The Fire-Chasing Herrscher Who Destroyed the World

"Da-da-da-da-"

The crisp footsteps echoed back and forth in the tunnel. In a place as quiet as this place for a long time, suddenly hearing such a sound might be a shock, right?

But the fact is just the opposite. This sound was captured by Ying's two pairs of ears from a long distance, and after the initial strangeness of this footsteps faded, she only felt the relief of her expectations being met.

She stood up, took two steps lightly, and then lowered her head and whispered:

"Long time no see, Mikael."

"Da!"

The footsteps suddenly stopped. As if a silver bottle suddenly broke, this last step was extremely powerful and crisp, and it was obviously not like he decided to stop because he was called.

"Although... I don't like the word long time no see."

Mikael's voice sounded on Ying's right side. Ying turned her head and saw a vague outline beside her.

"Scare me."

She smiled faintly, and didn't seem to be scared.

Mikael shrugged his shoulders in boredom and snapped his fingers, and the whole tunnel was instantly as bright as day.

The source of boredom was certainly not because of such a trivial matter as failing to scare Sakura. He himself was not so bored that he had the leisure to do this... It was just that Sakura had succeeded once in New Zealand before, and he instinctively wanted to retaliate, even though the target of revenge was Sakura's memory.

That's right, the Sakura in front of him was obviously not the real body, but just the memory left in the paradise of the past. She didn't even know that Sakura had left the paradise of the past.

This is also normal. Here, the fusion of the entity to the world bubble phantom to the memory is completed based on quantum entanglement. This process is not obvious. It may be just a blink of an eye, or it may be just a sleep, and the process is completed.

Of course, the memory can also realize the departure of the real body, but not at the moment of departure, but when the real body returns to the paradise of the past and resynchronizes the memory.

The power of consciousness inadvertently swept across the memory in front of him. Compared with "people" who have both physical and conscious existence, the memory that only exists in the form of "consciousness" has little resistance to the power of consciousness.

Uh... Mikael suddenly wanted to pat his head - this is the paradise of the past life based on the power of erosion. Wouldn't it be more convenient and secretive to use the power of erosion?

Perhaps it was because this was the last power he had obtained, and there was no possibility of using it against the enemy, so he always subconsciously ignored it.

But this was not a serious mistake. The same was true when using the power of consciousness. Mikael easily obtained all the "memories" of the memory. However, she did not see any possible reason from the memory of the memory that might indicate why Sakura did this.

"Is that so..."

Mikael held his chin and thought silently, and for a while he could not take care of the memory next to him.

"There is no relevant memory in the memory, which means that Sakura made such a decision outside the paradise. But five hundred years ago, she returned to the paradise like Padu and no longer went to the real world... Yes, anyone would have a hard time staying in a place like the paradise. In other words, Sakura saw something after going out, so she made a new plan? No, there is another possibility, someone used the power of erosion to delete that part..."

"What are you thinking?"

Sakura stretched out her palm and waved it in front of Mikael.

Looking at her smile, Mikael was also a little stunned for a while.

"Hmm? Is there any problem?"

Sakura's facial features unconsciously returned to their original state. The corners of her mouth were pressed down first, the muscles of her cheeks tightened, and her eyebrows wrinkled slightly towards the center of her eyebrows.

"Nothing, just..."

Mikael pondered for a moment, and suddenly bit his lower lip fiercely.

"Just... I've never seen you smile like that before."

Sakura was also stunned, and after two or three seconds, a smile appeared on her face again.

"Is that so... That's right. At that time, I was busy with various tasks all day long. Although I didn't say it out loud, I was actually tired of it. Now I am here, spending repetitive days with Ling. Although life is not as exciting as before, this kind of life now has been the reason for me to swing the knife from the beginning. It is the ending I want to get."

Mikael's hands slowly clenched into fists. This was just an instinctive reaction of the body-he told himself so, because he didn't feel what he was thinking.

"So, you no longer have a reason to swing the knife, right?"

He asked casually.

"I think there should be no reason. I haven't touched the knife for more than 500 years, and even... I don't carry it anymore. Without the meaning of swinging the knife, the blade will be blunt, and such a knife can no longer be wielded."

Mikael glanced at her waist when he heard it. It's true. He said that he felt that the Sakura he faced today was a little strange. He just thought that there was a difference between Sakura's memory and her body. It's not impossible. Just look at Mobius. But he didn't notice until now that the real difference between the two was that the Sakura in front of him, as a memory, didn't have a sword.

This was the second time Mikael saw Sakura unarmed.

When was the last time? Lulu, it was a long, long time ago. Although she was two years younger than Mikael at that time, she was still as sharp as a sword after losing her weapon.

Unlike now...

"But all this is false, Sakura... The Paradise of the Past is not the real world. It is just like the fakes in the Quantum Sea. Everything is an phantom of the past, and everything is a lie left by the past."

Mikael didn't know why he said such things.

Was it Sakura's contented attitude that made him feel uncomfortable? It shouldn't be possible. If they could satisfy their life here, he should have...

Halfway through thinking, Mikael suddenly understood - he just felt unworthy.

It's not that Ying Jie doesn't deserve such a life, but that such false happiness doesn't deserve Ying Jie.

Sakura didn't seem to expect that Mikael would say this, but she just smiled:

"I understand what you mean, but Mikael, I don't know what other people think, but... isn't false happiness happiness? Or, what is real happiness and what is false happiness? Really? Can you tell the difference?"

"If the real you thinks like this..."

It's really funny that this sentence suddenly popped up in Mikael's mind. The real Sakura and the memory Sakura actually hold two completely opposite views.

But Mikael can't say which one is "good" and which one is "bad". He is not qualified to define all of them.

As long as the decisions made by the heroes are based on their free will, Mikael doesn't think this is a bad thing, even if all they have to do is go against themselves, but...

but……

But isn't this part of the perfect ending that he has been looking forward to?

"Maybe, no matter what kind of happiness it is, no matter whether the basic components of happiness are real or false, as long as it is happiness that can be truly felt by oneself, it is not a false emotion. And, Sakura, I like you smile."

Sakura looked at Mikael in surprise. After hearing his last words, her smile faded slightly, but her cheeks turned slightly red.

But after that, the two seemed to have exhausted all the topics, and apart from the sound of footsteps as they continued to go deeper, there was only deep silence.

Sakura walked behind Mikael at some point and quietly looked at the back of the figure who had followed him.

In fact, the distance between the two of them was not that far. Mikael quickly walked into the central processing... er, hub of the Paradise of the Past, but Sakura did not follow him in, even though her sister was inside. But they have been together for 50,000 years, so naturally they will not dwell on this moment.

She gently opened the door for Mikael, although she was also curious in her heart - Mikael had only been to the paradise twice in the past 50,000 years. The first time was Eve's birthday, and the second time was five hundred years ago. When sending her and Paduo back to the paradise of the past. Therefore, she knew that Mikael must have something important to do when he came here for the third time, or he must have some questions to seek answers to. Of course she was curious, but these had nothing to do with her. It was enough for her to have such a life. .

No……

not enough.

She suddenly remembered something that she had ignored before - he said that he had never seen her smile before, and he said that he liked her smile, but...

From then on, she never saw his smile again.

…………

"Roar-bang!"

The girl stared nervously at the computer screen. As a blue gorilla descended from the sky, her character, who clearly still had most of her blood, performed the health bar disappearing technique, and the screen suddenly turned gray.

"Ahhhh! I'm so angry!"

The girl skillfully pressed the shortcut key to bring up the interface of the chat software, and clicked on the "V" private chat interface in the group chat at the top:

"Sister Weiwei! Your big blue-skinned monkey's statistics are too perverted. You can't even save a shield or a breast!"

After the message was sent, the girl simply lay down on the soft chair and fiddled with the blood-red bangs on her forehead in annoyance.

"Roar-bang!"

The familiar voice sounded again, and Ling shuddered, but she quickly realized that she had lost the battle and exited the game, which must have nothing to do with her role.

So, she raised her chin slightly and looked at the other girl across the table.

"Sister Padu, I wish you good luck..."

It seemed that Ling's blessing had taken effect. The pair of cat ears on Padu's head twitched. She patted her chest gently and murmured nervously:

"Okay, okay, there is still a trace of blood... Your attack is over! Now it's my turn! I don't believe that Padofelis can't kill you with four big moves!"

Padu's pale face reflected the complex and gorgeous light and shadow on the screen, especially the dim surrounding environment, which made the screen more dazzling, just like the lights in a disco in the downtown area.

"Aha... It didn't happen in seconds, it was almost!"

Padu leaned on the back of the chair dejectedly, and two lines of tears instantly flowed down.

At the same time, the familiar roar sounded again:

"Roar-bang!"

Looking at Paduo's tragic situation, Ling patted her chest lightly and felt a lot better - as long as she was not the only unlucky person, it wasn't unlucky. As long as she is not the only one being persecuted by the big blue monkey, ah no, the ape god, then it is not considered persecution!

"Didi——"

It seemed that Velvet had sent a reply.

"Huh? Or voice?"

"What? You want to change the value again? Although this is a piece of cake for this genius, but aren't you, poor kid, always spinning in circles? I kindly copied this popular game back, you and I said there was no way to earn gold, and you couldn’t get the character by just relying on your liver, so I directly gave you the console code for the character and weapon. Then you thought you could kill any monster in seconds, so I reluctantly helped you increase the monster’s value. You have reached level 100, and now you feel that the monster value is too high? Then if I help you reduce the value now, will you feel that it is too easy to defeat monsters and there is no sense of accomplishment? "

Ling sighed heavily and slumped back in the chair.

Although Sister Wilwei didn't say it explicitly, it was obvious that she didn't intend to help her change the values ​​any more. Although Ling felt that just from the tone of her voice, Sister Wilwei who was currently on duty should be a conductor, so she might not be able to change it... right?

In short, she planned to forget about these troublesome things for now. At worst, she would secretly use the power of the twelfth divine key to reset the various values ​​of the game back to the state where she had just been connected to the paradise.

"Well...Sister Padu, you've been playing for several days, don't you need to go restock?"

She looked at Pado across from her with some doubts, who still looked like "I am already a useless cat".

"Ah? Restocking! I...ah, no! Shhh-please keep talking about this topic in a lower voice!"

"But there won't be anyone else here, right?"

Ling spread her hands, and Padu scratched the cat's ears, and found that this seemed to be the case.

But her sixth sense as a cat always makes her feel something is wrong...

"Sigh... We only discovered this problem recently. Ling, Ling, look, among the boss ladies outside, which one purchases the goods personally? No! The reason why they are boss ladies is because they are good at simple things like purchasing goods. The employees below will do it, and as the proprietress of Felice’s store, I only need to sit and wait for the employees to purchase the goods, and then solve the problems that the employees cannot solve!”

"Actually, the main reason is that the game is so fun..."

Ling murmured in a low voice. When she saw Pado looking over, she quickly took the initiative to change the topic:

"Uh... has Sister Padu found her employee? Who is it?"

She once tried to go shopping with Pado, but it was annoying to say that she had been practicing with her sister every morning for several years, but she was actually holding back Sister Pado in pretending to lurk. She had no choice but to give up such a "money" and exciting job, and it was more suitable for her to return to the central hub to take care of the 12th God Key.

After all, there has been no problem with the God Key for 50,000 years. She is more like playing games than going to work.

When talking about the employee's problem, Padu seemed to be even more embarrassed. She pinched her cat ears hard and then whispered:

"Uh...actually...actually I just gave Can Can the task of restocking every night."

As if he felt that doing so was suspected of animal cruelty, Pado quickly explained:

"The can is smaller than me, and its movements are lighter than mine. It is much easier to restock. Moreover, it has known how to eat and sleep before. Kevin always secretly feeds it, almost turning it into a pig... let it Restock, just in time to make it lose weight..."

"Pfft!"

"puff--"

The sound of Ling Yuan's laughter that was about to blurt out was stuck in her throat. She and Pado jumped up from their seats almost at the same time, looking warily at the darkness beside them.

If it weren't for the sudden laughter that suddenly stopped, the two of them wouldn't have discovered that there was a third party here.

"Oh... what should I say? You two are just playing games secretly. Why do you have to turn off the lights?"

The male voice was so unfamiliar that tears welled up in the eyes of Paduo and Ling as soon as they heard it.

"clatter!"

Mikael snapped his fingers, and the lights in the room brightened. The sudden change of light and shadow made him couldn't help but shrink his pupils, which rarely affected his vision.

"Hey! Wait!"

Before he could react, Pado pounced on him like a kitten, wrapping its limbs tightly around his body.

"Wow! Brother Mikael, you actually remember this place... We thought it would be thousands of years before we see you again!"

"Okay, okay, is it such an exaggeration?"

Mikael glanced at Ling, who was standing aside with an equally excited expression, gave her a reassuring look, and then gently patted Pado on the back.

Then, he asked casually:

"Do you really miss me that much? When was the last time we met?"

"Five hundred and forty years, eight months and three days, a total of one hundred and ninety-seven thousand, eight hundred and eighty-eight days! Uh... we can't remember the specifics when we were little."

Mikael's hand patting her back froze in place, and then she hugged the kitten tightly in her arms.

Apart from this powerful hug, he no longer knew what else he could give her.