Chapter 143 The New Protagonist
The banquet hall model inside the box completely collapsed and vanished, leaving only an empty space. At the same time, the main hall gradually shrank as it trembled, then shook violently and transformed into a beam of white light that entered the box.
All that remained before them was a flat plain and white mist.
The main hall disappeared.
Yan Shi looked down and saw a miniature model of a grand hall in the box, finally able to see the entire hall.
It was just a solitary palace, somewhat like the front gate of a large palace.
Yan Shi closed the box.
Lin Cai stood there dumbfounded.
She stammered, "Lanlan, what is this main hall...?"
Yan Shi smiled and said, "It's mine now."
She put the box into her storage space. Now there were no other gods or living beings inside this Death Throne. After Yan Shi and Lin Cai fell silent, the space was completely quiet.
Lin Cai nervously fiddled with the hem of her clothes.
Yan Shi stared blankly at the top of Lin Cai's lowered head.
Very well, now a new problem has arisen.
Yan Shi pondered.
How should she leave from here?
Because the silence was too awkward, Yan Shi took the initiative to ask, "You've been using Lin Cai's current body here so frequently, and you're even planning to overdraw her life force to make a deal with Claire. Does she know that?"
After saying that, Yan Shi closed his eyes in despair.
No, no, no, she wanted to ask how the future Lin Cai would leave this place, not to interrogate her!
Lin Cai lowered her head even further. "Lanlan, no, I am Lin Cai. I..." She bit her lip, not daring to look up, and finally whispered, almost in a breath, "Director Yan told you everything."
Yan Shi: ?
Yan Shi: ...
Although Yan Shi admitted that her attempt to ask Lin Cai how to leave was a bit of a tactic, Lin Cai's reaction was even more inappropriate.
Is the future Lin Cai going to keep everything a secret from her?
Moreover, Yan Shi suddenly discovered a problem: Lin Cai from the future had read the entire old version of the comic and even participated in revising it, yet she was completely unaware that Yan Ju didn't actually have a younger sister.
Yan Shi didn't understand.
After a quick brainstorming session, Yan Shi spoke up, "How many times have you revised this?"
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Yan Shi wanted to know exactly how much faith Lin Cai had given to Claire in the future.
Lin Cai: "Not many..."
Under Yan Shi's skeptical gaze, she gave up again, "Okay, I don't remember very well."
Yan Shi: ?
"Explain yourself," she said in a deep voice.
“I know it’s been many times,” Lin Cai explained. “But every time I leave here, the details of my memories of modifying the comics become blurry. No matter how hard I try to remember them, after a while, the memories will even become completely blank. But every time I come back here, I can remember that I was here again.”
Yan Shi suddenly realized.
Once a visitor leaves this space, their memories are erased until they return. This explains why Guan Yunji and the future Lin Cai both read the comic but didn't realize that Yan Ju was a non-existent character in the original timeline.
All Lin Cai could remember in the future were her own personal experiences from the past. Therefore, she knew absolutely nothing about Lan Lan's family background.
Therefore, after the real-world plot changed, the story automatically filled in the gaps in Yan Ju's identity. Lan Lan, who already existed and looked exactly like Yan Ju, became Yan Ju's younger sister.
Yan Shi snapped out of his thoughts, looked at Lin Cai who was still uneasy, and ruffled her hair again. "I've taken the main hall away, and the authority to record history will no longer be kept here. Don't come here again."
"It's unnecessary. And not worth it."
Lin Cai stared at the hem of Yan Shi's clothes and said softly, "Okay."
Lin Cai's hair felt soft to the touch, and it had a very nice feel to it.
Yan Shi withdrew his hand and smiled, "Let's go."
Because her tone softened, Lin Cai finally looked up at Yan Shi and gave him a big smile: "Okay!"
Silence fell between the two of them again.
Yan Shi looked at Lin Cai, and Lin Cai looked at Yan Shi.
Yan Shi: ...
She pretended to be nonchalant, waiting for Lin Cai to leave on her own.
The main problem is, she really doesn't know how to leave this place!
Lin Cai blinked: "Lanlan, I know, then I'll go first."
As she spoke, Lin Cai walked into a patch of white mist beside her, and her figure disappeared instantly.
Yan Shi: ?
She tentatively approached the white mist, but after taking only one step, she suddenly realized there was no path ahead.
Yan Shi looked down.
Ahead lay a bottomless cliff.
The difference is that when you come down, the cliff below is black and bottomless.
At this moment, white mist filled the cliff below.
"Wow, it's so high..." Yan Shi's smile vanished.
"No, how can it be so high!"
Yan Shi realized for the first time that she was actually quite afraid of heights.
Because of Lin Cai's departure, Yan Shi was left alone in the entire space, which was eerily quiet.
Just then, Yan Shi suddenly heard a voice shouting in the distance: "Let me out!!!"
Yan Shi's expression became even more serious.
No, besides being high, this cliff also seems to be haunted!
After listening for a while, Yan Shi gradually realized that the voice seemed to be coming from herself.
Yan Shi: ?
She followed the sound and suspiciously took out the key to the spatial gap from her storage space again.
The sound of the box being taken out became increasingly clear and crisp.
Yan Shi opened the box and found a tiny Claire standing in front of the hall inside. Completely devoid of decorum, she yelled at Yan Shi's face as he appeared in the air, "How dare an ordinary being imprison a god?! Have they no sense of decency?!"
Yan Shi remained expressionless.
Yan Shi burst into laughter inwardly.
"So you can't get out, huh?" she concluded.
The spatial gap that Dongtong gave her was truly remarkable.
Besides being able to hold anything, any living being that goes inside cannot get out without the owner's permission. This includes even deities.
Claire: ...
Claire smiled. "Yes, indeed. Could you please have the mercy of this poor, kind-hearted deity and spare me?"
Yan Shi: "No way. I've suddenly developed a new hobby and decided to raise a little creature. A deity would be perfect."
Claire: ...
She's going to make a scene.
“By the way,” Yan Shi reached out and fiddled with the Claire figurine, then quickly withdrew it just as the figurine was about to angrily stab his finger, asking casually, “You don’t seem to care about the multiple revisions to historical records in the comics. Doesn’t authority limit you?”
Claire sneered: "If I could really change history, would you still be locking me up? My first step in changing history would be to change my own authority."
She wants to change the authority to one related to war and death.
The authority of history and records certainly sounds very appealing.
There has been absolutely no improvement in strength.
Claire was fed up with being a weakling.
If she weren't outmatched, she wouldn't have stayed in the same place for so many years.
Yan Shi seemed to understand something: "No wonder you only stay inside the Death Throne."
Given Claire's behavior, she might be hiding from an enemy.
Claire: ...
"If you can't speak properly, then shut up," she said coldly.
Yan Shi: "Wow. You were right."
Claire: ...
"The course of history cannot be changed. No matter how many changes occur in the process, the final result will be unique and eternal, which is determined by the world consciousness." She changed the subject, and then became somewhat gloating. "You have worked so hard, given so much faith and vitality to make changes, but the final result cannot be shaken."
"Although there have been some changes, such as you surviving. And your sister, who may have died young, also survived and even became the director of the Bureau of Extraordinary Affairs, but overall the situation is not too serious."
"The fates of the supporting characters have already been written out; the world's consciousness will not pay much attention to them, nor will the records focus on them. The protagonist will follow the same path and meet the same end."
"This was the final course He had ordained."
So this time, even though Lin Cai's spotlight as the protagonist of the world record is not as bright as before, the main camera of the comic still follows her.
Therefore, even though the situation in the underworld is far better than last time, and the order is much more orderly, new merchant groups and new forces will still emerge, even though the illegal merchant groups from the original timeline have been wanted and arrested.
The world's barriers continue to crumble.
Yan Shi: "So what? History is created by living beings, and it is already on the path of change. You can't assume the incompetence of ordinary living beings just because of your own incompetence."
"A useless god."
Claire was truly enraged. "You should have already foreseen the same ending, shouldn't you? You..."
Yan Shi closed the lid of the box, found a larger box in the storage space, and threw the box inside.
Before she threw her in, she heard Claire shout, "Hey, at least let me out first! Is this how you treat a god?!"
The lid of the big box closed, and the world fell silent.
Yan Shi nodded: "Yes, that's how I treat a god."
The space was quiet, and the white mist was silent.
Yan Shi stared at the cliff in front of him for three seconds, then closed his eyes, lifted his leg, and jumped off.
She's even locked up and kept gods in her storage space, so there's nothing more terrifying than this.
The feeling of falling was the same as when I came up—a gentle, enveloping sensation.
As she fell, Yan Shi realized that she understood why the new version of the manga had a strange feeling of an unclear main plot and an unclear focus.
Because the storyline that originally belonged to the protagonist, Lin Cai, was taken away by her.
However, the comic's camera doesn't follow her, and the story of Yanju and Yanlan can only be glimpsed from the background. The incomplete highlights and the delayed development of the dark background of the underworld create an awkward feeling in the new comic.
What if this situation continues?
It seems that faith is important to deities as well. It should be even more important to world consciousness.
Even with a fixed main character, popular characters will still have their own backstories.
Although Kirina had said it from the beginning, unfortunately the main character had already been decided.
However, if the main storyline of the manga continues to stagnate and the world situation does not worsen, is it possible that after the manga continues to be serialized for a while, the world's consciousness will realize the problem, change the protagonist and the timeline, and lead to a completely different new ending?
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