Usually at this time, Athena would still be sitting on the bed reading a book, and the deer would be swimming around in the air. My daughter likes Athena the most, letting her swim around the room like a fish like an astronaut. Seeing Cheng Mo come in,

She would giggle and circle around him like a tropical fish. Sometimes she would throw the stuffed bear to him and ask him to throw it back. Sometimes she would be like an elf, kissing her on the face and running away.

She also likes that he chases her on purpose.

The scene of the fawn shyly calling him daddy for the first time with his eyes closed jumped out of his mind. The scene of the family sitting at a round table and having dinner under the sunset. The fawn was wearing a beautiful little dress, and Athena took her with her at dusk.

The scene of riding a scooter in the square.

He heard his daughter's silver bell-like laughter flying in the night wind, and felt a sense of contentment and happiness.

He never imagined that he would have such a state of mind when he had a daughter. When he looked at her, his cold pupils could not help but show tenderness, which was difficult to control, like a faucet that had become slippery.

Water kept pouring out, and he couldn't shut it off. Especially when she was jumping up and down, staring at him with a shy smile, and calling him daddy in a sweet voice. He made up his mind.

Determined to protect her, even if it means destroying the world.

However, if he wears the "Crown of Thorns", all ordinary life scenes will be far away from him.

All his relatives and friends will also be affected, and his daughter will be put in danger.

This crown of thorns is actually more vicious than the curse.

He asked in great pain: "How can I take off the crown of thorns?"

Li Jiting, who seemed to be hiding deep in the white mist, laughed and said: "You haven't put it on yet, are you thinking about how to take it off?"

Cheng Mo retorted: "I wonder who wants to get rid of the curse of the 'Crown of Thorns' day and night?"

Not to be outdone, Li Jiting said, "I admit that the curse defeated me, so now it's your turn."

"Want to see, aren't power and eternal life what human beings desire most? Didn't you like to escape from meaningless love before? Now the opportunity has come, use useless love in exchange for power and eternal life!"

"What are you still hesitating about? I can tell you that Tai Chi Dragon's situation is not optimistic."

"If you hesitate any longer, you will have to collect the corpses for your friends."

Li Jiting's voice was full of malicious temptation, like a sanctimonious devil standing in a golden light and tempting humans.

Cheng Mo said coldly: "Don't play the clown here and answer my questions."

Li Jiting smiled faintly, "There are three ways to remove the Crown of Thorns: death, living for three hundred years, or exceeding the upper limit of experience points."

This answer is almost the same answer as there is no way.

"The upper limit?" Cheng Mo couldn't help but smile bitterly. He couldn't be more familiar with experience points. For an ordinary chosen person to upgrade to the full level thirty-three, he needed 99,999 experience points. And he upgraded to

Level ninety-nine has not yet been opened, requiring 99,999,999 experience points. Over the years, he has only accumulated more than 700,000 experience points, which is far from the full level.

It's a thousand miles away, which is why he's not very keen on upgrading. Experience points are too difficult to obtain.

The upper limit of experience points is one billion. If he wants to earn one billion experience points, it will be unless he destroys the earth or saves the earth.

"There are 7.9 billion people on the earth, and one billion experience points doesn't seem too much," Li Jiting said.

"I'm not so overestimating my capabilities." Cheng Mo said irritably.

"But are you overestimating your capabilities now? Do you have any other choices?" Li Jiting smirked, "With power, you will be able to do all impossible things! I will not give it to anyone around me.

Bringing misfortune, that’s what I thought at the beginning.”

Cheng Mo's body was twitching.

"Didn't you say it already? You have no choice. So why are you still hesitating?"

Cheng Mo replied with some annoyance: "Because this is not a dream, not a virtual world. It is reality."

"What's the difference?"

"The difference is, there are so many people I care about here."

"You have no confidence."

"Yes, I don't have the confidence." Cheng Mo roared at Bai Wu, "I don't have the confidence to defeat Stargate! I don't have the confidence not to let my daughter bear this curse! I don't have the confidence to change the world. I shouldn't be here!"

"Then forget that your mother is still missing! Forget how your father died! Forget what your dead wife said to you! Forget how your father-in-law was killed! As long as

If you forget, you can just live your own life!" Li Jiting laughed in the depths of the white mist, "I told you that you should choose to go back to the past, but you have to choose reality. Look, reality is too cruel to accept

Alright?"

"Shut up." Cheng Mo said weakly.

"Okay, I shut up. But silence also requires a choice." Li Jiting said with a double entendre.

He closed his eyes, but the crown was still burning in front of his eyes like a flame.

Suddenly, he recalled the story of "Asura" in the "Theater of the Senses".

It seems like it's time to make a choice again, life is always full of such difficult choices.

The ending scene of "Asura" flashed back in front of his closed eyes, like a collection of highlights edited into a promotional video.

The scene is frozen in his conversation with Saionji Aoi.

"I think maybe it should be like this. In the story "Asura", I need to be a great saint. I know that the people I save are not the kind-hearted people at the bottom, nor are they all hard-working and brave people. Even the vast majority of them are...

Ugly, barbaric, numb, depraved. They have done all kinds of bad things, they are rogue and dirty, they have no qualities, it would not be a pity even if they were all eliminated. And I must be a human being who understands this world and then accepts it.

, and are still willing to use great love to change the world's saints, they can be regarded as completely cutting off all sensory enjoyment, obtaining high scores, and passing the test."

"Saints will weaken and die. When a saint is weak, selfish people will show their fangs. When a saint dies, the order he established will gradually collapse due to loss of control. Saints can usually only save people.

For a while, people cannot be saved forever. Then, mankind falls into a cycle of misfortune."

"History has already given the answer. Hope, faith, and enemies are all indispensable!"

He thought in the fiery silence: "Anyway, you never intended to be a saint. As long as you don't become a saint, it's not that difficult, right? As long as I'm cautious enough and cold enough, I can avoid the curse, right?"

"Just to avoid the curse, you will no longer be you. The self who yearns for freedom will always wear thorns and a crown on your head. You will be accused by thousands of people and become a tyrant who deserves to go to hell."

"This can be considered a good ending. At least it can get the best of both worlds. As for me sacrificing yourself, isn't that what you have always done? Just do it again."

Cheng Mo opened his eyes. The light of the crown of thorns in front of him was no longer as hot as the flames so close at hand. It was disturbing and timid. He had to accept the role of "King of the Black Death". He knew it before.

What does this mean? Just take Li Jiting's words as a threat. Leave the past behind and become a brand new character. He will become a king and realize an ideal that is unlikely to be realized for countless people who have died.

It is ridiculous for a selfish egoist to do such a thing.

He saw the flames on the crown gradually extinguish, and the flames that burned him slowly cooled down.

He raised his head, the white mist dissipated, and Li Jiting was once again close to his eyes. He stared at Li Jiting's pupils full of vicissitudes of life, as if he had fallen into a deeper and darker abyss. He seemed to hear Li Jiting saying to him: "

Becoming an idealist is the greatest depravity. You have to sacrifice everything you have in order to see a glimmer of light in the darkness."

"I'm not an idealist, I'm just" he murmured to himself.

Li Jiting looked at him and asked: "What is it?"

Cheng Mo raised his head, and the two of them stared at each other for a moment before he calmly replied: "He's just a cold-blooded and ruthless villain."

Li Jiting laughed, and that smile was filled with joy of dying: "Why do I feel like you are scolding me?"

"I'm just scolding you." Cheng Mo said coldly.

"You have a bit of a villain aura, but it's not enough. You still need to wear a crown to become the devil that makes the world tremble!" Li Jiting's pupils were filled with the excitement of having fulfilled his wish, "Now, you only need to say

With those three words, you will become the new Lucifer, the fallen angel! The Demon King of Hell! You will have power over time!"

Cheng Mo was silent for a while, closed his eyes, opened his lips gently, and spit out a few syllables as cold as a suicide sword.

"I do."

The candle went out.

The hall is like the eternal night of hell.

Only the crown burned like a torch in Li Jiting's hands, and the flames rose like the stars in the universe.

Li Jiting's wings slowly opened, and he raised the "Crown of Thorns" high like a priest of the night raising a blessing to the King of Kings.

The demon gods sitting upright, raising their strange masks, gazed attentively, as if they were gazing at a grand celebration with the themes of death, life, and eternity.

The flame gradually rose to the highest point, like the Olympic flame at the opening ceremony.

Li Jiting faced the remaining demon gods and sang loudly: "The 32nd Nebuchadnezzar has no objections!"

After a brief silence, Dr. Charlie stood up first. He raised his right hand towards Cheng Mo, "The ninety-fourth Barr, no objection!"

Then Athena, who was ranked second, also stood up. She also raised her right hand to Cheng Mo, as if to swear, "The ninety-fifth Asmode, there is no objection!"

"The ninety-fifth Vasak, no objections!"

"The ninety-seventh Malbus, there is no objection!"

The demon gods sitting on both sides of the long table stood up one after another, raised their right hands and voted loudly, and their majestic and loud voices echoed throughout the Extermination Hall.

Until the last living Demon God of the Fifty-six Pillars, Gremory, stood up. After Qi Qi loudly swore "no objections", Li Jiting raised the crown and faced Cheng Mo.

The majestic "Mozart Major Movement 41" sounded in the Hall of Extinction. This was Mozart's last symphony. Three years after completing the 41st movement, this great genius passed away forever. In his soul

Before returning to the Kingdom of Heaven, the last movement left behind was technically perfect, magnificent, majestic and dazzling, radiant at any time, so it was also called the "Jupiter Symphony", in Latin it is called "iuppiter",

That is, the king of the gods in Roman mythology.
To be continued...