"Is your hand okay?"
The special service ship left the Rocky Mountain City skyline, changed direction, and quickly took off.
In the main control cabin, Li Liang stood in front of the annular light curtain and glanced at Cain beside him.
"fine."
Cain lowered his head and broke off the melted and solidified mechanical right hand, looked at the wiring and mechanical structure at the wrist break, and asked nonchalantly, "Are you sure that's not Tam?"
"No, the river frogs all look the same," Li Liang said slowly: "When Li Shuang summoned you last time, did he mention a river frog named 'Momu'?"
"No, who is Mom?"
"After the Gate of Spiritual Reason appeared, after preliminary exploration, in 2950, Xi'an ordered the establishment of a base on the other side of the Gate of the Deep Sea. The project was mainly responsible for Zhuosi. That year, Zhuosi met his first consultant, who was With the help of a river toad named Mom, the hero of Dros secretly met the elf messenger. In 2953, the base was attacked by the goblins, and the 'New World' plan officially began."
"So Mom has been hiding on Earth?"
"I don't know..." Li Liang suddenly remembered something and raised his hand to make a voice call on his bracelet.
moment.
Old Tang's voice came from the bracelet: "Eh? Li Liang?"
"I have something to ask you."
"Ah, you say."
"I remember you first said that there were seven consultants stranded on Earth. Who are they?"
"Ah, I didn't know their names at the time, but now I know, there are Tam, Mystic, Yareli, Saron, Seventh, and one seems to be named Tata."
"anything else?"
"what else?"
"That's six people."
"Ah... wait a minute," Old Tang's voice became lower, as if he was asking the people around him. After a moment, his voice became clear again, "Oh, yes, there is also the witch Seolis."
Li Liang realized that Saolis was indeed a consultant and was assigned by Zhuos to secretly escort Li Xiaozi and the eldest princess to Avalon.
"Where's Mom?"
"Mom...you mean the first consultant? Wait a minute," a low voice came from the bracelet again. It sounded like there were many people. This time it lasted longer. A few minutes later, Old Tang's voice rang, "Some people say that Mom returned to the spiritual world a long time ago."
"Who said that?"
"We are having a sitting meeting here, and there is a former altar leader participating, named Zalepulong, who is..."
"knew."
Li Liang hung up the call and dialed Li Shuang directly.
"Brother," Li Shuang's voice was calm.
"When did the earliest consultant, Mom, leave?"
"Wait a moment... the records show that Mom and Tan Xing returned to the spiritual world in September 2957."
"Tan Xing is..."
"The second consultant invited by Zhuos is a magician."
"Okay, got it."
"Twenty minutes ago, the system detected abnormal energy fluctuations in the center of Rocky Mountain City. Is it related to Mom?"
"Well, Xiao Shuang, I want to meet people from the Temple of Gods."
"I understand, I'll arrange it for you."
After hanging up the communication, Li Liang thought for a moment, turned to the android driving the special service ship and said, "Pick up Robben."
"Yes," the android wakes up the communication interface and operates quickly.
A few minutes later.
Robben appeared in the image in the center of the annular light screen. He raised his hands and bowed, saying, "Mr. Li Liang."
"Where is Bond?" Li Liang asked.
“Anchor Space.”
"You go to him now and ask him to help me find two people, a river toad man named Mom and a magician named Tan Xing. Find where they are now. The sooner the better. If necessary, pay a reward. Task."
"good."
Video interruption.
Cain wondered: "I left more than sixty years ago and now I'm back... did the gods do this?"
"Well," Li Liang said with a gloomy face, "Momu's identity is very suspicious. He is not using necromancy magic. I saw Naaru who was corrupted by darkness. It is very possible that he has also traveled through time."
Cain fell silent.
After a long time, she whispered: "I saw you."
"Really?" Li Liang was not surprised.
"When you called out 'Zhou Xiaomian', I knew it was you. Did you see me over there?"
"Um."
"It's us every time," Cain shook his head. "We must have returned from the future to the present."
"I'm not the only one who knows your real name. How are you sure it's me?" Li Liang turned around and asked.
"Every time you call this name, you look at me differently," Cain's eyes burned, "It seems like..."
"Like what?"
Cain hesitated for a moment and then said deflatedly: "It's nothing."
Half an hour later.
The secret service ship landed on the side of the temple.
"Brother, Soft is waiting for you. He will represent the Pantheon and the Hall of Valor."
Li Liang walked alone through the dim corridor in the temple and came to the back door of the temple.
A fat white man was waiting there, spreading his hands and smiling: "We meet again, Ryo."
Li Liang originally thought that when they met, he would only feel disgust and anger in his heart. Soft and all the immortals were strangers to him. They were the brothers of another "Li Liang", not his.
However, a situation arose that had made him hesitant and even evasive. He felt that the fat white man in front of him seemed familiar, and even a little familiar.
At this moment, he had complicated eyes and nodded.
Soft has a harmless round face, curly blond hair, wearing a pair of brown-rimmed glasses, a baggy white shirt and suit pants, and smiles enthusiastically, like a fat home appliance salesman. Not the founder of the SoftBank family.
"How long have I thought you wouldn't come back?" Soft grinned and gave Li Liang a bear hug. "I heard that you have lost your memory. Damn it, what happened?"
Li Liang said dullly: "I am not the Li Liang you know."
Soft lit a crumpled hand-rolled tobacco, exhaled a puff of smoke, and said with a smile: "You have met new friends, what are their names, Cain, K, Sonoya...and, ah, House, I like Hao That madman... you changed their lives and gave them power and status they had never imagined. You trusted them and treated them as family. You gave the world to them, just like you once gave it to us."
Li Liang slowly turned his head and stared into Soft's eyes.
In the smoke, Soft said calmly: "What I want to say is that you will always be the Li Liang I know, but..." He suddenly laughed, "Come on, Liang, we have to have a good chat."
He held Li Liang in his arms and walked together on the forest plank road.
The large area behind the temple belongs to the Temple of Gods and the Hall of Valor. It is a carefully maintained garden with winding plank roads and colorful flowers under the shade of the trees.
"I've read a lot of books over the years. Can you believe it? Soft can actually read." Soft danced habitually as he spoke. "Some biology books say that the human genome contains many viral genes, and many human traits are It's because of long-term random mutations of endogenous retroviruses. Fuck me~ We are actually the descendants of viruses." He held a cigarette between his fingers and gestured to the surrounding plants. "The world originally only had fancy plants and silly animals, you know? Liang, I think humans are viruses.”
Li Liang said in a low voice: "So you destroyed the world."
"Ah ha, it was a wonderful time. I will always think back to it over the years, Damn it, I liked us back then," Soft laughed, and the fat all over his body trembled, his laughter was like a vulture retching in the desert. , "Do you still remember, what was the most difficult choice we encountered before we built 'Noah's Ark' and prepared to give a big gift to the world?"
"Who should I let on board?" Li Liang's voice was cold.
"No, nononono," Soft grinned, "The most difficult question is, why do we want other people to survive?"
Li Liang took a breath.
"Listen to me, Liang, hahahaha... At first we decided to bring the people we care about, OK, but I found that there were only a dozen people I cared about, Fuck, very few, right, and then, we had to bring everyone People I know, plus people they care about, I also found the chef of a restaurant I often go to, the one in Chinatown, do you remember, the chef brought his family and...a dog...Pfft hahahaha ...and Sofia, Sofia from Activision, she also brought her favorite actors, hahaha...
Finally, we found out, even if you include the guys who were doing the work and the people they knew, there were only 20,000 people on board, 20,000 people, can you believe it, that's all the people we knew.
What’s even more interesting is that at that time we realized that the total number of nuclear weapons in the world could only scratch the itch of the earth. It was so funny. You know, when I was a child, I really believed that humans should protect the earth. As a result, the total number of weapons of all mankind could not even scratch the ecological balance. We couldn't destroy the mantle, Oh~come on~ So, we had to detonate the mantle plume. Do you know the mantle plume, which is the place where the earth's crust is thin, the large volcano underground, OK, there were several options at that time, detonate the largest one, except None of us can survive the detonation, but maybe some lucky guys can survive.
But, why should we let them survive? "
Soft didn't notice Li Liang's eyes at all. He was full of energy, as if he was talking about a talk show.
"We carry all the knowledge in human history, as well as human fertilized eggs, animals, plants, all species balabala~~ We have the ability to regenerate the earth in a short time, why do we let strangers survive? Because of hypocrisy Totally 'human'? Hahaha, come on, do humans really care about the lives of strangers?
I asked the cook, hey, brother, why did you bring a dog? Well, he said that the old dog had been with him for many years and was his family. Fuck, it was touching. So, I told him, if How about throwing away your dog and I'll just pull a few random people from the street onto the boat?
He hesitated for a few hours and threw away his dog. I asked him again, what if you throw away your family and for every one you throw away, I will save a hundred strangers on board? If you throw away your son, a thousand!
Hahahahaha, Damn it, he rejected me without any hesitation, I am very disappointed, Liang, I am very disappointed. "
Li Liang stopped and clenched his fist in his right hand.
"When the end comes..." Soft took a few steps, stopped, and lit another hand-rolled cigarette, "The cook and his family held a funeral for the dog on the submarine, and those who were saved because of the dog burst into tears. Many people also attended the funeral. Everyone was hugging their families and thankful that they had survived. Everyone they knew was on the ship. Their world was safe and sound. Those who died were just strangers, just strangers.
Liang, do we... really cry for strangers? No, we will only cry for ourselves. "
Soft turned around and grinned: "Hahaha, do you still remember what you said at that time? You said that other people are hell. Later I found out that this sentence was said by a Frenchman named Sartre. I like this Guy," he stared into Li Liang's eyes, "everyone regards himself as the subject and others as the object, it's always like this."
"You misinterpreted Sartre's original intention," Li Liang said word by word.
"Oh~well," Soft curled his lips and shrugged, "Whatever, Come on~" He waved, "I'll show you our old friends."
Li Liang took a deep breath, relaxed and tightened his clenched fists, and then walked forward.
The plank road soon reached the end, and the two of them walked on the marble-paved lake shore. In the distance, they could see the pavilions built near the lake and another garden.
Soft waved and greeted the man sitting fishing by the lake not far away in Russian: "здорово, Dima."
The man didn't look back, he just raised his hand.
"It's a pity that we didn't convince Volodya at that time, so we had to choose Jima." Soft shook his head, "Fuck, I like Volodya, you know."
Li Liang glanced at the man's profile and remained silent.
Another reason why he has not come to the Temple of Gods is that he does not want to face these people who have been bribed by 'eternal life'. These familiar faces... will make him feel that reality... is too cruel.
Next, he met six more people along the way. Soft greeted those people enthusiastically, but only one person smiled back, and the other three just nodded.
Some of these four people were very familiar to Li Liang, while others were completely unknown to them.
"You should remember Khalifa," Soft fussed.
Li Liang was noncommittal.
A thousand years ago, he rarely read the news, but he was somewhat impressed by the name Khalifa.
"Sovereign funds, military-industrial complex, Jewish syndicate, WASP," Soft said with a mocking smile, holding on to the railing with sweat breaking out on his forehead, "Families, presidents, prime ministers... facing the temptation of eternal life, they are all the same... Oh, of course. And your strongest supporter, well, he doesn’t like to be in the public eye, you know.”
Li Liang had seen the "most solid backing" in Machisas' magic talisman array. He was young and powerful, and had thunderous means.
"Blue, green, red," Soft whispered, "The world is just a coloring game." Then he chuckled, "We haven't had breakfast together for a long time, Come on~"
Leaving the shore of the lake and walking around a pavilion, a carefully manicured lawn appears in front of you. There is a long table on the lawn, with a roasted suckling pig in the middle, and meat, seafood, vegetables, and fruits are piled around it, like a bulge. of hills.
"Sit!" Soft pressed Li Liang to the table, pulled a chair from the side, picked up the knife and fork, and tapped the table with the end, "You know, you can skip lunch and dinner, but breakfast, um, It must be taken seriously, this is Soft’s secret to staying healthy.”
Li Liang stared at Soft, who was feasting on the meal. He smelled the mixed smell of various foods in his nose, and suddenly felt a strong sense of disgust.
"Well, every time during breakfast, I always think of that time, we always have meetings at the dining table, you know, just open your heart," Soft chewed, "Well, do you remember, we discussed what name you should give you? What name..." He lit a hand-rolled cigarette and swallowed it with the cigarette and food, "JP, oh~ smart JP, he can always come up with interesting ideas. It was he who came up with the Twin Gods, you and Xiaoshuang, Two sides of one body, of course, I have to admit, I prefer my idea, GOD MAPO, the God of Mapo Tofu, hahahaha..."
Li Liang's face was expressionless.
"Then JP died. He didn't want to live forever..." Soft suddenly froze and murmured, "Who else was there? At that time, there seemed to be some people, I can't remember..." He lowered his head, He smiled and said, "JP told me that the immortals must wear a high-collar leather jumpsuit, shave their eyebrows, and have cold eyes. They look like they understand everything and are aloof, just like real gods. He said that we will all become gods. But he feels that he is a human being and should not live forever... He is right, Ryo."
this moment.
Soft turned his head and smiled: "We never know what you are thinking, we never know when you are happy or when you are angry. I always feel that it was the death of Candy and your father that pushed us into this meaningless world. Until you disappeared with Billy and now reappeared, I finally understood that you would regret it, but it was too late, Liang, you can't change anything."
Li Liang stood up slowly: "Did you send Mom to Rocky Mountain?"
"Mom?" Soft sneered and shook his head, "Whatever, eh, come on, do it. Unless I die, SoftBank will always be your trouble."
"Okay," Li Liang turned around, "You can die, Soft."
A ray of sword light drifted across Soft's neck, and his huge head fell into the dinner plate, splashing broth.
However.
When Li Liang took a few steps, he suddenly heard a crying voice coming from behind: "Liang, eternal life is a curse..."
He turned back sharply.
Soft sat intact at the dining table, tears streaming down his cheeks, but a crazy smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Kill me."
Li Liang made a secret with his right hand, crossed his left index finger and middle finger, and flicked in the air.
The Dao sword only leaked a trace of aura. In an instant, the entire dining table collapsed, and a trench appeared on the ground, several meters deep, revealing the metal structure deep inside.
Soft vaporized directly and disappeared without a trace, but reappeared just a few seconds later, safe and sound.
Li Liang finally saw clearly how the "Ascension" potion worked. At the moment of death, Soft's time was reset.
"Look, Ryo," Soft lit a cigarette, "This is eternal life. Was it magic? Taoism? Anyway, I believe you can kill me."
Li Liang suddenly smiled: "No, Soft, this will be your eternal prison, and it will also be your...only destination."
"Fuck! Ryo..." Soft's eyes widened and he murmured, "You have to kill me, SoftBank will definitely..."
Li Liang turned around and walked away step by step.
"Live, Soft, you deserve this."
