Chapter 836 The reality that can never be reached
Tick tock!
The silver pocket watch stopped spinning.
All pointers return to the original origin, completing the last cycle.
The dagger stabs into the heart of the hive.
The silver pocket watch lay quietly in its arms like a sacrificial tribute.
Yvette crossed her hands, closed her eyes devoutly, and made a prayer gesture. The spiritual power surged around her body, forming a huge circle: "This is the ability I developed specifically for you, the Ring of Time - E Ring of Russia!”
In Greek mythology, there is such a story.
Sisyphus, the son of Aiolus, was the smartest man in the world. He boasted that even the gods were not even half as smart as him.
With his clever mind, Sisyphus established the Kingdom of Corinth, and later even had the audacity to trick and kidnap the God of Death, causing the world to lose order and prevent everyone from dying, thus offending the wrath of the gods.
Finally, in order to punish Sisyphus, the gods thought of a wonderful way.
That is to order Sisyphus to push a huge round rolling stone from the bottom of the mountain all the way to the top of the mountain. However, because the rolling stone is so heavy, Sisyphus will be exhausted before reaching the top of the mountain. , causing the boulder to roll down from the top of the mountain.
So, Sisyphus' punishment is.
Day after day, year after year, the boulder is pushed endlessly over and over again.
Sisyphus's life was slowly consumed in such an ineffective and hopeless work until the end of his death.
The hive is like Sisyphus.
They all think that they are very smart and can control everything in the world, but they have no idea what serious consequences their randomness will have.
Sisyphus deceived and kidnapped the God of Death, causing there to be no more death in the world. Without the fear of death, human beings have lost infinite possibilities and become a muddle-headed walking human being.
In order to punish Sisyphus, the gods made him endure endless torture.
The Ring of Time—The Ring of Aeolus!
It is an advanced technique she specially developed, using the power of the Perfection Technique, just to give the hive the punishment it deserves, just like Sisyphus, with endless torture.
There are four necessary conditions for the execution of the technique.
Condition 1: The person who endures this technique must be in an absolutely weak state, otherwise once the spiritual pressure is used to counterattack, the technique will backfire. Depending on the severity, the user's life span will be lost for tens or even hundreds of years.
Condition 2: The entire procedure is extremely cumbersome and requires a starting point, a passing point, and an ending point, three complete time nodes. Each time the pocket watch pointer circulates, a time node will be recorded.
Condition 3: The 'time node' recorded by the pocket watch needs to leave a deep impression on the subconscious mind of the person who is affected by the spell.
Condition 4: A complete spell requires a perfect closed loop, otherwise the logic chain will collapse.
The three starts of the pocket watch all symbolize three time nodes.
In the end, the entire cycle of spells was completed, with Hasward stripping away the hive's ability, making it weaker than ever before, and achieving all the conditions for the cycle.
“Repent your sins in eternal torment.”
Right below Yvette's blessing, a huge python appeared.
The huge python body surrounds the hive, and then the giant snake swallows its own tail in one bite, forming the cycle symbol of ouroboros.
"Aeolus...?"
When Beehive was about to die, he acted extremely calm, no longer so violent and ferocious. He just looked at Yvette quietly, a smile slowly appeared on his face, implying expectation and hope, and asked: "Then Am I…your…Sisyphus?”
Yvette was silent for a moment, her calm eyes finally showed a ripple, she nodded slightly and said softly: "Yes, you are my Sisyphus."
"My dear mother..."
A glimmer of light appeared in Hive's eyes, with a certain arrogant look, and he asked again: "If I were not what I am now, and I never wanted to devour you, would you... acknowledge me?"
"Maybe... it will..."
Facing those pure eyes, Yvette was confused for a moment, and she didn't know how to answer.
"enough......"
Beehive slowly closed his eyes, as if all the burden had been lifted: "This answer is enough for me."
The circle formed by the Ouroboros is gradually shrinking in scope, almost swallowing up the hive.
The moment before disappearing.
Beehive suddenly opened his eyes, used his last bit of strength, and asked: "If there really is an afterlife, mother...are you still willing to accept me?"
Yvette was stunned for half a second.
By the time she reacted, the hive had been swallowed by the Ouroboros, and with her last regret, she didn't hear the answer.
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It was drizzling and the fog was hazy.
The hive seemed to shake suddenly, as if waking up from a nightmare. There was a trace of fear on the face, and the pupils remained pin-pointed and trembled uncontrollably.
Before he could think about whether the nightmare was real or fake, a fierce fist wind swept over him like a furious wave.
Snapped!
Hive's head was blown off with a punch.
The atmosphere oscillated and set off billowing winds. The fist wind swept across the ground and plowed a hundred-meter-long ravine.
Bucky wore the metal finger tiger, kept pumping his fist, and stared at it fiercely.
Almost subconsciously, the headless Hive punched Bucky with a backhand, but the familiar feeling of déjà vu, the same scene in a nightmare, made him suddenly feel palpitated and panicked, and then he was stunned in place.
"good chance!"
Peggy found a flaw. Although she didn't know why, she still activated the Perfection Technique. She slammed her dirty boots on the ground and rushed towards the hive in the roaring air waves.
boom!
The huge impact was like a train, directly smashing the hive's body into pieces, and countless parasites scattered out, covering the nearby swamp.
"No...impossible!"
The hive summoned all the parasites and instantly merged and returned to their human form. Those nightmare images flashed through his mind, and a terrifying suspicion gradually emerged.
But the next moment, the man appeared.
The man was wearing a white military coat and a snow-white five-pointed star cape. His five fingers were like huge mountains, covering his forehead with rumbling thunder from top to bottom.
It once again experienced the pain of having its soul torn apart, and the Perfection Technique was forcibly stripped away, leaving not even a trace of spiritual power left.
And then again.
It was pierced through the heart with a dagger, devoured by ouroboros, and plunged into boundless darkness.
"I....."
Beehive gasped for air and appeared again in the drizzle, facing the approaching fist.
boom!
Once again, he was shot in the head.
From the moment Bucky hit the head with a punch, to Peggy kicking its body, and then to being stripped off the Perfection Technique, everything seemed to be repeating itself. No matter how hard the process was, the result would never change.
The hive suddenly understood.
It turns out that it was already dead, and now it is just accepting punishment, just like Sisyphus who committed the crime, repeating the endless cycle of death.
"Is this my punishment?"
Beehive slowly closed his eyes, a trace of bitterness flashed across his face: "The Ring of Aeolus is indeed a technique specially developed for me, my dear mother."
It neither belongs to life nor to death. It is like a superposition of the two and can never reach the reality of death.
This is...the cycle of time!
