Time, to some extent, can be regarded as a special kind of existence.

When an apple falls from a tree, it is deflected by an external force, and if it wants to return to its original trajectory, it needs to be changed again.

The same is true for time, if the external force changes, it needs to be used again to reverse the shift of time.

"Now, you have good news, and bad news."

The man snapped his fingers towards the void, and Leonid's pocket watch appeared out of thin air and landed in Jiang Chenchuan's hand.

"The bad news is that you have five seconds left, and when the countdown goes to zero, you don't stand a chance."

The minute hand on the dial moves very slowly, gradually approaching zero from the five position.

The man turned his head, although he looked exactly like Jiang Chenchuan, he obviously looked more lively, not so heavy, and not so serious.

"But the good news is that time in this world will pass very slowly, and you can still think about it for a long, long time......"

The man leaned back on the bench and stared into the distance, thinking that he was simply looking at the darkness, but now it seems that what is hidden in the darkness is the source of pollution, perhaps, it is "original sin".

"Death is never the end...... Forgetting is. ”

Although the man said it easily, there was no smile on his face, which made Jiang Chenchuan unable to figure out his true purpose.

"You mean...... Choose? ”

After being silent for a long time, Jiang Chenchuan responded, if this man is his only connection to the darkness, then having power is also an effective means.

"You should be able to feel that there has been an unstable force surging in your body since using the relic, maybe, you can try...... Touch it......"

The man was guiding Jiang Chenchuan.

"Go find the 'original sin.'"

He patted Jiang Chenchuan on the shoulder, as if an encouragement.

"What?"

"Original sin" was like that keyword, which made the cold blood boil again, which made Jiang Chenchuan have a sense of fate that was forbidden to touch, as if the responsibility of saving mankind was put back on him.

"I suddenly ...... I don't want you to choose. ”

The man spoke.

In Jiang Chenchuan's puzzled gaze, he raised his hand and snapped his fingers crisply.

"Smack."

In the next second, along with the pocket watch and Jiang Chenchuan himself, he disappeared without a trace.

The suffocating cold came up, enveloping that little bit of warmth, the pain from the real world, and countless darkness reached out to him, trying to infect his consciousness and drag him into the abyss, where he had been fighting all along.

Suddenly, a light lit up in the darkness, yellow and green, and the hot light stung his body and gradually burrowed into his body.

Then, the man's voice rang out in the darkness.

"Superhero, rush!"

For a moment, it seemed as if an electric current passed through Jiang Chenchuan's brain, a picture that did not belong to his memory...... In the night of lightning and thunder, the cold bluestone street continued to spread forward, raindrops or blood slid down the hair, and the iron plate number 00174 hung around his neck, covered in blood, holding an unnamed heavy weapon, and firing forward......

"That'...... It's ......"

Jiang Chenchuan fell into a brief coma.

……

It was a near-crushing battle, and Pollution proved once again that monsters can easily kill humans who have no power to resist, often killing people with just a few attacks.

Maybe it's because the monster didn't want to kill people before it mutated, so it didn't do it immediately after the time was over.

Instead, after hesitating for a few seconds, he grabbed Jiang Chenchuan and opened his bloody mouth, wanting to put it into his mouth.

Just raised his head,

It met a pair of azure eyes.

As if grabbing a flaming flame, something was circulating at the tip of the claw, and a pale yellow light lit up, slowly covering the blade of the sword, cutting a graceful arc, and the dripping blood splashed down.

The silver blade severed the monster's arm, and it seemed a little incredible, and it was hard to imagine how this dying human could suddenly return to its original state.

The next moment, a force called [Order] poured out of Jiang Chenchuan's body, and after he broke free from the monster's hand, he fell to the ground steadily, grabbing the staff sword in his hand, his eyes burning with anger, and there was a responsibility that could not be avoided.

"Original Sin ......"

Jiang Chenchuan spoke slowly.

The monster couldn't understand his words, couldn't understand the emotion in his eyes, and just mechanically wanted to kill.

"I'll ...... Destroy you again! ”

Feeling the power surging upward, Jiang Chenchuan rushed towards the monster without hesitation, slashing like art.

Unlike the previous situation, every time the damage was done, the monster could not recover, and could only become stiff under the flickering of the sword shadow of two lights......

Gradually, it was no longer possible to move.

"It's over."

With the last blow, Jiang Chenchuan sent the staff sword in his hand into the heart of the monster, which was its most vulnerable place, and destroying the heart could destroy everything.

The dream was shattered.

The man woke up from the illusion, he looked at the destroyed world in front of him blankly, and seemed to understand something to Shangjiang Chenchuan's heavy eyes.

The sound of hazy temptation ceased to sound, and countless moths emerged from under his skin, fluttering towards the light source, and little by little, his strength was draining, and he knew that he was about to die.

"Nika ......"

The hoarse old voice didn't come from, it was his obsession that he didn't want to die in peace until the end.

"Do you believe me?"

Jiang Chenchuan came to him and slowly knelt down on one knee, he raised his eyes slightly, and looked at him at eye level.

“……”

The man could no longer answer.

"If you believe me, I'll help you find him, and then, bring it to you."

Jiang Chenchuan thought carefully about the possibility that Nika was not dead, and the corpse they saw that day was more like a shell.

Combined with what happened to them on the way back, no one could drive their carriage away, only ...... Nika.

If Nika hadn't died, everything would have been explained.

"Ah......h

The man sighed.

It was also the final response he gave to Jiang Chenchuan and the world.

There was the sound of running outside the door.

"Ywell, guess what I found? The weapon left by the white knight was really said by you. ”

Ethan slammed the door open and said gleefully.

Immediately saw everything in the laboratory, it was indescribably miserable, and there were mutant monsters, and in Jiang Chenchuan's words, he slowly closed his eyes.

"He ......"

"Dead."

Jiang Chenchuan stood up and responded.

He just stood there, a stage of a one-man battle, turning his head to feel it, but the eyes that brought disaster were long gone.

Obviously, Ethan, who was in high spirits and returned with his weapon, was not so happy, and he put away his pistol and came to the man with a disappointed face.

His eyes were closed, and there seemed to be a hint of serenity on his mutated face.

"We should notify the Knights of the Pure Temple now."

"But I'm going to take this."

Jiang Chenchuan took out the heart of the Voyer River that he devoured from the man's body, and with it, there was something that looked like an insect egg.

"What is this?"

Ethan leaned over and asked.

"Relic."

Evel von Heinrich, a member of the third team of the Polnia Capital Museum, recovered the lost collection of the Church of the Dawn.

And an ordinary man died underground.

It's just that

From start to finish,

Jiang Chenchuan never knew his name, and if he had to say it, he could probably only use one word to describe everything he did......

Father.