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Looking at the bright lights on the ceiling, my thoughts were a little slow. At this moment, I was lying on a very comfortable couch. The carbonated drink in a large glass on the coffee table next to me was still making a pleasant sound.
.I slowly sat up from the sofa and carefully observed the situation around me, but the conclusion I came to surprised me. Judging from the blood stains and bullet holes on my clothes, I judged that the previous battle was real, but
I couldn't find any wounds on my body. The sofa and coffee table in front of me are old furniture that I bought a few months ago. The large glass with ice cola is also a large beer glass that I customized from the glass workshop.
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"I shouldn't be dreaming, but these are my furniture. Why are they here? Am I at home now?"
I looked around but found no familiar wallpaper or floor-to-ceiling windows. I was surrounded by a vast black space with no end in sight. Only a strange but very familiar chandelier above my head illuminated the area where I was.
"Please don't mind, I'm just borrowing your furniture a little bit, just to keep you from being too cluttered."
Suddenly, a very exaggerated seat appeared opposite the coffee table. It looked like an empty seat carved with crystal. A gentle voice came from the seat and said to me: "Please wait a moment, I am changing."
I sat on the sofa blankly, thinking about the situation in front of me. The language coming from the chair was very proficient British English. The accent was just like the one in the recording textbook. Judging from the tone, it should be the voice of an adult woman.
I scratched my head irritably, really unable to understand what was going on. Finally, I followed the voice's instructions and waited quietly, then picked up the cup and drank.
The moment the ice-cold Coke entered my mouth, I could almost tell that this was not a dream. At least in my memory, the dream had never felt so real. After drinking a glass of Coke, I suddenly felt a little hungry. I just felt a little hungry.
Immediately after having this thought, a bucket of fried chicken nuggets sold in the fast food restaurant I often patronized appeared on the coffee table, but it was very inconsistent with a gorgeous silver fork, and in the cup
The Coca Cola also magically filled up out of thin air.
Looking at all the incomprehensible things in front of me, I chose to give up thinking and follow my original desires. I reached out and picked up a fork and ate it. I was really hungry. It felt like I was back in my childhood.
During the days when I was struggling to survive on the battlefield without enough food, my nose felt a little sore for some reason.
"Eat slowly and sit up straight. It's really ugly when you eat."
It seemed that he was dissatisfied with my behavior, and there was some reproachful sound coming from the chair. I did not feel angry, but some inexplicable emotions appeared in my heart. I subconsciously straightened my posture and slowed down my eating.
speed.
After I had eaten and drank enough, the things on the coffee table disappeared into pieces of light and a steaming towel appeared. I still picked up the hand towel and wiped my greasy lips without caring. I still
I couldn't understand what was going on, but at least the voice didn't seem to be hostile to me, and even showed some concern. My only question was who or what she was.
The moment I put the towel back on the coffee table, a figure gradually appeared on the seat opposite. I really don't know how to describe this person's image. What about the long hair that shines like the sun? None of them looked like features that humans could have. Her face looked beautiful and had an inexplicable sense of intimacy, but she was wearing a T-shirt, jeans and a pair of casual shoes.
Those are my clothes, everyday clothes in the closet at home in Pula. The black loose T-shirt is printed with the pattern of a Nordic band I love, and the jeans are also souvenirs I brought back from my two-month trip to Munich. , and the casual shoes were random bargains bought in a small market in Rome half a year ago. I haven’t worn these three items a few times since I bought them, and I even forgot which cabinet the shoes were in. My first reaction was that the woman in front of me had definitely been to my house without my knowledge. I couldn't help but feel a little wary, but then I leaned on the sofa helplessly and let out a long sigh.
"Aren't you going to ask me something?"
"There are so many questions I want to ask, so many that I don't even know how to ask."
"Then let me come first. My name is Severna, and in terms of identity... from your point of view, I am... God."
"Oh? God..."
"You're not surprised."
"No, it's better to say that I can't think of any other suitable explanation other than this." I calmed down and nervously raised my hand to make the sign of the cross to this god.
"No, it's not that illusory existence."
"illusory?"
The other party's answer really surprised me, because the other party was not "that one", but it did not deny its existence. Although I am no longer a religious person, the environment in which I grew up in the past made me very convinced of the existence of "that one" in my childhood. , but what happened later made me wake up from my hazy belief. From then on, in order to survive, I was more willing to spend time maintaining the firearms in my hands than praying to God.
"It was indeed a fiction created by humans at the beginning, but the belief in it is true. People's belief over thousands of years has created its power and become an existence similar to ours, but because it is a false construct, it does not have a self. Consciousness is just a pure energy body, an 'illusion' existence between reality and falsehood."
I thought at a loss for a long time, and finally accepted the answer half-heartedly. Looking back at the "gods" opposite, no matter how I thought about it, it was difficult to connect it with the gods in some mainstream myths on the earth. Although the skin was very white. At first glance, he looked like a white man, but I didn’t think he was an Earthling at all. His face was a bit too delicate, like the flawless, perfect face that often appears in CG movies. And it didn’t I knew when there was a steaming mug in the other person's hand. The old Soviet Union emblem was printed on the mug and it looked very funny. When I saw the words on the bottom of the mug, I instantly realized that it was for me to make instant coffee. The cup was also lost somewhere about half a year ago.
"I've been wanting to ask you for a long time, what's so delicious about this thing? And it's not good for your health." The god took a sip of the coffee in the cup and complained to me. The smell wafting from the cup made me laugh. I concluded that it was also the smell of cheap instant coffee placed in my kitchen. And the other person's words "from the past" made me feel uncomfortable, because I have never brewed that coffee since the cup was lost. The words gave me the feeling that this god had been monitoring me from a long time ago, or that because the other person was a god, he was omniscient and omnipotent? With this question, I looked at the other person, but the other person suddenly smiled at me, as if Really understand my inner thoughts.
"No, omniscience and omnipotence are impossible."
"It sounds strange to say words that deny omniscience and omnipotence from the mouth of a god."
"No, it would be better to say that the omniscient and omnipotent God in mortal imagination cannot theoretically exist. And the so-called 'gods' are just highly evolved intelligent creatures in the universe, which is what I am. Also, you can directly
Just call me by my name, we are actually not that unfamiliar."
I really don’t want to think about that kind of philosophical question, and the other party’s very friendly behavior made me less nervous than before. But the statement about “highly evolved intelligent creatures in the universe” surprised me a little, maybe
It would be more appropriate for me to say something like "Welcome to Earth" to her.
"Okay, then...Sevena...but I have never seen you before, nor have I heard your name."
"Indeed, because you were just born when we first met, so of course you won't remember me."
"Just born...so you know who my parents are?"
Having said that, I actually don't care who my parents are, I'm just curious about what kind of people they are. After all, they abandoned me as a newborn at the gate of the monastery, so I don't have any special feelings for them.
But Severna seemed to see through my thoughts and seemed a little depressed for some reason. He seemed to be hesitating whether to answer this question. I didn't think about the reason, so I simply changed the question and asked.
"Severna, I should be dead, right?"
"Yes, but don't worry, I revived you."
"Why?"
"Because I want to take you home."
What happened after that was not that complicated. It took Severna a few minutes to tell the ins and outs of the whole thing, but it took me more than an hour to digest this huge amount of information.
Generally speaking, it is a popular game among the gods. They use their own divine power to create a false world. The civilization level of the world is usually set to be relatively primitive, and then the civilization level is slightly higher than the former.
In the real world, people who have just died are selected and their souls are brought to the false world for reincarnation. The reincarnated people will have memories of the past and be given some special abilities. Then this group of reincarnated people with abilities that are different from ordinary people usually choose to use their own
Ability and various knowledge of the original world are used to influence this false world, and the gods take pleasure in observing the behavior of these reincarnated people. To put it simply, it is like watching a TV series.
Generally speaking, the false world will eventually be fragmented or chaotic by the reincarnations and eventually destroyed by God, just like children playing with stacking blocks, stacking them up with great effort and then admiring them for a while.
Maybe the gods have other reasons for doing this, but in my opinion this description is very appropriate.
Of course, there are individual reincarnations who will not excessively affect the balance of the world, but choose to integrate into it and let the world develop naturally. After such a world reaches a certain standard, the gods will transform it into the vast universe.
A real world. The place that Severna wanted to take me to was a place that had just become a real world, and the reason for taking me there was because my mother was a reincarnated person.
When I heard this reason, I felt very calm and accepted it very indifferently. It was probably because I had similar thoughts subconsciously when I talked with Severna before, so I was not surprised. It’s just that
However, my biological mother’s experience seemed different from what I expected. She did not abandon me but protected me. She was very young when she went to that world as a reincarnation, and later became good friends with Severna.
Before the world turned positive, I became Severna's mortal agent, the "Chosen One", and at that time, I had already appeared in my mother's womb.
What happened next surprised me. A certain god who had a bad relationship with Severna planned to destroy the world she created, so he also made a group of mortal Chosen Ones and quietly sent them there to destroy them.
This sounds very childish, but it is very effective. Because this is a mortal battle, the gods will not interfere. After all, to the gods, this is just a game and an entertainment activity.
The battle was not too long but intense, and the world was severely damaged and almost on the verge of destruction. However, the enemy was finally stopped and expelled by my mother and other fellow Chosen Ones. Everything was over until the battle.
When I got back on track, my mother discovered that she had been subject to some kind of powerful curse and was constantly losing her life. Even Severna, who is a god, could not lift the curse intact and could only use his own divine power to maintain her life.
The reason is because I am still in her belly.
"If the curse is forcibly removed, you will die as a fetus. If the curse is not removed, your mother will also die due to physical weakness after giving birth to you."
It was really an unpleasant choice. In short, my mother chose me, so she passed away, but neither she nor Severna thought that I also had that curse on me when I was just born. Although the effect of the curse was much weakened, it was still forcibly removed.
The curse will also cause death because my fragile vitality cannot withstand the impact. In order to save me, Severna plans to send me to the earth. After all, the rules of the two worlds are slightly different, and the power of the curse will not be fully effective there.
As long as I stay there safely for more than ten years, the curse will naturally disappear. So Severna personally sent me back to the door of the dilapidated monastery, which she said was the place where she and her mother first met.
"Originally, I was supposed to pick you up when you were 10 years old, but something happened and delayed it, so I postponed it until now."
"I see……"
I am not very interested in my mother's past. I have never resented her. After all, I have never had memories of her or received maternal love. To me, she is like a familiar stranger.
People are the same. And I also noticed that there are some problems with this information. Since I can be rescued by sending me to the earth, why doesn't Savina send my mother back? I don't think Savina is deliberately lying.
But she definitely didn’t tell the complete story of the incident, and Severna didn’t mention any information about her father. Maybe she didn’t tell her because she thought he was just an insignificant person. And I didn’t bother to ask too many questions because I needed to at the moment.
Focus on what's right in front of you.
I slid my fingers over the "holographic projection" in front of me while observing the scenery. This was a bird's-eye view of the world that Severna had just created with the power of God. The content was a planet the size of the Earth.
The image can even be zoomed in and out like a satellite map, and it seems to be a real-time image. If I zoom in on an image of a certain place, I will see the movements of many people or animals.
To briefly summarize the information we have learned about this world so far, this world is a planet similar to the size of the Earth, with 5 continents and many islands of different sizes. The area of the ocean seems to be smaller than that of the Earth, but the vast continent
There was not a large enough population. In many places, only some unseen giant beasts or other humanoid species were seen. The groups classified as "human" by Severna were mainly concentrated in two adjacent areas.
On the continent, although it is widely distributed, the density is also very low. I am afraid that the human population in the entire world is very sparse. More importantly, the human territory looks very old and there are battles of different scales in many places. It is not safe at all.
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I really don’t want to go to that backward and civilized world. You have to know that although I live in a war-torn area, I am still a person in the 21st century. We have become accustomed to the existence of all kinds of civilized appliances. Suddenly I went to a place without air conditioning or microwave ovens.
In ancient civilizations without flush toilets, I'm afraid I won't live for more than a year before I shoot myself. Of course, that's only if I have a gun. And the most important point is medical health. I once saw a bad joke shot by the British.
Historical dramas, the streets full of feces and the medical methods of bloodletting make me feel sick just thinking about it. Unfortunately, I tried to refuse to Severna but was rejected by her forcefully. It seems that I will go to that world
It can only be an established fact.
Of course, Severna said that there are many alternatives to the above doubts. Although there are no electrical appliances there, there is a relatively developed magic culture. Things like air conditioners and microwave ovens I mentioned above can actually be solved with magic.
Although the overall civilization level of the world there is low, it is a carefully adjusted multi-racial mixed world. Including the legendary races and giant beasts from the earth, many strange races and unique civilizations coexist.
In terms of quality of life, many races are actually not much worse than modern civilization on Earth. I don’t pay too much attention to the meaning behind Severna’s “careful debugging” because I am more concerned about magic.
Of course, a fantasy world is indispensable for the power of magic. Although I was really moved after hearing about magic, I was a little disappointed after carefully observing the human territory from a bird's-eye view. I quickly searched through the densely populated urban areas on the entire continent.
Although these cities look large, they still feel that the population is too sparse. Perhaps it is because the human country itself is not developed and wars are breaking out in many places. But from the various colorful lights on the battlefield, it always feels like
Chapter completed!