I am God Chapter 308: : Reappearance of the Shadow of Barrow

Xia Na carried the box and headed towards the south of the Fire Guard City. He disembarked from the port of Haiwan Town by boat, and then embarked on the journey back to his hometown.

He left this road back then, and now he is coming back along this road. . .

He saw the outline of the Fire Guard City from afar.

Twenty years have passed and Huo Huo City has changed a lot, and the trade route between Haiwan Town and Huo Huo City has become more prosperous.

There are towns along the way, and new cities have been built.

"I don't know what happened to Yuean Town."

Xia Na was once very afraid of returning to his hometown, but after killing Camon, he had a strong desire to go back.

He has been adrift for too long.

He's been lost too long.

He is like a lonely boat lost in the sea, eagerly longing for a place where he can dock.

Carmon was his former friend and later the enemy he most wanted to kill.

But the last sentence he said went deep in Xia Na's heart.

"You can also have your own life."

Why did he desperately want to kill Carmon, why is he so obsessed with everything that happened.

No just want one.

Own.

A truly free life?

Go home and start all over again.

Everything in the past has passed, and every day from now on is a new day.

The Shana family has no mission and no strings to bind them.

Xia Na walked all the way forward, and he saw a crowd of people.

He saw the familiar mill in Joan Town, as well as the newly replaced windmill.

He even faintly heard the tinkling sound coming from the blacksmith shop in Yoan Town, and heard the sound of children playing.

Twenty years have passed in the town of Yuean, and there have been a lot of new faces in the town, and a lot of old faces have disappeared.

Although the lifespan of snake people is theoretically long, most people cannot live to that theoretical value.

"Who is this?" The young man didn't know Shaner at all.

"Anyone from outside the town?" On the street, people kept poking their heads out of their rooms to look outside.

"It looks familiar." Some people think that Xia Na is very familiar, but they fail to recognize at a glance that this down-and-out man is the child of the former lord's family in the town.

One of them recognized Shaner and yelled at him.

"Little Shaner?"

"Is it Little Shana?"

But as soon as he shouted out, he immediately changed his words.

"No, it should be Sir Shaner."

The Shaner family is the lord of this town, and the heirs will usually be granted the title of oath swearer in a small nearby village after they grow up.

Xia Na heard the familiar shout and looked over.

He is the son of a blacksmith and Shana's childhood friend.

And now is the father of three children.

Seeing Xia Na looking at him, the blacksmith was finally sure.

He rushed over excitedly: "Are you back?"

Shanna nodded.

The blacksmith asked him: "Are you still going?"

Shaner replied: "Maybe..."

He hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Not going."

"I won't leave in the future."

The blacksmith was happy that Xia Na could come back: "That's great, you said how did you, a nobleman, do this? Can't you just stay in Yoan Town?"

Shanna smiled.

For the first time in so many years, he smiled so happily.

"Yeah!"

"Isn't it okay to stay in Yoan Town?"

"But sometimes, there is always no way to be good."

Seeing that the blacksmith couldn't understand what he said, Xia Na patted him on the shoulder: "But it's all right now."

Xia Na and the blacksmith were talking, and the blacksmith rarely saw his childhood friends, chattering about their childhood.

At this time, several sons of the blacksmith brought another young man to the door, and one of the young men looked at Xia Na's back and shouted excitedly.

"Father."

"Are you back?"

Xia Na looked suspiciously at the young man in his twenties, but didn't realize it for a while.

"Are you?"

Suddenly his pupils shrank, and he noticed that the face of the young man in front of him was almost exactly the same as himself when he was a child.

Xia Na immediately understood who the young man in front of him was.

He is the next generation of Shaner.

Xia Na stepped back subconsciously, driving the hammer hanging behind him.

He stared intently at the young man in front of him, his whole face was numb, but his heart was overwhelmed.

"What happened?"

"How do you..."

He didn't understand why the other party was still there.

He obviously destroyed the entire underground palace, and obviously killed that old guy who manipulated everything.

Why is there a new Shana family born?

Shouldn't this cycle of reincarnation be over?

For Shaner, this feeling is like a bucket of ice water being poured on top of his head.

"How do you know it's me?"

Shaner's "son" told him: "I saw you when I was young, father."

"It seems to be very young, when is it?"

The young man also looked puzzled, and finally said.

"I don't remember either."

Shaner immediately recalled that when he killed the old man, the child wrapped in cocoons opened his eyes.

Their eyes met, one innocent and the other full of horror.

Except for that one time, it is impossible for them to meet again.

Xia Na's "son" didn't know what he was thinking at the moment, but he still spoke to him happily.

"Father!"

"You have been away from home for so long, and you are finally back."

"If grandpa knows, he will be happy."

Xia Na suddenly raised his head, the word grandfather was equivalent to "nightmare" in his heart.

"Grandfather?"

Xia Na swallowed: "Is he still there?"

But the moment Xia Na asked this question, he probably understood that the grandfather should be his father.

But even he himself didn't dare to fully confirm whether the other party was his so-called "father" or the weird old man he used to be.

The young man took Shana's hand: "Grandfather is at home now, and he has been waiting for you to come back."

"Father and son" headed towards the ancient castle of the Shaner family together. The "son" was full of joy, but as the father, Shana's emotions became extremely tense in an instant.

Who is the "grandfather" in the family?

Is that old thing really dead?

The moment Xia Na saw his "son", the future he thought was full of uncertainty.

Xia Na's "son" suddenly asked him at this time, with longing and anticipation in his voice.

"Father!"

"Have you fulfilled God's mission yet?"

Xia Na looked at each other, that childish and young face.

It seemed to be the same when he was a child. He never doubted what God's mission was like.

Faced with the other party's questions, he answered irrelevant questions.

"I thought I made something."

"But it seems..."

Xia Na looked at his "son" with doubts in his pupils: "Everything is still going on."

"Son" didn't understand at all, he just felt that this sentence was very profound.

At this time, they have already arrived in front of the castle.

The gate opens and servants stand in the courtyard.

"Son" rushed into the courtyard and shouted at the patriarch of the Shana family standing on the stairs.

"Grandfather!"

"Grandfather!"

"Father, he is back, he is finally back."

Xia Na raised his head and saw the figure on the steps.

The old Shaner was on crutches, and he moved forward little by little, very slowly.

But in Xia Na's eyes, he seemed to see a shadow covering the sky and the sun from under the opponent's feet, trying to wrap him up and hang him in the darkness.

The figure and eyes are almost exactly the same as Shana's grandfather.

But Xia Na didn't notice that his embarrassment and vicissitudes at the moment are exactly the same as his former "father".

I waited for a long time.

The old man slowly came to Xia Na.

The old man's eyes are cloudy, but there is a terrifying gaze in these cloudy eyes.

The old man stared at Xia Na with his eyes like a hook, like a mountain weighing him down.

The two of them didn't speak, they just stared at each other.

To ordinary people, this atmosphere seems to be a touching scene of the reunion of father and son many years later. The two were speechless when they met, and there were only two lines of tears.

But Xia Na almost couldn't help but do it directly, he was screaming crazily in his heart.

"This is the old thing."

"This is him!"

"He's alive again, he's alive again."

"He is still..."

His fingers were trembling uncontrollably under the sleeves, his muscles were all stiff, and his cheeks unconsciously strained from the clenching of his teeth.

Just when Xia Na was about to lose his hold.

In the end, the old man spoke first, and said to Shana in a hoarse voice.

"Back!"

"My... son."

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After a "warm" family dinner, the old man raised his head and looked at Xia Na.

"It looks like it's almost there, you come with me later."

Xia Na's "son" looked up: "What's the matter?"

Old man: "Your father and I have something to talk about."

After finishing speaking, he added another sentence.

"About your coming-of-age ceremony in a few days."

The old man looked at Xia Na's "son" expectantly: "It's time."

"You can leave Yoan Town and go outside to perform your duties."

Xia Na's "son" was very excited, his face was flushed under the lights.

The middle-aged Xia Na followed the old man to the depths of the corridor, passing one painting after another and stone carvings.

The old man stopped and pushed open the door engraved with the ancient words "When the Creator returns, the gods will wake up".

The familiar **** leads to the depths, like a big mouth that swallows everything.

The two descended along the long slope.

The old man asked Xia Na: "How is Carmon?"

Xia Na replied to him: "Kamon is dead, and all the Kamen family have been killed by me."

Xia Na looked at the old man, implying something.

"The thread that tied us is no more, it's over."

Old man: "Really?"

A look of envy appeared in the eyes of the old man: "Very well, they have completed their mission."

"The rest is to wait for the last moment."

Xia Na didn't understand what the old man meant, and the old man didn't continue the topic.

Xia Na still stared at the old man, and he asked directly.

"Who the **** are you?"

"Is it Xia Na from the previous generation?"

"Or?"

He looked into the eyes of the old man, the ruthlessness in the eyes, and the despair that had passed through the ages were hooked into people's hearts like a hook.

This is a pair of eyes that should not belong to humans.

Before the action, the old man told Xia Na some past events.

"When I was young, I also had a friend, and I rode a ground dragon with him through the plain of animal husbandry, and went to see the legendary frozen plateau; the mirror of the sky is really the most beautiful place in the world, So holy and flawless.”

"Before that, I had a friend; he was a captain, and I went to the sea with him on an adventure, and we wanted to cross the sea of ​​​​storms, and everyone died in the sea, only me One survived."

"A long time ago, I once had a family, and I had a few children; unfortunately, I couldn't watch them grow up in the end, because I had to fulfill my mission."

"A long time ago."

“…”

Xia Na was stunned. He had heard some of the stories, and some of them hadn't.

However, the timeline spans more than a hundred years, so it cannot happen to the same generation of Xana.

The Shana family is not powerful themselves, and they can only rely on the power of props, so their life span is similar to that of ordinary snake people, or even lower.

They can't even accept the divine power gift, because they are not living people; they can't be transformed into ghosts, bone demons, and abyssal monsters, because they are essentially puppets.

Shaner: "No!"

"This is not one person's story."

"This is the story of generation after generation of Shaner. There are stories from decades ago, and there are also stories from a hundred years ago."

The old man's hoarse voice came out again: "Then let me tell you about my story from hundreds of years ago."

"And."

"A story from a thousand years ago."

Xia Na suddenly didn't understand, he couldn't understand the old snake man in front of him.

"What kind of monster are you...?"

The old man stopped, and they just reached the end of the road at this time.

The old snake man suddenly turned his head to look at Shana. The eyes of the two seemed to be shining in the darkness, and the old snake man suddenly burst out laughing.

"Don't get it yet?"

"Shanna!"

"One day you will be me too, with all Shaner's memories."

"We have always been one person, we have no distinction between each other."

"We are born from the same personality, and will eventually return to the same memory and end."

Xia Na faintly understood.

The Shana family is not a life, not even a group of puppets.

The root of all the Shiner clan is a certain person's personality. When they are old, they will retrieve all their memories and become a true and complete Shiner.

"This is the secret of the Shana family?"

This should not have been known by the middle-aged Shaner, but at this moment, the old Shana told the middle-aged Shaner.

It seems that after a generation after generation of reincarnation, it has reached a critical node at this moment.

Xia Na's head was numb at the moment, and it was difficult for him to accept this answer.

Although he understood Shaner's existence mode, he didn't understand why he did it.

He doesn't understand.

What is the meaning of the existence of the Shana family, what kind of people made them, and why they were made.

"Why?"

"Why are we made like this?"

"For what?"

"Is it for that so-called mission?"

Xia Na raised his head and looked at the back of the old man's head.

"Why do you have to be obsessed with that mission? Why do you have to complete it?"

The old snake man didn't answer, and the two walked into a stone room together.

The stone chamber went down, and stopped opening after a long time.

The underground palace built by the Shana family for thousands of years is long gone, leaving only a mess.

A cavern filled with rubble, and an underground pool.

Xiana saw dense threads intertwined, they were eager to find a new carrier.

In the center of the pool, where the white silk threads meet.

Inside a cocoon, a newborn snake-man infant can be seen encased, waiting to be conceived.

The old snake man pointed at the cocoon and said to Shana.

"Look!"

"Here's why."

Xianer came to the edge of the pool, and he looked at the newborn Shana family in the cocoon, his eyes tearing open.

"What the **** is going on?"

"Why is there a new Shiner born?"

He snarled at the old man, wanting to kill the guy immediately.

"What exactly do you want to do, why do you want to create a puppet named Shana generation after generation?"

"The so-called mission must be completed?"

"Can't you let yourself go, let us go?"

The old man told Shaner: "The mission must be completed."

Shaner retorted vigorously: "But there is no line anymore, and there is no more Camon."

The old man looked at the childish Xia Na and shook his head.

"The line is not our enemy!"

"Shanna!"

"We are just chasing the same end, looking for the final relief."

Xia Na calmed down and was no longer as impulsive as when he was young.

"I'm waiting for your answer."

The old man's voice seemed to have magical powers, transporting Shana to a long time ago and telling him a truly hopeless story.

"Billions of years ago."

"A **** has fallen."

"Although the **** died, he left behind a plan to resurrect himself, and his former believers and huge forces began to work hard for this plan."

"He left a prophecy."

At this time, the old man pronounced the language in the language of the Sanye people.

"When the Creator returns, the gods will wake up."

This sentence also means that He will be resurrected in the era when the Creator returns.

"The god's plan is to create a special prop called the Fated String Puppet, the purpose of which is to resurrect Himself."

"Xian is from the Kamon family, and even from the Shaner family."

"All the stories start here, and the resurrection of the gods is the mission of Shana and the Kamon family."

Xia Na stepped forward: "Where is this prop? Why didn't you find it?"

"Is that why we must fulfill our mission?"

The old man put his hand into the water and looked at himself in the reflection.

"I don't know."

"It's like I don't know how to catch, this reflection in the water."

The Shana family doesn't know.

After death, a mortal will turn into a dream of life and return to the fantasy star sea. The dream of life is condensed by the law of creation and will never dissipate. "

This is the law set by the Creator.

But this **** used the law of the Creator, and He planned to integrate the props into the dream of life at the moment when the dream of life was condensed, which is also a part of prop manufacturing.

This set of rituals is very complicated, first of all, one person needs to be willing to do so; and this person has a strong faith, which will not dissipate because of falling into a nightmare, he paranoidly believes that God will be resurrected, and runs this life that belongs to faith Dream.

The dream of life is born because of the law of creation, and it will immediately ascend to the dream world of the kingdom of the gods.

But also because the dream of life has become a part of the props, he no longer belongs to the complete dream of life at that moment.

So it cannot be attributed to the fantasy star sea of ​​the Creator God Kingdom.

No one, not even a goblin or a family of forest fairies, can find this dream of life that disappeared beyond the sea of ​​fantasy stars.

Since then, this prop has been hovering on the edge of the dream world forever.

It's like a ghost floating outside life and death.

The reflection in the water rippled, and the old man went on to tell the story.

"However, we know that the destined thread couple will derive threads from unknown places and put them into the world of mortals."

"Where the line is, a new pair will be created."

"This is the endless cycle of purgatory for the Kamon and Shana clan."

The old man stretched out his finger, pointing at the new generation of Xia Na family in the cocoon.

At this moment, his hands were trembling, and there was endless despair in his eyes.

"See?"

"Even if I die, even if you die."

"We are still being reborn."

"Even if it is not born here, it will be born elsewhere."

"If you can't complete the mission, this cycle will keep repeating."

The old man's voice is extremely desolate: "Even if!"

"Is there a line, is there a Kamon."

"We are all the same, and we must obey the mission."

"We must complete it, and only by completing it can we be freed from this cycle."

The old man's voice became louder: "It is not the wire that really controls us."

"Shanna!"

"It is God's will, and it is the destiny of the Shana family for generations!"

Xia Na's whole body was stiff in front of the pool, and then he collapsed a little bit. He felt his strength being drained out a little bit.

It never occurred to him that everything would be like this.

He suddenly looked at the old snake man and asked him: "Can't it be changed?"

The old snake man told Shana: "Even death can't change it."

"No, death does not belong to us."

"Because we never lived."

The crutches of the old snake man smashed the ripples in the water: "Shana!"

"We are just a pair of strings, we..."

"There is no future."

The old snake man lowered his body and crawled in front of the pool with Shana in despair.

"The only way."

"The only way to end this reincarnation is to complete the mission."

"The god's resurrection ceremony cannot be started, and no one can find the true destiny of the string puppet."

"Only when this ceremony is started, the doomed couple will become a part of the ceremony, a part of the gods."

"And us."

"We will also step into eternal peace together, freed from this endless cycle."

After saying this, the old snake man grabbed Shana's hand.

"However."

"This is the last time."

"This is the last reincarnation."

"You have found the wisdom of the gods, and the Kamen family has welcomed back the spirituality of the gods."

"The last ceremony is about to begin, in Meiya City."

"You will inherit the memory of me and all Shana, and carry out the final plan."

The old snake man grasped Xia Na's hand tightly, with endless expectations in his eyes.

It's like.

A worm struggling desperately in a glass bottle, a hungry dog ​​licking poison in a cage.

"The mission of resurrecting God is entrusted to you."

"Shanna!"

"The last moment has come, Shana, Carmon, the marionette and everything, will belong to the gods."

"All reincarnation will end, and nothing will be born again."

"Complete the final task, and don't let a new generation of Shana be born again."

"We're tired."

"The..."

"It's over."

Xia Na was dumbfounded, he had never heard such a hopeless story.

Desperate to.

Even the word death is so pleasant to the ear.

After the old snake man said this, he patted the back of Shana's hand.

He walked towards the depths of the pool by himself.

He stretched out his hand to press the cocoon on the pool, and the cocoon and the Shana family in it slowly disappeared.

Like a dissolved egg.

He was telling Shaner that as long as the mission is completed, there will be no more Shana clan.

After the old snakeman finished this thing, he was also wrapped in a white cocoon and was devoured and melted a little bit.

At the same time.

The line in the pool was also wrapped around Shaner.

The memory in the old snake man's mind is constantly passing into the mind of the next generation of Shaner, and the memory is being synchronized through the line. The old snake man doesn't even need to speak, and the voice can directly appear in Shaner's consciousness.

It's like talking to yourself in your mind.

The real world disappeared, and the two figures stood in a world full of white.

One is gradually becoming solid, and the other is slowly dissipating away.

The white world suddenly changed, and countless pictures came from all directions, together with the voice of the old snake man.

"Look!"

"Shanna!"

"This is our memory."

"Do you ever feel that we are so similar; when you see the next generation of Shana, do you also think of yourself and me."

"Because we have exactly the same personality, we are always making the same choices."

"Although we are experiencing different lives, we are making the same choice."

"Countless forks in the road."

"We are ultimately choosing the same path."

The old snake man's voice was getting farther and farther away, and Shana even felt that the voice gradually became his own voice, which was talking to him.

"When we were teenagers, we searched for our destiny."

"When we were young, we rebelled against fate."

"In old age, we acknowledge our destiny."

"We wandered in fate again and again."

"We are wandering in the maze of fate, we can neither find a way out nor an end."

After saying this, the old snake man completely disappeared into the underground cave where the Shana family had hidden a thousand-year-old secret.

The old generation of Shaner died, and no new generation of Shaner was born.

It also represents that this endless cycle is beginning to come to an end a little bit.

The endless ring breaks from this node.

Then from the breaking point, a little bit of annihilation.

The endless cycle of three generations of Shaner, now there are only two Shaner clans left.

Xia Na himself was overwhelmed by endless memories, and he saw two stones connected by dense white threads.

Two stones are inlaid on a slate, and a puppet with strings is drawn on the slate.

"The Destined Marionette." Shana said its name.

But the doomed puppet he saw was just an image in his memory, not a real Sequence 19 prop.

Xianer felt the memories of countless strange and ancient species rushing into his mind, and saw the reincarnation of Xia Na from generation to generation.

In which the pain and loneliness of eternal return is cast into consciousness.

It directly crushed Shaner.

Xia Na's body trembled violently, with horror and despair on his face.

Shaner hugged his head helplessly.

He kept repeating a sentence: "The mission must be completed."

"It has to be done!"

"Must...must...finish it..."

"At all costs, it must be done, it's over...it's over..."

"It's time to end..."

And the oldest memories keep pouring in, going back eons.

Xia Na was in pain like a bug struggling on the ground, but at this moment he suddenly found that the world around him had changed.

He raised his head weakly, and found that he had come to the "Lost Country" once again.

The city that descended from the gods.

In front of the Palace of Wisdom.

He once again stood among the god-descendent crowd from the previous era, and in front of him stood the Sanye man he had seen in his fantasy.

His eyes fell on him across the ages, and he spoke the question like a nightmare again.

"Shanna!"

"Have you waited?"

Xia Na looked at the other party, and this time he suddenly understood.

The other party is the beginning of everything, and the other party is the existence that created this eternal nightmare.

He looked at the other party in despair, with tears in his eyes.

He questioned each other, he sobbed and howled.

"Why?"

"Who the **** are you?"

"Why are you doing this?"

"Why?"

"Why do you torture us like this?"

He wanted to grab the corner of the opponent's clothes, but the illusion in his memory had already reached the end.

He jumped into the pool, and the cold water pulled him back to reality.

Xia Na has aged a lot, his upright body collapsed and became a little rickety.

He looked up.

This is a pair of eyes that should not belong to humans, revealing the despair that has passed through the ages.

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The old castle of the Shaner family.

The new generation of Shiner is having a coming-of-age ceremony, and only his father is doing it for him.

Xia Na of the previous generation passed away due to illness, and the funeral has just been held.

Although little Shana was sad because of the passing of his grandfather, he was also excited about the coming-of-age ceremony.

In his eyes.

There is a yearning for the outside world, as well as expectations for the future.

At the ceremony, he asked his father.

"Father."

"What is the mission of the family? How should I do it?"

"Father" told him: "God will guide you."

"Little Shaner!"

Little Xia Na looked bewildered, but he could only pretend to understand.

"Father" took out the stone of wisdom and integrated it into Xiao Shana's body during the ceremony, and an incomparably powerful force surged out of him.

Little Xia Na was stunned and looked at his father in ecstasy.

"What a powerful force."

"Father" told him: "This is a gift from God."

He experienced his strength excitedly, and when he turned around, he just met his father's eyes.

Father opened his mouth to ask something, but closed his mouth again.

After hesitating again and again, his father asked him.

"Shanna!"

"You will fulfill God's mission, will you?"

Little Xia Na nodded: "I will definitely do it."

Little Shana's young heart is very restless. He combines his desire and expectation for the outside world with the expectation of completing his mission.

After the ceremony was successful, Little Xana couldn't wait to take his luggage and set off.

Go far.

Having become the "father", Shana stood in front of the castle and watched his "son" go away.

He suddenly said to himself: "Will he do it?"

"Will he be resentful?"

"Hate himself?"

In his perspective, generations of the Shana clan appeared behind him.

They have the same personality, but different memories.

Shaner asks other Shaners: "Why don't we just tell him?"

Others respond to him.

"That way, he would have no motivation to pursue his mission."

"And that's just letting despair come in advance, it doesn't make any sense."

"Even if it is short-lived happiness, at least once had it."

Before the castle, there was only silence and despair.