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"Son of God, why are you here?" Ying said unnaturally.

"You've been hiding from me for so many years, and when we meet again, you just question me? You have such a cruel heart." Yae Shinto asked back.

Ying was speechless.

"You forgot that it was me who taught you how to attach your consciousness to objects." Yae Shinko smiled again.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have helped you. We've been separated for hundreds of years."

“…I see. Are you here to act as a lobbyist like Lin Ye?”

"What else?" Yae Shinko spread her hands. "When girls quarrel, it usually goes away in a few days. How about you?"

"As expected of my God, you can keep quarreling for hundreds of years. Do you know how many messes I have cleaned up for you? Tell me, how are you going to thank me?"

Lin Ye noticed that Ying's breathing was a little heavy. Seeing that Ying had the urge to draw his sword and chop the fox, he felt extremely emotional.

Is this still the little fox that pretended to be cute in front of His Highness?

I used to be a bully~

Now he's become a bully~

You thought I was Ah Wei, but I was actually Brother Jie.JPG

"I won't bother with you." Ying said finally.

"Son of God, Lin Ye, you experienced the disaster of five hundred years ago with me. You should understand me and stand on my side."

After hearing this, Lin Ye thought about it and spoke.

"Just as we would stop you, you also don't understand us, Ying, how can you be sure that you are right?"

"Time will tell. I have the ability to take control of the situation and clean up the mess when I fail."

"Then you have already failed."

“…keep on.”

"What you pursue forever is peace and happiness for people, but to be fair, which one is more like the peace and happiness of the wife in the past or the peace and happiness of the wife in the present?"

“…This is the necessary pain before growth.”

"Then this butterfly will probably die in its cocoon. The isolation order and the eye hunting order are failed policies in terms of both reason and emotion. Restricting people's freedom and depriving them of their wishes is simply going against human instinct."

"It's like an eagle is born to fly in the sky and a horse is born to run on the grassland, but now you want the eagle to be a land creature and the horse to swim in the sea... Son of God, do you think this is reasonable?"

"Teacher Lin Ye, this is unreasonable!"

"Right! That doesn't make sense!"

"Why don't you transform all the Inazuma people into puppets like General Raiden, implant your concept of [eternity] into them, and then all 'people' will practice eternity 'from the heart'."

"Nonsense, a mortal's body cannot bear the pain of transformation." Ying said seriously, "And General Raiden is a puppet, he has no real self-awareness. I promised my subjects eternity so that they can witness it together. You are deceiving yourself."

"Yes, you are deceiving yourself. Even if you are willing, mortals are not willing. Ying, you should realize that the Inazuma people do not recognize your current [eternity] at all. Those who recognize it are basically flatterers, each of whom has his own ulterior motives."

"In the final analysis, we are human beings, and you are a god. The future you see is too far, too long, and too eternal for humans to reach. It is a destination that mortals cannot reach."

"So the older generation asked the younger generation to follow you, generation after generation, until eternity." Lin Ye spoke calmly, slowly recounting a fact, "I'm not saying that eternity is empty talk or a delusion. Mondstadt pursues freedom, Liyue emphasizes contracts, and Inazuma seeks eternity. Everyone agrees on an idea, persists in it, and pays for it. There's nothing wrong with that."

"Just, are you willing to stop for a while and let the people chasing you rest? You are walking too fast and they can't catch up."

Shadow fell silent.

After a while, Ying said with some melancholy.

"I want to freeze eternal happiness in a moment, and I want all people to enjoy eternal peace. It's not me who is ahead, but them... I want them to stop. If they keep going forward, they will be doomed to lose."

People will grow old, get sick and die, and this is also a loss.

But Lin Ye knew that shadow referred to the loss on a macro level, which was a devastating disaster, and also referred to the loss in her heart.

A powerful kingdom was eventually destroyed because of its great national strength and strong desire for knowledge.

…My sister is dead.

Ying developed a fear. She was afraid that she would lose the people she cared about in the future. The so-called eternity was actually an escape. She wanted everything to stop, and the future that foreshadowed loss would never come.

But what Lin Ye believes in eternity is just like what he said to the Son of God before. Eternity is a process, a pursuit. Only by constantly becoming stronger can one exist more reliably.

As for what Ying is worried about, that is not something that Inazuma as a country can or should bear.

Lin Ye stretched out his hand, and a golden flame ignited in his palm with a pop.

"Ying, this is the answer I can give you."

"You have been deliberately avoiding it during the battle. Are you willing to try to touch it now? This ball of fire contains wishes."

“…Is this the path you insist on?” After three breaths, Ying calmed down. She glanced at Lin Ye and Shen Zi, then reached out to touch the fire.

……

After a long time, Ying opened her eyes and talked to herself.

"[Wish], this is something that transcends space and time. Disasters cannot kill it, and history cannot erase it."

"But, but, only eternity, only eternity is close to the principles of nature."

Ying's will began to waver.

Seeing this opportunity, the Eightfold God launched a wave of attacks.

"Eternity is something that I don't understand." Yae Shinto said nonchalantly.

"In short, you only want to protect your beloved Inazuma, but is this country worthwhile to exist forever?"

"A country without desire, without change, that merely exists, is nothing but an empty shell."

"In other words, what if it's destroyed?"

"Son of God, take back your nonsense. Eternity that will never change for thousands of generations is the promise I make to my subjects!"

"Haha, Lin Ye has said so much in a long speech before. To put it simply, your subjects do not want your promises, but your [attention]."

"My gaze..."

"Eternity is too cruel for you, Shadow."

From this moment on, Yae Shinko's voice became gentle.

“You stop looking at them and you stop looking at yourself.”

"It must be very lonely to stay in this messy place for hundreds of years... You can't stand the loneliness here anymore. You are actually very happy to see me, right?"

Yae Shinko stared into Shadow's eyes.

"No, I..."

"If you keep saying no, it proves that you don't consider me a friend."

"…I…have nothing to say."

"Then I have so much to tell you. Oh, and by the way, let me tell you the stories that happened over the past few hundred years."

"How long will it take to talk about something that happened over hundreds of years?" Ying shook his head.

"The fox fairy has a very good memory. I remember every detail of the past few hundred years. So I'll probably tell you about it for another few hundred years."

Lin Ye was listening from the side and inexplicably felt that the Son of God's words sounded familiar. Where had he heard them before?

Ying finally laughed when she heard that, and she admitted it frankly.

"Your appearance was indeed unexpected... let's just call it a surprise."

"Admit it honestly. Haha, you still treat me as a friend."

"Childish thoughts."

"Compared to you, a thousand-year-old woman, I am of course a child, but don't underestimate a child like me, or you will suffer, Your Highness."

"..."

Ying glanced at Lin Ye who was eating melon, thought of something, and then looked at Yae Shenzi with a playful expression.

"You said you have a good memory, but do you remember the time you secretly drank the Hiyakura wine and pulled Lin Ye's hair to sing, Master Shenzi?"

Yae Shinko tilted her head.

The inexplicable chills came back again.

Yae Shenzi looked at the forest.

Lin Ye nodded.

"Come to think of it, your conversation before I showed up really concerned me, about His Highness Zhen, about Lord Saigū..."

……

In the end, Lin Ye and Yae Shenzi successfully persuaded Ying, at least making her willing to give up the Eye Hunting Order and the National Closure Order, so that everyone could take a break and reconsider.

However, Ying did not issue the decree immediately, because the Eye Hunting Order and the Closure Order caused many rice weevils and pests to appear in the granary of Inazuma... Let the bullets fly for a while.

Moreover, Ying is still interested in Ying. She wants to see how far Ying can go and whether she can convince herself.

The light far away in the sand did not know this.

She had nothing to do, so she learned how to tie people up from Lin Ye. She skillfully tied up a warrior from the Tenryo Bugyo and questioned him.

"Tell me! Where is the rebel camp?"

The Tianling Bugyo warriors were confused.

"Aren't you from the resistance? Otherwise, why did you arrest me? Wait, you look like..."

Chapter 568: You Won't Meet a Beautiful Ghost Girl in the Middle of the Night

The rebels were good at guerrilla warfare, and the shogunate could not find their exact location, and their lairs were often raided.

Therefore, patrols and inspections are strict.

Jintaro and Ito do this job. Although it is hard and boring, at least they don't have to fight on the front line, and they have a high probability of surviving until the end of the war...

By the way, my childhood sweetheart from Konda Village moved to Inazuma Castle. She sent me some photos last time. Does she have feelings for me? We were really close when we were young. Well, she has become pretty now that she has grown up... I'll confess to her when I go back. Jintaro thought.

Oh, by the way, I should find a chance to ask Kujo Sara for an autograph. My youngest son adores her very much, and his birthday is coming soon. I think he will be very happy if I send the autograph back, Ito thought.

At this moment, the two men were like generals on the stage, with flags all over their bodies.

"Ha~ Ito, are you sleepy?"

"Nonsense, how can you not be sleepy if you don't sleep in the middle of the night?"

"Hahaha…"

Tadashi Sand is a place for forging steel and casting famous swords. Since the shogunate moved in, the workers have either been laid off or used as laborers. The furnace is rarely used, but the thing called the Myokage furnace is often noisy...

The people above don’t care, and the people below don’t care.

In the game, there is a kind-hearted outsider from Fontaine. A traveler passing by sees his ardent desire - an exclamation mark appears on his head, and kindly helps him.

"Ito, have you ever heard of a legend?"

Jintaro looked around. It was late at night, with the wind blowing and the grass moving. The desolate wilderness was a perfect place to tell ghost stories.

"What legend?"

"Have you heard of Katsuragi Killing Chojo?"

"I've heard of it. It's very famous. What? Do you think that after the death of Guimu, his ghost is still lingering and haunting this area?"

"…Smart, Ito."

"Haha. Don't talk about such boring things next time."

"I haven't even started talking yet, how come you're so bored? I have a childhood sweetheart who lives in Tamaosha. She's a local. Tell me a legend that only the locals know."

"Your childhood sweetheart is from Tadashi Sand... I remember you were from Konda Village."

"It's not important. Look at the sky today. It's pitch black. There's no moonlight at all. Legend has it that there was a father and son who were walking at night during this time. As they walked, they always felt like someone was following them..."

"But you must not look back. That is the evil spirit of Katsuragi. He has no head. If you look back, he will ask you if you have seen my head and where Lord Changzheng threw my head..."

"If you can't answer, he'll tear your head off."

"Oh...I'm older than you, I'm the father." Ito was more concerned about this.