Chapter 242 The Guidance of Fate
The barriers of time and space create gaps in intelligence.
The high risk of leaving the big city makes traveling far away become a luxury, and it also creates a lot of misunderstandings and prejudices... When Zheng Li knew that the prejudice against the digital city was actually tilted in the direction of humanization
, the thoughts are also quite subtle.
And soon, they encountered the most uncomfortable thing here.
"There is no entertainment at all, I feel almost suffocated..."
It's not that there are no TV shows and interesting variety shows, but how can I put it... It's like watching a 1970 drama in 2020. The people in it are acting very seriously, and the acting skills and props are also very precise, but it's inexplicably hard to watch.
"Hahaha!"
The exaggerated laughter of the boss could also be heard from the first floor. Zheng Li took a look, turned back to the TV channel he was watching, and then saw two people in black cloaks performing a puppet show.
.....Are those stiff movements and exaggerated expressions the point of laughter?
"Click."
Zheng Li turned off the TV directly. These things were probably really not to his liking.
At this moment, even Zheng Li himself was looking forward to ending this game as soon as possible and leaving this uncomfortable city as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the sky is the limit, at least things related to hunting programs and sword master competitions are still very popular. Everyone is counting on competition these days, and the hunting channel is over.
But this inexplicable feeling of turning entertainment into work always makes people feel weird and unable to really relax.
The worst thing is probably Yinghuo. She has been looking for many video game stores, but there are no new local games. The old games are from the previous era and they are very expensive.
When life is completely deprived of culture and entertainment that were not important in the first place, many sword masters who insist that they are working and career-oriented are a little bit unable to bear it. Everyone can understand why so many people move out every year.
...As long as you go out for a walk or learn about the situation in the outside world, you will naturally not want to go back.
However, it is extremely difficult to travel between major cities. Coupled with official intelligence control, understanding between major cities is actually quite limited. Nowadays, the main migration destinations for digital people are still the surrounding satellite cities.
Everything has its disadvantages but also its advantages. This almost weird social atmosphere and the rather strict social household registration management system make it very convenient for Zheng Li to find people...especially when there are many outsiders paying attention.
On the one hand, a commission was submitted from official channels (calling the police to find someone), saying that the spirit clan was lost and the link was broken due to a special curse. Only spirit seals can prove each other. Now I heard that an ice cream shop is opening in this city? Yes
A handsome guy with blue hair? I forgot his exact appearance because of the curse...God knows what such a ridiculous reason to call the police, how could the other party just nodded and accepted it.
Logically speaking, there should be results already? But Zheng Li asked twice, but there was still no answer.
As for the other target? Sister Yinzi's possible blood relatives... Zheng Li also called the police, but he didn't have much expectations? He plans to use his abilities to search in the future? Or even advertise on TV. Let's be realistic.
On the other hand, Zheng Li also planned to wait until he had free time and search along several large gathering places for foreigners, and then follow the induction between the spiritual seals? Maybe he could really find Aquarius among the twelve constellations...
...Huh? Maybe Aries too.
"She won't really chop me up with a knife."
The two spiritual seals on his back were both glowing faintly. Aquarius was steadily cold, while Aries was burning with blood red. Zheng Li could feel inexplicable anger and annoyance from them.
It seemed that the sheep was still in intermittent rage.
"She shouldn't know what I look like, right? Although I saw her once in a dream, I can't remember her face? She shouldn't remember mine either..."
When he said this, Zheng Li felt a little guilty.
Judging from the results? That night, he deceived Aries who had just woken up again.
Zheng Li obtained a large amount of psychic energy from her, so that he could overfulfill his time reversal plan and prove his potential to the Speaker... But looking back at what Zheng Li did, it was undoubtedly a fraud.
"... Judging from the known information, she should have forgotten your information, but it's hard to say. After all, there is no precedent."
The only person Zheng Li asked was Dr. Snake, who knew what he was doing. Zheng Li hoped that a well-informed psychic researcher could give more detailed information and a positive answer.
"I can only make speculations. At that time, the soul of the whale spirit entered the body and merged with your soul. As the price of the ceremony, all the past and present were sacrificed. The entire body and soul entered a state of time regression. As your body and soul
As a part of the world, the spirit blade should also be thrown back together..."
Zheng Li opened his mouth, "I'm not him" but finally didn't say it out.
"...But fortunately, you were still a human being back then. After confirming that the soul fusion was successful, you cut off the links with other spirit blades."
Facing Dr. Snake's questioning expression, Zheng Li nodded affirmatively.
The memory of that scene was very profound. After confirming that the soul had begun to melt, Zheng XX cut off the soul links with other constellations.
This is not the kind of permanent severance of the covenant... If the oath is torn up at that point in time, causing lacerations to the soul, Zheng XX will definitely die on the spot.
He actually put the twelve constellations into a "warehouse management state".
There is a limit to the "number of blades" a sword master can have, and if he has a spiritual blade that exceeds his own limit, for example, if he acquires a new spiritual blade when it is fully loaded, he does not need to tear up his previous oath (that would be a permanent injury).
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Take Liu Yuan for example, not to mention the number of spiritual blades has long surpassed his eight blades, the luxurious lineup of 12 Eldars is too much (3 foreign contracted Eldar).
He can only connect eight blades at the same time, and more can only enter the "warehouse management state".
Even if the contract is made, it is only a minimal psychic link, cannot provide living creatures with shared abilities, and is not considered part of the physical body in psionics.
Back then, after Zeus was sure that his strategic goals could be achieved, he also put all the twelve constellations into warehouse management status... From this moment on, the twelve constellations are no longer regarded as part of the body.
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Coupled with this, it is probably that the level of his body's mythology has been greatly reduced, and he has been more completely regressed by time, giving more of the present and past, and sleeping longer.
But what will happen to the twelve constellations that are cut open?
They will definitely still be set back by time. The divine power of the ritual is not so easy to get rid of, but without the divine power of the source, not only the power of the divine power will be greatly reduced, but also lack of stamina, and the mythical resistance of the twelve constellations will also come into play.
"Thanks to you still having some conscience back then, their time regression will make them less deadly. You know the restrictions of Shiqian City's time regression, right? Regarding the spiritual blade."
Zheng Li nodded. He knew that the low-end time regression was effective for a newcomer like himself, but it was not effective for his spiritual blade and spiritual energy.
Spirit blades, as quasi-high-dimensional products of the spirit race, inherently have quite strong psychic resistance.
Even if the mythical spirit race is turned back in time, they can still leave a lot behind.
"'You' have definitely been erased from the long river of time. No one who knows you can call you by name, and you do not exist in historical records. Even the twelve constellations you left behind have become twelve
The zodiac...the twelve zodiac signs themselves probably don't remember you either."
Dr. Snake kept saying "you", and Zheng Li felt a little uncomfortable for no reason.
"Dr. Snake, you are not a little biased against me, are you? This is deliberately emphasized..."
"No, it's just that as an investor in your war group, I just see some signs that you seem to be evading responsibility. I would like to remind you... As a woman, I have no innate contempt for Zeus's scumbag behavior. There is absolutely no trace of it.
relation."
Zheng Li touched his nose and stopped asking.
"The Eldar have forgotten the sword master. This is an extremely cruel act. It means that they have been cut off the most important part of their life's memory, most of their memories related to their birth and growth, and they have been cut off.
Forced forgetting confuses most of the memories of your existence. It’s terrible, they were born because of you and are inseparable from your memories! This is equivalent to directly tearing most of the memories apart.”
Dr. Snake paused for a moment. In her speculation, this was not the most fatal part.
"The kind of person who clearly remembers the most important part of their life, but somehow loses the sense of emptiness. They will subconsciously make up for themselves and keep searching, but there is no result. The more they recall, the more missing, emptier and more empty the memory becomes.
Chaotic and contradictory, it will take a long time for them to forget and reorganize... I doubt that their spirits are still normal, so you'd better not meet them alone."
Zheng Li was silent. Dr. Snake's speculation only confirmed his own guess.
"Thank you, but there are some things that I have to face... I hope that all members of the Peace Corps will be there when we meet. Well, I'll ask District Chief Sun to help me stand by then."
But when Zheng Li was still struggling with what he had and didn't have, time was not on his side.
In a certain area of the Digital City, in a milk tea shop (with alcohol) that is a popular drink among women, the guidance of fate and soul brought about a "surprise" "reunion".
"Really? You also met a scumbag sword master..."
The handsome blue-haired bartender was a tall beauty dressed in men's clothing. She threw up the mixing bottle in her hand gracefully. Amidst the exclamations of the female audience, the orange-yellow liquid flew through the air, but fell steadily into the crystal glass in front of her.
, without leaking a drop.
She pushed the quilt to the opposite side of the bar, where a blond woman with small horns was sitting, smiling happily.
Chapter completed!