Above The Sky (Yin Tianshen Yin) Chapter 300: The Freedom of Fate (2/3)

"You are still alive."

A pair of boots stepped on the ground of the insect nest, beside a dying middle-aged nobleman.

"Life is pretty tough."

The condescending voice made the blond man feel a little funny.

In the past, he always looked down on other people and talked. Although he would not step on others, but with the bowed and fearful appearance of those people, maybe he would step on them, and they would feel more at ease.

With such thoughts in mind, Patrick slowly opened his eyes and looked at the calm Yin En.

He clicked his tongue, and then said: "Can you reconcile?"

"Of course not." Yin En raised his brows, he was actually interested in Patrick at the moment - just because of the sense of humor at the last moment, he felt that the other party might really be an interesting person: " You are quite optimistic and humorous, you can say such things."

"What an interesting person, it would be interesting to be friends."

No wonder Viscount Grant has missed him for so many years and still regards him as a friend... Perhaps back then, these two people only showed their true selves to each other.

And after they parted, they didn't even have any friends who could exchange this 'other side'.

"If you can't reconcile, kill me quickly."

Patrick raised his hand in annoyance, his eyelids drooped and were about to close, the man's voice was so weak that everyone knew he was dying: "Do you have to let me die slowly? Hmm ?You can kill the brood that is so gentle to you and earnestly invites you to become their master, how can you be so indecisive towards me, a villain."

"It's a good thing to make you suffer a little longer, at least I'm happy."

Yin En laughed, and said a villainous line heartily: "Of course, don't worry too much, I just have some questions to ask you—you also have questions to ask me, right? I know you There is no secret hand, and there is nothing that can be subpoenaed or recorded, so I am willing to exchange some information with you."

"Of course, you are indeed dying, so I understand that you don't want to exchange. I will give you a happy one, because you have never really committed a murder."

"Have you seen it all?" Patrick took a deep breath, his vitality would not disappear just because of a broken waist, what really brought him to the brink of death was actually the forceful activation of the ether. Armed·Anhua's move against Bishop Baiwu.

The man opened his eyes, staring at the white-haired boy in front of him, then shook his head slightly: "Well, I don't bother to lie - in fact, I didn't hold back, I really can't beat you."

"Don't underestimate yourself, young man... Although I don't know what kind of inheritance you are, you have extremely powerful power in your body. , at least it is a special ability that can only be inherited from the fourth energy level, or even the fifth energy level."

"Don't get caught, not even Ayers. His ambition is not great, but once the ship of ambition is full of sails, he will strive to do his best."

"At that time, I don't know what he will do."

Different from the mechanized ether arm, the biological ether arm Anhua needs the wearer to provide high-purity source quality blood to drive it, and the real ether core can only be found on the main body of Anhua.

An Huazi Zhu, in order to display super-standard combat power, must let the user inject a large amount of light-eroding dragon refining blood. While confirming that the driver is indeed an authorized user, it must also supply energy for the etheric armed forces.

The reason why Anhuazizhu was able to entangle Bishop Baiwu was because Patrick had transfused half of his own blood into it. It really weakened Patrick's fighting power, so much so that Yin En thought that the other party was keeping his hand.

However, with the defeat of the nobles and the gradual depletion of blood reserves, Anhua Zizhu could not stop Bishop Baiwu anymore.

And Patrick couldn't face the young man in front of him, or heal the fatal injury on his body.

I don't know whether Patrick is a dying man who speaks kindly, or is trying to mislead the young man who killed himself. He calmly said to Yin En at the last moment of his life: "As for the problem, I am really sure. There is one."

The middle-aged noble narrowed his eyes. Like Yin En, the man who had listened to almost all the information from the Hive Will asked whether he was nervous or looking forward to it: "Yin En."

"Why did you reject the brood?"

From the fact that Patrick called the will of the hive the mother nest instead of the will of the hive, it can be known that his spirit has actually been partially eroded by the hive, but it is not known whether the resonance is not enough in the end, or he took the initiative to resist. So no success.

If Yin En hadn't killed the will of the hive, I'm afraid he wouldn't have died... Instead, he would have been summoned by the hive to become the first second-level "human apostle" of the hive.

No, if Yin En did not kill the will of the hive, it proves that he will choose to become the will of the hive—then Patrick, who is half dead at this moment, will become his "substitute apostle".

"It's the will of the hive."

Sighing, Yin En couldn't help shaking his head: "This question is actually very simple."

He stared at the eyes of the dying man at his feet, and said calmly, "Because of fear."

"Patrick, I'm afraid I've taken such a shortcut. Not the best path, but it seems the easiest path."

Yes.

It is true that Yin En has rejected the hive, but this does not mean that he cannot reproduce the path of the swarm.

The brain-eating worms have not been extinct, and the psionic network of the swarm has not completely disappeared. As long as Yin En thinks, he still has a chance to regret it now, and he can completely rebuild the worm nest from scratch.

But he didn't intend to.

Because this is a shortcut.

It's not that Yin En has a spiritual obsession, or that he has a sense of ritual, and he insists on going to the sky with a human body-absolutely not for this reason.

Yin En is just very clear that if he chooses to become the master of the swarm, he will do his best to do his best.

Just like the Viscount Grant that Patrick said... At that time, no one knew what they would do for the 'best'.

Since this is the case, there is no turning back, there will be no chance of changing many choices, and the possibility of many endings will never appear again—choosing the path of the swarm is such a seemingly quick and practical way. It is lonely and difficult, and it is difficult to reach the 'perfect' road.

"Yeah... heh, the parasite psionic network... perhaps, this is the real 'echo' and 'mirror'?"

With a sneer, Patrick thought of these two words, his eyes were full of hatred, but his expression was helpless: "This method is more feasible than using any learning machine... It can even make people feel better. Achieve eternal life."

"The brood is indeed immortal. Such creatures are so different from us humans. It's no wonder they are so chasing... chasing this possibility."

"Yeah."

Yin En nodded slightly, he turned his head sideways, looked in the direction of the corpse of the Hive Will, and said, "I know what you really want to ask me, Patrick."

"You want to ask, if I can't go to the high heavens in my "human" life, will I also long for eternal life and chase the road of echoes and mirrors."

"You want to ask me this question, to know whether I will attack the Ellen family... or, in other words, attack Isengard, or your bloodline of the Erosion of Light and Refining Dragons."

"Just like Axel."

The middle-aged man was silent.

He knows that he is not qualified to ask such a question, because he is the killer who is going to kill Isengard, and his hypocritical concern now is really shameless.

It can even be said to be shameless.

But then again, he's about to die, so what about shameless?

It was precisely because of death... that Patrick became free and easy instead.

"Yes."

He smiled and looked at Yin En: "This is what I really want to ask. I want to know if you will become a **** like Axel...in the future, possible future , doing something like devouring the body of one's own grandson to maintain self-immortality."

The man whispered: "I can't stop you, I just want to know...whether the one who defeated me was a noble hero or an ambitious hero."

"Does this need to be said?"

Yin En asked frankly, making Patrick silent instead.

He had already guessed Yin En's answer, so he smiled wryly: "Yeah, you definitely don't..."

"I will."

But Yin En's answer was completely beyond the man's expectation: "I will, Patrick. It's not such insignificant and trivial things as heroes and heroes, because I need it, I will."

"I will do so without hesitation, without any psychological burden."

Under the stunned gaze of the blond man, Yin En closed his eyes.

And when he opened his eyes again and stared at the insect nest crystals in front of him, Shui Se's eyes were as calm and cold as his voice, and there was even a trace of pure indifference: "If I need time to advance my career, To fulfill my dream—then I will pursue eternal life without hesitation, by any means, and without any confusion or hesitation.”

"Even if the price is to be stained with the blood of innocent people and become despicable and disgusting."

"However."

With that said, the young man clenched the sword in his hand: "If I want to do it, I will do it to the best."

"Even if I die in the pursuit of the best, I will not allow myself to choose an inferior method to achieve my dream."

"And the immortality of the swarm is obviously not the best choice...letting innocent people die, let alone. There are many ways to immortality, I don't have to choose this one."

"I have such determination and will, and I have the means, but my character determines that I will not do that, and this may be regarded as a kind of fate."

Lowing his head, Yin En looked at the thoughtful and thoughtful Patrick again, and he laughed: "For the sake of your dying, I answered your question first to satisfy your curiosity .”

"Now, I ask, you answer."

Yin En asked: "Who asked you to kill Isengard? Why did you listen to that person's orders?"

"Why are you so unscrupulous, even at the cost of your own life to do all this?"

The boy's question was sharp and direct, Patrick took a deep breath, and then smiled wryly: "That's a good question. Well, I'm dying anyway, and I wanted to say it a long time ago."

He raised his head and told Yin En the whole story and facts.

The white-haired young man listened carefully, then opened his eyes wide, showing a 'really so' expression, with a hint of sympathy in his eyes.

It was not aimed at Patrick, but at the sympathy of the blond boy who had ventured together in the underground ruins.

"Got it."

After Patrick finished speaking, Yin En could already see the extremely thick black energy from the other party.

This is a soul that is bound to die, or in other words, has died, but because of the sublimator's will, it temporarily survives in the world, waiting for the source quality to dissipate before completely disappearing.

"It's time to die."

Turning his head, Yin En no longer looked at Patrick: "Farewell, Mr. Patrick, your life is really sad, but at least your death is not ugly."

He didn't use his sword to end the opponent, he still had things to do, and he didn't have time and energy to waste.

Of course, the most important reason is not this.

On the contrary, if he takes action to end the life of the man in front of him, it may be a kind of relief for him.

In this case, it is better to let Patrick slowly enter the end of his life.

Let him remember, let him think, let him...

Pain because of yourself.

Just after Yin En turned and left, Patrick leaned against the crystal wall of the hive, and the man stared blankly ahead, staring at the direction where the will of the hive had dissipated.

He seemed to want to laugh, but he couldn't. The man said to himself hesitantly and desolately: "Indeed, it's really a sad life."

"Why did this happen...Obviously back then, I could also resonate with this emotion...I still remember that summer, watching the stars with Ellie and my brother..."

"Why are you still doing such a boring thing after decades..."

"Is it because I am old and have forgotten my dreams? Or is it because I will eventually..."

His breathing gradually stopped.

In the hive, Patrick Ellen's life came to an end.

At the same time, Yin En stepped into the real vulnerability of the insect nest.