Twilight War

Chapter70 Golden Branches

Death is a certainty, the unknown is whether you will be born again...

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It has been too long since I have held a sword.

When was the last time you fought desperately with a sword?

Hunting pride?No, that time, it was just beheading...

Fenrir?No, that was just outright anger.

For too long, he has been living in chaos, so long that he has even forgotten how to fight.

The ferocious beast was like a wild dog in the jungle. Its sharp claws tore a hole in Huangxuan Jin's right arm, and his windbreaker was stained red with blood.

Little Jasmine hid behind him in a panic, tugging at his trousers, he had absolutely no way to move his legs now, and could only stick to the corner.

Blood dripped from his forehead.

In a trance, he remembered that someone once told him that he was always like that, he just wanted to desperately hold on to everything behind him, but he never fought for anything.So he lost everything in the end.

A stupefied strange beast pounced on it, and Vehipel shot and killed the strange beast in an instant.

"Go to the top." Shawei said: "Climb to the top of the pipe gallery. There is a set of cable devices on the right. After lowering the fence, you can jump into the mine next to it."

"When we used to be too lazy to go through the mine, we would go directly from here."

"Where's Rustybone?" Vehipel asked.

"I don't know when I disappeared." Sharktail stepped on the horizontal ladder to climb up the huge metal tank. The substance in the tube seemed to be still reacting, and when he touched the tank, he could feel the slight heat.

Huangxuan Jin also climbed up with Little Jasmine on his back. Wihipel stood guard at the bottom of the ladder to block the attacking ancient beasts. Watching the shark tail put down the fence, he threw the grab to Huangxuan Jin, Step on the rail with your back.Huangxuan Jin took the gun and shot behind Wisper, shooting a semicircle safety zone under the huge tank.

After Vehipel climbed up, those ancient beasts scratched the metal tank body, looking hideous and terrifying.

Wisipel looked at the shark's tail squatting on the seal. The man seemed to be studying something. He was clearly a middle-aged man, with the expression of a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy squatting at the street corner studying glass beads.

"What are you looking at?" Vehipel asked.

"Looks like this was 15 years ago," Sharktail said.

"how do you know?"

Shark Tail pointed to the painted cross on the mouth of the tank, "These reaction devices have a limited lifespan. After the businessmen left here, the person in charge of the maintenance of the devices stayed here, relying on repairing things for others to maintain. Every year in the Spring Festival, he will draw a cross on these devices to mark the use time of these devices."

"There are seventeen crosses here, so it should be 15 years ago."

"You remember it very well," said Wichpel.

"Of course, I used to climb up here to let the wind out. I remember exactly when the first cross was drawn here."

"Since I left here, has this place been overhauled?" Wihipel asked suddenly.

"When you left, those businessmen also left similarly, so why would someone come to overhaul this place." Shawei said, "What's wrong?"

"I remember that the dashboards here should all be brass." Vehipel said, looking at the silver-white iron dashboard.

"Really?" Sharktail frowned, "I remember it should be made of iron, but I can't remember. You know, I'm not interested in these machines at all."

"Let's go first, we can't stay here for long." Vehipel stepped on the fence and jumped into the opposite mine.

"Did the groundwater run dry here 15 years ago?" Wihipel asked, remembering that when he came here the ditches beside the mines were full of water.

"The original groundwater here all came from the water storage well in front, and the original water here was drawn from the Shoushi River by those merchants. When those merchants left, the groundwater here naturally gradually dried up. And here originally Most of the water sources are also polluted by merchants.

"Then how did you survive?" Wihipel asked: "Is there any water source nearby that is not polluted?"

"No more."

"That you……"

"Then drink this kind of water." Shark Tail said nonchalantly, "Whoever survives will survive."

His eyes looked deep into the mine tunnel.

There are always people in this world who live in ways you can't imagine.

You think they live hideously, and they take it for granted, because they don't know any other way to live.

In other words, letting them know another way of living is a greater cruelty.

"In front is the former water storage well, but it has been sealed up now, just walk over it." Shawei said.

"This used to be the center of the underground, like the heart of the entire underground kingdom. But since it dried up, the heart stopped beating."

"No one knows how deep this storage well is. It is said that the well was accidentally discovered by those merchants when they were digging a pipeline. Some people say that if you throw a stone here, it will take a day to hear the echo."

"Perhaps... what leads here is the deepest purgatory."

There was red wine flowing on the ground, which looked like blood if you didn't look closely.

It was messy everywhere, like a big dinner party just ended.Dozens of long tables fell to the ground, with burn marks on them.The wine bottle rolled down randomly, and the needles containing the light red liquid were scattered among them.

The wine barrel was broken, and the red wine was flowing.

Huangxuan Jin looked at the several wine barrels in the corner, and he smelled something strange in the strong smell of wine.

...is the silver of the great abyss.

He drew his sword and stabbed the wine barrel in the corner.

Silvery liquid flowed from the barrel and mixed with the red wine.

"How could someone mix the silver of the great abyss in these barrels?" he asked with a frown.

"Who knew? It's weird everywhere." Sharktail said with a shrug.

"Your Highness, do you feel something is wrong?" Huangxuanjin turned around and looked at Wisipel.

Vichypel nodded, but said nothing.

Some of the black crows he released just now escaped from the maze and wandered in the huge underground.

He scanned the entire underground through the eyes of those crows.

But he found that the space here is incoherent, and many places are missing.

There are many more places that are shrouded in fog and are indistinguishable.

He looked up, as if looking at someone out of nothing.

At least he already knew that this place was definitely not a real space.

"What about those who came to the banquet?" Huang Xuanjin asked suddenly.

"What?" Sharktail frowned.

"There should be a lot of people here." The young man walked through the mess, "They seem to have been erased, only we appeared out of thin air in this banquet more than ten years ago... to serve them."

He sat in front of a long crooked table and poured himself a glass of wine, "If I remember correctly, the marks on the official road all point to this place—the heart of the underground."

"So 15 years ago, there should have been a feast here."

"So what, don't forget that we are running for our lives now." Shawei took the wine bowl from Huangxuan Jin's hand.

"But now there is no one here, only countless ancient beasts." Huang Xuanjin looked up at the tail of the shark and said.

He looked down at the clumsy pattern painted on the wine glass, "Golden Branch."

"Do you know what Jin Zhi means?" Huang Xuanjin raised his eyes and looked at the shark's tail. "What?"

"One birth means another death."

"So you are hiding here." A man's voice suddenly came from the mine tunnel.

Aquinas walked out of the mine, "Didn't he die among the beasts?"

"It's okay, as you said - there are countless ancient beasts here." Aquinas suddenly waved his hand upwards, and the five doors that had been closed opened instantly.

He is like a sorcerer in ancient legends, who controls all the spells and controls the mountains, forests and stones.

Huangxuan Jin drew his sword from his waist, and the ferocious beast rushed towards them with a roar.

"There is an elevator platform at the back, let's go to the back." Shark Tail said while holding the steel pipe he had just picked up from the ground.

The long sword cut off the head of the ancient beast, and the blood splashed on Huang Xuanjin's hand.

The shark's tail pulled the chain and lowered the lifting platform, and Wihipel escorted Huangxuan Jin and Little Jasmine onto the lifting platform.

Huangxuanjin covered the wound on his shoulder, looked up at the top of the lifting platform, "It's useless, no matter where they escape, those ancient beasts can't be killed cleanly."

He looked down at Aquinas who was wearing a black robe and a white teaching uniform, "The only option is to kill him."

He stepped on the railing of the elevator platform suddenly and jumped down.

Aquinas looked up at the boy, in his gray pupils the figure of the boy was like a falling butterfly.

"reverse."

he said suddenly.

As a result, the heavy metal plate on the huge water storage well broke instantly.

Vichypel's heart seemed to stop beating suddenly.

All the crows wandering in this huge underground labyrinth turned into black smoke.

Aquinas looked at the boy who fell into the deep well.

He always felt that people like Huangxuanjin should be clean and noble like the bright moon in the nine heavens.

That young man should be dressed in brocade clothes, and climbed into the Ming Hall of Jiuzhong.

But that young man threw himself into the mud, pretending to be contemptuous and depraved.

Since even Huang Xuanjin looked down on him, it would be better to let him die for him.

Under the black hood, Aquinas had a smile on his lips.

What is God?

That's how God should be.Not biased, not selfish.

All weeds should be eradicated.

However, in the next moment, he felt the whole earth tremble, like a giant sleeping underground waking up.

Aquinas frowned, "Didn't you agree to let me take care of all this?"

The upward lifting platform stagnated in mid-air, and the underground liquor stopped flowing.

And Vichypel's long silver hair moved without wind, and he slowly opened his eyes. "Soul Realm—Life."

The huge group of crows was released instantly, tearing everything like sharp knives.

"What is a god?" Vihipel gritted his teeth and said.

Is God omniscient or omnipotent or absolutely rational?

His eyes gradually turned the color of blood.

...Neither of them.

"I am God!"

The red wine flowed away like a tide, leaking out of the metal floor.

Water from all sides of the ground poured into the long-dried storage wells.

The god has woken up, so he issued the supreme command.

All the rules laid down by the wizard can only be rewritten.

... I am God, I am righteous, I am crown!