From the end of the world

Chapter 93 Night Talk 1
Zhu Shi paused for a moment, then laughed: "You're asking now?"

I should have asked this question earlier, and it's not that hard to notice. It's just that when people are influenced by emotions, their vision becomes narrow.

Previously, my attention was focused on Ma Zao, and my mind was full of the fact that without Ma Zao, I would be shut out of the weird world in the future. But now I finally put my mind at ease, and my vision was broadened to see other directions.

Assuming that the Great Impermanence are like me in the past and are unable to normally come into contact with the weird and weird things, then they will not be able to rule Luoshan.

It’s not like I haven’t met Luoshan members like Zhu Shi in the past, but I couldn’t recognize that she was a demon hunter at that time, and she couldn’t recognize that I was a superpower. She had doubted whether I was involved with strange things before. As long as she used “Buzhou Mountain” to observe me once with suspicion and curiosity, even if it was only once, she would immediately realize that I was a superpower.

But she didn't, not even once. So it can be seen that the reason why I couldn't get in touch with the strange world in the past was not only because of the dimension of "I'm too strong, strange things are afraid of me and dare not approach me", but also because of the influence of fate. Therefore, even those strange events that only exist as phenomena, I have never encountered them.

Humans who manipulate strange powers are obviously also within the scope of this influence, and Luoshan is where these humans gather. How can the Great Impermanence come into contact with them?

Zhu Shi seemed to sort out his knowledge on the other end of the phone, and after a few seconds he replied: "Unfortunately, even the Great Impermanence does not have a permanent solution to this mutually exclusive effect."

"If the root cause cannot be cured, then at least the symptoms can be cured?" I thought, "Could it be that the Great Impermanence uses the same method as me, to cure the symptoms by making friends with people who can attract monsters? Or do they have props that can attract monsters?"

"I don't know how many methods the Great Impermanence have used, but there is one method that they have definitely used and are still using now," she said.

"What method?" I was curious.

"It's 'connection'." She answered, "Most of the Great Impermanence were not Great Impermanence from the beginning. They are different from you in the past in that they have all gone through the process of going from weak to strong in the strange world. In this process, they have formed a connection with the people in the strange world and left their own footprints.

"If a ship wants to stay on the shore, it must anchor itself. If the anchor is not strong enough, the ship will be washed away by the waves; on the other hand, as long as there are enough anchors, it can stay where it wants to stay."

After listening to it, I quickly figured it out.

The repulsion effect will sever the fate of Great Impermanence and the strange world. In this case, let's establish countless fates.

What a simplistic and crude idea.

Although this is certainly not something that can be done overnight, I should probably practice this method.

In the past, I just thought of Luoshan as a platform for me to contact weirdness, but I was not interested in participating in the activities within the Luoshan organization. That kind of thinking may be problematic. If I want to anchor myself like Da Wuchang, I need to establish enough fate within Luoshan.

Is it for this reason that the Great Impermanence built Luoshan? The emperors of ancient times were able to issue decrees to mobilize a large number of people to dig mountain roads and open canals, which can be regarded as the great power of human civilization. The Great Impermanence, who are like gods, can exert such great power by themselves, and it seems that there is no need to gather people. But if it is to prevent oneself from being excluded from the strange world, the necessity of gathering people seems to have been formed.

At this moment, a flash of inspiration came to my mind, and I suddenly realized a terrifying possibility -

Today, the power of the divine seal no longer interferes with the secular society and the strange world. The latter can influence the former at will, and is even exerting its influence more and more. In other words, the strange world will sooner or later become indistinguishable from the secular society.

However, the effect of the Great Impermanence being rejected by the strange world has not disappeared, and the evidence is myself. The power of the divine seal disappeared three years ago, and I was still unable to contact the strange until I came into contact with Ma Zao this month.

In the past, Great Impermanence lost its anchor with the weird world and at most returned to the secular society, only losing half of the world; if Great Impermanence is like this again in the future, he may be completely rejected by humans and the weird world.

Re-examining the question of "Luo Shan wants to rule the secular society" along this line of thought seems to enable us to see more things.

And if they are really rejected completely, how will the Great Impermanence exist in this world?
How will I exist in this world?

"Zhu Shi, has there ever been a great impermanence in the past where you lost your anchor?" I asked.

"There have been some. After all, not all the Great Impermanence have reasons to stay in this world, and not all the Great Impermanence like to establish relationships with others. Over time, those Great Impermanence disappeared." Zhu Shi said.

"Do you, Luoshan, still have a way to find those great impermanences?"

"We can't find them, and we can't even confirm whether they are alive or dead." She seemed to shake her head, "But most of them should still be alive. The big typhoons that swept the world in the past few years, or the unexplained earthquakes... those natural disasters are believed to be the work of some unmoored great impermanence."

It sounds like, from Luo Shan's subjective perspective, the unpredictable impermanence that has lost its anchor is not so much human as it is the unpredictable power of the gods themselves. It's like the ancients would personify unpredictable natural disasters and worship them as gods; and after losing this kind of "anchor", the gods return to being pure natural disasters.

In the past, Zhu Shi said that the Great Impermanence were the prototypes of some gods in myths and legends, but I didn't feel much reality. Now I can actually feel the divinity of the Great Impermanence from such a strange angle.

With this inexplicable feeling, I told Zhu Shi all my previous speculations.

After listening to this, she fell into a long silence, and then said: "...It seems that my previous consideration was too shallow."

"What were you thinking about before?" I wondered.

"I originally wanted to persuade you to give up your relationship with Ma Zao after this incident. After all, unlike us, you have the conditions to escape from the weird world unscathed. But I know you probably won't agree, so I have been hesitating about how to tell you..." She sighed, "But if the ending is that you are rejected by both the weird and human worlds, maybe I should persuade Ma Zao to stay by your side and help you gain a foothold in Luoshan."

"Persuade Ma Zao..." I just felt that my thoughts were suddenly opened up.

Just now I felt that being doubly rejected by the weird and human worlds was a huge crisis, but many times crises are also opportunities.

I have thought about whether I should imitate No. 2 Xiaowan and make Ma Zao feel that she can't live without me. But I was worried about how to act in a peaceful modern society to make her believe that I can't live without her. And isn't this the best reason? I don't even need to lie, I just need to tell the truth!

I can even package it as my initial motivation for taking her in... No, this still won't work, because I didn't know anything about the weird world before I met her. And the above method must also be based on the premise that she believes I'm not a bad person... I still have to solve this problem first before I can talk about the follow-up.

If I just hug her waist and say "How can I live without you", it seems a bit wasteful. Should I ask Zhu Shi to say it for me? Or is it better to tell her the preliminary information first, and then subtly guide her to come to this conclusion herself?
There is no need to rush to play this card for the time being. You can use your brain more and think about how to make the most of this opportunity.

After a few more words, I ended the call with Zhu Shi, then put the prepared food on a plate and took it to the dining table in the living room.

Ma Zao was sitting on the sofa, observing the shadow-changing monster finger she had obtained earlier. When she saw me bring out the delicious food, she immediately took back the finger that was ruining the mood and ran over impatiently.

She sat down across the table skillfully, picked up her bowl and chopsticks, and ate with me. It was incredible, but even though there was only one more person sitting across from me, the table felt completely new to me.

In the past three days, I couldn't even think of cooking. At most, I just ordered a few takeout meals to make do with. After all, I have eaten before. But now I have an inexplicable feeling, as if I haven't really eaten a meal in the past three days, and now I finally have a hot meal.

After finishing the meal, Ma Zao showed a satisfied expression. It seemed that just seeing this expression gave me the motivation to cook again next time.

"Is it delicious?" I asked.

She nodded vigorously and said, "Delicious!"

After washing the dishes, I returned to the living room. She sat back on the sofa and observed the shadow-changing finger again.

"The last time you took the charcoal finger from my house, was it also to use the ability to track down the monster?" I asked.

"Hmm? Yeah... Come to think of it, that charred finger should be the remains of the 'human who turned into a monster' that you mentioned to me on the rooftop of the abandoned building, right?" She said with a puzzled expression, "I originally wanted to use that charred finger as a clue to investigate the monster, but after using the power of blessing to investigate, I could only see the original owner of the finger wandering around the city, and I couldn't find any useful clues at all."

It is very likely that Agent Kong originally handed over all the actions as a weirdo to his puppet, while he himself was only responsible for the work of an agent.

"When you first found Coke Fingers in my house, you didn't know that I was a person with super powers, right? Didn't you ever doubt the origin of Coke Fingers?" I asked.

"Suspicious... not really." Ma Zao seemed to be recalling his emotions at the time, "I thought you were probably just affected by my physique, so it wouldn't be strange even if you picked up something from outside for no apparent reason..."

I don't even know what to say about her.

Considering that she previously relied purely on her unlucky personality to investigate weirdos, could it be that she only appears to be very wary of many things, but is actually a person who will "work things out when the time comes"?

"Have you found out anything from this finger?" I asked.

(End of this chapter)