Chapter 2: Explaining Everything

Chapter 2: Explaining Everything

Chapter 2: Explaining Everything
"It's fine if it's a time travel, but why does it have to start with this hell?"

"Watching a flesh egg using itself as nutrition, growing from the inside out, and finally invading the brain and completely replacing it?"

"What kind of low-quality Hollywood evil movie plot is this?"

No wonder Li Yu couldn't help but complain.

At this time, in addition to being able to see the body repairing itself, he could also see the entire process of the egg filaments swallowing and replacing "himself".

It seems that only the last bit is left, which is the brain.

The egg filaments that seemed to have "come alive" were like tens of thousands of scarlet wire worms, wriggling and trying to drill into his brain, but were blocked by an unknown force.

But the side effects were also serious. Li Yu felt as if there were millions of green-headed flies and sick rats making strange and disgusting noises in his ears. His brain was almost boiling and he wished he could explode and die.

But in the middle there were soft and tempting voices, asking him to give up. As long as he gave up, he could gain extraordinary and great power and live forever.

These pains and experiences originally belonged to the original body, but now they all belong to him.

Li Yu was trembling all over. He was in pain and thinking:

"Why would a good person like me end up like this?"

"Can we go back?"

"I haven't done anything recently. I haven't been hit by a car, nor have I jumped... Hmm? Could it be that game?"

Suddenly, he remembered something.

Last night he was so bored that he downloaded a puzzle game called "Everything Becomes One" from the Internet. The promotional content of the game is that after the protagonist of the game successfully deciphers everything step by step, he will obtain the silver key, open the ultimate door, and become the omniscient and omnipotent Lord of Billions of Glory, the One who transcends everything and unites all things.

But Li Yu had just downloaded the game and hadn't started playing yet when he suddenly started to encounter strange things.

No matter what I look at, there will be some kind of analysis or hint in my eyes? My mind also becomes strange all of a sudden, with some crazy ideas popping up constantly, and I feel confused and drowsy.

Before falling into a deep sleep, I dreamed that I had transformed into a special being. It was an endless, mysterious and majestic sphere of light, carrying a gorgeous silver key. They gathered and burst out from an unknown place and rose towards the vast universe. There seemed to be an extremely gorgeous and ancient door in front of me, and I was surrounded by countless souls who were trying to pursue the truth of the universe...

Li Yu's recollection seemed to have triggered a switch, and a rather psychedelic game startup music sounded.

Billions of rays of light suddenly burst out in front of his eyes, but this "miracle" suddenly retracted before it could be truly manifested, and finally turned into a gorgeous door pattern with billions of bubbles embedded in it and surrounded by a silver key, embedded in Li Yu's eye mask, but it was gray.

But if you look closely, although the door is dim, the endless bubbles inside are a little strange. A tiny bubble at the bottom seems to be "charging", slowly changing from gray to rainbow, but the speed is extremely slow.

"What the hell? Failed to start?"

“Because there’s no internet here?”

This sudden change almost made Li Yu scream.

First ecstasy, then panic.

Now that we finally have hope of returning, of course we must hold on to it tightly.

However, no matter how he called out verbally or with his mind, using names like "All Things Return to One", "System", "Golden Finger", "Deep Blue" and so on, the door of truth remained unmoved. Only the smallest bubble was flashing on its own.

After all the efforts, Li Yu still refused to give up.

Now, after all, the door of truth is like the standard golden finger for time travel. Maybe if he awakens it, he can travel back to his poor but warm rental house.

Although many young people who are addicted to online novels dream of traveling through time, Li Yu doesn't think about it at all.

Modern society is so wonderful, with Qidian Reading, Douyin, Bilibili, games, and takeout. When you are really bored, you can go online to find someone to argue with.

This time travel is so strange, but before I even see what kind of world it is, I'm trapped in a jar at the very beginning, and she's pregnant with an evil child. Even novels don't dare to write like this.

If no hope of survival emerges next, Li Yu will have only one end.

That means being possessed by another's body and becoming a man-eating monster.

Fortunately, Li Yu was a disabled man with a strong will. Since the golden finger could not be relied upon for the time being, he endured the pain and fear and began to frantically search through his original body's memories, trying to find a way to survive.

The original body was locked up in a small dark room most of the time, but the couple were both talkative and never avoided talking to him, so he had no lack of relevant common sense and knew a lot of secrets that ordinary people didn't know.

Soon, Li Yu realized that this was an extremely vast continent.

There are three superpowers: Qian, Li and Jing.

The customs and folkways of each country are very different, and there are many extraordinary things and real behemoths: Haotian Sect, Dimu Sect, Dangmo Sect, Chishen Sect, Buddhism and Tiangong Sect.

These are the six major orthodox religions!

The "forbidden god" that the original body's parents believed in was an ancient evil god that could compete with the six righteous gods. As believers, both of them possessed some abilities that surpassed ordinary people. They ran a very special and mysterious butcher shop in Wanfu City.

The two men said that what they sold was extremely delicious mutton that they caught and cooked themselves.

"Oh, what mutton? I'm afraid it's not two-legged."

"No, these memories are useless."

“What about the righteous gods like Haotian, Earth Mother, and Demon-Subduing Heavenly Lord? They are far away in the sky and can’t save me at all… Huh?”

Li Yu was muttering to himself when he suddenly seemed to realize something. He looked towards his eye mask and saw the bubble that was charging, and its flashing speed suddenly increased.

This became more obvious especially when he was muttering the names of the six righteous gods, forbidden gods, and so on.

Li Yu blinked, and a guess came to his mind:
"Ordinary memories seem to be ineffective. Only those involving the extraordinary can be accelerated?"

"Could it be that this golden finger needs to be opened by the extraordinary knowledge I absorb?"

When Li Yu thought of this, he was overjoyed and dared not delay any longer.

The mind is completely immersed, almost like squeezing, extracting extraordinary related information from the original body's memory.

Although I only heard it from the scattered conversations between my adoptive parents, it was indeed a lot.

"It turns out that in this world, no matter good or evil, there is a strict set of cultivation paths, usually divided into sequences, climbing up until one achieves godhood."

"It's just that cultivation is extremely difficult, and one often has to experience life and death. Moreover, one has to pay an extremely huge price at every stage."

"For example, the Vegetable Man that my parents wanted to be promoted to is actually the first stage of the Forbidden God Sect's path to godhood, also known as Sequence Eight. Not only do they need to refine the Vegetable Man secret medicine first, but they also need to perform a Vegetable Man ceremony."

"The method is to sell your body to the vegetable market and let the butcher skin you alive. If you faint from the pain or go crazy during the process, it will be considered a failure. Not only will you not be able to obtain extraordinary powers, you will die directly or mutate into some kind of monster."

"Neither Jiao Qing nor Sun Sanniang had the courage to try to practice properly, so they decided to find another way. They raised their original bodies as the so-called 'Sons of the Forbidden God' and then shared them with others for food. In this roundabout way, they obtained the power of the vegetable man."

"In order to raise the Forbidden God's Son, besides the Forbidden Egg, the most important thing is to gather the so-called "hundred flavors". Sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty are only five of them. We still need to find various rare foods..."

"On the day when all the flavors are complete and the forbidden egg is completely hatched, as long as the two of you are quick with your hands and mouths, and eat the original body, you can become an extraordinary being."

"It's a pity that they were both inexperienced in nurturing the Son of the Forbidden God for the first time, and ended up sacrificing their own lives."

……

This long memory emerged, and Li Yu looked at Bubble again.

The result made him even more excited. He had already charged half of the energy and it really worked.

Keep up the good work and keep squeezing.

"Jiao Qingsun Sanniang was originally from a remote border country. She encountered a strange disaster called 'Sangmen', which left nine out of ten houses empty and corpses scattered all over the ground."

"In order to survive, the two had to trade their neighbor's children for cannibalism. Just as they were about to eat their children, they happened to find the body of a Forbidden God believer. They searched the body and obtained the inheritance. They ate the flesh and survived."

"Because they ate the flesh of the evil cultivator, their bodies, personalities, and hobbies all changed. They were worried that they would be hunted down by the Haotian Cult, which dominated the country, so they had no choice but to flee all the way to Wanfu City."

"This city is surrounded by three powerful countries, but because outside the city are dangerous and strange areas such as the Myriad Twilight Plains, the Horror Valley, and the Ancient Black Forest, it has always been a chaotic place where no one is in charge."

"Evil practitioners from all over the world gathered here for different reasons, resulting in the proliferation of large and small evil cults in the city, with people and evil people living together, maintaining a delicate balance."

"No one knows how many evil god believers there are in Wanfu City?"

……

After an unknown amount of time reminiscing, Li Yu went to look at the eye mask again.

But I saw that the bubble was already almost full, with only a little bit left before it could completely turn from dull to iridescent.

The light is just ahead.

And in the next moment, he suddenly captured a heavyweight and extraordinary memory.

formula!

A secret medicine formula that can completely transform a mortal into a monk.

"Vegetable's secret medicine!"

"Use your own blood as the medicine, supplemented with five poisonous grains, five rotten fruits, and five kinds of meat: mad cow, mad dog, crazy sheep, pus pig, and plague chicken. Finally, use the ancient method of freshly squeezed human oil to mix and cook it. After taking it, perform the vegetable man ceremony. As long as you pass it, you can officially be promoted to a vegetable man."

"As the first stage of the Forbidden God Path, Vegetable Man possesses strength far beyond that of ordinary people, as well as enhanced five senses, especially super sense of smell and taste."

"The most important thing is that the vegetable people have the opportunity to obtain some special recipes from the daily 'forbidden prayer', as well as extraordinary cooking skills. Therefore, every vegetable person is an amazing chef, but ordinary people have no chance and cannot taste their cooking skills unless they are in the form of ingredients."

When Li Yu knew about this recipe, which could be described as a rare and extraordinary secret.

The smallest bubble was finally completely filled, the gray color disappeared, and it turned into a mysterious and gorgeous rainbow bubble that seemed to be able to reflect the universe.

In an instant, billions of rays of light burst out in Li Yu's eyes.

In a trance, his soul seemed to undergo a mutation, filled with countless rainbow bubbles, and floated out of his body.

The world before his eyes began to change dramatically.

In Li Yu's eyes at this moment, everything seemed to have no secrets at all.

Even, including himself.

(End of this chapter)