"Roar--"
"Ow—"
The roar of lions sounded from time to time in the rose garden. Under the ravages of three raging lions, the originally peaceful and beautiful rose garden was in a mess.
The flower stands toppled, the shrubs were overturned, the red and white roses were crushed mercilessly, and the Garden of Eden became a purgatory in an instant.
Ye Zhibo hugged his head against the shadows and ran away.
At the moment, he was hiding on the branch of a giant tree, using the lush branches to block his figure, while peeking at the situation in the distance, he lowered his head and fiddled with the teleportation rune in his hand.
"Yinhe, what's going on?" Ye Zhibo looked at the lions wandering around the rose field without thinking, and was a little puzzled, "Are their brains not working well?"
Although his attack power is amazing, he doesn't look like a very smart Yazi.
Galaxy: "..."
It was rare for Yinhe not to complain about Ye Zhibo, but just silently swiped through the rows of information streams, getting bogged down in complicated calculations.
After a while, the cold electronic voice finally sounded: "I regret to inform you, Mr. Ye Zhibo——"
The intellectual brain who suddenly became cold and humorous said in a tone of "I'm sorry you didn't win the lottery": "The yellow rose in your hand is only half of the power left by Xing Lu Ting here."
"Eve told me that there is still half of the power on the upper level." Galaxy's voice was heavy, "on the top level that Eve can't go to—"
"Nine floors of No. 90."
Where the owner of the lighthouse is.
Ye Zhibo hissed, feeling a little toothache: "...how about we buy an insurance first?"
"..."
Galaxy simulated an eye-rolling expression in his mind.
"It's been a day and I must remind you that we have four days left."
Yinhe didn't want to joke, and continued to say coldly: "The rest time is over, it's time to continue running for your life."
Ye Zhibo sighed.
He looked at the world under his feet, with heavy vigilance in his eyes.
Around this towering ancient tree, the original delicate and beautiful red and white roses all withered, and the green vines withered and withered in an instant, leaving gray-white dry branches like broken bones.
More and more yellow roses appeared on the gray and white dead branches instead of red and white roses, pointing all the way to Ye Zhibo, or to the direction of the yellow rose in his arms.
Flowers bloomed on the bones.
Flowers point the way.
The lion was quickly attracted, roaring and running towards Ye Zhibo's position. "Roar--"
Ye Zhibo ran away.
"That one...forget it, can the other two see clearly—" He shouted angrily while running, "It is your son and son-in-law who are being chased and bitten by you!"
"Roar--!"
He was answered by an even more angry growl from the lion.
Ye Zhibo: "..."
In a panic, he broke into a maze of white rose fields.
……
……
"Hu-hu-"
Ye Zhibo panted heavily, and only paused for a few seconds before he heard intertwined roars gradually approaching behind him.
Those three lions are the projections of legendary power, tireless and painless, after Ye Zhibo took away the most precious goods here, they all went mad, roaring day and night, chasing and killing the thief who dared to steal the treasure .
The little thief Ye Zhibo with the treasure in his arms escaped very hard.
From the bottom of his heart, he scolded Li Chongjian for being inhuman, and quickly continued to flee.
"Yinhe! When am I going to run away?" Ye Zhibo rolled on the spot, dodged the vines that swept over him, got up in a disheveled manner, and swept straight to the side, smashing through the wall formed by the bushes, and The rose vine dancing wildly behind him was far away.
This maze of white roses also mutates under the lion's roar, and has turned into a garden of terror at every step, with murderous intentions buried everywhere.
Yinhe's response came quickly: "Flee until rescuers arrive."
Ye Zhibo rolled his eyes at Yinhe in his mind: "It's been a whole day, and I haven't seen any rescuers—the rescuers brought by monkeys are not so unreliable—"
His voice stopped abruptly.
At the same time, Yinhe's voice suddenly sounded: "Here we come."
Ye Zhibo didn't respond.
His figure fell into a complete stillness in an instant, quietly and silently stretched his arms, relaxed his muscles, and lightly put his hands on the handle of the Chonghua knife, posing the most attacking posture.
He had just turned the corner a moment ago, but he just bumped into the skull lion head-on.
Ye Zhibo and the bone lion looked at each other silently, seeing the scarlet light in each other's eyes getting more and more intense, then the mandible opened and closed, and let out a silent howl.
"Hiss - woo -"
The faint breath overflowed from the other party's throat, but it undoubtedly provided the direction for the two lions behind Ye Zhibo.
The sound of "rumbling" footsteps quickly rang in my ears.
However, this is not the end.
Almost at the moment when the bone lion roared silently, the white rose maze changed again.
The gray and white dead branches trembled slightly, and the small barbs on the flower stems suddenly grew, forming sharp and sharp bony spurs, interlaced with canine teeth, flashing a cold light.
The pale yellow roses turned pale gray, the buds were wide open, but they seemed to have faces full of hatred. At this moment, each face turned to the only human being in the field, grinning silently, showing distorted Weird smile, as if inviting the other party——
Step into the abyss together.
The bone lion leaped to the front, and gave orders to the rose vines in the whole maze like a king, but he stayed in place in a leisurely manner, slowly looking at Ye Zhibo, as if thinking about where to start.
"Roar--"
Not far behind Ye Zhibo, two lion roars resounded at the same time, one high and the other low, walked across the corner with the same pace, and appeared at the end of the maze only 20 meters away from him.
Attacking back and forth, with no way to advance or retreat, Ye Zhibo fell into a desperate situation.
His face darkened, and the hand holding the handle of the knife slowly rotated vigorously, about to draw out his Chonghua knife and die with them—but was stopped suddenly by a melodious music.
The melody was brisk and relaxing, floating leisurely over the rose garden, as if not paying attention to the weird and tense atmosphere in the venue, just singing a small tune full of life meaning to itself.
Surprisingly, this melody seemed to have a special influence on the three lions. The bone lion was the first to lie down and flicked its tail lazily. The scarlet in its eyes quickly went out and fell into a deep sleep.
The two lions behind Ye Zhibo also made the same movements one after another, and soon fell into a deep sleep under the influence of this melody, and even snored a little.
Ye Zhibo: "..."
He turned his head sideways, looked at Ji Bingyuan and Shen Ye who suddenly appeared in the maze at some time, did not speak, but nodded slightly.
Shen Ye didn't speak, and his subordinates kept strumming a small harp, nodding to him indifferently.
Ji Bingyuan didn't even want to say hello, but raised his head slightly, signaling Ye Zhibo to follow.
They soon returned to the fountain in the middle of the rose garden.
Ji Bingyuan stretched out his hand, took the black card from Ye Zhibo, and inserted it into the lion's open mouth, and then the fountain in front of several people suddenly parted to both sides, revealing a doorway for only one person.
Ye Zhibo didn't move, he stood where he was, and looked up at Ji Bingyuan.
"Yinhe should have told you that this door leads to the ninth floor of No. 90." Ji Bingyuan didn't talk nonsense, and said directly, "But there is a legendary gatekeeper in front of the 99th floor, who only obeys Li Chongjian's orders. "
Ji Bingyuan admitted frankly: "The three of us together can't beat that gatekeeper."
Ye Zhibo pondered for a while, then asked: "Is there any way to pass?"
"You don't need to worry about this." Shen Ye said in a flat voice from the side, "We will solve that legend for you."
"All you have to do is to enter the 99th floor, get the power of Huiting Star, and resist the lighthouse's erosion of the third quadrant." Ji Bingyuan said.
Ye Zhibo raised his eyebrows: "Why?"
Why help yourself?
Why choose such a path that is almost certain to die?
"Don't you want to leave the lighthouse?"
"If you die here and the Milky Way is under the control of the lighthouse, how can we escape?" Ji Bingyuan snorted coldly and mocked, "Ye Zhibo, don't put money on your face, what we want to help is never you."
"We are for the thirteenth district."
"We are here to let the people in District [-] get out of the ground, to let them live under the real sunlight... so that they can appear in any place in the sea of stars openly, and tell everyone that they are from District [-]..." Shen Ye spoke slowly and softly, and it was rare to say such a long sentence, "Academy of Sciences, rebel army, struggle for power and profit... are just means."
"But you chose the most wrong and costly method." Ye Zhibo looked at Shen Ye, his voice was deep and cold.
The gray-haired secretary-general frowned slightly, but said nothing.
Ye Zhibo understood what Shen Ye meant.
She has no regrets.
From making a deal with the lighthouse in order to investigate the cause of his brother's death, becoming a bargaining chip, entering the thirteenth district, taking control of the Academy of Sciences, and finally launching a rebellious war——
As Shen Ye said, her original intention was for her brother, and later for the thirteenth district. Everything she did was to achieve her own goal.
"Is it worth it?" Ye Zhibo asked softly.
"If I hadn't made a deal with the lighthouse, I wouldn't even have the ability to step into the thirteenth district." Shen Ye finally showed a smile on Gujing Wubo's face, "But now, I not only found out the cause of my brother's death, but even Inherited his will... I obeyed the master's order to avenge the empire and took away all the power, didn't I also provide you with the opportunity to control the thirteenth district?"
This mood was always stable without ups and downs, and even when the seemingly dull secretary-general really laughed, his clear face suddenly became extremely beautiful.
"The people who really held strong hostility towards the empire and Shen Xinghai have all died in the war, and the ones left behind are ordinary people who are willing to return to a peaceful life." She revealed her deepest purpose bit by bit, calmly With an elegant smile: "After the thirteenth district surrenders, alienation will be resolved one day. Isn't it worth it?"
At this time, Ye Zhibo finally confirmed the speculation in his heart all along, and immediately understood the other party's overall plan.
"You really planned it long ago? So you..."
Did not violate their agreement at the time.
It's just that in order to abide by this agreement, Shen Ye chose the craziest and most reckless way.
"Of course, you also saw it later, didn't you?" Shen Ye plucked the strings gently, his eyes were full of joy that finally got what he wanted, "As bargaining chips, we cannot disobey the master's order, but we can Choose how to do it."
Just like what Shen Xi said, chips are also people, and people will have feelings, longing for freedom, and expectations.
They all have their own desires and desires, and they will eventually fight for it.
"But equivalent exchange..."
Ye Zhibo did not forget the stone tablet at the entrance of the exchange. He knew that those four words were the will of the entire exchange, or the lighthouse.
What you get, what you pay.
No one can escape.
"You—" He still wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Ji Bingyuan, who had been silent all along.
"—So now is the time for us to pay the price for this." Ji Bingyuan urged impatiently, "Ye Zhibo, are you still going?"
The brown-haired former deputy chief raised his chin, gave Ye Zhibo a sideways look arrogantly, and walked into the door first.
"It's not up to you to control our life and death."
While Ye Zhibo was in a daze, the gray-haired Shen Ye also walked past him, entered the door, and also left a word.
"Say sorry to Leah for me."
The young man who had recovered his silver hair was silent for a while, then recovered from the lion's roar that started to sound again because he lost the comfort of the music behind him, and followed their footsteps.
"boom--!"
The stone gate was closed behind them, completely blocking the way back.
Ye Zhibo looked up and saw that they had come to a huge inverted space.
Under their feet is the sea of stars, and above their heads is nothingness.
At the end of this huge space, there is an ordinary wooden door.
That's the entrance to the top level of the lighthouse.And this gatekeeper of the inverted space, that legendary powerhouse——
The golden lion suddenly emerged from the sea of stars with heavy steps, its scarlet pupils looked directly at the three intruders, and when it opened its mouth, it sounded like a rumbling thunder.
"If you want to climb to the top of the lighthouse, you only have two options."
"First, beat me."
Ye Zhibo saw the opponent's figure without stagnation in his actions, and his logical and clear words, and understood that this was the real body of the gatekeeper.
The golden lion in the rose garden is just the projection of the opponent.
But the projection has forced him to nowhere, let alone the body?
Just like Ji Bingyuan said, the three of them together couldn't beat the gatekeeper.
So, only the second option.
While Ye Zhibo was thinking quickly, the gatekeeper's voice sounded, telling the intruder coldly the second choice.
"Second, equivalent exchange."
The voice then added: "Equivalent exchange means that if one person is passed, one person will be left behind."
Ye Zhibo raised his head abruptly.
He heard the meaning of the other dialect.
The so-called equivalent exchange, the key is nothing but equivalent.
Ye Zhibo wanted to enter the highest level, but he didn't get any permission, which meant that he was an intruder in the lighthouse.
The gatekeeper did not choose to kill him, but let an intruder ascend to the top, requiring the same life to make up.
"When one person is passed, one person is left behind."
That's at the cost of a life, truly, forever.
……
……
"Beat it first, if you can't beat it, then talk about other things." Ji Bingyuan decided to struggle, he thought for a while, and then added, "But you can't beat it, so just hold it back."
Ji Bingyuan looked at Shen Ye who was beside him, and asked in confirmation: "Xiao Ye?"
Shen Ye nodded at him: "Let's go."
They left Ye Zhibo behind, and when Ji Bingyuan passed the silver-haired youth, he said in a low voice: "Don't make a move, wait for my signal, let you run as soon as you are told, don't turn around and waste time if you have nothing to do—understand?"
"Remember our agreement, I wish you good luck." He finally patted Ye Zhibo on the shoulder, smiled lightly and walked over to the gatekeeper who was always watching them.
Shen Ye silently followed behind him.
Under the watchful eyes of the giant golden lion, Ji Bingyuan showed a proper smile on his face. He approached the giant lion, stopped in front of the other party, put his hand on his chest and bowed slightly in salute.
"Dear gatekeeper, our choice..." He spoke softly under the indifferent gaze of the giant lion, raised his face after a slight pause, and suddenly a crazy look burst out of his eyes.
The next moment, using himself as a sharp blade, he slammed straight into the lion's lower abdomen——
"Choose nothing, of course!"
"boom--!"
Ji Bingyuan's body that was sprinting close to the ground was forced to stop, and was slammed into the air by the lion's giant palm. However, the poisoned sharp blade in his hand also pierced into the opponent's palm, and buried the entire dagger into the opponent's palm with all his strength. Inside the body of a giant lion.
"Roar--!"
In the midst of the roar that suddenly sounded in the field, Shen Ye jumped up high, stepping on Ji Bingyuan's upside-down body in mid-air and went up again. rush!
"It's now!"
Ji Bingyuan shouted loudly, letting himself fall to the ground uncontrollably, pouring the potion hidden in the palm of his hand with his backhand, reinvigorating his spiritual sea by burning his vitality, breaking through the shackles at the next moment, recovering his strength, After hearing the signal, he slapped Ye Zhibo's back, who started running towards the door without hesitation——
"run!"
Ji Bingyuan didn't stop, and continued to attack the ground behind Ye Zhibo, letting the shock wave of the attack on the ground accelerate Ye Zhibo again and again, shortening the distance between Ye Zhibo and the door by half in an instant!
"Roar--!"
The roar of the giant lion fell with the attack, but Ji Bingyuan didn't seem to see the giant palm that was about to fall on his head, but continued his actions firmly.
"Buzz!"
There was a whistling sound, and Shen Ye held the gun upside down to block behind him, blocked the attack at the nick of time, and pressed against the palm of the golden lion, his feet sank deeply into the ground, but he didn't take a step back.
"Come?"
Shen Ye coughed out a mouthful of blood, and asked plainly.
"of course."
But Ji Bingyuan's eyes lit up suddenly, he spoke loudly, and turned around with a big smile.
They moved forward side by side at the same time, heading towards the giant beast in front of them with an indomitable attitude.
"Come!"
This is the only madness in life. They use their flesh and blood as a bargaining chip to block the power of this world and launch an impossible challenge to that superior existence——
Just this one life, it is enough to burn it out!
"boom--!"
There was a landslide-like earthquake behind him, and Ye Zhibo didn't look back.
What choice Ji Bingyuan and Shen Ye will make, all three of them know very well.
Therefore, Ye Zhibo's footsteps never stopped, and he didn't slow down at all because of any movement behind him.
When Ji Bingyuan and Shen Ye delivered a powerful blow to the giant lion, he didn't look back.
When Ji Bingyuan was hit hard and fell to the ground, his muscles and bones were shattered, but he didn't look back.
When Shen Ye was pierced by sharp fangs and fell to the ground, he didn't look back.
He knew what kind of ending the two behind him had chosen for themselves.
He also knew that the road under his feet was paved by the two of them with their lives——
So he can only move forward!
After paying so much and losing so much, he has no reason to lose.
Since there is no reason to lose, he must win.
"Om-"
The entire reversed space was shaking violently, because the gatekeeper discovered the intruder who was trying to sneak away, and angrily issued an attack command.
The sea of stars under his feet was churning, and thousands of stars were spinning together, and they rained thunder mercilessly on the figure that was running fast——
Lightning flashed, torrential rain poured, mountains and rivers reversed, and meteorites fell.
Endless catastrophes cast down their projections, trying to crush the life that dared to compete with the sea of stars and turn it into dust!
"Chong!"
Ye Zhibo finally drew his sword at this time.
He didn't even look at the turbulent crisis in front of him and behind him, only the simple wooden door in his eyes.
His goal has always been there.
Rush over!
Ye Zhibo clenched the handle of the knife with both hands, raised it above his head, and chopped it off with one blow!
"Om-!"
Chonghua Dao hummed loudly and let out a majestic howl, brazenly resisting the heaven and the earth.
The lightning was shattered, the torrential rain was cut off, the mountains and rivers reversed and stagnated, and the meteorite was annihilated silently.
Ye Zhibo has never lost a confrontation at the level of will.
The silver-haired figure dashed forward, with an unrivaled aura, crashing straight into the wooden door——
"Bang!"
After a loud noise, the silver-haired youth disappeared from the spot.
……
……
The shaking between heaven and earth dissipated.
The sea of stars calmed down, the stars returned to their places, and all the previous shattering of heaven and earth and mountains and rivers did not leave a trace.
Only the golden behemoth still majestically stared at the starry sky below, as well as the pair of blood-drenched men and women.
It looked at them in silence for a while, then got down on the spot and closed its eyes.
The door leading to the highest floor has been closed, and the rose garden has moved elsewhere, and the two have no way out.
It knows what choice the human couple will make.
"Ahem..." The corner of Ji Bingyuan's mouth continued to overflow with blood foam, his face was almost transparent, his whole body was soaked in blood, as if he had already shed all the blood in his body.
"Xiaoye... I'm the only one left on your list, right?" He spoke intermittently, lying on his back, looking at the sky with his eyes unfocused.
He was so badly injured that he was almost invisible.
"There's another person's name."
A slight response came from Ji Bingyuan's side, Shen Ye dragged his heavy body and fell heavily beside the brown-haired man, panting to help him up, leaning on his shoulder.
"But Ye Zhibo will cross out that name for me." Shen Ye paused, then added.
"Then congratulations in advance?" Ji Bingyuan said with a chuckle, turned his head with some nostalgia, and put his cold cheek close to Shen Ye's ear.
"I said I'd make your wish come true," he said. "I did."
Shen Ye laughed softly, sat up with effort, and hugged the brown-haired man.
She spoke softly and asked, "Are you ready?"
"Of course." No matter when he faced Shen Ye's question, he always had only one answer.
No matter what you want to do, I will risk everything to be with you.
"Buzz-"
□□ made a humming sound of reluctance, but suddenly stood up under the firm will of the master, and was held in Shen Ye's hand.
She closed her eyes and kissed Shang Ji Bingyuan's cold lips.
"I forgive you."
□□Passing through the body, piercing Ji Bingyuan's back heart, inserting/entering Shen Ye's body, completely piercing the two of them.
At the last moment, Ji Bingyuan's eyes widened slightly, then quickly bent down and closed his eyes.
He gave a relieved smile.
I forgive you.
We are also free.
Die without regret.
******
"Bang!"
Ye Zhibo fell behind the wooden door.
Under the aftermath of the impact, he rushed forward tens of meters before barely stopping his figure.
Ye Zhibo immediately concentrated his breath and looked around.
He saw the sky full of stars.
The ninth floor of No.90, the top of the lighthouse, is actually in the sea of stars.
This entire sea of stars, this entire fourth quadrant—is owned by the lighthouse.
Ye Zhibo took a deep breath, his expression gradually calmed down.
It is now the middle of the night on the fifth day, and the sun is about to rise on the sixth day.
He has two days left.
The last half of Luting Star's power lies in this sea of stars.
This is his, the final battlefield.
Ye Zhibo no longer hesitated, following the faint fluctuations from the yellow rose, he took steps in a certain direction.
In that direction, there was exactly the same fluctuation.
He trekked among the vast sea of stars, encountered falling meteors, passed through burning star fields, and witnessed the annihilation and rebirth of countless stars...
Keep going forward.
In the sea of stars with no reference, he didn't know how much time had passed until he saw the lighthouse again.
The tower is tall and imposing, and it has stood firmly here for thousands of years and has never been shaken.
At the top of the pitch-black tower, there was a gleam of light.
Ye Zhibo stared at the lighthouse in surprise, not understanding why he appeared here.
He has clearly reached the top level——
"The coordinates of the lighthouse are constantly moving, the entire fourth quadrant is the lighthouse, but only here is the constant anchor point."
At this time, a cold voice suddenly came, explaining as if knowing Ye Zhibo's confusion: "So this is the real top of the lighthouse."
Ye Zhibo froze in place for a moment.
He didn't take the time to digest the theory that sounded inscrutable, but he quickly stepped forward after the extremely familiar voice sounded, and looked at the blond figure standing on the top of the lighthouse in shock.
"Li Jinshen!" Ye Zhibo said incredulously, "Why are you here!"
"Why can't I be here?"
The blond figure turned around, and it was the young new emperor of the Xiadeng Empire.
Li Jin looked deeply at Ye Zhibo, the ice and snow melted on his icy face, revealing a warm smile.
"I came here to go back with you."
Ye Zhibo opened his mouth, but did not speak.
He had so much to say, but he didn't know how to speak for a while.
The same goes for Li Jinshen.
The two stared at each other for a long time, the expressions on their faces became more and more peaceful, but the light in their eyes became brighter and brighter.
"mum--"
Until a soft, low cry sounded, as if the dissatisfaction was ignored, repeated and long called again.
"Mimi—"
Ye Zhibo suddenly returned to his senses.
He saw a tabby cat squatting on the railing next to Li Jinshen, licking its paw carelessly.
Seeing that the two finally noticed him, the tabby cat tilted its head happily and let out another soft cry.
"mum?"
Ye Zhibo's expression suddenly changed: "Li Jinshen, come here."
He opened his mouth in a low voice, fixed his eyes on the tabby cat, and looked at the blood stains on the other's sharp claws.
Fresh, freshly stained blood.
This tabby cat—
It is the golden giant lion that reverses space!
Under his gaze, the tabby cat raised its head and stared at the two people who had gathered together.
Those round cat eyes gradually changed in the blink of an eye, beating scarlet blood.
"mum?"
Ye Zhibo looked at it expressionlessly, and reached out to grab the Chonghua knife.
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"Ow—"
The roar of lions sounded from time to time in the rose garden. Under the ravages of three raging lions, the originally peaceful and beautiful rose garden was in a mess.
The flower stands toppled, the shrubs were overturned, the red and white roses were crushed mercilessly, and the Garden of Eden became a purgatory in an instant.
Ye Zhibo hugged his head against the shadows and ran away.
At the moment, he was hiding on the branch of a giant tree, using the lush branches to block his figure, while peeking at the situation in the distance, he lowered his head and fiddled with the teleportation rune in his hand.
"Yinhe, what's going on?" Ye Zhibo looked at the lions wandering around the rose field without thinking, and was a little puzzled, "Are their brains not working well?"
Although his attack power is amazing, he doesn't look like a very smart Yazi.
Galaxy: "..."
It was rare for Yinhe not to complain about Ye Zhibo, but just silently swiped through the rows of information streams, getting bogged down in complicated calculations.
After a while, the cold electronic voice finally sounded: "I regret to inform you, Mr. Ye Zhibo——"
The intellectual brain who suddenly became cold and humorous said in a tone of "I'm sorry you didn't win the lottery": "The yellow rose in your hand is only half of the power left by Xing Lu Ting here."
"Eve told me that there is still half of the power on the upper level." Galaxy's voice was heavy, "on the top level that Eve can't go to—"
"Nine floors of No. 90."
Where the owner of the lighthouse is.
Ye Zhibo hissed, feeling a little toothache: "...how about we buy an insurance first?"
"..."
Galaxy simulated an eye-rolling expression in his mind.
"It's been a day and I must remind you that we have four days left."
Yinhe didn't want to joke, and continued to say coldly: "The rest time is over, it's time to continue running for your life."
Ye Zhibo sighed.
He looked at the world under his feet, with heavy vigilance in his eyes.
Around this towering ancient tree, the original delicate and beautiful red and white roses all withered, and the green vines withered and withered in an instant, leaving gray-white dry branches like broken bones.
More and more yellow roses appeared on the gray and white dead branches instead of red and white roses, pointing all the way to Ye Zhibo, or to the direction of the yellow rose in his arms.
Flowers bloomed on the bones.
Flowers point the way.
The lion was quickly attracted, roaring and running towards Ye Zhibo's position. "Roar--"
Ye Zhibo ran away.
"That one...forget it, can the other two see clearly—" He shouted angrily while running, "It is your son and son-in-law who are being chased and bitten by you!"
"Roar--!"
He was answered by an even more angry growl from the lion.
Ye Zhibo: "..."
In a panic, he broke into a maze of white rose fields.
……
……
"Hu-hu-"
Ye Zhibo panted heavily, and only paused for a few seconds before he heard intertwined roars gradually approaching behind him.
Those three lions are the projections of legendary power, tireless and painless, after Ye Zhibo took away the most precious goods here, they all went mad, roaring day and night, chasing and killing the thief who dared to steal the treasure .
The little thief Ye Zhibo with the treasure in his arms escaped very hard.
From the bottom of his heart, he scolded Li Chongjian for being inhuman, and quickly continued to flee.
"Yinhe! When am I going to run away?" Ye Zhibo rolled on the spot, dodged the vines that swept over him, got up in a disheveled manner, and swept straight to the side, smashing through the wall formed by the bushes, and The rose vine dancing wildly behind him was far away.
This maze of white roses also mutates under the lion's roar, and has turned into a garden of terror at every step, with murderous intentions buried everywhere.
Yinhe's response came quickly: "Flee until rescuers arrive."
Ye Zhibo rolled his eyes at Yinhe in his mind: "It's been a whole day, and I haven't seen any rescuers—the rescuers brought by monkeys are not so unreliable—"
His voice stopped abruptly.
At the same time, Yinhe's voice suddenly sounded: "Here we come."
Ye Zhibo didn't respond.
His figure fell into a complete stillness in an instant, quietly and silently stretched his arms, relaxed his muscles, and lightly put his hands on the handle of the Chonghua knife, posing the most attacking posture.
He had just turned the corner a moment ago, but he just bumped into the skull lion head-on.
Ye Zhibo and the bone lion looked at each other silently, seeing the scarlet light in each other's eyes getting more and more intense, then the mandible opened and closed, and let out a silent howl.
"Hiss - woo -"
The faint breath overflowed from the other party's throat, but it undoubtedly provided the direction for the two lions behind Ye Zhibo.
The sound of "rumbling" footsteps quickly rang in my ears.
However, this is not the end.
Almost at the moment when the bone lion roared silently, the white rose maze changed again.
The gray and white dead branches trembled slightly, and the small barbs on the flower stems suddenly grew, forming sharp and sharp bony spurs, interlaced with canine teeth, flashing a cold light.
The pale yellow roses turned pale gray, the buds were wide open, but they seemed to have faces full of hatred. At this moment, each face turned to the only human being in the field, grinning silently, showing distorted Weird smile, as if inviting the other party——
Step into the abyss together.
The bone lion leaped to the front, and gave orders to the rose vines in the whole maze like a king, but he stayed in place in a leisurely manner, slowly looking at Ye Zhibo, as if thinking about where to start.
"Roar--"
Not far behind Ye Zhibo, two lion roars resounded at the same time, one high and the other low, walked across the corner with the same pace, and appeared at the end of the maze only 20 meters away from him.
Attacking back and forth, with no way to advance or retreat, Ye Zhibo fell into a desperate situation.
His face darkened, and the hand holding the handle of the knife slowly rotated vigorously, about to draw out his Chonghua knife and die with them—but was stopped suddenly by a melodious music.
The melody was brisk and relaxing, floating leisurely over the rose garden, as if not paying attention to the weird and tense atmosphere in the venue, just singing a small tune full of life meaning to itself.
Surprisingly, this melody seemed to have a special influence on the three lions. The bone lion was the first to lie down and flicked its tail lazily. The scarlet in its eyes quickly went out and fell into a deep sleep.
The two lions behind Ye Zhibo also made the same movements one after another, and soon fell into a deep sleep under the influence of this melody, and even snored a little.
Ye Zhibo: "..."
He turned his head sideways, looked at Ji Bingyuan and Shen Ye who suddenly appeared in the maze at some time, did not speak, but nodded slightly.
Shen Ye didn't speak, and his subordinates kept strumming a small harp, nodding to him indifferently.
Ji Bingyuan didn't even want to say hello, but raised his head slightly, signaling Ye Zhibo to follow.
They soon returned to the fountain in the middle of the rose garden.
Ji Bingyuan stretched out his hand, took the black card from Ye Zhibo, and inserted it into the lion's open mouth, and then the fountain in front of several people suddenly parted to both sides, revealing a doorway for only one person.
Ye Zhibo didn't move, he stood where he was, and looked up at Ji Bingyuan.
"Yinhe should have told you that this door leads to the ninth floor of No. 90." Ji Bingyuan didn't talk nonsense, and said directly, "But there is a legendary gatekeeper in front of the 99th floor, who only obeys Li Chongjian's orders. "
Ji Bingyuan admitted frankly: "The three of us together can't beat that gatekeeper."
Ye Zhibo pondered for a while, then asked: "Is there any way to pass?"
"You don't need to worry about this." Shen Ye said in a flat voice from the side, "We will solve that legend for you."
"All you have to do is to enter the 99th floor, get the power of Huiting Star, and resist the lighthouse's erosion of the third quadrant." Ji Bingyuan said.
Ye Zhibo raised his eyebrows: "Why?"
Why help yourself?
Why choose such a path that is almost certain to die?
"Don't you want to leave the lighthouse?"
"If you die here and the Milky Way is under the control of the lighthouse, how can we escape?" Ji Bingyuan snorted coldly and mocked, "Ye Zhibo, don't put money on your face, what we want to help is never you."
"We are for the thirteenth district."
"We are here to let the people in District [-] get out of the ground, to let them live under the real sunlight... so that they can appear in any place in the sea of stars openly, and tell everyone that they are from District [-]..." Shen Ye spoke slowly and softly, and it was rare to say such a long sentence, "Academy of Sciences, rebel army, struggle for power and profit... are just means."
"But you chose the most wrong and costly method." Ye Zhibo looked at Shen Ye, his voice was deep and cold.
The gray-haired secretary-general frowned slightly, but said nothing.
Ye Zhibo understood what Shen Ye meant.
She has no regrets.
From making a deal with the lighthouse in order to investigate the cause of his brother's death, becoming a bargaining chip, entering the thirteenth district, taking control of the Academy of Sciences, and finally launching a rebellious war——
As Shen Ye said, her original intention was for her brother, and later for the thirteenth district. Everything she did was to achieve her own goal.
"Is it worth it?" Ye Zhibo asked softly.
"If I hadn't made a deal with the lighthouse, I wouldn't even have the ability to step into the thirteenth district." Shen Ye finally showed a smile on Gujing Wubo's face, "But now, I not only found out the cause of my brother's death, but even Inherited his will... I obeyed the master's order to avenge the empire and took away all the power, didn't I also provide you with the opportunity to control the thirteenth district?"
This mood was always stable without ups and downs, and even when the seemingly dull secretary-general really laughed, his clear face suddenly became extremely beautiful.
"The people who really held strong hostility towards the empire and Shen Xinghai have all died in the war, and the ones left behind are ordinary people who are willing to return to a peaceful life." She revealed her deepest purpose bit by bit, calmly With an elegant smile: "After the thirteenth district surrenders, alienation will be resolved one day. Isn't it worth it?"
At this time, Ye Zhibo finally confirmed the speculation in his heart all along, and immediately understood the other party's overall plan.
"You really planned it long ago? So you..."
Did not violate their agreement at the time.
It's just that in order to abide by this agreement, Shen Ye chose the craziest and most reckless way.
"Of course, you also saw it later, didn't you?" Shen Ye plucked the strings gently, his eyes were full of joy that finally got what he wanted, "As bargaining chips, we cannot disobey the master's order, but we can Choose how to do it."
Just like what Shen Xi said, chips are also people, and people will have feelings, longing for freedom, and expectations.
They all have their own desires and desires, and they will eventually fight for it.
"But equivalent exchange..."
Ye Zhibo did not forget the stone tablet at the entrance of the exchange. He knew that those four words were the will of the entire exchange, or the lighthouse.
What you get, what you pay.
No one can escape.
"You—" He still wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Ji Bingyuan, who had been silent all along.
"—So now is the time for us to pay the price for this." Ji Bingyuan urged impatiently, "Ye Zhibo, are you still going?"
The brown-haired former deputy chief raised his chin, gave Ye Zhibo a sideways look arrogantly, and walked into the door first.
"It's not up to you to control our life and death."
While Ye Zhibo was in a daze, the gray-haired Shen Ye also walked past him, entered the door, and also left a word.
"Say sorry to Leah for me."
The young man who had recovered his silver hair was silent for a while, then recovered from the lion's roar that started to sound again because he lost the comfort of the music behind him, and followed their footsteps.
"boom--!"
The stone gate was closed behind them, completely blocking the way back.
Ye Zhibo looked up and saw that they had come to a huge inverted space.
Under their feet is the sea of stars, and above their heads is nothingness.
At the end of this huge space, there is an ordinary wooden door.
That's the entrance to the top level of the lighthouse.And this gatekeeper of the inverted space, that legendary powerhouse——
The golden lion suddenly emerged from the sea of stars with heavy steps, its scarlet pupils looked directly at the three intruders, and when it opened its mouth, it sounded like a rumbling thunder.
"If you want to climb to the top of the lighthouse, you only have two options."
"First, beat me."
Ye Zhibo saw the opponent's figure without stagnation in his actions, and his logical and clear words, and understood that this was the real body of the gatekeeper.
The golden lion in the rose garden is just the projection of the opponent.
But the projection has forced him to nowhere, let alone the body?
Just like Ji Bingyuan said, the three of them together couldn't beat the gatekeeper.
So, only the second option.
While Ye Zhibo was thinking quickly, the gatekeeper's voice sounded, telling the intruder coldly the second choice.
"Second, equivalent exchange."
The voice then added: "Equivalent exchange means that if one person is passed, one person will be left behind."
Ye Zhibo raised his head abruptly.
He heard the meaning of the other dialect.
The so-called equivalent exchange, the key is nothing but equivalent.
Ye Zhibo wanted to enter the highest level, but he didn't get any permission, which meant that he was an intruder in the lighthouse.
The gatekeeper did not choose to kill him, but let an intruder ascend to the top, requiring the same life to make up.
"When one person is passed, one person is left behind."
That's at the cost of a life, truly, forever.
……
……
"Beat it first, if you can't beat it, then talk about other things." Ji Bingyuan decided to struggle, he thought for a while, and then added, "But you can't beat it, so just hold it back."
Ji Bingyuan looked at Shen Ye who was beside him, and asked in confirmation: "Xiao Ye?"
Shen Ye nodded at him: "Let's go."
They left Ye Zhibo behind, and when Ji Bingyuan passed the silver-haired youth, he said in a low voice: "Don't make a move, wait for my signal, let you run as soon as you are told, don't turn around and waste time if you have nothing to do—understand?"
"Remember our agreement, I wish you good luck." He finally patted Ye Zhibo on the shoulder, smiled lightly and walked over to the gatekeeper who was always watching them.
Shen Ye silently followed behind him.
Under the watchful eyes of the giant golden lion, Ji Bingyuan showed a proper smile on his face. He approached the giant lion, stopped in front of the other party, put his hand on his chest and bowed slightly in salute.
"Dear gatekeeper, our choice..." He spoke softly under the indifferent gaze of the giant lion, raised his face after a slight pause, and suddenly a crazy look burst out of his eyes.
The next moment, using himself as a sharp blade, he slammed straight into the lion's lower abdomen——
"Choose nothing, of course!"
"boom--!"
Ji Bingyuan's body that was sprinting close to the ground was forced to stop, and was slammed into the air by the lion's giant palm. However, the poisoned sharp blade in his hand also pierced into the opponent's palm, and buried the entire dagger into the opponent's palm with all his strength. Inside the body of a giant lion.
"Roar--!"
In the midst of the roar that suddenly sounded in the field, Shen Ye jumped up high, stepping on Ji Bingyuan's upside-down body in mid-air and went up again. rush!
"It's now!"
Ji Bingyuan shouted loudly, letting himself fall to the ground uncontrollably, pouring the potion hidden in the palm of his hand with his backhand, reinvigorating his spiritual sea by burning his vitality, breaking through the shackles at the next moment, recovering his strength, After hearing the signal, he slapped Ye Zhibo's back, who started running towards the door without hesitation——
"run!"
Ji Bingyuan didn't stop, and continued to attack the ground behind Ye Zhibo, letting the shock wave of the attack on the ground accelerate Ye Zhibo again and again, shortening the distance between Ye Zhibo and the door by half in an instant!
"Roar--!"
The roar of the giant lion fell with the attack, but Ji Bingyuan didn't seem to see the giant palm that was about to fall on his head, but continued his actions firmly.
"Buzz!"
There was a whistling sound, and Shen Ye held the gun upside down to block behind him, blocked the attack at the nick of time, and pressed against the palm of the golden lion, his feet sank deeply into the ground, but he didn't take a step back.
"Come?"
Shen Ye coughed out a mouthful of blood, and asked plainly.
"of course."
But Ji Bingyuan's eyes lit up suddenly, he spoke loudly, and turned around with a big smile.
They moved forward side by side at the same time, heading towards the giant beast in front of them with an indomitable attitude.
"Come!"
This is the only madness in life. They use their flesh and blood as a bargaining chip to block the power of this world and launch an impossible challenge to that superior existence——
Just this one life, it is enough to burn it out!
"boom--!"
There was a landslide-like earthquake behind him, and Ye Zhibo didn't look back.
What choice Ji Bingyuan and Shen Ye will make, all three of them know very well.
Therefore, Ye Zhibo's footsteps never stopped, and he didn't slow down at all because of any movement behind him.
When Ji Bingyuan and Shen Ye delivered a powerful blow to the giant lion, he didn't look back.
When Ji Bingyuan was hit hard and fell to the ground, his muscles and bones were shattered, but he didn't look back.
When Shen Ye was pierced by sharp fangs and fell to the ground, he didn't look back.
He knew what kind of ending the two behind him had chosen for themselves.
He also knew that the road under his feet was paved by the two of them with their lives——
So he can only move forward!
After paying so much and losing so much, he has no reason to lose.
Since there is no reason to lose, he must win.
"Om-"
The entire reversed space was shaking violently, because the gatekeeper discovered the intruder who was trying to sneak away, and angrily issued an attack command.
The sea of stars under his feet was churning, and thousands of stars were spinning together, and they rained thunder mercilessly on the figure that was running fast——
Lightning flashed, torrential rain poured, mountains and rivers reversed, and meteorites fell.
Endless catastrophes cast down their projections, trying to crush the life that dared to compete with the sea of stars and turn it into dust!
"Chong!"
Ye Zhibo finally drew his sword at this time.
He didn't even look at the turbulent crisis in front of him and behind him, only the simple wooden door in his eyes.
His goal has always been there.
Rush over!
Ye Zhibo clenched the handle of the knife with both hands, raised it above his head, and chopped it off with one blow!
"Om-!"
Chonghua Dao hummed loudly and let out a majestic howl, brazenly resisting the heaven and the earth.
The lightning was shattered, the torrential rain was cut off, the mountains and rivers reversed and stagnated, and the meteorite was annihilated silently.
Ye Zhibo has never lost a confrontation at the level of will.
The silver-haired figure dashed forward, with an unrivaled aura, crashing straight into the wooden door——
"Bang!"
After a loud noise, the silver-haired youth disappeared from the spot.
……
……
The shaking between heaven and earth dissipated.
The sea of stars calmed down, the stars returned to their places, and all the previous shattering of heaven and earth and mountains and rivers did not leave a trace.
Only the golden behemoth still majestically stared at the starry sky below, as well as the pair of blood-drenched men and women.
It looked at them in silence for a while, then got down on the spot and closed its eyes.
The door leading to the highest floor has been closed, and the rose garden has moved elsewhere, and the two have no way out.
It knows what choice the human couple will make.
"Ahem..." The corner of Ji Bingyuan's mouth continued to overflow with blood foam, his face was almost transparent, his whole body was soaked in blood, as if he had already shed all the blood in his body.
"Xiaoye... I'm the only one left on your list, right?" He spoke intermittently, lying on his back, looking at the sky with his eyes unfocused.
He was so badly injured that he was almost invisible.
"There's another person's name."
A slight response came from Ji Bingyuan's side, Shen Ye dragged his heavy body and fell heavily beside the brown-haired man, panting to help him up, leaning on his shoulder.
"But Ye Zhibo will cross out that name for me." Shen Ye paused, then added.
"Then congratulations in advance?" Ji Bingyuan said with a chuckle, turned his head with some nostalgia, and put his cold cheek close to Shen Ye's ear.
"I said I'd make your wish come true," he said. "I did."
Shen Ye laughed softly, sat up with effort, and hugged the brown-haired man.
She spoke softly and asked, "Are you ready?"
"Of course." No matter when he faced Shen Ye's question, he always had only one answer.
No matter what you want to do, I will risk everything to be with you.
"Buzz-"
□□ made a humming sound of reluctance, but suddenly stood up under the firm will of the master, and was held in Shen Ye's hand.
She closed her eyes and kissed Shang Ji Bingyuan's cold lips.
"I forgive you."
□□Passing through the body, piercing Ji Bingyuan's back heart, inserting/entering Shen Ye's body, completely piercing the two of them.
At the last moment, Ji Bingyuan's eyes widened slightly, then quickly bent down and closed his eyes.
He gave a relieved smile.
I forgive you.
We are also free.
Die without regret.
******
"Bang!"
Ye Zhibo fell behind the wooden door.
Under the aftermath of the impact, he rushed forward tens of meters before barely stopping his figure.
Ye Zhibo immediately concentrated his breath and looked around.
He saw the sky full of stars.
The ninth floor of No.90, the top of the lighthouse, is actually in the sea of stars.
This entire sea of stars, this entire fourth quadrant—is owned by the lighthouse.
Ye Zhibo took a deep breath, his expression gradually calmed down.
It is now the middle of the night on the fifth day, and the sun is about to rise on the sixth day.
He has two days left.
The last half of Luting Star's power lies in this sea of stars.
This is his, the final battlefield.
Ye Zhibo no longer hesitated, following the faint fluctuations from the yellow rose, he took steps in a certain direction.
In that direction, there was exactly the same fluctuation.
He trekked among the vast sea of stars, encountered falling meteors, passed through burning star fields, and witnessed the annihilation and rebirth of countless stars...
Keep going forward.
In the sea of stars with no reference, he didn't know how much time had passed until he saw the lighthouse again.
The tower is tall and imposing, and it has stood firmly here for thousands of years and has never been shaken.
At the top of the pitch-black tower, there was a gleam of light.
Ye Zhibo stared at the lighthouse in surprise, not understanding why he appeared here.
He has clearly reached the top level——
"The coordinates of the lighthouse are constantly moving, the entire fourth quadrant is the lighthouse, but only here is the constant anchor point."
At this time, a cold voice suddenly came, explaining as if knowing Ye Zhibo's confusion: "So this is the real top of the lighthouse."
Ye Zhibo froze in place for a moment.
He didn't take the time to digest the theory that sounded inscrutable, but he quickly stepped forward after the extremely familiar voice sounded, and looked at the blond figure standing on the top of the lighthouse in shock.
"Li Jinshen!" Ye Zhibo said incredulously, "Why are you here!"
"Why can't I be here?"
The blond figure turned around, and it was the young new emperor of the Xiadeng Empire.
Li Jin looked deeply at Ye Zhibo, the ice and snow melted on his icy face, revealing a warm smile.
"I came here to go back with you."
Ye Zhibo opened his mouth, but did not speak.
He had so much to say, but he didn't know how to speak for a while.
The same goes for Li Jinshen.
The two stared at each other for a long time, the expressions on their faces became more and more peaceful, but the light in their eyes became brighter and brighter.
"mum--"
Until a soft, low cry sounded, as if the dissatisfaction was ignored, repeated and long called again.
"Mimi—"
Ye Zhibo suddenly returned to his senses.
He saw a tabby cat squatting on the railing next to Li Jinshen, licking its paw carelessly.
Seeing that the two finally noticed him, the tabby cat tilted its head happily and let out another soft cry.
"mum?"
Ye Zhibo's expression suddenly changed: "Li Jinshen, come here."
He opened his mouth in a low voice, fixed his eyes on the tabby cat, and looked at the blood stains on the other's sharp claws.
Fresh, freshly stained blood.
This tabby cat—
It is the golden giant lion that reverses space!
Under his gaze, the tabby cat raised its head and stared at the two people who had gathered together.
Those round cat eyes gradually changed in the blink of an eye, beating scarlet blood.
"mum?"
Ye Zhibo looked at it expressionlessly, and reached out to grab the Chonghua knife.
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