Chapter 176 The Reality
At two o'clock in the morning, Xiao Guangtuan followed Shi Yu and stood outside the public restroom of the shopping mall across the street from Lanwan Community. He grabbed the hem of the other's clothes and watched the Dream Chooser God walk out in that incompatible white robe.
According to Xuan Xing, he received the message after the game in Chongming ended two days ago. The person in the temple sent a letter to summon him back to the temple.
He reasonably guessed that it was Qingqi and Chumu who had fled back to the temple who had complained, and he sat in the chair of the grocery store and ignored the constant email notification sound. According to the rules, as long as he didn't want to, the system couldn't force him to send it.
Until recently, he didn't know whether it was a system update or some other reason, but he was pulled directly from the grocery store to the main temple in the center of the temple by a force.
"Then I appeared here." Xuan Xing said.
Shi Yu asked him, "Transposition symbol?"
Xuan Xing smiled and said, "Lord God, you will understand clearly."
Xiao Guangtuan listened for a long time and finally came to the conclusion that the Dream Chooser was a friendly force from the attitude of both parties in the conversation: "Sir, what is the transposition symbol?"
"Draw the conversion symbol and the placement symbol in two locations in advance. If the talisman maker is in danger at the place where the conversion symbol is drawn, the rune will teleport the talisman maker to another place where the placement symbol is drawn." Shi Yu opened his backpack, took out the white hair brush, and glanced at the placement symbol drawn on the pen. It was so faint that it was almost invisible because of use.
Xiao Guangtuan was surprised when he heard this: "There are actually such powerful runes in the God Realm?"
"It's difficult to draw, but easy to erase. When two sides start fighting, they can basically find out if the other side has a transposition symbol just by looking at each other. It can't be hidden, and the person who made the symbol must be on the verge of death for it to take effect passively."
To put it simply, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. Almost no god would be willing to use up half of his or her own enormous power to draw two runes that he or she is not sure whether or not they will work.
If it weren't for the fact that the Xuanxing Painting Talisman had always been a secret, and the person in the temple who summoned him didn't intend to give him time to react and attacked as soon as they met, with the attack being completely intended to kill him, the Transposition Talisman would have no chance of being effective at all.
The purpose is to catch the enemy by surprise.
Shi Yu returned the pen to him: "Thank you."
"No need." Xuan Xing took the pen and put it away, "But there is something I may need to trouble the Lord God for."
"What?"
"My godhood has been revoked, and my godhood was sealed after I came here. I can't go back to the God Realm, and I can't stay in the grocery store anymore." Xuan Xing considerately gave me a few seconds to react, "Can you lend me your player space temporarily? I only need a small piece, it won't take up too much of your space."
The speech sounded like it had been rehearsed in advance, and the more Xiao Guangtuan listened, the more familiar it became.
Shi Yu asked, "What about your food and drink?"
Xuan Xing shook his head and said in a gentle tone: "With the Godhead here, I just need to ensure that my life is not a problem."
The little ball of light was shocked.
Shi Yu was silent for a few seconds: "Then do you want to go to the mortal world?"
Xuan Xing was slightly surprised: "Aren't gods not allowed to go to the mortal world?"
Xiao Guangtuan was shocked for the second time.
Shi Yu pointed to the small ball of light beside him and said, "He can go."
"Did you take him there?" Xuan Xing looked over and said softly, "He is too much trouble for you."
The little ball of light only felt that the magnificent white lotus in front of it jumped into the boiling water and brewed a pot of fragrant green tea.
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The Dream Chooser God was going to the mortal world, and like Xiao Guangtuan, he was "dressed", and there was a surveillance camera pointed at the door of Shi Yu's house all the time. In order to avoid a situation similar to the Skylight Case where the surveillance camera was found and the person was turned into a living person, and also because the other party needed a legitimate identity, they chose the public toilet in the shopping mall as the landing place.
Shi Yu was holding her cell phone and sending a message to Lian Gui.
Typing out the explanation was a bit troublesome, so it took him a long time to type. Before he could send it, the other party called him directly.
Shi Yu answered it.
The other party came straight to the point: "Sir, what do you want to talk to me about?"
"How do you know?"
"I saw the message 'The other party is typing' appeared in the dialog box for almost ten minutes."
Shi Yu listened: "You stared at my dialog box for ten minutes?"
“…”
"It's still two in the morning?"
“…”
Shi Yu pressed the send button: "I sent the information to your phone."
There was silence on the other end for almost half a minute: "It's no problem to ask for an identity, but..."
Shi Yu: “Hmm?”
Lian Gui said in a subtle tone: "Sir, do you really like to pick up some messy things and take them home?"
“…”
After hanging up the phone, Shi Yu turned around and asked, "Do you want to stay in a hotel for one night, or come back with me?"
Xuan Xing said: "Which one is easier?"
The nearest hotel is two blocks away, but Tianshui Lanwan is only a few hundred meters away in a straight line.
Shi Yu also wanted to go back, not because of anything else, but because it was too late. He was so tired that his eyelids were heavy, and without asking any more questions, he led the two of them to the second floor through the elevator.
Seeing that the route was not right, Xiao Guangtuan asked, "Sir, what are you doing here?"
"Buy clothes." Shi Yu lowered her head, opened the phone case, and threw the card inside over. "I don't have any extra clothes at home for you to change. You can choose whatever you like. Just give them the money."
Xuan Xing took it and said with a smile, "Then I would like to thank you in advance, sir."
Xiao Guangtuan curled his lips.
The shopping mall is brightly lit even at night.
The receptionist standing at the door didn't expect to meet a guest who was doing cosplay in the middle of the night.
The customer was not only well-dressed, but also had a gentle and pleasant voice, and listened to everything he said. She was dazed as she accompanied him to pick out shirts, T-shirts, and trousers, packed two sets of four pieces in two paper bags, and then took out the bill.
The guest stretched out his hand, and a card lay quietly on his open palm, reflecting the bright light from the incandescent lamp.
The receptionist suddenly came to her senses and stared at the card in a daze.
Xuan Xing waited for five seconds but the other party didn't make any move, so he asked softly, "Miss?"
The receptionist took it with trembling hands.
The rumored pure black gold-stamped card burned my fingertips, and the payment was successful without even a prompt to enter a password.
She handed the paper bag and receipt to the customer with both hands.
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Xuan Xing went in and out of three or four stores in the shopping mall and finally bought all the clothes for changing, not caring about how much impact the process had on the life outlook of the store clerks. He finally found Shi Yu on a bench outside the building: "Sir."
Shi Yu tried his best to raise his eyelids and stood up: "Let's go back."
After arriving at the apartment, he thought of something else: "Although there are empty rooms in my house, they are not cleaned up. If you want to stay here, you may have to make a temporary bed or just sleep on the sofa for the night." After thinking for a while, he added, "Or, if you don't mind sharing a room with someone else..."
Xiao Guangtuan had been quiet all the way, but when he heard this, his eyes suddenly widened and he was about to speak.
"I don't mind." Xuan Xing said, "It's too late, so don't bother."
Shi Yu said, "Oh," and said, "There happens to be another bed in Xin Zhihe's room. You can sleep in the same room with him."
Xuan Xing: “…”
Little Light Group: “……?!”
What? The? Game?!
Shi Yu: “Any questions?”
Xuan Xing: "I'm fine."
Little Light Group: “…No.”
Shi Yu said "hmm" without looking at the expressions of the two people. He walked straight into the room and blocked the two dogs, one big and one small, outside the door.
Yuanbao glanced at the two, big and small, turned over in the doghouse and continued to sleep.
The room where Xiao Guangtuan was temporarily staying had bunk beds, and Xiao Guangtuan slept on the lower bunk.
When Xuan Xing came in after changing into his newly bought clothes, he saw the little kid sitting at his desk, reading under the light of a lamp, with a dictionary thicker than a brick in front of him.
"Why, do you still have to go to school in the mortal world?"
Xiao Guangtuan didn't want to pay attention to him and moved the dictionary to the side.
Xuan Xing said, "You don't like me that much."
Maybe because the two of them did not meet in the God Realm, Xiao Guangtuan did not feel much awe even though he knew that the other party was the eighth-ranked boss in the temple: "If you don't use your mind to treat the adults, who will dislike you when they have time."
Xuan Xing smiled slightly: "Do you think the master can't see that I want to come to the mortal world? He is willing to bring me here."
Xiao Guangtuan laughed: "Is he willing, or does he simply not care?"
Xuan Xing's tone remained unchanged: "At least I don't need him to worry about a minor's studies."
Xiao Guangtuan exploded: "How dare you, an adult, eat and drink for free?"
"At least I can go out and work to pay off my debts now that I'm old enough."
"Which company would dare to hire a completely illiterate person?"
"Who troubled him longer?"
"Who did it intentionally if I didn't mean it?"
"Little brat."
"grandfather."
“…”
Xiao Guangtuan was flipping through the dictionary in the Chinese textbook in front of him, making a loud noise.
After a while, the sound of turning pages was heard nearby.
Xiao Guangtuan took a glance and saw Xuan Xing took out a news magazine from somewhere. Then he seemed to sense something and looked up to meet his gaze.
They stared at each other for a second, then both looked away at the same time.
Xiao Guangtuan dragged the dictionary over, snorted, and looked up the words he didn't know.
Xuan Xing took out the compass and Tianji Pen and began to tell fortunes. Every word he encountered that he didn't recognize was counted as a divination.
The two illiterate people spent their first time sleeping together in a sea of books.
The next morning at seven o'clock, the alarm clock rang on time.
I bought the alarm clock at the bookstore yesterday. It is a very traditional metal alarm clock. It doesn’t light up and is not small enough to carry. Its only advantage is that it is loud enough.
Xiao Guangtuan buried his head in a book and studied hard all night. He felt as if the words in front of him were floating up, drilling into his mind one after another, and competing with each other to shout in his ear: "Ding-ling-ling-ling--!!!"
He was so scared that he fell off the chair and woke up instantly.
Xiao Guangtuan hurriedly turned off the alarm clock, packed up his textbooks and went out to wash his face. After that, he carried his schoolbag to the living room and waited.
The hands of the clock on the wall turned round and round.
Seven ten.
Seven twenty.
Seven thirty.
…
Xuan Xing came out holding a newspaper: "Are you still waiting for the adults?"
Xiao Guangtuan ignored him.
Xuan Xing was very familiar with him: "It's just going to school, don't you know how to go there by yourself? Don't you know the way or are you afraid of being kidnapped?"
Xiao Guangtuan stared at the wall clock: "The adults said yesterday that it is dangerous for children to be outside alone."
Xuan Xing raised an eyebrow: "Are you sure you are talking about him?"
Xiao Guangtuan shook his head: "If you don't plan to go, you should at least tell me."
He was inexplicably worried, so he simply stood up from the sofa and ran to the door of the master bedroom.
Before I could knock on the door, the handle was turned open.
"grown ups?"
Shi Yu lowered his eyes to look at him, then looked at Xuan Xing who was standing not far away: "You said yesterday that you remembered the way?"
The little ball of light nodded.
"Let Ze Meng go with you. Don't go alone."
Shi Yu said this, took a step back and closed the door.
After finally getting out of the house, Xiao Guangtuan, carrying his schoolbag, was still trying to figure out what the word "Lan" on the roadside sign meant when he heard someone next to him say, "Master, has he always been like this?"
"What?"
Xuan Xing said, "Looks like he can't wake up."
Xiao Guangtuan asked back: "What does it have to do with you?"
Xuan Xing's expression remained unchanged, and he said calmly, "Do you know what he looks like?"
The little ball of light said nothing.
Xuan Xing didn't wait for him to ask: "The Lord God is different from us. Ordinary gods and people will die if they can't guarantee the minimum food intake; although the Lord God only needs to maintain the source of divine power, long-term fasting will also cause his physical condition to deteriorate. But the Lord God will not. The scrolls in the God Realm say that being favored by the Heaven is never a joke. Many theologians have even speculated that he is a different species from the gods. As long as he is alive, he will never be sick or calamity. Eating, drinking and sleeping are truly external things to him. Even if he is reincarnated as a human now, his physique should be stronger than that of a normal person."
Xiao Guangtuan couldn't tell what his tone was: "But he was just a little sleepy..."
The other party's voice was light and floating: "Insomnia and blood deficiency are symptoms of serious injuries."
Xiao Guangtuan was stunned and stared down at the words on the banknote.
"Has he always been like this?"
The little light ball was silent for a long while before he said in a muffled voice: "You don't know, how can I know?"
"You have known each other for such a long time, and he never told you?"
"You dare to ask?"
The air was quiet for a while.
This time it was Xiao Guangtuan who broke the silence first: "What happened back then?"
"I have no idea."
"Why did that traitor betray? Why did he want to kill the real Lord God? Why did he make you lose to him? Why did he deceive so many of you Lord Gods? Why did he send the Sun God to destroy the world? Why did he create a system to absorb players?"
“I really don’t know.” Xuan Xing smiled helplessly. “I know as much as you know about the news that spread throughout the God Realm. At most, in my case, the personal pronouns of Lord God and Fu Ye were swapped.”
"The one in the mortal world is the Lord God, and the one in the temple now is the traitor. At least this is certain, right?"
"Yes."
"Bar?"
"Do you know why there are so many gods in charge of the temple, but they never doubt the truth of the news?" Xuan Xing walked onto the sidewalk holding the little carrot head's sweater hat, "Because the one in the temple now is exactly the same as the Lord God back then."
Xiao Guangtuan's head was almost filled with question marks: "What do you mean?"
"Literally." Xuan Xing said, "Including divine power."
Xiao Guangtuan: "Doesn't the book say that the powers of different gods are inherently unique, just like fingerprints?"
Xuan Xing still said the same thing: "I don't know."
The small ball of light was silent for a while, and suddenly retreated to half a meter away.
Xuan Xing: “?”
Xiao Guangtuan looked alert: "Since even the divine power is the same, how do you know that the traitor in the temple is fake?"
Xuan Xing raised his eyebrows: "The real master recognized him when he first came to my grocery store. Since he is the real one, the one in the temple must be fake."
"Then how do you know he's real?"
"Because he looks exactly like the Lord God."
The little ball of light took a full ten seconds to react: "Have you seen the adult's true face? Have you seen it before that incident happened?"
"Um."
"Didn't they say that he always wears a mask? Didn't they say that even the chief god is not qualified to know what the main god looks like?"
Xuan Xing smiled and said, "Maybe other gods in charge are not qualified, but I am?"
Little Light Group: “…”
Little Light Group: "Get lost!"
This shameless dog!!!
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