Chapter 1 Resurrection Overture (I)

The sun rises and the moon sets, the day and night change, and seven days pass by in a flash.

The Garden of the Holy Sepulchre is gently wrapped in a layer of barriers.

Here we have been blazing with the sun and have been attacked by the heavy rain in the afternoon. Countless monsters linger outside the barrier, showing malicious curiosity about the vivid breath of humans in the barrier. However, they dispersed because they could not destroy the barrier.

The breeze blew, rolling up the blue and white petals on the branches, falling on the ground in a scattered manner, and the tree hole that became the cemetery. The layer after layer of petals had covered the person sleeping in the tomb in just seven days, allowing him to be buried with the fallen flowers in this annihilated city.

[Countdown to resurrection: 0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds.]

[Resurrection Easter Egg takes effect, and all skills and props are returned.]

[Player Qi Leren completes the dream mission of the Holy Nun. The task completion rate is 117%. Obtain special mission clues and arrive at the Purgatory deep in the underground ant city within 23 days to trigger the mission on its own. Overdue payment is considered as a abandonment of the mission.

[Rewards the number of survival days of 90 days, unexpected factors interfere with the task process, and additional rewards the number of survival days of 10 days.]

[Players are all in one place, and achieve the achievement of "Deception and Deception King". Reward skill card "Secretly Observing".]

Qi Leren opened his eyes.

Stiff, soreness, heaviness... Countless negative states were stacked on him, making him almost think he was paralyzed. The world was a mottled and floating light and shadow, but the fresh breath of flowers and plants came from his nose.

The heart resumed beating, blood flowed again, and the lungs rose and fell again. Qi Leren gasped heavily. His body, which had been suspended by death for seven days, seemed to have just been lifted out of an ice coffin. The organs in his body almost forgot how to operate, so he could only reboot with difficulty, turning him from a dead person to a living person.

It took him a long time to remember all this, including his name, and the next thing went much smoother. Qi Leren quickly recalled where he was and what he had experienced - he was killed by the deceitful demon king, and the murderer obtained the demon crystal of the old demon king and left, but he concealed the fact that he would be resurrected seven days later.

Ning Zhou!

Qi Leren suddenly sat up from the tree tomb. He was dizzy because of insufficient blood supply. His spine made a scary "click" sound, which made him almost think it was about to break. Fortunately, it held it strongly. Because of the lack of oxygen in his brain, Qi Leren lay back and stared at the blue sky and white clouds above his head in a daze.

The dream mission of the Holy Nun has been completed, which means that Maria's realm has been unlocked. There is no doubt that the person who completed it is not the Qile people who "live and win", but Ning Zhou. Since the mission has been completed, Ning Zhou may have left the Holy City, and he will stay in the Holy Sepulchre Garden because Ning Zhou left his "corpse" here.

Thank God, Ning Zhou did not cremate him, thanks to the customs of the Holy See!

Orthodox Holy See people usually place the corpse in an open coffin and cover it with cloth or other materials. After the corpse decays into bones, then bury it deep. Because if the corpse is buried directly into the ground, the power of faith cannot dissipate, and the corpse often cannot decay for several years, so it is necessary to place it openly before waiting for the power of faith to naturally collapse. This process is also considered the process of the soul ascending to heaven.

Although Qi Leren is not a member of the Holy See, Ning Zhou still followed this custom and left him with a "full body".

After his body recovered some strength, Qi Leren's thinking returned to his usual state from the initial sluggishness. He sat up and drank some water, recalling what happened after he "death".

Death is like sleepy to the extreme. He can no longer feel everything outside, but he starts to have a "dream".

A dream that appeared and made him feel lost.

He dreamed of Ning Zhou's mother, Maria.

She sat on the swing of the Holy Sepulchre Garden, which was the big tree that was later broken by lightning. It was still lush and lush back then. At that time, Maria was not the famous holy nun who later became the famous one. She was just a young girl, swinging on the swing on the warm afternoon, enjoying the wonderful time of her youth and leisure.

The Qile people walked towards her. Maria saw him and nodded at him with a smile. Her blue eyes seemed to be a blue sky.

The sky... Qi Leren's consciousness was shocked by this deep blue. He suddenly flew up, as if his soul had transcended his body, rising higher and higher. The garden of the Holy Sepulchre under his feet began to become small, and the former site of the Holy Temple became far away. The entire holy city was taken into consideration by him, and the mountains, rivers and rivers in the distance... Countless demons were wandering, humans were suffering unprecedented suffering and struggling to survive. The cruelty of this world was beyond his imagination.

He seemed to have become a god overlooking the world, staring at the devastated land with compassion, grief but powerless. This pain whipped his soul, and great sorrow tormented him. He was eager to do something for this world, but found himself as weak as an ant.

"Look, when you stand at this height, you will find that you are smaller and weaker than you imagined."

A gentle female voice came from behind, and Qi Leren "saw" Maria behind her and understood why there was always a lingering feeling of compassion and sadness in her eyes.

"But even such a fragile human being has to persist in fighting against the world, mastering its own destiny, and mastering its own destiny. We have never given up. Let the demons return to hell, let humans dominate the human world, and let outsiders like you return to their own world - the martyrs who continue to work hard for this, and one day, this dream will be realized."

"Ms. Maria, why do we come here from our own world?" asked Qileren.

Maria shook her head gently: "This is something that can only be determined by the will of the world. We guessed that it was just an accident at first, but later it intentionally introduced more out of the countrymen to allow you to maintain this unbalanced world. Unfortunately, there are too many variables in you, and the degenerate out of the countrymen have exacerbated this imbalance... It still has not given up... Be careful, you are already the object of observation."

The feeling of being watched in the dark was like a ray of light on his back. Qi Leren wanted to ask more questions, but he had already started to fall.

From the sky, descended rapidly and fell to the earth!

The feeling of weightlessness was like every night awakened by a nightmare. He woke up in horror in the memories of death, sweating profusely.

Only Maria's gentle but regretful voice was left in her ears: "I can't tell you more. Come to the temple, I have something to hand over to you."

The dream about Mary was over, and the resurrected Qile people recalled this strange dream. He understood that this was not an ordinary dream, but the residual power of Mary affected him. It seemed that he had to go to the temple at the highest point of the former site of the Holy See.

His body gradually recovered his strength, and Qi Leren stared blankly at the Holy See uniforms covering him and the white roses that had already withered on them. Those who dared not think about it carefully rushed back to his mind.

Love at first sight when we meet, feelings in danger secretly arise, life and death before the disaster... The beauty in these memories was once deeply buried in the shock when we met again, but his death was the key to awakening everything, and the confession that we should not say by chance was the straw that crushed everything.

He shouldn't say anything, he should die in silence.

If time goes back and let Qi Leren choose again, he will never write down the 7. He would rather swallow this overflowing love silently, and would rather let Ning Zhou think he is really dead than force him to walk into the dead end of the lake of fire.

He cannot tell someone he loves deeply, and perhaps he loves him deeply. He loves him.

Because this is not allowed, sinful love.

He was not afraid of falling in love with Ning Zhou, but he was afraid that this love would bring pain to Ning Zhou. He was even afraid of the hope and longing deep in his heart - how could he expect a saint to admit his sins just to respond to his love?

This secret expectation is selfishness, and even sin.

How is Ning Zhou now? Where is he? Will he return to the Holy See? Can he still go back?

When love breaks through the barriers of taboos, how can a devout believer face the reality that he has deviated from his faith? He is destined to give up one of them.

Qi Leren stretched out his hand tremblingly and picked up the bouquet of white roses that were placed on him.

The roses have long withered, and their yellow and fragile petals have withered from the stems that have been shaved off, and they are exactly seven.

That was Ning Zhou's silent answer.

Qi Leren slowly smiled, but his eyes were wet.

On the ring finger of his left hand, there was a ring woven with grass stems. It was so rough and simple, like a gadget that beginners would tease it casually. If it fell to the ground, no one would look at it more.

But it was placed on the ring finger of Qileren, a position that symbolized love, commitment, and eternality.

Therefore, it is destined not to be a casually woven toy, but the most faithful and bravest answer by a devout believer after torture himself and subverting his faith.

A pair of lovers who should not love each other said what they say from their souls at both ends of life and death.

I love you.
Chapter completed!