"But now only you can accompany me through these endless years. Like me, it is my selfishness to let you live, maybe I have seen too many changes in the times, and the only thing missing is the companionship that has always been the same. ”

His hand reached for her: "Now that you know I'm a monster, do you want to leave me?" ”

Every ten years, he would give her a choice like this, and her choice has never changed, but this year, he gave her own truth.

"Can you tell me why you are immortal?"

Bai Yun asked.

"It's not that I'm immortal, it's that I live much, much longer than yours, and the people of my homeland are like that, and they exist in your legends."

"Are you talking about...... The stories that have been handed down in those mythological stories, those gods, demons and monsters are real?? She was dumbfounded.

"These are just half-truths and half-truths, and what the truth is can only be pieced together with the memories that remain." He whispered, as if he understood his duty.

Instead of being in a different world that has been aimless here, he draws on the knowledge here, and finally finds the fault point of their time, why the power of people will disappear, and a replacement technological civilization will appear, and their past will be completely denied, and the people here can only rely on other forces to exist.

This is the point he is going to explore.

"If I can help you, whatever you want to do, as long as I exist, I can give a part, that's not bad."

Bai Yun said.

"Thank you." Mr. Ming glanced at her, and didn't know if it was to appease her: "If that's the case, when you find the intersection, are you willing to embark on the return journey with me?" ”

He carefully observed the change in his expression, and smiled faintly.

"Probably this is just a deception that makes people have sweet dreams, all people are just in this dream of heaven and earth living together, and they don't know it, they just live in the artificial order, and they don't know what life and death mean."

He looked into the distance again and said, "Do you know why I came here? ”

Bai Yun shook her head.

"For tens of millions of years, I was the only one who crossed the barrier erected by that man and came here, and I heard the sound of the world about to collapse in my coma."

He said, "Have you ever heard the sorrow of the world? ”

Bai Yun shook her head puzzled.

He tilted his head, as if to recall: "But I have heard it, I am very familiar with that voice, and I can even say that I no longer hear the sorrow of all things all the time, I am here and now, but my soul does not rest for a moment. ”

Bai Yun listened, and finally understood why his body showed incomprehensible heaviness and exhaustion, she only saw the light at the moment of life and death, but he was always in the dark, and it seemed that he could never break free from the cage, binding him tightly.

"Why is this world about to collapse?" Her throat tightened as she stepped forward and asked.

Her body is nothing, and she can only pass through his shoulders, and she can't bear the world under his eyes, she wants to touch, but she can't do it, she wants to empathize, but she only has an empty soul.

"What can I do to see the world as you see it?"

"This—" he chuckled, "I'm afraid I don't even know about it, but at the moment of your death, I saw the light." ”

"Light?" Bai Yun was slightly dumbfounded.

"Exactly." He said: "I have never seen it before, the brilliant light surprised and made me tremble, I have even determined that you are the cause and effect that I am waiting for here, I have done everything to save you, maybe you will be one of the keys to saving this world." ”

"You said one, is there another key in your feelings?"

Bai Yun asked.

"yes, so I'm still waiting. Just as I've waited for so many years, I'm sure I'll be able to wait for the other keys to come to me. ”

……

In the past 20 years, new technology has broken through, and she can act with him, instead of being trapped in the world of data, they capture her soul waves, and perfectly condense the data into a watch, which he can take with her wherever she goes.

But it's just that the range that can go is only between square inches, she seems to be a wandering spirit following him, only he can see Bai Yun, if he leaves a certain range, he may disappear.

"So you must not leave my line of sight." Mr. Ming told again and again.

"I see, don't worry."

Minghe took her with him, and he had a small tail in his diet and daily life, but it also made her understand this person's outrageous self-discipline, daily quasi-alarm clock-like work and rest, and then take a shower and change clothes after fitness, at first she was a little shy and tight, and would bury her whole person in the wall, after a few times, she carefully asked him to take off the watch, letting go of her fragile heart. But Minghe glanced at his watch and said, "I'm afraid this won't work, this thing is now interconnected with your and my lives." ”

Bai Yun didn't understand what he meant, but he didn't say anything more. But when she saw him tired more often than before, and when she saw the nutritionist and doctor asking him to spend more time taking care of his body, she always felt as if she had a lot to do with herself.

Finally, one day, he fainted during a meeting.

After questioning Assistant Cheng, she finally knew that the energy she could exist in the world was originally supplied by the countless tubes on her body, but if she wanted to leave her body, she would need a new energy supply.

And Minghe used the energy of his body. In other words, he was burning his own life to keep her alive.

She was shocked.

"Mr. Ming is reluctant to tell you about this, because he is worried that you will be cranky, and for such a long time, he insisted on experimenting with his own body, I knew that there would definitely be this day - but I can't bear to hide it anymore, our family has been serving the young master for generations, and his existence is our only one - we can't let him spend it like this anymore."

After saying that, Assistant Cheng bowed to her: "But I can't interfere in your affairs, and I can only inform Miss Bai Yun of this matter, and we will listen to your opinion." ”

If her presence would be a great threat to him, then for her, the value of her existence at the expense of him would be meaningless.

If he died because of this, wouldn't she have killed another person after she died?

"I'm already dead, it's just that your efforts have kept me alive, I never expect that I can really help anything, maybe I want to see the world he described, is it really as desperate as he said, I want to save the world, but if I can't even save him, my existence is torture."

She took back the hand that was caressing his emaciated cheek, and looked at the honest assistant on the side slowly: "Let me return to the database, I don't want to waste the soul you snatched, if I am the only one, then I can't die, until he finds the meaning of my existence, I will wait for him." ”

Returning to the database, then it is equivalent to choosing to freeze her soul, waiting to be awakened, maybe she will not wake up, her soul will be wiped out, and this is all she can leave.

Suddenly, her footsteps were stopped alive.

The moment Assistant Makoto took off his watch, Minghe woke up from a coma, he opened his eyes and said in a dumb voice: "Who allows you to make such a self-assertion!" ”

His tone became sharp and stern.

"It's too dangerous for you to pay to this point, let me go back, the closer I get to you, the more dangerous it is to you!" She said anxiously.

"I do things without fear of danger, as long as it is worth it." He responded calmly.

“…… But I ......"

"Don't worry about me, all I want is a result, and don't forget that my body is different from other people's, you don't measure me by the ability of ordinary people."

"Even if you are stronger than I thought, but if the real key comes, can you really hold out for that long?" She asked, "I was held back into this world because of you, and what will happen to me if you leave?" ”

His lips opened and closed slightly, and he whispered, "Then, I will try to survive." ”

"......," she was stunned.

The Cheng assistant on the side was also stunned, they had always heard the young master say the painful words that they wanted to be freed from this world, and they couldn't perceive his struggle, and they also thought that it would be a blessing for the young master to be freed as soon as possible, but they never thought that he actually had the idea of wanting to live for the first time because of Bai Yun.

"I see." Assistant Makoto bowed his head, then put the watch back on.

"...... are you," Bai Yun said stunned.

"I'm sorry, Miss Bai Yun, we decided to respect the young master's wishes."

What he said was neither humble nor arrogant, and compared to the anxious appearance before, it returned to its usual flawlessness, and his calmness made Bai Yun pause, she was not sure if she could really stay by his side with peace of mind.

"Tell me, what is the key you are looking for?"

She nervously shook his hand and asked.

"It's not that simple to say." He smiled wryly.

"From this day forward, let's go out and look for it."

She said solemnly.

"Get out?"

"Yes, there's only so much we can do if we wait here all the time, after all, not all of them will come to the door like me."

Her statement made Minghe couldn't help but smile: "Yes, I've been waiting for the rabbit for many years, and I've only waited for you." It took me two hundred years to wait for you, and I don't know how many years it will take to wait for others, but you are not the first cause and effect for me to wait. There's one more person, I've already identified. ”

"Who is it?" Bai Yun couldn't help but ask curiously.

He just smiled and said nothing, and looked at the straight and stiff Makoto assistant standing on the side, and the Makoto assistant showed a somewhat cramped smile when he saw his gaze.

"Young master, please don't force me, my marriage has not yet arrived...... There is no urgency. ”

"Is that you?" Bai Yun asked in surprise.