Chapter 384 Part 6

He walked slowly forward, the scenery around him changing wildly, only the starry sky at the zenith and the smoky Nocturne Mountain remained the same.

"Hello."

"Liwen." Captain Madara stared at him, "Or should I call you Prince Alsiel."

He looked at the boy and the chicken, "Li Wen was my name in the past."

"So Brother Li Wen later became a prince, right?" Liu Xingquan asked.

He showed a sad look, "No, Li Wen can't be a prince."

"Then why..."

"What you have experienced time and again is the path I should have taken." He raised his head and looked forward. At this moment, the surrounding scene was gradually becoming clear. A Xiyiqi boy was lying in front of the window of a room and saying goodbye to the people inside.

“What I’m showing you now is my true memory,” he whispered. “At that time, I knew nothing.”

The young man said, "Noi, the priest has healed my leg, and I will go to participate in the first round of the bazaar selection."

A muffled voice came from the window, "...Li Wen, go ahead."

"Are you feeling better now?" asked young Li Wen with concern.

"That's it. I don't think I'll live much longer."

"How could that be!" Young Li Wen became excited. "Once I am elected and see the merciful Queen, I can get medicine! Lots and lots of medicine! Everyone can be saved!"

Another boy appeared in the window. When Liu Xingquan saw his face, he couldn't help but groan. Because at this moment, half of his face had been eroded by the mutant red spots, but even so, the rest of the boy's face was still beautiful. His eyes radiated the light of glass beads, and he stared at the young Li Wen calmly.

Young Li Wen made a promise seriously.

"That was my friend Noi, who was hatched at the same time as me. He was once the most outstanding youngster in my tribe." He said, "It should have been him. Even if it wasn't him, it should have been another more outstanding youngster. But unfortunately, they all got mutated, and in the end, I was the only one left who could run for the Bazalu election."

"I became the only candidate in our tribe who could run for the Bazaar. I thought I was qualified and could get the medicine, or at least delay his life. But the result was -"

"Wait for me!"

"Well, I promise you, I will try my best to survive."

The scene changed again, and the two young men who were talking disappeared. The young Li Wen sat on the hillside with a gloomy look, watching the Song of the Dead rising slowly on Nocturne Mountain.

"The result is that I am not qualified to see the queen at all. I was eliminated in the first round. Noy died before I came back." He whispered, "This is me, the beginning of my failure."

“And then, here they are.”

A man appeared beside the young Li Wen. He spoke with a smile on his face and his breath was sweet and gentle.

Liu Xingquan stared at the man and said, "President Tashi."

He looked at Tasi and his younger self, "He told me that he was willing to give me a chance to save my friends who were still alive, to save my people, my compatriots, and he could make me, who had accomplished nothing, a prince."

Captain Madara said, "You agreed."

"Yes, this is the beginning of my sin," he replied bitterly.

"Becoming a prince? What does that mean?" Liu Xingquan asked puzzledly, "But you should have been a prince."

"No, Li Wen was eliminated in the first round."

"you mean……"

"They asked me to replace someone, a candidate for Bazalu named Alsiel." He said, "Unlike Liwen, who no one cared about, Alsiel was the most outstanding and promising in the initial selection, and the Hexagonal Tribe behind him was also valued by Her Majesty the Queen."

"So, you replaced Prince Alsiel, right?" Liu Xingquan said, "Then the real Alsiel..."

Captain Madara said without emotion: "He was killed at the beginning."

He did not speak. In front of their eyes, in the real past memories, President Tasi was weaving the future with beautiful words. The young Li Wen listened in fascination, with a gleam of expectation in his eyes. The breath of desire gathered around them into a halo.

"He gave me a beautiful vision, a future that would save all the Siyiqi people. A new era where no one would die anymore."

He gave a weak, self-deprecating smile, "I promised him."

President Tashi and the young boy Li Wen, who were illuminated by the light, disappeared, as if they were sucked into a black hole together.

"After that, through their manipulation, I stepped on the innocent body of Alsiel to enter the next round of selection as a candidate for Bazalu. Later, I successfully became Prince Alsiel, just as the Happiness Society had planned."

Captain Madara asked, "Why did they choose you?"

"I have asked this question as well. President Tashi said that Master Quaidra has calculated that among all the young children of the right age, the Queen has the highest chance of having a genetic response with me, which means that she will fall in love with me. The Happiness Society must ensure that I can become the First Prince."

"Quedla? You mean Quedla?" Captain Ban shouted.

"What's wrong?"

"He is the mentor of the Black Box Society. This Common Happiness Society is indeed a conspiracy of the Black Box Society!"

"It's just like you said." He sighed softly, "My sins are unforgivable."

"When you became a prince, what did common happiness make you do?"

"They asked me to promote the Common Happiness Society in various shelters and sanatoriums to attract more people to join." He smiled bitterly, "Yes, I was the one who promoted the infiltration of the Common Happiness Society in Xiyiqi."

"Besides that?"

"There is also the extraction of consciousness from members who have joined the club. They told me that by extracting the consciousness of the dying and uploading it for storage, the lives of the members can be extended."

"Ridiculous!" Captain Madara shouted, "This is illegal!"

"The Galactic Federation has always prohibited this kind of operation. So they need a planetary ruler to protect them from the wind and rain, and that person is me." He cast his eyes towards the dark place, "I was so foolish that I naively thought I was saving the Xiyiqi people and protecting them from uploading one life after another."

"Strange, why would the black box do this?" Captain Madara said, "Under the current level of technology, it is difficult to extract and preserve consciousness, the cost-effectiveness is low, the loss is even greater, and preservation is also troublesome. Why would the black box do such a thankless task?"

"I don't quite understand this technology, but Common Happiness told me that this was for the future of billions of Xiyiqi people. I sincerely believed that they were indeed trying to save Xiyiqi until I discovered their true intentions..."

"Real intention?"

He did not answer directly. His face was covered with a bone-chilling coldness, and then a model appeared in his hand. Liu Xingquan felt that it was like an incomprehensible distorted three-dimensional body, with countless lines forming the model. Captain Ban took a look and said in a very natural tone: "A secret security program."

"The working method of this security program is extremely complicated. This tree-like structure determines that no matter how it is cracked, other branches will be immediately locked. It can only be opened when three keys that meet the agreement are used at the same time. Her Majesty the Queen told me that it is a program left by the ancient forerunners of the galaxy on Nocturne Mountain. And every generation of Queen Xiyiqi is the guardian of Nocturne Mountain."

Liu Xingquan said: "You mean the queen holds the key."

"Yes. But in history, a queen almost died accidentally, which led to the loss of the key. In order to avoid this situation, in addition to the queen, the first prince also has the right to possess the key." He said coldly, "Happiness wants to use me to get this key."

"Did they succeed?"

He fell silent for a long time, and then he said, "They succeeded."

Captain Madara shouted, "That's really unfortunate!!"

Liu Xingquan asked: "So what will happen if you open this program?"

"Disaster. A disaster that destroyed everything."

He looked ahead, "Be careful, they are coming."

"What?"

At some point, a group of strange shadows twisted and swayed on the ground, gradually approaching them.

"What's this?"

"Happiness will want to erase all traces of this event. They planted this virus in my consciousness, and it will be activated once I say the key event."

Captain Madara yelled, "Fight!"

Sharp feathers shot out from Captain Madara's body and pierced directly into the sticky black shadow on the ground. With an unsettling hissing sound, the shadow exploded into pieces, and continued to expand and spawn after falling to the ground, like a madly growing lightless moss.

More feather floaters fell, and lights flashed everywhere, and the smell of burning was everywhere. Liu Xingquan also joined the battle, waving the knife in his hand to cut all the twisting shadows approaching him. A small shadow was like a lizard on Liu Xingquan's arm, and he slashed it with his knife, and the shadow turned into smoke in an instant.

"You must leave here immediately." Li Wen said.

"How to leave is also a problem!" Liu Xingquan pierced a slender shadow that pounced on him, and it exploded from the center, and a gray dust covered his whole body. In the blink of an eye, the dust condensed and gathered into small hands and feet, biting Liu Xingquan's body.

Captain Madara roared and flew into the air. His claws pierced into the dust, tearing them into pieces like shredded paper. But once they were in the air, they aggregated, multiplied, formed, and replicated like cells. Whether they decomposed, exploded, or burned, they would turn into shadows again, more shadows, infinite shadows.

Endless and never-ending.

"I'll take care of them," Li Wen said, and his wings spread out in the wind. He suddenly leaped into the air.

He grew bigger and bigger, his presence transcending the sky, his boundaries extending beyond the earth until he could overlook the planet.

He is the master of this world.

In his consciousness, he possesses true divine power.

Thousands and tens of thousands of light balls exploded on the ground, and wildfires spread everywhere as far as the eye could see and the mind could reach. He carefully placed Liu Xingquan and Captain Ban in a transparent bubble, and all other consciousness structures were executed in destruction mode. Copying, derivation, transcription, all possibilities would be reduced to zero.

Then he found the virus that was originally buried in his consciousness. It was so small that it looked like the favorite pet worm of the Xiyiqi people, a speck of dust in his hand. It was the hidden hand that Tashi had planted when he first transformed him into Alsiel. He could not completely destroy it, just like the unerasable sin he had committed. The destruction now was only temporary. Once he stopped, the virus would continue to replicate until the editor erased his memory.

But in his consciousness, there was the Nocturne Mountain. With his help, the Common Happiness Society extracted 100,000 lives and stored them in the mysterious octahedron. After he was killed by the Happiness Society, they also placed his consciousness in it. Now, he threw the virus into himself in the octahedron in his consciousness.

That conscious self will also throw it into the next level.

This will be a long dream from which one can never wake up.

…

He tore a hole in the air.

Countless rays of light wander among the darkness and the stars.

"This is the way to save the Xiyiqi people." He gently tapped the transparent bubble containing Liu Xingquan and Captain Ban, and a small ball of light overflowed between them. "Everything is in your hands. You must stop them."

"I see." Liu Xingquan looked up at the giant that now occupied the entire starry sky, "Aren't you going to come with us?"

"You go first. I need to deal with this virus." I can't leave because I'm dead, and this is the fate that sinners deserve. He said to the human boy, "I will go to see your friend Yan Zhen."

"Okay!" the boy laughed.

Go find the true path to reality.

Farewell, two alien travelers.

He sent them into the tangled paths of consciousness in the chaotic void.

I know you will find a way to save Xiyiqi, because I saw the end at the moment of death.

The world returned to peace.

He gazed at Nocturne Mountain. At this moment, he truly understood the meaning of this mountain.

Nocturne Mountain is the sacred and forbidden place for the Xiyiqi people.

It distorts the time dimension and completely disrupts the structure of space and time. When Qisina said that people cannot use Nocturne Mountain to achieve time travel, she only meant that people are in a situation that conforms to physical reality.

Now his consciousness has been extracted and placed here. Because of this distorted dimension and the authority of the key, part of the present consciousness has been sent to the past, and part of the past consciousness has been distorted to the present. As a result, the order of time has been disrupted, and the past, present, and future have become facts that exist simultaneously.

I've died, I'm alive, I've died.

Now means past, present and future at the same time.

The linearity of time loses its meaning.

He saw her.

That was their first meeting. The first time he met his queen as Alsiel.

She was more beautiful than any words in the world, she was the crystal of the starlight, she looked at him, with dignity and joy in that silent gaze. Her voice was like the sound of a blade coming out of its sheath, and her graceful body carried the fate of all the Xiyiqi people. How magnificent, how pure.

She was his love, she was his life.

"Are you ready to be my prince?" she asked him.

He held her hand tightly.

He had thought he could save the Xiyiqi people together with her.

However, he committed an unforgivable sin.

He saw his daughter.

His Algie.

She laughed and staggered towards him. She was so small, like a ray of sunshine shining into the room. She was his joy, his future, his hope. He saw the starry sky in her eyes.

He had thought he could save Xiyiqi before she grew up.

However, he committed an unforgivable sin.

Now, he is sitting in his study.

He already knew the ultimate goal of the Happiness Society, and he was their accomplice.

He hired Yin Ran to try to steal the bottle of Zhenxuan Special Drink to stop the Happiness Society, but it seems to have failed now.

If I had rejected the temptation of the Happiness Society, if I was just an ordinary Xiyiqi person, would I have found the true way to salvation of Xiyiqi?

He saw that he was about to be killed.

He refused to give up the key, so they killed him and extracted his consciousness to obtain the key.

And the consciousness of dying in the future made him see the true ending.

Yan Zhen.

The friend of the alien traveler Liu Xingquan.

He saw the story of another Prince Alsher, a heroic story of saving Siyichi.

The past, present and future appear simultaneously at that moment like fixed pictures.

He already knew what he should do.

So he pressed the button.

The attendant Conde came in and told him that he wanted to see Yan Zhen immediately.

Conde withdrew as ordered.

So he sat in the empty study, quietly waiting for his fate to come.