Chapter 1035

Inside the cinema.

Franca made an "Eh" sound because she felt her "Despair" potion had been completely digested.

Lu Mian's plan succeeded? Franca suddenly had such a thought.

Although she didn't know what exactly Lu Mian wanted to do and how, she remembered Lu Mian saying that once her "Despair" potion was digested, it meant this operation had achieved its expected purpose, Mr. Fool would wake up to a certain extent, and the dream would completely disintegrate in a few minutes.

Franca subconsciously looked at Gehrman Sparrow to her side, seeing the cinema roof collapsing inch by inch, but the corresponding heavy objects did not hit the seats and floor, but fell into the void and disappeared directly.

At the same time, white light emanated from the few audience members at the scene and flew into Gehrman Sparrow's body.

Franca suddenly realized what these white lights were:

They were the impressions, cognition, and understanding of the character Gehrman Sparrow by different audience members!

When the dream was close to disintegration, these audience members presented their illusory essence, and then the corresponding memories split themselves out, becoming nutrients to flesh out the image of Gehrman Sparrow in the form of anchors and information.

In different places of the dream city, more similar white lights were rushing over.

Things really succeeded... Franca happily raised her head and looked at the high place no longer covered by the cinema roof.

The originally dim sky had collapsed in large swaths, revealing the ferocious, terrifying deep black and thin gray-white mist.

This was like a house having its walls shaken down by an earthquake, but the beams and columns remained, and the skeleton was still there.

Inside the Yangdu High-Speed Railway Station.

Zhou Mingrui, standing on the edge of the deep darkness, heard Lu Mian say that his "Despair" potion had been completely digested, and a gentle smile appeared on his face:

"That's good."

Lu Mian was stunned for a moment:

"Mr. Fool?"

Zhou Mingrui nodded:

"It's me now."

He smiled and said:

"You all did very well."

Lu Mian smiled and said:

"If you hadn't sealed the vast majority of the Celestial Worthy's power, including his thinking ability, we would have had no possibility of success at all."

Lu Mian was still carefully using "sealed" to describe Zhou Mingrui's original state, but the facts might not be so.

He had always said this, telling the Celestial Worthy his guesses, judgments, and plans with truth mixed with a bit of falsehood. Besides wanting to delay time, there was also the intention to strengthen the Celestial Worthy's cognition in this aspect.

Of course, regardless of whether this was true or false, after today, it would be true!

Zhou Mingrui shook his head and smiled:

"Relying on myself alone, it was already very difficult to restrict the Celestial Worthy. Without your help, the ending might have been completely different.

"For example, if you hadn't driven away Zarathustra in advance, today's operation would definitely have had twists and turns, and the awakened 'World' might have pointed to the Celestial Worthy.

"And if it weren't for the help of those friends in the Western Continent, the Celestial Worthy would still have had the possibility of a comeback."

So the Celestial Worthy's backup plan, the preparations made for the arrangements left by that original God, were intercepted by certain existences in the Western Continent, preventing it... I originally only intended to grab time, using the concealment of the "Evernight Goddess" to grab the fusion of the three Gehrman Sparrow images before the Celestial Worthy's backup plan truly took effect... Celestial Master, or Nether Daoist? Lu Mian said "Hmm" and said with feeling:

"Yes, without the previous efforts and paving of the Major Arcana cards, even if we had interpreted the true meaning of all symbols today, we wouldn't have had time to create the character Gehrman Sparrow and could only watch the situation tilt toward the Celestial Worthy.

"Similarly, without the hints from Peng Deng and Amon, we might still be exploring directions, and the Celestial Worthy's fatal blow would be coming..."

Seeing Lu Mian clearly and rationally recognize this point, Zhou Mingrui nodded in relief.

Lu Mian didn't continue to talk about the contributions of gods and people like Stiano, Leodero, and Anderson, but asked urgently:

"Mr. Fool, can Aurora, my sister, really be resurrected?"

Zhou Mingrui looked at Lu Mian and said in a calm voice:

"In the situation where the soul fragments are sealed in your body and have not dissipated, if you were a Beyonder of the 'Seer' pathway and had advanced to 'Miracle Invoker,' then with my help, you could 'graft' one of your own resurrections to your sister's soul fragments, letting her truly return.

"But now, you can only rely on the resurrection of the 'Witch' pathway to separate your sister in the future."

Seeing Lu Mian fall into thought, Zhou Mingrui added:

"You can no longer change pathways, and after you advanced to 'Despair Witch,' Aurora's soul fragments and you already had a certain degree of fusion. If you used the 'Sun' pathway to regress to the beginning, her soul fragments would not be able to support it and would completely dissipate."

Lu Mian was silent for a few seconds and said:

"Is the resurrection completed using the 'Witch' pathway in the future a resurrection in essence, a true resurrection?"

"Yes." Zhou Mingrui sighed and said, "But wishes are often distorted, and the way they are realized may not be what you want. Just like after you saved my believer back then, I noticed you and had a premonition that you would play an important role in dream matters in the future, so I gave you the aura of the gray mist and my brand. But I didn't expect that this prophecy would be realized in such a tortuous way. My behavior was also part of the prophecy."

"So that old man was your believer." Lu Mian suddenly understood.

He smiled calmly:

"Without the aura of the gray mist, perhaps I would never have been able to meet Aurora, never have had that life in Cordu Village, and Aurora would still have been noticed by 'April Fool's Day' and still been troubled by Roche Louise Sanson. Perhaps there wouldn't even have been an opportunity for resurrection."

Having said this, Lu Mian took a breath and said:

"I understand.

"As long as it is a resurrection in essence, a true resurrection, I can accept any form of realization."

Zhou Mingrui nodded gently and stretched out his right palm:

"You can give me that bottle of 'Samaritan Woman's Spring' water processed by Mr. Azik."

Lu Mian took the small golden bottle out of his "Traveler's Bag" and asked suspiciously:

"Mr. Fool, Gehrman Sparrow has already been 'born.' You don't need to drink this bottle of spring water anymore, right? The Celestial Worthy is sealed in your body, so him drinking is equivalent to you drinking. Moreover, this only has a very weak effect on Sequence 0 true gods."

That small golden bottle suddenly appeared on Zhou Mingrui's right palm, and Lu Mian's hand was empty.

"I still need to continue sleeping for a period of time." Zhou Mingrui said with a smile, "Now is the opportunity to fuse with the Celestial Worthy and better confront him, and this bottle of spring water is the medium.

"Gehrman Sparrow will become 'Fool,' embodying a bit of my will until I wake up completely."

"Still need to fuse with the Celestial Worthy?" Lu Mian asked suspiciously.

Zhou Mingrui nodded:

"Yes, both fusing and confronting; this is the only path at present."

"Doesn't that mean..." Lu Mian suddenly closed his mouth. He remembered a certain mystical knowledge he knew.

The mental brand of the original Creator within the Beyonder characteristics is inextinguishable, and so are those of that original God and the Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth for Blessings!

Zhou Mingrui smiled and said:

"No matter how I win the victory, no matter how you help me, in the long run, the one who will eventually win this confrontation will inevitably be the Celestial Worthy."

Seeing Lu Mian fall silent, Zhou Mingrui continued with a gentle expression:

"Most humans know that they only have a few decades of life and are destined to pass away in the near future, but this does not prevent them from enjoying their lives, does not prevent them from doing meaningful things, does not prevent them from being happy, painful, sad, moved, satisfied, and longing.

"You also saw from Rosanne's experience during this period that there is also a lot of truth in the dream. There may be hope hidden at the end of despair, and a momentary brilliance may point to eternity."

Lu Mian was speechless for a moment.

After more than ten seconds, he said with emotion:

"Confronting every day, being eroded, trying to fuse, lasting for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of years, or even longer, won't it be very tiring?

"Won't it be like before, clearly maintaining self-cognition, but suddenly discovering that the self in the mirror has a strange smile?"

"Yes." Zhou Mingrui sighed and smiled, "When I wake up completely this time, except for the most intense and fervent part of the emotions and humanity of Zhou Mingrui and Klein Moretti, everything else is very likely not to be the current me."

This was not a speculative tone.

"As for the question of whether it's tiring..." Zhou Mingrui's tone became a bit more vivid, "It must be very tiring, but there's no way. Someone has to do this, right?"

Lu Mian's thoughts were messy and chaotic. He opened his mouth and said:

"Is it worth it?"

Zhou Mingrui looked at him, suddenly took a step back, and fell into that deep darkness.

He didn't dissipate quickly like other dream characters who fell into this darkness, but sank slowly as if in seawater.

Zhou Mingrui raised his right hand, brought that bottle of "Samaritan Woman's Spring" water to his mouth, and drank it.

Then, sinking slowly, he looked at Lu Mian outside the deep darkness, revealed a gentle smile similar to just now, and answered in a calm voice:

"It's worth it."

After saying this, he suddenly winked his left eye at Lu Mian, not steady at all, not serious, and even less like the high and mighty Mr. Fool.

Lu Mian kept watching Zhou Mingrui sink into the depths of the darkness, until even his blurry figure disappeared.

He whispered to himself:

"It's worth it..."

Inside the cinema, with the integration of those white lights and Zhou Mingrui's disappearance into the deep darkness, Gehrman Sparrow, who had been standing blankly as if in a deep sleep, suddenly raised his head.

He opened his eyes, and his sharp gaze seemed to be able to penetrate the gold-rimmed glasses.

The sky of the dream city was completely stripped away, all houses collapsed with a bang, and character images like Green and Zhang Qing blurred until they completely disintegrated.

Franca was confused for a moment, then woke up.

She saw a room full of people, saw the bright smile from the heart on Ms. "Justice's" face, saw Ms. "Magician" drinking red wine, and saw the clear and brilliant radiance.

The sunlight outside the window was just right.

PS: This is an extra update for the Golden Alliance Aurora Society Mr. O, celebrating Little Klein's initial awakening.

The normal chapter is at ten o'clock in the evening.

(End of chapter)