Chapter 36: To the Cradle of the Holy Ark

Facing the system pretending to be dead, Lou Bai proposed the condition that it should listen to him tell about its flaws, three!

"First!" Lou Bai stretched out his index finger and said confidently: "When we first met, you provided me with a map of the satellite area. Not to mention the complex environment of the satellite area, there is no map on the Internet at all, and if you are really dull and unintelligent, you should either mention this ability when introducing the function, or completely ignore my request."

"Second!" Lou Bai raised his middle finger and smiled: "After the people from the Public Security Bureau took me away a few days ago, why did all my decks disappear, but you kept them? Besides, you acquiesced to everything I asked you to do."

"Third!" With the ring finger raised, Lou Bai delivered a fatal blow: "I remember that the system doesn't seem to have a breathing light setting, right? After I asked you a question, you did this, isn't it equivalent to acquiescence?"

After a moment of silence, the system slowly floated up, and a red light shot out from the eyes of the unknown synchronizer and projected on the ground. In the red light, a man's figure was slowly "printed" from bottom to top.

Looking at the young man in front of him wearing a blue racing suit, blue hair, and a pair of red glasses, Lou Bai asked hesitantly: "Are you... Antinomi?"

"It seems that you know us well." Antinomi agreed with Lou Bai's guess and said: "Are you so sure that your system must be intelligent?"

"Oh, I now have a fourth point, that is, you are out now." Lou Bai spread his hands and smiled: "I am also trying it out. Anyway, there is no trial and error cost, so it's a waste not to try."

"Whatever." Antinomi said with his hands folded on his chest "Although it's not time for us to tell you everything, since you asked, let's tell you something."

After that, a circular space tunnel appeared behind Antinomi. After walking in, Antinomi turned to Lou Bai and said, "If you have the courage, follow me."

"Humph, this is related to the ultimate question of 'where did I come from'. Even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, we can't stop because of fear!" Sitting up from the bed, Lou Bai took his deck and walked in with Antinomi with firm steps.

This space channel journey was completely different from the feeling of Xiaolan taking him through before. Lou Bai felt like he was walking in a tunnel composed of colorful halos. Only the white path under his feet led him, so that Lou Bai would not get lost in this environment.

"Don't touch the things next to you, if you don't want to be suddenly teleported to the Jurassic." Noticing Lou Bai's curious expression, Antinomi reminded him.

In such a chaotic tunnel, time and space have lost their meaning. After walking for an unknown amount of time, Antinomi, who was walking in front, suddenly disappeared. Faced with this situation, before Lou Bai could react, a hand suddenly stretched out from where Antinomi disappeared and pulled Lou Bai forward. As if passing through a layer of water curtain, when Lou Bai came to his senses, he had left the tunnel that made him dizzy and came to a place similar to a library.

Turning around, the surrounding scene was in Lou Bai's eyes. Looking up, the bookshelves went straight to the sky, and the books that filled the bookshelves made people wonder: How can I take down the books that were placed so high? In front, the bookshelves seemed to form a maze, and people would get lost in this sea of ​​knowledge if they were not careful.

Pulling out a black book from the bookshelf at hand, Lou Bai looked at the contents. Turning over the leather cover with no words, on the title page, the five words "Cthulhu Mythos" came into Lou Bai's eyes. This is a mythology system created by a 20th century American science fiction writer in Lou Bai's previous life. In his story, knowledge is poisonous. The more people pursue knowledge, the more they will transform into some inhuman monsters.

Just as Lou Bai was curious and wanted to continue looking down, a huge mechanical arm stretched out from behind him and gently took away the book.

"This is not what you can see now." An old and kind voice came from behind Lou Bai.

Turning his head, Lou Bai saw the source of the voice. An old man whose body was made up of machinery sat on a device that looked like an ammonite shell. Two huge mechanical arms stretched out from both sides of the device, one of which was holding the "Cthulhu Mythos".

"Hello, guest from another world, first meeting, I am zone, you can also call me immovable star." Calm words came from the skinny body, and zone introduced himself.

"If you are Zone, then who is my companion in Shindo Shino?" Faced with Zone who appeared silently like a ghost, Lou Bai did not panic, he asked calmly.

With a gentle wave of the mechanical arm, the surrounding bookshelves were pushed open like a tide, and a small round table and a chair appeared in front of Lou Bai. In response to Lou Bai's question, Zone smiled and said, "If there is a person whose body, memory, and way of thinking are exactly the same as yours, then why can't he be you?"

Hearing this, Lou Bai couldn't answer. After all, even before crossing, this was an unsolvable philosophical question. Some people believe that human consciousness is composed of memory and thinking, so another person with the same body, memory and thinking is also oneself; but some people believe that only the "I" who is thinking at this moment is oneself, even if there is a person who is exactly the same as oneself, it is just a fake.

Putting this philosophical question aside, Lou Bai hesitated for a while and asked, "Why can't I read that book?" While speaking, Lou Bai pointed to the book in zone's hand.

In response to Lou Bai's question, zone was a little confused: "Oh, I thought you would ask why you came to this world?"

Lou Bai smiled and said, "If I had experienced that duel, I would definitely ask this question. After all, suddenly coming to a strange world means that everything I have done before has gone to waste, and I have to start fighting again. Normal people will feel unwilling to do this. But..."

Lou Bai stretched and sat on the chair in front of the small round table, and continued: "Now I have let it go. Compared with that cold place, I like this place more, and this place needs me more."

He turned over the top card of the deck, and it was the little blue that he often criticized for being clumsy. , Lou Bai smiled and said: "I have established a bond here, so the reason for coming here does not matter."

There was no joy or anger in Zone's voice. He said calmly: "But as far as I know, you missed your brothers and sisters in the orphanage you came from before you came here."

"That." Lou Bai recalled for a while and said calmly: "It's not that I miss them, but I don't want more children to experience the suffering I have experienced. After all, they are not so-called wealth. In my mind, the children in the satellite area are equal to them in status. And I have an advantage, which is to learn to accept reality."

Looking up at Zone, who had floated to the ground at some point, Lou Bai said: "I told you So much, what's your answer? "

"Is that so? It seems that you have adapted well here." Zone sighed first, and then said: "Although you are no longer interested in the reason for coming to this world, I still have to explain it to you clearly, otherwise I can't answer your question."

After a pause, as if he was thinking about the language, zone said slowly: "You should know some history of our world. When humans on our timeline became extinct, we traveled through time and went back to guide the wandering stars at that time. This time, compared with our world line, there are indeed many improvements, but humans are forgetful after all. A hundred years after the wandering stars left, humans have taken the old path again.

Faced with this situation, we have no choice but to restart the timeline again Choice. However, in the changes of the world, I found you. Your unique soul made us see a glimmer of hope in you. And the reality is not beyond our expectations. By observing your soul, we found the universe where you were born and gained a lot of knowledge about your hometown. This book is also a part of the knowledge. "

Raising the book in his hand, zone continued: "In your world, the universe appears in front of you in a materialistic appearance. There is no place for gods and ghosts in the world, so this book is just a collection of horror novels in your world."

zone looked at Lou Bai with his exposed eye and said: "Our universe is not like this. From the birth of mankind to the present, the power of idealism has been following human history like a shadow. "

Hearing this, Lou Bai nodded silently in his chair. The power of the mind in the world view of Yu-Gi-Oh is also a part of science. In the distant past, there was the god Orihagang who destroyed Atlantis and the seven thousand-year-old artifacts of ancient Egypt. Now, the perpetual motion machine that can feel the human heart and the accelerated synchronization that can exceed the speed of light have all beaten scientists such as Joule and Einstein in their own world to the ground.

Thinking of this, and thinking of the terrifying gods described in the Cthulhu mythology, Lou Bai couldn't help but ask in a trembling voice: "Those, those indescribable existences, won't they..."

"Yes, and no."

Just when Lou Bai was terrified, fearing that he would encounter some mythical creatures and die instantly without knowing it, the next sentence of Zone made him relax a little.

"Here, this knowledge does have power, but it is limited to a slight headache when browsing. "As he spoke, the book in Zone's hand turned into light particles, which condensed into 6 cards in Zone's hand. But within a moment, these cards could no longer maintain their shape and instantly shattered and turned back into books.

As the cards were being formed, Lou Bai stretched his neck and took a quick glance out of curiosity. Although it was a fleeting glimpse, Lou Bai still saw the general idea clearly. There were four cards with clear card pictures and names, two white and two purple cards, and two cards that were blank except for the black borders. Just as Lou Bai wanted to recall the details in his mind, he felt a burst of phantom pain and nausea in his mind, which felt like a worm drilling in his brain. Lou Bai couldn't help but bend over and dry heave on the side while holding the table. When he barely stood up, he was shocked to find that he could not remember anything except the colors of those cards.

Looking up, Lou Bai said in amazement: "This is the indescribable power, it's really terrifying."

Facing Lou Bai's mumbling, Zone was a little scared, and he said sternly: "I told you that these taboo knowledge are not something you can understand now."

"I'm really sorry, but it's human nature to be unable to extricate yourself from curiosity occasionally." Lou Bai waved his hand awkwardly, but he sighed in his heart: Zone is worthy of having experienced despair. I just took a simple sneak peek and had such a big reaction, and he actually just had a slight headache when browsing.

"There should be a lot of things similar to this!" After barely recovering his spirit, Lou Bai couldn't help asking.

"Yes." Zone sighed slightly and said: "Bad beasts, alien insects, outer gods... While the knowledge of another world brings a turnaround, it also creates many factors that may push mankind to the end, but compared to the previous stagnant state, the current situation is much better."

"So what is the end?" Hearing this word again, Lou Bai couldn't help asking. Throughout the history of Yu-Gi-Oh, the ultimate boss of DM, the Great Evil God Zork, the boss of GX, [Darkness], and the Earthbound God of 5DS all mentioned that humanity will eventually come to an end, but what exactly it is, Lou Bai still has no idea.

After pondering for a while, Zone made an analogy: "Just like your universe will inevitably go to heat death due to the increase of entropy, our world will also one day go to the end due to the depravity of human hearts. However, heat death can be resisted by technology, and the end can be infinitely postponed by guiding people's hearts. As long as humans still have love in their hearts, the end will not come."

Listening to Zone's story, Lou Bai sighed. In the absence of external threats, people can never understand each other. Thinking of this, Lou Bai looked up and said to Zone: "Grandpa Zone, if possible, you can study the history and Zhen gzhi of our world. Maybe it will be helpful to you."

After waiting for Zone's response, Lou Bai sat in the chair for a while, and then suddenly patted his head: "Speaking of which, I almost forgot the original purpose of coming here after talking so much about you."

Take out the Earthbound God-Cusillo from his deck, put the card picture facing up on the table, and asked: "Zone, what do you think about these things?"