The middle-aged woman sighed: "For young girls, of course this image is easier to gain their trust and closeness and dependence."
As he spoke, he turned into an old man again and touched his gray hair: "Let me talk like this. I'm actually not used to being a woman."
Ye Xiao simply didn't know what to say. He seemed to understand a little bit where Tan's unreliable personality came from.
Thinking of Tan Tan, his heart ached again: "Just tell me, what should I do to save her." He stared at him steadily, "Since you are her teacher, you let me see these and tell me these, there must be a way."
The old man's expression gradually became serious. He waved his hand, and the two of them appeared outside, in a place that looked like a small garden. It was sunny and the weather was fine.
The old man sat at the round table, and after a moment of silence, he said, "You just read the book. People with multiple abilities are a tragedy. People with five abilities should not exist. Do you know why?"
Ye Xiao sat opposite him and frowned: "The general explanation in the book is that there are too many superpowers and the body can't bear it."
"This explanation is indeed valid, but from a more macroscopic perspective, the more superpowers one has, the stronger they are, and the closer they are to the limit. Especially for people with five superpowers, when all five superpowers reach the maximum level, their bodies will undergo a qualitative change, exceeding the standards of this world and thus deviating from the rules of the world. This is not allowed by the rules of the world."
Ye Xiao was shocked: "World... rules?"
The old man continued, "Let me put it this way. The world before and after the apocalypse are two completely different things. The outbreak of the apocalypse is equivalent to the rapid transformation of this world. Transformation is inevitably accompanied by sacrifice and selection, so zombies appeared. Transformation also has its advantages. Various superpowers, superpowers, and mutant plants and animals were born from this.
"This transformation lasted for about seven years, but in the end it was not successful. The world was in a very awkward state. Humans and creatures had evolved, but the evolution was not comprehensive. They stopped in the middle stage, and none of them could jump to a completely new level. In the process of reshaping the world's rules, they gradually took shape into a rule that matched it. This thing was invisible and intangible, but it maintained the order of the development of the entire world and excluded any anomalies.
“For example, after three hundred years, only five kinds of supernatural powers remain: gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. All other supernatural powers disappear, and all energy in the world is classified into the five elements. This is because other kinds of supernatural powers outside the five elements are more likely to become difficult to control and are more likely to deviate from the rules of the world, so the rules of the world gradually erase them.
"It wipes out superpowers outside of the five elements, restricts the existence of people with multiple superpowers, and makes it extremely difficult to reach the maximum level of superpowers. All of this is to maintain the stability of the present. Until, perhaps thousands of years later, a huge external force will cause the rules to collapse, and then transform and reshape."
Ye Xiao understood it when he heard this, and he said, "Tan Tan is an outlier."
"Yes, she has been the target of eradication by the world's rules since she was born, but she is very special. The world's rules cannot kill her or make her stupid and deformed like they do to other people with multiple abilities. She has been very cute since she was a child, and she is smart and considerate, but her legs are congenitally defective. However, when she was four or five years old, she was on the verge of death several times. If it weren't for her parents' insistence on treatment and the country's opening of a green channel and providing her with a large amount of precious medical resources, she would have collapsed long ago. It was at this time that I discovered her."
“I wonder how far she can go if she keeps going.”
"I came to her and started teaching her how to practice."
"She was really smart, hardworking, and successful. She was also extremely talented. It took her more than ten years to reach the pinnacle. But just when her Wood Element was close to reaching the maximum level, her ability suddenly collapsed."
The old man sighed: "This is the effect of the rules of the world. It is completely inexplicable and irreversible. Human power is simply unable to fight against it."
Ye Xiao looked at him and said, "You can't do it either?"
The old man looked into the distance with eyes full of vicissitudes: "I taught her to practice, which was against the rules of the world. If I do more, it will only let that thing wipe her out directly. The only thing I can do is to steal her soul after she dies, find a parallel world with suitable conditions, and put her in it."
Ye Xiao said: "Is this the world I live in?"
The old man looked at him with dissatisfaction. Ye Xiao felt that this dissatisfaction was a bit strange, but Xu Tianjin did not explain. He turned his eyes away and said, "The conditions there are the most suitable. There is also a Lin family member, the same parents and a brother, and even the same name is Lin Tantan - when Tan was just born, her parents named her Tan, which is the same as Tanhua, but later they thought it was unlucky, so they changed her name."
"Even this Lin Tantan looks similar to Tan Tan."
"This is a kind of destiny. Two families from different eras are actually two possibilities born out of countless parallel worlds." The old man sighed with emotion. "One of the 49 Tianyan escaped, and Lin Tantan is Tantan's only chance of survival. The best thing is that this Lin Tantan will die on the first day of the end of the world, and that day is the moment when the old rules are broken and new rules are derived. I will put Tantan into Lin Tantan's body at that moment, completely unnoticed. That is her brand new life."
"But Tan Tan made a fatal mistake."
Ye Xiao frowned: "What is it?"
"After she was reborn, she made a promise to Lin Tantan, saying that she would fulfill one of her wishes."
The old man shook his head. “You can’t say it’s a mistake. Perhaps it’s a destined fate. In this world, everyone’s soul will exist for a short period of time after death, and then completely dissipate. At that time, Lin Tantan had not completely dissipated. After hearing these words, a contract was formed between him and Tan Tan, and he survived.”
"As the new rules are improved, their contracts will gradually be sensed, especially after Tan Tan's obsession is fulfilled... Ahem!" He suddenly coughed twice when he said this and stopped talking.
Ye Xiao asked: "What obsession?"
The old man glared at him again, his eyes full of anger and dissatisfaction like an old father looking at the brat who kidnapped his daughter. He said, "Is this the point? The point is that Lin Tantan woke up and continued to weaken Tantan's power. Although the contract was completed afterwards, the rules of the new world did not fully recognize Tantan's existence. In addition, she was too weak. That's why Jin Liangyu, that half-baked guy, was able to easily force Tantan out of her body later."
Ye Xiao was stared at for no apparent reason, but he didn't care at all. He clenched his fist on the table and asked, "Force it out? Are you saying that Tan Tan is still there, but not in that body anymore?"
The old man snorted, "What else? If she's gone, why would I waste so much time talking to you?"
Ye Xiao stood up suddenly: "Where is she?"
"sit down."
Ye Xiao was silent for a moment, then sat back down silently: "So what should we do? Should we find her and let her return to Lin Tantan's body..."
“Are you a fish-head?” the old man cursed unceremoniously. “The fact that she was taken out of her body by that rubbish Jin Liangyu shows that the laws of the world are not on her side and do not recognize her as the owner of that body. She can’t go back.”
Ye Xiao remained silent. After a while, he stood up, bowed sincerely and said, "Please teach me, teacher."
"Who is your teacher?"
"You are Tan Tan's teacher, and you are my teacher."
The old man was amused. This kid is quite shameless.
He didn't argue with the other party. He pondered for a moment and said, "I have calculated it. There is only one way. It is better to keep the body in its original state. Only by letting her return to her own body can she live for a long time."
Ye Xiao's eyes lit up, then he frowned again: "But..." He stared at Xu Tianjin.
"Yes, her body is already dead. Don't expect me to turn back time. The past cannot be changed. The best I can do is snatch the body back from those government officials." The old man tapped the table, and Ye Xiao's eyes followed his finger. Xu Tianjin continued, "But if I could make such a big fuss, I wouldn't have to steal her away quietly. Besides, as an outsider, I can't interfere."
He looked at Ye Xiao, moved closer, and lowered his voice: "But you can."
Ye Xiao frowned: "I don't understand, I don't have such ability."
"Just because there is nothing now doesn't mean there won't be anything in the future. As long as you dare to think, nothing is impossible. You have to know that you are in the best era." The old man smiled meaningfully and stood up. "That's all I can say, young man. Think carefully about what I said and you will find the answer."
As these words fell, the old man gradually disappeared at the table. Ye Xiao sat down silently, lost in thought, and suddenly he was shocked: "You haven't told me where Tan Tan is!"
The next moment, his eyes blurred, and he found himself back in the base. The sky was clear, the sun was shining, not far away was a large tract of farmland, beside him was a pile of wood debris, and in front of him stood Xu Tianjin, but this Xu Tianjin was no longer the Xu Tianjin of the old man. He looked at Ye Xiao blankly: "Chief, what are you doing? Wait, who are you? Where am I?"
Ye Xiao frowned and looked at him: "Xu Tianjin?"
"Yes, I am, but who are you? Isn't this the end of the world? Where is this place? Why are there no zombies?"
Ye Xiao looked at him suspiciously: "Do you remember what time it is now?"
"I know, isn't it February of 2019? The apocalypse broke out a month ago!"
Ye Xiao narrowed his eyes, and understood. Tan Tan had said that Xu Tianjin was reborn in the body of Xu Tianjin in this world last February. Now it seemed that the one who was reborn was not the real Xu Tianjin, but a person who pretended to be Xu Tianjin. He turned around and looked around. Everything was calm, without any strangeness or specialness. That person had left.
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