Chapter 36: To the Cradle of the Ark
Faced with the system of playing dead, Lou Bai's condition was to let it listen to itself tell about the flaws it revealed, three, three!
"First!" Stretching out his index finger, Lou Bai said confidently: "When we first met, you provided me with a map of the satellite area. Not to mention the complex environment of the satellite area, there is no map on the network at all, and if you are really dull and have no wisdom, you will either say this ability in the introduction of the function, or completely ignore my request. ”
"Second!" Standing up his middle finger, Lou Bai said with a smile: "After the people from the Security Bureau took me away a few days ago, why are all the card decks on my body gone, but you are the only one who keeps them?" Besides, you've acquiesced to all the things I asked you to do. ”
"Third!" With the ring finger raised, Lou Bai struck a fatal blow: "I remember, the system doesn't seem to have a breathing light, right?" Isn't it tacit acquiescence for you to do this after I have asked you a question? ”
After a moment of silence, the system slowly floated, and a red light shot out of the eyes of the unknown synopsis and projected onto the ground. In the red light, the figure of a man is slowly "printed" from the bottom up.
Looking at the young man in front of him wearing a blue racing suit, blue hair, and a pair of red glasses, Lou Bai asked with some hesitation, "Are you...... Antinomie? ”
"Looks like you know us a lot." Antinomi, who acquiesced to Lou Bai's guess, said, "Are you so sure that your system must be intelligent?" ”
"Oh, I have a fourth point now, and that's that you're out now." Lou Bai spread his hands and said with a smile: "I'm also trying, anyway, there is no cost of trial and error, don't try it in vain." ”
"That's fine." Antinomi clasped his hands to his chest and said, "It's not yet time for us to tell you everything, but since you brought it up, let's tell you something."
After that, a circular space tunnel appeared behind Antinomie, and after stepping in, Antinomi turned to Lou Bai and said, "If you have the guts, follow along." ”
"Hmph, this is related to the ultimate question of 'where do I come from', even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of you, you can't stop because of fear!" Sitting up from the bed, Lou Bai took his card deck and followed Antinomi into it with a firm step.
This journey through the space passage is completely different from the feeling that Xiaolan took him to shuttle before, Lou Bai is like walking in a tunnel composed of dazzling halos, only the white path under his feet leads him, so that Lou Bai will not be lost in this environment.
"Don't mess with anything next to you, if you don't want to be suddenly teleported to the Jurassic." Sensing Lou Bai's curious expression, Antinomi reminded him.
In such a chaotic tunnel, time and space have lost their meaning. Just when I didn't know how long I had been walking, Antinomi, who was walking in front, suddenly disappeared. Faced with this situation, before Lou Bai had time to react, Antinomi suddenly stretched out a hand where he disappeared and pulled Lou Bai forward. As if passing through a curtain of water, when Lou Bai came back to his senses, he had already left the tunnel that made him dizzy and came to a place that resembled a library.
As soon as he turned around, the surrounding scene was clear in Lou Bai's eyes. Looking up, the bookshelves soar into the sky, and the books that fill the shelves make people wonder: how can I take down a book that is so high? In front of them, the bookshelves seem to form a labyrinth, and people can get lost in this sea of knowledge if they are not careful.
casually pulled out a black book from the bookshelf at hand, and Lou Bai looked at the contents. Flipping through the empty cover of the leather, on the title page, the five words "Cthulhu Mythos" came into Lou Bai's eyes. This is a mythological system created by a science fiction writer in the United States in the 20th century from Lou Bai's previous life, in his story, knowledge is poisonous, and the more knowledge is pursued, the more human beings will transform into some inhuman monsters.
Just as Lou Bai was curious and wanted to continue looking down, a huge mechanical arm stretched out from behind him and gently took the book.
"It's not what you can see right now." An old and kind voice came from behind Lou Bai.
Turning his head, Lou Bai saw the source of the sound clearly. An old man with most of his body made of machinery sits on an ammonite-like contraption with two large mechanical arms poking out from either side of the device, one of which is clutching the copy of The Cthulhu Mythos.
"Hello, guests from the other world, first time we meet, I'm zone, you can also call me a non-moving travel star." Calm words came from the emaciated body, and Zone introduced himself.
"If you're zone, then who is my companion in Shintomi Mino?" Facing the zone that appeared quietly like a ghost, Lou Bai did not panic, he asked calmly.
With a slight wave of the mechanical arm, the bookshelves around him were pushed open like a tide, and a small round table and a chair appeared in front of Lou Bai. In response to Lou Bai's question, Zone smiled: "If there is a person whose body, memory, and way of thinking are no different from yours, then why can't he be you?" ”
Hearing this, Lou Bai couldn't answer, after all, even before the crossing, this was an unsolvable philosophical question. Some people believe that human consciousness is made up of memories and ways of thinking, and therefore another person with the same body, memory, and way of thinking is also oneself; But there are also those who think that only the "me" that is thinking at this moment is themselves, and even if there is a person who is exactly like them, it is just a fake.
Putting this philosophical question aside, Lou Bai hesitated for a moment and asked, "Why can't I read that book?" As he spoke, Lou Bai pointed to the book in Zone's hand.
Faced with Lou Bai's question, Zone was a little puzzled: "Oh, I thought you would ask questions like why you came to this world?" ”
In this regard, Lou Bai smiled and said: "If it was before I experienced that duel, I would definitely ask this, after all, suddenly letting me come to a strange world means that everything I did before has been in vain, and I have to start fighting again." Normal people would be unwilling to do this. But ......"
Lou Bai stretched, sat down on the chair in front of the small round table, and continued: "Now that I have seen it, I like it more here than that cold place, and I am needed more here. ”
Flipping through the top card of the deck, it was Xiao Lan who was often criticized by himself for being clumsy, Lou Bai smiled: "I have already established a bond here, so don't worry about the reason for coming here." ”
There was no joy or sorrow in Zone's voice, and he said calmly, "But as far as I know, you were very worried about your younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage where you came out before you came here. ”
"That's it." Lou Bai recalled for a while, and said calmly: "It's not so much that I miss them, it's better that I don't want more children to experience the hardships I have suffered, after all, they are not so-called wealth." In my mind, the children of the satellite zone are equal to them in status. And I have the advantage of learning to accept reality. ”
Looking up at the zone that had been suspended to the ground at some point, Lou Bai said, "I've told you so much, so what is your answer?" ”
"Is that so? Looks like you're adapting well here. Zone sighed at first, and then said, "Although you are no longer interested in the reason for coming to this world, I still have to make it clear to you, otherwise I will not be able to answer your question." ”
After a pause, as if to conceive words, Zone said slowly: "You should know some of the history of our world, when we were in the timeline after the extinction of the human race, we traveled back in time to guide the traveling stars at that time. This time compared to our world line, there are indeed a lot of improvements, but human beings are forgetful after all, and a hundred years after the departure of the stars, human beings have embarked on the old path again.
Faced with this situation, we had no choice but to restart the timeline once more. Yet in the midst of the changes in the world, I found you. Your unique soul makes us see in you a little bit of a turning point in the world. And the reality is not what we expected, by observing your soul, we have found the universe where you were born and gained quite a bit of knowledge about your homeland. This book is also part of acquiring knowledge. ”
Raising the book in his hand, Zone continued: "In your world, the universe is presented to you in a materialistic form, and there is no place for gods and ghosts in the world, so this book is just a collection of horror novels on your side. ”
Zone looked at Lou Bai with his bare eye, and said: "Our universe is not like this, from the birth of human beings to the present, the power of idealism has been with us in human history. ”
Hearing this, Lou Bai nodded silently in his chair, the power of the mind in the Yu-Gi-Oh worldview is also a part of science, far away, there are the god Orihagang who destroyed Atlantis and the seven thousand-year-old artifacts of ancient Egypt, and now, the perpetual motion machine that feels the human heart and the acceleration that can exceed the speed of light are all pressed to the ground by Joule, Einstein and other scientists in their own world.
Thinking of this, and thinking of the terrifying gods described in the Cthulhu Mythos, Lou Bai couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice: "Those, those indescribable existences should not ......?"
"Yes and no."
Just when Lou Bai was terrified, for fear that he would encounter some mythical creature that would die instantly when he didn't know it, Zone's next sentence made his heart relax slightly.
"There's a lot of power here, but it's just a little bit of a headache when browsing." As he spoke, the book in Zone's hand turned into light particles, which condensed into 6 cards in Zone's hand. But in less than a moment, these cards could not maintain their shape, and in an instant, they crumbled and turned back into books.
Just when the card was formed, in curiosity, Lou Bai stretched his neck and glanced at it slightly. Although it was a glimpse, Lou Bai still saw a rough idea, which were four cards with clear names, two white and two purple, and two cards that were blank except for the black border. Just when Lou Bai wanted to carefully recall the details in his mind, he felt a wave of phantom pain and nausea in his mind, as if there was a worm drilling in his brain. Lou Bai couldn't help but lean on the table and bend over to retch. As he barely straightened up, he was shocked to find that he remembered nothing but the colors of the cards.
Raising his head, Lou Bai said with some amazement: "This is an indescribable power, it's really terrifying." ”
Facing Lou Bai's self-talk, Zone was a little afraid, and he said a little sternly: "I said, these forbidden knowledge is not what you can understand now." ”
"I'm sorry, but it's natural for you to be curious sometimes." Lou Bai waved his hand a little embarrassed, but he sighed in his heart: It's worthy of a zone that has experienced despair, I just secretly glanced at it and reacted so much, and he actually just had a slight headache when browsing.
"There should be a lot of things like this!" After barely regaining his senses, Lou Bai couldn't help but ask.
"yes." Zone sighed invisibly and said, "Bad beasts, alien insects, and outer gods...... The knowledge of another world, while it has also shaped many factors that may propel humanity to its end, is much better than it was before. ”
"So what exactly is the end?" Hearing this word again, Lou Bai couldn't help but ask. Throughout the history of Yu-Gi-Oh, DM's ultimate boss Great Evil God Zoak, GX's boss [Darkness], and 5DS's Earth Binding God have all mentioned that humanity will eventually usher in the end, but what it is, Lou Bai still has no idea.
After pondering for a while, Zone made an analogy: "Just as your universe will inevitably die of heat due to the increase in entropy, our world will one day come to an end because of the fall of the human heart." However, heat death can be resisted by technology, and the end can be postponed indefinitely by guiding people's hearts. As long as there is love in the hearts of human beings, the end will not come. ”
Listening to Zone's narration, Lou Bai sighed, in the absence of external threats, people and people are never incomprehensible, thinking of this, Lou Bai raised his head and said to Zone: "Zone old man, if you can, you can study the history of our world and Zhen Gzhi, maybe it will help you a little." ”
After waiting for Zone's response, Lou Bai sat on the chair for a while, and then suddenly patted his head: "Speaking of which, I was so far away from you, I almost forgot my original purpose for coming here." ”
Pulling out the Earthbound God-Cusilo from his deck, Kathu was placed on the table with his face up, and Lou Bai asked, "Zone, what do you think about these things?" ”