Lies are so heavy.
Su Jue, who was used to using disguise to achieve his goals, finally felt the heaviness of this sentence. People who like to lie will one day taste the bitter consequences.
"sorry."
His voice was hoarse and dry.
Hearing Su Jue's apology, Qiyana's smile became even brighter. She paused for a moment, as if adjusting her tone.
"It's okay, I forgive you."
She answered seriously.
Since it is an apology, you should answer seriously.
The world was breaking apart at an increasingly faster speed, the edge of the entire city began to fall into the dark void, and the girl's shadow slowly turned blue.
"Also, I'm not a phantom, I'm Kiana. The Kiana who met you in Sky City and said goodbye to you in Sky City. I'm not anyone's shadow, nor am I a dream born in an illusion."
"Ok, I know."
In fact, Su Jue didn't know that he had always thought that the other person was just a shadow of his imagination, so he expressed his feelings without any scruples.
But why?
Why couldn't he discover it earlier? If he had discovered it earlier, he could have forcibly terminated the plan and broken free from the shackles of the illusion.
As long as you kill yourself, the illusion will naturally break.
"Hey, Su Jue, I heard that when I wake up again, I won't remember what happened here. Can you come to me then and tell me everything about this place? Don't run away from me anymore, don't hide from me anymore, don't...lie to me anymore."
Kiana's voice became weaker and weaker, and Su Jue remained silent. After the illusion ended, all the memories of Kiana were sealed in his mind, and even he himself could not remember anything in the illusion.
"Is it not possible?" The girl's mood became depressed.
Su Jue loosened his arms that were hugging her and pressed his forehead against hers, the two of them being so close.
"No, I was just thinking, if I suddenly found you and told you that we had been together in the dream for more than 20 days, would you think I was lying to you?"
"Of course not... Because, no matter what you say, I will believe you."
A smile blooms in this desperate doomsday, in this broken dream.
"Su Jue."
"Ah."
"Put your ear close to me, I want to tell you a secret."
He lowered his head and put his ear close to Kiana's lips.
"I……"
The young man knelt in the ruins, pretending to listen, but the girl was no longer in his arms.
After a very long time, the shattered illusion was only ten meters away from him. Su Jue raised his head as if coming to his senses and looked at the light blue spots floating in the sky.
"I heard."
……
"You succeeded. The core of the Ruler of Reason now belongs to you. It is up to you to decide whether to erase or keep the three hundred thousand thoughts, including mine."
"Really? Do you think I'll keep them after they betrayed me once?"
"It depends on you. I have done my best." Joyce was unable to resist Su Jue's control. The only thing he could do was to correctly guide Kiana to join the dream. Now, no matter what the result was, he no longer had any negotiating conditions.
The black Herrscher core kept spinning in Su Jue's hand. Su Jue stared at it and slowly tightened his fingers. Cracks immediately appeared on the surface of the core, and black lightning spread everywhere.
The gray eyes looked calmly at the gradually shattered Herrscher Core, and finally, Su Jue squeezed it hard.
Click.
A broken sound sounded.
"A boring toy." Su Jue loosened his hand. The cracked Herrscher Core lay obediently in his hand, not daring to make any resistance.
Su Jue threw the Herrscher Core away without even looking at it again.
He stored his consciousness in the core and integrated the three hundred thousand together. In a sense, he had become the new power of the core of reason and law.
In this way, no matter whether it is Walter or Bronya who becomes the Herrscher of Reason, it is equivalent to working for him.
The core of reason returns to the imaginary space again. Whether it can be reconstructed depends on whether Bronya has enough talent.
……
The Domination Theater that enveloped the entire city finally disappeared, and the concert seemed to be coming to an end. Su Jue's plan came to a successful conclusion, and everything was over.
Su Jue stood on the roof of the concert building, looking at the grand stage through the glass dome.
The mental flaw that has been bothering Su Jue has been erased, and it's time to start a new journey.
From now on, he will no longer be controlled by emotions, truly.
——Because he is beginning to manipulate emotions.
"Kiana, maybe I really do like you."
Chapter 291 Time Crystal
The melodious singing voice echoed in the concert venue. In the middle of the stage with tens of thousands of people, Eden was the brightest and most dazzling star. The fans waved their cheering sticks rhythmically and listened quietly to the songs that healed their hearts.
"Hmm." In the dimly lit auditorium, the girl leaning on Ji Zi's shoulder let out a slight sob.
"Are you awake?" Ji Zi's gentle voice came, and Kiana slowly opened her eyes, her consciousness a little dazed.
Looking at the figures, Kiana suddenly felt as if she was in another world. But soon her memory emerged in her mind. She still remembered that she came to the concert with Jizi.
Did I just fall asleep?
"Teacher Jizi, I'm sorry, I fell asleep."
The girl gave an apologetic smile and subconsciously rubbed her sleepy eyes, but her fingertips were stained with warm water.
After the song ended, the spotlight on the stage began to rotate, and the light swept across the audience, bringing a moment of light. The bright light passed through the white teardrops, shining with a crystal glimmer.
"Are you too tired recently...why are you crying?"
Kiana was startled when she heard Jizi's caring greeting.
"Crying?" She stretched out her hand blankly and gently stroked her cheek.
Tears slid down her cheeks and soaked her sleeves. Before she knew it, tears had already covered the girl's face.
Did she cry? Why did she cry? Kiana didn't know, her eyes were full of confusion.
I should smile. I have found Teacher Ji Zi and everything is getting better. I should smile.
She curled the corners of her mouth, trying to make a smile.
But, she failed.
why?
There was a hollowness in the girl's eyes, as if even the light had been swallowed up.
"Don't force yourself." The confused girl was held in Jizi's arms and rubbed her head gently. "It's just a nightmare. It will be fine."
"Just a nightmare...?"
But why does my heart hurt so much that I can't even breathe?
It's like someone has cut a piece of me alive, or like I was lost at a station during a journey.
It’s like... losing something very, very, very important.
But what is it?
She couldn't remember it. She only remembered that she seemed to have made a promise with him, a promise that she had to fulfill no matter what.
"Su Jue..."
The concert was about to end, and Wendy's singing voice finally rang out on the stage. The girl in the wheelchair sang freely under the attention of hundreds of thousands of people.
Wendy's dream came true at this moment.
At this moment, she is as dazzling as a bright star.
Where the spotlight could not reach, Kiana seemed to still be shrouded in thick darkness.
Above the dome of the stadium, less than 50 meters away from the audience seats, Su Jue stood there with his eyes tightly closed.
The invisible rhythm surged in his heart, and the true energy of Taixu sword energy continued to entangle, tearing at his consciousness like a storm.
In the lake of the heart, the water surface was rippling, but when the fallen leaves fell into the center of the lake, the originally rippling water surface turned into still water, as calm as a mirror.
The mental flaw that had been preventing him from mastering the Taixu Sword God was healed quietly without him noticing.
……
The purpose of the Illusion Project is to experience the memories of 300,000 people through illusions, and use the massive amount of consciousness to erase the flaws that Kiana brought to oneself.
As long as the plan is completed, the moment the illusion is broken, all memories of Kiana will be erased, and he will no longer be eroded by emotions.
But when the girl said goodbye to him, when Kiana disappeared from his arms, everything turned into nothingness and Su Jue finally understood.
Perhaps the flaw that troubled him was never Kiana, but himself.
As the Ruler of a Thousand People, Su Jue carries the sorrow and despair of a thousand people and is destined to meet his own death in loneliness.
He didn't want to die, so he kept calculating and pretending.
However, in the process of interacting with Kiana, he was gradually attracted by the girl's radiance, but he was like a moth that dared not chase the fire. He wanted to get close but was afraid of being burned.
Gradually, Su Jue began to deceive himself, constantly convince himself, and blame everything on the plan.
However, after more than twenty days in the illusion, he finally ran after being exhausted.
He was walking in a strange city, where everything was completely different from reality.
No need to bear the despair of others, no need to consider everything in reality. Just like an ordinary person, like an ordinary boy, feel the warmth of those close to you.
The conflict between rationality and sensibility made him confused, and the tearing apart between reality and theater made him suffer.
It was like a blazing flame searing his soul and torturing his heart.
In the end, all emotions burst out at the final moment.
He was like a dried-up puppet abandoned in a dark cave, and the first green bud was born through the one-meter sunlight that leaked through the rock wall.
The moment the illusion was broken, he woke up from his dream.
“The way to heal emotional flaws is never to forget them, but to learn to accept your feelings.”
Looking at the fragments of illusion that tried to take away the memory, the golden thread of domination began to spread.
In the boundless imaginary space, the monsters in the blood-red sand sea began to roar, and the gray-haired Herrscher had a wanton smile on his face.
He looked at the tree of imaginary numbers, which was far away.
He stood at the place where he first set foot, and his journey to the tree returned to the original starting point.
No one would know that there was once an arrogant lunatic who broke off a piece of crystal branch from the hand of the god.
……
The singing voice drifted away with the evening breeze and the concert ended perfectly amid cheers.
Su Jue opened his eyes while standing in the cold wind, and the inverted golden tree slowly disappeared in his eyes.
The pupil patterns disappeared, and the memories of the illusion flowed through Su Jue's mind.
He opened his hand, and a small blue crystal floated in it.
cost?
Not important anymore.
As the crystal floated, the surrounding space seemed to be disturbed and became extremely unstable. Su Jue stared at the crystal, and his eyes gradually became gentle.
After all, what he gained was far more valuable than all that came before.
[Time Crystal]
A certain period of time is forcibly sealed in it, with complete memories, complete existence, and complete emotions.
