Light Fortress Chapter 2005 - 56: I’ve Come to Take You Home
Previously on Light Fortress...
"The answer..."
"You... know the answer?"
The Origin Will looked at Gu Shen, its voice growing ever more hoarse.
The Fire Extinguishing Sword was unleashed!
Without the slightest hesitation, Gu Shen drove the longsword all the way through. It was a plain, unadorned strike, yet at the tip of the blade was contained an irresistible supreme law.
Extinguish the fire!
The suggestion of this longsword spread within the body of the Origin Will, all the chaotic Extraordinary Power being drawn out, absorbed.
The entire world began to sway and tremble!
The pitch-black world was flooded by snow-white radiance. With one strike, Gu Shen shredded the Origin Will at the end of the world, piercing through this seemingly perfect "Dream World," blasting a hole in it!
Rumble—rumble—rumble!
The Initial Starship crashed heavily against the Heavenly Curtain at the end of the world.
Turing stared solemnly at the pitch-black void before him, which had been torn open with a jagged slit.
Gu Shen stood in a silver-white "world exit."
He turned his head back, asking earnestly, "Mr. Turing, do you wish to leave?"
This Dream had already been seen through.
"..."
Turing fell silent.
He stood at the bow of the Starship and spoke softly, "Can I... leave?"
Gu Shen was taken aback.
The next moment, Turing stretched out his palm. His hand passed beyond the blackness, reaching toward the silver-white... but within that world shrouded by countless lights, Turing’s hand never appeared.
He hurriedly stepped back, pulling his hand away.
The pitch-black Heavenly Curtain before him was like a "Black Hole"!
Even though Gu Shen had used the Fire Extinguishing Sword to tear a slit in the Heavenly Curtain...
That Curtain could still devour any living being that crossed this line!
"Gu Shen... you want to take the people of this world away?"
The Origin Will, pierced through by the Fire Extinguishing Sword, had not yet died. Feeling the return of his Spirit to the void within his chest, he lifted his head with a mocking smile and said, "You must be crazy. Don’t you know that everything here is ’fake’?"
Gu Shen frowned.
So... Turing cannot leave?
"A world unfolded with a Dream as its cornerstone, no matter how real it seems, is still false."
The Origin Will smiled faintly. "The reason outsiders can leave is because they never belonged here in the first place. But the ’natives’ of this world can never cross the Heavenly Curtain. For them, this line before their eyes is the line of death. Gu Shen... let alone taking away a living man like Allen Turing, you can’t even take a single blade of grass!"
"Shut up!"
Gu Shen barked coldly.
The sword tip twisted!
The Origin Will let out a muffled groan of pain, and the entire world instantly fell silent!
Gu Shen stretched out his palm, and that hand easily crossed the black-and-white boundary, grasping Turing’s hand. This time he tried to pull Turing into the silver-white world where he stood... but something terrifying happened right away. With a gentle tug, Gu Shen pulled Turing half a step forward—yet when his own hand returned to the silver-white world, he found that what his tightly clenched fingers held was not flesh.
It was air.
The two stood less than a meter apart across the boundary, and simply faced each other in silence.
This boundary... was indeed a death line.
Any slightest transgression, and one would immediately dissolve into nothingness.
Turing slowly pulled back that hand. He stood at the torn gap in the Heavenly Curtain, countless phosphorescent lights swirling in the air, looking very much like a door.
But unfortunately...
This door was not opened for him.
"Mr. Turing..."
Gu Shen’s voice turned hoarse. "Let me think of a way."
"No, there’s no need."
Turing smiled and asked seriously, "If I told you that I’d long been prepared for the possibility of never leaving... Xiao Gu, would you believe me?"
Gu Shen opened his mouth, but in the end swallowed his words.
"Do you still remember that question I asked you on the Snowfield of the Initial Starship?"
Turing adjusted his glasses, his brows gradually relaxing, the earlier heaviness slowly dissipating.
His expression was filled with ease.
Of course Gu Shen remembered.
If you live within a circle... would you choose to spend the rest of your life peacefully within it, or would you choose to challenge the limits of that circle and see what the world outside it looks like?
Everyone will have their own answer to that question.
But Turing’s answer was the same as Gu Shen’s.
They were the same kind of people.
They would rather die standing than live on their knees.
"I will choose to leave. Even if the outcome is death, it’s no big deal."
Turing stared straight into Gu Shen’s eyes.
The next second, without the slightest hesitation, he stepped directly into the silver-white world.
Gu Shen’s pupils contracted violently.
"???"
Turing, who had been on the other side of the pitch-black Heavenly Curtain, vanished on the spot...
He disappeared from the Dream World in an instant, and did not appear in this corridor where reality and illusion were intertwined!
He simply "vanished."
The sight shook Gu Shen deeply. On the other side, Alf, who had been struggling with how to keep moving forward with the great ship of the Initial, was also frightened by Turing’s mad act.
"Turing! Are you insane? Insane!"
Seeing Turing take that step forward, Alfred couldn’t help but roar in anger to stop him!
But it couldn’t halt Turing’s stride. By the time its furious shout rang out, Turing had already disappeared into the fissure!
"Mr. Turing... is gone..."
Gu Shen’s face was a little pale.
Kneeling on the ground, accepting the ceremony of a longsword through the heart, the Origin Will bared its teeth in a pained smile and said, "He didn’t ’vanish.’ He ’died.’ That guy has been completely consigned to Silent Annihilation. If you choose to leave this place, that’s the ending you’ll face..."
He made no effort to hide this from Alf aboard the Initial.
The giant ship no longer pressed forward.