Trafford’s Trading Club

More than a hundred years of war between the British State and France. [The Night's Watch] has also experienced... just as a more ancient monarch, he is not very interested in the mutilation of this human race.

If I recall correctly, he was already in the Far East, on the one hand in order to escape the fighting and, on the other, in search of the legendary immortals of the Far East.

But he had the right to live forever because he had made a wish to the lamp... What about Shegatu?

Naturally he wouldn't have wished for the lamp too... how the hell did he live forever? At this time, even [the Night's Watch], who was not interested in what Shegatu wanted to do behind him, was able to live to this day, creating a sense of movement.

“You've lived so long.” [Night's Watch] Shake your head: “In fact, a hundred years is enough for a person to forget many things. As for hundreds of years, even hatred will decay... but you still look obsessed. ”

“Let me tell you a story.” High Priest Shegatu waved at this moment.

Over the metal wall behind him, suddenly a dozen lattices - from which a basin-sized drone flew out slowly.

They project laser lasers - moments of light convergence - through transparent reinforced glass walls, with images unfolding in front of [the Night's Watch].

A peaceful mountain village, Xu Xu unfolded in front of [the Night's Watch].

The High Priest's voice also sounded at this time: “This is where I was born… on a peaceful town in the Kingdom of France. As you know, I was born in that time of war. ”

Suddenly the fire shone and the quiet town became red, and the war began to devour all the houses, roads... people.

A 10-year-old child, in the corral, was walking hard on the streets of a small town burned in coke, carrying a little girl who was smaller than him.

The child was barefoot and his feet had already burned the burning earth… Finally, his strength had run out and then he fell to the ground.

“This is me.” The high priest pointed at the child who had fallen to the ground and said slowly, “Do you feel that? ”

[The Night's Watch] said softly: “It's pathetic, but since he lives in a time of war, it's obvious that he's not the only one who will encounter tragic things. ”

“I guess you'd say that.” The high priest laughed at this moment, and he looked at the child in the picture, "when it was clear that I would not have thought so. For a child who had lost all his loved ones, his only thought at the time was hatred for the whole world. ”

[Night's Watch] Look at the High Priest, "Now? ”

“There's nothing wrong. The High Priest put it bluntly:“ The process of human civilization has been accompanied by war and blood… this unfortunate arrival can only be said to have been when I did not have the capacity to protect my family… even myself would die at any moment. So all of my anger and hatred at the time was incompetent rage. ”

[The Night's Watch] It's not too salty. “Don't you feel too harsh about this child? ”

“He needs to recognize this fact.” The High Priest laughed: “Be aware that even if he were gentle with life, life would not have mercy on him. ”

“So?” [The Night's Watch] frowned, "Are you going to avenge life... against the world? ”

And the high priest shook his head, “I said, there's nothing wrong with that. I was so tiny at the time that I would have hatred… but obviously not now, because I even had the ability to change the whole world if I wanted to. ”

[Night's Watch] laughed instantly: "With this place? Oh... or with your means of replicating humans? ”

“I call it [the balance of good and evil].” The High Priest Xu Xu said: “I have not duplicated anyone but have divided man's goodness from evil. ”

“The balance of good and evil?” [The Night's Watch] couldn't help but wrinkle his eyebrows and seemed to think of something in the invisibility, “you mean, Maat's... good and evil scale? ”

The high priest smiled slightly: “I think you will think of it in the first place. After all, it is the king of the seventh dynasty... but unfortunately, it is still somewhat different from the legendary [balance of good and evil in Maat] that you know. ”

[Night's Watch] Measuring the drones with confusion - the drones started switching to a different set of images.

In the image, a young man appeared, who looked similar to the little boy in the previous battle, to the face of the high priest who was now standing before him - this was Shekatu in his youth.

Young Shegatu, now in a desert… Oasis, where the Temple of Oasis is located.

“I found this scale here.” The voice of the High Priest echoed in the empty room, "I touched it, completely dividing my goodness from my malice... then I became two, and my soul was immortalized. ”

[The Night's Watch] frowned a little deeper, and he was trying to understand what was in the High Priest's words with what he had seen and heard in his long life... to judge the veracity of the matter.

“Who's standing here now?” [The Night's Watch] suddenly asked.

“If I said I was kind, you'd believe it.” The high priest laughed at this moment: “You may assume that I am not the good one, but the one who disguises himself as malicious. So it doesn't matter which one I am —— what matters is why I'm telling you this. ”

“Oh?” [Night's Watch] eyebrows picked.

The High Priest opened his hands and said, "I am doing a great experiment… I would like to invite you to complete this experiment with me - for a long time, you are the only human I have ever encountered! You have a long life, you have a tremendous amount of knowledge, you have a strong body, you can be the best assistant to this long experiment - of course, this decision was made when you were invited to explore the Temple of the Oasis, and I discovered your secret and started... don't you think it was meant to be? At first, I just wanted some great scholars, but I didn't expect you to be among them. ”

[Night's Watch] Shaking his head was obviously quite helpless about the matter - but the words of the High Priest began to make him coherent about things he had previously failed to figure out.

As early as half a year ago, after he received a mysterious invitation from an investor, there was a feeling of disquiet in his mind - only that he himself had been searching for mysterious power - for some purpose in his heart.

Half a year ago, a whole team of archaeological teams, after several times of ordeal, eventually arrived at the Oasis Temple - a temple that had never appeared in the body of human history.

They were almost insane and rushed into the temple… the beginning of all this.

[Night's Watch] Thinking about it, suddenly I looked back at the hiding place at the gate, and at this time I sneaked up on Ibn - the scholars who had entered the temple were just like Ibn is now.

They forget everything, they become puppet-like, and they've been doing all sorts of research deep in this temple - even in his own way, making the High Priest replicate it in a strange way.

It's just that he's special… a human being with no special abilities other than eternal life.

The wealth of knowledge and experience has allowed him to escape - and since then he has been hiding in this city of the sun, waiting quietly for the moment.

Ibn… or Aria, was thrown into the City of the Sun to self-destruct after losing his memory because of his own ignorant relationship.

The whole City of the Sun is actually under the surveillance of the High Priest —— all over the City of the Sun -- with surveillance cameras and even drones disguised as birds in the air.

The whole City of the Sun is like a huge laboratory - everyone living here except the High Priest himself, I'm afraid, is part of his experiment.

After figuring this out, [Night's Watch]... the real Mr. Otto, if his heart says nothing, it is naturally unsuccessful - he even starts to amaze the other person with this power of action!

Again, as a long-lived human being, Mr. Otto suddenly discovered —— does he really look like a saltfish, compared to what High Priest Shegatu did?

“What exactly is the experiment you are talking about?” After a long period of silence, [the Night's Watch] eventually went straight to the subject - long lived, old, often reluctant to understand what was going on.

“I found a soul in this magical scale.” High Priest Sheikatu's gaze at this moment is somewhat enthusiastic: “I can feel the power of this soul in the scale… it is the master of the scale, it has power beyond man's imagination! But it's crippled, so it's been dormant… I'm going to make up for this crippled soul! ”

“Complete the soul?!” [Night's Watch] A slight surprise.

The philosophy of the soul, since ancient times, whether he has stayed in the West and ancient Egypt or in the Far East, is an immense puzzle that cannot be solved!

“How?” [The Night's Watch] couldn't help but ask directly - even though the way he looked when he asked the question looked so stupid... he even felt his share of the stupidity, but still couldn't resist some kind of lust for knowledge in his heart.

For a long time, enriching his knowledge enough to overshadow the best scholars in the world - but even so, there are still many things in the world that he cannot solve… Soul doctrine is clearly one of them.

- If you can complement your soul... if your soul can write it...

- Resurrect... Resurrect her!

[The Night's Watch] looked instantly like a beast, and this gaze was extremely aggressive... The High Priest seemed to feel the obsession in Mr. Otto's eyes and frowned: “Otto, it looks like you have more stories than I currently know... I'm really getting more and more interested in you! ”

“Don't bullshit, say it... how exactly are you going to make up for a broken soul?” [The Night's Watch] Otto asked in silence.

The High Priest said positively: "It's simple, just create a shell that's perfect enough and then act as a residence for this crippled soul! This shell is enough to make up for the remnants of this soul… When this perfect shell is complete, it is this remnants of the soul that awakens. ”

[The Night's Watch] frowned and he pondered the words of the High Priest... but the heat in his eyes gradually cooled down.

He shook his head, “I don't know exactly how or where you came up with this idea… but I don't think it works. ”

The high priest frowned.

[The Night's Watch] Quietly said: “In the Far East, there is a saying called borrowing corpses for souls. It probably means that a dead soul is attached to another dead person, and then another dead person is resurrected... Question: Which one is this resurrected person? ”

The High Priest thought and did not want to say: “His soul was the first person to die, and his mind was the first to die, so I thought I was... He was the first, no matter how he changed his appearance, only he remained the same inside. ”

[The Night's Watch] looked deeply at the High Priest: "Then, in the years to come, the first person will only survive as the second person. Because he has the appearance of a second person and all the blood ties that belong to the second person. So who the hell is he? ”

“He knows for himself.” The high priest hummed coldly.

“And only he himself knows.” [The Night's Watch] shook his head and looked at the High Priest casually: “You wouldn't know. ”

“You're wrong.” The High Priest laughed: “What I care about is not exactly which one it is, but only the experiment itself - and if it is resurrected, it can prove that I did it right, and this will be one of the greatest discoveries ever made by mankind. ”

“But that's not what I need.” [Night's Watch] Shake your head: “What I need is a certain, real, only soul. ”

He looked at the high priest... and confronted him.

It took a long time for the High Priest to complain: “I always make some final efforts, when they are often just futile… Otto, how I wish you would understand me. ”

[Night's Watch] No talking... the good conversation is actually almost over here - he concentrated, tightened up, then lifted up the carbon fiber black knife in his hand, I'm afraid he won't be better the next time.

Normally, at this point, there is only one result left.

“Rest assured, I never kill.” The High Priest shook his head: “I hate to make a life disappear… but you will not know who you are for a long time, and you will also be the nutrient of this shell. ”

Say it, the high priest clapped his hands directly… the metal walls around him, and suddenly a piece of land split apart - only a white guard was seen, slowly walking out of these broken entrances.

They are walking towards Otto... and their bodies are starting to make some strange changes - like something, coming out of their bodies, breaking apart.