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It is useless to take a detour, no matter which way you go, it is equivalent to "forward". If you want to turn around and retreat, there is no way behind.

It is known that the only way to leave here is to clear the customs, and besides... the person present who has nothing to do with this matter is Raleigh himself!

So this link was skipped, and everyone arrived at the next stop.In fact, Raleigh has already had a hunch about which event this will correspond to, because with the theme of this route, there is no reason why the most critical turning point should not appear:

Sure enough, on the road ahead, a burning village appeared...

However, the specific form of expression was something that Raleigh had never expected:

———[Burned Ruins]——

Maybe I haven't seen the fire scene with my own eyes, but it is not difficult to try to imagine that scene.

High temperature, thick smoke, flickering red light, crackling sound from burning, and burnt smell... these are all elements that can easily be thought of, and perhaps people's cries can also be added.

However, none of the above exists in this field of fire here.

It sounds a bit abstract, it is obviously a burning scene, how can it lack those things that should exist; but the answer is actually very intuitive-this is not a dynamic scene.

The field of fire is static.

Just like a picture, or time stopped, everything in the field of vision is indeed surrounded by flames, but they are still, neither heating nor shaking, and the light and shadow produced are naturally stable.

The smoke did not disperse, the fallen roof stopped in the air, and the crying and fleeing villagers became a pile of still figures.

[Time stops at this moment, as if it has never flowed since this day]

The staggered time axis finally converges to the middle point, presenting the most critical turning point in the fate of the "integration movement", the moment when a fighter loses to reality.

The people in this village lured a group of unarmed infected people like they asked for help into an empty warehouse, and then waited for them to starve to death.

No one knows what they are thinking, they are worried about the follow-up troubles, or they may not have the guts to kill people with their own hands, maybe they really hate the infected so much, and even... it is not impossible to be purely malicious.

But anyway, they did.Torturing their hated infected to death in the least labor-intensive way destroyed what Tallulah had always believed in.

Losing a loved one is an indescribably painful pain, but it does not cause her to collapse, but at the moment when her ideals are shaken, all the struggles she has done seem to have really lost their meaning—for a person like her with ideals From a human point of view, being defeated by reality is the heaviest blow.

So Tallulah remained in the fire; the immortal black snake laughed and rose from the fire.

Everything that happened after that is a well-known story...

"..."

Avoiding the flames hovering in the air, Raleigh led the team to the edge of the stagnant fire field.

The flames burned the most here, as if the source of the fire was born from here; in a clearing that seemed to flow out deliberately, there was a strange sword stuck in the ground:

It was as thin as a huge needle, and part of the gauntlet had a weird shape, like intertwined tree vines, but the whole body was made of silver-white metal.

The sword was surrounded by dense flames, but it itself was not stained with any strands...

That was Tallulah's sword.

【Corona】

Effect: ■■

"Legends say that there is a red dragon named Zmaj, which can breathe fire and is regarded as the "guardian of the tribe" and "a symbol of fighting against the occupiers"; but a bewitched Zmaj will forget its mission and avoid natural disasters And let it destroy the village it was supposed to protect, and the evil that tempts Zmaj to corrupt is often a black basilisk"

Raleigh raised his hand, activated the God of Death's ability, dispelled the flames in front of him, and opened a path leading to the sword.Then, he turned around and looked at Hongdao: "Are you coming?"

"No... I'll leave it to you."

The Avenger glanced at the knife in his hand, and slowly shook his head: "You have done a lot for them, and you are more qualified to take this last token."

The Avengers saw everything that Raleigh did along the way. Although it was too late when they met, and Raleigh only had the chance to see some afterimages and projections of will, he still took everyone seriously and did his best. something.

The cadres all left him tokens, and he naturally came to get the tokens that belonged to the leaders.

"……it is good."

Raleigh stepped forward and carefully looked at the slender rapier.It has many details that are difficult to detect from a distance, but no obvious patterns or patterns can be seen.At the place where the sword pierced, there was another thing nailed:

It is a painting.

On the screen, there are Tallulah, Froststar, Patriot, Ino and Sasha, Kingslayer, Bonebreaker...and many others.

This picture shows all the main personnel of the integration movement, and even Alina stands behind Tallulah, turning her head to reveal her face.Everyone is calm or smiling, as if a group of people are taking a family portrait.

And the position where the sword penetrates is the chest of "Talulah" in the picture, where it pierces her heart.

"..."

Raleigh stretched out his hand towards the sword stuck in the ground——

The scene of pulling out the sword like this seems to have a unique sense of ritual. He has seen it in many works, but this time it is his turn to do it.

Fingers hold the hilt of the sword.Then apply force and pull upwards.

It was very easy and didn't feel strenuous; but the moment he drew his sword——

Time resumes its flow.

"boom!"

Suspended houses collapsed, flames shook, thick smoke rose, and cries were heard endlessly.

But Raleigh ignored these, and even he himself was a little curious as to why he wasn't surprised when he saw this scene for the first time.In short, after confirming that the fire couldn't reach his own people, he didn't care about other chaos, but leaned over and built a poster on the ground:

The piece of paper was so strange that it was not touched by the fire, and remained intact, except for the "Talulah" in the middle of the picture, which left a penetrating wound on the chest—then the tear on the picture began to bleed, and the blood came from Left in the picture, a blood red stained the chest of "Talulah".

The painting is bleeding.

No matter how many people were hurt by the actions of the Black Snake, the one who suffered the most during the whole process... probably was Tallulah herself after all.

"!"

Raleigh was startled, not because of the vision of the picture scroll, but because he felt something move in his pocket. Before he could react, the egg flew out and was suspended in the air.

Raleigh activated the god of death ability to grab the egg, but felt that the energy of his substitute was bounced away at the moment of contact: the egg shattered in the high temperature, and from the broken eggshell, a black mist wrapped around it appeared. the pin:

【Congratulations】

Needle, speak...

No, it's not talking, but a certain will; what is contained in this easter egg is indeed!

"call!"

With the appearance of the black needle, the main sea of ​​flames danced restlessly, and even the sword in Luo Li's hand trembled violently, as if some irrepressible emotions were about to emerge.

Then the next moment, the black needle flew towards the distance, and the poster in Raleigh's hand also burned from the wound, turning into a flame, and followed closely behind——

In an instant, all the flames in the entire village seemed to come alive, and they flew off the ground. Large areas of flames chased the direction where the black needle flew like a rain of arrows, and there was only a deep darkness.

"This is……"

The overly intense development made people a little unresponsive, but somehow, they seemed to understand something.Raleigh looked down at the sword in his hand, and a line of characters appeared in front of him:

[The fault has already been made.But the flame of hatred will eventually have a chance to ignite the right object]

"Into the Darkness"

"Get away from here"

(Warning: Your level is too low, please choose carefully)

Hey, the game system didn't even give him a main mission, so now it's time to go online?

...is there any fucking option?

"bass!"

Raleigh swung his sword, directly cut off the reminder box in front of him, and took steps towards the darkness where the needles and flames went.

Before his eyes, the title of the last level appeared, reminding him that the journey had officially come to an end.

The name of the final level is:

【The end of this land】

Chapter 125 The End of This Land

You fainted in the cave, consciousness flew farther and farther with the good and sweet truth of this land...

You fell on the mountain road paved with frosting sugar and flour, countless honey cakes collapsed and buried you...

You are lost in the illusion of thousands of intertwined and overlapping roads, and walk on a long and endless road...

You are floating among the clouds, lost and helpless surrounded by mist and illusion...

The huge scorpion-like building collapsed, and the torrent of spores roared, and you had nowhere to hide...

You sink into this ancient land, caught in the infinite thinking of ego, id and superego...

In the end—you crossed all the above, walked through the mysterious journey composed of dreams, hallucinations and consciousness, and tenaciously maintained a clear self.

Now... welcome to the end of it all.

———[The end of this land]——

Most people in Terra do not have the concept of "sea".

People are only willing to believe what they can see, always talking about "this land" and "this land", without forming the concept of "world", the land is everything they know.

The immortal Black Snake once confidently declared "Even at the end of this land, there will be me", and he has lived a consciousness without fear of being "killed" by others.

But today, someone really walked all the way to the end of his mouth, and came before this thousand-year-old evil god.

…………

Like a chasm extending infinitely.

There is no "opposite cliff", and there is no "valley bottom".Looking into the distance, one can only see the boundless sky, and looking down, one can see the endless sea of ​​stars like the universe...

If there really is a world of "round sky and earth", then maybe the edge of the earth is like this?

After all, Raleigh and the others reached the end—at the beginning of this journey, no one could have predicted that they would end up going so deep. They actually went all the way to the end of the earth.

There is a mountain at the foot.It's not that they climbed up little by little, but that after passing through the darkness, they were already standing near the top of the mountain.

There is a stone step in front of you.It's not too long, there are about a hundred steps, and the top is an open-air hall. Standing here, you can't see the specific situation clearly.