Chapter 114: Knock
I've finished talking about the book, why are you still flipping down......
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Tails opened his eyes softly. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info.com
Where is he?
It doesn't matter.
What matters is what he feels.
His thoughts seemed to change somewhat—they seemed to become uninhibited, like a murmuring stream of water through a veil.
Seems to be ...... for everything Inattentive?
How so.
Tails was vaguely aware of his situation—but he didn't want to change that feeling.
That's nice, isn't it?
It's like, entering another realm.
Tails lifted his gaze.
There was a gray patch in front of me...... Round grains?
Yes, Tails saw a gray grain.
No, not one.
It is one of the countless stones embedded in it.
It's amazing.
These grains of stone are so far apart from each other that no matter how much time they have, they will not be able to get even a millimeter closer to each other.
But they are so close to each other that they are closer to each other than most of the world's existences, tighter, almost connected.
I don't know for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years, and even hundreds of thousands of years after that, they have maintained this kind of distance between them, sometimes as far as a moat, sometimes close to a veneer.
Magical world, isn't it? There is such an interesting and vivid relationship between two solidified stones.
And what about all the other beings in this world? Do they have such an interesting relationship?
Yes, definitely.
Why hadn't you noticed any of this before?
Didn't notice the wonder of this world?
Perhaps, he was so stupid before.
Tails thought calmly.
His gaze slowly rose upwards.
The stone grains are getting farther and farther away from him...... Maybe it's getting closer?
It still doesn't matter.
The important thing is that the distance between him and the stones changes, and at each moment that these distances change, they become different from each other - the same is true of the stone to him, and the same is true of him to the grain.
The gaze continues to rise.
Ah, I see—Tails was a little stunned—the grains of stone, which formed the surface of a floor tile.
Rough and uneven, undulating surface.
What a wonderful combination.
They are obviously just stone grains, but because of their special distance and position from each other, they have become another kind of existence.
The presence of the name "surface of the floor tiles".
Just like humans.
When distance and position are lost, each individual is a separate person.
But as they increase or decrease distances, change positions, and stand together...... When you stand in one dimension, one region, and one society at the same time, you also become another existence.
The presence of a "crowd".
Wait—a small voice told him in Tails' perception—might be able to do the opposite, and it was because of their presence that location and distance would be decided.
How would he know this?
Forget it, it doesn't matter.
And what's important is -- it's so much fun.
Let's find out more.
Tails saw it: it was a gray-black octagonal floor tile, spliced together with countless tiles of the same shape.
It's artificially patched floor tiles, right? That's why the distance between the floor tiles and the floor tiles is so uneven.
Or, in fact, the people who put them together feel that they are homogeneous, because they can't perceive the beauty of uniformity, the beauty of balance?
Or, in fact, this is their "evenness" - yes, to pull it out, isn't it very uniform with these tiles?
Tails raised his gaze to the top.
He knew it was a day.
Because this existence is called "daytime", it is defined by the position of the ground and the sun.
The sun has passed through the mid-heavens - forming a wonderful positive angle to the ground.
In front of him was an exotic house—strange flaky eaves that rose at the corners, doors made of heavy sunken wood, windows made of glazed crystals, and black-eyed humans who came and went, dressed in smooth robes, from time to time in and out of a beautiful house.
Without exception, they looked nervous.
Why be nervous?
Tails' mind flickered, and he knew why.
In that room, there was a woman—a dark-eyed young woman, surrounded by a group of women, crying out in pain in a pool of blood.
The woman's lower abdomen is high and bulging - she is in labor.
They didn't have to be nervous—he saw that the creature in the woman's womb was strong and powerful, and it was constantly moving its limbs.
She's going to have a smooth delivery.
And a woman-like husband, a man with magnificent and noble clothes, was being blocked outside the house by another group of men, with a difficult expression.
I see, Tails mused: inside and outside the house.
That's why there's a lot of tension inside the house and a lot of pain outside the house - it's a shame if they could all see each other......
Even...... If they could see the woman in the woman's belly......
Is there no need to be nervous, worried, fearful, and tormented?
Soon, the woman's screams stopped, and her belly slowly flattened.
And with a faint cry, a baby girl covered in blood was carried out.
The man outside got the news and desperately broke through the barrier and rushed into the house.
The man trembled and knelt down in front of the bed, holding the woman's weak hand, comforting his wife nervously and apprehensively in a language he did not understand.
The woman smiled.
Finally, someone respectfully handed the baby girl, whose eyes were tightly closed, to the man.
The man shuddered and took his daughter.
Oh, my God......
Tails, who was watching all this, looked at the black pupils, the excited man, and then at the black pupils, the woman with a relieved expression.
I can't help but want to laugh.
What if they knew the truth?
The baby girl slowly opened her eyes and looked at the first person who came into the world.
The man holding the baby girl saw the baby girl clearly and trembled.
The man looked up in astonishment, looked at the people around him in a panic, and spat out a language he didn't understand, as if at a loss.
Someone stepped forward with a frown, glanced at the baby girl, and then froze in place.
There was an uproar in the room.
Immediately, the women screamed and wept, the servants nervously comforted, and the men's roars came one after another......
Hehehe--Tails laughed as he watched all this.
Yes, he looked at the baby girl, at her blue eyes—crystal blue eyes that were incompatible with the dark eyes of her "father" and mother.
Probably the man wouldn't have thought that his wife's daughter was not his daughter, was it?
It's ridiculous.
Tails withdrew his gaze, and the thoughts in his mind turned over mechanically:
If a man had seen his "daughter" a few months ago with blue eyes that were not inherited from him......
No, it's more than that.
The baby girl's complexion is noticeably pale, her head is curled, and the bridge of her nose is slightly shrugged, which is already evident before birth - unfortunately, the man does not know.
If he knew it......
Does he still need to usher in cold and pain, resentment and anger after full of expectations and worries, torment and waiting, as he did today?
No.
He doesn't need to.
But a man can't see through his wife's belly, and he can't see his wife's betrayal - so he's destined to go through this.
His vision is too narrow, his knowledge is too limited.
This is the price of stupidity and ignorance.
It's sad, it's ridiculous.
Tails was tired of it all, and he turned his head.
Well?
Not quite right.
He had been expecting to see the interior walls of the mansion.
But what did Tails see?
The rising sun.
And also......
Black, maybe a little white?
No.
Black, is the color of water.
White, is the foam and reflection on the surface of the water.
What he saw was the ocean under the rising sun.
Endless sea.
Endless?
No.
It's too narrow.
This sea.
From one end to the other, the sea is small.
It has a smaller island on one side and a narrow coastline on the other.
But it's big, it's very big, it's almost boundless – especially for this long, narrow sail ship that sails like a flat boat in the middle of the sea.
Tails looked silently at the flag on the ship.
On the flag is a white seagull holding an anchor.
Interesting.
Seagulls with anchors.
The sky and the sea.
It seems to be an unreachable distance, but it is inseparable.
The sailors on the ship dutifully did their job.
A young man, who had not even grown a beard, neatly dressed and well-mannered—out of place with the rude sailors who were surrounded by sweat and stains—stood by the rudder, chatting with the impatient helmsman, looking excitedly at the sea level ahead.
"Believe me, the previous bad times were just a test for Errol...... We've made it through the black maelstrom, and according to my ancestral charts, we'll be able to find ...... soon."
This time, Tails understood.
Although the man's lingua franca has a rather strange accent: the rise and fall of the pitch and the intonation are particularly pronounced, which is different from the rude and vague, short and powerful Northland accent and the biting Xingchen Wang Du accent.
This young man seems to be a character - the captain of the ship, or the mercenary of the ship?
Still, Tails laughed again—and as soon as the man turned his head, he saw the contempt and disdain in the sailors' eyes.
"How could the boss have listened to this hairy boy - I have heard that he is a gangster of Warir, not a nobleman?" said one of the sailors in a low voice to his fellow old sailor, who was packing up the cable beside him, "and follow him and risk the ship to such a ...... Place?"
"Of course he's a thug, but he doesn't know that his ancestors were elected to thirty-six seats a few generations ago," the latter glared at the young man viciously: "I owe the boss a lot of debt—somehow, the boss not only didn't touch him, but immediately left Crystal City and rushed to this cursed place, not even going to Chang Qingdao, which was scheduled for the voyage." ”
"Finish the Sea Eye - is this place really so unlucky?" the first sailor frowned, "everyone's face is very bad." ”
"Of course, think about it," the old sailor snorted, his expression unpleasant, "right under our feet, in the bottom of the sea, I don't know how deep, buried the entire empire, and millions of imperial people, soaked into dry bones by the sea, gnawed into pieces by the fish......"
"Legend has it that their souls have not rested for six hundred years, full of resentment and pain......"
"There are strange things happening here every year, very strange and strange kind of ......"
But the youth could not see what was behind them.
Even when he turned his head, the sailors put away the emotions in their eyes and went about their work, as he never knew his true place on the ship.
Why is he so stupid?
He didn't know that the helmsman beside him, the heart in his body was beating faster and faster, the blood was flowing faster and faster, and the whole person was getting more and more irritable?
Why did he bother with that helmsman?
Didn't he know that when almost everyone on the ship looked at him, the pupils in their eyes would shrink, and then release disgust and disgust?
He didn't know that a piece of wood at the bottom of the ship was overwhelmed and could be lifted by a huge wave at any moment.
Didn't he know?
Of course—and Tails continued to laugh—they couldn't see anyone on board, and in the thick fog about a few thousand meters away, a monstrous warship with a blood-colored parrot flag was coming towards them.
The fierce pirates above, with their foul mouths open, in the noise and drunkenness, in wine and blood, counting their gains from a few days ago, and playing with the trembling captives, especially the women.
The leader of the pirates is still excitedly announcing that he will return to port if he grabs another ship.
In the pirates' arsenals, polished blades and swords, crossbows and throwing bows are waiting silently.
The young man, and the boat he was on - why were they so stupid?
Why sail forward?
It's so simple, so obvious......
Why don't they just know?
Are they in the most magical world, but they don't know anything about everything around them?
What a waste.
It's really boring.
Tails couldn't help but feel irritated.
He turned his head again.
Hey?
He saw a piece of sand in the moonlight.
Sand.
Marvelous creations.
It stacked itself on top of its countless kinds, constructing an entire desert with the same marvelous and even relative position.
In this way, countless sands rubbed, squeezed, and clung to each other.
In this way, countless sands pushed, resisted, and moved away from each other.
Tails looked at every strand in the desert and sighed in his heart: they made up the same wonderful desert.
He turned his head again.
See—a leaf in the dark?
This time he had experience.
It's not just leaves.
It's the forest, the dark forest under the night sky.
Faintly visible in the jungle were a pair of glowing eyes - they were the animals that had been hunted or hunted.
But they are still too pitiful.
Tails sneered in his heart.
A badger happily dug an ant's nest beside the wet earth, and this nest contained a huge beetle, which made the hungry beast very happy, but unbeknownst to it, hundreds of meters away, its companion had become the prey of a lone wolf.
And the old lone wolf, who had caught a badger and was delighted for dinner, did not know that a fellow of the same pack was under another tree and was hunted by a jungle panther from a branch.
Unbeknownst to the panther, her offspring, which she gave birth to six years ago, was dying by the stream, under the hooves of an angry giant rhinoceros.
Little did the giant rhinoceros know that in the upper reaches of the creek, a group of heavily armed humans were excitedly peeling, skinning, boneless, and extracting meat from its cousins.
And this group of humans also did not know that in the dense jungle behind them, countless eyes with purple glow were staring at them coldly, and silently pulling out the bows and arrows in their hands in the darkness.
Little did the purple-eyed, pointy-eared creatures know that a few miles away in a forest sentry, one of their kind was engaged in a scimitar-to-bayonet battle with another white-skinned, pointy-eared creature and was stabbed through the chest at the last moment.
The white-skinned, pointy-eared victor gulped hard and walked away disdainfully, allowing the purple-eyed corpse on the ground to slowly rot and be turned into food by a group of ants next to it.
The ants had migrated here only a few days earlier, and they had been the losers of another war - another powerful colony had driven them here. But they may be glad to know that they have been driven out of their habitat by a colony of old enemies, but they have just moved back the carcass of an old beetle and have been wiped out by a mischievous badger.
Tails watched silently as the most complete food chain dominated the place.
They're -- don't these creatures know all this?
It's really, funny and sad at the same time.
At this moment, Tails suddenly felt a wonderful current of heat.
From his whole body - wait, whole body?
Tails suddenly realized a problem.
What about his body?
In the next moment, a wonderful sensation was transmitted to his every sense.
Countless scenes, like a curtain of water flowing rapidly, flashed in front of his eyes at the same time.
Eaves with very different styles.
A sailing ship under the sea.
A tranquil desert under the moon.
A vibrant jungle.
Tails watched it all intently.
Interesting.
Playful.
Wonderful.
There are more and more scenes flashing before my eyes: glaciers in the blizzard, castles on sea cliffs, warm wetlands, grasslands at sunset, vast plains at dusk, fortresses at night, sea reflecting the moonlight......
Soon, Tails felt that the world in front of him was becoming clearer and clearer.
It's getting weirder and weirder.
He was also getting more and more excited and satisfied.
Everything in the world was unfolded before him, and he saw and heard everything.
No.
And that's not all.
He knows everything.
It was as if he was standing in the place where he was born.
He is in everything.
He's everything!
Tails is getting happier.
He's enjoying it.
And want more.
More!
See more, know more, get more.
More!
The scene in front of him flickered faster and faster.
More and more urgent.
The view is getting shorter and shorter.
The next moment.
"Boom!"
It was as if thunder exploded in my ears.
Tails only felt that it was dark in front of him.
All the scenes are no longer changing, but they are really constant in front of you!
It's like watching countless movies at the same time, and the movies show everything in the world!
It was as if he was standing in all corners of the world at the same time.
More than that, more than that.
Suddenly there was a heavy squeezing sensation in Tails' senses.
The next second.
Tails only felt a violent shaking coming!
A dull thud echoed in his consciousness in the emptiness.
And his consciousness was like he had bumped into something.
Boom!
The voice...... It's like someone knocking on the door.
Boom!
His consciousness shook again.
Boom!
The third sound, Tails shook slightly!
I don't know how long it took, but Tails suddenly felt that all the beings around him moved in an instant.
At that moment, it was like a door being pushed open.
He entered a new world.
In this new world, his senses were crystal clear.
From the tiniest particles, the deepest underground, to the vast sea, the vast sky, he sees more than everything in the world.
At that moment, it was as if he was the world.
But at this time, an accident was born.
A tingling sensation that irritated his skin approached from his consciousness.
Tails trembled slightly, and a faint doubt appeared in his heart: What's wrong?
It was as if his consciousness had suddenly risen into a silent, dark void.
Almost as soon as he entered this void, Tails immediately had a strange sense.
It's like instinct.
Right.
It felt like someone was prying on them.
He didn't know how he sensed it, but his instincts told him that behind the darkness of the void there were several strange pairs of gazes.
Tails subconsciously raised his gaze, trying to penetrate the darkness.
However, at the moment of his thought, he sensed the closest existence to him without warning.
It was a ball of light.
A colorless ball of light.
Boom!
Another violent impact.
In the darkness, this colorless ball of light suddenly appeared, giving him a vague feeling of clouds and fog, as if it was untouchable.
Before he could react, the ball of light moved slightly.
Immediately, a lifeless sentence echoed in his ears:
"No manners. ”
Tails' gaze flickered.
What the?
This ball of light ...... Conscious?
"Huh?"
At this time, the colorless ball of light had a question, and the words were still dry: "I haven't seen you - where is your threshold?"
Threshold?
Magician...... Magical ...... The First Covenant of Magical Energy......
From what seemed to be a layer of memory, Tails remembered a few familiar terms.
He was suddenly excited!
But before he could think about it, his gaze suddenly moved away from the ball of light.
"Hey!"
The dry voice slowly decreased, as if shouting from a distance: "Who are you?"
Tails ignored it, his consciousness seemed to sink.
Bang!
Tails felt his vision shake again.
He came across a pile of iron-gray glitter shards?
Unlike the ball of light just now, this pile of debris seemed lifeless and unconscious.
But just when Tails was confused.
A puff of brown smoke greeted him.
It's just that this puff of smoke gives him the same feeling as iron-gray shards.
It seems to be lacking in life.
Not to mention not to speak.
Tails' heart moved, and the pile of debris and the puff of smoke slowly left.
Boom!
Another crash - Tails was used to it.
Soon, a cyan light appeared in front of him.
But this time, the light was conscious.
Glaucoma has a variable contour, ranging from round to rectangular, from oval to long.
"Ahh
"You're knocking?"
"Boss Frylan, Ashida, little stupid, old ghost Sagar, fierce Jilai, cute honor student, or flat-chested sister Giza?"
These names ...... Sound familiar?
Tails had a few doubts in his mind.
This is......
Where am I?
I'm here...... Do what?
Why am I ......? Can't remember anything?
"Hey," the voice from the cyan light continued to laugh, "don't tell me, you're the legendary Taurus boss!"
After thinking about a few questions, Tails's mind suddenly went into chaos.
In a panic, the cyan light suddenly disappeared in front of his eyes.
"Eh, how did you go...... It can't really be Taurus......"
The voice of cyan light came from afar:
"Don't be in a hurry...... You're my idol...... At least leave a signature......"
Tails slammed into it two more times, encountering two strange, lifeless, soundless beings: a silver wall of light, a golden cube.
Just as Tails was in a daze, a purple glimmer appeared in front of him.
This purple light flickered slightly, but it gave him a sharp and sharp feeling, and it was almost impossible to look at directly.
And its reaction is simple:
"Get out!"
Seems to be a stinky grumpy guy.
"Get out of here!"
Vicious voices continued.
Immediately after, the purple shimmer vanished.
Tails was slightly stunned, and a question appeared in his long consciousness:
What's going on?
The next second.
Boom!
After the impact, Tails came to the humanoid silhouette of a ray of light.
The silhouette of a humanoid?
It flashed with a familiar blue light.
Another one?
What does it feel like it's fluid and it's everywhere?
However, a familiar voice slowly came from the silhouette:
"Don't knock again. ”
"Tails. ”
Tails' thoughts flickered.
Does it know me?
This familiar voice......
"All of us, we feel your presence. ”
All of them?
My presence?
I?
At that moment, a lot of memories seemed to suddenly return to Tails's mind.
Tails' heart moved.
"Wait, you're ......" Tails looked at the ball of light suspiciously, a faint name emerging in his vague mind:
"You're Ashida?"
The outline of the blue light flashed slightly.
Tails confirmed his guess.
"I'm trapped underground, I don't know what happened to you, and I don't know why you can knock on the door directly......"
The beautiful voice of the Qi Magician, Ashida Sakern, came slowly from the ball of light, sounding calm and composed, without the slightest trace of superfluous emotion: "But this is too dangerous, you must withdraw from your original state immediately......"
Tails looked confused: "What?"
But "Ashida" did not respond to him, and only listened to the magician say anxiously:
"Listen! They sensed ...... too."
"They're going to come to you!"
"Before you get completely locked ......"
"Run!"