"The end of the journey..."
Sora muttered this sentence.
This wasn't the first time he heard this.
Wendy once told him to remember the meaning of the journey.
Ying said to him, "See you at the end of the journey." 】
What does this end point mean?
What is the end of the journey?
"Okay, the question time is over. Assuming that my guess about the Abyss Order's teleportation network is correct. And I teleport here again, then it means that there is value in setting up a teleportation node here. Maybe we are being watched by the abyss. "
"That makes my skin stand on end."
Paimon hugged his arms, quietly shrank behind Sora, and looked around suspiciously.
"You are right. The Abyss Cult does have a conspiracy."
Jiang Bai told everything that had happened here.
Including the two abyss apostles I met here when I first came here.
"The inverted ruins..."
Dainsreb looked up at the spring above his head.
He had long discovered that this place was upside down, but he didn't know whether it was this place or everything around it that was upside down.
"Speaking of which, we saw a lot of Qiuqiu people along the way. Why did the Abyss Religion drive the Qiuqiu people here?"
"I think maybe it's because of the spring."
"Is there anything special about this spring water?"
"I can feel it weakening the curse."
"Curse!" Pamon suddenly remembered what Dine had said.
"I remember you said that as a citizen of Kanria, you have an immortal curse or something..."
"That's right. For hundreds of years, the pain caused by the curse still bothers me every day. But when I came here, I felt a moment of respite."
Dain looked up at the pure blue spring water above his head.
"At this moment, my body is expressing a strong will to me, that is - to stay. But as far as I know, the Abyss Order does not have technology with similar effects."
"Why does this spring water have the effect of weakening the curse?" Jiang Bai became more and more confused the more he listened.
This spring water should coexist with this ruins.
Coupled with Dine's affirmation, it can be confirmed that it was not created by the Abyss Cult.
Was it that some of the people here had been cursed, or had seen a cursed civilization, and felt panicked, so they created this spring?
Jiang Bai thinks this conjecture is quite reasonable.
He now knows that most of the Qiuqiu people were transformed from humans.
These humans were cursed and turned into monsters with low intelligence.
But after seeing the tragic situation of my colleagues, it is normal to feel panic and take precautions.
It's a pity that there are no inscriptions or murals here, so there is no way to know how the spring water was created.
"Take me to see those Qiuqiu people." Dain said.
The three of them nodded and took him to the place where many Qiuqiu people gathered.
Dain squatted down, checked the conditions of these Qiuqiu people, and suddenly asked a question.
"Do you know why Qiuqiu people wear masks?"
Jiang Bai nodded.
"I know this. Because they are avoiding their current appearance and are afraid of seeing their reflection in the water."
"That's right. Their current appearance and memories of themselves are too ugly and too desperate."
"Sure enough, Qiuqiu people are also..." Kong looked a little unhappy.
Although I had speculated on this result, when the definite answer came, it still felt ridiculous.
If you encounter Qiuqiu people next time, it’s better not to do anything.
Dyne said solemnly: "The [immortality] curse is not true immortality. Under the effect of wear and tear, the soul and body will gradually wear away, even if it is not in the form of death."
"So, their souls were reduced to Qiuqiu people, but they can still recall their past appearance in the fragments of memory."
Jiang Bai looked at the people around him with complicated eyes.
These Qiuqiu people may have lived for a long time.
Until their souls are completely consumed, they will die.
Dain withdrew his hand and glanced at the Qiuqiu people around him.
Although hundreds of years of experience have made it difficult for him to feel any emotions again, he still feels sad when he sees these Qiuqiu people.
"When these Qiuqiu people realize that their own end is coming, they seem to instinctively find a dark and quiet corner to bid farewell to hundreds of years of pain."
"This curse is too cruel..." Kong sighed, but there was nothing he could do.
"I think the curse should not be the purpose." Jiang Bai had a different guess.
Since the World Tree carries all the past and memories of the world, even emotions can become power.
So what about these painful memories?
Wouldn't they put a huge burden on Yggdrasil?
Wouldn't it affect World Tree?
Even the Sacred Cherry Tree needs periodic purification, doesn’t the World Tree need it?
Therefore, there is probably only one reason why Tianli chose to use curse.
That is, He cannot directly destroy a person's soul, but can only use this slow method to gradually annihilate the soul and body.
"I'm afraid your guess is very close to the truth." Dain agreed.
As a person who has been ravaged by the curse and still remains conscious, no one should understand the curse better than him.
The curse is gradually wearing away his memory, soul, and cognition until he completely loses himself.
After answering one question, Jiang Bai had more questions.
"Just why? Why cast a curse? Is it a punishment?"
"Punishment, isn't this reason enough?" Dain closed his eyes to hide the boiling anger in his eyes.
"It is a mistake for human beings to long for the mercy of gods."
When you love, ask for it, and when you hate it, it is the same.
The entire country, all its citizens, without exception, were punished.
The mistakes of a few people have to be paid for by everyone.
He hates, and this hatred has never stopped for 500 years.
But he also knew it clearly.
The Abyss Order is on the wrong path.
Kanria has already suffered and there is no need to bring suffering to other countries.
"What did Kanria do? What happened 500 years ago?"
Jiang Bai was too curious.
But no one has told him what happened.
He only knew that a dark disaster that spread throughout Teyvat occurred 500 years ago, and the source of this disaster was suspected to be Kanria.
It's a pity that when he arrived in Kanria, he was in an extremely weak state. He was either being hunted or in a coma. He was busy running for his life and surviving.
The whole person's mental state was so poor that he was not in the mood to explore what was going on around him.
Regarding his question, Daine simply said:
"When you reach the end of your journey, you will naturally get the answer."
(End of chapter)
