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Chapter 392 Chapter 390 "Her name is... Noria's Red Rose"

"Shelud, when you're ready, wear it on your chest."

"Her name is..."

"Noria's red rose."

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[Character Sherrud's ending: HE·Immortal/TE·Endless Road/NE·Corruption, your actions will affect the ending he can achieve. 】

[You choose to give "Noria's Red Rose" to Sheld, and the ending of this character is close to HE Immortal. 】

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After seeing off Sherwood, Su Mingan sat on the bed and took out Su Rin's memory stone.

He felt very speechless about Boss Rabbit's behavior of taking his chocolate before leaving.

He looked at the red spar in his hand and crushed it.

The red light shattered, and his vision gradually turned white...

……

[I have experienced the most prosperous and most hopeless era in Praia. 】

Before his vision was clear, he heard this sentence.

The voice was familiar, it was Su Lin's voice.

【I have witnessed so many struggles and made the greatest and most shameful decisions. 】

His vision gradually became clearer.

However, unlike the memory stones before, what he saw this time was not Su Rin's vision, but a third-party perspective, watching everything that happened.

He saw Su Rin.

Su Mingan is very familiar with the place where Su Lin is standing. It was the east area of ​​Praia 60 years ago.

Judging from the calendar hanging on the wall, it is now the time after the airship goes up. Logically speaking, this is Su Lin who has come down from Yunshang City.

At this time, the wind in Praia was very strong, and it was clearly daytime, but the sky was already pitch black, congealed with a large sea of ​​snow, as if everything around had melted into the chaotic white snow.

Su Lin stood in front of the frozen river, leaning against the wall of the vacant house.

Snowflakes fell on his pitch-black robe, rushing toward him like white waves.

The pure white mask blocked his face, leaving only a pair of dark eyes.

His posture is quiet and silent, like a black tombstone standing in the snow.

Playa, which has always been hot, has snowed so much. Now it should be the time for the sea feast in Playa, but I don’t know which year it is.

"Let it be, let it be..."

A middle-aged resident who hadn't had time to evacuate passed in front of him carrying a pole, and gave him a strange look, as if wondering why someone was wearing a mask and standing on the side of the street.

"Hey, boy, give me a moment..."

The middle-aged man turned sideways, almost walking past the young man wearing a white mask.His face is full of slanted lines and spots scattered like chess pieces, which are the traces left by the years to the residents of Praia.

But after walking a few steps, the middle-aged man felt something was wrong, paused for a moment, and backed up again.

"Young man." Putting down the pole, he glanced at the motionless, statue-like white-masked young man: "The feast at sea has begun, don't leave yet, are you a contestant?"

He was worried that this was an outsider who didn't understand the rules of a feast, so he asked kindly.

"I'm..." Su Lin said softly, her voice was extremely hoarse: "A local, I just came back."

"Just came back from the sea?" The middle-aged man smiled: "Then you have to leave quickly. This year's feast has begun. If you don't leave, it will be too late. The refuge ship is parked at the pier to the south..."

Su Lin didn't make a sound, she was as silent as a stone.

"Hey, where is the friend who went to sea with you? Where did you just come back from?" the man asked him.

Su Lin was silent for a moment.

In the white mist, which was almost clumped together, his voice became deeper and deeper.

"...they're all dead."

The smiling man's face froze, and he rubbed his big hands that were red with cold, and his expression became a little embarrassed.

"Ah, that's right." He scratched his flushed face, not knowing what to say.

Going to sea will not be smooth sailing. Many people will die during the long-distance sea transportation. It is normal for several crew members to die due to physical reasons.

It's just that the young man in front of him survived going out to sea?What a disaster it was. Could it be that the whole ship sank in the waves?

"I promised them that I would bring them alive and bring them to that place." Su Lin's voice was so soft that it almost melted into Feng Xue: "...Before I got to that place, I told that bastard Ge Li , I said, what we meet will never be such a hopeless ending, we will get the treasure buried there for him to study more engineering creations, but..."

When he said this, his voice stopped.

The white snow stuck to his mask and slowly fell down with his movements, like another snowfall.

The man scratched his head, not understanding what Su Rin was saying.

Su Lin didn't talk about this topic anymore, but asked the man:
"Praya, have you been doing well in the past ten years?"

The man listened and smiled.

"Okay, that's much better than before. Since my father boarded the airship and went to Yunshang City to enjoy the blessings, the living conditions of the people below us have also improved a lot...

As soon as the enchantment of the gods was established and the storm stopped, the trading merchants ran over smelling the smell.Over there in Wangcheng, the original princess has become a queen, and the policy is also generous. In my family, the quilt also has cotton, unlike before, only a single cloth can be covered..."

Listening to the middle-aged man's rambling words, a little relief appeared in Su Rin's somewhat stiff pupils.

"The roads are smoother, and there are more tourists. Every year, many foreigners come to participate in the feast. They are generous, and a grocery seller like me earns a lot. Life is much better than before marrying a wife... "The middle-aged man was talking, a little strange: "Young man, what are you doing, going to sea for more than ten years?"

"Yeah." Su Rin responded softly: "It was not working before, and I can only come back in the past few days."

"Then you have missed that grand ceremony for more than ten years, young man, Mr. Su Rin... is really a hero, if it weren't for him, our life today would not be so easy, maybe one day that damn storm I just came over..."

Seeing the man talking like he caught someone talking, Su Rin smiled.

It's good to hear these things.

"Thank you."

He turned around and walked into the alley next to him.

"Hey, young man, if you don't want to participate in the game, remember to go to the pier in the South District! Otherwise, those outsiders won't be merciful..."

The enthusiastic voice of the middle-aged man was still floating in the wind and snow behind him.

Su Lin turned the corner of the street.

The streets and alleys of Praia are still the same, and he walked through these streets that are still very familiar to him.

He saw the grocery store that had been open for more than ten years, the liquor store on Second Street, and the hotel girl who always liked to stand at the door and greet guests with a smile... But now she seems to have become a mature woman. the proprietress.

When she met his gaze, the proprietress smiled at him, as if it was not surprising that there would be such masked weirdos during the feast at sea.

"Guest." She held the bamboo basket in her hand, her smile was still the same as it was more than ten years ago: "Do you want to stay at the hotel?"

Su Rin shook her head, suddenly bumped by two children.

"Don't run—don't run—"

"Run! Come after me, come after me!"

A boy with a short hair and a little girl with braids jumped out from behind the proprietress, like two monkeys.

They wielded wooden swords wildly, and the sound of silver bell-like laughter could be heard throughout the street.

"Hey! Eat my sword! You are dead!"

"No! I bounced back! You damn soul clan, eat me with a sword!"

"...Didn't you agree that you pretended to be a soul race? I'm a soul hunter today, you shameless!"

Such a big snowstorm instantly blocked the proprietress standing at the door, smiling and watching her children playing.

Su Lin shook his body, and immediately put his hands on the white wall beside him, his breathing became a little hurried under the impact of the children.

The snow is getting bigger and bigger.

He lifted his foot, left the familiar street in silence, and walked through the streets and alleys.

The sound of children playing and the woman's happy smile were left behind by his footsteps.

Every time he sees a strange and familiar place, he will use his eyes to trace the building and land carefully, as if he wants to engrave the picture in front of him forever in his heart.

He has been watching all this silently.

The eyes are determined and nostalgic.

……

He walked into a dark, deserted alley.

After walking from the street filled with lights of various colors into the dark alley, he completely left behind the human fireworks outside.

He sat beside the dank dump, panting for breath.

He picked it out in his arms, moving slowly and steadily, until there was a crisp "jingling" sound.

It was a few sparkling red crystals.

He squeezed one and began to inject his own memory, then the second, the third...

Every time he finished processing one, his expression would turn pale, and after all the memory stones were saved, the blood had completely disappeared from his face.

It was getting dark in Praia at this time.The sky became darker and darker, as if it was splashed with thick ink.Every household brought clothes, dried fish, kelp, etc. to dry indoors, closed doors and windows, and warm yellow lights shone through the gauze paper, like soft moons.

In the warm house with firewood burning, the crying of children, the laughter of adults, the coughing of the elderly, and the playing of unique musical instruments can be heard from time to time. Families of all colors, like the joy of a hundred families as firewood, ignited the lights of thousands of families.

——The scenes that were staged outside the alley were all fireworks filled with vitality.

The howling wind poured into the deserted alley, and large hailstones gradually fell from the sky.

Listening to the happy voices of the residents outside, Su Lin sat beside the garbage dump in the alley with her eyes open.

In the distance, there is a white twilight, which is a house crawling and sleeping like a giant white snake.

He seemed to see the bald-headed engineer Gerry standing there, smiling silly at him.

A woman with glasses and long hair was standing beside him, holding a notebook full of data in her hand.

The crisp and neat Minister of Soul Hunting with a black ponytail was also there, her body was straight and her eyes were full of smiles.

... At this moment, he seemed to feel a strong white light shining into his eyes, which was dazzling and dazzling, as if bridged from the other side of the sky...until it reached his eyes.

... It was as if someone was standing in front of him and stretched out his hand to him.

The fleeting time has passed, and the old man has no return.

"Su Lin."

A blue light emerged.

Young, beautiful, with facial features like a sea monster sculpted by a god, emerged from him.

Her beautiful eyes were staring at her with complicated emotions.

"...My dear guest." She said softly, "I have given you eternal life, why would you waste your own life like this?"

Su Lin raised his head slightly, his eyes became cloudy.

"Like the princess who obtained my false soul, you can deprive others of their lives and make them a petri dish for your new body to continue your 'eternal life'." Said the siren, "Look, the streets In the world, how many weak human beings have no fighting power. Kill them, assimilate them, and choose the healthiest one among them... My guest, you can separate your soul from your nearly decaying body , continue to live... to the end of this world, you are lucky, you should have ruled this land."

Su Rin ignored the siren who tempted him.

The smell of food and fireworks came from the houses in the street, mixed with the cold of snow and the smell of fish.

He turned his head and looked at the young man with blond hair and blue eyes standing at the entrance of the alley at some point.

"Teacher." The young man seemed to have just come running, still panting, "Teacher, I'm here."

"Michael." Su Rin said.

The blond man named Michael immediately stepped forward and supported Su Rin who was about to fall.His expression was very eager, and he couldn't hide the sadness in his eyes.

"My chosen successor is you." Su Rin said softly.

His voice was hoarse, his breathing was short, and he looked very weak.

"I'm sorry, but I entrusted you with this task." Su Rin said.

"No." Michael shook his head: "After inheriting your memory, your appearance, your ability, your...after everything, I will definitely continue this 'eternal life' that can protect the entire Praia."

Su Lin smiled.

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What the princess holds is the soul representing "evil", so the way she obtains eternal life is to deprive others of their lives and make them a "petri dish" to continue her life.

She used this kind of malicious means to take away others' and achieve her own.

And Su Rin...

And Su Lin who has a complete soul and has a clear judgment on good and evil.

What he did was completely opposite to what the princess did.

——Su Lin chose to let other people kill him, and on his own body, a new generation of "Su Lin" was created.

Those who kill him can gradually acquire Su Rin's memory, Su Rin's appearance, Su Rin's ability... everything about Su Rin... until they become the next generation of "Su Rin".

They will gradually turn into Su Lin's appearance, erase their original selves, and become a new generation of "Su Lin" as if they were taken away.

In this way, in another sense, "Su Lin" has obtained "eternal life".

Such "immortality" of "intergenerational inheritance".

The "eternal life" that does not take one's own life as the first priority.

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[Eternal life is the strictest shackle. 】

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The human body can live forever, but the soul will decay in the passage of time.

He couldn't afford the malice from the siren's soul.

——Su Lin chose to give all of herself to the next person before her soul was completely corrupted.

Because there is always the will of "Su Lin", when the next person realizes that his spirit is no longer able to bear this responsibility, he will continue the behavior of the previous generation and look for the next person who can kill him.

What Su Mingan saw at this time was Su Lin who came down from Yunshang City for the first time. When he couldn't bear the burden of his soul, Su Lin chose someone in Praia to take over his responsibilities.

He chose an ordinary young man named "Michael" in Praia, who was an engineering student he accepted before he was promoted to Cloud City.

The youth admired him very much and was willing to take up this responsibility.

Therefore, Michael took over all the important tasks of the first generation of Su Rin, willing to be assimilated, and inherited the teacher's memory, appearance, ability, and sea monster soul, and became Su Rin when he was young-inheriting the guardianship of Praia go down.

It's different from a princess who takes the lives of others and lets herself live.

... What he found, the way to eternal life, is passed down from generation to generation.

It is life to death.

Therefore, he who could have lived forever without disease and pain, in order to keep his soul clean, he took the initiative to choose intergenerational replacement,
He took the initiative to die.

He also owns "petri dishes".

But this only "petri dish",
is himself.

(End of this chapter)