191: Precursor to Awakening
This long-lost psychological high position made Song Yu even a little fluttery for a while. He forcibly regained his sanity and patched up his words: "Of course, if you want me to prove it with all certainty, I can't do that. But I'm sure that when I'm done with all this, you'll find that this is the only way to explain what happened in the Demon Suppression Pass. β
After half a month, Zhu Meiren has somewhat forgotten the feeling of being slapped in the face by Song Yu. As soon as he heard this, he narrowed his eyes slightly: "The young city lord is so sure? β
Song Yu nodded: "This matter has to start with the person on the portrait I painted for the two of you. β
Tang Ya was silent all the time, and he couldn't figure out the details of the Song Domain. Only then did he answer: "We have verified the identity of this person, it is a left-handed swordsman who walked the world eighteen years ago. It is said that he is a skilled swordsman, but he does not have any outstanding deeds. Eighteen years ago, he had entered the Demon Suppression Pass. Such wandering knights are generally dissatisfied with the imperial court, and it is rare to be willing to cooperate with the registration. As for when he left, there is really no record in the Ping An Division. β
After hearing this, Song Yu nodded: "Tang Zhangshi said it completely, then the next thing is something that you don't knowβthis Zuo Daoqian is likely to be trapped in the Demon Town Pass for eighteen years." β
Xie Nanshi, who knew that there was a thing called "bug" behind this, was silent, while Tang Ya and the others were shocked. Especially Ma Guangzhao, who had just been trapped in the cave for three months, was even more emotional: "Impossible! Even if that person's cultivation is very high and he can live without eating or drinking for eighteen years, but being trapped in the Demon Suppression Pass, it is not only eating and drinking that is the biggest threat. β
The feeling of loneliness and powerlessness that he could not do anything about the future was what frightened and broke down the most for Ma Guangzhao.
Song Yu did not directly refute Ma Guangzhao, but asked Tang Ya and Zhu Meiren: "Both of them have served in the guard before, do you know that there has been such a change on the third floor of the Demon Suppression Pass?" β
"I haven't heard of it."
"That's right, the deep layers of the Demon Town Pass in the past are definitely not the current situation, if it weren't for that, Brother Ma and your original Wu Zhangshi and others would not have entered the third layer of the Demon Town Pass." Song Yu nodded.
Ma Guangzhao nodded, and his voice was firm: "Yes, it was about three months ago that the shadow appeared in the Demon Suppression Pass. β
"So the third layer of the Demon Suppression Pass didn't connect to that Void Realm eighteen years ago."
"No, it's not." Zhu Meiren actually vaguely sensed what Song Yu wanted to say, but subjectively she didn't want to accept it, "Since that Void Illusion was born only three months ago, how can you trap Zuo Daoqian eighteen years ago?" β
Because the version update of the previous version deleted Zuo Daoqian. It's a pity that Song Yu can't answer this directly: "Because this kind of 'trapped' is not 'trapped' in the physical and practical sense, but more like trapping Zuo Daoqian's entire existence in it." β
This sentence is obviously too conceptual and a little alarmist. The tent was quiet for a while, and everyone was waiting for Song Yu's further dismantling.
Song Yu looked at Xie Nanshi, and after getting the latter's approval, he said: "This Zuo Daoqian senior, I have also heard of it when I traveled. His swordsmanship is very high, but he feels that it is difficult to improve when he encounters a bottleneck. So in order to climb to the pinnacle of martial arts, he adopted some unusual methods. Although he was cultivating swords, he neither studied hard nor looked for someone to learn from, but embarked on a path of scientific research. β
This novel term obviously blinded Tang Ya and the others. This was also within Song Yu's expectations, and he took a long time: "Although Zuo Daoqian's reputation is not obvious, his swordsmanship has indeed reached the extreme. Wanting to break through this limit, he chose an inhuman path. β
Excluding the Song Dynasty, Ma Guangzhao is the lowest cultivation among the people here. And when it comes to the cultivation vision, he is really at the bottom. At this point, Ma Guangzhao only felt that there was almost nothing he could understand in Song Yu's words: "The road of inhumanity? Don't...... Could it be ......!! β
"Yes, he's studied the Stranger." Song Yu's voice was one of extreme calmness without any warmth, "He would wonder why there are countless great cultivators in the world, but they have never been able to eradicate and kill all the strange ghosts and beasts, and let them cause harm to the world." The beasts still have superior physical qualities, which may explain why they are so strong. What about the ghosts? They don't have skins that are easy to disappear in, and having skins is just borrowing human bodies, so why can they have the power that humans don't have.
So, he began to study the ghosts. β
Song Yu's voice made the temperature of the entire camp seem to drop a lot. Xie Nanshi also had a guess about this in his heart, but at this moment, he also knocked on a muffled sound because of Song Yu's conclusion that was further than his conjecture in his heart.
In addition to Zuo Daoqian's other path, he was more concerned about his father, whether the figure who disappeared into the ruins was also for similar reasons......
Even Xie Nanshi is like this, and Tang Ya and others are even less receptive to this. Zhu Meiren immediately called "impossible", but was asked by Song Yu: "How is it impossible?" You find it unacceptable because you have not exhausted the earthly methods. If you are at the end of your rope, will you choose a path that no one has ever walked? β
Zhu Meiren was stunned and turned pale. On the contrary, Ma Guangzhao, who was the most panicked before, and now the most furnished, said gloomily: "I will." β
These two words come from the heart. In those three months, if he was given a chance not to be a man, he would not refuse.
Although Tang Ya was more steady, the tremor in his heart was no less than that of others. After a long time, he spoke in a low voice: "You mean, he wants to be a stranger?" β
"I'm not sure." Although Song Yu knew the answer to the mystery, he still made some reservations, "But he will definitely want to have some communication with the strangers, not just words." β
There was silence again in the tent.
Still Tang Ya, hesitantly asked, "So, did he succeed?" β
"When it comes to improving martial arts and surpassing the peak, he has obviously failed." Song Yu said, "But as a transcendent being, he succeeded. Eighteen years ago, Zuo Daoqian disappeared from this world. Until now, the person we met there, he can't be called Zuo Daoqian. β
Xie Nanshi had been chaotic about the theories that Song Yu had not been able to explain clearly, and finally understood a little by this time. He muttered, "His existence has been swallowed up." That's why he keeps asking who he is, and even wants to be you. β
Song Yu looked at Xie Nanshi and nodded slowly.
Actually, it's even a bit inspirational to think about it. From Song Yu's point of view, it is the level of AI calculation of the characters in "Seeing the Gods" that has evolved beyond the imagination of the engineers, so awakened NPCs like Xie Nanshi have been produced.
At the same time, Xie Nanshi is not the only awakened NPC, at least in the previous version, Zuo Daoqian is suspected of awakening.
But his awakening was apparently noticed by Anshi Technology. So in the previous version, Zuo Daoqian was deleted and thrown into the "black box", becoming an NPC that existed in the game but did not exist in the game.
But because of a bug, Zuo Daoqian incarnated as "nameless" and returned to "Seeing God". He exists in the void that shouldn't exist, but still has the instinct to return to the normal world. So he took his undeleted settings and tried to get an identity, a piece of data that served as his own memories.
At first, he may have tried to re-emerge as Zuo Daoqian. But in the Void Illusion, I saw the memories of Wu Wu, Ma Guangzhao and other six people, and the memories of Song Yu, Xie Nanshi and others, these are not Zuo Daoqian's memories.
So Zuo Daoqian selected the objects of these memories. Coincidentally, Song Yu was a character who did not originally exist in "Seeing God", and Zuo Daoqian called him "a person with a soul and no body". Because he really only entered here with a piece of transplanted data, not his whole person. He's still in good shape, lying in the game pod outside......
Well, well, in terms of not being able to get out of the game, it might not be a good end.
In short, the appearance of Song Yu is absolutely abrupt and unreasonable. But the amazing thing is that the whole world has been adjusted accordingly in order to make him reasonable, and even gave him the honorable status of a young master of Tianyong City, making it the protagonist of this world, the center of this world.
What could be a more appropriate identity than Song Domain? Especially when the "nameless" was unable to find the "left road thousand" for a long time.
If it weren't for the fact that Xie Nanshi was an awakened NPC, and Du Anchen was likely to be on the verge of awakening, their data would no longer be the original set of logic, which would have caused them to always remember that there was such a person as Song Yu. It is also difficult for Song Yu to say where his data will go when Anshi Technology knows about the bug.
A little more terrifying, could it be that when the bug in the game pod is lifted, it will be this nameless data that returns to his body?
Song Yu hid some information that could collapse the worldview of these characters, but the rest of the information still caused everyone to fall silent for a long time.
"Young City Lord, what you are talking about...... I can't believe it. Tang Ya's voice sank abruptly, with exhaustion and disbelief, "But I really can't argue with it." β
Zhu Meiren also sighed: "I will report this matter to the director, and it will be up to him to judge." In any case, the young city lord's current statement seems to be self-justifying. If that's the case......"
After a pause, Zhu Meiren struggled for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "I first want to thank the young city lord for the brothers in the guard." β
Zhu Meiren and they were not idle this night, and once again sent people to check the second and third layers of the Demon Suppression Pass. There are still some people on the third layer who have not returned, but the strange shadow on the second layer has definitely disappeared. The reports of those who have returned from the third layer are no different from before.
Everything is back to normal order.