Their commission was suspicious.

This was the conclusion Chen Luo reached after specifically inquiring about Sakura in the Paradise of the Past.

Anyway, when Sakura heard that Chen Luo was going to hold a funeral for her and Rin, the only two items she requested to be buried with her were her headphones and a photo of herself and Rin.

Sakura's most beloved pendant with a picture of a bell was destroyed during her battle with the Twelfth Herrscher.

"Well... okay." Alicia thought Chen Luo's words made a lot of sense.

"Bang!" Just as Chen Luo, Alicia, and Hua were about to leave Sakura's room, someone suddenly broke down the door.

Overly nervous, Hua instantly drew his Feather Dust Blade to shield Chen Luo behind him, only to see that the person who broke down the door was none other than Vervi.

"Vilvie, what's wrong? You seem a little agitated." Alicia asked with concern, looking at Wilvie whose eyes were a little red.

"Chen Luo, hand over the Fifth Divine Key to me!" Velvi said after calming her overly intense emotions.

"Vilvie, what are you going to do?" Hua asked.

"Give me the Fifth Divine Key! I'm going to destroy it today! I'm going to reset it from a weapon that destroys life into a spark that sustains life! Whether you agree or not, Chen Luo, and whatever the Moth of Fire may do to me!" Velvet said firmly, stretching out her fair hand and stubbornly demanding the item from Chen Luo.

Vivi knew that Chen Luo wouldn't refuse her.

"Modification?" Alicia was somewhat surprised.

“Hmm, modification! The Key to Stasis: All Things Hibernate, a great name. But it can certainly have another meaning, can’t it?” Velvi said.

“…Vilvie, I understand how you feel right now, but please don’t take on things you don’t need to bear, okay?” Alicia suddenly understood why Velvie was so agitated.

Because... nuclear missile silos.

The Twelfth Herrscher seized control of the nuclear missile silos and then destroyed the last three human cities.

That is the last hope for all mankind.

And Vervier was the inventor of the nuclear bomb.

To make matters worse, Vilvi is the kind of person who blames herself for everything.

"Alright, Ellie, there's no need to persuade her anymore. It seems that Velvet has already made up her mind. But dear Velvet... could you wait until I send Sakura and Rin's remains back to their hometown before you say anything? You don't mean to let me, who is powerless, lose the protection of the last Divine Key, do you?"

“…I’ll go with you, and I’ll protect you closely. Give me the Divine Key. That thing must be in my hands now!” Velvi said.

"Then you'd better protect me." Chen Luo tossed the Fifth Divine Key to Virvie.

“Don’t worry. So… shall we leave now?” Velvi asked.

Vilvi also wanted to send her friend a final blessing.

"Okay, let's go now. Kevin and the others seem to be getting impatient." Chen Luo looked towards Sakura's room, where Kevin was leaning against the railing, having been waiting for a long time.

"Boss, I want to go too." Pado forced a smile despite her very low spirits.

"Okay." Chen Luo nodded.

"Su, didn't she come?"

“Su… he said he, Eden, and Kosmo would escort the base personnel and supplies to the shelter. The Firemoth base is no longer safe,” Kevin said.

Su will then go to pay respects to the first hero to sacrifice.

"Isn't Dr. Möbius coming either?"

“Because Möbius needs to pack up his things in his lab, outsiders might not be able to tell which things are more important, since the resources of the Firemoth are actually limited right now. Möbius might go to Sakura’s grave alone later,” Chen Luo said.

"Wouldn't it be better to just leave it to Cangxuan and Danzhu? Or are Cangxuan and Danzhu planning to go and pay their respects to Ying?" Alicia asked.

“You’ll have to ask Vervie about that,” Chen Luo said, glancing at Vervie.

“…I borrowed Cangxuan and Danzhu from Mebius to take care of packing up my Spiral Workshop,” Velvi said awkwardly.

"Let's go."

……

In a wasteland, a seed was planted. With the nourishment of dew, the tender shoots broke through the soil in an instant, eventually transforming into a vigorous cherry blossom tree that exudes endless vitality.

Cherry blossoms fluttered down and landed on the two graves.

Next to this cone of light was Chen Luo, who had encased himself in an ice shell.

"Hahaha! Chen Luo, you look so silly!" Wilvi said, laughing as she looked at Chen Luo in the corner of the light cone.

"Stop laughing. How can you laugh about something so serious?" Chen Luo glared at Wilvi, annoyed.

Am I not afraid of the ice shell? After all, that's where a nuclear bomb exploded, and the radiation from the collapse is very high.

At least be a little more cautious in front of others.

He promised to bring Sakura and Rin's remains to Sakura's hometown, but unfortunately, it had been reduced to ruins by the nuclear bomb.

To fulfill Sakura's last wish, Chen Luo replanted a cherry blossom tree, a cherry blossom tree that might bloom forever.

The others were not at all surprised that the promise contained strange and unusual things.

“It’s not just me laughing, Sakura herself is laughing too, why don’t you say anything to her?” Velvet, sitting on a chair in the bar, pointed at Sakura next to her.

"Respect for the dead is paramount, understand?" Chen Luo said logically and persuasively.

"..." by Sakura.

Sakura glanced at the light cone, then at the bell sitting next to her, curiously watching the light cone. She smiled with satisfaction and didn't say anything more.

"Speaking of which, you guys didn't come here specifically to ambush me, did you? Did you wait for me to return to the bar from the old civilization to stop me?" Chen Luo looked at the group of people in front of him suspiciously.

Chen Luogang, carrying a faint sadness, returned from the previous civilization and saw these people, who were almost the parties involved, waiting for him here.

"Hmm... Let's not talk about that. Speaking of which, Luo Luo, did you finally choose the original gold and silver version of the Fifth Divine Key or the gold and silver version of the life support pod?" Velvi asked, putting her arms around Chen Luo's neck.

“The former,” Chen Luo said.

An item can only have one gold or silver version before and after modification.

Chen Luo chose the former.

"Hey, how dare you join me in complaining that the higher-ups at the Firemoth are short-sighted? Aren't you just as short-sighted? What's so great about those destructive gadgets? The cryogenic chamber is so much more powerful." Velvi gave Chen Luo a disdainful look.

"..." Chen Luo had no way to refute it.

Chen Luo had always thought that the higher-ups at Moth Chaser were blind to the genius of Vervi's ideas!

After all, both the Second Divine Key, which can observe parallel worlds and the Imaginary Tree, and the Fourth Divine Key, which can repair the ecological environment, are creations of genius!

When it came to Chen Luo's turn, he indeed preferred the dormant world that could freeze everything, rather than a bunch of cryogenic chambers.

Oh no, I'm the one with no foresight!

"Emmm... Brother Chen Luo, don't feel guilty. I think the ending is already pretty good." Just as Wilvie and Chen Luo were arguing, Ling suddenly leaned closer and placed her hand on Chen Luo's head, patting it back and forth.

"...What? Did you all come here to comfort me? Do you think I'm that fragile?" Chen Luo said, both amused and exasperated.

"Hmm, isn't there?" Velvi asked in return.

"..."

“I remember you seemed to have commented on me, saying that I was the kind of person who would blame everything on myself… Honestly, dear Luo, aren’t you like that? The reason we’re so close is because we’re so alike, isn’t it?” Velvi said, pinching Chen Luo’s cheeks with both hands.

In fact, this is a common problem for people with high moral standards and great talent... Not only is Wilvie a person with this kind of personality, but even Sue admits that she has this kind of personality as well.

In fact, both Sakura and Rin felt that Chen Luo had done everything perfectly.

Rin did not suffer any pain before she died. The moment all the Moths of Flame were fired, the Fifth Divine Key froze everything and allowed Rin to rest peacefully in the crystal.

When Sakura finally lost her life, her soul dissipated in Chen Luo's gentlest embrace.

The soul naturally returned to the paradise of the past life and was told that the two sisters would meet again sooner or later. Of course, these memories were deliberately hidden, but that did not prevent Sakura from persevering for them.

5 years later, the two sisters also met across time and civilization.

Sakura didn't really care what happened to her; she only cared about whether her younger sister was doing well.

The result was that her younger sister had just played wildly in that rocking horse amusement park for three whole months, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Chen Luo standing in front of her.

Therefore, Sakura also thought that this ending was quite good.

However, when discussing this matter before, Wilvi, Sakura, Rin, and even Alicia all agreed that Chen Luo, the biggest outsider, was probably the one with the most conflicted feelings.

So after receiving Chen Luo's inquiry, Ying called Ling back and waited for Chen Luo to return in the bar. She also bumped into Wilvi by chance in the bar and even pulled Wilvi along with her.

What did Chen Luo do wrong?

He was simply caught between two civilizations.

At least at the very beginning, Chen Luo had no ability to resist anything.

Having obtained the Star Soul from Xiao Shi and being able to observe the original fate of another Star Soul, he naturally became more understanding of Chen Luo.

"...Actually, I've always felt that if I waited until I became as strong as I am now and then ventured into the pre-civilization era, there might be a more perfect solution," Chen Luo said suddenly after a moment of silence.

“Oh, a more perfect solution? What do you mean?” Velvi asked.

“For example… to sever the causal link between two civilizations. In fact, I could have done that just recently. But… it’s too late.” Chen Luo sighed.

Chen Luo met the Transcendent One far too late.

This was also the best way Chen Luo could think of to separate the two civilizations.

Those who transcend are capable of doing all sorts of incredible things, and Chen Luo, who specializes in fulfilling wishes, is naturally capable of doing the same.

But it was too late.

If Chen Luo had been able to sever all ties during the time of the Seventh Herrscher in the previous civilization, allowing the current civilization to continue developing along its original trajectory, that would have been fine, because the previous civilization had not yet become so dilapidated.

Before the Eighth Herrscher, the Seventh Herrscher and those preceding herrschers, at best, only destroyed Australia.

Of course, the price was quite high. The Sixth Herrscher took the lives of an entire city before her death, the Fifth Herrscher died mysteriously, and the birth of the Third Herrscher destroyed the entire city...

However, all of these are within the scope of the repair function of the Fourth Divine Key, which was created by the core of the Fourth Herrscher and can repair the ecological environment.

However... if we do this after billions of people have become adventurers in Paradise, all that will be left for the previous civilization is devastation.

By the time Chen Luo was able to do this, it was already too late.

Now, the entire pre-civilization has only a little over 3 people left.

Therefore, rather than cutting things off when it is almost too late, it is better to let all living beings become adventurers in paradise, until they all become wish-seekers and achieve the sublimation of the essence of life.

Therefore, Chen Luo set up the event where Wish Walkers could earn merit by leading Paradise Adventurers to become Wish Walkers.

"and then?"

"Huh?" Vilvi's sudden question left Chen Luo stunned for a while.

And then what?

"Then, that civilization could gallop like a wild horse towards an unknown future, right? Even with your help, the civilization's potential would never be as bright as the current Wish Walker group. And you might not even care much about the previous civilization then, since you'd be free of any constraints, wouldn't you?"

"If that's the case, many people's futures will be like parallel lines that will never intersect, like... the two of us."

“Personal feelings may not be able to supersede civilization… but let’s not talk about things that are impossible to happen. The past can’t be changed, can it? If you say that this impossible possibility is more important than our current relationship, then I’ll be heartbroken,” Velvi said, blinking.

Vilvi does not deny that the previous civilization's fate was indeed tragic.

But isn't the matter already settled?

Velvi felt that those adventurers in the amusement park were having a pretty good time.

Moreover, the focus right now is on comforting Chen Luo, not on which of the two possibilities is better.

"You have absolutely no idea how to comfort people," Chen Luo said, looking at Vervi.

"If you don't know how to comfort people, then so be it, but at least you seem to be in a better mood now, right?" Velvi said with a grin.

"Okay, it is indeed better." Chen Luo did not deny it.

Well, at least from the current perspective, my choice wasn't actually wrong.

Of course, the tragedies caused by the collapse are indeed unpleasant to watch.

"From now on, don't dwell on what you haven't done; think more about what you have done. Even without you, the previous civilization would have been destroyed, and the tragedy would have been far greater than if you had been there. You don't deny that, do you?"

“And with you, at least some of the regrets of the past can now be fulfilled, can’t they?” Velvi comforted her.

"Now you've become a psychology master again?" Chen Luo glanced at Wilvi.

"No, these are the words Su said to me after the Twelfth Herrscher was destroyed. After I took the Fifth Divine Key from you and turned it into a cryo-chamber, Dr. Mei was worried that my mental state was not normal, so she asked Su to give me psychological counseling. I just slightly modified them. Of course, these words are useless to me."

"Then it will be useful to me?"

And is it really okay for you to say it so bluntly?