Jiang Cheng pinched his chin and looked through his memories carefully, and soon came across a group of guys whose clothes and weapons resembled those of the Tiandaos, and whose bodies were hidden by bandages.
"It's them...the remnants...no! They were all obviously beaten by me..."
As he said that, Jiang Cheng suddenly thought of something - that stray heartbeat when he was about to leave!
Jiang Cheng's expression gradually became serious.
"Could it be that at that time..."
"It seems that you have also recalled it." Xiaoyu took over, "Yes, from that time on, they invaded your body."
"In my body"
Jiang Cheng lowered his head and glanced at his body.
"Yes, the Nightmare uses a spell called "poison". According to the memories of Gintoki-sama and Gui-sama, before they were eliminated by Jiangcheng-sama, they secretly used poison to fight against the foreigners. Caused a lot of casualties. Master Jiang Cheng penetrated deep into the enemy's formation, and only then did he pull out all the enemies hiding in the darkness and eliminate them. "
"Well, that seems to be the case." Jiang Cheng nodded, "But in other words, is it some kind of poison they have? Is it a small insect or something like that?"
"No, it's not like that, Master Jiang Cheng." Xiaoyu shook her head, "What they call poison is actually a kind of nanomachine that Master Jiang Cheng is familiar with."
"Impossible!" Jiang Cheng interrupted with a frown, "It should be impossible for those kinds of things to invade my body. The Altana in my body can easily exterminate them."
"This is also true. They invaded Lord Jiang Cheng's body and invaded towards your center, your heart, but almost all of them were destroyed by the powerful Altana in your heart."
"Does that mean they haven't all been wiped out?" Jiang Cheng frowned slightly and asked with some uncertainty.
"It can be said that there are only a small part left. When they are about to be exterminated, the remaining ones have learned to disguise themselves so that your body cannot detect the presence of hostility and have been lurking in your body, waiting. Take the opportunity.”
Jiang Cheng chuckled and glanced at his heart: "You are really smart little guys, they learned to disguise so quickly."
"Not only are they camouflaging, they have also learned to evolve, using the Altana that eats away at your body to evolve themselves. Their size has become smaller, and all their abilities have been qualitatively improved. This process has been going on for ten years. They have not found a chance for ten years, but they have lurked in all parts of your body."
"In other words, in the last battle, did they seize the opportunity to control me?"
"That's right," Xiaoyu nodded, "In the end, they took a gamble and spent most of their time to repair your heart at the last moment. Because after ten years of getting along with Altana in your body, they have adapted. And it can replace Altana to a certain extent. But the thing is, they also sacrificed most of it to barely repair your heart, and the remaining small part also fell into stagnation as your physiological functions stagnated. "
"Do they also need Altana to move after they evolve?"
"Yes, this is also a limitation after their evolution. They need Altana to move. Originally, if Lord Jiang Cheng died completely, they would also die away little by little over time, but..."
"But..." Jiang Cheng took over the words calmly, "The crystal stone revived them and allowed them to control my dead body, the earth, and my Altana breath little by little. It is very suitable. They grew, and in a short period of time, they even took away... no, I should say, they replaced my Altana core.
Especially one-fifth of the Altana cores that Saburo and the others separated on Earth should have all fallen into their hands.
Simply put, they are now equivalent to my old Altana cores. I can survive and move because they fuel me.
is that so? "
"That's right."
"Yeah, yeah, I really don't know what to say. The enemy turned out to be the savior or something."
"When..." Xiaoyu looked at Jiang Cheng's tombstone, "When you noticed something was wrong with your body, it was already three months after you woke up. Your body is basically controlled by them, and they are almost the same as the Altana in your body. No more distinctions.”
"I won't do nothing. What happened after that? My words, absolutely..."
"You can't do it." Xiaoyu shook her head and interrupted Jiang Cheng, "Although you can use your will to force yourself to stay awake, suicide is no longer possible. They know your body very well, and even all Altana They are all under their control, and once you do anything to harm your body, they will repair the damaged parts for you.”
"Why do I feel more and more that these guys are actually quite good in nature?" Jiang Cheng smiled helplessly, then raised his head to look at the sky where the rain gradually stopped, and murmured softly: "You can't die even if you die, then all that's left is It was a tug-of-war of will. It looks like I won."
"Because they can invade your spirit at any time, you can only stay awake at all times to prevent them from taking over your spirit when you relax your vigilance."
"That's right... Then I really have a good ending. I can finally sleep peacefully and stuff like that."
"However, they still took advantage of it and invaded Lord Jiang Cheng's mind for about ten seconds."
"Ten seconds...then Yueyue is also at that time..."
"No." Xiaoyu shook her head, "It was not Master Yueyong, but ordinary people. A total of fourteen people were infected that time."
"Are there any other victims..."
Xiaoyu replied: “They survived in the end.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, Lord Jiang Cheng found Lord Maomao as soon as possible. Under the isolation plan of Lord Maomao and the new government, there was no large-scale infection.
With the active cooperation of Master Jiang Cheng who forced himself to voluntarily become an experimental subject, and with the efforts of this country, the vaccine was developed in three months, and the first batch of infected people were eventually saved.
It took nearly three months for almost everyone on the planet to receive the vaccine provided by the government. This was also the first victory for this new country. "
"Then Yueyue..."
"Vaccines and special drugs failed to save Master Yue Yong, who had been guarding Master Jiang Cheng from beginning to end. Master Yue Yong had already..."
"So she is a stupid woman."
"That was Master Yue Yong's own will." Xiaoyu looked at Yue Yong's tombstone, "After the vaccine and specific medicine came out, Master Jiang Cheng forced himself to leave alone to find his own way to end it, and Master Yue Yong... She also left Yoshihara after that. Although she didn’t say anything, everyone knew that she wanted to stay with you until the last moment.”
As he spoke, Xiaoyu recalled the last moments of the two of them:
It was a month after the two disappeared one after another. Jiang Cheng, who was haggard, lifeless, and lifeless, appeared outside the Yoshihara gate holding Yue Yong, who had white hair, eyes closed and had lost all breath.
When everyone discovered the two of them, Jiang Cheng's breath had been completely cut off, but even though he was dead, he still stood upright and did not let go at all.
Everyone knows that Jiang Cheng finally found a way to end himself, and everyone also knows that Yue Yong finally caught up with Jiang Cheng and ushered in the end with him.
…
Yoshihara is no longer the same as before.
Although it is still a flower street, it is no longer an independent flower street. Although being a prostitute is still a "lowly" profession in a certain sense, it is also recognized by the laws of this country.
Baihua has also been completely disbanded. After all, the wandering girls are protected by the state and no longer need Baihua to protect them.
Because of their better skills, many of them joined Edo's security forces, and like the police, guarded the people's daily lives.
In this era, they took off their masks, were completely exposed to the sun, and became ordinary women and ordinary important citizens of this country.
"Mr. Police, that's him!"
A tourist girl pointed at a customer with sly eyebrows and said something to the police who rushed to the side after receiving the alarm. She was probably being harassed or something like that.
Jiang Cheng, who was standing high up, didn't listen carefully, but he could guess pretty well from the way the police handcuffed the guest and took him into a police car.
The street was as lively as ever, no, it was even much livelier than before.
But... I always feel like something is missing.
That strong, somewhat thin figure of a woman wearing a dark high-slit yukata embroidered with maple leaf patterns and always having a cold attitude.
"Yes, here...there are also things I want to protect."
"I will decide for myself whether it makes sense or not."
(Note: These two sentences come from the Lotus Chapter. Chapter 570.)
Thinking of what Yue Yong had said a while ago, Jiang Cheng sighed softly.
"Even if she finally becomes an ordinary woman, she is still a stupid woman who is not clever at all.
Would it be nice to be more clever
It doesn’t matter which man you choose, or the path you choose.
It all sucks…”
"Lord Jiang Cheng, what are you going to do now? Are you going to find your own way to end it as before?"
"Where can there be any way to end it?" Jiang Cheng said softly, "There is no such way in this world. I know the way to end it. It is just to stay awake and experience countless suicides to make Altana Just consume it cleanly.
Didn't I say that? My Altana is not infinite, and this is the only way to end it. To put it simply, it means letting the will fight the body. "
With that said, Jiang Cheng took out a rusty knife from his arms with only the head remaining and most of the blade gone.
"Lord Jiang Cheng!"
"Don't worry, I wouldn't do that kind of thing just after I woke up."
With that said, Jiang Cheng directly inserted the sword into his chest. When the sword was pulled out again, it had turned into a complete sword.
"Sa, Xiaoyu, send me there. It is my last atonement to end myself completely. Only I can do it."
When Jiang Cheng turned around, he bent his eyes and showed the same smile as before...
Why do I feel more and more like a demon
I just want to see what Jiang Cheng will do after seeing such a future...
It was just a fictional character, but I wanted to see what he would do.
It's really weird.
Okay, stop talking nonsense,
You should have already figured out that this is completely different from the plot of Forever House of Everything.
In the Eternal House of Everything, Gintoki wants to go back to the past and change the future because the world has been almost destroyed by him.
And here, Jiang Cheng in the original timeline used everything he had to suppress Nightmare's nanomachines, basically controlling the virus in his body, and cooperating with the new government to minimize the impact of the virus.
In the end, apart from Jiang Cheng, only one person died because of the White Curse, and that was Yue Yong.
And I'm really curious about what Jiang Cheng, who came from the past, will do after learning all this!
It's really weird. Even though I wrote it, I'm extremely looking forward to what he will do...
Incredible feeling.
There is a feeling that I am watching him record everything he does, thinks and says...
I feel like I have changed from a creator to a recorder.
In fact, when I was writing about Inosuke, I would feel this way to a certain extent later on, but not as strongly as Jiang Cheng.
(End of chapter)