Chapter 265 Tree (Part 2) 4th update (Memories)
Chu Xiuyan stared at the child in front of him, who was cowering behind an adult with a look of fear on his face - he was only as tall as the adult's waist.
"Uncle, uncle! Right here! There's a ghost that looks exactly like me—"
the little devil screamed.
The adults hurriedly swung branches that they had gotten from somewhere, "Go away, ghost?! Go away, ghost?!"
Chu Xiuyan: "...Hehe. [Origin], let me out? Let's fight."
The child tilted his head and looked at him, with tears in his eyes. "What is [Origin]?"
Chu Xiuyan ignored him and kicked the cabinet with his left hand and the wall with his right hand, but he was unable to escape from this space.
Memory projection, memory projection again.
He had a headache.
This is the world before the birth of [Origin], which is the "original world" mentioned in the wooden house diary.
Compared to the wasteland world that Chu Xiuyan was familiar with, although there were no blood crystals on the land here, it was still threatened by various natural disasters and strange beasts.
[Origin] seemed determined to make him experience some of his past? Chu Xiuyan couldn't help but hold his breath and followed the trumpet of [Origin] to walk around.
"…The word is written wrong. The "chao" in "beast tide" has three water drops."
Chu Xiuyan held his chin and spoke to the child who was lying on the bed writing a diary.
What was it like now? It was late at night, and there was a light on the bedside table.
"Oh, I did it on purpose." The child pretended to be calm and said, "Because I am too smart at my age, and the adults will be wary of me."
Chu Xiuyan fell back in shock: "Huh? What nonsense! The adults here are too petty!"
"Isn't it on your side?" The child was too embarrassed to admit that he had lied, so he turned his head and looked at Chu Xiuyan.
Chu Xiuyan was also a smaller version of a child at this time, so although the other party was a little scared, after a while of contact, he actually dared to get closer.
Chu Xiuyan was silent for a while, then suddenly stepped forward, poked the child's head from a distance, and muttered, "You'll get wrinkles if you think about so many things at such a young age."
The child covered his face in horror.
"Talk? Come on, why would a serious person write a diary?"
Chu Xiuyan looked at the "11.3" in his diary and was dazed for a moment.
——[11.3, Beast Tide Invades]
The strange beasts at this time were different from the ones Chu Xiuyan had seen before. They did not have blood crystals or red pupils, but they were still extremely ferocious, and some of them looked strange.
"Blood crystal? What is blood crystal?"
The child who was dangling his feet by the table waiting for dinner asked curiously.
Chu Xiuyan then realized that he had spoken out what was in his heart.
"It's a super dangerous thing. It will eat children!" Chu Xiuyan threatened fiercely.
But the kid across the table wasn't scared. "Blood crystal is a kind of crystal, right? If it's a dead object, then it's a tool. Whether a tool is threatening depends on how the owner uses it."
Chu Xiuyan was slightly stunned.
The child said proudly: "I read it in a book! It's a very cool sentence! "
The child's guardian, the "doctor" in this original world, brought dinner, two very ordinary dishes. He placed an egg in front of the child, and another egg on the table in front of Chu Xiuyan... and a bowl of rice.
"Xiao Yan, your friend is sitting here, right?"
The child nodded vigorously.
Chu Xiuyan looked at the egg in front of him that was still rolling slightly, and suddenly he felt as if something was stuck in his throat.
The child was eating, and from time to time? From time to time? He looked up at Chu Xiuyan and said, "Why aren't you eating? Do you need a cigarette?"
Chu Xiuyan: "【Origin】——"
What happened later was not much different from what was recorded in the diary.
Several people from the ruined city he was familiar with arrived at this not-so-big shelter to negotiate and cooperate to resist the crisis of the beast tide.
Chu Xiuyan turned his head and saw the child slowly moving away along the wall.
"What are you doing?"
The child said sullenly, "Those people feel so scary."
Chu Xiuyan thought, behind these people? Almost all of them were beaten by you, but at this moment, he stared at the child for a while, and pushed him away.
In the meeting room, a man suddenly raised his head and looked out the door? .
"A little kid talking to himself," he said.
The Doctor said gently, "Please don't worry, he is my nephew...but he has been ill recently."
As a result, before the "doctor" could figure out why his nephew suddenly appeared, he collapsed first, caught a cold, and had difficulty even walking.
"So weak." Chu Xiuyan followed the child and complained while staring at the man on the bed.
The child handed the hot water to the "doctor" and nodded, "It's so weak."
The Doctor muttered, "You must have learned this from your imaginary friend... ahem!"
Chu Xiuyan stood behind the child and said to him, "You have to be careful. There may be someone in this shelter who will harm you."
"I know." The child responded in a low voice, with a light in his eyes that Chu Xiuyan couldn't understand, "I'm ready."
The shelter that lost its manager's control encountered a secret internal conflict, and someone wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the management of the shelter.
And in that faction, there are some people who are cruel enough.
When Chu Xiuyan saw a strange man break into the room, forcefully drug the child and kidnap him, he was completely dumbfounded.
This is too reckless!!
“Hey! [Origin]! Ah, Xiaoyan!? It’s weird to call yourself by your own name like that—”
He quickly chased after him? .
A car leading to the ruins outside the shelter.
Chu Xiuyan sat on the roof of the car, looking at the forest in the distance which was becoming clearer and clearer, and the stone in his heart gradually sank.
The car stopped in the forest and the unconscious child was thrown out of the car into the forest.
Chu Xiuyan stared at those men one by one and memorized all of their faces.
There were strange and terrifying roars of beasts coming from all directions?
Chu Xiuyan still couldn't touch the child and could only keep shouting in his ear.
About five minutes later, the child woke up.
He took out the dagger from his bosom to defend himself, but his brows were filled with annoyance, "Too despicable! Despicable adult!"
Chu Xiuyan urged him: "Stop cursing and leave this forest!"
The child got up without saying a word and ran out of the forest in the direction Chu Xiuyan pointed.
But when he limped, Chu Xiuyan realized that his knee was red and swollen.
“God damn it…” Chu Xiuyan muttered to himself, “I’m obviously? Obviously? I’m your enemy…”
The child looked up blankly, "Are you going to leave then?"
He reached out carefully and tried to grab Chu Xiuyan's sleeve.
The next second, a wolf howl suddenly came from the depths of the forest.
Chu Xiuyan's expression changed instantly, and he didn't care about anything else. He subconsciously raised his hand to grab the child's hand.
Hold it.
His pupils constricted, and his body froze instantly.
But the kid reacted a little faster than him, and didn't seem to think it was strange at all.
The wind was howling, blowing on my face, cold and biting.
It hurts to breathe, like I have the body of a real child, and running feels light and has no foothold.
Outside the forest? It was a wilderness, charred soil, dried-up rivers, debris everywhere, and it was pitch black under the dark red night sky. There was only a river that was about to dry up, flickering with faint light.
When he was about to get close, the child suddenly fell, and Chu Xiuyan rolled on the grass with him.
At that moment, a strange feeling crazily attacked my heart.
Chu Xiuyan looked up quickly and saw a dark forest. The sky was full of stars and the starlight was shining. In front of him was a sparkling stream. There were cicadas chirping and the sound of wind blowing through the leaves. Everything seemed exceptionally peaceful.
But he didn't see the child.
"Hey, kid? Where are you?"
Chu Xiuyan hurriedly ran towards the stream, looking around in the gradually widening area, but he couldn't find the other party.
until--
He tripped over a rock again and fell to the ground.
The hand that reached out touched the familiar, soft skin.
Chu Xiuyan raised his head and saw the child's dirty and silly grinning face.
The other party also fell to the ground, but...
Behind the child was the dark red night sky, the dry riverbed, the charred earth, and the twisted corpse.
Behind Chu Xiuyan was the starry night sky of the countryside, the crystal clear forest stream, the wet and muddy soil, and the rustling leaves.
He and the child were almost like looking in a mirror, the only point of intersection was the things they touched at the same time.
A stone that emits a faint blood-red fluorescence.
"Little feast!"
"Chu Xiuyan!"
Two similar, almost identical voices seemed to penetrate time and space and reach the ears of both parties.
Then, with a slight click, the stone that the two people were touching suddenly broke into two pieces, turned into mist, and merged into the bodies of the two people, but the night was too dark and the child did not notice it.
And Chu Xiuyan... he saw the mist that was vaguely mixed with a strange blood color.
…So that’s how it is.
Did the brief resonance of time and space already appear in the original world?
Did "cause" exist in this world at the very beginning?
Chu Xiuyan felt himself being picked up, and a familiar voice was cursing while pressing his head against his neck, breathing rapidly and heavily, "Sleepwalking, sleepwalking, damn it, you actually ran so fast..."
In the other ear, another voice was faintly heard.
[I’m sorry, Xiaoyan, it’s my fault. I underestimated the ambition of that bastard…]
[Uncle, my imaginary friend is gone.]
How fierce was Chu Xiuyan? He looked up and saw only a stream in front of him. There was no dark red sky, no horrible corpses, only breezes and rustling leaves.
He opened his mouth and suddenly remembered something at the back of the diary.
What happened next?
…
[Spring is here, the snow has stopped, and the sun is out.]
[The beast tide finally left.]
[So warm.]
The beast tide came too fast, and the blizzard has not stopped for a long time.
When he regained his strength, he walked out of the underground shelter where they had been imprisoned for more than half a month. The base on the ground was empty, and his calls became echoes, empty and terrifying.
He opened the exit leading out of the base, and the warm, dazzling sunlight shone on his face, making him feel warm all over.
But what followed was corpses all over the ground?, crows pecking at rotten flesh, and familiar faces lying on the boulders, their eyes had been pecked out by crows?, their eyes were empty, and their bodies were covered with wounds.
[It was from this moment that I began to hate the sun.]
[If this spring could come later, if this sunny day doesn’t come, if it’s still snowy, then when I open the door, will I see the smiles of my uncle and his family? Will they discuss whether to explore outside in the spring, or continue to cultivate soilless cultivation?]
He panicked and knocked on his uncle's laboratory door, but it was locked from the inside, showing that the password was wrong. He was almost trembling all over, and even felt his heart beating too fast.
[I began to hate spring, the sun, and the world.]
He continued to knock on the door frantically, but there was no response from inside. It was completely quiet, without a single sound.
[It's too quiet.]
"Don't go... don't leave me here alone..."
"I don't want... this..."
[story. ]
'Spring has arrived.'
[Spring has arrived.]
"…It's time for the little tree to grow up."
[It’s time for the little tree to grow up.]
The child kneeling on the ground suddenly stopped crying, and Chu Xiuyan, who had fallen into a deep sleep, suddenly woke up.
He saw his uncle who had laid him on the bed. The room was still dark, but outside the window was bright moonlight - this was the countryside eight years ago.
For some reason, the uncle was at a loss. He lowered his head and touched Chu Xiuyan's head, "Did you have a nightmare?"
If only this were just a nightmare.
A crying voice sounded again in Chu Xiuyan's heart.
At that moment, their synchronization rate reached the highest point, and space-time resonance began to appear. The energy of the blood crystal passed through the distant space-time and flowed into the parallel space-time, into the body of the child kneeling at the door of the laboratory.
then,
The bloody fog began to spread.
Dense and lush blood-red trees began to grow, spreading and expanding along with the blood mist, getting taller and wider, obscuring the sky and covering the earth, until a huge dome was formed.
——The first god? [Origin] is born.
"I want to see my uncle, Brother Si Nian and the others again."
Creaking, the sound of gears turning could be heard quietly.
In the sky inside the dome, the shape of a clock appeared faintly, and the hour and minute hands began to move backwards.
——The second god, [Time and Space] was born.
[I hate the sun, I hate spring, if winter doesn’t go away, if everything stays at the beginning…]
The white snowflakes fell down, burying the corpses, covering the blood, and hiding all the despair and pain.
——The third god?, [Ice Field] is born.
Thus, under the protection of the dome formed by the Tree of Origin, this continent formed a new world isolated from the outside world.
This is the birth of a new world.
——【No, this can’t be done! 】
Chu Xiuyan suddenly opened his eyes, and clearly there was no bloody corpse in front of him, but he seemed to still smell the bloody smell, which was pungent and disgusting. When his vision returned to normal, he found that those were all bloody branches that tightly entangled him.
"——This is the new world."
He struggled hard and bit the slowly moving bloody vines. "What are you running away from?"
"——This is the future."
"If you close your eyes and cover your ears, can you pretend that you can't see the countless people who died tragically in the flashbacks?"
"——We are all waiting for the last hope."
"You are spreading the initial pain and despair to every reincarnation, to every corner of this land! Do you dare to admit that the final result is worthy of the innocent lives you have killed along the way?"
'--to this end……'
"【origin】!!!"
"——We will never retreat, and we will never give up."
"——Why do you think this road is passable?!"
The blood-red branches that were entangled with him kept interfering with his thoughts, and he didn't even notice that the tone of his voice was becoming more and more similar to the voice in his heart.
"——I want to merge with you and become a complete god? Yunyan, help me."
Chu Xiuyan was suddenly stunned, and his raging anger seemed to be extinguished by a basin of cold water.
He said: "But, I once...thought about saving you."
At that moment,
The blood-red branch in front of him was suddenly pulled up by a force.
"Very? Good, I found it."
A not-so-bright light appeared in Chu Xiuyan's field of vision.
A gray cloak slowly fell from the sky, bringing with it a faint, almost imperceptible smell of blood, which was mixed with the smell of the earth - the smell of damp soil, humus, and grass. It was a unique and mixed smell that gradually made Chu Xiuyan's consciousness clear.
[Earth] grabbed his arm and pulled him out of the "cocoon" of twisted and entangled blood-colored branches.
"Yunyan, do you still have the strength?"
Chu Xiuyan was silent, staring at the earth quietly. Suddenly, he stretched out his hand and lifted the other's bangs. A pair of reddish-brown eyes with a hint of confusion were exposed in the air.
This is Zhang Chun, not the "Earth" in his memory.
but……
It's even worse.
Chu Xiuyan sniffed and felt his eyes sore.
[Earth] You must kill the gods first before you can save people.
Him too.
He must first become God before he can save everyone.
"Uncle...I don't think I can keep my promise anymore."
After saying that, he pushed Zhang Chun away and watched him fall from mid-air.
There was a huge fireball hanging in the air in the distance.
In the deep pit, [Origin] slowly stood up, his body dripping with blood, his cheeks full of unhealable scars, but even so, he was still smiling? Exceptionally happy.
"I won this round."
He looked at Zhang Chun who had landed on the ground. Under the angry glare from him, He teleported behind Chu Xiuyan, gently embraced him, and then whispered:
"My half, my friend, my family, my brother..."
“We are going to save the world.”
Chu Xiuyan slowly looked around. The Lion Boss was floating in the sky. Zhang Chun, Zai Zhe and the others were standing on the ground. In the distance, there were blood-colored origin trees of different heights, which seemed to be burning. The slowly rising smoke carried a certain unsettling atmosphere.
It's like burning all the vitality.
Chu Xiuyan slowly closed his eyes, and seemed to still hear a familiar call...
The next second,
A huge black tree, as if it was burned by fire, began to rise from the ground.
The tree grew so tall that it seemed to break through the sky.
Then, Chu Xiuyan, who was contained in the tree trunk, pushed away [Origin] who was squeezed next to him. He was in a trance for a moment, and the anger and sadness in his heart seemed to be washed away by running water and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
But he still tried to recall his previous emotions and said faintly: "In the fifth game, you lost."
The fifth game was a bet on whether Zhang Chun and his team would appear again.
At this time, [Origin] had undoubtedly lost the bet, and he even wanted to overturn the table and make a dirty move, but in the end, he seemed unable to defeat the besieged deified uncles.
[Origin] Through Chu Xiuyan's expression, he vaguely guessed the other party's thoughts, so his smile froze slightly.
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