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The sparks compressed, compressed, and compressed again in the ember's hand! They gathered into a point, burning and drilling hard.

Finally, a crack began to appear where the fire was shining. It was not black and red like the Maintainer, but white, dazzling white.

The appearance of the crack was like a horn, a horn of some solid existence being shattered. From then on, the tiny white began to expand, getting bigger and bigger.

Finally, endless light appeared, penetrating heaven and earth, and everything pales in comparison to this light.

In the light, Ember saw a group of people coming here. At that time, Mondstadt was still freezing cold, but they lived and prospered here.

He saw the cold nails falling from the sky, destroying the silvery old trees. From then on, even the gods' strong winds could not blow away the snow and wind here.

He has seen a lot, from the time when the first light appeared in the world until now...

Light is time! It records everything!

Yu Jin looked at everything in the past, including tragedy and joy. However, for the time being, he could not interfere with such a long time ago, because he was not sure whether he could even pull Joseph out.

The time has come and Ember takes action.

The rusty hand nail was stretched into the flowing light, and in just a moment it turned into dust in the flowing light.

Even the creations of gods cannot avoid the fate of being eroded by time. Only gods themselves can survive in the midst of time.

Under the armor was Yu Jin's hand, which he had not shown to anyone for many years.

Can that be called a hand? Countless faces twisted and blended together, barely forming the shape of a "hand".

The eyes of those "people" are festering, orange-yellow, and insane; above the "human face", there are countless red and white dots, and the festering and wriggling flesh is the only part of this "hand" that is linked to life.

In the gaps between the human faces, fiery red light continued to emerge, and from the looks of it, the light was getting stronger and stronger.

"It's so ugly!" Yu Jin looked at his palm and smiled at himself.

His hands were scratching around in the flowing light, but it was like trying to catch the moon in the water, he caught nothing.

"Haha, this little bit of strength is really not enough?" Yu Jin felt a little emotional as he looked at himself clumsily trying to fish something out of time.

But soon his eyes became serious, and he laughed and shouted: "I have moved you before, it was so in the past, it is so now, and it will be so in the future!"

"Crackle!" A more intense sound of burning flames came from the ember's body. The power of fire began to manifest on the armor, large pieces of armor were melted, and molten magma flowed on every part of the ember's body.

There was a flash of fire on his arm, and the flames covered everything. His palm was now condensed with flames!

The burning palm now completely extends into time!

It is normal for God to turn back time.

Got it! Yu Jin saw his hand suddenly stretched out from space and grabbed Joseph who was falling.

"Come back to me!" Yu Jin roared, and his palm pulled out of time with the still surprised Joseph.

The moment Joseph came out, the light that reached the sky and the earth dissipated, and the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain returned to its former tranquility, as if nothing had happened.

"Huh..., huh..." The moment Joseph came out of time, the darkness in the cinders' body seemed to sense his weakness and attacked him together.

Yu Jin knelt on the ground, feeling endless pain all over his body. His flesh and blood began to have their own consciousness, biting and struggling, trying to escape from Yu Jin.

Madness, tyranny, cruelty... countless dark thoughts were stirring in Yu Jin's mind, trying to dominate his behavior.

"Go..., go quickly..." Yu Jin lay on the ground. Every word he spoke had countless emphasis, as if countless people were shouting at the same time.

"Bang!" Joseph heard Yu Jin's warning, and without even a shout, he exploded. Only a pool of squirming flesh remained on the ground, and blood instantly dyed the ground and Yu Jin's helmet red.

"Heh..., heh." Yu Jin let out a few creepy dry laughs. He laughed for a long time, until his stomach hurt.

He also looked at the lump of flesh for a long time. Under his gaze, Joseph's flesh and blood began to flow back, and the lump of flesh turned into a human form again.

Looking at the newly born "Joseph", Yu Jin knocked his head and said in a soothing tone:

"Go, go down. You are Joseph, Joel's father, you love Joel very much, you have successfully completed the snow mountain adventure, now you have to go back to celebrate."

The pain in Yu Jin's body seemed to disappear, and he lowered his head and thought for a while, as if everything that happened to him had nothing to do with him.

He seemed like a different person.

As if he had thought of something, Yu Jin added to "Joseph": "When Joel dies, you will be free."

After saying this, Yu Jin watched "Joseph" slowly walk down the mountain and disappear in the wind and snow.

"Crack, crackle." In the deep night on the snowy mountain, the only sound could be heard: the sound of Ember's iron boots trampling the snow.

The ember walked to the place where Joseph died, where there was only the whiteness of snow. He dug up a handful of new soil, walked up the cliff, walked to the cave, and walked to Joseph's grave.

Yu Jin dug a new big hole next to the grave mound, and without saying a word, he put the new soil in his hand into the grave pit, and then covered it up little by little.

Soon, a new grave mound reappeared in front of Yujin.

He sat directly in front of the grave mound. At this time, Yu Jin's body had begun to calm down. His body was no longer biting each other, and his mind was no longer filled with madness.

"Hahaha, trash!" Ember laughed. It's always like this. Should we say that they are worthy of being a collection of sins and the dark side of human nature?

After all, stupidity is also a sin.

"You always seem to forget how I absorbed you into my body." Yu Jin's voice changed from its previous light voice to become cold.

"Tsk - well, it's okay. If you keep holding it in, something bad will happen. Something bad happened just now, don't you think?" Yu Jin seemed to be asking a question in return, or mocking himself.

"Don't be silent, okay? Didn't you say something very nice just now?" Yu Jin was talking to himself like a madman, with no listeners, or perhaps the listeners were simply only visible to him.

"I haven't seen blood in a long time." Yu Jin said suddenly, and then his voice became light again.

"You can't die anyway, so I'll just kill you one more time."

Chapter 52 Life

2023-08-28

The original stove. At this moment, the four gods were huddled together, shivering beside the campfire.

And opposite them were the embers that had just traveled to the world outside the original furnace.

At this time, the ember armor was covered with blood and flesh, and sticky blood plasma was hanging outside the armor, and it took a long time to fall to the ground.

He had just walked out of the sea of ​​blood and corpses he had created.

"You four are doing well." Yu Jin sat cross-legged beside the campfire and stretched out his hands to warm them. Under the burning flames, the blood and meat turned into ashes and disappeared somewhere unknown.

"You didn't help them when they were messing around, so I'm glad I was so nice to you." Yu Jin smiled and looked at the four guys opposite who were like quails.

"It stinks, doesn't it? Actually, I don't want this to happen, but unfortunately they are just crazy people who want to escape as soon as they get a chance." Yu Jin scratched his head and said helplessly.

When Youshen and the others saw that Yujin seemed to have returned to normal, they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and their huddled bodies stretched out.

The state of the embers was extremely terrifying, and even He had only seen it a few times.

"Haha, since you don't want to talk to me, I'll just leave." Yu Jin looked at the four gods for a while, yawned, and felt bored.

Every time he could get out of this state quickly, but the people around him were not like this. Of course, there were not many living people who had seen him in this state.

Soon, Yu Jin disappeared from the original furnace. Seeing Yu Jin completely leave, You Shen and the others were completely relieved.

The aura of Yu Jin was so strong that they almost couldn't breathe. Unfortunately, this power can only be used to kill, which Yu Jin didn't like.

"Let's go outside and take a look?" Yousui suggested. He liked to see pain. The same goes for Mad Fire and Corruption. As for the First Fire? He was a fool, and fools had to follow the boss.

So, the four old otakus(?) ran to the periphery of the original furnace.

The original furnace was located at the center of the world, and it was also the highest point in the world. This was perfectly replicated in the Embers.

The world outside the Initial Furnace is a ruin, with only a narrow path leading to the Initial Furnace standing at the top of the world.

They were outside the original furnace, looking down at the world filled with blood and flesh.

Those who are smelted into slag by the fire will be exiled from the original furnace with their pure malice.

The darkest and ugliest parts of human nature settle down to form the depths. Because they are pure, they can gather together and eventually produce the consciousness of the depths.

And outside the furnace, they are the embers that meet the revealed, purposeful malice. Madmen are different from each other, so they have their own ideas, and they cannot produce a unified consciousness like Youshen.

"Tsk, how miserable! This is even more miserable than the undead people being hammered into meat paste in the undead settlement." Yousui sighed with mockery as he looked at the pieces of flesh that were squirming and trying to gather together.

He had always looked down on these guys. Not only were they bad, they were also stupid. They were totally different from a bad guy like him who was both bad and smart.

……

Yu Jin opened his eyes, looked at the two graves in front of him, and sighed again. He was still a little weak, and it was already a bit difficult to just pull out Joseph who had just died.

Coupled with the stupid people in his body, Joseph died immediately. Fortunately, his soul was sucked away by time, avoiding the end of being polluted.

"Alas, the boundary between life and death is difficult." Yu Jin only sighed for a while and then stopped being sad. Bringing back a completely dead person is the most difficult thing in the world.

Of course, it would be much easier if there were any residual souls or something like that.

Fortunately, Joel's "father" did come back, which is a barely acceptable ending.

"Oh no, how many days have passed?" Yu Jin looked at the light coming through the cave and suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

My commission!!!

Ember ran down the mountain, crossed the snow and the camp, and ran towards Mondstadt.

Now he was only thinking about the commission, and didn't even care about the increasing number of monsters on the road - they were all blown away by the embers anyway.

Carrying dust and smoke along the way, Yujin arrived at the Adventurer's Association in a hurry.

"Towards the stars and the abyss!" Catherine was still the same when she saw the embers coming.

"Catherine, has the time for my commission to escort the caravan passed?" Yu Jin leaned on the counter and asked anxiously. The last time he did this was when he misunderstood Yousui running out.

"Well, the commission time has not passed, and the caravan will set off this afternoon." Although Catherine was puzzled as to why Yu Jin asked this, she still told him the truth.

Then Catherine turned around and took out a bag of Mora, and said to Yu Jin: "Mr. Yu Jin, this is the reward for the last commission from Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain. Please check if the amount is correct."

"Oh, how can this be so embarrassing?" Although Yu Jin said this, before Catherine could see Yu Jin's movements clearly, the Mora in her hand had reached Yu Jin's waist.

Yu Jin opened the box and saw that there was 20 yuan! He thought he would not get the money, but he did not expect that the money he got was 5 yuan more than he expected!

What a double blessing today!

Yu Jin was visibly filled with joy. Under the influence of this aura, even Catherine started laughing.

But Yu Jin soon stopped being happy because he thought of the life he created in the Dragon Ridge Snow Mountain.

Even Yu Jin himself didn't know what it was. He just watched it, and then Joseph stood up again from the meat ball.

"Hiss——" Yu Jin felt a toothache, because based on past experience, if such lives are not guided, every one of them will be a terrorist!