Volume 3: The King of Waste Chapter 430 Key
"you guess?"
Maeve blinked and looked at him playfully.
Xu Shen thought about it and smiled: "I don't think so."
Maeve smiled and said, "How do you know?"
"That's a very boring thing. You definitely wouldn't be that boring." Xu Shen said.
Maeve pouted slightly, as if her worries were spoken of, and she looked unhappy but secretly delighted: "Yes, this kind of thing is too boring, but the reason I didn't participate is not only because it is too boring, but more because... I know they will fail."
"Hmm?" Xu Shen was somewhat interested, showing an expression that showed he was willing to hear more details.
Maeve did not keep the secret. Xu Shen was now qualified to know many secrets beyond the king level. She said, "Their goal is to create a perfect container, but a perfect container itself is impossible. They don't know how far it is to go from quasi-perfection to perfection. It is impossible to do it."
She looked at the doubt in Xu Shen's eyes and whispered, "Because the perfect container itself is theoretically impossible, it's like you have to climb 99 steps to get to the 100th floor, but there are no 99 steps in front of you, and you don't have any other tools or power. How can you get there?"
Xu Shen didn’t know what the concept of a perfect container was, but as Maeve said, if the perfect container was immortal and omnipotent, it would indeed be a rather exaggerated existence.
Such existence often only exists in fantasy.
"I see."
Some images suddenly emerged in Xu Shen's mind. Those images were blurry and distant. In them were indescribable majestic figures with different postures, ferocious or ugly or extremely beautiful. They gathered together to complete a grand plan, hoping to transcend...
Xu Shen's eyes were dazed, and he seemed to hear soft whispers in his ears. The words of these whispers were vague but complicated. Xu Shen shook his head, but found that the voices did not disappear, but gradually became clearer.
He seemed to sense something and looked up into the distance.
His sight penetrated the black fog, penetrated the virtual world and reality, and saw the world in the world that was like a mirage.
That is the world of ruins.
And in that world of ruins, countless large ruins are wandering like vague phantoms. At the end of those wandering large ruins, there is a cemetery, like a continent floating in the sky.
There are figures of various postures in the cemetery.
They remained silent and motionless, as if they were asleep or already dead.
Xu Shen stared blankly, not noticing that his eyes were as black as ink, like a deep black hole.
After a long while, the blurry scene gradually dissipated, and Xu Shen's eyes returned to normal. He was confused, and a lot of information just appeared in his mind for no reason. Those voices were telling him to go to the cemetery and wake them up...
It feels almost like an instinct.
It's like hunger.
It's like some kind of strong longing.
It made it difficult for Xu Shen to contain and refuse.
At this moment, he suddenly understood something.
Why are my eyes so strange?
Maybe he has these eyes just for a certain moment.
And now, under this defective container, something in his body seemed to be awakened, or perhaps something sensed him and was summoning and calling him.
When Xu Shen came back to his senses, he looked at Maeve, only to see a surprised expression in Maeve's eyes. She stared at Xu Shen seriously: "Can you really see me?"
"..." Xu Shen was speechless. At this point he naturally didn't need to disguise himself. It was not because he was strong enough to defeat Maeve, but because he no longer cared about the consequences of being discovered. Besides, didn't the two of them just have a conversation?
Maeve's eyes were solemn and complicated. She asked again, "I mean, can you see the real... me?"
That makes sense... Xu Shen's expression was calm. He knew Maeve's concerns all along, and he felt that he needed to let her know that he could really see -
Her appearance.
"certainly."
Xu Shen replied.
Maeve's eyes flickered, and she said unconfidently, "Then tell me, what do I look like?"
"She looks very cute." Xu Shen said with a smile that came from the heart.
Maeve snorted and said unhappily, "It's not an adjective. I want an accurate description."
Xu Shen was helpless and said, "It's too complicated to describe. Anyway, I think it's cute."
Maeve's eyes narrowed slightly, as if she couldn't believe that Xu Shen could really see her entire appearance.
Is he really... not afraid?
"You are not a god. You don't feel scared when you see my appearance?" Maeve stared at Xu Shen. You know, if Xu Shen could really see, he would have been there from the very beginning, and at that time Xu Shen was just an extremely weak existence.
Xu Shen found Maeve's words a little puzzling, and he looked puzzled.
Maeve explained: "The appearance of God is difficult to describe. It changes as the heart wishes and is not bound by form. Therefore, it may be any appearance, or it may be an appearance that is beyond the understanding of ordinary weak life. Do you understand what I mean?"
Xu Shen couldn't help but smile. The way of giving up that he had comprehended before was indeed correct.
"Follow your heart. It seems that you are really lovable at heart." Xu Shen said with a smile.
Maeve's pretty face turned slightly red, and she rolled her eyes at Xu Shen, "Don't you have any other adjective besides this?"
Xu Shen thought for a moment and said, "Does being smart count?"
“……”Maeve seemed to be defeated by Xu Shen. Being smart is a matter of IQ. Is there any need to question God’s IQ?
But Maeve didn't know that in the human world, smart can also be an adjective.
"Okay, just assume that you know." Maeve pouted slightly and stopped arguing with Xu Shen. Anyway, they were communicating face to face, and Xu Shen had already stepped half a foot into her world.
"In fact, you have been able to see me a long time ago, but you have been pretending." Maeve snorted. At first, she was bored and wandered around the world, traveling to various places, but the gods had already fallen silent, and few people could see her existence.
But when he happened to pass by where Xu Shen was, he unexpectedly felt as if someone was staring at him.
Then she followed Xu Shen, observing and testing him all the time.
How could such a weak life possibly see itself?
Later, she vaguely felt that Xu Shen could indeed see her.
Although this guy hid himself well, she was more observant, which made her very curious about Xu Shen.
Unlike those Xu, although she would eat things that could see her, that was because if they could see her, it meant they were on the same level as her. Eating them would fill her up and make her feel comfortable, but Xu Shen was too weak.
She just wanted to know why the other person could see her.
It just so happened that she had too much free time, so she followed Xu Shen and accompanied him all the time...
During this time, some of her thoughts gradually changed from simple curiosity. Witnessing the growth of this weak life, she actually found something similar to herself in Xu Shen.
That feeling of loneliness.
She has been wandering for too long, and no living being can see her. If she chooses to descend, those living beings will be so scared that they will collapse and go crazy when they see her.
It’s very interesting that Xu Shen not only could see her, but was not scared at all.
Now, Maeve finally understood why Xu Shen could see her.
However, the reason that made her curious in the beginning is no longer something she cares about now.
Hearing Maeve's words, Xu Shen looked a little embarrassed and said with a wry smile, "We were not familiar with each other at the beginning. I thought you were like those people and would eat anyone who saw you."
Maeve pursed her lips slightly. She could fully understand Xu Shen's thoughts without him saying anything. The two of them had been together for so long that many things did not require words.
"Did you see something just now?" Maeve sat on the nose bridge of the defective container worn by Xu Shen, hugged her white and tender legs and asked with her head tilted.
Xu Shen immediately thought of the scene of the sea of ruins that had just appeared in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little terrified. He nodded slightly, without hiding anything from Maeve, and said, "It seems to be the dead gods."
"You are the key they left behind. They are worried about getting lost, and you are the thread to find them back," said Maeve.
Xu Shen's eyes moved slightly, his mind turned, and he asked, "Are you referring to my eyes?"
"That's right."
Maeve nodded. "The will of the gods can be preserved for a longer time, but the bodies of the gods cannot bear it and will decay, perish, decay, and die first! Therefore, the gods want to create better containers to carry their divinity and live longer... The original container was just based on this idea, but later the gods felt that even if the divinity could last longer, it would eventually decay, so they thought of a perfect container in the true sense."
"That is to allow the container to nourish the divinity. If the container is never broken, then the divinity will be nourished forever and achieve true eternal life!"
