Chapter 82: Dual Habitat
The "Fallen Flower Cave Girl" disappeared.
Or rather, it disappeared briefly. The "Fallen Flower Cave Girl" in the "Black Book" did not disappear like the "Hundred Forms and Thousands of Faces" and the "Upside-Down Pavilion", but turned gray and remained on that page.
The rescuers arrived quickly. In this abnormal space, the flow of time is different from that outside. It felt like only half a day had passed from the time Baizhi and I came in to the time we left, but in reality, three days had passed when we came out.
Zhou Tianqi and Yi Yun searched for two whole days before they found the entrance.
Or was it because I forced the process of getting married to begin? Otherwise, according to the mountain god's progress, it might really take 70 days until the outside world passed before it could begin.
Some of the women who disappeared were severely dehydrated.
Then that night when I returned to the hotel, my bronze mirror broke.
Villar?!
Villar?
[Host, Villar's anchor is still there, but we can't contact him for the time being.]
What's wrong with him?
Part of the mountain god's power has affected him, changing his status as a "Fallen Angel." He's becoming "abnormal," or in layman's terms, leveling up.
ah?
No, is it still possible? ?
[Don't worry, he's just changing his identity now, so we can't contact him for the time being. Once Villar's identity in this world becomes "abnormal", we'll be able to contact him again.
[He has signed a contract with our company and a blood covenant with you, so there's no need to worry about anything else.]
[He's a local specialty! Our company hasn't been poached under the leadership of the main system!]
…
This sounds like a shady company. I remember the previous top executive resigned!
[…How can losing to a love-brained person be considered poaching?!]
I have a headache.
But speaking of this, what kind of "abnormality" would Villar transform into?
It's hard to imagine.
"Is your mirror broken?"
Zhou Tianqi, who had just finished taking a shower, frowned when he saw my mirror and walked up to me quickly.
"…Wei is going to become abnormal."
He sat down opposite me and picked up the mirror.
"Do you know what kind of Fallen Angel he is?"
I:……
I know, the evil god system is not a product of this world.
I used to have the same status as you and was my good brother.
His specific identity can be further refined into the creation of multiple evil gods, the former son of the world, who possesses multiple powers. The main source of power is the heart, which represents "key", "door" and "wisdom".
After all, I have been one too.
But, but I couldn't say a word.
Because it's not the setting of this world at all.
"have no idea?"
I nodded sincerely.
"Don't worry, our contract is still there."
Zhou Tianqi stopped talking, then took out a copy of the "Black Book" and threw it to me.
“Maybe it will appear here, you can take a closer look—” Then the two of us watched as an extra page appeared in the Black Book.
The page of "A Hundred Forms and Thousands of Faces" that had disappeared reappeared with a new name on it.
-「□□□□」
Its name cannot be seen, spoken, or heard; it is an indescribable fear.
I:……
Ah, I don't know why I seem to be feeling a bit perfunctory.
But this description could not have been more fitting for anyone but Villar.
Then there is a row of small characters below, which look like annotations to the Black Book.
-The risk is zero, "□□□□" is already in shackles.
【I'm back. 】
As this page appeared, a familiar voice sounded in my mind.
Then, Zhou Tianqi and I were pulled into a space together, and we seemed to appear in the universe.
Viral appeared in front of us in police uniform.
"Why are you here too?" He looked at Zhou Tianqi with some disdain, "I only brought Xiao...Ying."
Zhou Tianqi looked him up and down, "So this is what you are like."
"But no matter how much you learn to become human, you are just an anomaly now..."
As Zhou Tianqi spoke, a blue flame appeared in his hand and condensed into an ice sword.
"Since you are still my sister's dog, please be polite to me."
The sword slashed towards Villar.
No, what happened? Why did they start fighting?!
"It's because you have too strong a desire to control Xiaoying every day that he is becoming more and more violent." Villar was not to be outdone and went forward to greet me. He was very considerate and conjured up a small table, a small chair and a plate of fried chicken with Coke for me.
Ah, don't fight for me, if you want to fight...
This fried chicken is delicious.
The taste is just like that of a fried chicken restaurant that I loved in my last life.
Villar, he really made me cry.
Villar with brains is the real God!
When the fight was almost over, Zhou Tianqi was thrown out.
Villar sat across from me.
"Finally, I can talk to you face to face. Before, I couldn't come out unless you called me." His tone was a little aggrieved. "Xiaoyu doesn't want her old brother anymore since she has a new one."
No, I didn't, don't accuse me in this tone as if I cheated!
And don't wipe your tears secretly while secretly touching the fried chicken on my plate. You made it, is it hard for you to make one for yourself?!
"Ahem, let's get down to business."
Maybe he finally became serious after hearing my complaints.
"The system has already told you that my current identity in this world has become 'abnormal', right?"
I nodded.
"Then you have to remember what I'm going to say next. It's related to Zhou Tianqi."
"During the process of becoming 'abnormal', I saw some things—" He shook his hand, and the universe around him changed into another appearance. A ancestral hall appeared in the darkness.
Directly below the ancestral hall, there is a coffin.
The coffin was tied up with layer upon layer of chains, covered with densely packed yellow talismans, and then countless chains extended into the darkness, with no end in sight.
That ancestral hall looks familiar.
I lived there for ten years.
That is the Zhou family's ancestral hall.
"This is the 'anomaly' on the first page of the Black Book." Villar pointed to the coffin and said to me.
"All anomalies will be affected by it. This world is a world where humans and anomalies coexist, but anomalies are born out of humans, so humans must be stronger than anomalies, but not too much stronger."
Villar looked at me with a somewhat sad look in his eyes.
"When humans become too powerful, this balance will be broken and the world will collapse."
I stopped chewing the fried chicken.
"So...what will happen?"
"So, the 'Amphic' was born. To balance the world, to ensure the coexistence of humans and the 'abnormal', every 30 years, a human will voluntarily lie in that coffin and become the new 'Amphic'."
"You and Zhou Tianqi broke this balance in just sixteen years."
"I can slow down this speed after I become an 'abnormal', but it will only take five years at most. If Zhou Tianqi becomes stronger—"
I suddenly understood why Zhou Tianqi committed suicide in the first episode.
I suddenly understood why the elders in my family told us not to enter the space of "Fallen Flower Cave Girl" together.
Once we die together in "Fallen Flower Cave Girl", this balance will also be broken, and at that time even "Dual Living" will be useless.
——Because humans need to be stronger than "abnormalities", but not too strong.
The underlying logic of this world is so strange.
Zhou Tianqi should have entered the "dual habitat" as early as the first week, but he refused, and he should have protested in a very rebellious way, killing all the "abnormalities".
Zhou Tianqi is a person who would rather let the world betray me than let the world betray me.
He didn't care about anything, so after learning the truth, he chose not to give anyone a chance.
He committed suicide.
This person is so selfish that he even wants to take control of his own life.
In order to prevent the world from collapsing, the world consciousness traced everything back and pulled me in.
...a very cruel fact.
I am now Zhou Tianqi's only weakness.
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When I came out of Villar's space, I saw Zhou Tianqi sitting on the bed sulking.
"What did he say to you?"
He asked angrily.
As I watched him, it was hard for me to imagine what he was going through if he had to do it again.
"Tell me about 'dual living'."
Zhou Tianqi was stunned.
The expression he gave me changed, becoming fierce.
"What did he tell you about 'bi-ambulatory'—" He leaned closer to me. "Does he want you to become abnormal too? Does he want you to become 'bi-ambulatory'?"
He looked a little crazy and grabbed my hand.
"Aying is mine, you can't be a 'dual resident'——"
I hugged him.
Patted him on the back.
"No, don't be afraid."
"I wonder if the last person to become a dual-sex couple was my dad." Although I used a question, my tone was affirmative.
Why did I have to stay in the ancestral hall until I was ten years old?
Why Zhou Tianqi hates entering the ancestral hall.
Why didn’t my second uncle, third uncle, and fourth uncle tell us about our parents?
Why Zhou Tianqi and I have always lived alone.
Why the Zhou family never disciplines us too much.
Because our father is the current "dual-living" and one of us will become the new "dual-living".
Because "Father" will protect me.
Because it hurts to have too many connections with us.
Because Zhou Tianqi knows everything.
He hugged me back, tightly, "Aying, I won't let you become a 'dual-living' couple."
I sighed.
Sure enough, I am his only weakness.
"What about you? Are you going to become a 'dual couple'?"
I asked him.
He didn't speak.
"As long as A-Ying is alive, I am alive."
"Because I know that Ah Ying shouldn't have existed," he said slowly. "I've long discovered that this world often revolves around me."
“I want to be stronger, so I become stronger.”
"Whatever I want, I get."
"I won't really die. I can get through any desperate situation."
"Even if I do nothing, the key to a comeback will appear at my fingertips."
He recalled.
"In my dream, everyone was like a programmed machine, surrounding me, saying similar things and doing similar things."
"This false and empty world is designed to make me a 'sacrifice'."
"And I took back the power of death."
"Since the world revolves around me, then I should have the final say over my own death, right?"
As I listened to him, I suddenly felt a little sorry for him.
He is too smart, he knows that he is the "protagonist" - when he realizes this but cannot escape, his life will be left with nothingness.
...So that's why he committed suicide.
"But I didn't expect that even death would not be allowed."
He looked at me, but there was no light in his eyes.
"But fortunately, you are here in reality."
"In my dreams, A-Ying is a non-existent person, but in reality, A-Ying is another me that has split my destiny in half."
“It’s a gift to me.”
"So as long as Ah Ying is alive, I exist."
This is too pessimistic.
How could this child not be crazy——
I cupped his face and squeezed it.
"Why don't we run away?" I made the happy decision unilaterally.
"I have a feeling that one of us will have to die when we return this time." I thought about the progress Villar had mentioned, as well as the various messages he had left unsaid after our mission was completed. "Let's just run for a few years, until the world can no longer hold on."
There will always be a way.
[…Host, you are so optimistic!]
Anyway, I can just fill it with my body when the time comes!
[The protagonist will be devastated.]
As an older brother, what's wrong with letting your younger brother be a little willful?
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