Chapter 57: The Nature of Dreams

No matter how beautiful it is, what is gone is gone.

No matter how cruel it is, the coming is still coming.

That is the final battle of King Arthur, the dusk battlefield where the knighthood withered, and the tombstones of countless corpses cut off by the fire of life - the Battle of Camran.

The fierce clash between the two armies continued until dusk, and there were only two figures left on the battlefield on the blood-stained hills of Kamran, where both sides were dead, and only a handful of people were alive.

The ideal king and her rebellious son, Mordred.

During the battle, the king learned the reason for the rebellion, and the rebellious soldiers were not united because they hated King Arthur. It's because of the never-ending wars, the barren land, and the children who died of starvation......

They felt that they had been patient, but finally they could not bear it anymore.

The king is indeed the ideal king, and he naturally imposes on everyone the matter of being upright and living a clean and honest life, and speaks of the ideal that the country will eventually become rich.

But when, exactly? How long will that patience last before it pays off?

Superficial humans don't know that all this is actually because Britain has long reached its limit, and that's the end of it. It's just that the king is desperately protecting the country, exchanging his fate for the protection of the people.

Years of murderous work can only ask for the blessing of heaven, and the struggle between men will never end, and all of this is the reason why the people feel that it is the king, and it is the king's insatiable desire that causes them to never get real recuperation—

However, the ridiculous thing is that it was precisely in order to protect his people that the king erased his feelings and desires, and on the selected day of that year, in front of the rock where the sword was once inserted, engraved the small wishes of the maiden who had been abandoned there at that time.

The king of ideals, but it is precisely because it is an ideal that it is impossible to guess how weak people are.

Therefore, the rebellion of the people was fully instigated for such ridiculous reasons, and they captured the royal city of Camelot, and formed a formation to wait for the royal army, exhausted by the return of the expedition, in order to take the king's head in the shortest possible time, and to minimize the sacrifice.

However, the fighting spread throughout the island and lasted for seven days.

"Why don't you pass the throne to me! Why don't you recognize me as your child! Why, I would have been born in such a form! Why...... Why, why! The rebellious knight roared.

The king had nothing to say to the knight, and he was not obliged to answer the other.

The blades of Britain's last knights intersected, and the spear burned through the rebel's guts, blowing them away.

The rebel's sword shattered the king's helmet and sliced through the skull, taking one eye and the rest of his life.

The rebellious knight's body slipped off the spear, and he lost his breath, and his helmet fell, revealing a face that had never been shown before in front of others, and the face of a girl with blond hair and blue eyes was exactly the same as that of the ideal king.

The bystanders who don't exist in their memories were originally unusually angry at it, but now they are only left with deep powerlessness, after all, this is just a girl who has borne the weight of fate.

In her short life, everything came and went like the wind, and even though she was burdened with her mother's obsession, her longing for King Arthur far exceeded that ambition. That's why she longs so much for the approval of her father, who has dedicated his whole life to her.

But then, what happened shook the hearts of these bystanders even more -

The more he stood on the top of the towering clouds, the more painful he was when he fell, and the ideal king lost all his strength and knelt down, looking at the battlefield around him, the sky was blood-colored at sunset, and the earth in front of him was also blood-colored.

The corpses that fell to the ground were those who once believed in a young girl and embraced her as king, and jointly offered her a triumphant song.

Looking down at the end of Britain, she couldn't help herself whimpering, it was probably the true face of a king who had turned his heart to stone and had no feelings, probably no one had ever seen.

“…… I have caused countless wars and taken countless lives, so I will die more tragically than anyone else - hated by everyone to death, I have clearly accepted ......"

She cried silently.

Isn't it only yourself who will be destroyed?

Isn't it only the foolish king who will meet the stupid death?

“…… Not so! It shouldn't be this way! What I'm looking for, that's not ......! I know Britain will end someday, but I believe it should be smoother, like falling asleep......"

It was a passion that no one could have imagined and that has been hidden in her heart to this day.

It is like tearing the sorrow and anger in the listener's chest, enough to curse the world's weeping.

"—It's wrong, it's absolutely wrong! I, even if I could tolerate my own death, would never allow such a scenario! ”

The king, who had fallen to the bottom of his frustration, glared at the sky and said such words with resentment.

“……!!”

At that moment, everyone who felt that this was already the most tragic ending was shocked at the same time, and there was an ominous premonition that was so strong that it seemed to explode at the same time, and they couldn't say this!

However, it was too late, and besides, they were not in a position to stop what had already happened.

- "I am ready to give you the opportunity to receive your death in exchange for the fulfillment of that wish. ”

It was as if there were countless people shouting in unison, old people, young men, men, women, those voices gathered together, because the cries of countless people were superimposed on each other and were blurred, but they expressed its meaning very clearly.

And because it was a dream presented by memories, impressions, cognition, and other information, everyone heard the voice exactly as well, and understood what it was in an instant.

It was a voice from the world, a vicious miracle that picked up the girl's wishes. She hated the destruction of her nation so much that she rejected her own salvation and fell into an infernal hell from which she could never be liberated.

Time seemed to stop at this moment, and there was a sound of shattering in the space, as if this dream was finally coming to the end and was disintegrating, and then it was completely broken.

The next moment, everyone's vision was obscured by a ray of light, and they lost consciousness in a stunned, depressed, and extremely heavy mood.

……

……

A bitterly cold night on the land of the frozen forest.

In the midst of the violent snowstorm, an ancient castle that was built in the distance was faintly visible on the frozen ground, and the warm light of the fire was shining from the windowsill.

It's just that the people who woke up here didn't care about the snowstorm and the severe cold, and environmental problems couldn't threaten them in a short time. It's just that they themselves seem to have a problem, they are all lost in sight, depressed in will, and they all exude a temperament that sees through the red world, has no desires, and even twilight.

It's like watching a movie that is very touching and has a strong sense of substitution, and when the movie is over, the moment you walk out of the movie theater, you have a feeling of being in a different world, and there is also a feeling of physical and mental exhaustion that you can't forget.

Although fifteen years have not really passed, and the dream also presents some important memory scenes intermittently, it is also like a long movie, and it is not very elaborate in terms of narrative techniques, except that the causes and consequences of the events are explained one by one in order.

But this is enough, almost everyone seems to have witnessed a young girl become a king, the great and tragic life, and the tragic ending in the end......

The loss and regret after all this disappeared made them feel a faint melancholy, and even had the feeling that they had traveled through that period of history and really spent a long life.

At this time, even Xuanji, who has always been willful, was silent, and this arrogant little girl seemed to have suddenly grown up a lot.

"I don't know why, I feel so uncomfortable......"

In the silence, Yun Tianhe sat cross-legged on the snow with a distressed face, and said this with a bitter face. He didn't know a few big words, and he couldn't find any better adjectives, so he just honestly said his feelings.

- It's just that I feel so uncomfortable and uncomfortable.

After such a encounter, even the heartless and carefree mountaintop savages have a feeling of having tasted joys and sorrows.

“……”

“……”

However, most people probably empathized, so they didn't say anything, and Han Lingsha lowered her head silently, feeling that she was close to the truth, because she had seen that girl twice before.

It's just that at that time, I only thought it was the maid of the young Taoist, and I didn't know if it was from a foreign country that was more distant than the Western Regions, but she didn't expect that the other party would have such a background, and that magnificent life shocked her.

I just don't know what happened after that, the ideal king will follow that young Taoist, but at least it seems to be a good result, which makes Han Lingsha subconsciously feel gratified-

She probably belongs to the few people who saw the hidden easter egg at the end of the tragic movie and found a good ending.

Yun Tianhe had actually seen it, but he didn't think about it that much, and it was hard to say whether he recognized Artoria's true identity or not, after all, in the scenes presented by the dream memory, this king had always been dressed as a man.

There are also two lost people, whose minds are also turning rapidly between the flickering eyes and begin to think seriously. They are still very quick to regulate their emotions, and they are not the first time moviegoers around them, they are very experienced.

It's just that if you want to say that it doesn't matter, it's definitely impossible-

Not to mention the kind of loss, regret, and depression that seems to be in a different world, this kind of dream back to a certain historical epic in the past, the realism of empathy is too amazing, and it really gives people the illusion that they have crossed over and returned.

So much so that they felt that just the scene of the last dead body apocalypse seemed to be more than ten years ago, and the firm determination of the previous people and the idea of wanting to get back to the field had long since disappeared.

It seems that the second dream is not as sinister as the first, and there is no immediate danger, but it is a way to consume their will and assimilate their consciousness in another form, and perhaps if they continue like this, they will soon be completely immersed in this great dream.

Liu Mengli also said that the divine consciousness of the initiator is vast, and the soul of ordinary people is like the gap between the fluorescence of rotten grass and the bright moon of Tianxin, perhaps the memory dream of the ideal king before is only a very small part of the many memories and thoughts he has mastered, the tip of the iceberg.

What awaits them may still be a long dream journey.

How should this be played? The other party hasn't even directly attacked them at all, this kind of murderous existence in the direction of spiritual power enhancement is the most annoying, as long as the other party is willing, they can completely play people to death, and they may not even know how to die.

When the five senses and six senses are dominated, dreams become reality, and everything in the illusion, including but not limited to appearance, form, quality, touch, and even smell, cannot distinguish the real from the fake, it will be the most desperate thing.

The crowd finally gathered their emotions and continued to move forward, towards the ancient castle on the cold frozen ground.

And in that old castle on the frozen ground, a small room was surrounded by the heat of a slowly burning stove. The woman on the bed was looking at the baby sleeping in her arms, her eyes full of love.

From now on, the child will live as an imitation of humanity.

Maybe it's painful, maybe it's resentful of the mother who gave birth to you and isn't really human. But even so, now she is still very happy, thinks this child is very cute, and feels very proud.

This is the information extracted from the black mud of the Holy Grail, the most important memory beginning for the mother of a certain android who has passed away, and perhaps the beginning of her true feelings as an android.

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Light and darkness are uncertain, and in the depths of the illusory deep void, there is an unpredictable, chaotic and blurred figure sitting quietly in it, which seems to be the absolute center of this inexplicable and inexplicable time and space.

There is a constant turmoil and change all around, and a mighty and brilliant river can be vaguely seen coming across the void, frantically washing the figure like a rock of the mainstay.

The long river is composed of countless stars, and each star has a variety of different scenes circulating, which seems to be all the evolution of all beings in the red dust, and the Tao is full of impermanence cause and effect in the world.

It's just that although the momentum is surging and seemingly endless, when it washes to the side of that figure, it will inexplicably stabilize, and it seems to be steadily suppressed by some force.

The powerful divine will continues to emanate, like a storm crashing on the shore, suppressing the dream stars one by one, dominating all the trajectories in them, and deducing a variety of lights and shadows.

It's just that I don't know what went wrong, often one "watershed" stabilizes, and the other "watershed" begins to rise and fall again, and many star-like points of light burst like soap bubbles under the interference of external forces, and everything dies, heaven and earth do not exist, announcing the end of the world in the dream world.

Under the continuous repeated erosion of waves of mighty tides, the long river was in turn annihilated, revealing more and more emptiness and dead silence.

"It's not that easy...... It is indeed a good idea to borrow chickens to lay eggs and use dreams to sustenance and differentiation divine thoughts, which can indirectly achieve one thought and one world......"

There are fluctuations in the dark.

"But it's impossible to directly make your thoughts reach the number of one yuan, and before that, you will have to be infinitely split in your own mind first......"