Chapter 766 Now You Remember

In the dark stone passage, Helfas felt the ground again, but he almost fell to the ground the moment he had a body.

He couldn't even stand steadily.

He seemed to be adapting to this body again. He walked for a while holding the wall before he gradually regained his senses.

And after regaining his body, Helfas felt that many things around him were not clear, and there was no light here.

"Is there anything to light?"

He went further inside and found a rectangular wooden box. He was going to find a way to light it for lighting, but found that it had grown on the ground and was eroded and connected by the power of the life seed. It was no longer a real wood.

At this time, Zi told him.

"Before."

"You just lie in this box, and I carry you on my back to travel on the earth."

"The animal skin in the box is wrapped with clothes I made for you before."

He opened the animal skin, and the clothes inside were not rotten. Perhaps they were preserved by the special environment and power here, but the smell was very strange.

He put on his clothes and sat beside the box, his eyes gradually getting familiar with the darkness.

Just like that, he didn't light a fire to illuminate.

In the darkness, he quietly listened to the other person telling her story, but he was also in that story.

Zi still couldn't break free from the strange power, like a ghost bound in the wall talking to Helfas who broke in here.

"I was born in a small tribe in the north. I was born blind, but I can see some things happening and scenes in the distance. They say people like me are prophets."

"One day, I saw a pillar and you."

"That's not my perspective, but it's not weird, it's more like the world itself..."

Helfas felt that the person in front of him was very strange, but Zi seemed to be very familiar with him, and the words seemed to have communicated with him countless times.

This made him not know how to respond.

Zi finished her story quietly. The story sounded very long, but it came to the end unknowingly.

Helfas could feel some of Zi's grief over the loss of her loved ones, and could also feel her loneliness after a long time, but he could only feel some of them.

It seemed that no matter how the story was, once it was expressed, it would become understated, even if it was said by the person himself.

Zi finished speaking, and then looked at Helfas.

"What about you?"

"What have you experienced?"

"By the way, what's your name?"

She was very calm when she talked about her own story. Although there were also happiness and sadness, she did not describe it too much.

But the moment she asked Helfas, she began to become enthusiastic and expectant.

She was looking forward to what would happen after the other party saw the light, and she was also looking forward to the other party telling her name.

She had known the other party for a long, long time.

But she never knew what the other party's name was.

Helfas opened his mouth and wanted to blurt out his name, but he felt that the name he wanted to say should not be the one the other party knew.

Finally, he told Zi.

"I don't have a name."

"I don't remember anything about the past, or even about you."

"When I walked from one tribe to another, they called me the Black-haired Man."

"Helfas, I like this name now."

"When I woke up, I only remembered walking towards a tall fire tree. In fact, it was a monster, and later it became the first existence I sealed."

"I have been looking for something."

"I am looking for where I came from, why I am here, and why I exist."

"Why am I different from others?"

Helfas talked about the confusion in his heart when he first came to this world. He didn't want to do anything, but just wanted to know who he was.

He originally lived near the temple, but he thought it was a waste to leave this place empty, but in the end he didn't expect to build the Black Iron Tribe bit by bit.

He didn't have the courage to face the monsters and fight them, but he embarked on the road of sealing the monsters bit by bit.

He never thought that he was a person who could sacrifice for others, but when faced with a choice, he felt that something was beyond death.

As Helfas was talking, he suddenly fell silent.

He thought of the Black Iron Tribe.

He thought of the people of the Black Iron Tribe, some of whom died before him and some of whom were still alive.

He thought of the merchant, wondering how he was doing now, and how the Black Iron Tribe and the Full Moon Land were doing?

Zi couldn't help but say after listening to Helfas's story.

"Your life is really wonderful."

"I knew you would like this world full of light and color, and the people in this world."

"You met a lot of people, friends, and many people who followed and loved you."

"You did something very meaningful together, even if you gave your life for it in the end, but I think they were willing."

"Helfas, your life is much more wonderful than mine."

She was happy for Helfas, but also sad for Helfas.

Helfas could feel it.

She treated him as a friend, even a family member, and there was no barrier in their words.

Helfas opened his mouth to say something, but when he saw the other person's eyes, he finally didn't say it.

On the reef beach outside the island.

Helfas sat on the stone and looked into the distance. The sea breeze was so strong that it was difficult to open his eyes. The waves hit the reefs again and again, making bursts of noise.

There were many things floating up from the sea on the beach.

There were wooden barrels, sampans that looked like they were about to fall apart, and broken cloth. These were obviously man-made things.

This meant that there must be a coast or an island where people lived in this area.

Helfas didn't know where this was, but it should be to the east of the Full Moon Land, and since he remembered the past of the Full Moon Land, Helfas's heart flew far away.

One figure after another flashed through his mind, remembering the back of the Demon Hunter Captain walking into the distance, remembering what the merchant officer said to himself, and the merchant who turned into a dragon.

Helfas decided that he must go back and take a look.

He stood up and picked up some wood and some dried cloth on the beach for kindling.

He made a fire outside and brought it into the passage.

The small bonfire lit up, illuminating the dark stone passage and revealing the hall inside.

Helfas smiled.

Helfas's hair and eyes were black, but he didn't like darkness.

After many years, Zi also saw the light again, although it was only the light from a bonfire.

Zi also shouted: "It's light."

It was obvious that Zi was a particularly talkative person in the dark. She kept talking to Helfas without any shyness.

But when there was light, she seemed a little at a loss.

She was not shy, but she became particularly introverted when there were people around, as if she had become a prophet, and her temperament became a little cold and isolated from others.

Helfas then used the firelight to see the outline of her face clearly. The details of her eyebrows and eyes seemed to be a little different from what he imagined, like a lonely and cold person.

She tilted her head slightly and lowered her face.

"Don't look at me."

Helfas nodded. He thought that the other party felt embarrassed about being bound in the stone wall, so he sat down and roasted the fire with his side facing Zi.

He stretched out his hands and stared at the flames.

After a while, he asked the other party.

"Is there any way to get you out of the shackles of this wall? I can help you."

Zi was very smart. What she thought of in an instant was not how to get rid of the shackles of this wall, but another meaning in Helfas' words.

"Do you want to leave?"

Helfas did not hide it: "Yes!"

Maybe it was because he had stayed here for too long, or maybe he was a little afraid of the outside world.

Zi said, "I'm used to this place, and people outside see me as an alien."

"For me, there is no difference between outside and here. As long as you can talk to me often, I will feel very satisfied."

Helfas once again felt Zi's trust without any barriers, but he hesitated for a while and still spoke.

"This is very strange."

"Not remembering is really not a good thing."

Zi: "What's wrong?"

Helfas: "Your mind is full of memories of traveling with me, but I don't remember anything."

"Zi."

"To you, I am your friend, but to me you are just a stranger."

"You are full of joy for my return, but I don't know what to do with everything here."

Zi looked at Helfas blankly, and finally showed a calm smile.

"I understand."

She didn't say what she understood.

Is it to understand Helfas's determination to leave here, or to understand that her care and kindness have all become a burden to the other party.

Helfas looked at Zi's calmness and smile, and he suddenly felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, not knowing whether what he said was right or not.

But the fact is indeed so. He is Zi's friend, even a family member who has been with her for decades, but Zi is a stranger he has just met.

He doesn't want to deceive Zi and disguise himself as the person she imagines.

——

The next day, Helfas woke up.

Zi talked to him about the topic of yesterday, and she seemed to have found a way to break free.

"Helfas."

"I remember you said you have the ability of mind memory, right?"

Helfas nodded: "Yes."

Zi told him: "In fact, after I gained strange power a long time ago, my body told me that I could do a magical thing."

"I have the power to come back to life, but the me after death and rebirth is equivalent to a brand new me, and I should not remember anything."

"For me, this is no different from disappearing."

"I don't want to forget, I want to remember my past."

"But recently, I feel that I can no longer control the idea of ​​this body dying, and it seems that I can't decide all this."

"I want you to stay, in fact, I also want you to accompany me for the last time."

"But..."

Zi didn't say anything more, that should be about the reason why she changed her mind.

Helfas thought for a while and roughly guessed the other party's thoughts.

Zi said to Helfas: "I hope you can read my memories and record them. When I come back to life and grow up to be able to remember, give me my memories again."

"But I hope you take me to the human world and let me be born as a natural life."

"Because if I enter reincarnation here, I will probably be completely swallowed up by the power of this island soon."

"And I hope I am born in this world as a life, not a monster. Outside, I may slowly find a way to use this power, and finally make the weirdness in my body never wake up again."

Helfas thought about it and agreed. It was not that he hesitated about other things, but he was worried about whether this matter was feasible.

Even before this, he had not thought that his ability could be used in this way.

He said.

"My ability can only read the content and images of your memories at this moment, and I can only show you the content of your memories in the future."

"I don't know what the difference is."

"Are you sure you still want to do this?"

Zi nodded, and when she thought it through, she no longer hesitated.

She didn't know how long she had been trapped on this island, a hundred years? Or longer?

She felt that she had slowly reached her limit, and one day she would not be able to resist the cycle of rebirth after death.

Instead of being trapped on this island and being completely eaten by the monster, let's go out and take another look.

"It's okay, I believe you."

Although I don't know how Zi came up with this method, and why she suddenly decided to leave, Helfas was still happy that Zi was willing to leave this dark and terrifying island.

He stood up and said to Zi.

"Zi, go out and see the world again!"

"Everything is different from your time. No one will reject you anymore. Everyone will accept you with pleasure."

She didn't speak, just nodded.

Helfas touched her forehead with his hand.

She moved closer, stared at Helfas, and then slowly closed her eyes.

She began to recall her childhood, the first time she saw the distant scene in the dark with the power of prophecy, and the joy she felt when she saw light and color.

Helfas saw her past and heard the voice she had heard.

He also saw himself in her eyes.

He saw himself on the towering pillar, like a prisoner in a cage. He heard himself screaming in despair, and the sound made him shudder.

The sound of the evil spirits in hell was not as terrifying and miserable as that sound.

He wanted to step back, and couldn't believe that it was his voice.

He finally understood why he dreamed of the pillar and knew about the magical sealing ceremony, because he walked out of the pillar.

"Pillar!"

"What is it?"

"Where did it come from?"

"Why am I on it?"

He finally saw part of his past, but he was even more confused. He kept looking for answers about himself, but it seemed that he was just moving from one mystery to another.

Then, real light finally appeared in the picture, and the whole world changed.

For Zi, her life also became brighter.

He watched Zi lead him to escape from the maze and pillar, watched her carry him in the jungle, and watched her pass through one tribe after another.

He saw her talking to him on the road and asking his name in the starry night.

He saw her standing tiredly by the sea, with only a sleeping god beside him.

This time, Zi's past was no longer a casual description in words, but so real that Helfas was silent.

At this time, Zi suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Helfas.

Under the light of the campfire.

Her expression was still very lonely and cold, but her voice became a little cunning.

"Now, you remember everything."

Helfas was a little stunned at first, then laughed dumbly, and shook his head with a smile.

Just like that.

The two became familiar with each other as they smiled at each other.

Zi left all her memories in Helfas's mind, and then you can see her body gradually losing vitality and completely merging into the wall bit by bit.

And a ray of light entangled and condensed together into an object and fell into Helfas's hand.

This is a purple bead. Through the light, you can faintly see a spiral-like existence. When you put it next to your ear, you can even hear a strange sound, as if playing the melody of life and reproduction.

The fire behind him gradually weakened.

He grabbed the pillar and couldn't help thinking.

"Resurrection from the dead?"

"Will the person who comes back to life like this be the same person?"

Suddenly.

Helfas saw a ray of light falling from the sky, and the power of the pillar locked the source of the ritual, the place where the true name was.

He saw a ball of ritual light wrapped in something gradually floating up and returning to the pillar.

And in the depths of the dream world, Zi's true name shone brightly.

He suddenly felt at ease because the other party's name was engraved on the pillar.

Because in this world, besides Zi herself, there is also someone else who remembers her name.

"As long as there is someone else in this world who remembers Zi, and she herself remembers that her name is Zi, then it must be her who returns."

——

The sea today is much calmer than the previous few days.

The weather is clear and the wind is calm.

Helfas repaired the sampan that was about to fall apart and floated from nowhere. During the repair process, he found that the manufacturing process of this sampan was quite exquisite.

There is a rudder at the stern, which is suspended under the tail and can be raised and lowered by chains. The chains are still metal.

This really doesn't seem like something that people in the tribal era can make.

Could it be that outside the full moon land, there is such a tribe that is good at making ships and going out to sea to fish, or even a civilization?

Helfas was a little surprised and very interested at the same time.

"If we had walked a little further out, would we have run into this tribe?"

"What a pity."

"If we had been able to successfully complete the city-building ceremony and integrate the power of the Full Moon Land, we might have been able to see what the outside world is like?"

In addition to the boat, there were also the beads left by Zi.

He also brought a hand-carved sealing ritual wooden board. He didn't have a sealing object in his hand now, which could be said to be extremely fragile.

A sealing ritual wooden board might not be useful, but it might come in handy.

Helfas pushed the sampan away, then turned over, sat on the boat and rowed the oars.

Between the waves, he rowed in the direction where he thought there might be land and islands.

And behind him.

The strange island was also gradually changing and becoming active again.

The stones turned into flesh and blood, and the mountains rose and fell like breathing.

The terrifying figure shouted between the stone walls.

The strange thing called the fetus of life reproduction still hadn't fully revived, but it was obvious that it had become more dangerous, and this island was no longer a place that mortals could approach.

But Helfas only took a look, then turned back and rowed the sampan away.

He was full of expectations.

Looking forward to returning to the Land of the Full Moon, wondering how the people in the tribe were doing now?

Obviously, he didn't realize how long he had been away.

And Zi, who was swallowed by the weird and crazy consciousness, didn't know how the years passed outside.