Atypical S

"I'm going in," replied Pearl.

According to the logic of the timeline, Pearl's inference is that if he doesn't go in now, then there will be no scene that Naosika saw after traveling through the future.If there is no such scene, then the past self will not be able to make the other party's happiness value full.In other words, to truly complete a character, it may take until he enters the temple and takes the step he should take.

However, these are just Pearl's speculations.

There are too many "may" and "should", such vague definitions make people uneasy.

Whether the road ahead is life or death is uncertain, but we still have to go.

Pearl couldn't imagine the consequences of disrupting the timeline.

In this world, it doesn't mean that the future we see is not good, and that we can change it by going back to the past.Destiny is not something to be taken lightly.

Everything that happened yesterday made today. This sentence means that whether it is going back to the past or what happened.If a thing has happened in the future, then it is inevitable.

The most vivid statement is a classic example.A person found that the fruit tree in the garden was crushed, so he wanted to go back to the past to catch the person who broke his fruit tree, but found that when he went back to the past and landed, the landing point deviated.He fell on his fruit tree and crushed it.

This incident is a cycle, a strange circle, but no matter how strange the circle is, there is an entry point. Maybe in the beginning, the fruit trees were not crushed like this.But no matter what, no matter what you do, try hard to change the past, but the fruit tree can't escape the fate of being crushed.

All causes and effects are like a spiral circle. From a top-down perspective, at first glance, the circle will still fall at the place that is both the starting point and the ending point.

No matter how hard people try to change.

This is the way to go.

Hearing Pearl's answer, Dionysus couldn't help asking,

"why?"

He was really puzzled. If he didn't feel that he knew this person deeply enough, he would feel that Pearl was ambitious and wanted to take away the chance to become a god.

Faced with Dionysus' doubts, Pearl couldn't say a thousand words. He could only answer, "I have something to do." But he quickly added, "But this time it's just my private business. , just to be safe, you can wait for me at the entrance after entering."

Now that the task has been completed, there is no need for them to take risks.Pearl glanced at the familiar faces these days one by one, the outer world was collapsing, and everything was passing by at a rapid speed.

And everything will become a thing of the past.This might be the last time we meet.Pearl looked at Dionysus's face and thought suddenly.

"What a joke!"

After a brief daze, Dionysus took a step closer to Pearl and grabbed his collar, "I walked here with you, not to turn around and leave at this time.

After speaking, he waved his hand to the person beside him, motioning Pearl to look.Naosika looked around at the crowd, smiled at Pearl, and sighed, "In the end, it is you who still make people stick together."

This sentence blocked all the rhetoric that was going to be said but had no time to say it in the future. Pearl's eyes flicked over the faces of the rest of the people. Everyone didn't speak, but they all stood still.

Pearl sighed, "I told you in advance that if you encounter danger after entering, as long as you don't die immediately, I won't care about it." Said softly that she didn't even believe it, and Pearl took the lead towards the white building.There was a chuckle behind him, but Pearl couldn't turn his head back.Embarrassed, he looked up at the gate that he hadn't had time to look at before.

Hastu and his party had already entered first, and the door of the building was wide open. Pearl tried to walk in, but was blocked by an invisible wall and could not enter.Stretch out your hand to knock, and the sound is like hitting an invisible glass cover, which is heavy and muffled.

"Here... it says that we are to be dripped with blood."

The priest found five stone cups on an altar.The cup was fixed on the altar, with rough patterns carved on it. The rough texture of the stone made the patterns look blurry, giving it a weather-beaten look.Everyone leaned over the cup together, and a twisted, roughly carved eye looked at everyone at the bottom of the cup.There is a circle of words in the cup, which is small and circles around the mouth of the cup.

"...Don't seek unity in one, everything will end."

Another weird sentence.Pearl frowned.

The priest read out in a low voice.He read it quickly, unlike people who saw this sentence for the first time, he seemed to have seen this sentence before, and recited it proficiently as if he had memorized it by heart.But his tone was also full of doubts, as if wondering why this sentence was here.

"Do you know what this means?" Pearl looked at the priest after noticing the strangeness of the priest.Not only the priests, Naosika also had a strange expression on his face.Pearl affirmed, "You all know that saying."

The priest sighed, "Don't you all read the papers?"

Dionysus scraped the stone cup with his knife, but failed to scratch it a bit.Hearing the priest's question, he sneered, "Is that kind of thing necessary to read?"

The priest looked at Dionysus helplessly, and explained.It turned out that this was a sentence about the double-faced god in a religious text.The full text is very long and the excerpts are incomplete.But the general meaning priest can still explain.After hearing what the priest said, Pearl got a general idea.The double-faced god is not an individual, but a patchwork of two individuals. It is said that only in this way can it maintain its existence.Not seeking unity in one means that completeness cannot be demanded at one time and one place, and everything in the world is doomed to be incomplete. Although it is regrettable, completeness means the end.

Pearl frowned, feeling that this explanation was unreasonable, but she didn't have time to think about it.

Dionysus had already found a way to enter while the priest was speaking. He cut a small hole in his hand with a short knife and squeezed out a few drops of blood. He read the sentence again, and then a ball of golden light surrounded him. up.Everyone was startled, and when the light faded, they found Dionysus standing where he was safe and sound, and they were relieved.

Dionysus took a few steps towards the gate that he couldn't enter just now, and then found that the invisible barrier had disappeared.

The rest of the people also learned to do the same, and after careful confirmation, everyone walked into the door with confidence.

The scene was very different this time from Pearl's hasty rush in.The straight avenue is submerged in the water, and a shallow layer of water covers that avenue. I don’t know where the light comes from, and the water surface is shimmering. The water curtain on the wall is rattling, spreading along the entrance all the way to the depths of the passage. .The thick water curtain blocked the glazed windows on the wall.Pearl didn't see the weird window and heaved a sigh of relief.

"What are we going to do, go over there?"

Hao Ruilas looked at the road in the water worriedly. Although there was only a shallow layer of water on it, there was a bottomless abyss beside the road. The water there was deeper than the shallow water flowing on the road. Deeper, bluer, and quieter.On the opposite side is a high wall and stone steps, which looks like a port-like building from a distance.

"It always felt like there was going to be something coming out of the bottom."

Looking at the dark bottom of the water, Hao Ruilas couldn't help murmuring.

Pearl didn't hesitate, he took off the extra heavy things on his body, and by the way, he sighed with emotion about the silver whip that was no longer in his hand, and then put the things aside.

"If you see something wrong, get out."

Dionysus hesitated and stopped Pearl, "Let me go."

"No, I'm faster than you. If I can't pass, you don't need to try again." This is not Pearl boasting, his speed is indeed the fastest among these people.The people did not refute.This is not something that can be disputed.

Taking a deep breath, under the silent gaze of everyone, Pearl gathered strength under his feet, kicking off the ground and flying out like an arrow.Just as he hit the surface for the first time, something jumped out of the bottom.

The speed is fast but not inevitable.Tentacles with venomous stings sprang up from the deep water, glowing with a faint blue light.It jerked past Pearl's feet.Pearl jumped up, avoided it, and continued to gallop forward.

On the other side, the monster kept attacking. Pearl cut away the unavoidable tentacles with a dagger, but couldn't find a door to leave this place and lead to another place.

At this time, Dionysus and the others who were standing on the other side were also attacked, either advancing or retreating. Dionysus and Naosika grabbed one of them in unison, and carried the priest and Horuilas from the opposite side. Run to Pearl.

"Does this thing have to be killed to stop it?" Dionysus avoided the general attack, rushed to Pearl's side, and asked him back to back.

"I don't think so." The tentacle grew back after being chopped off, seemingly endlessly.

The priest shouted behind them, "There are words on the wall."

Naosika was in charge of standing in front of the priest so that he could check the documents above.

"It says here that you offer a glass of water to the world, and then put down your weapons." The priest paused and found the stone cup hanging on the wall like an ornament, but this stone cup was much heavier than the one outside.

Dionysus cut off one of the tentacles that were coming, and asked angrily, "Does it seem like you can survive by putting down your weapon?!"

The priest hesitated for a moment, and bit his lip uncertainly, "But that's what it says here..."

Dionysus was about to say something else, but Pearl interrupted him, and shouted to Hao Ruilas behind him, "Get that stone cup!"

After hearing this, Hao Ruilas hurriedly staggered towards the wall where many decorative cups were hung. When taking the first cup, because the cup was too heavy, Hao Ruilas slipped his hand and the cup broke into pieces.The priest walked to his side, "I'll help you."

Together, the two took down another cup from the wall and slowly moved it towards the pool. However, there were more and more tentacles, which meant that the closer they were to the pool, the more dangerous they were.Pearl and Dionysus were overwhelmed with their work, dancing with knives.

He carried the stone cup to the water's edge safely. This time, Hao Ruilas didn't dare to use the cup to scoop water directly. He quickly picked up a scoop of clear water and threw it into the cup.

The monster in the pool that had been waving its tentacles paused for a moment, but the pause was only for a short moment.The water in the cup disappeared in the blink of an eye as if it had been absorbed.The monster started waving its tentacles again.

"It's going to keep scooping water!" Hao Ruilas yelled, risking danger and stretching out his hand to the deep pool, he was lucky enough to scoop up a handful of water again.This time he didn't wait for the monster to recover, and Hao Ruilas kept scooping up the water one after another, and the water in the cup was ups and downs, deep and shallow.While everyone relaxed, they also found a problem,

"Are you really going to throw the weapon in your hand?" Dionysus asked, looking down at the long and wide sword in his hand.Naosika was also silent.As a BOSS, whoever holds a treasured sword is not just because the weapon in his hand has the strongest ability, but because it is the most suitable weapon that can best use his ability.

Pearl looked at the curve in his hand, hesitated for a while, raised his hand to Dionysus, and asked, "Do you mind?"

Dionysus had a strange expression on his face, but he didn't stop him. Instead, he nodded, and finally said, "...throw it away."

Pearl threw the knife towards the place where the monster had the most tentacles. The moment the scimitar fell, it melted into a silver liquid and turned into dots of light and fell into the water along the monster's tentacles.The priest who was close to the high wall heard the rumbling sound behind him, and turned his head to see the opened stone door.

Everyone burst into joy.Everyone took a step towards the opened road, but when they turned around, they found that Hao Ruilas was still scooping water.As soon as the water stops, the monsters will start attacking.The thrown weapons also seem to be time-sensitive, as the walls are slowly closing back together.

Pearl stood still.

Seeing Pearl looking back, Hao Ruilas, who kept moving his hands, just smiled, "

I'll wait, I'll keep scooping water here until you come back. "

The walls were closing in, and there was no room for Pearl to hesitate.

Nodding solemnly, Pearl promised, "I will be back, I will definitely be back."