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Story?" Kai had a puzzled look on his face. He was a little surprised that the other party would exchange words with him in the form of a story.

"Yeah." The girl nodded, looked at Kai and asked, "Do you know Lilith?"

Hearing this, Kai was stunned for a moment, then he continued with some surprise: "Are you asking about myths, or... legends?"

As a human being, and as a pioneer who walked on the earth at the beginning of modern development, Kai has a good understanding of these religious and cultural beliefs.

He knew about Ikaros in Greek mythology, who wanted to fly into the sky to escape from the island of Cerro Azeroth, but the scorching flames melted the wax on his wings, and he eventually fell from the sky and crashed into the sea.

He also knew about the black dragon Nidhogg in Norse mythology, which foreshadowed the coming of Ragnarok and attempted to devour the roots of the World Tree.

He also knew the Savior Jehovah in the Bible, who is the Godhead, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in one.

As for the "Lilith" mentioned by the girl, Kai didn't think that there wouldn't be two similar names in this vast galaxy, but since the other party asked him deliberately, it means that she is at least speaking from his own perspective.

Combined with the girl's previous summary of the situation of the cocoon in the solar system, this also brought another layer of doubt to his heart. It seems that the other party knows a lot about the affairs of the earth?

Seeing Kai speak clearly, the girl nodded without surprise: "Just as you asked me whether it is a myth or another source, Lilith is an extremely complex existence. It's hard to imagine, isn't it? A woman can actually be Sumerian, Greek mythology, demonology, Jewish tradition, the Bible... and all kinds of records at the same time. "

"What do you want to express?" Kai frowned slightly.

The girl raised her hand to signal him to be quiet: "I told you, I want to tell you a story. Of course, I'll be frank with you. As for what the story ultimately expresses, it's up to you to understand it."

"For example, legends contain people's imaginations, and many imaginations are based on reality. I think you should be deeply aware of this." The girl looked at Kai and said slowly.The other party's reminder reminded Kai of something.

Now in the British Isles at the end of the 5th century AD, he and Su went to Shelter No. 907 at the bottom of the Thames to hold a meeting with Faraway Shenzhou Hua on the progress of the plan. He once rescued a young man who was about to die at the hands of the Honkai Beast near the shelter.

Later, when he insisted on conducting experiments on the Stigmata Plan in a nearby village ahead of time, the boy survived and became a natural Stigmata awakener.

Just like the ups and downs of a character in a novel, the young man is, if nothing unexpected happens, the famous town ruler who left his name to King Arthur. In the legend, the extremely beautiful Fairy of the Lake might be based on Sue, and the other great magician, Merlin, might have some relationship with himself...

And the holy scar awakened by the experiment might be the sword of the king bestowed upon King Arthur by the fairy of the lake as rumored...

Seeing Kai lowered his eyes slightly, as if lost in memory, the girl continued: "I want to say that this is a story that was deliberately downplayed in the Bible. You... should know the story of the Garden of Eden, right?"

Coming out of his memories, Kai nodded: "Legend has it that creating humans was God's last sacred work. At that time, the sky still rained, but there was mist rising from the ground to moisten the earth. So God used clay to create humans, and blew the breath of life into the clay embryo to create mankind."

"God created man and woman in his own image. Man was named Adam and was the first human being. Woman was created by God from a rib of Adam and was named Eve and became Adam's wife. After that, God created a paradise for them, located in Eden in the east - the Garden of Eden."

"But what does this have to do with Lilith?" Kay asked, because in many versions of the Bible, Lilith, a controversial character, has rarely been mentioned, and even her existence is a matter of debate.

"'The Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east and put the man he formed there.' What you said is indeed recorded in the Bible." Listening to Kay's story, the girl seemed to be repeating the original story and seemed to be very clear about the content.

She shook her head slightly and denied it: "The words written in the Bible seem to lead people to believe that Eve is the first woman created by God. But no matter how misleading it is, it cannot cover up one fact."

"What facts?" Kai asked.Lilith exists." The girl raised her right index finger, "Because Lilith is the first woman created by God. She was created from clay just like Adam."

Hearing this, Kai fell into deep thought. He murmured softly, and the other party's words seemed to enlighten him, "God created man and woman, but God created Eve from a rib of Adam..."

"It's contradictory, isn't it?" the girl asked.

"It's not contradictory, but it just feels... a little weird..." Kai took a deep breath and asked, "If the facts are as you said, why did the Bible erase the existence of Lilith?"

"It's simple, because her existence is irrelevant to God." The girl's eyebrows were calm, as if she was explaining something, "Wild beasts in the wilderness will meet jackals; wild goats will face their mates, and monsters at night will live there..."

"Lilith opposed God's creation of her with weakness, which was undoubtedly a rebellion against God. God punished her, but God didn't know that she was..." The girl paused for a moment, and then her tone seemed to be full of deep meaning, "Call on the name of the Lord and you will be saved. Lilith knew God's true name from somewhere, and she stole God's power and escaped from the Garden of Eden with it."

"But the Lord's followers could not tolerate the omniscient and omnipotent Lord being mocked in this way, so they erased all traces of Lilith from the records and labeled her evil."

After saying that, the girl did not continue to speak, but looked at Kai quietly, waiting for his reaction.

"So..." Kai rubbed his brows and asked, "Is this the fact that was covered up in the story?"

"Of course not." The girl pinched her chin and denied it. "What I said was just a cover-up. After all... if God is really omniscient and omnipotent, how could he allow his creation to rebel against him so easily?"

"Because all of this was a trap set by God. Lilith did not escape in a subjective sense, but was 'driven out' of the Garden of Eden by God's power after she uttered the name of God. God's power deprived her of everything and sent her to that ocean of blood and hell of fire." As she spoke word by word, there was clearly calmness in the girl's eyes, but Kai felt an inexplicable emotion.

Is it sad? Or...anger?

"But why did God do this?" Kai asked.

The girl was silent for a moment, then replied, "God thinks he is omniscient and omnipotent, but he cannot create another self, so he can only create humans in his own image. However, humans are a collection of complexity and defects. They desire happiness but are full of troubles, so..."

"Is this an experiment from God?" Kai took over the conversation.

The girl did not answer, but whispered: "At this point, my story has come to an end. What is the meaning of all this? You need to grab it from it yourself..."

...

The center of Xingcha Sea is Xuanye Avenue.

"I'm curious, teacher, is it too early for you to tell him all this?" Looking at the white-haired woman who closed her eyes and remained silent, the blond boy raised his eyebrows and asked, "Do you really expect that man to understand the meaning of this?"

Holding his chin in his hand, he chuckled and asked, "And what about the last story? You've never told me that, have you?"

The woman slowly opened her eyes and glanced at the boy with her quiet purple eyes.

"In that case, let me guess..." The boy leaned back in his chair and put his feet on the table nonchalantly, his voice was idle and lazy, "The Lilith who doesn't exist, is you, teacher?"

The woman glanced at the rapidly crossing and speeding ships outside the fence, but did not answer.

"Hmm... Come to think of it, we've been tossing and turning so many times along the way, and even once we were almost at the end, why hasn't that 'God' shown up yet?" The boy raised his lips slightly, but his eyes became serious, "Or does He not exist at all?"

"No, He does exist." The woman finally spoke, "After all, without Him, there would be no Lilith today..."I have already given my answers to all five of your questions... Do you need me to give you some time to think about it?" The girl stared at Kevin, who had remained silent for a long time and did not ask any questions, and finally asked.

"No need." Kevin shook his head indifferently, but his mind was actually working rapidly.

Just now, the other party told a story about Lilith and God, revealing some hidden secrets to herself.

In the story of the Bible, Eve was not the first woman created. Before her, there was a woman named Lilith. She revealed God's true name, obtained God's power, and then left the Garden of Eden.

But, the truth is, this is all a trap set by God. The so-called power was not obtained by Lilith actively, but was given by God. That power drove Lilith out of the Garden of Eden and threw her into the ocean of blood and hell of fire.

But the omniscient and omnipotent God cannot create another self...

This story is so ironic that it even overturns Kevin's general understanding of the Bible. However, he knew very well why the other party showed him this story - namely, the other party's relationship with the end of the cocoon.

This was Kevin's last question. The other party also said that "many imaginations are based on reality", and he still had a certain degree of approval in his heart about this.

It seems that the doubts seem to be much clearer.

Therefore, the "God" in it may correspond to the cocoon in the end or its creator. The "blood is the ocean, fire is the hell" in the Bible's theory of sin also symbolizes the human world or civilization to a certain extent, that is, "Lilith" who carries the power of God...

If God desires his own kind, then what is His purpose in exiling Lilith? What means does He expect her to use to achieve His goal? How does the latter compare to the Cocoon of the End, or is Lilith the cocoon?

Or...is it her? Kevin thought to himself, he lowered his eyes and stared at the girl in front of him whose height was not even as tall as his waist, but in the end he did not make a hasty judgment.

The girl raised her head and stared at Kevin, responding to his gaze and saying solemnly: "What I said is just a story after all, and it can't reflect the real truth. I won't stop you from exploring the truth, of course, it depends on your own choice."

Listening to the other party's ambiguous words, Kevin nodded and said in a deep voice: "I think we can start the last step."

Seeing that Kevin had made up his mind, the girl said nothing. She slowly raised her hand and rubbed her thumb and index finger together.

Snap——

The crisp sound of snapping fingers echoed in this pure white space, and the entire space froze.

The invisible sound waves were centered on the girl, and at that moment, ripples appeared under her feet like a mirror, and quickly turned into surging waves, as if a ferocious beast pounced on Kevin.

The waves slapped Kevin's cheeks, and the water dispersed in the air, condensing into rough handwriting of various shapes. They were connected to each other and displayed in front of Kevin, finally forming a five-line sentence.

1. What exactly is the voice in your head? ]

[2. Why did I come to this world? ]

[3. Why did the Star God target me? ]

[4. What is your identity? ]

[5. What is your relationship with the End Cocoon? ]

Kevin took a deep breath as he looked at the five questions presented to him. He had never expected that the other party would be so humane. He had even clearly stated the third question that he had not yet asked. And...

These are pre-civilization writings...

Even though time has passed and many years have passed since the relics of the previous civilization, Kevin still cannot directly distinguish the meaning of these words. He turned his gaze to the girl, hesitant to speak.

"This is the final stage, and also our first question." The girl pointed at the words that looked like musical notes and softly announced the final rules. "I'll hide the only reward in the question with the real answer. The rest are all punishments."

"So, choose."

"…"

Kevin was silent for a moment and did not make a decision immediately. He stared at the words in front of him that seemed to be engraved in the air, and looked quietly into the girl's eyes.

The clear purple eyes were still bright, but with an imperceptible depth...

"As a settlement of the game, you should tell me what the rewards and punishments are?" Kevin tried to breathe calmly. It was difficult for him to understand what the other party wanted to do. From beginning to end, he had a sense of passivity and restraint.

He felt that this feeling came from his ignorance of the truth.

Therefore, even if this last question about the rules of the game seemed insignificant to the other party, he had to do something.

Sure enough, the girl nodded nonchalantly, but said seriously: "Of course you can. As a reward, I will give you a magical thing - a key that can open any door. As for the punishment..."

"I want you to die." The girl pointed at Kevin and said without any hesitation. There was no fluctuation in her tone, as if she was just saying something very ordinary.

What's more, she looked sickly and weak now, like a white ball with no deterrent power at all, and she was not even intimidating at all when she said this.Kevin was slightly stunned. Although he knew that one should not judge a book by its cover, he couldn't understand why the rewards and punishments were like this for a while.

A key that opens all doors?

And...let yourself die?

Kevin inexplicably wanted to laugh. He realized that he was too concerned, which led to such a meaningless question.

At this moment, he is like a lone ranger traveling through a dark forest filled with thick fog. There are many roads to take, but he cannot see the road ahead clearly.

If he were to ask himself honestly, he had never truly believed the other party. If that were not the case, no matter how real the other party's words felt when answering, he didn't need to care about whether they were true or not.

The so-called rewards and punishments are nothing but empty talk unless you see them with your own eyes.

"You want a gun, right?" the girl asked, as if she had seen through Kevin's thoughts.

"Yes, a revolver." Kevin looked at the girl and nodded in acknowledgement. In this virtual space belonging to the other party, since he could sense the existence of the twelve powers in the fourteen broken stone pillars, it meant that the powers could still work here.

His five fingers trembled slightly, and a blue light flashed quickly. Sure enough, a black ordinary revolver was firmly grasped in his hand.

"This is a revolver with only five slots." Kevin's fingers slowly rubbed the shell of the pistol, and he did not hesitate to express his thoughts. "Have you heard of roulette? I want to add some excitement to this final link."

Click-click-click

Watching Kevin loading bullets into the magazines one by one, the girl said, "This is different from what I remembered."

"A normal roulette only has one bullet, so what I put in is just a bullet in another form." After loading the last bullet, Kevin's fingers brushed the edge of the magazine, and the latter quickly rotated back into the barrel.

Picking up the revolver, Kevin pointed the muzzle at the girl's forehead and said calmly: "Each of my bullets has a serial number corresponding to a different problem engraved on the side wall, so next, the bullet fired from this gun will represent my choice."

"Leave everything to luck? You are so casual." The girl looked at Kevin and murmured softly.

"After all, your answer makes it difficult for me to choose." Kevin took over.

Just like this time he is a lone ranger walking in the dark forest. In such a dangerous environment, he needs a gun, not to turn over and become a hunter, but to take a gamble, betting that the so-called correct path is in the direction pointed by the gun.

"So..." As he spoke, Kevin pulled the trigger.

Bang——

The bullet burst out from the barrel of the gun, creating a dazzling flash of fire at the muzzle, passing through the strings of words in front of it, leaving a burning mark in the air, and shooting straight towards the girl.

Faced with the sudden bullet, the girl did not dodge at all, but just stood there quietly.

Perhaps in her eyes, the outcome was already determined from the moment the other party pushed the rotating magazine back into the gun body.

Buzz——

As if it had hit an invisible barrier, when the bullet was about to hit the girl, it strangely lost its forward momentum and slowly fell down.

Seeing this, the girl raised her hand, grabbed the bullet that was about to fall, and looked at it carefully in front of her eyes.

"What's the answer?" Kevin knew very well that ordinary bullets would not have any effect. He gently closed his eyes and asked knowingly.

The girl glanced at him and said softly, "Yes."

"You know that's not what I'm asking." Kevin looked her in the eyes.

"Well, the answer is - 'only'." The girl spread her hands and looked at Kevin, with a surprised expression on her face. "The probability is one in five. You are very lucky."

Patta——

As soon as he finished speaking, the revolver fell to the ground.

"What...?" Kevin half raised his head and breathed a sigh of relief. He made the decision casually and got the answer casually, and the result was indeed an unusual feeling.

In fact, he is not a gambler. When facing the unknown and uncertain things, he always does this, suppressing his concerns and uncertainties, even if that may "gamble" his own life.

But it turns out that Kevin is always lucky.

Now he didn't care whether the answer to the first question was true or false, but the so-called "reward".

"If you want a reward, just go get it yourself. It's right there." The girl held one hand to her chest, pointed at the line of words arranged in a row not far away, and said slowly.

Kevin nodded, and after hesitating for a moment, he raised his hand and reached towards the number "one". When his fingers were about to touch the font, the words in front of him suddenly began to distort.Like a leaf gently falling on the water, creating shallow ripples, Kevin's fingers slowly penetrated the words, and after a while of exploration, he finally touched a metallic object under the "water surface".

I guess this is what the other party meant by "the key that can open all doors", right?

Kevin didn't hesitate. He grabbed the metal object tightly and pulled it out in one go.

Instantly, as dazzling golden light penetrated the embossed fonts, a natural metal key gradually took shape.

Kevin carefully examined the appearance of the key. It had a gold-like texture and exuded a faint softness. The mottled and ancient marks on its surface came from nowhere.

The power of reason swept through it, and the answer it came up with was also extremely simple: [A key that can open all doors, but the definition of "door" is a problem. ]

Kevin couldn't think of any need he had for this thing at the moment. He just thought it was a bit ridiculous. In theory, did this "master key" really exist?

Also, just by making a random choice, I got this kind of thing for no reason. What good intentions did the other party have?

"You will definitely need it." Perhaps sensing Kevin's doubt, the girl spoke.

"Why do you say that?" Kevin frowned slightly. The other party's certainty made him feel uncomfortable.

But the girl's next words caught him off guard.

"I know where you are going next, Nanook's hometown, Adrifen, right?" the girl asked.

Kevin didn't answer, just looked at her coldly.

The girl didn't notice that the other party's attitude had cooled down a lot, and continued to ask: "Finally, I have one more question for you. For a truth that has not yet been confirmed, do you really want to risk your own life, or even their lives?"

"I won't let them have it, even if it costs my own life." Kevin said without any hesitation.

"Really..." The girl agreed in a deep voice. When she looked at Kevin again, her eyes revealed a real emotion that Kevin had never seen before.

Is it sadness... or compassion?

Kevin didn't know why a stranger to him would show him such an expression, even though he had never actually met the other person.

Then, an inexplicable feeling of suffocation suddenly surged into Kevin's heart. Golden light filled his sight. He lowered his eyes, and the golden key in his hand began to fluctuate at some point.

Before Kevin could react, dazzling golden light had already filled his entire eye sockets. Suddenly, he seemed to see a real yet illusory scene.

It was a strange planet that had never been seen before, with a red sky, a land burning with fire, and an ocean filled with the smell of decay... It was like a purgatory.

In the center of the sea and the earth, between the sky and the mortal world, there stands a giant golden tree. At the roots of the tree, people are worshipping devoutly, as if the gods who will save them are there. However...

A raging fire came from nowhere and burned everything. It burned through the sky, reduced the earth to ashes, and dried up the sea.

Kevin could hear the cries of the people. Some people cursed him as a liar, while others said that the fire was a punishment from the gods to mankind. Until the fire burned down the giant golden tree that symbolized the gods, it was as if the gods had never existed.

Just when this world-destroying fire was about to burn the entire planet to ashes, a man stood out from the crowd. He had short gray hair and a sacred golden robe draped over his shoulders, making him look like a sage.

Kevin couldn't see his face clearly, he only saw him walking alone along the untrodden stairs towards the swaying and burning treetops. The scorching firelight made his shadow very long.

His shadow kept twisting, as if a monster was contained within it, reaching out to the people, engulfing them and the entire planet, until it grew into an illusory giant.

But inside the giant's body, all substance no longer existed. Only a rotten door remained, which seemed to lead to some place of death.

Looking at the virtual giant standing in the starry sky, Kevin felt inexplicably familiar. Just when he was suspicious, his subjective perspective pulled him into the door.

When I opened my eyes again, what I saw was a shattered starry sky. The brilliance of the stars was shattered by an unknown force, as if the meaning of all existence was just for destruction.

This time, Kevin did not see the so-called protagonist, or rather, he had already taken the protagonist's first-person perspective.

He saw a long-haired figure with dark skin and golden blood flowing from his chest coming towards him, but there was no one around him and the flaming sword in his hand had long been broken.

He saw a huge golden cross hanging high above his head. In the distance, several figures hidden by fog were just watching quietly, as if they were waiting for the curtain to fall at a torture ceremony.

He saw the golden cross falling towards him, and the touch of death kissed his soul, completely erasing his existence...

Just as his consciousness was about to collapse, a familiar voice pulled Kevin back to reality.

"Kevin, you will die in the most miserable way possible."

The girl's voice was ethereal and melodious, calm and complex, like an incomparably sacred motto, or like an inevitable curse, echoing in Kevin's ears over and over again.

Kevin was breathing heavily, his consciousness gradually becoming clear. The dark wall in front of him and the unconscious Rakshasa sitting against the wall below him told him that this was the real reality, but the cold sweat on his forehead and the chill on his back seemed to remind him that he had really been on the brink of death.

"Kevin, you..." The familiar voice behind him made him feel relieved.

Walter walked forward quickly. He didn't know what happened in the conversation between the two. He only knew that the barrier in front of him suddenly disappeared, and Kevin was leaning against the wall in an embarrassed manner.

Jing Yuan did not step forward, but consciously stood aside. During the interrogation, for safety reasons, he had taken Jing Liu to another place in the prison.

He looked at Kevin. Although he had doubts in his heart, he knew that he could only keep these doubts in his heart.

"It's okay." Kevin raised his hand to interrupt Walter's attempt to help him, and slowly stood up against the wall. He glanced at the two people who were still awake in the prison, and said quietly: "The interrogation is over, she has left."

"She?" Walter and Jing Yuan looked at each other.

Kevin looked at them, holding the key tightly in his hand, but just opened his mouth and said nothing.

...

"Is it over?" On Xuan Ye Avenue, the blond boy looked at the fringe-haired woman who was rubbing her eyebrows and asked with raised eyebrows.

"Well...it's over." The woman leaned back in the chair, looking up with a tired look.

As she moved, the black hood slid off, and the necklace hanging on her neck fell down naturally. The dull crystal pendant was covered with cracks and would never shine again, but she still kept it.

"You lied to him, didn't you?" Glancing at the pendant on the woman's chest, the boy continued to ask.

"Hmm..." The woman looked at the star ship passing through the dome and said softly, "This game is just a lie I made up. There is no so-called reward or punishment at all. It's just an excuse for me to return the thing to its original owner."

"Returning the property to its original owner, what a high-sounding explanation." Listening to the woman's explanation, the boy made an undisguised venomous comment.

He placed one hand on the table and stared into the woman's eyes: "That man has done all these rotten things a long time ago. He only had a little bit of power to begin with. Now you're giving him that thing. Are you going to make him repeat the same mistake and die?"

Listening to the boy's angry question, the woman turned her head away: "As far as time is concerned, he didn't do it. I just gave him a choice."

"But you and I both know one thing, that man will never change. As long as conditions permit, he will definitely make the same choice." The boy curled his lips, "So, this is your bargaining chip for proposing cooperation with [Them]?"

"It's not me, it's us." The woman sighed softly, and didn't notice that the boy changed his address to "you" from "you".

"Okay, it's us." The boy nodded helplessly.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out a small gray-brown bottle, pushing it across the table toward him. "This is something I got from the pub. I don't know if it can help curb your symptoms, but I have to try anyway."

"Thank you. I'll try it." The woman took the small brown bottle and shook it gently in front of her eyes. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared as if it had melted into space.

"Of course, I have one more thing to ask you to do." As she spoke, a photo appeared in her hands.

"This is..." The boy took the photo and when he saw the familiar face in it, he hesitated, "Raiden Mei...? Oh no, the other Raiden Mei..."

In the photo, the purple-haired girl with red demon horns on her head is waving a long sword with a serious and determined look, and it looks like she is practicing.

"The angle is great. When do we take the photo?" The boy looked away from the photo and looked at the woman.

"The last time." The woman replied truthfully.

The boy nodded, not surprised: "It seems she doesn't recognize you."

The woman was silent for a moment, then said, "It's okay, you just need to find her."

"You wouldn't be attracted to ordinary similar individuals. Tell me, what's so special about this person?" The boy turned the photo over, pointed at the person in the photo, and asked.

"Her name is Huang Quan, and she is... a self-destructor." Looking at the star raft floating in the distance, the woman introduced, "Her hometown once fought bravely like us, but in the face of nothingness, all struggles are meaningless."

"The shadow of the Void shrouds every corner of the world. The person who has traveled the farthest from the Void is no different from other messengers who have received the blessing of the Star God. However, the power of the Void is much greater than we imagined."

"You want to hook her up?"

"No, I want it to be IX."

"You know this doesn't make sense."

"No, thinking that it is meaningless is meaningful in itself."

"Your ideas are getting crazier and crazier." The boy put the photo away and said helplessly, "Don't worry, no matter whether this has any meaning or not, I will find her, even if it costs more than a [false god]."

"Who asked me to tell you? Teacher..." The boy jumped off the chair and was about to turn around and leave, but suddenly he remembered something. He turned around, looked at the woman and asked, "By the way, those five questions are all true, right?"

The woman didn't answer.

"Heh...it seems that you still lied to him..."