Chapter 140 Golden Brain
“He is Yahweh.”
Rosehead continued his introduction while I was still immersed in the shock of the previous sentence.
I thought the thousand-year timeframe used in the water world of Arinea was due to background requirements, but why are you guys making such a light comment?
Another arrow shot towards me. I subconsciously blocked it and found out it was a toy arrow.
It still has that red suction cup on the front.
It sticks to my palm, kind of funny.
I looked up and the little blond boy winked at me.
I just noticed that his ears seemed to be pointed.
...like a little elf.
Peter Pan kind.
It’s hard to say whether there is such a reference.
"I thought someone finally called in, but it turned out to be... Big Dog, Huahua, Human, and Sangsang."
The voice of a little boy named Yawei was heard, and he waved at me. He was only about 1.3 meters tall and looked only six or seven years old, with blond hair, golden eyes, and a chubby face.
...Is this my brother too?!
Although judging by his appearance, I wouldn’t be able to call him brother... probably.
And those weird names, aren’t they a bit too casual? When I put them together, I feel the style is different.
Then Rose-Head led me in, and I stepped over the white tiles of the Cat Café's kitchen and into the black space. Suddenly, the view became clear. This place seemed like a paradise, with a meadow, a forest, giant trees, a church, a wooden house, and some signs of life around the house. There was a lake not far away, and then there was thick fog in the distance, which was probably the border.
I felt like I had entered a new space, especially since it was night during the carnival before, but it was daytime here.
He put away his bow and put it behind his back, walked over and held my other hand. Rose-head even let go of his hand and let Yahweh lead me towards the cabin.
"I live here, but I spend most of my time reading. This space isn't big, but when I first moved in, I brought almost all of my books with me. But it looks like the outside world has left a long time ago."
He looked up at me, "...so long that even Sangsang woke up."
I looked at him, confused, and he smiled. "That's great. You look healthy."
It feels really awkward to hear such elder-like words coming from a little boy of six or seven years old.
[This is unique to long-lived races. Host, you should get used to it. You will eventually encounter other long-lived races in the future.]
He pushed open the door of the wooden house, and I found that there were only books and paintings inside.
They are basically landscape paintings, sea, forest, and lake.
"There's a gift in here for Sangsang."
He took out a pocket watch from the drawer and handed it to me. I opened it and there was a small photo inside.
It's me.
Not quite like me.
—Long white curly hair, familiar facial features, scales under the eyes… and red eyes.
“Why is it red?”
"...I can't say that." Yahweh was silent for a moment and shook his head.
"This is something that 'he' has forbidden."
I looked at the three people around me who were silent, and Boros's tail had stopped wagging.
I see. They seem to be some...painful memories.
Why should I feel guilty?!
[Perhaps you, the host, also know that you have too many criminal records.]
I:……
I did that for the mission, for the mission!
We are all workers, why are you blaming me!
Then, passing by the painting, I noticed that the pocket watch on my hand was rotating counterclockwise.
“This watch…?”
Yahweh looked at the watch and tapped it with his finger. "This is a watch that can turn back time."
"It can go back up to fifteen days. I'm sure you can use it."
He placed his hand on mine and looked at the four people behind me, "Okay, we should go see that guy."
"He's probably expected it, he's been eerily quiet lately."
Then we walked out of his cabin.
The five of them walked together towards the church next door.
This church was probably modeled after the gorgeous style of Christian churches, with white and gold spires on the outside. When Yahweh pushed open the heavy door and walked in, the feeling was completely different from the outside.
It felt like entering a cold basement.
The inside was made entirely of white marble, with all sorts of carvings and murals that I couldn't understand. The dome was made of stained glass, but no light came in at all. In the very center of the palace stood a transparent jar with a pure gold lid on top. The entire jar was placed on a red velvet cushion, right in the center, with a sign next to it.
…
It looked very much like an exhibition, and I could even see some stick figures on the display boards.
I looked at Yahweh, and he looked away silently.
——I see, it was really him who did it.
There is a golden brain in that transparent jar.
The pulse in the brain was still beating, suspended in an unknown liquid in a transparent jar, and there was some shell sand at the bottom of the jar as decoration.
——It looks more like some weird curiosity exhibition.
It's like trying to use normal decoration to cover up the novelty.
"Oh... Sangsang is here."
The brain speaks.
Only then did I notice that the golden lid on the glass jar looked like a microphone.
The voice of this brain is like an old phonograph, with some lags.
"My name is... Never mind. I don't have a name. My original body won't let me use his name. But I'm clearly his only brain. I am him and he is me, but he won't admit it."
The golden brain swayed in the liquid.
"You guys go out and leave this place to me and my brother."
He spoke to the four people behind me, but no one was paying any attention.
"What I'm about to say is something that 'he' doesn't know, and it's something that only Sangsang can know—" The brain was so angry that it spun around in the liquid, and the sound became much louder.
"If you know 'him', you will know, so get out of here—"
"This concerns Sangsang. Don't you love our brother anymore?!"
His voice was a little exasperated.
But after hearing the last sentence, the four of them finally raised their heads.
"...You don't think we are fools, do you?"
Rose Head stepped forward and said, "If the rest of us said this, we would believe it, but if it was you, we wouldn't believe it." He pointed his hand at the transparent jar.
"You are the only one. We don't believe that you love Sangsang."
What was said made me look sideways.
oh?
Isn't this a toxic person?
His brain fell silent, and he sank to the bottom of the liquid. "Of course I love Sangsang."
He said this, "Who else would love him but me?"
"He's my only brother—the only relative we have after our mother drove us away."
“We’ve been together for so long…”
"It's all their fault."
"I hate them, but my brother loves them."
"but……"
"but."
The brain hit the transparent jar with a thud.
"It would be nice if my brother and I were one."
His voice echoed throughout the church.
This sentence sounds familiar to me.
——Isn’t this what Yuwei said? !
"Sangsang, why don't you listen to your brother?"
The golden brain asked this.
I was full of questions.
"He's a crazy guy, don't worry about it." Yahweh patted my hand. "He's locked up because he's too crazy. If we let him out, we'll definitely be in big trouble."
"Don't take his words to heart. Although it looks like a complete brain, it's actually just a part of 'his' brain. The golden brain inside and this jar were both molded by him for himself. After all, no one would really cut out their own brain."
I:……
Cough cough.
【Ahem.】
[Okay, stop coughing. I didn't cut you! I'm a victim too! Is it my fault for being clueless back then?!]
I looked at the golden brain tumbling in the liquid and decided to listen to what he had to say.
Besides, I am strong.
He can't hurt me.
This is something I am certain of.
"I want to hear what he wants to say. You wait for me outside."
I looked at the people around me and said, "Just come in in fifteen minutes."
I squeezed Meiguitou and Shiqing's hands, rubbed Boros's chin, and touched Yahweh's head. In short, I did it to comfort them. The four of them looked at me silently, but nodded.
After the four people left the church, I walked over to the transparent jar.
"They're all gone, you can talk now."
“…”
"First of all, I want to defend what Rose Head just said."
The golden brain, suspended in the liquid, said, "I love you very much, but my love is a little different from theirs."
"I love you very much, but I hate you too."
I:……
"Even the hatred surpassed the love, so I was exiled here."
"'He' couldn't bear to have such thoughts."
"I was the last slice he made."
He transformed into two small brains in the liquid, one black and one white. "I probably belong to the black side."
"That's why they're wary of me. They're afraid I'll say something bad to you."
He regained his golden head.
I looked at him, thought for a moment, took out the bone spur, and tapped his transparent jar. "So what do you want to say to me?"
"Don't go to Site 01."
"Once you go—then everything becomes inevitable."
"What is inevitable?"
"It's inevitable that you will never come back."
He looked a little gloomy in the water. "I actually wanted to stop you, but at the same time I wanted to let you go—you would die there."
"Then Site 01 will become a second overlapping space."
I:……
I sort of understand what he means.
He...actually realized this time paradox.
Venue 01 is my past, and the current me has not experienced what happened in the past, but on a certain timeline there must be a past me who filled the past and made me who I am now.
I woke up in this body at the age of 16, but that doesn't mean I didn't experience the previous 16 years. It's because that's what I will experience when I go back to the past in the future.
Anyway, it's very complicated.
But it can be explained.
They should not be aware of it, and only I, a person from outside the world, and my system should be aware of it.
But now the brain realizes it.
"...So, the reason they didn't tell me was because I died in the past?"
Brain: "Yes, and everything now exists for your resurrection, including this overlapping space - and also including letting Shi Qing take you to first place."
"All this is to be able to revive you."
Me: “But I’m alive now.”
Brain: "Sangsang, because you said you would wake up in five thousand years."
"You also said that you were only awake temporarily, so 'he' would try every possible way to keep you alive."
I:……
"After all, all you had left was the spine in your hand."
I looked at my bone spur pressed against the clear jar.
Suddenly I felt even more guilty.
How on earth did I escape death? Was it so tragic?
Heh.
Heh.
You two, stop sneering at me at a time like this!!!
"So—as long as you don't go to Site 01, you can live forever, Sangsang."
The golden brain was pressed close to the transparent jar, as if staring at me.
...No wonder they had to ask them all to leave. If they knew about this, they would definitely not let me go.
And this brain is just as he said, he hates me...but he also loves me.
So he gave me the choice.
[Ding Di Di - Stage 7: The Lost Past
Go back to the past and complete the traces of your existence in this world.
Mission Reward: None
Failure penalty: Force restart of the world or enter a penalty world
This quest is closely related to the main quest. Failure to complete it will result in the failure of this world quest.
Me, this, you.
There's no option for me to refuse?!
[…This is released by the main system!!! Not all of them!!]
To be honest, even though I've heard so much from my brain, I don't really have any obsession with life or death. After all, death means completing the mission and moving on to the next world.
But when the main system mission was released, I still felt forced!!!
This is like this: I was supposed to do something, but my parents forced me to do it. Even if the result is the same, the feeling is completely different, right?!
It would be better if you didn’t tell me!
If you don't tell me, this warning-like task will not be triggered.
I fixed my angry eyes fiercely on the golden brain in the transparent jar.
brain:?
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