Chapter 179: Zhou Ran's Choice
Hearing Xiao agree, Hannibal was immediately very happy, and a big smile bloomed on his face.
He stretched out his hand and patted Xiao Zizi's shoulder, and said, "Xiao, I wish our cooperation goes well, and I will definitely keep your mood happy this time!" β
After listening to this, Xiao Zizai folded his hands, recited a Buddha name, and said with a smile: "Nan Wu Amitabha Buddha, poor monks, thank you to the donor!" β
Hannibal smiled, twisted his neck, stretched out his finger and pointed to the cross behind him that had been wrapped in black light, and asked Xiao Zizai, "Xiao, when do you think this brother of ours will be born?" β
"He was born the day the clown played 'The White Doves in Hell', do you think there was anything different about that day?"
Xiao Zizai's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light, pushed his glasses, and said in a low voice, "Was there anything different about that day?" Hannibal, you know, Zhou Ran had been sleeping that night, and no one had gone out to act, what happened that day in New York? We have no way of knowing! β
"But I have a hunch that soon, soon, this brother is about to be born, and he just needs a little excitement, like something like that night is happening once!"
"This brother, he is only one chance away from now."
Hannibal frowned, nodded thoughtfully, and smiled, "I don't know what kind of existence this brother is?" Judging by that cross, he should have been a believer in God and in Christ Jesus. β
"Xiao, what kind of sparks will be created when Buddhists and Christians collide? Tsk tsk, that's a lot of fun. β
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Zhou Ran was now in great pain, his eyes were scarlet, and his tears were like beads with broken threads, crackling and staying.
The whole person looks very cowardly, and there is no depth and calmness in the past.
He looked extremely unbearable.
At this moment, Zhou Ran didn't know how to face himself, he didn't know how to face the strange self in his memory.
It can be said that he did it, or it can be said that he didn't do it, it was the clown who did it.
But no matter what, it can't be separated from him.
The clown lives in his body, the clown is his personality, and the clown has the same face as him.
So, the clown is a part of him, an inseparable part.
In the face of this dark part, the taste in Zhou Ran's heart can be described as mixed.
Self-blame, sadness, anger, despair...... These emotions mixed together, and he was very confused at the moment.
This is a very human question.
Zhou Ran frowned, trying to find a way.
Is it really going to kill the Joker? But even if you kill the clown, you can't wash away what the clown did with his body.
Is that how to let the clown go? Letting go of the clown means forgiving yourself for the things you have done.
Kill yourself? Just kidding, it's simply not possible!
Even when he saw the clown using his body to kill people and do all kinds of bad things at will, Zhou Ran never had the idea of suicide or self-destruction.
He is not the kind of person who is purely righteous, who is purely kind.
Of course, he is not the kind of person who is pure darkness, pure evil.
In other words, as a traverser, Zhou Ran's thinking is higher than this world.
In particular, Zhou Ran's sense of crisis is very high, and he has a feeling of paranoia about being killed.
He has never had too deep ties with the people in this world, only he has some feelings for Tony Stark.
Of course, these feelings are also cultivated by Zhou Ran for his own safety, and his feelings for Tony Stark are definitely not as deep as Tony Stark's for him.
His affection for Tony Stark is earned through hard work, just like chasing a girl and playing with the girl's cat with little emotions every day.
After ten years of playing like this, feelings naturally arise.
This is also a choice that can't be helped, if Zhou Ran didn't choose Tony Stark at the beginning, would he have any better choice?
Going to Kama Taj?
Even if you know that Kama Taj is in the Himalayas, but who knows where Kama Taj is in the Himalayas?
Whether he has the talent of a mage or not, it is not known yet.
Even if he really arrives at Kama Taj, he has the talent of a mage and becomes a mage, then he needs to protect the invasion of the mysterious side, and the dimensional demons are not so easy to deal with, and they are likely to be sacrificed.
Will the Ancient One protect all mages?
No one can be sure, the only thing that can be sure is that the Ancient One will protect the future Supreme Mage!
Can Zhou Ran become the next Supreme Mage? Obviously unlikely, this probability is infinitely close to 0.
So, in order to gain a foothold in Kama Taj, he also needs to manage the relationship with the ancient one.
Which is easier in comparison to the relationship between Run and the Ancient One or the relationship between Run and Tony Stark?
No doubt, of course, Tony Stark!
This is Zhou Ran's best choice.
In addition to having feelings for Tony Stark, Zhou Ran also has a little affection for Tony Stark's friends, such as Pepper Pots, the bodyguard Harpy, and the future war machine Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes......
The only ones who can be regarded as his friends, there are only four of them here in Zhou Ran, Dr. Cornell, Lao Mo, Xiao Lu, and Old Rick.
Now, add a Peter Parker and his future girlfriend, Gwen Stacy's family.
Zhou Ran's circle has always been so small, and the rest of the people are emotionless to him.
The rest of the people are like passerby A, like NPCs like villagers in the game.
Is there any use for these ordinary NPCs to have feelings for these ordinary NPCs?
Dealing with those emotionless NPCs killed by clowns, Zhou Ran was indeed sad and sad.
But his grief is not because these poor NPCs were killed by the Joker, he is saddened by the blood of innocents on his own hands.
This was something he couldn't accept, one thing that seriously shocked his worldview.
Although he is not a good person full of light, he definitely does not want to turn himself into a pure evil.
Zhou Ran stretched out his hands, rubbed his temples, sighed, threw away the gun in his hand, smiled bitterly, and said, "Clown, I won't kill you, because there is no point in killing you." Those people are dead, and even if they kill you, they won't survive. β
"I'm the owner of this body, and you've been involved in everything you do, so it's the equivalent of killing us together. Even if I kill you, I will not be able to wash away my iniquity, nor will I be able to wash away the blood of innocents stained on my hands. β
Zhou Ran stretched out his hand and pushed his glasses, his eyes were indifferent, and he said in a very cold tone: "Moreover, I don't have any feelings for those people, they are like weeds in my eyes." β
"I will sympathize with their plight, and I will blame myself a little, but I will definitely not let them choose to self-destruct."
"Nothing is more important in this world than my own life!"
"Don't talk about it? Don't kill me! If you don't kill me, you'll really regret it! The clown shrugged his shoulders, smiled wryly, and pouted helplessly.
Zhou Ran frowned, stared at the clown's eyes, and said, "Clown, I can feel your loyalty to me, I can feel the emotion that you want to die, although your behavior is very dark, but you are a harmless personality to me." β
"But I also want to confirm a question, a very important question, which I hope you can answer!"
"Oh? What's the problem? The clown blinked, confused.
Zhou Ran took a deep breath and said, "Will you take my body?" Do I lose consciousness of myself? β
When the clown heard this, he laughed out loud and said, "Jake, of course not, you are my great god, how can I take your body?" This will not be true at all, you are the only owner of this body, and you will eventually become the greatest and only one in the world! β
Zhou Ran nodded and said with a smile: "Yes!" A personality that has always been faithful to me, a personality who willingly surrenders his life to me, and a harmless personality. β
"Joker, although you have done many bad things with my body and stained me with the blood of innocents, what other reason do I have to abandon you?"
"Joker, compared to those ordinary NPCs, you are more important to me! After all, you are part of me, and they are nothing! β
After listening to Zhou Ran's words.
The clown let out a long sigh with a maniacian laugh on his face, and said, "Hahaha, Jake, I'm so happy to hear you say that!" β
"These are the words in your heart, since you didn't choose to kill me, then you have to prepare the next road, from this moment on, your future will be an extremely chaotic and incomparably difficult road."
"In that future that I can only feel in the lake, there will be great regrets and regrets in your heart, and I can clearly feel that this regret stems from your choice today!"
"Let me survive is the beginning of that future!"
When Zhou Ran heard this, he frowned and asked, "Joker, what kind of future is that?" β
The clown shook his head and said, "I don't know, how can we know what the specific future looks like?" β
"However, I can feel that it is not a good future, maybe this is a signal from the future me to me, although I am a crazy person who is not very careful, but I have never been wrong in my guesses about the future!"
"In that place in Gotham, I told the bat that way that he can't save it, Gotham is Gotham, that's the law of Gotham, and in Gotham, you have to abide by Gotham's laws."
"What the bat does has no effect on Gotham, he doesn't understand Gotham at all!"
"Well, in fact, it's not that the bat doesn't understand Gotham, it's just that he's too naΓ―ve, and he hopes to plant a good flower in a place full of evil. But the flower of good cannot grow in the soil of evil, and the soil of evil can only breed the flower of evil! β
Zhou Ran nodded and said, "Maybe that's the case, but it is undeniable that Gotham has been a little different because of the existence of bats, and there is one more choice in the future, isn't it?" β
"At least Gotham has one more chance to change because of bats, although this chance is slim, but it is undeniable that there is still a slight probability."
"So, Joker, maybe our future isn't what you think? There are too many uncertainties in the future, and no one can guarantee that the future will be that future, and no one can either! β
After listening to Zhou Ran's words.
"Ho ho ho!" The clown grinned, stared at Zhou Ran's eyes, and asked, "Jake, you're right, our future is still hard to say, there are countless possibilities for it!" β
"Jake, what do you think of the world? Do you like it here? β
Zhou Ran frowned, nodded and shook his head, and said, "I don't know, sometimes I like it but sometimes I hate it, I can clearly feel that my sense of belonging to this world is not strong." β
"I haven't integrated into this world yet, this world is too cruel for ordinary people, all kinds of enemies are endless, all kinds of crises are endless."
"Even though I know most of the future trajectories of this world, and know some big things in the future, he still makes me feel a little scared, and now this fear is even deeper, because there are two people here who shouldn't exist!"
"It means that I have lost the direction of the future, everything is not based on, I have not been involved in those big things, the world has changed, I don't know why?"
"The butterfly effect? Now I'm really getting harder and harder to understand. β
Little Scandal said, smiled, and said, "Two people who shouldn't exist? Do you mean Kratos and Keisha? β
Zhou Ran nodded, smiled bitterly, and said, "Yes, it's the two of them, Kratos doesn't belong here, and Keisha doesn't belong here." If there's a reasonable explanation for the two of them, it's because I'm here! β
"I have brought changes here, brought different changes, some unpredictable changes, these sudden non-existent people may be the place where we regret in the future!"
"And, Joker, I don't know why I fell in love with Keisha? It's still a very fiery love, that kind of real love, it seems like I knew her a long time ago, it's really weird! β
After listening to Zhou Ran's words.
The clown smiled and said, "It's not just the two of them who don't belong here, it's me, Clarke, and ...... Forget it, those few will meet when they want to see you. β
"Jake, I want to know, is your own safety the only thing you worry about? Is it your life problem? β
Zhou Ran nodded and said, "That's right, as long as I can protect my life, I don't think those matters anymore!" β
The clown smiled and said, "Then you can protect yourself now, you can now use my power and Clark's power!" β
"Wake up tomorrow and you will have the Dionysian factor, and nothing will hurt you from now on!"
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The end of past time, the beginning of future time.
The final place where the Demon King destroys everything.
This place is called Colorless Sky, and it is also the place where the Space-Time Administration is stationed, and it is also the base camp of the Demon King Council.