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I was very interested in the new emperor.

In addition to the anecdotes shared by the doppelgangers on Earth in real time, He also has qualities that can impress me. For example, He may seem crazy, but he is actually very calm. seems to be bold and arrogant, but in fact he is thoughtful, and he is not bold enough to be willing to gamble everything he has to survive; seems to be sober, but in fact he has never stopped deceiving himself and evading responsibility.

All in all, it's a very interesting and interesting soul that I can cheer up just by reading the doppelganger's records.

In order to entertain Him, I extracted from the records the concepts of "table", "chair", "vessel", "water boiled from plant leaves", and the surrounding plants were served by my limbs and flowers. A small courtyard was carved out in this barren and silent void, hoping that he would be able to relax in this familiar environment and have a serious conversation with me.

He sat across from me, and soon regained his senses, his torn body covered with wounds from the contamination of the red moon. He looked at me, and the similar look I read in the record represented "suspicion," "wariness," and "hostility," and there was a big difference between seeing it from a doppelganger's perspective and seeing it in person, and I began to look forward to the next conversation.

- His gaze wandered a little. I guess it's because I don't know which eye to look at. So I closed the rest for now.

"Why are you helping me?" He said, "What do you want to do?" ”

Ah, help? Is it helpful to take Him from the hands of the fallen Mother Goddess? He didn't realize that he had been polluted on Earth long ago, and now the pollution in Him was resonating with me? My contamination and spirituality quietly brought him back to some of his senses, and he was looking at me with an even more elusive gaze, and I thought he was probably mocking me in his heart.

I flipped through the records in my thinking organ again in a tenth of a second, searching for keywords such as "Russell's mother tongue", "Chinese interpretation and pinyin", "knowledge snatched from Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun", this subtle feeling of reading a cheat sheet under the nose of the invigilator made me feel a little faintly weak, and I said with the simulated vocal cords:

"Because I'd love to talk to you, Russell."

This sentence is in Chinese, Russell's eyes widened, madness faded from the surface of the blue organ, he squinted, looked at me with scrutinizing eyes for a long time, and slowly spoke: "The outer gods are good at deception and demagoguery, I have a deep understanding, how can I trust you?" ”

Being seduced and deceived means that you have value. Although the level of vigilance had only been lowered from 100 to 90, seeing that he had finally shown a desire to communicate, I felt that the atmosphere I had prepared and the appearance that I had just created so that I could be recognized by humans came in handy.

"You don't need to believe me." I replied happily, in Chinese, "I just wanted to ask you, Mr. Huang, who thought he had come to another world, so he simply used the whole world as a strategy game, abandoned the morality of the old era and waged war and aggression, only to find out that this place is the earth - what is your mood?" ”

He was angry. Exactly in line with the doppelganger's impression of Him.

I remember that the first time a human being, or the true God of the earth, came to someone else's territory as a guest, he would not have overturned the tables and chairs and discarded the food, so he should not have pulled out a dozen of my eyes at once. He digested my spirituality and quieted down, and the few tentacles I used to construct the table and chair were mercilessly trampled under His feet, and there was an uncomfortable feeling of my hair being crushed.

"Russell, how does it feel to be a good worker? You're already a mythical creature, so does trampling on your former kind make you feel happy or guilty? Or do you not really feel anything at all, because they are just bugs and dust to you, with no other value than as an anchor? Did you ever think about your naïve, lovable daughter's reaction when she found out the truth when you blamed the sin on me? ”

Mountains of pure knowledge and information rushed over like a tsunami, and the red cracks became the striking corals among them.

I asked a serious question but received no rational answer, so I grabbed Him by the shoulders with my branches, embedded the roots and branches in His body, and pressed Him back into his seat. If He does fight with me, then he will probably go back with all the gracious gifts of the outer gods to Earth. This little struggle that only happened for a few seconds made my garden lose a few flowers, and it didn't matter, I could make up with my hands.

"You don't have to insult me! Outer God! He raised his voice, "I can't help you!" Kill me! ”

He didn't answer my question, even though he would rather die than give in. The flames of anger burned in his heart, and the will to survive and the sudden fierceness of the desire to protect his home made him more sensitive than ever. If you do it, you do it, why don't you want to admit it? I'm a little sorry, but it fits the doppelganger's definition of Him.

"I was going to let you die, but now I think you're funny. Your ritual has been completed, and any further delay will raise suspicions, and it is time for me to send you back. Of course, you will forget everything that happens in the starry sky. ”

In all fairness, I don't have any of that. There is no need for personal feelings to perform my duties, human nature can bias me, and the authority of non-adjacent pathways can destroy my purity. The planet on which I was born had long since fallen into permanent decay because of my ascension to the throne, and although I had it with me, I was soon forgotten. Is it in my hands, or has it been destroyed after I lost interest in it? I can't think of it, and it doesn't matter.

I continued to discuss with Him.

I tried to make Him understand that, in fact, whether it is decay or withering, it is an inevitable part of the material experience, which is referred to as the fall of leaves and the roots. There can be no new life without death. It's just that most lives resist death, and I am the embodiment of this cycle of fate, and the guide of the rules of development of Vientiane, guiding things to usher in inevitable decline and death according to the law.

"So, if the Earth is destroyed, I'll take the biggest piece with me, and hopefully there won't be too many people up there."

Russell, my friend. What a perfect pastime to channel disasters, induce wars, and then gaze at the tragedy created by your own hands! Sorrow, pain, overflowing despair and fear for the future may be in the nature of the teacher, and I would appreciate the courage of human beings to fight for even the unattainable hope. Of course, human beings are creatures of both virtue and ugliness, and although they are incomplete and have many defects, they cannot be blindly denied.

…… You know what I mean? I mean, you're a race of possibilities, and I'm looking forward to seeing your entire race despair.

Russell was furious again, and he struggled violently in his chair a few times. Why? Is it because I'm not talking to Him as a human being? But I'm good at cursing, and I'm good at dealing with people who have a violent temper, like the doctor in the hospital who sedated the patient, and I stuffed the cold spirit into it, and he went against his heart to be quiet.

“…… You know my rituals, you speak Chinese. He stared at me tightly, "Who are you?" What exactly do you want to do? ”

"We're old friends, Russell." I replied to Him, "I am your subordinate, and you have pushed half of what you have done on me. On top of that, you're guarding me tightly, not letting me be Sequence One, not giving me a chance to complete the ritual further, not helping me play, are you guarding against another "king" under your command? ”

"You've done a great job, but it's a shame." I said, "When I ascended to the throne, your fathers were still plucking fruit from the tree. ”

From the moment I said the first words, His expression had become so wonderful that it could almost be described as "a landslide and a crack."

"Edward?" Russell's face changed suddenly, but he controlled himself, "But you can't know the existence of old eras and civilizations out of thin air. There was a remnant of the old days, and you took possession of him? ”

It sounds a lot like something from an old civilization, something called a "horror movie", where a monster dormant in the dark swallows a lone companion and returns to the party in the skin of a companion. I was pleasant: "He is a part of me, but I am not Him." ”

"Are you going to accuse me? I think you should thank me, after all, that short life was extended because of me. ”

How to create a bigger catastrophe efficiently, how to kill more intellectuals in the long run, and how to deprive the planet of vitality are the only research topics that I am most interested in. To this end, I will continue to try all kinds of new things. For example, to be an observer, to be the deity of life, to send his own spirit to guide him.

Yet even countless times I have watched magnificent civilizations die, great empires crumble, floods raze everything, ice and lava cover all traces of existence, I still, I will never, never get tired of it, and always rejoice in it, because this is the truth I give. - Do you think I will kill lives out of love, kill lives as small as ants, kill ordinary lives that yearn for the future and tomorrow......? No, that doesn't make sense, I'm not doing it for fun, everything is inevitable, life is a fleeting dream illusion between life and death.

"You're funny, Russell, I really like you." Time is limited, I don't plan to wait for Him to say anything, He will soon forget all about it anyway, and I just have to wait, "I will continue to help you, you have the power to bring disaster to this land, I look forward to that day." But when entire continents fall under the brunt of your war, how much more of an eyesore must be compared to the vibrant you and your kingdom. ”

"So, when that time comes, I'll be happy to kill you."

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Russell's journey to the stars was a success, he followed a safe route that he and his subordinates had drawn up, broke through the atmosphere, and returned home without any problems, gaining some of the knowledge he wanted. When He awoke, it was clear that the dregs of his psyche that had been channeled out of control were much more active, and that it would take some time for them to be removed.

…… And he got the unexpected news.

This is the homeland that has been pursued for decades, and this is the earth. The underwater ruins, the chronology, the time and the autobiographical speed of the planet, all the doubts were connected at this moment, and he never left this place, but woke up in another era—a distant and extraordinary era thousands of years later.

Three loyal knights were checking him for any residual ill effects, and they were all delighted at His Majesty's return.

In the lively atmosphere, he felt a biting chill, as if a demon was standing behind him laughing. Russell turned his head suddenly, only to see his broken face overlapping on a few pieces of stained glass.

TBC

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"I am the lord of withering, the king of decay."

"It is also the final journey of all living beings."

*This chapter was originally intended to be placed on the sidelines, but if you think about it carefully, the text will fine.