novelsite Chapter 226 [Wings of Longevity]
Chapter 226 [Wings of Longevity]
Before hearing that Jack was several hundred years old, Li Can had always thought that Jack, who looked so young at this time, was only seven or eight years old at most.
He was already suspicious; what kind of award would their dwarf race give to such a young child? Was it some kind of "Kindergarten Little Flower of Wisdom" award?
It wasn't until he could finally see the wing pattern on Jack's chest badge in Jack's memory, and combined with what the old patriarch had said, that he realized what was going on.
It turns out that the seemingly ordinary badge given to him was actually the "Wings of Longevity".
"If that's the case, Jack looks to be in his early twenties now."
"Converted to his age of several hundred years, he would only look like a seven or eight-year-old human from Earth."
"So, it must be at least a thousand years old now?"
"My apologies..." Li Can looked at Jack's transparent soul floating above his physical body and made a fist-and-palm gesture.
Jack's memories continue.
Li Can watched as the badge that the old patriarch had just pinned on Little Jack's chest was slowly dissolving and merging towards his left chest, where his heart was located.
The Wings of Longevity, painted with silver-white wings, thus officially merged with him.
The old man and the young man chatted and laughed.
The dwarves watching from below the stage were all people who had lived for a very, very long time and had seen through everything; they were all magnanimous.
They laughed along with them.
The entire hall was filled with a pleasant and harmonious atmosphere.
However, after searching the crowd for a long time, Li Can only found Jack, who looked young. The other dwarves were all middle-aged or elderly.
The next second, their conversation cleared up Li Can's doubts.
"Jack, although we dwarves possess the [Wings of Longevity], granting each of us an incredibly long lifespan, we suffer from the difficulty of giving birth to new life..."
"Now I am handing over the position of clan leader to you, the only heir of this generation, in the hope that you will not let us all down."
"Let us dwarves lead our race to a new lifeline; we need fresh blood."
"It's time for us old folks to step back and retire."
Li Can finally understood: the dwarves possessed immortal life, but they also had their limitations.
"No wonder the dwarf NPCs I encountered in the previous solo dungeons were all old people... I see."
"This [Wings of Longevity] looks just like the [Laws of Time] on Earth; both are very precious things..."
"I just don't know what the guardian spirits of the dwarf planet are like."
Li Can didn't need to read any further to know what was going to happen next.
Given the opportunistic nature of the pseudo-aliens, they now covet the "Time Law" of Blue Star, and thus have come to invade this place.
So, with the aging population and no new generation to take over on the Dwarf Planet, it's the perfect opportunity for them to compete for the Wings of Longevity.
Jack, a younger dwarf, was left there, struggling to hold out, but still unable to change the situation.
Ultimately, it ended in disappointment.
"A common man is innocent, but possessing a treasure is a crime."
Li Can didn't actually like this story, but that's just how reality is.
Even now, Li Can finds it hard to imagine how many planets the pseudo-star people's development faction has destroyed in the name of "development."
How many treasures do they have now?
The lands they invaded are filled with the souls of the dead.
Even after they died, the pseudo-aliens did not let them go.
They imprisoned their souls one by one in the death dungeon game, participating in the cycle of reincarnation time and time again, working for them for nothing.
Make them lose their memory.
They don't remember the pain they once suffered.
"They must be so proud of themselves..." Li Can said, feeling a dull pain in her chest.
"In that case, it's not surprising that a 'cleansing faction' developed among the pseudo-stars."
Li Can was able to understand the significance of the Cleansing Faction's existence.
Their desire to destroy their own race, having had enough of its depravity, is logically understandable.
But why were other races and planets destroyed along with it?
If there were no "wall" like this, would there be no conflict? Would it be possible to eliminate the conflict at its source?
Li Can really wants to go out and capture a few fake aliens to interrogate properly.
Ask them what they're thinking, what's so unusual about their brains?
The developmentists are never satisfied; they are all greedy.
The purge faction went to extremes, advocating the destruction of everything.
The pacifists... Li Canguang only learned relatively little about this from Ayun.
But he seems to be the only normal person here...
However, whether it is normal or not, he needs to investigate it himself before he can draw a conclusion.
After all, it's within that kind of large environment.
"Could it be that a bad seed produces a good melon, a once-in-a-century occurrence?"
Li Can sighed. Seeing that Jack's soul was nearing the end of its formal separation, he began to readjust and prepare the blue flames to burn.
The fire went from blazing intensely to slowly dying out.
Jack's soul, floating above his physical body, gradually awakened.
"No! Don't kill her!!!" Jack cried out in a mournful voice as his transparent soul awoke.
He seemed to be still immersed in the last moments of his memory.
He calculated that it was probably the second year after he became the chieftain of the dwarves when the false man arrived with "deception"...
After obtaining the Wings of Longevity, the false man left no survivors among the dwarves; they were all annihilated.
Jack's grief at this moment must be because he has experienced that chaos again, and the trauma it caused him was too great.
"Waaah, Mr. Player, thank you for reminding me of the past..." Jack, a wandering spirit, was in tears.
He is in pain.
But his soul was light and adrift, unable to find its footing.
He floated in the air, weightless, even though his heart was filled with heaviness.
Li Can took a new roll of toilet paper from the assembled gashapon toys and handed it to Jack, wanting him to wipe the tears on his face.
But then I realized he was a ghost, and these things were useless.
So he used a blue flame to burn the toilet paper on the spot.
Jack was a little taken aback and was about to say something when the mysterious power from China manifested itself. He did receive a roll of clean white toilet paper, something he could currently access.
"The fake aliens stole our treasure and killed all my people! This is an irreconcilable hatred!" Jack cried, wiping his eyes with a tissue as he accused the fake aliens of their crimes to Li Can.
Li Can mimicked the image of the old clan chief from his memory and patted him on the shoulder in the air.
"I know everything, I know everything."
Li Can looked at Jack's chest, which was empty, with only a hole left.
It turns out that after the Wings of Longevity merged with his body, his heart was also taken away by the pseudo-aliens.
His role as the new clan leader was indeed very painful.
Just as Li Can was comforting Jack, Jack's physical body, which was lying on the wooden bed behind them, began to rapidly disintegrate.
Once Jack's soul stabilized, within just a few seconds, the area where his physical body had been was scattered into a cloud of dust.
A plastic toy doll fell down with a "bang" from the middle.