Quadruple split.

Chapter 2449 Belated Death

"For example~"

Mo Tan chuckled, his eyes narrowed into two cunning crescents: "What on earth did you see through Monica's eyes."

"Eh?"

Monica, who was standing next to Mo Tan, was stunned and said in astonishment: "Mr. Tan Mo, what do you mean..."

The next second, the cold blade was pressed against Monica's neck. It was the dagger she had given to Mo Tan not long ago, a [Shadowfang Fake] that was imitated by Muse, the president of the Black Tower City Thieves Guild, based on the relics of the God-Destroying Society.

"Shut up, idiot."

Mo Tan, holding the end of the dagger between his right index and middle fingers, said this to Monica without turning his head. He stared at the dwarf old man sitting cross-legged on the chair in front of him without blinking, and said softly: "Answer my question, Mr. Bingzhu. If you don't want me to take this terrible puppet apart, don't play tricks."

"Oh?"

The leader of the remnants of the God-Exterminating Society, the dwarf old man named Iparis Solarion, raised his eyebrows and asked with interest: "So, Mr. Tanmo, are you... threatening me with your companions?"

"What a pity! My companion, for some reason or other, is now wandering in the outermost mist of this swamp."

Mo Tan sneered and pulled Monica, who had not yet recovered from the huge impact, into his arms. He not only put the sword, which was not very powerful but could still easily cut off the neck of an ordinary person, against Monica's throat, but also rested his chin on her shoulder and said leisurely: "As for this confused running dog who serves the Violet Regent... Unfortunately, she is not qualified to be my companion."

The soldier frowned, his expression rarely became serious, he sat upright on the chair and said to Mo Tan: "So what do you want to do?"

"I've been asking you what you saw with Monica's beautiful eyes, and this is the second time I've repeated this stupid question, so..."

Mo Tan shook his head and casually cut Monica's throat with a fatal blow. He watched her fall limply in a pool of blood with cold eyes and said softly, "I decided to kill her."

Monica collapsed in the blood gushing out of her body. She did not show a ferocious expression of unwillingness to close her eyes. Instead, she covered her neck which was constantly gushing with blood, and said with difficulty to Mo Tan who was looking at her coldly: "Please... Mr. Tan Mo... tell His Highness..."

"I do not have time."

"Then please at least write to His Highness and tell him that..."

"I can't read."

"You can find the nearest [Female Bee] contact point and tell the person in charge there..."

"I don't know the way. Draw a map for me."

"Bring me a pen and paper...eh?"

"Ha~"

It was not until Monica suddenly realized that she seemed to have lived a little too long after having her throat cut that Mo Tan sneered, squatted down and poked the cute cheek of the noble lady and secret agent, and said happily: "Have you reacted?"

"No, no, no, I didn't react at all!"

Monica straightened up with a puzzled look on her face and looked at Mo Tan in confusion: "Why am I still alive?!"

"Because 'killing' you here won't do anything, little fool."

Mo Tan flicked Monica's forehead with his finger, and when she shrank her neck in pain, he smiled smugly and said, "Don't forget, this is not the 'outside' you are familiar with, with the Violet Empire, the Stewart Family, the Regent, the Grand Duke of Crystal Wolf, and the Four-eyed Flat Princess. This is the final battlefield between the [Twilight Crows Eastern Expedition Army] and the [God-Exterminating Society], a nightmare that will never let people escape."

"Nightmare... ugh, I get it!"

It was only then that Monica finally realized the problem and exclaimed, "This is the third floor of [False Dream], a place where endless wars, death and reincarnation are played out. Even if I die here, at best I will be resurrected on the third floor or in the buffer zone between the second and third floors where Deputy Captain Hogel's real body is. I shouldn't really die anyway!"

Mo Tan nodded slightly, gave Monica an approving smile, and praised from the bottom of his heart: "What a stupid woman."

Monica: “……?”

"Don't worry. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with your reasoning just now. I just want to point out a key flaw that has been ignored by your head full of trivialities and shit, and has not yet been remembered."

Mo Tan shook his finger and did not continue to keep the question in suspense. Instead, he said simply and clearly: "For example, why did you revive directly on the spot after being 'killed' by me, instead of returning to the third floor or the buffer zone slightly above, and waking up again in the place that was promised to protect and theoretically kept your body."

Monica blinked. Although she didn't understand the spirit at the first time, she was a professional spy who had successfully completed more than three-digit tasks independently, so she quickly followed Mo Tan's thoughts and wondered: "Yes! Logically speaking, in this case, my consciousness should be forced to be unified back to the 'body', but why..."

Monica swallowed her saliva and did not continue speaking. Instead, she looked at Mo Tan for help. It was obvious that she thought that the reason why the other party cut her throat so quickly was that he had already guessed the whole story.

However, Mo Tan did not give any meaningful answer. He just turned to Bingzhu with a smile and threw Monica's question to him as if kicking the ball: "So, what was it that prevented her consciousness from being forced to be unified with her body after her 'death'?"

"Of course that's because..."

The commander of the army did not keep the secret maliciously, but said calmly: "She is dead."

[She is dead? Who is she? Who is dead? ]

The next moment, these thoughts began to linger in Monica's almost paralyzed mind. However, her face, which turned pale to almost bloodless, implicitly proved that the girl was not actually dull, but simply could not accept and face this reality.

However, although Monica found it difficult to face reality for a while, Mo Tan was able to readily accept the fact that he had been teasing a dead person for quite some time.

Or - "I've always felt this way."

Mo Tan glanced at Monica, who was kneeling beside him with her eyes dull. He raised his hand and rubbed the blue-haired girl's head, chuckling, "After all, I can't figure it out even if I rack my brains. How could a person like her, who is just an ordinary person at best, survive in front of two oath breakers of the God-Destroying Society, especially when the latter are very likely to be on the verge of going crazy and may lose control and collapse at any time."

The soldier stroked his knee-length gray beard and looked at Mo Tan with interest: "So, since you can estimate 80% of the actual combat power of the [Oath Breaker], Mr. Tan Mo, you are not as unfamiliar with the [God Destroying Society] as you showed in front of Ms. Monica before."

"That's natural."

Mo Tan nodded without hesitation and acknowledged the other party's judgment. He sneered and said, "After all, I noticed that there was something wrong with this woman from the beginning. Although she was 'Monica Stewart' from beginning to end, I could always catch another shadow in her eyes."

"I have no ill intentions."

The soldier sighed and smiled bitterly: "I can explain."

"No problem, but please wait a moment."

Mo Tan raised his hand to signal the old man to be patient, then he swung his arm and rotated 720 degrees... that is, after rotating twice on the spot, he slapped Monica again after many days. He slapped this lady, who was not tall and whose weight was within the normal range, half a meter off the ground. The scene was very visually impactful.

"Well!"

As for the person involved, perhaps because she had been beaten too much by Mo Tan in the 'macho form' before, Monica, who was suspected to have developed antibodies (on the mental level), did not slap the big guy in the face. Instead, she was forcibly pulled out of her lost state just now. She looked up at Mo Tan with a pale face: "Mr. Tan Mo, I have been trying to recall what happened after I and those people encountered the two [Oath Breakers] of the Destroying God Society, but I can't remember it no matter what. Am I... am I really dead..."

"Be good, let's put these unimportant things aside for now, and we can take the time to study them later when we have free time."

As a result, Mo Tan interrupted Monica casually, pulled her up from the ground, and turned to Bingzhu again and said, "Okay, go on."

"Um……"

Even though this old man, who had gone through countless years and torture, was a little emotional at this moment, he was the leader of the well-known terrorist organization [God Destroying Society] after all. He quickly recovered from the shock brought to him by Mo Tan and said concisely: "Ms. Monica's death was an accident."

Mo Tan nodded and said in the same concise manner: "Speak in detail."

"Just as she told you, not long ago a team belonging to a certain thieves guild broke into the Gloomy Swamp and broke through the fog with the help of my God-Slaying Society's weapon, Shadowfang, and came to this so-called False Dream. And also because of the guidance of Shadowfang, the place where they appeared was actually the edge of God-Slaying Gorge."

The Chief of Arms leaned back in his chair and explained in detail, "But that 'edge' is not the 'shortcut' I deliberately created for you that you took before, but it is closer to the 'edge' of the battlefield."

Mo Tan smacked his lips and raised his eyebrows, "The battlefield you mentioned should refer to the dozens of battle lines where we fight those charlatans in Jackdaw Castle to beat our brains out, right?"

"That's right. Although our hostility has always been directed only at 'gods' rather than 'believers', our awkward position has forced both sides to fight to the death."

The Lord of Arms shook his head and skipped over the topic. He said with a melancholy expression, "In short, the situation at that time was that we had a team of oathbreakers who sensed the [Shadowfang] as soon as Ms. Monica and others appeared. Inspired by the fact that 'there are still companions fighting outside', they chose the shortest route, which was to break through the enemies of the expeditionary force and rush to the 'companions'. However..."

Snapped--

Mo Tan snapped his fingers and said with great joy: "However, after going through so much hardship and finally dying to the point where only two people were left, the Oathbreakers who finally found their 'own people' discovered that they were not companions at all, but a group of petty thieves. Even the [Shadowfang] in their hands was an extremely insulting fake, so... in a rage, they killed all those bastards like chopping melons and vegetables."

"We must admit that we have been trapped in this endless dream for too long. Both us and the expeditionary forces of Jackdaw Castle have already reached the brink of collapse, or have collapsed countless times. Under such circumstances, ordering them to be 'rational' and 'calm' is undoubtedly inhumane."

The soldier shook his head and looked at Monica apologetically. "In the end, when I learned the news, everything was irreversible. However, when I checked the 'corpses' brought back by the two oath breakers, I unexpectedly found that Ms. Monica was still conscious."

"Eh?"

Monica's originally gloomy eyes suddenly brightened up, and she exclaimed, "So I'm not dead? I can still be saved?"

"I'm sorry, but in this [False Dream], death does not mean an absolute end. On the contrary, not having an absolute end does not mean there is no death."

The soldier looked directly into Monica's eyes and said sternly, "Unfortunately, Ms. Monica, you did not survive. Although your body's structure and properties were temporarily changed when it was forged and introduced into this [False Dream], your death is absolute."

Monica pursed her lips, took a deep breath, and then said slowly: "So, if I wake up from this [End Dream] one day, then I..."

"Yes, you will die immediately, because as early as the moment you are killed, you can only exist in the dream of this writing cage."

"why?"

"I'm sorry, but as I said before, not just the two oathbreakers, everyone in this nightmare is on the verge of..."

"No, what I want to ask is why I can still exist in this [False Dream], and others...are there any others with similar situations to me?"

"As far as I know, no."

"So, why?"

"Personally, I think it's because your will is far stronger than those of your peers, so that the [False Dream] made a misjudgment. Based on your beliefs... or faith, they identified you as a member of the [God-Exterminating Society] or the [Twilight Crows Eastern Expedition Army], and reshaped your spirit and gave you a false life."

"So the me that Deputy Captain Hogel of Jackdaw Castle saw was actually..."

"It's the living Monica Stewart, but just like all the other members of the God-Destroying Society and the Eastern Expedition Army, she is confined to living in this final dream."

Chapter 2440: The End