Crown of Silence

Chapter 804 Choice

What on earth made the high and distant sky?

Where is the edge of the vast land?

Where do all things come from and where will they go?

From the moment humans open their eyes and stare at the world, they will start to wonder: where did it all start...or there are more bullshit questions.

Whether there is a real paradise in the vast universe, whether human beings have a way to liberation, and whether heaven exists in this world.

Can humans have a soul?

Ye Qingxuan was not interested in this at all.

He is in the great source.

But he didn't come here to find answers or truth.

He just wants to take a girl back.

Since separation from the Holy City, after missing her so many times, trying so many times, and failing so many times.

This is the only thing Ye Qingxuan must do.

Never give up.

Then, he finally saw Bai Xi.

Amidst the mighty sound of bells and chimes, the heavy clouds opened one after another, revealing the majestic city gate. As the vermilion gate suddenly opened, hundreds of officials holding jade boards in their hands stepped on the white jade at their feet, heading towards the majestic palace in the center of the world.

Worship under the giant dragon head statue made of lapis lazuli, decorated with beautiful jade, and painstakingly crafted by craftsmen, and kowtow to meet the only master in the world.

The supreme emperor between heaven and earth.

"Bai Xi?"

Ye Qingxuan stared blankly at the solemn profile of the officials worshiping behind the bead curtain, and vaguely caught a glimpse of her slender eyes, as well as the power and indifference in her eyes that controlled the life and death of all things.

So, the emperor lowered his head, looked down at Ye Qingxuan, and frowned slightly.

"Presumptuous! Who dares to call the Holy One by his name!" Someone made a high-pitched voice and roared: "Take it down! Take it down! Take down this traitor quickly!"

Amidst the heavy footsteps, a burly figure rushed towards Ye Qingxuan.

Ye Qingxuan subconsciously stepped back and raised his hand to block in front of him, but there was no real sense of impact.

The burly imperial guards who rushed forward dispersed as if fabricated by smoke. Along with them, the luxurious and majestic palace palace resembled a myth. The officials and the emperor disappeared again into the mist.

"Cousin, what are you looking at?"

Ye Qingxuan heard the soft voice behind him, turned around in surprise, and saw her delicate and delicate cheeks. She looked at herself so close, and her eyes curled up.

The smile was soft and light.

"What's wrong? Don't I look good in this outfit?" Bai Xi looked at his confused expression, unfolded his sleeves, turned in a circle, and showed him that his goose-yellow silk cape was fluttering in the wind.

Her long hair is like silver, reflecting the soft sunlight.

The waves in his eyes are like water, peaceful and quiet.

The whole world was so big, she only looked at herself, smiling with joy, and then, carefully hiding what was behind her, she blinked.

"Cousin, I have a gift for you."

collapse!

Ye Qingxuan heard the sound of bones breaking, turned around suddenly, and saw blood flowing on the ground. Someone fell to the ground, and his body and head were separated under the knife and axe, and blood was splashed around.

Someone died.

But Ye Qingxuan couldn't see her face clearly.

Only Angelou's crown was soaked in blood and still so beautiful.

Right in front of his eyes, a slender figure raised its foot and crushed the bloody head, crushing the dull sound. Then, her blushing cheeks turned back.

Her expression was no longer as unruly and arrogant as before, but instead became charming.

It's like flowers blooming from corpses in the soil.

It exudes a dark and crazy atmosphere.

The ax was thrown into a pool of blood.

Bai Xi looked at himself and smiled, but it made people shudder.

"Cousin, I have given you everything, but why are you still thinking about her? I know that I must have done something not good enough, made a mistake, and made you angry. I will listen to you in everything..."

She left a line of scarlet footprints on the ground, thinking of Ye Qingxuan coming.

The voice in his throat was thin, as if he was choking in suffocation: "It must be all the fault of this coquettish slut, right? It must be her who seduced you.

Cousin, look at me, please, look at me, okay? You see, I have worked so hard..."

Ye Qingxuan closed his eyes.

The wailing voice disappeared.

But the feeling of suffocation lingered.

When he opened his eyes, the corpse and Bai Xi disappeared.

Only the thin figure standing alone in the distance is left.

Still Bai Xi.

It's like I have grown up many years in an instant, and the girlish immaturity has disappeared.

Her back was turned to herself, and her white hair was tied up on the back of her head. Wearing a long black dress, her skin was pale against the background, and a piece of black gauze hung from the brim of her hat, covering half of her face.

He didn't notice Ye Qingxuan behind him.

Just wallowing in sadness.

Quietly staring at the tombstone in front of me, mourning the untimely death of her husband.

Tears slipped from his cheeks, fell on the tombstone, and finally seeped into Ye Qingxuan's name.

Ye Qingxuan felt as if he had been struck by lightning.

Someone was lying on the ground, tugging at his trousers, with a hoarse voice: "Sir, just do it, the Lord will bless you."

The deformed and rickety beggar was crawling on the ground dragging his rotten legs. His white hair had fallen out, revealing his wrinkled scalp and the vicious wounds on his face.

Unrecognizable.

She held the broken bowl and looked up at the stranger in front of her. Her voice was as sharp as an owl: "Sir, have mercy on me. I beg you."

boom!

An impassioned horn sounded.

The victory song was played to announce the end of the long night and the coming dawn.

The torture rack fell from the sky, crushing the beggar, and layers of chains bound Ye Qingxuan.

At that moment, Ye Qingxuan recovered from the shock, thinking that he was besieged by the cult. But when he turned around, he saw the purification musicians playing "Night on Barren Mountain" behind him.

She was wearing black clothes like a crow, her eyes were cold and gloomy,

"The sinner Ye Qingxuan, let's capture him without mercy."

But then, a new phantom appeared. Amidst the sharp sound of the whistle, the warship with the black knight hanging high broke through the waves. On the deck, the pirate king's short silver hair was flying in the wind.

Her adult and charming cheeks were tanned, and there were scars from the knife at the corners of her eyes.

"enough!"

Ye Qingxuan roared: "Stop!"

Then everything came to an abrupt end.

Only a vague shadow appeared next to Ye Qingxuan, staring at him quietly, his eyes seemed to be pity, but also as plain as if he was thousands of miles away.

"Where is this...no, Dayuan shouldn't be like this..."

A calm voice sounded, answering his question.

She is as gentle as a woman, but with a distant and cold distance, out of reach.

"Dayuan is not here, Ye Qingxuan."

He said: "The Great Source is not anywhere that humans can find, nor can it be found by humans. What you are here is just the outline of the Great Source on the ground.

Like the mirror image of life and death like a mayfly, the reflection of the moon in the mirror. But to you, it doesn't matter. What you are looking for is right here. "

"fart!"

Ye Qingxuan roared and screamed at the shadow: "What I want is not an illusion! Do you want to play this trick with me? I will play with you as much as you want!"

"You have never seen any illusions, Ye Qingxuan. What you have seen is just the 'future'. Countless futures caused by countless pasts and countless choices..."

The vague shadow led him forward, back to the majestic palace once again, to meet the emperor.

"This is Bai Xi."

He said, "She abandoned you from the balance between love and ambition. She was able to defeat the emperor without Bai Heng. Just as she thought, she did it better than the emperors of the past could have imagined. Better than any other emperor. Everyone imagines better.

——Empress Bai Xi. "

They move forward.

Ye Qingxuan saw that cheerful smile again, and his pure eyes made waves because of him. In the whole world, she could only see herself.

"This is Bai Xi after she gave up on herself, Ye Qingxuan, she relies on you, loves you, can't live without you, just wants to win your smile and tenderness, and just wants to be with you forever.

Bai Xi is a lover that no man can bear to reject. "

Then, there is the girl in a pool of blood.

"She loves you to the core and is driven crazy by your betrayal, madman Bai Xi..."

"This is Bai Xi, the despairing widow who hosted your funeral after you passed away due to illness after ten years of loving you."

"This Bai Xi, she didn't meet you after she left Yunlou. Because she trusted another person, she was abducted and sold as a prostitute. She became a beggar after her old age and beauty faded. She begs you to show mercy in the mud.

Haha, poor ghost Bai Xi. "

"And this, that night when she was chased, she didn't see Lao Fei, nor did she go to the alley where she met you again. She hid in Westminster Abbey, and Mephistopheles adopted her , treated her as her own child, and sent her to the Holy City... She is the person in charge of the purification agency - Bai Xi, the Elegy of the Natural Disaster. "

“There are more, endless Bai Xi.

This is Bai Xi, the pirate queen who went to the Illusion Islands instead of Angelou; this is Bai Xi, the Duke of Yunlou who was rescued by his uncle Yunlou Qingxi before his death, gained Yunlou's orthodoxy, and killed his father and sister; Bai Xi, the sage who replaced Hermes; Bai Xi, the head of the Bai family who inherited the blood of the Bai family...

Countless pasts, countless choices, countless futures——"

The erratic figure stopped and turned his head to look at him: "Ye Qingxuan, this is what you are asking for from Dayuan."

"Then what are you?"

Ye Qingxuan looked at the blurry shadow and could only tell that she seemed to be a woman, but it was difficult to see her face clearly: "Or should I call you 'Dayuan'?"

Like a reflection in a mirror.

Facing the questions from humans, He gave out the self-deprecating chuckle that only humans can have.

Then, the form transformed from nothingness and blur.

The most perfect image in Chao Yue and Bai Xi's memory once again showed a maternal face.

"I am the reflection."

She replied calmly: "What you are facing is nothing more than an empty outline formed by the merger of the two personalities of the container, a logical machine formed by filling in information, and a question and answer program that talks to you as a human.

I am a vessel for miracles.

Of course, you can call me Dayuan. To humans, there is no difference between the two. "

"Finally showing his face properly."

Ye Qingxuan looked into her eyes and made no secret of his rejection and hostility: "I don't care what you want to do, what significance you have to mankind.

I don't have any questions for you to answer.

I came here just to take Bai Xi away.

So, don't stop me.

——No matter what you are! "

There was no anger, no taunting in the morning.

There was no surprise or indignation, not even the unhappiness that should come from being hostile.

Just calm.

It was as if she didn't care no matter what Ye Qingxuan wanted to do.

"The land will not refuse people to cultivate it, nor will it stop people from harvesting. The same is true for Dayuan. From the beginning to the end, it is only humans who want to change.

"Ye Qingxuan, you are free to do whatever you want. No one will stop you, at least not in the next five minutes."

She looked at Ye Qingxuan, her eyes passed through him, carelessly, as if their conversation was meaningless: "No matter what you do, you are the only one responsible for your choice."

"But where is Bai Xi!"

"Right behind you. "

At that moment, Ye Qingxuan turned around and saw Bai Xi.

Tens of millions of Bai Xi stood there quietly.

Empress Bai Xi, lover Bai Xi, madman Bai Xi, Yunlou Bai Xi, natural disaster elegy Bai Xi, pirate queen Bai Xi...

At this moment, countless pasts and countless futures are superimposed in the same place in the projection of Dayuan, and countless Bai Xis in countless destinies appear here.

Staring at himself.

At that moment, Ye Qingxuan could no longer suppress his anger and roared at the projection of Dayuan: "I don't want this kind of fake thing! Give me Bai Xi, the real Bai Xi!

Otherwise, let me find a way to kill you!"

"Isn't what you see the Bai Xi that exists in countless choices, Ye Qingxuan?" Dayuan's projection asked back: "Aren't you making a choice now?

From a human perspective, it is difficult to observe endless changes. Now Dayuan will bring everything to you.

Here, no matter which one, it is the real Bai Xi.

The only difference is which one you want to take away.

Ye Qingxuan, this is not a joke, but a simple choice.

No matter which one you choose, it will be the Bai Xi who remains in the world. ”

Dayuan looked at him, waiting for his choice: "You can change her fate, correct all her pain, and let her have a new life as you wish, without any constraints, even if the person who constrains her is you.

Don't you understand, Ye Qingxuan?

——Only you can let her get redemption. "

Ye Qingxuan was stunned.

He turned around and looked at countless Bai Xi, who were also looking at him.

Gentle, cold, cruel, lonely, unruly, compassionate, peaceful, happy, gloomy, gentle...

Each one is completely different, but each one is Bai Xi.

Choose the one you want to take away from the millions of Bai Xi.

What the hell is this?

The generosity and gift of Dayuan?

You can take any one away.

From the millions of futures and millions of hers, find the Bai Xi you love the most, or take away the Bai Xi who loves you the most...What do you want?

One third of gentleness and cuteness, one third of childishness, plus a little surprise and mischief?

Or strong and independent, who doesn't need you to protect her with all your heart, who can fight side by side with you and face the world's Storms and rainstorms.

Or a high mountain flower that is independent, holy and pure, like a goddess?

It's all right, Ye Qingxuan, it's all right.

You can create the most perfect type in your heart as you like. There are countless choices here. You can choose your favorite woman at will, and she will love you as you want.

In a trance, the girl in his past memory seemed to be blowing in his ear, urging him to make a choice.

Cousin, which one of me do you like?

Of course I...

Ye Qingxuan was stunned.

His thoughts stopped abruptly.

He looked down dully, looking at his palm, and saw the insignificant faint flash at the fingertips. It was so faint that it was difficult to detect, but it was indeed a fragment that left with him from the maze.

That was Chaoyue.

The last remaining trace of Chaoyue.

"Idiot!"

He slapped himself hard: "I am such an idiot! "

At that moment, Ye Qingxuan's chaotic consciousness seemed to be opened up by lightning, ushering in the long-lost sudden realization and enlightenment.

This was a belated discovery.

But when Ye Qingxuan discovered it, it was already meaningless...

He suddenly turned around and looked at the projection beside him, as if he knew that she knew what he was asking:

"It's actually one, right? Bai Xi and Chao Yue, originally one! Bai Xi is the opposite of Chao Yue, but Chao Yue is also a part of Bai Xi!"

It seems to be a question, but also like wanting to confirm the truth.

"From the beginning, she was only one, but she was just divided into two, right?" He pulled his hair in regret: "I should have understood it earlier, but I ignored it because of the huge difference, I am such a fool. How could there be two, how could they be sisters? Even if the height and figure are different, isn't this a deliberately cultivated difference? Otherwise, how could they have such a close connection?

Whether it is Chao Yue or Bai Xi, they are herself! "

In silence, Dayuan's projection did not answer, but just looked at him, smiling without saying anything.

But Ye Qingxuan finally found the final answer.

He turned around, facing the countless waiting eyes, and couldn't help wanting to smile bitterly.

Until now, he finally understood what Mr. Hu said to him.

'Accept her other side' - this is true, but Mr. Hu, you didn't say that this other side would be so huge, so huge...

Until now, Ye Qingxuan realized that he had never really understood Bai Xi.

"Then, what qualifications do I have to choose you?"

He whispered softly, raised his fingers, and held up the dim flash.

"Then let her choose for herself!"

Ye Qingxuan made the final reply to Dayuan's projection: "Listen, this is my request. Let her choose what kind of person she wants to be!"

Whether it's Bai Xi or Chao Yue.

Be a female emperor above thousands of people, the Duke of Yunlou, the executioner of the silent agency, or a caged bird who abandons himself because of Ye Qingxuan, or even a madman who is jealous and crazy...

Whatever you do.

Let her be free to be herself!