Infinite Sun in the East China Sea

Chapter 216 Human Will
Flying back to Earth sounds simple, but this process requires replanning the spacecraft's orbit, slowing down the spacecraft and re-accelerating after adjusting its direction - at this step, the spacecraft is actually still moving away from the Earth... It took Shoko and her companions four days to sail to their current location, but if they want to return to Earth, it will take at least eight days.

According to Xu Feng's calculations, Xiangzi and the others could barely return to Earth on the last day.

At that time, it was probably too late to do anything.

After finishing the discussion with Xiangzi, Xu Feng continued to do his own business.

The task of 'relief' for the 'disaster victims' of the island nation is still ongoing, and Xu Feng intends to establish his own order on this land in the process.

The power of faith in creating humans, human body strengthening experiments, collection of basic supplies... all of these require him to control a certain force in this world.

If we establish power in other places, we will inevitably encounter some resistance, and may cause another round of killing.

The island nation's order has been destroyed, and at most it will only encounter sporadic resistance, and there will be basically no problems in the future.

Now, everyone he rescues will become a force under his command.

However, Xu Feng did not intend to spend too much energy on this aspect. He now only spent a small amount of time using the Swallowing Fruit to manufacture the core components of the life-support chamber. As for the main shell of the life-support chamber, it was handed over to those production machines, and the quality was far inferior to the previous batch made entirely of the Swallowing Fruit.

While providing relief to the victims, he also contacted various major forces in the world of "The Ring".

He also traded with these forces using the knowledge and resources he possessed. The knowledge Xu Feng possessed was more advanced than that of this world, but he was somewhat biased and was only good at the knowledge he had exchanged from the Lord God.

Although the knowledge from the Lord God is cheap, it accumulates over time. By the end of the 20th century when human civilization developed to the time of "The Ring", the amount of information accumulated in various disciplines was extremely huge. It would cost a lot of reward points to redeem this extremely cheap knowledge from the Lord God.

This knowledge is almost useless when it is not used, so Xu Feng naturally would not spend reward points to exchange it.

Now that we've stumbled upon the modern world of The Ring, it's only natural to spend some time packing up any knowledge we might find useful.

With the help of Xu Feng's strong enough strength, this knowledge transaction went exceptionally smoothly.

Every force in this world does not hide anything... nor do they have the ability to hide anything. Xu Feng's information technology is much stronger than that of the people in this world.

Of course, in the process of exchanging scientific knowledge, Xu Feng can definitely be described as sincere.

He didn't hide anything.

Except for some scientific and technological information that can only be used with the participation of the Swallowing Fruit, he gave away half of the rest of the information that exceeded the scientific level of this world.

——In Xu Feng's view, this is actually a kind of "planting".

Today he left a large amount of scientific and technological information to the world, and these scientific and technological information are likely to lead to a significant improvement in the scientific and technological level in most fields under the impetus of a large number of scientific researchers in this world.

After a few years have passed in this world, when he returns to this world to 'package knowledge', he will be able to obtain more useful information in this world.

As for whether sharing the technology he possesses will allow certain enemies to know his weaknesses?

Xu Feng’s point of view is that as long as you have the confidence to keep improving, and as long as you progress fast enough, the so-called weaknesses are not important at all!

Using outdated information to analyze weaknesses will only lead to a laughing stock in the final solution.

After exchanging a large amount of technological information beyond this era and establishing good relations with the major forces in the world of "The Ring", Xu Feng commissioned the people of this world to monitor the conditions of biological communities in various sea areas.

He wanted to prevent Sadako from gathering together again at an unknown time.

Relying on those data, Xu Feng regularly cleans up areas with more dense plankton.

Eight days passed quickly.

Shoko and others fell from the sky.

The first thing she did when she returned to Earth was to look at Xu Feng with a smile on her face.

"I knew it...we weaklings like us can also make a difference!"

Xu Feng was stunned for a moment and asked, "Did you scan any useful information?"

He pondered for a moment, then based on the fact that mental scans could only quickly search for spirits that had already been scanned, he came up with an answer: "Could it be that Takayama Ryuji isn't dead yet?"

The only key spirits Shoko has met in this world are Sadako Yamamura and Ryuji Takayama.

Just Yamamura Sadako alone would not be able to make Shoko look so proud.

Shoko nodded: "Yes... I seem to have triggered some arrangements left by that guy."

"where is it?"

"Izu Oshima, or more precisely... the Mihara volcano on Izu Oshima!" Shoko said with a smile, "The area affected by the nuclear explosion is breeding some special creatures."

"There?" Xu Feng raised his eyebrows.

That place is also an important place in the "Ring" film series. Xu Feng had already gone to that area to scout for a while when he defeated Sadako eight days ago.

He found nothing special there.

Including Sadako's birthplace, the so-called 'Saiheyuan'.

That abandoned cave had long since collapsed into ruins due to the shock wave of the nuclear explosion...there wasn't even a trace of evil energy left.

If he really sensed problems in that area, he would have dropped a bunch of nuclear bombs there and solved those problems completely.

Xu Feng asked in confusion: "I didn't find any problems when I went there before!"

Shoko said, "Because Takayama Ryuji's deployment is thousands of meters underground, close to the volcanic magma."

"Is that so?" Xu Feng pondered. "I probably subconsciously thought that Sadako wouldn't be in that kind of place, so I didn't investigate further."

How could a creature with negative energy hide near a volcano...

"But Takayama Ryuji has his backup plan there. Isn't he really afraid that the volcanic eruption caused by the nuclear bomb will destroy his backup plan?"

"Maybe... Ryuji Takayama has his own ideas?" Shoko was not quite sure about Ryuji Takayama's motives and how he did it, but her mental scan did detect the information left by Ryuji Takayama in that area.

Xu Feng thought about it. He didn't rush to that area... First, he charged the Yata Mirror, then filled the Swallow Factory with nuclear bombs, and then adjusted the various devices in space to a position where they could attack Izu Oshima.

Finally, he developed a protective device that could survive in magma...mainly to protect Shoko. He himself was not afraid of volcanic eruptions at all with the help of the Yata Mirror and the Mecha Titan.

Shoko might have sensed useful information.

But it's also possible to sense a trap!
Xu Feng doesn't care whether Gao Shanlongsi is good or bad. When he has enough ability, he will only prepare for the worst.

After completing these preparations, Xu Feng took Shoko and flew to Sadako's birthplace.

After arriving at the location designated by Shoko, the awakening field of the Swallow Swallow Fruit was activated again, and a circular channel with a radius of more than 20 meters was visibly created.

The rocks and soil originally located in the passage were all processed into a dense state and became the pillars of the passage.

Soon, the two came to a strange underground space.

Fish, shrimp, shellfish, sea turtles... several different creatures are breeding in that underground space. In the center of this space is a ball of flesh that looks like a slime or a Tai Sui. That ball of flesh is emitting the spiritual fluctuations of Takayama Ryuji.

Under the ball of flesh was a TV with a blank videotape inserted.

"You're a little late!" Ryuji Takayama's voice came from the TV.

"If you had come two days later, these little cuties I prepared in advance might have starved to death! Even this copy I reserved is about to collapse."

Xiangzi whispered in Xu Feng's ear, "He wrote his spiritual power onto the videotape to communicate with us."

This skill is the source of Sadako's ability.

Takayama Ryuji learned it at some point.

"Did you anticipate the current situation?" Xu Feng looked at the marine creatures.

Takayama Ryuji cultivated these marine creatures underground near the volcano not just for concealment. These marine creatures have the talent to absorb geothermal energy and form a small amount of positive energy in their bodies, just like angels. Of course, their grade is much lower than that of angels.

This level of positive energy is enough to offset the corrosive effects of 'Plankton Sadako'.

Obviously, they were prepared by Takayama Ryuji to devour the plankton that became the carriers of Sadako. If these creatures were spread to various sea areas, even if they could not completely kill Sadako, they could suppress her reproduction.

"Rather than predicting it... it's better to say that this situation was completely orchestrated by me. Even Sadako's plankton form was created by me," Takayama Ryuji said with a smile. "Of course, you, who pushed Sadako into this desperate situation, were the main force in achieving this result."

"After all...if you really fail miserably, then I will be forced to follow Sadako into the so-called main god space."

"That result wasn't as perfect as it is now."

"That situation can only destroy part of Izanami's spirit... She still has a chance to make a comeback in other worlds, or even in this one, but the current result will continue to drain her energy. While this method doesn't make much sense, it will at least give her some peace of mind."

Xu Feng picked up an open-mouthed pearl oyster and, using the Swallowing Fruit's subtle perception, he observed, "It's a very ingenious design... It seems to be able to aggregate the special energy it absorbs from the magical life forms into an energy essence. This 'pearl' is quite useful even to me!"

"This kind of creature simply cannot be bred in this low-magic world..."

Xu Feng began to believe in Gao Shanlongsi's identity.

"So you really are Izanagi."

"No... I'm just Takayama Ryuji, a Takayama Ryuji with some special experiences."

On TV, Takayama Ryuji said seriously, "All of you reincarnators have read the novel 'Ring World' and learned that this world might be an illusion created by another world. That's why you asked me what to call you when we first met. Could you call me Futami Kaoru?"

Futami Kaoru is the identity of Ryuji Takayama in the 'real world' of the virtual world of Sadako World created in the novel "Ring World".

Takayama Ryuji was extracted from the 'virtual world' by the creator and manager of the virtual world 'Ring World', and genetic technology was used to create a body in the 'real world'. He survived in the 'real world' for more than 20 years, but because he was infected with the Sadako virus when he was extracted, this move instead caused a special cancer to appear in the 'real world'.

In order to save her lover who suffers from a special cancer in the 'real world' and to repair the 'virtual world' destroyed by Sadako, Futami Kaoru chooses to return to the 'ring world' in a nearly suicidal way, and descends back into the body of Takayama Ryuji. With the help of knowledge in the 'real world', she creates technology to restrain Sadako.

The difference between Takayama Ryuji and Futami Kaoru is that Futami Kaoru has experience outside the 'virtual world', and Futami Kaoru is very determined to destroy Sadako.

He returned to the Ring World in order to destroy Sadako and complete the mission of saving the world.

Ryuji Takayama, who has never experienced the 'real world', has a bad personality and even looks forward to the destruction of the world.

Takayama Ryuji sighed, "But sometimes, it's hard to distinguish between reality and illusion!"

"From this world's perspective, who else but Takayama Ryuji himself can prove that this world is fake? After all, the physical rules of this so-called 'virtual world' are exactly the same as the real world!"

"So, is the 'real world' that exists only in Takayama Ryuji's mind a figment of his imagination when he saw something that overturned his own perceptions?"

——Normally, that is impossible; the ring world and the real world are settings made by the author of the novel!

But the problem now is... the world described by the novelist has become a reality, and even the 'virtual world' defined by the author has become a 100% real world. What will the so-called 'real world' look like?

There are probably two possibilities... Either it is extremely grand and there are even gods with the power of creation in that world; or, as Ryuji Takayama said, that "real world" is actually just Ryuji Takayama's imagination.

"What truly convinced me that the 'real world' in Ring World was my own imagination was... this time, when I 'awoke', I experienced a completely different fantasy world. In that world, I was Izanagi... and Sadako was Izanami."

"During that experience, I gained some knowledge. Unlike the scientific knowledge that Futami Kaoru gained in the 'real world,' the 'Izanagi' of that world gained occult knowledge, such as the ability to breed occult species."

Takayama Ryuji said: "Sadako spread the curse because Izanami wanted to be resurrected... This is the explanation I came up with in that world."

"Because of the appearance of you reincarnators, this is indeed a very reasonable explanation... and it's even likely true. But I think, since the first 'real world' is false, then the current 'reincarnation of gods' is another fantasy?"

"Bringing the situation to this point... rather than following Izanagi's will, it's more like my original idea!"

"Don't you think... it would be very interesting to take away Sadako's or Izanami's power like a water pump?"

Takayama Ryuji smiled and said, "I've prepared all the necessary tools for you... Now it's up to you, Reincarnator of the East Sea team!"

Xu Feng looked at Takayama Ryuji with deep eyes. This guy... maybe his unusual thing is not just that he is the reincarnation of Izanagi.

(End of this chapter)