Not a god

Chapter 142: Emperor Yan and Empress

Why, she seemed to hear her brother's voice just now?

"What just happened?"

Outside Xiao Jiang's coffee shop, Jiang Wanwan arrived panting, almost pedaling her bike to the point of sparks.

As it turns out, the body should not be used for spiritual practice.

In the past few hundred years, she had already abandoned her physical body and lived an ordinary spiritual life. But one day, she suddenly thought that it would be inconvenient for her brother to come back without a physical body, so she took out the buried body and used it again.

Unexpectedly, it was because of this damn body that she was a step slower?

With a cold expression, she looked at the ghosts in the store and asked in a cold voice: "Tell me, what happened just now?"

"Just now, just now..."

The ghosts and generals in the store clearly felt that the emperor was in a very bad mood.

In all these years, when have they seen the emperor's emotions fluctuate so drastically?

Although they all knew that the Great Emperor had a gentle temperament and never got angry with anyone, as believers in the Great Emperor, they had a natural fear of the source of their own power.

The Ox-Headed and Horse-Faced Ghost, the Black and White Impermanence, the four great ghost generals in the store swallowed their saliva and looked at each other. Finally, the Ox-Headed Abang stuttered and tried to explain.

Yan Di, who was standing by, was annoyed by his slowness and interrupted him, saying, "Just now, a strange man suddenly appeared here, said a few strange words, and then suddenly disappeared!"

Jiang Wanwan immediately asked: "What strange man? What does he look like?"

Yan Di thought about it for a while and said, "He is taller than me and looks quite handsome, but his clothes are a bit strange and what he says is also strange."

"What did he say?"

"He asked if this was Fengdu, and then asked where you were. He also said that today wasn't April Fools' Day... By the way, what is April Fools' Day?"

Jiang Wanwan knew that Yan Di had lost his memory after falling on his head when the spiritual energy was revived. He could not remember anything about the time before human civilization became fragmented.

"April Fools' Day... is a festival that happened thousands of years ago. Now is not the time to talk about this. You mean, he also asked me where I was?"

"Yes, that person seemed to be very familiar with you, and asked as if it was a matter of course, 'Where is Wanwan?'"

"Where is he now?!"

"It disappeared. It disappeared suddenly."

"What do you mean by suddenly disappeared?"

“It just disappeared suddenly.”

Jiang Wanwan's expression remained expressionless, but Emperor Yan could sense that the look of the woman opposite him was noticeably gloomier.

Yan Di is 1.78 meters tall, which is definitely tall among girls. Jiang Wanwan, who is 1.62 meters tall, looks like a doll in front of her.

But seeing the gloomy Jiang Wanwan, Yan Di, who was much taller than her, panicked all of a sudden. Like a child who had done something wrong and was called out by his parents and stared at with an expressionless face, she hurriedly explained:

"You, even if you are like this, I just don't know. Maybe it's some weird forbidden technique? I'm not as powerful as you. I only know how to fight. How would I understand? Anyway, it just suddenly appeared and disappeared just now."

The two of them have known each other for a thousand years, but Jiang Wanwan didn't know that they first met when Yan Di was 6 years old.

The King of Hell, who had already become a god, met her when she was caught stealing in the slums and had not yet awakened to her destiny.

At that time, she felt that she was going to be beaten to death by the men who caught her, and she desperately stuffed a piece of snatched taro into her mouth, but a woman in black robe who was passing by saved her.

The woman in black robe was Jiang Wanwan.

At that time, Jiang Wanwan had the same expressionless face as she does now. She just lowered her head to look at her, and probably out of pity, she let her follow beside her.

She had many subordinates who were as good as gods, but she lacked a little boy to do the laundry and serve tea. She was lucky enough to have the boy taken in by her.

She followed Jiang Wanwan for three years. During these three years, they traveled to many places, each of which was extremely dangerous.

At that time, she only knew that this woman was very powerful, had food by her side, and seemed to be looking for something, but seemed to have been searching for many years and had not found it.

Jiang Wanwan taught my six or seven-year-old self a lot of things, many of which no longer existed in that broken era.

In fact, she never thought about teaching herself, because her eyes had never been on herself for a moment.

To her, she was just an insignificant beggar rescued by chance on the roadside at that time, and the so-called "teaching" was just that she, as a boy, learned secretly from her.

But those three years were indeed the happiest time in Yan Di's life. She hoped that she could do better and get the attention of this woman. She hoped that she would praise her once, touch her head and say that she had done a good job. But, nothing happened.

When she was 9 years old, Jiang Wanwan traveled to dangerous places all over the world, but in the end she didn't find what she was looking for. She stayed in a very safe and prosperous city and was given some money.

She didn't need him anymore. The 9-year-old Yan Di wanted to leave with her, but Jiang Wanwan didn't take him with her in the end.

Later, she also awakened to her destiny and became the same god as Daluotian. At that time, she also knew that the woman in black robe was the Queen of the Underworld in Fengdu.

She felt that if she went to see her again, she would definitely get her praise, or at least a word like "well done", right?

But when she appeared in front of this woman again, she looked at herself who had grown up, and said expressionlessly, "Are you the newly promoted Daluotian? What brings you to my Fengdu?"

This woman didn't recognize her. At that moment, Emperor Yan knew that in Jiang Wanwan's eyes, he had never even been seen.

Emperor Yan was angry with her for a while and thought about never seeing her again. He also caused a lot of trouble outside.

But every once in a while, she couldn't help but make a trip to Fengdu.

A thousand years have passed, and she is no longer the little beggar she used to be. She has long treated Jiang Wanwan as her peer, and even mischievously lied that she is older than her, trying to trick her into calling her sister, although she has always failed.

However, at this moment, seeing Jiang Wanwan looking at him gloomily, Emperor Yan suddenly became very nervous, like a child who had done something wrong, and his voice was trembling:
"That's really it. Hey, you guys, talk."

"That's right, that's right, Lord Yan Di is right!"

Jiang Wanwan looked at Emperor Yan with a gloomy expression and said, "Draw it."

"Wha, what?"

"Take a pen and draw the appearance of that person just now."

"How can I be that good?"

Jiang Wanwan turned her head and scanned the crowd of ghosts. Among them, Bai Wuchang immediately raised his hand: "I, I'm good at drawing. I'll draw, I'll draw!"

……

While Chen Xi was describing what had just happened, Jiang Wanwan came to the store leisurely on her little bicycle.

If this had happened before her rebirth, Chen Xi would never have allowed it.

The store is nearly two kilometers away from home, and there are a lot of cars and people on the road. How could Chen Xi let a socially anxious and soft-hearted girl like Wanwan go out alone?

However, ever since Jiang Wanwan expressed her feelings last time, Chen Xi realized that some of his protection might have been a bit too much.

In his opinion, Jiang Wanwan, who could not do anything well and needed his constant attention to grow up healthily, had unknowingly grown into a girl in her twenties.

Now Jiang Wanwan has become a big sister who can go out by herself in broad daylight to visit her brother at his workplace!
Chen Xi was both relieved and sad. This was probably how every man who had raised his wife since she was a child would feel. Jiang Wanwan parked the bicycle at the door, locked it, and walked lightly into the store. "What are you talking about?"

But she noticed a strange cup of coffee on the table. At a glance, she recognized what it was, and some not-so-nice...or should I say painful memories instantly rippled in her mind.

But soon, she realized something was wrong: "No, I haven't made the Soul Forgetting Soup since I was reborn. Where did you get this, brother?"

"Forgetfulness soup? This cup of coffee?"

"Yes! There is no doubt about it. This kind of craftsmanship and technique cannot be achieved without a thousand years of proficiency!"

Chen Yan explained what Chen Xi had just said: "Boss, he said that he just tried to enter the field..."

The area is also known as the paradise.

The two largest realms known so far are the dreamland of the Mother of Great Love and the present world of the Heaven Beyond Heaven.

The two represent the spiritual world and material world of human beings respectively.

In fact, the fields can be superimposed on each other, just like the cafe they are in at this moment, which includes the present world, the dreamland, and the evening Fengdu.

The three realms are like three layers, and although they may be at the same latitude in azimuthal space, they can coexist.

If Chen Xi set up his own domain here, it would be equivalent to having four layers existing here at the same time.

"I also met the grown-up Yi Yi there."

Chen Yi, who was whispering to Xue Ji at the side, moved his ears as if he heard his father calling him, and immediately looked up.

He just stared at his father for a while, and when he realized that his father didn't seem to be talking to him, he lowered his head again and continued to tell Xue Ji about the little shark.

“I’ve never heard of such a field…”

"Boss, have you ever been to Fengdu?"

“I haven’t been there yet.”

"Yiyi when she grows up? What does she look like?"

She heard it again, and this time it seemed to be her mother calling her. Little Chen Yi raised her head again, looking over there with her round little face.

She wanted to see what her parents kept telling her to do.

Jiang Wanwan was somewhat uneasy. After listening to the scene described by Chen Xi, that place looked very much like Fengdu where she lived in her previous life. Her brother also met the Yinchai and Yan Emperor there... From what her brother said, there was actually a Wanwan there as well.

Isn’t that the world she lived in before she was reborn?

She suddenly felt a little panicked.

After all, don’t you think that rebirth is too exaggerated?
Even the Goddess of Love doesn't have the ability to reverse thousands of years of time and space, right?

But after her rebirth, Jiang Wanwan has always been unwilling to explore the secret of rebirth.

She was afraid. She was so afraid that she would find out in the end that her rebirth was actually a fake, and everything now was just a dream created by someone unknown.

Like that, like the Infinite Tsukuyomi in the anime, these gods were pulled into a thousand-year dream by a more terrifying existence.

If that's the case, she doesn't want to wake up!

What's wrong with the world of illusion? Reality is too cruel. It will only make the void bigger and bigger. Sometimes it will make people unhappy, and sometimes it will make people leave her, just like she once did, just like when she lost everything.

Whenever she thought of those sad things, she felt anxious and uncomfortable.

She suddenly hugged Chen Xi's waist: "No, don't go back there, this is the real world!"

"Why, why are you crying?"

Chen Xi was a little caught off guard. Jiang Wanqu suddenly became so emotional and seemed very pitiful.

"I don't want my brother to leave!"

"What are you talking about? Who left? Don't cry, don't cry..."

Jiang Wanwan hugged him tightly, and Chen Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, not understanding her train of thought.

She suddenly yelled, which attracted the attention of many people in the store, and they all looked at Chen Xi.

He and Chen Yan had just suddenly disappeared in public for a while, and now a young girl appeared, hugged him and cried, asking him not to leave... Chen Xi didn't dare to imagine what these customers in the store were thinking at this moment.

He used the feather body to reduce his presence to the minimum. Question marks suddenly appeared in the heads of those guests with strange looks, and then their gazes faded.

"Wanwan is afraid that her rebirth is fake, right?"

Chen Yan on the side said: "Rebirth is not something that can be ignored if we can't find the reason.

We have always been curious about how rebirth happens, but we cannot understand the logic of rebirth and time reversal.

Moreover, the ability to reverse time and space is too incredible, even for gods to understand, so there is a possibility that rebirth is actually false.

The time and space we are in now is just the remnant of a period of history, and everything we are experiencing now is just an illusion."

Chen Xi thought of the young general he met in the formless world last time. In the end, the general also realized that he was just a remnant of history.

Could it be that the current world, including himself, is actually just the echo of a period of history?

And the world I just visited is the real world?
Jiang Wanwan refused to admit this possible answer: "Don't say it, don't say such things, I don't like to hear it!"

Chen Yan continued, "Of course, this is just my guess, and I also think this guess is a bit unreliable."

As the god who controls time, although Chen Yan cannot reverse time and space, her perception of time tells her.

Time has always moved forward and never gone back, and they have never been reborn, but instead gained memories of the next thousand years.

However, where did these memories come from? Chen Yan and Su Qingyue had studied it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out.

She looked at Chen Xi and suddenly had the answer.

"I think that what we have here is real, and the future world that the boss just entered is also real."

Hearing this, Jiang Wanwan immediately looked up at her, looking a little nervous: "Do you know something?"

"It's just a guess, just a guess."

"Say it quickly!"

Chen Yan said, "I guess that from the beginning to the end, there have been two real worlds, but the world on the other side is a thousand years ahead of ours.

We were not reborn, we just gained the memories of our own selves in another world and knew what the future would be like!"

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PS: I know everyone wants to see the two Wanwans meet, but don’t be impatient, because there is no point in being impatient. They won’t meet so soon. I’m not trying to whet your appetite, but the plot needs to progress step by step. It’s meaningless to do it all at once QAQ
(End of this chapter)