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Chapter 1467: One Hundred and Four: "This time, I will take your place."

[OE (Open Ending): "The Last Holy Communion", END. ]

[If the "Observer" is willing to anchor this ending, please terminate the "Observation", believe it is the only truth, and leave the "Observation" interface. ]

[Next, we will turn to the original main storyline's memory lens...]

……

Su Mingan's fingers reached for his heart.

He knew that he could not escape. Unless he handed over the power of "devouring", he would soon be merged into the Eighth Seat.

He thought of a foreshadowing he had seen before. If he could use the bottle of poison to lure Noel to devour him, he could squeeze out the last bit of his usefulness, form the Seat of Hephaestus, and delay the complete arrival of the two higher dimensions...

But his fingers trembled for a moment, and he hesitated for a moment.

His mind raced, and at that moment he remembered Hui Bai's last blessing:

……

[“I hope you’ll be luckier than me, Su Ming’an.”]

……

People often make decisions in a split second.

What you think in one moment may be completely different in the next moment.

He was wondering, apart from this resolute idea, were there any other possibilities?

What if the poison failed to kill the two high-dimensional beings? What if I couldn't resist the moment when the throne of Hephaestus was formed? What if Noel Akinni was particularly alert and didn't choose to swallow me?

At this time, Su Mingan's eyes met a girl with pink hair.

She was slowly walking out from under the World Tree, wearing a plain cloth skirt and a bright red Lycoris radiata pinned on her shoulder.

“…You hesitated.” Her voice came over the endless hot wind: “It doesn’t matter. We do have other possibilities - your life doesn’t have to end here. We don’t have to wander aimlessly in the universe. Maybe we still have other possibilities.”

Her eyes were exceptionally clear, like a mirror that saw through everything.

...Is there any other solution?
Su Mingan opened his eyes slightly. The biggest dilemma at the moment was integrating his eighth seat.

"The Eighth Seat is not a complete deity. Alger is not even a third-level god, so how can he accommodate the complete Eighth Seat? Now, the Eighth Seat is only in a semi-high-dimensional state, so he is eager to merge with you." Ijurel's voice was clear: "To merge, you need to be weaker than Him, so that He can force you to merge. But what if you have the support of the World Tree or even the entire world behind you?"

A white hand silently pinched his wrist.

The girl with fluttering pink hair stood in front of him without him noticing.

Her face was still somewhat unfamiliar to him, looking delicate and perfect. Perhaps Master Xiaobai, who occasionally had emotional fluctuations, was more familiar to him. Perhaps the lively heroine Pudding was also more approachable to him.

The watcher under the world tree lives as long as the sky. She was here when Hui Bai and others arrived at the beginning of the First Era.

She witnessed Hui Bai's disappearance by jumping off a cliff, and the deaths of countless pioneers. But today, she held his hand.

"...You've clearly started to hesitate, so why did you still make this choice? Don't you believe that you can have a better future?" She stared at Su Ming'an, with something hidden in her words.

Few people know the exact meaning of Watcher.

The Watcher, a person who cannot leave his hometown. He is also... a "clear-minded person".

Ijorel is one of the few people who remains awake in the endless Poincare return of the universe, and she remembers most of the universe's reincarnations clearly.

She has witnessed countless epic journeys of life in order to delay heat death. She even participated in some of these journeys and even sacrificed herself for them.

However, she did not sacrifice herself for the greater good, but simply because her will had already transcended death.

"Half of the seed is in my heart, and half of the seed is in your body. So you think that if I divide you into the 'Last Holy Communion' and let me eat half of the seed in your heart, I can gain powerful strength and prevent the power of the new world from falling into the hands of Noel." Ijurel said calmly:
“But in fact, this matter can be considered in the opposite direction.”

Thinking in the opposite direction...

Su Mingan looked up.

"Hui Bai, Si Que, or you. There is no difference between you two to me." Ijurel clenched his fingers tighter:

"But you guys, and the rest of the world, seem different to me."

"I don't understand what 'sorry' means, but I should probably feel sorry for chasing you down before."

She held Su Mingan's hand and slowly placed it on her heart.

There is a faint heartbeat there.

"Thank you for letting me know." She said, "So this is what the heartbeat feels like after having the seeds."

She read a book.

The book says that the human heartbeat can represent a variety of things.

And if you have a yearning and expectation for some things in this world...

The heartbeat will accelerate.

"puff."

Su Mingan felt her heartbeat.

Smooth and soft, like the touch of mud.

He was only one step away from eating himself, falling off a cliff, and meeting a horrible end. At this moment, a pair of holy, broad wings enveloped him. The warm wings leaned down and told him:

"I see your hesitation."

"So, this time, let me take your place."

……

Wilderness city, ochre plains.

Shi Ying wiped the sweat from her brow.

It was already past noon, but the temperature showed no sign of dropping.

But Granny Masalia, who was holding the special white stone, was neither dry nor hot, and did not sweat a drop. This white stone seemed to have an endless amount of energy, constantly producing cool air.

As expected of a five-star target, she is so special.

However, Bai Shitou refused to budge. Shi Ying had been making a big show of her strategy for a long time, using her "attractive eye waves" and "pitiful tears" to flirt with the blind man.

"Shi Ying, I heard that it's your birthday today." Bai Shitou said to Tian Gang with a smile: "Can you wish me a happy birthday?"

"Happy birthday..." Shi Ying said weakly.

She thought to herself, what kind of good person am I anyway? This stone is so difficult to capture, why not sell it quickly, then she will be rich!
"Hey, your eyes are so scary. Are you thinking about anything bad about money?" Bai Shitou muttered.

"Bad money?" Shi Ying was already very angry, and she no longer wanted to please this old man who was impossible to conquer. "The wages for pulling goods at the construction site for a day are 5 Rolls, and standing in the tavern for a night is 15 Rolls... This is what my mother told me in person. I started to make money at the age of 14. People like you will definitely not understand it!?"

After she had lost her temper, she heard the prompt: [(Special White Stone) Favorability increased by 10 points].

"Yes... I'm sorry. That's not what I meant. I'm just afraid that you will sell me out..." Bai Shitou said in a low voice.

Bai Shitou was so straightforward that Shi Ying felt uncomfortable.

Since childhood, in order to support her younger brothers and sisters, she was instilled with the concepts that "emotions are a tool for money transactions" and "your beauty is very valuable." She vaguely understood that these were wrong, but she had to do so to survive.

The cat car that Hongta scumbag Hui Bai rides has a starting price of 5 Luoer coins, which is the entire day's wages for Shi Ying's family. The class gap in Luowasha is so great that it makes people despair.

The twenty-seven gods in the sky are all waiting for the "first player" and the "great savior" - but even if these great people come, who will pay attention to the humble family in the corner?
The saviors have never even left the rich lands of "World Tree", "Red Tower", "Central Kingdom", "No. 1 Experimental City", "Undead Imperial Capital", "Sky Clan Cloud Island" and never set foot in the muddy corners with their noble feet.

If life is meant to suffer and endure, why is birth considered a joy and a miracle?
Even if the savior tries his best, there is no eternal ivory tower or Eden. Can the poor be happy if the two worlds go on the road of exile in the universe?

Shi Ying smiled bitterly. Perhaps, only a selfish person like her could obtain such a selfish golden finger as the [Favorability Strategy System].

So, when it comes to a white stone, her first reaction is to capture it, and her second reaction is to sell it.

"If I sell it, I can get at least 10000 Shar coins. After the Red Sun, I can buy a big manor and grow a lot of wheat, so that I can have endless bread... Well, I also need to buy a lot of firewood, so that I will never feel cold again..." She thought:

"Then we'll build an orphanage and take back all the girls from the taverns. Some of them are only 5000 or 80 years old... and they can go to school. This will cost about Shar coins. There will also be a relief fund to help families like mine... Only Shar coins are enough to feed a family..."

She vaguely realized what a stone with infinite energy meant. It was something that even gods coveted.

"It would be great if I could conquer that 'Son of the Plane'... The system says he has a fetish for lighthouses, and the difficulty of conquering him is seven stars..." Shi Ying thought while biting her nails.

"Shi Ying, do I look stupid and silly?" Bai Shitou said suddenly.

"Uh... No, how could that be?" Shi Ying stammered, trying to hide the fact that she had always regarded Bai Shitou as a fool: "Kind people look stupid and dumb."

"So what do you think is more important, being kind or being smart?" Bai Shitou said.

Shi Ying thought about it and gave her true answer: "Intelligence is important. Smart people can live well, and kindness is worth less than weeds."

Bai Shitou really stopped talking and seemed to be autistic.

"Hey, Grandma Martha, look! What is that!" Shi Ying suddenly noticed something and raised her head.

Marsalia raised her head quickly.

As the red sun was setting, the two of them looked towards the distant horizon and saw a bright red spider lily blooming in the direction of the World Tree.