It turns out that the reason why "it" was able to break away from Hakukoma's laboratory was because the fanatics attacked Hakukoma five years ago.

And judging from this point in time, it didn't take long for "it" to escape from the lab in the chaotic battle, hide on the Nameless Mountain, and then meet me.

As Hakuju said, if it weren't for his conflict with the fanatics five years ago, I probably wouldn't be where I am today.

But why was it that when I first saw it, it was inside the giant egg?

I think that maybe "it" didn't come out unscathed when it fled, maybe it was Hakuro's experiments that caused a lot of damage to "it", or maybe it was badly damaged in that chaotic battle...... So after coming to the safety of the nameless mountain, "it" slowly reorganizes its body in the form of an insect cocoon.

And as I approached, "it" took on the form of a human woman...... Is this to disguise myself as my own kind so that I can protect "it"?

Although there are too many speculations, my intuition is that at least 70% of them should be correct.

"Seemingly coincidental conflict...... "The missionary silently chewed on Hakuko's words, and then asked, "Is the conflict between the teacher and you not a coincidence, but a conspiracy by someone else?" ”

"I really can't say that it's all the fault of the fanatics, so I didn't hold him responsible, and besides, I still want him to assist me in my 'New World Project'......" As he spoke, Hakukoma sighed, "As a result, he was actually killed by the demon Li Duo...... But it didn't make a difference, anyway, he had been there all the time, talking all the time about what he wanted to pursue for the self-proof true spirit, and the ethereal truth of the universe. I've seen a lot of scientists who risk their lives in pursuit of the truth, and it's the first time I've seen a scientist who thought he could find the truth by committing suicide. It's stupid. ”

The "......" missionary did not defend his teacher, on the one hand, because he did not dare to make a mistake in front of the white horse, and on the other hand, he also felt that the fanatical believers' pursuit of the so-called truth was simply unreasonable.

"As for the conspiracy you just mentioned, there is actually no one who is carrying out the conspiracy. If I had to say who was doing it, it could only be this monster. Bai Ju looked at the severed hand in the glass water tank again, "Of course, it doesn't have the ability to think like a human, and it doesn't have the so-called human nature, let alone actively planning any conspiracy." Even if it does think, it must be in a completely different dimension than humans. ”

"Just as humans who can only see visible light cannot imagine the world through the eyes of creatures who can only see infrared and ultraviolet rays, we are doomed to fail to understand the ideology of this monster." ”

The missionary asked curiously, "You mentioned the 'Traces of the Otherworld' earlier, could it be that you mean that the visitor is not actually an unknown sea monster...... Visited our world not from the sea, but from other worlds? ”

I immediately focused all my attention on Hakukoma and waited for his answer.

And he got straight to the point: "Exactly." ”

"I'm sorry, I didn't use the words very carefully." The missionary asked rigorously: "Let me confirm again, the 'other worlds' that you nod your head to acknowledge should not refer to other universes, but to other planets, right?" ”

Hakuma replied, "It's the other universe. ”

"How did you confirm?" The missionary asked, "Even if it is a monster that does not exist on our planet, shouldn't we first suspect that it is an alien visitor from another planet?" ”

"After I became a Grand Karcist, in order to completely understand the origin of this monster, I used my power of manifestation with all my strength, and at the same time spent a huge amount of resources to launch the highest level divination ritual in the hidden world with it as the target." "Then, I got a lot of information from it, and I also observed the scenery of another universe. It's not another planet, not even another galaxy or river system. It is a universe that is very different from where we are from the beginning of the underlying order. ”

"Different lower order...... "The missionary frowned, "can you give an example?" ”

Bai Ju thought for a moment, and then asked a seemingly unrelated question, "Which side do you think is more orderly, abstract things or figurative things?" ”

"Abstract." The missionary, though puzzled, replied, "Abstraction is the act of extracting essence from phenomena, and mathematics, for example, is the study of order based entirely on the realm of abstraction." However, reality does not always conform to mathematical calculations, because reality tends to be chaotic. ”

"Yes, but it's different ......in that universe," Hakuma said, "the abstract realm of that universe is crazy and dark, and the more you try to explore the rules at the bottom, the more you can feel that there is madness and indescribable everywhere." Although we don't know whether the underlying order of the universe we live in is chaotic, and it is difficult to say that it must be orderly, the chaos there simply does not hide itself at all. That's what I observed. If fanatics were born in that universe, they wouldn't want to live in that kind of place for even a second. Provided, of course, that he has a way to die there. ”

"What do you mean, is it possible that in that universe even the concept of life and death is chaotic?" The missionary thought more, "The undead we are studying now are also from that kind of universe, so they have that kind of immortality?" ”

"There is still the concept of death there, but it is not so easy to die completely. Especially in the time period I observed, it was even more extravagant to hope for a real death. So much so that many people living there have developed a view of death that we cannot understand, and even developed a fanatical worship of the concept of 'death' itself. Bai Ju said.

"There are living humans in that kind of place?" The missionary asked in amazement.

"Yes. Although I said that I had observed that universe, to be precise, I had observed the planet where the visitor had been. If you only look at the surface, that planet is very similar to our earth, and even has a developed human civilization, as well as many gods and elves and other incredible beings. "However, there can be no truly habitable place in that chaotic universe. I don't know what happened at that time...... Anyway, at some point, Hell flowed out of the planet's interior, and countless ghosts landed on the surface, destroying civilization on earth overnight. ”

"Ghosts?" The missionary asked, "You said there are so many gods on that planet, what are they doing?" ”

"There was no resistance to it, and they all died. Not because the gods were weak, but because the opponents were so different from the ghosts we knew. "The ghosts of that planet are generally unimaginably immortal, and the closer they get to the depths of the earth, the more powerful they become. The ghosts that have landed on the surface from the mantle generally have the ability to reverse time and space, manipulate cause and effect, tamper with logic, and so on, and their number is far greater than the total number of humans on that planet, and they are increasing rapidly all the time, and the exceptionally powerful individuals are even able to dissolve celestial bodies like the moon like a joke. ”

He continued, "As for what ghosts are, and why do they give birth to such terrifying beings...... Unfortunately, I don't know either. ”

"How absurd is that...... the missionary said, "how can the human beings of that world survive?" ”

"There is no way to survive. In fact, the planet's humans, as well as the gods, became extinct in the first decade after the Shoah. All that remains is hell that never ends. At this point, Hakuju added, "At least that's what I've observed. ”

The missionary was shocked and suddenly reacted, "Wait, you said you observed there...... Spotted those horrible ghosts? Even we warlocks can sense the gaze of others, and will this behavior make the ghosts aware of you and our world? ”

"Who knows. Maybe a few otherworldly ghosts of unknown strength have crawled to our planet along my line of sight, or maybe I'm lucky that nothing like that happened. There is nothing I can guarantee about them. Bai Ju said.

That's too irresponsible...... In such a case, the missionary only dared to think in his heart.

Hakuma glanced at the severed hand again, "Or maybe this monster came to our world because of my observations, but it came a few years earlier. ”

"You are in a position to observe another universe because it exists in front of you first, if it is really as you said, wouldn't the logic of cause and effect be completely messed up?" The missionary suddenly reacted as he spoke, ghosts generally have the terrifying ability to tamper with the logic of cause and effect, isn't it impossible for Bai Ju to say it?

"How the hell did it get to us?" He then asked, "Also, you say it's a ghost, so why does it have a physical body?" ”

"I'll answer the second half of your question first. Quite simply, this is the result of the humans and gods of the other world trying to kill the ghosts. Hakuma said, "Why can't ghosts be killed?" The root cause is that ghosts are dead in the first place. Even if it has the power to destroy celestial bodies, it cannot kill a dead person, and there is no such thing as 'death' for a dead life. Therefore, the humans and gods of the other world have come up with a way to give ghosts the concept of 'death' first. ”

"The specific method of operation is to flesh the ghost - first give it a body that can die, and then kill it." He continued, "I have to say, it's a really clever idea. Unfortunately, this idea did not save them, and the disparity in strength between us and foe was so great that such a small trick was far from enough to shake the situation. However, they were not without results, the visitors were originally ghosts from the depths of the earth's mantle, and were particularly terrifying and powerful among their kind, but they succeeded in sealing them in this body after countless sacrifices. ”

"And then they killed it?" The missionary asked.

"It was just to hit it to the point of dying, and before it could kill it, it accidentally shuttled into our universe in the chaos of time and space. As I said before, that universe is very chaotic, especially after the time and space of that planet have been tampered with by ghosts of unknown billions, and most places are chaotic like video games full of errors. "According to my speculation, it didn't reach the ground first after coming to our world, but into the ocean. This is not surprising from a probabilistic point of view, after all, more than 70% of our planet is made up of oceans. Then it drifts in the ocean, imitating the sea creatures and even sea monsters it sees......"

The missionary asked curiously, "Does it also have the ability to mimic the flesh?" ”

"That's probably not what it was capable of. If I had not erroneously reasoned, that ability would have been an attempt to break through the body from a macrocosmic or microcosmic or multidimensional perspective, but it was unsuccessful, and instead caused the physical body to be distorted and distorted. It's a bit reluctant to call it 'mimicry'. "And at the end of the long wandering, it ran aground on the shores of the city of Shanshen, and I found it by chance." ”

"I've heard it only eats human flesh, why is that?" The missionary asked, "Why does it have such malice towards humanity?" Because it is humans and gods that seal it, does it want to devour both very badly? ”

"I don't know. Maybe it's as you say, maybe it's something else. I advise you not to judge it in the human mind. Hakuma stared at the severed hand in the glass tank, and said something that didn't look like a scientist would say, "You should think of it as a complete monster that appears in a horror movie with no end and no end, and it is better not to think too deeply about this inexplicable thing." Until the end of the film, it doesn't speak, and it doesn't show its true identity. ”

After listening to his words, the preacher fell into deep thought.

I also silently digested the information I had just heard.

"It" is not a living creature at all, but a ghost from another universe...... In other words, have I been in communion with ghosts all along?

My mind conjured up the ghost-like figure of "it" sitting quietly in a dark corner, and its skin that was incomparably pale and incomparably cold at all times.

I felt like I was receiving so much shocking information that my mind couldn't turn for a while.

I used to think that "it" came from the ocean, which explains why I was able to manipulate the water and breathe underwater a little after receiving the power of "it", and why the siren blade had rust marks like the corrosion of the sea...... But Hakukoma's explanation shattered my assumptions. Could it be that those abilities and traces are just because I use the power of the true spirit, because "I feel that I have received the power of the sea attribute, so I should change a little like that"?

After thinking about it, the missionary said, "I have one more question. ”

"Just ask." Shirokoma nodded.

The missionary glanced at the severed hand in the glass tank with an indescribable fear, and asked, "Is it ......now?" Is it really dead? ”

(End of chapter)