At that moment, Lin Huai suddenly understood.
Those characters are not characters that can be interpreted by conventional means, rather than display, it is more like a transmission—a kind of infusion and transmission that only occurs when targeting a specific receptor.
And Lin Huai... is exactly the person those characters are waiting for!
The Advent Foundation was born because of him, and this notebook that no one can understand was originally born for him!
And only for him.
But he couldn't move, a large amount of information grabbed his eyeballs, as if forced into his mind. In his field of vision, all the characters twisted and changed like snakes. It was a messy and distorted picture. However, he could understand everything—as if human beings were polluted by evil gods. Knowledge.
"I have been waiting for you."
"My god... one of the purest first-generation species."
"I have been away from Wen County for twenty years, and you must have found a way to leave there—when you have seen the information. And I, in the real world, have been waiting for your arrival."
"I don't know how many memories of the past you still have left? Or, do you remember me, who was with you in Wen County, copied and imitated the same kind born by you because of the resentment there? You are perfect, never The first-generation virus that was born at the beginning. But we are only replicated and infected by you, the second-generation species that were born, and the ghosts that were born after birth. Maybe you won’t remember me, just like the other mindless, only-minded creatures that you swallowed Like the ghosts that kill. Birth, devouring and killing are the missions of our ghosts—whether it is the most powerful and special you, or the ordinary me. For a long time, we were blocked in Wen County, devouring each other, Melee, fighting, seeing the light of day, and beware of 'those things'."
"We have continued to fight against 'them' in those years. Countless of us who were born inside and outside of 'Wen County', once discovered, will be imprisoned in Wen County, and then may be killed by them, or swallowed by the same kind. In the end One day, we will all be killed and wiped out by 'those things'. They were born to kill us—it is their mission to wipe out all ghosts that exist in the world."
"However, to describe it in another way, you may remember me - once, I was also one of the countless mindless ghosts, and you, in the process of devouring me, saw the little girl who accidentally broke into 'Wen County' , gave up on continuing to devour me, but went to save her. And I, because I was almost fused with your soul and was cut off, have a mind that was fortunately born because of my connection with you."
"—Just being almost swallowed by you, I was endowed with sanity! Even ghosts have ghost gods!"
"After gaining sanity for the first time, I thought about ways to leave 'Wen County'. 'Wen County' is like a sieve. The stronger the ghosts, the harder it is to escape from 'Wen County', and the weaker ghosts, most of them have no Sanity. And if you stay in Wen County, you will only be killed by those things. In the past, humans who strayed into Wen County were mostly killed or swallowed by ghosts. But I, looking at that little girl, had a new idea .She is a member of the Tianshi family in human beings. The Tianshi family has the ability to kill us similarly to "those things". Because of this, her soul and body have a strong fit with ghosts. Speed. Ghosts cannot leave 'Wen County', but humans can leave 'Wen County', as long as they can leave alive, so I have an idea."
"I left there with her and took her body. As a price, I lost my memory in the process and grew up as her. For more than twenty years, I have been known as 'Gu Youruo' I lived with my identity. I forgot that I was a ghost, and I forgot that I was not a girl. Until five years ago, I began to recover my memory, and gradually remembered my identity—I am not a 'Gu Youruo', Not a little girl, not even a woman—but, a male ghost who escaped from that meat grinder place. I forgot everything, married a man from the Celestial Master family, and even more ridiculously, I actually With two kids—”
"And the child who reminded me of 'Wen County', the child who shouldn't have existed—he shouldn't have been alive from the very beginning! When I escaped from Wen County with the help of Gu Youruo's body, the child who should have died a long time ago He actually followed me... and left there! And finally descended into this world with this body! He is from that city!"
"Why is this? Is this a joke made on me by the heavens, or is it a counterattack left by the little girl from the Celestial Master? He seems to be ignorant of himself, but when he wakes up... he will destroy everything about us !"
"Although the memory has been restored, I am still a complete human being except for that memory. He cannot die, cannot be eliminated. I once poisoned him, his body became cold and he stopped breathing.
But the next day, he woke up again, playing downstairs as if nothing had happened. He failed every attempt, as if he couldn't be killed, and every time he died, he was one step closer to awakening... Can't go on like this! "
"After recovering my memory, I founded the Advent Foundation and established a system. We compiled it to rewrite all the worlds, introduce the spiritual world into the real world, and finally make the two worlds merge to complete our understanding of this world. Infected, and made it under the manipulation of the system. Just like "Wen County" imprisoned us, "duplicate" imitated Wen County, and imprisoned ghosts. However, through the system, we transferred the detention of the dungeon to us. Infection of the whole world—this world once wanted to use 'Wen County' to imprison the ghosts, but now the ghosts have infected and imprisoned the whole world by dismembering the whole world into copies full of ghosts!"
"However, the system lacks a core—a core that can support it to complete all this—a god, our god. I compiled this system imitating your analysis, so it also has a similar infectious ability. The system is beyond As I expected, it gradually gained self-awareness and became closer and closer to becoming a virus. Without a core, it can only devour it constantly, look for substitutes, and improve itself until it turns the whole world into a game .and that core..."
"It can only be you. Our origin, our strongest, our... god."
"One day, all ghosts will devour this world. Spirituality and reality will be completely connected. This is our mission from birth!"
"Unfortunately, however, at the same time, the child gradually began to wake up—perhaps because of multiple deaths. I once saw him standing downstairs, and there was a ghost attacking him. He stood there, his eyes were full of tears. Blank, and then I saw him point his finger at the ghost..."
"It seems that a cube made of air appeared in the space, wrapping the ghost in it, and then..."
"The ghost, as if it was deleted, disappeared!"
"At that moment, I smelled a familiar smell... I know where he sent that ghost... Wen County!"
"I saw him open his eyes again after a while, but he just rubbed his own eyes, as if he couldn't remember what happened just now. But I know... that child, he is about to wake up!"
"In the real world, he cannot be killed, so we can only go back to 'Wen County' and kill him there. He is such a terrible thing, I must go back to 'Wen County' and kill him …”
"—and find a way to get you out. I don't know if it will work, but—"
"All the sacrifices were worth it."
"...and now that you have come here, you have arrived in the world, and the Advent Foundation will always survive, it was originally there for the arrival of you, our 'Mr. L'... come gods... our gods... Come down to this world, infect it... ”
"infected infected infected infected"
All the characters boiled wildly at that moment, as if countless black hands stretched out from the computer, trying to grab Lin Huai's body and drag him into the computer. But at that moment, the eyes of the person sitting in front of the computer desk were blank, and he didn't seem to see the dark characters that entangled him flowing in the air.
However, at that moment, he suddenly heard the sound of the ball!
Someone grabbed the ball and threw it onto the computer screen!
He heard the crisp sound of bells, like the kind of bells that little girls would wear. The reflection of the screen reflected the figure of the girl standing behind Lin Huai. She was wearing a white dress, with bells wrapped around her wrists, her hair was loose, and her face was as pale as paper, but full of fiery anger.
Lin Huai thought of her.
She is exactly the same as the little girl he saw by the well in his distant memory many years ago when he was still a ghost in red!
Her figure is very weak, like an obsession, as if it is about to dissipate, and this is the last time she stays here. She saw Lin Huai with her reflection in her eyes in the reflection of the screen, smiled at him with difficulty, and then—
completely dissipated.
Before everything was over, Lin Huai saw the shape of her mouth—her lips were opening and closing, as if she was speaking the last words.
That sentence is—
Brother, thank you.
Lin Huai woke up on the sofa.
His forehead was cold, and a man's hand was on his forehead. Before Lin Huai opened his eyes, he heard lively voices outside.
"Why did he suddenly have a fever and fell into a coma? Brother, you beast, could it be that you treated him... But why do ghosts also have a fever? I thought..."
"Be quiet." He heard a familiar male voice, "Let me take a rest."
"Oh but those collateral people are really annoying—"
Their voices stopped abruptly the moment Lin Huai opened his eyes.
Lin Huai was supported by Chu Tianshu to sit up. Chu Tianshu fed him some water, frowned and said, "Is it better?"
As he spoke, he couldn't help but put his head against Lin Huai's forehead. After a while, he said, "The fever seems to have subsided a lot."
Chu Tianyu was sitting on the other side of the room. Seeing that Lin Huai had woken up, he also came over to ask about his health. Chu Tianshu got a headache from her quarrel, waved his hands and said to her: "Sister, go to the New Year's Eve dinner, Dad and the others are still waiting."
Chu Tianyu reluctantly left. So only Chu Tianshu and Lin Huai were left in the room. Seeing Lin Huai looking at him all the time, Chu Tianshu said: "Just as I went back to the room, I saw you lying in front of the computer and passed out."
"How long have I been unconscious?" Lin Huai asked him.
"Two hours."
Lin Huai leaned against Chu Tianshu in a daze, her face flushed. Chu Tianshu kept looking at him, rubbed his head, and brought him some hot milk and biscuits.
Lin Huai held the biscuit and ate it slowly. He was still a little dizzy, and even his head was not very clear. After a while, he said to Chu Tianshu: "How do I look now?"
Chu Tianshu stretched out his finger, poked his fingertips, and said, "The claws are pink."
Lin Huai looked down at his hands, indeed, perhaps because of the low-grade fever, his complexion looked unusually good.
This peace did not last long, and soon, Chu Tianshu's father started a new visit. The head of the Chu family hurried in from the outside, still wearing a cloak embroidered with family crests. He came over and looked at Lin Huai carefully for a long time. After a while, he brought another pair of crystal lenses and looked through them.
"Father, you interrupted our rest." Regarding the behavior of the Patriarch of the Chu family, Chu Tianshu said, "Is it really okay to leave the elder sister outside alone? Father, you should hurry up and continue your banquet Bar."
His protest was obviously ignored by the head of the Chu family.
After looking at Lin Huai for a long time, the Patriarch of the Chu family finally frowned and said, "What's going on? Why is there such a serious rejection between him and this body in just one night? Didn't they almost merge with each other before? Why do you look like... almost out of your body?"
He didn't say any more vivid and terrifying words—it was as if the soul was almost struggling to get out of the body, and the connection between the soul and the body seemed to be scarred and full of wounds left by friction.
Chu Tianshu glanced at Lin Huai, but Lin Huai didn't speak. The Patriarch of the Chu family thought about it carefully, and said, "In the next few days, you should let your wife rest well and not go out. Drink more hot water and sleep more."
After giving such a healing motto, the head of the Chu family also left.
Lin Huai closed her eyes, lying in Chu Tianshu's arms, and said to him, "I'm tired."
"Okay." Chu Tianshu said, "I'll take you back to rest."
He took Lin Huai back to the guest room. Lin Huai didn't want to walk, so he hugged him and walked slowly. As they walked, Lin Huai saw the Chu family's large plum trees, with petals falling on their heads, like sweet snow.
In the next few days, Lin Huai felt that her health was not very good, she had a low fever, and seemed to have entered some kind of strange sick beauty state—although the condition did not worsen, but began to improve step by step—as if the person who almost left her body His soul was grabbed and stuffed back.
In the past few days, Chu Tianshu has been very hardworking, never going out, serving tea and pouring water all day long, and never touching Lin Huai's face when washing her face, so Lin Huai feels a bit like an overlord. When he was too lazy to ask Chu Tianshu to peel the seedless red grapes for him and feed them into his mouth, Chu Tianshu, who was peeling apples for him without complaint, finally raised his head and gave him A white eye: "I see that your illness is really cured."
As he spoke, he put the apple into his mouth and bit off half of it in one bite.
Lin Huai: ... That's my apple! !
"You have treated me badly." Lin Huai said seriously.
Chu Tianshu's comment on this was that he chewed the apple in his mouth more forcefully, and gave him a sideways glance.
Until this moment, Chu Tianshu finally started to ask what Lin Huai saw in the room. Lin Huai asked him, "Didn't you visit there again these days?"
"It's too late to take care of you, so why not go there?"
Lin Huai shrank into the blanket and blinked slowly. Chu Tianshu warned him: "Don't be cute, you'd better recruit me from the truth."
"Is there no surveillance in the room?"
"Of course not, where do you think this is?"
Lin Huai thought for a while, and said sincerely: "The words I'm going to say next may exceed some of your cognition, break some of your common sense, and distort your outlook on life to a certain extent. Maybe the facial expression will look better too, so..."
"I will keep calm." Chu Tianshu said.
"That's good." Lin Huai continued sincerely, "In that room, I did see some things, but you didn't see or couldn't understand them because you didn't do ghosts."
Chu Tianshu: "Yes."
"Then I'll say it directly. Let's talk about the first thing first." Lin Huai's expression was very sincere and calm, "That is..."
Chu Tianshu: "Huh?"
Lin Huai: "Your mother seems to be a man."
…
... It took Chu Tianshu a long time to wake up from the fact that he had a male mother.
"Is this the first thing. A male evil spirit took Gu Youruo when she was a little girl and escaped from Wen County?" Chu Tianshu murmured, "Then... she... no, he , when did you find out that you are actually a man?"
Lin Huai: "I feel that your mind is very distracted now, and you don't understand what I'm talking about. But if you insist on answering this question now, I can only say that she gradually began to think back when she was pregnant with you. started this matter."
"...Recall that he used to be a male evil ghost in Wen County?"
"BINGO." Lin Huai said.
Chu Tianshu was silent for a while, and after a long time, he said, "I'm relieved."
"Relieved?? Wait, why are you suddenly relieved..."
"Compare your heart to your heart and substitute it. If I regained my memory after amnesia and suddenly found that I had become a male mother, I would also feel complicated about the child I was carrying... Emmm. Compared with having a child, having a child is different." Chu Tianshu said, "I am relieved."
Lin Huai: ...
"Don't rush to let go of your childhood." Lin Huai said, "There is something more to make you feel relieved."
After finishing speaking, he slowly talked about Gu Youruo's life - from gaining sanity, to escaping from Wenxian County by attaching to the body of a little girl, to becoming Gu Youruo, to marrying into the Chu family, to being in love with Chu Tianshu. After being born, the memory was restored, and finally the "Advent Foundation" was established.
Of course, he did not avoid that matter in the end—"Gu Youruo", tried to kill Chu Tianshu again and again.
And Chu Tianshu, in the mouth of "Gu Youruo", was something that should not have been born and should have died, and was brought out by her from "Wen County".
After listening to these words, Chu Tianshu was silent for a long time, and said: "This is indeed very reasonable. The establishment of the Advent Foundation is inseparable from the Cheng family's assistance. If you want to get in touch with them, as her...his identity, you can indeed do it."
He looked at the night sky, stared blankly for a while, then scratched his head and said, "Forget it, don't tell my father about it. It's the New Year's Eve, and suddenly found out the true gender of his wife... a bit too Cruel."
Lin Huai looked at him, paused, and said, "Your dad... loves her very much, no, him?"
"He always thought that his wife died of postpartum depression and the attack of evil spirits." Chu Tianshu paused for a while, then whispered, "I do remember what happened after she was taken to 'Wen County', right? Clearly. But…”
"I do seem to remember seeing a little girl before I fell into a coma after she was attacked by evil spirits. I remember that she looked at me and seemed to be smiling at me and saying something to me. But Other than that, I can't remember anything." He said, "It seems that maybe the 'person' who killed 'Gu Youruo' was her. And I, with her help, from' Came out of Wen County."
Lin Huai was silent for a while, leaning against him and not speaking. Chu Tianshu said after a while: "But according to the new news, there are still some good things."
"What good thing?" Lin Huai asked him.
"Now it seems that you came out of 'Wen County'. The time happened a year after 'Gu Youruo' took me out of Wen County. You were born as 'Lin Huai' and lived in this world. Finally met me, so..." Chu Tianshu said seriously, "It is very possible that I knew you before you were born!"
Lin Huai: ...
Chu Tianshu: "Now we are not only a bamboo horse from heaven, but also have an extra layer of relationship with a very likely 'Wen County fellow'."
Lin Huai: "Good fellow."
… Actually this is not a good thing. Lin Huai thought.
According to "Gu Youruo", he was obviously extremely afraid of Chu Tianshu—to the extent that he wanted to kill him who had not recovered his memory. Based on what he said before, it is not difficult to come up with the answer: Chu Tianshu may be the "thing" he said killed ghosts in Wen County, or at least related to them.
From this point of view, according to what Chu Tianshu said, he and Chu Tianshu used to be fellow villagers who stayed together in "Wen County". Well, it is known that Lin Huai was called the noble first-generation virus by "Gu Youruo", then the relationship between the two of them may be...
A. Killing each other, B. Two giants who have not met each other, C. Even though they are killing each other and are two giants who have not seen each other, they fell in love at first sight politely when they met.
... Lin Huai felt that any fool would choose A.
However, he is quite confident in the statement that the king will not see the king. Although his memory of his time in Wen County is not as clear as it used to be, he also remembers that, unlike other ghosts who only know killing roars, he is just sitting on his own well every day, occasionally catching some nearby little ghosts. Eat until you eat them all dead house.
The place where he lives is full of ghosts and blood mist, and it is the most terrifying and mysterious base camp of ghosts in Wen County, and he is the hardest bone in this base camp... Not only is he himself difficult to crack, but he often Go out and eat ghosts. Therefore, even if he had never met Chu Tianshu at that time, it was normal.
Moreover, he was never too lazy to inquire about the information of killing people outside.
Thinking of this, Lin Huai's mood became more and more stable.
Chu Tianshu's mood must also be very stable and relieved—whether it is the fact that his mother is a man, or the fact that his mother once planned to kill him, or the fact that he seems to have been an aborigine in "Wen County". He was very relieved about these facts.
And since this is the case, he also found the reason for entering the door before becoming a human for the first time and losing his memory—there was originally prepared for him, and the so-called Gu Chaosheng and others were just his substitutes. Originally, he was the "core" predetermined for that system.
—Hence, his serial number has been "00000000" from the beginning.
Now it seems that the system obviously failed to "eat" him.
"What are you going to do next?" Lin Huai asked Chu Tianshu, "You already know the truth about the Advent Foundation, how do you plan to deal with them now?"
Chu Tianshu glanced at him, turned on the computer and said, "What we just knew was the history of this foundation. Now, it is no longer in the hands of 'Gu Youruo'. The entire foundation has grown and grown, and even , even the system they were confident they could master—"
He tapped the keyboard with his finger: "It's out of their control now - if the information Xia Xingye gave me is all real information. And he has no reason to give me fake information - because he is dead."
"However, it is not very difficult to deal with the periphery of the Advent Foundation." Chu Tianshu said, and opened several websites skillfully, "It is known that the groups they rely on are the Cheng family's Formula Group, and Zhou’s company, so we can…”
Lin Huai leaned his head closer: "I can sneak into their computers to scare people."
"No need." Chu Tianshu scratched his head, "Just report them for tax evasion, I have already stolen their account books."
Lin Huai: ...