Thanks for the invitation. I am a parasite in Terra.

"What should I call you? Doctor No. 2? Or——"

"Evil spirit."

He turned around and looked at the woman behind him who looked almost identical to the Doctor.

However, the latter still had silver shoulder-length hair, and his face seemed to lack the lively attitude that a doctor should have, becoming more indifferent and taciturn.

"Okay, Ms. Evil Spirit, so, is this what you did? Leave me here."

"They can't perceive it. The 'computing power' provided by the Originium is enough to stretch the time over there by tens of millions of times. The hundreds of years you spent here only disappeared for a few seconds for them."

"Why do this?"

"...Zajian, I will stop you from reviving Theresa."

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She seemed to have had a long dream.

In her dream, she was just a clumsy tailor's apprentice, and her brother was just a young and unskilled swordsman.

In her dream, she seemed to be back to the time when the two were younger and she was on her brother’s back, carrying him through the dense jungle on their way home after going out on an “adventure”.

"Theresa...Theresa..."

In a trance, it seemed as if someone was calling me.

The young Sarkaz swordsman was carrying his sister on his back as he walked through the thorny bushes, calling out his sister's name as he walked.

"....elder brother?"

Theresa opened her eyes and looked at the face of the young swordsman in front of her. The boy's face was so immature, but also a little stubborn.

"I thought you were asleep, Theresa."

Tracy turned around and glanced at his sister who was still a little confused behind him and said.

"We're almost home."

"Home....."

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(Damn it, every time I write about Teacher Da Te, I can't help but think of the video on Station B about Tracy selling hooks. It's really damn scary)

Chapter 27, Afterimage? Or is it real?

"Why would you do that, Doc....No, evil spirit."

Zuo Jian walked forward and looked at the woman in front of him with a puzzled look. She lowered her eyes and refused to look at him.

However, the latter did not seem to have the intention to argue with her on this point. She just stepped forward silently, and then slowly placed her hand about ten centimeters away from her left chest.

Then, as her fingers trembled slightly, a bright red heart suddenly appeared on the former's chest, and correspondingly, a hole also appeared on the left chest of the left person.

"Is this the 'suggestion' you use to suppress your own consciousness and prevent it from causing damage to this space?"

"That's about it. I realized that if I don't suppress my consciousness, I'm afraid that not only will it affect the souls, but it will also affect Ms. Theresa."

"Put it back." The doctor's voice seemed to tremble a little.

At the same time, she also grasped the heart on Zuo Jian's chest and tried to press it into his chest.

But just as she tried to exert force, her slender wrist was stopped by another broad hand.

Zuo Jian held the doctor's wrist, looked at him seriously, and spoke slowly.

"Evil spirit, do you know what you are doing?"

"Help you break free from my little trick. Without the suppressed consciousness, you will have absolute control over this space. Once you do this, you will be able to control this entire area in a moment, and the restraints I created on you through the Originium will also disappear."

"What about Theresa?"

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"I will rest in peace."

"That is to say..."

She looked up, her expression at that moment somewhere between gloomy and self-blaming.

"Zajian, go back. It will be easy for you to return to Laurentina. You just need to... just let Theresa rest in peace..."

"What if I refuse to do this, evil spirit." Zuo Jian grabbed the other's hand, but he took two steps back. After keeping a short distance between them, he waved his hand and watched his heart floating in his chest disappear into thin air.

"About four hundred years..."

The evil spirit looked at Zuo Jian and spoke slowly.

"This world based on Theresa's memories will last for about three hundred years until Theresa, who has returned here, experiences 'death' once again."

"That is to say, during the few minutes of reality passing, your consciousness will exist here for more than three hundred years, but that will still not change anything. Theresa will still die. In this way, you are just torturing yourself..."

"Sorry, I can't do it."

"why?"

"If you stay here for three hundred years, do you think you will still be the same person you were at the beginning? Do you know what will happen to Laurentina? To her, in just a blink of an eye, the people she is familiar with will become extremely unfamiliar, and you yourself may not even be able to remember her!"

"Even if you do this, you may not be able to save Theresa..."

"If I remember correctly, as long as we complete the magic of The Shining, there will be a chance, right?"

"Do you know what you are saying? This means... you have to cross hundreds of years, which is a real hundred years for you..."

"Why? Zuojian...why are you doing this......"

The evil spirit stood in front of him, as if making a final attempt to stop him.

"Why... If I have to say, it's probably because I'm a greedy guy... If I can, I hope I can help or save everyone."

"And, when I saw this wilderness, I suddenly remembered the Terra Guide that the Doctor and I had before. It briefly and vaguely recorded a Sarkaz Demon King."

"The two authors, one named Kal'tsit and the other an unknown lady, both mentioned the unknown demon king in their books...Although the content is vague, it can still be seen that the unknown demon king seems to have incredibly lofty ideals."

“However, when I came to Victoria later and looked up the information about the Demon King, I only found vague information that he died in the civil war in Kazdel.”

"What a shame... Evil Spirit."

Zuo Jian walked forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with the other person. She paused, and finally spoke.

"Ideals are gorgeous poisons and cruel flames. The light and heat they emit turn those who believe in them into pure moths chasing after the fire... In the end, nothing will be left except the embers that have lost their body temperature."

"Zuo Jian, the world I know, whether in the past or in the future, has never left room for these idealists."

"So they deserve to die, evil spirit."

"..."

"I can't do it, evil spirit. I can't watch someone like this die like this."

He said as he stepped past the evil spirit and prepared to walk in the opposite direction from her.

"What about Laurentina!? When you appear in front of her again...when you forget about her..."

"Won't forget it."

The evil spirit turned around, looked at the man's waving back, and spoke slowly.

"How could I forget...my family?"

"Besides, I can't just stay here for so long! At worst... I can find a way to find those souls in advance!"

"No matter what, I believe there is always a way to solve it."

She looked at the other person's back and spoke unconsciously.

"Are you just going to leave like this? I am the one who caused this situation."

The other person's back went away, and it seemed that he could no longer hear his own voice.

The evil spirit stood there, feeling the desolation around him.

Is it like this again.....Why...

Why, whether it's Theresa or Zuo Jian, why? Why are you unwilling to do such an excessive thing...

What about doing something to me?

Obviously...I just want to...

'Doctor, I believe you.'

No...left room...I...

The evil spirit gasped, feeling a suffocating squeeze in his chest, as if something was tightly bound inside.

That's not the case...

'Do they deserve to die?'

It's not like that!!!

She half-knelt on the ground, looking at Zuo Jian's disappearing figure.

Obviously...I didn't think so...

She stretched out her hand and tried to move towards the other person's disappearing back.

The shadow stretched out as if trying to touch some distant shore.

"No...it's not like that..."

It felt like there was something stuck in my throat and every word I uttered seemed like a huge effort.

"Saken... Theresa... I'm not..."

The evil spirit opened her mouth, and she was about to speak it out, to him, to Zuo Jian, her true thoughts...

"I'm so happy, Doctor. Are you here to see me?"

However, the next moment, a cold touch suddenly surrounded her neck, and a somewhat frightening hug came, holding her in his arms from behind, accompanied by a familiar whisper, and her words froze in mid-air.

"I have imagined countless reunions, but I never expected that you would take the initiative to come to me like this, Doctor... I am really happy—"

"Puri..."

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"Hmm? Ms. Evil?" Zuo Jian turned his head. Just now, he seemed to hear the Doctor's voice.

But when he turned around, he saw that the wasteland behind him where the evil spirit had originally stood was now empty.

"Are you leaving?" He shook his head, then turned around and continued walking in the original direction.

First of all, since this space was constructed based on Theresa’s memories, it meant that it would not be very big. If nothing unexpected happened, it would probably only include the entire territory of Kazdel.

So, his goal at this moment is to find the "souls" that he needs to have close contact with in this limited space.

However, even if the scope is only the entire Kazdel, the difficulty of finding the scattered souls is not easy.

"No, be optimistic, Zuo Jian. This place is not that big. It won't take more than three hundred years to search the whole place, right? If you think about it carefully, it's reasonable!"

He slapped his face to stop himself from thinking about negative things.

But... Zuojian looked up and saw the city looming in the distance.

Kazdel?...Why not, let's go there first.

With this thought in mind, Zuo Jian jumped into a jungle under the cliff of the wasteland. If he went through the jungle directly, he could save a lot of time, as well as...

The dust in the forest rose up, and a black-haired man slowly walked out.

The body I constructed in this space also has this kind of outrageous physical strength... although I can't control flesh and blood as easily as the original parasite.

However, this long-lost experience of what a human being should be like is not bad at all.