Is this what the Ten is talking about, the origin of life?

I walked forward step by step, almost falling to my knees with each move.

Countless bones and skulls stripped of flesh were densely piled up in endless pits, slowly undulating with the milky white turbulence that shuttled down, and finally formed a white lake of countless corpses at the bottom of the magnificent building buried deep in the mud and rock.

Among the stacked skeletons were many creatures I had never seen before, most of them indescribably deformed, standing strangely upright like random building blocks put together by children.

But whether it is the fangs as small as a guinea pig or the giant spine that is more than ten meters long, all of them shine with a strange glow. The liquid that trickled from the pipes of the wall snaked and crawled on the white bone surface as if it had come to life, writhing like maggots.

The whiteness of my eyes completely crushed my reason, and under the indescribable impact, I seemed to catch a glimpse of a many-like ghost, hovering in the intertwined cavities of bones, watching me and whispering.

Before I knew it, my legs and feet were moving, and I was moving towards the endless lake.

The voices that linger in the ears, those illusory shadows, have an irresistible appeal.

I could hear the starry admonitions, the exhortations, the arguments, like insects walking through the grass under the still moon, the torrential rain pounding on the window pages, but all the contents were swelled and noisy into messy limbs.

The word of dying can only bring a light hum, and the temptation to burrow into the deepest part of the soul,

Closer...... One more step...... Take another look......

I can understand, invest, sublimate......

Until we cross the secret border, everything becomes very clear at this moment,

“...... Knowledge, truth, birth, death.

Spanning hundreds of millions of years of reincarnation, the deep space that gave birth to the old gods, everything ancient, the eternal origin.

Rooted here, sleeping here, withering here, waiting for your enlightenment, your coming, your return—

Thief! ”

Suddenly! The sharp chill is crazy to drill into the ankles! Pain, fear, and despair all came together! My shoulders shook, and I immediately looked down with a twisted face, staring at my right leg that had reached into the lake!

In the midst of desperate struggles, the splashed liquid is like a razor, mixed with the frightening coldness. I could almost feel the flesh peeling off one by one, blood gushing out and spilling onto the palms of the bones that held my tendons.

"Holy!"

Howling, the sluggish brain finally regained its function. Looking at the skeleton that poked out of the wreckage, every cell in my body exploded and became hot in an instant!

I threw away all decency, wailed like dementia, and fled back to shore!

Although it was only half a meter away, it almost cut all my three souls and six souls to pieces! I lay on the ground like a wild dog in the water, and I was shocked to rub backwards a few meters away, so that I could free up my breath to adjust to the extreme mess.

"! What a situation! This TM-wait, wait-"

I didn't have time to sigh, I got up in an instant, anxiously looking around for the familiar figure,

"Yao! Where are you?! Yao! ”

But no matter how much you shout until you are hoarse, the huge cavity that accommodates the white lake can't even send back a single echo, as if only me is left in heaven and earth, and thousands of floating dry bones,

"Yao ......"

The silence overwhelmed the last line of defense, and I felt the world spin around, and I fell on the hard ground, and not far away lay the hideous corpse.

Emotions washed over my shell from within, crashing like waves against my gravel-filled heart. The sound of joints and muscles staggering spread all the way to the cochlea, and I shuddered, unable to hold back the overflowing sorrow, and tears were already wet with tears before the struggling sanity collapsed.

"Why ......"

The sharp pain that grew from deep in my stomach pinned me in place, curled up on the edge of the majestic white lake, and I was like an insignificant duckweed.

All the people I know are disappearing one by one, first Dahan, then Yu, and now even Yao-

I bit the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't suppress the sobs that came out of my mouth.

How many unjustified lies, how many unfulfilled promises, how many expectations, how many trusts? I think of the big man's blue nose and swollen smile, of the clear eyes in the sun, and of Yao's eyes of renewed hope.

But in the end, I lost even the reason to keep going.

Jue won't come back, and I won't be able to take you out.

That's the truth, that's the price I pay.

In order to live, to live with the guilt that cannot be dissipated, I have really been trying.

It's a pity I didn't lie to myself.

Thinking about it, I got up slowly, and my tearful face actually brought a relieved expression, at least, I didn't have to go on like this.

The ancient white lake is getting closer, and I can feel the coldness hitting the surface of my skin. Perhaps I should not have turned down its call in the first place, after all, it was the most convenient salvation.

It dawned on me that even if they returned to me, I would have lost the courage to face them, and that it would be better to do it than to enjoy the consequences of what I had buried, even if it was an escape, but I had no other choice.

"Wait."

Just as I was just a step away from the lake, a strange voice sounded inexplicably.

"Who?"

The fear of refusing to die was restless again, and I retracted my steps vigilantly, looking anxiously at the source of the sound.

"Thief, you still have sins to pay."

The calm tone came from the direction of the center of the White Lake, and it sounded extremely unnatural, it didn't feel like it came from the mouth of one person, and if you listened carefully, it seemed to contain all kinds of narrators of different ages and genders, and their voices overlapped together, with a kind of otherworldly taste.

"Thieves? Do you mean me? ”

I couldn't see where the sound was coming from, so I had to stare at the surface of the bone-filled lake and cautiously retreat a few steps away.

"Bring back our legacy."

It seems that the owner of the voice did not intend to answer my low-level questions, but only gave vague orders like notices. But just when I wondered why it was confident that I would obediently accept my fate, I suddenly heard a condition that I couldn't refuse.

"Take back the branches of the Old Gods, and we'll fill in for what you've lost."

Suddenly, the fog in my heart suddenly swept away, and all that remained was indescribable excitement.

As if I was afraid that this hard-won gift would slip away, I hurriedly asked,

"When you say I've lost something, you mean ......"

However, I was only halfway through the words of skepticism, and I was completely stunned, because a dark purple figure was lying on a platform made of bones slowly rising in the center of the lake.

Despite the distance, I recognized that it was Yao.

Without thinking, I shouted at the top of my voice,

"Say! What do you want me to do! I do it all! What a branch or an old god, I'm absolutely-"

At this time, my heart was surging, and my mind was full of the feeling that I would meet again after a long absence. But they completely ignore the high price behind the hypocritical kindness.

There was no emotion in his voice, only contempt far beyond the world,

"Bring it back, the woman named Aya."

The moment I heard the last word, I almost bit my tongue off, and my eagerly waving arm froze in the air.

My brain went blank, almost instinctively, and I manipulated my stiff lips and teeth and murmured,

"Why, why her? Why her?! ”

The long wind swept wildly, and I was replied to by a thunderous and majestic tone,

"The forest will not spare its prey,

Especially since the prey is the forest itself. ”