After settling Metien's matter and finishing dinner, it was now time to deal with the most difficult matter.
To be honest, until now, Linge still doesn't know what kind of mentality he should have when facing Alice. In the past half month, the genius player has been shutting himself in the room and resisting communication with the outside world. And Linge has also been
They all asked others, such as Saint Xalia or Ovela, to contact her. At this time, the young man showed hesitation. To be honest, this is a word that is almost impossible to associate with Ringer.
, in the eyes of his companions, he is always so firm, so calm, so keen, and is the well-deserved leader of the team.
On this journey after leaving the Mirror Star and returning to the Mirror Star, no one was missing or more than one among them. However, the things that had been changed were not visible to the naked eye, but were hidden deep in everyone.
In an individual’s heart, those who were once carefree will fall into
Those who have stepped out of the prison are willing to be prisoners again; those who once treated everything as a game will be cruelly hit by reality; those who think they have seen everything through will not have any expectations or disappointments about this journey.
, but felt deeply uneasy and confused.
Mr. Yang Ke, am I in a fog now?
Things are unpredictable. Who can say that Metien, who is worried about you, has not grown up, and who can say that Ringer, who is entrusted with your trust, has not lost his way in the fog?
Standing at the top of the stairs, the young man sighed silently and was about to go upstairs to have a good talk with Alice, at least to convince her to leave the room and stop being so resistant to communication. Since she didn't show up, the people on Cloud Whale Sky Island
The atmosphere has become much more depressing. Although the proprietress, Metien and Saint Charlia are trying their best to liven up the atmosphere, hoping that everyone can cheer up again. However, with the absence of Alice, who likes to play tricks, something is still missing.
In other words, on this empty island, everyone is indispensable. No matter who is missing, people will feel sad.
So, for that girl, do Alice, Tiandis, the Young Queen, and even everyone on Cloud Whale Island have the same meaning? It is impossible for her to make a choice, but people have to let her make it.
choice, so it is not so unexpected that she would make such a decision in the end.
Ringer regretted that he had not figured this out earlier. His innate slowness and resistance always caused him to lose something.
——Put away your thorns, Ringer.
In the dark, someone said to him: Even hedgehogs will find a suitable distance to keep each other warm. No one can live without others.
Ringer felt that it seemed to be the voice of Mr. Yang Ke, and sometimes it became like the voice of Saint Xalia. Occasionally, he would have a disrespectful thought, as if it was the goddess of creation who was trying to convey revelation to him.
Is that the so-called divine revelation or apocalypse? But when he came to his senses, he heard nothing in his ears. Instead, there was a person standing in front of him, looking at the young man with a complicated expression.
"Before you go to see Alice," she said, "could you please chat?"
…
Behind the Fairy's Sleep Inn lies a lush woodland, and in the woodland stands an ancient sycamore tree, which stretches across the line of sight like a giant and steals everyone's attention. Those autumn chestnuts and horse stone pine trees
They are already tall enough, but this sycamore tree is actually much taller than them, so that the crown of the tree is like an umbrella canopy, blocking out the sky and the sun.
The wooden and stone hotel is completely shrouded in its own shadow. It is too high, and even the lights on the ground cannot transmit its light to that height, but this does not affect the visibility in the forest at all. Those emerald green
The fiery red and withered yellow leaves seemed to glow on their own, turning the base of the tree into a blazing wilderness.
This can be said to be in sharp contrast to the dark forest of eternal night. If you stand on the heights of the Ansers Mountains and look far away, you may be able to see giant trees rising from the ground in a dark forest, facing towards
The luminous fallen leaves scattered around are like the ancient ocean nurturing life, causing billions of luminous jellyfish to be born from the sea, drifting in the light, and finally sinking into the darkness, which is spectacular and shocking.
Standing under the tree, the figure became like dust, not much bigger than the fallen leaves in the sky.
Lin Ge looked at Xino who was stroking the tree trunk and didn't know what to say for a moment.
Just like in the past half month, he has been letting others get in touch with Alice, while he has been avoiding the matter intentionally or unintentionally, Xino has also been avoiding him, intentionally or unintentionally avoiding the interaction with the young man.
Contact. Is this a kind of resistance, or is it based on other reasons? Ringer is not sure, but he knows
The solution he proposed to Alice's problem must have made the knight from the fields of Grindelwald very dissatisfied. In fact, the final result proved that her dissatisfaction was justified, and escaping could not solve anything.
It is a fantasy to expect a person to be able to escape from problems forever.
For the death of Themis in the heaven, many people must bear responsibility, from Alice to Ringer, from Carabosse to Tiandis, but Xino does not have this need. She is the only person who has keenly seen through the key to the problem. At the same time,
She also warned everyone more than once, and finally wanted to go into battle personally to save the defeat, but was stopped by the lucky Alice. She
After doing everything she can, if she still blames herself for this, I'm afraid it's not a proper mentality. But the fact is that in the past half month, the girl knight has been honing her spear and martial arts skills day and night, except for eating.
She spends all her time outside of rest and training on training, and her diligence has reached a level that makes others worry about her. It can even be described as venting.
Feeling guilty? Or trying to calm down in this way? Or maybe she sees further than others. When everyone is still drowning in sadness, she has cheered up and is always ready to face the next step.
There was a battle.
At some point, Ringer lost his past ability to keenly detect other people's moods. He could no longer see through anyone's thoughts, and it was the same for Xino. So he didn't know what the girl knight wanted to do with him.
He just waited silently for her to take the initiative to speak and stir up a topic.
Xino withdrew her hand from the trunk of the sycamore tree. The rough texture reminded her of her own weapon. The Holy Spear White Thorn is a weapon made of entangled white thorn branches. The entire material is completely made of plants and does not have the toughness of steel.
, and not as smooth as metal. Every time she held the gun, she would feel like she was touching a tree, a vine or a flower stem, but it was not a weapon.
But it must function as a weapon, because that is the mission of the holy spear and the meaning of the birth of the knights of the Goldstaff family.
She suddenly turned around and spoke, her voice as bright and clear as silver as the moon: "Linge, do you know why I haven't taken the initiative to find you in the past half month?"
This question made Ringer think about it for a while. After a while, he replied: "Because I let you down?"
In fact, he originally wanted to say that it was because you were angry, but that was too direct, and in the minds of young people, Xino was definitely not the kind of character who liked to show off her temper. If she was really angry, she should directly challenge Lin Ge.
Mingcai is right, instead of sulking alone and making everyone uncomfortable. Facts have proved that the young people's impression of Xino is still valid to this day, even the girl knight herself feels so.
"If I am disappointed, I may still be disappointed at first, but I will soon calm down, because I have already vowed not to dwell on the past, but to face the future bravely." Xino said calmly: "Actually,
In the past half month, I have been reflecting on myself."
"Reflection?" Linge couldn't help but be surprised: "Why?"
He didn't think Xino had anything to reflect on in this matter.
But in her own eyes, it does exist.
"I'm reflecting on the fact that I was too impulsive and too harsh on you, Ringer." Xino raised his head and stared at the umbrella-shaped canopy that shimmered like an ancient ocean under the dark night, and said softly: "When Ellie
Si needs someone to help her walk
When she went out of fantasy and faced reality, you didn't give her a hand, but pushed her deeper. I used to feel puzzled, doubt and blame you for this, but it wasn't until these days that I figured it out.
It’s not that there’s no way, it’s that there’s no choice, right?”
She withdrew her gaze and fixed it on the young man's face. The wine-red pupils were filled with amber-like luster in the night. It was the wisdom that had finally begun to ferment after a long period of precipitation. The girl looked at others, but at the same time she also looked at herself.
In my heart, I gained the power of thinking from the ancient ancestral precepts of the Goldstaff family.
The young man pursed his lips, unable to answer.
He didn't speak, and Xino explained to herself: "You have already seen it, right? Alice's addiction to fantasy is not a simple love, but a drowning person who finally grasped a life-saving straw, even if
There is only one, and she will try her best to comfort herself that she can finally survive, and selectively
Ignoring the fact that this straw was sinking with her. It was no longer even a fantasy, but a delusion. Generally speaking, only the most extreme means can break the most paranoid delusion, considering the situation at the time.
, the most extreme method I can think of is nothing more than...death."
Nothing can stimulate Alice's spirit more than death, and get her out of her paranoid state of delusion. Moreover, it must be the death of someone close to her. Alice has never cared about the death of others, and she has never cared about it.
For her, it was just the demise of another piece of data in the game. The only thing she wouldn't regard as data was Ringer, Metien, and her friends who had walked side by side.
Complete death, bidding farewell to this world, leaving her life, never to appear again, that period is forever - for players who dominate a game world and have never had the concept of time and life and death, maybe "forever" is
It hurts enough, like a needle pricking their hearts.
But the question is, can Ringer use this method to force Alice to face reality?
He has no right to do that.
Moreover, he sincerely did not want to see that situation arise, so he deliberately turned a blind eye to the key to the problem. Instead, he told Alice that you are the most talented player in the universe, and that all conspiracies and calculations are not a problem for you.
, all evil villains will be defeated by you, and you have to keep winning until you win a happy ending for everyone, because, if you don't win...
will die.
No matter whose death it is, it seems to announce the end of this game. Alice finally got out of the protective shell she weaved for herself, although not in a happy way, and the price was that she sealed it with another protective shell.
A girl who lost herself and refused to face reality after losing her fantasy, where did she put her heart?
Xino thought about it for half a month before she figured out the twists and turns. When she fully understood it, it was too late. At this time, the person she wanted to blame turned out to be herself. She blamed herself for being too slow and not enough.
Calm down, although she didn't quite understand Alice's true character at that time, but...she understood death.
No one knows better than her what it feels like to have friends and relatives die in front of you, especially when they die because of you. It feels like your heart is being grabbed and you are suffocated, even if it is a song.
The knights of the Cetaphil family also needed to spend an entire college period to let go. Finally, with the help of a group of strangers from afar and those classmates who never left, they finally reconciled with themselves.
So, who do Alice and Ringer need to help them reconcile?
"I should apologize to you, Ringer." The girl's tone was as complex as her eyes: "I seem... I have never thought about this issue from your standpoint. If it were me at that time, I probably wouldn't be able to
Make better decisions than you do.”
The young man was surprised by this sudden apology, but after being surprised, he shook his head slightly: "This is never the best choice, after all, Alice lost in the end - no, it should be said, we, we all lost.
"
Even if Xino goes into battle, they will lose, because that means sacrifice, and sacrifice means that the problem has returned to the original point. Alice will still close herself in and resist reality because of the death of her companions.
This is a dead end, and it has been doomed since Alice regarded the world as a game. Ringer once tried to find a way out of the dead end in his own way, but the reason for his failure also happened from the beginning.
It was laid down from the beginning: Alice regards the world as a game and her enemies as data. She cannot kill her enemies for her ideals like Carabosse. She just "kills" a piece of data as a player.
.
If you have this mentality, then for the young queen whose source is idealism, victory or defeat is naturally destined.
In the final analysis, Alice just doesn't want to face the fact.
"Victory equals sacrifice."
Xino's voice deepened: "Even the greatest victory is destined to be accompanied by the smallest sacrifice."