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Chapter 278 Want to understand the true meaning of life?
"Hey, hello, are you so sleepy that you can fall asleep while talking?"

These words seemed to come from the distant horizon, and seemed to ring directly in the ear, ethereal and far away, but gently disintegrating the infinite cycle of reincarnation.

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"……wait!!"

As if waking up from a dream, Mu Xiu immediately instinctively stretched out his hand forward, as if he wanted to grab someone, and he succeeded.

Feeling the touch in his hand, he subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, then concentrated slightly, and what caught his eyes was a white palm, which was so smooth and soft that it almost made people reluctant to let go.

It is both expected and unexpected, because this hand is——

At this time, Penglai Shanhuiye's dissatisfied voice sounded from the side, her eyes flashed with a dangerous light: "Isn't it rude, is this your response to this concubine?"

"..."

Mu Xiu slowly came back to his senses, he stared at the burning fire pond in front of him, and the straight black girl who was kneeling right beside him, at the moment he was grabbing a snow-white wrist.

Faced with such a situation, he suddenly couldn't help being in a daze, as if he had simply dozed off just now, maybe a few seconds hadn't passed yet?
So, was everything that happened just now a dream, or was it actually an illusion created by the so-called demons?

All kinds of doubts flashed from the bottom of my heart, but in the end Mu Xiu shook his head slowly, denying such thoughts.

But he didn't say anything, just kept silent for a while, then raised his head and looked at the black and straight princess with a smile on his face, as if nothing and never happened——

"Ahem, because after all, I have been tired these few days, and I also suffered a little injury in a fight with Yonglin, and I am not in a good state... I am really sorry, I don’t know what you want to ask, Princess? Well, we Where did you just say that?"

While speaking, as if he didn't know anything, he unobtrusively let go of the palm that was holding Penglai Shanhui Yehao's wrist.

"..."

"..."

"Fantasy Town..."

Penglai Shan Huiye looked at him suspiciously, but she was not very annoyed after she withdrew her palm, she just remained silent for a while and said:

"I just saw that your mental state seems to be very wrong. I originally wanted you to talk more to divert your attention... But it seems that you are all right now?"

Without waiting for the other party to answer, the princess squinted her eyes, and seriously advised: "Follow your own heart, the difference between the long-lived species and the short-lived species is not only the lifespan, if "you" is no longer you, then no matter how long you live life has lost its meaning. "

"...uh, thanks."

Mu Xiu opened his mouth, but he couldn't say anything, and he looked at Her Royal Highness with a wry smile.Sure enough, no matter who it is, there are really few people who are as innocent as they appear on the surface.

only……

He raised his hand to take a look. In the current situation, is his problem solved?

Just now I have overcome the "inner demon" and advanced to a higher level?
However, Mu Xiu found that there was no special change in his own state for the time being, at least further fine-grained control, or the ability to modify gene fragments and control the direction of evolution that he had been pursuing all along. It's not fully visualized either.

In other words, he did not overcome the inner demons, and was promoted to the fourth intermediate level, which was actually the same as before.

Mu Xiu stared blankly at his palm, and subconsciously twirled his fingers, a ray of dim flame rose up, quietly burning on his fingertips.

Penglai Shanhuiye raised his sleeves to cover half of his face, stepped back slightly, and a look of fear flashed in his eyes.

But at this time, Mu Xiu suddenly stood up, he quickly walked to the door, opened the door and took a step, and then he came back to his senses, turned around and spoke calmly to Princess Hei Changzhi :
"I'm sorry, Your Royal Highness, I need to go out... I have such a premonition."

"Huh?" Penglai Shan Huiye blinked, slightly surprised.

Then she seemed to understand what was coming, her pitch-black beautiful eyes stared at the figure that had disappeared into the dark snow outside the door without waiting for a response, and sighed with some regret.

"I actually came to my senses so quickly. Sure enough, no matter who you are, as long as you make up your mind, you will definitely reveal your true nature..."

Then, Princess Hei Changzhi looked at her wrist and snorted softly.

She was suddenly curious about what happened to that guy just now, it seemed to be a very interesting piece of information.

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So, in the middle of the night.

It was very rare for Mu Xiu to leave the village again within half a day after returning.He walked silently in the quiet and peaceful white night, leaving a long string of footprints on the snow.

The barren wilderness and the open land are frozen for thousands of miles, and are covered by a thick layer of snow. In many cases, there is no human habitation for thousands of miles.There are abyss and canyons almost everywhere, and snow-capped mountains stand tall and tall. It seems that there are only heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, sun, moon and stars as companions.

Finally, in the middle of the night, he stopped his aimless stroll and stood alone on the top of a snow-capped peak, looking up at the starry sky.

Maybe it’s because I’ve never stood so close to the sky before, or maybe there’s no light pollution and air pollution in this era, or maybe it’s just that I didn’t really realize the night sky above my head until now...

For the first time in his life, he saw such a vast and vast starry sky, even if it was only a corner of the vast universe, it made people feel an unimaginable shock.

The night is like an extremely wide blanket, and the stars all over the sky are like crystal and shining gems adorned on this blanket, which is simply full of incredible and fantastic beauty.

only--

Looking at the starry sky on the other side, apart from the distance, it seems that there is only loneliness left.

"That's it..." Mu Xiu looked at the starry sky and muttered to himself, he came out on a whim.In fact, he didn't have a clear purpose at all, he was just following some throbbing guidance in his heart, and finally did such a thing.

People have always lived in the atmosphere, so they always ignore the importance of air and don't understand how precious it is.

He has never realized that the so-called present world is actually quite beautiful, so beautiful—to the extent that even the "god" of the end is jealous of it.

"Two Rituals" is a personality born after the root flow out, knowing everything, so I feel bored about everything and have no interest in it.She didn't look at anything or think about anything, because she knew all the changes that would happen next.

It's boring and painful and pointless.

Therefore, she chose to continue to sleep, and created "Shiki" to deal with external affairs, because she had no interest, so she did not interfere with any destiny, just let the things that were destined long ago simply continue on the fixed path .

Moreover, she is also subject to herself, subject to the way of thinking of this simulated personality——

It is indeed possible that it is a real emotional expression, but it is more likely that it is just a judgment based on her own memory. She is like a machine and uses the knowledge in her memory to judge what is right and wrong, and what should be done, but everything It was all worthless to her, and there was no need to do anything.

Because the root vortex itself does not have any intelligence and driving force, she can appear because she simulated the real personality of the two rituals, otherwise she would not even be able to understand the meaning of the language, after all, it is just a pure container .

——It was only by simulating the personality of the two rituals that she gained intelligence and drive, but her own feelings were also simulated in the final analysis, so her thinking and judgment would naturally start from that perspective.

It was as if fate had made the worst joke, so the omnipotent "god" was really born, but this "god" was limited by his own intelligence, memory and emotion.

Because the personality is simulated, thinking and judgment can be made, but this kind of thinking and judgment starts from all aspects of the simulated personality.

Therefore, because she is too human-like and imitates people too deliberately, she has no humanity at all. The "god" of the end is so sad.

She clearly can do anything, but she is unwilling to do anything. Even after discovering a variable like Mu Xiu, and finally having an uncertain change in the future, which aroused her interest, she still came here first. trying to make a connection --

"If you can do something for someone, you can relate to the outside world."

This was an unnecessary thought, but she had to find a reason for herself to do so, otherwise it would be meaningless and futile.

Because, there is no meaning of existence, no value of existence.

Therefore, after Mu Xiu rejected her, he would almost never see her again.The black that disappeared into the morning glow was like the traces of the night, and she disappeared alone like a dream.

From the beginning, she didn't care about everything else.

At this moment, Mu Xiu was just watching the night sky quietly on the top of the snow peak, watching instead of her until dawn.

Because he knows how cruel that place is, there is nothing, nothing, there can only keep looking at the eternal darkness of nothingness, and the only self that can be recognized in it...

He would never want to be associated with it again if he could.

However, the "Two Ceremonies" seem to be able to sleep there forever, really—how lonely.

Thinking of this, Mu Xiu lowered his head to look at his chest, as if he wanted to see through the big ball of light in his soul.

If the "two rituals" did not deceive him, then he seemed to be an existence deliberately created by using the information of another person, or another personality.

The purpose seems to be to completely copy that part of the information and inherit the origin of "nothingness", and what to do after that is uncertain...

However, if I was able to appear for this reason in the first place, and everything in the past was deliberately arranged, then what is the meaning of my existence?
It was very inexplicable, he remembered the day he realized the existence of the big ball of light, the memory instilled in his mind——

Want to understand the true meaning of life?Want to really...live?
"...I think I've probably found my real purpose in life. Even if it's just to prevent the Big Light Ball from having bad intentions for me, I still have to rely on her ability."

At the end of the gray and white night, there was a slight light. Mu Xiu turned around slowly, and a strange light flashed in his eyes, which seemed to be full of awareness that he had never had before, and he was ready to pay for it. That's the price.

"I don't want to go to hell with her, so let's bring her up—a boy Kamijou can have such an awareness. It would be too sad if my life is not challenging at all."

He walked on the way back without stopping, and set foot firmly on the way home...

Or an unknown direction.

(End of this chapter)