Volume 3: The King of Waste Chapter 431 Destiny
"So, they began the plan to create a perfect container."
"While waiting for the plan to take shape, they chose to sleep to reduce the erosion, and you are the key to calling them to wake up." Maeve said.
Xu Shen had long been puzzled by his eyes. After hearing her explanation, everything made sense to him. He couldn't help but ask, "How do you know all this?"
"Because I have heard about their plans, and I have looked for the place where they are sleeping, but I couldn't find it. Maybe only you can see and find it." Maeve said.
Xu Shen thought thoughtfully, were his eyes meant to glimpse the gods and awaken them?
"The gods have been asleep for many years, but my age..."
"Your eyes are just the key. To be more precise, it is all your senses, including hearing. You can understand my language. This is the power of the key. Over the long years, this power may have passed through several owners. Or, in other words, this power will be arranged by fate, in the right place, and on a suitable life form."
Maeve whispered, "Then the suitable life form will take this key to fulfill the mission of the gods and awaken them."
"Is it fate's arrangement..." Xu Shen was slightly stunned.
Fate is unpredictable. If time can be barely understood and dealt with, then fate is a whirlpool that cannot be escaped.
Xu Shen has not been able to touch this power until now, but in the battle with Pamela, Xu Shen 's understanding of time enabled him to feel the horror of fate.
Pamela is like a pet played by fate.
He clearly possessed the terrifying power of a king, but he was strangled in the cradle of his rise.
It is estimated that no other king would be able to cope with such a terrifying force that could transcend and tamper with the past.
But... can the past really be tampered with?
Perhaps fate stands at the end of the long river of time, just like the audience who watches the theater again after the show and knows everything.
And the gods obviously have the power to manipulate fate.
They arranged through some force to have the key choose them, was it because they calculated that they would make it this far?
Xu Shen couldn't guess, up to now he was considered invincible as a king, but when he touched the level of God, he felt that he was as weak and lacking as a small boat in the ocean.
"So, what I have to do next is to go to the Ruins Sea and wake them all up?"
Xu Shen looked at Maeve, "What will happen if I refuse?"
Maeve smiled and said, "I don't know, but the key should not only allow you to glimpse them, but also pass on some kind of learning to you, prompting you to fulfill the destiny they locked in the key..."
At this point, she paused, then looked at Xu Shen gently: "But it's okay if you want to refuse. With me here, nothing can hurt you."
These words were spoken lightly, but were meant seriously.
Xu Shen understood that she was serious. The weight of this sentence was beyond imagination. No one could imagine the strategy of the gods, and they might leave a counterattack. Therefore, if he disobeyed her, it would be equivalent to competing with the gods.
But Maeve chose to stand on his side.
You are one of them, so why do you risk standing by my side...
Xu Shen was silent for a long time. Words of thanks seemed like blasphemy at this moment. He slowly said, "I want to try to wake them up, but before that, I want to truly... become a god."
Maeve stared at him. "Is that your own idea?"
Xu Shen understood what she meant. He had to say that Maeve was very smart. From her words, it seemed that Maeve knew something about the gods' plan, but not much. Her knowledge of the key seemed to be based on speculation, but she guessed that the key would bring some information that would affect her.
Like that intense feeling of craving and hunger.
Like instinct.
It was as if he inherently believed in his heart that he should do that.
This has already infected the mind, but it is difficult for oneself to notice the changes in thoughts.
Xu Shen made this decision not because of any strange impulse, but simply because he didn't want Maeve to bear too much.
It is hard to believe that the gods made such a grand plan over such a long period of time without considering the safety of the "key".
If the key betrays, will the gods be doomed? Eternal damnation?
Xu Shen found it unlikely.
Therefore, there will most likely be a countermeasure, and even at a certain time, the key itself will burst out with some kind of power to awaken some of the sleeping gods and thereby break some shackles... This is Xu Shen's imagination, but the fact that he can imagine this already explains the problem.
God can think of it too.
In this case, it is better to face it after making full preparations.
At this point, Xu Shen doesn't just want to be consumed as a key, he also wants to join the game and sit at the table if possible!
Although he was not very interested in the perfect container, he did not want it to be discarded after being used, or to be eaten by the awakened gods as their first breakfast after waking up.
"No matter what decision you make, I will be with you." Maeve saw Xu Shen's thoughts and said softly, "You don't have to worry about me. The gods...can't threaten me."
Xu Shen looked at her in surprise, it seemed that he had underestimated Maeve.
What level is she at?
Seeing Xu Shen's surprised look, Maeve stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "Guess."
Xu Shen smiled bitterly. The two of them had such a deep understanding of each other that they knew each other's thoughts with just a glance, without even having to communicate through words .
Beyond God?
Xu Shen had never heard of anything above God.
But based on the two-faced god he had seen before, as well as the god in the rotten cave, Xu Shen vaguely guessed that there were also differences among gods.
Just like a king.
Maeve is probably one of the best among the gods.
"If I can find a quasi-perfect container, can I become a god directly?" Xu Shen asked Maeve.
Maeve nodded. "Of course, he is not only a god, but also a very powerful god. Unfortunately, there were nine quasi-perfect vessels made by the gods, but only one survived. The rest have all decayed."
Nine?
Xu Shen was in a daze for a moment. Why was it nine again?
Eight lower cities plus the inner city make a total of nine cities.
There are nine containers.
The first floor of the mental prison is filled with buried ruins, and I live on the ninth floor.
The second-floor animal pavilion has nine sections...
Although Xu Shen had never taken a serious look at the mental hospital on the third floor, he had a hunch that he might have been transferred to nine wards there, or... nine hospitals.
He suddenly felt a toothache-like pain and couldn't help but cover his head.
"Don't think too much, what you see is real." Maeve seemed to know Xu Shen's pain and comforted him softly. Xu Shen could even feel Maeve's palm touching his nose... the nose of this defective container.
It's just that at this moment his senses are in sync with the defective container.
Watching Maeve's little hand stroking, the touch felt soft and fuzzy, as if there was something in between.
But despite this, Xu Shen already felt extremely comfortable.
He gritted his teeth, slowly suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his mind, and asked Maeve, "Do you know where the remaining one is? They are all quasi-perfect containers. Does that mean the manufacturing of the perfect container failed?"
Maeve shook her head slightly. "Failure is inevitable, but I didn't see the details. I'm not interested in these things. The reason I know there is one body left is mainly because I saw eight that had already rotted. I don't know where the ninth body is. Maybe it's in the place where the gods sleep, or maybe it's wandering and walking around the world like me..."
Xu Shen was stunned for a moment, feeling a little regretful, but he did not blame Maeve.
Even without a quasi-perfect container, he could still become a god on his own.
Especially at this moment, when he got this defective container, Xu Shen's feeling towards God increased further. Through the defective container, he could feel the gap between him and the real God.
Originally, I was only at the king level and couldn’t even feel the gap, but now that I can feel it, I can narrow it down and fill the gap!
