Endless Debt

In this desperate and crazy death situation, TEDA did not feel the fear of death, nor did he taste the unbearable grief.

TEDA is not extremely indifferent. Absolute peace now fills his mind. TEDA has not felt this for a long time. His exhausted will has been liberated. Eternal sleep is right in front of him, just waiting for him to deal with the last things.

He hugged the cold body hard and whispered to it affectionately, saying words that only Teda could hear clearly.

"When you escaped, I was really happy. You finally walked away, escaped this destined fate and started a new life."

TEDA controls the entire alchemy workshop. Aimu thought that no one knew about her escape. In fact, TEDA noticed every time she left, but TEDA still let her go.

"I don't know how to explain my emotions. It's too complicated. I'm too old and have suffered too many setbacks. It's hard for me to understand and deal with it."

Teda's tone gradually became more relaxed, and he confessed to the corpse.

"I can't let go of my connection with Alice, and I don't dare to have a new connection with you, because life is like this. When a connection is established, there will always be a moment when it breaks.

I have already experienced loss once, and in order not to lose again, I will no longer accept anyone..."

Teda smiled mockingly to himself. Alice in the distance was waving countless arms, like a deformed spider, approaching quickly.

"I think this is also a way of evading responsibility, but I am also working hard to make changes..."

Teda was silent for a while, and then continued.

“During my tenure in the Bureau of Order, the game Othello was very popular in the Bureau of Order, and there was a term in it called the forced migration dilemma.

The general meaning is that no matter how you move the chess, it will only make the situation worse, and this is your turn, and you have to move the chess. "

Teda smiled numbly and shook his head.

“People always have to make changes, whether it’s good or bad, wrong or right, when the choice comes, we always have to choose a certain path.

For example, if I continue like this until I destroy myself, I will not only satisfy my wish, but also end my own life.

I have always felt that death is the only mercy that fate has for mankind. When you can no longer hold on, you can die.

This is how I planned to end my uncontrollable thoughts and pain with death. "

TEDA picked up the Perpetual Core and put it back into Aimu's broken chest, but this was not enough to wake up Aimu. When the Perpetual Core was peeled off, the flesh and blood gnawed away the internal mechanical structure.

"But you came back and punished me with your death."

TEDA's eyes once again glowed with blazing light, and this time the ether's glow was stronger than before, as if a blazing sun was embedded in the deep eye sockets.

"I deserve to be punished, but not at the cost of your death."

Alice was in front of her, her slender fingers gathered together to form a sharp blade, and she chopped off Teda's head. It was dominated by absolute hunger, and would swallow even cold rocks without hesitation.

The sharp finger bones were enough to tear apart steel, but they hovered in front of TEDA at the last moment and could no longer fall.

Alice didn't understand what was going on. It was clear that TEDA had run out of gas, so how could he still have the power to resist herself.

Teda didn't pay attention to the monster that was so close, he just looked at the cold face in his arms.

"If you want to call a devil, you must first know its name."

Teda whispered that evil name, like breathing out a spell.

"Tyrant Mammon."

Magnificent power came here, disrupting the movement of the world, stealing the short time, and everything stagnated in an instant.

The sea of ​​fog boiled in the stagnation, and they surged up one after another, like an overflowing tide, swallowing up the battlefield in the blink of an eye, leaving everyone in the fog.

In this deep and fuzzy world, evil and crazy voices sounded, and he responded gently.

"Your call...I heard it."

TEDA saw that all the light was escaping from this place, and then fell into complete darkness.

Dim lights lit up one after another in the darkness, and the red carpet was laid all the way to the end of the darkness, under the mountains of Mammon coins, and under the endless wealth, the chaotic figure sitting behind the desk. forward.

The tyrant crossed his legs and put his hands on his knees. At this moment, he did not appear with Vika's body as a basis, but truly, sitting in front of TEDA with his own entity.

This is the realm that belongs only to the tyrant, transcending space and time, and hoarding endless souls.

"And what do you want? Teda Yazhedet."

the devil questioned, listening to his wish.

TEDA did not respond immediately, but looked at the cold body in his arms. It arrived in this strange realm with him. The core of constant motion was still in the incomplete chest, and the fantasy seed exuded a faint light.

"Resurrect her? I can't do that. Even I can't change what has happened." The devil smiled contemptuously.

"Resurrection? No, she is just an alchemy doll. She has never truly lived, so how can she die?"

Teda shook his head, untroubled by the devil's words.

"As for being unable to change what has already happened..." TEDA looked at the utopian seeds wrapped around the core of Perpetual Motion, and he continued, "None of this has happened yet."

What is happening today is still in the realm of false fantasies constructed from fantasies and has not yet connected with reality.

Utopia is not omnipotent, it only gives a beautiful possibility to the cold reality, making the hopeless things change from zero to one.

Now that the only possibility has appeared, all TEDA has to do is to help Amu grasp that only possibility.

"Please grant her wish."

Teda pleaded.

The devil hesitated for a moment, thinking he heard wrongly, and then burst into laughter.

"Are you making a wish for her? Such selfless people are really rare."

TEDA doesn't feel that he is very noble, this is just atonement for him.

"No...not enough."

The devil rejected TEDA ruthlessly and laughed at his folly.

"I have given everything to you!" Teda said unwillingly, "Isn't that enough?"

"No, it's not enough, it's still not enough," the devil shook his head, "You don't know what kind of noble soul you are trading. What you are paying now is far from enough."

The devil never lies, and their deals are absolutely equal.

"Your soul is worth nothing to me."

TEDA understood what the devil meant and smiled to himself. TEDA knew that he had no value, but when the devil actually told him all this, he still felt an indescribable sadness.

Even if he sacrifices his soul, TEDA cannot realize that sad wish.

The surrounding darkness receded, the devil rejected TEDA's deal, the normal world returned, and the rising fog also dissipated.

Alice is close in front of her eyes, her cracked petals are covered with sharp teeth, longing for the satisfaction of her soul. Now she is bound by the stagnation of time, but soon, with the departure of the devil, the stagnation of time will be broken, and Teda longs for it. Long-standing death will hang over his life.

But just before the stagnation was about to collapse, Teda thought about it. He found the loophole in the rules, broke away from Leng Che's despair, and looked happy.

"No...you cannot and do not have the right to refuse me, Mammon."

TEDA calls out to the devil again, and this time the devil must obey his orders.

The power of fantasy creation surges, but this time it is not outlining some nihilistic fantasy, but cruelly destroying reality.

The huge remains of the wolf spider under him began to collapse, and the dead flesh and blood fell off, revealing the alchemy workshop wrapped in layers of flesh and blood, and then the alchemy workshop also began to collapse.

Bricks and stones mixed with steel were thrown into the sea of ​​mist below, like a shore eroded by waves. With the continuous collapse, the virtual domain of the alchemy workshop was completely shattered, and the hub tower also fell from it.

As layer after layer collapsed, sporadic golden rays of light shone from the ruins, and then more and more golden rays of light shone. There were so many of them, like a golden rainstorm sweeping through the great rift, and all of them were thrown into the fog. In the sea.

Those were Mammon coins that TEDA had accumulated over the years. They were stored in the upper level of the alchemy workshop. With the collapse of the alchemy workshop, they also emerged from the shadows.

It was a magnificent scenery. In this dark and bloody hell, golden raindrops were born with the destruction. They were flying one after another. Each raindrop shined with the purest gold, like thousands of blazing suns, reflecting It illuminates the silence of despair.

“This is a land where wishes come true.”

Teda whispered, holding the cold body as if humming a gentle lullaby.

He felt that this was a destined moment, in this hesitating fork in the road that could realize his wish, in this delusional dream, in this moment where countless wishes were intertwined and woven...

No matter what, some wishes are bound to come true.

This is doomed.

Alice herself has no intelligence and relies entirely on instinct. Now her hungry instinct warns her that something terrible is about to happen.

It wanted to escape, but under the constraints of some strange force, even Alice couldn't move.

That is the power that transcends evil, the power that is the source of all evil.

Then Alice heard Teda's morbid babble.

"The master of the wandering road, the great tyrant Mammon!"

Teda growled.

"I pay taxes to you!"

The golden rainstorm roared in, crossing the many obstacles across the great rift, straight into the sea of ​​mist, dyeing the gray clouds and mist into a bright golden color, as if there were flames burning in the mist.

"This is a land where wishes can come true, and even a worthless soul has its moments to shine."

In a trance, Teda heard the devil's whisper, and then he saw a void figure walking towards him. He smiled and easily penetrated his body with his palms, grasped his heart, and then pulled something from it. Pull away.

"I will take away your body, mind, soul, everything, everything."

The devil promised.

"Then the world will be as you wish."

The devil's figure dissipated into nothingness, and the bright golden light in the sky also disappeared into the rolling sea of ​​fog.

Teda's body began to turn gray, and then disappeared, like a dead thing that had lost its soul and returned to dust.

As he collapsed, the cold body in TEDA's arms became warmer.

The steel twisted everything into a brand new skeleton. Alice let out a shrill scream. Large areas of flesh and blood were peeled off from its body and stuck to the steel bones. The damaged mechanical structure was reset, and the blood vessels were The gaps extend and wrap around the core of constant motion.

Several holes were dug out of the metal case, and blood was poured into them. After a few seconds, the perpetual core vibrated like a real heart.

The Philosopher's Stone was full of cracks and completely shattered, but this time the soul contained in it did not disappear, but was bound to the body of steel and flesh, permeating every inch and every corner.

Bones of steel, bodies of flesh and blood, mechanical core, human souls... As the wish came true, the fantasy species completely dimmed and dissipated.

Teda looked at Aimu who was gradually recovering. Her face was no longer as cold as a doll mask, but had a gentle color. If she looked carefully, she could even see the looming blood vessels under the skin.

The cold reality was broken, and the false dreams turned into reality.

His chest rose and fell slightly, and Aimu breathed for the first time, coughing uncomfortably like a newborn baby.

Aimu opened her eyes and saw the gray Teda. It was hard for her to understand what happened, but she asked mysteriously.

"What am I to you?"

Her voice was dry and her pronunciation was inaccurate, and then she heard Teda's last call.

"You are Amu...

Aimu Yajedet. "