The beast said, "I am your 'father', your god, the source of all your emotions and deeds, and you are destined to stay with me in the forest for eternity." ”

In front of the tall beast, the newly-born "human" seemed to tilt his neck in some confusion.

"But, but......" It clumsily tried to imitate the sounds of the beast's mouth, trying to use its own physiology for the first time to make sounds. "As man tried all this, the beast watched indifferently from the sidelines, as if waiting to see how soon it would master the ability to speak, and as if waiting for it to speak for its own advice."

Finally, the man says, "My Father, what is beyond the forest?" ”

"Outside the forest is the forest." The beast replied with little hesitation, "If you don't believe me, go out and have a look for yourself, and don't blame me for not reminding you, if you get lost in the 'forest' and can't come back, I won't look for you." ”

The "man" seemed to be frightened, and then he obediently swore that he would not go to the "forest" outside, and as the beast on the surface expected, he created a beautiful work with life as the other party, and spent a long time with the beast in the forest.

It's just that gradually, "people" find that they are withering.

Like the treehouse next to its favorite herb with small red flowers, the grass blooms beautifully and catchily, but if it is not properly nurtured, it will dry up and run out.

Now "man" realizes that its life will wither like those flowers and plants.

There is no such thing as "dying" in the forest, because nothing has ever been taught to it. The beast can teach it all the knowledge it has because the beast itself has these abilities. But the concept of "death" is different, the birth of the beast is more ancient and mysterious than this forest, it is immortal, it is immortal, it is immortal, it is the supreme god unique in this world.

“…… Will I disappear? On that day, the "man" did not avoid the way back of the beast, and stood in front of the beast and asked. Hearing this, the beast seemed to be a little puzzled, "How did you disappear?" What are you thinking? ”

"I ......"

It's been a long time since the "man" has mastered the ability of "language", and the beast has not heard it stammer like this. The beast felt a little impatient, so it waved away from the movement of the "man" in its way, and walked deeper.

The "man" stood alone, reaching out and pressing down on the left side of his chest, where it had been a rib of the beast, and now somehow it could not feel its presence.

"I'm going to disappear anyway, so I can do whatever I want now." It stood there and muttered to itself, then looked up at the end of the forest. Pursing his lips, he didn't bring any tools, not even his favorite small stone knife, and walked naked to the edge of the forest.

It was born so pure and naked, and now it returns to the "forest", from the beginning.

The "people" are gone.

Originally, the beast was not even aware of this fact, and since the "human" gave birth to many "emotions" that it had never seen and did not want to understand, the "human" did not seem to want to be with it all the time. The beast doesn't matter, after all, after the initial novelty, it quickly gets bored, and it is like a pastime to raise "people".

In the mind of the beast, everything about "man" belongs to it, including the thought of "man", which is also born on the basis of its thought. It never imagined that one day a "man" would betray it and escape from the forest, so much so that when it finally realized this fact one day, the anger and incredulity in its heart almost broke through its sanity.

Along with the wrath, the beast was born with an emotion called "fear". Immediately after that, it began to fear this "fear", because it had never given birth to such an emotion, which made it almost look like a "human".

It took some effort for me to divide a part of my possessions, my belongings, and it was trying to assimilate me?

The beast let out a low roar in its throat with red eyes, and it thought angrily, I am going to find the traitor, and kill him, and put an end to this absurd accident once and for all.

A rib cage that wants to control the original body in reverse?

The beast hissed and laughed absurdly. If your left hand wants to kill you, cut off your left hand, and in the same way, if your rib wants to take power, rip out this bone.

The beast has always been very clear.

It is the creator of the forest, the supreme deity, with absolute sanity, and it knows what it should do when and when.

It wasn't until the beast stepped out of the edge of the forest and saw what it called another "forest" in front of it that it realized what a terrible mistake it had made.

……

Desperate, Pigskin Tavern.

"How many versions of your story are there, man?" Xiaolu slumped her chin on the table, and after eating two plates of fruit bowls and being explicitly ordered to evict the customers by the half-giant boss, she had to give up for the time being, and yawned with her mouth open. "I think this beast is shaking."

"Who knows." Shen Jingxue sat on the other end of the table and studied a bottle stopper, flipped it between her fingers and turned it around twice, before she found the expression of a new world, "Wow, do you all use this thing for brewing now?" We don't have any of these little plugs there. ”

In just a few minutes, the eyes of the half-giant boss looking at them have changed from "the stinky shame of eating free fruit plates" to "the wisdom of having a little problem with the brain".

Qiu Xuan sat on the other end, and for a while she didn't come back to her senses from the so-called story.

In fact, upon hearing the addition of the current version, it is almost easy to see that the beast is the only one in the entire story who is over-interpreting. From beginning to end, the motives and thoughts and actions of "man" are very clear, it does not want to "betray" the beast, but it does not want to stay in the forest forever, and only after knowing that it is about to die, will it go to another place at the end of its life.

Even if that place is indeed just another identical "forest".

Qiu Xuan lifted her eyelids and glanced at Shen Jingxue, who was still studying the cork, "What the beast is really afraid of is 'out of control', right?" ”

Shen Jingxue's movements stopped.

"I told you, Qiu Xuan." "It's good to have your own understanding, what you think the story is trying to convey, that's what it shows you, there's no such thing as 'right or wrong'." ”

Qiu Xuan stared at him for a moment, then looked away.

"Okay, let's get down to business?"

"yes, to the point, I almost forgot." Shen Jingxue muttered a few times, listening to the voice as if she was scolding Qin Jiuyuan, but when she wanted to investigate carefully, she couldn't hear what he was muttering at all.

"I probably learned a little bit about you and death and deception from the other old fellows." He tapped his finger on the table, "To be honest, your situation is a bit complicated now, after all, at the beginning...... Ahem, we didn't expect you to run into the Dominator's true body before that. ”

"We." Qiu Xuan intercepted the words in his mouth and repeated, "Let me ask you, did you know what Qin Jiuyuan was going to do at the beginning?" ”

Shen Jingxue: "I'm sorry I didn't have a good signal just now, hey...... Okay, now for the next question, where should you go next, uh...... Don't look at me like that, I can't say I'm not that kind of person. ”

"Can't you say it, or does he not let you say it?"

“…… Alas. Shen Jingxue slumped her shoulders, and her expression even looked a little bitter. It's because of the rules, Qiu Xuan, 'rules'. ”

"You should be able to understand that there are some things that cannot be spied on. Especially for you—and of course I'm not targeting you—for executioners like you, the rules are completely above you, do you know what I mean? If I could say it, the old thing would have confessed to you a long time ago, and it wouldn't be my turn now. ”

"Okay." Qiu Xuan was silent for a moment, "Then go on." ”

"Speaking of which," it seemed that seeing that the atmosphere was a little frozen at the moment, Shen Jingxue's voice paused, and it sounded a little nostalgic. "You're still calling that name, sometimes even I blurt it out when I call it out."

"What did you say?"

"Name, the name 'Qin Jiuyuan'." Shen Jingxue glanced at her, "Didn't you say that you took it from the "Demon Emperor's Return to the City's Strongest Special Soldier King's Divine Blood Era"." ”

Qiu Xuan: "......"

"Don't talk about it, let's get to the point." She couldn't stand the wave, and the latter shrugged his shoulders, finally finding the right track for the previous topic. "It's quite easy to hide from death or deceive."

"I have a few lists of rulers who are old rivals with those two, in fact, you only need to go to the plane they manage for the next few trials, and death usually doesn't go there. But the problem now is that sooner or later, it will be right. ”

"You should have this realization, right?" Shen Jingxue waved lightly in mid-air, and several words that had been converted into a universal language fell and floated to Qiu Xuan's palm, each with the titles of several dominators written on them. "You can hide in several worlds, but as long as you're alive, it's impossible to get out of the shadows completely."

"I know." Qiu Xuan wrote down those words, and pinched the palm of her hand to erase the words. "But I need a little bit of time now, at least ...... To become stronger than you are now. ”

Shen Jingxue sat opposite and looked at her, his gaze was extremely weird, this kind of grotesque did not belong to the eyes of any normal human being, it was the kind of familiar, the kind of inorganic coldness that Qiu Xuan had seen in Qin Jiuyuan's eyes at a certain moment.

Also, in essence, they are "the same kind".

"That's right." Qiu Xuan didn't look at Shen Jingxue's eyes that abandoned human mimicry at that moment, she thought for a while, and said, "After you go back this time, will you go back to the Ten Thousand Realms to reincarnate or what, if you can, can you tell me about the current situation of the nightmare?" ”

Shen Jingxue: "Who is Nightmare?" ”

Qiu Xuan: "...... Dominator 'time'. ”

Shen Jingxue: "Oh, it's Him! Didn't you hear that He escaped from deception, and why, do you know Him? ”

Qiu Xuan: "Aren't you very well-informed, then why don't you know that when the first world was the first world, Nightmare and I worked together to kill an incarnation of deception?" ”

Shen Jingxue: "......"

"You, killed, deceitful, an incarnation?" He repeated the words at an extremely slow pace, and went through them again from beginning to end, for fear that he had misunderstood. "And it's in ...... The first world? It's the first one, the world where you don't know anything? ”

"Yes."

The expression on Shen Jingxue's face was very strange, this time the grotesque was a complex expression completely based on the human expression bank. "What are you trying to do...... No, I was still wondering why that little guy was staring at you, but it was you...... Well??? Are you crazy, you were a rookie who didn't understand anything at the time, and you went to kill the Dominator?! Although it is only an incarnation, it ...... Hey, deception is really bearable, but instead I will come directly and kill that person hundreds of times. ”

"You're off topic again." Qiu Xuan sighed, "I ask you for this matter, can you help me see the current situation of Nightmare?" ”

"Got it, can I still say no." Shen Jingxue also sighed, "Forget it, I won't care about your little, anyway, you can hide in those trials for a while now, and then I'll come to you again." ”

"Thank you."

"Don't thank me, I didn't help you for free, that guy took something and exchanged it with me." Shen Jingxue got up from the chair in the tavern and beckoned straight to them, "Seriously, it's the first time I've seen a situation like yours, entangled with 'darkness'...... Hehehe, I don't know if I should admire you or that guy. ”

"Let's go, put things on the table for you, and it will be regarded as a meeting gift before making up."

As the words fell, Shen Jingxue's back seemed to be walking towards the door of the pigskin tavern, but as he walked, his figure completely disappeared into the air. Qiu Xuan lowered her head to look at the rune paper that appeared out of thin air on the table, this thing is used to open the light for ordinary weapons, and after turning on the light, you can ignore the spirits to deal with some ghosts involved in the supernatural power testing ground.

Because it can be attached to any weapon, it is at least enough for a roadside guild to go bankrupt if you buy it in a desperate situation.

She put away the rune paper and sat in the tavern for a while, Xiaolu turned her head and asked, "Aren't you going back to Linyuan?" ”

Qiu Xuan: "The three worlds have arrived, and we have to go to the smith's shop." ”

Xiaolu finally reacted after trying to remember for a long time, she was talking about the previous mortgage with the caster Hephaestus. At that time, Qiu Xuan put the stinky and long impact cannon in the smith's shop, waiting for the equivalent to be exchanged for three worlds.

Now it happens to be the third world.