Great! I'm surrounded by villains!-Chapter 428 - 347: The Disappearing Sun

Unintentionally, the archaeologist He Ya revealed her understanding of the "dark mud," which Duan Mingyuan believed might be the closest to the correct answer.

After all, He Ya had been to the Land of Eternal Night and had faced the demons inside.

He Ya continued to explain, "Take, for example, the ’dark mud’ that coexists with you and the Dark Night Witch, although your cognition and life goals have huge discrepancies, your attitudes toward opening the Teleportation Gate are surprisingly consistent."

Although, according to Duan Mingyuan’s words, he wanted to solve the problem once and for all, the actions he and the Dark Night Witch ultimately took were the same, and once the Teleportation Gate was established and the seal of the Land of Eternal Night failed, what happened afterward was beyond their control.

"I have to admit that the environment in which one grows up can change a person’s cognition. Perhaps the experiences on Blue Star have changed you."

No one has ever said that demons are always the same.

Moreover, the "dark mud" scattered throughout the universe is just one of the myriad thoughts of the demons. Perhaps not even the demons themselves know what kind of fruit they will ultimately bear.

This is the closest explanation to the truth that He Ya could come up with at the moment.

And now, the seal of the Land of Eternal Night is about to be lifted, and a new era will dawn for humanity after the disappearance of the Sun King for a thousand years.

Only in the next era, they might not be the main characters writing history anymore.

He Ya’s smile faded, and her expression became much more serious than before, "I know it’s hard for you to accept this all at once. No one with free will wants to become the shadow of another, of course. You can also choose to reject all this, to prevent the Teleportation Gate from being opened... You should still have enough time right now."

The second night was about to fall.

The Church’s development of cooling technology was still not progressing, and after nightfall, the Dark Night Witch would continue to take action.

Infecting the believers throughout the Holy City was just a means to her end, "It’s a smokescreen. While the Church is busy hunting Yelena and dealing with those infected by the parasites, the witch will be able to set up the Teleportation Array smoothly."

In fact, the "dark mud" has the same goal.

Once they tore the seal of the Land of Eternal Night, their mission was accomplished.

The demons had not planned a future for them.

This is the biggest difference between demon offspring and those with free will.

"Demon offspring are tools from the moment of their birth. They can be beasts lurking in the dark, they can be natural disasters, or any tool that can annihilate humans. They have no need for a destiny of their own."

He Ya stared at the lingering shadows flowing within the Scorching Sun Power. It took her many epochs to slowly understand these histories, which were so secretive that even the descendants of the Sun King had forgotten these past events.

What follows is He Ya’s personal opinion, "Perhaps everything that happened afterward was just the result of a territorial war."

This war had nothing to do with justice or evil from the start.

The Sun King chose humans with free will, while the Void Demon favored those beasts and disasters with more definite purposes.

It turned out that the Void Demon was defeated in its judgment of characters.

The sparks of civilization spread across the galaxies, almost lighting up every place they reached.

Even He Ya had to admit that the past few thousand years of history belonged to humans.

"You’re facing an important choice, and perhaps what you need more is a quiet place to reflect alone."

This unusual space is the best place for that.

There are no others around. With just a glance, you can take in all the significant segments of past history."

He Ya speculated that this place was very likely the Sun King’s former place of contemplation, where one could silently think and also witness the achievements they had made or reflect on the wrong decisions they had taken.

After a long silence, Duan Mingyuan finally spoke, "But this story doesn’t reveal where the Sun King ultimately went."

Genesis mentions that the Sun King disappeared suddenly.

On an ordinary day, he vanished without a trace, so hastily that the then Archbishop had to assume the title of king, an occurrence that coincidentally became a tradition of the Ashen Empire.

All the believers steadfastly believed that the Sun King had never perished, only that he had gone to a place unknown.

And here, aside from the flowing Scorching Sun Power, one could simply look up to see the sun.

It was situated not far off, seemingly within reach, yet as if no matter what, it was unreachable.

Duan Mingyuan made attempts, but the distance between him and the sun seemed to be infinitely stretched by some force, no matter how far he went, he appeared to be marching in place.

In response to Duan Mingyuan’s question, He Ya shrugged her shoulders, "I don’t know."

The Sun King did not exist in the era she lived in.

At the moment her consciousness was born on Flashing Star, the Sun King had already been missing for a long time.

"Do you plan to stop the Teleportation Array?"

Duan Mingyuan asked.

"I don’t intend to do anything, the stance of a merchant is always neutral, and besides, as I’ve already said, without Flashing Star, I am nothing but a merchant skilled only at talking," He Ya said.

In such a crucial period, any decision could bring about profound consequences.

If she tried to stop the teleportation ritual and the Void Demon ended up winning the subsequent wars, she would have a difficult time over the next hundred or even thousands of years, possibly having to stoop to doing small business with bugs just to barely get by.

"But we are friends after all, if the Void Demon truly becomes unstoppable, you have to give me a heads-up in advance, so I can start learning to do business with the Void Demon... no, with those creatures," He Ya said.

First things first, she needed to change the way she referred to them. freeweɓnovel~cѳm

No customer would like to be referred to as a demon.

If the void creatures won this war, then in a few decades, it would be the human remnants struggling to survive in the Conscious Space who would be called demons.

Bright Demons, or Scorching Demons?

The present moment was just like that moment in time.

The Ark that Dr. Eisenberg built for humanity bore little difference from the closed-off Land of Eternal Night in a sense.

"The hymn is about to end," He Ya reminded, "Once you leave this place, you might have some other matters to attend to."

For instance, dealing with the parasites that had infiltrated the Holy City Cathedral.

As the hymn concluded, the believers were engrossed in the aftertaste for a long time until one after another they rose from the crowd, breaking the silence.

They moved toward the choir without saying a word, their faces gloomy.

Even the orchestra conductor, whose gaze was drawn to these individuals, suddenly saw one of the choir members rise abruptly from behind him, plunging a knife engraved with a dark mark into his spine.

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