Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 576 Persuasion

Art, who had been sleeping, stood up again and walked to Lin Yu with a cane.

This hunchbacked old man stood between the Life Giant and Lin Yu, preventing the huge Life Giant from moving forward an inch.

Alan was stunned for a moment before he said, "Brother, are you...are you okay?"

Lin Yu also looked at Art, coughed twice and said, "Ahem, sorry, Mr. Art, I broke my promise... and disturbed your sleep."

"But I have no other choice, you see..."

Art Mercury smiled and said, "I understand. It's Allan who's causing you trouble. His impulsive temper hasn't changed much in the past seventy years."

Then, Art looked at Allan.

The raging rage that could have engulfed the entire auditorium of the Buyetian family had been silently extinguished. The powerful head of the Mercury family, Alan Mercury, looked at his brother and spoke somewhat at a loss.

"Brother, I..."

"Alan, is 'Life Shaping' very useful? So much vitality is being wasted like this," Art said seriously, pointing at the giant. "Every second this thing moves consumes a huge amount of vitality... Wouldn't it be better to use this for research, healing, or other meaningful things?"

Allan lowered his head and whispered, "Alter, I just want to save you."

"Why save me? I should have died fifty years ago. I should be content with living an extra fifty years."

Art said directly, Allan was stunned and looked at Lin Yu.

"You've actually told this to my brother?!"

Before Lin Yu could answer, Art spoke loudly: "Don't I have the right to know about this?"

Lin Yu continued slowly, "Obviously, Sir Alan doesn't think you have the right to know. I just asked him if he had asked for your opinion, but he was so angry that he was ready to kill me."

Alan said angrily, "Stop spreading rumors and trying to sow discord between me and my brother. That's not what you said just now..."

Old Man Art interrupted Allan again: "But you really didn't ask for my opinion - Allan, is this what my father and I taught you?"

"As the head of the Mercury family, shouldn't you be open to all opinions and listen to all sides before making a decision?"

"Of course, it may be necessary to be assertive occasionally, but others have already expressed their opinions. Don't you even intend to listen?"

"Mr. Freud is very pertinent. For more than fifty years, you have never told me this. You have always made me feel that I am the chosen one of life and kept me away from the Mercury family..."

"Fifty years—we can barely even count the number of times we've met."

"Have you ever asked me how I've been doing in the past fifty years?"

Art Mercury said this, and Allan was stunned.

"But I'm just afraid of you..."

But at this point, Alan suddenly stopped talking.

The Life Giant dissipated in the auditorium, and Alan murmured, "Did I really do something wrong?"

"Have you been living in pain for all these years?"

Art was speechless.

Instead, Lin Yu spoke up: "No, you didn't do anything wrong. From what I've observed, Mr. Art should have lived a happy and happy life in the past fifty years."

Judging from his previous interactions with Saint Lankui and Buyetian Huoxing, Art Mercury should be very satisfied with his life of more than fifty years.

Although he was "living" in someone else's home, Art Mercury probably had no desire for power.

If he had lived a hard life, been frustrated and depressed for the past fifty years, Art Mercury would definitely not look like the kind-hearted elder he is now.

If that were the case, he probably wouldn't be so calm about his impending death.

As Lin Yu spoke, Art Mercury looked at him with a wry smile: "If you say that, how can Alan still agree to you?"

"I just think I shouldn't lie to him, and I can't lie to him," Lin Yu shrugged. "If you want him to respect your opinion, you should tell him what you think honestly - tell him that you have been very happy and satisfied over the years..."

Art nodded and understood what Lin Yu meant.

He looked at Alan Quicksilver.

"Yes, Alan. I've lived a very satisfying life over the past fifty years. The Mercury family treated me very well, and the five children of Nevernight's Yonglian and Greedo often came to talk to me... Although they all went on to have their own things to do later, and only Huoxing would still come to see me from time to time, but since almost no one in Nevernight City knew me, I could often go wander around the inner city... drink some tea, try a new restaurant, and bask in the afternoon sun. I'm afraid most people in this city haven't experienced the happiness I have—those below them are busy and busy, those above them are obsessed with power struggles, but I, an old man who should be dying, live a very comfortable life day by day."

"Honestly, I should thank you, Alan... No matter what, thank you. Thank you for spending so much energy and effort to allow me to live in this world for another fifty years - even if I have lived in pain during these fifty years, I should thank you, because living is living - living is better than dying."

Alan pursed his lips as he listened to Art's words.

"Brother..."

"But," Art interrupted Alan and changed the subject, "Even though I've been happy these past fifty years, I wasn't meant to be alive... Thank you, Alan, my brother, thank you for letting me live for fifty years."

"But I should have died long ago. Let me go quietly. This is my choice and my insistence."

Art said, looking at Allan quietly.

Alan looked at his brother, and in a trance he seemed to have returned to fifty years ago.

He thought of many things, childhood, adulthood, recent...

Alan thought back to the night he'd just learned of Art's sudden illness, the joy he'd felt after secretly performing the ritual in the Great Wilderness, and the hardships he'd endured over the past three years cultivating and nurturing those "alchemical creatures" in the Great Wilderness to fulfill the divine contract. He sighed deeply...

"Brother, it was really not easy for me to rescue you."

"It's just... my father and mother passed away one after another, and I really didn't want to lose you at that time."

Art stepped forward and patted Allan on the shoulder: "Thank you for your hard work, brother..."

"But you'll have to walk the rest of the way alone. I've seen it all. You've done a great job over the past fifty years. You have a clear conscience towards me, the Mercury Family, and the City That Never Sleeps."

"Besides, we will always be reunited again."

Allan looked at Art and suddenly burst out laughing. "Art, are you trying to tell me some nonsense about the afterlife? Even if it's fake, you were once the Chosen One of Life."

Art laughed. "I have to give you some hope, and also give myself hope... because I've missed my father and mother for a long time."

The two brothers laughed for a long time, and finally, Alan's smile gradually stopped and he spoke reluctantly.

"Then...goodbye, brother."

"Well, bye, brother."