From the end of the world

Chapter 508: Immortal Body

Not long ago, I met a girl who was a victim of the Great Demon of Disaster, and confirmed this in the cartographer's diary. At this moment, I heard the name of the Great Demon of Disaster again, and this time the other party was chasing Xiaowan.

Although I haven't come into direct contact with it yet, seeing the clues of the Great Demon of Disaster being pushed to me continuously like this, I can't help but feel that there is probably some kind of fate connection between me and the other party. I am afraid that in the near future, I will inevitably come into direct contact with the Great Demon of Disaster.

This is not only a premonition, but also a natural assumption. Since the Great Demon of Disaster is chasing Xiaowan, and I want to protect Xiaowan, then the conflict between us is completely predictable.

But why would the Demon of Disaster chase Xiaowan?
Youhun was not particularly clear about this matter. In fact, he had not personally witnessed the scene of the Great Demon of Disaster chasing Xiaowan, otherwise he might not have been able to appear in front of us alive. He told me that Xiaowan told him this in person.

First of all, it is logical that Youhun also asked Xiaowan the above question like me, and Xiaowan said to him at that time: "Maybe it's because I escaped from the hands of the Great Demon of Disaster in the past."

"Escape?" asked the wandering soul at that time in confusion.

"Yes. Unlike now, I was in a state where I could easily encounter strange things in the past for some reason. The Great Demon of Disaster was probably attracted by this method at that time." Xiaowan explained very patiently, "In that desperate situation, I used a certain method. Although I ended up being separated from my sister who always protected me, I managed to escape from the desperate situation.

“After that, I thought I was completely away from the source of the crisis, but that was not the case.

"The Great Demon of Disaster is not a demon that will not allow any living creature to escape from its hands. Occasionally, there are witnesses who survive after being attacked by the Great Demon of Disaster. However, the difference between 'someone who was lucky enough not to be burned to death' and 'someone who escaped from its hands with mysterious power' may be different to it. My actions seem to have stimulated it.

"Recently, I have always had a bad premonition. This premonition has become more and more intense, and even formed visual and auditory hallucinations, allowing me to vaguely see the figure of the Great Demon of Disaster chasing me.

“I can conclude that this is not my imagination, but the Great Demon of Disaster is really about to catch up with me.

"It is difficult to escape from the clutches of the Great Demon of Disaster by relying on luck and prayer alone. Even if I rely on the random teleportation phenomenon of the chaotic space-time in the doomsday era, the probability of my next escape is infinitely close to zero.

"Then... Mr. Wandering Soul, perhaps this statement will hurt your self-esteem, but I still have to say it... If you stay by my side, it will hinder my escape.

"Because in that case, I will have to share my good luck with you, which will only reduce the chances of success in escaping. And if I don't share it with you, you will have no way to survive beside me."

Hearing what the other party said, Youhun felt helpless. In front of the Great Demon of Disaster, the blessed monks and ordinary survivors could only leave it to fate. Under the condition that he could only rely on luck, he would indeed only hinder Xiaowan.

"You mean... you want me to abandon you, my benefactor, and run away alone with my tail between my legs?" he asked with difficulty accepting.

Xiao Wan said very seriously: "Yes, I hope you can run away, run away far away.

"But if you think you are abandoning me to certain death, don't. Because your future actions may very well save me from this hopeless situation."

If someone else spoke to Youhun like this, saying that he was being hunted by the Demon of Disaster and that he had a plan to survive, Youhun would definitely think that the other person was bragging.

However, Xiaowan had performed incredible miracles in front of him more than once. Maybe she was really sure? With this uncertain thought, he separated from Xiaowan after arriving at a small gathering place for survivors.

It is of course dangerous to let Xiaowan stay in a place where there are other survivors, because those people may recognize Xiaowan's identity, capture him alive and offer him to the Gospel Temple. However, Xiaowan cannot stay alone for a long time, so he can only resort to this last resort.

The wandering soul now can no longer return to that place. Even if it can return by chance, it is very likely that the time period it arrives at will not be the time when Xiaowan stayed at that place.

After listening to the ghost's story, I had no choice but to focus on more pressing issues.

"You said... your future actions will affect the life and death of that girl. What does that mean?" Tan Xiang seemed to be unable to resist asking, "You have been imprisoned by the cartographer for such a long time. Have you completed the action before? Is it too late to continue now?"

"Not yet. Still halfway through." The wandering soul said, "I don't know if I will make it in time, but we are currently in a different time from her, and there is no such concept as 'whether it is too late'. The only way is to continue to act."

As he said, it was useless to worry about whether I could catch up. I suppressed my impulse and asked, "So, what is Xiaowan's plan? What did she ask you to do?"

The wandering soul paused for a moment, then replied: "This matter...is related to my wish."

"Is it your wish that 'even gods and humans cannot fulfill'?" I asked, "What do you want?"

“I wish I could die.”

The voice of the wandering soul was very calm, as if he was talking about something insignificant. Hearing this, the figure of the cartographer emerged in my mind.

One is a perpetrator and the other is a victim, but both of them show highly similar mental outlooks.

I have also seen signs of this self-destructive psychological tendency in Ma Zao.

Tan Xiang was also stunned on the spot. After a long while, he said in an incomprehensible voice: "You want to die? Let's not talk about the reason. If you just want this, can't you just find a rope to strangle yourself to death?

Halfway through his speech, he realized the problem, "No, you have an immortal body... Is it possible that you can't turn on and off your immortal power?"

If that's all, then I might be able to do it for him.

The immortality of the wandering soul should be his ability as a blessed monk, and the strength of his soul is only around the living level. No matter how powerful the immortality of this character is, there is no reason why my flame cannot destroy it. As long as I burn it to death with serious killing intentions, he will not be able to make a comeback even if he raises himself to the great success level.

But I don’t think that just by doing this, I can help the little bowl that doesn’t know where it is.

"There is no such thing as absolute immortality in this world. As long as the mechanism behind it is cracked, the so-called immortality is a joke. Even for me." Youhun said, "My immortality mechanism is very simple. As long as I use a false name and identity, and it is not seen through by others, then others will not be able to kill me.

"This should be a very easy-to-understand logic - if my real identity is A, and I use a false identity B, and the other party can only recognize B but not A, then they can only kill B. In other words, even if the other party cuts off my head, it can only give me a false death."

After listening to this, Tan Xiang showed an expression of sudden enlightenment, "Oh... It's like in a video game, the player has to fight a boss with two stages and two health bars. No matter how much damage he inflicts in the first stage, he can't kill the boss before it enters the second stage and reveals its true form?"

Miraculously, the wandering soul continued very skillfully: "That's right, and after I die in the first stage, I will not automatically enter the second stage, but will be resurrected again in the first stage form."

"Isn't that just a bug?" Tan Xiang was dumbfounded. "Wait, you actually know about video games?"

"It's just that this kind of knowledge remains in my brain." Youhun shook his head, "Let's continue. The problem now is that not only do other people not know my true identity, but I myself don't know my true identity either."

"That is to say, even if you kill yourself now, your own immortal power will judge it as a 'false death' and then resurrect you..." I understood the logic.

The wandering soul nodded.

"I have experienced too much tragedy and misfortune, and have gone through an extremely long period of despair... so long that I can no longer remember why I was sad and desperate." His face was expressionless like a corpse, "Now I don't want to live anymore... and if I want to die, I must first remember who I am.

"The problem is that the memories that were washed away by madness cannot be retrieved again. Even if you are lucky enough to retrieve your forgotten name, the life memories it represents cannot be retrieved. At most, you can only pick up some fragments and sentimentality that are like illusions.

"Even a human god can only protect himself at best, and cannot help us regain our past."

The same is true for Ma Zao. Although she still remembers her name, she still cannot keep her memory. And although Xiao Wan got her name back with my help not long after losing it, she also lost some of her memories of the time when she and Ma Zao survived together in the apocalypse.

Even the powerful "blessed monks" who are hailed as demigods and the owners of the right-hand law of heaven and earth are like this, not to mention those ordinary survivors and blessed monks.

Suddenly, I remembered an item.

Ma Zao once told me that in the apocalypse, there is a way to retrieve past memories. There is actually a way to do something that even gods cannot do.

"Is your target 'San Sheng Shi San'?" I asked.

The San Sheng Shi Powder can allow survivors of the doomsday era to regain the memories they want. At the same time, this may be the only known solution for doomsday survivors to regain their past memories.

Although it is only a part of the memory, most of the human memory is irrelevant. Even without the influence of madness, many people may not be able to remember things like "what I had for lunch three weeks ago". Only a part of the memory is truly important and useful.

Since you can lock in the part that meets your expectations, it is more than enough to get back your past self.

(End of this chapter)