The walk out of the production room was not as long as it had been when they came in, and when they opened the door, they were not surprised to see a woman covered in iron thorns standing in the hallway.

She didn't have the obvious killing intent that Su Jing showed when she met her for the first time, but she was very quiet and calm, almost reminding Su Jing of her body, Lu Mengyao, who always showed Zhizhu holding an expression.

This embodiment of darkness, Su Jing looked at her seriously for the first time, and the contrast between her and her body. If you ignore these sharp needles that pierce the surface of the body, as well as the festering face, cold pupils and sharp fangs, you can still see a little bit of Lu Mengyao's appearance, there is a cruel Gothic feeling, like a work of art that has been decaying for many years, and can deduce the previous exquisite face from the decaying appearance.

"You didn't complete the test." She stared at Su Jing with her reptile-like slender pupils, and the translucent membrane used to wipe away the dust flashed, and her hoarse voice was like the friction of a grinding wheel and metal.

"No, I'm done." Su Jing retorted, "We all know the truth of this trick. It's just a spiritual world to attack our minds, and we understand that, so nothing or nothing can make a difference. Even if I did kill her in a hallucination, it wouldn't have any effect. ”

The instantaneous membrane on the surface of the Dark Incarnate's eyeball flickered again.

"It's the rule, you can't leave this world until you restore the statue of the Happy Prince."

"Give me the location of the statue."

"In Lakeside Park."

"Lead the way, cutie. We can talk about it on the way, and you didn't just jump out to be the background sound of the game's prompts. ”

Even though the dark personality's face was so mutilated that it was not human, it seemed to show an expression of wanting to hit him for a moment. But she just sighed and turned and walked out of the hospital.

"I want to ask you a question. Knowing that what he was going to kill was just an illusion projected by the spirit, why didn't he refuse to do it? ”

The trio strolled through the foggy streets of the town. In the mist, the figure of the woman covered in pins and needles was in a trance, like that of a magician himself. Faced with the question she raised, Su Jing blurted out without thinking:

"Because I don't like it."

"Don't like it? Be serious when answering my questions. ”

"If you want to say it seriously......" Su Jing bit her lip and thought for a while, "I instinctively felt that I couldn't do that, if I had to say the reason, it was because I was afraid of the artifact itself." I've seen an artifact with my own eyes...... Coming from the eye of the god of algorithms, it traces a qiē cause and effect and is the most powerful item I've ever seen in my life. Even if this 'Paradise Lost' is not as powerful as the Eye of Cause and Effect, I would never dare to underestimate its power. ”

The Dark Incarnate walked silently ahead. Listen to him very patiently.

"The world is a projection of our spirit, it extracts ...... No, it should be said to copy the negative parts of our psyche and use you to attack us. I have to say that it is quite a delicate technique. And I, ever since I knew that the world was for attacking our hearts, I decided that I would never do anything against my will. Because I can't take the great risk that the choices we make will feed back into our hearts - at the level of the artifact, which is entirely possible. We made a dark choice. Our minds are also plunged into darkness. ”

Lakeside Park was soon there, and the trio walked along the shore of the lake for about five minutes before a statue of an upside-down sword appeared in front of them. The hilt of the statue has a groove the size of a thumb, leaving the eyes where they were supposed to be. The gilded body has many fragments of wind and rain, and it looks very desolate. Su Jing noticed, in addition to these few grooves. The statue also has a fist-sized vacancy on the left chest.

"Your guess about Paradise Lost is correct. It reinforces the mood of the choices you make, allowing you to gradually become manipulated by that logic...... And that's what I designed. Guess what I want to tell you about this series of stories? Lu Mengyao's dark incarnation leaned against the railing by the lake. Ask Su Jing.

"It's too easy to ask." Su Jing took a long breath and exhaled again. "The main line of the test is to return the eyes and gems that the Happy Prince gave him in the original story to their original owners, so that he can return to his original beautiful state. It can basically be seen as a reverse interpretation of the original. The Happy Prince's altruism of 'self-sacrifice' in the original work is morally sublimated and finally ascended to heaven, and the purpose of this reverse story is undoubtedly egoism, and if I follow the path you designed, then I should become a self-interested ...... Well, people like you. ”

"It's not about hurting others and benefiting oneself, it's about justice. The Happy Prince has no obligation of self-sacrifice, 'only self-sacrifice can go to heaven after death', and in a society with a Christian context, this fairy tale preaches the moral kidnapping that I most resent the most. Lu Mengyao's dark incarnation retorted, "I'm just trying to dispel the romantic thoughts in your head in this way. Altruism is a social morality, which allows you to gain friendship and trust in the real society, unites the society, and allows you to gather the strength of everyone in an upright way to become a strong person. And in the Kingdom of Heaven game, in this society where power is unbalanced, nothing is as strong as one's own ability. The law of the jungle, the law of the jungle, this distorted society, the prevailing is a distorted law. Cruelty is the passport to the top, and I don't want you to die, so I'm going to teach you that. ”

Her words have always made sense, she has a sharp mind, and reason can always overpower emotion...... Su Jing knew that Lu Mengyao was not a bad person, she was not like a typical bad person, she got pleasure from evil deeds, she was just seeking the greatest possibility to climb to a higher place. She does bad things only because she is more efficient because of that, and if she judges that being a good person can move forward more safely, she can also instantly transform into an angel of light...... The logic of the calculations in her mind was as hard as a cold machine.

"I have one of the biggest disagreements with you. My dear, I don't have the same goals as yours. Su Jing spread out his hands, he knew why the two had such a disagreement, Su Jing also had the same logical reasoning ability, but he chose the opposite path to Lu Mengyao, "Our difference is that your goal in life is to 'climb to the top'." And my goal in life is to 'live with myself.'" ”

The two of them stood stiffly in place, as if they had returned to that winter a few years ago. Two arrogant people finally have to face the heavy estrangement of their outlook on life. If it's an ordinary couple. The discussion about the outlook on life is just a daily conversation, but it is precisely because Su Jing and Lu Mengyao are both talented people. That's why they're particularly sensitive to each other's differences. Rather than waiting for the disagreement to erupt at a later date, it is better to resolve the issue now.

Lu Mengyao focuses on "results", and her life needs to reach the peak that ordinary people can't reach, which is the obsession brought by her pride. Su Jing focuses on the "process", which is to do what he wants to do all his life, and not be enslaved by the probability of success and material desires. She wants him to be her assistant and help her reach the top of the world; And he doesn't want to be kidnapped by her dreams, and he doesn't want to fall into the whirlpool of money and power.

At the end of the day, these two talented people are emotionally extraordinary. It's all rare idiots.

“…… If that's your choice. Then go and show me. After a long time, Lu Mengyao's dark incarnation stood on the edge of the railing with his arms crossed, and motioned for Su Jing to look at the statue of the Happy Prince, "No matter what choice you make, only by filling this statue can you meet the conditions for leaving this world...... I think you know what to do. ”

Su Jing's figure was reflected in the slender pupils of the reptilian species, and the dark incarnation showed a cold smile:

"If you choose to be yourself, you have to pay a price. With your cleverness, you should know what to do. ”

Su Jing let out a long sigh.

Vacant statue of the prince. Theoretically, you can only fill it with those gemstones. But I chose to refuse to go that way...... At that time, I had already guessed the possibility of another way.

Self-sacrifice.

What is needed to carry out self-sacrifice is self-sacrifice, and there is no such thing as being a good person without having to pay for it.

He pulled the spoon he had prepared from his pocket and dug into his right eye.

Ten seconds later, the bloody eyeball lay in his own hand. The sharp pain in the nerves was like an ice pick knocking into the cerebral cortex, and Su Jing was so painful that he almost lost consciousness, and he didn't know if he was screaming. Perhaps.

"And a left eye." The embodiment of darkness brutally prompts.

Su Jing grinned, revealing a cruel grin. Trembling, he reached for the spoon in his left eye, but someone snatched it.

"I watched for a long time. I feel compelled to state it. Su Luo held the spoon and stared at Lu Mengyao coldly, "Happy Prince-it's not him, but me and him, me and Ah Jing, me and my brother." We are a whole, and this whole is the real prince of happiness. ”

Without hesitation, she thrust a spoon into her left eye, and with a gentle prie, the round eyeball fell into her palm.

Su Jing staggered up straight, and blood and tears flowed from his closed right eye. He gritted his teeth and took the girl's eyeball, then pulled the ruby from his pocket.

The ruby was tightly embedded in the hilt of the prince's sword, followed by two black and white eyeballs that slid smoothly into the void of the stone. The statue now has two real eyes, and it seems to come to life in an instant.

"Ah...... Then it's the last step. The Dark Incarnate pinched his nose, "There's still a void in the prince's body, and it needs a lead heart. Who of you, both of you, would want to sacrifice himself? Hint: You may not need to sacrifice yourself. ”

Su Jing stared at her with one eye, and the dark avatar stepped forward, brushing a little of the blood from his face with his spiky fingers, and quickly licked his snake-like forked tongue.

"As a reward for you, I tell you plainly...... Kill me. My heart is made of lead, kill me and you'll be able to get out of here. Or, sacrifice for me, my love, dear Ajing...... You rejected me that year and left me, and now, you can pay for it. ”

Su Jing lowered his head and looked at the dark incarnation in front of him.

"Nope." He replied simply, then stretched out his arms and took her into his arms, sharp needles like hedgehogs and cacti, Su Jing felt his coat being lightly penetrated, those needles penetrated the skin, muscles, and deep into his body. The pain that is not inferior to gouging out the eyeballs comes from every part of the body, the arms, abdomen, chest, neck...... The other's thorn sank into his body, connecting the two together.

Su Jing thought he was going to die.

But he didn't, and just as the sharpest needles were about to penetrate his heart, the needles were retracted and retracted into their master's body as if they were living things. He did hold her in his arms.

The ashes floated up on the body of the dark incarnate, her ugly and dangerous shell fell off in an instant like a rock that had been weathered for hundreds of years, and it only took a few seconds for the ashes to return to nothingness, revealing the face that Su Jing was very familiar with under the collapsed shell.

Lu Mengyao, who was no different from himself, stood in front of him, raised one eyebrow, and said coldly: "How do you know?" ”

"From the point of view of rational analysis, the pinprick on your appearance is too obvious a hint." Su Jing found that the stabbing wound on his body was slowly healing, but the pain had not disappeared, "From an emotional point of view...... I think you're pretty sexy too. There is a kind of beauty outside of people, and I want to try to hug it. Pain...... It can also bring pleasure, you know. ”

"You don't have to be so perverted."

"Okay. Change the style. 'Even if you are evil and cruel, I love you very much. ’”

"That's pretty much it." Lu Mengyao's dark incarnation raised the corners of her mouth, "The reward for your sweet words, you passed the test." ”

She undid her collar and tore a crack in her left chest with her sharp nails, ripping out a dark, dull metal heart and carefully placing it in the Happy Prince's chest.

The statue glows faintly, and the color of the world slowly fades.

"Actually...... As the writers of this world, he and I have a fixed image at the beginning, but we can change our appearance at will. In the passing of the world, the Dark Avatar lit a cigarette, "I don't like to use that ugly appearance either, but judging by reason, that appearance can test the sincerity of you, a guy who is obsessed with beauty." ”

"So...... This appearance covered with pins and needles before is not your real face? Su Jing asked.

"You can guess." The Dark Avatar smiled at him, "But there's one thing I want to warn you about. Try hugging her more, she won't take the initiative to tell you. ”

“…… One more thing. Su Jing asked again, "About the person in charge of this artifact." How much can you reveal? ”

"Ask me?" The dark incarnate's smile became a little weird, and she pointed her finger at Su Luo, "Ask her." She knew better. ”

The world completely disappeared at this moment, and Su Jing's final test was completed. (To be continued......)