Ironclad Group Chat: Red and Black Lists Engraved with Heroic Epics

Xi Lian and Tao Zi took another step, returning to the ignorant world before reincarnation.

This time, what appeared before them was young Bai E. A simple and adorable boy, who had nothing to do with bitterness and hatred.

However, the cycle of reincarnation is about to begin, and the two poles will soon reverse.

"My hero has been by my side since I was a child," Peach said with concern. "Bai'e has always been very strong. But, if that sliver of hope didn't linger in his mind, would the fate and cycle that bind him break him?"

Without hesitation, Xi Lian said, "As long as we can place a glimmer of hope in his heart..."

"He will definitely be able to persevere."

"That's right." Peach nodded: "With just a tiny spark, he can guard a sliver of light and become a blazing sun."

Xi Lian made her move to complete the cause and effect once again. It was a pity that she was too weak to make the "hero in her heart" lifelike, but fortunately the core was complete.

"I no longer have the strength... to mold the hero in my heart into the shape of a star."

She sowed the seeds of cause and effect, proclaiming the "gray dawn."

"Carry this wish forward...become the hero who initiates the [Salvation]..."

"As the oracle foretold: 'You will bear the sun on your shoulders until the grey dawn appears,' continue on...bear this world on your shoulders...until the grey hero...the nameless savior...brings the dawn..."

[Star: My friend's voice is so soft...]

It's so light it's heartbreaking.

[Bai Er: But she still insisted on finishing it all. Damn it, why can't I share this burden at this crucial moment!]

[Saifei: So, the "hero in the heart" that supports the savior boy isn't his imaginary friend. It's no coincidence that he's the only one among the Golden Blood with the closest relationship with Xing. Furthermore, perhaps all the oracles about us aren't just a game played by the gods, but rather the straightforward narrative of historians?!]

[Aglaia: The truth is clear. In this world, the only ones who help mortals are mortals themselves.]

"♪!"

After the penultimate cause and effect was completed, a melodious soft sound drifted through the corridors of memory.

Peach congratulated her: "From this point on... your gaze has pierced through Onphalus, from beginning to end."

"Phew~~" Xi Lian let out a long breath.

Finally, I can take a short nap soon.

They returned to the small village, where the sun set and the air was filled with the scent of wheat.

That warm and welcoming hometown—Aili Mixie.

At the very beginning, the pink-clad girl sowed the final ripples of cause and effect, recounting the "Prophecy of Chasing Fire."

"So...it's all over now...?"

Xi Lian's voice grew increasingly weary: "Consciousness, and memories... seem to be fading away. My body... is trembling involuntarily."

[Star: Partner... I will find you again! I'll find you even if the universe is destroyed, I refuse to believe I'll remain helpless forever!]

[Xi Lian: Well then, I'll wait patiently for good news in the future or the past, waiting for you to come and pick me up♪]

As all the work was about to be finished, Peach smiled faintly and said, "If you feel cold, let's find a warm place and rest together?"

Xi Lian forced a smile that came from the bottom of her heart, yet was extremely strained: "I... know where to go♪"

"405; 504; 093..."

Xi Lian mumbled in a daze as she searched for the earthen slope covered with golden fallen leaves, and the tree with a large, round canopy—their favorite secret hideout.

"Tirisibius; Ceryldra; March 7th..." Two pink-clad girls lay in the golden autumn grass, and the brand-new book I wrote floated in mid-air, spread out before them.

The two little heads huddled together, and Xi Lian followed her voice, slowly reciting: "Hailekula; Kaeslana..."

"Xi Lian; Xing..."

They recalled those familiar names, and just a few words were enough to warm their bodies with the tender memories of fighting side by side.

A strong sense of drowsiness overwhelmed Xi Lian, and with each blink, her vision blurred and shrank.

Now, she probably really can't do anything anymore, right?

Fortunately, she had already done everything before that.

All that she wants to protect will be safe and sound.

"Look... everything... is as we... have written."

His vision closed, and this time he didn't open it again; the light screen remained completely black.

The unfinished murmurs of Xi Lian still seem to linger in everyone's ears: Thus, the flowers wither at the end of their journey, and take root at the beginning. A conclusion of love for yesterday.

People witnessed the end of love and embarked on a journey to chase the fire. And those who chased the fire ensured that flowers would be born tomorrow.

Cause and effect close in this line... or, to use a more romantic term, stop writing.

The chat group fell silent. The heroine who had saved the universe alongside the train crew had finally returned to her destiny.

But should we be happy?

No one was happy.

[Star: Partner, partner?]

Xing tentatively muttered a couple of times, and after not hearing any sound again, she realized, or rather, had to realize from her escape... that it was over.

Just as Xi Lian said, I'm putting down my pen!

"Waaaaah!!!" Tears welled up uncontrollably again.

"Is this the end?" Walter asked, rubbing his chin and frowning slightly.

Something is missing, something is missing.

……

"Strange." Yao Guang looked at the light screen, still feeling a void in his heart.

Could it be that the relationship between Xi Lian and Wang Xi De Lian Yi is not what she suspects? After all, only that would allow the cause and effect of Onpharos to achieve a true self-circulation, like the Möbius strip on its surface, rather than becoming a line segment with a beginning and an end.

But there's absolutely no explanation?

Could I have been wrong? That shouldn't be the case...

She frowned, pondering whether there were other possibilities.

But before she could ponder for long, the light screen suddenly lit up again.

"Um?"

A line of text catches the eye: Within the cone of light lies destiny. You ask destiny, what is divinity? She says—

"Look how beautiful you are!"

Fu Li's icy divine body leaped onto the light screen.

The people in the Milky Way quickly looked up.

This time, although the Star God's face was still blurry, the voice was undoubtedly the familiar Xi Lian!

There are still variables?!

[Star: Is there still hope?]

[Yao Guang: Just as I expected!]

"I am... that gaze looking back at the world."

"How lucky. In this cycle of cause and effect..."

The icy divine body gradually melted away, revealing Xi Lian's smile from the unyielding ice, where she held up a colorful Möbius strip amidst the starry sky.

"People have never relied on the gaze of the gods."

"Those miracles that are repeatedly written down...it has always been us♪"

A perfect rebirth has come to an end.

"...?" Under the canopy of orange-red leaves, little Xi Lian opened her eyes. She raised her hand to shield her eyes from the bright sunlight, which was both dazzling and warm.

She asked, slightly puzzled, "Am I... still awake?"

"Peach...where are you?" she asked timidly, a hint of panic and helplessness in her voice. "Are you...still there?"

[Star: This is... a partner?!]

Is she alright?