Phaethon took the mail order catalog back from the door and sat on the sofa next to him.
"Is it this one?"
"Well, just put it there first."
Phaethon placed the mail order catalog in front of Shangluo, and then sat back down. She sat in the pit she had made earlier, huddled there, helpless.
The previous worldview based on demigods has collapsed. As a new person, she still doesn't know how she should behave.
"I said." He looked at Phaethon, "Are you too nervous?"
Without speaking, Phaethon just nodded.
"Well, let me tell you: First of all, you need to make it clear that you don't owe me anything. The debt between you and me has been settled. The debt between your father and me, he promised me that he will definitely succeed in building the foundation. , and things became clear between us. He made an additional request of 'rescuing you' and repaid the fault on your behalf. In this part, you were punished for violating the law, and he repaid the law. This is the fault of a poor father. Even though I was the beneficiary, he paid it off."
"Yeah" Phaethon nodded. Still didn't say anything.
"So, we don't owe each other anything, right? You don't need to be so nervous. We are just working together now. The foundation that your father has worked hard for his whole life, which is the Lighthouse Project, is now related to where we both go. So. Although I didn’t promise him anything, he and I are walking on the same path. So you don’t have to worry about his mission, I’m on the same path.”
"Um"
"So, that's it for the factorization. Putting aside justice and responsibility, what else is weighing you down and making you breathless? The last thing left is for your father's own safety. right?"
She stopped talking. This answer was too heavy for her, and now she was a little afraid.
"Okay, do you want to make a call?" Shangluo asked, "Can I call Mr. Helios for you?"
She shook her head violently.
"Aren't you afraid of being close to home? Are you not ready to face your father? Okay. I'll call you and ask for help. Then I'll let you know each other is safe. You can take a look at the menu first, and I'll go out and make a call. "
He left Phaethon in the drawing room and walked into the courtyard in the middle of the yard.
"Call me, Apollonia."
[Yeah, but you seem to have become more sensible. 】
"My original intention has not changed, and it is impossible to become more 'reasonable'. It's just that the body of heaven and man has allowed me to obtain more information. For example, I can clearly see Phaethon's emotions - not to mention her I have always been like a child, my emotions are completely written on my face. The more information I get, the more clearly I will see. That’s what the so-called ‘smart ears and eyes’ are, but I just ‘look’ more rational.”
【is that so? 】
"Well, this is probably why you are obviously a divine machine, but you don't look very smart. Because you have no ears."
【I have no way to refute.】
"Ha, call me, stupid Miss Apollonia."
[Beep beep beep beep] The voice was not very happy, but she still helped transfer it.
"Shangluo, how are you doing lately?"
Helios' voice came from the other end of the phone. Shangluo wasn't sure if he was really "answering" the phone, but compared with last time, his voice seemed much normal. Not so weak anymore.
"Mr. Helios, Phaethon is awake. She is with me now and we are getting ready for dinner."
"Well is she okay?"
"She has lost all her power, but she is ready to re-understand the world in a human body."
"That's good, that's good."
Shangluo was stunned for a moment - this seemed to be completely expected by him. He didn't feel any regret at all, instead he was glad that everything turned out as he wished.
"So...wait a minute, so that's what it is!" Shangluo suddenly realized, "Daozu said at the time that everything was arranged by him. So Daozu's reward for giving your heart was...'a person'? He gave you one in return. Real people?"
"That's right. The so-called triple greatness of Hermes, one of the highest achievements of alchemy, is the refining of the human body - the human body, human identity, and human destiny are the most precious things in the world. I am wearing armor. At the time of Helios, as the son of Helios, Phaethon was also implicated by me and lost his identity as a human being. If I had known this, I should not have involved her in my ceremony. I would not have involved her from the beginning. She should be named Phaethon.”
"I can probably understand. In our terms, being on the list of gods is not necessarily a good thing."
"This is exactly the truth. As Phaethon, she would inevitably face the fate of being 'struck down by thunder'. However, when she was destined to die, it was Daozu who saved her. The highest achievement of alchemy, For Dao Zu, it is just a corner of the alchemy path. In heaven and on earth, only Dao Zu's 'Heaven and Earth Oven' can reshape her human body. Compared with eternal human nature, power is only temporary.
Shangluo understood - although this seemed like a loss, Helios really didn't feel it was a loss at all. Although there are billions of people in the world, human life is sometimes lighter than a feather and sometimes heavier than Mount Tai. It is an ordinary but most precious thing. Like time.
As the saying goes, "You will be young soon, and you will have many gray hairs in the world. God will forgive you for your broken body. How can you not be happy?" This Chinese poem written by Date Masamune is very interesting. Time is completely different for people of different age groups. When I was a child, I would take a nap in class and the day would pass. When I grow up, if I want to find free time in this day, I have to "steal half a day's free time."
For Helios, the same is true of human identity. Just like when you were a child, no matter how your parents said "time waits for no one" or "you will regret it when you grow up", it is difficult for a child to understand this kind of regret. When you get older and the flow of time suddenly becomes faster, you will remember that there are many regrettable things in your childhood, and there are many things that could have been done better. But by then it was too late to regret.
Shangluo didn't fully understand the "meaning of human beings", after all, he hadn't reached that time either. But judging from this transaction, for past "gods" like them, they seem to have realized the preciousness of "people", just like adults realize the preciousness of time.
"I generally understand."
"But have you made good use of that power? Although it is temporary, it is still a huge power."
"It seems that my hair has become cool and I haven't learned how to use power." In addition to using magic weapons, he has not officially started practicing Kung Fu.
(End of chapter)
