On the hillside not far from Hewan New Town, a large garden was built, and in the middle of the garden stood a towering monument. The style of the monument was very peculiar, with seven abstract human figures interlaced together, jointly pushing forward a polyhedron.
This is the Hewan Martyrs Cemetery which has been completed for three years. In this cemetery, those who died in the fight against the God of Nature, the City of God, and the war on the continent are buried.
Today is the day when Hewan New Town No. 1 Middle School organized students to come here to pay tribute to the heroes. Led by their teachers, the students laid a bouquet of flowers in front of the monument and then listened to the staff introduce the story of the Sealed War.
The staff member spoke eloquently and vividly, as if he had personally experienced the battlefield, and the students were all listening intently. However, neither he nor the students noticed that there were two women watching the event next to the Martyrs' Stele Forest not far away.
"Actually, the scene wasn't that pretty. We didn't have time to say those corny lines," said Umeda.
"When you are placed on that monument, that you are no longer the real you. You have to get used to it." Luo Ling said, she was wearing a black dress today, holding a bunch of white flowers in her hands, and was placing these flowers one by one in front of the tombstones of her comrades.
All the sacrificed people were here. Even those who disappeared completely like He Xiaoxi had a cenotaph. But there was only one person who didn't have a tombstone, and that was Xiao Chen. No matter how the committee persuaded her, Luo Ling didn't agree to erect a tombstone for Xiao Chen, nor did she agree to list Xiao Chen in the list of the dead in the battle record.
He just went to another world, she always said.
Luo Ling placed a flower in front of Liu Yisheng's tombstone, and Mei Tiantian followed suit. She said softly, "Maybe in another parallel world, he and I are still fighting hard together. Fortunately, you showed up and finally gave us the opportunity to complete our mission and our long-cherished wish. However, this ending... there are still so many sacrifices."
"Yes. It was a huge sacrifice... but I didn't even see him sacrifice himself. At least you saw the last moment, while I was unconscious at that time." Luo Ling said.
"You haven't forgiven Lorenzo yet? I heard that you have been avoiding him for the past three years. In fact, he told me that it was Xiao Chen's wish. He didn't want you to go through that moment." Mei Tiantian said.
Luo Ling shook her head and said, "I haven't forgiven him, but I don't want to see him either. Some people say good things for your benefit and do good things for your benefit, but they are just annoying, right?"
Umeda tilted her head, thought about it, and nodded.
She decided to change the subject: "Are you really going to be an ambassador to the Western Continental Republic?"
"Yes. I have been meditating on and off for three years in the Tower of the Spirit Eye, but I haven't found any trace of that world. This shows that this method is not feasible. My realm growth has stagnated in the past three years. Maybe it's time to change the environment and improve my own strength first. Besides, it was he who united the Western Continent with us. I heard that some unstable factors have emerged in recent years. I don't want the good foundation he laid to slowly disappear. It is impossible to merge the two continents into one, but I can still work hard to put them in a state of healthy competition. Otherwise, if I meet him one day, will he think that I didn't protect the things he left behind?" Luo Ling put the bouquet behind her back and looked at the ball on the monument from afar. "As saints, our lives are longer. I... still have time. I hope it may be in the next moment."
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Egypt
In a secret passage at the bottom of an ancient pyramid.
Several people dressed as explorers were running desperately in the narrow tunnel, because behind them, after turning a few corners, there was a rolling black fog, chasing them slowly. When someone looked back, the light of the helmet would illuminate the black shadow, but each time it was different, sometimes like a horse, sometimes like a cow, and sometimes like an indescribable demon.
As they were running, the leader screamed, "Fuck, this is a dead end!"
"What?"
"What should we do? Those blood-sucking bugs are about to catch up with us!"
The leader said, "There is no way out. Guns are useless against those bugs! Jet! Aren't you a fire awakener with B-level superpowers? Now we have to rely on you."
A fireball emerged from the hands of the young man named Jeter, reflecting his pale face: "I, I don't have much mental power left. There are too many bugs."
"We have no choice but to fight." Most people raised their guns, and another person stretched out his empty hands, and ice crystals began to appear between his hands.
But all these people knew that such struggles were futile in the face of these blood-sucking beetles.
However, at this moment, a strange voice suddenly appeared beside them, and a man asked: "Do you need help?"
This question caused a scream and almost led to an accidental firing.
"Who are you? Why are you here?" The leader swore that there were only five of them in this dead end. He used a light to shine in the direction of the sound, and unexpectedly two people appeared behind them. They were all wearing cloaks, and their faces were completely covered. If the other party had not spoken clearly and with pure pronunciation, he would even suspect that the other party was a ghost from ancient Egypt.
"Don't panic." The man in the darkness said, "I'm here to help you out of danger. But I have a small request. You have to show me the Eye of Horus bracelet in your backpack."
"So you are here to look for the ancient holy object as well?" The leader agreed readily, "As long as you can save me and my brothers, it will be yours."
"Deal. Tasya, I leave it to you," the man said.
At this time, the beetles that formed the black mist flew in from outside. The shorter cloaked man stretched out a slender hand and snapped his fingers in the air. The dense black beetles in front suddenly turned red, as if a group of fires burst out precisely from their stomachs, like a firework, burning out and dissipating.
Several groups of beetles flew in one after another, and they were all eliminated by her in this nonchalant way.
"Oh my god, she must be an S-class psychic."
"No, I've seen S-level psychics, and they can't do this. This... is simply art." Jet said.
The man in the dark stretched out his hand, and the leader obediently put the bracelet he had stolen from the ancient tomb into his hand. As soon as the bracelet fell into the man's hand, it began to emit a dazzling light.
"How is it?" asked the woman who released the flames.
"It's interesting. There is a trace of rules about space. It seems that it is still valuable to dig up things from the pile of old papers. I didn't expect that after the divine power turned into magic power and spread to the world, it would activate these ancient things. It seems that the past of the earth is not simple. Anyway, I will keep exploring until I find a way to cross the world.
Hopefully, it will be at the next moment.”
The man threw the bracelet back to the leader and then left the passage with the woman.
…
The passage fell into an eerie silence. After a long while, the leader suddenly touched his head and asked, "Why are we standing here like an idiot? What happened?"
(The whole book is finished) (To be continued)