Chapter 392 Chapter 390 · "Her name is...Noelia's Red Rose"

"Sherrod, when you are ready, wear it on your chest."

 “Her name is…”

 “Nolia’s red rose.”

 …

　　【Character Sherrod's ending: HE·Immortal/TE·Endless Road/NE·Corruption, your actions will affect the ending he can achieve. 】

　　【You choose to give "Nolia's Red Rose" to Sherrod, and the character's ending will be closer to HE·Immortal. 】

 …

After sending Xie Lude away, Su Mingan sat on the bed and took out Su Lin's Memory Stone.

He felt speechless as Boss Rabbit wanted to take his chocolate before leaving.

 He looked at the red crystal in his hand and crushed it.

The red light shattered and his vision gradually turned into white...

 …

I have experienced the most prosperous and hopeless times in Praia. 】

Before his vision was clear, he heard this sentence.

 The voice sounded familiar. It was Su Lin's voice.

I have witnessed so many struggles and made the greatest and most shameful decisions. 】

 His vision gradually became clearer.

However, unlike the previous Memory Stones, this time he did not look at Su Lin's vision, but looked at everything that happened from a third-party perspective.

 He saw Su Lin.

The place where Su Lin stood was very familiar to Su Mingan. It was the east area of ​​Praia sixty years ago.

 Judging from the calendar hanging on the wall, it is now the time after the airship boarded. Logically speaking, this is Su Lin who has already come down from Yunshang City.

At this time, the wind in Praia was very strong. Although it was daytime, the sky was already pitch black and merged with the large sea of ​​snow. It seemed that everything around was melted into the chaotic white snow.

Su Lin stood in front of the frozen river and leaned against the wall of the vacant house.

 Snowflakes fell on his dark robe, rushing toward him like white waves.

 A pure white mask blocked his face, leaving only a pair of dark eyes.

His posture is quiet and silent, like a black tombstone standing in the snow.

 Praya, which is always hot, has snowed so heavily. It should be time for the Praia Sea Feast, but I don’t know which year it is.

 “Give me, let me…”

 A middle-aged resident who had not yet had time to evacuate passed by carrying a pole and looked at him with a strange look, as if he was wondering why someone was standing on the street wearing a mask.

 “Hey, boy, give me a moment…”

 The middle-aged man walked sideways, almost next to the young man wearing a white mask. His face is covered with diagonal lines and spots scattered like chess pieces, which are the traces left by time on the residents of Praia.

But after taking a few steps, the middle-aged man felt something was wrong. He paused for a moment and then backed away.

“Young man.” He put down the pole and glanced at the white-masked young man who was as motionless as a statue: “The feast on the sea has begun. Why don’t you leave? Are you a contestant?”

He was worried that this was an outsider who did not understand the rules of the feast, so he asked kindly.

"I am..." Su Lin spoke softly, her voice extremely hoarse: "I am a local, I just came back."

"Just returned from the sea?" The middle-aged man smiled: "Then you have to leave quickly. This year's feast has begun. If you don't leave, it will be too late. The refuge ship is parked at the pier in the south..."

Su Lin didn’t make a sound, as silent as a stone.

“Hey, where are your friends who went to sea with you? Where did you just come back from?” the man asked him.

Su Lin was silent for a moment.

In the white, almost clumped snow mist, his voice became deeper and deeper.

　　…“…They are all dead.”

The smiling man's face stiffened, and he rubbed his big hands that were red from the cold, looking a little embarrassed.

"Ah, that's right." He scratched his red face, not knowing what to say.

Going to sea will not be smooth sailing. Many people will die during long-distance shipping. It is normal for several crew members to die due to physical reasons when returning from a trip to sea.

 It’s just that the young man in front of me actually survived the voyage? What a disaster this must have been. Did the whole ship sink in the waves?

"I promised them that I would bring them to that place alive." Su Lin's voice was very soft, almost blending into the wind and snow: "...before we got to that place, I told that **** Ge Li, I said, what will greet us will never be such a desperate ending. We will get the treasure buried there for him to study more engineering creations, but..."

 When he said this, his voice stopped.

The white snow stuck to his mask, slowly falling as he moved, like another snowfall.

The man scratched his head and didn't understand what Su Lin was talking about.

Su Lin did not talk about this topic again, but asked the man:

 “How have you been doing in the past ten years in Praia?”

 The man listened and smiled.

“Okay, that’s much better than before. Ever since my father boarded the airship and went to Yunshang City to enjoy the blessings, the living conditions of the people below us have also improved a lot...

As soon as the god's barrier was established and the storm subsided, the merchants smelled the smell and ran over. Over in the royal city, the original princess has become a queen, and the policies are generous. My family's quilts now have cotton, unlike before where they could only be covered with a single sheet..."

 Listening to the middle-aged man's rambling words, Su Lin's somewhat stiff pupils showed a little relief.

"The roads have become smoother, and there are more tourists. Every year, many out-of-towners come to attend the feast. They are generous, and selling groceries like me makes more money. Life is much better than before I married my wife..." The middle-aged man said something strange: "Young man, are you going to sea for more than ten years?"

"Yeah." Su Lin responded softly: "I couldn't do it before, and I won't be able to come back in the next few days."

"Then you have missed that grand ceremony for more than ten years. Young man, Master Su Lin... is really a hero. If it weren't for him, our life today wouldn't be so easy. Maybe one day that **** storm will break out. coming…"

Su Lin smiled as he saw the man talking as if he had caught the speaker.

 It’s good to hear these things.

"Thank you."

 He turned around and walked towards the alley next to him.

"Hey, young man, if you don't want to participate in the game, remember to go to the South District Pier! Otherwise, those outsiders will not show mercy..."

The middle-aged man’s enthusiastic voice still floated in the wind and snow behind him.

Su Lin turned the corner.

 The streets and alleys of Praia were still the same as before. He walked through these streets that were still very familiar to him.

He saw the grocery store that had been open for more than ten years, the liquor store on Second Street, and the hotel girl who always liked to stand at the door and greet guests with a smile... But she seemed to have become a mature woman now. Boss lady.

When she looked at him, the proprietress smiled at him, as if she was not surprised that there would be such a strange man wearing a mask during the sea feast.

"Guest." She held the bamboo basket in her hand, her smile still the same as it was more than ten years ago: "Are you staying in the hotel?"

Su Lin shook his head and was suddenly bumped into by two children.

 “Don’t run—don’t run—”

 “Run! You catch up with me, you come after me!”

 A boy with a short haircut and a little girl with pigtails jumped out from behind the landlady, like two hairy monkeys.

They wielded wooden swords and waved them wildly, and their laughter like silver bells could be heard throughout the street.

 “Hey! Take my sword! You’re dead!”

"No! I rebounded! You **** soul clan, take my sword!"

“…Didn’t I agree that you would pretend to be a soul clan member? I am a soul hunter today, and you are a scumbag!”

Such a heavy snowstorm instantly blocked the landlady who was standing at the door, smiling as she watched her children play.

Su Lin trembled and immediately put his hands on the white wall beside him. His breathing became a little rapid under the impact of the children.

 The wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier.

　　He lifted his feet and silently left this familiar street, walking all the way through the streets and alleys.

 The sound of children playing and the woman's happy smile were left behind by his footsteps.

Every time he saw a strange yet familiar place, he would describe the building and land carefully with his eyes, as if he wanted to imprint the scene in front of him in his heart forever.

 He has been watching all this silently.

The eyes are determined and nostalgic.

 …

 He walked into a dark, deserted alley.

 After walking from the street filled with lights of various colors into the dark alley, he completely left behind the human fireworks outside.

 He sat next to the dank garbage pile, breathing rapidly.

He picked it up in his arms, moving slowly and steadily until there was a crisp "ding" sound.

Those are a few sparkling red crystals.

 He pinched one and began to inject his own memories, then the second, and the third...

Each time he processed one, his expression became paler. By the time all the Memory Stones were saved, the blood had completely disappeared from his face.

 At this time, it was getting dark in Praia. The sky looked darker and darker, as if filled with thick ink. Every household brings drying clothes, dried fish, kelp and other items indoors. The doors and windows are closed, and the warm yellow light shines from the gauze paper, like a soft moon.

In the warm house with a firewood burning, the sounds of children crying, adults laughing, old people coughing, and the playing of unique musical instruments can be heard from time to time... Various sounds merge together, reflecting the various colors of various characters. A family is like using the joy of hundreds of families as fuel to light up the lights of thousands of families.

—The scenes that took place outside the alley were all filled with lively fireworks.

The howling wind poured into the deserted alley, and large pieces of hail gradually fell from the sky.

　　Listening to the happy voices of the residents outside, Su Lin sat beside the garbage pile in the alley with her eyes open.

In the distance, there is a white misty dusk, which is a group of houses that are sleeping like white giant snakes.

He seemed to see the bald engineer from Gerry standing there, smiling innocently at him.

The bespectacled woman with long hair was standing next to him, holding a notebook full of data in her hand.

The crisp and neat Minister of Soul Hunting with a black ponytail was also there. Her body was straight and her eyes were full of smiles.

At this moment, he seemed to feel a strong white light shining into his eyes. It looked dazzling and dazzling, like a bridge coming from the other side of the sky...until it reached his eyes.

 …as if someone was standing in front of him and extending his hand to him.

　　The years have passed, and the old friend has no return.

 “Su Lin.”

 A blue light emerged.

 Young, beautiful, with features like a siren sculpted by a god, emerged from him.

Her beautiful eyes were staring at her with complicated emotions.

"...My dear guest." She said softly: "I have clearly given you eternal life, why do you waste your own life like this?"

Su Lin raised his head slightly, and his eyes became a little cloudy.

"You can be like the princess who got my false soul, depriving others of their lives and letting them become petri dishes for your new body to extend your 'eternal life'." The siren said: "Look, on that street There are so many weak humans with no fighting power. Kill them, assimilate them, and choose the healthiest among them... My guest, you can separate your soul from your rotten body, Keep on living...live to the end of this world, you are a lucky man, you are supposed to rule this land."

Su Lin ignored the siren who tempted him.

 The smell of food and fireworks came from the houses on the street, mixed with the coldness of snow and the fishy smell of fish.

 He turned his head and looked at the young man with blond hair and blue eyes who was standing at the entrance of the alley at some point.

“Teacher.” The young man seemed to have just come running and was still panting: “Teacher, I’m here.”

 “Michael.” Su Lin said.

The blond man named Michael immediately stepped forward and supported Su Lin, who was about to fall. His expression was urgent, and he couldn't hide the sadness in his eyes.

 “You are the successor I have chosen.” Su Lin said softly.

 His voice was hoarse, his breathing was rapid, and he looked very weak.

 “I’m sorry to leave this task to you.” Su Lin said.

"No." Michael shook his head: "After inheriting your memory, your appearance, your ability, your...everything, I will definitely continue this 'eternal life' that can protect the entire Praia."

Su Lin smiled.

 …

 The princess holds the soul that represents "evil", so the way for her to obtain eternal life is to deprive others of their lives and make others become "petri dishes" to extend her life.

 She uses this malicious method to take away what others have and achieve her own.

 And Su Lin…

 As for Su Lin, who has a complete soul and has clear judgments about good and evil.

 His approach is completely opposite to that of the princess.

—Su Lin chose to let other people kill her, and on her own body, she became a new generation of "Su Lin".

 The person who kills him can gradually obtain Su Lin's memory, Su Lin's face, Su Lin's abilities... everything about Su Lin... until he becomes the next generation of "Su Lin".

 They will gradually transform into Su Lin, erasing their original selves, and become a new generation of "Su Lin" as if their bodies were taken away from them.

 In this way, in another sense, "Su Lin" has gained "eternal life".

 Such "eternal life" that is "passed from generation to generation".

　　"Eternal life" that does not regard one's own living as the first priority.

 …

　　【Eternal life is the most severe yoke. 】

 …

　　The human body can live forever, but the soul will be corrupted by the passage of time.

 He cannot bear the malice coming from the Siren's soul.

—Su Lin chose to give everything she had to the next person before her soul was completely corrupted.

 Because there is always the will of "Su Lin", when the next person realizes that his spirit is no longer able to bear this responsibility, he will continue the behavior of the previous generation and look for the next person who can kill him.

What Su Ming'an saw at this time was Su Lin who came down from Yunshang City for the first time. When he could no longer support the burden of his soul, Su Lin chose a person in Praia to inherit his responsibility.

He chose an ordinary young man named "Michael" from Praia, an engineering student he accepted before ascending to the city.

 Young people admire him very much and are willing to take over this responsibility.

Therefore, Michael took over all the important responsibilities of the first generation Su Lin, willing to be assimilated, inheriting the teacher's memory, appearance, abilities, and siren soul, and became the young Su Lin - passing on the protection of Praia. .

 Different from the princess who takes away the lives of others and lets herself live.

 …The path to eternal life he found was passed down from generation to generation.

  means to live toward death.

So, he who could have lived forever without illness or pain, in order to keep his soul clean, he took the initiative to choose generational replacement.

 He took the initiative to die.

 He also has a "petri dish".

 But this only “petri dish”,

 It’s himself.

 (End of this chapter)