Chapter 477 Route A The Happy Prince 5-4
The road from the delivery room was not as long as it was when I came in. When I opened the door, the two of them saw a woman covered in iron thorns standing in the corridor. The chapter was updated the fastest
She did not have the obvious murderous intent that Su Jing showed when she first met her, but was very quiet and calm, almost reminding Su Jing of her original body, and Lu Mengyao, who always showed Zhizhu's expression holding.
This dark incarnation - Su Jing, for the first time, looked at her seriously, and the contrast with the body. If you ignore these sharp needles that penetrate the surface of the body, as well as the festering face, cold pupils and sharp teeth, you can still see some Lu Mengyao's appearance, with a cruel Gothic feeling, like a decaying work of art, which can reverse the previous exquisite face from the appearance of decay.
"You haven't completed the test." She stared at Su Jing with her slender pupils of a reptile. The translucent instant film used to wipe away the dust flashed, and the hoarse voice was like the friction between a grinding wheel and a metal.
"No, I'm done." Su Jing retorted, "We all know the truth of this trick. It's just used to attack the spiritual world of our minds. We understand this, so whether or not we do anything can have any impact. Even if I really kill her in the hallucination, it will not have any impact."
The instant film that darkness transformed into the surface of the eyeball flashed again.
"This is the rule. You can only leave this world by repairing the statue of the Happy Prince."
"Give me the location of the statue."
“In Lakeside Park.”
"Let's lead the way, little cutie. We can also talk carefully on the way. You suddenly jumped out not just to be the background sound of the game prompts."
Even though the dark personality's face was so broken that it seemed to be unnatural, she seemed to have the expression of trying to hit him for a moment. But she just sighed and turned around and walked out of the hospital.
"I want to ask you a question. Why don't you take action even though you know that all you want to kill is an illusion projected by your spirit?"
The three of them strolled on the foggy streets of the town. In the fog, the figure of the woman covered with needles was as trance as a magician herself. Faced with the question she asked, Su Jing blurted out without thinking:
“Because I don’t like it.”
"Don't like it? Be careful when answering my questions."
"If you want to say it seriously..." Su Jing bit her lip and thought for a while, "I instinctively felt that I could not do that. If you want to say the reason, it would be because I was afraid of the artifact itself. I once saw a artifact with my own eyes... from the eyes of the God of Algorithm, which can trace all cause and effect, and is the most powerful item I have ever seen in my life. Even if this "Paradise Lost" is not as powerful as the Eye of Cause and Effect, I will never dare to underestimate its power."
Darkness incarnated and walked quietly in front of him. He listened to him patiently.
"This world is a projection of our spirit, which extracts... no, it should be said to copy the negative parts of our hearts and use you to attack us. It has to be said to be quite exquisite technology. And since I knew that this world was used to attack our hearts, I decided not to do anything against my will. Because I cannot take a great risk - the choice we make will in turn feedback our hearts - with the level of artifacts, which is completely possible. We made dark choices. Our minds fell into darkness."
Hubin Park arrived soon. After about five minutes, a statue holding a long sword appeared in front of the three. There was a groove as big as a thumb on the hilt of the statue, and the place where his eyes were originally located was empty. The gilded body had many fragments of wind and rain, which looked very desolate. Su Jing noticed that in addition to these grooves, there was also a fist-sized void on the left chest of the statue.
"Your guess about Paradise Lost is very correct. It can strengthen the mood when you make the choices and let you gradually be manipulated by that logic... and this is also the level I designed. Guess what I want to tell you through this series of stories?" Lu Mengyao's dark incarnation leaned on the railing by the lake and asked Su Jing.
"The difficulty of this question is too simple." Su Jing took a long breath and exhaled again. "The main line of the test is to return the eyes of the Happy Prince in the original story, return the gems to the original owner, and let him return to his original beautiful state. It can basically be regarded as a reverse interpretation of the original work. The Happy Prince was morally sublimated through the altruism of "self-sacrifice" in the original work, and finally rose to heaven. The purpose of this reverse story is undoubtedly egoism. If I follow the route you designed, I should become a person who harms others and benefits themselves... Well, I am the same person as you."
"It is not to harm others for self-interest, but fairness. The happy prince has no obligation to sacrifice himself. 'Only self-sacrifice can you go to heaven after death'. In a Christian society, this fairy tale promotes the moral kidnapping that I hate the most." Lu Mengyao's dark avatar retorted, "I just tried to dispel the romantic thoughts in your mind through this method. Altruism is a social morality. It can allow you to gain friendship and trust in the real society, unite the society, and make you gather the power of everyone in an open and upright way to become a strong person. In the game of heaven, this society with imbalanced power, nothing is as powerful as your own ability. The prey of the weak, the law of the jungle, and this twisted society passes on the twisted laws. Cruelty is the pass to the pinnacle. I don't want you to die, so I want to teach you this."
Her words have always been very reasonable. She has an angel of sharp mind. Reason can always overpower sensibility... Su Jing knows that Lu Mengyao is not a bad person. She does not like a typical bad person. She gets pleasure from evil deeds. She just seeks the greatest possibility to climb to a higher level. She does bad things just because she is more efficient. If she judges that becoming a good person can move forward more steadily, she can also instantly change into an angel of light... The logic of the calculation in her mind is as hard as a cold machine.
"I have the biggest difference between you and I. My dear, my goal is different from yours." Su Jing spread his hands. He knew why the two had such differences. Su Jing also had the same logical reasoning ability, but he chose a path that was completely opposite to Lu Mengyao. "Our difference is that your goal in life is to 'climb the top'. And my goal in life is to 'implement yourself'."
The two stood stiffly, as if they were back to the winter a few years ago. The two arrogant people finally had to face the major gap in their outlook on life. If they were ordinary couples, the discussion on their outlook on life was just a daily conversation, but it was precisely because Su Jing and Lu Mengyao were both talented people. They were particularly sensitive to their differences. Instead of waiting for the differences to break out in the future, it would be better to solve this problem at that time.
Lu Mengyao is concerned about the "result". Her life needs to reach a peak that ordinary people cannot reach. This is the obsession brought by her pride. Su Jing is concerned about the "process", which is to do what she wants to do in her life, not to be subject to the probability of success or material **. She wants him to become her assistant and help her reach the pinnacle of the world; but he is unwilling to be kidnapped by her dreams and unwilling to fall into the vortex of money and power.
After all, these two talented people are rare idiots in terms of emotional aspects.
"...If this is your choice, then go and show it to me." After a long time, Lu Mengyao's dark incarnation stood beside the railing with her arms in her arms, signaling Su Jing to look at the statue of the happy prince, "No matter what choice you make, only by filling this statue can you meet the conditions for leaving this world... I think you know what to do."
Su Jing's figure is reflected in the slender pupils of the reptiles, and the darkness turns into a cold smile:
"If you choose to be yourself, you have to pay the corresponding price. With your intelligence, you should know what to do."
Su Jing sighed deeply.
The vacant prince statue. In theory, it can only be filled with those gems. But I chose to refuse to take that path... At that time, I had already guessed the possibility of another path.
Self-sacrifice.
What you need to implement is self-sacrifice. There is no such thing as being a good person without paying.
He pulled out the prepared spoon from his pocket and dug it into his right eye.
More than ten seconds later, the bloody eyes were lying in his own hands. The severe pain of the nerves was like an ice cone knocking into the cerebral cortex. Su Jing was so painful that he almost lost consciousness. He didn't know if he screamed. Maybe there was.
"There is another left eye." The dark avatar reminded cruelly.
Su Jing grinned and showed a cruel grin. He trembled and stretched the spoon to his left eye, but someone snatched it over.
"I watched for a long time. I felt it was necessary to declare it." Su Luo held the spoon and stared at Lu Mengyao coldly. "The Happy Prince - it's not him, but me and him, Ajing, and my brother. We are a whole, and this whole is the real Happy Prince."
Without hesitation, she inserted a spoon into her left eye, and gently pried it, and the rounded eyeball fell into the palm of her palm.
Su Jing staggered straight, and blood and tears flowed from his tightly closed right eyes. He gritted his teeth and took the girl's eyeball, and then pulled out the ruby from his pocket.
The ruby was embedded in the prince's sword hilt with tight slits, and then two black and white eyeballs slid smoothly into the gap of the stone. The statue now had two real people's eyes, and it seemed to have turned around in an instant.
"Ah... Then next is the last step." Darkness turned into a pinch of his nose, "There is still a vacant on the prince, which requires a lead heart. Who would you two want to sacrifice yourself? Tip: Maybe you don't need to sacrifice yourself."
Su Jing stared at her with one eye, and Darkness turned around and walked forward, plucked a little blood from his face with his fingers covered with spiked fingers, and quickly licked his tongue like a snake.
"As a reward for you, I clearly told you... Kill me. My heart is made of lead. If you kill me, you can leave here. Or, sacrifice for me, my lover, my dear Ajing... You rejected me that year and then left me. Now, you can pay the price for it."
Su Jing lowered his head and looked at the dark incarnation in front of him.
"No." He answered simply, then stretched out his arms and hugged her into his arms. The sharp needles were like hedgehogs and cactus. Su Jing felt his coat easily penetrated, and the needles penetrated the skin and muscles, and penetrated his body. The pain that was no less than digging out the eyeballs came from every part of the body, the arms, abdomen, chest cavity, neck... The other's thorns sank into his body, connecting the two of them together.
Su Jing thought he would die.
But he didn't. Just as the sharpest needles were about to penetrate his heart, the needles were retracted, and they were taken back into his master's body like a living thing. He indeed held her in his arms.
Ashes floated up on the dark incarnation, and her ugly and dangerous shell fell off like a rock that had weathered for hundreds of years. The ashes returned to nothingness in just a few seconds. Under the collapsed shell, Su Jing's very familiar face was revealed.
Lu Mengyao, who was no different from him, stood in front of him, raised an eyebrow and said coldly: "How did you know?"
"From the perspective of rational analysis, the needle prick on your appearance is really a very obvious hint." Su Jing found that the stab wound on his body was slowly healing, but the pain had not disappeared. "From the perspective of sensuality... I think your appearance is quite sexy. It has a kind of beauty outside of human beings. I want to try to hug you. The pain... can also bring pleasure, you know."
"You don't need to be so perverted."
"Okay. Change style. 'I love you very much even if you are evil and cruel.'"
"This is almost the same." Lu Mengyao's dark incarnation raised the corner of her mouth, "You have passed the reward for your sweet words."
She untied her collar, used her sharp nails to tear a crack on her left chest, pulled out a dark metal heart, and carefully put it into the Happy Prince's chest.
The statue emits a faint light, and the color of the world slowly fades away.
"In fact... as the writer of this world, although his image at the beginning was fixed, we could change our appearance at will." As the world disappeared, darkness turned into a cigarette, "I don't like to use that ugly appearance, but with rational judgment, that appearance can better test the sincerity of you, a guy who is indulging in beauty."
"So... the previous appearance of the needle-covered look was not your true face?" Su Jing asked.
"You can guess." Dark Incarnation smiled at him, "But there is one thing I want to remind you. Try to hug her more, she won't tell you what you want."
"...There is one more thing." Su Jing asked again, "How much information can you reveal about the master of this artifact?"
"Ask me?" The dark incarnation smile became a little weird, and her finger pointed at Su Luo, "Ask her. She knows more."
Chapter completed!