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"But deep down, I'm still the little girl crying helplessly on the cliff."

"But that's what I have to do."

Gray's words sounded like a farewell, but also like a smile.

“When you realize you’ve done something wrong, you shouldn’t try to escape or deny it. Instead, you should bravely admit your mistake and do everything you can to make amends.”

"This is the principle you taught me, brother Last, wasn't it?"

"Regardless of my subjective intentions, the second wish I made to fate truly destroyed Canaan's peaceful daily life..."

"Brother Rust, your and Xiao Ai's fate has been rewritten, leading you down a twisted and distorted path. This is an undeniable fact."

"Well, since I've done something wrong, I should take responsibility... I'll do everything I can to put your and Xiao Ai's fate back on the right track."

There was a hint of bitterness in her voice.

"Originally, I was still a little hesitant and struggling... It wasn't for my own benefit, but whenever I thought about the possibility of never seeing you, Brother Last, again, I couldn't help but feel a bitter and unwilling feeling in my heart."

"However, my two meetings with Xiao Ai have made up my mind completely."

Her voice paused slightly.

"Even a little girl like that, barely in her early teens, who had lived in a small border town and had never seen the outside world... could make such a decisive choice just to be reunited with you, Brother Rust, and for a better future."

"What's more, it's me."

"No matter what, I am the successor chosen by Leader Cecil and the owner of the 'Fool's Library'..."

"And I've earned your approval, Brother Rust, as the new 'Shore Keeper.'"

"What a 'shore guardian' should do is to use his or her hard work to pave the way for those who come after him—"

"Just like in the Battle of Broken Coast, Leader Sissel used his life to pave the way for me..."

"And now, it's my turn to follow the footsteps left by you, Brother Luster, and Leader Sissel."

Gray's voice became softer and more distant.

"Well, goodbye, Brother Luster."

"Even though it's just a pre-recorded recording, even though it's just a glimpse of the future through the long river of fate..."

"But I am really happy to be able to meet you again in this way and to be able to say goodbye to you in person."

"If everything goes well, then maybe it will be just like Xiao Ai..."

"One day, we will be able to meet again in the distant future—"

……

The girl's clear voice became increasingly distant and ethereal until it completely disappeared.

And on that crystal light curtain, the ripples that were originally like waves on the water gradually dissipated and finally returned to the dark nothingness.

Last gently reached out his hand and turned off the video device in front of him.

He closed his eyes and stood in the silent library without saying a word for a long time.

After a long silence, Rast opened his eyes again.

"I said...are you okay?"

Dean Yin squatted on a nearby bookshelf and cautiously spoke tentatively, "Although it might be a little hard to digest all of this information all at once, this world is still a beautiful place. Don't let yourself get so depressed that you end up committing suicide."

"Would you like me to call a psychiatrist for you? This world's technology is so advanced, so I imagine the psychiatrists' skills wouldn't be much worse... Oh, right, isn't my own Moon Sequence a natural-born psychiatrist?"

"If that doesn't work, I can be your spiritual comfort mink."

Although he usually has a carefree personality, at this moment, Dean Yin spoke in a rather cautious and careful manner.

As the holder of the unique sequence long-level "Moon", feeling the fluctuations of other people's hearts and souls has almost become Dean Yin's instinct.

Therefore, it could clearly feel the emotions that were stirring and brewing in the long silence of the young man in front of it.

It has known Last for a long time and is well aware of the importance of the word "shore guard" in Last's heart.

Becoming a shore guardian, becoming a partner of justice... This has been his ideal since he was a child.

During the three hundred years of time cycle in Deep Blue Harbor, he became like a spiritual pillar in Last's heart.

Just like a person who falls into the water, he will subconsciously wave his hands to grab a life-saving straw... At that time, Last regarded this childhood ideal as his life-saving straw in the hell of Deep Blue Harbor.

It was the anchor of his soul and the pillar of everything.

It was precisely because of his persistence in that ideal, and his obsession with being the "shore watcher," that Last was able to climb out of the hell of Deep Blue Harbor, without ever falling and losing himself, or self-destructing.

Today, it has become something deeper than ideals and beliefs, like an obsession.

The human named Rast is such a machine that continues to survive for the ideal of being a "shore guardian". This ideal has almost become his entire life... Apart from this, there is nothing else in his broken body and soul.

At this moment, the truth that Grey expounded also hinted at such a clear point -

The ideal that Last regarded as the spiritual pillar and the meaning of life was actually false.

……

From Rast's past perspective, it was the woman who embraced him and smiled sincerely in the fire of the ruins of the Canaan town who gave him the ideal of being a "shorekeeper."

The smile that woman showed at that time was so beautiful...

Even though Last had fallen into the hell of Deep Blue Harbor and had weathered the passage of hundreds of years, most of his childhood memories had long been worn away by time and completely forgotten - but he still remembered that beautiful smile.

It was precisely because of his longing for that smile that Rast developed the desire to become a "shore guard" himself.

However, it now seems that the ideal of being a "shore watcher" is clearly a complete falsehood.

The woman who picked up young Rust from the burning ruins of Canaan was Gray herself.

And if Gray had not mistakenly made her second wish, leading to the serious consequence of space-time collapse... then the fire in Canaan and the Fran explosion that occurred two hundred years before the present timeline would not have happened at all.

Last and Xiao Ai should have continued to live peacefully in the border town of Canaan, spending countless quiet days.

Maybe one day they will go on a long journey, begin to dabble in the extraordinary field, and become true extraordinary people... Or maybe they will never touch the extraordinary in their entire lives, but will get married and have children like ordinary people, and spend the rest of their lives in that remote but beautiful town.

However, the instigator of all this was Grey herself.

And the so-called ideal of becoming a "shore watcher"... is actually just a coincidence that was born out of fate's trickery and a series of mistakes.

It is a fake thing borrowed from outsiders.

However, in response to Dean Yin's cautious inquiry, Last just smiled.

"Don't worry, Dean Yin."

"I'm not as fragile as you think."

He raised his head and looked up at the glass dome, where the small sky was reflected in the watchtower.

"Indeed, my initial ideal of being a shore watcher stemmed from nothing more than yearning... It was my yearning for the smile of the woman who rescued me from the fire that sparked my desire to become one—and it grew increasingly tainted over the course of countless years, becoming an unshakable obsession."

"If it were me, right after leaving Deep Blue Harbor, knowing the truth of it all was just a coincidence, a trick of fate, I might have collapsed... and denied the meaning of my life."

"But now I am not like that anymore."

He gazed at the corner of the azure sky:

"Maybe it was out of longing at first, but in the end, it was my own heartfelt wish."

"I want to deny that hopeless hell... I want to help those within my power, to make them stop crying."

"I want to end the fate of generations of shore guardians, who have been thrown into the flame like moths to a flame..."

After leaving Deep Blue Port, he joined Star University.

After encountering many people and things as a night traveler...

Rast's ideals are no longer so fragile that they will be shattered by wind and rain.

"correct……"

His voice paused slightly. "If I heard correctly, Dean Yin, you said you wanted to be my spiritual comfort mink?"

"Get lost...did I say that? I didn't."

Chapter 214 I Want to See Her in Person (Two in One)

On the library shelf.

After confirming that Last was in good mental condition and didn't look like he would suffer a mental breakdown after learning the truth about Canaan, Dean Yin immediately started to play dumb.

Hmm? What soothes your spirit?

Did I say that? No.

Seeing this, Rast didn't dwell on it anymore.

He was aware of how stubborn Dean Yin was... He was the kind of person who could argue for thousands of posts on the player forum over topics like "Does His Majesty Last prefer cats or dogs?"

If Dean Yin were thrown into the long river of history, after millions of years, his flesh and blood would have weathered away, and all that would be left would be a stiff mouth that would constantly open and close: "Did I say that? I didn't say that!"

Last looked at the gradually dissipating light curtain in the library, stretched out his right index finger, and lightly slid it in the air.

It was clearly an empty void, but with the movement of Last's fingers, in an instant, complex light and shadows intertwined in the void.

Then, it transformed into one crystal-like screen after another, appearing densely in the air in front of Last's eyes.

Just as Gray said in the recording earlier -

Before choosing to disappear from this world, fall into the deepest part of the sea of ​​stars, and make her third wish to fate... Grey left all her authority in the Watchtower and the database to Rast.

Because of this, he now has administrator privileges inside the Watchtower. Not only can he view the data stored in the Great Library at will, but he can also access the resources of the Shore Watch organization at will.

To a certain extent, although Last had only entered this strange historical remnant for less than two days, his power was already not much inferior to that of the head of the human federation in this world.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, it feels so good to get a max-level character right at the start of a new game."

Dean Yin jumped onto Last's shoulder again, watching him waving his hands to operate the light screen in front of him, and using the administrator's authority to browse through the various confidential files stored inside the watchtower, he couldn't help but marvel at it.

"Are you envious? It cost my life."

"So, Dean Yin, you are now considered a Night Traveler. Although you don't have an official account in the Night World, you can still try out the work that we Night Travelers have done."

Last stared at the various confidential files appearing on the screen without turning his head.

"Forget it, I can't do what you do."

Dean Yin used his furry white tail as a pillow, stretched himself, and yawned lazily.

"I'd rather stay somewhere safe and eat junk food while watching your live stream."

As someone who has witnessed Last's progress almost every step of the way since he joined Star University, Dean Yin knows very well how desperately this guy risks his life every time he enters the Reverberations of History.

Every time he walked on a tightrope in a dangerous situation with no chance of survival, not only did he get himself covered in bruises... the enemies he provoked were all of terrifying origin, either grave keepers who had passed down the generations or behemoths like evil gods.

But every time Last made such earth-shattering news, he was able to survive successfully.

So, no matter how envious you are, it is absolutely impossible for Dean Yin to do it himself - as Last said, it really costs his life.

As a ferret, you should live like a ferret. Just lie down and do nothing. Things like charging into battle should be left to the two-legged animals.

On the side, Last's speed of flipping through the files gradually increased.

As the headquarters of the Shorewatch organization, the data stored in the Watchtower's internal database can only be described as massive, covering almost all the information on the development of Sixth Epoch civilization over the past two hundred years since the Battle of the Broken Coast.

Of course, what Last really cares about is only the "Artificial Angel Project".

"Judging from the records in the database, this plan should have been successfully executed."

"At least so far, everything is going well."

Luster uttered what he had been muttering to himself.

The recording that was just played was the one that Gray left for herself in advance. It should have been recorded more than ten years ago.

At that time, Gray had just broken through the eighth level and became an angel of the "Destiny" sequence. Because of the two wishes she made after being promoted to an angel, the space-time of "Canaan at the future time node" collapsed, allowing herself and Xiao Ai to travel to the sixth era along with the ruins of Canaan.

These things were not directly recorded in the database of the Watchtower, but there was a lot of potential information to verify them, such as a certain area that was suddenly ordered to be blocked... For example, in the internal hospital of the Watchers, there was still Amys's medical record.

Later, when Xiao Ai's condition gradually worsened and was about to die, Grey formulated the "Artificial Angel Plan".

As the leader of the Shore Watchers, she mobilized all the resources of the Shore Watchers organization, overcame layers of resistance and obstacles, and made every effort to push the "Artificial Angel Project" onto the right track.

However, once the "Artificial Angel Project" had moved beyond its most difficult initial phase and could proceed naturally without Gray's presence...

Gray herself disappeared from this world.