Unlimited Cycles of Death

"According to the technology and concepts of your planet today, the fringe world is just a very real virtual world to you."

The old man prepared some simple food for Jin. After Jin had finished eating, the old man strolled to the fireplace again and picked up the wood beside him to add fire to the fireplace.

He also added some water to the kettle on the steel frame of the fireplace, reheated and boiled it. He boiled the water and said to Jin, "The virtual world is the virtual world. Even if you have real in this virtual world, The body is full of five senses, can read, study and think, and can also hurt and hurt. "

"But that doesn't mean you have real life."

The old man said, "Back in the real world, you are still dead, with only a broken and about to fall apart soul."

"Maybe one day, this soul will be called from that unknown space, and you will have a chance to go to another world, another universe, but that is only a chance ... the probability of this chance is very small."

"After most life dies, the soul is completely extinct in a long wait, transformed into the most primitive energy, and integrated into the world. Most of this energy will turn into wind and rain, adding to the grass-roots life of flowers and plants."

The water in the kettle was slowly steaming, and the old man narrated slowly, sighing: "I am different from you humans, I come from a name called ... translated in your human language, meaning 'the most beautiful 'Planet.'

"This planet is very far from the Milky Way, and it is no longer in your universe. Starting from Earth, using human light-year units to calculate, it would take about 346.2 billion light-years to reach a planet."

"But because our technology is far more advanced than humans, we will use space folding technology to continuously shorten the distance, so it does not take too long to reach the earth from us, which is more than a hundred years."

The old man told Kim: "When I first came to Earth, it was about 1700 years of the Gregorian calendar. At that time, there were some accidents in my spacecraft, which were damaged during the flight, so that I had to land on the earth to rest my life. spaceship."

"The environment of the earth is not suitable for my survival. The aerobic environment on the earth is very toxic to me. My original body would be poisoned and die in less than one minute on this planet, so I took my body It was locked in a dormant bin and kept, and my soul was attached to a reindeer. "

"You must be surprised, but with us, the body and soul can be separated. If the body ages or is damaged for various reasons, we will save the soul to the virtual world ... Yes, it is a virtual similar to the marginal world world."

"We save the soul in the virtual world, and then wait for real-world companions to help make a new body, and then extradite the soul to achieve a purpose similar to 'eternal life.'"

Jin heard this in silence, terrified in his heart, and exclaimed: "So you can really live forever, right?"

"No." The old man shook his head. "Changing the body is not as easy as you think. If we regard the soul as water and the body as a container and a cup, how much water can this cup hold, It depends on the capacity of the cup. "

"A cup may hold your soul, but if the capacity of this cup is not enough, your soul cannot be completely filled. There may be a little water overflowing, and the overflowing water will be lost in vain. "

Kim understood the old man's words: "That is to say, if you constantly change the container, sometimes it will hurt your soul, right?"

"Yes, even if our body production technology continues to improve, the body is perfect. But helplessly, these containers still can't match the soul 100%, so we still can't stop this consumption completely."

"And the lost soul cannot be repaired. The loss of our soul will gradually make our memories and feelings gradually disappear. We will gradually become cold and weak in the process of constantly changing the container."

"Usually those souls that are too weak will not continue to replace the container. They will stay in the virtual world and live with that false posture."

"This is only a small part. More souls choose eternal death, choose to turn into wind and rain, and nourish the earth."

The old man said that the water in the kettle had boiled, so he lifted the kettle, poured the hot water into a bucket, mixed some cold water, and said to Jin, "Come on, warm hands and feet, it's too cold Now, although this is not your own body, I hope you treat others kindly. "

Jin obediently got up, took the towel that the old man handed him, washed his face with hot water in the bucket, and started to soak his feet at the gesture of the old man. I have to say that it was very pleasant. Jin had not felt this simple for a long time. Comfortable.

The old man also started to wash his face and feet with the remaining hot water. After packing, the old man made a bed for Jin, who helped pour the water and wipe the floor.

After everything was sorted out, the old man pointed at the temporary wooden bed in the room, covered with thick blankets and quilts, and let Jin go to sleep.

"Is this really good? Are there any other things we haven't done yet?" Kim was actually a little uneasy. He came here to complete the task of Amu's account, but it turned out to be a guest. And stay overnight.

"It's useless to worry, it failed anyway." The old man doesn't care whether Jin sleeps or not, anyway, he seems to want to sleep anyway, he climbed onto his bed and laid down comfortably.

King was also sitting on his bed. He still couldn't figure it out and couldn't help but say, "Old gentleman, you said that Amu had deceived me, and that he didn't want to complete the task of killing marginal will. This is What do you mean? If this fails, don't we need to think about some countermeasures? "

"Oh ... it seems you won't let me sleep well if you don't ask." The old man sighed in bed. "Then I will tell you slowly, you can listen to me in bed."

"I said before that in our world, the flesh and the soul are separate. The flesh can be remade, the soul is saved in a virtual world, and that virtual world is similar to the marginal world you see now. . "

"When I came to Earth three hundred years ago, because I could not use the original shell, I was forced to take up the body of a reindeer as a temporary container."

"At that time, I was curious about everything on the earth. I used this reindeer's eyes to look around and use the reindeer's body to move around. I ignored the cruel rules of the biological chain, so I was attacked by a bear."

"I was seriously injured but escaped from the bear's paw. Immediately after I was rescued by a human brother, they called for a doctor to treat me."

The old man told the story of A Mu and A Xin to Jin. However, Jin had already learned the specific situation of the pair of brothers from A Mu Muchen, but he listened patiently to the old man.

The old man said: "Giving the crystal stone to the two brothers was the most wrong decision I ever made. I thought that the technology contained in this stone could enable human beings to embark on the road of" eternal life "just like us. . "

"But I was wrong. Life on each planet has an independent and self-evolving history. I should not interfere with human beings at will. Our technology not only has no way to bring eternal life to human beings, it may even let you step into it. destroy."

"In order to make up for this mistake, I repaired the spaceship as soon as possible and embarked on the way back. I wanted to bring the 'weapon' back before the power of the crystal stone destroyed all of your human beings, and use the weapon to destroy the stone."

Kim was surprised: "So you said Amu was the weapon before ..."

"Amu is my optimistic candidate. He did not hesitate to accept the task I gave him, so I implanted 'weapons' into his spirit."

The old man said, "That crystal stone is not so easy to destroy. After all, that is the virtual space we use to store the soul. This virtual space is very special. It has a self-protection mechanism. When it detects danger, it may take the initiative to do it. Something to protect yourself. "

The old man's words left Kim confused, "Do something to protect yourself? What do you mean?"

"Literally, if someone wants to destroy the marginal world and can almost do it, the marginal world will take the lead in eliminating the threat by violence."

"In general, there is no way to destroy this virtual space, so we need specialized weapons."

King still didn't understand the old man's words. He tried to make the old man describe it more intuitively, but the old man seemed quite tired.

"I don't know how to describe it." The old man was too lazy to continue to tell. He pulled the quilt on his body and shrunk it into the warm quilt. "Anyway, now I say that it's too late to leave it to Amu to deal with it."

"Don't you say that Amu failed?"

"Even if you don't kill the marginal will, there are ways to destroy the marginal world. It's just a little trouble." The old man was really sleepy. He yawned and closed his eyes.

It wasn't good for Kim to continue entanglement and questioning, so he had to lie on the bed with him, but Jin kept going to sleep, looking at the ceiling with his eyes open, and couldn't sleep.

...

On the other side, Mr. He's partners are leading various armed squads to raid church sites on the fringe.

They wanted to wipe out this cult in a short time, and then recapture the crystal stone stolen by the cult and return it to Mr. He.

But they came a step late, and after they captured all the church's strongholds in turn, they were still unable to detect the whereabouts of the crystal stone.

After interrogating those believers in turn, I learned that one hour before they raided the church, someone took the stone away.

The whereabouts of the crystal stone are unknown, and Mr. He and his partners exploded.