I, the leader of the secret sect, will do great things in the infinite world!

Li Lin shook his voice: "Nian, come and save me!"

However, in the next instant, his voice stopped abruptly.

"No, she can't come." Kosche appeared in front of Li Lin at some point. The body of the immortal was like a vase full of cracks. He grabbed Li Lin's hair and lifted him from the ground.

"She can't come."

Coscich repeated himself.

The immortal raised his finger to the sky, motioning Li Lin to look up.

Countless faint shadows suddenly swarmed from all directions. Streets, buildings, vehicles, crowds, everything seemed to become abstract lines, and the broken frames were switched quickly, just like film rolling in a projector.

The flow of time seems to be speeded up countless times. This completely unreasonable scene has a touching beauty.

Elongated screams and screams interweave into a river, and all the madness of Chernobog surges towards the fingertips of the immortals. No one, no power, and nothing can stop this scene from happening at this time. Nian and Xuan The face of the giant soldier became abstract and distorted outside the world, like a pale piece of paper.

As the dense fog of [Smoke] dissipated, a zigzag and shining mirror sky appeared in front of Li Lin's eyes. The huge mobile city was divided into two by flames and phantoms, and they were standing in the middle of a tall tower made of ruins. On the tip, Kosche put Li Lin beside him casually, and looked at the blazing fire clouds in the mirror sky.

He even casually stopped Li Lin's wound, so that although Li Lin's lower body was still skinless, it stopped bleeding and felt no pain, just like a frog that no longer has nerve reflexes.

Thousands of shining mirrors radiated a cold temperature in the air. Kosche waved his hand, and the maze of mirrors turned over again. The dazzling light almost blinded Li Lin's eyes.

"Look, this is Tallulah. Now she has finally armed her brain with knowledge to avoid the fate of being used as a container. Is this what you want to see?"

Kosich grabbed a mirror and handed it to Li Lin.

......

Tallulah stared at the flash of light in front of her. She completely forgot where she was at this time: her long-dead father was standing with her mother. They smiled at her and stretched out their hands in the night of Longmen. The dragon girl originally She thought she had completely forgotten what her parents looked like, but unspeakable sadness surged from the depths of her heart.

Her lips moved, and finally she cried like an aggrieved child.

Everyone in the control tower was in deep delirium: their faces were a mixture of horror and disbelief, or they were frozen like wooden carvings, or they stumbled forward, desperate to grab something , or stand there blankly, with a sad, dazed smile on his face.

A dead lover, a dead friend, a dead parent, a wife and daughter who died of illness... The old times surged in like a tide, and the wind of time surrounded them.

......

"Look, this is Rhodes Island, the pharmaceutical company for the infected. They came here to save their leader, although this purpose was not successful."

Kosche handed over a mirror again, and the faces of everyone in Rhodes Island flickered in Li Lin's sight on the mirror.

......

Ace saw his comrades who had died in battle walking towards him. They laughed and hugged his shoulders. The smell of Rhode Island's special nutritious meals was in the air. Music from old movies was played on a loop in the lounge. They moved Long tables are set up for chair sliding contests, and fluorescent lights are always on at midnight.

Lin Guang smelled the mixed smell of sweat and blood in the Casimir Knight Arena. The titled knights raised their weapons in the light, and the roars of the audience filled the air.But when the scene changed, it turned into the Silver Spear Pegasus carving family mottos on their shields. Seven people and seven horsemen shouldered their spears and attacked the battlefield where there was absolutely no chance of victory. Behind them was the sun sinking like blood.

Dubin felt the temperature of Bolivar in a trance. The former guards stood on the long street and raised their crossbows to their compatriots. Every arrow pierced deeply into the flesh, screaming, howling, and cursing. Scolding, these things pulled her down like a vortex.

The scout leaned on his gun and pointed it at every glaring Sakaz. The calm sniper's eyes were red. Each shot he fired accurately shot a compatriot between the eyebrows. Until the bullet in the gun was empty, he was still trying in vain. Pull the trigger.

The doctor strides among the flickering dreams, countless mirrors reflect his silhouette, and the dark hood covers his whole body. He walks through the scene of demons dancing wildly, like a maverick sober among a group of madmen .

Until a voice made him stop: "Doctor, don't forget me."

......

Kosche didn't move, but a part of his body suddenly turned into countless mottled moths.

The swarm of pale moths drifted away like shattered ashes, unable to see what they were doing, and quickly flew back to Kosiche.

Moths landed on Kosiche's body one by one, and his body returned to its integrity. He stretched out his hand, and there was already a huge sword full of mysterious patterns in his hand, which was as tall as a person.

The sword once pierced into Kosiche's chest, and was at Tallulah's side again, and now with the lifting of the previous ceremony, the sword returned to Kosiche's hand.

The mirror in front of Li Lin's eyes suddenly shattered, Kosche stood up and pointed the sword at Li Lin's chest, looking at him with a half-smile.

"just kill me."

Li Lin said expressionlessly.

Kosche stretched out his hand and tore off the skin of his face little by little. He casually stuck the sword by his side: "No, I won't kill you."

"Your consciousness is very strange. There is no defense at all, but it is as hot as the sun."

Kosche shrugged, "You may ask if this is a lie? And my answer is wait and see - you succeeded, and through my greed, this time the ritual has failed. My transformation process is broken , I'm falling."

"It seems that you don't believe me? Judging from your behavior and performance, you are like a lunatic with no limit. Everyone should hate lunatics, but Nian cares about you very much."

He paused.

"why?"

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"Why are you tempting your mother so carefully?"

Li Lin's IQ went online like never before, and he looked directly at Kosichet with black eyes, "Why didn't you just say that Nian is greedy for my body?"

He didn't say that the reason why he was so big was because his post bar had just been pulled out by Kossi. Li Lin, who had an upper IQ, naturally wouldn't use the enemy's strengths to attack his own weaknesses, and most of the master Li who held a grudge against this Some vicious means of revenge have been conceived.

Kosich laughed and clapped his palms: "I liked your reaction before. You were angry and you were ashamed of your body's damage."

The Immortal said casually: "This proves that to some extent, you are no different from those pathetic, despicable mortals."

"Those humble mortals, I don't dislike them. I love others as I love myself. I love every life on this land. When I appeared before you in the form of my daughter, what did you say about me? A creature of the will to power, which I think is very apt."

"Isn't that how I love them? How equal I am to this Ursus. The land is cold and battered, and the great former emperor once made most of Ursus He is equally great, but his lifespan is limited and he cannot bless the infected."

"But I am different." Kosiche's words were like moths vibrating their wings, and there were moving shadows in his pupils, like dark pearls. "I will give them direction, and I will fill their minds." Every irrational corner of the palace guides them with chaotic longing and yearning, making them become as noble as their ancestors again."

"I transcend the monarch. All social and moral systems are nothing to me. My long life has already made my level far superior to that of all living beings in the countries of Terra. I am an ideology, an idea - an Thoughts that pervade and breed in the hearts of anyone who can.”

"Creature of power and will, what a beautiful word, how can the clumsy good and evil of the world judge me? And my life span is as long as this country, even when the eagles were still tribes, I have been watching for a long time They, I watched them forge swords, teach martial arts, curse around the campfire on the eve of war, civilization itself is bound to war, I watched them fight demons, watched them bleed, watched them be overthrown on the ground."

"Have you seen the cavalry of Khan Xue? Have you heard the sound of the cavalry's sabers scraping against their skulls? Have you seen the artillery of the Emperor of Gaul? Have you heard them blasting from the breech of the cannon during the battle of the Four Emperors? The roar that sounded in the heart? When time leaves long enough traces on you, most things will be just a passing cloud, and only a few things that are deep in the bone marrow will remain."

"These miserable people want to live, so I'll give them life; if they want to climb, I'll let them climb; if they want more, I'll let them have more—the world doesn't need too much Civilized things don’t need the goodwill that can only be imposed on individuals! In the face of grand narratives, personal sorrows and joys are weak and not worth mentioning.”

"There are few wise men among them. The North is destined to not need wise men."

"Those who only think but do not act are harmful to the world, and they should be tamed with folly rather than wisdom."

Kosche crossed his fingers: "Want to oppose me? It doesn't matter, you still have a lot of time, and you can slowly see the future of this land. You are different from my daughter, your nobility does not lie in your blood, but in you Wisdom, vision and knowledge.”

"You can judge me, but how do you save all the infected? Are the integration movement and Rhodes Island your pawns? But they are also deeply involved in this war, and my thousand years of life have passed At the end, and you'll have a lot of time, you can save them, so what about the next one, and the next one? What will become of them in the end?"

"You will see the Integral Movement and Rhode Island become the next Ursus. Their original ideals were full of light. Their original leaders were as bright as the sun, but their successors will fall and their ideals will deteriorate. This kind of thing is worthless in the end. As long as our bread feeds the ignorant people, what the ruling class does is justice."

Kosich smiled and sighed: "It's really strange. How can you come up with the idea of ​​​​promoting changes in the times?"

His tone changed, and he explained in a thoughtful way: "Even if I, the embodiment of the will of this country, can hardly shake your mind, but what if it's just the truth itself? You will stay in the place instead of me." Here, watch the movement of the land of Terra, until you hate it all and give life itself to the next person who is full of ideals."

"I have seen you with the eyes of a container, haven't you borrowed my name? Then you should understand me - I am from the mountains, I am from the riverside, I am from the grassland, I am from the desert, I am from the borderless I am a small human village, and I come from a small city destroyed by natural disasters. My life is like dust under the rolling wheel of history, who cares how many bones it has run over?"

Li Lin was silent for a moment, which in Kosich's eyes was a sign of thinking.

"You want to say that you will take the initiative to give up living?" Master Li turned into Rufeng.

Li Lin's tone gradually increased: "Do you think the righteous people's police will believe your nonsense?"

"How do you think we can recognize everything? Only give time to civilization." Kosche explained unhurriedly, "I still have a body—not a container to live in the name of the apostle, but a real When I was in the flesh, I got power, or some knowledge that described the reality of the world. When I didn't know it, I didn't know it, I couldn't even describe it, I couldn't even imagine it, it was for me Words are beyond reach."

Li Lin frowned slightly.

There is no change in the system interface, only the card that symbolizes Cosche is glowing slightly white. Although there are two cracks on the edge, it is still not to the point of being broken and disappearing.

In the game mechanism played by the Esoteric Cult Simulator, a long-lived person has to be traumatized three times before he dies, but that is only the convenience provided by the game mechanism. A simplified version with countless knives.

It can be seen that Kosiche, an old man, is mostly pretending, and the moth-looking immortal can't believe a word, but this does not prevent Li Lin from delaying time, waiting for the year to come in from the outside.

The mirror-covered sky is already full of cracks, and Nian has found the center to maintain this world, and will soon be able to shatter Kosiche and this world based on Chernobog.

"This knowledge did not take effect until my physical body was destroyed, and at that moment I fully understood the world. Like a snake that is constantly shedding its skin, and like a moth, this path requires me to constantly abandon myself until Transformed into something else, sometimes I live in imitation of others, sometimes I hide my true self under the skin until the old me is ritually rendered an empty husk to feed the new me."

He laughed: "This is not easy to understand, because even if I use vague words to describe it, there is a risk of losing control. Because knowledge itself has its own power - the result is obvious, I became the only one in this knowledge itself beneficiaries.”

Kosche snapped his fingers, the wind flowed quickly around the ruined tower, and the mirrors hanging in the sky swayed from side to side, like a sea tide.

There was something that connected him and Li Lin, beyond the body and beyond the soul. From a certain moment, they seemed to be able to perceive each other's thoughts.

Li Lin smiled indifferently: "It's more like a slave than a beneficiary."

The corners of Kosche's eyes twitched slightly.

"I'm stalling for time, and you're stalling for time too. The more the riddle is answered, the more it expands, and the more the mystery is solved, the more difficult it is to get rid of. Why don't we have an open and honest talk."

Li Lin spread his hands and spoke calmly: "I once heard that it is not people who are constantly pursuing knowledge, but knowledge that is constantly pursuing people. But I know that is wrong. Knowledge is not pursuing people, but knowledge is constantly pursuing people. It's chasing people. Its chase is cruel and emotionless, like a falcon and a hound chasing a rabbit."

The translation module conveyed the passage to Kosche as it is.

"Knowledge is pollution, knowledge is poison, knowledge is the corner that describes the truth of the world, knowledge is taboo, and taboo has its own power. It is not you who master knowledge, but knowledge that shapes you. Cosche, Tallulah is you container, and you are the container of this knowledge.”

"But it doesn't mean that the container has no right to resist. Even an apostle can resist the mentor through various means, let alone you who have lived forever because of this?"

Li Lin tapped the tall tower made of ruins with his skinless feet, and said in a gentle and compassionate tone: "If you want to share this knowledge with others, you must first create a general understanding in the listener's mind. .You first instilled your own three views into me, and then told me this secret, in fact, you turned me into your shape."

"But it doesn't make sense."

"Because I have known this knowledge for a long time. And the things you said before are bullshit to me."

Li Lin looked directly at the dark green tabletop rising in front of him, and said the name of this ceremony calmly and lowly.

"Metamorphosis: Scale Insect."

Kosich nodded with a smile: "But you can't escape. In that case, why not accept eternal life?"

His body became more and more broken, as if he was just a bunch of dying moths struggling with all their strength, and his smile seemed to come from a distant and mysterious end of the world.

The Immortal smiled crazily, and the shadows on his face gradually began to squirm, becoming quite familiar, like a mirror standing in front of Li Lin.

He abandoned his previous self, and instead existed in the form of Li Lin. Even if there is no host for a ceremony, he will automatically find the most suitable holder. In the land of Terra and in the Ark World of Tomorrow, there is no one better than the Black Snake. Kosche is more suitable for this esoteric person.

Now he has passed Li Lin's cognition and gradually assimilated with him. Although under Li Lin's influence, he may become crazy in the future, but it doesn't matter.

Since Abraham Lilin can provide the secret biography that symbolizes opening and dismantling, he must have other similar knowledge. Kosche is like a crazy moth jumping towards the flame, and it is difficult to restrain his desire.

"It doesn't matter who I am, what matters is that you, like me, are not obsessed with abstract morality or truth. We are all standing on the other side of good and evil, tasting the loneliness that no one can understand, looking straight at Follow our desires, mocking everything."

Li Lin's breathing gradually became faster, and the breath he exhaled was as hot as if it was ignited. The suppressed pain deep in his body began to fight back, and his face became uncontrollably distorted.

Only his eyes are still indifferent, without much emotion, like a sea of ​​ice that never melts under the eternal night.

He stared at the immortal who was more and more similar to himself in front of him, and his consciousness quickly began to rise through the hole in his mind, and in the process of gradually pulling away, Li Lin heard a sigh from his mouth.

"In the silent house, on the dry land, we seek the opportunity to transform. I have to wait for the possibility of molt at the end of every winter. My limbs are shriveled like dead branches, and my skin is ragged. Like scales, but my life will be extended again, like a metamorphosed winged creature—"

On the dark green table, the card that symbolizes Kosiche suddenly lights up, and all the cards are trembling slightly, and at the top of the table, a black window floats out, and an off-white card is in the black window lay quietly.

The black window opened, and the gray and white cards suddenly turned over. The blurred cards flashed from the top and flew towards Li Lin.

[You have mastered a high-level secret! 】

[The current high-level secret transmission is a ritual! 】

[The current ritual is Metamorphosis: Scale Worm. 】

[Who is leading?What is the congratulations?What kind of mana is presented?What can I become? 】

[The current ritual requirements are leader, secret transmission, corresponding influence, and desire. 】

[The current leader of the ceremony: Abraham Li Lin! 】

"There's one more thing I want to tell you, Cosiche."

Li Lin raised the crowbar in his hand, hot flames and bright light overflowed from the spiral pattern on the stick, the mirror in the sky suddenly stopped, and all the messy lights were frozen, as if someone hastily pressed pause key, the rapidly rewinding film is stuck here.

The next moment, the mirror surface of the entire sky collapsed, and silver fragments fell like a torrential rain.

It rained heavily throughout Chernobog, and every drop of rain reflected countless rays of light, as if the whole world was burning in flames.

A flaming palm stretched out and grabbed the crowbar that Li Lin stretched out, and then Nian came to Li Lin's side from outside the world.

"I'm a console guy! You are a hermaphrodite with a rotten ass whoring for nothing!"

Li Lin let out a gloating laugh like a lion craftsman, raised his torch towards the sky and made a loud sound:

"Glory to the Forge of the Day, end all the gods of the night!"

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The next moment, the dark green table began to vibrate violently, and all the cards cracked in this shock, and a lot of secret atmosphere and restlessness appeared and disappeared.