Chapter 1569: Chapter 296: So, It's a Secret Now

One of the Seven Sacred Artifacts of the Eternal Empire, the component of the “Eternal Wheel”.

In his consciousness, the information about the “Scales of Good and Evil” flashed by, briefly moving Boss Luo’s expression before it quickly returned to tranquility… His inner self was also calm, which was his nature, and also the nature of “Boss”, a result under some form of compulsion.

“What do you want?” Luo Qiu looked at Vessel Yamanlana. “In theory, this is a power sufficient to change a world… worth many things.”

Vessel Yamanlana didn’t speak, only exchanged glances with Boss Luo… seemingly engaging in some form of communication.

Completely in the body of a human, the Princess evidently couldn’t feel this bizarre communication at all—even though she had learned lip reading… but there must be lips to read, right?

“There can be another way.”

After a while, Boss Luo suddenly uttered such a phrase… Vessel Yamanlana frowned slightly, but eventually nodded, seeming to accept this so-called “another way”.

“What way?”

Boss Luo replied indifferently, “Sending you to their side.”

Vessel Yamanlana was silent for a moment, then finally nodded, “Deal.”

“Then…” Boss Luo smiled slightly, and with a wave of his hand, a goatskin scroll slowly unfurled before Vessel Yamanlana.

Vessel Yamanlana took a deep breath, and just as she was about to sign this contract, she suddenly smiled and said, “Compared to the former one, I like this one better… Much more agreeable.”

“Maybe it’s because I’m not good at business.” Boss Luo shook his head.

Vessel Yamanlana gazed deeply, slowly extending her hand… but at this moment, the Princess suddenly walked over and grabbed Vessel Yamanlana’s wrist.

“Wait a moment!” Only to hear the Princess frown and spoke in a deep voice, “Explain everything clearly! What exactly are you two conspiring… What do you want! The one just now wanted to destroy everything; are you the same?”

Vessel Yamanlana shook her head.

The Princess gritted her teeth, glaring angrily at Luo Qiu, “And you… Who are you! Why do you appear by my side, pretending to be my classmate? You’ve led me all the way into the desert… Came here, did you already know everything!”

The Princess… No, it should be Claudia!

Only one person would say that Boss Luo was her classmate and brought her to this desert… Only Claudia who lived in the outside world would!

“In fact… I’m not pretending to be anyone.” Luo Qiu slowly said, “Claudia the classmate… Nice to see you again.”

“Don’t call me by that name!” The Princess… Claudia now forcefully gripped her hair, “I don’t even know who I am anymore! After I entered that gate, there were two voices in my head, two completely different lives… Who am I!”

She hugged her head, that terrifying feeling of not even being aware of her own identity, almost driving her into rational collapse… Under the crisis of the “Will of the Scale”, the sense of crisis could still keep her calm… But not anymore!

“Who… am I?” Claudia looked painfully at Luo Qiu, who had brought her all the way here, “Am I… No one after all?”

“Who… do you want to be.” This wasn’t Boss Luo’s voice, this was Vessel Yamanlana’s voice. She looked at Claudia with no expression and asked, “Is it Claudia, or Yamanlana… If these two identities only allow you to choose one… Which one do you want to choose?”

“I… I don’t know…” Claudia shook her head in confusion, subconsciously looking at the Pharaoh, silenced by the demise of the Third Yamanlana, and then at Xie Jiatu, who always stood silently with closed eyes. She opened her mouth several times but ultimately unknown, “I don’t know… You and me… Between you who isn’t the Vessel, who is really the Princess, who is the ordinary girl?”

Vessel Yamanlana now said, “I will leave, after I leave, there will be only one left of Yamanlana and Claudia… This is the final decision between you and her, let the unfinished battle at the gate continue then.”

With that, Vessel Yamanlana’s body suddenly opened a bright light, transforming into a pure white orb of light, directly enveloping Claudia inside.

The orb of light… remained motionless.

But time continued to pass.

Xie Jiatu now gently sighed, opening his eyes. He looked up… looked at everything, and finally gazed at the collapsed Temple.

“Won’t wait for her to come out?” Boss Luo suddenly asked, “Mr. Xie Jiatu.”

“How much time do I have?” Xie Jiatu asked indifferently.

“Soon.” Boss Luo responded in a low voice, “You and His Majesty have the same aspiration, so your time frames are identical.”

“Then I won’t wait.” Xie Jiatu shook his head, “Since it’s the final moments, I want to do something I’ve wanted to do… the last thing to do.”

Boss Luo nodded but curiously asked, “If it were you, who would you hope to come out… Claudia or Yamanlana?”

“The answer…” Xie Jiatu turned back and said indifferently, “I’ve already given her… As for whether she can emerge, it doesn’t matter anymore. I’m just a sinner.”

With that, Xie Jiatu walked straight into the ruined Temple without looking back… Boss Luo watched his silhouette, deep in thought.

“Left door.” He whispered, then smiled slightly, “Do you prefer the outer life more…”

Boss Luo doesn’t like guessing things because he’s afraid of guessing what he wants to guess… But he actually can know what he should know.

Xie Jiatu disappeared into the dilapidated Temple.

Meanwhile, the orb of light shattered, and both Vessel Yamanlana and Claudia… collapsed onto the ground.

Yiben swallowed his saliva, glanced around, then cautiously looked at Boss Luo and said, “Them?”

Boss Luo then smiled, suddenly waved his hand, and a coffin appeared out of thin air… Thud, it fell directly in front of Yiben, scaring him into falling to the ground.

He certainly recognized this coffin… Obviously the coffin containing the corpse of the Goddess of Justice!

“Long, long ago, there was a goddess in the sky who fell in love with a mortal on the ground.” Boss Luo’s voice slowly echoed, like wandering in the desert, telling distant stories to merchants passing through the desert at the campfire at night, “The goddess’s sister, out of envy, ultimately separated her from the mortal… The jealousy even drove the sister of the goddess into a frantic revenge. She killed the mortal, made nails from the mortal’s bones, and used the nails to permanently pin the goddess’s body in the coffin.”

Yiben opened his mouth… Isn’t this the version told by the “Will of the Scale”?

“How can mortals oppose the power of gods.” Boss Luo still spoke softly, “No matter how unwilling, no matter how angry… Mortals always seemed to be just mortals, in that era, manipulated wantonly by the gods.”

As he spoke, Boss Luo placed the gemstone he held into the coffin, onto the goddess’s corpse’s hands… The sapphire, which was flickering, seemed to stabilize immediately… Gradually lost its glow, becoming quiet.

Boss Luo looked at Yiben, smiled, and said, “This coffin has a special power, which can preserve souls, even the good and evil faces divided by the ‘Scales of Good and Evil’ can… But once it leaves, it will disappear quickly.”

“I… I’m just, just…” Yiben smiled awkwardly, saying, “I also have to eat… So, the soul inside the sapphire is actually that mortal who moved the goddess’s heart?”

“Just a divided face.” Boss Luo shook his head, “That mortal probably has reincarnated.”

“Oh… I see.” Yiben nodded. Although he didn’t quite understand, nodding was sufficient at this moment. “A mortal fell in love with a goddess; this fellow is really a pitiful guy… But despite that, this brother is truly amazing to actually fall in love with a goddess! If I had the chance, I’d like to meet this brother myself!”

He casually said this… Most people would probably say it casually like this.

Boss Luo, however, smiled and said, “Actually, you’ve already met him.”

Yiben opened his mouth, instinctively asking, “Met… what did I see?”

Boss Luo didn’t respond; instead, he slowly covered the coffin, “A long, long time ago, a goddess of justice fell in love with a man from the earth… That mortal man’s name was Xie Jiatu.”

The ground began to crack open, and the coffin slowly descended into the fissure, ultimately becoming part of the earth as the fissure closed… Everything returned to peace.

Yet, Yiben stared wide-eyed, looking incredulously at Boss Luo, “Wait! What did you say? That mortal was… If that’s the case, why did that princess who asked for a duel not even glance at the High Priest? No… could it be, the resurrected wasn’t the Goddess of Justice at all, but rather…”

“Do you know what’s called a secret?” Boss Luo gestured for silence, then began to gradually retreat… As he retreated step by step, his figure slowly faded from Yiben’s view, leaving only his voice: “That’s the secret.”

Finally, he vanished.

…

At this moment, Claudia suddenly opened her eyes, regained consciousness… Yiben opened his mouth, unable to figure out who was who.

“You’re awake… Who are you?” Yiben asked nervously.

Claudia looked blankly, then rubbed her brow and seeing Yiben before her, raised her eyebrows immediately, “Oh? You greedy fellow, why are you here? Weren’t you knocked out and stuffed into a vat?”

Her face was filled with an air of disdain and annoyance.

Yiben fell silent, slapping his forehead hard, feeling that everything before him seemed so unreal… Only the heavy gold in his hand was real!

A beam of light suddenly shot out from Vessel Yamanlana’s body at that moment… It shot toward the sky, seemingly penetrating the sky of the space where the City of the Sun was located, then entered the Void… and disappeared.

Not far away, Pharaoh of the empire slowly closed his eyes… His life had reached its end at this moment, “Live well.”

These were his final words.

Claudia’s heart was suddenly filled with sadness.

“Your Highness—!!”

Just then, a bright voice echoed… A flying curtain came along the edge of the large pit at this moment, and atop the curtain was the Little Maid Arian.

The Lamp God was sitting at the head of the curtain, a look of disdain on his face as he grimly grasped something… Holding onto Mr. Otto’s body, he seemed to have fallen unconscious.

Meanwhile, out from the ruins at the edge of the pit, someone suddenly walked out… Naked, eyes dazed, steps staggering.

They were those who were once buried deeply beneath the temple, divided of their good and evil faces… The Scale of Good and Evil had lost its power, allowing them to awaken.

Claudia’s eyes roved around, surveying the edges of the pit, a feeling she couldn’t describe, “Hey… Has a lot happened here?”

“I could talk for three months!” Yiben snorted coldly and said, “Just pay me!”

“Let me see if I have any bullets left.” Claudia sneered and directly pulled out her Divine Artifact pistol.

Yiben shrank his neck in terror, throwing out a piece of gold to save his life.

The two of them seemed, whether in the outside world or here in the City of the Sun, to be like cats and mice, unable to stop.

At the same time, a flash of a Light Gate suddenly appeared from below, rising from nowhere… When Claudia glanced at it, an odd expression appeared on her face.

Only because that Light Gate had the words “EXIT” written on it…

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[Data for experimental subject number 132 has been written, data for experimental subject number 113 has been written.]

In the darkness, there was flashing light and shadows, constantly emerging on the shattered screen lying on the ground.

[During this experiment, I have collected ample data, I believe I have fully understood all of human thinking patterns.]

Someone walked out from the darkness… walked to the broken screen, lifted it, gently wiping off the dust on the screen.

[Entering the final stage of the plan, I am about to hatch, I will transform into a complete life form.]

He silently stared at the text on the screen, “No… You are not a complete life form, you are just a complete soul.”

But all means of communication between him and it were lost, he could only watch the text on the screen, “Scale, Scale… The Scale can only divide souls, it can never create souls.”

[Hatching in progress… Hatching in progress… Once hatching is complete, I will meet the creator’s expectations. Naming, please the creator provide a name for me, please name, please name.]

Naming seemed to be the final step of the hatching process… The text remained stuck here.

“Amino.” He softly said a name, but there was no input tool here, “Remember, Amino… My sister’s name.”

[Please name, please name]

The text incessantly repeated, the flickering light from the screen constantly changing upon his face… But he had already closed his eyes.

Permanently closed.

——Brother, why does the world experience sadness?

——When brother grows up, he’ll create a world for you where there’s no sadness, okay?

——I love brother the most!

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PS: (1/60) I don’t know how many it will be, let’s just say 60 for now… More can be forgiven, less needs supplementing. It should always be repaid, ultimately it must be repaid, Dotts readers see house prices daily, they speak nicely, I really like it here…