novelraw Chapter 775: I hope you are mentally prepared
Chapter 775: I hope you are mentally prepared
Pleasure frowned slightly, feeling that Sin at this moment seemed particularly dangerous.
Although logically speaking, he shouldn't feel such wariness toward a mere human.
Yet, he had to admit, Xie Antong had directly found that loophole and truly made him suffer... He was starting to feel less certain.
Yes, the game is nearly over.
Beside him, Knowledge suddenly spoke up.
He was the one with the most unpleasant expression. Even now, his gaze still passed over the Arbitrator, fixedly staring at Xie Antong lying on the ground.
Come to think of it, it was somewhat strange.
Back when Xie Antong faced him directly and played the game with him, he kept looking at Lu Ce, who had his back turned to him, facing the Despair Secret Sea.
But now, with Xie Antong's eyes closed and fallen, he kept staring at her instead.
This was his game. Although the last round involved three gods acting together and all having their power weakened, fundamentally, he was the true loser.The unprecedented humiliation he suffered in that instant was something he himself had never imagined, even more unacceptable than losing that little game to Sin before!
Not only did it greatly weaken the power he had accumulated, forcing him to utter words beyond his expectations, but she even guessed a secret known only to the gods themselves!
Although that secret wasn't exactly a weakness... this game was being broadcast publicly!
The originally designed "public execution" had now turned into a certain degree of public exposure!
This displeased him greatly, and faintly, there was an unease he was unwilling to admit.
But it was fine. The world's top-tier players, the ones most likely to stir up something different, were all gathered here.
Kill them all, and dealing with the rest would be easy. So what if the humans on that planet knew? They couldn't do anything anyway.
After much thought and a long stare at Xie Antong, he turned his head somewhat mechanically and met Lu Ce's gaze.
Your life won't last much longer.
Once you fall and lose, that needle of yours won't be able to save her life either.
Lu Ce showed no reaction to his words. Even the look in his eyes held a bit more of a gaze reserved for the dead.
He slowly walked toward Xie Antong, passing by the Arbitrator, and stood beside her.
He couldn't sense any aura from her now. At this moment, it was purely the Gate of Death keeping her alive.
The raging flames were still burning, the leaping firelight beside her like countless flowers blooming and withering.
Bang!
Amidst the collision of energies, Lu Ce stomped heavily on the floorboards.
He cleared a patch of empty space around Xie Antong. The half of his face belonging to Gluttony opened its mouth, sucking all the surrounding flames into it.
Looking at the girl on the ground, Lu Ce suddenly realized he had never seen her like this before. Her pale, gaunt face seemed to carry a faint smile, like a steadfast martyr.
Unconsciously, the corner of the blue mouth on his left side began to curl upward, while the corner of the red mouth on his right side simultaneously drooped downward.
"It won't be long now. Sleep well for a while first."
As he spoke, he raised his head and looked at Knowledge again.
"I hope you've already prepared yourself mentally."
Knowledge: ?
Although these words didn't carry the same full sense of provocation as before, for some reason, he found them somewhat oppressive.
Lu Ce didn't care at all about what he thought, as if merely looking at a dead man. He turned and walked away, brushing past the Arbitrator once more.
"Time is running out for you! Still haven't figured it out?"
As he passed the Arbitrator, he shouted toward Perfect Life in the distance.
"Your game isn't complicated at all! Just a little psychological test!"
"What you think is right, is right. That's the meaning of making the correct choice!"
Despair jolted in shock, looking over. Had the key point of his game just been exposed like that?
But it wasn't a big problem. Given Perfect Life's current state, even if he knew, he likely couldn't act on it anyway.
Perfect Life also shouted in shock:
"What I think is right, is right? How is that possible! Every time I acted to save someone, I thought it was right."
He was currently in a state of complete desperation, his mind reeling. Xie Antong's dazzling performance just now had truly shocked him.
She had dealt such a heavy blow to the gods with her own life, while he, with his resolve to seek death, had accomplished nothing yet.
But clearly, he hadn't experienced true shock yet, because Lu Ce's next words directly shattered his worldview.
"That proves that, in your heart, you don't actually believe saving them is right, nor do you think you should save them."
Perfect Life: ?
"What!?"
His mind felt like it spasmed.
Sin had been trying every way to help him since this game started, making him forget that this guy's public persona in the world was supposedly that of a beast.
"The game's content is about saving people to begin with, and they were innocently dragged into this! How could saving them be wrong!?"
"Because you know it's futile. You're not saving them, you're just delaying their deaths," Lu Ce said flatly.
"You understand that as long as Despair wants to, no matter how desperately you try to save people, he can always find more to kill."
"Everything you've done is just weak evasion. You know it's meaningless, yet you still chose the latter between doing the right thing and the morality in your heart."
"You appear compassionate, but in reality, you're giving up on yourself. What you're doing has no meaning."
Perfect Life's body trembled violently as if being shaken in a sieve. He never expected Sin's evaluation would be like this.
Yet, he felt that what the other said... seemed to be true!
"But..."
"Don't hesitate," Lu Ce directly cut him off. "That potion that restructured your genes, in my view, was an evolution for you."
"Perfection is the greatest imperfection. A path set like a program cannot lead to the right place."
As his words fell, Despair suddenly frowned. In an unnoticed spot, the Arbitrator also gave a slight shudder.
The Arbitrator controlled himself as much as possible, preventing others from detecting the earth-shaking changes happening within him now.
As for Despair... he realized...
If he let him keep talking, his game might really be broken!