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Thalia quickly took away the slate, grabbed Lanqi and left the ruins, and took him to the relatively stable roof of the chapel in the distance.
The battle they had just now, compared to the continuous battles all night long, was equivalent to the light rain at this moment compared to the heavy rain all night long.
For the demons in Huadu, it is at best an alarm clock that makes a little noise in the early morning.
Pearlman, the careerist, and Beelzebub, the curse spreader, are both dead.
The legendary magic weapon [Parroni's Grudge] was also destroyed.
The demons in Huadu District have returned to normal.
The city began to recover.
The people and demons who took refuge gradually walked out of the shelter and set foot on this devastated land again.
The sound of rain, water, lights, and the laughter of survivors, all kinds of sounds merged into a rainy night rhapsody of a city that never sleeps, echoing for a long time in the sky above the capital of Paris.
"Lan Qi, what's wrong with you?"
Thalia looked at Lanqi and found that he was indeed overloaded and more tired than she thought. At this moment, he was almost too sleepy to open his eyes.
"Do you know how to define despair?"
Lan Qi sat down on the roof, even his voice was much tired at this moment, looking at the clouds that drifted by from time to time, but were already lit up.
Even though it is still raining lightly in Huadu, it will surely become sunny as the sun rises.
"I do not know."
Thalia shook her head.
Lan Qi often knows more about this kind of thing, but Lan Qi rarely takes the initiative to talk to her.
It seems that if Ivanos fights them to the end, Lanqi's mentality will still be very good.
But instead, he died so peacefully, which made Lan Qi feel very sad.
"There was once such an experiment... first let some white mice live a happy life, implant electrodes in their brains, record their excited cells during happy times, and then take away their friends and It is locked in a narrow, claustrophobic, damp and cold space, and the electric shock is kept on it. After a while, its head will be immersed in a mixture of ice and water. It cannot escape or struggle. After a while, it will Just desperate."
Lan Qi talked to himself, staring into the distance.
"Then how do you measure that it is really desperate? What if it is a weakling that cannot be beaten to death? The more you torture it, the stronger its resistance will be?"
Thalia listened carefully and asked her question.
She felt that Lan Qi was more tired than she thought, and his voice was half a minute softer than usual.
"There are two indicators."
Lan Qi continued,
"The first one is called the sweet water experiment. After the torture, it is put back into the cage. There are two types of water in the cage, one sweet water and one plain water."
"A mentally healthy rat drinks sweet water to plain water at a ratio of eight to two. If it has no mental problems, in addition to liking sweet drinks, it will occasionally drink plain water."
"If you put it back and it drinks two kinds of water at a ratio of five to five, we think there's something wrong with it."
"why?"
Thalia asked.
"There is no preference anymore. Everything you eat and drink tastes the same."
Lan Qi looked at her and explained.
"..."
Thalia seemed to understand that if one day she gave up, she might end up like this.
If she hadn't met Lanqi at the beginning, found that Hyperion had been killed when she went to Icerite, and couldn't find her sister in the Creja Empire, then she might really be in a state of neglect. , only revenge to the end.
"Of course this indicator is not enough."
Lanqi took a deep breath and exhaled.
"The second one is called the tail suspension experiment. Lift up the tail of the mouse and put it head down. A mentally healthy mouse will roll its head up and struggle. If it gives up everything, stops resisting, and has no desire to live. ”
"After meeting these two indicators, it is indeed desperate enough."
Thalia agrees.
Their chat was extremely peaceful at the moment.
It's rare to sit down and have a chat like this.
"Do you think there is hope after such despair?"
Lan Qi asked her.
"Is there any way to save it?"
Thalia asked curiously.
"Actually, there is."
Lan Qi nodded, but did not give an answer.
Thalia thought for a moment.
"Rescue it from this miserable environment, put it in a spacious and warm environment, give it all kinds of delicious things, all kinds of fun things, and eat and play whatever it wants. , and absolutely safe, with friends by your side?”
She guessed with uncertainty in her voice.
Lan Qi just looked at her and said nothing.
Even without telling her the answer, she understood it instantly.
"It can't be saved."
Lanci said.
Thalia's hesitation in answering already meant that she knew that none of the above would work at all.
"Then how can we save it?"
Thalia frowned.
"Do you still remember that electrodes were implanted into it when it was spending its happy time? As long as we repeatedly stimulate those marked nerve cells, that is, to awaken its beautiful memories, it only takes a few days and nights, and it can be Completely cured.”
Even if he didn't have to go on, he believed Thalia understood.
What can save the soul is not the current sensory pleasure, but the good times we once had.
So a happy childhood is very important.
"The first moment I saw Inoan, I understood that she had never had a beautiful moment in her heart since she was a child. She didn't understand what happiness is. She didn't have a childhood that could heal her whole life."
Lan Qi thinks so.
When it came to Sigre, no matter what childhood experience she had in the past, he firmly believed that as long as he brought her more good memories, even if one day Sigre faced ups and downs or lost herself, as long as she recalled Reminiscing about the past, this memory in her heart may also give rise to hope, allowing her to live firmly.
The same is true for Inoan and Lanqi.
The moment she woke up without memory, she was like a pure white baby.
Lan Qi will naturally implement the concept to the end.
But he didn't expect what this brief light in the eternal darkness would mean to Inoan.
Looking back at the beginning, Inoan was able to pursue desires and vent them wantonly. She also knew how to struggle, no matter how miserable she was, she would try her best to survive.
But after Lan Qi's rescue, it was not difficult to achieve everything she wanted in the end, but she chose death.
"It turns out that what I gave Yinuo'an was not salvation, but real despair... She told me with her death that sometimes there are people who I can't save."
Lan Qi said to himself, his eyes as clear as a deep pool of water, reflecting the boundless sky.
"Tata, you won."
he admitted.
Thalia was right about their previous bet and he was wrong.
Inoan died in a way that he could not accept the most.
He is too confident, and sometimes he thinks he has won a perfect bet, but in fact he only fails.
"..."
But the triumphant ridicule that Lan Qi expected from Talia never came.
Thalia hugged his head and let him rest on her chest, not thinking about anything.
"There is no such thing."
She said softly, as tenderly as a mother to Hyperion.
"You taught me determination."
She said in Lan Qi's ear,
"Any miracle has conditions for it to happen. If you don't follow through, even the goddess of fate will not be able to favor you, so please continue to be determined. When you hesitate, I will guide you."
"..."
Lan Qi opened his eyes wide, but did not move for a long time until his expression gradually relaxed.
On the roof, they didn't speak anymore.
They listened quietly to each other's thoughts.
Lan Qi slowly closed his eyes as if the feeling of being trapped finally came to his mind.
Dawn illuminates their figures from the clouds.
The rose window of the church revealed a faint blue light, and the rain gurgled along the outline of the building, as if singing an ancient aria.
Until the rain stops and the fog disperses, the east becomes white.
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【Talia's illustration】
【Talia's illustration】