Five years of collapse and three years of simulation

Chapter 478 I keep the way you believe

"Ahem." The priest looked at the three weakly, "Theresa, my cross seems to have fallen into the snow."

Teresa helped the priest cover the quilt tightly by the bed, and said, "It's okay, priest, you should have a good rest first, and I will definitely find it for you."

"Wait next week... no, tomorrow, when I find the cross, I will send you to the hospital in the town tomorrow, and you will be fine."

The priest no longer had the strength to shake his head, so he could only turn his head to one side to express his denial.

"It's okay, there's no need." The priest looked behind the three of them, "Joachim, should we go?"

The door of the room was opening and closing, and every time it shook, a child came in and stood in the corner of the room.

The priest was asking if Joachim was leaving, and he also thought that the child had already left, but he still couldn't help but look forward to the fact that the next child who came in would be Joachim.

But when the children of the orphanage were crowded in this small room, the priest's eyes dimmed.

"Really, have you already left?" The priest looked at the patched ceiling, "I understand his feelings, after all... I was the one who made him an orphan."

Teresa quickly replied, "That's not the priest's fault."

The older children couldn't tell who was right and who was wrong, and had their own tendencies in their hearts, but seeing the priest's weakness, he could only shut up.

Younger children, seeing the looks of other people in the room and the serious atmosphere, dare not speak their minds.

The priest said weakly: "Right and wrong cannot answer all the questions in this world. I always ask myself, at that time, would there be another way to save his father?"

"But no matter what I think later, I still can't change the result of that day, when I chose to kill him."

"Maybe it's because in him, I saw my past self, the... self I wanted to get rid of."

"Father..." Teresa wanted to say something, but finally closed her mouth.

Bronya looked at the priest in shock, so this Otto once...

The priest's next sentence answered Bronya's question.

"I have also been in contact with emergencies, meddled with evil forces, and implicated... No, there are still many innocent people."

"But the saint rescued me and brought light to me who was in the endless abyss where there was only darkness."

"I escaped from the organization with him, sealing the source of the evil in an unknown place, but both of us were cursed, and she passed away two years later."

"When that person was dying, I asked her if you regretted your choice."

"Now, I will relay that person's answer to you."

After such a long speech, Otto closed his eyes, he needed to rest.

Seeing Otto who was still breathing, everyone didn't dare to move, for fear that the priest would just leave everyone.

After a while, Otto opened his eyes and took a breath.

"A person will experience three growths in his life. The first time is to understand the right and wrong of things, and the second time is to understand that some things are not only right and wrong."

"The third time...after realizing that there is no absolute right or wrong in some things, I still firmly do what I believe in, and take the responsibility I should bear for it."

A little light flickered in the priest's slumped eyes, and his breathing became a little excited.

He thought of something, something that even time could not erase.

"I buried her in a foreign country, and later wandered here to establish an orphanage."

"I understand Joachim's confusion, or rather, I have been so confused, so... I respect her choice."

The children were still too young to understand what the priest meant by these words.

But they will always remember these words that the priest told everyone before his death, and keep them firmly in their hearts. In their lifetime, they will eventually understand the meaning of these words.

"Children, I can't go back. I have made too many mistakes. All I can do is to be responsible for my past mistakes."

"But... Fortunately, you are here." Otto was thanking everyone in the orphanage, and at the same time thanking the saint who rescued him from the abyss.

"Thank you for letting me look back on the past and find that I still have happy and warm memories."

The priest looked at the roof he had built and mended with his own hands, and the orphans he had saved over the years, and the fond memories of these times flashed in his mind.

Apart from warmth, there was also a trace of regret in Otto's eyes, a trace of regret that could not be removed even if time washed away even if he died.

"Oh... Father, don't talk so much, you should have a good rest, you will definitely get better."

The children are crying, they just lost a companion a few days ago, and now even the priest is leaving?

Bronya pondered these few words of Otto.

There were more and more sobs in the room, Bronya sighed, turned her head to the closed door and said, "Joachim, did you hear that?"

"Joachim?" The priest tried to turn himself sideways to look at the door.

"Squeak~"

The old door was pushed open, Joachim was standing behind the door at the moment, he did not leave the orphanage.

Joachim at the door held the priest's cross on his chest, and looked at Otto, who looked young on the bed but was in physical condition like an old man.

"Joachim..." The priest's lips trembled, but he... didn't leave.

Joachim looked at the priest sincerely and said, "Father, you lost this cross last night, so I got it back."

"You said that you would give it to me." Joachim held the cross tightly, as if protecting the most important thing in his life.

"I'm still very confused now, and I don't know what to do in the future. It's just that there is something I have to say no matter what!"

There were tears in Joachim's eyes, what is right and wrong, who is right and who is wrong, his mind is so confused now that he doesn't think about it.

But he has to take a step bravely and step out of the past that he couldn't get out of.

"I am willing... I am willing to take this step, inherit this orphanage, and inherit your responsibilities!"

"So, please continue to be my family and don't lead me down the wrong path!"

At this moment, Joachim was already in tears, and Bronya followed thoughtfully.

Otto stretched out a hand from under the quilt with difficulty, and looked at Joachim with relief.

Joachim wiped away his tears and walked over, squatting beside the bed, tears streaming down his face.

A few good friends in the orphanage watched silently, and hugged him gently together with Teresa. At this time, no words of promise were needed.

The priest stroked Joachim's head with trembling hands, "I believe in you, Joachim, I believe you will find your own way."

Joachim handed the cross to the priest again, and the priest placed it on his chest after taking it. The light in his eyes seemed to become brighter.

"I have fought the good fight... I have finished the race... your word... I have kept it."

Joachim's return removed the regret in Otto's heart.

At the end of his life, Otto kept staring ahead, as if someone was there.

The corners of his mouth were raised slightly, and a tear was left behind in a smile.

A fan made mistakes in the first half of his life and killed countless innocent people. He was rescued by the saint halfway, understood what the saint was thinking, and spent the rest of his life experimenting with the saint's ideas to make up for his mistakes.

"Father, priest!" Teresa burst into tears and lay down beside the bed.

The children in the orphanage also noticed something was wrong, and they were calling for the priest loudly, as if they wanted to wake up the priest who had fallen asleep.

The priest finally left this world.

Bronya noticed that Yu Duchen's aura was still there, and it didn't dissipate along with the priest's spirit, staying on Joachim's body.

The priest's departure filled the orphanage with sorrow.

No matter how sad the children are, they have to accept this fact.

Joachim looked at the cross in the priest's hand, as if he had sensed it, the cross slipped to Joachim's hand.

He picked up the cross and wiped away his tears.

The priest said that this cross is a treasure used by successive priests and will be protected by God.

Joachim understood that it was not the previous master in the literal sense. The meaning of the cross was to have the meaning of redemption, to bear and make up for one's mistakes.

Whether the cross is a treasure or not, and whether it has God's protection is no longer important.

It represents the thoughts and ideas of the priest, and Joachim decided to inherit the path in his heart.

The next day, everyone in the orphanage buried the priest next to Karel.

After the burial, Joachim half-kneeled in front of the tombstone, reading the eulogy.

"You went first to prepare the way ahead. If you ask me, why did someone die early?"

"Because death is past, there will be no more sorrow, crying, pain, or fear, because the past is past. We know where you are going, and we know your way."

Theresa stood behind and looked at the tombstone, "Father, although you are gone, the door of the Freya Orphanage will remain open and will take in all the displaced orphans."

"This is the choice Joachim and I made, and it is also the path we have to take. God will protect you, our father."

"God will protect you, our hero."

With the end of Joachim's words, a white light flashed in front of Bronya's eyes, and she returned to the interlayer between reality and the quantum sea, inside the huge maze.

"Where is Xier...?" Bronya searched for Xier's whereabouts for the first time, and was relieved when she saw a light blue book floating beside her.

"Welcome back. It seems that the worries on your brows are less than before you entered." Joachim said happily: "As a part of this maze, I feel that it is gradually disintegrating and shrinking."

"You're amazing, and I thought I should tell you the truth."

Bronya asked: "Here, what happened before?"

Joachim said: "In the sea of ​​quantum, Walter once fought the enemy to the end."

"His enemy is too powerful. Even if he tried his best, he couldn't turn the tide of the battle. At the last moment of his life, he chose to use all his remaining power to construct a barrier that separates the quantum sea from the real world."

"Barrier?" Bronya asked, "So the real world...is there only one?"

"No, no, no." Joachim shook his head, "It's just a barrier between our world and the Quantum Sea."

"This barrier will not isolate the dead, but it will test every life that enters it. It is this huge maze you are in now."

"Walter's physical body has dissipated, and his existence has turned into the maze itself in the sea of ​​quantum. All the scenes you see here are his past, his confusion, everything he experienced... and him hope."

Bronya frowned, "So, can you feel where the other person who entered with me went?"

"What?" Joachim was shocked. "Anyone else came in?"

Bronya was not sure whether Einstein was caught by the Raven in the Sea of ​​Quantum, but Han Jiang definitely followed her in.

Since everyone who enters will come here, Joachim, who is the labyrinth itself, must also know about it.

"Well..." Bronya said worriedly: "I'm afraid, there are not only friends, but also enemies."

Joachim quickly used his spirit to sense the entire labyrinth, shaking his head constantly, "No, not here, not there, I can't feel it."

"This……"

Joachim frowned, "There is a loophole in the labyrinth, probably caused by Walter's enemies..."

"But don't worry, the ability to shield this maze, even the 'snake' can't bring in many people, at most one or two people will die."

Han Jiang's strength is stronger than his own, but if he is not in the maze, he has walked through the passage made by the "snake". He...is he okay?

It's gonna be okay, it's gonna be okay...

"Bronya, are you okay?" Joachim asked concerned.

He is just a mental fragment left by Walter. It is the limit to be able to fully assist Bronya to pass the test, and there is no way to think about other things.

Bronya was about to vomit, "It's okay, let's go back to the topic just now, that is to say, Walter used his own life to block the snake in the quantum sea?"

Joachim didn't answer or deny, and said, "Come on, keep going, and I will open the last path for you."

"The last world is ahead, and when you leave that world, you will leave this maze."

"At that time, I will turn into your power and guide you to the location of the core of reason, with which you can enter the sea of ​​quantum."

"But remember, go and don't touch the core for too long, it will tear your body apart."

"Bronya understands."

Joachim said earnestly: "Promise me Bronya, no matter what you see next, never let the 'snake' escape from here."

"Bronya knows that the 'snake' is our common enemy, I will not let Mr. Walter's will go to waste, and will do my best to keep the snake in the sea of ​​quantum."

"Then...good luck."

The last world is heading, and Bronya walks forward step by step.

As long as he passes the test of that world, he can obtain the core of reason and enter the quantum sea.

When the time comes... Xi'er, I will definitely rescue you, Xi'er!

Bronya walked towards the third world step by step, full of expectations and excitement.

What kind of strange feeling is this? Bronya has never felt it since the X-10 experiment, but why did it appear again?

With the entry of Bronya, her surroundings became a world of darkness again.

(End of this chapter)