Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 340 The Truth
"How should I put it? I know about the stairs that suddenly appeared in the gray fog."

Above the gray fog, after Klein nervously told about his new discovery, Star responded.

Having said this, he paused, tapped the edge of the long bronze table, and emphasized in a solemn tone.

"But young man, can you really bear the answer to this question?"

"what is the answer?"

Klein leaned forward, his concern as if it was related to his own life.

He had thought about this a long time ago:

The grey fog was most likely the biggest source of the mystery surrounding his time travel. This could be seen from the fact that he moved the mysterious ritual from an ancient book of alchemy that led to his time travel here, and was able to connect to this grey foggy space.

And now, a special change has appeared in the gray fog, and it is a change that Klein originally thought that Star didn't know about.

Of course, he knew that now.

In short, Klein was surprised by this answer, and as expected, he raised a question.

And this is what Star wants to avoid.

But once Klein was promoted to Faceless Man, he would inevitably see the stairs in the gray fog and the changes that followed. So he was faced with a problem:
Will Xiao Ke tell Star?
If he only told part of it or didn't tell it at all, Star would help him quietly get rid of the aura of the gray mist on him that might attract Zaratul and Amon.

If you don't tell or only tell part of it, it is naturally for privacy reasons. Keeping a little secret of the fool, then when Star handles it, he naturally doesn't have to worry about the news of the cruel truth.

If he were to reveal everything directly like he is doing now, Sta would have to face a problem:
Since Klein was so frank, what about him?

Is it necessary to hide it from Klein?

If it were in the past, Star might have been inclined to put this issue aside for a while.

But now, knowing the "endless possibilities" that may be produced by the combination of [Idealism] and [Infinity], Sta couldn't help but hesitate again.

It seems to be consistent with his previous intuition:
Can the “infinite” path really “tamper” with everything in the end, or even restore the olden days?

If this is true, why would he deliberately hide it from Klein?

It is better to tell the truth and retain a glimmer of "hope" in the end. This is also a solution.

But, is he really sure he can do such a thing?
Or, can the “infinite” approach guarantee this possibility in the end?
It seems that I can’t…

So the problem came to a deadlock again.

Star could only sigh and then told Klein:

"Xiao Ke, there is an abyss ahead. Do you really want to persist like this?"

"What is the Abyss?"

Klein became confused:
Why is Star so serious? Isn't the word "abyss" a bit too exaggerated?

Or, "abyss" actually has its mystical interpretation, which refers to the "abyss" in the mythology and legend of the extraordinary world, the "abyss" referred to by terms such as "the source of all evil", "the land of depravity" and "the residence of the devil".

But the real "abyss" is the dark side of the universe where even gods can be corrupted. It should be independent of the real world like the spirit world. At least that's what the Book of Secrets and the books he had come across before in the Nighthawks recorded...

If this is true, then what is the origin of this mysterious space above the gray fog?
Star didn't know that Klein had already made such an assumption, and said leisurely:

"The abyss is the abyss."

"Which abyss is that?" "It's a metaphor. If I have to say it, that secret may not be something you can bear right now."

"What is it that you need to hide from me right now?"

Klein continued to ask questions because he had a vague feeling that the answer to this question was extremely important to him.

At this moment, a flash of inspiration suddenly occurred to him:
"What is it that I can't bear?"

"After all, I've experienced things like 'travel through time' and 'resurrection from the dead'. It's hard to say what other big things will shock me."

"Wait... 'Crossing'..."

Klein suddenly caught a key word.

Compared to "time travel", what is the thing he has always wanted and never given up?
It’s “going home”!

At this moment, Klein's mind flashed through all of Star's abnormalities—the subtle nostalgia he always had when talking about that era, his evasive and hesitant attitude about how to tell himself, and his tone of indifference when it came to "going home"...

And more confirmation.

Pfft!
Klein seemed to hear his heart rapidly contracting and then expanding. All the expressions on his face froze at this moment, and common sense about the current world suddenly popped up in his mind:

"There are twelve months in a year, three hundred and sixty-five days, and there are leap years...

"Twenty-four hours a day, sixty minutes an hour, sixty seconds a minute...

“It is confirmed to be a planet…

"There is one and only one sun and one moon in the sky..."

Pfft!Pfft!Pfft!
Klein's instinct stopped him from thinking further, but a "voice" emerged from deep in his heart:
Maybe there has never been such a thing as "time travel", and I have actually always been on Earth...

As this idea took shape, many details that had not caught his attention erupted in Klein's mind like a volcano:

"According to the intelligence we have collected, there is a legend that there is an ancient deep-sea well in the easternmost part of the Sonia Sea. There are decaying and collapsed steel buildings around it. These seem to be left by humans...

"The overall topography of the North and South continents is very similar to that of North and South America, except that the large area near the two continents was wiped out by some unknown force, forming a turbulent sea with complex waterways and twists and turns... Also, Sonia Island is like the large island in the north, which drifted south as a whole... The Sea between the Continents is like an expanded and connected version of the Great Lakes, as if it had been hit by a huge meteorite...

"On the northern continent, the mountains and rivers have changed a lot, but the overall shape is still barely recognizable...

"In the legend of treasure at sea, there is a lost civilization called Newins, which sank somewhere in the misty sea...

"The Giant King's parents are humans... The origins of the vampires and elves are also suspected to be humans..."

How could there be so many coincidences? How could there be so many similarities?

Klein suddenly felt so sad that he wanted to laugh, even though it seemed like he hadn't felt that way in a long time.

but:

Damn it, is the truth just like this [beep-][beep-]?
Can not go back……

"You can still go back."

Klein heard these words, but he couldn't control his anger and shouted:
"You are lying!"

"Can not go back……"

(End of this chapter)