[Comprehensive British and American] The vest system of the son of hell

"Sorry, I'm not the Memphis you want to see, between me and Memphis—"

"I know you are not him, I never imagined that you are him, I just miss him, I can't help but miss him."

Speaking of this, Godlin's eyes were also full of tears.

It's a pity that the average temperature in Polar Village is minus 30 degrees. As soon as the tears welled up in the eyes, they formed ice crystals and hung on the eyelashes. Under the illumination of the aurora, the ice crystals shone brightly and were crumbling.

"When he existed, I only regarded him as a strange friend who met once in a hundred years. I didn't need to miss or contact him. When the time came, I would go to the tavern and wait for him to appear.

I know that he is an eternal god, that he has endless life, and that he does not need any creature to worry and pray for him.At least, that's what I thought at the time, I didn't know that the eternal gods would also die, thinking that he...he..."

"So when you learn that he will die, and that the newly born him has his memory but is not him—"

"I feel a lot of pain and sadness."

Godlin raised the vodka and made a gesture of toast: "I didn't realize that He has become an inseparable part of my life until that moment. Meeting Him every 100 years has become my living habit unconsciously. I will not gradually lose the passion to move forward because of the long life.

After all, every 100 years, we have to meet and tell Him all the new things and ideas I have come into contact with in the last 100 years. "

"Now he's gone..."

"Yeah, Daniel's not Memphis, Daniel's just Daniel, and you—"

Godlin sighed: "You are Matthew, you are not Memphis, you just happen to have some of Memphis's memories and characteristics. If you must find Memphis from a newborn individual, Daniel is far more like him than you."

"I think so too."

While speaking, Daniel wearing the Sandman's long helmet appeared in front of Matthew, his image looked a little weird and distorted: "Hello, I am Daniel, the new Sandman, and at the same time—"

"I know that you are the successor of Memphis, and your life originated from Memphis."

Matthew stretched out his hand calmly and smiled at Daniel.

When Daniel saw Matthew's smile, his body stiffened a little, then he took off his helmet, showing a delicate face: "I thought you would hate me."

"Why?" Matthew asked, "Why should I hate you?"

"because I……"

Daniel suddenly understood Matthew's thoughts, and the confusion on the corners of his lips gradually dissolved into a smile.

He took the initiative to sit down next to Matthew, and asked calmly and sadly, "What do you want to know about Memphis?"

"I don't want to know anything about Memphis..." Matthew said, "All I need to know is in my memory."

"The rest shouldn't be known?"

"At least, that's what the power that arranged for my rebirth thinks so, after all, He is—"

Having said that, Matthew paused for a moment, and emphasized his tone: "Omniscient and omnipotent."

"So you believe in Lucifer?"

Daniel looked at Matthew in shock.

Matthew asked, "Can't you?"

Daniel: "Of course, you can always trust Lucifer. As you said, there is really no need for Lucifer to lie to you. He made the most perfect arrangement for your life—until you met him. .”

"you say--"

Matthew shivered, and the information revealed by Daniel's words seriously exceeded his expectations: "My life in Gotham was...all..."

"You never realized it?"

Daniel looked at Matthew uncertainly: "Or, you have been aware of it for a long time but don't want to admit it?"

"I……"

Matthew lowered his head, and the years he spent as a human being Matthew Pender passed through his mind bit by bit. Those family lives full of warmth and beauty, those small details that seemed unstable but actually concealed protection, and— —

"If everything that happened to me in Gotham was due to His arrangement, why did He treat me like this? What is special about me to Him...?"

Matthew looked at Daniel: "Can you tell me the reason?"

"You feel--"

"If the reason He is special to me is Memphis, you are the main inheritor of Memphis' godhead and memory. But He didn't choose you because of these, He..."

"You guessed it right. He treats you well and has no necessary connection with the Memphis fragments that make up your soul."

Daniel stood up and looked at Matthew tenderly: "The soul fragment of Memphis is just a means for him to protect you, because the endless family has regulations, and family members are not allowed to kill each other."

"You mean, Lucifer deliberately used this loophole in the rules to make me, who possesses the soul fragment of Memphis, a member of the Endless Family and enjoy the protection of the Endless Family?"

"Yes, in order to protect the newborn fragile you, Lucifer designed a lot. He cares about you far more than you realize."

Daniel said enviously, "'Fate' and 'Death' are because you have seen your essence from the beginning, so they pay special attention and care to you."

"'Fate' is also paying attention to me and even caring for me?"

Matthew was surprised again.

Daniel nodded and said, "The name 'Fate' sounds very serious, but 'Fate' is very gentle. He is the embodiment of fate. He owns fate, but at the same time, he cannot control it... Can you understand me?"

"Totally understand."

Matthew looked into Daniel's eyes with no distractions, and his emotions seemed to fly into the vast and endless universe with the aurora. He watched the birth, growth and destruction of stars in the depths of the ever-changing nebula. Before that, he unconsciously bounced away in consciousness and threatened all life on earth. The unique subtlety of the giant asteroid came to my mind again.

"I...I...I..."

"You remember?"

Daniel looked at Matthew with a smile.

"Death" also finished skiing and walked up to Matthew, with the boundless stars of the universe shining in his deep eyes: "Finally, have you all remembered?"

"I saw the endless darkness, and I saw myself."

Matthew murmured dreamily: "I was born in the darkness like a baby, surrounded by tiny dots of light... After many years, I finally realized that every dot of light around me is a planet... I... ...I... I seem to have no body when I was born, maybe my body is one with the darkness...It's a wonderful feeling, I am everywhere and nothing more than nothing...I..."

"You are nothing and everything. (nothing and everything.)"

Daniel said with great certainty.

"Death" also told Matthew: "You come from darkness, but also from reality, you are everything, and you are nothing."

"so……"

"So you can blend with anything, attract everything, and remain nothing."

"I am nothing……"

Listening to the words of Daniel and "Death", Matthew felt in a trance and at the same time his heart was inexplicably clear.

what is he?

It is nothing and everything at the same time.

"Where is Lucifer? Lucifer is..."

"Lucifer is a star, everything, everything and still nothing..."

"Death" told Matthew quietly and gently.

As he told, the bright aurora in the polar night starry sky began to rotate, extremely bright and full of dreamy colors at the same time, there were countless lives and countless destructions in the colorful darkness, and endless wisdom flowed into Matthew's thinking like particle waves world.

"me……"

All previous cognitions have been subverted, and all once firmly believed have been overturned.

But when Matthew opened his eyes again, Matthew was still Matthew, but there was an extra layer of understanding of the unknown and the known in his eyes.

"I understand, I come from darkness, I am inseparable from darkness, I am both darkness and myself, I..."

"Your wings are from Lucifer."

"Death" added coldly: "When Lucifer left the Supreme God, Michael cut off his angel wings with a flaming sword and hung them on the gate of the Silver City.

After about 100 billion years, Lucifer decided to leave hell. Before leaving, he asked Mez to cut off the wings that he had grown after entering hell, and hang the wings at the gate of hell. "

"When I entered hell, I didn't see Lucifer's wings at the gate..." Matthew said, "He put these wings—"

"He gave you two pairs of wings, the wings of the Supreme God hanging in the city of silver and his own wings hanging on the gates of hell..." "Death" said, "Only in this way, between you Only then can an absolute connection be established.”

"But I only remember him..."

"Really? Is it really just a pair of wings?"

Daniel looked at Matthew deeply: "Think about it carefully—"

"I……"

Matthew was fascinated by Daniel's gaze, and recalled a vague past.

At that time, he was still Matthew Pender, walking on the streets of Gotham with a bag full of baguettes, when he was suddenly stopped by a man in a white casual suit.

The man was holding a handful of black-red roses that were about to wither in his arms. His pale golden hair still shone even in the gloomy sunshine of Gotham, and his handsome face was directly on Matthew's aesthetics!

Since the death of his adoptive parents, Matthew, who strictly abides by the survival code of Gotham citizens who never meddles in other people's business and does not accept strangers to talk to him, can't help but stop: "Hi, sir, is there anything I can do for you?"

"I need you to accompany me to this place—"

The man took out a sweet-smelling card and handed it to Matthew.

Matthew accepted the card in a strange way, glanced at the address, then his feet slipped, his body fell uncontrollably, and the baguette in his arms scattered all over the ground.

Matthew couldn't remember what happened afterwards, he only knew that it was already evening when he woke up.

He was lying on the sofa in the simple apartment left to him by his adoptive parents. There was no one else in the house. The floor-to-ceiling windows were fully opened, and the cold night wind made the curtains flutter like broken pieces.

Matthew didn't get up immediately.

There are too many dark legends in Gotham City, and any illogical anomaly will make people pay a heavy price, similar to today's situation...

Have I had a kidney dug out, or have I been injected with unknown drugs?

Or, my house has been invaded by outsiders?

After thinking about it carefully for half an hour, Matthew, who was sure that there were no obvious injuries on his body, finally mustered up the courage to stand up and walk towards the kitchen.

I vaguely remember the whole bag of baguettes I held in my arms when I lost consciousness and scattered all over the ground...

Tonight I'm afraid I'm going to...

Pushing open the kitchen door, he was greeted with a large bag of baguettes neatly stacked, with a blank card under the bread.

"What's going on here? Come again next time? Or..."

Matthew casually threw the sweet-smelling card into the trash can. After confirming that the baguette had not been added or mixed with unknown substances, he poured himself a glass of milk, cut some ham and bacon, and served it with a simple vegetable salad. Make do with dinner.

For the next few days, everything was uneventful.

Matthew also gradually forgot the mysterious man in a white suit holding a black and red rose whose appearance perfectly matched his aesthetics.

Life is back on track.

until--

On the ordinary streets of Gotham, encounter ordinary explosions!

"So, the mysterious man in a white suit holding a black and red rose that I met in Gotham was sent by Lucifer?"

"Why don't you suspect that he is Lucifer?" Daniel asked Matthew.

Matthew: "Because I don't believe that Lucifer will..."

"However, when it comes to your business, I'm just so fond of doing it myself."

With these words, there was a familiar temperature behind Matthew.

He turned around and almost ran into Lucifer's arms: "You..."

"Do you like my arrangement?" Lucifer asked.

Matthew didn't answer.

Lucifer looked up at Daniel and "Death": "Long time no see."

"If possible, I hope we will never meet..." Daniel said, "I have all the memories of Memphis, I know you were very close..."

"You said it happened in the past, why do you still keep it in your heart? Time is almost eternally stagnant in the length of our lives, isn't it?"

"you--"

"Thank you for explaining the ins and outs of the matter to him for me."

Lucifer turned his head and said to "Death": "The Supreme God has made an agreement with me. I can't take the initiative to disclose any information related to his truth to him. Even if he finds out and asks me, I can only say yes at most." and not."

"So you've been scheming against us from the beginning? Because you couldn't tell him yourself, you used us to tell him?"

After listening to Lucifer's talk about "death", Daniel, who finally understood the mystery, blurted out in anger.

"Yes……"

Lucifer nodded frankly.

"Death" patted Daniel on the shoulder, reminding: "He is Lucifer, and Lucifer does not have human morality."

"but--"

"Can't stand being cheated?"

"Yes, although I have joined the endless family, a large part of my body still belongs to humans."

"I understand your ambivalence, but that's exactly what's happening right now."

"Death" looked at Lucifer and Matthew: "Today is coming to an end, and in another hour, the bit I played will disappear, and the doctor and Ruiwen Song will also return to their original time and space."

"What do you want to say?" Lucifer asked.

"Death": "I want to say that the Supreme God will come here to settle accounts with you soon. If you have anything to say, make it clear as soon as possible. I don't want to deal with the aftermath of your affairs."

"Because of Michael?"

"Don't you like seeing Michael?"

"Death" asked Lucifer back with a smile.

Lucifer smiled without saying a word.

He looked at Matthew with gentle eyes and a friendly tone: "You have heard the conversation just now, because of the agreement with the Supreme God, I cannot personally reveal your identity and your relationship with me, so I can only use various methods Hint your relationship with me.

You now have enough intel to determine your true identity by asking me to answer 'yes or no'. "

"Anything I can ask—"

"Yes……"

"Then I..."

Matthew pursed his lips and thought for a while, and said, "My soul was shaped by you by yourself by collecting raw materials from the darkness?"

"Yes."

"Is it your deliberate arrangement for the soul to enter the demon doll that the first fallen use the demon blood of the Constantine family and the body fragments of countless demons he defeated?"

"Yes, and at the same time no."

"why?"

"According to the agreement with the Supreme God, I cannot answer this question directly."

"All right……"

Matthew sighed helplessly, and asked again: "Does the Kesipler system have something to do with you?"

"Yes."

"The levels, designs, and hints inside are all made by you?"

"Yes, to be precise, it is one of my incarnations that made the Kesipler system. I have lived alone in hell for 100 billion years, and I don't know how many incarnations I have pinched."

"It's conceivable..."

Matthew nodded in agreement, and asked Lucifer, "All the wings on my back come from you?"

"Yes."

"I now have four pairs of wings on my back. According to Daniel and 'Death', one pair is the angel wings that Michael cut off, one pair is the wings that Mads cut off when you left hell, and the remaining two What is the origin of the pair of wings?"

"According to God Most High and mine..."

"OK! OK! I know you can't say it."

Matthew smiled helplessly, and asked another question: "I am a child of darkness, but why does darkness give birth to children? Why do we attract each other?"

"Because I am also a child of darkness, we are all children of darkness."

"Then... why did you rub the soul fragments of Memphis into my soul? Just to drag the endless family into the water and let the endless family members participate in your game?"

"No, because He is a part of you, and all I do is return it to its original owner."

It was very rare for Lucifer to voluntarily confess his motives, with nostalgic emotions in his eyes: "A long time ago, I don't know how many billions of billions of years ago, I and a pure fuzzy shadow without a name were born in the eternal darkness and chaos.

After that, the Supreme God appeared, and He took me away, and merged into His shadow the blurred shadow that was born with me from the eternal darkness and chaos, and became a being that we all know-"

"what?"

"Giant beast."

"Death" said slowly but firmly: "We have been told for a long time that the giant beast is the shadow of the Supreme God, and at the same time it is a part cut from Lucifer by the Supreme God. It is not until today that I finally understand that the giant beast Originating from the most primitive darkness and eternal chaos in the world, the Supreme God shaped Lucifer, who was born in the primitive darkness and eternal chaos, into an angel, and the other part merged with his own shadow to create a giant beast, so there is The saying that the dire beast is the shadow of the Supreme God is also a part of Lucifer."

"And I was forcibly stripped from the giant beast? Lucifer forcibly stripped me from the giant beast?" Matthew asked half understanding.

"Death" nodded affirmatively.

Daniel added: "In order to get back to the original and shield the interference of the Supreme God, Lucifer took away part of the soul of Memphis and used it as a glue to integrate into the newborn soul of you. He has no intention of seeking the shelter of the Endless Family, because from the very beginning, What he and you are going to face is God Most High."

"But until now, the Most High God has not—"

"Who said no?"

A steady and long voice seemed to come from ancient times, and then, "Fate" who always held the Book of Fate appeared in front of everyone.

In an instant, time stopped flowing, and the flickering and changing aurora also froze in an instant.

"Fate" looked up and stared at Matthew with his eyes that see through everything: "After all, you have come to the bifurcation point of fate."

As soon as the words fell, a crossroad appeared under Matthew's feet. On the left of the road was Lucifer, on the right were Godlin and Daniel, behind were the Doctor and Raven, and in front were "Fate" and "Death".

"Fate is composed of countless forked crossroads. Every time you make a choice, one of the crossroads will disappear. When you reach the end of fate and look back, what you see is the only straight one. life journey……"

"Destiny" explained slowly but surely, "Now, make your final and most important choice, you can go to 'death' and me and start everything again, or you can choose Daniel and Gosling and forget everything so far , it was just a long dream."

"You can even choose to leave here with the Tardis of the Galifians, and enjoy a never-ending adventure in almost endless time and space..."

"Death" said, "But if you choose Lucifer, you will immediately fall into the No. 616 hell universe, and you will never be able to leave forever."

"According to your explanation, among the four options given by fate, only Lucifer is a bad choice, isn't it?" Matthew asked.

Daniel nodded and said, "If you choose Lucifer, you will get nothing but love that may disappear in an instant."

"but--"

Matthew looked at Lucifer: "Do you want me to choose you?"

"do not wish."

Lucifer said bluntly: "I have spent so much effort to finally separate you from the giant beast, bonded and cultivated into a brand new independent individual, the purpose is not to let you go to 616 hell universe to accompany me like a love brain .”

"Which one would you like me to choose?" Matthew asked.

Lucifer glanced at the frozen doctor and Ruiwen Song: "The Tardis of the Galifia is a good choice, if you like to travel and don't want to be bound by time and space."