tokyo creator

Chapter 233
This downward passage is far deeper than Hui Yuan originally thought.

The passage is silent but bright, all the way down, as if it is eternity and has no end.

Arthur and Hero Huo also seemed to have their own concerns, they didn't speak, but followed behind silently.

So the only ambient sound around them was the footsteps of the three of them going down the steps, "step", "step" echoing in the distance.

Although it was completely different visually, under the consciousness of Hui Yuan, who was using the Cicada of Souls to sense empathy, it always reminded him of a deserted alley on a rainy night.

The atmosphere is monotonous, peaceful, and quiet.

Huiyuan forgot for a moment that he was about to chase someone and was also being chased by a certain group of people.He just counted the steps without any distractions. As the number increased, he seemed to feel the simplest happiness.

ten……

one hundred……

Four hundred...

460 II.

Fifteen minutes later, when Huiyuan stepped onto the bottom step, he counted steps 15.

At the end of the descending passage, there is actually a platform.

Under the platform, a tram without a cab is parked.In the direction where the front of the car is most pointed, the tunnel paved with tracks has bright and dark rings, extending to a distance that cannot be seen clearly.

On the right side of the platform, there is also a waiting room isolated with transparent acrylic.The cabin has brighter lights and even a newly replaced water dispenser.

Arthur looked into the waiting room from outside the transparent partition wall, glanced a few times, and quickly said "Huh" in surprise.

He quickly walked into the waiting room, and quickly took out three things, throwing them to Hui Yuanchu and Huo Thallium Heroes.

Those were two sets of work clothes and a mobile phone.

Seeing the two naked people put on their shirts and pants quickly, Arthur murmured, "I have a bad feeling."

"Do you mean this, this, or this?" Hui Yuanchu typed, pointing to three things respectively.

The tram, the clothes he was wearing, and the cell phone he was typing on.

"Of course it's all of these. There are no more than one set of clothes, and there is also a mobile phone specially prepared for you to make it easier for you to talk." Arthur looked up at the train on the platform again, as if he had something to say. Thinking, "And this train... it feels like it's all an invitation."

The fire thallium hero said nothing.

He just got dressed in silence, then got on the train, sat down on the seat near the platform, and silently looked down at Arthur and Hui Yuanyuan on the platform below.

Arthur was stunned for a moment, then laughed: "That's right, no matter what, after all, it's all about sex!"

He also walked into the car with his head held high.

When Hui Yuanchu also got on the train and pressed the button to close the door, the tram started automatically and left the platform towards the depths of the tunnel.

Arthur and Huo Thallium once again fell into silence with their own concerns, each looking out the window on one side.

Outside the car window, the lights in the tunnel flashed rapidly in rhythm, and their faces in the car were reflected on the glass windows.

Hui Yuanchu suddenly reached out and poked Huo Li.

"Huo Thallium, how do you feel now?"

Huo Thallium Hero just glanced at the words on the screen of Hui Yuanchu's phone, then turned to look out the car window again, and simply replied: "I'm fine."

But by this time, Arthur's attention had been drawn.

He looked at the second sentence that Hui Yuanchu had typed and displayed, and read out: "Huo Thallium, please straighten out the fingers of your right hand that you have always clenched."

After finishing reading, Arthur was also stunned for a moment, and then he also raised his head and looked at the fire thallium hero inquiringly.

The fire thallium hero finally turned around and said, "It has nothing to do with you, right?"

This time there was no need for Hui Yuanchu to type, and Arthur said politely: "We are companions now. Therefore, we are fully qualified to know your status, and we are worried that you will hold us back."

"It's like holding back... It won't happen this time." The hero of Fire Thallium said nonchalantly.

But he stretched out his hand anyway.

Arthur frowned, with a solemn expression, and touched his chin to take a closer look.

The entire front section of the Fire Thallium Hero's little finger, including the nails, turned completely gray at some point.Even the nails have lost their luster, and the finger now looks like a prosthetic limb molded out of gray plaster.

"Sorry, I'm rude." Arthur stretched out his hand, wanting to pull the Fire Thallium Hero's hand closer for a look.

But as soon as his two fingers touched the sides of Huo Thallium Hero's gray finger, before he exerted any force, Huo Thallium Hero's entire gray finger suddenly shattered silently and fell to the ground.
Arthur jumped back quickly.

"Ah——" The fire thallium hero didn't seem to expect such a thing to happen, and he was stunned for a moment.

Both of them stared at the fallen fingers on the ground.

The fingers no longer maintain their shape.

To be precise, only the top half remains.The lower part that touched the ground collapsed and turned into dust at the first touch.

——Like the ashes after burning out.

Arthur squatted down and carefully pressed the finger - quietly and easily, as if pressing into an ash heap, he completely collapsed the gray finger that was still barely maintaining its shape. Pressed into a heap of ashes.

"Fire Thallium??" He raised his head and looked at the Fire Thallium hero with a strange expression.

"I don't know why." Huo Thallium shook his head, "Until just now, my fingers had only lost feeling and their skin color was strange."

He raised the finger with a missing knuckle in front of him and looked at it - there was no blood on the fracture, no flesh and bone left, it was just covered with a layer of ash that could not be removed, as if it had been sealed by cement.

Arthur looked at Hui Yuanchu again.

Hui Yuanchu only typed three words.

"The fire is out."

But what he was thinking in his heart was that he was indeed right.

Hui Yuanchu sat on the throne in the center of the cross, facing the vast network of stars and fire.

He put his mind into it, focused and carefully looked at the small nebula corresponding to the "Hero of Fire Thallium".

No longer just looking at the web of flames extending from the huge stars, Hui Yuan began to focus on the roots of the flames, the surface of the huge star.

Only in this way did he see clearly that the flames could no longer cover the entire surface of the star "Fire Thallium Hero".In fact, there are already large and small black and gray areas on the surface that no longer ignite flames, like ugly scars.

When Hui Yuanchu looked at it from a distance from the throne, he felt that the fire of this star was so energetic and strong.But in fact, the flames still burning in other areas of the star's surface are so strong and violent that the scorched scars where the fires have gone out are obscured underneath.

This was before, when Hui Yuan carefully looked at the "Fire Thallium Hero" for the first time and performed the operation of absorbing and reshaping his body, he discovered that the Fire Thallium Hero's fire was much more extinguished than before. few.

The more violent burning is just the appearance, and under the flame root, he is gradually extinguishing.

——All this is because of the current state of the fire thallium hero.

The fire of mind and emotion is produced by the true spirit (light) igniting flesh and blood.The light is always shining on the flesh and blood, so there is no need to rush, the gentle fire can be generated at every moment, it is there.

But the fire thallium hero lost his true spirit.So...he no longer has the light to start the fire.

The fire hadn't gone out, but he could only keep it alive with fire, fuel it with fire, fuel it with fire.In order to ensure that the fire will not go out, he unconsciously burns it with all his strength, and burns as much as he can.

——That's why his burning is violent...but the more violent it is, the closer it is to complete burning.

Only a few months have passed now, but the Fire Thallium Hero has finally burned down some parts. "Furthermore, you should also realize that you have been losing something since you became the person in power. You can't sleep, you have lost your sense of smell, your physical strength has deteriorated... these 'little problems' that have always been with you are all problems of the mind. A sign of a fire dying out.”

Hui Yuanchu continued typing.

"—However, the 'big problem' of completely losing part of the body and turning the entire finger into ashes and never being able to come back has just appeared. The reason is..."

Hui Yuanchu finally revealed the answer: "...I'm sorry, actually I just found out that this is because of our contract.

"Your request is - no matter how many times your body loses its functions, your body will be rebuilt as new so that you can continue to fight."

"However, even if it is restored to its original state, it doesn't mean that nothing happened. The moment your body collapsed, part of the fire has been completely extinguished."

"Plus, nothing comes without a price... Every time I reshape your body and put your mind back, I unknowingly consume some of your own fire."

"...What finally manifests itself is 'acceleration'."

"So far, including 'Hitchhiker', your body has been reshaped by me twice. Each time, a large part of your fire will be extinguished."

Hui Yuanchu raised his hand and pointed at the Fire Thallium Hero's finger: "...So, your finger was completely burned out. If you continue like this, the rest of you will also be burned out, right?"

Hero Huo Thallium remained calm and asked, "What will happen if the fire is gone?"

"Didn't you already see it? It will turn into ashes."

Hui Yuanchu replied.At the same time, he glanced at the corner of the Net of Stars from the throne - the ashes named Naoki Kawano.

Being reduced to fireless ashes is not "death"...or, "much more" than death.In comparison, death is simply the ultimate relief.

The fire thallium hero looked down at his hand that had lost a finger, then raised his head and asked: "So, how much time do I have?"

Hui Yuanchu took a closer look at the nebula of the Fire Thallium Hero, made an estimate, and then said: "Well...it depends on the burden on the body and the intensity of using the power.

"If you are willing to return to a normal life, maybe you can spend ten or twenty years peacefully.

"But if it's the intensity of our battles these days... just five or six more remodels, you will be completely turned into ashes."

The fire thallium hero scratched his head: "Doesn't that mean that I'm done anyway-"

Hui Yuanchu suddenly raised his hand to interrupt him, then raised his phone to show the three words he had just typed: "——Not really."

Then, seeing that the fire thallium hero had been interrupted, he slowly typed the next words.

"I can save you, if you ask me for help."

Hui Yuanchu didn't lie.

When he first discovered the problem with Hero Huo, he immediately checked the fire of the three monitors.

Then he breathed a sigh of relief and was slightly surprised: the situation of the squad leader, Saya and Xiao Ayano was completely different from that of the Fire Thallium Hero.

Their fire is burning nicely.

Although they do not have true spirits, their fire is not full of the atmosphere of running to the end without looking back like the fire thallium heroes, but it still burns slowly and steadily like ordinary people.

Hui Yuanchu quickly noticed the difference.

- Mud of the Creator.

The mud of the Creator that he left in the deepest part of the girls' spirits filled their star shells that were on the verge of collapse, like glowing amber, igniting the star shells into flames instead of the true spirit.

Why the Creator's Mud had such an effect, Hui Yuanchu had no time to think about it.He first continued to type to make suggestions to Hero Huo Thallium.

"Of course, under normal circumstances, I will not grant the same person a second wish...but this time is a special case.

“Because I did not expect that this transaction would cause such harm to you, and naturally I did not warn you in advance.

"And you...you don't need to ask, judging by your reaction, you definitely didn't know it would become like this before.

"So, as a special case, I can give you a chance to change your wish.

"——You can change your wish to 'do not want to become ashes, want to live', then I will help you solve this problem completely. Then, you can live until you die of old age."

Huo Thallium Hero was thoughtful: "Then if I was killed by something again..."

Hui Yuanchu replied: "Of course I won't resurrect you. Because the original wish has been invalidated."

Huo Thallium pondered and said: "In other words, choosing this option is equivalent to choosing to give up the fight?"

"Yes."

Hero Huo thallium nodded to show that he understood, but did not answer right away.He turned his head and looked at the dark tunnel outside the window, lost in thought.

After a while, he knocked on the table, turned around and said in a decisive tone: "Okay, I've thought about it."

Then the fire thallium hero said lightly: "I don't intend to change the wish. My request to Huiyuan remains the same - please witness my burnout. If I die and have not burned out, pull me up and let I continue to burn until the moment I burn out.”

Huiyuan had already had a premonition, so he didn't say anything.

But Arthur blurted out in surprise: "——Why? Why did you make this choice?"

"Isn't this obvious?" Huo Tong shrugged, "If I didn't choose this way, I wouldn't be able to win, and I wouldn't be able to kill the snake."

"So I don't understand, killing a snake is more important than your life?"

"There are many things more important than my life."

Arthur rubbed his forehead, seeming to be in confusion.

After a moment, he raised his hand and asked: "No, I still don't understand. In fact, after you change the contract, it doesn't mean you have to quit now, right? You can still continue to kill snakes. It's just that there is no guarantee of resurrection, that's all Isn’t it just that? You can have more time to plan a more mature plan, and maybe it’s easier—”

"No. If I choose 'I want to live', it means that I think living is the most important thing to me." The Fire Thallium Hero paused, he smiled and closed his eyes and said, "But This would be tantamount to giving up on 'justice' - which is absolutely not okay."

Arthur didn't seem to know how to retort.He thought for a moment and then said: "Then, I can provide another solution..."

The hero of Fire Thallium interrupted him directly and said: "——Thank you, but I'm sorry, I refuse."

Arthur was stunned.

And the fire thallium hero explained: "Because there is no difference."

"Whether it's your method or Huiyuan's first option... it means that he has chosen the way to survive."

The fire thallium hero slowed down his speech and said word by word: "But the way to live is yes, no, okay."

"My desire has been exhausted from the very beginning. This is a way of no return. So any way to survive is to escape." He stared at Arthur, and there seemed to be a fire behind his voice, "Conversely, there is nothing left Burning to ashes...isn't it perfect burning for me?"

Hui Yuanchu applauded silently.

He looked up from the throne and looked into the distance, high up, at the man-made floating mountain.

——the system, or the cyborg Sophia.On the countless screens around her, new task texts began to refresh.

【Special Mission: Justice (3/3)】

[Justice is burning out. 】

[Burn out is the ending. 】

[The ending is something that has not yet come, but is already doomed... But the flame is the will, so everything is not meaningless. 】

[Here, witness it.Burnt out will is meaning. 】

(End of this chapter)