The red killing machine descends from the sky and falls into the sea of zombies.
The king is roaring, the king is killing, the last Scarlet Queen crushes all the Walking Corpse in the field of vision, until the last roar is also dead silence.
When the tide of madness recedes slightly from the brain, the world has collapsed and everything in sight is shattered.
The red hat is gone, and the red coat turns into Scarlet Flesh. Monster, whose lower body is integrated with the metal Wheelchair, stands on the ruins of Sea of Corpses and Blood, with confusion in his eyes.
Only then did she finally understand that the world would have echoes if it were extremely quiet.
Lonely echoes come from all directions,
"Da..."
Only Wolf Knight, whose armor was broken and his lance was broken, was still silently guarding Queen.
The bright red cloak was shattered and tied around the knight's body like a scarf.
The setting sun is like blood, and there are broken walls and ruins everywhere.
There is a vast divine voice in the dark, as if coming from outside the sky:
"Follow me."
At first, the sound was far away, but then it seemed to be everywhere.
In a golden light, the golden Throne appears on the horizon. Sitting on top of Throne is the projection of God of War.
The gilded battle armor shone brightly in the boundless blood of the earth.
"Let me go,"
The voice of the gods is sonorous and powerful, like the sound of gold and iron:
""Wisdom" has delayed you, you were born to be Believer of War."
"Your failure was not a crime of war. Come under my command and join me Divine Kingdom, and you will regain the authority of war."
"Given time, you still have a chance to defeat the enemy and complete your revenge on Rome!"
The loud sound echoed in all directions.
Deity extended an olive branch, and the opportunity that many people dream of is right in front of them.
But...
"Revenge?"
Sitting on Wheelchair, the withered and deformed figure did not move at all.
When the wind blows, the blood-colored light above the head casts red light, just like Maiden is shy, lowering his head and covering his face with Little Red Riding Hood.
"I'm tired."
She just answered like this.
Queen is really tired. After all, she never thought of becoming a king.
If it weren't for the turbulent public opinion, she should have been a Saintess who lives in the Divine Hall and doesn't care about the world. She has been unable to do anything well since she was a child, and is just a little girl who likes to rely on her brother;
Even though Throne took the responsibility and carried the world behind him, he still messed up everything in the end...
Sure enough, she is not a qualified king.
"But, you are already dead!"
Deity said again:
"War's Authority destroyed your life."
"Civilization in this world will be extinguished, and everything will be destroyed. Your efforts to maintain the core of the world are in vain."
"If you continue to stay here, you will have no choice but to die along with the world..."
"I know."
Slowly raising his head, Wheelchair turned, Queen left Deity with a straight back, a little stubborn and stubborn.
"But... I don't want to go anywhere anymore."
After the words fell, Wheelchair slowly drove towards Sun Temple, not the prison in the palace that was always accompanied by nightmares.
"What about you..."
Deity looked aside Wolf Knight, then became speechless.
You know the answer without asking. In this Wolf Knight's eyes, it's like Deity has never been there before.
Even if the world is destroyed, civilization is overthrown, and Deity comes... this forever silent Wolf Knight will only have eyes for the one and only Liege he swore allegiance to protect.
"..."
Deity returns here.
The huge ruins of civilization were silent, with only two people left who were dead but not yet gone.
"Squeak!"
The harsh sound of metal friction sounded, and the scarlet Monster stopped the ferocious metal Wheelchair's lower limbs and stopped in front of Sun Temple.
This is the place where she came from, and it is also her only "home" in this world.
Behind the Divine Hall, there is a deserted courtyard.
In my memory, there used to be a clear spring here, and there was a little girl Red Hood who was always washing the plain white robe of trainee Saintess;
There should be a flower field over there. Little Red Riding Hood picked the most beautiful flowers, pinned them to his ears, and clumsily imitated the aristocratic gesture towards his predecessor, Saintess, who was called Grandma.
Here, there, over here, and...
And she secretly planted the little Potted Plant next to the grand Sacrifice Plaza with her own hands. Once it grows, the tree will be as bright as fire.
People say that it is a kind of seed that is difficult to grow, but Little Red Riding Hood just feels that it is very similar to herself.
So on the eve of Coming-of-Age Ceremony, Maiden, who was full of expectations for the future, put the seed into Potted Plant.
At this moment, everything is buried in ruins.
However, when Wolf Knight silently cleared out the ruins, the scarlet Monster was suddenly stunned.
Because among the weeds in the ruins, a seed sprouted in a broken flowerpot and stubbornly grew into a sapling.
The bright red saplings are like blazing flames.
Monster stretched out his skinny hand, brushed it through the air, and carefully touched the buds of the sapling as if he was afraid of breaking it.
At this moment, she seemed to have returned to the night before Coming-of-Age Ceremony, and captured the spring of that little girl who was carefree and could rely on everyone.
At that time, I was not disfigured or disabled, and I still had a brother and a grandma...
But memories cannot last long.
The terminally ill Wooden Horse is on the verge of disintegration, the world has entered its final chapter, and the true heaven has finally arrived.
As the core of the world, Sky City beneath its feet began to flip.
The rules seem to collapse, with the sky below and the earth above.
Countless corpses fell down, and countless buildings fell into the abyss.
This Sky City, suspended in the clouds and carrying the last civilization Fire Seed, is now falling with irresistible gravity towards the earth below that has become a purgatory!
When the city completely falls into the wasteland, Wooden Horse will completely disintegrate, the world will not even leave any ruins, and no one will remember this civilization once called "Troy".
"I... don't allow it!"
Even if a person dies, someone should remember him.
Even if the world dies, it should retain its former appearance.
--Even the dead king can still carry the world on his back!
So Iron Throne turned into a new Wheelchair, merging with the flesh and blood of Monster.
The scarlet Monster roared up to the sky, its rickety back straightened, and she flew out of the Divine Hall and arrived outside the city.
Facing the falling city and the hanging upside down Divine Hall, she brazenly opened her withered arms, as if embracing--
"Boom----!!!"
The weight of an entire civilization instantly pressed on her arms and spine, pressing on every inch of her painful body that had long been eroded by the virus.
Her back was completely bent, the arms that supported the world burst out with ferocious veins, and even the blood Red Light ring on her head erupted with a shattering cry.
Iron Throne emits a dazzling silver light under her body, transmitting and dispersing unimaginable pressure in all directions;
Under the skin eroded by the virus, virus crystals proliferate, rupture, and then regenerate at an unprecedented speed.
The blazing fire burned in Maiden's eyes, with the final madness and determination.
But the movement of raising her hands did not waver in the slightest.
The world hanging upside down was lifted up by the huge Monster, and the collapsed civilization was pulled back like a wild horse!
This scene seems like a myth reflected in reality, but the being who completed the miracle is not Deity, not even a great hero.
And just one...Maiden that became Monster!
When the weight on his back became inertia, Maiden's last consciousness finally dissipated.
It's just the dead body that still carries everything, maintaining the final dignity of this Finale Civilization from being shattered.
"I am incompetent..."
"Is there finally something that can be done?"
At the end before consciousness dissipates.
Virus, despair, pressure... Maiden, who has been burdened with so much pain, only has this simple idea.
Amidst countless regrets, she finally felt some comfort.
Holding this thought in her dying moments, she lost the agility in her eyes forever.
--Eternal Fall into Darkness!
"..."
Later, as if following some kind of instinct, Maiden's confused corpse sang a nursery rhyme.
The ethereal voice, like an oriole, is incompatible with the body of Monster, but it is the original sound of Red Hat Girl:
She sings:
"Little basket, shake and shake.
Go to the hillside to pick berries.
Don't pick roses on the roadside,
After picking it, you have to lie down.
Strawberries stained fingernails red,
Dew wets little Leather Shoes.
"..."
"Under the sunset, come home,
Smoke curls around the roof.
The stone steps are covered with moss,
Grandma called me Sheng Sheng Man.
...Sheng Sheng Man..."
The song is ethereal and crisp, and the lyrics and music are obviously very cheerful and warm, but there is a heavy sadness in the song that cannot be dissipated.
It is obviously the miraculous Queen who wrestles with the despair of the world, but in this nursery rhyme, there is neither a hero, nor Royal Power, nor a sacrifice.
There were only strawberries on the hillside, dew on the flowers and grass, smoke from the roof, and her brother and grandma waiting for her return home on the stone steps.
... This is a nursery rhyme that a little girl wearing a red hat once sang on the hillside of her hometown a long time ago.
At that time, Little Red Riding Hood was not alone, his brother was still by his side.
In fact, Queen, who sang nursery rhymes after his death, was not missing anything.
Maybe she was just calling back the soul, calling back those ordinary afternoons she had lost forever, calling back the world of death, calling back Troy Civilization all the subjects who still trusted her as the "king" until death.
Since then, the soul-calling tunes have echoed forever in the empty world of death.
--Calling in vain for the spring from which civilization will never return.
"..."
Standing at Sun Temple in the core of the city, in the sacrificial square, through the circular patio above your head, you can just see the figure of Queen holding up the world.
It even happens to have one hand, which is tightly grasped on the Divine Hall patio.
I raised my head and saw Monster through the turbid Sky Light, who was sometimes confused and sometimes in pain through the patio.
Wolf Knight looked up, his eyes suddenly shed two lines of blood and tears.
"You are not someone who can't do anything."
"You've done a great job."
"It's really good... sister."
"--You are the real king!"
They called in a low voice but in vain to Monster and Wolf Knight who had completely lost all thoughts.
Yes.
The real Protagonist hidden in this story, this story-telling waiter, this mysterious Wolf Knight who always protects the "King".
He is the brother of Little Red Riding Hood.
It was he who abandoned his throne, threw all responsibilities on his sister's immature shoulders, and resolutely pursued the power of Heretic but failed miserably.
In the end, he could only use his current distorted form, disguised as Wolf Knight, incompetent, humble, silent and in vain to accompany his sister who was pushed to destruction by his own hands!
He is the world's number one coward! The brother who deserves to be cut to pieces! The unqualified Prince! The weak deserter! The shame of civilization! The world's number one incompetent useless knight!
At the same time...
Long before Maiden died, Sky City was the first victim to die in battle!
Guarding everyone, the king's figure stood in front of all his subjects, and he was the first sword standing in front of the king.
Walking Corpse, who died early, relied on the power of "Heretic" and the everlasting flame-like obsession in his chest to continue fighting until now.
Perhaps such a sacrifice is a trivial atonement for him and can make him feel better.
The only regret is probably...
Until the moment when Maiden sacrificed and even lost all consciousness and completely sank.
She never knew that the brother she had been looking for was actually standing by her side all the time...
So it's no wonder... it's obviously Wolf Knight's memory, but Protagonist in the story has nothing to do with him at all.
--This is the whole story of "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf".
At the end of the story, the world's number one coward and deserter will never escape or give up--
He accepted the transformation of the Divine Hall, fused flesh and blood with machinery, lost all reason forever, and became a part of Divine Hall Intelligence.
Or, go to destruction with this final civilization.
Or, just hold on to the vain hope that one day we may be able to find a successor to civilization!
Inherit everything from civilization, inherit everything from him, and also inherit...
Everything about Scarlet Queen!
Wolf Knight, transformed into a smart statue, stood silently in the center of the square, forever looking up at the "king" above his head, guarding his confused sister.
Just like his absurd life.
"Little basket, shake and shake."
"Go to the hillside and pick berries."
"Don't pick roses on the roadside.
It turns out that destruction will really turn into silence in the end, and everything will return to the silence of nothingness.
There is only a section of Sad Ballad left, holding up Inverted City and surrounding Endless Ruins, in vain calling to the soul and the past.
"The stone steps are covered with moss."
"I'm afraid when grandma calls me Sheng Sheng Man"
"Sheng Sheng Man..."
Bai Zhou came to his senses in a trance.
"Little Red Riding Hood..."
The huge flow of information and the endless memories made him unable to calm down for a long time as he was constantly in the perspective of Wolf Knight.
Bai Zhou has also heard some stories about "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf", but none of the versions are similar to what we see now.
If fairy tales can also find very different prototypes in the annihilated history of the past, how many secrets of Extraordinary World do they contain in those myths and fairy tales that have been passed down to later generations and have changed beyond recognition?
"Huh? This is..."
On Sacrifice Plaza, Bai Zhou accidentally noticed something in his field of vision, which was strange and familiar at the same time.
"This is?"
Bai Zhou's eyes were attracted.
A peculiar Scarlet Great Tree, as if it had been filled with human blood and had a rotten aura.
But it happens to be extraordinarily tall, rising up from the sky and leading straight to the outside of the patio.
Next to this big dark red tree, there is the "Great Sacrifice" Monster standing on the patio, peeking inside!
But now Bai Zhou already knows that "Great Sacrifice" is not sitting on top of the Divine Hall, nor is it Monster...
The body is withered, the spine is curved, and the body is full of raging viruses... Of course it is the dead Scarlet Queen, which is still carrying the world on its back until now!
"..."
So, this strange "Decay Great Tree"--
At the top of the dense canopy of the trees, there are many signs of being crushed. It seems that Monster, who was once the king, would occasionally rest there.
Bai Zhou After observing for a long time, I finally found some familiar traces on this big tree, and was finally able to confirm--
It is the seed planted by "Little Red Riding Hood" back then.
In the ruins of that year, it was just a sapling, Little Red Riding Hood secretly raising Potted Plant beside the sacrificial square.
Unexpected...
Now it is as tall as a canopy.
"Buzz!"
Suddenly.
Last Will accompanied by scarlet shattered behind Wolf Knight Statue.
"Da..."
A vague black figure slowly walked out of the statue, with surging power filling the sky, and White Wolf trailing a blood-red shadow flickered vaguely behind him.
The shadow of Masked Knight stared at Bai Zhou with complex eyes, and with some consideration and relief, slowly told the unfinished words:
"If I had inherited that power."
"It's your words..."