Benjamin's face broke into a smile at that moment.
"You... what are you laughing at?" Although Cain couldn't see the dialog box, he seemed to have noticed something was wrong and asked with a frown.
Benjamin raised his head and spoke slowly, his expression once again becoming confident: "I'm laughing at your stupidity. There is no God in this world, but you imagined it yourself and wasted seven thousand years on a void. On lies.”
With that said, he pressed the OK button.
The dialog box disappeared, and then, a green 360 interface appeared in front of his eyes. The small box being deleted has been started, and its progress bar has begun to grow little by little.
At this moment, Cain didn't even realize what was happening.
"Nonsense! God gave the power of magic to humans, and the existence of this consciousness space is the best proof." He retorted.
"Magic has nothing to do with God." Benjamin shook his head. The deletion had already begun. While waiting for the progress bar to be full, he became more leisurely and slowly said, "Magic is produced because of the elements. Plane. The elemental plane overlaps with our world, and the creatures in it are projected into our world, forming elements. And we also mutate under the influence of the elemental plane, possess spiritual power, and magic is also produced. "
Cain listened to his words and suddenly showed a look of disdain.
"Hmph... nonsense, you are just trying to buy time again. On the mountain outside Karl Village, God personally gave me magic. This is an irrefutable fact."
"Really?" Benjamin chuckled, "So, you should have seen God himself? What does he look like? How tall and fat is he? What color is his hair? Was it morning or afternoon when God appeared? What was he wearing? Long sleeves or short sleeves?”
When Cain heard this, he looked hesitant and did not speak immediately.
Benjamin spread his hands and said: "After a long time, memories are easily blurred. As an undead, many of your memories are actually lost at the moment of death. So... you don't remember how you learned magic at all!"
In an instant, Cain's face turned livid.
"...Why are you so arrogant? Those two machines can only save you once." He suddenly waved his hand and condensed a few ice needles again, aiming them at Benjamin, "Go back to that illusion and give this body to you, you are the one Things that should be done now.”
Benjamin looked like a madman and shook his head with pity.
"Find a pair of brothers, one possesses the other, and then the two brothers commit suicide together on the mountain... Even if there really is a god in this world, how could he give such a stupid order?"
At this time, the progress bar had just gone a quarter and had not shown any abnormalities, so Cain did not notice anything was wrong. He was just once again irritated by Benjamin's words. He narrowed his eyes and his gray beard twitched.
"Stupid? You call this stupid?" he said angrily, "This is a chance for forgiveness that our souls have been wandering in the world of the dead for two thousand years and have gone through countless pains and tortures from God. You. What right does an outsider have to judge us?"
Benjamin raised his eyebrows and asked sarcastically: "So... God has appeared to you again?"
"That's right!" Cain's tone was extremely certain. "We have tried tens of thousands of times to cross the border, but as undead, we can never cross the line separating the living and the dead. Until that day, a beam of divine light fell from the sky. , enveloped our souls. We heard the holy voice coming from the sky, and then, when we came to our senses, we had returned to the land of the living."
Benjamin laughed.
"What's the difference between this and the hallucination conjured up by a madman?" He shook his head and said, "It's just an abyss, not a difficult place to cross. Two dead souls accidentally floated over. Do you need special help from 'God'? There is also a ray of divine light... Are you sure you haven't seen the sun for a long time, so you think the first ray of sunshine you see is a divine light?"
"You..." Cain was so angry that he couldn't speak.
At this time, the progress bar was more than halfway through, and suddenly, a secret wave came from inside Cain's body. Suddenly, Cain's expression changed. He looked around and saw countless tiny binary codes emerging from the void, turning into optical fibers, entangling Cain again.
Then, a bolt of lightning composed of data fell from the height of the consciousness space and struck Cain hard!
Cain's body was directly chopped into half of his body.
"How, how is this possible?" He was a little stunned and froze on the spot, even forgetting to defend himself.
Benjamin also looked at him and sneered.
"It's a pity that you seem to have underestimated those two broken machines."
"Damn machine, why doesn't the director want to settle down..." Cain came back to his senses and hurriedly stretched out his hand, trying to summon the golden runes. But this time, as soon as the runes were formed in his palm, they dispersed instantly for some reason, completely unable to withstand the impact of the data flow.
-Just like Benjamin, he suddenly found that he could not mobilize his power at all.
Realizing this, he raised his head, his eyes full of anger: "You... you despicable thief!"
"This has nothing to do with me." Benjamin shrugged and said innocently, "It was the system that did it. It is the worst one."
"No... We haven't achieved God's will yet. I, I can't die in this place..." Cain muttered to himself as if he hadn't heard anything, and started trying again and again. He condensed the runes, and then the runes dissipated, over and over again, to no avail.
In the process, the expression on his face changed from anger and panic to despair.
Benjamin looked at him indifferently: "Admit it, there is no divine will at all. You are just using this reason to deceive yourself so that you can feel at ease."
"No, God... God exists!"
"You don't have any solid evidence."
"I have evidence." Cain was trapped in the data flow. He had given up resistance at this moment and looked at Benjamin with empty eyes. "The battle seven thousand years ago... That is the scene I remember most clearly. At that time, It is God who ends the fight between us.”
Benjamin frowned when he heard this.
"...that battle?"
"It's God." Cain said hesitantly, his expression constantly fluctuating between determination and confusion. "The battle lasted for two hours. When I finally got the chance to win and was about to pierce Abel's chest with flames, suddenly, the whole The world trembled. Our brotherly acts of killing each other finally angered God. Suddenly, cracks appeared in the sky, and strong winds, meteorites, and thunder echoed throughout the valley... It was a sight that no one had ever seen. Then, the terrifying The flames hit us, and before we could tell the winner, we were completely wiped out. And the entire God-Abandoned Valley fell into the space cracks and became a dead place."
After hearing this, Benjamin shook his head and still looked at Cain with a sad look.
"That's not a manifestation of the gods at all." He said slowly, "Rune magic will cause elemental disasters. You probably haven't noticed this at the time, right? A large number of mages gathered in the Valley of the Abandoned Gods, and after a long period of fighting, This led to large-scale disorder of the elements, and eventually, the first severe elemental natural disaster in history occurred, sending the entire valley into the void."
Cain was stunned.
"Elemental natural disasters..."
"Yes, there is a very ancient mage organization, and the development history of magic for thousands of years has been recorded by them." Benjamin spread his hands, "When they came to see me... don't you have any memory of this? It seems that at that time , it is the system that retains this memory."
Cain didn't say anything, he just stood there in shock, letting the data flow dilute him more and more.
Maybe he couldn't say anything.
"The world is so big. Brothers killing each other, regicide, rape... immoral things happen every day. Even if there is a God, he can't control so many evils." Benjamin looked at Cain coldly and said, "The so-called atonement is that you are just weak and don't dare to face the mistakes you have made, so you just pray for God's forgiveness to make yourself feel better."
"I...I'm not weak..."
"Then do you dare to admit that it was you who failed to handle the relationship between brothers, who caused the division of the tribe, who killed your biological brother, who killed those people in the Valley of God's Abandonment? You You will always be burdened with these things, and no god can forgive you?"
"I..." Cain was speechless, and his expression suddenly turned sad, "Who do you have to accuse me! Do you think your hands are so clean? Let me tell you, I can clearly remember all the dirty things you have done along the way. Clearly!"
"Yeah, I know I'm not clean, but I don't regret it." Benjamin said without changing his expression. "In the next two hundred years, the world will regard me as a saint and worship me; in another two hundred years, they may regard me as a sinner again. Swearing at my grave; in two hundred years, they may argue about what I did, and no one dares to draw a conclusion... In any case, I will not make up a god and paralyze myself with such false excuses. "
Cain was speechless.
Benjamin continued: "Besides...even if there is a God, it is not his turn to judge my right and wrong."
Along with his words, the progress bar reached 100%. Immediately, another lightning bolt composed of data fell straight on Cain's head. At that moment, Cain was surrounded by shining data streams, blurring into a puff of smoke, and his ghostly form was exposed.
He looked at Benjamin, despair and unwillingness flashed across his complex expression, and he spoke as if he wanted to say something.
The next second, he disappeared into the darkness of the conscious space.
"… it's over?"
Benjamin breathed a sigh of relief. The 360 interface has disappeared, and the cage surrounding him has also turned into dots of fluorescence with Cain's demise. At that moment, the entire consciousness space rushed towards him again. Water elements, runes, spiritual power... Benjamin stretched out his hand and felt the power of magic filling his soul again, even stronger than before.
However, he felt a strong sense of strangeness.
"This is... I am..." He narrowed his eyes and raised his head.
The feeling was just like the day he traveled through time for the first time, dazed, confused, and lost... The memories of the modern world suddenly became extremely vivid. Even though several years had passed, he recalled yesterday as if he was still working overtime.
The memories in this world have a sense of unreality, like the scenes in old movies - mottled and yellowed, and changed into a third-person perspective.
"...I'm Gu Bei." He finally recalled the blocked name.
However, after rubbing his head, he put this matter aside and turned to look at the entire space of consciousness. He saw the water elemental elf, flying aside from a distance, looking at him with strange eyes. He also saw the rune star map, shining brightly in the sky of consciousness.
However... he still didn't find the funny.
"Hey! Come out!" he shouted immediately. Weird feelings filled him, and he had questions to ask.
no respond.
"Hey! Stop hiding, I have something to tell you." He was not discouraged and shouted, "Don't worry, you just saved me. No matter what you say, I will never bully you this time!"
Still no response.
Suddenly, he froze on the spot.
The water elemental elf approached him carefully, flew around him twice, showing a puzzled expression, and soon flew away again.
For about half an hour after that, hoarse shouts echoed in the space of consciousness. But I don’t know why, but it still feels very quiet here. The composite characters flashed and flashed, the water elements rippled... everything was normal, coming and going according to their established rules, as if they could remain unchanged for eleven million years.
Finally, he slumped to the ground. A faint blue light fell from the rune star map, illuminating an incredible face.
"...really... gone?"
Although he was talking to himself, it still made his throat hurt again.
He scanned the space of consciousness over and over again, and came back disappointed over and over again. Cain disappeared, taking the entire system with him. In the past, he could sense the subtle aura from the elemental plane on those funny bodies, but now, that aura has completely disappeared from this place.
It was unbelievably quiet.
He suddenly took several deep breaths in succession. The water elements gathered together, blue light flashed, and the healing rain fell on him, but it didn't seem to make him feel any better.
He just realized for the first time that blue... turned out to be a cold color.