From Prisoner to Si Chen

Time quickly came to the last day of November.

The day of long shots.

Early in the morning, Gilan got up.

Practice, wash, and read the newspaper while eating breakfast, living a self-disciplined life as always.

The newspapers are full of useless news. Gillan didn't care about which noble lady had an affair with the family servant and had sex in the stable, nor did he care about which shop was short of money. Customers and shopkeepers quarreled on the street in fluent Muse accents.

On the other hand, there was a promising young man who was deceived by his loved one and jumped off the bridge in East Muses. He fell into the Sicily River and drowned.

The incident caused considerable outrage in capital circles.

Ji Lan shook his head and sighed secretly.

He hated being deceived the most, and when he saw this kind of thing, he couldn't help but hate the woman. If he were to catch him, he would definitely give him a taste of the iron fist of justice.

In addition, newspaper reports on the border war situation are becoming increasingly clear, and the situation is looking good. According to the current situation, there are only a few scattered cities left in the Great Forest Area that have not yet been recovered.

It is expected that within this year, the empire will completely put down the war and win this counterattack.

A long while.

After Ji Lan finished eating, he folded the newspapers neatly and put them in the cabinet in order of date.

Immediately, he returned to the master bedroom.

He took out two real film reels of "Dark Ages # 1" and "The Great Plague # 2".

Strange phenomena occurred again.

The two black films seemed to melt and squirm together, finally becoming a new real film.

Gillan looked at the surface of the film reel. The name was written on the small piece of paper in pleasing handwriting:

"The Fire of Enlightenment".

'The title of the series of films about the "Crippled King" William Gerrard was originally called "The Fire of Enlightenment"...'

Ji Lan raised his eyebrows.

He actually really wanted to know what the black cube that couldn't even give a detailed entry for "Beautiful" was.

After installing the black film reel on the projector, Gillan inserted the mercury battery and raised his hand to flip the switch.

Click.

The shuttle rotates and the beam is projected.

Jilan woke up the little messenger Mo Weiwei, and the two sat on the wooden floor and started watching the movie.

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After the movie starts, the plot in the first half is pretty much the same. As the captain of the caravan guard, Gillan rescued the young William in the burned village of Marta and taught him how to grow up.

Five years later, he contacted Clark, and together they went to Nusi Lake to hunt for treasure, and were attacked by the Qiu Shang Familia...

It was not until subsequent developments that new changes occurred.

After Gillan parted with William outside the city of Florian at sunset, the plot took another turn, this time spanning ten years.

At that time, William had already founded the "Healing Knights" and led the mercenary group to victory in the "Battle of Ronsa", and his reputation was growing day by day.

The plot gradually progresses to the period of the Great Plague that Gillan is familiar with...

However, what surprised Gilan was that after successively conquering the territory of the Rongden Kingdom, the "Healing Knights" suddenly accepted the incorporation of King Ayose II.

He directly turned his gun and pointed it at the Sakya Kingdom.

At the same time, William Gerrard, the leader of the regiment, and the four knight captains were all awarded titles in the palace hall of "Samwell", the capital of the kingdom.

Not only did William become an earl, he was honored by King Ayose II in person, and he also married Princess Philippa Isaac.

This secret history really shocked Gillan.

The role he played as a teacher has continued to this day, and he seems to have become a member of the Knights, responsible for logistics.

But William's respect for him never changed.

Although the members of the Knights were confused about the leader's decision-making, they never questioned it.

Deputy Captain "Silver Crown Knight" Agni Baldwin once said that William's goal was most likely to use the power of the Kingdom of Rondon to clear out the Sakya forces and thus quell the war.

However, the subsequent development of the plot backfired...

Guillen stayed with the Knights for nearly another year, traveling with the team. He also took this opportunity to continuously test his "Owl Form" and sword skills on the battlefield.

He even gained quite a reputation, and was vaguely known as the fifth knight commander - "Crazy Owl Knight".

After another transition.

Time accelerated to 1655.

William this year is already forty-nine years old.

The Kingdom of Sakya was finally defeated in the war and was annexed by the Kingdom of Rongden. The most powerful and lengthy "Battle of Rongsa" in medieval history came to an end.

But William's dream still remained unfulfilled.

Because he discovered that even though the Rongden Kingdom defeated the Sakya Kingdom and achieved unification, it still continued to expand.

The ambitions of those in power are endless and will never stop.

At the same time, William had accumulated countless meritorious deeds, which had aroused the fear of the royal family. Even the ministers who once stood on Earl William's side, I don't know when, gradually distanced themselves from him.

At this period, an unprecedented plague and famine once again broke out in the Kingdom of Rongdeng.

Starving people are everywhere, and there are clouds of crows.

The whole world seemed to be covered in darkness and gloom.

Countless civilians died overnight, and the corpses fell faster than the pits were being dug. In the end, the Rongdeng Kingdom simply gave up part of its territory and left the civilians to fend for themselves.

The seven or eight surrounding principalities are ready to move, frequently encroaching on the kingdom's territory.

Domestic conflicts seem to be a dynamite barrel that is about to explode and be completely destroyed...

One night in November.

William was stabbed in the back by the old King Ayose II. Five hundred elite soldiers surrounded his mansion and sent dozens of mystics to assassinate him.

Faced with this, William managed to break out of the siege on his own. With one man and one sword, he fought from the mansion to the front of the palace, leaving a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood behind him.

But at the last moment he stepped onto the steps.

He fell head-on.

Because in the evening before the night of the assassination, the person he loved most, his wife Philippa, the crowned princess of the kingdom, poisoned the wine he drank.

When he saw his wife, the king and many ministers, surrounded by countless soldiers, William's eyes dimmed.

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After watching this movie, Gillan finally understood that the "Healing Knights" in history did not retreat.

But he was betrayed.

Thousands of members died and dispersed in the end. The leader was imprisoned in the most notorious "Silent Dungeon" in the Rongdeng Kingdom, and the four knight captains disappeared.

During this movie viewing, Gillan, as a member of the Knights, was also hunted by the kingdom.

But with his powerful makeup and disguise skills, and with the help of Weiwei, he hid in "Samwell" and was always paying attention to the development of the situation in secret.

But this plot made Gillan feel strange.

Because in his opinion, with William's intelligence, he would not be unable to see through the situation in the Rongdeng Kingdom, or even the malicious intentions of the people around him.

But subsequent developments made the inexplicable feeling in his heart become even stronger...

Because William suffered for three years in the "silent dungeon".

Eyes were gouged, tongues were cut, hand tendons and hamstrings were severed, skinned, whipped, and branded with irons...

There was not a single intact part of his body.

But in such a plot, suddenly on a quiet night, King Ayose II died suddenly, the princess was also beheaded, the entire royal family died, no one was spared, and the ministers also died.

A tall, straight, strange yet familiar figure stood at the top of the Kingdom Hall.

He raised the cross sword in his hand in the light of the morning light. Under his long golden curly hair fluttering in the wind, he had a pair of perfect facial features.

It was William who was reborn as a god.

He opened his mouth and said calmly to everyone in "Samwell":

"I am destined to make great achievements and end wars. But the powerful regard me as a sword, a chess piece, and a piece of grass. They will destroy me after using me."

"This unfair fate cannot make me bow my head. I killed all the people who got in the way, and I will also kill the people who will get in the way in the future."

"Now, I am the king of glory."

"Please remember my name, William Gerard."

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Until the end of the movie, Gilan's brows were still furrowed.

He always felt that the "Enlightenment Fire" series of films lacked some crucial information and plots, which resulted in some disconnected and absurd logical relationships.

The whole process was full of contradictions.

So until the next day, the first day of December, the day of the montage, Gillan chose to watch the movie again.

This time, in the constantly flashing video screen, Gilan finally found the answer he wanted...

Those are four extremely secret Easter egg scenes.

The first scene.

It was at the beginning of the establishment of the "Healing Knights" that William led the team to formally intervene in the "Battle of Rongsa" one night as mercenaries.

William lay on a simple straw bed in the marching tent and had a dream.

In this dream, he was extremely lucky to visit "Toyalan", the land of gods, and met a woman on the shore.

The woman was wearing a snow-white dress and her long white hair shawled. She was sitting lazily on a rock, looking at the sea.

After a simple exchange, William learned the other party's name, Xia Dia.

Xia Diya speaks very softly and makes people feel like a spring breeze. She always had a friendly smile on her face, and William was quite fond of her.

The two quickly became friends.

During the chat, Shadia called William "the hero of the times" and seemed to be very optimistic about his future.

"William, your dream is great, and I admire it very much... But mortals have their limits, and you may not succeed in the end."

Xia Diya smiled slightly and said.

William didn't care, he just shook his head and replied:

"Of course I know...and I'm ready to die on the battlefield."

"If one day, your dream is shattered, you can call my name in your dream...I can help you."

Xia Dia said to William solemnly.

When leaving, she also gave William a scale-shaped ornament as a token of her friend.

When William woke up at dawn, he originally thought it was just a dream, but he was shocked to find that he was holding the scale jewelry in his hand.

The second scene.

It was in the evening on the night of the assassination.

Forty-nine-year-old William stood by the window of the attic of the mansion, looking at the scenery of "Samwell", the capital of the Kingdom, with an indifferent expression.

After twenty-eight years, he once again took out the scale ornament, removed the black cube from his neck, and placed it on one end of the scale.

"There is no hope for this country..."

"Shadia, you are right."

"I am willing to follow the principle of 'equivalent exchange' and pay everything for it in exchange for power beyond the world."

Immediately, there was a knock on the door, and his princess wife Philippa brought the wine with a smile.

William turned around with a calm expression.

Without hesitation, he picked up the glass and drank it in one gulp.

The voiceover suddenly sounded something that Ms. Shardier said at some point:

"William, if your dream is shattered, you can come to me. Everything in the world follows the principle of 'equivalent exchange'. If you can meet the four conditions, I can help you ascend to godhood."

"1. Go through wars and control your subordinates. This is to imitate the experience of March Sichen's 'Gladiator' and November Sichen's 'Blind General'. Through this, you can peek into the laws of the two Sichens and summarize your own path of."

"2. Endure torture and redeem yourself. This is the experience of Seventh Month's 'Omer', through which you can gain light and illuminate your way forward. The world is already out of order, and as the God of hope and order, He acquiesces You borrow His law."

"Third, combine with salt to give birth to offspring. This is the help of September Sichen's 'Ms. Snow'. Through this, you can get the favor of 'equivalent exchange' and complete the highest gift from a mortal to Sichen."

"Four. The fire of love inspires enlightenment. Use the world's relics in your hands to obtain the highest enlightenment in despair, and soar in place..."

The third scene.

In the dim "Silent Dungeon", William was naked and skinny, with disheveled hair and bruises all over his body.

His hands were spread out and he was shackled to the wall. The whole person fell to his knees, bowed his head and said nothing.

The leader, who used to be as high-spirited as a god, is now being tortured to the point of becoming a human being.

A man slowly walked from the shadows outside the cell.

It was a man wearing a strange round helmet. His face was covered with thick shiny glass, and his facial features underneath could not be seen at all.

He was also wearing a fat white jumpsuit, which looked out of place for this era.

"William, is this your plan?"

A muffled sound came from under the helmet.

"Borrow the power of the four Si Chens to activate the 'Enlightenment Fire'... Although I think this is too risky, I still choose to believe you."

Hearing the sound, William slowly raised his head.

His face was haggard, his eyes were dark and empty, he opened his mouth, but no sound came out.

Clark understood what his best friend meant, sighed and nodded.

"Okay, I understand."

As he spoke, the man in the "astronaut uniform" waved his hand, and a strange black square-headed machine appeared beside him, supported by a tripod.

The circular lens focuses on William in the cell.

Click——

With a flash of white light, history was recorded.

The fourth scene.

William was walking in a very dreamy wilderness, but there were countless sharp knives standing on the ground.

He stepped on the knife naked and was bleeding.

But William's expression did not change, and he walked forward resolutely, even though he was faltering, he was very firm.

He walked through the wilderness and came to a square gate at the end.

The door is made of simple stone and is engraved with dense patterns and symbols. In the center of the door frame, there are several ancient Xilu characters:

"The Gate of Weights."

Beside the door stood a dark-skinned man.

He wore a golden cocked hat and a priest's robe, carried a double-winged snake staff in his left hand, and held a pot-shaped furnace in his right hand, which seemed to be burning with infinite temperature.

"Hermes, the 'King of the Furnace', I am here at the invitation of the 'Snow Lady' Shadir..."

William spoke calmly.

The priest named Hermes did not speak, but silently stepped aside to allow William to pass through the "Gate of Weights".

After he walked through the door.

But in an instant, they came to a lake covered with ice and snow.

“Is this the ‘Rinchi Lake’ where Shadir lives?”

William murmured.

He saw hundreds of human-shaped ice sculptures, frozen in various postures on the lake.

At the end of the glacial lake, there is a familiar figure of a lady.

Shadir floats in the air, wearing a crown and white hair. His eyes are closed and his expression is holy.

Wands in the left hand, scales in the right hand.

One end of the scale is a pile of salt, and the other end is William's black cube "The Fire of Enlightenment."

"William, believe me, you will be the hero of this era..."

He descended slowly and spoke gently.

William asked:

"'Ms. Snow,' I have always been curious as to why you chose me instead of Clark... We both hold the 'Enlightenment Fire'."

"You are different from him."

Shadir spoke softly and shook his head.

"Clarke Smith is an alternative. His dreams doom his future. After all, he cannot become the hope of mankind."

"..." William was silent.

Shadir raised the scepter in his hand and stabbed directly into his heart, causing blood to drip from his body.

He therefore freed up his hands, pulled William into his arms, and then said softly:

"William, give our child a name...she will become an important barrier in this world, endure suffering for the world, and save people."

"But it's not fair to her. Is her mission in life to live for others? Shadir, my goddess of justice...don't you think this is too ironic?"

William said indifferently in the goddess's arms.

Xia Dier lowered his eyes and answered softly:

"No, this is the greatest fairness...William, I have provided you with conveniences with the law in my hand. Not only has it allowed you to ascend, but you can also sacrifice your daughter to save this world that is on the verge of being broken."

"This is the best option."

Hearing this, William fell into a long silence.

At this moment, he thought of his dream, of countless mortals struggling in pain in the dark era, and of the "miasma" that was gradually intensifying, as if casting a doomsday shadow over the world.

He knew that if he did not make sacrifices, everything would fall into the grave of destruction.

Regardless of the old god Si Sui or the new god Si Chen... except "Ms. Snow" Xia Dier, no one is willing to save it.

Finally, William took a deep breath and looked at Shadir. And gently said the name:

"Our daughter..."

"My name is Torina Gerald."