Yi Tao suddenly looked up, and her reaction reassured Cheng Shuang. "In one of your distracting thoughts? What is your distracting thought? The many red-haired girls? No, it should be different time periods of yourself that you've frozen. So... Tao is in the statue that's sculpting his prototype?"
Cheng Shuang held up a round ball, raised an eyebrow, and looked at Yi Tao, whose face had turned from white to flushed. "Does each round ball represent Tao at different times?"
“These motionless spheres are Tao, sleeping at different times! So…” Cheng Shuang laughed, “the one I locked up, trying to steal wine, is the real Tao.”
Otherwise, why would Yi Tao let them travel back to a past that had nothing to do with her through the float?
Otherwise, the red-haired little girl, who was distracted on the Ferris wheel night, showed no familiarity with the taste of the alcohol.
Because, to some extent, Tao has been frozen in the past. Yi Tao can receive Tao's memories, but he cannot filter and experience every detail of those memories.
When Cheng Shuang hid Tao in the spatial dimension, Tao was freed from Yi Tao's control. Therefore, she had the opportunity to take them into the 'past' and let her understand the various things this planet had experienced.
The reason Tao chose her was simply because they were temporarily 'inseparable'.
Cheng Shuang smiled and looked down. She never expected that the seemingly most innocent little boy was actually the most cunning!
For some reason, the little girl glanced at the white bow on Yi Tao's head. Time really is a mysterious thing.
Yi Tao, though outwardly fierce, retorted, "So what? Do you think I care about these things?" She grinned maliciously, "You've separated him and me into two separate entities in your mind, so why should I care about his life or death? Why should I care about yours?"
"So, you care about my thoughts, and that's why you're jealous of Tao and taking it out on Tao?" the little girl said sweetly. "I never imagined that I would hold such a heavy place in your heart, even more so than I did in the past."
As a divine beast, Yi Tao was almost choked by the shameless words of the human brat. Her face turned red, and she pointed at Cheng Shuang, unable to utter a complete word for a long time.
He was clearly both angry and annoyed.
In her life, there are probably very few people who would dare to treat her like that.
Therefore, Yi Tao's resilience is not as good as Tao's, who is calm, composed, and curious about everything. He is completely outmatched.
Cheng Shuang crossed his arms and tentatively asked, "Have you ever thought about why these gray particles keep appearing endlessly? What will happen when this planet has nothing left for them to devour?"
Yi Tao was stunned by the barrage of questions. Just as she was about to calm down and think, she heard, "Oh right, I won! I want my prize!"
Yi Tao asked impatiently, "What prize do you want? To send you away?" She needed to sort out her thoughts. What would happen if there were no gray particles to eat?
This is a false premise. If everything she painstakingly protected were completely wiped out, all that would be left would be a bare planet...
No! Something doesn't seem right!
Yi Tao felt she was almost there, just a little short of understanding, but then a soft yet cold voice rang in her ears again, "I'm taking Tao with me and leaving!"
That's wishful thinking!
Yi Tao gave Cheng Shuang these four words.
But she froze immediately after she blurted it out.
She slowly raised her head, her purple-gray eyes staring unblinkingly at Cheng Shuang, and asked incredulously, "You're taking it with you? Why do you have such a strange idea? You actually want to take it with you?"
Take away a fragment of time?
Yi Tao could not understand.
"Because I don't want Tao to face an irreversible dead end." What will she do after Yi Tao is powerless? In order to resist the gray particles and prevent them from further polluting her, she will devour Tao from all time periods, including every time period of her.
At that time, all the remaining creatures on this planet will be supplies for her to replenish her strength. Will the reborn creature be a divine beast or a super high-level wanderer?
"You should know!" Cheng Shuang said softly, "The future!"
Yi Tao's face turned ashen, as white as snow.
"That's a long time from now!"
"Does the absence of a fragment of time make a difference to you? Does it make a difference to this planet?" Cheng Shuang, like the most powerful orator, prepared to slowly and gradually break through Yi Tao's heart. "Those creatures you've raised and polluted have restrained their instinct to devour, and may be quite different from the wanderers outside, but their strength will forever remain stagnant. They depend on you for survival, and once you change, they will merely go from being your food reserves to becoming food reserves for other beasts."
A gentle, flowing voice slowly entered Yi Tao's mind, his dark, peach-blossom eyes as deep as a still pool, gradually gathering all his thoughts.
Yi Tao's eyes widened, but his gaze grew increasingly empty. "If... if Tao leaves with you! What will this planet gain? What will I gain?"
"Silly child!" A faint laugh came. "You are Tao, and Tao is Yi Tao! The Tao of the past was unpolluted. I took Tao away, and I also took away a part of this planet."
"Put yourself in a desperate situation and you will survive!" Fang's gentle tone carried a hint of indifference. "The best time for this planet to be reborn is when it kills and devours itself to the very end!"
"Yitao, think back carefully. What was on this planet that nurtured you millions of years ago? And what did it receive in return after you grew and developed?"
Yi Tao extracted the memories and was shocked to discover that without it and its food reserves, this planet would have remained unchanged since time immemorial, without any extraterrestrial objects or the protectors before it.
She muttered to herself, "Nothing! Nothing is needed!"
Cheng Shuang smiled silently, delivering the final blow to Yi Tao, "From beginning to end, this planet doesn't need you; you're the ones who need it! So, let it live, consider it the best way it can repay you for raising you!"
What will happen to the Gray Particle Wanderer if there are no creatures to devour?
They will devour themselves and destroy themselves.
Like the tiny black insects they mistook for burrowing into their skin pores on the bus, they eventually slowly disappeared from this planet.
Yi Tao fell completely silent. She wasn't unaware of the future, yet she still chose to resist stubbornly, largely due to her greed.
It is a divine beast, forced to devour gray particles. Its divinity is gradually disappearing, so it freezes itself in every period of time, claiming to replenish its strength to resist external enemies, but in reality, it borrows its former divinity to achieve balance.
However, this method could not last long. The gray particles were even more greedy than her; as long as there was food, they would continue to exist.
Yi Tao knew better than anyone that it had no power to save its world.
"If... you take Tao away!" Yi Tao spoke slowly, each word seemingly carefully considered. The little girl with purple eyes looked up at him, like a true child, and said expectantly, "Promise me..."
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