Chapter 139 Between Infinity
The priest lost his strength due to the attack of death. Lin Guantang fell to the ground and coughed to catch his breath. After he caught his breath, he looked up at the priest's hateful eyes and felt that he should say something.
"I should have died."
Lin Guantang recalled his past experiences, countless near-death scenes flashing through his mind, as if talking to himself:
"There were countless times when I could have died. Whenever I had the thought of dying, something that could kill me would always appear around me. It was as if I could die at any time if I wanted to. But there was always a thought that told me I had to keep living."
Even if this really is a world with magical gods, it cannot change the fact that this is a world destroyed by priests.
Since he came here, he should be prepared to kill the priest.
Dying in the process was the best he could do.
"Who needs your self-righteous devotion and ridiculous kindness? You're just moving yourself, kid."
The priest laughed out loud, but also tried to seduce with malicious intent:
"I am the leader of evil, and those fools are all villains too."
"If they hadn't been malicious, how could your face be disfigured, your fingers cut off, your ring stolen, and your future be so dark?"
"Killing the tiger to save a group of ghosts, are you really willing, really willing, and is it really worth it?"
The whole world is a shadow of sin. Is there anything left to be saved?
Lin Guantang knelt quietly on the ground, watching his life slip away completely. When he was about to close his eyes and die completely, Lin Guantang spoke:
"As long as there's one good person, it's worth it. Even if there's not one... there are always babies who haven't been exposed to anything yet and can cultivate good qualities from the beginning."
The priest looked at him blankly for the last time, a hint of an ambiguous smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and then he died completely and totally.
The temple bells rang continuously, calling everyone to gather.
When people arrived at the temple, even from a distance, they saw what seemed to be a corpse hanging in front of the temple, swaying back and forth. When they got closer, they found that it was actually the priest, and the young man who was disfigured by the fire was standing quietly in front of the temple.
It was clear who had killed the priest.
When enough people had gathered, the young man finally spoke, exposing all the sins of the priests and even explaining the so-called divine punishment.
"The prediction of a rainstorm is based on the gathering of clouds resembling towers. The moon's halo isn't a sign of divine presence, but simply the reflection of moonlight through the ice crystals of cirrus clouds."
It was not enough for him to kill the priests, he also wanted to completely deny the existence of gods.
With terrified and confused eyes falling on him, Lin Guantang confirmed that this was not an idea that could be changed overnight.
So he changed his statement:
"This is not a fantasy world. There are no gods, and there is no need for priests. If you absolutely need a priest, I will do it."
"Now, in the name of the priests, I ask you—"
When everyone was uneasy, thinking that he would take revenge on those who had offended him, that he would announce a new way of offering sacrifices, and that he would ask people to make offerings—
He suppressed his emotions and said slowly:
"Please bring me my ring."
After a moment of confusion, someone shouted, "I know what ring it is!"
Then the crowd began to stir, passing the news layer by layer, like rolling waves.
The ring that had been found for a long time was placed on a plate and held above the head and delivered to him in just one hour.
There were many unfamiliar scratches and pry marks on it, probably because someone wanted to take it apart and sell it separately, but was unable to do so.
Lin Guantang took the ring, gently put it on the broken finger, rubbed it carefully, and tears fell.
This is his ring, a ring passed down from his lover's family.
——He remembered that he had a lover.
His lover is tall and majestic, as big as the sea and as high as the mountain.
His lover was never gentle or kind, but she would never actively murder innocent people. Indeed, from beginning to end, she was carrying out the mission of sheltering.
But who is his lover and where is she?
He tried hard to recall, but his memory was blank.
He held the ring and the gap in his hand and looked up at the frequently twinkling starry sky.
I don’t know which star holds the person he misses.
From then on, he tried his best to dispel the thick fog of ignorance and restore a clear sky to the world.
On a sunny day, he closed his eyes and never opened them again.
All sounds, lights and shadows return to eternal darkness, and noisy sounds gradually emerge from the darkness. My eyelids feel slightly hot, and I feel the sunlight shining.
He opened his eyes.
What caught my eye was the white ceiling, what entered my nose was the distinct smell of disinfectant, and what I heard was a flurry of exclamations:
"Xiaotang baby, you're awake!"
"Xiaotang! Doctor, doctor, my child is awake!"
…
There was a moment of chaos and he was pushed in and out amid the noise. He felt a splitting headache again, but it only lasted for a while before it eased.
Then he fell into great joy.
He came back from that damned land of ignorance!
He stretched out his fingers, all five of them intact, without any signs of being cut, and even the ring was still on his hand.
He asked someone for a mirror. The person in the mirror had a fair face and neat features, and there were no signs of burns.
He looked around and saw that the entire ward was filled with people who came to visit him. Fortunately, it was a single room so it would not affect other patients' rest.
Mom and Dad kept talking about what had happened since he fell ill and fell into a coma, and his friends and classmates also recounted various interesting things they had seen and heard.
He gradually smiled brightly and said that he had had a very long dream.
He is no longer a helpless time traveler wandering in a foreign land, he has returned to his own warm world.
This is a warm and beautiful world.
There is no better.
In this world, he has his dear father and mother. His father doesn't drink and his mother doesn't smoke.
Hmm... something seems wrong. Isn't it normal for a mother not to smoke? Why did he suddenly think of this?
"Good boy, from now on, Mom will never smoke again, and your Dad has also quit drinking. Our whole family will live a healthy life. Don't you always want to eat at that restaurant near our house? We'll eat there when we're discharged from the hospital. I've asked the doctor, and there are no dietary restrictions..."
Oh, yes, he remembered, his mother was different from others and liked to smoke.
However, his illness scared his parents, so they gave up smoking everything.
He breathed a sigh of relief and discussed with his parents about eating, drinking and having fun after being discharged from the hospital.
After I was discharged from the hospital, my neighbors came to visit me warmly and cordially.
After resuming his studies, his classmates and teachers were always paying attention to his condition, and there were two or three classmates who volunteered to take notes for him.
Besides that, he has a perfect boyfriend.
Her boyfriend appears cold on the outside but is warm on the inside. He ignores other people but is completely obedient to her. He gives her whatever she wants and even gives her many gifts without Lin Guantang saying anything.
In addition to being good to him, his boyfriend is also handsome, has excellent grades, and has a bright future. He comes from a wealthy family, and his parents are cheerful and love to laugh. They have long recognized Lin Guantang as their son's partner.
He was a very, very perfect boyfriend, but he always felt something was wrong.
On the way to and from school, during class breaks, during meals...
He stared at his boyfriend inch by inch and finally figured out what was wrong.
His boyfriend's hair should be white, and his eyes should be red, why are they all black?
But it would be normal if it were all black. How could a normal person have a head full of white hair and red eyes?
Why……
He grabbed his hair and recalled, in the midst of a splitting headache, it seemed that someone had answered this question in his memory.
"The reason for this hair color is——"
"Premature graying of hair."
"Where are the eyes?"
"Pink eye."
…
Lin Guantang finally asked:
"Don't you have premature graying of hair and pink eye?"
The boyfriend looked at him as if he was very shocked, then rolled his eyes speechlessly and said unhappily:
"Please, pink eye isn't a terminal illness. It can be cured with just a few treatments. Of course, I've also had my hair treated before, and I used some very expensive hair dye."
"Why... change?"
"You've already returned to normal, so of course I want to be a normal person and date you."
Is that so?
Lin Guantang nodded thoughtfully and accepted the explanation.
Life after that was quite dull.
A happy life is always plain, without all kinds of dangers and waves. Living happily, it feels like such days can extend to endless end.
But it’s not static. Days pass by one by one, and it’s time to graduate.
After everyone took the group photo, many people realized that they would be separated and might never see each other again, so they burst into tears.
Lin Guantang was also infected by the sad atmosphere and his tears were wet. He said many farewell words to his classmates and signed many rosters. Then everyone left one after another.
He then went to find his boyfriend who had been waiting for him for who knows how long.
His boyfriend gave him a ring.
The platinum diamond ring, regardless of its price, has a very high-end aesthetic. Lin Guantang was extremely happy at the first sight, as if it was custom-made according to his idea in his mind.
“It looks great!”
My boyfriend was very proud of the gift he gave me and suggested:
"Take off that ring on your finger and wear this."
Lin Guantang looked at him speechlessly:
"I have ten fingers."
My boyfriend sighed:
"But they don't match well together. Honestly, the ring you're wearing is too old-fashioned. It doesn't suit your youthful and beautiful temperament at all."
He was amused by his boyfriend's words, and raised his hand again to look at the ring on his hand in the sunlight.
The ring is made of pure gold and is thick, without any scratches. It has many complex patterns piled up, surrounding a huge pure white jade stone.
Think about it, only middle-aged and elderly people in movies and TV dramas wear this kind of ring, it is indeed not suitable for young people.
So why do I have to wear such a ring all day long?
It was as if it had become one with him. If his boyfriend hadn't suddenly brought it up, he wouldn't have remembered it at all.
Speaking of which, his parents didn't seem to think that he would be stolen or robbed if he carried such valuables, his classmates didn't think he was showing off, and passers-by didn't even glance at him.
My boyfriend whispered in my ear:
"Besides, this ring is so valuable. What if it gets stolen accidentally? It's better to put it away and just wear this one I gave you. You won't feel bad if you lose it."
Lin Guantang felt that what he said made sense. He reached out and grasped the ring, twisted it back and forth, and then pulled it out. When he reached the joint, he encountered a small obstruction.
It came out with a little force.
But Lin Guantang stopped there and didn't move. When her boyfriend urged her again, Lin Guantang slowly raised her eyes to look at him and asked a question:
"Who are you."
His boyfriend stood in front of him with his back to the light. The sunlight shone through, and he felt as if his entire body was glowing. He couldn't see his features clearly, and even his voice seemed disembodied.
"Of course I'm your dear boyfriend."
Lin Guantang was blinded by the sunlight, looked away, hummed, and continued to ask:
"So who are you?"
The boyfriend didn't say anything.
Lin Guantang waited patiently for a few minutes before continuing:
"Your name, can't you say it out loud? Or do you have no name? Or once you say your name, the flaw will be exposed."
My boyfriend seemed to smile and sigh:
"This world..."
"This world is beautiful, warm, and perfect, and it makes people reluctant to leave."
Lin Guantang interrupted him and continued.
He just said all kinds of compliments, but his tone became increasingly depressed and sad:
"It's a pity it doesn't belong to me."
His eyes looked straight at his boyfriend again, then moved away to look behind him.
On the tree-lined avenue, his parents were waving at him and walking towards him happily.
- Oh, I remember now. We agreed that after taking graduation photos today and finishing school work, the whole family - he and his parents, his boyfriend and his parents, would have a meal together to celebrate their graduation.
Mom and Dad had already walked over to my boyfriend, came over and pulled his arm, saying that there would be no room if we were any later.
He stood there and let them pull him, but he didn't move.
The light and shadow on the ground formed a clear line. He stood on this side of the line, and his "parents" and "boyfriend" stood on the other side of the line.
Boyfriend said:
"If you stay, it's yours."
Mom said:
"Who made our little Tang baby angry?"
Dad said:
"As a family, we just need to be happy and together."
Lin Guantang shook his head gently, tears welling in his eyes, but his voice was firm:
"I want to leave."
He took a step back, and then another step back. His mother's hand that was holding his arm slid down. There was clearly no strength at all, but he felt as if there were some inextricable thing attached to it, making him feel more painful with every step he took back.
But he finally retreated completely into the void and said:
"I want to go back to my real world."
The "boyfriend" groaned twice with a headache, then smiled helplessly, as if there was nothing he could do:
"How pitiful! If you want your real world, I'll give it back to you."
As soon as the words fell, the whole world began to disintegrate.
Not only did my boyfriend become fragmented, but even my parents began to become vague. They looked at him as if they were looking at a wandering child, full of nostalgia and reluctance to leave:
"Xiaotang baby... Mom and Dad can support you for the rest of your life."
"Are you really leaving?"
Lin Guantang felt an urge to run over.
There was still time, all he had to do was take off the ring or run over to give them a hug, and he still had time to stay.
But in the end, he could only watch the world turn into pieces and fly away and disappear.
No one would call him so affectionately anymore, and he never had parents.
He closed his eyes, and the world collapsed silently;
He opened his eyes, and the world reconstructed silently;
He looked around at the bare room with old items piled everywhere. It turned out that he was back in his hometown in District 35.
He stood in the living room, watching his adoptive father Lao Lin and Sazerac busying around.
Sazerac said that if you bring this to the capital, you'll be laughed at, but then he said that you can bring that one, and then he asked where that one is and why he can't find it...
Lao Lin was being directed around in circles, grabbing his hair and asking where this was, where that was, and which one was that?
He looked like he was about to collapse, which made Lin Guantang want to laugh.
He looked up and saw Senior Shao Qingzhu also standing in a corner. She looked like she wanted to laugh but felt it would be rude so she had to hold it back.
This was before he went to the imperial capital.
It really is back to the beginning.
This incomplete, vivid world belongs to him.
He packed up his things and left with his senior.
We stayed in a hotel on the way, but unfortunately we encountered a case. It was said that some criminals had sneaked into the hotel and everyone was asked to be on guard.
He sat obediently in the room, but he didn't expect that the criminal would jump into his room from the window and plan to take him hostage, but he dodged it.
He chased him and he ran away, playing cat and mouse in the room. Finally, he ran out of energy and twisted his foot on the slide under the glass window between the living room and the balcony, causing pain in his foot.
When he turned around, he saw the furious criminal rushing towards him with a knife.
Then, there was a bang.
The criminal was shot in the head.
He turned his head and saw a dark shadow falling from the sky, with long silver hair flying in the night wind and brown eyes looking down at him.
It’s——Huo Shizhen!
We met at this time and in this place.
In the silent eye contact, Huo Shizhen stretched out his hand towards him.
He looked at the outstretched hand, then at the person in front of him, and finally spoke softly:
"What a cheesy hero-saving-beauty scene."
The man in front of him raised his eyebrows, revealing an impatient expression, and then said:
"Can you change your look? This is weird."
"Huo Shizhen" clicked his tongue impatiently, and actually took off his disguise. Then he changed his face into one that looked exactly like Lin Guantang's, and his body shrank and became frail.
Her hair was loose in front and tied into a small braid at the back, about a finger's width, that hung from her shoulders to the front of her body.
"You're really annoying!"
It couldn't stand it anymore and started complaining:
"If you wanted happiness, I gave you happiness. If you wanted the original world, I gave you the original world. What else can you not be satisfied with?"
"I just want to get back to the real world."
Lin Guantang couldn't believe that this was the true form of the electronic ghost - shouldn't it be cold, gloomy and oppressive? But it was so lively, more like a child than him.
But he would not treat the electronic ghost in front of him as a child, and said coldly:
"Don't falsify my memories, don't imitate my friends and family, don't replace my feelings."
"Can you satisfy me?"
The electronic ghost before him only had a cold, statue-like expression, and his tone became mechanical:
“Don’t regret it.”
The sound of running water from the decorative rockery in the hotel's living room grew louder and louder, and suddenly turned into a huge waterfall.
The elegant and exquisite hotel has turned into a dilapidated mountain village. All he can see are the villagers with dull faces. He sees a villager about to fall and hurried over to support him. Someone else comes to call him, saying that his glands are swollen and painful and asks him to come and see.
He doesn't know any medical skills.
Lin Guantang wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he decided to go over and take a look.
I had originally wanted to see if it matched the basic knowledge I'd read, but after reading it, he came up with a solution that didn't involve standard medicine, but some herbal remedies...
That wasn't his memory.
He was so alert that he noticed it quickly, and then he heard someone speak:
"There are beauties hidden in the mountains."
Lin Guantang looked towards the source of the voice. He saw a slender black figure. He extended his hand towards him and introduced himself as a ** from Fugan District...
He wandered around the mountain village and talked with "Lin Guantang".
The slender figure marveled at Lin Guantang's talent, and Lin Guantang was also attracted by the technology outside. In the end, they hit it off, and Lin Guantang followed him to Fugan District.
Lin Guantang subconsciously felt that there was something fishy going on, and of course he refused to follow, but "Lin Guantang" excitedly followed him away, and was not actually under his control.
In this world, he is just a bystander.
Watch the creation of an electronic ghost.
The advanced terminal seemed like a basic calculator in his hands, complex code formulas were as simple as 1+1, and drug synthesis was as clear as building with building blocks. If it weren't for his accent still carrying a strong rural flavor, almost no one would believe that he was a barefoot doctor in the mountain village a few months ago.
After testing his brain, it was found that his natural development was twice that of an average person. This was nothing more than a genius created by miracle.
Extraordinary talents deserve extraordinary treatment.
All the materials and equipment in the entire Fugan District and its affiliated areas were available for him to use and read, so that he could be built as quickly as possible.
But he was not allowed to leave the laboratory building because he was afraid that others would find out and come to fight for him.
Except for face-to-face conversations, he tried his best to prevent anyone from seeing him.
All the time was spent on research, and the idea of allowing consciousness to separate from the body soon became a reality.
It’s just that the system cannot support long-term operation, but it will not be a problem in time.
It's just that not many people are willing to try.
In his spare time, he also studied some gadgets.
For example, a tracking code that can be tracked remotely through the system is placed on the original group photo and is ready to be sent to the first group of external partners met as a surprise.
for example
But he soon ran out of time to research more.
He had a dream in which a flash flood broke out and the villagers died in it.
After many arguments and negotiations, he was finally able to return to his hometown, but no one, whether local officials or villagers in the mountains, listened to his predictions.
He sat in the yard and listened to everyone complaining about the hardships they were facing, complaining that no one would treat them after he left and that they simply couldn't survive.
He made a decision.
Living is so painful, or even impossible, and finally dying in a mountain torrent. It would be better for the body to die in peace and the soul to be free.
Of course, of course...
He would have done the same himself.
Right now, the system is still a small, lifeless mechanical box. If it wants to be transformed into a fully living world, it needs a brain source.
A brain source that can sustain the system even if it evolves and grows into a universe that accommodates countless worlds.
A gunshot rang out, and his body died;
According to the will, the body was taken away for a complete dissection, the useless flesh and blood were turned into the flames, and the brain was properly connected to the system.
He woke up again and looked down to see the entire mountain village.
The sky is clear and the air is bright, the flowers and plants are lush, chickens fly and ducks run, there is enough food and water, there is no worry about food and clothing, and the buildings are neatly arranged.
People were working and there was laughter and joy everywhere.
There is no need to worry about natural disasters such as flash floods, nor do you have to worry about glandular or other diseases.
A beautiful new world where everyone is happy has been successfully born.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
