The red moon returns

Chapter 514 Lynch's Choice
A deathly silence lingered in this strange void.

Lynch closed his eyes and smoked his pipe silently. In the darkness, there was only a flickering fire, like a ship's light that could capsize at any time in a storm.

After an unknown amount of time, the figure made of starlight seemed to have made a decision. The will it conveyed was as calm and peaceful as the endless night:

"There are differences, but the essence is similar. We all wake up this way."

"So, the appearance of the Soul Forsaken is paving the way for the revival of the gods?" Lin Qi sighed and nodded, "The old mother hopes that her daughter can wake up smoothly, so the performance just now was just to test whether I am useful and whether I can carry her through this journey and reach the end?"

"You might as well be more straightforward. It's a conspiracy. That's right. When the Chosen One takes back the last exclusive divine power and finally reaches the limit of mortals, we will wake up from the depths of the Chosen One's will." The Goddess's will responded lightly, "Just now I was indeed testing your loyalty and ability. It is not easy to reach the end. So far, there have been five failed attempts. I am not at ease with you, because you..."

"Hey, in my hometown, if you break the chapter like this, you will be sent knives." Lin Qi rolled his eyes and asked, "After you wake up, where is the Chosen One himself?"

"The souls of mortals cannot bear even one ten-thousandth of the brilliance of the Supreme Will. The moment we wake up, your will will completely dissipate."

"Completely dissipating means... the body and soul are destroyed?"

"..." The goddess of night Nix was silent again, and after a moment she replied calmly, "It's not that easy."

"Ok?"

"This has been successfully repeated twelve times, but no one in the mortal world has ever recorded it. It's normal that there are no documents, but there are no rumors. You are so smart, why haven't you doubted it?"

Lynch tightened his teeth on his pipe.

He originally thought that the Lord God Church had intentionally erased this process, but judging from the other party's attitude, this was obviously not the reason.

"Dissipation means dissipation. It is not just the body and spirit that will be annihilated. All traces of existence will be erased. The Supreme Will will at that moment dissolve everything of the Chosen One. In the past, present, and future, the Chosen One has never existed, at least in the knowledge of mortal beings."

Huh~~ Lynch exhaled a long puff of smoke, leaned back in his chair and looked up at the darkness above his head.

"I've already answered your question, so what? What do you want to say?"

"Oh."

"???" There was a clear fluctuation in consciousness, and even more obvious doubts, "What do you mean?"

"Literally, I know it." Lin Qi asked calmly, "How else do you think I should react? Furious? Rolling on the ground crying? Cursing and swearing? I've been through a lot, so I wouldn't have the kind of reaction that's inconsistent with my age and intelligence. Besides, to be fair, I don't think there's anything wrong with this. You should be able to sense that I'm not making excuses."

"…" "Someone once said that all gifts from fate have already been secretly marked with a price. I have never doubted the correctness of this statement. There is no love without reason in the world, and rewards must be accompanied by sacrifices. You just said that I did not use the word "conspiracy". I deliberately did not use it because I do not think your behavior should be belittled. It is not a conspiracy, but a transaction at most. You open your secrets to living beings and teach living beings to follow your footsteps. You have indeed given living beings the most powerful weapon to fight against the mystery, and have benefited billions of living beings. Even if you have the possibility of profiting from it, you deserve it. Whether the benefactor benefits or not is never a reason for the beneficiary to be ungrateful or even hate him."

"..."

"But the above is only true for all living beings. In my opinion, the only thing worth criticizing about your behavior is that it is unfair to those chosen by God. Although for normal adults, when receiving gifts, they should think about the price and reason, they did not think that in my hometown, greed can make people lose their minds. Therefore, they are also responsible for the final outcome, but you still deceived them and took advantage of their trust in you. Ha, this kind of concealment and even deception is the most unacceptable, Aunt Nix, am I right?"

"...That's right, but I don't understand. Since you know it's just a test from me and you won't die, why did you reveal that you've discovered that she's lying and wants to use your existence to revive?" Goddess Nix asked faintly, "Although it's ridiculous to use the affection of living beings to understand the kinship between gods, it does have some reference value. You don't think that the 'old mother' you mentioned will let you wake up alive after you're exposed, right? Or do you think this is just a dream, and with Luna's protection, I can't do anything to you?"

"Look, you've exposed the fact that she and you are not in collusion, Aunt Nix." Lynch slowly exhaled a puff of cigarette and chuckled, "And you must have misunderstood something. When did I ever say that she lied to me?"

"???"

"For some reason, she did hide a lot of things from me, but from the beginning she told me almost explicitly that there was a problem, and a big problem. Otherwise, I'm not the omniscient Yog-Sothoth, how could I guess so accurately and get the answer right away? So she actually never lied to me, and she reminded me many times, but she just didn't say it explicitly. In addition, she also put the right to choose in front of me. I don't need to consider her favor to me. I can completely ignore the identity of the Chosen One and live as an ordinary Soul Forsaken until I die, or until I am swallowed by the mystery. I chose this path myself, not her for me."

This time the silence lasted for an unusually long time. When Lynch was about to fall asleep, the voice of the god entered his brain again: "So, you actually already know everything, but you still choose to go on and help her? You want to sacrifice everything you have to revive her."

"Huh? No, I'm not a fanatic. Wait, there really is such a precedent among the twelve of you God's Chosen Ones, right? I already know that they really want to but would rather sacrifice themselves." Seeing that the goddess refused to answer, Lin Qi sighed, "It seems that there is, but I'm not that great. Although I will fight hard when I encounter something, I won't sacrifice myself for an illusory belief."

"then you……"

"Before I embarked on this path, she made a promise to me that she had other ways to avoid a bad ending. I would inherit the Red Moon's divine power, and she would have another outcome. Of course, normal people would think that this was probably an excuse or deception to keep me stable, but I don't think so. She has countless ways to make me believe her. There is no need to go through so much trouble. She would choose such an awkward way. I would rather believe that she is such an awkward person. I have said it repeatedly just now. If I choose to believe her, I will not jump back and forth."

"What if you believed wrong?"

"It was my choice, idol, and I accept the outcome calmly."

Lynch finally succeeded in confusing a goddess: "So what exactly do you want to talk about today?"

"One is to tell my mother the truth and reassure her, so that she won't target me in the future." Lin Qi frowned slightly and suddenly became serious. "The other is that I want to ask, what means will she use to avoid the worst outcome?"

"Ok?"

"Or is there really such a way to have the best of both worlds? If I eventually become immortal, what about her? Where will her fate go?"

(End of this chapter)