Chapter 12: The Past
After the four of them sat down, they were actually divided into two parts, Xue Qiong and Lu Ziqiao were talking seriously, while Xiaoyun and Chen Meijia were teasing the "cat"...
"More than a dozen spatial cycles ago, there weren't even reincarnations who had experienced more than ten worlds at that time..."Lu Ziqiao slowly began to tell the story.
"At that time, the strongest team in the space, 'Supernatural Detectives', collectively entered the world of casual comedy in the love apartment..."
"All of them think that the difficulty of this world will be very low, and with their strength, there will be no problem at all in getting through this world safely. So they decided to slaughter some civilians to get out of the way, and the rest of the time was a vacation..."
"Wait." Xue Qiong said a long-standing question, "They didn't try to get the main character, that is, you..."
"Hasn't anyone told you about this?" Lu Ziqiao frowned, "Obviously, as the number one iron rule in the space, the senior reincarnator assigned to every rookie world will mention it again..."
(Is it a guy like a dragon wolf?) Xue Qiong thought about this, but her face didn't change, "Uh... Our leader seemed to be very impatient..."
"Well, I'll make up for it with you, anyway, it's my duty..."Lu Ziqiao cleared his throat.
"The three iron rules of space, first, the main plot cannot be changed, second, the worldview must not be destroyed, and third, the existence of space cannot be revealed... If you don't want to die, you must remember it. ”
(I seem to have done it all...) Xue Qiong secretly wiped her sweat, but still pretended to be a good student and raised her hand and asked, "Although I don't quite understand what kind of behavior you are referring to... When I was in my first world, the guy we led killed a protagonist with a rocket... Is that okay? ”
“… Did you have any face-to-face communication with the protagonist during this process? Lu Ziqiao asked rhetorically.
"Nope." Xue Qiong thought about what the dragon wolf had done before replying.
"Is there any sign that the rockets he used are beyond the technological level of that world, or are there any supernatural powers attached to them?"
"Nope."
"Although from the mouth of me, who used to be the main character, there is a little... But after some people's verification, this practice is fine... For the protagonist, except for sneaking up with a wide range of attacks from a distance, trying your luck and trying to kill, everything else is never, right, no, and do. ”
"What will happen?" Lu Ziqiao thought for a moment, "I'll continue to tell the story of me and my world." ”
"Sorry, please continue." Xue Qiong said.
"When the 'supernatural detectives' entered the world of love apartments, there was already the first of the three iron rules in the space, so they didn't have any intersection with us. And at that time, there was a main figure in their team, and what they had was the cultivator enhancement, which also became the beginning of all the super-unfolding in our world..."
"What happened after this also became the opportunity for the second iron rule 'Indestructible World View' to be remembered by all reincarnations..."
"The so-called worldview, in our case, is the entire power, technology, and cultural system of the world, as well as the 'setting' of the protagonist as the core of the world."
Xue Qiong interrupted again and asked, "The protagonist is the core of the world?" ”
"That's right." Lu Ziqiao said patiently: "Since there is a 'protagonist' to have a 'plot', the protagonist is the core of the 'plot world', and even the foundation of existence." Without the protagonist, there will be no plot, then the entire plot world will become a tree without roots, water without a source, and it is only a matter of time before it completely collapses. ”
"Thank you, you continue."
Lu Ziqiao's answer confirmed Xue Qiong's guess, and he was still very happy.
Lu Ziqiao didn't get annoyed or anything at Xue Qiong's unpolite interruption, but continued: "When that cultivator used his power to kill civilians on a large scale, and didn't kill all the witnesses..."
"The worldview is ruined, isn't it?" Xue Qiong asked.
"Yes." Lu Ziqiao took a sip of what was just served, it was a bottle of Bingrui, it seems that this was originally a product placement advertisement, but it has really become the protagonist's favorite.
"But every plot world will try to maintain its own 'reasonableness'... So in the setting of our world, Hu Yifei, who is defined as 'the strongest who can never be shaken', after these things, even without any intersection with them... The collapse of the worldview was first reflected in her. ”
"At first, when she was reading martial arts novels, she fell asleep cross-legged... We didn't notice anything unusual, but after a few days, we noticed that something about her began to appear that we couldn't understand... Breath. ”
"After I came here, I checked some information, and I guessed that she had become a great power in the Tribulation Period within a few weeks... But at the same time, when our world was transformed into a system of cultivating true power, the existence of the Heavenly Gods and Buddhas also became real..."
"I'm sorry to interrupt me again." Xue Qiong pinched her brows, but there was still a hint of excitement in her expression, "You mean, the cause and effect relationship in this is that the reincarnation of the cultivator - Hu Yifei becomes the cultivator - the gods and Buddhas in the sky begin to appear?" ”
"That's right." Lu Ziqiao nodded, "Now, in the observation of many reincarnations, such a conclusion has been reached... The order in which the worldview collapses. In the case of our love apartment, the process of the collapse of the worldview should be..."
"First of all, the reincarnation of Xiuzhen has shown strength beyond Hu Yifei, and in order to repair itself, the plot world will forcibly make Hu Yifei the strongest in this world again."
"Then, due to the external forces that invaded this world, the strongest one belongs to the cultivation power system, so the way for Hu Yifei to become the strongest is to directly become a high-level cultivator."
"In the end, since this world already has a system of power for cultivation, there must be more powers... Because in the absence of the intervention of reincarnation, there should be an entire power system, and then there will be individual strong people, which is one of the basic laws of the operation of the world. ”
Xue Qiong muttered to herself: "'Human beings have existed for so many years, there is no reason that only Hu Yifei can cultivate the truth, and there is no reason why he can be stronger than others in a few days for hundreds of years', so those gods and Buddhas in the sky... They also exist in the power system of cultivators, but they have been cultivating since 'a long time ago', and they have cultivated relatively powerful existences... Is that the case? ”
Lu Ziqiao glanced at Xue Qiong appreciatively and motioned for him to continue.
Xue Qiong looked out of the floor-to-ceiling window of the bar and said, "However, this opens a new loop." The time when the gods and Buddhas 'should' start to appear is longer than Hu Yifei, after all, Hu Yifei was just an ordinary young human before. Therefore, no matter how 'talented' Hu Yifei is, the guys in the sky should be at least stronger than her..."
Lu Ziqiao took Xue Qiong's words and said slowly: "However, in the original worldview of the love apartment, there has always been a 'Hu Yifei is the strongest'... Then Hu Yifei will become stronger, stronger, stronger..."
"So for a period of time after that, the reincarnation, the gods and monsters, and Hu Yifei, a single person, were fighting in my world as a tripartite force. Until the end..."
"Hu Yifei's catastrophe came, which became the last straw. Originally, the world I was in was strictly only the apartment in the 'plot'... Such a small world has finally begun to crumble. ”
"I remember that day clearly..."Lu Ziqiao's expression was just a little melancholy, it seemed that time had passed too long...
"Hu Yifei stood in the thunder in the sky, with countless heavenly soldiers and generals in front of him, as well as all the reincarnators of the 'supernatural detective'... In addition to her, the only 'protagonists' who are still alive are me, Meijia, and Teacher Zeng..."
"And herself, unscathed, not even a little damaged clothes, but her hair was a little bit under the pull of the thunder... It's just a fried hair caused by static electricity. ”
"However, she had become so strong, but she suddenly cried and knelt in front of the leader of the 'Psychic Detective' team, who had been defeated but still had a breath... This is the last reincarnation alive. Yifei... Beg him, save her friends..."
"The regimental leader... also agreed, because although he has several times the income of the exit point, but still because of the impossible compulsory task, of course, I don't know the specific task content, I guess it may be slaughtering the Three Realms or something... Anyway, he knew he wouldn't come back alive, so he agreed to flag us in. However, because Hu Yifei was too strong, the number of points marking her had become astronomical, and Teacher Zeng was holding Hu Yifei's hand and refused to leave, so he changed the quota to Xiao Hei downstairs..."
"Before marking the three of us, the regimental commander made a condition, he handed me the token he used to communicate with the team, and then asked me to promise to make this matter as it is, completely and completely, so that all the reincarnators would know... I agreed. ”
"After I finally finished the first world and came to the trading area, the beacon prompted me to open this door, and when I saw the familiar but empty bar, I almost thought it was just a long dream..."
"It's just that the beacon later told me that this was just an afterimage of the world of the love apartment, which was attached to the side of the trading area in the void... Because I have the deepest relationship with this place among all the reincarnators now, the space acquiesces that I have the ownership of this place. Also, because my original world has collapsed, I can't use the 'return to the original world' option when I leave the preparation area, so I can only live here, and there are still some places upstairs that can be used, except for my own place, I rent out all the other rooms. ”
"But even so, I didn't want to use this for anything, so I made this world accessible to anyone, and then I found someone to order a few... The clones who looked exactly like the bartenders were put here, and the bar was reopened so that I could keep some memories. Although..."
"Look there, is there someone?" Lu Ziqiao pointed out the window and said, the sun was shining in from outside, and there were still some scattered but hurried pedestrians on the street.
"Yes." Xue Qiong replied.
"But they're just phantoms... Relative to those of us who sit in the bar. We can see far away, but this 'world' is really only the bar and the two and a half floors upstairs... We couldn't open the door to the bar, they could never get in, the only way to get in and out of the bar was the back door that led to the trading area..."
"It's all a reminder that I'm never going back."
After Lu Ziqiao finished talking about these things, he silently took a sip of wine.
"Woo woo..."
Following the crying, Xue Qiong and Lu Ziqiao found that Chen Meijia and Xiaoyun, who were originally teasing the "cat", also sat back in their seats at this time, but there were already tears on their faces...
"Okay, okay, Mika, it's been a long time coming, and I've told people many times, why do you have to..."
"Xiaoyun, you should have heard Chen Meijia say it just now! I didn't see you either?! ”
Both men seem to be a little scrambling, but one is comforting, the other is complaining...