On the Seven Towers

The red-haired girl's expression was strange, seemingly mixed with joy, worry and fear. She took out her hand and slowly approached Li Jia's face.

"Li Jia..., this is the last time, right? I've searched every inch of this place..., are you the last one?"

Li Jia let her touch his face in confusion, and he said doubtfully: "You are..."

She seemed to be about to cry: "Do you remember?!"

"You are a very important person." Li Jia felt a pain in his heart, as if his own heart had stopped beating.

"Look around you! This library, here, here, and here!" She stretched out her arms, yelled, and pointed around, as if she couldn't recognize these places, as if the end of the world was coming.

"And my dress, do you remember anything? Look, look!" She pulled her skirt in front of him, as if to put it against Li Jia's eyes.

"This dress here looks familiar to me. But..." Li Jia held his head and thought, and he felt that his head was about to split.

"Fire!" she shouted, "remember? Fire! There was a big fire here. I was watching from the distant mountains as the fire burned half the sky red."

"Fire? Yes, here..., I remember there was thick smoke and fire, and there were a lot of people running around, and they were putting out the fire. There were people injured. I remember someone rushed in, and water poured from all parts of the house. Who came out and rushed in? Ah! It was Xiao Chen who used the magic scroll inside! I remembered, but what does this have to do with you?" Li Jia looked at the red-haired girl in confusion.

The red-haired girl turned her head slightly, no longer looking directly at Li Jia, and asked, "Do you still remember what you were doing before the fire?"

"When the fire broke out... I wasn't there. I was coming back from... outside the school. There was a tunnel there. I was going... to see someone off."

"I was the person you sent off! I was wearing this outfit at the time. Before that, we walked on this campus and also came to this library. At that time, you and I couldn't talk much, we only spoke Call my name over and over again: Selinda, Selinda!" Selinda wiped her face with her hands, as if to smooth away the scars on her face so that Li Jia could recognize herself. Tears flowed from her fingertips and mixed with blood. She didn't understand why people could bleed and shed tears in this world with only spiritual power. But she felt that at this moment, she needed to shed tears freely and take away the grievances in her heart.

"You, don't cry." Li Jia stretched out his hand to wipe away Selinda's tears. He stopped midway and said, "Selinda... I think this name is very familiar. Besides, there is always a kind of The feeling is that I can't figure it out. This name has a very important relationship with the fire in the book. However, I feel very scared and dare not think about it. It seems that once I figure out the relationship between them, It's all over."

"Did you feel it?"

"What does it feel like? I feel like my memory is stuck in my neck and I can't think of it. That feeling of suffocation is very uncomfortable." Li Jia said with a grimace.

Selinda glanced up at the stairs, she could feel the danger approaching. She knew very well that when those monsters came back down from upstairs, she would not be able to protect Li Jia. This might be the last conscious body. She might even fall down in this place. She didn't know what death meant in this world, but it could be seen from the monsters that had fallen before that turning into points of light, blending into the world, and becoming the nourishment for Li Jiazhu's consciousness and other distracting thoughts was obviously not a good outcome.

"I set the fire." Selinda looked at Li Jia and said slowly, her voice trembling, proving the weight of every word in this sentence. "I think you have had such a guess in your mind for a long time, but you never dared to say it. Now that I have told you, can you remember it?"

"Did you set the fire? You and I came to the library just to set the fire?" Li Jia looked at Selinda with his mouth shut. This sentence was like a heavy hammer that broke the shackles in his mind, and countless memories remained in his mind. It appeared in his mind like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, with countless pieces of the jigsaw puzzle connected together into a coherent picture.

He met her by chance.

He talks to her awkwardly.

He took her to every corner of the school.

He looks for the right gift for her.

He took her to the library.

…Then, a raging fire broke out in the library.

He recalled himself panicking outside the library in the light of the fire. He recalled the doubts that once arose in his heart. He recalled the speculations that had tortured him and kept him awake all night. It turns out that these things that he thought he had left behind have never faded from his memory, but have settled deeply in the sea of ​​consciousness.

"I remembered." Li Jia said, "You, me, the fire, and why we are here."

"Hate me?"

"I don't know. I once told them that by being with you, I would never sacrifice their interests no matter what. But this fire turned my promise into a joke. Maybe it's myself I should hate. , why so...so..."

"Can't you resist my temptation?"

"It was not your temptation, but the temptation to leave loneliness. You just stood in front of me and showed the real you in front of me, and then I was attracted to you."

"Do you think that farm girl is the real me?"

"I always felt like that was the real you."

Selinda was stunned for a moment, then sighed and shook her head, saying, "A naive farm girl wouldn't set fire to a building, nor would she peek at other people's holy books."

"I firmly believe that's the real you. The real you depends on what you are, not what you do. We always have a thousand reasons to do things, even against our conscience, but there is only one conscience."

Selinda felt a little uncomfortable with his insistent gaze, and she asked, "Will you leave after you wake up?"

"Leave?" Li Jia was silent for a long time, "No, I think I will stay." He squinted at the ceiling and said, "They are coming, leave here quickly."

"Have you regained control of your spiritual world?" Serinda asked.

Li Jia nodded, he stretched out his hands and grabbed the void, then pulled, and a dark gap appeared between his hands. He let out a low roar, exerted all his strength, and the gap was slowly pulled open.

"They are coming." Serinda picked up the kitchen knife on the ground and stared at the staircase. Soon, the first monster screamed, like a big spider, using both hands and feet to jump over.

"Come on, I've opened the door. You go out first." Li Jia had already opened the door to a foot wide.

"You go first." Serinda held two knives in front of her, "I can still resist a few times. But you don't know how to fight at all."

"You forgot that I am the master of this world." Li Jia said. He stretched out his hand and a bookshelf rose into the air. The heavy iron bookshelf, more than two meters high and more than one meter wide, and the books on it, smashed towards the monster rushing over. The monster was first knocked dizzy by hundreds of books, and then was crushed to the ground by the heavy bookshelf.

Li Jia said "go" to the boning knife in Serinda's hand. The knife flew out of his hand like a fairy sword and stabbed into the monster's head fiercely. The monster screamed unwillingly, and then turned into a light spot and dissipated.

"Look, I can protect myself. Go quickly."

"You should catch up quickly." Serinda didn't hesitate anymore, looked back at him, and walked into the passage.

Not long after Serinda left, the remaining three monsters rushed downstairs. Perhaps they felt Li Jia's strength, so the monsters did not attack alone, but formed a fan shape, staring at Li Jia.

The leading monster shook his long claws and said, "We are all one. I feel that you have given up."

Li Jia glanced at him and sighed, "My distracting thoughts turned out to be such an ugly monster. I am such a sad person."

The monster sneered, and its terrifying limbs gradually shortened, and finally turned into a handsome young man. "That's just the need for fighting. We are human consciousness like you."

"You are just a collection of desires, how can you be considered human?"

The young man sneered, "Aren't people slaves to desires? Without desires, people are just a pool of dead meat, just like you now. You feel that you have no face to appear in school again! Then let me live for you! Isn't it just to be a good husband to Serinda and a good friend to Xiao Chen? I can do it, and I can do more!"

Li Jia lowered his head silently. The young man snorted, waved his hand back, and rushed over with the other two monsters. However, when the two monsters were charging forward, the young man deliberately slowed down and fell behind. He took advantage of the fact that the other two monsters were focusing their attention on Li Jia, and he launched a surprise attack from behind them. His arms suddenly swelled, and his hands turned into claws again, which neatly pierced into the backs of the two monsters' heads. The two monsters turned into light spots without even a hum.

The young man stretched out his claws to grab Li Jia again, but at this time Li Jia's mind moved, and with a wave of his hand, an iron cabinet flew into the air and blocked his claws.

"Aren't you giving up yet? Isn't escape your choice all along? Instead of living with guilt, it's better to end it here. I am different from those crazy ideas. I am your ambition. From the beginning, I was thrown into the corner as a distraction by you, but don't you think that the world is more suitable for you like me to survive now?" The young man pressed his claws on the cabinet, and the cabinet made an unbearable creaking sound.

Li Jia stared at the young man across the cabinet hanging in the air. There was a flame dancing in the eyes of the young man named "Ambition". It was a flame of arrogance and confidence. Li Jia's eyes gradually softened. The cabinet in the air lost the support of his mind and fell to the ground.

"Very good. I will inherit your wish, but not your timidity." "Ambition" approached Li Jia step by step, and the tip of his claws was getting closer and closer to Li Jia's throat. "Don't worry, I am you, you are me, and what awaits you is not death, but rebirth."

"Remember your promise." Li Jia lowered his hands and closed his eyes.

Just as the sharp claws were about to pierce Li Jia's throat, "Ambition" felt a strong wind coming from behind. He dodged the knife that was chopped at him like a ghost, then turned around and clawed, knocking the attacker away.