Free Web NovelAfter a long silence, Lu Yibei looked up at Chatterbox Girl and said weakly, “But, after a long time...”
The current Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, having just suppressed the Shaman King and the astonishing number of urban legend that came with him, can still extract Spiritual Energy from them to maintain the vitality of the city.
However, the sealed Shaman King is not livestock to be slaughtered at will; the Spiritual Energy that Divine Kingdom Jade Gate can extract from him is limited, and the urban legend “captured” by Divine Kingdom Jade Gate along with the Shaman King will eventually be exhausted.
From a certain perspective, Divine Kingdom Jade Gate is like a camel carrying heavy loads, walking in the Gobi Desert; as time passes, its fodder and water gradually run out, and to survive, it can only continuously shed the weight it bears.
But, there are tens of thousands of people in the city, and how many of them would be willing to become the discarded baggage?
And those who are forced to be left behind, dying with resentment, will sooner or later turn into urban legend, bringing new Disasters to Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
“Lu Yibei...” Chatterbox Girl crossed her arms over her chest, squinting at Lu Yibei, her ruby-like eyes seemingly possessing the magic to penetrate flesh and look directly into the soul. “Do you think that, after a long time, new Disasters will inevitably erupt within Divine Kingdom Jade Gate due to gradually scarce resources?”
“Isn’t that so?” Lu Yibei retorted, “Perhaps I should stay? Someone controlling Divine Kingdom Jade Gate is much better than letting it operate on its own for a thousand years, right?”
Chatterbox Girl, “...”
Damn it! Was she brainwashed by Hong Bian Monk’s self-sacrifice?
That’s why I hate these XX cults and certain sects; they always lead other people’s children astray! Chatterbox Girl thought.
All along, she had felt that people like Hong Bian and Zhang Huainan, whom she knew, who dared to sacrifice themselves to bring salvation to others, were worthy of respect, but she felt their actions were not to be encouraged.
Because, their actions would, imperceptibly, impose their unfulfilled wishes, to a greater or lesser extent, on others.
Chatterbox Girl had a very profound understanding of this.
In her memory, after Zhang Huainan sacrificed himself, blew up the Zixiao Platform, and turned the area around Da Chunyang Palace into an eternal thunder domain, those Da Chunyang Palace disciples who fortunately escaped, after a period of despondency, discovered that Yagn Nie had not been completely sealed. They quietly took on Zhang Huainan’s unfulfilled wish and organized a secret organization called “Slayer of Sins.”
From then on, that group of people lost themselves, lost their own lives, and completely became vengeful ghosts.
But what was the result?
Chatterbox Girl clearly remembered that when Void and Yagn Nie fought to a mutual destruction, and she then reaped the benefits, destroying Yagn Nie, more than half of the members of the “Slayer of Sins” organization chose to commit suicide on the day they received the news that “Yagn Nie’s authority had disappeared.” The remaining small half transferred their hatred to her.
It was absurd, so unjust!
Couldn’t they see that her Disaster was helping them get revenge, that she was a truly good person?
What? Good people have always deserved to be targeted by guns? Then never mind!
In silence, Chatterbox Girl scrutinized Lu Yibei, as if looking at an idiot.
“You wouldn’t think that if you stay, with the identity and authority of the God Kingdom Lord, monitoring every move of the beings within the God Kingdom and guiding them, everything you worry about won’t happen, right?”
“I’m telling you, don’t underestimate the ugliness of human nature. Even if you stay here, what’s destined to happen will still happen. In fact, in the end, some people will even attribute all sins to you, the God Kingdom Lord, and take revenge on you as their sole spiritual pillar for living...”
“...”
Lu Yibei opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but couldn’t find words to refute Chatterbox Girl. Then she heard “but.”
“But...” Chatterbox Girl patted Lu Yibei’s shoulder, saying earnestly, “Don’t underestimate the beautiful side of human nature either. Humans are like wild grass seeds scattered on the Gobi Desert; they will always find a way to miraculously grow into a green land.”
“Is there no other way?” Lu Yibei asked heavily, “Must we just let them fend for themselves?”
“There’s no way,” Chatterbox Girl answered without hesitation.
Although such an answer contained a bit of deception...
Although with a God Kingdom Lord maintaining the God Kingdom’s operation, there’s a very small probability that a better outcome might be achieved...
But if this God Kingdom Lord were Disaster, that very small probability would also amount to nothing.
A thousand years is completely different from the hundred days Lu Yibei spent here now.
A world-destroying factor traveling back over a thousand years ago, leaving a hundred days of influence and slight changes, can still be ignored. But for her to stay here for over a thousand years, “continuously outputting,” Chatterbox Girl almost dared not imagine what would happen.
Just like a mischievous child, if left unsupervised for a few minutes, he can cause a huge mess. And you dare to leave her alone at home for an entire day? Then just wait to come home and find the house burned down!
“They and their descendants were not supposed to exist in this world. To be able to preserve a spark of hope is already a miracle,” Chatterbox Girl said earnestly.
“They and their descendants, from a certain perspective, are like illegal immigrants. If all of them stayed, even Divine Kingdom Jade Gate wouldn’t be able to cover their tracks, and they would definitely be repatriated.”
Chatterbox Girl was indeed not deceiving at all with this statement.
It’s like illegal data modified offline with a cheat engine; it would be strange if it wasn’t harmonized after connecting to the server!
Even for Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, “concealing” dozens, at most hundreds, of beings that shouldn’t exist, ensuring they won’t be forcibly erased by the correction of time, is already its limit.
This world has always been so cruel.
After a pause, as if anticipating what Lu Yibei wanted to say, Chatterbox Girl suddenly added, “Don’t ♦ mention the illegal immigrants in M Country to me. That’s a matter that has grown so large it affects the entire society. The beings in Divine Kingdom Jade Gate haven’t reached that level yet!”
Lu Yibei, “...” This feeling of having her thoughts guessed was very uncomfortable.
“Don’t worry, Lu Yibei, under specific conditions, life is very tenacious. When you go back, you will see the spark of hope burning continuously within Divine Kingdom Jade Gate. This is the meaning.”
Also, you might not believe it, but let alone a place like the sealed Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, even in the world after the apocalypse, some people managed to barely survive for quite some time... Chatterbox Girl added in her heart.
For some reason, she was reminded of the joy she felt when, after wandering the ravaged world like a ghost for several years, she discovered traces of human activity on a certain tundra in Antarctica.
Although it turned out to be a false alarm in the end, those people had long passed away. However, from the scattered records they left behind, those people had struggled to survive in dark crevices for nearly three years before her arrival.
It’s important to note that such an environment was much harsher than Divine Kingdom Jade Gate, with almost no vital signs to sustain life. It’s hard to imagine how they managed to survive for so long.
It was almost like throwing a group of people into a nuclear reactor, and a few of them somehow survived for half a year, shocking Chatterbox Girl for a hundred years.
“However, if you really can’t get past this hurdle psychologically, I do have a compromise proposal,” Chatterbox Girl said.
“After you go back, you can take the remnant souls of the deceased into the God Kingdom Prototype, which might allow some people to be reborn in an alternative way? The principle is similar to how Ms. Wang Meili used Hua City’s projection to create so many beings in the God Kingdom Prototype.”
The current God Kingdom Prototype is like an intelligent machine that requires a large amount of data to operate. Hua City’s projection is the data it needs, and a large number of remnant souls can also be the data it needs.
However, whether existing within the God Kingdom Prototype through this method still counts as being alive is difficult to say clearly.
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“This way, from their perspective, it was just a very, very long dream about Yumen Pass. When they wake up, it will be a new day... and it can slightly strengthen the God Kingdom Prototype, killing two birds with one stone.”
Chatterbox Girl had seen too many instances of absorbing large numbers of remnant souls to strengthen a God Kingdom, but in her observations, the urban legend who did so typically used remnant souls they had personally created for strengthening their God Kingdoms.
Freshly killed, freshly used!
It’s just like the villain characters in cultivation novels who slaughter cities to refine evil magical artifacts, emphasizing cruelty.
Oh, right, didn’t Void do something similar?
As if possessed, he surfed the internet non-stop until he suddenly died, and when he woke up again, he had already become part of the Void God Kingdom.
A genuine “two-dimensional” direct train, care to learn more? Chatterbox Girl thought.
Lu Yibei chewed on Chatterbox Girl’s words several times, then sighed wistfully, “Alright! With that, the troubles caused by the first two problems are resolved, so... shall we move on to the next problem?”
Although she said this, she had not given up in her heart.
She had personally experienced what it felt like to live with an identity “arranged” by the God Kingdom Prototype. For someone who had once had a real life, that might not count as living...
It’s possible that the memory of a God Kingdom Prototype resident is even cobbled together from several remnant souls.
Therefore, she would be back.
Didn’t Chatterbox Girl also say? When she is strong enough, strong enough to transform the God Kingdom Prototype into a God Kingdom, she will be able to bring true salvation to the beings within Divine Kingdom Jade Gate.
Seeing that Lu Yibei was finally no longer fixated on that troublesome question, Chatterbox Girl breathed a sigh of relief and quickly followed her words.
“Next question? You want to know if you’ll return to a hundred days later, or to the moment you left, right?”
Lu Yibei looked at Chatterbox Girl and nodded.
“Don’t worry, in these matters, time is very lenient. If nothing unexpected happens...”
“If nothing unexpected?” Lu Yibei squinted at Chatterbox Girl.
That look seemed to say, “I advise you to be more specific! Do I look like the kind of person for whom nothing unexpected happens?”
“Uh...” Chatterbox Girl’s mouth twitched, “Definitely, you’ll definitely return to the moment you came from, alright? However, there might be ⊛ Nоvеlιght ⊛ (Read the full story) some deviation, a slight delay in time.”
“How much is ‘a little’?”
“Maybe a few hours, maybe a few days, or maybe a few months; it won’t be too much of a difference, and...” Chatterbox Girl suddenly seemed to remember something, and a meaningful smile appeared on her lips, “Your new love, Miss Shen Baiwei, will have a way to correct this deviation.”
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“She’s not my new love!” Lu Yibei glared at Chatterbox Girl and said loudly, “I’ll always only like Miao Miao Jiang!”
“Only?” Chatterbox Girl narrowed her eyes, and the gaze emanating from her eye slits was identical to Jiang Li’s killing glare. It was hard to imagine how she managed to look so similar.
Don’t think Sister I didn’t see anything, okay!
Under Chatterbox Girl’s gaze, Lu Yibei felt as if she had turned into something dirty. She shrank her neck nervously and mumbled, “And, and... Smelly Girl...”
“That’s all?” Chatterbox Girl pressed.
That sarcastic expression was like a truth-or-dare game between best friends about their romantic history.
“This... that’s it, right?” Being asked this, Lu Yibei became even more nervous. Her mind raced for a moment, and finally, she chose to change the subject to escape this dangerous and awkward situation. “Next! Next question, about the Yumen Sand Sea lineage!”
“I don’t know!”
“Huh?” Lu Yibei frowned, scrutinizing Chatterbox Girl, “When did you become this gossipy? You’re even willing to lie to pry into my love life? That’s really shameless!”
“Crazy!” Chatterbox Girl rolled her eyes, “Sister’s love life is much more colorful and moving than yours; I wouldn’t lie over such a small matter!”
To help certain people escape heavy emotions, Sister I went through so much trouble, and yet I’m being treated as gossip? How heartless! Chatterbox Girl muttered to herself.
“Regarding the origin of the Yumen Sand Sea lineage, I genuinely don’t know. However, I do have some guesses...”
“I estimate they left Divine Kingdom Jade Gate later to seek a glimmer of hope outside? Perhaps like the hope of the entire village. If that’s the case, you absolutely cannot let the beings currently in Divine Kingdom Jade Gate leave, otherwise the Yumen Sand Sea lineage is highly likely to disappear or undergo significant changes.”
“As for the truth, if you want to know, you can only seek it elsewhere.”
“Is that so?” Lu Yibei nodded thoughtfully, pondering for a few seconds. Then she looked at Chatterbox Girl, her expression suddenly becoming serious. “Then there’s only one last question left...”
Hearing this, Chatterbox Girl’s eyes trembled, and she turned her face away.
Although Lu Yibei didn’t specify what the last question was, she knew that Lu Yibei wanted to ask about the girl with twin ponytails.
She had promised Lu Yibei that after the Yumen Pass matter was over, she would tell Lu Yibei everything she knew.
“...”
But where should she begin?
That person had been banished from this world. She couldn’t even remember her appearance or name.
The things they experienced together also... Chatterbox Girl felt a pang of sadness at this thought.
She had tried very hard to remember everything about that twin-tailed girl.
However, for someone who had been banished beyond this world, even for her, it was very difficult to remember everything completely.
At first, she could clearly recall every little detail they had experienced together. Later, in the long solitude, many details were forgotten. By now, she only remembered a rough outline.
If Lu Yibei hadn’t insisted on asking, she might have completely forgotten in a few more years, right?
Chatterbox Girl didn’t want Lu Yibei to see her subtle expression.
In silence, she turned around and walked away, step by step, until she reached the edge of the rooftop. Only then did she gaze at the distant city ruins and slowly began to speak.
“Too much time has passed; I can’t remember many details. I only remember that the story began like this...”
