Chapter 98 Slaves and Shackles

The sound of the tide echoes on the seashore.

There seems to be no difference between four hundred years ago and four hundred years later.

The sun, the stars, the tides, the sound of the wind have remained the same for millions of years and have never changed. Or maybe they have already been different from the beginning, but human life and history are too short to notice.

"Recently, I sometimes think about it."

On the deck of the speedboat, a bearded old man sitting on a folding chair looked at the bright moon reflected in the sea and suddenly said, "If our ancestors hadn't done so many things, and the Tianyuan Tower was completed, and the feat of using order as a cage to control the rest of the supreme good was really a stroke of luck and completed, would the world be better than it is now?"

"You're having a fit again, aren't you?"

Between the reef and the beach, the slightly aged White Owl dragged a heavy iron box with great effort. He gritted his teeth and climbed up: "Give me a hand, give me some strength. After so many years, how come you still don't have any foresight? Who is it because of whom that I worked so hard to carry so many packages back?"

"Oh, thank you for your hard work."

The old man grinned and pulled her up along with the box: "I see you are so tired and exhausted, so I feel sentimental."

"You're feeling a dick!"

Bai Xiao took off his hat and took his place without any hesitation. "You are the commander of Nirvana, but you keep on talking nonsense like if, maybe, and possibly. Every day is just a fantasy. Don't waste your days. Go find a mirror-like celestial being to create a dream for you, and then you can die in a deep sleep."

"How can dreams be as bizarre as reality?"

The commander leaned against the side of the ship and casually sat on the iron box, which made Bai Xiao's eyelids twitch wildly. Before she could curse, he said, "In fact, during the thousands of years of rule of the Eternal Empire, there were not too many incompetent emperors. Compared with the current group of politicians, most emperors were more humane. Not to mention, there were many emperors who could be called wise and powerful even by any high standard."

"I don't know, I don't understand, I'm not interested." Bai Xiao remained indifferent: "Why are you talking about history with an illiterate person?"

"Did you know that two thousand years ago, 'ignorance' was actually a disease?" The commander became more and more interested.

"WTF?"

Bai Xiao glared: "You are teasing me again, right?"

"No, literally, it's a disease."

The commander replied calmly, "It's a plague that can't be cured, a virus that spreads through books and records. Once infected, all knowledge and cognition will be eaten away, and one will become crazy, manic, mechanical and blindly follow others. One will instinctively chase after groups to infect more people."

“It wasn’t just the plague of ignorance. The Age of Chaos had just ended, and there were all kinds of bizarre situations.

In earlier times, there was a kind of mimic that even scholars and doctors could not distinguish, a kind of shapeshifter, mixed among humans. They were reflections that ran out of the mirror. After eating the original owner, they ran around in the human world with his face, causing a lot of trouble. "

"There is a kind of fruit. If you eat it, you will become young again and immortal. But the price is that your life span will be borne by another random person in the world."

"Some monsters, once seen by human eyes, would cause the observer's soul to rupture and sensory overload to death. At that time, they lived in the clouds, migrating with the storms, and stalking living things. As a result, all animals dared not look up at the sky."

"In that era, which is almost like myth and legend compared to today, there were a lot of exaggerated things that are now just jokes. For example, there was a worm that could swallow an entire city and make everyone die of old age in the illusion inside its stomach. There was a giant snake that doubled its size every day and eventually encircled the entire continent..."

Snapped!
The flame jumped and lit the pipe. Bai Xiao glanced at his cheerful look and said unconcernedly: "If you are so awesome, why can't you see it now?"

"Of course, it's because they were all eliminated."

The commander laughed, his smile was cold: "All."

"The Plague of Ignorance and all the books related to it were all burned to ashes. The world and reflections in the mirror were completely destroyed and scattered into ashes, never to be revived. The Fruit of Immortality completely wiped out its existence and could no longer exist in reality. The monster in the storm was completely evaporated along with the storm in the thunder.

The giant worm was swallowed by an even bigger dragon. The giant snake turned into dry bones after being hunted by the gods. After sinking to the bottom of the sea, it formed a mountain range surrounding the entire world. The former Haizhou was where its tail was connected. Its full name is actually... The State of the Giant Snake Entering the Sea.

Everything that posed a threat to humanity was shattered, wiped out, and not a trace left, under the orders, instructions, or personal leadership of the emperors.

Even at the end of the Eternal Empire, the last emperor was still a great ruler who worked hard to govern the country, but he was alone and had no way to overcome the overall situation, and ended up falling along with the Tianyuan Tower. "

"..."

Bai Xiao was stunned and confused: "Is this... so bizarre? Then why did the Mohists rebel in the first place?"

"Because the emperor is the emperor."

The commander said calmly: "No matter how good an emperor is, he is still an emperor. No matter how kind or compassionate a person is, once he sits on that position, everything in this world is doomed to be harmed.

For example, the things that disappeared from this world are not only those listed above, but also the third gender of creatures, the second prismatic moon in the sky, all human races with green hair and red skin, springs that can cure most diseases including cancer and can be found everywhere, and something too complex and elusive that seems to be the beginning of something called liangzi technology... because of unimportant reasons such as defiling the harem, being too dazzling, being unsightly, or simply failing to highlight the uniqueness of the Supreme.

Compared to these, the 170,000 people who died because they were unlucky people taller than the emperor are not even qualified to be mentioned in the same breath. By the way, the dwarfs who are still alive today are really lucky, because the emperor at that time was also the tallest among all the emperors, at 3.41 meters. "

“Now, do you understand? When a person is able to receive all the beauty and glory in the world, then all the suffering in this world is his original sin.

When one person has all the choices, then it means that other people have no choices at all.”

Even though the moonlight and stars were so bright, the commander's pupils were shrouded in the haze under his brows, and they were pitch black: "As long as you realize that there are gods who control everything in this world, you will yearn for a world where gods do not exist...

The Tianyuan Tower took sixteen centuries to build.

During the first three centuries, everyone worked together, longing for the birth of a beautiful world of eternal stability.

In the seventh century, some people began to wonder whether a world ruled and dominated by an emperor would really be so beautiful. And when the tenth century arrived, more people began to ask themselves: why would they gamble their own future and the future of everyone else on a so-called eternal ruler?

Why should we put shackles on ourselves with our own hands and use our own backs to support the gods to ascend to the altar?

Therefore, the demigods once killed the gods, and after the emperor killed the demigods, he was killed by mortals - when people understand that no one is born destined to be a slave to something, they will begin to wonder: Why are there so many shackles in this world?
As long as the shackles remain, there will be rebels, and everyone is no different.

The only difference is that some rebels are called Mo, and some rebels are called Nirvana... Some rebels are you, and some rebels are me."

Under the silvery moonlight, the world's greatest terrorist spread his hands and smiled: "And this is why we are what we are."

card wipe.

Click, click, click.

The crisp sound of biting an apple was heard, and Bai Xiao turned his head, spit out the core into the sea, and nodded nonchalantly: "Oh."

"...Look at you, look at you!" The commander sighed, helpless: "Every time everyone is talking about how excited they are, you are the only one who refuses to listen and keeps throwing cold water on us."

"Then don't try to be so rude. Save your nice words for when you're trying to trick children!" Bai Xiao rolled his eyes. "If I hadn't known that you had a problem with your brain, I might have believed it."

"Well, having problems with your brain is another reason."

The commander didn't take it as an offense, as if he was used to it, or didn't care at all. He took the fragment of the map thrown by Bai Xiao in a hurry, and raised his eyebrows: "Is it so bad? Not really, the simulated personality inside has been completely broken up... You are not using it to vent your anger, are you?"

"If I tell you that Mercury is alive, he'll pull this thing over and tear it up. Do you believe me?"

Bai Xiao rolled his eyes and slumped in his chair, wanting to say something but not knowing where to start. He rubbed his brows in distress and said, "This time when I entered the Rift Realm, I encountered a little devil."

"Hmm?" The commander was puzzled.

"Xiao Ye asked me to look after his child, and I thought since I was already here, I might as well take a look. But... I was frightened. Or should I say, I was shocked."

She recalled the scene she had witnessed with her own eyes, her hands trembling slightly: "The Edge of Change was actually awakened by him."

"..."

In the dead silence, the commander widened his eyes, as if he was shocked to hear that the empire had suddenly landed on the moon.

"Is this true? Will there be a response to the change?"

Having said that, he stood up in disbelief and wanted to open the box.

The moment it was touched, countless runes and emblems emerged from the iron box, layer upon layer, as magnificent as the universe.

He just touched the handle lightly, and then he heard a hissing sound. When he raised his hand again, it had been burned to the bare bones.

In fact, no matter how hard you try, it cannot be restored.

In the charred wounds, dots of ashes flickered with red light, as if burning forever.

So unruly and fierce.

Then, he finally realized.

"...The one summoned by destiny."

The commander sighed: "She is really like that. She never expresses herself and doesn't like to talk. She makes a big thing out of nothing. It has always been like this.

Maybe he will be a formidable opponent in the future."

"I would have definitely eradicated it decades ago, but now that I'm older, I've become soft-hearted and suddenly I can't do it anymore."

Bai Xiao smoked his pipe and sighed sadly, "Besides, Xiao Ye finally recruited a student, so he must treasure him like a treasure. If he died in my hands, he would definitely hate me to death. When I thought about being hated by the few friends I had, I began to hesitate... What do you think, is this also his destiny?"

She turned to look at the commander, "Because of various reasons in advance, I am destined to be unable to interfere with what is happening?"

The commander asked back: "What do you think is destiny?"

"what?"

Bai Xiao was at a loss. In his eyes, which were as clear as those of a college student, there was a glow of ignorance and confusion.

Mainly, this question was too abrupt and strange, so much so that she found herself unable to explain it in detail. But soon, she heard the answer from the commander.

"Destiny is a result, destiny is a prophecy, and at the same time, destiny is bullshit - the biggest bullshit in the world."

The commander raised his hand and pointed at Bai Xiao: "If you were a child with nothing, and someone told you that you were destined to be the emperor who dominated the world in the future, and you should get up and start a rebellion, what would you do?"

"I'd never trust you, you old man is so evil!"

"What if you are the emperor who rules the world, and someone finds you and tells you that the reason you can become the emperor is because of the prophecy I made that year, and this is destiny!

What will you do? "

Bai Xiao glared at me immediately: “How dare you talk to me like that? Do the Nine Clans sell wholesale?!”

"See, you have understood the nature of destiny."

The commander spread his hands and grinned, "Destiny is just an illusion perceived by future generations when they look back on the results.

Maybe the coincidences in your life have pushed you to a higher position than you expected. Or maybe you have been ambitious from the beginning, and you have been unwilling to give up despite repeated failures...

When countless variables meet countless variables, the only solution obtained after observation and collapse is regarded by fools as fate, and they try to cover everything with such a huge proposition.

But in the final analysis, it is not the Supreme Good, nor the fate bestowed by heaven, that controls everything. The origin of everything is you.

Maybe you can't dominate the world, but your destiny at this moment is in your own hands.

For example—"

The commander pointed his finger at himself: "If you suddenly shoot and kill me here, and then disband Nirvana and sever this inheritance...then in the eyes of future generations, will this be the destiny bestowed upon you by the Supreme Being?"

"..."

Bai Xiao held up his chin, thought calmly, analyzed carefully, and considered seriously. A light of eagerness appeared in his eyes: "It sounds very attractive."

"forget it."

The commander raised his hands in surrender: "We are all old men, please stop torturing each other and spare me."

"So what you mean is that man can conquer nature?"

"Do not."

The commander shook his head decisively, without thinking: "Most likely we can't win, it's hard to win just by thinking about it, most people will fail, and those who win once by chance may not be able to win again.

But……"

He paused, unable to suppress his smile and happiness, "It feels so good to go against the so-called 'predestined fate'."

No matter who you are, once you try it once, you can never stop.

Just like ambition, just like ideal, just like resistance beyond one's capabilities.

It is a poison more powerful than wealth and beauty. It will always make people intoxicated. Once taken, there is no cure.

Even if you have to go through hardships and suffer a lot, you will still enjoy it.

Drop drop-

A crisp ringtone rang, it was the alarm on the cell phone.

"Oh, oh, oh-it's about to begin!"

The commander became excited and didn't bother to talk. He raised his head and pointed to the sky: "Look."

"what?"

Bai Xiao raised his head, and as he looked, the sky was full of shining stars, the night was deep, the silver light of the bright moon transformed everything, and the galaxy surged as if it would never stop.

But the moment she looked up, the moonlight seemed to flicker.

At the edge of the moon, something brushed past, leaving a momentary incompleteness, so small and vague.

"Lunar eclipse?" Bai Xiao was puzzled: "Is it very rare?"

"Not at all."

The commander stared at the bright and flawless moonlight in a daze, smiling brilliantly. After a long while, he slowly withdrew his gaze: "Two hours before you came back, I received news: The Nanlu Observatory discovered that the originally measured partial lunar eclipse was delayed by one minute.

The cause was a reference value error. The specific reason was that it appeared in the past records. When I went back and sorted it out, I found that this deviation had appeared more than 200 years ago, but it was so small that even the empire's core supercomputer could not find it... It was not until now, when I looked back, that I discovered the unexpected situation. "

He lifted the page of his mobile phone. The complex data on the picture made Bai Xiao dizzy and he couldn't understand it at all. But the most eye-catching thing was the picture in the middle.

The brilliant and continuous observed spectrum, after repeated measurement and magnification thousands of times, appeared as a thin and fuzzy black mark, like a gap...

"Do you know what this means?"

The commander kept repeating various terms and data that Bai Xiao couldn't understand. His eyes seemed to be sparkling and he was as excited as a child.

“Something has changed in the past,” he said.

"what?"

Bai Xiao was stunned and at a loss for a long time. His expression gradually changed and he could hardly suppress his fear: "Wait! You mean... mercury? No way?"

"How can this be?!"

She refuted flatly: "After the Tianyuan Tower was broken, there is no more..."

"But isn't there another thing that can also serve as a coordinate and guide?"

The commander interrupted her, raised his hand and pressed the iron box in front of him. The silent rusty sword remained motionless, not even bothering to show any magical power.

There is no trace of the terrifying power that once shook the world...

——The cutting edge of change!
The former tycoon left it in Mercury's rift, and as the leader of Mo, he forced Mercury to take on the final responsibility, to keep this supreme instrument that would cause her eternal suffering.

Or, leave her a tiny chance of turning around...

It was not until four hundred years later that the flame was rekindled from reincarnation.

The awakening of the two cutting edges of change has brought about an unstoppable resonance in time. They have left the same colors and traces on the tapestry of Supreme Goodness, spreading the echoes.

Such a flash of light is like a beacon in the darkness for the saints who are lost in the past!
Thus, the burning soul crossed the abyss and soared.

Burning like a star, falling into the past.

During the long silence, Bai Xiao was stunned, and for several times, he seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

Finally, I asked blankly: "Did she succeed?"

"I don't know. No one knows."

The commander shook his head slowly: "What she has in her hand is a one-way ticket that will require her to gamble everything she has, even completely burn her soul.

What happened, what happened, what happened, what went through, what was done...whether it was a success or a failure, no one knows except her. "

He sighed softly, imagining the glory falling against time towards the past, and his heart could not help but be moved:

"That's a really beautiful 'shot'."

No matter how intricate and moving the tapestry of Supreme Good is, no matter how harsh and cruel the original fate is, flaws appear at this moment.

No matter how small the flaw is.

Still a flaw.

The so-called destiny is so powerful, seemingly all-encompassing, but also so fragile... so fragile that even if you fall into the quagmire and abyss, as long as you still have the courage to get up, it is already a great provocation.

As long as he can reach out his hand and shoot an arrow of revenge, it will be enough to shake his seemingly grand and solemn authority.

This was the final resistance of the saints in the past against the predetermined destiny!
"Now, do you see that?"

The commander smiled and looked at the starry sky: "So-called destiny is nothing more than this. There is no need to worry about fate or destiny. Isn't the fun of life to do whatever you want?"

Bai Xiao shook his head: "That sounds really outrageous."

"There's nothing we can do. Everything depends on human effort, and we have to do something. But it's really hard to achieve something in life..."

With emotion, he untied the mooring rope, felt the sea breeze blowing on his face, and began to smile.

"Let's go."

The greatest terrorist in the world, the leader of Nirvana, the great man of the modern era sighed, looking at the sky, the ocean, and everything else: "Let's make this world... more meaningful!"

In the distant echo of the tide, a lone boat drifts away.

However, above the clear and deep night sky, a new flash of light appeared again, crossing the established trajectory of the stars, breaking through the restraints, and releasing a fleeting dazzling light.

One wisp after another.

Meteors are like rain, bright as tears.

So gorgeous, so gentle.

Under the same night, the green bird stood in front of the window, staring up blankly, and laughed out loud: "Big brother, look, mom is watching us!"

"is it?"

Ji Jue leaned on the windowsill, looked up, and sighed sincerely: "It's so beautiful."

Two days later, at 1:26 a.m., an explosion occurred at the Rhine Port of the Southern Continent Empire. On the same day, Lucius, the newly appointed Middle-earth Guardian of the Empire, was assassinated.

When a person dies, his policy ends.

In the Senate, the bill on the joint development of the two poles of the Empire and the Federation, which Lucius had been committed to promoting during his lifetime, died without success.

Amid the huge resource disputes and the ever-changing situation in Middle-earth, the situation in the world has become tense again.

Not long after, the White State, which was rebuilt after more than ninety years, and the White King who inherited the title of the Sacrificial King, publicly announced that he would launch a blood feud war against the Red State until the remains of the previous White King were returned and the Red Crown bowed to the White Crown!
The federal military once again launched a bidding process for various partners, among which Universal Heavy Industries took the lead in accepting a ship order with a total value of 440 billion...

After a sudden thunder, the mountains of the times fell like rain.

But it has nothing to do with Ji Jue, who is still a dust at this moment.

He lowered his head and looked at his watch. The pop-up window that had been appearing in front of him since he left the Rift...

[The essence of the Rift has been filled, and the connection system has been started. Do you want to go to the central dispatch center? ]

The answer is undoubtedly...

——NO!!!!
These bastards, they’ve gotten free stuff so many times and still want to keep coming?

go to hell!
He turned over and closed his eyes.

Fuck the world and the future.

sleep!

　Two in one, no need to separate, please give me a monthly ticket!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)