I'll retire when I'm done

"Ah, even though I said that, I really didn't intend to let you die..."

Bai Hong dodged the attack of a living corpse wearing an ancient battle armor in a very skillful posture, jumped onto a branch of a dead tree beside him, squatted on it, and looked down at Fu Hei, who was besieged by several living corpses below. Er: "But you are more likely to provoke these things than I imagined... Oh, did I guess wrong?"

Shi Er below didn't dare to fight, he didn't know the price of direct contact, why he didn't bother him too much, especially when the only guy who knew the situation didn't intend to help Youya Youzai hide at all, even didn't Dare to relax a little bit and let them touch you.

"Get out of here—!"

Fuhesher growled angrily.

The culprit squatted on it, resting his chin on his hands, expressionless.

"Oh, my brother is so fierce~ Don't worry, I'm super weak~"

Bai Hong recited casually, followed by Qingqing and turned his head to avoid the magic dagger thrown by Fu Heisher. Seeing that he had no time to take out a new weapon, he untied the bird from his waist and threw it over.

"A knife is faster than a long stick~"

Fu Heisher's forehead was bulging with blue veins, but he still took the long knife thrown by Baihong——

The man's arm muscles swelled, his chopping movements became smoother and his hands became more brutal and fierce. He hacked off the head of the last living corpse rushing up from behind with his mouth open. Under the dead tree where Hong was squatting, he kicked up——

"Come down for me—!"

The snow-white bird lightly landed on the ground, her long untied hair swayed in the air in a soft arc, she lowered her brows and smiled, and in the eyes of the other person, it was a taunting attitude: "You have a bad temper. "

Fu Heisher roughly wiped off the sweat on his chin, and smiled coldly: "That's better than you." He glanced around, and there were more and more living corpses, gradually showing a tendency to surround him.

The living corpses wearing worn-out modern military uniforms can still be understood, but he can't understand where the ancient living corpses wearing heavy armor that don't belong to this era or even these countries come from.

"The abyss is connected to different worlds, and it is also the core of this island. The soldiers you can understand are the vanguard troops thrown in tentatively from various countries, and the ones you can't understand belong to another world. The curse on your hand The tools can't deal with the armor on them, so just behead them."

Bai Hong stood behind Fu Heisher, with their backs facing each other. The young major general took the Asuka backhanded by his elder brother without looking back, and simply explained the scene in front of him: "I don't know why, the junction of the two worlds is piled up. This island, so Everdark Island cannot be understood with normal theory—you can also understand that this island is a living hell."

"And you have stayed in this hell for five years." Fu Heisher clicked his tongue, kicked away a living corpse that was rushing forward, Baihong's blade swept over the corpse's head with his backhand, and the hideous corpse let out a mournful roar , a mysterious white mist was released in front of the two of them and merged into the flowers. As the corpses gradually piled up at the feet, the sea of ​​white flowers became more illusory and bright.

Fu Heisher exhaled hot and foul air, and asked impatiently:

"I don't know whether it's good or bad to sell you here... So, why can you be so clear? How many times have you come here?"

"..."

Bai Hong suddenly fell silent.

"Hong?"

"I know so clearly..." She paused for a moment, and her tone suddenly became quite strange: "——Because the other side of the abyss is my 'hometown'."

Fu Heisher froze on the spot.

"……what?"

"Shir should know, right? I just happened to be the life conceived by that woman for some reason. This soul does not belong to this world. I thought it was just an unhappy coincidence until I came to Chang'an Dark Island."

——It's the same thing.

You don't even need to take a look to understand that the endless abyss that has swallowed up human reason and soul is the hometown you are most familiar with.

Most of her confidence comes from this.

As far as understanding, no one knows what it is better than her.

Fu Heisher shook the spell tool in his hand, his palms were stiff and his pupils constricted, but his tone made no change: "...then do you want to go back?"

Bai Hong glanced at Fu Heisher with the eyes of a madman, the man met her eyes, but couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief.

"What do I go back to, it's already 'the abyss'."

Bai Hong looked at Fu Heisher inexplicably.

"That world itself is beyond salvation. If the abyss has reached this level, the entire world must have been swallowed by the abyss."

Because before leaving, he had done everything he could, and said goodbye to all the bosses well to ensure that most of them would not come to him. Bai Hong didn't have any psychological burden even after being stared at by the abyss for so many years.

Fu Heisher intuitively felt that she should hide some terrible truth, but now he was more worried about another thing.

"Then here—"

"It doesn't matter in this world." Bai Hong shrugged: "Simply speaking, the modes are incompatible... The abyss can only affect here, and new rules have been formed here, even if it is this thing, there is no way to go further. The scope of this island, to be honest, if it weren’t for the special soil quality of Everdark Island, it would not even be possible to form an abyss here.”

Of course, this might be possible if the abyss were to swallow the world again, but the conditions for its formation were too harsh.

The opposite of the abyss is fire—the stronger the fire, the smaller the abyss, and when the first fire is extinguished, the darkness of the abyss will rule the world.

But this world does not belong to the rules of fire.

It can illuminate the abyss and form the power to ebb and flow. The old age of fire has long since disappeared, and the abyss here is nothing more than some kind of indescribable and incomprehensible horror monster.

Of course, the guy on the upper level who is terrified of the abyss cannot understand this kind of thing.

The part they can understand is only irresistible fear—after all, this world has never seen a similar situation, and the awe of nature and the world has long since disappeared. Inhuman power appeared in human society, and human beings' curiosity and temptation to greedy power finally led to the disaster of the abyss, and it spread here in a short time.

They have never understood the abyss, and together they are in awe of Baihong who can roam freely here.

And Bai Hong also couldn't understand what their fear was.

Whether it is the soul, the will or the body.

——All of them are too weak.

Staring into the abyss, she felt that the fear of human beings was really inexplicable.

That's all, why should we be afraid?

"Shir."

She casually kicked away the broken bones at her feet, tilted her head and looked at her pale brother, making sure that his fear was not fake, and sighed helplessly.

"...Are you really that scared?"

Obviously these little things can be done casually.

I originally thought it was a problem that ordinary people could not understand non-human things, but why is even Shir afraid?

Bai Hong sincerely felt that he couldn't understand.

oops...

Originally, I wanted to try to go further this time.

In this case, there would be no point in building an army at all.

Bai Hong looked at the black shadow in the depths with some regret, the dark depths where even the sea of ​​flowers under the moonlight could not hide, that was the place she really wanted to see.

Fu Heisher stared at her, and suddenly showed a distorted expression that seemed to be a smile that was not a smile.

"...you little lunatic."

He suddenly leaned over and stretched his arms to grab Bai Hong's wrist, using her strength to stabilize his body.

Baihong supported Fu Heisher with his backhand, and asked in a strange way: "But I still don't understand, why do you attract the attention of those guys so much?"

Fu Heisher thought for a while, and took out a ring from his pocket.

"I was asked to give this to you."

Fu Heisher, who had accidentally forgotten this agreement for many years, said without guilt, with a confident face, "If you came from 'where' as you said, then I have some clues. If you have to say that there is any connection between me and your past, this is probably the only one."

"Eh……"

Bai Hong held up the ring and compared it to the moonlight, thoughtfully: "Dark Moon Ring... Gwendolin?"

Fu Heisher was a little surprised: "Really know each other?"

"Yeah, we know each other, we grew up together anyway, and we have a good relationship." Baihong replied in a perfunctory tone, and sighed: "But I have already broken the oath with him, why can I still find him?" ?”

When I was a child, I did joke that I would be the oath knight of His Royal Highness.

Bai Hong thought indifferently.

——But it’s just a child’s promise, so what are you doing seriously?

"Ah, but with this, I can probably understand what the previous feeling was—"

When she was about to leave at the beginning, she did leave some of her strength to Gwyndolin, so the feeling that her soul was touched during this period can also be found for the reason.

"Are you going to find him?" Fuheshier asked.

"Ah? No, it's so troublesome..." Bai Hong frowned, "And I don't have any contact with that place anymore. What to do when I go back, the only reason I can think of makes me even less want to go back."

Fu Heisher was thoughtful: "Hong doesn't want to go back?"

Bai Hong answered firmly: "I don't want to go back."

What to do when you go back, what Gwyndolin wants is her soul, and taking it back is nothing more than inheriting the will of the former king and inheriting the first fire.

The Age of Fire is a distorted world that was forcibly opened and burned with the souls of countless people as firewood to extend the life of the world.

Relying on the burning of the salary king Ge Wen, the first fire can continue. As a courtier, she has fulfilled her duties enough to complete her task well, and finally followed in the footsteps of the lord to become the salary king of the fire.

As a first-generation courtier who followed the God King, her soul came from the source to make it easier for others to differentiate. Although even after burning once, the remaining weight is much stronger than ordinary fire-passing heroes, and it is true that she can burn it again to maintain the original fire. But she is not a saint of selfless salvation, and she has no interest in the ideal of a savior.

Fu Heisher looked down at Baihong's expression, then turned his gaze away again, with a flat tone.

"Then don't go back."

"Ah, but this feeling is very troublesome..." Bai Hong threw the Dark Moon ring in his hand, and finally the ring fell into his palm. Bai Hong thought for a moment, then suddenly raised his head and walked towards the dark shadow of the abyss in the distance.

"Shiel wait for me here."

Before she finished speaking, she was already walking into the abyss, her attitude was so natural that even Fu Heisher didn't realize what she was going to do, and when the man regained his senses, he saw Bai Hong standing on the precipice of the abyss At the edge, without any hesitation, he jumped down so lightly——!

Fu Heisher's pupils shrank suddenly: "——Hong!!!"

Before he could rush out, the next moment, he saw a strong wind around him, the sound of the wind tore through the air, the flames in the abyss whizzed and burst, a tornado hurricane suddenly rolled up on the spot, and the pillar of fire soared straight into the sky with the spirit of devouring the sky above!

The wind was fierce, and the cold air was burned and distorted by the unfamiliar temperature. Fu Heisher didn't feel the heat at all when he was in it. Swallowed by the raging fire, all of them turned into illusory phantoms and scattered into the distorted air.

Those horrific living corpses roared, screamed, whimpered, crawled on the ground and rushed desperately towards the flame that burned the night, chasing the center of the burning flame like moths, even if they had become plundered souls. Walking all the ashes of will, they still chase the glow of fire.

——That is the curse of fire belonging to another world.

——It also belongs to the long-lost splendor of another world.

The first fire will be extinguished, but the afterglow is still there.

The light fell on the body of the snow-white Hongniao in this world, leaving traces from another world on her snow-white skirt.

"Ah...it seems to be a bit too much."

Baihong's voice sounded suddenly, and a slender figure walked out of the fire. She looked unchanged, tall, elegant, with light footsteps like a flying bird, and there were dark golden cracks left on the hem of the clothes and the bare skin after the fire. , the dark red glow flickered and flowed in the cracks, like broken gold leaf.

Fu Heisher stared at her blankly, and he saw her eyes—those eyes that were dark blue to almost black seemed to be much lighter in color, and the blue on the iris was more obvious, making these eyes even more coquettish Magnificent, beautiful to inhuman.

He was silent for a long time, and it took a while to find his voice.

"What are you doing?"

"What are you doing..." Bai Hong frowned slightly and tilted his head.

"Ah, because things like the soul are very troublesome, and ordinary means can't deal with it if it is connected, so I can only use the first fire to burn it again... In simple terms, it is just a death?"

"But, speaking of it, didn't that woman tell me that I had problems when I was young?"

She touched her eyes and suddenly revealed a rather bright and happy smile.

"Now I probably understand what's going on with these eyes... Although the effect is not obvious yet, I can probably understand it after trying more."

"...what are you going to do?"

"simply put--"

Bai Hong tapped his temple, and smiled lightly.

"It's just to die a few more times, ah~ Can Shier wait for me a little longer? It will be fine in a while."

"..."

Fu Heisher remained silent, pressing the sore forehead with the heel of his palm.

"Shir?"

"Forget about your eyes."

The man answered hoarsely, grabbed Bai Hong's arm a little rudely, and dragged her back.

"—Brother will take you back immediately."