In front of him was an iron gate disguised as a stone wall. Outside of this iron gate was the end of the Balar Mountain scenic road.
The iron gate was built on top of a mountain. Looking up from the entrance, it was a towering mountain that towered into the clouds.
If he wasn't 100% sure that Xue Lin was locked behind the iron gate about four to five kilometers away, even he would have almost been fooled by this perfectly disguised iron gate.
Without much effort, he waved his hand, and the mountain near the iron gate disintegrated. The iron gate, which was about four to five meters tall, collapsed with a loud bang.
He reignited the engine and turned on the lights. The wheels rolled over the fallen iron gate and slowly entered the pitch-black tunnel.
After passing through the tunnel, it was another world. Perhaps this was the most beautiful place in Balar Mountain. As far as the eye could see, the green trees were like a carpet, and the broad-leaved forest in early autumn seemed to still grow lush in the humid and warm air. A forest path led straight into the depths.
The four of them got out of the car and walked forward side by side. This forest path seemed to have people coming and going all year round. The places where their feet landed were trampled until not even a blade of grass grew. The shrubs and flowers on both sides of the road were trampled until they were crooked. There were huge footprints on the soft ground that extended all the way inside, indicating that a large number of people had passed through here not long ago.
"Ridiculous! Wight Chen actually dared to bring those three women along! "
In the conference room, Ward waved his arms agitatedly, half roaring and half in surprise.
Elder Earth grinned. "Isn't this good? We now have three more hostages. "
Elder Ni looked at the calm Chen Guang in the monitor and said with some worry, "Could it be that he has absolute confidence in dealing with us, so he didn't take it seriously at all?"
"Are you kidding me? What right does he have to look down on us? When he stole the sacred nucleus 300 years ago, wasn't he also chased by us? "
Elder Earth was full of confidence. At this moment, someone knocked on the door of the conference room.
Elder Earth raised his eyebrows. "Come in."
A lump of mud at the door first poked its head inside, then said in a very nervous tone, "Reporting to Great Elder, it's that … Shi Sha, he …"
Walter interrupted the mud, "What's wrong with the World Sand?"
"I'm not sure. He's always spouting nonsense and is unwilling to cooperate. Why don't the three elders come and take a look together?"
The mudman's voice became softer and softer.
The Earth Elder stood up angrily. "Nonsense. What time is it now? Why are you still making a fuss! Let's go! Let's go take a look! "
In the 1st secret room of the Broken World Base, Shi Sha was shouting at the other 17 people, "You've all been tricked! This is a scam! You will all die! There was no such thing as eternal life! There was no World-Shattering Saint Clan! We are not some stone monsters! "
The other seventeen people looked at him as if they were looking at a madman. There was sympathy, jealousy, and pity, but most of them were anger, as if they had been betrayed.
He didn't know what was wrong with him. Since last night, he had been having a strange dream.
In this strange dream, he was not the strongest sacred warrior of the World Shattering Holy Tribe, but an orphan born in China on Earth.
Maybe he wasn't an orphan. Maybe he had parents, but they were kidnapped by human traffickers when he was very young.
The memory was too old, and he wasn't sure.
He only knew that for as long as he could remember, he had been living in this beautiful base.
He always liked to sneak to the small lake behind the base to play with the sand. He also liked to hold a fishing rod and sit by the small lake to fish. He was very good at fishing and could catch a full basket in less than half a day. However, he never ate the fish he caught. Instead, he threw them back into the lake and told these stupid fish not to be so stupid in the future. There was no such thing as bait falling from the sky. There was no such thing as a free lunch in this world.
Later, he gradually grew taller. Then he had to sit in classes with those older than him and be taught all kinds of knowledge by the teachers.
Shi Sha actually didn't like to learn, but whenever he wanted to slack off, he would be hung up and whipped. No matter how he begged for mercy, it was meaningless.
So he gritted his teeth and learned.
But suddenly, one day, according to what he had learned, he used the sharp dagger in his hand to slash a childhood playmate that he had grown up with. Only then did he suddenly realize that all along, what his teachers had taught him was the ability to kill.
He didn't understand. They were all humans, so why did they have to kill?
There were so many things in the world that they couldn't finish. Everyone could live, so why did they have to let someone die?
He asked this question to the most kind teacher in his heart. The result was that he was thrown into a cage with three other children.
He would never forget what that kind teacher said before he left. "Either the three of you kill Shi Sha, or the three of you die in the hands of Shi Sha. World Shattering doesn't need saints. You are killers, weapons, not humans. "
Three days later, this teacher came to open the cage. Shi Sha and the three corpses had been waiting for him for two and a half days.
Shi Sha roughly understood something. Killing wasn't for food. Sometimes, it was for a simpler reason, survival.
He couldn't find the answer to which was more valuable, one life or three lives. But in order to live alone, he chose to let the other three die, using the things he forced himself to learn.
Shi Sha couldn't forget the teacher's joyful eyes when he opened the door.
At that time, he didn't understand why this teacher would be happy. I killed people, I killed my own kind, shouldn't you be angry and sad?
Later on, he gradually understood.
From then on, his life seemed to have entered a dead end. Every other year, he would be thrown into the cage with the others.
The only difference was that the cage got bigger and bigger. More and more people were thrown in with him. Other than him, the other people were getting older and stronger.
The only thing that didn't change was this teacher's request. Every time, he had to live alone or everyone else.
Until a certain day two years ago, when he walked out of the cage for the last time, he had his own name. He wasn't called Little Life because he liked to play with sand. His name was Shi Sha.
He became the youngest titled killer in the World Shattering at the age of 16. At the same time, he became the strongest titled killer.
On this day, he killed the last person in his life, the teacher who had always thrown him into a cage. He swore that he would never take the initiative to kill anyone ever again, and he would never allow anyone to kill in front of him.
Unlike other titled killers, at the age of 16, he went to the lake behind the base and built a wooden house. He lived there for two years.
During these two years, the World Shattering wanted him to go on a mission more than once, which was to kill people.
However, his answer was very simple. Either you kill me or you let me live here quietly.
The three elders couldn't understand why the World Shattering's perfect talent nurturing system would produce a freak who refused to kill but was shockingly strong.
It wasn't the first time that the three of them had the thought of eliminating him, but in the end, they couldn't bear to part with the most talented young killer in history. They thought that since he was harmless, they might as well let him live by the lake alone, with the sand and the stupid fish in the lake.
From then on, he lived by the lake alone.
During these two years, only the other person who had a similar fate as him, the World Blade, would come to visit him from time to time and chat with him.
However, Shi Sha hated the World Blade because he would always grab the fattest fish from the fish that he had planned to release and roast it. Then, he would force Shi Sha to eat it.
But forget it. It wasn't bad to have someone to chat with from time to time.
This continued all the way until last night.
Shi Sha didn't know why he left the lake and returned to the base. He couldn't remember why he led people to deal with the invaders in a daze. His mind was always muddled.
It seemed that he didn't live by the lake alone because he didn't want to go out and kill people. Instead, it was because there was something called the Earth Saint Core in the lake. He was the most talented young warrior in the World Shattering Holy Tribe. He was born with the ability to communicate with all the earth elements and absorb them. Therefore, he became the most important ultimate weapon in the tribe. That was why he was arranged to live by the lake and communicate with the power of the elements.
Two different life experiences clashed in his mind. He couldn't tell which was a dream and which was reality.
Both of these lives were very real. However, he knew that only one of them was real.
The problem was, which one was real?
When he led the team to ambush Xue Lin and the others, he had been thinking about this matter. Therefore, he seemed to be absent-minded. However, the others executed the order to capture him alive perfectly.
Escorting the hostages from the periphery of Mount Baral into the mountain, he looked at these "monster" companions who made him feel close and familiar, and he became even more confused.
He looked at the quicksand in his palm again and felt a little more at ease. In any case, only this sand could bring a little peace of mind to his empty heart.
He thought to himself, maybe the assassin thing was a dream, or maybe that was my previous life.
He didn't know what was wrong with him. He really wanted to talk to the others.
But he didn't know how to speak. He didn't want to be treated as an alien. He felt that these two memories of him might be a great secret.
Until later, when one of his "companions" killed a living person in front of him, he suddenly lost control of his emotions. He killed this "companion" on the spot and crushed his crystal core.
This companion's "memory" inexplicably gushed out from the exploded crystal core, turned into fragments, and returned to his body with his own sand.
Only then did he know that each of his companions had the memory of being an assassin in the past.
But they were different from him. They learned the elemental abilities of the World Shattering Holy Tribe and the techniques of assassins at the same time. Sometimes, they passed through the barrier between the Douluo World and the low-level world to carry out all kinds of assassination missions in the low-level world. This was to earn money that they thought was worthless. It was also to train themselves and obtain more power so that they could invade that world one day.
So, he wasn't the only one who was once an assassin apprentice.
But why do I feel that this is ridiculous?
Obtaining the memory of his dead "companion" should have made him believe that he was the strongest genius in the World Shattering Holy Tribe. But in the end, no matter how he pieced together the timeline in his heart, the two memories couldn't overlap. Not only did the two lives not merge, but they became further and further apart.
This obsession lasted until he and the other 17 Titled Rankers were called to the spacious Secret Room No.1. Shi Ren and the others decided to end their own lives. When they gathered all their power into their own body, Shi Sha's obsession finally erupted. That was why Shi Sha had shouted out the words he had said earlier. "That's right.
He had already said that he wouldn't kill anymore, but he had already killed one of his companions today. If these 17 people also chose to commit suicide, they would die because of him!
I definitely won't accept it!
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