Part 17 Our World Chapter 70: The Roots (I)
Bypassing the mound, Shen Yi saw that the girl was standing there, looking at him quietly.
She looked noticeably taller, her hair no longer obscured her face, and her complexion was slightly apple red, except for her bare feet, which stood on the ground without being stained with dust.
If the girl in white used to have long hair and masked face like a sadako, then now she is obviously a little more popular, and she begins to look like a real Lori, especially a pair of eyes, which are now much more agile.
"It's only been a while, but you've changed a lot, and it seems that what happened last time gave you a lot of opportunities. Shen Yi walked over and said.
"Do you know what I've got?" the girl's voice remained calm and untouched.
"Of course, I don't have to tell me everything to understand. Shen Yi said lightly: "Edmund is very sad, he thought that his act of connecting to the mission world and destroying the bloody city would get your help, after all, you have also been fighting against the city, but unfortunately he did not wait for your appearance until he died." ”
"That's because he never knew what I wanted. ”
"That's true. Shen Yi nodded: "To be honest, I also made the same mistake, and even for a while I thought that you didn't help Edmund in that battle because I was also a child of space...... It's funny, although you have repeatedly stated that you are never selfless in helping adventurers, and you never care about everyone's life and death, you are like carrying out terrorist acts, as long as the explosion occurs, the goal is achieved, and it is not a matter of concern at all how many people die, but with the success of each time, the adventurers will gradually rely on you and trust you......"
"You don't seem to have it this time. Her gaze stopped at the blood of the dragon god in Shen Yi's hand.
"Yes, I'm sober, I won't trust you casually anymore, even if you and I are both children of space. Shen Yi shook the blood of the dragon god and said: "This time it was also your ghost, right, only you can make the dragon ancestor god who never really exists leave a drop of blood, of course, the Supreme Council can also do it, but they won't help me like this, I'll be thankful if they can deduct some points from me, so...... What do you want to do this time?"
"Just wanted you to go to heaven. The girl finally replied.
"So you use this thing to seduce me?" Shen Yi smiled and shook his head: "But unfortunately, I won't be at your mercy anymore, you're too committed to breaking the rules." Before, we always thought that you broke the rules to fight the city, until this time, I confirmed my guess. Look at how you're growing now...... The rule disruption brought about by the last battle was unprecedented, and the result is that you have grown so much at once. So from the very beginning, we looked at the wrong direction of your pursuit!"
"Rules are shackles, shackles to me. The breaking of every chain of rules can make me grow even more. The girl replied. Perhaps because Shen Yi had already guessed the facts, the girl finally admitted.
Shen Yi nodded: "That's why it took you more than a hundred years to grow to where you are now, but you have advanced by leaps and bounds in the last period of time?When you were just generated in space, you didn't have any ability to affect this world, so you can only wait, as if the first pot of gold is always the hardest." In the long waiting life, there are always some accidents that happen naturally. You grow up in the unexpected and come to realize how the rules bind you. The only knowledge you have allows you to learn how to create more accidents, help you grow better, gain more wisdom in your growth, and then take more measures......"
He looked at the girl's eyes, and suddenly was full of pity: "This is not an easy process, from the beginning of the croaking of the ground, you can't receive any teaching, just like an artificial idiot who grew up locked in a dark room, even if the true god is reincarnated, during the time when human nature still exists, all I feel is endless loneliness and desolation......"
The girl looked up suddenly, and her eyes shot a shiver.
This was the biggest reaction Shen Yi had ever seen since he saw her, before that, this girl was almost always cold and unpopular reactions, until this moment, she looked at Shen Yi with a gaze like a sharp sword, almost piercing him entirely.
She said, "What did you say?"
"Is there finally a reaction?" Shen Yi was not surprised: "Yes, I know how you existed, I should have thought of it back in the Dragon War." ”
Shen Yi smiled bitterly, and he said in a low voice: "You said that you are a combination of inevitable factors and accidental factors. The last time I knew what your inevitability was, the will of the true God was always looking for opportunities, and that was the necessity. But even the will of the true God needs a proper time to come. After all, according to the rules, all the beings that exist in the city will be restricted by the city, and in this case, even if the true god is reincarnated, it will be difficult to fight against the city...... Unless something unexpected happens, that's what you call a fortuitous factor. I used to look for what this accident was, but unfortunately I never found it. Until this ......"
Shen Yi paused and said with a smile: "You know that I carried out this mission very easily, so relaxed that I had enough leisure time to think about some problems that I had never thought of before, and occasionally I would recall what happened in the past when I was idle and bored." ”
Then he looked at the girl: "I had an idea when I realized that you were probably using the breaking of the rules to grow yourself because you didn't help Edmund...... When the idea was born in my mind, it was as if my brain had opened a door to the labyrinth of the unknown and found a way to the right answer! I began to imagine that if the accidental factor you were talking about was really a loophole in the rules, then considering that you have been around for a hundred years, this loophole should have worked at that time, and interestingly, there were a few major events that happened a hundred years ago......
The girl's face had turned pale.
Shen Yi continued to say slowly: "More than a hundred years ago, the rebellion war of the Third Age broke out, with the emergence of the true gods, most of the Querez masters died, and the remaining seven masters were forced to make the most significant concessions to the adventurers, establish a bloody city, and establish a mission world. According to the history of the Cult of Purgatory, the Quarez people believe that in addition to the precarious life, there is an important reason why adventurers resist desperately, and that is to protect their descendants. It just so happened that I got a diary entry in the valley where there was an original adventurer named Xiao Bo who launched his first rebellion against the Juggernaut for the same reason, which indirectly confirmed this. Convinced that the existence of offspring is not conducive to the control of the adventurer, the Quarez people decided to cancel the adventurer's ability to give birth, and at the same time kill all the life in the pregnant woman's body and make it abort!"
"A series of measures such as the establishment of a bloody city, the establishment of a mission world, the abolition of adventurers' fertility, etc., can be said to be a big deal in the entire space world. With such a large-scale project, it is inevitable that many problems will arise. What the Quarez people didn't expect was that it was this decision that would be a crucial loophole in the rules. ”
"This rule loophole comes from the definition of life. I don't know how the Quarez people defined the concept of life at the time, but from the Purgatory, I found that the Quarez people believe that life must have the most basic thinking and cognitive abilities, that is, the specific definition should not go beyond this range. But in this definition process, they overlooked one thing...... The growth of life!"
Speaking of this, Shen Yi's eyes had narrowed, and the girl in white remained silent.
Shen Yi said leisurely: "Does the essence/child count as life?
The girl looked directly at him and did not answer.
Shen Yi shook his head: "According to the rules, it doesn't count!"
Shen Yi spread his hands: "Look, the problem is out." The Quarez people had a good idea, they thought that they had killed all the life in their conception, and at the same time eliminated the possibility of new life, so the adventurers had no worries. But in the process, they ignore life that has not yet taken shape. ”
Speaking of this, Shen Yi pondered slightly: "There is a pair of men and women who have completed the process of life granting at that critical point, and its existence is not within the limits of the rules. It has escaped the fate of receiving/fertilizing/failing one step ahead, will not be obliterated by the new rules, and has been freed from the conditions of the old rules for the control of all conceived lives. It is independent of the rules, a loophole, unchecked, and likewise unprotected...... That is the only chance and the last chance for the will of God. ”
At this point, he didn't say any more, just looked at the girl.
The girl finally spoke: "You said two things wrong. First, the Quaresses did not allow humans to have offspring, not only because of rebellion, but also because they were aware of the possibility of the rebirth of the true God. Second, although there is a omission in the rules, the system's self-protection system will still find and erase the child, so this omission is not fatal. ”
"Oh, how did she survive?" Shen Yi asked with a smile.
"Mother's love, and a little bit of luck. The girl replied, "Quarez people are not human after all, and they will never understand why a woman can discover a forming life in her body much earlier than the system." ”
"......" Shen Yi understood.
The system has systemic limitations, and it may be incredibly powerful, but it must be defined.
When the baby in the female adventurer's body had not yet grown into a truly defined being, it could not have found anything. On the contrary, it is the adventurer himself, who can perceive the problem through some subtle physiological changes in himself, some things that should come but do not come.
"And then?" asked Shen Yi.
The female adventurer knew what awaited her. She wanted to protect the child, and in the end she came up with a solution. ”
"What's the solution?"
"It was a time of change, and the mission world had emerged. In order to ensure normal operation, the life in the mission world can be fertile, but their life attribute is purely spatial and cannot exist on their own. ”
"You mean...... Oh my God, she put you in the belly of a quest NPC!" Shen Yi's eyes widened, and at this moment he finally understood what was going on.