The gentle little hand covered in blood slowly slid down from her cheeks without any trace of life. Xia Lan stared at Winnie, who had no trace of life anymore. She slept peacefully, as if she was immersed in a happy dream that would never wake up.∈↗↗

He felt a trace of throbbing from the deepest part of his heart, like seeds that had broken through the ground and sprouted, piercing his breathing heavier and heavier every time.

"She's dead."

Joshua calmly told a fact that the glorious arrows floating around him firmly locked on the dying Xia Lan on the ground, and could shoot him on the spot without mercy at any time, just as hard-hearted as dealing with Winnie.

"Why haven't you killed me?"

Xia Lan struggled and twisted her body, and raised her head with difficulty staring at Joshua in front of her. There was no sadness or anger on his face, only numb and cold questions.

"I want to find an answer." Joshua thought for a moment and said, "An answer that confused me in this world. I have been searching for many years, but in the end I feel a clue of hope in you."

"What's the answer?" Xia Lan said with blood foam.

"Does this world really exist? Are everything following a certain predetermined trajectory of change. Our history, our lives, our thoughts sometimes seem to be the result of being deliberately manipulated and guided by someone." Joshua fell into his own thinking and said, "This feeling became stronger and stronger as I left Valderin, and when I saw you with my own eyes, especially you, Drank Xialan. On you, I finally knew the origin of the throbbing in my heart. Because you are like an outsider who is out of place outside the trajectory of this world, and it is completely different from our alternative existence."

As Joshua continued to explain, an inexplicable strange light flashed in Xia Lan's eyes when she looked at him.

"Do you understand what I said?" Joshua, who keenly noticed the change in Xia Lan's eyes, asked immediately.

"When did you start to feel this way? Are there people among the others who think the same as you?" Xia Lan asked back without answering.

"When I was very young, there was no way to know the specific age. Among all the people I have come into contact with, from ordinary people, from the powerful and high-ranking officials, there is no one who reveals the same thoughts as me." Joshua shook his head and said indifferently: "In my eyes, everyone is like an empty shell without a soul, completely following the established trajectory of human life, as if living in this world like a walking corpse."

"You are the first person I have come into contact with so far to doubt and understand the reality of the world." Xia Lan said.

"In this way, my suspicion is correct?" said Joshua.

"Your name." Xia Lan suddenly asked for no reason.

"Joshua, Emmarant Joshua." Joshua said truthfully.

"Valderin... Emmarant Joshua... It turned out to be you." After thinking for a moment, a strange and mysterious smile appeared on Xia Lan's face. "If I say that you will become the Son of the Holy Church of the Glory in the future, do you believe it?"

"I believe." Joshua said calmly. "Because I have already had a premonition of my future self blurring after the fog."

"Do you want to know the reality of this world?" Xia Lan asked.

"Yes." Joshua nodded.

"Let me go and I will tell you the answer." Xia Lan stared at the platform behind him and said.

"No." Joshua shook his head.

"Why?" Xia Lan frowned.

"There is a voice in the dark that tells me that I can't let you go." Joshua said. "Otherwise, I will die."

"Don't you think this voice is implying that it is manipulating your will?" Xia Lan said. "Just like the empty shells in your eyes?"

"I just don't want to die." Joshua said.

"I won't kill you." Xia Lan said.

"I don't believe you," said Joshua.

Xia Lan twisted her hands and feet and crawled forward with a step forward. Then, a radiant arrow shot in front of her eyes. The splashing gravel instantly pierced the skin of her cheeks and bloodstained.

"This is my last warning." Joshua said expressionlessly.

Xia Lan stopped moving and lay down on the ground again and looked up at him.

"You hesitated just now."

"Yes." Joshua admitted.

"You want to kill me but you don't want to kill me. Now there are two wills in your mind fighting fiercely." Xia Lan smiled, smiling in a sensational way. "The will of the world and the personal will are in chaos."

"I don't deny." Joshua's expression remained unchanged.

"If you want to be freed from this world, then you must defeat the will of the world." Xia Lan seemed to be tempting.

"Actually, you just want my will not kill you to defeat and erase your will to the world." Joshua saw through his thoughts at a glance.

"So, what do you decide to choose?" Xia Lan said slowly.

“…”

Joshua was silent for a long time, for a long time.

Even the entire corridor began to be invaded and damaged by indescribable external forces, and he was indifferent to the situation of shaking collapse.

The contest between reason and emotion, the choice between survival and death.

He stood at the fork in fate and hesitated and wandered. A throne leading to a glorious throne full of flowers and glory, and was overwhelmed by the peaks of the clouds and overlooked the world; while another led to a dark abyss covered with thorns, falling into endless cold and dead silence forever.

The world at Cloud Peak is bright but illusory, while the world at Hell is dark but real.

“What’s here?”

Joshua pointed to the platform beneath his feet and suddenly spoke. The deep pit that had originally crawled out by the dead worm disappeared without a trace.

"The mausoleum of the ancestors of the Salanians." Xia Lan said with a weak body. "The last area that the entire holy land has not yet been explored."

"…What's in the tomb?" said Joshua.

"The mural depicts the history and development of the ancestors of the Salanians." Xia Landao.

"What does this have to do with you?" Joshua said strangely. "Are you a Salanian?"

"I'm not a Salanian, but I have a reason to go there."

A piece of fist-sized gravel fell on Xia Lan's body, causing him to make a sound in pain. His limbs and bodies trembled violently. He felt the ruthless passage of life and the shadow of death quietly enveloped him. He didn't know how many times he had experienced this feeling.

The eyelids are getting heavier and the vision is getting blurred. The consciousness is beginning to be eaten up by the darkness little by little. The strong sleepiness is coming unconsciously. The relaxed and paralyzed nerves gradually lose their perception of the outside world, and the body and hands and feet no longer obey their orders.

Xia Lan's faint signs of life told Joshua that there was not much time left for him to make a decision.

Recalling his short life so far, no sorrow or joy, as dull as a pool of stagnant water. Perhaps only the answers pursued in his heart can make his mood ripples. Then, he understood that in fact, this is the meaning of his true life.

Before this, the will of the world had been blinding and misleading his thinking.

"Tell me the answer."

He made his last choice.

Xia Lan didn't speak because he no longer had the strength to speak. He just moved his finger pointing to the platform. The meaning was self-evident.

Take me there!

Joshua waved his white sacrificial robe, and a radiant arrow floating around quickly passed through Xia Lan's ragged clothes. He flew back to the platform directly with his body.

As he landed on the ground, Xia Lan struggled to get up as if she was looking back, and looked at Joshua with a smile on her back with the Book of Gold.

"Tell me the answer." Joshua repeated again, without any mind, and would have the other party's uncomfortable smile. If he dared to deceive any abnormal movements, all the glorious arrows could instantly shoot him into a sieve.

"I'm not a person from this world." Xia Lan took a deep breath of air greedily and said. "But I know a little bit about everything in this world."

“…”

Joshua listened silently without interrupting.

"As you think, in my world, your world is indeed false, and the regular changes of everything are run through the trajectory formulated by the program, including your thoughts and wills." Xia Lan said lightly: "Do you know the twilight of Ragnarok?"

"Know."

"You said, why do the gods who live with heaven and earth foolishly kill each other and perform the twilight of the gods?"

"have no idea."

“Because the program needs to build and perfect the historical context of your world, the gods must disappear.”

"The same is true in the era of natural disasters?"

"Of course! The so-called fernu law in your eyes is actually another coat of the program. All it needs to do is to maintain the architecture and stability of the world."

“What is the program?”

"It is hard to explain, for example, in your case, you are a program yourself, and everything in this world is composed of programs."

"You're not a program?"

"I... don't know." A confused flashed in Xia Lan's eyes. "Maybe after I came to the world, I myself became a program, or perhaps, this world is no longer composed of programs, but real existence..."

"It's very contradictory."

"So I won't think about this anymore."

"I want to know the answer."

"You can see it right away."

As soon as Xia Lan finished speaking, the Golden Book that Xia Lan was leaning against her back suddenly moved back, and an invisible black hole appeared on the ground and instantly swallowed Xia Lan's figure.

Joshua's pupils shrank, and he jumped into the hole without saying a word.

System: Completely open the treasure inheritance of Salania Holy Land (required) (complete)

System: Host occupation level is increased to 40

System: Life returns to normal state, [Swordsmanship into Micro] Close

System: Detect the power of the law of death and destruction in the host body and automatically understand the law of nirvana.

System: The Law Skill Tree is completely open

...

...

A series of system prompt sounds echoed in his mind, and the mysterious unknown power quickly repaired his physical injuries. The dissipated air flow in his body was like a vast ocean pouring into full flow. The miracle that should have been on the verge of death but exuding a vigorous vitality was revealed in the eyes of Joshua, who had observed Xia Lan's changes.

At this moment, he seemed to have found the answer.

And when Xia Lan opened her eyes and resurrected, the dark sword light wrapped in the law of nirvana pierced his body in an instant.

One, two, three... a total of seven sword lights extinguished all his vitality. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better, updated and faster!
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