Barrage said, I am the final villain in the game

When Hester came to the foot of the mountain where the ball of light was placed, he suddenly stopped.

The reason is simple.

The road that originally had few bends suddenly forked at this moment.

There are three forking roads, left, right and forward.

In the center of the intersection, a simple wooden sign stood quietly.

Hester took a closer look and saw that the words were still as simple and clear as an introduction to a secret place.

【Every road leads to the top.】

"No more?"

Hester walked around the wooden sign several times, looking at every corner carefully, but could not find any other words.

"Every road leads to the top...Does this sentence have any profound meaning?"

Hester was a little confused.

Since this wooden sign appears here, and something different from before suddenly appears in front of us, it means that the wooden sign must have a meaning for its existence.

When Hester saw the fork in the road and the wooden sign from a distance, he thought it might be a warning like "The short road is difficult, the long road is easy, and the middle road is neither difficult nor easy."

The result, is this?

Hester didn't understand.

If you create three roads, and then give you a prompt that means you can reach your destination if you go up the mountain, then why do you create three roads? Does it look good?

Even if he doesn’t understand, Hearst still has to make a choice.

It's just that this choice doesn't seem that easy.

"According to the experience of our predecessors, whenever we encounter this kind of path that requires a choice, the left side often represents the short and difficult, and the right represents the far and easy. However, everything is not absolute, and it is not that no one uses the so-called 'experience' to make decisions.

Interfering with people’s vision.”

"How about choosing the middle in everything?"

"Modern is indeed a universal option, but..."

Hearst didn't like middle-of-the-road choices.

Although he is not pretentious, but because of his status, he is naturally superior to others, and he also has a bit of arrogance in his heart.

If it were at other times, it would be a choice, but now, he is not going through the level alone, and the person who goes through the level with him is not pleasing to him no matter how he looks at it.

If he chose the middle and the other party chose the left, and the left was really the easier way, wouldn't he really have to follow Linn's request to help him ask his sister out?

How is that possible!

Don’t even think about it!

Gritting his teeth, Hester closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Then, step firmly on the road to the left.

However, after he walked for a while, he immediately became doubtful about his choice.

How is this road... any different from the one we just took?

It is still a straight road, the only difference is that the surrounding wasteland has turned into barren mountains.

As the warning at the beginning said, there is indeed no danger, but you can't feel any closer at all. You can't even see the light ball above anymore, and you can't judge your current position through the light ball.

"Damn..."

Hester suddenly felt annoyed in his heart.

If you go to the right, or go to the middle as you just thought, will there be any different changes?

"meeting."

Hester turned his head abruptly.

Beside him, at some point, a hunched old woman with a cane was looking at him with a gentle smile.

Falling in, the voice just now was exactly what she made.

The old woman raised her crutch and pointed behind him. Hester also turned around and looked in the direction he came from.

The road he came from has not disappeared, and he can still see the intersection where he turned.

"The road on the right to the top of the mountain is indeed the closest; the road in the middle is indeed neither far nor close; only the road you are taking now is the farthest and the longest."

"...."

Hester's face twitched.

Damn...

"However." The old woman took back her crutch and looked at him gently, "You can go back now and choose again."

"Um?!"

Hester was stunned for a moment, his face full of disbelief: "Can I still go back and choose again?"

This routine was something Hester had never heard of or seen.

Logically speaking, after entering the levels in the secret realm, you generally cannot exit. Once you make a choice, you have chosen it, and you cannot turn back.

But this old woman told him that he could still turn back?

"Really or not?"

The old woman nodded: "There are no lies here."

Hester took a few tentative steps back and found that he could actually walk back.

He took a few more steps, his speed was not restricted, and there was no pressure stopping him, as if it really had no impact.

Turning back, Hester did not see the shadow of the old woman again, only a deep white mist that was slowly dissipating.

"...."

After hesitating for a moment, Hester's competitiveness finally defeated the hesitation in his heart.

He returned to the way he came, chose the right, and continued walking forward.

When he first started leaving, he felt that he might have been cheated.

Because there is no difference at all between this road and the left part he just walked.

But when he turned a corner, the top of the mountain was already in front of him.

"It seems that the old lady did not lie to me."

Hester walked quickly towards his final destination with excitement.

.......

Lin En, who was walking on the road, saw the three roads ahead from a distance. As the distance got closer, he also saw the information on the sign.

"It can all lead to the top of the mountain? That's no problem."

He did not stop here, but walked on the middle road without stopping.

However, he didn't go deep for long when a voice stopped in front of him.

"The middle is the farthest road." The old woman smiled kindly, "The one on the left is closer; the one on the right is further."

Lin En's steps stagnated for a moment, but soon regained her rhythm.

He tilted his head, smiled and said, "Thank you, I understand."

"Now, you can go back and choose again."

"Well, I understand."

"...."

The smile on the old woman's face froze slightly, and she immediately followed Lin En, who was already a little far away from her. There was a hint of seriousness in her voice: "I won't lie to you. There are no lies here."

"Okay, I understand."

"..." A look of confusion finally appeared in the old woman's cloudy eyes, "Aren't you going to choose again? In this case, it will take you longer."

Lin En asked very strangely: "You have come here, why do you want to go back? Is it wrong what is written on the sign? This road does not reach the end?"

"No, it's not..."

"So, are there dangers on this road?"

"No..."

"Then why should I go back? Even if the road I walk is really long, even if there are difficulties and dangers ahead, so what? No matter what, I can always reach my destination, right?"

He spread his hands:

"As long as no one forces me and tells me what will happen if I don't arrive within the stipulated time, what's the difference if I arrive earlier or later?"

The old woman held her crutches with both hands: "The time you arrive may be slower than the other person."

"No." Linn smiled, "I suggest you add this word in front of the word 'maybe' in the sentence you just said."

"...."

"My speed will not be slower than his." Linn said, "Maybe he does walk faster than me, but he cannot arrive earlier than me."

"Hesitation and hesitation will become a burden to him and slow down his progress."

After a pause, Linn smiled again and said: "If there was no reminder of the start, I might have hesitated just now, but since I was given the reminder, there is no way I would have made such a low-level mistake."

"If I choose, I will take him down."

"If it's a mountain, climb over it; if it's a river, cross it; if it's an enemy...just deal with it."

"I will seriously face all the choices I make. Looking back can only happen when the benefits are doubled and greater than what I can get now."

The old woman was silent.

She stopped and silently stared at the back of the young man who was gradually receding.

But the figure only turned its back to him and waved its hand without looking back.

"goodbye."

"goodbye?"

The old woman shook her head and sighed slightly.

"Probably, there is no chance."