"Hey, hey, are you so sleepy that you can fall asleep while talking?"

These words seem to come from a distant sky, and they seem to sound directly in the ears, ethereal and distant, but they gently disintegrate the infinite reincarnation.

……

……

“…… Wait a minute!! ”

As if waking up from a dream, Mu Xiu immediately instinctively reached forward, as if he wanted to hold someone, and let him succeed.

Feeling the touch in his hand, he subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, and then condensed slightly, but what caught his eyes was a white palm, which felt unusually smooth and soft, almost reluctant to let go.

Both expected and unexpected, for this hand is—

At this time, Penglai Mountain Huiye's dissatisfied voice was also sounding beside her, and her eyes flashed with a dangerous light: "It's too rude, isn't this your response to the concubine?" ”

“……”

Mu Xiu slowly came back to his senses, he looked at the burning fire in front of him, and the black straight girl who was kneeling upright next to him, and was being caught by himself at the moment with a snow-white wrist.

Faced with such a scene, he couldn't help but be in a trance, as if he was just taking a nap, maybe a few seconds had not passed?

So, is everything that just happened just a dream, or is it actually an illusion created by the so-called demons?

All kinds of doubts flashed from the depths of his heart, but in the end, Mu Xiu shook his head slowly and denied such an idea.

But he didn't say anything, just silenced for a moment, and then raised his head and looked at the black princess with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened and had never happened—

"Ahem, because after all, I have been more tired in the past few days, and I also suffered a little injury in a fight with Yonglin, and my condition is not good...... I'm really sorry, I don't know what you want to ask, Princess? Hmm, where did we just come from? ”

As he spoke, he let go of the palm holding Penglai Mountain's Hui Yehao wrist as if he didn't know anything.

“……”

“……”

"Gensokyo ......"

Penglai Mountain Hui Ye looked at him suspiciously, but after withdrawing her palm, she was not annoyed, she just was silent for a while and said:

"I just saw that your mental state seems to be very wrong, and I wanted you to talk more to divert your attention...... But it seems like you're okay now? ”

Without waiting for the other party to answer, the princess squinted her eyes and earnestly advised: "Follow your own heart, the difference between the immortal species and the short-lived species is not only the lifespan, if "you" is no longer you, then no matter how long the life is, it will lose its meaning. ”

“…… Uh, thanks. ”

Mu Xiu opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, and he looked at Her Royal Highness the princess with a wry smile. Sure enough, no matter who it is, there are really few people who are as innocent and simple as they seem.

It's just that......

He raised his hand and looked at it, is his problem solved in this situation?

Just now, I have survived the "inner demon" and advanced to a higher level?

However, Mu Xiu found that his state had not changed in any special way for the time being, at least the further subtle level of control, or the ability to modify gene fragments and control the direction of evolution that he had been pursuing, had not been obtained, and even the light of the mind had not been completely concretized.

In other words, he didn't survive the demons in his heart and was promoted to the middle level of the fourth order, which was actually the same as before.

Mu Xiu stared blankly at his palm, subconsciously twisted his fingers, and a faint flame rose up, burning quietly on his fingertips.

Penglai Mountain Huiye raised his sleeves to cover half of his face, retreated slightly, and a look of jealousy flashed in his eyes.

But it was at this time that Mu Xiu suddenly stood up, he walked quickly to the door, opened the door and took a step, and then came back to his senses, turned back to Princess Hei Changzhi and said calmly:

"I'm sorry, Your Highness Princess, I need to go out...... There is such a hunch. ”

"Huh?" Penglai Shan Kaguya blinked, slightly surprised.

Then she seemed to understand what was coming, and her beautiful dark eyes looked at the figure that had disappeared into the dark snow outside the door without waiting for a response, and sighed with some pity.

"I realized it so quickly, and sure enough, no matter who it is, as long as you make up your mind, you will inevitably really expose your true nature......

Then, Princess Hei Changzhi looked at her wrist and snorted softly.

She suddenly wondered what had happened to that guy just now, and it seemed to be very interesting information.

……

……

So, in the middle of the night.

It was very rare for Mu Xiu to leave the village again less than half a day after he returned. He walked silently in the silence and tranquility of the white night, leaving a long trail on the snow.

The barren fields and empty land are frozen for thousands of miles, covered by a thick layer of snow, and many times there are no people walking for thousands of miles. Almost everywhere there are abyssal canyons, snow-capped mountains standing, and it seems that only heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, sun, moon and stars are companions.

Finally, in the middle of the night, he stopped his aimless stroll, and stood alone on the summit of a snowy peak, looking up at the starry sky in the sky.

I guess I've never been so close to the sky dome before, or maybe there is no light pollution and no air pollution in this era, or maybe I just didn't really realize the night sky above me until now......

For the first time in his life, he saw such an empty and magnificent starry sky, even if it was only a corner of the vast universe, it made people feel an unimaginable shock.

The night is like an incomparably wide blanket, and the stars in the sky are like sparkling and shining gems on this blanket, which is simply full of incredible fantasy beauty.

It's just—

Looking at the starry sky on the other side, in addition to being far away, it seems that only loneliness remains.

"That's the case......" Mu Xiu muttered to himself as he looked at the starry sky, he was completely on a whim, so he walked out. In fact, he had no clear purpose at all, and he was just following the throbbing guidance of his heart, and finally did such a thing.

Human beings have always lived in the atmosphere, so they have always neglected the importance of air and how precious it is.

He never realized that the so-called present world was actually quite good, so beautiful that the final "God" would be jealous of it.

The "Two Rituals" is a personality born after the outflow of the roots, knowing everything, so that they are bored with everything and have no interest in it. She doesn't look at anything, she doesn't think about anything, because she knows exactly what will happen next.

It's boring, painful, and pointless.

Therefore, she chose to continue to sleep, and created "Shiki" to deal with the outside world, because she had no interest, so she did not interfere with any fate, just let the things that had been destined for a long time simply continue according to the fixed path.

Moreover, she herself is also subject to herself, to the way of thinking of this personality that she simulated-

It is true that it may be a real expression of feelings, but it is more likely that it is just a judgment made based on her own memory, she is like a machine that judges what is the value of right and wrong through the knowledge in her memory, and what should be done, but everything is worthless to her, and everything does not have to be done.

Because the Root Vortex itself has no intellect or drive, she was able to appear because she simulated the real personality of the two rituals, otherwise she would not even be able to understand the meaning of the language, after all, it was nothing more than a pure container in itself.

- It was only by simulating the personalities of the two ceremonies that she gained her intellect and driving force, but her own feelings were also simulated together in the final analysis, so it is natural that her thinking and judgment will start from that perspective.

It's as if fate had played the worst of jokes, so that the omnipotent "god" was truly born, but this "god" was limited by his own knowledge, memories and emotions.

Because of the simulated personality, we can make thinking and judgment, but this thinking and judgment is based on all aspects of the simulated personality.

Therefore, because she is too human-like and too deliberately imitates people, she has no humanity at all, and the final "God" is so sad.

She can do anything, but she is unwilling to do anything, even after discovering a variable like Mu Xiu, and the uncertain changes in the future finally made her interested, she still came to try to establish contact first-

"If you can do something for someone, you can connect with the outside world."

It was an unnecessary idea, but she had to find a reason for herself to do it, otherwise it would be meaningless and futile.

Because, there is no meaning of existence, there is no value of existence.

Therefore, after Mu Xiu rejected her, he would almost never see her again. The blackness that disappeared into the morning glow was like a trace of the night, and she disappeared alone like a dream.

From the beginning, she didn't care about anything else.

Mu Xiu was just quietly watching the night sky from the top of the snow peak at the moment, and he had been watching in her place until dawn.

Because he knew how cruel that place was, that there was nothing, that there was nothing, that there was nothing but to look at the eternal darkness of nothingness, and the only self that could be recognized in it......

If he could, he would never want to be associated with it again.

However, it seems that the "two rituals" can only sleep there forever, and it is really—how lonely.

Thinking of this, Mu Xiu lowered his head and looked at his chest, as if he wanted to see through the big ball of light in his soul.

If the "Two Rituals" do not deceive themselves, then they seem to have been deliberately created by using the information of another person, or another personality.

The purpose seems to be to completely replicate that part of the information, to inherit the origin of the "nothingness", and it is impossible to determine what exactly will be done after that......

It's just that if you were able to appear for this reason in the first place, and everything in the past was deliberately arranged, then what is the meaning of your existence?

It was very inexplicable, he remembered the day he realized the existence of the big ball of light, the memory that was instilled in his mind-

Want to understand the true meaning of life? Want a real ...... Alive?

“…… I think I've probably found my true purpose in life, even if it's just to prevent the big ball of light from having bad intentions for me, I have to use her abilities. ”

There was already a faint light at the end of the gray and wide night, and Mu Xiu slowly turned around, and a strange light flashed in his eyes, as if he was full of consciousness that he had never had, and he was ready to pay the price for it.

"I don't want to go to hell with her, so let's pull her up - even a boy can have such an awareness, and it would be too sad if my life wasn't a little challenging."

He walked on the way back without stopping, and firmly embarked on the way home......

Or an unknown direction.