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Chapter 155 Chapter 153·HE·Silent Future

The well-dressed little Loli sat in her room, and beside her, a bird like a nightingale was singing.

It conveys His Majesty's message.

She opened the drawer, and inside lay a dagger studded with vermilion stones. When she pulled it out, she saw her young face reflected on the surface of the dagger.

She slowly walked out of the door holding the dagger, walked through the silent corridor, and stepped on the scarlet carpet. As she slowly went up the stairs, she heard the sound of something dragging the ground.

She walked up the stairs and saw the wide open door of the innermost room, where a person fell. Even in the darkest night, she could see clearly the blood splattered on the ground through the dim light.

She approached slowly, the ruby ​​​​on the dagger glowing brightly. As she walked through this corridor, her long palace dress dragged on the floor and made a slight friction sound with the carpet, which was extremely obvious in the quiet night.

The man who fell on the ground raised his head slightly, revealing a face full of blood, and a blood-red mark on his shoulder.

"Are you here...to kill me?"

Even though his face was covered with blood, he was still smiling, and his tone of questioning was as normal as usual.

Hui Shuhang slowly squatted down and got closer to him.

"Yes."

"I thought you could take me to escape." He said, "After all, when I opened my eyes, it was you who I saw."

"I have been with you for more than ten years."

"Really?" he said, with blood flowing down the corners of his mouth, looking quite weak: "...can you talk to me, before I die?"

Hui Shuhang held the dagger tightly, and then she approached him again, sat next to him, and threw away the dagger in her hand.

The dagger fell on the carpet, the gem shining coldly.

She stared at the empty corridor in silence, and then, her eyes fell on his shoulder.

There was a blood-red mark there, and she recognized it as a curse mark branded by His Majesty. Anyone who was branded would die within two hours.

...She doesn't even need to do it.

"How long have I been here?"

She suddenly heard his question.

"Have you forgotten?" Hui Shuhang said slowly: "You have been here since you were a child."

"Never been out?"

"With my company, yes, have you forgotten?" She said: "I have always taken care of you, and I know everything about you."

"I really didn't expect..." He sighed slightly: "I have done so much for the main army. At the end, when the experiment was almost completed, the first person His Majesty wanted to kill was actually me. I thought that he would at least Will keep me until my coming-of-age ceremony.”

"...Maybe it's because you went to see him today."

"What's wrong?" he asked immediately.

"Your Majesty, he is also hesitating. Maybe it was something you said that made him make up his mind in advance."

"That's right." He nodded, looking a little regretful: "...what should I say."

Hui Shuhang did not answer.

Maybe she was restless herself.

"Tell me." She heard his voice: "Your Majesty, why on earth did he send me to the altar?"

"——Because of the future." She also heard her own voice, like a puppet that could only answer. Perhaps it was too sad that she couldn't feel what she was answering: "Your existence will make the world have variables. , your bloodline... itself is the source of the world's disaster. You may be unwilling to do so and want to change something through your experiment... But Your Majesty can't wait for the day when the experiment succeeds. To eliminate the disaster in advance is Your Majesty’s choice.”

"What am I?"

"You are an evil dragon, you are a child with the blood of an evil dragon." Hui Shuhang said: "It is a disaster, it is an evil spirit, it is a variable that should not exist, it is a curse that presses on the heads of living beings, no matter you are alive, Whether you are alive or dead, the moment you are sent to the altar, the world will be at peace."

"……I see."

Su Mingan completely understood.

His Majesty’s favorability score of 95 points is true.

His Majesty may really have feelings for him, allowing him to live until he is sacrificed on the altar, but in the eyes of that ruler, maintaining the stability of the world is far more important than just one person.

When he knew that he might have the intention to escape from control, His Majesty did not give him a chance to live for the remaining nine days, but directly killed him.

"It turns out that I am not the future." Su Mingan said: "Kill me, then you are the future."

"That's right."

She heard him coughing up blood. The man in front of her was getting weaker and weaker. He only had a few minutes left in his life.

"……how about you?"

She heard his voice.

"...If one day, you suddenly don't want to send me to the altar, and you want to take me to escape, what kind of situation will that be?" He asked.

Hui Shuhang thought carefully for a while.

"That won't happen."

Even in this situation, the little Loli remained elegant. She sat next to him, her skirt not stained with any blood. Under the faint light, her wine-red eyes were full of determination:

"Although I have watched you grow up and respect you very much, I have already made up my mind. Everyone has their own final destiny and accept it calmly... This is what we can do in this world. The only thing.”

"I mean, what if?" Su Mingan asked.

"..."

Hui Shuhang was silent for a while.

She lowered her head, as if she was deep in thought. Then, when she raised her head again, there was a hint of confusion in her eyes:

"...That's possible." She said, slowly picking up the dagger that fell on the ground.

The gems sparkle beautifully.

"...Maybe I'm in love with you."

She came close to him and whispered in his ear:

"Listen up - love is a very complicated thing. It's crazy and incredible. If I can love you so much that I abandon all my beliefs and responsibilities for you, then I will take you away at any cost. , use all means - I will keep you alive, even if I will die."

Su Mingan carefully recalled the last week's meeting with Hui Shuhang. When she wanted to take him to escape, her eyes were so hot and crazy. When she looked at her, she had an unprecedented desire, like a fire suddenly burning up. , to burn away her own past.

——It turns out that it was at that time that her full friendship became the so-called love.

"I understand." Su Mingan said.

The nightingale on the shoulder began to sing again. Hui Shuhang held the dagger and spoke in an extremely soft tone:

"Is there anything else you want to say?"

"I thought." Su Ming'an looked at her: "You would say something like - [No one is born to be a victim, but you are the future]."

"If I believe that you are more useful alive than being sent to the altar, I will say so." Hui Shuhang's tone was very gentle, as if he was telling a bedtime story: "The premise is that we all need I believe in you - you can develop a way to change the dragon's natural bloodline."

"But it's too late now."

"Yes." Hui Shuhang said: "Your Majesty has made up his mind in advance. We will send your body to the altar, and the experiment will continue, even if it will slow down the process, but you have gained a temporary An Ding, you are our [future]."

"…Then I know what to do."

Hui Shuhang listened to his words and looked into his eyes.

His eyes were so bright and dazzling that it was easy for people to ignore the pain in them.

...as if he didn't feel that his journey would end here.

"Then." She stretched out her hand and covered his eyes: "Good night?"

"Is there still a chance to regret it? For example, can you save me now and let me leave?"

She laughed: "I haven't fallen in love with you yet."

She smiled, but burst into tears.

When she retracted her hand, she saw that his eyes were completely closed.

She looked at the blood marks on her palm. The blood was still warm. When she looked at the blood in her hand, some strange emotions suddenly appeared in her heart, which was usually as stable as a flat lake.

"——Death is not the loss of life, but eternity in time." She said: "Congratulations, you have become the [future] you want to be."

She lowered her head slightly and kissed the forehead of the person on the ground. The kiss was extremely light, like a saint kissing a token, like water disappearing into the water.

Then, she used the dagger to cut her own wrist.

The blood dripping on the ground gradually mixed together and condensed into a strange pattern.

She closed her eyes and leaned against him, her breath dissipating little by little.

…

Su Mingan's consciousness slowly returned.

Through this trial of death, he understood that his identity might be the source of some kind of disaster, and that he had to die so that the world could gain temporary stability.

Qinwang seems to be conducting a study on how to change the natural bloodline. If he cannot achieve results before being pushed to the altar, he will die.

During the conversation with His Majesty during the day, he might have touched upon something that made His Majesty take action against him in advance.

Su Mingan originally thought that when he opened his eyes again, he would be greeted by a return to a certain period of time - still in that golden-white square.

But when he regained consciousness, what he saw was a barren land.

… There was no square, no servants carrying things, no escorts, not even buildings.

Looking around, the world is completely silent, as if we are in a wasteland with not a single soul around us.

He stood in the middle of a pile of blood-red liquid, his feet covered in blood.

"……what's the situation."

He hasn't had time to look at the live broadcast room yet - the live broadcast room is the best way to locate the time.

He then heard the system prompt:

[Congratulations! You have successfully survived to the fifteenth day!]

[Perfect clearance progress 50%]

[Achieve the normal clearance route, the main army route, (HE) Silent Future]

[Line evaluation: A (excellent)! 】

[(HE·Silent Future): “What I face is a silent future.

I just woke up and I don’t know anything yet.

I will wait here until I am praised by everyone. ”]

…

[The ending has been included and will be included in the final evaluation]

…

Su Mingan stared at the system interface and felt breathless.

A feeling of suffocation suddenly surged over him, as if a big hand was pinching his heart. My whole body felt numb as if there was electricity, and my eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of cloth, everything was hazy.

Death rewind will not rewind to a point in time that he has never experienced.

——And the strange scene in front of him told him that he did not die that night just now.

Instead, time continued to pass, and one day, he, who was not completely dead, was suddenly awakened and accepted this inexplicable ordinary HE.

……how so.

He felt more and more out of breath - it turned out that he had not really died that night, but had fallen into suspended animation.

As a result, he suddenly woke up at a certain point in the future, and the return point may have been buried in his sleep.

[He may be stuck in a stuck situation].

He had previously thought about "what to do if I got stuck and couldn't pass the level perfectly", but he didn't expect that he would actually meet it.

… He didn’t know if he could go back to the original time if he turned back now, but he had no time to think about it.

...What if, what if he returns this time and does not return to the critical time...

He felt that the whole world in front of him was turning upside down. He immediately put his fingers on his temples and turned back instantly.

…

He opened his eyes.

He looked at the bright scene in front of him, still feeling suffocated.

The girl biting the chocolate bar was pushing the door open to lead him out.

"Fia."

He breathed slowly.

……came back.

He didn't know where [Death Rewind] came from, but now it seemed that it could bring him back from the brink of collapse every time.

[Key time point] may not change because of time, but depends on his experience.

He has always been extremely confident in this skill... as if he was confident that he would always pass the level perfectly. If this only support couldn't bring him back, he really didn't know how he should go on.

Infinite rewind, rewind until collapse?

He looked at the familiar scene in front of him.

When he knew that everything could come back again, the heavy sinking feeling in his heart gradually disappeared.

"……What's wrong?"

While he was still recovering from the disaster, Fia's hand came over to him.

She touched his forehead and then looked into his eyes:

"You suddenly look very tired...Did you not sleep well? There are bloodshot eyes."

"It's okay." Su Ming'an removed her hand: "Take me to see His Majesty."

He needed to repeat the process from that night before.

"..." Fia looked at him and suddenly bit into pieces of the chocolate bar with a "click".

"I remember that you often stayed up late before the game started." She said: "If you want to play the game well, you must keep your spirits up."

"You're right." Su Mingan said, "This is also a game, but it's a bit more hardcore."

"...So you mean you still want to play so tiredly?"

"I will rest, but not now."

Fia sighed: "I have never been able to persuade you."

She said, leading him out.

On the way, Su Ming'an recalled the progress of the previous week's trip, and there was some suspicion in his heart.

Next, he went to see His Majesty as before, and the conversation remained unchanged.

The only difference from the previous game is that he did not use the power-holder skill to increase the opponent's favorability from 95 points to 100 points.

He felt that the problem might not lie in the content of the conversation.

At night, he returned to his room, sat at the table, and waited for the curse to strike.

He sat there all night.

It wasn't until the extreme night gradually passed and the dim light in the square came on that his hazy thoughts suddenly became clearer.

- He survived.

This time, he was not cursed with instant death.

In other words, the reason why he almost failed to pass the level perfectly was because of the power-holder skills he used.

...The previous time, it was also because he used the ruler skill on Shuhang that he died.

And this time, it was precisely because he used the power-in-power skill against His Majesty that he suddenly got an ordinary ending.

...This is a pit.

If he had not died, he might have been forced to accept the status quo of failing to clear the level perfectly.

Su Ming'an looked at the words "person in power" on his taskbar and suddenly laughed.

"It's pretty funny."

He smiled, feeling ironic and ridiculous.

"It's really... quite funny."

A surge of fatigue swept over him.

He looked at the sky outside the window and the never-ending barrage in the upper right corner of his field of vision.

He closed his eyes and fell asleep in the dim light of the day.

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[Main Army Line·Future Line·Perfect Clearance Process: 20%]

[Survival probability: increased by 3.25%]