Chapter 49: The Inside Story and Black History
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Contrary to what you might expect, this bar, built by the organization for its members, seems surprisingly quiet.
The elegant dΓ©cor, the dim lighting, the soft music, and the few guests who only nodded to the two celebrities even when they saw them enter.
This kind of atmosphere makes Su Mu feel a little more like a cafΓ© than the place on the first floor.
"The organization has three bars, one general purpose and one for women, and this is a place for people to take a break." Noticing Su Mu's doubts, the girl explained with a smile.
With that, she walked into the bar, skillfully fiddled, and asked, "What to drink?" β
"Anything goes." Su Mu looked at the girl funny: "It looks very skilled, could it be that you, a junior high school student, are you a regular customer?" β
"Eh, hey, hey~ Even if I want to rest, there will be a time when I want to rest......"
"I thought your way of resting was to learn piano and dance." Su Mu laughed.
The girl shook her head: "Those are not ways to rest, they are just to make up for regrets." β
"......" Su Mu was stunned and asked thoughtfully, "Because of your eyes?" β
"yes, you can't guess what I craved the most in the past, did you?" The girl said with a smile.
"Is it effort?"
"You ......" the girl looked stunned.
Su Mu smiled lightly: "This is easy to understand, right?" It's like playing a game, people who don't want to work hard will use it as a cheat in the first place, so that although it is easy to beat the level, there is no sense of accomplishment. Maybe once or twice you can continue to play because the plot is attractive, but one day you will get bored. β
The girl put a glass of wine in front of him, whose name Su Mu didn't know, and said with a smile: "As you said, it's quite greasy, and I even committed suicide twice for it." β
"Suicide?" Su Mu raised his head in surprise, he really couldn't imagine that the person in front of him still had this kind of black history, and he said it so calmly.
"Yes, of course, in addition to despair, there are also some unscrupulous thoughts." The girl smiled and said, "My lifespan in each life is only sixty years, and when the time comes, I will die, no matter what level I reach, I can't change it." β
"......" Su Mu's hand holding the wine glass couldn't help but shake, and looked at the girl a little sluggishly.
"And then after a period of time, sometimes a year or two, sometimes seven or eight years, the longest of which is a few decades, I will be reborn again. So life is the cheapest thing for me, at least at that time......"
The girl silently took a sip of her glass.
"This curse-like ability was not really mastered by me until the last life, so from that time on, learning has been a part of my life, and it still is."
The experience of the "......" girl did make Su Mu sigh, but in it he noticed a problem that was difficult to ignore.
The overlap of the world occurred in 2012, and now it will be 19 years until 2031, but Ji Hongsha is only thirteen years old this year.
So, how did this world without false gods survive in that blank time?
"Before you, there were false gods in this world?"
"Oops~ Xiao Mumu seems to have noticed tonight's theme~" The girl said with a smile, but shook her head: "No, at least not in the past few hundred years." β
"Wouldn't it be a period of protection when there were no false gods in this world?" Su Mu asked jokingly.
Although this is indeed a very scary question, but in any case, the world is still fine, and there is this guy in front of him, he doesn't need to worry about anything.
"If there really is such a good thing, then I don't have to be so distressed." The girl glanced at Su Mu amusedly, but the bright golden eyes were a little gloomy.
ββ¦β¦ How did you get through that gap? β
"It's 'surrogating', through some kind of contract, that I give my power and knowledge to someone during my rebirth, so that she can temporarily become a false god."
Hearing this, Su Mu was slightly stunned, he was a little curious about this general way of cheating, after all, if there were no side effects, he would also like to try to be 'substituted'.
"So, what about that guy now?"
ββ¦β¦ The contract ended the moment I woke up, and there was a price to be paid as a 'container' that contained more than I could be. β
"Is it dead......"
Su Mu had already been mentally prepared for this conclusion, but he noticed that the girl's face was becoming more and more wrong, his brows furrowed slightly, and he asked with some hesitation: "That person is your ......"
"A friend in the last life, an adoptive mother in this life." The girl suddenly raised her head, looked at Su Mu calmly, and added, "Her name is Su Yuyao." β
βοΌβ Su Mu looked at the girl in amazement, he didn't expect to hear this name, even if he was as calm as he was, he was a little caught off guard.
Su Yuyao, familiar and unfamiliar, that is the name engraved on his mother's tombstone......
"Don't you want to blame me, the man who killed your mother? After all, unlike Xiaoyi, you have been taken care of by her for six years, although most of the time you may be a pseudo-god projection. β
"I'll talk about it when I can beat you." Su Mu picked up the wine glass expressionlessly and took a sip slightly.
ββ¦β¦ You're really going to trouble me, I'm also a victim, okay? The girl was stunned at first, and then looked at Su Mu speechlessly.
"So, you and Xiaoyi have such a good relationship, is it because of this responsibility, or is it ......" Su Mu looked into the girl's eyes: "She is the next 'surrogate'?" β
However, the girl laughed, "Xiao Mumu, how dark is your heart?" There is no interest in me and Xiaoyi, although the fool did say that he wanted to be my next 'agent', but this is impossible. β
Without waiting for Su Mu to answer, the smile on the girl's face had already retracted, and she said indifferently: "If the two worlds have not been divided by that time, before I am reincarnated, I will take away all the people I care about, including your family." β
"You ......" Su Mu looked at the other party in disbelief.
"You're surprised? If I say that this kind of contract can only be used by those closest to me, and the person closest to me is Xiaoyi, what do you think now? The girl smiled and looked at Su Mu.
"......" Su Mu's expression slowly calmed down, as if he hadn't heard anything just now.
"No wonder I look at you so pleasing to the eye, it turns out that we are really all the way." The girl sighed and shook her head again: "But this is all after the corner, after all, I also want to win, but unfortunately I didn't become a god, and many things are incomprehensible to my eyes." β
"Speaking of which, I've always wanted to ask, you've always been called a false god, have there been gods in the past?" Su Mu asked suspiciously.
"Nope." The girl replied in the affirmative, and then said, "If the two worlds do not distinguish between winners and losers, I am afraid there will be no future." Also, Komuki, do you know why we are called pseudo-gods instead of demigods? β
Su Mu was stunned, he really hadn't thought about this problem, he had always just regarded the pseudo-god as an advanced level of the sage.
"What's the matter?"
"Of course, a false god is a pseudo-thing, but it is infinitely close to the real thing, while a demigod is still accumulating and is about to reach the existence of a god." The girl showed a helpless smile: "So, the reason why the pseudo-gods of our two worlds are pseudo-gods is because the world has not yet made us gods." β
Su Mu: "......"
This sentence is quite high, it's like a top student saying 'I scored 100 points in the test because the test paper only has 100 points'.
"These things are not out of reach for you, Xiao Mumu." The girl chuckled, and a golden ripple suddenly appeared in her hand, and a somewhat 'non-mainstream' hat fell from it.
"That's all for today, this hat will help me give it to Xiaoyi, I'll see if I can 'return' it later."
ββ¦β¦ Noble Phantasm again? Su Mu took it and looked at it curiously.
"Well, Cunee (Hades's stealth helmet), this is the most suitable for Xiao Yi, and if Xiao Mumu wants to go to several other secret realms, even if he meets a sage, he doesn't have to worry about not being able to run away......"