Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 341 Metaverse?
As Klein uttered the words "there's no going back", Star suddenly saw Klein disappear into the mysterious space above the gray fog.

At the moment when his figure was about to disappear, Star also saw Klein wave his hand in time, severing the connection between himself and the crimson star representing the "Wheel of Fortune".

So Star also withdrew from "Source Castle".

Then he saw the familiar configuration of the room around him—bed, pillow, chair, desk…

But that's not what we should focus on now.

Star immediately called the "Secret Saint" Butis on the "Channel".

"Is Xiao Ke going to be upset? I should have kept him in Sefirah Castle for psychological treatment!"

……

On the other side, Klein withdrew from the "Source Castle". The violent mental fluctuations consumed him so much that he was very tired. Even the sudden knowledge of the truth made Klein not only at a loss, but the whole world collapsed before his eyes.

Come back home.

This most simple wish has been Klein's lingering goal and obsession since he came here.

That was his greatest wish throughout.

Who would have thought that at this moment, Klein would accidentally discover the truth and even get confirmation from Star.

All motivation was shattered at this moment.

Come back home?

No, there's no going back.

Including my parents, best friends, and girls I once admired...

Games, snacks, internet...

All of these disappeared the moment the truth was learned, and were torn to pieces by the deep red reality.

And here is the bleak truth:
He can never go back.

Although he felt that he might not be able to return to "home" after learning that even seniors like Star had no illusions about "going back", but after truly confirming this and discovering that this world was his hometown, he still felt as if his hopes were completely shattered and the dawn was swallowed up by darkness.

It turns out that he really "does not belong to this era".

It turns out that reality is so cruel.

In an instant, his unstable state after the promotion fluctuated drastically, and Klein's entire body was covered with granulations, which was a sign of his body being completely alienated and turning into a monster, which was a precursor to his loss of control.

He was kicked out of Sefirah Castle.

Fortunately, at the last moment before his death, Klein also sent Star away from the "Source Castle".

"Goodbye, Senior Star."

"Maybe I really can't bear such a desperate truth?"

The feeling of melting and dissolving spread throughout his body. This time, Klein chose to give up because “there is nothing more sad than a dead heart.”

He was sweating all over and extremely tired. He just barely stood up and walked to the full-length mirror, trying to observe what he looked like now.

The scene in the mirror was extremely horrifying—

Klein saw that his face and exposed skin were covered with dense, light-colored granulations. This would make any normal creature feel numb all over and subconsciously resist just by looking at it. The more timid ones might even lose their minds.

Klein watched and couldn't help but close his eyes:

"I am hopeless. I must die. I will go to another world with them..."

Various different thoughts popped up in Klein's mind.

This wasn't a sign of insanity. Rather, Klein, who had already lost his will to fight and had no desire to survive, suddenly wanted to take advantage of this opportunity:

Just like that, it completely fell into depravity.

Losing control or dying.

In short, what else in the world is worth remembering?
Even if there was, Klein, who was half crazy due to the mental imprint within his Beyonder characteristics, could hardly pay attention to it.

Perhaps, pushing Senior Sta away just now was the last thing he could do.

Under the light of the gas fireplace, Klein took two steps back dejectedly, making the ground clatter under his feet.

The sound of tapping echoed throughout the empty room, but it did not interest Klein at all.

He wanted to lie down on the ground completely.

However, at this moment, a familiar voice came to Klein's ears that he had never expected.

"Hey, hey, hey. What are you doing?"

Klein then looked up.

"Star, how did he get in? By 'opening the door'?"

"Oh, I remember I gave him the key, that makes sense."

"Really? Have I reached the point where I can even forget something like this?"

"But maybe I can't do anything..."

Such a negative and pessimistic thought flashed through Klein's mind, causing his granulation to spread and grow even faster, but this process obviously would not continue like this.

Since Star knows, since Star is here.

Then let’s put Klein, who is in a pessimistic mood, on hold first!
"Xiao Ke, wake up first."

As soon as he said this, the dual extraordinary abilities of "empathy" and "reply" fell upon him, and Klein's poor condition finally did not continue irreversibly.

However, this is not enough, and a strong dose of medicine is still needed.

"Your parents are still waiting for you."

I don’t know if it had the opposite effect, but Klein’s condition began to deteriorate again, and his body began to twitch.

He just heard the news that he can't go back, and now you're saying this and rubbing salt into the wound. Aren't you trying to push him into the fire?
However, Star clearly understood Klein's current state, and added with a smile:
"I mean, they're not completely dead."

"Not completely dead yet, are you serious? Is there any chance of a turnaround in this kind of situation?"

"'Fate' never lies."

Star made a double entendre and made the "dice" roll a bright red "6" at this moment. Then he pulled Klein through the "channel" into a world of "idealism".

"In fact, you have been left in that gray fog for too long. You really don't belong to this era anymore."

"But is there a 'possibility' that we can actually capture the people you cherish and keep them intact somewhere, and when the time is right, we can release them and restore the 'hometown' you want to return to."

As he spoke, Star conjured up a picture. It was a rental house in an old city, where a family was sitting together happily eating dinner, and some friends came to visit.

Of course, if no corresponding solution is given to relieve the pain, it will inevitably deepen Klein's sadness.

Then later, a person's figure disappeared silently from this picture.

Then, some more.

Until the end, everyone was placed on a stage dominated by silk threads.

——That’s “fate”.

They are all performing their own different possibilities, but are bound to where they are, separated, and dissipating.

Especially the young man with black hair and black eyes who has been burdened with all kinds of misfortunes, it seems that "loneliness" is his predetermined fate.

But is that all?
Star rolled the "dice", and the scene changed rapidly, with drastic mutations occurring in it.

The power that came from nowhere spread out and broke through all these limitations. Gradually, he had a friend who fell from the sky, a new family that he gradually got along with, and...but returning home was a topic he could not avoid.

Although Klein felt a little excited by these facts, it ultimately did not touch his fundamental knot—the hometown that represented so many precious things could never be returned to...

At this point, Star had no choice but to come up with his own idea with the help of "idealism":

"Klein, if we take the people who have remained in the historical images of the past era, capture their various possibilities and destinies, and 'graft' them into a world similar to the 'Kingdom of God' but with a modern environment."

"In a way, isn't this also a 'resurrection' for them? Letting that era continue?"

Metaverse?
Klein's confused mind suddenly remembered this word, and he keenly grasped the key point in Sta's words.

Does this mean that he still has a chance to reunite with his parents and others in the new world?
Is this a kind of Star comfort?
he does not know.

But if it was Star, he must have his reasons for saying that.

Klein remembered what he had said to Star before:
"You can go back."

Is this what it means?

But isn't this just another form of deception?
Klein felt that even if he didn't consider the implementation issues afterwards.

How to ensure:
Those who were resurrected were the people he knew?

Rather than some type of "Swamp Man"?
That is, a "twisted puppet" that is fabricated to satisfy itself, just like Old Neil's original resurrection ritual.

Although the memories and emotions appear to be the same as those of the people he knows, what about the inside? Are they really the same people?

As if seeing through Klein's thoughts, Sta changed his tone and said:
"If it was captured from the mist of history, the information it contains, as long as it is not severely worn out, I think it can be 'restored'."

"However, this requires you to have reached at least the 'Ancient Scholar' level of the 'Fortune Teller' pathway, Sequence 3."

This is easy to say, but it is also easy for Klein to achieve:

Because the ceremony to advance to Sequence 3 was essentially a free gift, once Klein obtained the Ancient Scholar potion, he would be ready to advance after digesting the Trickster potion.

But in Klein's opinion, it was another goal that was difficult to achieve:
At least Ins Zangwill had been plotting for so long, and even snatched a "Level 0 Sealed Artifact" before he was promoted to a demigod. It is possible that he is now planning in this direction again.

Klein felt that without external help, it might be difficult for him to reach this sequence.

The only consolation is that this goal is both achievable and extremely difficult - and this seems to make it possible to "resurrect" those who disappeared in history.

After all, miracles always come with a price?
It's still challenging after all though.

But Star put his hand on Klein's shoulder:
"Come on, you can do it."

If that day comes, everyone will be reunited at that moment.

Perhaps this is indeed a vision worth looking forward to.

Klein smiled and looked back at Star with a shy face.

……

"Are you sure you want to know the truth about the fog, including how you got there?"

"kindness."

Klein nodded heavily and firmly.

After all, Star seemed to know a lot about all aspects of "travel" and even knew this "gray fog space" very well.

So why not just find out all the truths before embarking on the journey to find an opportunity to digest the potion and clues about the mermaid?
Anyway, Klein already knew the cruelest truth.

What's wrong with asking Star about other things?
As for how Star knew all this about Sefirah Castle, who cares?

After all, Star knew all these things, and Klein only needed to weigh in his heart whether to trust him.

The answer is obvious.

So when Klein insisted on asking Star about these things, Star saw that he was so persistent and did not refuse. Instead, he combined "idealism" to project a picture on a light screen.

Klein looked over and felt a little strange for a moment:
Because it was actually a picture about himself. Could it be that Star foresaw certain actions he would take in the future?
“That was him walking towards the depths of the mysterious space above the gray fog, towards the stairway of light that led to heaven.

What’s different from this time is that there are two more steps, steps where light is concentrated.

This time, Klein inside was sure that he could use the six steps that looked like the giant's to climb up the condensed gray cloud.

One step, two steps, three steps... He walked to the end, jumped, and stepped on the cloud formed by gray fog.

What caught his eyes was a brilliant gate of light stained with a hint of blue-black. It was composed of countless overlapping light balls. The main body of each light ball was a pile of twisted worms huddled together. Some of them were transparent, and some were translucent.

In addition, above the light gate, there were thin black lines hanging down, on which were suspended one almost completely transparent "cocoon" after another.

Those "cocoons" swayed gently, wrapping different souls. Some were black, some were yellow, and some were white. Some wore jeans, some held mobile phones, some wore bright clothes, and some had beautiful facial features. They all had the breath of life, but their eyes were closed.

Klein's eyes froze for a moment, and he seemed to be back on Earth, walking on a street filled with people of all races.

Then he noticed that three of the "cocoons" had been broken open, with nothing inside and swaying in the wind.

Klein raised his head and looked up, watching all this silently. "

And Klein outside the screen also watched all this silently, watching quietly.

"It seems quite interesting?"

For some reason, he was suddenly touched by Sta's way of telling stories, and this idea came to his mind.

It was as if Star had taken care of some of his possible emotions.

As soon as this picture was played, another clip was given by Star:
Zhou Mingrui, wearing a T-shirt and casual pants, set up a "lucky-luck ceremony" before dinner. He walked four steps backwards and chanted spells such as "Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Xian Zun".

In Klein's memory, nothing happened at that time. The scene in the clip that Costa gave was not like this!
After Zhou Mingrui walked four steps and completed the ceremony, his face turned pale and his eyes became dull.

Next, he ate, read, watched TV series, and played with his phone in a slightly jerky manner, seemingly completing a scheduled routine.

Finally, Zhou Mingrui came to the sink, looked at his lifeless eyes in the mirror, brushed his teeth and washed his face woodenly, and went to bed.

During this process, he did not change out of the T-shirt and casual pants he wore when going out. He just covered himself with the quilt and closed his eyes.

Not long after, strong light and violent shaking ended the corresponding segment.

Klein couldn't help but raise his hand, rubbed his forehead, and said with a self-deprecating smile:

"It turns out that nothing changed after the luck-changing ritual. Everything was normal. It was just my own perception. In fact, I had already undergone a change..."

In the past, Klein would have been horrified and frightened by the truth of this matter, but he had suffered too many shocks over such a long time. Just now, his worldview almost collapsed. This kind of "little thing" could not cause him too strong a ripple.

However, after discovering this, combined with the fact that the emperor "traveled" because he bought a mysterious silver plate, and that the spirit suspended in a transparent "cocoon" above the light gate actually had a cell phone, Klein quickly understood the situation.

Some guesses:
"It should be that the owner of 'Source Castle' influenced reality and delivered things like the 'Fortune-Transfer Ritual', the mysterious silver medal, and the mutated cell phone. Anyone who obtains them and performs corresponding operations will be pulled above the gray fog at some point and suspended at that light gate...

"This is a random selection, not directed to a specific person, and I don't know whether I am lucky or unlucky.

"But why is it named 'Records of Secret Alchemy Techniques of the Qin and Han Dynasties'? Was it just made up by the humans who were influenced, or was it really passed down from the Qin and Han Dynasties?

“Wait, maybe these things really happened in ancient times?”

Klein paused for a moment, then suddenly laughed at himself:
"Maybe it's super ancient..."

Because he is also considered an ancient person now.

And of course, there’s Star.

He glanced at Star, who was looking at him with a smile on his face after the show ended.

I don't know how long this senior has lived until now...

(End of this chapter)