On the southeast coast of Parenoia, there is a small town named "Origin".
The small town is a typical simple fishing village. Although there is no special advantage worth mentioning, it is still a rich and peaceful place with the abundant local seafood.
And to talk about the only shortcoming of the town, I am afraid there is only too much tranquility.
Located on the edge of the mainland, but not an important estuary or seaport, the daily life of the town is almost monotonous and pale.
Even the most cutting-edge dynamics of the world itself, which have been passed here through the vendors. Due to the long years of cognitive isolation in the town, when the news arrived here, it almost became boring news, and the residents of the town were not interested in it at all.
How does the magical civilization of the mainland prosper? How powerful is the tyrannical high-level knight? What kind of progress has been made in cutting-edge alchemical technology
The residents of the small town obviously didn't care.
The only thing they care about is the harvest that goes to sea during the day, and... the party in the evening.
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As the dusk deepens, the white space on the horizon also slowly sinks.
Ten of the residents of the town slowly gathered on the square of worship in the center of the town.
In the center of the square of worship, there is the only lamp in the town.
That thing is a highly developed product of alchemy, and it can use liquid "Chi" as fuel to bring the night's brilliance like the day.
And as the crowd sat on the floor of the worship square, a young man with a particularly slender figure finally walked from the twilight with everyone's expectations.
The young man's name was Su Mu, and he claimed to be a bard.
But compared to his identity as a bard, Su Mu's even more impressive place was his face that could hardly find any flaws.
Even the men in the small town secretly suspected that they were worried... The women in the town who were as young as thirteen or fourteen and as large as thirty or forty, they all came from some kind of "idiot". He’s attributed to listen to him telling unfounded stories every day.
However, this idea was quickly broken.
Because in just a few days, even the men were shocked to discover:
This strangely long-looking bard, the weirdness he was talking about, was a hundred times more exciting than what other merchants and traffickers were talking about.
Even the residents of this small town have formed the habit of gathering and listening to stories after nightfall.
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But tonight's story will be a bit special after all.
The young bard named Su Mu did not routinely ask a few questions about customs as usual at this time, and then used his own story in exchange.
When he was fainted by the light, he didn't ask any more questions. On the contrary, he looked slightly strange, and said softly: "Today, I will give you a special story."
As Su Mu spoke, he ignored the opinions of the residents of the town.
He neither continued the luxurious journey of "Tony Brother" wearing alchemy armor, nor did he start the path of "drum washing machine" becoming a child.
On the contrary, it was very willful to tell, a more bizarre story:
"Once upon a time, there was a king who locked a man named Truman in a city, and recorded his every move with magic, and then shared it with everyone outside the city to enjoy."
Su Mu's faint single-handed approach, there is no longer any strange narrative, and no longer add the slightest longing for gorgeous rhetoric. Simply and bluntly, speaking of the movie in my memory in a way that the world can understand.
"However, everything around the man is fake, and it was deliberately arranged by the king. The relatives are fake, the friendship is fake, and even his wife married him not because of love."
While talking, Su Mu looked up at the sky above his head, as if searching for the eyes of the so-called "king", but he found nothing in the end.
"However, the man named Truman inadvertently discovered the king's arrangement, or saw the absurdity in the bones of this city. So he exhausted all his strength, broke through the shackles of the city with difficulty, and returned to it. In the seemingly more normal world."
Su Mu faintly spoke of Chumen's successful resistance, but there was still not the slightest rejoicing in his tone, but a more sad mood was brewing.
"But he was still crazy after all. After escaping from there, the Truman would come forward and ask everybody:'How do you prove that the world you see must be a real world?'. However, no one can answer this question. People don’t even dare to think too deeply."
"So, if I tell you now that everything in your body is nothing but a farce in the mind of a certain'king', would you also believe what I said?"
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Of course Su Mu knew that he could not get any feedback on this question.
But after all, Su Mu asked like this, and he still gave the messiest question to everything that was bizarre and true in front of him.
Su Mu, a seventeen-year-old boy, an ordinary second-year high school student, a second-year teenager who dreamed of shaping a whole world since childhood.
Now he is so outrageous that he has entered the world in his own brain.
In fact, for more than ten days, the continuous bringing fresh stories to the residents of the small town is a way for Su Mu to obtain information on the world and survival materials.
And after summarizing and summarizing this period of time, Su Mu is now 100% sure that this is the world he imagined.
This is a world where magical civilization and martial arts are extremely developed in the context of the Middle Ages.
And in this world where demonic weapons prevail, the core source of all energy is also a mysterious substance called "Qi".
As for the word "Qiao", it was actually just what Su Mu had heard accidentally from his knowledgeable grandpa when he was very young.
Everything is so reckless, presenting with Su Mu's brain hole!
Even Su Mu's appearance now is so perfect. That is also because, in Su Mu's self-imagination, he is just such a shameless and blind narcissism.
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However, compared to the trivial matter of appearance, Su Mu was more concerned about the issue at this time, but it was obviously how he should survive in this world.
If it were just as it is now, telling stories in this lonely town, teasing the girls' spring hearts, and then living carefree, innocent and shameless, is naturally an extremely simple thing.
But Su Mu returned from that era of material prosperity after all.
He really wants to eat the salted fish on the drying market forever, and then completely turn into a salted fish, but it is a life he can't accept.
Not to mention, as the creator of this world, Su Mu actually knows better than anyone... the whole world outside the town is so magnificent and bizarre, and how splendid it is.
Swords and magic reflect, dragons and alien beasts fly!
For such a terrifying and brilliant world, how could Su Mu reluctant to touch it personally... The most true and original throbbing under its gorgeous appearance.
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So after Su Mu finished "The World of Chumen", he continued without hesitation:
"Today, this is the last time I will share the story with you. I have already decided to leave. Don't try to keep me anymore. After all, living without a fixed place is the romance that belongs to the bard."
While talking about the grand excuse, Su Mu bowed deeply, and made a very serious farewell to the first humans he came to this world to know.
And the residents of the small town who heard Su Mu say goodbye, although they did feel a little bit sad.
But even if they knew it themselves, a boy as exquisite and mysterious as Su Mu would not stay here forever.
"Will you write the town of origin into your stories?"
There was a ignorant child who finally mustered up some courage, and then asked like a whim.
However, when Su Mu heard this, the expression that was originally determined and stiff was somewhat frozen in amazement.
But in an instant, this solidification became unusually soft, and finally turned into an inexplicable smile. And with the outline of this faint smile, Su Mu also replied softly:
"Of course, this was originally... the story I wanted to write!"