Chapter 270: How to Leave the World of the Dead
Chapter 270: How to Leave the World of the Dead
Wen Xishu felt that Mr. Jin was very twisted, but he also felt that... he and Mr. Jin were actually a little similar.
When Mr. Kim showed his generosity and was willing to sacrifice anything for the bunker, he suspected that Mr. Kim had a conspiracy.
After actually finding out that Mr. Jin did have some hidden agenda, and his conspiracy was partially revealed... I somehow felt a sense of identification with this man.
Longxia is not Wen Xishu’s homeland in his previous life, but if there really is a correspondence between parallel worlds, then Longxia and his own country are likely to correspond.
Therefore, Wen Xishu has more or less a preference for this country.
Mr. Jin's preference is much more obvious than his, but under his operation, the bunker can be said to be very harmonious among all ethnic groups. The Longxia people are not superior to others.
Mr. Jin longed to be surrounded by Longxia people, and he kept saying that those who are not from my tribe must have different hearts...
Deep down in his heart, he must have always hoped that the Longyin Plan would succeed.
But by his side, there was only Luo Feng, a pure-blooded Longxia person.
He can also become friends with people like Albert, and he can also prevent kids like Neeson from being discriminated against.
When the bunker should have united all human beings, he united all human beings who could be united without any prejudice.
Wen Xishu could imagine that in the early days of the apocalypse, when the doomsday response plans of countries around the world had many problems, a person had to lead people from various countries to a bunker in an unknown location and face three towers that were enough to collapse faith and scientific views. How should he rebuild human civilization step by step?
Human beings at that time should have been terrified, as if primitive people were suddenly thrown into a city full of steel and concrete.
The process was extremely difficult, but Mr. Jin did it all.
If he could stop thinking about the Longyin Plan after this, perhaps he would be the first person in this world to save humanity.
But, after he had done everything... he was still thinking about Long Xia's Dragon Hide Plan.
It's like a person who, after finding his ideal partner, still misses his first love which was unsuitable and hurt him deeply.
Of course, Wen Xishu really didn’t know whether it was purely out of patriotism or some unavoidable reasons.
Wen Xishu tried to put himself in Mr. Jin's shoes and found that if he were Mr. Jin... he would most likely choose the bunker as the new starting point of human civilization and give up Longxia.
It’s not that he has no sense of family and country, but precisely because he has something beyond the sense of family and country.
Because the wrong choice will lead to the destruction of the entire civilization.
Wen Xishu still doesn't know Mr. Jin very well, so it's too early to draw conclusions about many things.
His interrogation was not over yet.
The third memory came.
……
……
It's a familiar scene again.
Liu Zhizai stayed in Mr. Jin's "sanatorium house", sitting quietly.
Unlike before, although Liu Zhizai's position did not change, Mr. Jin was gone.
Wen Xishu was able to feel Liu Zhizai's fear through his mixed emotions.
But he still didn't know where the fear came from.
Soon, footsteps were heard in the facility.
"Zhi Zai, come here."
That was Mr. Jin's voice. He appeared in the room at some point.
Liu Zhizai stood up and approached Mr. Jin respectfully.
Mr. Jin patted him on the shoulder and said:
"I gave up one of your things. You are the one who supports the Miyamoto family, right?"
Liu Zhizai nodded:
"I don't have anything, and everything I have is yours. You can do whatever you want with it."
Mr. Jin smiled:
"You are still too reserved, Zhizai. You don't need to be too depressed with me."
"Yes!" Liu Zhizai bowed.
Mr. King continued:
"Aren't you curious about what it is?"
Liu Zhizai said:
"Knife."
"Yes, your knife, that knife, you spent a lot of effort to get it. Now, I want the boy from the Miyamoto family to use this knife to challenge Wen Xishu." Mr. Jin said.
Liu Zhizai understood:
"No wonder...you became like me."
Mr. Jin smiled and said:
"I'm sorry, Zhizai, maybe one day in the future, you will become like me."
"Become a part of me, maybe then you won't be so restrained in front of me."
Liu Zhizai became more and more frightened:
"I just don't understand... You once said that those who are not from my clan must have different hearts. So do you still not trust me? You can definitely let me do this!"
"I understand that you look down on the child of the Miyamoto family. His qualifications are not worthy of your eyes after all."
“But you turned into my appearance, and asked the children of the Miyamoto family… to challenge Wen Xishu. Wouldn’t this offend Albert?”
"Besides, Wen Xishu's current achievements are not low. After the Great Devouring is over, he will only become stronger."
Mr. Jin nodded:
"I need to confirm some things. I became your appearance because I need to confirm it myself. For example, if the children of the Miyamoto family become victims, would it be a pity?"
"Zhi Zai, I will compensate you in the future."
Liu Zhizai relaxed a little. First, he was called into this room and was not allowed to leave. Then he saw his master turned into his own appearance...
He was afraid that he would be replaced.
Liu Zhizai was very afraid of Mr. Jin. He was afraid to the core of his soul. Because Mr. Jin had never said that those who were not of my clan must have different hearts. He only kept repeating it to Liu Zhizai.
He vaguely felt that everyone had their place.
William, Matthew, and Evelyn, the three of them are elders, but unlike himself, their positions are completely different from his.
As for Luo Feng...he is Mr. Jin's most favorite old subordinate.
And what about yourself?
Liu Zhizai was grateful for Mr. Jin's rescue. He also climbed the Slaughter Tower and learned how chaotic his former hometown, Tojiang, was outside the bunker.
So Liu Zhizai is very grateful to Mr. Jin for helping him get to where he is today.
But deep down, I am so afraid of this mysterious man.
This memory ends here.
These three memories include Mr. Jin’s life-and-death rescue and Liu Zhizai’s inner fear.
For Wen Xishu, the third memory was even more shocking than the previous two.
"Miyamoto Yoshiki challenged me because of Mr. Jin?"
Wen Xishu was indeed shocked.
He knew that Mr. Jin could transform into other people, but he didn't expect that Miyamoto Yoshiki's challenge to him was actually arranged by Mr. Jin.
He turned into Yanagi Orizai, observed Miyamoto Yoshiki, and determined Miyamoto Yoshiki's qualifications. He was a genius in the eyes of ordinary people, but if you put aside the support of your family, he was not too rare.
So Yoshiki Miyamoto can be sacrificed.
But that's not the point.
The key point is, at that time, had Mr. Jin started testing himself?
Once the insane dice is connected to Mr. Jin and the Wen family...
Wen Xishu was certain that Mr. Jin had been eyeing him shortly after he traveled through time, or even earlier.
But before that it was all observation.
After all, earlier on, the protagonist of the bunker was called Wen Chaohua.
But as he continued to climb the tower to change his destiny... Mr. Jin gradually changed from observing and paying attention to testing.
Wen Xishu actually felt that it was a bit too coincidental.
"The matter of sending the knife... just happened to hit the point where I had no tower power. What is he confirming?"
As soon as you are in the Great Devouring and consume your tower power, someone will immediately make up for it.
Seeing this, Wen Xishu felt that it was Liu Zhizai, or Mr. Jin, who was helping him.
So at that time, he didn't mind the hatred between himself and Liu Zhizai, and didn't deliberately make things difficult for the Miyamoto family.
Only now did he realize that there was a more complicated "voyeurism" involved.
Liu Zhizai was dying, but during the process of thinking after Wen Xishu's spying, he seemed to have regained some consciousness.
He seemed to realize that Wen Xishu seemed to have some means to detect certain information about him.
This also made Liu Zhizai feel scared.
"I absolutely cannot hold you back. I absolutely cannot let you delay your plans!"
Although Liu Zhizai could not harm Wen Xishu, nor could he escape from Wen Xishu, as a spirit, he still had one last trump card.
The spirit of Liu Zhizai, which had already been in a state of disarray, suddenly began to become illusory.
Wen Xishu vaguely felt that the Qi was beginning to become stronger, to the point where it felt like the wind was blowing.
"Self-destruction!"
The spirits in the Upper Spiritual Area cannot attack each other, and as long as they are willing to earn merits when they come to the Upper Spiritual Area, they will be able to satisfy many of their desires.
There is no high pressure here. Even for some spirits, they can feel exactly what "life is worse than death" means.
Some spirits do feel that the world after death is better than the world before death.
Moreover, the self-destruction of the spirit requires one to endure extreme pain, which is literally erasing oneself from the world.
[The spirits in the lower spirit area cannot even harm themselves. They must endure enough pain before they can return to the upper spirit area. However, once they return to the upper spirit area, they usually will not choose to harm themselves. The spirits in the upper spirit area can harm themselves, but this situation rarely happens. ]
The text prompts appear appropriately in front of you.
Wen Xishu wanted to stop Liu Zhizai, but it was too late.
Wen Xishu didn't expect that the fear that Mr. Jin had implanted in Liu Zhizai's soul would make Liu Zhizai dare not betray Mr. Jin until his death.
The spirit's self-destructive Qi body blew over.
At this moment, Wen Xishu saw the death scene that Liu Zhizai himself had never remembered.
He seemed to be in Liu Zhizai's shoes.
The huge feeling of oppression locked Liu Zhizai tightly.
Liu Zhizai couldn't move at all.
Afterwards, a powerful force of cause and effect attacked as if to destroy time and space.
"Save me! Save me!"
There was no response. Mr. Jin was unable to save Liu Zhizai this time.
Wen Xishu discovered that there was not even any sign of Mr. Jin around, and at this time, he had already turned into Mr. Jin's appearance.
He wore Mr. Jin's old clothes, as if he wanted to bear the unbearable fate on his behalf.
A terrifying arrow struck.
One of the five elders of the bunker, a strong man on the eightyth floor of the Slaughter Tower, was killed by a single arrow.
The wind-like Qi blew across Wen Xishu's face.
Liu Zhizai no longer exists in the underworld, but only in the memories of the living.
Wen Xishu was somewhat emotional. He really had never thought of killing Liu Zhizai. Now that he was dead, the grudges were settled. He really didn't hate him so much that he wanted to hunt him down in the underworld again.
But he didn't have much time to mourn the bunker veteran.
Because with the two times of the Qi body being destroyed by the spirit... Wen Xishu seemed to have attracted some attention.
[I will turn a blind eye to your matter, but if there are spirits that did not die at the hands of law enforcers, then some strange scenes will appear next. In addition, the world of the dead rejects you. I said that you will encounter some obstacles. But the great Crow Brother does not mind helping you once again. You should also turn a blind eye to what is about to appear, but don't really close your eyes. Just pretend you didn't see it. ]
The text message came a little late, but overall it was timely. Just when Wen Xishu was lamenting the death of the elder...
Dozens of pale smiling faces suddenly appeared around Wen Xishu.
These are a group of children. Their bodies look like those of babies, but their walking posture is not like crawling like babies, but like jumping like frogs.
Although their bodies are like babies, their heads are those of adults. Each of their faces has a weird smile, and their faces are as white as if they had been painted.
If it weren’t for the colorful crow’s text prompt, Wen Xishu would definitely show an expression.
This is the psychic examiner.
Spirits will not die for no reason. If the spirit did not die at the hands of law enforcement officers, then these terrifying-looking examiners will appear around the dead spirit.
They all looked at Wen Xishu with smiling heads.
Wen Xishu felt a chill, but he didn't move, just pretending to be in a daze and looking ahead.
Two spirit examiners jumped onto Wen Xishu's shoulders. They were so light that Wen Xishu could not even feel their weight.
Then, a spirit examiner climbed onto Wen Xishu's head, then lowered his head and collided face to face with Wen Xishu in a terrifying manner.
Wen Xishu pretended not to see it.
These spirit examiners tormented Wen Xishu for quite a while, mostly by giving him some frightening tricks to test him.
Normal spirits cannot see their fright.
Only the "guilty spirits" can see it. But when the guilty spirits see the spirit examiner, they will feel extremely cold.
Wen Xishu should have felt the same coldness, he was guilty, but he was not dead. His feelings were different from those of the sinful spirits.
The spirits in the upper spiritual area could only have committed suicide or been killed by law enforcement officers. In addition, Wen Xishu seemed unable to see the reaction of the spirit examiner...
Soon the examiners felt that everything was normal and left.
One thing led to another. Just when Wen Xishu thought the spirit examiner had left and was thinking about who else in the vast underworld could get information from...
He suddenly felt a pain in his palm.
Wen Xishu was a little surprised.
[The coldness of the spirit examiner invaded, but was resisted by the strong 'yang energy' you possessed as a living person. But this also caused your yang energy to seem to be depleted too much. You don't have much time left. Although I have been saying this, you will see a specific countdown next. Once the seven-color flower blooms, you will become a dead person.]
[The more petals you have, the more you will attract the attention of the officials in the underworld. You can continue your journey and look for the person to be taken away, or you can choose to escape from here now. The way to escape is to praise Brother Crow.]
A petal appeared in Wen Xishu's hand, and the petal was green.
Green, blue, gold, red, purple, black, and white.
Seven colors, once the last white petal appears, the Wen Xi tree will die.
Although it did not attract the attention of the administrators of the underworld, the rules of the underworld itself still excluded Wen Xishu.
Liu Zhizai was so ruthless that he finally brought some trouble to Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu looked at his palm and could faintly feel... the blue petals being slowly "outlined".
After about thirty minutes, the second petal will appear.
The green petals did not bring any negative effects to Wen Xishu, but once the blue petals appeared, he would feel as cold as if his breath turned into frost.
But Wen Xishu found that although he had figured out some things, he still didn't know who to take away in this vast underworld?
Now he was almost certain that Mr. Jin was not dead, so it was impossible to take Mr. Jin away.
Then who should we take away?
Wen Xishu thought of the Wen family.
If I take the Wen family away at this time, even if we go back to the bunker, I can protect them, and the secret of the Wen family’s old house... maybe it can be solved?
At this moment, footsteps were suddenly heard in the basement, which was supposed to be empty.
Wen Xishu immediately became alert, but soon the vigilance on his face disappeared, replaced by a slight surprise.
"You are indeed... a living person!"
Wen Tingyun used some unknown means to find Wen Xishu.
Wen Xishu asked:
"How will you be here?"
Wen Tingyun's eyes were complicated:
"If I tell you...I've been following you, would you believe it?"
Wen Xishu was stunned.
Wen Tingyun said:
"After I came back, I realized something was wrong. I suddenly received merits. Ha, how could this thing appear out of thin air? I met someone who looked like you today, and I received your merits that night. What a coincidence. So I immediately contacted the head of the family."
"Then I went to the Yin Yang Building in the center, and I found you waiting there. I suddenly became very curious about what you were going to do."
"So I disguised myself. Not only are you not dead, you can even cause harm to spirits..."
Wen Xishu didn't expect that he was being followed. This Wen Tingyun was really something.
Fortunately, Wen Tingyun is not an enemy.
Wen Tingyun sighed:
"You are doing something very dangerous. I shouldn't have asked too much. After all... I don't want to delay you."
"But I have to advise you, Shu, I don't want to see you on the list. No matter what you are going to do...but don't try to bring the dead back to the land of the living."
Wen Xishu was slightly moved. Wen Tingyun actually guessed this? He looked at Wen Tingyun in disbelief.
"The head of the family said that if you really make a name for yourself in the world of the living, then you already have the ability to break the rules. To be honest, I really envy you. Congratulations on your success."
"But no matter how powerful you are, no matter what rules you want to break... never try to break the rules of life and death."
Wen Tingyun looked at Wen Xishu and slowly walked to his side:
"Ashu, if this is not what you want to do, if you come to the world of the dead just to gather information, then you can think of me as being nosy, but if you want to take someone away... listen to me, Ashu, don't take anyone away! Go back quickly."
Wen Tingyun patted Wen Xishu on the shoulder.
Wen Xishu remained silent the entire time.
He is thinking and reviewing the questions.
What he needs to make is a choice of great consequence. Wen Xishu has been thinking about who to take away.
After all...he has come.
But now, he suddenly wondered, if life and death could really be reversed, if such an absolute rule could really be broken because of a "bug".
Is it true that none of those powerful gods were able to accomplish this?
The many obsessions in the Land of Obsession constructed the rules, allowing Wen Xishu to come to the kingdom of the dead.
So who should I save in order to calm these obsessions?
Perhaps there is no answer at all. The obsession of countless people longing for resurrection will not be quelled by the resurrection of a single individual.
Wen Xishu thought for a while and said seriously:
"I have always cared about you. What if I could bring you back to life? What if I am... much more powerful than you think?"
Wen Tingyun waved his hand without thinking:
"Ashu! Did you listen to me? I won't regret dying. If I try to save you, I will really regret it. Don't do anything stupid! Don't do anything stupid!"
"I don't know what you're going to do, but please... don't stay in this world. Everyone misses you, but they definitely don't want to see you too early!"
Such an answer really surprised Wen Xishu, but he felt that it was very consistent with the style of the Wen family.
Wen Xishu felt a warm feeling in his heart, but also a little sad:
"I know what to do, thank you. I will leave here, and you should leave too."
Wen Tingyun was still worried:
"Seriously? You better not do anything that's beyond your rights!"
Wen Xishu nodded:
"I understand. Don't worry, I won't do anything stupid."
He really figured it out. The death countdown brought by the Seven-Colored Flower had already made Wen Xishu want to retreat.
The appearance of Wen Tingyun was more like fate's favor to him.
Although he did not encounter too many obstacles, it can be imagined that infiltrating into the kingdom of the dead and taking a dead person into the world of the living... are not of the same order of difficulty.
Regardless of whether the rules of life and death can be broken, if you really break them yourself, it may not be a good thing.
Wen Tingyun did not stay for long. After persuading Wen Xishu, he left again for fear of delaying Wen Xishu's plan.
After Wen Tingyun left, Wen Xishu stood in the basement and said to himself:
"I'm beginning to envy you. Your family...are all very reliable."
He was talking to fools.
The fool did not reply to Wen Xishu, and Wen Xishu did not care.
He began to silently think about the appearance of the colorful crow in his heart, and then recited some words praising the crow.
After a while, Wen Xishu felt his body beginning to become transparent.
The colorful feather that had merged into his body was actually slowly being pulled out of his body.
And the words of the colorful crow finally no longer appeared in the form of text, but in the form of sound.
"Ah, you actually plan to go back. Tsk, tsk, tsk, I've found the correct answer again."
The colorful crow had appeared on Wen Xishu's shoulder at some point.
Wen Xishu said:
"Correct answer?"
Colorful Crow said:
"Greed is a taboo. Being able to come to the kingdom of the dead is enough to prove that you have extraordinary abilities in your world."
"People like this often think they can perform miracles."
"You must have had a similar mentality, but in the end, you made the right choice."
Wen Xishu was shocked:
"If I really decide to take someone away... there's a high probability that I'll die?"
The colorful crow laughed and said:
"I can't tell you this before you make this decision, but since you have made this decision... then I'll tell you."
"It's not a high probability, it's a certainty that you will die. Tell me, why did you suddenly give up? If the Jin Zhenyuan you are looking for... really exists here, will you take him away?"
Wen Xishu felt a chill on his back, and he suddenly felt that this journey itself was a conspiracy.
"Maybe? I'm not sure. Indeed, the reason why I gave up on taking anyone away is that there is no one here that I would risk my life to take away..."
"Secondly, my family warned me not to try to take a dead person away from here."
“His warning is very meaningful.”
"Before, I didn't examine the question carefully. Now that I think about it, the answer seems to have been hinted at the beginning?"
"You mentioned it earlier. This is a bug. This bug won't happen again."
"I was wondering why you, as a member of the underworld, didn't fix this bug. Which god in the world of the living is bribing you?"
"But then I realized something was wrong... because it was too free. You even gave me a three-year time difference."
"There are too many people to choose from here, and you didn't give any hints or tips. It seems that you just want to see me leave with a dead person. It doesn't matter who that dead person is."
"If it is true that the god of the living world is connected to you... he must have some ulterior motive."
"Now it seems that you are not unwilling to fix it, but want to use this bug to test it? You are taking care of me not because I am a living person, but because you are the one who set the question."
"You gave me written explanations for many of the confusions I encountered along the way. When the first person's soul flew away, the minotaur should have come to find me, but he didn't..."
"You also reminded me through text messages not to seek revenge but to do my own thing."
"You helped me a lot because I was late in getting into the testing phase, so I couldn't die."
The colorful crow exclaimed:
"That's great. I'm suddenly very curious about your adventures in the world of the living. But unfortunately, I can't see them. I also clearly tell you that no one has bribed me~"
"It's just a world of obsession. It's true that some obsessions have infiltrated the underworld, but the underworld is a world with stronger rules."
"We want to test the difference between the two worlds. The absoluteness of life and death cannot be shaken. If you really try to shake it--"
"Then as I said, I will take care of you. The premise is that you die."
"Only by letting go of your obsession with the dead can you leave this journey of obsession alive. You are pretty good."
Wen Xishu smiled. Is it really like that?
"Since I didn't take anyone with me, then my return journey should be smoother, right?"
"Also, can you tell me what your status is in the underworld?"
(End of this chapter)