opened her eyes wide, and her immature palm suddenly pierced through the wall.
The next second, the girl felt that she had touched something.
It seemed to be a living thing, with an incomparably soft "touch".
To the girl's disbelief, when she held the soft object, her originally sad heart was soothed, and she seemed to see an incomparably beautiful, dreamy magical world.
Holding the girl is a tentacle hand.
The illusory seems to be a non-existent dream tentacle, and only this thing can not be detected by the projection of the messenger and the young creator.
When Tang Qi used his dreamy divinity to appease the girl, everything knew and saw the information fragments on the girl's body.
[Divine entity: Daughter of Howl.] 】
[Status: Juvenile.] 】
[Information fragment 1: She is the child of the deceased test subject Hal Lodge and the great race of Witston members "The Courier", she has half Witston blood and half human blood, she has inherited part of Hal Loach's magical powers, and also inherited part of the Courier's bloodline powers. 】
[Information fragment 2: Because of some unknown factor, about one-third of the "life equation" is imprinted in her body. 】
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