"Who cares about your sacrifice? They’ll only rember the one ti you succeeded, not the countless tis you failed..."
Tian Bufan pressed his lips together, "Why ask a question when you already know the answer? In the current world, no one will rember us, but the Fortune Life Wei Liang the Celestial, future people will... History will leave words, and people will rember all those who sacrificed for this."
"Like the ’Law Code’?" Big Snake sneered, "What if what’s inscribed in history is essentially a joke? Who still rembers ’Law’, rembers ’Judge’? Even the Night Watchman’s cognition is built on the ’Contractor’s Sin’!"
"They will never understand what they are desperately trying to find!"
"But the ’Principal’ knows!" Tian Bufan said, "He has jumped out of this cycle! ’Zero’! I am not deceiving you, this is truly our closest attempt to success!"
"This ti, it’s not just us; the ’Principal’, he is finally not the person he used to be!"
"We need your help! You know why, you understand us, after all, you have failed countless tis."
[Heh heh heh... heh heh heh...]
The Big Snake laughed.
"So, this ti, what do you want to do?"
"I understand you, just like you understand ."
"You need to know, ’Ti’ itself is a curse. Every failed attempt adds layers that push our plot in a more adverse direction..."
Tian Bufan said, "Our world is full of scars, unable to endure even the early stages of contamination. The ’Principal’ is the first to understand the risks, so he jumped out of the cycle and added a ’lever’ for this. Shouldn’t we also make a move?"
"Lever, multiplier... if successful, great joy ensues."
"And if it fails?" Big Snake sneered, cold winds blew through the forest leaves, and the trees were coated in frost, "Is failure not considered at all?"
"Only allow victory, not defeat," Tian Bufan stated.
"A ridiculous obsession," Big Snake scoffed, "Why don’t you let Wei Liang relinquish the gambler’s title to you? I think you’re the real gambler."
"It seems you’ve agreed to my conditions," Tian Bufan said.
"But you haven’t said how I’d agree?" Big Snake countered.
Tian Bufan slowly said, "Sa old rules, at the most critical mont, you help intercept the ’Angel’ or other negative things, and I promise you, this ti, we will save ’her’."
[Boom—!!!]
Upon hearing the latter part of the sentence, Big Snake seed to be hit by the most terrifying stimulation, a violent wave surged within, making the entire world totter, on the brink of collapsing.
"Are you serious?!"
"We don’t deceive our own," Tian Bufan said seriously.
"Then it’s a deal," Big Snake agreed almost imdiately, fearing Tian Bufan might backtrack, finally adding, "You know how to summon ."
"I don’t know," Tian Bufan shook his head, "More accurately, Old Lin doesn’t know yet."
"Ah, yes..." Big Snake murmured, "So excited, almost forgot, to avoid the ’Angel’ mory has to be erased every ti..."
Lin Yi was shocked, how could this Big Snake know so much about them?!
Even aware of mory erasures?
And what is this "old rule" Tian Bufan ntioned and what Big Snake refers to as "every ti"?
Big Snake laughed deeply: "Heh heh heh... ’Old Lin’... what a long-lost na..."
"Listening further, I’m really afraid it might evoke so bad mories for ..."
"That’s the end of the negotiation, you have successfully persuaded again... Young Master Tian."
"My shadow will follow you all... but you know, like Wei Liang, my power too is only effective once, upon summoning , the ’Angel’ will surely appear as well."
"Rather than letting fight against the ’Angel’, it’s more like having attract the ’Angel’."
"I understand," Tian Bufan said.
"Then until next ti... no, hopefully, never again."
"Heh heh heh..."
The silhouette of the Big Snake in the Abyss slowly faded away.
In the wind, there seed to be a low murmur:
[Touch my deep blue pupils, crack my star skeleton, fortify my raw moon...]
[Burn my bone-flaming fire, make my wave ornant infinite, shatter my mory staff...]
[Bind my ti cocoon, swallow my na, bury my unbred disaster...]
[great stars...]
[great stars...]
[When the black moon withers, the sorrow mothers return from the infinite deep sea...]
Lin Yi’s heart trembled; this murmured song was so similar to what Maozi sang in the cetery layers!
Could it be that the Big Snake is also one of those buried in the cetery?
He hurriedly tried to rember these chant-like voices. However, the Big Snake only chanted it once, so he hadn’t rembered it fully, only the [great stars] which was repeated once, etched in his mind as the translation "vast stars."
With the disappearance of the Big Snake, a silhouette stepped on the dry leaves and slowly erged from the Abyss.
"Ssh ssh ssh... ssh ssh ssh..."
Lin Yi widened his eyes to look over, but saw that the silhouette was of a normal body size, similar to his own, but enveloped in mist, with indistinct facial features hidden and unclear, as if having features, yet faceless.
"I will slumber in your shadow until you need again," the faceless "Zero" said slowly, and in the next mont, it seed to lt and vanish on the spot.
"Negotiation completed, all went smoothly," Tian Bufan murmured.
"This... is it done?" Lin Yi asked in surprise, "Don’t we need to sign so kind of agreent?"
"A paper agreent is rely a ’cognition’ tool for both parties to see... Many unilaterally breach agreents in reality, how much use does it have?" Tian Bufan said, "An agreent protects the weak, real negotiations are already established when our recognitions are clear, signing or not signing is just a formality."
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