From the end of the world

Chapter 190: Unspoken

Just like waking up from a dream, I returned to normal space.

It cannot be said that I have completely returned. Now part of my consciousness still remains in the secret base of the Humanitarian Department, but the focus of my consciousness has shifted to the Luoshan Office.

And I have to pay a little attention to the "fireflies" who are still accompanying the girl Lu Chan at the base. Most of the actions of the "fireflies" over there can actually be carried out by preset instructions, but the details still need to be adjusted in real time.

I heard that dolphins can make the left and right brain sleep alternately. Now I may be like a dolphin, with half of my consciousness in the real world and the other half in that nightmare-like scene.

Yes, a dream... Although I still don't think the Humanitarian Department's secret base is a dream, I must admit that it has the color of a dream. And the reason for this, after the "resistance to the power of restarting" incident, I have also figured it out more or less by feeling.

I stood up from the sofa in the Luoshan office and touched my forehead. A guess came into my mind, and I became more and more convinced that this was the correct answer.

I think all this is because the space there exists based on the fragments of the divine seal.

Although there is no doubt that it is reality, for the divine seal that can rewrite the world at will, and the people who possess the divine seal, even the real real world is probably no different from a fantasy bubble.

Dr. Silver Mask can rely on the power he dug out from the fragments of the Divine Seal - the "Power of Restart" to start all over again in that independent reality space, so for him, that independent reality space is a dream; and as a holder of the fragments of the Divine Seal, although I cannot act as recklessly as Dr. Silver Mask, I can be said to be on the same side as him.

Therefore, for me, that place is also a dream. The power of restart cannot reset me as a "real person" like resetting a dream, and the "firewall" that can theoretically prevent foreign invaders is also useless to me.

This is probably the reason why I can act recklessly inside the base as if I have activated a cheat, relying on my distorted cognition.

Until now, I still can't understand what the "power of the fragments of the divine seal" that the "chosen ones" in the virtual world call is, but I have obviously begun to be helped by some of the permanent characteristics of the fragments of the divine seal.

And in that "real dream", there are characters with "real attributes" other than me and Doctor Silver Mask.

That is Chen Long and the girl Lu Chan.

It's not that the researchers, guards, and demon hunters are not real people, but for the power of restart of Dr. Silver Mask, they are all fictional because they can be affected at will. However, Chen Long and the girl Lu Chan are completely different. They both show the characteristic that their consciousness is not affected by the power of restart.

If Chen Long was included in the whitelist of Doctor Silver Mask, then how should the girl Lu Chan explain it?
Not only is her consciousness unaffected by the power of restarting, she herself is also the "incarnation of dreams" that can only be born if she regards that independent real space as a dream.

For now, I can only find two possibilities: First, although she is not the holder of the divine seal fragment, she may have a connection with the divine seal fragment in some form, which is why she has such special properties;
Secondly, she is actually from Dr. Silver Mask's side, a spy planted in the experimental group to be responsible for internal surveillance. Therefore, Dr. Silver Mask would of course put her on the whitelist, and he could also make up an "identity setting in the dream" for her. As for the statement like "incarnation of dreams", she was deceiving me from beginning to end.

Which side will it be?
Seeing that I didn't speak after "awakening", Zhu Shi waited for a long time, and finally couldn't help but asked with concern: "Zhuang Cheng, what happened over there?"

"Was the body over there killed?" Lu Youxun also spoke up.

Ma Zao grabbed my sleeve without saying a word.

After talking more with the young girl Lu Chan, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotions when I saw Lu Youxun's face and voice again.

"No, everything is going well."

After thinking for a moment, I told the three people roughly what happened over there.

Of course, I cut out a lot of things that were inconvenient to tell Lu Youxun, mainly the information related to the fragments of the divine seal, but I still said that "Dr. Silver Mask possesses a mysterious black jade that can restart the base."

At first, I thought it would be best to keep the information about the girl Lu Chan from Lu Youxun, but after thinking about it, I felt that there was no need to keep it secret. Besides, I had already given them a head start last time, and it would be difficult to end it without giving them a follow-up. So I told them everything, wanting to hear their thoughts.

"My 'dream' became the incarnation of a young girl? That's what she said? Humph... There has to be a limit to not being able to justify one's own ideas!" Lu Youxun rarely showed a disdainful attitude, "I'm not the Great Impermanence, nor am I the Great Impermanence's descendant, how could there be an 'incarnation'? And it's a young girl... What nonsense.

"Zhuang Cheng, you don't have to take its words to heart. It must be a half-human creature that imitates my past words and deeds and is full of lies."

This really doesn't seem like the tone he would use, as he is always very reserved. Zhu Shi and I looked at each other in surprise. His reaction somewhat confirmed what the young girl Lu Chan said - for Lu Youxun, the young girl Lu Chan was a taboo existence, symbolizing the hellish memory that he couldn't bear to look back on, so he subconsciously rejected the existence of his other self in every possible way.

Seeing our strange expressions, he seemed to realize that he was being a bit evasive, so he added: "...I'm just worried that there will be accidents in the battle against the Humanitarian Department. You know, I attach great importance to the success or failure of this operation...I really don't mean anything else."

Zhu Shi changed the subject sympathetically: "Zhuang Cheng, it's a good thing that you found your brother, but is it really okay to destroy the independent reality space over there?" "Why do you say that?" I asked.

"The independent reality space is indeed a cage that traps all the demon hunters there, but if it is destroyed directly, will all the people inside fall into the void?" She raised a possibility.

This is something I hadn't thought about.

However, the reason why I didn't think in this direction was because I had the answer in my mind from the beginning.

What she is worried about is unlikely to happen. Although I cannot produce material evidence to prove my idea, the independent reality space over there should be in a "place" very close to the real world, so I can feel the fragment of the divine seal over there in the real world.

And when I was forced to log out of the "Broken Void", I did not feel that I had fallen into the so-called void, but was directly sent back to the real world.

Therefore, they should also return to their original location, which is the old base of the Humanitarian Department.

I expressed my thoughts, and Lu Youxun nodded and said, "That's good. After you destroy the space over there, Luoshan will be led by the Divine Spear to launch an attack on the Humanitarian Department forces that have returned to reality. There will definitely not be any fish that slip through the net."

“It’s a pity for the demon hunters trapped in it…” Zhu Shi sighed.

As for those researchers engaged in dark science experiments, Zhu Shi's attitude when he heard my description was the same as that of the young girl Lu Chan: if there is no need to kill them, leave them alone; if necessary, kill them without mercy.

Maybe Zhu Shi also has the mental strength to become a hero - I had this thought.

Then, I looked at Lu Youxun again.

What transcendenceism ultimately depicts is a world where mortals are treated as consumable resources.

And what he hoped for was such a world.

How should I view this Lu Chan? He had deliberately misled my impression of transcendence in the past, and he was not very attractive to me as a believer in evil. Although I call myself a villain, I still want to be friends with good people in the general sense, so I am destined not to get along with a transcendentalist like him. Thinking about it this way, the reason why I couldn't get close to him in the past was probably because I unconsciously rejected him on this level.

The young girl Lu Chan asked me to help return the "hero's dream" to him, and this process would kill the current Lu Youxun spiritually. As a result, the world would have one less evil transcendentalist and one more dreamer who strives to contribute to society, which seems to be a win-win situation. But I was somewhat resistant to this choice.

No matter what, the Lu Chan who wanted to be a hero in the past was a stranger to me, and the Lu Youxun in front of me was an acquaintance who had shown kindness to me. From another perspective, his misleading of me was what most people would do, whitewashing their own positions, just like no one would deliberately say the bad things when sharing their favorite food; and the reason why the young Lu Chan took that approach was also to lower my impression of Lu Youxun.

"Lu Chan, do you want to be a hero?" I asked.

Lu Youxun asked in surprise: "Why are you asking me this all of a sudden? Did that strange creature say something strange to you?"

I haven't figured out how to answer that yet.

He looked at me for a long while, then lowered his head to think, and then slowly said: "Hero? Hero... that's something only children would believe in, right?

“…I was indeed as naive as a child in the past, and for a while I truly believed in that kind of thing, but…even if I tried hard to be a hero and saved as many people as possible, nothing good would happen in the end.

“Heroes save the desperate...but when heroes are desperate, who will come to save the heroes?”

Zhu Shi said thoughtfully: "You mean..."

"No, you misunderstood. I wasn't good enough in the past to call myself a hero." Lu Youxun waved his hand.

"That's not the case." Zhu Shi said calmly, "I used to respect you very much."

Lu Youxun seemed to be deaf to those words and let them get lost and die in the air.

(End of this chapter)