Endless Debt.

Chapter 369 The Golden Soul
In this supposedly desperate and crazy death situation, TEDA did not feel the fear of death, nor did he taste the unbearable grief.

TEDA is not extremely indifferent, and now absolute tranquility fills his mind, TEDA has not felt this for a long time, his exhausted will has been liberated, and eternal sleep is close at hand, only waiting for him to deal with the last matter.

He hugged the cold body vigorously, and whispered kindly to it, saying words that only Taida could understand clearly.

"I was really happy when you escaped. You finally escaped, escaped this doomed fate, and started a new life."

Taida is in control of the entire alchemy workshop. Amy thought that no one would know about her escape. In fact, Taida noticed every time she left, but Taida let her go anyway.

"I don't know how to explain my emotions, it's so complicated, I'm too old and frustrated, it's hard for me to understand and deal with it."

Taida's tone gradually relaxed, and he confessed to the corpse.

"I can't let go of my connection to Alice, and I dare not have a new connection with you, because that's the way life is, when a connection is made, there's always a moment when it breaks.

I have already experienced loss once, in order not to lose again, so I will not accept anyone..."

TEDA smiled self-deprecatingly, and Alice in the distance was waving countless arms, approaching quickly like a deformed spider.

"I guess it's a way I'm shirking my responsibilities, but I'm also trying to make changes..."

TEDA was silent for a while, then continued.

"During my tenure in the Bureau of Order, the game of Reversi was very popular in the Bureau of Order, and there was such a term in it, it was called the Forced Dilemma.

It probably means that no matter how you execute the chess, it will only make the situation worse, and this is your turn again, you have to execute the chess to move. "

Taida showed a numb smile and shook his head.

"People always have to make changes, whether it's good or bad, wrong or right, when a choice comes, we always have to choose that path.

For example, go on like this until self-destruction, so that I can not only fulfill my wish, but also end my life.

I have always felt that death is the only remaining kindness of fate to human beings. When you can no longer hold on, you can die.

I, too, plan to end my uncontrollable thoughts and pain with death. "

Taida picked up the perpetual core and put it back into Amy's broken chest, but this was not enough to wake up Amy. When the perpetual core was peeled off, the flesh and blood ate up the internal mechanical structure.

"But you came back and punished me with your death."

Taida's eyes glowed with blazing light again, this time the aura of ether was stronger than before, as if a scorching sun had been embedded into the deep eye sockets.

"I deserve to be punished, but not at the cost of your death."

Alice killed her eyes, her slender fingers gathered together to form a sharp blade, and she slashed at TEDA. It was dominated by absolute hunger, and it would swallow it without hesitation even if it was a cold rock.

The sharp finger bones were strong enough to tear steel, but they hovered in front of TEDA at the last moment, unable to fall again.

Alice didn't understand what was going on. It was clear that TEDA had run out of gas, so how could he still have the strength to resist himself.

Taida didn't pay attention to the monster who was close at hand, but just looked at the cold face in his arms.

"To call a devil, you must first know his name."

Taida whispered that strange name, as if exhaling a spell.

"The Tyrant Mammon."

The majestic power descended on this place, disturbing the movement of the world, stealing the short time, and everything froze in an instant.

The sea of ​​fog boiled in the stagnation, and they surged up one after another, like overflowing tides, engulfing the battlefield in a blink of an eye, and everyone was immersed in the fog.

In this deep and fuzzy world, a strange and crazy voice sounded, and he responded gently.

"Your call... I heard it."

Taida saw that all the lights were fleeing from this place, and then fell into complete darkness.

One dim yellow light after another lit up in the darkness, and the red carpet was laid all the way to the end of the darkness under the pile of mammoth coins, and under the endless wealth, the chaotic figure sitting behind the desk forward.

The tyrant raised his legs and put his hands on his knees. At this moment, he did not appear with the help of Vika's body, but really, sitting in front of TEDA as his own entity.

This is the domain that belongs only to the tyrant, beyond space and time, hoarding endless souls.

"Then what do you want? Teda Yazdet."

The devil questioned and listened to his wish.

Taida didn't respond immediately, but looked at the cold body in his arms, which arrived in this strange realm together with him, the perpetual core was stagnant in the incomplete chest, and the phantasmagoria emitted a faint light.

"Resurrect her? I can't do that, even I can't change what has happened." The devil smiled contemptuously.

"Resurrection? No, she is just an alchemy puppet. She has never really lived, so how can she die?"

Taida shook his head, not disturbed by the devil's words.

"As for being unable to change what has happened..." Taida looked at the phantom species entwined on the core of perpetual motion, and continued, "All this hasn't happened yet."

What is happening today is still in the illusory fantasy constructed by the fantasy species, and has not yet connected with reality.

The fantasy species is not omnipotent, it just endows the cold reality with a beautiful possibility, turning the hopeless things from zero to one.

Now that the only possibility has appeared, what TEDA has to do is to help Aimu grasp the only possibility.

"Please grant her wish."

Taida pleaded.

The devil hesitated for a moment. He thought he had heard wrongly, and then burst out laughing.

"Making a wish for someone else? Such a selfless person is really rare."

TEDA doesn't feel how noble he is, it's just atonement for him.

"No... not enough."

The devil ruthlessly rejected Teda, laughing at his folly.

"I've given you everything!" Taida said unwillingly, "Isn't that enough?"

"No, it's not enough, it's still not enough," the devil shook his head, "You don't know what kind of noble soul you are trading, and what you are paying now is far from enough."

Devils never lie, their deals are absolutely equal.

"Your soul is worth nothing to me."

Taida understood what the devil meant, and smiled self-deprecatingly. Taida knew that he had no value, but when he was told all this by the devil, he still felt an indescribable sense of sadness.

Even if he sacrificed his soul, TEDA couldn't realize that sad wish.

The surrounding darkness dissipated, the devil rejected TEDA's deal, and the normal world returned, even the rising fog dissipated.

Alice is close at hand, cracked petals covered with sharp teeth, thirsting for the satisfaction of the soul, now bound by the freeze of time, but soon, with the departure of the devil, the freeze of time will be broken, and Teda longs for A long-dead death would overshadow his life.

But at the moment before this stagnation was on the verge of collapse, TEDA thought of it. He found the loophole in the rule, broke free from the cold despair, and looked happy.

"No...you can't and don't have the right to refuse me, Mammon."

Taida called out to the devil again, and this time the devil had to obey his orders.

The power of fantasy creation surges, but this time it is not outlining some kind of illusory fantasy, but cruelly destroying reality.

The huge remains of the tarantula beneath him began to collapse, and the dead flesh fell off, revealing the alchemy workshop wrapped in layers of flesh and blood, and then the alchemy workshop also began to collapse.

Bricks and stones mixed with steel were thrown into the sea of ​​mist below, like a bank eroded by waves. During the continuous collapse, the virtual domain of the alchemy workshop was completely shattered, and the hub tower also fell from it.

During the collapse of one layer after another, sporadic golden rays of light shone from the ruins, and then more and more golden rays of light shone. There were so many of them, it was like a golden rainstorm sweeping through a large crack, and all of them were thrown into the fog in the sea.

Those were the mammon coins that TEDA had accumulated over the years. They were stored in the upper floor of the alchemy workshop. With the collapse of the alchemy workshop, they also emerged from the shadows.

It was a magnificent scene. In this dark and bloody hell, golden raindrops were born along with the destruction, and they swirled one after another. Every raindrop shone with the purest gold, like thousands of scorching suns, reflecting Light up the dead despair.

"This is a land where wishes come true."

Taida said softly, hugging his cold body, as if he was humming a gentle lullaby.

He feels that this is a predestined moment, in this hesitant fork in the road where wishes can be fulfilled, in this fantasy planted by delusions, in this moment when countless wishes are interwoven...

Regardless, some wishes are bound to come true.

This is destined.

Alice herself did not possess intelligence, she acted entirely on instinct, and now her hunger instinct warned herself that something terrible was about to happen.

It wanted to escape, but under the imprisonment of some strange force, even Alice couldn't move.

That is the power that transcends evil, the power that is the source of all evil.

Then Alice heard TEDA's morbid raving.

"Master of the wandering fork in the road, the great tyrant Mammon!"

Taida growled.

"I pay you taxes!"

The golden torrential rain roared, across the obstacles of the big rift, and went straight into the sea of ​​mist, dyeing the gray clouds into bright gold, like a flame burning in the mist.

"This is a land where wishes can come true, and even the worthless soul has a moment to shine."

In a trance, Taida heard the whisper of the devil, and then he saw a void figure walking towards him. He smiled, and his palm easily penetrated his body, held the heart, and then pulled something out of it. pull away.

"I will take your body, mind, spirit, everything, everything."

The devil promised.

"Then, the world will be as you wish."

The figure of the devil dissipated and returned to nothingness, and the golden light that filled the sky also disappeared into the tumbling sea of ​​fog.

Taida's body began to turn gray, and then disappeared, like a dead thing that lost its soul and returned to dust.

With his collapse, the cold body in TEDA's arms became warm.

The iron and steel twisted everything into a brand new bone. Alice let out a scream, and a large piece of flesh and blood peeled off from her body, and fit on the steel bone. The damaged mechanical structure was reset, and the blood vessels were It extends through the gap and wraps around the perpetual core.

Several holes were dug out of the metal case, and blood was poured into it. After a few seconds, the perpetual core vibrated like a real heart.

The Philosopher's Stone was full of cracks and completely shattered, but this time the soul contained in it did not disappear, but was bound in this steel and flesh and blood body, permeating every inch and every corner.

Steel bones, flesh and blood, mechanical core, human soul... With the realization of the wish, the fantasy seeds were completely dimmed and dissipated together.

Taida looked at Aimiao who was gradually recovering. Her face was no longer as cold as a puppet mask, but a gentle color appeared. If you look closely, you can even see the faintly visible blood vessels under the skin.

The cold reality was broken, and the vain fantasy turned into reality.

His chest rose and fell slightly, and Aimiao breathed for the first time, coughing uncomfortably like a newborn baby.

Aimu opened her eyes and saw the gray-white TEDA. She couldn't understand what happened, but asked in a strange way.

"What am I to you?"

Her voice was dry and her pronunciation was inaccurate, and then she heard Taida's last call.

"You are Amy...

Amy Yazedet. "

(End of this chapter)