Eden (3)
Nebula stated without emotion, without any ripples in his deep purple pupils, as if he were talking about a trivial matter.
"What the hell do you think of human life?"
Out-of-control, Ultramarine suddenly rushed forward and grabbed the woman by the collar viciously. Her usually peaceful face was shrouded in a shadow of grief and indignation, and the edges of her black pupils were covered with fine bloodshots.
Naturally, she was pushed back to the ground. It's easy, she doesn't have much strength on her own.
Nebula's expression was still as elusive as it was indifferent, but it was clear that there was a sense of urgency in her tone.
"At this time, do you still care about a person's life?"
That is true.
Ultramarine stood up from the temperatureless ground, her gloomy gaze sweeping over the faces of her companions.
There were only nine people left...... No, eight people.
Nine people have survived here, and eight have survived to the present.
This is the World Tower, the sixth enchantment of the Spiritual Guardians.
That is, the initiator of the dream world.
"Here we go again. It's your attitude of being determined and in control that is annoying. โ
Another bullet, accompanied by a disgust-filled tone of Taussa, shattered the false guardian.
In the scattered fragments, desperate faces are reflected.
"Incomprehensible. That's what you want, right, but what does it matter if it's true or not?"
"You're the weirdest person to ask this kind of question. Shi Xue hit back like this.
The nebula that reappeared looked at Gu Qiancheng and then at Ultramarine.
"If you're talking about the temporal power...... Well, that's the most bizarre thing. The power of that child is time-sensitive, you know. โ
Frost Que fell softly to the ground, dressed in black, like a grim reaper. Her voice was also cold and hollow, but there was a definite source compared to the nebula.
Nebula's voice seems to be projected directly into the human head, and it is impossible to judge her position.
"Along the way, many of you have benefited from this ability. When she decided to go back in time, it was all she had consciously preserved. But this time, as you say...... Dream Cocoon, whose properties make her lose this ability. โ
"At the end of the day, the world of memory always has subtle deviations......"
The woman who reappeared sat on the steps of the central spiral staircase, her face held in boredom.
"There are too many loopholes. Everyone's impression of the deceased is different, and it is possible for the deceased to appear in front of two people at the same time at different times. The good news is that your friends have the ability to perfectly compensate for any negligence and mistakes. โ
They don't understand it. Frost Que took over:
"Shuffle. โ
Nebula flipped through a notebook with a leather cover and continued indifferently.
"Keep starting over...... As a guide, Frost Que is not really planned to be in the cocoon, but as a fragment of your memory, she will still appear when someone notices the anomaly.
It's a warning that I can't erase that part of her. And in the temple of memory that I have created, the appearance of the misanthropic is forbidden.
However, whether he kills or dies accidentally, as long as no one commits suicide, he will not break the rules of this world.
You're all misanthropes, aren't you, you're all people who have thought about death anyway, and it doesn't matter if you're really dead, right?
There are no misanthropes, and there will be no sacrificers. You will always live happily ever after. Originally, I thought so.
But there are not many people who can come here. Even if you reach the sixth floor, it's usually only a handful. There is no way to improve my theoretical design through practice.
So once someone is killed, it's dead. Brain-dead people are no different from corpses. The only difference is that the corpse will remain in the void of dreams, never to return. โ
With that, she looked up at the broken hole in the dome.
The gears occasionally skimmed.
"Your friends...... I don't want you to die. And once the deceased appears, it proves that there is a memory disorder, and more people who remember the facts and the deceased will appear one after another.
In the end, it will implicate her important people.
At this time, she will go back to a peaceful daily life that she has archived, and then continue to play with you with those memories.
Once, after the death of her friend, she finally realized a problem. As long as she retains those regressive memories, tragedy will surely happen.
So, she decided to let herself forget about it all.
So she rewinds time to a point in time that is synchronized with reality and has no power in the cocoon. At that time, she only had a faint impression of the future.
But she's too smart, and her friends, too. Once again, you go back to square one, and once again you touch death.
But it was a touch of the truth.
So this time, there is only one dead person in the world, and at the same time the first misanthropy.
And the last one.
Worthless self-sacrifice is really inexplicable. โ
As he spoke, the old notebook flew out of the dry sheets of paper and arranged them in an orderly manner in front of Nebula, as if reading a long and uninteresting script.
"I'm coming from the future. โ
In Ultramarine's heart, a familiar voice kept echoing.
But I don't have you anymore in my future.
The unknown feelings in my heart caused tears to well-up in my eyes, blurring my vision.
It seems that something important has been forgotten.
That's the reason why you make yourself so miserable.
Ultramarine vaguely felt that her memories should not be just brief fragments like dreams. Even if she had gone through dozens of reincarnations and hundreds of reincarnations, as Xingyun had said, it was not enough for her to feel this level of sadness.
Maybe it was before coming to the World Tower.
...... What should I do? How can I remember it? This is a memory that I can't forget, no matter what.
She only remembered that the memory was important.
Yue Wange, very important.
It's so important that I won't hesitate even if I die for her.
Die.
Right...... Death, the cause of death, is forgotten.
Ultramarine staggered to her feet, and several times fell to the ground due to the weakness of her legs. There is no way, the body seems to have been asleep for a long time, and when it wakes up, it is still difficult for the brain to judge whether it has control over it.
I am...... How did you die?
Whether it was the first time or the second time, the memories related to death were all sealed by the guides.
She was different from the rest of the sacrificers.
If a person can reach the level of seeking death, his heart must have experienced the torment of long-term negative emotions. Those people, even if they don't remember why they died after becoming misanthropic, should have an impression of their long-term negativity.
In this way, death is not an abrupt choice.
But she didn't.
A smooth sailing life, I can't find any flaws worth abolishing.
I vaguely remembered that the only thing I regretted was that my parents had been working overseas for a long time and didn't care much about their own affairs. They just keep transferring money to her, using money to make up for all the missing feelings.
Fortunately, under the education of her upright grandmother, she is still doing well.
She learned to plan her studies, she learned to plan her money, and she learned to plan her life.
In her life plan, suicide was not included as an option.
Ultramarine knows that she will always show that confident smile to the outside world. The smile wasn't fake, but it wasn't genuine either. It's just a means to maintain social interactions, maintain relationships, and repair relationships.
She is always trying to meet more people and fill her lonely heart with laughter.
Even so, she is still such a lonely person.
Money can't buy a lot of things.
For example, feelings.
But the girl gave her something like that. That warm heart let the golden light fill his empty world.
Although, she is obviously the one who actively closes herself.
Ultramarine was lucky enough to get the key to open the seal.
A girl who constantly opens her heart, even if she is occasionally wounded, even if she often gets cheap or false responses, but never closes herself off.
A girl who seems to have never opened her heart because of something, even if someone who is not malicious approached, even if someone has touched and touched and warmed.
Like a magnet at the opposite pole, the two people unexpectedly coincided.
People like them never need to understand each other, as long as they can support each other, it is enough.
Those memories must be found, the cause of death must be found, and the cause of death must be lived.
Not a suicide, absolutely not, a homicide disguised as suicide.
It must be like this.
However, what kind of other killing will make the World Tower, which can be called perfect logic, agree.
Ultramarine finally straightened up. As before, she held her head high and straightened her spine to the fullest level.
Then, her gaze slowly swept over the people in front of her.
It's just a rabble.
Strictly speaking, this group of people is dead. The so-called deceased is greater, and it is appropriate to give them the least respect. She wouldn't have felt superior to others for such reasons.
But most of them will only dwell on the misfortunes of the past and the injustices of the present.
But he never looked at the future differently.
We can't continue to indulge in the pain that I can't remember, it will only add to the scars.
Memories are such fragile, and such a weak thing.
I remember that I loved, I hated, and that was enough.
The so-called remembering history rather than remembering hatred is nothing more than a high-sounding rhetoric.
To move forward, we must keep moving forward.
At the very least, the scars will make you learn to remember, and it's real. There must be more trials and scars ahead.
This is the tuition, the cost, and the price.
The guardian named Nebula must also know this truth, so that he can cling to the memories of others and applaud them.
Killing her is the easiest way to get revenge. But revenge alone is not enough.
She lost not only her friend who was called Yue Wange, but also more indescribable things.
"Come here. She seemed to hear someone say.
Get there, get closer to the answer.
- Eden "Eden" ยท Fin -