Chapter 438: "Variables" (4500 words)
Zheng Xiu, who was soaked in high-density filth, had a feeling of "death" at the moment when he crushed the authority of "correction".
His consciousness instantly seemed to be taken away and inhaled by somewhere, and he had no time to think, his thoughts went blank.
When he opened his eyes again, Zheng Xiu found himself in a strange space.
The colorful fragments of space sometimes squeeze each other, sometimes shatter like glass, and sometimes blur like ink.
The dazzling special effects like a kaleidoscope did not make Zheng Xiu feel "dazzled".
He quietly watched everything in front of him.
This feeling is like when the human soul leaves the body, all the sounds are silent, and the five senses are ethereal.
Soon, Zheng Xiu first felt a strong "strangeness", and the fragments of space around him sometimes squeezed him, sometimes away from him, Zheng Xiu felt a feeling of being "excluded" and "alienated".
But soon, this feeling strangely changed to "familiarity".
Zheng Xiu can be very sure that he has never seen such a scenery and has never been here, but this "sense of familiarity" is beyond "memory" and beyond "impression", like a kind of "intuition" that is deeper than "memory" and more distant than reincarnation, as if it is ...... He's from here.
In a trance, Zheng Xiu's consciousness drifted in a certain direction quickly and slowly.
Obviously, in this space, there is no reference, no sense of time and space, but Zheng Xiu vaguely sensed that when he was looking at the scenery of "here", he was approaching "something", no, to be precise, "something", and took the initiative to approach him who entered here.
Finally.
I don't know how long it took.
Zheng Xiu came to a piece that could not be described in words, like a small dot, or a white hole, like a celestial body, in an instant, like a vague human face.
The distorted existence is constantly changing the image of "Him" in front of Zheng Xiu. Wow! In the midst of the "distortion", a continuous stream of small red flowers suddenly appeared, bright as blood; In a very short moment, the continuous growth of red flowers staged a short life of germination, budding, flowering, and withering in front of Zheng Xiu.
In the life and death of the flowers, magnificent bubbles are flickering, and there are flashing pictures like marquees.
It's a world.
A shattered world, a corpse that no one cared about, a god whose body was rotten, a baby who died in despair before he was born, a believer who prayed to the god in grief but was not answered, and finally sat down and died, a hill that lost its luster, a lake that was dried up, a temple that collapsed one after another......
Zheng Xiu soon understood that the flickering images in the bubble were people and gods from different worlds, or rather, people from four quadrants and different corners, who died in this "cataclysm...... Everything.
Zheng Xiu's heart was full of mixed tastes, not a taste, although he had already known that in the vast source sea, in each universe and world, there was no other living "living being" except them, even if it was a small ant.
Knowing and knowing, at that moment just now, "everything" seemed to "die again" in front of Zheng Xiu after accelerating at a speed of hundreds of millions of times, he witnessed all this, this catastrophe, despair once again enveloped Zheng Xiu.
The feeling of receiving such a huge amount of "information", "destruction", and "despair" in such a short period of time is unimaginable to anyone. He can even clearly say that in "all things", a certain couple who freeze to death hand in hand, they snuggle up to each other before they die, and say in their own ears "If there is an afterlife......";
He can even count how many wrinkles and tears on their faces, how many tears, how many people are crying, how many people are hugging each other in the last day, and how many people are cursing the gods they once believed in at the last moment when they knelt down in unison in front of the landslide and tsunami.
Such dense and clear information, when it fused into Zheng Xiu's brain, Zheng Xiu was logically unacceptable. But for some reason, Zheng Xiu didn't feel any discomfort, he easily carried this "despair" and "the death of all things".
Zheng Xiu felt incredible, but it was true.
The flowers have experienced a birth and death, new buds have emerged again, and flowers have bloomed again, Zheng Xiu this time, he saw a familiar picture in the bubble.
The bubble is like going back in time, reversing time and playing what Zheng Xiu has experienced;
the death of siblings; They encountered a rat tide in the Fengbei Divine Kingdom; the moment he became a god; He patched holes in the millennium cycle; the bits and pieces of his life in Zheng's house; He sat quietly under the eaves in Fengbei to admire the moon; He and Fengbei spent ten years in cannibalism; The moment when he got along with Fengbei as a bad boy or Zheng Shan......
All kinds of pictures, some sad, some cheerful, some deep, some helpless, at the end, Zheng Xiu smiled back. This is the first time he has seen his life and his past backwards, as if watching a movie.
At the end, the picture in the bubble flashed, completely frozen:
Lead-ash rainstorm, cannibal white carp, flowers on the other side, ink light and shadow, the girl stretched out her hand to the sky in the filthy mire, and Zheng Xiu, who was like a demon, descended from the sky and held the cursed thin palm.
The picture freezes, or it is a moment, or it is eternal.
Scold.
The squeezed, ink, twisted, collapsing, and constantly "moving" space around it freezes and condenses into a moment.
The magnificent and bizarre broken space has become a pure white space in the blink of an eye, in a trance.
Countless transparent streamers composed of small characters of "1" and "0" slowly wash away from top to bottom.
Zheng Xiu was naked, spotless, as pure as a newborn baby, sitting in a corner of this pure white space, calmly stretching out his palm, letting the streamer wash through his palm.
Soon Zheng Xiu realized that he was not here in the flesh at this moment. The physical body he "saw" was actually made up of countless streamers, as if they were integrated with the washed-out streamers, and they were about to be indistinguishable from each other.
He sat still.
"You don't seem surprised by that."
An ethereal voice rang out.
"I was surprised. It's just that, here, the emotion of 'surprise' is very redundant, so I am not surprised. ”
Zheng Xiu shook his head slowly, he looked up at the white void. He didn't actually know where the source of this ethereal voice was, but he felt that the source of this voice was everywhere, and no matter where he looked, even if he looked at his palm, he would have a feeling of "looking at it".
"Questions?"
Zheng Xiu thought for a while and nodded: "Yes." ”
"You ask, 'we' answer."
Zheng Xiu was silent.
After a while, he smiled bitterly: "For a while, I didn't know what to ask. It's like, as soon as I think about it, the answers to many questions already appear. ”
"Okay, then, let 'us' ask the question."
“……”
"What is 'we'?"
Zheng Xiu sighed lightly: "The 'end' was once chased by countless gods and masters, and it was impossible to ask for it, and in a certain period, the ...... 'end' that took the initiative to approach everything but was hidden. ”
"Correct."
"In different times, in different quadrants, in different time and space, in different worlds, in different universes, we have different names."
"One,"
"All,"
"Truth,"
"The end,"
"Infinity,"
"The Way,"
"Everything,"
"Uniquely,"
"Supreme,"
"Law,"
"We are 'all' and at the same time, 'we', 'me' and 'you'."
Zheng Xiu was silent, and to his surprise, Zheng Xiu easily digested such obscure words.
It's like when he said these words at the "end", Zheng Xiu had already understood it once.
What a convenient place.
If you want to describe it, Zheng Xiu sitting here is like sitting in front of a super database, in front of him is a record of the origin of all things, the past, present, and future, no matter what questions he asks, he can search for the corresponding answers in the "database".
Zheng Xiu asked calmly: "Will you lie?" ”
"'Lying' doesn't mean anything to 'us'. Not for you."
"Meaning...... Hehe. Then I ask you, 'I', what is it? ”
"The 'omniscient and omnipotent' that is about to be born is also the 'truth', the 'one', the 'all', the 'law', and the 'Tao', and you are about to become 'us'."
"What about Fengbei?"
"...... 'Nothingness is a certainty.'" 'Being' that shouldn't exist but actually exists. Her reasoning, which links 'omniscience', 'entropy', and 'variables', has now been created, and the individual who was once named 'Xue'er', and who was named 'Fengbei' after the correction of the broken 'reincarnation', has been interfered with as an 'extinction factor', the initiator of the 'mass extinction', and she will let everything be ruined in one fell swoop."
"In that 'Time Artifact', you had a momentary contact with the 'Extinction Factor', you connected with her, and since then, your every move has been interfered with by the Extinction Factor."
"Today, you should be able to understand that your encounter with the 'extinction factor' and the story between you and the 'extinction factor' are just 'mistakes' that you are moving towards step by step under the traction of 'fate'."
"You who are trapped by 'fate' should understand the pain of being trapped by 'fate' better than any being."
"'Fate' has led you here, and you have the qualifications to be 'detached.'"
Zheng Xiu lowered his head and stared at the streamer passing through his palm, he wanted to think that the "end" was lying, but the funny thing was that Zheng Xiu understood that his love and encounter with Fengbei all came from that encounter, that "link", and the story between him and her came from the moment of touch.
Zheng Xiu was silent for a long time, and then asked:
"So, what about Shirley?"
"Emergency plan."
"Huh?"
"As an 'emergency plan', at the moment when the 'mass extinction' is activated, she will become 'omniscient and omnipotent'. And you got here before the 'emergency plan'. And when you arrive here, you deserve the 'answer'."
Zheng Xiu nodded, and his face suddenly appeared: "I am the 'answer'." ”
suddenly
A pure white door appeared in front of Zheng Xiu out of thin air.
The door is hidden, a little crack, and the glow is dotted.
"It's time to go."
"A new 'unknown' awaits you."
Zheng Xiu read the "database", he almost understood "everything", understood "fate", saw the "origin", at the moment of reading the database, Zheng Xiu could say that this source sea, the four quadrants that had been in disarray, for him, there were almost no secrets.
thereupon
"Unknown",
This seemingly ordinary word seemed to have an infinite attraction to Zheng Xiu at this moment, and he walked towards the depths of the twist little by little, holding the doorknob in his hand.
「……」
Just as he was about to open the door, Zheng Xiu's movements paused.
"You ......"
Zheng Xiu's tone paused, and Qi Er smiled:
"No, 'you', what are you nervous about?"
Zheng Xiu's hand removed from the doorknob.
"Actually, I was thinking about a question just now."
"It stands to reason that there would be an answer to all questions here, but I can't think of it."
"Then there are only two possibilities, either 'you' deliberately deleted it, or ...... 'omniscient' is not as 'omniscient' as I imagined."
"Can you answer me?"
Zheng Xiu squinted his eyes and stared into the void.
「……」
"First question, before me, were there any other beings who had been here?"
「……」
The voice didn't answer, but it didn't answer, and for Zheng Xiu, it was already an answer.
He looked down in thought.
"Here", at the "end", in front of the "database", Zheng Xiu "thinks" so seriously for the first time. This is something that is not needed here, Zheng Xiu picked it up again.
"So, somebody has been here."
"You may have said the same thing, and the same door appeared in front of him, and behind the door, it was the same, leading to him, or me, for a moment, the 'unknown' that I longed for was a new world."
Zheng Xiu smiled: "So, the second question, why is there an 'emergency plan'?" ”
「……」
"Ah......h
Without waiting for the voice to react, Zheng Xiu had already figured it out: "Then, before I arrived here, the 'former' who had arrived here rejected 'you' and refused to become 'omniscient and omnipotent'. ”
"You're wrong."
The ethereal voice finally spoke again:
"He became 'omniscient and omnipotent.'"
"That's why there was a 'mass extinction.'"
"So he didn't go through this door, did he?"
Zheng Xiu muttered to himself:
"yes, I see, it makes sense."
"Omniscient and omnipotent, you have not left here and stepped out of this door as you wished."
"That's why there was an 'emergency plan.'"
Zheng Xiu closed his eyes: "But it is precisely because of the 'emergency plan' that it means that 'you' are not as 'omnipotent' as 'you' just said." Otherwise, there would be no need for an 'emergency plan'. ”
"From the very beginning, I was not the best candidate for the 'omniscient' you set for 'fate'."
"Accident, it happened."
Zheng Xiu smiled slightly: "I finally understand now." ”
"Authority leads to the heart, leads to fate, my 'correction'...... It's always been like this, vague and erratic. ”
"I am the ...... 'variable' born after the established 'fate' was derailed."
"Fengbei, as an 'extinction factor', connects 'omniscient and omnipotent', 'entropy', and 'me'."
Beams of black glow, in this pure white world, appear particularly dazzling, like chaos, tearing everything here.
The black streamer surged into Zheng Xiu's consciousness and reconstituted Zheng Xiu's body.
Zheng Xiu's long black hair fluttered, like a demon god, and when he opened his eyes, the black streamer washed downward.
"I am not omniscient, nor can I be omniscient, 'I' am me, 'he' is him, and I am destined to be 'me'."
"A 'variable.'"
"A ...... that can lead to a second ending Variable. ”
Zheng Xiu stretched out his hand and grabbed the handle on the door.
"You'll regret it."
"Shh
Zheng Xiu smiled slightly, put his index finger to his lips, and whispered:
"I ask you,"
"Do you guys have a second emergency plan?"
"You—"
"You guys, you should have."
Zheng Xiu's wrist twisted, and the door was twisted and deformed.
He completely welded the door shut.
Zheng Xiu moved outward quickly, one by one, one by one, one by one, and everything behind him was turning into nothingness at a terrifying speed.
"From now on, there will be no 'fate'."