Xu Yan.
Descent into the swamp There was never this black rose that blocked out the sky and the sun.
Until it leaves you.
Those flower vines snaked towards me quickly, but I was not afraid.
Because I saw the thorns retracting silently and blooming again.
That's your fight against the black goat.
I've always hated your bondage.
So I never thought I would be so happy at this moment.
The flower vines tightened around my wrists, pulled me high into the air, and then wrapped around my neck, waist, and legs.
It slowly tightened, squeezing what little oxygen was left from my chest.
And I didn't struggle.
I am so relaxed and joyful.
Looking up at the rose flowers that cover the sky and the sun.
This time, meekly.
Offer me to you.
Chapter 99 World Line·99
"I didn't expect to sacrifice myself to save him."
"Perhaps Black Rose's breathing was too painful, which made me act impulsively."
Zhaoran was very weak, but his voice was surprisingly calm.
"So, I really didn't lie. Choosing self-sacrifice was the impulse of the moment. Jin Xuyan has left forever. No matter how I define my feelings for him, I will never do unnecessary self-abuse again."
Qin Zhilu turned off the recording, "He was too calm and too rational, which made his brain very uneasy and thought he needed psychological intervention."
An Yu asked softly: "Then what do you think?"
"I believe in him."
Qin Zhilu's answer was calm and calm. He lifted up his windbreaker on the chair and walked out, "Some decisions have always been there, but there is a fragile and expensive gauze paper between them and people. If a gust of wind does not blow the paper apart, People can never take that step. Throughout their lives, they can only look at the decision they wanted to make through the paper. The pain of Black Rose was the wind that helped Zhaoran make the decision at that time - not everyone can be lucky The ground met the wind, and he just met it, that's all."
An Yu was silent, his golden eyes seemed a little confused, but after a moment he suddenly asked: "It's just like the heavy snow that suddenly started falling again after the snow stopped that day, right?"
Qin Zhilu, who was about to open the door, paused and turned to look at him.
"Before going to the swamp, you suddenly turned around and decided to kiss me." An Yu stared at him seriously, "It was the snow that gave you the impulse, right?"
Qin Zhilu's eyes were calm, "When the blizzard went and came back, I decided to kiss you regardless of everything. I didn't want to wait for a second longer. But it wasn't the snow that made me decide to look back, it was... you cried."
An Yu was startled, "But that's not the first time you've seen me cry."
"But I was the one who made you cry that time." Qin Zhilu lowered his voice, took a deep breath and sighed, then walked back and held An Yu's head, "So you are not allowed to cry indiscriminately in the future, and you must stop acting like a baby in moderation. "
An Yu wanted to say that he wasn't acting coquettishly, but no matter how many times he argued about this topic, he couldn't win, so he could only say "Oh" dryly, "I'll try my best."
Qin Zhilu rubbed his head hard, turned around and said, "I'm going to have a meeting with Black Tower to decide whether to stay or leave as usual and the arrangements after the 198th floor. I'll take you to the bakery on the way?"
An Yu glanced out the window behind Qin Zhilu's desk, "Can I stay here for a little longer?"
"It's up to you." Qin Zhilu nodded, "If you want to sleep, don't forget to eat a full stomach first to avoid falling asleep for a long time without knowing it."
After the resolute figure disappeared, An Yu walked back to the desk and opened the two divination cards on the table.
It was brought back by Qin Zhilu from District 99 two months ago. One picture showed the earth riddled with holes, and the name was "Broken and Absorbed." The other picture was a dazzling pale cross, and the name was "Innocent Torture Frame." .
In the dim safe house, Qin Zhilu played with these two cards casually, as if he didn't care, but he brought them back to the main city.
An Yu raised his head and looked out the window - the main human city under the clouds was solemn and peaceful. After the snow stopped, everything seemed to have returned to normal. He looked at the towering church in the distance. There were several dark crows flying around the bell tower. An Yu had never seen crows near the church before.
*
The long-lost light penetrated the thick dust in the air, and the church looked like a lion awakened from sleep.
An Yu stepped into the empty hall, but the footsteps gradually stopped hesitantly.
The entire church, from the ground to the spire, was densely engraved with strange characters on the walls. At first glance, it looked like square characters originating from the East, but he didn't recognize any of the characters. The open strokes are winding and winding, more like Western Latin letters. The strange characters are connected and pulled together, weaving into an abstract and heavy web that covers the entire church, which is chilling.
"If you feel uncomfortable, don't watch it."
A gentle voice sounded from behind.
An Yu looked back at Dian and asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"
"Always there." Dian walked from behind him and walked in front of him, looking up at the characters that covered the sky and the earth in this magnificent building. "After Eyes disappeared, I came here often, and later I even moved here. Maybe because I and They have the same origin and complement each other, and living here can help my knowledge grow faster."
"Is this the text he left behind?" An Yu hesitated, "Is it a curse?"
Dian shook his head, "It's not a curse, it's something he wants to tell humans."
"For more than twenty years, human beings have been too naive. The chaos is not just at the genetic level, but also biological and material, material and spiritual, and even these - words are the carrier of culture, and even words are blending indiscriminately and irregularly . Human beings feel that everything they face is distorted, and that is because humans are deeply trapped in it. When you stand in the church, no matter how you turn your perspective, these distorted words will scare you, because you have been confused by its chaos. Swallowed.”
An Yu digested it for a while, "Sorry, I seem to understand, but I'm still confused. His eyes wrote these words, so the characters that seem chaotic and twisted to us must be organized in his perspective."
Dian looked back at him with a smile, "An Yu, you are very smart, has anyone ever said that?"
An Yu nodded, "The man with the brain...and, sir."
"Because you are complete." Dian looked at him and sighed in a low voice, as if talking to himself.
"What?"
"After returning from Area 95, Ritsu had a chat with me, and we reached a consensus on the fable. The existence that came in 2122 was destructively split into three parts. The body of order, the body of chaos, and the body of cognition. Order. The separation of the body and the chaotic body caused all these disasters, and the separation of the cognitive body made them both lose the way to obtain the truth. The law said that whenever there is a freak who wants to get involved with you, your body will be exploded. Even the terrible chaotic reactions will be ended by you. I think that’s because they are all very small fragments of the chaos body. Only the complete chaos body can check and balance you, because you are the only complete body of order.”
An Yu was silent for a while, "You mean, the commander is not complete either."
"He should be the main body of the Chaos Body, the largest one. Secondly - I guess it's Siena. As for the others, they are like broken dust, scattered in every corner of the world." Dian paused. "You just said that from the perspective of the eye, the world is organized. In fact, it is not. There is indeed a perfect perspective in this world, which can see all the truth and ending, but that perfect perspective has been broken."
"you and him."
Dian nodded slightly, raised his head and looked around at the twisted network of characters on the inner wall of the church, "So I left this to say to me that a perfect perspective is no longer available. He was persuading me to give up and not to be obsessed with things that I can't see clearly. .”
An Yu thought for a long time, "If that existence returns to its original state, this disaster will come to an end, right?"
Dian said "Yeah", "But in the end that you can see - that existence will be unable to merge and return due to the willful behavior of the chaotic body, so the disaster will never end. Don't blame your pessimism, in thousands of time and space , this is indeed the unified endgame.”
An Yu frowned when he heard this. It sounded like he was going to put all the blame on the commander, but that person believed in order until death, how could he prevent the disaster from ending?
"Don't be so bitter and resentful." Dian turned back and smiled at him, "I told you that there is a road that is very blurry and I can't see clearly. But recently, I seem to have seen some turning points."
"What is it?" An Yu asked immediately.
Dian shook his head, "It will still take time, and maybe I will never be able to tell what the turning point is. After all, my eyes and I are separated from each other, and I will never have perfect cognition."
An Yu was silent for a moment, took out a piece of rusk from his pocket, opened it and stuffed it into his mouth.
He chewed hard, trying to calm down the depression in his heart. He didn't say until he swallowed it completely: "You and the eyes are really similar sometimes."
Dian Shi smiled and said, "But I'm not trying to be mysterious. I can't write poetry. I can only tell you everything I've seen so far."
An Yu nodded perfunctorily and couldn't help but take out another piece of rusk to eat.
He stood in the middle of the weird words and ate all the rusks. If he continued reading, he felt like he would have a nightmare at night, so he had to look away and took out the two divination cards from his pocket.
"Can you take a look at it for me?" He handed the cards to Dian, "I got them from the divination house in Area 95. The chief said that no matter how many times he shuffles the cards, he will always draw these two."
Dian just glanced at it before taking the cards and holding them in his hand, without even turning them over, and said, "He came to ask me."
Hearing this, An Yu subconsciously looked at the corners of the two cards - they were already twisted and dog-eared, and Qin Zhilu probably picked them up often to look at them.
Dian said: "Area 95 is indeed a magical place. It not only left behind allegories and symbols of the mysterious arrival of the year, but also revealed Ritsu's fate."
An Yu's heart tightened, "Fate, why does Fate have two cards?"
Open the first page, the cracked earth.
"Because——this one is the destiny He gave to the law."
He said, turning over the second one, a pale and dazzling cross.
"And this one is the fate that Lu gave himself."
Dian paused, looked at An Yu's confused eyes, and said with a smile: "You are the most deeply influenced by him. Even if there is no Ling Qiu and no law, you are a pure order body and you have no self. The same goes for me and Yan. , we have ourselves, but all our selves come from cognition, and cognition also comes from Him. Among the four, only Qin Zhilu - only him..." Dian murmured: "I have been struggling. A destiny imposed by Him.”
Before An Yu left, he told Dian about the crow, but Dian just nodded and said nothing.
It was still Yan Xi who came to take An Yu back. An Yu made a few random sentences, knowing that the commander's combat report in the swamp did not mention that the chaotic reaction ended up in a chaotic red light, so he naturally did not report that the red light was absorbed by him. His already unfathomable genetic entropy soared again.
Yan Xi sighed, "The mood above is very complicated now - on the one hand, advanced lawful people can end chaotic reactions and even absorb the chaos of already deformed people, which is a good thing. But every termination means that we have to lose A lawful person, how many times will this world have chaotic reactions, and how many of us can lose it. Not to mention Yan himself, his departure has left Zhao Ran, and even the law of the entire double distortion chain of animals and plants. Everyone fell into sorrow, and the spire couldn't bear such a severe mental setback, nor could the main city."
He saw An Yu was silent through the rearview mirror, thinking that An Yu was still sad for Zhaoran and Yan, so he half-jokingly said: "Do you think it is possible to collect all these small chaotic reactions into a It’s a big one, try to eliminate it all at once, if possible——”
An Yu suddenly raised his head, "Impossible!"
He paused and saw the frozen Yan Xi in the rearview mirror, so he had to soften his tone and said: "I'm sorry, I don't mean anything else, just... stop fantasizing, it's useless."
Yan Xi smiled reassuringly, "I know. Everyone is very nervous now. It's okay."
He looked away and continued driving, sighing: "No one can deal with pain perfectly. Everyone is gritting their teeth and enduring the pain."
An Yu lowered his head again and opened the fate card in his hand.
The cracked earth—shattering and absorbing.
After dinner, An Yu did not go to bed early as usual, but stayed in Qin Zhilu's room waiting for him to come back - he was impatient to chat with the officer, although he didn't know what he wanted to talk about, his mind was full of thoughts It was also very chaotic, but he had a strong hunch that he must know what the commander was planning now.
After midnight, Qin Zhilu came back, but his face was solemn.
An Yu swallowed back the question that came to his lips and stared at Qin Zhilu's ugly face - he had never been so solemn even when he introduced the news about the swamp battlefield, so he asked: "What's wrong?"
"Something happened." Qin Zhilu said in a serious tone, "Something happened in the polar sky."
An Yu was stunned for a moment, "Chief Xide? Didn't it mean that Cangqiong's chaotic reaction ended before it even started two months ago? He, An and Ning were just cleaning up the remaining abnormal tide——"
"As of the winter solstice, this is indeed the case." Qin Zhilu frowned: "But the polar sky suddenly broke out again, and the chaotic reaction has begun. The polar regions lost contact. The Black Tower received a broken distress signal today. After analysis, it was found that it was yesterday. Sent out.”
An Yu's heart trembled, "We'll set off immediately."
