Endless Debt.

When the uncomfortable distorted feeling all over the body gradually dissipated, the dark vision gradually became clear, and the dim light illuminated the outlines of each other's figures. They stood together at the end of the corridor, standing in the closed door in front of the gate.

Faint snoring sounded from behind the door, it sounded rumbling, as if a giant was sleeping here.

"Leviathan."

A hoarse and piercing voice sounded, and Sai Zong looked at this shadow-wrapped figure.

At this time, Leviathan not only took off his helmet, but also took off his heavy space suit. His figure was a little thin and thin, surrounded by small schools of fish, like black tar clinging to his body, boiling, and his face was also covered. The black particles are completely enveloped, like a mass of ever-changing darkness.

In this change, there seem to be countless faces superimposed on it.

"Saizon."

Leviathan bowed his head slightly, and saluted Saizong. He respected the scarred and loyal chosen one in front of him.

"Very interesting, Sezon." Suddenly, Leviathan said.

"Where's the fun?"

"Look at yourself."

Leviathan looked at Saizong. Saizong's body was covered with scars and scars. There were small scratches like mosquito bites and sword scars as deep as muscles. It was hard to imagine the battles he had experienced. Cruel, a large area of ​​skin was burned and chapped by the fire, the cracks were deep and dangerous, revealing the crimson red of blood, like a treacherous picture scroll.

"This is your essence, but you usually pretend to be a cat and a dog," Leviathan couldn't help laughing, "Who would have guessed that you would have such a body under your funny doll costume?"

Facing Leviathan's ridicule, Sai Zong remained absolutely calm. He raised his hand and gently pressed it against the door.

"That day, he calmed down in a rare way. While we were celebrating around the bonfire, he sat alone in the corner and looked into the distance."

Sai Zong talked about the long past. The person concerned was dead, and he was the only one who remembered it all.

"I thought he was thinking about strategy, planning tactics for the next war, but he told me he was thinking about something else."

Even after such a long time, Saizong can still clearly remember that scene, the face that was always furious and resolute, the so-called...confusion appeared for the first time.

"He asked me, Saizong, how many years we have been fighting, and I said, I don't know, I only know that the war will never end, and there will always be endless killings waiting for us."

Sai Zong's voice gradually became lighter, as if he was telling a blurred and dark fairy tale.

"Usually he would become very excited when he heard about war and killing, but this time his eyes became more confused. He said that we have a nearly eternal life, but throw it into endless destruction. He told me again Say, Sezon, if one day you didn't have to fight, what would you do?"

Sai Zong fell silent, he withdrew his hand, and turned to look at Leviathan.

"I thought about it for a long time that night. When the darkness dissipated and a dim light rose from the sky, I still couldn't figure out the answer."

Sai Zong paused for a moment, and then talked about his own history.

"I was born thousands of years ago, when the world was far less 'civilized' than it is now. I had no parents, and I was a slave since birth. They taught me the skills of killing people, exercised my will, and made me a A soldier, whenever a conflict breaks out, I run on the front line.

Usually suicidal slaves like us don't survive a few wars, but I'm lucky and I always survive until I outlive the free men. "

"Then?"

Leviathan asked, he knew about the existence of Saizong, but he had never understood the story before Saizong became the Chosen One.

"After that? It's a very common story. I went through one war after another, until the scale of the war reached its peak, and almost everyone was involved in it... I survived again in the sea of ​​corpses and blood, and then I saw he."

Sai Zong said, "I was dying in a pool of blood. He stepped on the dead body and clapped my hands. Then he raised my hand and cheered to all the dead bodies on the battlefield, saying that I am Champion of this war."

Looking back now, Saizong feels that the scene at that time was extremely absurd. He was the only winner among the corpses all over the ground, but Saizong didn't feel excited and joyful. He was still bound by the fear of death. , only he cheered like a child.

"Sounds really evil," Leviathan couldn't help sighing, "So many people became slaves, countless people killed each other, every inch of the land turned into scorched earth... and all this is just a bloody game controlled by him , just to drive out the only winner."

Leviathan asked rhetorically, "Didn't you feel an absurd sense of shattered life?"

"How come, I'm just a slave, I can't even read, I don't even have much self-thought," Sai Zong said, "For me at that time, it was a kind of happiness to be able to eat and clothe warmly. His chosen one, his slave, it doesn't make much difference to me."

Saizong repeated again, "I am a slave."

Leviathan said, "Since then you have been his first champion, his chosen one, and accompanied him through the long campaign."

Sai Zong nodded, and continued, "Until that night, I couldn't think of an answer, but he didn't say a word. When the day dawned, we marched and went to the next game as if nothing happened. In war."

"Can you really pretend that nothing happened?" Leviathan asked back.

Sai Zong sighed faintly, "That conversation was like a seed, it penetrated into the bottom of my heart, and continued to grow in the following days until it broke through the shackles."

"In the later wars, I was not as completely obsessed with killing as I was before. I began to try to find other things, such as something that could also interest me like wars. In fact, he was also So, before that night, after every battle, we collected at most the skulls of our enemies, but then we started collecting weapons, art, books.

We have destroyed one city after another, but before the fire burns, we will preserve the most precious thing in the city, and we call it a good name, this is our spoils of war.

I no longer fight like a barbarian, but believe in the so-called honor. Before the charge, I have my own slogan, battle song, and military flag. We even have our own brother culture. Everyone yearns to be buried in Tibet after death. Bone chamber..."

"Oh? This is not a good culture," Leviathan commented sharply, "but it can make you barbarians civilized, which is already a good progress."

Saizong ignored Leviathan's sarcasm, he was used to this mean guy, and Saizong still misses that time, which was the turning point of his life.

"After a long time like this, one night, he asked me this question again, and this time I was not as confused as before.

To be honest, I prefer to be a bystander and watch the changes of the world quietly than a participant in the world. If one day I can be freed from this cruel duty, I should hide in the ossuary , to accompany my brothers until death. "

Standing in front of the gate, Leviathan listened to the sound of snoring. Following Sai Zong's narration, Leviathan began to be curious about the stories they had experienced, and wondered what his furious and paranoid brother had experienced, so that he could Become what it is today.

Like a place of endless blood and glory, why has it become a decadent paradise where drunks tell cold jokes to each other today.

"What about him? Has he thought about what to do after giving up killing?"

Leviathan asked Sai Zong back, he knew that his blood relative could not give up killing, this was the original sin engraved in his bones, it was inevitable.

Everyone is a slave to fate, even the devil.

"he?"

Sai Zong thought for a while, and then said, "He told me at that time that he was going to take a rest for a year, during which we would no longer train, nor march, and we would not provoke any wars.

He told me to leave the Endless Land, to wander, to see the world, and come back to give him an answer in a year, and he will also leave the Endless Land just like me, to see if in his long life, There are other answers than war. "

"and then?"

"Then, then I met a lot of people in various poses and with different shapes and strange shapes," Sai Zong couldn't help marveling, "When I put down the blade and turned my eyes from the battlefield to the world, I realized that so many years have passed in the world. Humanity has developed so fast.

I have made many friends, many undead, and I have even invited them to come to the Endless Land... In fact, the Endless Land does not welcome the undead very much. In our culture, the end of a warrior is death. That's where it all goes. "

"But you and him are undead." Leviathan said.

"Yeah... No matter how much glory you have, you still need an inscriber." Sai Zong continued to chat about the story of that year, "In short, I had a good year. It was a bit difficult at first, but I couldn't help it. I swung my sword, but I managed to control myself in the end, I went to a lot of places and met a lot of people that year, and the most incredible thing to me is that I didn't kill anyone in that year."

"A year later, how about your encounter with him?"

"That's exactly what I'm going to say next."

There was a bit of sadness in Sai Zong's tone, "The one-year agreement has come, and I returned to the Land of Endlessness, and others said that I look different from before, becoming...becoming It's more like a real person."

"What about him?"

"he?"

Sai Zong's eyes dimmed a lot, "He is very bad."

Looking up at the gate standing in front of him, Sai Zong continued, "After he came back, he locked himself behind this gate and did not allow anyone to enter. At that time, there was a violent hostility here, just thick The killing intent is enough to tear the living beings apart, I ventured into it, fully armed, I thought there was a terrible danger and battle waiting for me, but the door was surprisingly quiet, except for..."

Sai Zong clenched his fists silently, "except for the sound of sobbing full of sorrow."

After he finished speaking, he laughed absurdly, "In the cognition of all living beings in the world, he should be a monster with eternal rage and no blood or tears, but now that terrifying monster that devoured countless lives Hiding in the corner and crying, I even thought I was hallucinating.

But that wasn't an illusion, he was really there, crying like a child. "

Sai Zong felt a tightness in his chest, and he couldn't raise his strength to speak. When talking about the past, he felt indescribably exhausted, as if he was going to use all his strength.

"He said that he also traveled to many places and met many people this year, and suddenly discovered that besides war, there are many worthwhile things in this world.

He read some books, saw some plays, and made some friends, just like I did. "

Leviathan said, "Sounds good."

Sejong said dryly, "And he said he burned the books, destroyed the theater, and killed everyone he talked to."

The atmosphere plummeted to freezing point, depression and dead silence shrouded between Leviathan and Saizong, and finally only the roaring snoring came through the door panel. In such a weird atmosphere, Saizong sneered at himself.

"He was crying and laughing, in great pain. He said to me, Saizong, I can experience the so-called beauty from all things in the world, but he can't grasp these beauty. Whenever he is about to immerse himself in it, the original Instinctive anger will urge him to burn everything, and when he wakes up, it will be like a nightmare, all the good things are gone, and only the ruins of gunpowder are left."

Sai Zong said sadly, "As you said, if I, the members of the Undead Club, are cowards on the cliff, then he is a pathetic schizophrenic. His human side yearns for beauty, but the original sin Instinct made him only execute the order to destroy."

"Can you understand how your blood relatives feel, Leviathan."

"He was a slave just like me, a bigger slave. After that, he began to hate war. He found that all the honor was nothing. He was just a pure, despised destroyer... He didn't love Those, but during that year, he fell in love with everything in the world."

Leviathan put away his mocking smile, his whole body was filled with repressed solemnity.

"Among my many blood relatives, Samuel has always been a very special one. Because of his authority and original sin, he never needs any conspiracy. As long as human beings still exist, and disputes and conflicts still exist, then he will get A steady stream of power."

Leviathan said, "Other blood relatives are very envious of his strength. He doesn't need to pay any price, he can be so powerful and occupy the forefront in disputes again and again."

"Maybe this is the teasing of fate," Sai Zong said calmly, "Fate gave him the original sin of rage, but made his heart sensitive and soft. After only one year of sobriety, he can feel empathy and pity for everything in the world. , In this regard, in your opinion, the price that is not worth mentioning has become the shackles that will torture him forever."

Samuel gained a sliver of sobriety from the thousands of years of war, he thought in sobriety, and then gained endless pain.

"He said he can't go back, he can no longer indulge in fighting like a savage or a beast, but at the same time, he can't live consciously, the twisted pain makes him exhausted, he hopes I can Help him."

Sai Zong laughed to himself, "How can I help him? I am just a chosen one, without him, I am nothing... But I still want to do something for him, he is not only mine The master is also my general who has served for thousands of years, my friend."

Raising his hand, Sai Zong looked at his battered arm, "So I used my method to give him a short period of peace."

"You...and Samuel, you dismantled the authority of wrath and shared the power of original sin."

Leviathan was surprised and delighted. This method only appeared in theory, and none of his blood relatives had tried it.

At this moment, look at Sai Zong's face...it should be Samuel's face.

"I spent many years looking for many scholars, and they created a large-scale alchemy matrix for me, which worked perfectly for this purpose. This set of alchemy matrix was also implanted in the club of the undead, and they named it Lullaby. "

"I sacrificed myself. When he uses my body as a proof and carrier, my body will become a cage, stagnant in the lullaby and fall into a long sleep with his consciousness."

Sai Zong whispered, "Consciousness, carrier, power, the trinity."

"You took them apart completely, and Samuel got false peace over it."

Leviathan sighed, "You are really a genius, Saizong. As a lunatic who only knows how to swing, it is really not easy to come up with such a method."

Sai Zong manipulated Samuel's body, blocked his consciousness, and isolated his power in the club of the undead, imprisoning a devil in this special way.

Leviathan naturally knew that he couldn't restrain a devil, but Samuel was willing to cooperate with him.

"How long can you maintain this peaceful sleep?" Leviathan asked again.

"Not long ago, the power of original sin cannot be suppressed. It yearns for killing, destruction, and countless mourning souls. When another round of disputes comes, the blood of the world will wake him up again," Sai Zong recalled. Those offenders, "not to mention someone trying to use him, trying to wake him up early."

Recalling Leviathan's true face, recalling his achievements, his possibilities... Saizong took a deep breath, and bright flames appeared again under his chapped skin.

"If, if you could end this, Leviathan, if you could really..."

Before the words fell, the door that had been closed for a long time made a babbling sound, and a gap was slowly opened in the closed door, revealing the endless darkness inside.

"On behalf of Samuel, Pupil of Eternal Wrath, I promise you everything you want."

Leviathan bowed and smiled silently.

"I will do my best."