Chapter 1358 The Kind Judge
Zero walked along the stone road under her feet and came to the artificial lake in front of the Hall of Valor. The firelight that penetrated the entire mountaintop academy in the distance illuminated her shadow and cast it on the road. The catkins waving in the surrounding willow trees were all ignited by the high temperature. Every weeping willow tree is burning with mysterious sparks. When the wind blows, reddish light particles dance in the air, as if you are on a burning battlefield in mythology.
In other words, when the dragon named "Constantine" was invited to appear, this place was already a battlefield, a battlefield that belonged exclusively to the dragon-slaying warrior who rushed to the battlefield first. The flames of the king exploded in the sky, burning brightly. The trees, the collapsed and burned castle are all the spotlight of this drama. In the heat and fire, he loudly chanted the ancient soul, raised the cold metal sword, and launched a fierce attack on the dragon king wrapped in lava.
Zero didn't look at the fierce battlefield in the distance behind her, because the outcome had been determined from the beginning. The script of the entire world was in the hands of that one person, the person she was going to meet.
At the end of the stone road surrounding the artificial lake, on the spacious steps in front of the Hall of Valor, the boss sat there playing with a lit wicker in his hand. Sparks danced between his delicate white fingers, and the pair of pure gold There was a gentle and gentle smile in his eyes, and he seemed to be very happy to see how all this was developing.
"Thank you for your hard work." Lu Mingze looked in the direction of Zero, but there was no Zero in his eyes. There were only those leaping over the burning forest in the distance, which collided and intertwined with each other, and swayed violently between the castles. Two shadows.
"I don't understand." Zero said.
"You don't need to understand." Lu Mingze shook his head, "He needs someone to set the right direction for him. Under the guidance of ulterior motives, he can easily be confused by others. Sometimes, a trivial thought may easily It will turn into a hopeless disease. What we do is to give him a dose of vaccination before the cancer occurs. As the candidate for the nurse, besides Lin Nian, I am afraid you are the one."
"What about Chen Wenwen?"
"I'm glad you mentioned this name." Lu Mingze smiled, but in the end he just shook his head slightly, "She is not qualified to stand on this stage. She has a role that she should assume in this game."
His magnificent golden eyes reflected the lava giant rising from the ground. He drew his knife to stir up the sealed dark clouds and struck at the angry dragon with a silent roar using the moonlight as poison. But Zero, who was watching her from a close distance, saw something else on that face. It was an emotion that only those who knew him well enough could read.
However, even Zero is not willing to admit what she saw. If what she saw is true, then even if there are thousands of fire points flying around, she will still feel cold in the fire scene, from the heart Climb out of the bone-chilling chill.
"Are you scared?" Zero asked this question.
A seemingly unbelievable question. If it were Mai Shutoku and Potato Chip Girl, perhaps this ridiculous idea would not have arisen in their minds at all, but they would find it funny just thinking about it. Are you scared? The boss who always appears as the mastermind behind the scenes will be afraid. He is not even considered a "person". In their eyes, he is the embodiment of violence and power. He is the hook and flail engraved on the coffin in the ancient city of Abydos. He is the "imperial power and orthodoxy". "Legitimate" the national jade seal, as a symbol that it is impossible for him to have the emotion of fear.
But Zero still asked this question, because she only believed everything she saw.
"Rather than being afraid, it's better to say I'm a little worried." The boss smiled softly, "Zero, do you know what is one of the few accurate answers in the world that no matter how many agencies you use, you can't get it?"
"Is there any answer in this world that you can't figure out?" Zero asked.
In her eyes, the boss is always the one holding the script. While everyone else is still groping forward in the fog, the boss is already standing on the other side, thinking about where to throw stones and guiding those who are confused and at a loss. people move forward to where they should go. Power and strength are the eternal themes in this world. As long as you master them, nothing should be able to disobey or escape your grasp.
"Of course there is." The boss said, "Whether it is me or the emperor, it is no secret to us what will happen in the future. For us, the key to judging the outcome of a game is only the final result of the chess pieces. 'Choice', and only 'choice' is a condition that neither of us can interfere with, and it is also the only 'viability' of the chess pieces themselves."
"It is necessary to reach the bottom of the water that is ten thousand feet deep, but it is difficult to even think about it in the human heart." He quoted an ancient proverb whose origin is unknown.
"You're afraid that Lu Mingfei made the wrong choice." Zero said, "You can't grasp the overall situation. For the first time, the decision of victory or defeat is handed over to someone else's hands. You hate this feeling."
Not a question, but an affirmation. Zero speaks very few words because she is good at summarizing. This will inevitably make her words like a knife under certain circumstances, and it will be a bloody hole when it goes in and out.
The boss's face showed helplessness for the first time, "In other words, can you save some face for me?"
"You're worried that Lu Mingfei made the wrong choice." Ling obediently gave his boss this face.
"Yes." Lu Mingze nodded, and then remained speechless for a long time.
They looked at the lava giant whose head was blown off by the explosion of 'Junyan' from a distance. The shock wave caused the figure to fly over in a high arc, and hit the water at high speed, with his feet and one hand pressed against each other. The water surface of the artificial lake slid backwards and slowed down. At the same time, he clapped his hands and drew an arc of one and a half months. A golden long bow with flowing flames and bronze was fully drawn by the full moon. With fire as the string and bronze as the arrow, he aimed. He caught the rising sun in the distance and fired nine arrows quickly!
Every arrow shot and the vibration of the bowstring scattered a circle of fire in all directions, which was the recoil at the expense of the concept of temperature. The water surface of the artificial lake dried up completely after nine times of evaporation, and the fish schools were extinct. Then, in The accumulation of flames that filled the entire lake bed seemed as if a volcanic eruption had sent the people inside back to the battlefield!
"What will happen if he makes the wrong choice?" Zero asked, looking at the back of Lu Mingfei who rushed away without noticing her or her boss's existence.
"Nothing more than the hands of the clock moving one click toward midnight." (Doomsday Clock. Also known as the Doomsday Clock, and Hong Kong calls the Doomsday Clock; English: Doomsday Clock) is a fictional clock face, published by the University of Chicago's "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" "magazine was established in 1947 to indicate the extent to which the world is threatened by nuclear weapons: 12 o'clock symbolizes the outbreak of nuclear war. The magazine will move the minute hand forward or backward according to the world situation to remind all walks of life to face up to the problem. )
"But I still don't understand." Zero said.
"What else don't you understand?"
Lu Mingze was happy to explain everything to this girl, because she had paid the most in this entire game and would ultimately lose the most.
"Since you know the emperor's plan, why do you insist on letting Lu Mingfei enter this game?" Zero said, "It is terrible to choose the wrong choice, but if you don't choose, you will never make a mistake."
"Giving up choice means staying away from disputes and not fighting. If you don't fight, it means being weak and losing all opportunities." Lu Mingze said lightly, with fire everywhere on his face, "This has nothing to do with my interests and position. No, you have to understand one thing. In this game, everyone and every party has their own demands. No matter how big or small, everyone is sprinting for their own goals. The only difference is speed, and I am no exception."
"But wouldn't this be too cruel for Lu Mingfei?"
"Cruel? Maybe, necessary cruelty is to stay away from a greater tragedy. If you don't want to give up something, then you must give up something." Lu Mingze said, "The only thing I can do is to help him choose What to keep and what to throw away.”
"This is already cruel." Zero asked in a low voice, "Why not let him make his own choice?"
"He's too weak."
Lu Mingze said calmly, "For now, he is still too weak. It was the child Lin Nian who taught him this shortcoming, and the other party was bound to bear the price of weakness sooner or later - if he didn't choose, naturally Someone will help him choose, and the person who helps him is much crueler than me." He paused, "In that person's eyes, everything Lin Nian cherishes is disposable. That is a conflict of values. It is also the conflict of ideas that will inevitably lead to the outbreak of the final irreconcilable war - that battle is very close, and that choice will eventually fall on his head. Both I and the emperor are making his final choice. Be a guide, be a foreshadower, and that last thought will determine the outcome of this world.”
"That sounds really sad." Zero said softly.
"What's sad? We can guide their path forward and guide them to their final position, but the choice and decision-making power are always in their hands. We put on costumes for them and guide them to stand. It's up to them to decide whether they perform a comedy or a tragedy on the stage." Lu Mingze looked at the burning keel cross rising in the distance and said, "What we can do is to clean up all false and malicious guidance. Sora, let this game be fair and just. When the final winner is announced, the winner will have to eat everything and the loser will be willing to leave!"
The heart of Constantine, the King of Bronze and Fire, was pierced by the seven burning sins. Lu Mingfei tore him from the sky. Seven swords pierced the dragon's body. The alchemy field continued to poison his life, and in the evaporating tears In the midst of it, the "brother" was finally drowned in the raging fire and solidified into the beautiful and spectacular keel cross.
"Now he is qualified to go to the battlefield." Ling said looking at the clean dragon-slaying battlefield from afar, "Lin Nian may not have been able to do so well that time."
"What are you thinking about?" Lu Mingze shook his head, "The branch where the Mirror Flower and Water Moon is located is the world of the '0' dimension. It is about 2 to 3 dimensions different from our world. We are in the '+3' dimension level. The 'Lord of Bronze and Fire Constantine' is not that easy to deal with, but to be able to achieve this level is considered to have met my ideal expectations. The power he used to fight back just now should be 'Shoot the Nine Suns'. ? Enough to kill 'Dale' and 'Nine Infants'."
"To be able to steal this authority from the King of Bronze and Fire, it seems that the power of the 'Mirror Eye' has been deeply explored by him. Maybe he has surpassed you in mastering the 'Mirror Eye'? You will feel a little bit Are you angry?" The boss looked at Zero with interest.
"His speech spirit is 'lunar eclipse' rather than 'mirror pupil'." Zero said lightly.
"It is true that after being added, the word spirit has deviated from the baseline of 'Mirror Pupil', but it cannot be denied that its core is still 'Blood Source Marking Mirror Pupil'." The boss said, "This may be the most suitable power for him. I once worried whether he could master this power, but now it seems that the worry is unnecessary. Sometimes, indulgence may be a better means to achieve the goal than oppression."
"But it's not enough." He said, and stood up from the ground. "In the next script of Mirror Flower and Water Moon, add more ingredients to him, and appropriately adjust the intensity and emergencies of DBE (Design basis event) to let him reserve more combat experience in fighting monsters. More suffering in dreams, less bloodshed in reality, I think he can understand my painstaking efforts."
Zero silently watched Lu Mingze stand up from the ground and walk towards the gate of Hall of Heroes. When he stepped onto the top platform, the devil in a suit stopped and looked back.
"And." He looked back at Ling and gave him a sly smile. "If you have time, spend more time with him in this world, talk to him, and enlighten him. It's just a dream anyway, so why not make this dream more beautiful before it ends? After all, if he really takes that path, he will be very lonely. And you also glimpsed the ending of the '+4' side branch intersecting world line that Lu Mingfei saw through the 'Mirror Pupil', right? Since you don't dislike your 'choice' in that world, why not adapt to it in advance. Uh."
The boss stopped talking, scratched his head, looked at Ling who turned away, sighed with a bitter smile, turned his back and walked into the darkness of Valhalla alone.
In the direction of the burning castle in the distance, the cheers and thunderous applause of the end of the dragon-slaying battle blew the burning trees like fuel, and they broke and fell into the dry artificial lake with a "crackling" sound and turned into ashes.