Chapter 154: The Fall
Looking at the subtitles that appeared in front of him, Yadimu couldn't help but fall silent.
There are two ways to unlock the curse, the first of which requires sacrificing a powerful Bloodliner.
And beside him, there seems to be only one candidate who can be called a strong bloodline.
That's Shirin, who has the blood of glass.
Sacrifice Shireen's blood to break the curse on him?
This choice will definitely not be done by Artim.
Isn't the reason why he wants to enter that space to get Shireen out of there?
Now that he has finally rescued people, he has to ask Yadimu to personally sacrifice people with blood?
So what's the point of him saving people?
See what a joke!
As for the second way, it's not so much about breaking the curse as it is about delaying time.
If you sacrifice thirty young men with blood, you can extend your life by one year, and if you exchange the lives of others for your own lives.
This kind of thing, Artimu also disdains to do.
Not to mention that he is still just a doppelganger, even if his body is about to die, he will never take the lives of others in order to prolong his own life.
"What's wrong?"
On the side, Shirin keenly felt the change in Yadimu's mood, so she asked.
"Nothing."
Yadimu shook his head: "I just thought of something." ”
"Let's go."
Standing in place, he spoke, "While there is still time, try your best to clean up the neighborhood." ”
He looked at the ruins in front of him and spoke slowly.
Earlier, the scarlet door was open, and I don't know how many monsters had escaped from the other world to this world.
These are all scourges.
While there was still time, Yadimu wanted to solve these hidden dangers as much as possible.
With Shireen and the others with him, he walked forward.
For the next few days, Yadimu struggled in the vicinity.
He worked hard everywhere, slaying dozens of monsters, and all the monsters near the Song Academy were slayed, and the area returned to its former peace.
After clearing the area, Artimus wanted to continue, but he couldn't.
After three days, the power of the curse continued to spread, affecting the performance of his body.
His flesh was decaying and was heading towards a carrion.
At this point, Artimu had to stop.
As the curse on his body worsened, it had begun to affect other people around.
With the exception of Shireen and Ram, any ordinary person who came into contact with his aura would be affected and implicated by the power of the curse.
In order not to affect the others, Yadimu had to put down his movements and find a hidden place to wait quietly.
In the middle of the night, he looked up at the starry sky and looked at the moon.
The moon in the sky has gradually returned to normal at this moment after the previous transformation, and it is no longer the scarlet appearance it had before.
Yadimu looked up at the starry sky, his expression calm, as if he was watching some wonderful scene.
Ram and Shireen stood aside, looking at this Artim with some silence.
The others didn't know what Artimus was looking at, but they knew it.
Yatimuta didn't actually do anything.
He was just silently waiting for his death.
"See what?"
Late at night, Shireen walked over to Artimu with food.
She handed Yadimu a burger, then asked with a smile, "Do you have any special feelings after watching it for so long?" ”
"Naturally, there is."
Yadimu nodded and looked up at the starry sky: "I will never see this starry sky again." ”
He looked at the starry sky in front of him, and there was a bit of confusion in his eyes.
If nothing else, he would have died.
After that, he never saw it again.
The starry sky of this world was quiet, but it could no longer be reflected in his eyes.
This has to be said to be a pity.
Looking at Adim in front of her, Shireen couldn't help but fall silent.
She looked at Artim in front of her, as if she wanted to say something, but she was silent again.
There was a calm in front of him, and he fell into an eerie silence.
It wasn't until a moment later that Shireen seemed to muster up the courage to say something.
Yadimu shook his head: "There is no need to say anything. ”
He turned around, looked at Shireen in front of him, and said softly, "If one person's salvation must be at the cost of another's life, then this redemption may not be the right one. ”
"Shireen, I'm more concerned about your future than my life."
"My life has long come to an end, but you may not, there are still infinite possibilities."
"So, there's no need to hitchhike everything for me."
He looked at Shireen in front of him, his face was gentle, but he spoke firmly.
Shireen's body couldn't help but tremble, and then slowly fell silent.
Clearly, Artimu was aware of her intentions.
She had thoughts about the curse on Adimu's body.
Perhaps, she also knew something about the method of breaking the curse.
So at this moment, Artimu rejected her.
"But ......."
After a long silence, Shireen spoke again: "I don't want you to be like this. ”
She looked at Yadimu in front of her, and said seriously: "You became like this because of me, I think I have the responsibility to help you ........"
"It's because you were rescued by me that I don't need you like this."
Yadimu spoke calmly, looked at Shireen and said, "I tried my best to get you back, did it so that you could die in front of me personally?" ”
"If that's the case, why did I save you in the first place?"
"Besides......."
He smiled, and then said, "If I really want to live this way, then I don't have to use your life. ”
"There are other ways to do it."
Yatemu is just following the principles, not the impossible.
If he really wanted to live, then he could have used the second way.
In this world, there are many innocent lives, but there are also many innocent people.
Choosing those criminals and sacrificing thirty a year is not too much, and it is just a simple matter for Artimu.
Thirty sinners' lives can be sacrificed for blood, and you can prolong your life, which is a good deal, isn't it?
And it is also clear from the point of view.
For the world, Adimu could create much more than thirty sinners.
It's 30 people a year, and it's 300 people in 10 years.
In this way, it's better than sacrificing Shirin, the glazed princess, right?
But Yatemu still didn't think about doing so.
For no other reason than to be unwilling.
The life of an innocent is life, and the life of a sinner is also life.
In any case, Yadimu did not want this kind of sacrifice of others to fulfill himself to happen to himself.
So, he turned down Shireen.
"In the days to come, take good care of yourself."
At some point, Artimus silently rose from where he was.
He looked at Shireen in front of him, and looked at her there for a long, long time, as if to remember her whole appearance in his heart.
Subsequently, at some point, a flame began to burn.
"Mr. White!"
Looking at Yadimu's appearance, Shireen was stunned, and then immediately reacted, and her face changed drastically.
She immediately rushed forward, trying to stop Artimu's movements.
But at this moment, it was too late.
A raging flame began to burn, spreading over Artimu's body.
It was the spiritual fire born from the combination of the power of the mind and the life energy, and it was conceived and born in Yatimu's body at this moment, burning all over his body.
Flames spread from his body, quickly staining his entire body.
In the surging night, Yadimu stood alone, looking like a god at this moment, bathed in golden flames, and his whole person gradually became hazy and moldy.
Shireen wanted to step forward, but couldn't.
There seemed to be an invisible wall in front of him, directly in front of him, separating the two of them.
Yadimu's eyes were calm, and he quietly looked at Shirin in front of him.
"I'm not going to die."
He whispered, "After the body is burned, my soul will rise and return to where I belong." ”
What Artimus meant was that he was about to return to his own being.
His body at the moment is just a doppelganger, and when he returns, he will return to his own body.
However, Shireen obviously does not believe this.
There has never been any reincarnation in this world, and once a person dies, it is really dead.
She only thought it was Artimu comforting her, and didn't want her to be too upset.
Tears kept dripping.
In front of Artimu's eyes, Shireen fell silent, tears streaming from her eyes.
There she stood, just looking at Artim in front of her.
Under her gaze, Yatemu's body gradually changed, slowly scorching with flames.
His entire body began to melt, turning into a pile of ashes, and his entire body gradually dissolved, where it gradually disappeared in the flames.
But even so, he still had a smile on his face, and a pair of eyes were fixed on Shireen in front of him, and the will and emotion in him did not change at all, as if there was a kind of encouragement.
In the end, Yadimu's figure disappeared completely, and just disappeared in front of Shireen's eyes.
All that was left was a pile of ashes and some debris.
Before she knew it, Shireen was already in tears.
She walked forward.
With the passing of Artimu, the barrier he left behind before has disappeared, and he can enter at will at this moment.
However, within it, the figure of Artim had long since disappeared, and only a few things remained at the moment.
Artimus's clothes and his weapons remained there.
In addition, there is the dust and ash of the land, all floating in front of it, and fluttering with it.
Shireen looked at the scene in front of her and was stunned for a long time.
"Your Highness."
Before he knew it, Ram's figure appeared and walked over from a distance.
He came to Shireen's side and looked at the wreckage left behind by Artimus, and his face was also slightly sad at this moment.
For him, the fate of Yadimu is his future.
As the guardian of the Liuli royal family, his future is destined to be the same as Yadimu, fighting for the Liuli royal family and giving everything he has.
Maybe one day in the future, he will also give everything he has like Artimu, just to protect the princess he guards.
But at this moment, he looked at Shireen, who was crying silently on the ground in front of him, looking very uncomfortable, and didn't know what to say.
For Ram, it was much easier for him to carry a sword to cut people than to comfort others.
He was not destined to be a comforter.
Even more often than not, he was the one who was comforted.
The silence lasted for a long, long time.
It wasn't until a long moment later that Shireen suddenly raised her head in surprise.
"Teacher, you're not dead!"
She looked at her palm in surprise.
"Uncle Ram, look!"
She motioned for Ram to look over.
Ram looked in the direction she had pointed, and then froze.
On Shireen's palm, a silver line was particularly clear, and it was still there at the moment.
This is not an ordinary thread, but a thread that represents the connection between it and the Guardian.
The existence of this thread is itself the guardian that connects it with itself.
As long as this thread exists, it means that her guardian is still alive and her soul is not dead.
And at this moment, Ram saw it clearly.
The thread on Shireen's palm is still there, and it's fine at the moment.
But how is this possible?
He was stunned for a moment and subconsciously looked around.
On the ground, the ashes left over from Artimu's death still existed, and they looked so clear at the moment.
You can't go wrong with that.
Indeed, Artimus was dead.
But the line on Shireen's palm was still there.
What's going on here?
He couldn't help but wonder what was going on.
Generally speaking, the disappearance of the silver thread means the death of the Guardian.
Correspondingly, as long as the Silver Thread does not disappear, it means that the Guardian is not really dead, but still exists.
They watched as Artimus died, but the line that belonged to him remained.
What exactly is this........
At this moment, Shireen and Ram couldn't help but think of Artimu's previous words.
He said he wasn't going to die, he was going to live on in another way.
At the time, they all thought that Artimus was comforting them, but they were just trying to keep them from being sad.
But judging from the current situation, what Yadimu said is likely to be true.
He really didn't die, but existed in another way!
"Great."
I don't know when, Shireen's face was already full of tears: "Teacher, he is not dead, he is still alive in this world.........."
"It doesn't have to be this world."
Ram carefully observed the silver thread on Shirin's palm, then shook his head and said, "Judging from the situation of this thread, White is far from your position at the moment, Your Highness........."
"It's likely that he's not in this world, but in another world."
This world has the concept of other worlds.
The former Liuli Empire was a huge empire that spanned many worlds.
For example, the previous dark world is a world that is very close to this world.
"It's okay."
Shireen smiled, and then said, "As long as you know that he's still alive, it's the best news." ”