From the end of the world

Chapter 255 The truth behind Ma Zao's time travel 1
This time, being pulled into the virtual realm in the Fufeng base seemed to be an unexpected incident that had no impact on the current situation, but on second thought, it might have a significant meaning.

As long as I use the fragments of the Divine Seal to make a deal with the Lord of the Divine Seal, I can get the answers I want. Although not all questions can be answered, since the other party said that he knows most of the things that happen in this world, there are probably many secrets that cannot be learned through common sense. For example, the truth about the coming of the doomsday, and the secret of the source of my superpowers...

For example, the true identity of Da Wuchang behind the magic gun, and where Yin Yue took Chang'an's soul.

Especially the last one. Now, I have some investigation directions related to the identity of the hostile Great Impermanence, but I am completely blind to the whereabouts of Yin Yue and Chang An's souls. Anyone can think that the longer the time is delayed, the more likely it is to have a bad result. Neither I nor Mr. Zhu have any signs of tracking. Maybe this is a problem that can only be solved by some cheating methods.

However, I still have some doubts about proposing a deal with the Lord of the Divine Seal. It is very likely that, as Ma Zao and Zhu Shi said in the past, there is a conspiracy and malice brewed by the Lord of the Divine Seal. Now that I have successfully arrived in the virtual realm, I will not rush to communicate. Other selected people may also try to propose a deal to the Lord of the Divine Seal. For the sake of safety, I will wait until everyone is present to observe their attitudes and movements, and then consider whether to trade and how to trade.

At the moment, I want to ask No. 2 Xiaowan a mystery that has troubled Ma Zao and me for a long time - why did Ma Zao, who was originally in the doomsday era, accidentally travel to the modern world?

From Ma Zao's own perspective, this was a mysterious malfunction that occurred unexpectedly when she manipulated the power of return to initiate space transfer; and when No. 2 Xiaowan and I first met, he mentioned a very important piece of information - the reason why Ma Zao came to the modern world was that there was some kind of inseparable causal relationship between her and him.

At this point, I asked her the question directly.

She nodded as expected, then paused, as if thinking about how to answer. My heart was slightly hanging. Although her memory was restored and digested, the apocalypse era was full of madness that made people insane, and it was easy to lose memory and self. Even if she got rid of the crisis of demonization, it did not mean that there would be no sequelae. It was very likely that there were some memories in her memory that could not be retrieved due to madness.

Fortunately, I still heard the answer I wanted.

"Yes, I have remembered everything about the accidental time travel incident, Mr. No. 3." No. 2 Little Bowl said slowly, "It may take a little more time to explain. Is that okay?"

"no problem."

This is one of the biggest mysteries to date, so even if I’m sleepy, I have to force myself to concentrate and focus all my attention: “Go ahead.”

"First of all, the reason why Sister Mazao traveled through time is related to the ability I have." She said, "Do you still remember what my ability is?"

"It's the ability to see through lies, right?"

Strictly speaking, this is definitely not all. According to my observation, what Xiaowan No. 2 really possesses is a kind of extraordinary perception. That's why she was able to see through me as the "ghost" who first invaded the virtual world before No. 1. The "ability to see through lies" is most likely also a part of this super perception ability.

I seem to often meet people with super perception. Apart from No. 2 Xiaowan, there is also Zhu Shi, and the recently met Dong Che. Even I myself have gradually developed incredible intuitive powers.

"In fact, my real ability is not 'seeing through lies', nor is it the so-called 'perception'." Little Bowl No. 2 continued, "Although I have almost lost all memories related to my growing up experience, based on the only remaining impressions, I seem to have been able to communicate with nature since I was a child."

"Natural...communication?" I asked.

"To put it simply, I can hear the voices of flowers, trees, and animals. I can also initiate spiritual communication with them through my thoughts. I can even communicate with certain spiritual objects. I can even listen to the sounds of the natural world itself and try to have a conversation with it," she said.

"It sounds like an ancient witch offering sacrifices to heaven and earth," I said.

“In fact, I think I could do something similar in the past.”

As he spoke, Little Bowl No. 2 explained the details of his power in more depth.

Just as I had a preconceived impression, she could predict astronomical and geographical changes by listening to the sounds of nature, just like the gods and witches promoted by some ancient religions. She could also pray to nature to a certain extent for blessings, to make it rain or clear up, or to keep natural disasters away from the land she lives in, or even to make the crops harvested.

Although she has no fighting power and can be easily suppressed by any adult, she also has some means of dealing with danger. Because she can get along well with nature, she is also very lucky. The ancients believed that as long as people follow the will of heaven, everything will go well, but if they go against the will of heaven, disasters will come one after another. Therefore, she can not only make herself very lucky, but also make the object of her hatred very unlucky.

If Ma Zao is a jinx, then she is a lucky star. However, the powers mentioned above are all quite unstable and unreliable. Let's not talk about luck, which is inherently unstable. For example, if you pray for rain, you may originally pray for rain tomorrow, but sometimes it may be delayed for a week before it rains. Nature seems to have its own temper. Sometimes it wants to be lazy, and sometimes it pretends not to hear. Power that does not belong to you is so inconvenient.

Moreover, in terms of strength, her good luck was obviously not as strong as Mazao's bad luck. When she was with Mazao, her good luck did not make Mazao's frequent strange events better at all - yes, not only did it not completely offset them, but there was no sign of weakening, and it almost brought her to death several times.

Then again, if Ma hadn't rescued her when they first met, she would have become a karma demon from the very beginning, so she has no complaints about it.

I asked midway: "When Ma Zao mentioned you to me before, she said that you were just a ten-year-old girl without any special powers... Did you never mention your special abilities to Ma Zao?"

"If I tell it, Sister Ma Zao will definitely feel very guilty," she said.

"That's true." I thought about it and said, "What about the ability to change the weather? Haven't you used this ability in front of Ma Zao before?"

"It has never been used...or rather, it cannot be used."

She continued to explain to me.

Although she does theoretically have the power to change the weather, in the post-apocalyptic world, this power of praying to heaven and earth is in a state of being unusable. The problem is not with her, but with the world. The world seems to be dead, or on the verge of death, and therefore cannot respond to her voice.

It was a desperate era in the true sense of the word, where no one could get any help from heaven or earth.

She was born into the wrong world.

Apart from her incredible luck, her ability to communicate with nature was greatly limited. The flowers, plants and trees in the Doomsday Land were basically withered and dead, animals were rarely seen, and there were overwhelmingly many monsters and demons. Even she couldn't communicate with those crazy and weird things.

She could try to communicate with humans in a friendly way - because she could communicate with animals in a friendly way, so as long as she used this ability on humans, she could make humans have a good initial favorable impression of her. Unfortunately, the survivors of the doomsday era did not know when they would be infected by madness and turned into demons, so they could not be trusted in the end.

Even if we exclude the factors of madness and demonization, humans living in that era originally had various mental illnesses and crazy emotions, and there were countless people with pathological personalities. Even if they had the ability of "friendly communication", they might not be able to trust the people around them, and some people would even do immoral and twisted behaviors just because the other person was their beloved.

In my opinion, Ma Zao's personality can be considered to have pathological symptoms, but according to No. 2 Xiaowan, among the group of doomsday survivors, lone wolf survivors like Ma Zao who don't interact much with others are actually the type with better mental state.

After all the calculations, during the time he was with Ma Zao, the most stable ability that No. 2 Xiaowan could display was his powerful insight.

If I have to say something else, it is that she seems to be able to bless people, making them healthy and energetic - I suspect that Ma Zao's "relatively good" mental state may also be due to her.

Then comes the most crucial part.

One day, during a routine exploration of ruins, Xiaowan No. 2 picked up a mysterious black jade. Her intuition told her that this was an extraordinary item, and Ma Zao immediately identified it as a fragment of the divine seal with her mysterious knowledge.

After a brief discussion, the two decided to abandon this hot potato in the ruins, but no matter how they abandoned it, the fragment of the divine seal would eventually return to the hands of Xiaowan No. 2.

Just as they were thinking about how to completely discard the fragments of the divine seal, a monster with black flames burning all over its body suddenly appeared in front of them.

The great demon of disaster has arrived.

(End of this chapter)