Chapter 017: Vientiane Returns to the Heart
Fifty years later, men plough and women weave.
The peace and tranquility of the island is very plain, and to the outside world, it is paradise.
After the Great War of Annihilation 50 years ago, the environment was no longer suitable for human life, and a large number of species became extinct.
The next generation of human beings is becoming fewer and fewer, and gradually, they are lost in the long river of time.
The island is called Lovedrew, the last resting place of the survivors, left for humanity to thrive.
If you look closely, all the trees planted on the island are small trees, and each tree is planted with Devil Fruits.
The fruits are left unguarded, and no one picks them wherever they are placed.
In the middle of the path, the happy laughter of children can be heard.
But the adults, on the other hand, gathered in one room, guarded by an old man with different faces.
The old man's breath of life was extremely weak, and everyone present felt the dying of his fire of life in a domineering manner.
Everyone didn't know how to judge this old man, whether he had merits or demerits in this life, and they had their own opinions.
Some say that he is a demon from another world who destroyed this world.
There are also people who say that he is an angel from another world. Purified the world.
There are many opinions, no one can convince anyone, and there is no text to record the life of this old man.
Perhaps, only when this old man recedes his scales and armor, and uses the last drop of his blood to create an extremely weak body, and cultivates this land every day, will he judge his life.
Thirty years ago, this old man used his dragon body to kill everyone in the outside world.
The strong are all old, and there is no one in the new generation who can match him.
He, finished the final, purification.
He then returned to Ralphdrew and used a drop of his blood that had been preserved for fifty years to create his current body.
At that moment, he returned to nature and returned to peace.
At this moment, his life has burned out, he is about to die, and it doesn't matter whether he is good or evil.
But he could have been able to live without dying, and with the ability of vampire bat fruits, he could suck blood and live forever.
But he didn't do that after all!
Including the death of his wife six years ago, he did not let anyone interfere.
All living beings are born in nature and return to nature.
On the island, the three pairs of men and women he captured have all been married and have given birth to the next generation.
Luffy and Hancock, Nolan and Charlotte Brynn, Sabo and Clal, their children are the hope of humanity, the last seed.
Although some of the six people have a deep affection for him, some hate him to the core.
But at this time, in the face of an old man who burned out his life, they also don't know how to face it.
I will think of my life, the old man sometimes laughs, sometimes lonely, sometimes... Remorse.
It seems that human beings are always like this, and even if this old man thinks he is a god, he will not be able to escape this curse after all.
Human beings always regret the past, always struggle for the present, and always worry about the future.
There are all kinds of antecedents, but life never happens again.
The old man was very grateful to God for giving him another life, but he hated that God could not let him come again.
Fifty years of ordinary life, and twenty years of mutual affection, in the eyes of this old man, is too short and too short.
But he didn't want to forcibly keep this beauty.
Learn to let go and let her pass,
Then, too, will pass away.
If time could come back again, the old man would give up everything and go to sea alone, find the passionate girl, ask her to dance, and then silently woo her.
There is no need for a grand spectacle, and there is no need for expensive gifts.
All it takes is a bright red rose, and it's the perfect match for you.
Then the two were completely isolated from the world and looked for a paradise.
Girls will do the hottest dances of Dressrosa, and boys will tell the most humorous jokes from previous lives.
They are a match made in heaven.
When he was dying, the old man had already died once, and he was not afraid but missed.
The aftermath has already been explained.
The fruit of memory will erase all the bad roots of human beings.
In this world, there will be no more sorrow and sorrow.
The fire of life burned out, and the old man looked up blankly, and the office was full of flames, billowing smoke, endless darkness.
But in the midst of the firelight, there was a girl, dancing hotly, and walking towards him step by step.
After my death in my previous life, I came into this world.
Die again in this life, hoping to go to the world with you.
Violet.
You are the only person I have ever loved in my past and present lives.
Now, I have withdrawn my scales, my sinful body, and come to you with my soul that prays for everything.
I hope you don't dislike me!
I'm coming!!
……
Lin Li's last fire of life burned out, and people died like lights going out, and they couldn't feel anything.
Lin Li only felt light, he was freer than ever.
Freedom of thought, freedom of action, he is brand new......
"Wake up! Wake up! ”
A man patted Lin Li's shoulder, his face extremely holy.
"Who are you?" Lin Li asked vigilantly.
The man smiled and replied, "Look at yourself, and look around here!" ”
Lin Li looked at the environment in front of him in shock, he was in a sea of flowers, a kind of flower he had never seen before.
And he himself is exactly what he was originally!
Ordinary. Authentic.
After a while, Lin Li laughed at himself and said, "It turns out that it's all Nan Ke's dream?" Hahaha......"
"It's a dream! It's not a dream either! Is it really that important? The man's smile remained unchanged and he looked at Lin Li expectantly.
"Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, a sand is a world, a leaf is a bodhi, true or false? It doesn't matter anymore! Lin Li lay comfortably in the sea of flowers, looking at the white and flawless white above, he saw everything he wanted to see.
"She lives in your dreams, and you live in other people's dreams, you are, and you are all real!"
Perhaps!
So what?
"If I am true, why have I not been immortal? If I am false, why has it not dissipated? ”
"Matter can be extinguished, but spirit is immortal. True and false, false and real, life and death, since you have come here, it means that you have realized. Now, are you willing to go back to everything and find yourself again? ”
Myself?
I?
Who am I?
Lin Li?
No!
I'm just me.
I'm nobody.
I...... All things are back to the heart!
I swam across this beautiful sea of flowers, and the most vivid one of them stabbed me.
I'm going to take revenge on her, so let her sting me again......
Life after life, reincarnation does not stop.
This time, may I be the flower of the other side in your dreams, spending your past and present lives.
"Go ahead! Go ahead! The man smiled at me when he saw me.
Staring at the most vivid flower, I strode without hesitation.
May you, too......