Chapter 15: The Meaning of Life
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"yes. Owen explained, "In the past few days, I have repeatedly used the 'cards of fate' to divination, and each time I have come up with exactly the same result: full moon, midnight, wind, homecoming, ashes, blood, tears. ”
"Full moon, midnight, wind, homecoming, ashes, blood, tears?" Sophia muttered to herself, "what do these unrelated things mean?"
"That's exactly what I'm thinking about. I always feel that something extraordinary is going to happen, and the key to solving it lies in these fortunes. ”
"Do you have any clue then?"
"Yes. You see. ”
Sophia looked past Owen's direction, and it was the bright, round moon overhead, which was not as round last night as it was tonight. "Are you trying to say that tonight or on the next few months' full night will happen that even you can't predict?" asked Sophia.
"Actually, my clues are not only the full moon and midnight, but also this. Owen pulled out one of the bottles he had brought with him.
By the light of the moon, Sophia saw that the bottle was supposed to be made of porcelain from the Oriental continent, and the mouth of the bottle was tightly blocked with mud. "What's in there?" Sophia rightly questioned something she didn't understand.
"Ashes. The ashes of my master. ”
Owen said the answer that Sophia hadn't expected, she looked at him and had something to say but just spit it out and swallowed it back. Where had Owen gone in the years since he fell off the cliff? What had happened to him? How did he learn his supernatural hand-to-hand combat skills and legendary telekinesis? These questions kept swirling in the minds of Sophia and the other companions, and although they wanted to know very well, Owen was reluctant to say it, so no one asked. That's why Sophia stopped talking.
"My master is from across the ocean. Owen pointed to the sea, the boundless east.
"You're talking about ......"
"That's right, it's the extremely distant Eastern Continent. More than 30 years ago, he led his family and companions across the ocean to the earth beneath our feet in search of a medicine. ”
"Hearing you say this, I remember hearing Teacher Anqi mention that more than 30 years ago, there were indeed hundreds of people from the East, looking for some kind of medicine in the Brilliant Continent, the Star River Continent and the Molun Continent, and they also visited the Central Church, but because of the problem of faith, they were ordered by the Pope at that time to encircle and suppress, they were almost wiped out, but in the end they escaped, but then they didn't know how to hide collectively, and they have disappeared until now. ”
"It's not hidden, it's all dead. My master is the leader of these people and the last survivor of them. ”
"Dead in a foreign land. It's pathetic. Sophia sighed, "But is the medicine they, your master and craftsman, looking for, so important that they pay so much price?"
"A medicine that is said to keep people young forever and never die when consumed. Elixir of life. Not as a moving corpse, but as a living person. Owen said in a mocking tone, "I heard that the rulers of their side are very keen to get this medicine, which is why the master craftsman came here." ”
Sophia recalled for a while and said, "Is there such a medicine in the world? I remember that the Holy Book said that eternal life is the prerogative of God, and mortals have no right to touch it at all, unless they are saints who have been blessed by God, they are qualified to share eternal life with God; ”
"It is true that there is a deposit of this medicine. Because there are always people in the world who want to be gods. It was these people who created the elixir of life and gave it a righteous name: 'The Gift of the Holy Spirit.' But did you know that the 'gift of the Holy Spirit' is made by taking the lives of countless people and refining their souls. ”
"This ...... It's so devastating!Who did it?" Hearing Owen say such horrific words, Sophia couldn't help but interject.
"The Central Church. ”
"It's them again!"
"Surprised? At least thousands of years ago, the Central Church had created a 'gift of the Holy Spirit'. ”
"So, this 'gift of the Holy Spirit' was later found by your master?" Sophia had probably guessed the answer, and she asked just to make sure.
"Yes. ”
"And where is it now?"
"Half of it was in me. ”
"Huh?" Sophia was incredulous again.
Owen smiled bitterly and said, "To be precise, it has merged with my body, and it has been completely consumed. Master Craftsman said that if it weren't for that half of the elixir, I would have been burned to ashes by the demonic blood in my body. Sophia, haven't you always wanted to know about my past......"
Owen then told Sophia everything that had happened between his jumping off a cliff on Key Island and his reappearance as the black-hooded necromancer leader. Owen spoke for more than an hour, and the posture of the two had changed from standing to sitting. Sophia was very engaged as she listened to Owen's recounts of the past, and Owen's painful experiences reappeared in front of her eyes one by one......
“...... You all know the rest of the story. Owen ended his remembrance with such a sentence.
Sophia was originally a sensual person, and after listening to it, she had become a tearful person.
"What is that feeling of despair when I think of the tens of thousands of souls who have died tragically wailing in me, you know? Even though these souls have long been exhausted, sometimes I close my eyes and I can't help but imagine their expressions of fear in the moment before they die. ”
"Owen, what the hell are you trying to say?" said Sophia, a little worried.
"So......" Owen placed the ceramic bottle containing the ashes of the master into Sophia's hand, "please do me a favor and bring the ashes of the master back to his hometown on my behalf." Is that okay?"
"Why don't you do it yourself?" Sophia felt a little baffled by the request.
"One person's survival is built on the death of countless people. That's who I am. First Uncle Merkone, then tens of thousands of people I don't know. Not only human life, but I also cost a thousand years of dragon life to extend my own life that should have ended a long time ago......"
"Why do you have such thoughts? Aren't you still living in a good way? Since you have carried so many lives in your life alone, you should cherish your life even more, work hard and use every means to live, and you must not give up lightly!"
"Thank you, Sophia. I understand what you're saying. Owen smiled knowingly at Sophia, "I've been in for it a long time ago. For life, I will not give up lightly, nor will I be obsessed with attachment, I just want my life to be able to shine with brilliant brilliance, which is enough to prove that I am not vain in this life. I thought that the battle against Satan the demon would be the moment for me to burn and enjoy my life, but in the end I survived. It means that the moment of real fireworks has not yet come. But this moment will eventually come, but even the 'Cards of Destiny' cannot accurately predict the correct day of this moment, which means that every minute and every second I will spend in the next will be this moment, and I am ready to meet this moment at any time...... Therefore, I may not be able to send the master home in person, so I ......"
"Shut up, stupid!" Owen interrupted Sophia before he could finish his sentence, "That's just an excuse for you to escape!"
"Sue, Fey, Ya......" At that moment, Owen felt that Sophia's tears were full of anger, and it seemed that she was really angry.
"Take it back!" Sophia stuffed the bottle back into Owen's hand, "This is a promise you made yourself, and it should be up to you to fulfill it! Let life shine brightly? Just make a super joke! You live in desperate situations again and again, not for the sake of some meaningful sacrifice! Any sacrifice is meaningless, what is meaningful is life, it is life! Do you understand?"
Owen took the ashes and looked at the excited Sophia, he had a thousand words to say, but in the face of such Sophia, he couldn't say a word.
"If your master is such a generous man, as you say, why should he care if his ashes return home?" Sophia continued to blast at Owen.
"Wait, Sophia, you just said ......"
"In my understanding, the reason why your master made this request before dying is to let you live, no, it is to give you a reason to live, and while you are alive, you will find other reasons to continue to let you live! I know that there are people in this world who are not afraid of death, but no one will take death as the goal of survival! You burn your life to shine, yes, you think this is the enjoyment of life, to make your life worthwhile, but have you ever thought about me? Have you ever thought about Cassius them? Can't you just try to live for me, for all your friends and companions who care about you?" Sophia became more and more agitated the more she spoke, and at last she used a growl.
"However, the master said that I would not live to be 26 years old, so ...... that is the case."
"Smack!"
This time it was a resounding slap in the face that interrupted Irving.
Owen slowly turned his head back to the front, bright red blood dripping down the corner of his mouth, and a clear palm print gradually appeared on the left side of his face. This slap in the face was unexpected and reasonable. But what I didn't expect was that after doing it, Sophia's tearful eyes no longer had the original anger and pain, and were replaced by her usual gentle eyes. She pulled out her handkerchief and gently wiped the blood from the corner of Owen's mouth.
"Are you sober?" said Sophia calmly, "as long as I am by your side, with Joyka, Cassius, and Ray by your side, your life will never be lonely." I...... We will accompany you to return the ashes to the craftsman's hometown, and then we will continue to live with you, even after the age of 26. ”
"I ...... Ha, I'm such a big fool in the middle of the word. Owen laughed at himself, "Chasing life to shine, thinking that this is the enjoyment of life." In fact, I forgot about it, and being happy with my companions is the real enjoyment of life. With that, Owen grabbed Sophia's hand to wipe the blood from him.
"Owen, I'm ......" was grabbed by Owen's hand, Sophia was a little embarrassed, but fortunately, she turned her back to the moonlight, and no one could see her slightly reddened girl's youth.
"Maybe I already understand the true meaning of this divination. The full moon, the midnight, the wind, the homecoming, the ashes, the blood, and the tears, so it was. Owen grabbed the bottle with the ashes in one hand and dragged Sophia in the other, heading towards the sea.
"Hey!" Sophia was dragged to catch up.
Owen stopped before the wave, and he did something that Sophia had never thought of: he saw him crush the mud that sealed the mouth of the bottle with his hand, and then turn the ceramic bottle upside down, and the ashes of Bai Huahua poured out of the bottle, part of which was blown away by the sea breeze, and the rest was poured into the sea.
"Owen, what are you doing? Aren't these the ashes of the master you revere the most?" asked Sophia behind her.
O sea, O wind, please bring the master and his old man home! Owen did not speak, but thought so in his heart.
Suddenly, he turned around and hugged Sophia tightly.
"Wait, wait......" The moment the two touched each other's skin and felt each other's body temperature, Sophia's face quickly turned from reddish to crimson, and she didn't expect Owen to suddenly hold her, just like she couldn't have expected all of Owen's actions before.
"Thank you. ”
Owen's soft, but weighty voice came from the ear.