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"Lv Shu," Su Ming'an called out.

Lv Shu did not turn around.

"The reinforcements have arrived," Lv Shu said.

So Su Ming'an turned back.

At the end of the Mechanical City appeared a blood-red large mouth, with several figures gradually emerging—Yamada Machiichi, Lu, Li Yuxuan, Yi Zhongyu, Mo Yan, Isabella, Boris.

These players were fake, but their lives were real. When someone interferes with their actions, they would act differently than their reflections. The reason they arrived was that a passage appeared at the other end of the Mechanical City, and what emerged were the Holy Alliance Army.

Lv Shu's arms were stained with blue-green pollution, and filamentous viscous bodies drifted in the air. When Su Ming'an told him to leave, Lv Shu shook his head, a look of extraordinary determination on his face.

"...I don't want to wait."

He no longer wanted to wait.

The Deity retreated with Alice into the protection of the Holy Alliance Army. Hundreds of sparks bloomed in the blue-green filled Nine Serenities.

But when Su Rin took action, everything fell silent.

The reinforcements' attacks exhausted the last of the Defensive Barrier, and Su Rin stabbed in with a sword, piercing through the defenses and pulling Alice out from within the Holy Alliance Army.

The moment he got hold of Alice, it was as if Su Rin touched something hot. The bizarre blue-green spread to his palms like an infectious disease.

The accumulated emotional pollution over millennia, all the world's grievances, pain, and despair, converged on her. A deity was not a living entity and was unaffected while holding her. But when Su Rin touched her, he felt a violent and terrifying aura swiftly spreading in his arms.

People would be polluted just by being in such an environment, let alone by direct contact with the pollution source.

"Crash—!"

Su Ming'an shattered the glass and leaped down from a hundred-story building.

—He was going to catch Alice.

Whether it was pollution or metamorphosis, ordinary people simply couldn't endure it. He was an Old God, so he definitely had greater adaptability than others.

The next instant, the Deity appeared beside Su Rin. Su Rin summoned flames but felt all the flames invade Alice's body.

—She can automatically absorb energy!

As long as they threw away this dangerous Alice, everything would be fine. But the exit was right beside them; once the Deity throws Alice out of the Nine Serenities...

"Throw her to me!" someone called out, the voice somewhat distorted.

Su Rin glanced over and threw her. His palms had already turned into an eerie blue-green, like tossing a hot potato, and the potato fell into another person's arms.

It was "Su Rin."

As soon as "Su Rin" touched Alice, his hands melted instantly, and his situation was much worse than Su Rin's, unable to last even a few seconds before his face turned ashen.

When the Deity, like a phantom, approached him, he held Alice protectively with his arms, like a human shield, refusing to let go. Since energy would be absorbed by Alice, competitors could only contest physically, making his action of using himself as a shield quite effective.

"...I can't believe I can't control you." The Deity paused, an expression of confusion in its eyes: "Why...? When that fake Noel volunteered to die, I couldn't control him either, his determination to sacrifice overshadowed the causality between us. Why? You're obviously not him."

Before they were transformed, they were just ordinary people: timid, afraid of death, mediocre, yet... their "personas" don't match their current actions. Even the real Su Rin wouldn't sacrifice like this, yet the fake Su Rin did.

...What ignited their originally mundane souls?

This leaves the Deity perplexed, even bewildered.

"Su Rin" firmly protected Alice, his skin beginning to decay, arms melting, flesh falling bit by bit... On his face, as indifferent as Su Rin's, finally appeared a crack. He revealed a smile that Su Rin would not have shown, with the same golden eyes full of arrogance:

"Exactly because... I'm not him."

"You are him," the Deity shook its head.

"I'm not," said Su Rin-2918.

"Your appearance, voice, personality, preferences are all identical," said the Deity.

"Not the same," said Su Rin-2918.

From a distance, Su Rin looked back and glanced at the flesh-decayed Su Rin-2918. The light barrier broke under the Deity's palm, with blue-green phosphorescence transversing between them.

And Su Rin-2918 also glanced back at Su Rin from afar, as if reflecting an invisible image in his golden pupils, the spirit in those beautiful and arrogant eyes gradually dispersing.

...Who were they before they became "other's personas"?

...Who erased their unique essence, and what lit up their desolation?

Su Rin's eyes shifted slightly.

The Flame Longsword pierced the Deity, its form dissipating, but soon, another shape of the Deity appeared. It had long anticipated the decisive battle in Nine Serenities, as its bodies were scattered everywhere here.

When Su Ming'an landed, only the shattered upper half of Su Rin-2918 remained.

His chin rested on Alice's hair, and golden eyeballs rolled to the ground. Enduring pain akin to being cut in half, Su Rin-2918 used one eye to gaze at Su Ming'an, moving aside his body that had turned to blood and mud.

"...I didn't do it to save you," Su Rin-2918 said.

Su Ming'an picked up Alice.

He heard a seagull-like cry coming from afar, hearing the reverberation in his chest cavity.

"Just incidental? Just to save your own world and incidentally helped me?" Su Ming'an voiced out what he would say.

Su Rin-2918 squinted his eyes.

He laughed amid the vast pool of blood.

Su Ming'an turned away, not witnessing his final melting; Su Rin was a proud person, not wanting others to see his final state, especially an unappealing death.

As he took a step forward, he heard the crackling melting sounds behind. Following that, the faint breathing ceased as well.

"..."

Su Ming'an heard no system prompt, as if Su Rin-2918's death was of no importance to the system, not even a hint of an ending chime.

Just like a silent speck of dust.

Holding Alice, he ascended onto the mechanical roulette, never turning back to the pool of blood on the ground.

"Where are you going?" Yamada Machiichi grabbed Su Ming'an's sleeve, producing a scraping sound.

Yamada Machiichi just noticed that his palms had started to melt, with flesh beginning to sag.

Su Ming'an watched Yamada Machiichi's skin decay, shaking his head: "You all should leave."

Leave, depart from the Nine Serenities, there's no need to help me.

"Take Su Rin with you, the radiation source he's been in contact with won't end well for him. That guy is the most stubborn, won't expose his vulnerability, you all should quickly take him away." Su Ming'an took another look at Su Rin ahead slicing through one Deity's body after another, then turned to Lv Shu: "And Lv Shu, you should leave too, there's no benefit to staying here long. This is a battlefield of the gods, it's enough for just me to stay."

Yamada Machiichi blinked, softly saying: "It's okay, the real me is in another world line."

Su Ming'an said: "It's all the same."

He activated the mechanical roulette, flying upwards with Alice in his arms.

"Hey—"

Yamada Machiichi reached out, unable to touch him.

The roulette ascended directly. Holding Alice, Su Ming'an watched as blue-green spread over his arms. His thoughts were simple, since Alice was the radiation source, he would fly upwards carrying her alone; just by distancing from the ground, he could distance himself from everyone, including the deity.

Under the acceleration of the roulette, the scenery swiftly moved downward, and Su Ming'an glanced at the ground. Lv Shu kept looking up, like a silent stone monument. Yamada Machiichi maintained a posture, as if wanting to touch him. Mo Yan kept shouting "Brother" loudly, waving desperately. Boris kneeled on one knee, performing some devout ceremony. Su Rin retreated from the front, and a large circle of deity corpses lay on the ground, resembling vast white snow.

The altitude kept rising, and Su Ming'an lowered his head, suddenly feeling something brush his chest.

Alice opened her eyes.

Scarlet eyes.

As early as the two years spent alone in the Nine Serenities, her consciousness had disappeared. But when Su Ming'an was so close to her, their hearts so near, she suddenly seemed to be drawn by something, brushing his chest, as if resonating with the heartbeat between them.

This reminded him of that snowy night.

In December, the girl just came to the detective's house, afraid of the dark, and afraid of being alone, she would snuggle into his embrace with her young age as an excuse, and he would push her head away.

This time, the mechanical roulette was too small, the sky too cold, and he could finally not push her away.

Pollution spread like frost snow, climbing up Su Ming'an's chin, bringing a burning-like pain. He held Alice tightly, gradually unable to see the ground, the air becoming thin, as if plummeting into an inverted seabed.

Alice's bright red eyes slightly moved, her face already covered with blue-green scales, very hideous, like a bloodthirsty sea monster. She bit into Su Ming'an's shoulder, blood spilling.

Su Ming'an remained motionless, only taking out the white Morning Glory flower she had once given him.

The Exotic Species King is a carrier of all emotions, too many negative emotions accumulated on her. The fear of billions, the despair of billions, the madness of billions... She bit hard, tears unconsciously falling:

"I hate... hate... why... just because of my parents' crimes, I can't take the college entrance exam... why..."

Su Ming'an maintained the flower-presenting gesture: "I thought, seeing the flower, a miracle might happen, maybe you would remember who you are."

Her expression was fierce, blood vessels burst in her eyes. More and more blood flowed from Su Ming'an's shoulder, she bit down harder:

"I hate... hate... it's all because of the war... it's all because of the Old Gods... if They didn't exist, we wouldn't suffer... my family... my children..."

Her lips parted slightly, constantly pouring out the words of emotion from all the people, these were the heart voices filled with malice from billions——

"I hate... the Old God's army destroyed my city, killed my grandson... I hate..."

Su Ming'an said softly: "Do you remember the day we made a wish under the tree? You said you wished you would be Alice for life."

"I hate... hate... hate..."

"At that time, I thought." Su Ming'an's voice was very light: "If destiny really wants to kill you, I still hope you are Alice forever."

"It's all... because... of you... Old Gods... go die..."

"The time spent with you was indeed the happiest time I've had these past ten days, it's a daily life I've rarely experienced before. Alice, I hope..."

"Old Gods... I hate you... you..."

...

"...I hope you can live on."

"...go die."

...

"...I really like you, kid."

"...I hate you."

...

Late at night, the sky snowed.

Large snowflakes drifted around, the air becoming thinner.

Blue-green scales grew on Su Ming'an's arm and neck. He saw the eyes in the sky, vast like the abyssal sea.

Then he felt a painful embrace, Alice holding him tightly, the born bones, skin, flooding scales, tentacles, making this hug full of awkward foreign objects.

——The Exotic Species King was about to resurrect.

The wind seemed to blow from the end of the universe, bypassing thousands of years of silence, falling on his eyelids turned blue-green. Then, he heard Dieying's sigh:

"It's over."

"...Finally over, the plan spanning a thousand years."

The heartbeat grew louder.

Su Ming'an saw the words in the sky, like curved overlapping star traces. It was a passage he had seen long ago.

...

[My old friend, the Old God.]

[Grateful for the Immortal's Talisman given to me, I turned my body into the Sword of Destiny. The one who fills my soul, is the eye of the past, bringing me the ones who resemble the red python, I am reborn. At the bottom of Nine Serenities in the tower, chant my name, with death as a measure, my ambition covers the earth, seeking the ideal nation to rise to the firmament.]

...

Then, the text seemed to be erased, showing its original appearance. The word "old friend" suddenly changed——

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[My nemesis, the Old God.]

[When you see this text, you have already lost.]

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[TE1· "Successfully Destroy the World" Perfect Completion Progress: 99%]

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——If one wants to guide a person, how should it be done?

Dieying had learned the process of "Su Ming'an digging his own grave." Regarding Su Ming'an's act of setting traps for himself, creating the Ouroboros, Dieying learned thoroughly, He understood how to guide Su Ming'an.

First, place obvious rewards.

Second, make oneself approachable.

Finally, deliberately leave a gap to induce Su Ming'an's curiosity.

Thus, Dieying designed a plan spanning the entire instance process.

The first step was disguising "Deities, Exotic Species King, Dieying's" tri-pillar situation as a two-sided conflict between "Deities, Dieying," making Su Ming'an think Dieying was the Exotic Species King. In fact, the Exotic Species King is a fusion of negative emotions, Dieying is the observer in the sky, and They are not one person.

The second step was promoting through ancient ballads, antiques, myth classics: "Those who obtain the three elements and carrier of becoming a god can come to Nine Serenities to awaken the Exotic Species King," guiding Su Ming'an to bring the three elements of becoming a god to Nine Serenities.

Then.

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"Ding Dong!"

[The Exotic Species King is about to resurrect.]

...

Alice melted.

In the prolonged contact, Su Ming'an's skin and flesh were about to melt, Alice seemed to "blend" into him.