Lu Lie took the black giant that Li Yuan had given him before leaving, and silently continued to crawl towards the giant tree.

In the entire huge world, he was the only one left.

He kept walking, walking in this straight line between heaven and earth.

He didn't know how long he had been walking.

At the beginning, Lu Lie would also use the sunrise and sunset in the distance to draw a bloody mark on his arm, using this most primitive way to record time.

But soon, his entire right arm was covered with dense blood marks, and there was nowhere to start.

Lu Lie began to change the record line from his right arm to his left arm.

His left arm was then covered for the rest of the journey......

The legs, stomach, and neck are all densely covered with blood marks that record the timeline.

Time has lost its meaning here, and year after year has passed. Lu Lie was still alone and climbed upward, the eternal giant tree standing between heaven and earth, with no end.

Along the way, he had also encountered monsters from other worlds that had broken into this place, such as strange fish hovering and flying in the air, beasts without heads, and squirming like liquid goo, all of which were easily killed by Lu Lie with his raised hand.

But what's the point?

He still marches on parallel earth with no edge in sight.

"Maybe tomorrow we'll reach the top of the giant tree.

"Maybe two hundred years from now. ”

......

When Lu Lie woke up from his slumber one morning, he was surprised to find that the sky above him had turned pitch black.

It is not because the sun hides at the other end of the world, the darkness that falls from the night—but a deep, sickly, lonely darkness to the extreme, a black that has no end, a black that stains everything, a black that devours all light and blacker than black. Lu Lei raised his head, wanting to find the starlight at the end of the sky, but he was surprised again to find that those stars that seemed unreachable in the past and had only one point in the eyes of mortals had now turned into spheres of different sizes in his eyes. Silvery-white, pale blue, reddish-green, specks of various sizes flow slowly over it.

Lu Lie leaned down and looked at his feet.

In the past, only a pitch-black abyss turned into a land of mountains and rivers, and the magnificent cities and mountains were only left with dots and lines in Lu Lie's eyes, and all the people who lived in them were gone, not even points;

Lu Lie followed the giant tree and had already climbed out of the earth.

He is in the universe.

At this time, a faint voice in his heart whispered in Lu Lie's ear: "Jump down, jump down, and you will be able to return to the original world...... Isn't that what you've always hoped for? What you wanted was once right in front of your eyes, and it's time to let go of it all, with just a few jumps. ”

Whispering, like a demonic inducement.

Lu Lie ignored the voice, he turned around and continued to stride towards the unknown depths of the universe.

The so-called various things under his feet are just the last thoughts of Lu Lie about his hometown.

......

One day, Lu Lie woke up from the tree wall. As is customary, he was about to start another day of climbing, and when he looked up, he found branches on the wall of a giant tree stretching into the depths of the universe.

It was a black, sharp branch of a giant tree pointing at other galaxies.

A thought slowly popped up in Lu Lie's head:

I, finally, am close to the top of the tree.

The strange thing is that it has taken so many years, died so many companions, and experienced so many things, but when the top of the tree of his dreams was not far in front of him, Lu Lie's heart not only did not fluctuate, but there was a trace of exhaustion.

Maybe there are no time machines in the trees, or maybe the kingdom of the gods. Li Yuan had already told himself this clearly.

also broke the last bit of thought he had in this world.

"Ah Nian. Lu Lie said softly.

After crawling on the giant tree for many years, in order to minimize the consumption of his body, all Shikigami in the spiritual world except for dandelions fell into a dormant state. And the time giant, as the style god that Li Yuan "sent" to Lu Lie, did not consume Lu Lie's energy. The journey was long, and Lu Lie could only talk to this silent black giant when there was no one around, and after a long time, Lu Lie took it upon himself to give it a name, called Ah Nian.

Lu Lie didn't know if the black giant liked the name or not.

Because no matter how much he said to it, it always listened silently and never replied.

"Ah Nian, go up and see how far you are from the top of the giant tree...... Branches have already appeared in this area, and I think we are almost to the end of our purpose all these years. After all, don't all branches grow near the top of the tree?"

The ancient black giant didn't say a word, turned around and silently flew to the top of the giant tree.

In fact, even if Lu Lie didn't need to communicate verbally, he only needed a sense and a thought in his heart, and the giant left by Li Yuan would understand what he meant and execute it. It's just that the days of facing the vast universe alone one by one over the years have forced Lu Lie to almost go crazy, and he only keeps talking and constantly reminding himself who he is, so that he doesn't lose himself under this huge starry sky.

In fact, Lu Lie already felt something, he began to gradually forget the use of some words, and sometimes when he wanted to express a simple thing, he couldn't find the right words for a long time. As for the nouns of other things, Lu Lie began to think about it often over and over again, whether to pronounce hei or de here.

No matter how hard he tried, the part of being a human being began to fade away. I am afraid that if such days continue, sooner or later Lu Lie will fade away from all human rationality and memory, and become a simple beast, crawling mechanically on this giant tree wall forever.

Fortunately, it seems that such days are coming to an end.

The black giant continued to fly upwards along the giant tree wall until it disappeared into the depths of the starry sky. Lu Lie stood in the tree wall below, quietly waiting for it to return. I don't know how long time has passed, but fortunately, Lu Lie's patience has always been very good, and the infinite time of climbing trees has smoothed out all his impatience and irritability. Even if he were to wait here for another fifty years, he would not feel any discomfort.

A black dot appeared in the starry sky overhead.

The dot is getting bigger and bigger, and it is constantly approaching Lu Lie.

The Giants of Time are back.

It hovered low above Lu Lie's head, without saying a word, just making a few simple gestures with its hands.