[Does life exist for the sake of 'happiness' or for the sake of 'meaning'? 】

Multiple galaxies, bloody galaxies, in the realm of the court of Amos, in a hidden private void settlement.

Former Captain McCrove, Creller stood in front of the huge cultivation bin in front of him, thinking about this question that only a smart person who was impatient and had nothing to do but think about it in a sage state.

And in front of him, a wriggling mass of flesh and blood.

It was a huge container made entirely of translucent biocrystals, soaked in a glowing scarlet solution, and in the midst of it were large chunks of distorted and swollen flesh that shimmered with strange runes.

It can be seen that these flesh and blood that emit a faint golden light have blood vessels that spread like roots, and around the blood vessels, there are one silver eyeball after another, these eyeballs are beautiful and holy, like the most thrilling, flawless gems, but they are set in these internal organs and bodies that seem to only appear in nightmares, it looks strange and beautiful.

Suddenly, the flesh began to spasm, and a large amount of foam bubbled up in the scarlet solution, and it could be faintly seen that the strange runes that had originally covered it began to spread again, even deep into the flesh and blood.

But Kreller watched the scene with a soft gaze, and he manipulated the instrument next to him, as if adding something to the solution, and then turned his head and said, "How's it going, Elma, feeling better?" ”

"I've adjusted the concentration of the transcendent barrier solution to 80 percent, do I need to continue to increase it?"

“…… Very good, no need. After a while, the strange runes on the flesh began to dissipate, and a tired voice communicated with Kreller through the spirit: "Thank you, Clarer, you have done a really good job, you can learn the operation of the laboratory in just a few days...... Your talent is truly amazing! ”

The strange flesh and blood aggregate in this crystal container is Elma, or rather, the core and central part of Elma, and she let out an emotional voice: "You know, even if a professional Amos comes to learn, it takes a week or two to get started, and you have learned all the steps in a few days, it seems that it will not be difficult for you to take over my inheritance." ”

“…… Perhaps. Creeller couldn't deny it, and for a moment he couldn't explain how much he wanted to help Elma, and how hard he worked to study...... Rubbing his tired eyes, he whispered, "Hold on a little longer, Elma, wait a little longer, maybe the elixir to solve the limit virus will be developed?" Don't think about inheritance now, think about what will happen after death. ”

"Well, I'll wait."

The obviously mutated flesh and blood made a rational female voice, and she readily agreed, but she couldn't make Creeller feel a little steady.

The two of them did not speak for a while, and the entire experimental hall fell silent, except for the sound of the solution in the culture chamber undulating.

“…… Is it worth it? ”

"Sacrifice yourself like this, become a monster, and maybe even die like that...... So, is it worth it? ”

In the silence, staring at the mutated flesh and blood in the warehouse, Creller wanted to speak several times, asking Elma what he thought—he wanted to know if this woman he knew knew knew about his actions, whether she knew what the meaning of what he was doing was worth giving up his life.

However, it is impossible to speak.

Because even Kreller knew that Elma's actions when the Extreme Virus spread again saved at least tens of billions of Amos.

——After obtaining the 'blocking potion' developed by the nature mentor, Elma used her own bloodline as an experiment to prepare a blocking potion suitable for the Amos people as quickly as possible, and then she kept going, relying on the relationship between herself who had just met the Amos Emperor, implying that her actions were signaled behind the emperor's back, and she used herself to kill extreme creatures, saving a large number of thinking individuals The human favor was directly linked to the upper echelons of the related industry, and began to rapidly produce the barrier potion.

This series of operations is like a smooth flow, and it can't be faster - with the opening of the transmission network, batch after batch of blocking drugs have been sent to the entire territory of the royal court, so that the vast majority of people can block it, at least know the invasion of the limit virus, and then better treat and isolate. It is not too much to say that Elma's actions have saved tens of billions of people, and she can even say that she has saved all the members of the Amos royal court of this generation.

In this regard, the emperor did not say a word, he did not deny or admit that Elma was pulling his name, and he did not stop or help Erma against his will to fight against the extreme virus.

He just watched with interest as the ants in his palms struggled, self-sacrificing, and realized the meaning of self-sacrifice at the cost of his life, and then nodded thoughtfully.

It was because he knew this that Kreler wanted to ask, is it worth it?

This sentence is not spoken, but in the spiritual network connected by the two, thinking is equivalent to talking.

Confronted with Elma, who seemed to want to say something, Creller's mind was unabashedly open to her.

"I know that for you, Elma, it is a worthwhile thing to save tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of Amos at the cost of being infected with the limit virus, this sacrifice is noble and honorable, and there are countless people who will pass on your name, inherit your favor, and live for the future you have given - this spirit is simply a legendary epic destined to be sung to the next era.

However, I am a cold-blooded, ruthless, and despised guy of different races, I am a stranger who dies in front of my eyes, it doesn't matter if I die, I can even eat happily, but familiar people are hurt and uncomfortable, and I am almost going to die, a vulgar and selfish bad person.

As far as I'm concerned, compared to you, the tens of billions of fanatical and xenophobic Amos are just motes, and you are the sun, and the sun is willing to go out for the sake of motes, I really can't accept it - but I understand that this is nothing worth or not worth it for you, because you can do it, and you, who are willing to rebel against the Emperor for the Amos, will naturally sacrifice your life for the Amos, and that's probably what you mean, I feel, and you even feel happy about it. ”

- Happiness is both 'spiritual' and 'material' satisfaction.

- Meaning is the process of 'realizing' and 'following' one's own will.

At this moment, even if Elma has become a flesh and blood monster because of the fight against the erosion of the extreme virus, no one can say that she is not happy now, and her life is meaningless.

Because she has received both material and spiritual satisfaction, she has fulfilled and followed her own will, and carried out her own desires.

However, the flesh and blood in the cultivation warehouse squirmed slightly, as if shaking their heads.

"Kreeler, you can't say that."

Gentle mental fluctuations came, as if trying to enlighten the other party: "Let's take an analogy - when a group of people were playing in the forest, they were suddenly attacked by wild beasts, and everyone fled in a panic, but according to their speed, it was basically impossible for anyone to escape. ”

"And at this time, suddenly there was a person who stayed and chose to fight-in her heart, maybe there was no such thing as 'sacrificing for the Amos', she might just be simply angry, simply unwilling, why didn't the guardian in the angry crowd take action, unwilling why her fate is like this."

"So, if he doesn't make a move, I will do it—the man fought, temporarily repelled the beast, and allowed most of them to leave, but he himself was dying...... Other people who escaped with their lives, as well as onlookers, were moved to say that this was a noble self-sacrifice, but in fact it was not. ”

A golden tentacle stretched out from the flesh, and it seemed to want to touch the face of Cryler, who was already in tears, through the crystal wall of the cultivation chamber, and Elma said calmly: "Sacrifice is not so cheap...... But sacrifice may be so cheap, after all, we are all selfish beings, as long as it is for our own will, self-meaning, even sacrifice is willing. ”

Elma herself is a leading scholar in related transcendent biology, and she can even extrapolate artificial bodies that fit the soul in terms of soul adaptability for aliens without any consultation.

You must know that when Kreller was in the soul abyss ball, there were no physical genetic factors, only his soul, but with some brief information, Elma was able to use the characteristics of Kreller's soul to create seven seven or eight of his body, which was roughly the same.

After getting the consultation of the natural mentor not so much as the information, but how to teach you how to make the blocking potion by hand, it is not difficult for her to quickly make a barrier potion suitable for the Amos according to her body, even the most professional experimenters cannot be faster than her, and if it weren't for the fact that she had seen the Emperor diligently and was a hero who killed extreme lives, her subsequent series of instructions from the Emperor would not have worked, let alone mobilize the entire production system so quickly to save so many Amos.

Therefore, Elma knows that the person who does all this is none other than herself, no one else, only herself, and this is something that only she can do.

“…… Ahh ”

After a long silence, suddenly, the flesh in the scarlet solution began to twist, boiling heat came out of it, and the strange runes spread again, and this time, Elma's voice was not so relaxed, she suppressed the pain, and said with a smile: "I underestimated the limit virus...... I thought that with my strength, I would be able to suppress it for a while, but it turned out to be far stronger than I thought......"

Under Kreller's shocked gaze, strange flesh and blood began to proliferate in the cultivation chamber, and countless distorted faces began to appear on the golden flesh - it was a face, a face like Elma Amos, a face like a human at Elma, and all sorts of faces that I couldn't tell what kind of creature it was.

These faces are not terrible, even beautiful, and as soon as they appear, they begin to howl and merge with each other, and soon, they are about to merge into a flawless face on the flesh and blood, although not human, but human beings will find beautiful, sublimated faces, and with the appearance of this face, cocoons begin to appear, and begin to wrap around the distorted flesh that has begun to gradually shape, and can see a perfect curve.

"I'm going to die."

Until the end, a very calm and indifferent voice came, even with a hint of relief and relief: "At this stage, it seems to be called the death of a new life? Now I will die, and out of 'me', an absolutely selfish extreme creature will be born...... Ah, it really doesn't work, but I can't accept this point of being alone, why can't its core idea be to become stronger, for love, for beauty and harmony? ”

"No, hold on a little longer!"

Up to now, Klerler didn't even have the extra heart to be shocked or sad, he just gritted his teeth and hurriedly ran to the control table of the cultivation chamber, and forcefully entered the control code to add the concentration of the extraordinary blocking potion: "There is definitely hope - wait a little longer, wait a little longer!" ”

"Kill me, the password is '-0302?0101?1001?0304?0502?0105?0501?0902?0501?0301?0102-'."

Elma's tone was very calm, she seemed to have long thought about what she was going to do when she died: "This is my own preparation, I will destroy all the ciphers immediately when there is an abnormal situation, even if I become an extreme creature, I can kill it immediately, after all, this is the annihilation circle that I have asked a general to strengthen." ”

"Kreel, even if you don't press it, it will start automatically later, but I want to die at your hands, as an Amos, please fulfill my wish."

"No!"

With the hammer on the console, Clarer's eyes widened, his eyes bloodshot from the night's care, he turned his head and yelled at Elma, "Pray to the Marshal, Joshua van Radcliffe, for this name!" ”

"If you pray to the marshal, a miracle will surely happen! I don't understand, why don't you just want to?! ”

"Don't." Only in this refusal, Elma's voice became cold, but she could hear the hidden shame behind the tone: "Absolutely not." ”

"The Amos, the enemies of Lady McCro - you died a lot in that war, and we lost a lot of people, and you could even say that your body was destroyed in that battle."

"The death of the Amos is a good thing for Lady McCro, for you. As you said before, you only care about me, not about the Amos...... And I, the one who has saved so many of Mrs. McCro's enemies, your marshal, the Lord, may have been so big-hearted that he agreed to your prayers, but I was the first despicable one to betray the contract and use Lady McCro's technology to save the Amos......

I have been blessed by the Lord to survive the battle of the Extreme Creature and to be victorious, to be glorified, and to have the opportunity to save many Amos, but I cannot repay it, and even do something bad to Mrs. McCro, I can't bear to be so selfish, so I'd rather die than live with shame. ”

Facing Creeler, who didn't know what to say at all, and could only beat the cultivation cang crystal, Elma's tone became gentle again: "Moreover, don't make my death a tragedy without authorization. ”

"I am already very happy to be able to realize the meaning of my life, and this is my true desire, my real desire." The meaning of the Elmachi's birth has been found, even realized, and I have created a future for my race so that they can go further, so that even if I die now, I have no regrets. ”

"Compared to these, 'self' and 'life' are trivial things, and I am willing to give up my life for the sake of self-meaning to prove my love for the Amos, my shame for Mrs. McCro, even if this sacrifice makes you sad, I will never agree."

"After all, I am a selfish fellow, a selfish Amos, and my sacrifice is only to comfort my own life."

"Damn, Elma! Do you think you're the only one who is selfish?! ”

Unable to bear it any longer, Clerler roared and stretched out his hand, pressed it on the golden belt around his waist, and said loudly: "You want to sacrifice? I don't want to! Selfish lives compete with each other - this time, I have to take your life back from your hands! ”

"Load the Extraordinary Plug-in - Shadow Gold!"

[Loaded-y?] 】

"Wait, Kreller, what are you doing here?!" At this time, Elma's voice seemed a little flustered, she didn't expect the other party to make such a move: "You ......"

But at this time, Kreller didn't have time to listen to the other party's words, he responded loudly: "Armor! ”

The shadows were confused, then shrunk again, turning into a set of armor with dark gold streaks that covered Clarer's body.

【Qiao's system special installation version start...... Linking the crisis management system and starting a modular approach...... Extraordinary Armor: Flame of Shadow Gold is fully open]

[Latent, raiding, cutting grass and eradicating roots, we are all the flames in the shadows! ] 】

"Activate, 'Shadow Desolation'! Use the blackbody space to swallow the entire cultivation chamber! Waiting for the power to penetrate his whole body, I don't know why, Kreller felt that the power of this armor was inexplicably much higher than before, but this was a good thing, so he didn't think much about it: "Turn off the means of damage, I want to completely suspend all energy activities in it to ensure the stability of the life state in the black body space!" ”

- A long time ago, I was a guy who lived an unhappy life, a meaningless life, and it was better to live than to die.

- But since I met the marshal, since I became the captain of the ship, since I met you Elma, I have understood that my whole life is for all this.

- For the sake of my own happiness, for my own meaning, I can give anything, as you said, compared to all this, life is only a trivial matter.

[Hint: If the energy level of the devouring target is too high, this operation will cause a great load to the loader of the crisis handling system, which may lead to death, is it carried out?] 】

"Yes!"

Klerler didn't hesitate.

As a result, the swaying shadow space engulfed the shocked Elma and the entire cultivation chamber.

And outside the settlements.

Two huge wills are facing each other in the void.

"Do you want to stop me from retrieving our Lady McCro's people, and his booty?"

The silver-white will of the world is like the deepest and coldest steel, hard, stubborn, indestructible, unshakable, his gaze swept across this void, calming the storm of time and space: "Amos, you may be able to stop me before, but now I am you, you can't." ”

"Don't amplify your words, Joshua, I can see that you are not lightly injured."

Like a galaxy, the spiraling will sneered: "Ten years later, you still have a little convincing power to say this, but now you are really not good." ”

"Is your body in the abyss, eroding towards the Maelstrom of Creation? It is indeed a good path, if you succeed, you can completely control the lifeblood of the entire world galaxy, and the Thakurs are indeed not able to beat you in terms of individual strength."

The silver-white will of the world looked at the other party's rebuttal as nothing: "But I can, you are far from succeeding now, you are far from reaching the border of the near Sage, but I have already touched it, so, Amos, get out of the way." ”

"She's an Amos, and she's mine."

The spiral galaxy did not back down in the slightest, and he shook the void, causing the light of the demon tide to scatter: Moreover, it is really interesting that such an individual can appear among the Amos—is it self-sacrificing, and that there is still such a possibility in life? It's hard to imagine that I can't give her up to you. ”

"It may be difficult to imagine just life and beasts, but we are different, we are civilized individuals, so there is always something more important and noble than life, and it is precisely because of the incomparably precious life that sacrifice has its meaning."

The silver-white will of the world gradually revealed a hint of eagerness, but he still admonished: "Do you want to fight, Amos?" I really don't want to kill a strong person like you before the tide of evil gods comes. ”