Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 832

[Chapter 813: Essential Points of Difference]

Ding…ding-ding…

that is the sound of the God who carries history, carving the sand with his stone chisel in the burned history.

The giant sat on the ground, seemingly unresponsive to the approach of the uninvited guest. He still looked the same as in Vanna’s memory – old and tall, and the vicissitudes of history seemed to have left deep ravine marks on his face. , messy hair and beard, and a pair of sunken eyes.

But compared with what Vanna remembered, he seemed older and a little more stooped, and in his torn robe, you could see that there was still a dark red glimmer of light that was flickering, as if the remaining fire was still there. His body was burning, and small sparks occasionally flew out from the corners of his clothes as he moved. The firelight fell on the desert, creating a brief and blurry phantom.

The giant raised his arm again, and the stone hit the stone chisel. The chisel fell into the loose yellow sand, but splashed out sparks and a crisp sound like gold and stone hitting each other. However, after all, yellow sand is something that cannot be carved – there is no carving in the sand. No trace was left behind, only the crisp chisel sound echoed hollowly in this boundless sea of sand.

Fanna stood still next to a sand dune, looking at the familiar figure not far away. After a brief hesitation, she finally followed the captain and took a tentative step forward.

Then, the giant’s deep and hoarse voice finally broke the silence and reached her ears: “Time… is an illusion imposed by observers on the changes in things, and history is the illusion cast by intelligent races on time. To the intellectual observer, all meaning is based on ‘people’… Without people, there is no meaning. “

Fanna stopped a few meters away from the giant. pace.

“A long time ago, there were stones here, and history could be engraved on the stones, but now there is only sand left, and even the flames are only this small fire.” The giant looked at the pile crumbling in the cold wind. “It’s almost over.”

“Civilization begins with flames and stones, and it will end there… Vanna couldn’t help but say – this is in the breeze Tarijin told her about the long dream in Hong Kong.

The giant finally raised his head, and his eyes fell on Vanna.

“I had a very short dream recently, and that dream came from a long, long time ago. Passed over, only vague shadows are left…but I saw you in those shadows.” He looked into Fanna’s eyes, and the grooves on his face piled up into a smile, “Thank you for accompanying me to complete this task. Although I can no longer remember that journey…but I still remember that that journey was originally very lonely. “

Fanna opened her eyes slightly: “That happened in Sirandis’s dream, you…can also know?”

“When time is about to close, everything that happened in the time stream The events are all connected to each other.” Tarijin nodded slightly, “When this sanctuary was first established, I was deeply bound to its time flow… Now, I Know a lot of things. “

Then he turned his head again and looked at Duncan who was standing next to Vanna.

“I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, Fire Usurper,” the giant smiled faintly, “But it’s okay, this is the only one in this place with nothing. There are also meaningful things. “

To be honest, I didn’t expect this to be like this before,” Duncan exhaled and spoke his thoughts frankly, “I thought…as a recorder of civilization, you would be better than others.” The situation of the gods is better. After all, “memory” is one of your powers, and you should be better able to fight against “corruption”. “

“A counter-intuitive fact is that when the process of disaster is prolonged to a certain extent, “the death of history will often precede the death of the ethnic group itself.” Tarijin shook his head, “Well, it is not always the death of a ethnic group that leads to their demise.” The history of a group of people just dies. In many cases, while a group is still alive, their history has already ended… Forgetting is a very scary thing. “

The giant paused briefly when he said this .

, sighing softly: “…Forgetting is terrible, especially when many things in this world will suddenly disappear. The ‘corrections’ inside the shelter cannot completely bridge the gap between those who are sold by the actual prototypes.” The holes created by the pollution left countless lesions and tears in history. I tried my best to cover up those historical distortion points that may have caused the spread of pollution, and re-sculpted the memories of the world, again and again, and again. Once… the stone finally turned into sand, and the sand turned into ashes, and now it is almost beyond repair.”

Tarijin shook his head and threw down the stone and chisel in his hand – before falling into the yellow sand. In an instant, they shattered and turned into the same sand as the surrounding ones.

Duncan took a step forward and came to the giant who was taller than the tallest human being when he sat down: “Xu should know what I am here for.”

“Yes, Pilot 2 has contacted me,” Tarijin was very indifferent, “You are here to end this world, just like the scene I saw a long time ago… You will burn everything, and everything will eventually be destroyed in your hands – this is you The first step to save them. “

Duncan faced the giant’s gaze calmly and asked curiously: “You mean when you and the other ancient kings first discovered “I” before the sanctuary was established? At that time, you called me ‘Fire Usurper’…also because you could foresee the future?”

“I don’t have the ability to calculate the entire world like Pilot 2, but I have a pair of tools that can calculate the time line. Eyes that look into the distance – although it doesn’t always work that well,” Tarezin laughed, with a nostalgic tone in his voice, “In the old world, those who believed in me believed that I could do this, so I

“I have always been worried that burning everything will lead to the ‘flame ending’,” Duncan thought for a while and said, “This worry was when Pilot One proposed the ‘takeover plan’ to me

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‘Shortly after that – a preacher of the end showed me the end of this ending. In that branch of history, I also burned the world, but the world still inevitably ushered in the end. “

He paused for a moment before speaking frankly about his long-standing worries: “This is what I have always been worried about, and it is also the only thing I am worried about so far. That ‘flame ending’ is like a shadow, and I always worry about it. It feels like…its effective conditions seem to be very close to the ‘first step’ I’m going to do next. When I complete the ‘first step’, will I mistakenly enter the history of the ‘flame ending’? Branch?”

Tarijin, who was sitting in the yellow sand, leaned forward slightly and stared into Duncan’s eyes for a long time. After a while, the old giant looked away.

“So, there is a key point of disagreement,” He spoke with a low voice, “Whether it’s Pilot One’s plan or your current plan, burning the world is the unavoidable first step, and the difference after that is…” .When executing this plan, who are you? “

Listening to the words of this “eternal fire”, Duncan suddenly felt something in his heart!

He finally vaguely grasped that key point… the one he has always been. It can be felt vaguely, but there is still no definite key.

He subconsciously took another half step forward and stared into the giant’s eyes: “You mean…

” Captain Duncan’s power has its limits,” Tarijin said calmly, “You are This incarnation has been around for too long, but…it’s just an incarnation after all. “

Duncan’s eyes widened slightly. He lowered his head and looked at his hands. He finally understood what he had always vaguely felt was wrong, and why he had that instinctive worry… .That

was his “self” that was bound in this body, aware of the limitations of the incarnation, and thus issued a subconscious warning.

He was not Duncan, he was Zhou Ming.

Duncan is just one of his incarnations, just like the antique shop manager of Pland, just like the garden guard of Frost – the captain of the Lost Home, and just one of the three incarnations.

Duncan’s first spiritual world The walking happened when he activated the yellow steel compass – and Tong Ming’s first spiritual walk happened when he pushed open the door of the bachelor’s apartment and walked through the thick fog!

He took a gentle breath , let your thoughts slowly calm down.

In fact…he had already noticed these things before. As “Zhou Ming”, he had realized that his so-called “body” on the Lost Home was actually different from the two people of Purander and Hanshuang. There is no essential difference between the two “corpse incarnations”. He realized that the identity of “Duncan” should be his first incarnation in this world, but until now, he had never thought carefully about the deeper meaning of this matter –

Is he Duncan or Zhou Ming? This question has been the key from the beginning.

The key is from the beginning…

Tong Ming suddenly frowned. He suddenly recalled the first words the goat head said when he saw him after he came to the Lost Home, and every time he saw him. That sentence that everyone would confirm to themselves – “Name?”

“Oh, it seems you are beginning to understand the essence of this problem.” At this moment, Tarijin’s voice suddenly came from the side, waking Duncan up from his meditation. , “Then can you control your thoughts a little bit – the starlight is almost burning my eyes.”

Duncan reacted suddenly, and then he noticed that a faint layer of starlight had spread around him, and the starlight was shining all around him. In the yellow sand, it seems that the desert is gradually being saturated with the starry sky.

Tarijin lifted up his tattered robe to block the starlight shining on him, his tone seemed helpless.

On the other hand, Fanna, who was standing next to him, seemed fine, just standing there in a daze.

There is a kind of beauty of a sports student standing next to the teacher, unable to keep up with his thoughts.

Duncan coughed twice in embarrassment: “Uh…sorry.”

The starlight surrounding him gradually shrank.