Allen and his little bones [Western Fantasy]

This Jiulisa prefers to call it the "task progress bar". According to her explanation, each node on it corresponds to a specific object, representing a person selected by the world's laws.

"The Chosen One" is a commendatory title on most occasions. It means that the Chosen One has jumped out of the mediocre class and will embark on a road that only a few people can set foot on. There will be a story that ordinary people can't match, and the so-called "protagonist aura" comes with it, which is very enviable.

However, in the world law of Asa Continent, being selected is not a good thing.

All the objects who have been secretly guided by the law in words and deeds are the first batch of chosen ones, which is a matter of course.

But the law seems to think that only such a group of helpers is not enough, so it picks and chooses, and connects the first batch of chosen ones with the newcomers it chooses, and finally forms a "node" that interacts with each other. The associated network, and to ensure that each "node" has its own mission, is always walking on the established destiny line.

"You think that the color of this pattern is not completely uniform, and the lines are bright and dark. That is not your illusion." Jiulisa said to Alan, the fog around her condensed into a hand, raised a finger, and pointed downward , "Look—those lines with low brightness have taken up most of the pattern, they symbolize that the task at that stage has been successfully completed, and the corresponding 'nodes' have faithfully fulfilled their mission."

Then the finger curled up and turned around: "These lines that are still lit here represent the tasks to be completed, and the nodes associated with them are still lit, which means that the selected His mission is not over yet."

Allen's gaze followed Jiulisa's hand.

Jiu Lisa politely used the description "most of it", but in fact, only the line in the central area of ​​the whole pattern is still lit.

The remaining "two or three kittens" together with a few sporadic nodes surrounding the middle, shone brightly different from their companions.

"Is that... me?" After staring at the node in the middle for a moment, Allen paused slightly. He already had the answer in his heart, but he still couldn't help asking.

Jiulisa answered him very succinctly: "Ask knowingly."

"But people are like this." Hall quietly chimed in for the younger generation, "When things in front of you are too much beyond your expectations, intellectually, you know what's going on, and you know you should accept the facts, but emotionally, you You still can’t help but procrastinate for a while, and then ask someone to verify the truth, until everyone else has the same answer, and it’s inevitable that your reason and emotion will be unified, and you will no longer go to the two sides. dragging you in one direction."

The others present glanced at Hall at the same time.

He was always out of shape on weekdays, but today he suddenly became serious and said a bunch of truths. It seemed like a senior who had been replaced on the spot shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands in a very needless way: "A little bit of experience from the predecessors."

Jiu Lisha looked at him for a while, and then said in an unclear tone: "You are more open-minded than I expected."

"Because there's nothing you can do if you can't think about it?" Hall withdrew his hands stretched to the sides, and looked down at the "task progress bar" below.

He can understand Jiulisa's thoughts.

If Alan is the center, all objects related to Alan are a point on this "progress bar", and some of their experiences, beautiful or painful, or even life-changing, are the previous items of this "progress bar". Wire……

There is a definite number in the dark, everyone will say this, but there are a few people who suddenly heard that what they have experienced is following the track of a good ending for others, and they can truly do it when paving the way for others. To calm down, no complaints or anger?

Of course, among the several nodes that are lit up around the "central point" that symbolizes Allen, there is also one that represents him, Hall.

"We've all come this far." Hall said in a soft voice, as if to comfort someone.

So it doesn't matter whether there is always a pushing hand behind the scenes, or the other party didn't participate in the whole process, but only induced them at some critical moments of decision-making. Anyway, the matter has come to this point, and there is no ability to compete with the law. The best choice is to accept it and move on. Look ahead.

The line that is still lit on the "Process Bar" is the part that they can really intervene at the moment.

"...You're right." Jiu Lisa was silent for a while, she seemed to be moved by Hall's persuasion, and the complicated emotions in her tone disappeared a little, and she didn't know if she thought about it again. What, when he spoke again, there was a bit more obvious mockery in his voice, "Compared with us who already know the inside story, there are still some guys who are worse. They have been kept in the dark, and they are still trying to become gods." dream."

Hearing what she said, Allen suddenly remembered the words of his mentor Anthony and the principal Naguta.

There is also the "God-making Project" whose base camp is suspected to be set up near Alberta College.

"Of course they are also part of the 'progress bar'." As if Alan's thoughts were captured from the air, Alan's memories only flashed in his mind, and Jiu Lisa seamlessly connected with his thoughts He continued, "In the eyes of the law, the balance of elements in this world has been out of balance due to people's infinite demands. How can it really let anyone continue to disturb it and create a god who serves the ambitious?"

"But according to the information we got." Allen said after deliberation, "The experimental bench in their base has been built, and they have also obtained the experimental materials from the Val family."

They only need to catch a successful element replacement body that can be used for long-term research, and their "god-making" will no longer be just a theory, and it may really be realized.

"It won't happen." Jiulisa shook her head firmly.

Then she paused.

Whether it's "Val" or "experiment", after many years, the collision of these two words still makes her feel dazed for a moment.

In the part where Jiu Lisa has not confessed to the two juniors, the gossip that was widely circulated in the research team at that time is true-the one about her close personal relationship with the then head of the Val family.

At that time, she was not much older than her own children are now.

A young girl who just came out of the academy, happened to be very interested in dark creatures, and her family supported her to travel around.

She was about the same age as the child is now, and closer in interest and boldness to the child's partner.

However, in terms of emotional control and people-knowledge skills, the former is not as good as her child's partner, and the latter is not as good as a child who has seen unpredictable people because she has not experienced setbacks.

A young man from the night clan who was born and raised in Karbi, whose race is not too far from human form, has a handsome appearance, and a very good family background.

The other party's initiative to show affection is simply lethal to young girls.

At that time, the Patriarch of Val was the "First Chosen One" selected by the law. He met Jiulisa by chance, and easily won the favor of the young girl, making her determined to help her out of suffering.

Jiu Lisa is the "Second Generation Chosen One" connected in series on the opponent's taskbar.

And she herself didn't know about it at the time, and she thought that she was about to dedicate herself to love, participating in the experiment, and trying to break the curse passed down from generation to generation on the family of the object of her admiration.

It is mentioned in the prophecy that "the forbidden stars will guide them with flames". Allen thought about this sentence many times, and dared not say who the "forbidden stars" were referring to.

He had cautiously suspected that it was the twin brothers Louis and Neil, and guessed Jeffrey and Osborn with some uncertainty.

Neither pair of twins is the right answer.

The answer is the Val twins of the previous generation.

Father and uncle of Louis and Neil Val.

After the experiment was successful, the young Jiulisa changed her good looks from the past and resolutely separated from the Val family. Even Yarman, who was also a member of the "Human Trio" with her at the time, didn't know what happened.

Only the three parties including Jiu Lisha know that the truth is nothing more than "After the success, the girl who was full of expectations accidentally smashed the 'lover' and his brother's adultery, and was shocked to find that this emotion was from the very beginning. Deceit" Such a corny story.

Young emotions are straightforward and passionate, clean and flawless...of course there is no room for sand.

Jiu Lisa walked very simply, the experiment helped her realize the promotion of the level, and she may not suffer much if she really does it.

The Val family shouldn't have let her leave easily. After all, she was the only successful body with such high expectations, but it was probably because of some restrictions imposed by the law at that time. All in all, the Val family unexpectedly did not stop her and let her go smoothly. Leaving the family's sphere of influence... She had complicated feelings about it, and she became even more convinced that the bastard surnamed Val was just playing with her.

After wandering aimlessly for a while, Jiulisa, who found that she could no longer return to the human race naturally, went to find the elders of the dead.

After that, it's the part of the news that Allen and the others inquired about.

"...Dear...Mother?"

Without paying attention, she fell into the vortex of memories. When Jiu Lisa heard Eli's voice calling her, she thought she just missed the child's call, and quickly said "um", indicating that she was listening.

Unexpectedly, that was actually Eli's fifth call to her.

Fortunately, Eli didn't want to emphasize how many times he had called his mother.

As soon as Jiulisa fell into silence, the three people around thought she needed to sort out her thoughts, so they silently waited for the next article. Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, the woman's figure condensed by the black mist was still static, as if It really turned into a silent shadow, and they realized just now that she had suddenly lost her mind.

Jiu Lisa didn't look like she wanted to take the initiative to mention the distracted content, and Alan and his party didn't ask.

Seeing that her mother seemed to have forgotten what she said earlier, Eli reminded her intimately: "'They won't succeed', is this also the information you got from... the law?"

"Yes."

Jiulisa quickly cleared up her mood, and didn't let her voice leak any extra emotion.

There was a question that appeared in Allen's heart since she showed up. At this moment, Allen finally followed Eli's inquiry and asked it: "Can you communicate directly with the law?"

"Of course not." Jiulisa shook her head slightly. "At most, I can only accept its instructions. When it needs me to do something, its will will be directly conveyed to my mind."

Nearly 20 years ago, she and her partner escaped the chasing team and hid here. After being knocked down from the cliff, she originally thought that it would be good to die here with Omega, at least in this life. Frustrations, but it's not bad to be with the true person you meet later when you reach the end.

... Who knew that she would wake up again after closing her eyes, and was forced to accept information that completely broke the old common sense.

"If you have to give yourself a definition, I can be regarded as the spokesperson of half the law and the ultimate guide of 'hope'." Jiu Lisa defined herself, her voice could not hear sadness or joy.

No matter how many ups and downs she has, they are almost exhausted during these years of stationing. Now the remaining emotion can be happy to see the child, and remind her of her partner who is going to test the child. Reminiscing about the past is a little difficult to calm down... I have almost used my "balance" to the limit.

"So." Allen spoke softly, and he asked, "What is the mission that needs 'Hope' to fulfill and the price to pay, can you tell me now?"

The story has almost been told, and all acquaintances are either consciously or unconsciously pushing "hope" in a certain direction.

And what exactly "Hope" needs to do, the answer is finally revealed in front of Allen.

"You need to go to Anqiluo." Jiulisa said, "You don't need to go around in circles. I have the most accurate route knowledge map here, which will allow you to smoothly reach the research base they have built for many years, and find them named 'Zao'. altar' stuff."

Allen: "And then?"

Jiulisa's eyes seemed to penetrate through the black mist, and nailed to Allen: "Then we need you to go to the altar."

Allen froze for a moment: "...Me?"

He originally thought that the law required him to destroy the altar.

But Jiu Lisa repeated this instruction firmly to show that she was right.

"Don't you understand?" She looked at the young man standing opposite, her gaze inadvertently caught Eli's worried face, and she sighed in her heart.

Her children are often a little slow in matters about themselves, unable to quickly realize the crisis that is approaching them.

But when the target of the crisis was the person next to him, the other party's reaction was extremely fast, and he felt something was wrong before Allen was keen.

"If your task is just to destroy the altar, what kind of sacrifice is that?" Jiulisa lowered her voice unconsciously, as if she was telling a secret, or a landmine hidden in her words. Hold it carefully so it doesn't explode.

"According to the expectations of the law, you will finally arrive at Anqiluo, enter the research base, and walk onto the altar, where there is a formation set up under the intervention of the law, which can make you undergo a completely new change, Teleports you into the subspace created by the law, right to the core of the elemental balance."

Allen listened quietly to Jiulisa's words, and sorted out the key information word by word in his heart.

He quickly realized that the other party hadn't finished speaking, so he just silently held Eli's hand that was so strong that it seemed to want to pinch his fingers, and rubbed the other's fingertips twice as gently as possible.

Normally, this is an effective soothing action with extremely quick results, but for Eli at this moment, this small amount of comforting is nothing but a drop in the bucket.

Before such a disturbing event as Alan's safety is concerned, the effect it can have is really too small.

And Jiulisa is still "adding fuel to the fire".

"You yourself were summoned. Although your body is the 'original' from the continent of Asa, your soul is different from the real aborigines." She said, "The law has been intentionally strengthening your elemental control ability. The only thing is that the day finally comes when you enter the center of the scale, and you can help it right the tilted scale."

"Shall I help it return to normal?" Allen couldn't help asking back.

"Of course it's you." Jiu Lisa said, "It can only be you - your ability is the best 'conciliation agent', and your soul is the 'balance pole' that is most suitable to be placed in the middle of the balance."

"Now, do you understand the mission you need to fulfill and the sacrifice you need to make?"

"hope."

Use your own ability and soul as the fulcrum to support the new star orbit, to correct the foundation of this world that has been skewed for many years.

Heroes always save the world by sacrificing themselves.

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Today's update is a little early, after all, it's coming to an end [scratching head