At five in the morning, Yeqiao City was still immersed in the translucent morning mist.
Su Yue stood on the rooftop of the hospital, her body stiff as a sculpture, her face pale.
Since she awakened the "third eye" last night, her vision has completely changed.
She can see the invisible blood lines swimming in the sky, and the gray shadows crawling on the ground - those are not human beings, but the residual images of thoughts, the thoughts left by countless dead people in the city.
Even at some intersections, she saw "herself" standing.
She looked down at her right hand - a circle of faint silver moon lines appeared in the palm of her hand, which was the trace of the "blood mark" that had not completely faded.
And the "eye" on her forehead, now closed, still occasionally "beats", as if it has an independent life.
"You can't continue like this." Ethan's voice was weak, but still clear.
He sat in a wheelchair in the ward, looking extremely haggard, but his eyes were still firmly fixed on Su Yue.
"You are on the verge of a mental breakdown."
"I know." Su Yue whispered.
Her voice was lower and emptier than before, as if her emotions were drained.
"You should seal the third eye, even if the price is another painful closure."
"But I can't do it." Su Yue slowly turned around and looked out the window, "I closed my eyes... but it's still looking at me."
She got down from the windowsill, returned to the ward, and slowly squatted in front of Ethan.
"Ethan."
"Hmm?"
"Let me ask you a question." Her voice was a little light.
"Are you afraid of God?"
Ethan was silent for two seconds, then nodded: "Yes."
"Why?"
"Because the way they look at us is not as people, but as tools. Or as livestock."
Su Yue nodded gently.
"Me too."
"But I'm not afraid of them."
"It's me who is becoming them."
Fallen Council·Main Control Layer.
A closed meeting is in progress.
On the projection screen, Su Yue's blood print data is running at ten times the speed, and various mental frequencies, nerve thresholds and energy fluctuations are abnormal and complex, even jumping into the "abnormal entity interference" indicator several times.
"Her 'third eye' is connected to the inhuman realm." A silver-haired elder said in a deep voice.
"She saw something she shouldn't have seen."
"This means...'Cold Moon Judge' has taken off the cover from her." Another voice said.
There was silence in the meeting room.
This means that the True God has taken a direct interest in Su Yue.
"If we let her develop...she will no longer be under our control."
"Should we--"
"No." The "Black-clad Chief Speaker" on the highest seat interrupted, "She is still the living key that is closest to our 'God System Resonance Plan'."
"What we should do is not to destroy, but to guide."
At the same time, Su Yue entered a mysterious and dilapidated library.
That was where the "Moon Seal" spontaneously led her to-an underground building abandoned by the parliament.
She found a hidden passage behind a wall, leading to the "Sacrificial Chamber" on the first underground floor.
There, she met the "Ownerless Eye".
It was an ancient mirror.
A woman wearing a crown appeared in the mirror, her face was blurred, but her temperament was like the judgment of heaven.
"Who are you?"
Su Yue asked.
But the woman asked her back:
"Have you seen them? The humans crawling in your eyes, the babies crying in your dreams, the shadows whispering in your mind..."
"You said you were afraid of becoming a god? You are a fragment of the 'Forgotten Moon'."
Su Yue was shocked.
"Do you know why you keep dreaming of the upside-down blood moon?"
"Because that is the sky where you truly belong."
"You are not human."
"You are - the echo of the old gods on the ground."
Countless broken pictures appeared in the mirror:
She once stood on the top of the sea of blood, with the stars as her eyes, judging millions of souls;
She once brought the Moon of Judgment to the top of the Seven Realms and confronted the Cold Moon Judge;
And she had died again and again, and was sealed again and again -
Every time she reincarnated, she was resurrected by the Council with a different identity, and then used again and destroyed again.
In this life, she finally began to awaken.
"Who are you?" Su Yue asked again with trembling.
The woman in the mirror smiled, her tone was soft but penetrating:
"I am your unfinished self."
"I am your real name."
"I am the Seventh Moon Sealer."
Suddenly, the mirror exploded!
Su Yue fell to the ground in great pain, blood flowed from her ears, and she covered her head in pain.
The blood seal in her body was jumping wildly, as if her consciousness was being pulled by two "existences".
One was her current human identity, and the other was the "divine memory" of the distant past.
She screamed:
"No——! I don't want to be you! I don't want to be their tool! I am just myself——!"
Just when she was about to lose control, a hand pulled her out of the illusion.
It was Ethan.
He didn't know what she had been through, but he held her hand tightly at her most chaotic moment.
"Come back."
"You are Su Yue."
"Not a god. Not a puppet."
"You are——a human."
Su Yue slowly regained consciousness.
The third eye closed, and the moon seal stabilized.
She collapsed in Ethan's arms, murmuring:
"I saw... the 'truth'."
"What?"
"What they fear is not God."
"But God himself, who has long been broken into a human."