[Infinite] End Game

"Are you here to see Terry off?" Lin En looked at the two of them and said, Tang Yu noticed that he didn't use the word "also".

"No." Tang Yu shook his head, stared into Lin En's eyes, and said word by word: "I'm here to find Edith, do you know where she is?"

Lin En's smile froze for a moment, but he soon smiled more happily, lowered his eyes, and said in a casual tone: "That's really unfortunate."

Tang Yu didn't want to talk to him too much, so he asked directly, "Is Etis still alive?"

"Of course she's still alive. As for where she is, you should know." Lynn paused, and then said softly: "But let her sleep there now, and when everything is over, someone will take her away of."

"Why didn't you kill her?" Tang Yu didn't need to ask who that person was, but said, "Then why did you kill other children?"

"Because of need." Lynn's voice was very calm, "I don't need so many people alive, and I also need to know whether the death of one person can really stop the plague, why they can't, but my sister can."

Speaking of this, it is enough to show that Lynn really doesn't want to hide anything from them. He raised his hand and gently took off the mask, revealing a face that is brighter than the moon god in mythology, With the serene smile on his lips, the whole person seemed to exude a holy light.

"My parents said that I don't look like my sister at all. They said it's a good thing, but they don't want to see my face." Lin En touched his face and looked at Tang Yu with a smile: "An Jielina, sounds like a beautiful name, right? But unfortunately, my older sister was not good-looking, and her personality is a bit withdrawn, so the children in the town like to bully her, with only two exceptions. One is the same as her older sister Being bullied, another guy killed her, but the murderer ended up saving the town, that sounds ironic, doesn't it?"

"...you haven't met your sister, have you?"

"Yeah, I was born after my family moved out of the town. My father and mother told me about my sister." Lin En chewed this sentence back and forth in his mouth: "Tell me over and over again."

"Then what are your plans for the future?" Tang Yu was silent for a moment before asking.

"I plan to take my sister's bones back, and I want to bury her with my parents." Perhaps because no one has ever been able to confide in her, or because she has finally completed her revenge, the expression on Lynn's brows and eyes is always relaxed. He didn't mind talking more with Tang Yu, and he always maintained a gentle and tolerant attitude towards Tang Yu's excessive problems.

"What about after the burial?" Tang Yu continued to stare at him and asked, suddenly feeling that this person was a bit pathetic.Because he suddenly discovered that maybe Lynn didn't hate Terry or the town that much, but he just had to hate it.Because his whole life, the meaning of his existence is to avenge the sister he never met.

"Who can think of what will happen after that? Maybe I can take off this mask, but anyway, what I should do has been done." Lynn's smile was a little tired, and after saying this, he said Putting on the mask, he walked towards Tang Yu and the others.When passing by Tang Yu, Lin En stopped in his tracks. He took out a notebook from his pocket and handed it to Tang Yu as if he remembered something, and said, "By the way, thank you for what happened that day. This is Terry's diary. If You can take a look if you are interested."

Tang Yu finally brought the diary back to the tent. After the five people from 'Deep Sea' read it together, they finally got a glimpse of this dungeon and the beginning of all events...

People have souls.

Terry's grandfather was not the same as Terry's father who became a priest.Terry's grandfather often told him some wonderful oral stories when Terry was young, and one of them was the destination of human souls.

Different from the mainstream thought that people's souls go to heaven and hell after death, Terry's grandfather should have lived in the pre-Christian era, when people living in remote villages and towns were not even familiar with the relationship between heaven and hell. The concept, they believe that after death, the soul will possess the body of the mouse.

Tracing back to the source, this statement should still originate from the Black Death in the Middle Ages.Because so many people died from the plague, it was believed that the rats took the souls of humans.

In fact, Terry's grandfather may not really believe in this point. What he told is actually a legend that he heard. If there is no accident, Terry's grandfather will tell him many other stories, just like the current Children have heard of Snow White as well as Ugly Duckling.But because Terry's grandfather passed away within a few days after telling the story to Terry, Terry was very impressed with this story.

Mr. Greenton is the only musician in the town. In fact, it is more accurate to say that the town was not a town at that time, but a small village with only forty or fifty households. It's just a flute for a few days.Terry also heard from the adults that Mr. Greenton had a very weird personality. He insisted on going out and wandering around despite having no talent. In the end, he came back in despair, married an ordinary woman, and gave birth to an ugly daughter named Angelina. Doesn't like to talk but likes to play the flute just like the eccentric Mr. Greenton.

But in short, everything is still ordinary.But of course such an ordinary place and ordinary people cannot resist the attack of the plague.

When the epidemic broke out, people died in the village almost every day.Adults and children, men and women, everyone is anxious.

But at this time, the children who stayed at the mill at night to help the adults guard the millet made a surprising discovery. They found that Angelina's flute could control the mice.

Whenever she hides in the woods and plays the flute secretly, there are fat mice around her secretly listening, and even shaking their heads and tails to beat the music.

Even adults would feel numb when they saw such a scene, not to mention that it was only a group of children who witnessed it, and they decided that Angelina was an evil witch without much thought.

So more than a dozen children felt that this witch could not be let go, that she could not continue to spread the plague.They should have killed her, or strangled her with chains.

Lynn had never seen the appearance of these people, but he clearly remembered everyone's name, and knew that the first person among these people who decided to do something was Terry.

In fact, Tang Yu felt that Angelina probably didn't hate Terry.He remembered what Lynn said before, there were only two people who didn't bully Angelina, but in the end Terry who didn't bully her killed her with a hunting axe. When they were about to burn Angelina, The swarm of rats rushed out and devoured the corpse, then ran neatly to the river and jumped into it.

The plague in the town also disappeared. Only Mr. Greenton was in pain after learning what had happened. He wanted to make the person who killed her woman pay the price, but the mayor deliberately shielded these children. Mr. Greenton Only then did he leave the town with his wife, and Lynn was born.

Regarding the last paragraph of the diary, Tang Yu still had doubts after reading it.Judging from the ending, it could be said that Angelina saved the town, but Tang Yu felt that if he were Angelina, he might not let her offender go so easily.

"I have investigated and found that several villages and towns where the plague also broke out are all in the lower reaches of the river in Harlem Town. Maybe the plague spread from Harlem Town from the very beginning." Lin Xiwen explained to him: "Maybe the rats threw themselves into the river. It was Angelina who wanted to take revenge on the town and couldn't accept herself as a mouse, so she wanted to throw herself into the river to pollute the water source, but the river here was too fast, and the people in the town were safe, but other villages and towns were completely destroyed gone."

This statement also just explains that history will repeat itself 20 years later. Terry did not choose to throw himself into the river but ran to the fire to burn himself clean.

As for why rats throw themselves into rivers or fires, perhaps it is really like what Terry's grandfather said, after death, the soul will be attached to the rats...