Living things are really amazing things. Unlike most meaningful objects in the universe, living things have their own unique meaning of existence, which is the soul. Because of this, our universe has become so lively and bustling, instead of being lifeless like those universes that have entered the black hole era. There is nothing that can be called "life", except for those dark and connected universes. A black hole that swallows light has an independent mind.
But even so, the universe in the black hole period cannot be completely called a dead universe, because there is still "meaning" in that darkness. The rules still exist in the universe, constraining black holes to continue their duties. Yes, although the corpses of these stars cannot think and have no life, they are still an entity, a thing with a name and meaning of existence. The universe in which they exist is still lingering on, even if the rules in that space have become infinitely close. die.
So, what happens when the final celestial body, the black hole, disappears? What happens when the most basic photons disappear? What else is left in this universe besides darkness?
"It's probably this kind of space."
Jiao Zhengyu slowly raised his hand and drew an arc above his head. Valentin looked at his arm, which was exuding a little bit of shimmer that was strong and weak like breathing, and his thoughts slowly spread outward.
"Instead of calling this space a black hole, it would be better to say that it is the universe before death. There is nothing, even this darkness is lingering. If you had not come to this space, I am afraid that not even the 'ground' under your feet would be there. Will appear."
"After all, we are external existences, living and alive, so we have affected this space and made it a little more alive."
Jiao Zhengyu stepped on the extremely flat ground under his feet and waved to Valentine.
"He didn't even show hostility to the light I emitted. You know, Holy Light Raphael only appeared for a few seconds and disappeared quickly."
"If the power in Amiya's body is hostile to us, your consciousness will be completely wiped out the moment you enter this space, leaving only a body in the real world."
"The big trees were uprooted and burned to ashes, leaving only the earth that supported the trees."
Jiao Zhengyu remembered a metaphor he once told Valentin about the relationship between body, spirit and soul.
"But if it weren't for the power called 'vitality' in your body, we wouldn't be able to enter this cold land of death. Unless Amiya uses her Origin Stone skills to attack you and forcefully pull you into her home field. …”
"Can you do some work in the underworld?"
Valentin shook his head, looked at Jiao Zhengyu who looked like a night light in front of him and rubbed his eyes.
"I don't understand what death, life, and nothingness are at all. These words you said made me sleepy."
"I just want to lie down here and sleep."
He rubbed his cheeks, bent down and sat cross-legged on the ground, with his right hand supporting his chin and half-squinting his eyes. He looked like a social animal who stayed up late to work. If Jiao Zhengyu sang a lullaby at this time, Valentine might be able to lie back on the ground and fall asleep directly.
"You can try."
Jiao Zhengyu sat opposite Valentine, with the corners of his mouth raised slightly.
"Sleep for eternity in the most silent darkness in the world, and you will have the corpse of the universe as your tomb."
"What a wonderful death it is."
Valentin was already ready to lie down when he said that sentence. Jiao Zhengyu's words "as a grave" immediately made his upper body freeze in mid-air. After a few seconds, he returned to his original position like a spring. The position is straight.
"God fell asleep as soon as he slept. Didn't you say that my Origin Stone skills are very compatible with this space? I can't arouse its rejection reaction at all, so how could there be such serious consequences?"
Although his mouth was still as hard as a duck, Valentine still rubbed his eyes vigorously to drive away the sleepiness.
"Have you felt any changes in your body?"
Jiao Zhengyu pointed to his temple and gave a small hint.
Valentine thought this guy was calling him stupid.
"No, my heartbeat is still normal, 70 beats per minute. My blood circulation is smooth, my breathing is comfortable, my liver doesn't hurt, and I don't feel cold or hot, except for the moment I hugged Holy Light Raphael just now."
Speaking of this, Valentin seemed to think of something, and suddenly gave Jiao Zhengyu a middle finger.
"And what you just said to me, I haven't settled the score with you yet..."
Valentine's words stopped abruptly.
He remembered something again.
After Jiao Zhengyu breathed out the fragrance, he said another sentence.
"Have you ever felt that your body has changed? It's not the disappearance of the spirit and source stone skills at the beginning, but something on your spiritual level."
Spiritual things...
"you mean……"
Valentin put down his arms and looked at Jiao Zhengyu with eyes full of disbelief. Although he really wanted to hear "It's not like that" from Jiao Zhengyu's mouth, the other person's expression already told him the answer.
I am dying slowly, from body to spirit to soul.
He is gradually becoming part of this space.
Why didn't he immediately spit out the fragrance when Jiao Zhengyu scolded him just now? Even the mood didn’t fluctuate much?
It's because Valentine's emotions have been assimilated by this space.
"Not just emotions, but also the feedback from your brain to your body. Although you feel that your body is healthy now and there are no problems, in fact you are riddled with holes."
"Do you know why you felt a little hot when you hugged the Blade Angel just now? It's not because the other person's body temperature is too high, but because your own body temperature has dropped to a terrifying level."
Valentine lowered his head and looked at his hands, his breathing gradually getting heavier.
"Think about how many times you have interacted with Holy Light Raphael before? Did this kind of problem occur during those times? No, not once. So why did this happen just now? In addition to the changes in you, There is no explanation."
Jiao Zhengyu moved his eyes away from Valentine's head and raised his head slightly to look at the darkness behind him. His pupils gradually expanded, his eyes gradually became empty, and his thoughts spread out to the surroundings.
"This is really a forgotten world, empty, but extremely crowded. The darkness is filled with the corpses of all kinds of meaningful existences, not only life, but also thinking, emotions, spirits, souls..."
"Even those things that are not alive in themselves, but only contain some human will, are 'dead' inside."
"Do you still remember that in the plot, Amiya used her Origin Stone skills to break the Origin Stone planted by the Yeti team? She did not use the most common method to break it, but used her own Origin Stone skills. It kills the function of those Source Stones, and kills the 'meaning' of the Source Stone itself that can be used by the Snow Monster Team."
"How will a bomb that cannot explode show the fact that it cannot explode to the outside world? The most intuitive way is to break it into pieces."
"Now, you are in Amiya's spiritual space, the space on her path to becoming a god. As you have the power of 'vitality', even the last time you entered the spiritual space due to extreme anger and bloodthirsty desire It also showed a vibrant scene, but it just looked a little weird.”
"Then, this space that represents 'death' will naturally continue to kill all the 'meanings' that enter this space."
The corners of Valentine's mouth twitched.
"I know every word you say, but when they are put together I understand nothing."
"To put it simply, the cycle of life and death is endless. You are life, and Amiya is death. Now you have entered Amiya's death space. Even if you reincarnate with her again, no matter how you represent life, in her home field You will also be gradually eroded."
Jiao Zhengyu stretched out his hand and held his wrist. Valentin subconsciously wanted to break away, but was surprised by the warmth from the other person's palm.
His hand was very hot, just like the feeling when he hugged Holy Light Raphael just now.
"It feels very hot, right? But my body temperature is normal. You feel hot because your body temperature has dropped to a terrible level, but you didn't notice it at all."
"This space is slowly stripping away your vitality, bringing you gradually closer to the edge of death. But because your body contains the Origin Stone technology that represents vitality, it has made a compromise with your death."
"That power kills your brain's feedback to your body. At the same time, the vitality in your body has been maintaining the normal state of your body, so that you will not feel strange even if you are like a dead person. If you have been in this space If you stay here, you will not die in pain, but will slowly fall asleep like you did just now, and finally sleep in this space forever, integrating with the darkness."
"The power that represents life in your body has also reincarnated into death, becoming the nourishment for Amiya's Source Stone skills."
Jiao Zhengyu let go of Valentine's wrist, and the darkness once again fell into its original silence.
"From what you said, it seems that it feels good to sleep in this space forever."
Valentine burst out laughing.
"I won't feel any pain. I will always be immersed in the beautiful dream I weaved and will never wake up."
"And no one will wake themselves up."
He sighed and lowered his head.
"You're right. What a wonderful death it is."
Jiao Zhengyu tilted his head.
It seems that this guy has fallen into the past memory again.
"But it's not wonderful now."
He adjusted his glasses, and the words "Psychiatrist" were shining brightly on his badge.
"For a person who has lived for a long time and experienced everything, or a person who cannot escape death, living forever in a dream and blending into the darkness is indeed a wonderful way to die, but for you now, it is not wonderful. .”
"First of all, you have a way to escape from here, and it's extremely easy. All it takes is a thought on your part. And in the real world outside, Xing Yihuang and Raphael are still waiting for you to go home."
go home.
Valentine recited this word silently in his mind.
In the past, Valentine's home in his heart was the distant blue planet, the place where he was born and raised in his previous life, the place where he buried his head in the desert. Even though there were many imperfections in that world in his own eyes, Valentine still did not give up his desire to go back.
only……
Now in the world of Terra, he also has a place that he can call "home", a nest that he is willing to devote his efforts to maintaining.
Whenever he thinks of Raphael's sweet smile and Xing Yihuang's handsome back, Valentin will always feel a warm current in his heart. And this warmth was something he couldn't feel on earth, something he had never felt before.
Valentine admitted that thinking this way made him feel unfilial, but...
He really didn't want to let go, didn't want to leave this warmth.
Do you still remember the "wife" that Valentin just tentatively whispered?
That was the word he really wanted to say to Raphael.
Even though Raphael was once so sacred in his heart and so unfaithful, Valentin also wanted to try and have a small taste of the peach amid the other's obvious care.
This was his first attempt to actively declare his love for someone.
Valentin didn't think that Holy Light Raphael would respond to him, he just wanted to take that opportunity to say this heavy word. Just say it, just express it, whether anyone hears it or not, whether she responds or not.
So what's the result?
His heart was very warm, just like the love brought by Holy Light Raphael.
"call……"
Valentin's head dropped deeply, and he raised his hands to cover his eyes, trying to calm his fluctuating heart and prevent tears from flowing out.
"I know that you are very conflicted in your heart right now. However, before the fork in the road really comes, you still have only one way to go, and you still have a lot of time to think."
"Before that, think about it."
The doctor's uniform suit on Jiao Zhengyu disappeared, and he patted Valentine on the shoulder, indicating that it was time for him to leave this space.
"Have you realized anything?"
"have."
Valentin calmed down his mood, raised his head and looked at Jiao Zhengyu with a somewhat ugly smile.
"Since Amiya can use her Origin Stone skills to kill all meaningful things, then I can also use my Origin Stone skills to bring back to life all the 'meanings' that are dying."
"I used to think that my clairvoyance and consciousness were strong enough, but now it seems that they are just a small skill."
Valentine stood up and patted his trouser legs. Although Valentine exists in the outer world as the body of Yae Sakura Zhen Yan Xinghun, in this space, Valentine has returned to his true form.
"My current application of Origin Stone skills is still too rough. Although the medical spell that can treat any wound without any medical knowledge sounds incredible, it is just the simplest and crudest application."
"I should have a more powerful way to use it. Amiya can control other people's emotions, why can't I? If my Origin Stone skills really represent 'vitality', I can do anything that is conducive to survival." come out."
"Maybe you can't bring the dead back to life, but maybe you can control the natural world?"
Valentine smiled, and involuntarily pictured himself wearing a green and healthy plant, standing among a bunch of animals in his mind.
"Amiya is the God of Death, and I am the God of Life... So it makes sense that Doctor Herrington gave me the codename 'Isis'."
But that cannot hide the fact that Isis is a goddess. As a male, Valentine still doesn't want to use this code name.
"Then maybe one day, the God of Life in this world should be renamed 'Valentine'."
It sounded arrogant, and Valentine didn't take it seriously, just treating it as a joke.
"Then it's time to go back, Valentine, the God of Life."
Jiao Zhengyu smiled and teased, and his figure slowly became transparent.
"It's easy to get out. Think about how you left that bloody grassland at that time?"
Valentin didn't think much and closed his eyes.
Just like what Jiao Zhengyu said just now, it's easy to get out. Origin Stone skills are a person's hidden skills, which can be used from birth, as long as they can be awakened later in life. The same is true for entering and exiting the road to godhood, as long as the door to the road to godhood has been opened.
Cool raindrops fell on his cheeks, gusts of breeze blew through his long pink hair, and noisy footsteps and shouts could be heard in his ears. The future God of Life, Valentine, has woken up and continues his journey in the Dragon Gate.
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"God of life?"
In a dark space, Jiao Zhengyu chewed on this word, and then showed a disdainful smile.
"This 'god' is not as simple as you think, Valentine."
"But it's true that in the future, everyone will know your name. Although that name is a bit out of place, it fits your personality quite well."
In Jiao Zhengyu's deduction, an unknown country is rising and participating in the tragic battlefield of the future. The most conspicuous feature of the person who led that country forward was a pair of dark blue horns.
"Vaifan's immortal thunder and lightning."
