Starting with SSS-rank talent, I contracted the Forbidden Ferocity.

【go home.】

The phone screen is lit up.

The white light shone on Shen Ye's face.

The stone steps of Wangzuo Mountain have disappeared.

He stood in that familiar rented room.

There was an unopened takeout order on the table.

The computer screen is frozen on an unfinished work document.

The city lights are visible outside the window.

The sound of traffic flowing downstairs was constant.

Someone opened the door next door.

The elevator dinged.

Every detail is so realistic it makes your heart clench.

Shen Ye looked down at his phone.

The caller ID on the screen showed no name.

Only two words.

Come back home.

The bell kept ringing.

He didn't answer.

A voice came from behind.

Why didn't you answer?

Shen Ye turned around.

A man sits at a computer desk.

He was wearing a plain black coat.

He looked somewhat tired.

That face was exactly the same as Shen Ye's.

It is not the incarnation of the Black Gold Royal Robe trial.

It was him before he traveled through time.

ordinary.

exhausted.

It's not that cold.

It's not that sharp either.

In her past life, Shen Ye looked at him.

Don't you want to go back?

Shen Ye said:

"think."

In his past life, Shen Ye smiled.

"Then why didn't you answer?"

Shen Ye did not answer.

In his previous life, Shen Ye stood up and walked to the window.

"There's a war over there."

"There are ten thousand races."

"There's a bloody gate."

"There is a heaven and an abyss."

"You kill every day, you get injured every day, how many times have you almost died?"

"It's different here."

He pointed to the room.

"There are no beast tamers here."

"There is no system."

"No one is waiting for you to close the door."

"You can go to sleep."

"You can go to work."

"You can order takeout."

"You can be an ordinary person."

The phone was still ringing.

【go home.】

Shen Ye stared at the screen.

"Is this also a trial?"

Shen Yedao in his previous life:

"This is your heart."

"Wangzuoshan asks about the heart, not about falsehoods."

"It only asks you what you've really thought about."

Shen Ye remained silent.

He did think about it.

Not during a major war.

Not when killing the enemy.

But it happens on certain nights.

The pain from the wound kept me awake at night.

The war bells rang again outside the Demon-Suppressing Pass.

Guixu slept at the head of the bed.

Jie Chen lay prone to one side.

Night Feather's wings have not yet recovered.

Zhu Jiu remained silent, hidden in the shadows.

Long Yuan sat in the corner keeping watch.

In those moments, he occasionally wondered what it would be like to go back.

He doesn't need to bear the name of the Night King.

There's no need to call out Tianyuan's name.

You don't have to be everyone's doorkeeper.

I simply returned to that rented room.

Have a hot meal.

Get a full night's sleep.

In her past life, Shen Ye looked at him.

"Admit it."

"You want to go home."

Shen Ye said:

"Um."

In his past life, Shen Ye's eyes flickered.

"Then answer the phone."

The phone ringtone suddenly became louder.

Everything in the room began to feel warm.

Steam was rising from the takeout bag.

Computer documents are saved automatically.

The night outside the window was quiet.

The bed is soft.

It was as if the whole world was telling him.

Come back.

Shen Ye reached out and picked up his phone.

In his previous life, Shen Ye breathed a slight sigh of relief.

"Take it."

Shen Ye looked at the two words on the screen.

Then, I pressed the hang-up button.

The ringing stopped abruptly.

The room quieted down.

In his previous life, Shen Ye's expression froze.

Why?

Shen Ye put his phone back on the table.

"Because I want to go home."

In his past life, Shen Ye frowned.

"Then why did you hang up?"

Shen Ye looked out the window.

"This door was given to me by someone else."

"This is not my path."

In his past life, Shen Ye remained silent.

Shen Ye continued:

"I want to go back."

"But not by running back."

"It wasn't that anyone sent me back."

"It's not about abandoning the people there to make things easier for yourself."

He turned around and looked at his past self.

"I will go home."

"As soon as I can open the door myself."

"When I can decide to come back, and when I can decide to leave."

"When I don't have to trade someone else's life for this door."

Shen Ye's expression changed little by little in his past life.

The fatigue disappeared.

It disappeared gently.

A hint of coldness appeared on his face.

"Do you really think the people over there need you?"

Black streaks began to seep into the walls of the room.

They respect you because you can win.

"They call you the Night King because you can shut doors."

"If one day you can't close the door."

"If you die on Throne Mountain."

"They will soon have another king."

Shen Ye said calmly:

"Maybe."

In his previous life, Shen Ye took a step closer.

"Then why are you staying?"

Shen Ye said:

"I didn't stay because they needed me."

"It's because I chose to stay."

The black patterns on the door in the room suddenly swelled.

Shen Ye's face from his past life began to melt.

Facial features disappeared.

He became a faceless person.

"choose?"

"You think you have a choice?"

The night outside the window cracked open.

A gigantic eye of the abyss appeared in the sky above the city.

There was a knock on the door of the rented room.

thump.

thump.

thump.

The faceless man's voice was deep:

"There's someone outside."

"If you don't open it, it will come in."

Shen Ye looked towards the doorway.

Black mist seeped in through the crack in the door.

The phone screen lit up again.

[Open the door.]

Shen Ye smiled.

"It's finally revealed."

Faceless Man's Way:

"You have a door to home in your heart."

"Tianyuan is just opening it for you."

Shen Ye raised his hand.

This time, he did not have the black gold short sword in his hand.

There is no system.

There are no beasts to tame.

Even after examining his own conscience, he remained an ordinary person.

But he walked toward the door.

The faceless man looked at him.

"Are you going to open the door?"

Shen Ye said:

"No."

He walked to the door.

Lift your foot.

He kicked the door.

boom!

He kicked the door of the rented room from the inside out, causing it to shake violently.

The thing outside the door seemed to pause for a moment as well.

Shen Ye kicked out a second time.

boom!

The door panel is cracked.

The third kick.

boom!

The door was kicked open.

The area outside the door is not a stairwell.

It is a black abyss.

In the abyss, one eye is open.

Shen Ye stood at the door, looking at that eye.

"This is my front door."

You're standing in the wrong place.

He reached out and grabbed the door frame.

They forcefully pulled the door back.

Countless black hands reached out from the abyss, grabbing at him.

Shen Ye did not let go.

The palm was cut open.

My arm was dragged and bled.

But he still slowly pulled the door back.

The faceless man roared behind him:

"You're just an ordinary person!"

Shen Ye gritted his teeth and continued pulling the door.

"Ordinary people".

"They know to close the door."

boom!

He slammed the door shut.

The entire rented house shook violently.

The black door pattern shattered.

The Eye of the Abyss outside the window collapsed.

The faceless man let out a piercing scream and was swept into the darkness through the crack in the door.

The room returned to quiet.

The phone screen went completely black.

Shen Ye stood at the door, his hands covered in blood.

In the room, my past self reappeared.

This time, he did not try to entice him.

There was no mockery.

He just looked at Shen Ye.

"You really aren't going to reply?"

Shen Ye said:

"I'll be back."

"But not now."

In his previous life, Shen Ye nodded.

"Then let's move forward."

The rental houses began to disappear.

computer.

takeout.

Mobile phone.

The night view outside the window.

Everything turned into points of light.

Finally, Shen Ye, in his past life, stood in the light and whispered:

"Don't forget where you came from."

Shen Ye looked at him.

"Won't."

The light spots dissipated.

The stone steps of King's Throne Mountain have reappeared.

On the mountain path, the black and gold inscriptions lit up.

[Second hurdle: Question your conscience. Pass.]

Shen Ye lowered his head.

The blood on my hands has disappeared.

But my chest felt like it had been burned by something.

It's not an injury.

It's more clear-headed.

He continued upwards.

At the end of the mountain path stands a black and gold throne.

Five figures stood before the throne.

Night Feather.

Candle Nine.

Longyuan.

Calamity.

Return to the ruins.

They were looking at Shen Ye.

But they didn't get close as usual.

The voice of Mount Wangzuo echoed in the sky.

[The third challenge: Ask the King.]

If one becomes king.

All five beasts can be upgraded to higher ranks.

But the throne can only hold one ruler.

[Sacrifice one beast.]

【Take the throne. 】