Chapter 656: The Dream that Has Already Been Woven

"Maybe you, Mei, have already felt that even the surviving heroes, their spirit and will have long been left on that day 50,000 years ago. In the final analysis, the Paradise of the Past is just a beautiful and exquisite tomb, and the stories left in the Paradise are the epitaphs of us and our time.

"The Paradise of the Past records such a simple story, which contains pain and failure, betrayal and separation, but also happiness and joy, warmth and touching. Sadness will not disappear out of thin air, but warm feelings will always be treasured in the heart. What should be passed on to future generations is not only hatred and mission. Only by experiencing the glory of this era can people in the future understand the meaning of what we are fighting for.

"Let textbooks teach cold knowledge and techniques. What the heroes should pass on is the glory of being a hero and the reason for fighting. It is the last soul entrusted to us in this journey of chasing fire. And you who come after us will witness the footprints of our lives and the imprints of our souls, and find the answers you seek in them. You are not pushed or forced forward, nor are you moving forward along the path chosen by others, but with this idea - what I want to do, what I should do - to decide my own destiny and my own imprint.

"With my own will, towards the goals I set, in a free way, I will do my best to live my life as the protagonist. You see, I am like this, everyone is like this, and Mikael is actually like this. Thousands of trajectories intertwine and linger, giving birth to the miracle of a hundred flowers blooming. This is the eternal mark of [beauty], what I believe in... [true self]. This is the paradise of the past life, our story.

"So far, our story has ended. Next, it is [your] story."

"Goodbye, Meiyi. This time... we really have to say goodbye. Thank you, Meiyi, thank you for coming here, meeting us, talking to us, thank you for remembering our names and listening to our stories. As long as someone still remembers us, this story will not disappear - only humans will think so, and only humans will turn such beliefs into reality.

"We will stay in the past, and you will go to the future. So Meiyi, please keep going forward, your path will continue, cross the final tomb of the dead, and create a future that we cannot welcome."

"..."

Meiyi bit her lip tightly, but did not speak.

If she lowered her head slightly, she could see her reflection through the calm water under her feet. Purple lightning surrounded her body, and the armor originally built for the World Serpent had been replaced by another set of pink and white clothes. But if there is any obvious change in the body, it is undoubtedly the long oval pupil that is exactly the same as Alicia and Mikael. Unfortunately, it is not pink, but the sky blue in Ali's eyes.

Her body was full of strength, and she couldn't help but moan for it, but in the end she said nothing, did nothing, and just looked at Alicia and the figures of the heroes who slowly disappeared behind her with sad and reluctant eyes.

"What's wrong? Are you still tired? Don't you want to move forward for the time being? Alas... If that's the case, you can stay here and rest for a while."

"No, no need."

Mei closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her face was serious and there was no more sadness on her face.

"I'm going to complete my mission... No, I'm going to do what I want to do, what I should do, Alicia."

"Yeah, I know. Come on, Meiyi - but one day in the future, if you feel confused again, feel tired, and don't want to move forward for the time being... then stop your steps. Look beside you, look behind you, we will always be here, just like before."

"Yeah, I understand."

Mei resisted the trembling of her lips, nodded slowly, and then turned around firmly.

One step, two steps...

She didn't know how to leave here, but as long as she moved forward, it must be right.

Suddenly, the voice of Alicia sounded behind her again.

"Mei! Go and bloom your own flawless and beautiful brilliance. After all... beautiful girls can do anything!"

Mei smiled and looked back, only to see Ai Li waving her fist, as if to cheer her up.

But the next moment, she suddenly put her index finger and middle finger together and saluted Mei Yi in a free and easy military salute.

In a trance, the space turned back to the eternal paradise.

The light of dusk is not hot, only warmth lasts forever.

On the high steps, the heroes stood in twos and threes. What remained unchanged was that each of them looked at her seriously and also looked at the road under her feet.

In another trance, the familiar figure also appeared beside Alicia, his brows wrinkled helplessly and powerlessly, as if he was reluctantly pulled over by someone, but there was a faint smile at the corner of his mouth.

Mobius snorted and walked out from behind him, standing on the other side opposite to Alicia, but when he looked at her, he quickly put on a gentle smile.

Time froze everything in front of him into a photo, but under the light of the setting sun, the photo gradually ignited with flames and eventually annihilated into countless ashes.

Meiyi will no longer be sad, because the most important things have been imprinted in her mind and will never be lost.

"Keep moving forward."

She whispered softly.

Turning around and taking another step forward, the scenery in front of her changed with the rotation of the sky and the earth, but...

"ha?"

Meiyi was stunned for a moment, then took the knife out of its sheath as quickly as possible and assumed a fighting stance.

Scanning his eyes left and right, the warm sunset was replaced by pale green dim light. It was hard not to think of Mebius's laboratory.

But the surrounding environment is even more weird. Countless black and green "roads" are entangled and connected in the seemingly endless space, as if they are threads woven into a large network by huge hands.

At the intersection of the roads, there are dark green fluorescent lights, but when you get closer, you will find that they are small and medium-sized platforms.

"What the hell is this?"

Mei Yi walked forward step by step, her vigilance in her heart already raised to the highest level.

She slowly moved forward along the road, and finally came to a platform, but the platform was empty, with no objects or people.

"It can't be that... you are still in the paradise of the past, right?"

Mei couldn't help but wonder, could it be because the battle between the heroes and Mikael had affected the foundation of Paradise? So much so that he did not completely leave the paradise, but came to a sealed space. Considering the decoration style here, maybe it was once the territory of Mebius?

But if you think about it carefully, with the current situation of the paradise in the past life, it may not be an easy thing to leave. Alicia's power may only send her as close to the exit as possible. The next journey She still needs to explore and explore on her own.

Mei was ready to move on. Although she didn't know where the real way out was, she might gain something by accident. If she stayed where she was, she would accomplish nothing.

There were many roads connecting the platform. Mei Yi chose a direction based on her sixth sense, and then stepped forward without hesitation.

Soon she came to the edge of the platform, but just when she was about to take the next step onto the "road", there was a familiar sound behind her.

Click - click -

Turning around expressionlessly, Mei saw hundreds of silver threads hanging from the dark green above her head, and then a large number of monsters that she had seen during the tenth collapse and were now named Imaginary Skeletons.

"It's really... it's endless..."

Meiyi gritted her teeth and tightened her grip on the long knife in her hand.

Although she knew that everything that happened before was the ending that each of them expected, she would no longer look at that story from a sad perspective.

However, there is indeed a feeling of anger in my heart.

Now that I'm feeling better, I naturally have to find some sandbags to vent my bad mood. Nowadays, there are no sandbags to be found, and there are a lot of imaginary numbers that are more resistant to being beaten than sandbags.

Purple thunder arcs flashed in the sky-blue pupils, and the crisp sound when the sword was drawn still echoed in the vast space. Meiyi just stood there, collecting the lavender long sword suspended at his side. In the scabbard.

One second, two seconds, three seconds...

For three consecutive breaths, Mei Yi stood quietly, and the hundreds of imaginary figures did not make any movement, as if time had once again pressed the pause button.

However, as soon as three seconds passed, with the continuous sound of "rumbling" thunder, the corpses of the imaginary figures present were neatly dismembered, and the golden core burst at the same time, even the silk threads hanging from the sky Also cut off.

"This power...can really cut off anything..."

Looking at the broken corpses in front of her, Mei Yi sighed in a cold tone.

As the Herrscher of Thunder, she can do all this, but even if she masters the power of thunder and lightning to the extreme, she may not be as quick and sharp as she was just now.

"This power... always gives people the feeling that they can cut off anything..."

The power of the origin... Alicia did not tell Mei what was special about this power. Logically speaking, it just symbolized the side of human nature, and as the other half of "Endgame", it had the same to the opponent's strength.

So is this feeling of endless cutting off pure power, or is Alicia's act of cutting the thread of fate sublimated into the power of the origin? Meiyi, who had just taken over this power, couldn't understand it either, but it seemed like she didn't need to.

After confirming that all the skeletons of the Imaginary Number Master had been destroyed, Mei Yi quickly turned around and prepared to walk to the next platform along the previously selected path.

My feet left the platform and stepped onto the winding road. This time there was no sound behind me.

Mei Yi couldn't help but relax her guard a little, but suddenly, as her other foot also left the platform, a feeling of dizziness came over her. She had to cover her forehead, swayed a little, and managed to stand.

Then, her eyes became bloodshot, and her vision filled with a kaleidoscope of colorful colors, and then became clear in an instant.

But when she came back to her senses, she found that she was in a strange state.

Why...are you lying on the ground?

The ground here is quite soft...

While she was still confused, her body started to move on its own, she stretched and then got up.

The soft and elastic touch under her feet made Mei realize that it didn't seem to be the ground, but... a bed?

But from the current line of sight, it seems that I can't see the bedside at all...

Is this the legendary feeling of waking up from a bed of tens of thousands of square meters early in the morning?

"Huh? Why... why am I alone? Where have Xiaohong, Xiaolan and Xiaoqing gone? Huh?"

A man's voice sounded in Mei Yi's mind, and she quickly realized that that voice seemed to be the owner of this body...

"What is going on?"

Mei was as confused as the man, but it seemed that she just blinked, her vision went dark, and the dim green light returned to Meiyi.

"Huh?"

She was still standing there, standing on the road where she had just left the platform, without even moving a step.

"What on earth was that thing I just saw?"

Whatever it was, it was undoubtedly related to the space in front of her and the previous imaginary number envoy's skeleton.

Mei had some vague answers in her mind, but she was not very sure.

Imaginary number envoys' skeletons would not appear casually. These monsters were originally imaginary number side. If they were to appear in the present paradise of the past, it would make sense. After all, let's not talk about what kind of impact Mikael's power would bring. Just saying that Alicia has become the Herrscher of Corrosion, it is not impossible that when she uses her power, the imaginary internal energy will invade the paradise of the past.

But if that's the case, the things that Meiyi saw before can't be explained.

So, what is the most likely thing, something that has nothing to do with the paradise of the past, but is related to "imaginary numbers"

Even...

Mei looked at her hands, her fair skin was also stained dark green in the space here. It was really hard for Mei to not associate this light with Mobius.

Moreover, she suddenly remembered that her original goal before entering the paradise of the past was to ask Mobius something.

Although she didn't have the chance to ask in the end, but somehow... wouldn't they bump into each other like this?

In any case, Mei continued to move forward.

She soon came to another platform.

She stood there quietly for more than ten minutes, but nothing happened.

There was no virtual number corpse, nor the pictures just now.

She was not discouraged, but just chose another road, and then she quickly walked to the connection between the platform and the road, raised one foot, and then slowly stepped over the dividing line between the platform and the road.

As expected, the movement of the virtual number corpse came from behind again.

Not surprisingly, three seconds later, as if everything was repeating itself, Mei faced a wreckage, sheathed her knife, and turned to embark on the "road".

The dizziness came again, but after Mei was prepared, her body did not waver, and she did not even blink.

After all, compared with the star gate transmission in the paradise of the past, this dizziness was too merciful.

In a flash, Mei saw a picture that did not belong to her again.

There were all kinds of delicacies in front of her, from big fish and meat to all kinds of exquisite desserts. Faced with such temptation, no one should be able to bear it.

This was indeed the case. The owner of the body was eager to eat with his hands and feet, but he was slender and muscular, and seemed to be quite strong. But the next moment, he spit out the contents of his mouth with a "Puh".

"Ah? Why did it suddenly become bitter?"

Without him saying it, Mei could feel the bitterness that permeated the entire tongue cavity, and when the sight returned to the table, what she saw was a pile of rotten and spoiled food crawling with flies and maggots.

"Ugh--"

The man vomited immediately, but couldn't get down halfway when he bent down--stuck, stuck by his belly that suddenly became bigger and rounder.

"Ahhh! Why did my body change back again! No! I don't want this!"

Amid screams, the picture faded, and Mei returned to the road.

She rubbed her temples hard, her face was not good.

She was not disgusted by the picture just now, but it was really...

Although it was only two attempts, she could basically confirm it.

The picture she saw should be a real "dream". Although it was just a guess, it was almost certain.

Dream...

Although she didn't get an answer from Mobius, when she thought of what Mikael said about the Stigmata Project, plus the prophecy circulating in the cult...

"Is this the space created by the Stigmata Project?"

Without hesitation, Mei continued to move forward, and everything she had done before began an uninterrupted cycle.

Wave after wave of imaginary numbers swept away the corpse, and one dream after another was shattered.

After a while, when Mei couldn't even remember how many dreams she had cleared, she suddenly felt the space tremble slightly.

"Hmm?"

The sound of gears turning enveloped the space. This time, the one behind Mei was no longer the virtual skeleton that delivered food, but a big guy she was very familiar with.

"Virtual skeleton of the god, Nihilism?"

It was a monster she had encountered in Changkong City. However, if it was just it, Mei would not be afraid.

Although the opponent had the ability to reverse time for a short time, which was close to the end, it was only for her own injuries. She could defeat the opponent when she became the Herrscher of Thunder again, not to mention that she had been training in the paradise for so long and had obtained the power of the Herrscher of Origin.

But just when she had just unsheathed her knife, another energy reaction that was dozens of times stronger than Nihilism exploded beside her. The golden components were entangled and pieced together around the round core, and finally became a mountain-high, cow-like monster.

It stood together with the humanoid Nihilism. In comparison, Nihilism seemed like a child who had not grown up.

Its front hooves moved quickly on the ground, as if it would rush towards Meiyi in the next moment.

Meiyi held the long sword and prepared to fight.

But the vibration of the space did not end. The source of this vibration came from behind her.

Mei turned her head to the side, keeping one eye alert to the two monsters in front of her, and then she saw a huge golden vine growing out from the void under the platform behind her, directly cutting off her retreat, and growing to a height of hundreds of meters in less than two seconds, and then blooming a flower as big as dozens of platforms.

"Uh... I seem to have made a mess?"

That's for sure.

"Why disturb us!"

"Why make us realize that it was a dream!"

"You deserve to die!!!"

"Boom--"

The noisy sound filled Mei's mind, causing her reaction ability to decrease exponentially, and she was almost hit by a small vine under the flower.

But in front, the cow and nihilism also rushed over, and the flower on the top of the head was also rapidly gathering and compressing energy. Obviously, her previous action of disturbing people's sleep ushered in the counterattack of the entire Stigmata plan, or the entire human beings who were immersed in the dream of the Stigmata plan.

"Come on!"

The long sword was unsheathed, and Mei's face was calm.

I don't know if I have a chance of winning, but since there is no way out, there is nothing to say.

Let's fight.

Sometimes I have to learn from Qianjie.

But what she didn't notice was that above her head, a ball of the same emerald green light was flickering faintly, and then, the light began to deform and reshape, gradually turning into a woman that Meiyi must feel familiar with.

Maybe she can't be simply defined as a "person"? After all, who would put a red barcode on their chest?