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How dare you assume Pluto's gender?
However, this magician was unusually easy to talk to. Seeing Ling Wuji holding up a sign with her name on it, she said, "I'm sorry to ask you to come at this time. You must be Young Master Ling Wuji, right?"
Surprisingly, she could speak Chinese, but it felt particularly strange that a white woman spoke Chinese to a Chinese man in Japan, and Ling Wuji even guessed her identity.
“You are welcome.”
So Ling Wuji couldn't help but reply in English.
The other party was obviously stunned for a moment, and finally said helplessly: "Well, you and I will both speak Japanese."
Ling Wu Ji had no choice but to agree.
Then he immediately led people to the leyline node where the Origin Stone was located.
"This is different from what we agreed upon, Lord Ling."
At this time, the young man with thick eyebrows walked out of the different space in a white coat. When he saw Anne Charuton, he immediately frowned and said.
"Did we agree on anything?"
Ling Wuji also responded.
Anne Charruton went straight to the red origin stone placed at the center of the earth vein node, and Dart did not stop her, nor did he even intend to take action. He just let her take the origin stone, which made Wu Ji feel strange. However, it was not easy to expose the true face of this white woman in person for a while, and he felt a little uncomfortable for a while. Instead, Dart smiled, crossed his arms, shook his head, and said:
"The God Slayers are also Alaya's agents in a sense. Even though they have passed the 'Circle of Usurpation' and obtained the magic and power of the God of Disobedience, indeed, according to my theory, they are also mixed with Gaia and Alaya. But because of this, neither she nor I can do anything to each other. I don't want to do useless work, but, Lord Ling, if the Origin Stone falls into her hands, the situation seems to be back to square one. Everything you have done seems to be meaningless. So, in this case, what are you going to do?"
Anne Charruton's eyes immediately turned over.
Ling Wuji scratched his head, unable to find the words to ask her to let go, so he waved his hand feebly: "Let's leave it at that for now."
"Firstly?"
"Since my goal is to defeat Luo Hao, there's no reason why I can't even defeat a half-bastard like you after defeating Luo Hao, right?"
"It's not a good habit to try to gain an advantage with words when you can't win in strength," Dart just kept shaking his head. "Besides, the reason you want to defeat Luo Hao is because of Shenzhou's Sky Curtain Barrier, but are you willing to take the Origin Stone back to pollute the people of Shenzhou? But the Sky Curtain Barrier you set up in Japan, you will never be able to improve its completion to the same level as Shenzhou's in your entire life..."
He paused for a moment and continued:
"In fact, you know very well that if you want to complete the mission of saving the world, you don't even need the Origin Stone. You only need to sacrifice one person to do it. That is to let 'Adam' bear all the original sins and complete the final redemption. Only one person needs to pay the price, and this price is not paid by you. Why are you so obsessed with letting the 'savior' get a happy ending?"
"I don't really care about his ending."
Ling Wu Ji also shook his head and said.
"But why?"
"I was just thinking, if one day I suddenly have the urge to save the world or something, if I can use Sakuragi Shu as a sacrifice to solve the problem of the Apocalypse Virus, then what should I do if the key to saving the world is one of my friends or myself?"
"Although I don't think you would consider anyone as your friend, from a practical point of view, this question is quite interesting," Dart said softly, "Then I will wait for you to give it a try and see if you have the possibility of completing that happy ending."
Volume 1: The Bizarre Mysterious Side: Chapter : Epilogue ()
Things ended in a way that seemed funny to Ling Wu Ji.
Anne Charruton later made an agreement with Ling Wuji that when he wanted to retrieve the Origin Stone, he could tell her directly, which meant that she would keep the Origin Stone temporarily. When the people in the Non-Time Academy heard Ling Wuji say that the Origin Stone fell into the hands of the North American Hades, they wanted to turn against Ling Wuji for a while. However, Ling Wuji later refined the "Northern Dipper Soul-Fixing and Life-Extending Technique" and used 30% of the earth vein spirit to suppress the symptoms of the Apocalypse virus infected people under the sky curtain barrier -
Therefore, that place is likely to become a holy place for health treatment.
This seems to be a happy ending for all parties.
But for Yu Ling Wuji himself, there seems to be nothing to be happy about as it only treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
After that, he returned to his original attitude and became a seemingly ordinary junior high school student, commuting between school and residence all day. Occasionally, he would do fortune-telling for his classmates to pass the time, just like before. However, this kind of life did not last long as the school gave them a holiday.
No matter how you look at it, taking a holiday means you have more free time to do things your own way, which should be considered a good thing.
However, Ling Wuji had no intention of expanding the sky curtain barrier for the time being.
When he was bored, he just roughly divided the sky barrier he controlled into several layers, but it was only divided into the Three Enclosures and Four Symbols, but that was all. He then divided the Four Symbols into the Twenty-Eight Mansions and independently researched related techniques in accordance with the actual situation of the earth veins. Just imagining it was enough to make Ling Wuji go bald, so after doing these things, he returned to the idle state when he first arrived in Japan.
Although according to many people's speculation, he should continue to expand the sky curtain barrier with great fanfare, causing bloody storms on the mysterious side of Japan.
However, Ling Wuji just stayed at home every day, leading a rotten and dead life.
In fact, Ling Wuji couldn't clearly explain what his mentality was at the moment.
After he half-abandoned and entrusted the Stone of Origin to Anne Charuton for safekeeping, the string that had been taut in his heart seemed to relax silently, although he didn't even realize when it was taut, perhaps after killing Araya Soren?
Perhaps it was because killing Araya Soren was something that was impossible for him at the time, but he succeeded. So he felt that he could do anything with the help of the system, so he quickly finalized a plan to defeat Luo Hao and launched the action with great vigor?
But after suffering a setback in the matter of the Apocalypse Virus, he suddenly realized that even if he really used that tricky method to defeat Luo Hao, what was the point?
It was also impossible for him to really kill Luo Hao and let the mysterious side of southern China lose the so-called "white jade pillars supporting the sky and purple gold beams spanning the sea."
So it seemed like everything he did was just to get Luo Hao to recognize him.
When he thought about how what he had been doing would be seen like that by others, he felt so disgusted that he wanted to vomit out the food he had eaten the night before.
But he really couldn't hold back his anger.
His mind was entangled in this trivial detail over and over again, but in the end he did not come to any conclusion that he could accept. He habitually wanted to avoid the problem itself and put his mind into meaningless things like playing games to kill time. However, he wasted so many days like this that when Wu Ji saw his messy hair in the mirror, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
He took a shower, thought about it for a while, then went out and wandered aimlessly on the street.
At this time, many people on the street were wearing yukatas, which made Wu Ji realize that some festival might be being held nearby. He thought that since he had nothing to do, he might as well go for a walk. However, he did not want to be recognized, so he used the Mozi Five Elements Technique that he had just acquired to disguise himself, turning himself into an ordinary middle school student.
It was only until today that he could barely understand the mood that Asagami Fujino felt at the time.
Perhaps only in this kind of scene, when she had lost her sense of pain, would she feel that in this chaotic and noisy environment, she could truly experience the breath of the living people in the world, and truly have a sense of being alive, and not feel that she was just a person hiding behind a glass wall and watching all this.
That's why she went out frequently at that time.
Even if these people have nothing to do with her.
But the cheerful chatter and laughter around him did bring some cheerfulness to Ling Wuji's cloudy mood in recent days, and dispelled some of the haze in his heart.
He was in the crowd, although in fact he could no longer find fun in such activities. Games like catching goldfish and playing with air guns were too childish for him, so in the end he just bought an apple candy similar to candied haws, stood in a place that was neither too close nor too far from the crowd, took a bite, savored it in his mouth, and then couldn't help frowning:
"Too sweet..."
Although Ling Wu Ji had heard a saying that people who feel that sugar is too sweet when they grow up must not have suffered too much.
But if that was really the case, he felt that there seemed to be nothing to complain about in his life so far.
So he stood there for a while, and ate the candy apple in two bites. He was holding a bamboo stick in his hand and was about to find a trash can to throw it away when he suddenly heard someone behind him say, "Um, Ling Wuji, Ling Jun?"
Ling Wu Ji looked back in surprise.
In fact, if the person who came was someone like Ryougi Shiki, who had eyes that could see through a person's essence and said his name, he wouldn't think it was a big deal. Even if someone who was well versed in the mysterious world like Kanzaki Kaori sensed the aura of illusion from him and said his name, he wouldn't be surprised. In fact, if the person who came was Yuuki Asuna, who was used to seeing him at school, he could accept it to some extent.
But why, at this moment, the person who said his name was Kasumigaoka Utaha, whom he had only met once?
Ling Wuji's face turned around and obviously did not match the memory of the unorthodox literary girl, but she moved closer, looked at the boy carefully, and even reached out to touch him, but was blocked by Ling Wuji: "Hey! Where are your manners?"
"It's really you!"
As soon as Ling Wuji spoke, she screamed as if she had discovered some secret.
The boy could only smile helplessly.
Volume 2: The Bizarre Mysterious Side: Chapter : Epilogue ()
"So, fellow student from China, you dressed yourself up like this because you are tired of your popular appearance, so you want to try to see if you can trick girls with your ordinary appearance?"
As soon as Kasumigaoka Utaha heard Ling Wuzhi speak, she decisively concluded that the boy had used some means to change his appearance, and immediately began to speak aggressively.
Ling Wuji just sighed, and was thinking whether to get away with it, when the other party suddenly grabbed the sleeves of the black yukata with red flowers with both hands, opened her hands, as if showing something, and the figure of the well-deserved beautiful girl was particularly shining in the night: "What do you think?"
"It seems that our relationship is not that good, right?"
"Oh, could it be that in the eyes of the foreign student, this behavior is a subtle confession of love? It's really innocent."
What the hell is the name of an international student?
"But don't get me wrong, I know I'm a perfect beautiful girl. I'm just curious whether your aesthetic sense is different from that of ordinary Japanese people as a foreigner and NT international student."
"So what if there is a difference, so what if there isn't?"
Ling Wuji chatted with her casually.
"If there is a difference, of course I would like you to explain it clearly so that it can be used as material for my writing." The girl raised her chin slightly as if she remembered something and said, "Speaking of which, you seem to have a very fulfilling life recently, as the NT you mentioned. Can you tell me more about it? My next book is going to be about super powers, and I can use the material provided by you, right?"
"I say, can you please not call me by that weird name?"
"So NT-kun?"
"NT is a derogatory abbreviation in our Chinese online community."
"Superpower King?"
"Don't you think '者' and '君' are a bit redundant?"
"You have so many requirements. You are just a junior high school student. So, Junior Brother?"
When Ling Wuji heard this not-too-outrageous name, he immediately waved his hand, as if to acquiesce. But then he was caught by her again. The girl's clear voice mixed with her breath nearby, saying, "So, what do you think?"
"Quite good looking."
"Too ordinary, isn't it? It sounds like NT's aesthetics are no different from those of normal humans."
Ling Wuji just shook off her hand, took a step back, and said, "There is no difference in the first place. Do you expect that in the eyes of people who are more mysterious, indescribable things like tentacles are actually more beautiful?"
"If that's the case, then the difficulty is really too high..."
"Difficulty?"
"No, it's nothing. I'm talking about the difficulty of writing about it. However, it seems to be a good subject, the world seen through the eyes of abnormal people with alienated aesthetics."
Has "Saya no Uta" not been written in this world yet?
Make Wu Ji think about it.
But he casually asked, "What kind of story is that novel about superpowers you mentioned?"
"A story about a beautiful boy with a sharp tongue and powerful superpowers. Because of his inexplicable sense of justice, he runs around in the steel jungle, solves cases everywhere, and even saves the world, thus making a cold-hearted beautiful girl fall in love with him?"
"Is the last sentence the key point? Is this a romance novel or a supernatural novel?"
"Oh, I thought you were going to complain about the character design."
Ling Wuji just raised his head, looked at the night sky, and said inexplicably with a bit of boredom: "If people in reality could be described with one or two labels, perhaps the world would become a little simpler, right?"
"It sounds like you're troubled by something? Tell me what's making you unhappy so I can cheer you up."
"Nothing, purely a personal issue, probably like the question of which is more disgusting: crushing a caterpillar with your fingers and letting it splatter, or just picking it up with your hands and throwing it aside."