Above the gray fog

The moth flew lightly beside the twisted creature.

When he got closer, Lin Shan could get a rough look. The unique four-pointed star symbol on his forehead silently proved...the identity of the living beings on the earth. They were direct citizens of the Semitic tribe.

Although he didn't know why he lost consciousness, it could be judged from the spirituality radiating from his body that this was at least a Sequence 6 creature.

"Um?"

On the neck of this twisted creature, there was a flame moth lying there quietly, exactly the same as the one in front of Lin Shan.

Lin Shan slowly stepped across the living creatures. For some reason, this space gave him a familiar feeling. The longer he stayed, the stronger this feeling became.

Lin Shan thought silently in his heart, had he been to this place before?

No matter how he looked through his memories, he couldn't find a place that matched this twisted space.

The moth was leading the way, and it was only then that Lin Shan discovered that the green thread of fate had changed.

The other end of the silk thread was actually connected to the moth.

It wasn't like this at first...

The course of his destiny changed because he met this moth?

Following the moth's guidance, he walked in a winding way, during which he encountered two unconscious Semitic citizens.

The deeper you go, the stronger the feeling of familiarity becomes, until at a certain moment, a memory suddenly appears.

A small house, a small courtyard, and a red figure in the courtyard.

"It feels the same as Zhao Xiaoan's 'home'..."

However, it was the outer edges of the courtyard that were distorted, and the interior of the courtyard was not affected.

Is this place on the same level as Zhao Xiaoan's small courtyard? Lin Shan couldn't help but think in his heart.

The flame moth flapped its wings and flew forward slowly and slowly.

At a certain moment, many fires appeared in front.

It was thousands of moths, gathering from all directions.

Although the flames carried by the moths are very dim, so many moths gathered together illuminate the surrounding area translucently.

Lin Shan had no time to appreciate this wonderful scenery. He stared at the center area, where there was a square metal box.

It was a box used by Semitic youths to store ‘moth fire’.

Thousands of flame moths are constantly burrowing out of the box, and some moths are returning to the box from the outside world.

"really..."

The appearance of this box verified Lin Shan's previous guess.

Everything is Qi Zhuo's handiwork.

Lin Shan sighed, how could a person who had been able to plan for such a long time die so unexpectedly? The parchment also once said that Qi Zhuo was the son of luck, and his life experience was enough to prove it.

He is the kind of person who finds it difficult to die, or... can be resurrected even after death.

"Are you waiting for me?" Lin Shan looked at the box in front of him and asked calmly.

"You were an accident." A hollow voice came from every moth, thousands of moths, and every moth was in unison.

This scene reminded Lin Shan of the cluster civilization he had encountered before.

Perhaps this is the real super-spec sequence - 'Mothfire'.

Lin Shan had doubts in his mind before. He had seen many super-standard sequences, but this was the first time he had seen something as useless as the 'Moth Flame'. It could only light a fire. How could it be considered super-standard...

Now it seems that Qi Zhuo is deliberately hiding everything.

"You are not the first creature to say this to me." Lin Shan replied seriously.

Some flame moths began to gather and form a human shape.

The empty sound echoed again.

"I see a trace of me in you. We are not people who enjoy the welfare of the tribe, but the leaders who pull the tribe forward."

"You have failed." Lin Shan said.

"No, I'm almost successful." Qi Zhuo shook his head.

"You are no longer you." Lin Shan continued.

"You know what? From the beginning, I never thought that the promotion ceremony could be successful, because the ceremony was incomplete." Qi Zhuo smiled.

"The ceremony is not complete, why did you choose to be promoted?" Lin Shan looked at it.

"Because... Rosa Kahlo, and her sequence - 'Forgotten River'." Qi Zhuo said slowly, "The ceremony is incomplete, but if Wangchuan cooperates, it can be completed using an alternative method. promotion."

"Everyone knows that fate is not fixed, and I have no way to control the future. During my promotion, many things happened that were out of my control. Do you want to hear about it?" Moths in the air gathered downwards, forming a A table and two stools.

Lin Shan just hesitated for a moment, took a few steps forward and sat on the stool, "If you want to say something, I'm naturally willing to listen."

A humanoid creature made of flames sat opposite Lin Shan, and a voice came from its body.

"I first approached Rosa Kahlo because I really liked her. Later I learned about the nine calamities of human nature, so I wanted to use her to get through the love calamity. Not to mention the process, but the result was that I needed to kill her. Compared with love, What I care more about is strength. Of course, everything that happened later did not achieve my goal. "

"Angels invaded the Semitic tribe, and Rosa Kahlo was replaced by angels. I didn't know about this at first, but I have been with Rosa Kahlo for so long, and I can clearly detect her abnormalities. I investigated secretly, and finally I know about the angel, I know Natasha's name..."

"Angels are very strange. They cannot die or have children. They always live in reincarnation. Each reincarnation is a new life with memories. I looked up ancient books everywhere and learned about Natasha's deeds. She He is one of the few holy angels in the angel race. He once mastered the super-standard sequence 'Moth Flame' and is a nightmare for enemies outside the circle."

"Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the rule of angels was overthrown, the human circle was disintegrated, and all the characteristics of angels were stripped away. 'Moth Fire' was also among them, but 'Moth Fire' is very special. It is a super-standard sequence and requires ritual promotion. ”

"Natasha will naturally not tell others about the ritual, so over the years, the 'Moth Fire' has been circulating among various tribes. Some powerful tribes have obtained the ritual using special methods and successfully inherited the 'Moth Fire', but for such a long time As time passed, various races changed, and the 'Moth Flame' was lost again. Its ordinary appearance would only make people think that it was a Sequence 9 trait, or a Sequence 9 that could not be carried. "

"In addition to being promoted through rituals, 'Mothfire' has another way of promotion, that is, it chooses its own master. Hundreds of thousands of years later, 'Mothfire' chose Natasha again, but because of Natasha I don’t have the characteristics before Sequence 5, so I can’t inherit them. There’s a law involved here—if a creature’s characteristics are forcibly stripped away or passed on to other creatures, there’s no way to inherit the characteristics again.”

"So, although 'Moth Flame' chose Natasha, Natasha has no way to carry her and can only keep her with her."

"I knew about the existence of 'Moth Fire' through some way, and made some deals with Natashael. She gave me 'Moth Fire' and the incomplete promotion ceremony. She told me that the ceremony was complete, but I know very well that she cannot give me a complete ceremony, and I have never thought of using a ceremony to complete my promotion."

"I used the ritual she gave me to merge with 'Moth Fire', and performed the ritual normally. During the ceremony, I used my ability to imprint all my memories and plans on 'Moth Fire', making 'Moth Fire' become another me. That’s me now, and my own soul will be broken after the ritual fails.”

"Obviously, the fact that I'm standing here now... proves that it all worked out."

"As long as I use the 'Forgotten River' to bring my soul back again, I can be promoted perfectly. My soul is just broken and returns to the Sea of ​​Origin, but it does not really disappear."

"The original plan was to collect source matter to activate the Forgotten River, but...your appearance gave me a new idea. Are you here for the Forgotten River?"

"You have the recipe for 'Lethe River'..."

"How about we make a deal?"