Volume 7: The Inverted Man Chapter 41: The Meeting
In the center of the primitive island, inside the tomb of the “Black Emperor”.
Rossel, who had sent Bernadette away, did not immediately go into a deep sleep, he slowly raised his head and once again looked to the infinite heights.
Above the gray mist, Klein sighed silently, put down the “Star Staff”, took in a piece of paper, and casually shook his hand.
”With a pop, the paper figure thickened rapidly, expanded, and flew into the translucent vortex of illusory and mysterious symbols beside the seat of the Fool.
–Although Bernadette had been moved to the edge of the primordial island, and Klein could no longer see the interior of the Black Emperor’s tomb through the light of her prayers, he could, with the help of the symbol of the “Fool”, which had been incorporated into Rossel’s figure, see the interior of the tomb in a certain way. But he could maintain his connection with the Emperor to a certain extent by using the “Fool” symbol that had been integrated into Russell’s figure.
After penetrating the slowly rotating vortex, the paper man descended into the interior of the mausoleum, where the source of light came from nowhere and appeared rather dim, and transformed into a human being in front of the central platform.
This human has black hair and brown pupils, and resembles Gelman Sparrow a little bit, but the outline is not hard enough, the lines are not deep enough, the temperament is not cold enough, and there is a certain difference in the facial features, and there is a little bit of socially induced fat on the chin and stomach, which is exactly the image of Kline’s original Chow Ming-rui, and it is exactly the one who hangs in the interior of the “Fortress of the Source” and is in the same position as the one who is in the “Fortress of the Source”. It was the same Zhou Mingrui who hung inside the “Source Castle” and had been “roommates” with Rossel Huangtao Gustav for thousands of years.
Rossel was not surprised at all by his appearance, pressing the armrest with one palm and leaning forward slightly, he looked at him and said:
”You’re here.”
”I’m here.” Klein nodded imperceptibly.
”You shouldn’t have come.” Roselle said with a sigh.
”I’m already here.” Klein picked up the stunt naturally.
Completely sure of where the guy in front of him was coming from, Rossel let a low chuckle escape while letting his sitting position return to normal:
”I was going to ask you where you’re from, to see if I need to make a geographical discrimination, but after thinking about it, there’s no need for that, they’re all poor bastards who don’t belong to this era and don’t have a hometown anymore.”
Not waiting for Klein to respond, this great emperor’s voice sank and opened his mouth to ask:
”You know the truth of the end?”
”Knew.” Klein gently nodded his head.
Russell continued to ask:
”You know that this is Earth?”
”Uh-huh.” Klein replied frankly.
Rossel smiled to himself as he sniffed:
”It’s surprising that you knew so early, I didn’t dare to finally confirm it until I traveled to the moon and saw the true appearance of this planet from high above.”
Speaking here, this great emperor sighed and said:
”Above the moon was so bizarre that I clearly felt the horror, but I didn’t think at all about whether or not I would be contaminated, and then, became more and more paranoid and extreme.
”Still, I occasionally gained a certain amount of clarity from the perceptions of those around me, but I didn’t dare to keep a diary in that state for fear of revealing secrets and losing my last chance.
”I finally decided to make use of all the previous paving and switched to the ‘Black Emperor’ pathway, not only because the end was near and only Sequence 0 could possibly protect the people it wanted to protect, take them to hide on other planets in the vast universe, and make use of the corresponding authority to reestablish, in a barren and dead place, a place where mankind could I also saw the hope of getting rid of the pollution due to the ‘resurrection’ miracle of the ‘Black Emperor’.
”As long as I can be killed for real after becoming Sequence 0 ‘Black Emperor’ and going half-mad, then I will have a chance to be resurrected within the mausoleum or in the astral realm, and at that time, what will return to me will be the pure ‘uniqueness’ and three copies of Sequence 1 extraordinary characteristics, no longer tainted in the slightest and no longer harboring uncontrollable madness.
”Speaking of which, the ‘Eternal Blazing Sun’ and the ‘God of Steam and Machinery’ of that time were sort of utilized by me in a way.
”However, the horror of the old days surpassed my imagination, and along with my resurrection came the pollution of the reborn …… Perhaps, only the old days could fight against the old days.
”I had to abort the process of resurrection and live within this last mausoleum in this current state, not allowing that Old Day to be born in the real world with the help of my body, which would have brought about a devastating disaster.”
Combining what he had learned before and everything that had just happened, Klein had long had a certain guess about the state of Rossel the Great, and at this time was not surprised at all, responding calmly:
”The outer god that polluted you is called ‘Fallen Mother Goddess’, k compelled many believers with the incarnation of ‘Primal Moon’.”
The five senses vaguely presented on Russell’s face changed slightly at once.
He was silent for a few seconds and said:
”I know about ‘Primal Moon’, but I’m not sure that k’s real honorific name is ‘Fallen Mother Goddess’.
”Now that I think about it, it’s probably not a coincidence that I could find Mr. ‘Gate’ asking for help ……”
Hearing these words, Klein’s heart was creeped out, instantly remembering all the situations on the island outside, and already had some sort of foreknowledge of what Archon Rosel wanted to say.
Rossel laughed and sighed:
”My biggest problem in the first half of my life was that I was too confident, always had the feeling that I could read the file and start over at any time, and didn’t scrutinize many details enough.
”In the beginning, Green was contaminated by the strange power on this island and returned here after his death to regain his life, isn’t that from the influence of the ‘primordial moon’? After I did all kinds of tests and purified myself accordingly afterwards, I thought I had no more problems, but in reality, fate might have changed very little at that moment long ago, which led to my subsequent ‘chance encounter’ with Mr. ‘Door’, and being guided step by step by K to the moon Above ……
”You can’t blame Mr. ‘Door’ for that, k was probably in a worse state than I am now.”
What the Emperor meant was that he had been targeted by the Fallen Mother Goddess from the moment he discovered this primitive island? Klein sighed:
”At that time, who would have thought that the problem would be so serious?”
Before Sequence 2, knowing about the “Starry Sky” and the old days itself would bring about a terrible contamination, but without knowing about it, when encountering certain situations, it was impossible to accurately determine how serious the problem was, and how to make amends afterward, which led to Rossel treating this primitive island as his own secret base, and didn’t tell those who were qualified to know about the Outer Gods and the old days about the things that happened here. to those who were qualified to know about the Outer Gods, the Old Days, and the “Stars”.
”Yeah.” Rossel seemed relieved that he had made a mistake that almost everyone would have made.
He then said:
”There’s also almost no mention of the Old Days, the Outer Gods, in that ancient, hidden organization.”
At this point, Russell paused to say:
”You should have read my diary and be well aware that that ancient, hidden organization is a surrogate.”
Klein nodded and said:
”I know which organization it refers to, I didn’t think you’d be afraid to mention the name of the K organization when you have the Sequence 0 bit.”
”I always feel that K is not simple, and may have knowledge of the external gods that we cannot imagine, so it’s better to be cautious, after all, I’m not considered a complete Sequence 0 True God right now.” After Russell simply said that, his vaguely visible brows suddenly furrowed, “How much of my diary have you read?”
If the atmosphere wasn’t so depressing and sad, Klein would have been unable to resist saying “The taste of a witch is pretty good” back at this point, as a way to tease Russell’s old countryman.
Eventually, he answered in a calm voice:
”A lot.
After spitting out those two words, he casually added:
”I’ve also collected a few ‘cards of blasphemy’.”
”Which ones?” Roselle asked offhandedly.
Klein controlled the paper man’s expression above the gray mist and said in a tone with little rise or fall:
”‘The Black Emperor’, ‘The Tyrant’, ‘The Red Priest’, and ‘The Fool’ .”
”Phew……” Rossel exhaled, his vaguely tight frown loosening, “Good thing it wasn’t the ‘Witch’ card, ‘Moon’ card and the ‘Mother’ card.”
You’re going to mention it yourself …… Klein didn’t respond, just looked at the Archon that way.
Rossel only realized it when he finished and was busy coughing:
”All of you who have watched the broadcast should be well aware of how normal a thing this is ……”
With that said, he coughed again and turned to sigh:
”Which pathway are you an extraordinary person?”
”Diviner.” Klein replied succinctly.
Roselle fell silent, and only said after a few seconds:
”It’s a pity, if everyone is in their normal state, this is the time when you should be the one to get a big screen TV and a game console out from within the historical orifice, and we should all play and talk. That’s what makes a man romantic.”
Unfortunately, there’s no electricity, it’s up to you to invent …… Klein unspoken the words in his heart, and said in a tone that remained unchanged:
”I hope there will be such a day.”
Then he steered the conversation on track:
”I’m curious as to why the ‘Blasphemous Cards’ you made can be impossible for the gods to find? This level of anti-divination and anti-prophecy is amazing.”
Roselton laughed lightly:
”Because knowledge can bring power, and power can give knowledge, and this is the authority of the ‘Emperor of Knowledge’.
”After I attached power to all twenty-two of the Pathways’ magic potion formulas, they naturally created the power of convergence between extraordinary characteristics and had a sort of anti-divination anti-prophecy effect.
”And then, with ……”
As he spoke, Rossel suddenly paused, as if sensing something was wrong.
After an interval of a second or two, he said with a somewhat fluttering voice:
”The making of the ‘Blasphemous Sign’ was a year before I performed the ‘Black Emperor’ ceremony, and at that time, I had already encountered the contamination of the ‘Primal Moon’ and had no corresponding cognizance of myself for the most part.
”How is it that these twenty-two cards can be impossible for the gods to find?”
This rhetorical question was heard above the gray mist as Klein’s spirit tightened, once again having a slight tingling sensation in his scalp.
Without waiting for him to maneuver the paper man to give a response, Rossel’s voice suddenly drew up, taking on a hint of unspeakable fear:
”Don’t gather all twenty-two cards!
”Beware of the ‘Mother’ card!”
These two words echoed in the deep interior of the Black Emperor’s tomb for a long time.