What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

... getting closer.

At this moment, in the camphor forest. Anyone with a clear consciousness can perceive this very clearly.

It's like a giant is approaching, the footsteps are shaking, and it can't be ignored. The white bears couldn't restrain themselves and began to run away with their heads in their hands, while the black bears held stone spears and guarded in front of the altar in vain, making a defensive gesture.

The wooden man turned his head stiffly, and his huge body made a cracking sound, as if he was ready to climb out of the ground to fight at any time. Su Mai stood beside Xu Turan and Yang Buqi, trying to adjust his breathing while wiping the cold sweat from his palms on his trousers.

On the side of Xu Tuoran's head, there was still a lump of meat paste scattered - it looked like a puddle of smashed rotten meat, with an eye rolling its eyes in the middle. This thing rolled out of Xu Tuoran's hair not long ago, and it was shaking violently at the moment.

When Su Mai first discovered this thing, he had a big reaction. If the wooden man hadn't stopped him, he would have slapped it with the sole of his shoe. However, now, I don't know if it's because the current atmosphere is too depressing, so that such a bunch of weird things are acceptable to people.

...to no avail.

It can't be dragged on any longer.

When the entire camphor forest began to vibrate inexplicably, Su Mai felt this more strongly. The thing, that huge thing they couldn't even look directly at, had been pushed out of the woods. Even the already dim light in the forest became a bit dim because of its existence.

"...Give it back to me. My ability label." Su Mai took a deep breath, and said to the huge wooden man behind him, "Although, from the current point of view, my ability may not be of much use."

But at least he had to have the gun in his hand until the enemy officially showed up.

The wooden man behind him looked down at him and didn't respond directly. He just controlled a **** bear to get into the tunnel in its chest—it dug out Su Mai's ability tag and handed it back to him. After thinking about it, he used the body of the **** bear and said, "You can, hide here."

"Hiding in your body? Let's forget it." Su Maiqiang smiled, and put the ability label back on his body, "I am also a capable person, and I can't surrender without a fight..."

Before he finished speaking, the ground suddenly shook violently, and all the light dimmed instantly. Su Mai looked up vigilantly, and heard a strange creaking sound from the camphor tree not far away.

It's not a horrific sight. At least not for him. However, at this moment, his heart still beat wildly involuntarily, as if foreseeing some indescribable future.

Muscles began to spasm unconsciously, and bones began to crack. He subconsciously used his body to block the two people who were still sleeping soundly. After thinking for a while, he quickly took out the mobile phone that Xu Tuoran had left before, turned around and wanted to put it back into her hand—he made his own initiative, and not long ago Using this mobile phone, I recorded a section of my last words. If possible, at least this thing, he hopes to stay...

However, the moment Su Mai just turned around, something happened suddenly.

He heard a bang.

Then Xu vainly exploded.

… literally exploded. Accompanied by a violent sound, the body instantly shattered into dust.

All this happened so suddenly that Su Mai was completely dumbfounded. He even spent two seconds thinking about whether this might be an illusion caused by his mental stress.

But soon, a scene appeared that made him doubt his life even more.

The dust that Xu Tuoran's body turned into condensed and swelled again in the next second, and the color gradually became deeper—until finally, it turned into a black vortex as tall as two people.

The sound of breaking was stirred in the vortex. Like roaring and like laughing. Immediately afterwards, under Su Mai's dull eyes, the vortex suddenly rose from the ground and rushed straight to the sky, and the figure disappeared behind the huge crown of camphor trees intertwined in an instant.

At the same time, Su Mai heard a rustling sound from above. There is an extra circle of flowing colored light around. He looked up through the colored light, and saw that there was an extra layer of black covering on the top of his head.

That thing was like an open black cloth, covering them airtightly. Su Mai thought it was a dead object, but after staring at it for a while, he realized that it was actually a layer of fog, a thick layer of black fog that also had a strong sense of flow.

…As if realizing something, Su Mai mustered up the courage to close his eyes, and called up his global map in his consciousness.

Sure enough, there was an extra layer of "cover" in their current position. A black cover.

…She's protecting us.

Su Mai suddenly understood. The black mist above their heads was the protection left by Xu Tueran.

As for what was outside that "protective cover", Su Mai wisely didn't look at it. Because of the existence of the black mist, the shuddering sense of oppression was temporarily isolated, so he wouldn't be so overwhelmed that he would try to spy on it himself.

But a new question arises - what should they do now?

What else can they do?

Su Mai glanced around with inquiring eyes. With the illumination of the colorful lights, he saw Yang Buqi behind him still asleep, and the big tree next to him was still trying to stretch its leaves. A small pink flower is climbing up the branch of the tree, as if it wants to climb to the highest point.

In the rear, the huge wooden man seemed to have calmed down, but he was still slowly getting up from the ground. The black bears and white bears who had gathered at the open-air altar began to walk towards the bug museum in groups.

The whipping devices that had stopped functioning fell off the wooden man one by one. Su Mai seemed to realize something, and frowned slightly: "Hey, what are you doing?"

"...a sacrifice."

This time, the wooden man finally stopped talking to him through the **** bear. Surrounded by colorful light, Su Mai noticed that its woodcut face, which always had a sad expression, finally stretched slightly.

"'He' has returned to his place and awakened. Next, I will sacrifice everything about me..."

Sacrifice?

Su Mai frowned because of this undecent-sounding word. Recalling the days and nights of dealing with those abominations and false gods, a bad feeling suddenly appeared in his heart, and he was about to say something when he heard a strange voice:

"Now... so what's the progress?"

"..." Su Mai followed the prestige, and saw that the lump of meatloaf on the ground had "woke up" at some point, his white eyes had returned to their original positions, and he was struggling to get his body off the ground.

Noticing Su Mai's complicated gaze on him, he greeted him very naturally, and then asked again: "So what's the progress now? Xing Xing... I mean, where is Xu Tuoran?"

Su Mai: "..."

He thought for a while, and replied truthfully: "Go to heaven."

The system that just returned to the soul: "..."

ah?

at the same time.

Outside the camphor forest and inside the green space center.

A figure carefully hid in the shadows, looking up at everything above, even holding its breath involuntarily.

In the sky above him, he saw a huge door suspended in the air. On the top of the door was a head with a distorted face that seemed to be crying and smiling. Inside the slightly opened door, several hands made of pure white light were holding the door. Cracks, looming, the surrounding air waves are surging, and even the space seems to be slightly distorted.

Behind the giant gate is a blood moon hanging high. In front of the giant gate, there is a mass of black aggregates whose outlines are constantly changing. During the changes, colored light can be faintly seen flowing in it, and some sounds can be heard in the dark, and it is hard to tell whether it is roaring or laughing.

Jiang Lin naturally wouldn't try to listen. He is very clear about his current situation - most of his power has been plundered by the projection of the educator as a sacrifice, coupled with the previous weakening, let alone facing the stars now, even if he takes a little bit of a head, he is afraid that he will be instantly killed by her. Press to die.

And he could feel that there was no movement in Jianglin... As a Chen-level Eternal Day, the only thing that could cause her demise was the stars except for the Educator's projection. If the former is fine, if the latter, it means a full awakening of the stars, which is worse for them.

In any case, their only hope now is the Educator's projection.

Jiang Lin thought about it silently, and the palms of his palms suddenly burst into cold sweat again. In addition to being afraid, I couldn't help feeling rejoicing.

Fortunately, he has been hiding a life-saving means in his hand. Before being completely absorbed by the Educator's projection, he transferred the consciousness of the main body to the nearby split body-this is also grateful to Jiang Lin. At the last moment of her escape, she loosened her mind control over him, which not only gave him the opportunity to transfer, but also allowed him to seize her opportunity to escape, copying the ability of "invisibility" from her.

Because of the isolation of the domain, he couldn't transfer his consciousness outside the park, so he could only transfer it to the nearby split that was dancing the sacrificial dance. Fortunately, Xing Xing didn't bother to investigate, and let them leave directly. He took advantage of this time to hide himself, left the team, and continued to hide in the park.

Of course he knew that the camphor forest was safer than the park at this time. However, the countless fragments folded inside made him full of vigilance towards that place. Compared to it, he would rather stay in the park and continue to observe the situation.

The worst thing is to be swallowed by the projection of the educator. But no matter what, this should have been their fate. And if he is lucky, even if he only gets a little bit, he will benefit infinitely from the confrontation between the Educator's projection and the stars.

But now, the situation in the park is not quite right—Jiang Lin thought about it, looking around him.

From the moment the stars appeared, a long "river" appeared in the park. This muddy river, full of blood and cries, flows in the park on its own, branching off incessantly. At first, Jiang Lin thought that the stars were using it to catch him, but later he found that it didn't target him, so Fang was a little relieved.

But this kind of form of going around and branching out, I always feel like I've seen it somewhere... Jiang Lin frowned slightly. Because of the interference effect of the blood moon, his thinking speed was much slower than usual, so it took him a lot of effort to faintly touch the corners.

He remembered. When she was in the domain of the Jiang family, this guy did something similar to herself - she used the blood river to draw a big rune on the ground...

Oops.

Realizing this suddenly, Jiang Lin couldn't help being startled, suddenly something lightly touched his back, which startled him even more.

He hurriedly turned his head, only to notice that behind him, there was an extra tentacle at some point—

Tentacles hanging from above.

The tentacles were pitch-black and as thick as half a human. Noticing his terrified gaze, it shook him twice in a good mood, and then raised it high, which belonged to the position of the suction cup, and opened a big mouth, and a large black substance in the mouth turned out like a stomach pouch—

He went straight towards Jiang Lin and swallowed it.

the other end.

Inside the camphor forest.

The minced meat system, which was finally restored to its original shape, was climbing up the wooden man's huge body. Su Mai stood below, looked over without a word, and asked strangely, "What are you doing?"

"I want to pierce through this layer of filthy fog and see the situation above." Meaty squirmed her body hard, "No...how did she go to heaven? Although her strength has been accumulated almost, it is too risky to confront her head-on. lost..."

"I won't lose."

An abrupt voice sounded beside Su Mai. He turned his head in surprise, only to see Yang Buqi who was awake, slowly getting up from the ground.

His current appearance looks a little more normal than Xu Tuoran's, but it's not that normal—his waist and below have changed back to the shape of a tree trunk, and the branches on his body are more lush than when Su Mai saw him last time I don't know how many times, there is even a clump of tree crowns behind the waist, which looks like a peacock's screen when viewed from the front.

…though viewed from the side, it actually looks more like a broccoli tail.

Su Mai couldn't help but glanced a few more times, and came to a conclusion in his heart. On the other side, the minced meat that had already climbed onto the wooden man's shoulder also looked over: "What do you mean?"

"In vain she has a way to win." Yang Buqi paused every word, "Queen of Desolation. You've seen this before, haven't you?"

Minced meat: "..."

It clicked its tongue lightly, and turned around with difficulty: "This is a real projection. It's not easy to 'desolate' it."

At least the sacrifices required are not of the same order of magnitude as the previous ones.

At that time, Xu Tuoran directly sacrificed a tree branch that Yang Buqi had given her, and then she risked most of her life to achieve her goal. At that time, what she dealt with was only the inferior product made by the Omniscient Worm using the Educator's umbilical cord; If they want to copy the method to deal with the current projection, not to mention Xu Tuoran's own consumption, where can they find sacrifices that can provide such powerful energy?

"You don't need to look for it." Yang Buqi said lightly, protruding two long branches from his waist, and swept the fallen leaves in front of him left and right, revealing the calm water below.

Under the surface of the water, huge stones and buildings are clearly visible, which is the ancient altar of stars that is still sleeping.

Yang Buqi maintained the posture of pushing away the fallen leaves with a branch, while he took a few steps forward, looking at the altar under the water calmly, as if he was looking at something memorable: "The power of desolation can reach The limit depends on the limit of the sacrifice's vitality. If you treat me as a sacrifice..."

"She will definitely win." Rou Min said thoughtfully, "But you will definitely die."

Death in the true sense.

After all, the current Yang Buqi, or in other words, the ancient will of the planet, exists as the companion of the stars. When he is offered to the stars again as a sacrifice, his status as a companion will be automatically invalidated—if he loses the gift of the stars, even if he is the master of life, he will surely wither.

Not to mention, the desolate sacrifice itself is a sacrifice that requires extremely high vitality. Once accepted as a sacrifice, there is no second possibility other than being directly drained of vitality.

"I know." Yang Buqi didn't seem surprised by this, "I know, that's why I'm here."

This is exactly what he saw in the foresight corridor before, the best ending.

Take him as a sacrifice, and use the power of barrenness to fight against the projection of the educator. Xu Tuoran will also suffer some injuries because of this, but her remaining strength is enough for her to survive the last cycle of this world—after that, the world will be independent, and the wheel of time can finally roll forward. Xu Tuoran can also be like in the past, entrenched in his own altar, draw strength from other people's dreams, and repair his own injuries.

It's not a particularly perfect ending, but compared to others, it's pretty good.

So he has to come here specially. Not only to raise his life tendency to the most useful star as soon as possible, but also to sacrifice himself to the stars as quickly as possible after everything started.

"...All right." After a pause for a few seconds, Rou Min said again, "Although I don't want to admit it, I have to say that your plan is not bad."

"But I have a question. Have you talked to Xu Tuoran about the sacrifice before?"

"How is it possible." Yang Buqi seemed to smile, "But it's okay. She can feel it."

He said, taking another step forward. stopped at the edge of the water.

"She'll see what I mean."

He muttered, took a deep breath, no longer hesitated, relaxed his body, and fell straight down.

With a splash, his body was completely submerged in the water. Under the complicated eyes of everyone, it sank towards the altar at the bottom of the water like a green stone—but without the obstruction of the branches, the fallen leaves on both sides quickly gathered together again, covering the water surface again, and blocking the sight of others .

Su Mai looked away slowly until the last corner of the water surface was covered. Regarding what Cai Yang Buqi said just now, he actually didn't fully understand it, but he probably understood one of the most important points.

"He... sacrificed, didn't he?" He turned his head slowly, looked at the others, and asked with difficulty.

No one answered his question. The wooden man lowered his brows and eyes, and the big tree drooped its branches and leaves. Only the minced meat standing on the shoulders of the wooden man let out a soft "hey".

"How should I put it, I think he'd better ask Xing Xing about this matter first..." It muttered, and was about to say something more, when suddenly there was another loud noise in the forest—

Accompanied by the loud noise, Su Mai felt a strong air burst behind him. He turned around in surprise, and saw that the fallen leaves that had gathered just now were washed away again, and a thick black shadow mixed with colorful lights spewed out of it like a fountain, and the one on the top of the "fountain" was the one who had just bravely dived into the water. Yang Buqi...

Hearing another "boom", he was directly pushed back onto the open-air altar by the black shadow, and fell straight to the ground.

Before the push back was finished, the black shadow suddenly folded over the top again, opening an abyss-like opening, roaring at Yang Buqi, and after the roar was over, Fang returned to the water again.

Yang Buqi: "..."

other people:"…"

"Otherwise, the product may be returned on the spot." Only then did Roumi finish the second half of the sentence leisurely.

Yang Buqi: "..."

Yang Buqi was stunned by the yelling, he was stunned in place, and he didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

The good news is that the big tree that was still wilting just now has become energetic again. It's just that the little pink flower sitting on the trunk looks a little complicated, and is covering the buds with leaves, looking blind.

Just at this time, the fallen leaves covering the water surface were washed away again, and the black shadow rushed out aggressively again, hovered in the air for observation, and suddenly divided into two groups, and it accurately hit the Jiang Lin, who was in the blood amber, and Jiang Lin, who was in a coma, were all wrapped up and dragged back to the bottom of the water.

Just after dragging, another black shadow sprang out, approached Yang Buqi to look at it for a long time, and rolled directly behind his waist, neatly wrapped around the big tree crown behind his waist, snapped the whole tree away, head Without turning back, Yang Buqi continued to stay where he was, touching his bare tree trunk, not knowing what expression to put on for a moment.

"What's more, stars seldom need people to sacrifice." Rou Min added without changing his face, "Whatever she wants to eat, she usually grabs it by herself."

…

For some reason, the atmosphere suddenly became a little delicate. Su Mai was silent for a moment, then turned to look at the huge wooden man behind him: "Speaking of which, did you also say you were going to do something before, 'sacrifice'?"

"..." The wooden man didn't answer.

It just pulled out more than half of its body from the ground, and silently stuffed it back little by little.

"But I don't understand." Yang Buqi finally recovered from the shock of being returned from the sacrifice, and immediately frowned deeply, "If you don't use the power of desolation, what exactly is she going to do..."

As soon as the words fell, suddenly there was another earth-shattering sound from above.

This time, everyone could feel that above them, through the thick filthy fog, something exploded.