Blood-stained small hands slowly slid limply down her cheeks, and Xia Lan looked at Winnie, who had no trace of life, and she slept peacefully, as if she was immersed in a happy dream that would never wake up.

He felt a throbbing from the deepest part of his heart, like a seed that had broken through the ground and sprouted into his heart, stinging his breath that grew heavier and heavier each time.

"She's dead."

Joshua calmly recounted the fact that the radiant arrows floating around him were firmly locked on the dying Charan on the ground, and could shoot him on the spot at any moment, as hard as he had been with Winnie.

"Why didn't you kill me for so long?"

Charan struggled and writhed, tilting her head up with difficulty to stare at Joshua in front of her, no sadness or anger on his face, only numb and indifferent questions.

"I'm looking for an answer." Joshua thought for a moment and said, "An answer that puzzles me to live in this world, I have been searching for many years, and finally I have a vague clue of hope in you. ”

"What answer?" Xia Lan spat out blood foam.

"Whether the world really exists, whether everything follows a predetermined trajectory, our history, our lives, and our thoughts sometimes seem to be the result of deliberate manipulation and guidance." Joshua pondered deeply, "This feeling has grown stronger since I left Valdrin, and when I see you with my own eyes, especially you, Frank. Charan. on you. I finally knew the origin of the throbbing in my heart. Because you are like an outsider who has escaped from the trajectory of this world, and is completely unrelated to our alternative existence. ”

As Joshua continued to elaborate, Xia Lan's eyes flashed with an inexplicable strange light as she looked at him.

"Do you understand what I'm saying?" Joshua, who was keenly aware of the change in Xia Lan's eyes, suddenly asked.

"When did you start feeling this way? Are there anyone else who thinks like you? Xia Lan asked without answering.

"When I was very young, I didn't know the exact age, and among all the people I came into contact with, from ordinary people to the top of the powerful, there was no one who showed the same thoughts as me." Joshua shook his head and said indifferently, "In my eyes." All people are like empty shells without their own souls, living in this world like walking dead in full accordance with the predetermined trajectory of their lives and fate. ”

"You're the first person I've ever met to doubt and see the truth of the world." Charland Road.

"So, my suspicions are correct?" Joshua Road.

"Your name." Xia Lan suddenly asked inexplicably.

"Joshua, Emmarant. Joshua. Joshua said truthfully.

"Valdrin...... Emmarant. Joshua...... It turned out to be you. After a moment of thought, a strange and mysterious smile appeared on Xia Lan's face. If I say that you will become the son of the Shining Church in the future, do you believe it? ”

"I believe it." Joshua said calmly. "Because I already have a premonition of my future self after the fog."

"You want to know the reality of the world?" Xia Lan asked.

"Yes." Joshua nodded.

"Let me go, and I'll tell you the answer." Xia Lan stared at the platform behind him.

"Nope." Joshua shook his head.

"Why?" Xia Lan frowned.

"There's a voice in the shadows telling me I can't let you go." Joshua Road. "Otherwise, I'll die."

"Don't you think the voice is hinting at manipulating your will?" Charland Road. "Just like the empty shells in your eyes?"

"I just don't want to die." Joshua Road.

"I'm not going to kill you." Charland Road.

"I don't believe you." Joshua Road.

Xia Lan twisted her hands and feet and struggled to crawl forward, and then. A brilliant arrow shot in front of him, and the splash of fine gravel instantly pierced the skin of his cheek and shed blood.

"This is my last warning." Joshua said with a blank expression.

Charan stopped moving. Lying on the ground again, looking up at him.

"You hesitated."

"Yes." Joshua admitted.

"You want to kill me and you don't want to kill me, now I am afraid that there are two wills in your mind that are fiercely fighting." Xia Lan smiled, and the smile was oozing. "The will of the world, the will of the individual, is in a mess."

"I don't deny it." Joshua's expression remained the same.

"If you want to be free from this world, then you must overcome the will of the world." Xia Lan seemed to be inducing.

"Actually, you just want me not to kill your will to defeat the will to erase you." Joshua saw through his mind at a glance.

"So, how do you decide to choose?" Xia Lan said slowly.

“……”

Joshua was silent, for a long, long time.

Even the entire corridor began to be damaged by indescribably powerful external forces, showing a crumbling collapse, and he was indifferent.

The contest between reason and emotion, the choice between life and death.

He stood hesitantly at the fork of fate, a path leading to a glorious throne sprinkled with flowers and glory, above the top of the clouds overlooking the mortal world; The other leads to a thorny black abyss, an endless cold and dead silence.

The world at the top of the clouds is bright but illusory, and the world of hell is dark but real.

"What's here?"

Joshua pointed to the platform under his feet and suddenly spoke, and the deep hole that the death worm had drilled out disappeared without a trace.

"The mausoleum of the ancestors of the Sarannian people." Xia Lan said weakly. "The last unexplored area of the entire Holy Land."

“…… What's in the mausoleum? Joshua said.

"A mural depicting the history and development of the ancestors of the Sarannian people." Charland Road.

"What does this have to do with you?" Joshua wondered. "Are you from Sarannia?"

"I'm not from Sarannia, but I have a reason to go there."

A fist-sized gravel above his head fell on Xia Lan, making him cry out in pain. All four limbs and bodies trembled violently. Feel the inexorable passage of life. The shadow of death loomed over him, and he didn't know how many times he had experienced it.

The eyelids are getting heavier and heavier, the vision is getting more and more blurred, the consciousness is beginning to be eaten away by the darkness little by little, the strong sleepiness hits unconsciously, the relaxed and paralyzed nerves gradually lose their perception of the outside world, and the body, hands and feet no longer obey the call.

Charan's faint signs of life told Joshua that time was running out for him to decide.

Reminiscing about his short life so far. There is no sorrow or joy, plain as a pool of stagnant water, perhaps only the answer he is looking for in his heart can make the slightest ripple in his state of mind, and then, he understands, in fact, this is the meaning of his real life.

Until then, the will of the world had been blinding and misleading his thinking.

"Tell me the answer."

He made the final choice.

Xia Lan didn't speak, because he didn't have the strength to speak, he just moved his finger to the platform. The meaning is self-explanatory.

Take me there!

Joshua waved his white robe, and a bolt of light floated around him quickly cut through Shalan's tattered clothes. Fly back to the platform with his body hanging directly.

Falling to the ground, Xia Lan struggled to get up as if she had returned to the light, and looked at Joshua with her back against the Book of Gold and a smile.

"Tell me the answer." Joshua repeated that he had no intention of the uncomfortable smile of the other man, and if he dared to deceive him in any way, all the arrows of brilliance would shoot him into a sieve in an instant.

"I'm not from this world." Xia Lan took a deep and greedy breath of air. "But I know a rough idea of everything about this world."

“……”

Joshua listened silently, without interrupting.

"As you think, in my world, your world is indeed false, and the laws and changes of everything are carried out through a programmed trajectory, including your thoughts and wills." Xia Lan said lightly: "Do you know Ragnarok? ”

"Yes."

"You say, why would the gods who lived with heaven and earth foolishly kill each other to interpret Ragnarok?"

"I don't know."

"Because the program needs to build the historical context of your world, the gods must disappear."

"The same is true of the Age of the Catastrophe?"

"Of course! What you call the FerNu Law is in fact another cloak of the program, and all it needs to do is maintain the structure and stability of the world. ”

"What is the procedure?"

"It's hard to explain, for example, in your case, you are a program, and everything in this world is made up of programs."

"You're not a program?"

"I ...... I don't know. A look of confusion flashed in Xia Lan's eyes. Maybe I became a program myself when I came to the world, or maybe the world is no longer made up of programs, but is real......"

"It's contradictory."

"So I'm not going to think about it anymore."

"I want to know the answer."

"You'll be able to see it right away."

As soon as the words fell, the golden book that Xia Lan was leaning on moved back violently, and a pitch-black hole with no end appeared on the ground, instantly swallowing Xia Lan's figure.

Joshua's pupils shrank, and without saying a word, he jumped into the hole.

System: Fully unlock the Treasure Legacy of the Sanctuary of Salenia (Mandatory) (Complete)

System: Host class level increased to 40

System: Health returns to normal state, [Swordsmanship] is turned off

System: Detects the fusion of the power of the Law of Death and Destruction in the host, and automatically comprehends the Law of Silence.

System: The Law skill tree is completely open

……

……

A series of system prompts echoed in his mind, and a mysterious unknown force quickly repaired the injuries in his body, and the air currents dissipated in his body were like a vast sea pouring into the full flow, and the miracle of exuding vigorous vitality that should have been on the verge of death was vividly displayed in the eyes of Joshua, who observed the changes in Xia Lan.

At this moment, he seemed to have found the answer.

And when Xia Lan opened his eyes and came back to life, the gray sword light wrapped in the law of silence pierced his body in an instant.

One, two, three...... A total of seven sword lights extinguished all of his life. (To be continued......)