Chapter 147 The End of the Era: Friends

Vito sat on the ridge beside the lake. He looked at the lake surface that shone like a mirror. The ripples on the lake surface continued to rise as the wind blew, and they looked like twinkling stars in the sun. Erratic, yet incredibly beautiful.

The breeze blows from the lake and blows upward along the ridge. The grass and trees are gently swaying in the breeze. These strong lives growing on the ridge sway with the wind. A beautiful flower grows between the cracks in the rocks. It was a red rose, blooming in the most beautiful color on the rocky cliff, just like the planet itself.

A person passed by the flower, and her fingers gently traced the petals, and the beautiful flowers swayed gently with her fingers.

Vito looked at the lake, seemingly not noticing that she sat next to him. She sat on the cliff with Vito, her long silver-haired head resting on his shoulder, and her hair as white as snow, like the peak of this snow-capped mountain. The white snow above shone brightly.

"You are in a bad mood, Vito." Lilith said softly, her voice as gentle as the breeze in the mountains. Vito sighed long and looked up at the sky. The sky in the exhibition was like a painting.

"All my friends are gone, dead and gone, and I am the only one left." Vito said, he closed his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief, "After ten thousand years, I am the only one left." You are still here, you should know how I feel."

"Loneliness, I know." Lilith said. She leaned on Vito's shoulder and pulled his clothes with one hand. Her silver hair swayed with the wind, bunches swaying in the wind.

"Eternal life is a curse, Lily. You will always watch your friends leave one by one, but all you can do is say goodbye. No matter how long or how long their life span is, you can only watch them grow old. , die, and go on alone.”

Vito sighed softly and lowered his head to look at the letter in his hand, "Corax didn't say goodbye when he left. I thought I would want to meet him and have a few final chats, but I was wrong. , I don’t want to at all.”

Vito looked at the letter, looking at the familiar font and writing style, "I'm not good at saying goodbye. I've never been good at saying goodbye. In the past, I attended funerals silently, and then went there in the crowd, or after people left. Saying an awkward farewell alone in the cemetery.”

"When Marx died, I stood under the shade of a tree, waiting for Engels and others to leave before going up. But I was even a little relieved at the time. I was not there when Marx died, and neither was Engels. We avoided the final disaster. Life and death."

He looked at the sparkling lake, and countless memories came to his mind. He put his hand on the ground, and Lilith's hand was placed on the back of his hand. Her fingers were clasped on the back of his hand, and the numbing comfort felt smooth. Climbing up to the head with his arms.

Vito smiled and touched her head, "But you are still here. Ten thousand years later, you are still with me. I don't need to say goodbye to you. This may be a blessing."

Lilith cannot be killed. She is a demon, a demon prince. Even if she is killed, she will be resurrected in the subspace. This may be a great luck for Vito.

"Do you hate them?" "Who?" "The Emperor and Guilliman."

Vito was silent for a moment, then showed a faint smile, "No."

"They bombed the Perfect City, so Erebus could bewitch Lorgar and plot against Horus to cause the rebellion. How could you not hate them?" Lilith asked softly, leaning against Vito. The warm body temperature was transmitted to Vito's arm through his clothes.

"He is not a good father, nor is he a good person. I know that. I have been with that old bastard for 30,000 years. During the 30,000 years, he always came to me for help. Sometimes I came to him. To be honest, he Don’t like me either.”

"Then why didn't you listen to Lorgar then? If you didn't listen to her, you could have become the Emperor and succeeded him. Lorgar and many of the Primarchs would support you. You are better than him, Vito."

Vito smiled and put his arm around Lilith's shoulders. He stroked her shoulders, "No, although I don't want to admit it, he is more suitable to be the emperor than me."

"I have tried, Lily. He is right about one thing. The love between my children will make me unable to do anything at many times, and I will not be able to do many things. Stalin also told me so at the time."

"Joseph was preparing for a major counter-revolutionary campaign at the time. I knew clearly that he had to do that and could only do that, but I would still persuade him. Even if I knew I couldn't persuade him, I would still persuade him. I didn't know if I wouldn't do that. What should I do, but I will still advise.”

"As Joseph said, I am a good person, a good friend worth entrusting everything to, but I am not a ruler, and my humanity will restrict many things."

Lilith leaned on his chest, she adjusted her position, and Vito held her tighter. He smiled and leaned his face on her head, "So I don't hate him, I know he exploded The Perfect City had no choice, just like when we cleared out the Thunder Warriors, we all had no choice. Me, him, and Waldo, we all knew we had to do it, especially me. They unified Terra under my command, and I saw it with my own eyes. Witness and even join him in ordering their removal."

Vito still remembered everything at that time, the final battle of the Thunder Warriors. It was the first time he saw the Emperor's ruthless side, even for his own people, and he had seen it many times since.

"In the Perfect City, I can imagine his mood at that time. He had a fight with me and let me beat him to a disgrace, which also meant some self-repentance. I also know that Guilliman was the same later. I have been Regretful, even being ambushed by Lorgar during the rebellion."

"Lily, they are my friends. In fact, I have known them before they were alive. I watched them being created in the genetic laboratory on Mount Everest with my own eyes. I arranged the security work at that time. I and I Waldo designed all the security work, but in the end he didn’t expect that Zinda summoned the evil god, and your sister and the others took those children away. "

Vito touched Lilith's long and well-groomed silver hair. Lilith did not speak, but just leaned against his chest and listened quietly.

"I asked Yida why she did that. She said she didn't want her children to become his tools, weapons and killing tools. She told me that I knew this better than her. What was that old bastard like? "

"Of course I know. Thirty thousand years. We have been together for thirty thousand years. I still remember the first time we met on Mount Sinai. That fool was wearing a turban, like a charlatan. Although a certain In a certain sense it is.”

Vito laughed, and even Lilith was amused. He looked at the churning lake and the flashing ripples, "We have collaborated on many things. We have killed demons and dragons together, and we have planned and fought together." He has witnessed and promoted the occurrence of many major events. I dare say that no one in this galaxy knows him better than me."

"Because of this, I hate him, and even fight with him sometimes, and he always does it. We are like two bad friends, both dislike each other, but if we find each other and seek help, then neither of us will They will reject each other, even if they still yell at each other, or even cut each other with knives."

"In thirty thousand years, he is my only real friend in my whole life. Can you imagine? In thirty thousand years, this is the only idiot who understands you and your past, and you also know his. They are inseparable. "

"I know that even though that old bastard says he doesn't care, opens his mouth to be rational and keeps his mouth closed, he actually still has all the emotions he should have in his heart. No matter how much he deceives himself, keeps suppressing and hiding it, that bastard's heart is also flesh. Long, at least until he sits on the throne."

"Although we are immortals, we are still humans after all. We also have all human emotions and desires, but many times our power is too great for many things, such as the dark side and so on. The same is true for those dozen children."

Vito smiled mockingly and rubbed his neck, "That old guy said he was merciless, but after Alda let the original body plan have an accident, he didn't execute Alda. Even Waldo suggested that Alda be killed. Zhida must be punished on the spot. After all, she colluded with the Chaos Evil God, which is a capital crime anyway."

"But he let her go. He just let her go to Africa to live in seclusion. He even asked me to visit her. Although the old bastard couldn't say anything, he still wanted to know how she was. After all, he was still a human being. , a person with divine power, but still a human being, I know that better than anyone else.”

"We are friends, friends who have been friends for 30,000 years. We have been the only ones walking together for 30,000 years. Many of our friends have died, and many common friends have passed away. We will attend the funeral together and mourn for them together. "

"So I rejected you and your sister, and I rejected Luojia. I will not kill him and replace him. On the one hand, it is because he is more suitable to be a leader than me. On the other hand, it is also because he is my friend and I have been with him all my life. My friend, I know him and trust him.”

Just for a promise, a promise to his friends, nothing more.

Vito smiled bitterly, recalling many memories, "I also refused Horus to ask me to join him, and it was also because I knew Horus. He was no more suitable to be a leader than his father. I knew very well that he was too proud and valued himself too much. He will not rest contentedly with others, whether it is the Emperor or Chaos. In the end, after victory, he will start a war with Chaos again, which will destroy the entire human civilization and even the galaxy in a few generations."

"The prophecy of the Tantric Cult is right, Lily. I know it very well. I understand him and them."

"So I help him guard Terra and protect the Royal Palace. I want to protect humans and all my friends, Hindman, Qi Le and others, ordinary people, they are also my friends."

"I have been trying to bridge the conflicts between them. They are all my friends. I hope they can understand each other and go on together, just like the emperor and I. Although we dislike each other, sometimes noisy, and sometimes fight, but We can still go on together.”

"But I failed. Once again I watched my friends fighting each other, killing each other, Ferus, Alpha and Curze, Angel, Lily. My heart was in a knife, I didn't want to see my friends. attacking each other."

"It's not your fault, Vito, it's not yours, it's mine." Lilith tightened her grip on Vito's clothes. She hesitated and cursed in a low voice. Vito smiled, "No, I know you No, your sister is not like that either. Chaos can bewitch the heart, but the premise of the confusion is that the relationship has already fallen apart, and the root cause is ourselves. Simply blaming Chaos is to avoid responsibility and deceive ourselves. "

"This kind of self-deception has led to similar things happening repeatedly over the past ten thousand years or tens of thousands of years. I don't want to avoid this responsibility, and I don't want to blame any of them. I know they are all justified."

"No, Vito. It was I who found her and suggested that you replace Horus and become the emperor." Lilith said, she just said without looking into Vito's eyes.

"I know I should have just tempted you to fall like the others and join the rebel side, but"

"I know, girl, I know. In fact, Horus himself also came to me. It's not just you and her. Horus wanted me to be his Malcador, Hand of the Empire. I also refused. I won't They are the ones who betrayed him.”

Vito looked at the sky above his head, at the beautiful sky and the picturesque world. His weather-beaten eyes contained the entire history of human civilization, and many forgotten stories and truths.

His black eyes reflect the light of the sky, like a mirror, a mirror that sees the soul.

"I don't know how they will evaluate my work." "Good job?" "Ha, no, Guilliman will probably laugh first, then point at me and scold me, and then say, "Give me a good job." Get out of here, I'll do it."

Vito smiled and put his arm around Lilith's shoulders, "At least you have been with me for ten thousand years, and you probably won't spray me."

Lilith smiled and leaned against him, "Not yet."

Vito also smiled and leaned his head on hers.

He held her arm and sat on the high ridge. The sun illuminated their bodies and the breeze blew their hair, making this scene like a beautiful painting, as if it were an eternal picture.