tokyo creator

Chapter 359 Strange Soul ([-])

"——Ah, that's right. So do I really continue to call you 'Hui Yuanchu'?" Arthur asked again.

"Keep calling me Huiyuan." Haiyuan fell back comfortably, "Anyway, this body..."

He paused, and for some unknown reason, he changed his words to something that looked similar: "No, I should say this identity - this identity himself..."

"Anyway, 'Hui Yuanchu' himself can't come to protest with me, and almost none of his family and friends are alive. So, let me continue to use this identity."

"Besides, it's been so long. If you want to change your name... it will take a long time for you and me to get used to it."

...Hui Ren, who was immersed in his own emotions, was suddenly stunned when he heard this, and then woke up in a cold sweat.

--Wait a moment!How come the focus is wrong without even realizing it?
Didn't Hui Yuanchu suddenly bring up the shocking topic of "time travel" at the beginning of the topic?
But then Hui Yuanchu talked a lot and unknowingly shifted the focus to his own experience, which resonated with Hui Ren without even knowing it... In turn, Hui Ren put aside the matter of "time travel". It's in the back of my head!
Now he suddenly woke up and realized: Aren't the things Hui Yuan said at the beginning completely irrelevant to "time travel"?Isn't this completely impossible to prove that it happened in the so-called "different world"?

"I come from a different world, although the two worlds are exactly the same."

"Oh, well, it turns out there really is a different world, and this world is exactly the same."

"Yes, but since they are exactly the same, I can't give you unique evidence. Just believe it."

"That's true. If it's exactly the same, there's nothing you can do about it. Since there's nothing you can do about it, I'll just believe you."

——Why do you always feel that you were fooled by Hui Yuanchu so quietly?
Damn empathy!
"Hey, Haiyuan! Wait a minute! I'm not here to hear your story." Hui Ren said angrily, "The point is - this doesn't prove that you really 'travelled' at all, right?"

At this time, Arthur suddenly said loudly: "That's right, this is the end of the emotional topic."

Hui Ren turned around and saw that Arthur was no longer smiling.He was staring at Hui Yuanchu with an unprecedented seriousness and said: "Now, I need to confirm the most important issue."

"Ok?"

"—When did your arrival begin?" Arthur asked, staring at Hui Yuanchu.

"It started from the time of the messenger disaster." Hui Yuanchu replied cheerfully, "It was from the messenger disaster that I came to this body."

Arthur looked visibly relieved.

"That is to say, at least I only come into contact with you..." He murmured to himself, "Fortunately...it wasn't later..."

He thought for a while and shook his head again, as if he was afraid.

"Obviously he was a friend who got along day and night, but in fact he was replaced without knowing it one day..." He admitted, "It's still quite scary."

Hui Ren was stunned for a moment before he understood Arthur's train of thought.

"Why do you look like you just believe this nonsense!"

Arthur, on the other hand, glanced at him in surprise: "Why don't you believe it? It's just time travel. You don't know about it, right? There are novels and comics... It's impossible that Yusheng-kun hasn't been exposed to them, right?"

"You also said they were 'comics' and 'novels'!!"

"Yusheng-kun..." Arthur looked at him helplessly, and then pointed in a direction, "You should be a little conscious...Isn't the place you are in now a real alien world?"

Yu Shenghui instinctively turned her head and glanced at the huge bloody moon and the foreign objects of flesh and blood shaking in the ditches of the plain...

His mind suddenly got stuck: "..."

Arthur sighed, rested his upper body on the edge of the platform, looked at the scenery in the distance, and said words like romantic poems.

"——What is the world?

“The world is so vast to humans, but so insignificant to the divine body.

"In essence, the framework called 'world' or 'shifting' is nothing but the footprints Sophia made during her long journey in the void that originally had nothing.

"No one knows how long Sophia has been trudging alone in the void, and no one knows how many 'footprints' she has made... But her footprints are just 'empty shells' at this time. Apart from flowing in naturally There is nothing but the water of the Sea of ​​Chaos in the depression of the footprints.

"Until she awakened Aldabado.

"Attabadu created all kinds of creations in front of his throne and placed them in the worlds. Then, he used the reflection of the starry sky on the puddles to create human beings... At this point, in the puddles formed by the footprints There are aquatic plants and swimming fish.

“This is the origin of the world we live in.

"In this case, of course another world exists. Because from the origin, the world we live in is so insignificant, just one of Sophia's footprints.

"In this case, it wouldn't be surprising if there are the same creations and the same humans as us in another world. Because we are all created by the same creator and made in the same way.

"There are countless footprints. Therefore, some of them have human creations like the world we live in, and some have creations like this alien world in front of us but cannot live human beings. There are still more footprints that are always filled with only chaos. The nothingness of the sea... these are all very reasonable."

At this point, Arthur spread his hands and said in a matter-of-fact manner: "Isn't this too secret knowledge? Aren't these all extended from the basic teachings of the Holy Spirit Church?"

Hui Ren choked and didn't know how to retort.No one can just study religious doctrines...

So, he instinctively looked to Jack for help.

Because unlike him, Jack has always been a devout believer.In addition to flesh-and-blood prayer rituals, studying scriptures normally is also something he often does.This hobby has not changed whether it was the earliest time when I worshiped Zao Gongen as Shugendo, or later when I worshiped the Lord of flesh and blood as a ruler.

Jack nodded to him and said, "Yes, that's it. The so-called three thousand worlds and 33 days are also similar. It is said that the place where the sun and the moon shine is called one world. In this way, there are thousands of suns and moons in the thousands of worlds. Thousand Sumilu Mountain King, Thousand South Fanbu Continent, Thousand East Bitihe Continent, Thousand West Qudani Continent, Thousand North Kulu Continent, Thousand Four Great Kings and All Heavens, Thousand 33 Heavens, Thousand Nights Skyscrapers, Thousand Sees and History Heaven, the Heaven of Thousand Bliss Transformations, the Heaven of Thousand Other Transformations, and the Heaven of Thousand Brahma Worlds, are collectively called the First Small Thousand World. The restoration of the Thousand Small Thousand Worlds is called the Second Middle Thousand World. The restoration of the Thousand Middle Thousand Worlds is called the Third Great Thousand World. world."

"Uh--" In fact, compared to the teachings of the Holy Spirit Church, Hui Ren has never understood Jack's verses.

Arthur casually dropped a bigger bomb: "If you don't understand these theories, then you can just believe my words - in fact, there are indeed foreigners who have come to our world. Moreover, Haiyuan is not the first."

Then he shut up, as if he didn't intend to go into detail about the so-called "outsiders."

But even so, Hui Ren was instantly shocked.

Arthur himself admitted that time travel was real, and there were more than one? ?

...The same sentence was spoken by Arthur and You Huiyuanchu, but it was not the same concept at all.Because whether it is Arthur's own credibility or the fact that he represents the group's position in many cases... put together, Arthur's persuasiveness is naturally higher than that of Hui Yuanchu.

"Who?" Hui Yuanchu was also very surprised and blurted out, "Besides me, are there other time travelers?"

Arthur glanced at Jack and Hui Ren, seeming hesitant whether he should say anything.

"Okay... there is no need to hide it now." But Arthur quickly made a decision, turned to look at Hui Yuanchu, and said to him, "——You have dealt with it. 'Warrior Captain', and ‘Artisans’. These two apostles were also ‘strangers’ to Babylon.”

——'Warrior Captain', 'Craftsman', 'Apostle', these terms that Arthur mentioned have never been heard of by Hui Ren.So he wasn't too impressed.

But Hui Yuanchu showed a surprised expression, and couldn't help blurting out: "Then they are also from the earth?"

Arthur shook his head and said: "No. The apostles are not your 'fellow countrymen'. The world the apostles came from is called 'Tiber'."

Hui Yuan didn't look particularly disappointed at first, he just said "hmm" and seemed to accept it indifferently.

On the contrary, Arthur... for some reason crossed his shoulders and knitted his brows, falling into some kind of doubt.

"So, it's strange." He said to himself after pondering for a moment.

"Although different worlds exist, it does not mean that it is normal and easy to reach other worlds." Arthur touched his chin and continued to think while talking to himself, "But under normal circumstances, people It’s impossible to travel between worlds.”

"Because the footprints were created by the divine body, human beings cannot reach that dimension, so normal human beings cannot go to other worlds. In other words, it is like fish cannot leave the water and jump into other footprint-shaped depressions."

Hui Ren understood and asked: "But didn't you say that Haiyuan is a stranger? And those people called 'apostles' you just mentioned——"

"Well, that's the case..." Arthur replied, "On the apostle's side, it's actually a special situation: they took a 'shortcut'.

"That's a shortcut between worlds... because some footprints already overlap.

"During Sophia's long journey, perhaps there happened to be two footprints that were connected. Or maybe Sophia would occasionally step into the same place, so the two footprints that came before and after overlapped.

"Then, the two worlds represented by these two connected or overlapping footprints... are certainly more likely to be connected than other worlds." Babylon and Tiber are a pair of 'shortcuts' that correspond to each other.

"So, Tiber's apostles were able to come to Babylon...but for those other worlds, we only theoretically proved their existence, but we couldn't reach them at all..."

Having said this, Arthur seemed to have cleared up his thoughts, straightened his posture and looked at Hui Yuanchu, and his attitude became serious: "But - my friend. According to what you just told me, the earth is not Tiber at all."

"It's not a simple question of name, but based on your description, I have confirmed that the earth and Tiber are not the same at all..." Arthur thought for a while and found a suitable word, "——'Social form '."

"This is no longer the difference between 'our city' and 'neighboring cities'." He borrowed Hui Yuanchu's words, "but... 'Tokyo in 2020' and 'Rome in 1088'."

"Rome in 1088..." Hui Yuanchu tilted his head, as if he was searching his knowledge base, "Is Tiber the world that feels like that..."

Arthur drew his attention back and emphasized: "The key is, my friend, you are not from Tiber, but another 'new world'..."

"Since there is no shortcut between the Earth and Babylon, how did Huiyuan cross the distant void and the moving wall that separates the heaven and the earth to reach Babylon?

"Furthermore, Haiyuan is still soul-pierced, and he didn't even bring his body with him... This is completely different from the apostles of Tiber.

"I'm wondering if this can also be regarded as another evidence that 'this time of travel did not rely on shortcuts'? ​​It was because the destination was too far away that I had to abandon the body."

"But if Huiyuan's journey through time is not based on a shortcut... it can only rely on another kind of power." Then Arthur looked at Huiyuanchu, "——The Lord of Flesh and Blood."

Hearing the appearance of this title, the pious Jack immediately stood upside down with a solemn expression, and quickly did three push-ups.

Arthur waited quietly for a moment, and even looked around first, as if to confirm whether the environment was safe.

Then he continued: "The world is just footprints, and people are just fish in the pond."

"Only the gods of the Kingdom of Light and the kings of powers exist in the dimension outside the footprints, overlooking all the footprints.

"The gods of the Kingdom of Light will not leave the Kingdom of Light. Let alone come into contact with the dirty water of chaos.

“If the Queen of Powers wishes, she can always put one or two tentacles into the water and caress one or two small fish she likes.

"But even they can't pick up the small fish from the footprints in one pond and send them to another pond...

"Because, the small fish is actually a shadow that can only exist in the water. The basis for its creation is the reflection of light on the water surface of the puddle where it is. So when it leaves the water, it It must be when the phantom dissipates.

"In other words, the fact that he completely completed the 'travel' on his own without relying on shortcuts... seems to mean that he is the king of power."

Then Arthur fell silent.

He seemed to hesitate for a long time, and finally said: "So, Huiyuan, who are you? Your relationship with Yadabaduo..."

——The moment the name was spat out, Hui Ren felt that the whole flesh and blood earth suddenly shook violently——like an earthquake.

Jack's reaction was the fastest. He "whooshed" and grew into a flesh-and-blood giant several meters tall. One on each side, he held Hui Ren and Arthur under his armpits, then stood firm on a horse's step, then clasped his hands together and started shouting loudly. Recite the Buddhist Sutra.

But amid the chanting, "Hui Yuanchu" in front of him was still sitting there peacefully, seemingly in a daze.

Laixiang, who was sitting in his arms, was quickly melting into flowing flesh and blood.

But while the melting flesh and blood was flowing, there were still bursts of girlish laughter like silver bells.

Hui Yuanchu stood on the spot and replied hesitantly: "Arthur, didn't I tell you what the earth looks like? That place... from the beginning, there was no such thing as the Lord of Flesh and Blood, which sounds terrible?"

"I just remember... I'm really just an ordinary person."

"But -" Hui Yuanchu fell silent.

After a while, the ground shook again.

Jack raised his leg and slammed his foot down, pinning himself to the platform of flesh.

Arthur also grabbed his thigh.

But amid the violent shaking, only Hui Yuanchu remained firmly attached to the ground, and could even lift one leg up, thinking.

After three violent shakes, he raised his hand, made a trumpet shape next to his ear, and then whispered thoughtfully: "But, I can hear him talking to me -"

The storm is coming.

Jack's chanting could no longer be heard, nor could Hui Yuanchu's voice.

The only echoes were the sound of the storm, which was reminiscent of a lion's roar, and the laughter of a girl strangely mixed in with it.

Hui Ren stared at Hui Yuanchu and recognized what he said from the shape of his mouth: "He said - 'I am you'."

The earth shook with unprecedented violence.

Hui Ren couldn't help but look up at Jack, only to see Jack chanting sutras while also looking at Arthur.

But Arthur's expression was extremely struggling and tangled.

Finally, he seemed to grit his teeth and make up his mind.

In the furious wind, he raised his voice and yelled: "Haiyuan - you are not Yadabaduo! Since you can hear him talking to you... doesn't that prove that you are not him?"

Hui Yuan initially raised his head, showing a human "stunned" expression.

Then, Hui Ren saw his mouth shape and said, "...Ah, yes, indeed, that should be the case."

Arthur simply continued shouting.

"—Even if it is Aldabado, he should come to realize my only wish! I only hope that my friend Huiyuan is not Aldabado, I only hope that he can come back to me!" He roared as if he was giving up on himself , "If it's Adabaduo, you must be able to see it, right? You must be able to see that this is indeed my sincere wish, right? Then come and realize it!"

Hui Yuan's expression continued to be as "confused" as a person's.

But the shaking of the earth and the roar of the storm... eventually subsided.

At some point, Laixiang's laughter also disappeared.The river of blood flowing on the ground did not take human form again... It was as if she had completely left this place.

Hui Yuan showed a sleepy expression at first, yawned and lay down on the spot, then lay on his side with his head on his arms, and actually fell asleep.

Jack lowered Hui and Arthur back to the ground and returned to their normal bodies.

Then, he solemnly knelt down in front of the sleeping Hui Yuanchu and began to chant sutras with his eyes closed - just like a monk facing a statue of Buddha's Nirvana in a temple.

Hui Ren and Arthur were still tense, looking at each other in shock.

"Haha... you're so clever." Suddenly the girl behind her laughed with no concealment of disgust.

Arthur bounced up with Keito and turned to look behind him.

Zhe Lukui stood there with her arms folded and her eyes slightly lowered. She didn't know if she was just looking at them or at Hui Yuanchu behind them.

But what she said next was really criticizing Arthur.

"If I don't help him figure out the answer I want as soon as possible, I'm just trying to be clever here..."

"I would like to remind you that Arthur...has reached his limit. Next time, your move will definitely not be able to prevent Adabaduo from waking up."

"So..." For a moment, she was still smiling, and her voice dropped to freezing point, "Just think it's for Xiao Hui, okay? Please go away and stay away from him."

Then, without waiting for an answer, Orukui just turned around and left.

(End of this chapter)