Chapter 169: Consistency

[Spending 18 million points just to buy a one-time ability?] The system asked in confusion, [And it's still a method of use similar to interception.]

"I guess you haven't forgotten Xiangli Xingqing and Cheng Chuzhe, including An Lai who was just independently intercepted from the long river of time." The author Jing shifted his gaze away from the information introduction of the time rules. He turned his head to look at the system, and the information revealed in his eyes implied a sigh.

System: ...Why didn’t I think of that?

The three names mentioned by the current author Jing, their abilities are more or less related to time, although they are not particularly specific.

Xiang Li Xingqing can reverse the time of a designated object or person; Cheng Chuzhe can directly measure the sin of the process from both the cause and effect; and An Lai's true ability is to directly try to erase a certain existence in time.

The corresponding capabilities of the three are height, breadth, and depth.

Those who can control time can definitely reverse time, see through time, and truly control time.

This is the essential element of a legend.

Long time ago, when the system was just set up, He Jingtong decided that he needed to go to Elite College.

In addition to the various reasons that later became apparent, the idea at the time also included that certain forces could not be understood and clarified simply from the perspective of reading comics.

Only by learning them yourself can you know what they mean.

Just like people who know how to use a mobile phone cannot make one, it was only after He Jingtong entered the Elite Academy and became a spiritual master that he learned how to "make a mobile phone."

Only by truly seeing and learning can you understand and ultimately master it.

He Jingtong's wisdom made him start to learn after seeing it, and his talent made him learn after understanding it.

The real application of learning is based on the one-time time rules provided in the 10% off area of ​​the system mall.

Before that, he had come into contact with Xiangli Xingqing, and then he was directly sent to the spiritualist prison. Finally, at the end, that is, now, the one-time ability purchased by the points successfully cut off the efforts made by An Lai.

That's not blocking, that's intercepting.

It's like cutting a piece of paper into three pieces and taking out the middle piece. When the remaining two pieces are glued together again, we have the current world.

The captured existence does not disappear, but becomes an independent "photograph" that no longer enters the river of time.

The system only reacted belatedly after the author Jing gave the prompt.

Whether it was letting An Lai use the ability that would erase his own life, or purchasing time, an ability that could be called a cheat, it was all based on He Jingtong's desire to master the "rules of time" himself...

【I apologize for the stupid thought I had a while ago.】

[Before you reminded me, I was always worried that the time rule worth 18 million points should be used for life-or-death situations, or simply saving the world and changing the world. After all, this ability can completely allow you to experience rebirth again, return to the past, etc.]

[It's like, if you were given a chance to go back ten years, would you be willing to be reborn ten years ago with your current memories... Whether it's the accidental death of a loved one, or the clear memory of the lottery winning numbers, these changes can take your life to a shortcut.]

【But I realized later that what you want is not a shortcut, but a future that you have been working hard for.】

It was not until now that the system was certain that hidden beneath the purpose of going to the three-dimensional world, there was a more grand existence, but the system could not determine what that purpose, or goal, was.

I lament that the author Jing's brain is meaningless, the system chooses to be appropriately rotten, and raises a new question: [From the author's perspective, how can you explain to the three-dimensional readers, what is the basis for the spirits to have the ability of time? ]

"There are two ways to explain it. One, I gained control of time after being hit by An Lai's ability, and then returned to the present from the future. Two, the best way to explain it is not to explain it..."

The author Jing spoke very slowly, with a rather leisurely attitude. However, before the system asked further questions, he still clearly said the rest of his words: "Don't ask me the reason, I choose the second one."

System: ...It was predicted.

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outside world.

The spirit, who could clearly feel that he could see into time, raised his hand and clenched his fist.

At this moment, An Lai's figure was completely gone from him.

The photo of the protagonist An Lai that was captured from the long river of time was sent into the system space to accompany the author Jing after the ability was successfully used.

So from both the perspectives of the world and the comics, the outward appearance is that the spirit just raised its hand...

The grand indigo fog that seemed to cover the sky and the sun completely disappeared in less than a second.

The images flashed by like a TV screen, and in the center of the fog that blocked the vision of many people, only the figure of the alien was revealed.

An Lai is missing——

But no one would think that he was just missing. Ghosts would kill people, even blood relatives, so how could they let An Lai go?

It is true that he was previously in a state of self-imprisonment, destined not to have much time to spend with others, and the ties that should have developed with the passage of time were also destined not to exist.

No one should feel pain for him...

But boundless fear and sorrow still linger on everyone's body and mind.

What can we do to stop the supernatural?

What can be done to kill the alien spirit?

The question still has no answer, and it would be too much to ask him not to kill himself.

Why would a butcher put down his knife and talk to pigs, dogs, cows and sheep?

But from this perspective, perhaps it is not impossible to pray for all this to stop.

At this moment, many spiritualists surrounded the spirit standing in the open space, and the air was filled with a suffocating silence. Cui Tong, who didn't want to see more young people fall, took the initiative to step forward in the atmosphere that was enough to suffocate people to death.

His eyes were heavy and filled with deep powerlessness.

The force was too strong to resist. Cui Tong chose to accept the fact. He said in a dull voice: "How many more people do you have to kill before you stop?"

Before hearing these words, the alien spirit had been staring at the ground where An Lai had been standing.

Just like Hoshiharu Aori can specify the reversal of time, the programmer who was cut out of the world was only him, and it didn't even include the entire screen.

When the spirit heard Cui Tong's words, he raised his eyebrows, turned around and looked back, and said, "Want to get an accurate number and then sacrifice yourself?"

"There's no other way." Cui Tong faced the reality. "No one here can resist you. And those who may resist you in the future, but you haven't targeted them yet, it's just because you don't think they are interesting enough."

Cui Tong was referring to the other three S-level spiritualists.

The alien spirits also understood this, but they never paid their attention to those S-class people.

Ignoring all the nonsense and preface, in the end the ghost just said: "I want everyone in this world to become a ghost."

There was no wild expectation in his eyes, nor was there any bigotry like He Yuchen's. The spirit's attitude was very simple.

Just because I want to, so you have to be.

"…It looks like we can't continue the conversation." Cui Tong's power surged several times.

"There's no point in talking from the beginning to the end." The alien laughed sarcastically, "Humans and aliens cannot understand each other, and spiritualists and aliens are destined to be enemies."

"You can't stop me. And the future I want will only take time to arrive as I wish."

Behind the alien spirit, the figure of the alien spirit He Yunian slowly appeared.

How ironic.

He Wanjin, who was fighting against Lu Xue, gradually gained the upper hand in this battle.

The former would be restrained by the latter's appearance, but the latter, due to their inhuman nature, never held back.

In order to obtain a glimmer of miracle and defeat the alien spirit He Wanjin, Lu Xue was betting that the life-saving equipment given to her by Liu Shuyu would be effective at the critical moment.

But the reality is that after Lu Xue experienced a fatal move, she also launched a fatal attack on the alien He Wanjin.

But the result was not what she wanted...

The alien spirit He Wanjin was rescued by the alien spirit He Yunian.

It was still indigo lightning, but this powerful force that had been praised by many spiritualists was now directed at them.

More and more despair gathered, and the aura of alien spirits could be vaguely seen on many clergymen who had strong wills but still had flaws.

Sooner or later, you will die.

People choose to live a mediocre life because they know that being mediocre in the present will make the future less bad.

But the current situation is that no matter how hard we try, we cannot survive.

Because no one can kill the undead.

All efforts were in vain. Purely physical weapons that could easily start a world war were simply incapable of striking at alien spirits.

The self-destructive mindset is to join if you can't win, while the rational mindset is that since you will become a spirit sooner or later, you might as well prepare yourself for the transformation into a spirit and prepare a self-destruct device in advance.

In order to prevent myself from becoming a spirit, I should self-destruct before I become one. At least that way I won't let the monster with my memory become a cancer of the world.

This kind of cognition has led to a situation where some psychics, whether they have seen supernatural spirits or not, have chosen to self-destruct after discovering that they themselves have supernatural tendencies.

Everyone will die eventually, even if you are as powerless and ineffective as An Lai, but what if?

Even if it is a miracle that is impossible to happen, you have to try it to find out whether it will happen.

There are many people like this, but most of them are not those who have thought about making do or self-destructing, but those who know that their relatives and friends are waiting for them to return...

I can't die here.

So running away became an option.

The various changes and scenes of human nature are all seen by the spirits, and faced with the spiritualists who choose to self-destruct one after another, unwilling to let themselves become spirits, and finally become corrupted by the "spirits"...

The alien's choice was just to coldly wipe away the blood foam that was splashing from somewhere on his face.

This is a monster that has abandoned all human kindness, courtesy, humility and tolerance.

Except for those who were on the verge of alienation and eventually chose to self-destruct, most of the spiritual masters, and even Cheng Chuzhe, the administrator of the spiritual master prison, eventually chose to abandon this place.

——Until there was no one left alive on the field.

Those deceased spiritual masters cannot even be defined by exact names at this time; they are just one among many.

The ghost, who thought he had no interest in living in ruins, randomly chose a direction to leave under the sunlight.

The alien spirits He Yunian and He Wanjin, who witnessed the alien spirit leaving, looked at each other, then silently and tacitly chose a direction to leave.

Even though they didn't say their destination, the spirits knew that everything the word "Hejia" represented was what they were going to destroy next.

The spirit that blended into nature could not be captured by the sunlight for a while, but after the sun gradually set, a voice still echoed in the space where it could not be heard by humans.

He said, "What I care about is what I want to destroy."

The spirit disappeared.

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Inside the system space, with the system CPU running dry, the silicon-based creatures witnessed the arrival of the alien spirit.

System: ???!

[Ah, this… what is this, you, you guys… ah…] He looked as if he couldn’t speak a word, even though the system was never a human.

The alien looked at the system expressionlessly: "Why, is there something strange about you?"

"I thought my arrival was unremarkable."

During the conversation, the alien spirit even pulled out a chair and sat calmly opposite the author Jing.

As he raised his hand to pour himself some tea from the white porcelain teapot, the spirit lazily said, "Future comics are destined to be drawn to the human side with the help of multiple perspectives. So whether I still exist in that world or not is actually not that important, right?"

Although his tone was full of disgust, the spirit still explained some issues to the system.

But the system still crashed.

[I just found out not long ago that the alien He Jingtong also knows of my existence. And the author Jing didn't tell me that you also know of my existence, and you can even take the initiative to come to the system space! I...ah uh...]

[I am a system from the fourth dimension! Shouldn't there be more...] The system couldn't come up with a suitable adjective.

It had been proud of its choice of research topics countless times before, but now it can't even muster up the basic language organization skills.

"More classy?" The alien spirit took a sip of tea and put the cup back on the table before uttering that crude yet apt description.

The system shuts up by default.

"Memory exists in both the soul and the brain." The spirit poked his temple. "The ability to perform certain physical reactions without thinking is the lowest level of proof."

"Whatever He Jingtong possesses, 'He Jingtong' also possesses."

"Including the authority to enter the system space." The alien spirit looked at the author Jing. Their status looked like He Jingtong in different periods.

The author Jing's appearance is a white shirt and black shorts that are tied to him by the system, which makes him look very young. From the perspective of his identity, he can be described as a genius cartoonist.

The ghost has always maintained the appearance of He Jingtong wearing a school uniform and stabbing his heart with a knife. He looks wolfish, but his strange and powerful nature that is obviously not human symbolizes the fact that he cannot be offended.

The system could only sort out the complicated emotions and asked: [But what about the alien He Jingtong? ]

"Who do you think the three consciousnesses of my true self belong to respectively in me, the author Jing, and even the alien He Jingtong?" The alien Si had no intention of talking to He Jingtong and was just teasing the system.

The silly system also really followed up with the answer: [You look like the most self-centered one, and some people in the comics forum say that the alien He Jingtong is just He Jingtong whose body is no longer human and has lost the emotions in his memory, so he should be the true self. ]

Needless to say, the last one is that the system defaults to the author Jing.

But the next second, the spirit started shaking his fingers: "That's totally wrong."

"The true self has always been him." The alien looked directly at the author Jing. He stared into his normal, dark, clear eyes full of youthful aura and said word by word, "He Jingtong's self has never changed."

"As for the ego and the true self, I think I am the ego and the true self is that guy who no longer exists."

At this time, the system asked cautiously: [Is the alien spirit He Jingtong gone? ]

"This question is more appropriate to ask the author Jing, but I don't think he will tell you the detailed answer." The alien spirit didn't know what he was thinking. He condensed a marble on the rosewood table and poked it lightly with his fingertips, making it spin continuously.

"Thank you both for remembering me here." The subtext is whether you are having too much fun chatting.

However, the author Jing's next sentence became: "Of course he didn't disappear, he just had other tasks to do."

[…But the alien He Jingtong, like the aliens themselves, probably can’t empathize with He Jingtong’s memories, right?]

【Then I wanted to ask from the beginning, why can the spirit accept the author Jing's ideas and purposes? 】

The author Jing answered the first question: "Some things do not require empathy, but only need to be known.

The ultimate goal is the same and we all want to make it happen.”

The spirit said: "It seems like you only gave one answer, but you answered two questions at the same time."

"In short, although our perceptions are different, we are all He Jingtong and therefore have the same goal. As for the alien He Jingtong...he is the one in the middle and is the most suitable character to complete that mission."

The alien spirit curled his lips at the system's curious gaze: "But I can't tell you what the specific mission is."

System: You will be struck by lightning if you say half of it!

The spirit didn't think it was necessary to fill in the blanks for what the system hadn't said. He just said, "But as an observer and a recorder, you just need to wait. Nothing will stand still, so you can always see it."

"Now..."

“Make the multi-view interface bigger.”

The alien poured himself another cup of tasteless tea.

"From an inhuman perspective, I am very curious about what Tan Dong, who was rescued by He Jingtong after I self-destructed, would think."!