What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

The situation in front of him was somewhat familiar to Yang Buqi. He remembered that on the day he confirmed that he had become a monster, on the night he secretly went to find Xu Tuoran, she seemed to be in a similar distress.

The difference is that at that time, he could only stand far away from the bed, drawing defensive runes on the wall; but at this moment, he was standing beside Xu Tuoran's bed.

Yang Buqi frowned involuntarily, took advantage of the moonlight outside the window, glanced around, quickly picked up the marker pen on the bedside table, sat on the edge of the bed, supported Xu Tuoran's right arm, stroke by stroke, carefully The runes on her arms were redrawn.

The runes shimmered faintly one after another. Xu Tuoran's tightly knit brows gradually loosened. Yang Buqi observed her expression and confirmed that nothing was wrong, so he breathed a sigh of relief, let go of her hand, turned his head and put the marker pen away gently.

He was planning to go back to sleep again, looking at Xu Tuoran's exposed arm, he hesitated for a moment, then turned around with red ears, and lightly reached out to her exposed right hand, trying to see if he could tuck it back.

Unexpectedly, the moment his left hand was close, Xu Tuoran suddenly raised his arm, stretched his five fingers, and grabbed his wrist like lightning.

...Yes, nagging.

Yang Buqi didn't know why Xu Tuoran used this posture. Being caught by the hand of the sleeping sweetheart and hearing her talking in her sleep not to go is a common scenario. It's not that he hasn't seen it on TV. It happened to him suddenly, and it would be a lie to say that the heartbeat does not speed up. But the posture of others grabbing the wrist seems to be...

It doesn't seem to be the case.

That gesture didn't seem to be keeping people away, but rather like picking up some small animal's neck.

Yang Buqi was thinking about it, but Xu Furan made another move. She actually lifted his left hand diagonally upwards, Yang Buqi was caught off guard, and was pulled forward by her, and the little half of his body fell onto the bed. He raised his head in bewilderment, and saw Xu Tuoran crossing his right arm and holding his left arm in his bosom, while his left hand was still under it as a gesture.

...It really looks like it is hugging some small animal.

Yang Buqi was forced to lean forward, stiff for a moment, tried to pull his hand out, and then closed his eyes forbearance—his posture was awkward, and Xu Turan was quite strong. He tried to twitch, but his hand couldn't be pulled out, but a certain tendon on his shoulder pinched, causing a throbbing pain.

He wrinkled his facial features, and quietly healed his shoulders, tangled in place for a moment, and simply stopped moving, maintaining such an awkward posture, directly resting his chin with the other arm, lying on his stomach like that On Xu Tuoran's bedside, watching her quietly.

Looking on the bright side, the last time he completed the runes for Xu Tuoran, he could only escape through the window in a hurry. And this time, she was here, and he was still here.

Yang Buqi looked at the sleeping face close at hand under the moonlight, unconsciously raised the corners of his lips, his chest and face were burning hot, as if filled with the heat of the whole world, and under the gentle light of the moonlight, Layers melt into tenderness.

He knelt and sat on the spot, his expression was extremely tense due to his efforts to restrain himself. After calming down for a while, Fang calmed down a little, closed his eyes, and fell into a deep sleep again with Xu Tuoran's regular breathing.

In the dream, it was that black rabbit again. It was still the same look as if it was about to go to the sky, but this time it was no longer so irritable that it stamped its feet in the street.

Yang Buqi smiled at it with some embarrassment, and soon turned his gaze to the Chen-level gate in front of him again, and took a deep breath.

The next day, Xu Tuoran woke up from the notification sound of the death value system.

— [Congratulations, you have successfully completed a preference upgrade. 】

—[Current quality: Snow Queen. 】

—[Current Level: Natural Disaster: Hui/Order: Hui]

Unsurprising result.

Xu Tuoran thought vaguely, and slowly opened his eyes.

To be honest, she was going to escalate the chaos last night. After all, the current hallucination problem can be completely solved only by truly ascending to the Chaos Chen level. For this reason, she purposely packaged the mud lump of Hui-level chaotic tendency, and put it under her pillow—according to past experience, this can greatly increase the probability of her entering chaotic tendency.

In fact, there are better props than mud blocks. When she was temporarily staying in Jiang Siyu's domain, the other party gave her a chaotic prop night lamp, which was quite beautiful. But that thing doesn't work well if it's not plugged in, so Xu Tuoran took it to his residence in City C before rushing to find Yang Buqi. So at this moment, I can only take a mud block to make up the number.

To her surprise, last night, she failed to enter the Path of Chaos, but instead entered the Palace of Order.

In the vast tall grass, there is still a white rabbit rubbing against itself. The rabbit's head still fell off, and the rose at the broken neck bloomed more lushly than before, and even grew a little outward, with branches branching out from the slender branches. There are large deformed thin leaves on the branches, but the leaves are not stretched, but wrapped layer by layer on the flower stem, which looks indescribably weird.

…Although a cute and headless white rabbit is kind of weird in itself.

Xu Tuoran didn't understand why it was so straight at first, until she saw that the flower-headed rabbit was trying to stick to her body even though it had no head, and the slender branches were shaking. Only then did she notice that all the spikes on the flower branch had been wrapped by its own leaves.

Xu Tuoran couldn't tell what mood he was in at that time, so he instinctively reached out and hugged it. Follow its guidance and walk all the way to the depths of the tall grass. Just as he was about to touch the light spot symbolizing the Hui class, the world around him suddenly shook—

The sky is depressed and the ground is spinning. Chaotic singing reverberated in the tall grass, and the blades of grass swayed like waves, revealing a strange figure with a damp aura. On the ruins in front of him, there were gaps with eyes.

Even the rabbit in his hand began to shake, and the rose on the broken neck suddenly turned over, and the flower was facing Xu Turan straight, with the petals wide open, revealing a big mouth full of ring-shaped fangs!

Xu Tuoran: "..."

She stared at the big mouth rushing towards her face, paused for a few seconds, then stretched out her hand to poke tentatively. Only touching the soft petals. She touched the eyes on the wall next to her again, but what she felt was the undulating carving marks on the wall.

Xu Turan understood, it was an illusion again. A side effect hallucinations caused by chaotic tendencies.

She used to strengthen the runes of lucidity before going to bed, and was able to avoid them most of the time in her sleep. But today, she thought she would enter the Path of Chaos, so she ignored it. And the one who made up the runes for her last time was Principal Shangguan.

She had said that her runes might not last long. In hindsight, that wasn't modesty.

Xu Turan closed his eyes helplessly, and tried to walk forward, but found that it was not only hallucinations that bothered him, but even his head was throbbing with pain. And because her vision was affected, she couldn't even see where the bright ball of light was...

She had no choice but to try to call out the Box of Faith, to see if she could directly use the accumulated walking steps inside to upgrade blindly. At this moment, she suddenly felt a coldness on her arm - as if there were small water droplets sprinkled on it, light and gentle.

When I realized it again, the hallucinations and headaches all disappeared.

Xu Tuoran blinked, only to realize that he was holding the rabbit too hard. She put the rabbit down, turned her head and seized the time to look for that bright spot of light. After the touch was upgraded, the person still stayed in the Palace of Order and did not leave immediately. She was thinking about a rare trip, and just in time to count her steps, she hugged the white rabbit who was rubbing against her side - because the other party has no ears now, so she can only grab the other party's neck...

Then... yes, then I walked all the way to the place where I could see the Chen-level gate. She believes that the number of steps in the box can be used directly, but she wants to leave those for the path of chaos, so she doesn't move and just walks.

After walking all the way, the rabbit hugged him all the way. Until she actually woke up from the dream, until she fully opened her eyes...

Um?

Reluctantly sensing the touch of a foreign object in his hand, Xu Tuoran was stunned for a moment, lowered his eyes, and only then noticed his left hand in his arms.

There were still marks from some markers on that finger. Xu Tuoran subconsciously glanced at his arm with the runes painted on it, subconsciously raised his lower lip, followed that arm, and continued to look to the side—

Xu Tuoran's expression paused.

She didn't see anything.

Or rather—the end of the arm, nothing.

The arm itself is quite complete, from the palm to the upper arm. However, the back of the upper arm was empty.

Xu Tuoran's smile froze on his face. The gradually awakening senses finally caught the smell of blood floating in the air, she frowned, carefully got up with the broken arm, looked towards the bed with her head, and then closed her eyes unable to bear to look directly.

I saw a large bloodstain under the edge of the bed. Looks pretty fresh. Judging from the location, it should have ticked down from the section of the severed arm.

Xu Tuoran used to sleep on one side of the bed when he slept, and because of his posture problem, the broken surface of the broken arm was just hanging outside the edge of the bed. On the floor next to the bed, for some reason, there was also a large piece of nursing pads, which just caught the dripping blood. At this moment, it has been dyed crimson.

…On the bright side, she doesn't have to worry too much about how to explain to the hotel the unimaginable question of "Why did I wake up alone and found that my room was as tragic as a murder scene" to the hotel.

Xu Tuoran was silent for a few seconds, and carefully took out the severed limb from his arms, making sure that the blood on it would not stain the bed sheet. After careful observation of the section, he looked around and called softly, "Yang Buqi?"

Naturally, there was no response.

Xu Tuoran withdrew his gaze with a complicated expression, and looked at the large bloodstain on the ground again. After seriously thinking about the possibility of cannibalism in his dream for three seconds, he finally got up and tidied up the room resignedly, and took out the brush of the pen fairy by the way.

The first reaction when I saw the scene was [I didn’t do it, I don’t know anything], Xu Tuoran forced the void to read it for a long time before he expressed that Yang Buqi should have left by himself. I don't know more.

Xu Turan sent a message to Pu Han again. The information given by Chen-level omniscient is more accurate, thinking that this should be a side effect of a certain tendency to upgrade. It is not so much that Yang Buqi left by himself, it is better to say that after he was upgraded to a certain stage, he was attacked by some irresistible force. Taken away by great power.

Xu Tuoran naturally believed in Pu Han's statement even more. She had seen it, and the cut surface of the severed limb was very neat. If Yang Buqi cut it off by himself, it would not have the effect. As for Yang Buqi's tendency to upgrade, after thinking about it, she felt that it could only be a foreknowledge, so she greeted Pu Han, changed the ticket, packed her things directly, and planned to go to the Greenland Center again.

The blood-stained pads were all burned by her with the high temperature of 18 ice, and the severed limbs were frozen with ice cubes, and several layers were wrapped inside and outside with tablecloths. Xu Tuoran hurriedly left the hotel with a bunch of abominations and a small pink flower in his mouth. When he passed the flower bed, he noticed a strange green color with sharp eyes.

The spot where the green is located is exactly the small flower bed in the corner where Yang Buqi stayed last night. Xu Tuoran took a closer look, and saw a slender sapling among the landscape plants. It looked only more than ten centimeters long, but slender branches had been drawn out from the thin trunk, and there were still tender green saplings hanging on the branches. The leaves—the green is so bright that it looks like it has been filtered, and it even glows a little bit.

Xu Tuoran suspected that Yang Buqi accidentally dropped this thing here last night. Because the color is really similar to the new branches sprouting on his trunk. But this is just speculation, I can't be sure at the moment...

Until she saw the motionless little tree with her own eyes, it began to shake its leaves as soon as she saw her, and happily compared her heart with its soft branches.

Xu Turan: ...

Confirmed, this is definitely what Yang will not give up.

Xu Turan pursed his lips, and sighed inwardly for the first time. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, he hastily delineated the private land, and then took out a small empty box, intending to pack the young sapling and take it away.

She was still struggling with how to dig this thing out, after all, she didn't bring a shovel with her. But the little tree seemed to have seen through her thoughts, very calmly raised a branch at her, waved it lightly, then began to sway on the spot by itself, pulling itself out as it swayed...

When he crawled out of the mud completely, he did not forget to put a branch in front of him, and bowed gracefully to Xu Tuoran.

It's a pity that Xu Turan didn't have time to talk to it about demeanor, so he grabbed the tree and stuffed it into the box, carrying it away.

It was still early at this time, and the flow of people in the Greenland Center had not yet risen. Only a few energetic old people were dancing swords and doing Tai Chi in the square at the entrance. Xu Tuoran found the north gate familiarly, swayed around for a few times, and caught a big white bear that had slipped out to play. He grabbed the bear and let him lead him into the camphor forest. He wanted to find the domain owner.

It's just that the white bear as an avatar can't contact the domain owner directly, so he can only bring him to the office crying. Xu Tuoran followed behind patiently, and as soon as he entered the door aggressively, the big pyrenes who were gathering together to play cards were all stunned. Su Mai, who was playing cards with them, was also stunned.

The only one who was not stunned was the **** bear who was resting next to him. After figuring out the purpose of his visit, he calmly made a comforting gesture to Xu Tueran, turned around and went out to build a clean sightseeing train, which carried Xu Tueran all the way to In the depths of the woods, the driving skills are so experienced, fast and stable.

When I saw the domain master who was in a daze, this master was not surprised by Xu Tuoran's revisit—it only saw Xu Tu and then expressed a little depressed, why did you upgrade yourself again.

"It just so happened that I was free, so I was promoted by the way." Xu Tuoran quickly took out the severed limb left by Yang Buqi, and expressed his intention in a few words. And just as she guessed—after listening to her description, the wooden man nodded slowly.

"Drifting in time and space"—that's how he described it.

A side effect unique to Precognition Tendency. It only appears when breaking through the Chen-level gate. Affected by this side effect, the body or soul of the upgrader will get lost in the past time and space, jumping randomly in different time and space segments, like a leaf thrown into a river, drifting to nowhere.

The only thing that is certain is that the fragments of time and space seen by the upgrader must be related to himself. And in each space-time segment, the time he can stay is very limited, according to the experience of the wooden man, it is only a few minutes. The short ones don't even stay for a moment.

The only way to get out of this situation is to seize the time and continue to upgrade. The closer to the real Chen level, the more stable the situation will be. And after fully ascending to the Chen level, the random time-space drift can even be transformed into a directional time-space jump.

Xu Tuoran listened carefully, and suddenly realized: "No wonder I heard before that Chen-level foreknowledge can control people's fate over time—"

"Chen level, only limited influence." The wooden man said slowly, "subtle, influence."

Influence the future direction of others' lives by modifying key details. This is the pinnacle of the Chen-level predictive ability. And all he can look back is the fragments of time and space associated with him. A past that I have not participated in at all is like a world contained in another glass ball, which cannot be touched at all.

And the real "control" has to go up.

At least that's what the wooden man told Xu Tuoran—a forerunner at the Chen level and above might be able to truly become the manipulator of other people's fate.

This reminded Xu Tuoran of the passage he had read in Jiang's father's notes.

[And the authority of foresight and omniscience will eventually belong to the destiny spinning wheel that manipulates time and space—or it can be called the destiny writer. 】

"But... I still don't quite understand." Xu Tuoran pursed his lips, "I found it strange before. Isn't foresight an ability for the future?"

Precognition involves the future, omniscience reads the past. At least Xu Tuoran learned that the setting was like this from the beginning of his contact with the circle of ability users. Although the people with precognitive ability that have been in contact with so far have more or less shown the ability to interpret the past, Xu Tuoran feels that there should still be some essential differences between these two tendencies.

After all, the abilities of the other three groups correspond to each other, except for Chang Ye and Yong Day, the differences are quite obvious. And the long night and the eternal day are very similar, because "the eternal day was stolen from the long night". Precognition and omniscience will never have a similar relationship.

Hearing this, the wooden man turned his head slightly.

"'Now' will always become 'past'. 'Past' was also 'future'." He paused every word, "but in the eyes of omniscience, time is just a straight line."

Xu Tuoran: "..."

She vaguely understood: "So the omniscient can only see the timeline behind him. Their perspective is fixed. But for the prophet, time is not a single straight line..."

From the perspective of those with precognitive abilities, the past is the future. Time is a circle.

Xu Tuoran suddenly remembered what the headmaster said last night. Time is reincarnation—the time in this world may itself be a huge reincarnation.

She vaguely felt as if she had touched something, but she couldn't detect it clearly. But there is one thing that Xu Tuoran can be sure of now.

"That sounds like a good prediction." She nodded her chin thoughtfully, "It feels like the upper limit of my ability is full of knowledge."

She said, inexplicably feeling a little proud because of this knowledge, although she didn't know why she was so proud because she had no predictive ability; Take a breath.

"Then the current situation is that if Yang Buqi doesn't reach the Chen level, he can only float around all the time, right?"

The wooden man turned his head and let out a slow "ah".

In fact, he couldn't be sure of this. When he suffered from side effects, his soul drifted more often, and his soul would eventually return to his body. Although he also experienced a few physical body drifts in the later stage, he was already close to the real Chen level at that time, and he already had considerable control over time and space drifting, and he also knew how to set an "anchor" for himself to return to, so he still had a way back to square one.

As for Yang Buqi, he just floated out before he developed the ability to control. It's really hard to say whether I can come back halfway.

"Perhaps, yes." The wooden man pondered for a while, but decided to put it mildly, "If you have an anchor, you can."

Has an anchor...who knows if he has an anchor...

Xu Tuoran sighed again: "Forget it, at a time like this, I can only trust him."

As she spoke, she wrapped her arm next to her again. She was quite sorry for the fact that she could only go wandering with one arm because she held someone's arm at night. And according to what she knew about Yang Buqi, this arm was probably useless.

Yang Buqi guessed that a new one had already grown. It's not easy for her to take this old one around, so she can only store it in the camphor forest.

Also placed here, and the little sapling she dug out from the flower bed. It happened that when Yang Buqi was hunted down by the big bear before, he left two small flower pots, and Xu Tuoran directly planted the young saplings in them, treating them as foster care in the camphor forest.

The little sapling was still not happy, seeing that Xu Tuoran was about to leave, she pitifully grabbed the corner of her clothes, Xu was baffled, and after thinking about it, he coaxed, "Let him come pick you up when your own father comes back", and the little sapling finally complied. Reluctantly let go of the leaves.

Xu Turan heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head and nodded gratefully at the wooden man, and was about to turn around to leave, when suddenly he seemed to think of something, and his face suddenly changed.

"Well, I'm sorry." She turned around slowly, looked at the wooden man with a delicate expression, "I'll ask you something again."

"As for Yang Buqi's space-time drift, can he touch the things in the current space-time segment? Can others see him?"

Hearing this, the wooden man tilted his head in confusion. After thinking about it, I still seriously gave the answer: "Yes, I can see it. It is possible to have a strong sense, or a high-level prediction."

"Contact, depends on luck. At first, it should be difficult."

To be precise, it is even more difficult to encounter things in different time and space before controlling a certain amount of power. There might even be a price to pay.

"Oh..." Xu Tuoran nodded thoughtfully, but his eyes became more subtle.

The wooden man moved his eyes, and said softly, "Any more questions?"

"Well... how should I put it. It may also be that I think too much." Xu Tuoran couldn't hide his worry, "To put it simply, Yang Buqi's lower body should be slowly transforming back into a human form."

"Then suppose he continues to change during the drifting process. But because of his ability, he can't replenish his clothes in time..."

What should I do then?

Blockhead:…

Wooden man: "Ah."

Don't ask me, I don't understand these things.

After all, when I was drifting, I still wore pants.

Anyway, there's no need to worry about it now.

After all, it is impossible for Xu Turan to send clothes to Yang Buqi across time and space. In the end, I can only force myself not to think about this issue, and try to comfort myself, anyway, the relationship between the two is still undecided, and things like death in time and space society will not even sit down if it happens.

Xu Tueran asked about the status of Jiang Lin and Jiang Lin by the way, and confirmed that the two bugs were still under control. Only then did I feel relieved to leave.

Leaving the camphor forest, just in time to catch the leaving train. Xu Turan hurried to the station absent-mindedly, but he almost missed the security check because of the two stone spears he carried with him. Only by being forced to use the "absolute royal power" several times to force others to think that this is a "very distinctive big skewer stick", was he able to get on the car safely.

After getting in the car, she took the time to sleep again in line with the principle of "upgrade as soon as possible". Because it was inconvenient to take out abominable props in public places, she simply went directly to the natural disaster cemetery, relying on the 10,000 steps she just got not long ago, she directly rose to the Chen level.

To be precise, 5,000 steps were used. Xu Tuoran herself is not far away from the Calamity Chen-level, falling down with 5,000 steps is not only enough for her to touch the light ball representing the Chen-level, but also walk a long way forward.

...strange to say. She originally thought that when she was promoted to Chen level, it would be different from the previous situation. After all, this is the highest level known to mankind. There should be some sense of ritual to some extent.

But the fact is, everything happened smoothly, without any special effects, without any strange feeling. There is only a warm touch that is unique to the upgrade. If I really want to say it, it is no different from her feeling from Yingsheng to Zhushi.

This made Xu Tuoran feel a little confused.

However, the difference is more obvious when going from the Chen-level light sphere to the future. The difference is mainly reflected in the visual effect. Everything you see seems to be covered with a layer of colored light. The colored light flows and swims in the air like a living thing, and the color changes like the dreamy wings of a butterfly. Indescribably beautiful.

Under the cover of this layer of light, Xu Turan slowly opened his eyes. The moment I woke up, I just heard a loud thunder outside the car window.

The sky, which was originally clear, turned dark clouds at some point. There was a muffled thunder in the thick clouds, like a huge beast crawling in the air.

Xu Tuoran didn't take it seriously, and left in a hurry after the car arrived at the station. After walking out of the station, I took a taxi directly. And almost at the moment when she closed the taxi door, there was another thunderclap, and the heavy rain poured down like a beast's roar, flooding the whole world.

"It's so strange." Inside the station, a tourist without an umbrella poked his head and looked puzzled, "The weather forecast clearly said that it will be sunny in the near future, why is it suddenly raining so heavily?"