What’s Wrong With Seeking Death?

Yang Buqi didn't know where he was now.

In just a few days, he seemed to have drifted through countless worlds. A large number of scenes were switched and folded in front of him. He was like a spinning top, constantly jumping from one to another, and his head was dizzy.

Although he didn't know the reason, he could roughly feel that these scenes were related to his past. It's just that some scenes are very familiar to him, but some scenes can only be said to be deja vu.

It was the kind of déjà vu that he was sure he had never experienced.

like now.

The ground is dry to dry and cracked, the air is full of dust, and everything is foggy. As far as the eye can see, there is no building, no pedestrians. The breath of decay and desolation filled everything I saw.

Yang Buqi habitually adjusted the coat tied around his waist, stepped on the flowerpot, and walked forward cautiously. After walking for a long time, he finally saw some moving shadows—those shadows surrounded by one place, standing In the middle of several boulders. It seemed to be dancing, and there was a faint singing voice floating over. Yang Buqi raised his head in a daze, thought for a while, and hurried over.

After so many space jumps, he already knew that most of the people in these scenes couldn't see him, so he didn't deliberately hide his tracks, and just walked forward so clearly. At the moment of approaching, there happened to be a wind blowing, blowing away a cloud of haze. He looked at everything in front of him, but his heart couldn't help constricting.

Only then did he see clearly that what surrounded those people was actually not stones, but ruins. It looked like a dilapidated palace, with huge broken columns planted on the ground, like the corpse of a giant. It is full of traces of weathering and chiseling.

If Xu Tuoran was here, she would probably recognize it. The ruins were almost exactly the same as what she had seen in the Palace of Order. As for Yang Buqi, he should have never seen this before. The moment I saw it, I still instinctively felt a burst of pain.

…It is not right to say that it is pain. More like a powerless anger, a tired helplessness. He subconsciously took a few steps forward, his eyes fell on the people who were dancing the sacrificial dance, and his expression paused again.

Those are not people at all.

They're just monsters in tattered cloaks. Under the hood is an ugly and deformed face. Their singing came with the wind, it was obviously an unfamiliar language, but he naturally understood the meaning of it—

A great educator, personally open the star gate.

The great educator, gave birth to the stars.

When the flames swallow our ugly bodies, we shall be reduced to ashes in the starlight...

The singing is rough and the dancing is crude. Yang Buqi watched from a distance, and for some reason, a haze suddenly enveloped his heart.

…I will die.

He inexplicably had such an idea.

When the thing they called appears, I must die.

As if confirming his thoughts, the already dirty sky suddenly darkened, and the darkness shrouded it at an alarming speed. Both time and consciousness began to become blurred. Standing blankly in the darkness, he felt that all the strength in his body was being sucked away.

And the prayers of those monsters continue. They seem to be completely unaware of tiredness, and stop jumping all the time. After an unknown amount of time, the darkness changed again—cracks appeared in the sky, and behind the cracks, a huge monster like a door was faintly visible.

Yang Buqi couldn't see its whole picture, but only saw the thick black door slowly opened slightly to both sides.

A big hand made of white light protruded from the door and slowly stretched towards the ground. The praying monsters had already knelt down to one side, but the singing continued. Another huge black shadow emerged from the ground, looking like a huge oblate shape, with wriggling tentacles growing on the edges.

Yang Buqi instinctively felt a little distaste for this thing, just like the black door above his head. The shadow seemed to be filled with longing by the door, and the tentacles all over his body were stretching upwards, trying to touch the bare hand stretched out by the other party.

— And just when they were about to touch each other, there was a loud noise in the sky.

Yang Buqi couldn't help being startled.

Not only him, that bare hand, but also the huge shadow on the ground were all taken aback for a moment. And just as they were in a daze, the voice rang again—this time Yang Buqi heard it, the voice came from behind the door.

In the next moment, the entire sky was illuminated—a ball of fiery fire slammed out of the door with a mighty force, hitting the ground like a meteor hammer.

"Everything starts with the educator."

At the same time, within Xu Tuoran's domain.

After sorting out the system for a long time, I finally found a way of thinking—anyway, Xu Tuoran's problems went straight to the origin of the world, and he had nothing to worry about.

"The Educator is also regarded as a mother **** by some existences. It is a higher existence in the universe. He will wander in the universe along the star track, and look for suitable planes and planets, and give birth to his own stars on it. '."

Said to be "stars", these existences are actually more similar to independent life forms with powerful energy. It's just that the birth of these life forms is often burdened with the expectations from the educators.

"Do you still remember the 'umbilical cord' I told you? The umbilical cord connects the two ends of the mother and the child. Educators can also perceive the state of the stars through the umbilical cord." The system said, "The stars are born with the mission of devouring life. They will After the life in the world you are in is devoured, send a signal to the educator. The educator will appear again, recover them, and harvest all the remaining energy on the planet."

"For this reason, there can only be one star in the same world. If there are multiple stars, they will devour each other. In order to avoid this kind of thing from happening, the Educator will never give birth twice in the same world. stars."

"Understood." Xu Tuoran nodded, "Just don't put all your eggs in the same basket."

System: ...No, I don't think that's what it means. But forget it, you can understand it as you like.

"So?" Xu Tuoran raised his hand and gently moved the light spots in the sky: "I am also one of the stars she gave birth to?"

System: "Yes."

Xu Tuoran: "Where is the craftsman coming to them? The all-knowing insect said that they are fragments of stars...Are they also the same mother as me?"

"In the past." The system said, "The four of them were originally one. For some reason, they are now split into four parts."

No wonder it's called Star Shards.

Xu Tueran nodded thoughtfully, and asked, "Why did they break? I did it?"

System: "Yes."

"Good work." Xu Tuoran affirmed himself very naturally, and then felt a little strange, "Didn't it mean that there can only be one star in a world?"

The system responded, and just as he was about to speak, Xu Tuoran had already followed his previous train of thought:

"Is it because they want to grab my territory, so I crushed it?"

This development makes sense at first glance. Grabbing territory or something sounds like what those guys would do.

system:"…"

"If the 'territory' you mean is the world outside the box. That place is actually where they came first." The system said softly, "You are the one who came later and are still grabbing land everywhere."

Xu Tuoran: "...?"

"I'm really good." She said without changing her face, squeezed out a cup of milk tea out of thin air, and took a sip happily.

system:…

If you really want to say it, the craftsmen—or, their predecessors—came thousands of years earlier than Xu Turan. When Xu Turan arrived, it had already devoured the original life on this land in accordance with the wish of the educator, and bred a large number of evil creatures, acting as believers, and letting them pray to the educator.

"Prayer will make the Educator come again. And when He comes again, He will devour everything left on this planet and pick up his own children." The system continued, "Of course, after being taken away, their fate will be determined." It's also being swallowed. But I don't think they care much."

Or rather, looking forward to it.

But it was precisely that evil thing's prayer that an accident happened—before the Educator fully descended, for some reason, Xu Turan, who was supposed to be still in the follicle, suddenly moved. Before the Educator, she answered this prayer, descended into this world, and then very cooperatively... ate all the evil things prayed for.

"It's not counting after eating those evil things. You dig another three feet, find out another star and eat it." The system said in a very calm tone, "And the educator, because the prayer was interrupted, lost The descending medium can only leave here."

"It sounds okay." Xu vainly chewed the pearls in the milk tea, "And then?"

"Then? Then you were seduced by that guy...what's his name now, Yang Buqi? Yes, you were seduced by him..." The system became a little weird when it said this.

Xu Turan paused, "Yang Buqi? What does it matter to him?"

"Oh yes, I haven't said this part yet?" The system coughed, "He is the planet itself that was almost doomed to death, or in other words, the ancient will that was born from this planet—"

Xu Tuoran: "..."

"It sounds awesome." She said with great interest, "What exactly does it do?"

"I don't know." The system was very honest, "But your evaluation at the time was that it looked delicious."

Xu Tuoran: "..."

It's not my fault. She silently thought, I was still young at that time.

"And then?" she asked, "what did he, uh, do..."

"Tsk, I don't have the face to say it." The system snorted, "Just all kinds of seduction. Do a courtship dance, dedicate your body..."

"Okay, okay, let's skip this part." Xu Tuoran imagined the scene, and rarely felt a little embarrassed, "Just fast forward to the next thing."

The system is concise and to the point: "You will be hooked by him in the next step. You can live in this place with peace of mind."

Xu was silent in vain. no? Am I that easy to cheat?

In fact, it is not entirely correct to say that Yang Buqi stayed because of him.

First of all, Xu Turan was not fully "hatched" at that time, he hadn't broken his shell yet, and he didn't have the ability to run around the universe. Secondly, she swallowed another star alive, and she also needs to find a place to digest it slowly.

"I don't know much about the following things. My consciousness was fuzzy at the time." The system continued, "Probably life began to multiply in this land, and you found a good place for yourself and started dreaming." .”

"What?" Xu Tuoran was stunned for a moment.

"Dream." The system said lightly, "That's a new way of eating that you found yourself."

Stars are born with special abilities, which are now called "dispositions". Xu Tuoran and the original Jianglin four-in-one non-destructive version have the same origin, and the power they hold is also very similar, but because of different individual characteristics, the specific development direction is different.

For example, the four-in-one, the powers held are "war", "chaos", and "omniscience". Xu Turan is "natural disaster", "beast" and "prediction". The three forces confront each other two by two, and the corresponding forces will eventually lead to the same goal by different routes.

There can only be one star in a world. Corresponding strength, only one can rise to the top. This is a natural contradiction between them.

Apart from the natural tendency of the three groups to compete, the most special thing about Xu Tuoran is that he also has the unique power of Chang Ye.

"Long night...it wasn't called long night at that time. You call it colorful light." The system said lightly, "A unique power that can touch or even transform the emotions, spirits, and even consciousness of other beings. At least when I was still connected to the educator , I haven't seen other stars have this thing."

It is also this unique power that brought Xu Tuoran a brand new way of eating.

After the evils are eliminated, the ancient will of the planet, that is, Yang Buqi, recuperates and gives birth to new life again. A kind of existence called "human beings" began to multiply on the earth.

This short but intense life aroused Xu Tuoran's interest. After observing for a while, she decided to adopt a new way of eating, connecting consciousness with human dreams, grabbing human memories and emotions from dreams as nutrients, and continuing to grow.

And just when she was about to grow up enough to completely "break the shell", she felt the breath of the educator again.

After a long time, the Educator followed the star track and approached the planet again. With no one to pray for, He will eventually pass the planet, and the Educator doesn't seem to want to do that.

It began to use the natural connection between the two to try to call Xu Tuoran—this is a more elegant way of saying it.

The inelegant way of saying it is that it is in Xu Tuoran's ear all day long, beeping crazily in the air.

In order to avoid this noisy influence, Xu Tuoran simply let himself fall into a deep sleep, but because of the approach of the educator, he inevitably had a nightmare.

And it was in this nightmare that the half-digested Jianglin 4-in-1 finally found a chance. It traveled back into the dreams of ordinary people through Xu Tuoran's nightmare, and used it as an exit to escape back to reality. After returning to reality, it controlled several humans again, and performed the ceremony of praying for the descendant of the Educator again—

"Not only that, but when it escaped, it also stole part of the power from your nightmare." The system said, "You were about to explode."

—Eternal day was stolen from the long night.

This sentence came to mind instantly. Xu Tuoran pursed his lips and asked, "And then?"

The system is very simple: "Then you're hammered."

Xu Tuoran: "..."

...? ? !

Wait, what the hell?

"It's been hammered, educated." The system said, "With prayer, he can come down. You haven't broken the shell, do you still want to fight with him?"

To be precise, Xu Tuoran was not the first to be hammered. The first one to be hammered was Yang Buqi—or, the ancient will at that time.

Unlike Xu Tuoran, Gu Zhi has been in a state of light sleep. After the Educator landed, he was also the first to wake up. Even though he knew he couldn't fight, he rushed out immediately, trying to create the first line of defense.

"I don't know the details. I fell asleep with you at the time. Anyway, after you wake up, his big piece...an ancient will will be gone."

The system originally wanted to say "a piece of meat", but noticed Xu Tuoran's unfriendly expression, and quickly changed his mouth.

Xu Tuoran curled his fingers and tapped the table lightly. After a while, he said, "But he's still here."

"That's because he was lucky." The system said, "Before he disappeared, he left his ability to order to you. And it happened that you were awakened by the sound of his fall, so you grabbed him on the spot."

At that time, Xu Tuoran, although he hadn't broken his shell, already had a tendency to climb to the top and possessed the qualifications to become a "god".

And gods, of course, can appoint divine envoys. So she directly regarded the "order" that Yang Buqi left her as a sacrifice, and took this as an opportunity to give Yang Buqi the status of "accompanying".

...However, it is a pity that this "companion" status did not last long. Because not long after he was promoted, Xu Tuoran was shot to death by the educator.

"However, you're smart enough to save yourself." There was a bit of a sigh in the system's tone.

Xu Tuoran was stunned for a moment, then raised his head as if enlightened, his eyes fell on the spots of light above: "The belief box?"

System: "The belief box is essentially an ability extended from the propensity to predict. You should have already experienced the specific function."

Xu Tuoran recalled the operation method of the mini version of the belief box at hand, and nodded suddenly: "You mean, I intercepted some people's time fragments and locked them in a world in a box. And these people should be from the past My believers..."

"It's not some people." The system corrected, "It's the whole world."

"With the fall of Yang Buqi and you, this world also fell apart. And you, using your last strength, intercepted the last few decades of the entire world and stored them all in a box."

Yang Buqi is the ancient will of this planet. The life he conceived was born with faith in Xu Tuoran.

And Xu Tuoran has been visiting other people's dreams for many years, and his image has long been captured, evolved, and chased by humans, and subtly, he has another group of believers.

The superposition of these two benefits made it possible for Xu Tuoran to move the whole world into the box. And the world in this box will circulate forever in the ten years before the end, until the power of this box is completely exhausted.

"Wait." Xu Tuoran paused, "Is this box going to run out of battery?"

"Of course." The system is inexplicable, "It's not a perpetual motion machine. What supports its operation is a part of the power you left in advance, and it's gone when it's used up. It's all over."

Xu Tuoran: "..."

No, then why should I keep it—Xu Tuoran subconsciously wanted to ask a question, but he quickly realized it.

ceremony.

Her thoughts finally fell on these two words.

The world, all the time, is one grand ceremony.

"The existence of this world in a box is for my ceremony, isn't it?" Xu Tuoran gradually connected everything together, "So I will be here too. If I fail to complete the ceremony before this box disappears..."

"Then this world in the box will be completely annihilated. You will also be completely destroyed." The system said, "On the other hand, if you can successfully complete the ceremony and get back all your power before the end comes. This world in the box can Get rid of the shackles of time, change the established trajectory, and continue to operate.”

The premise is that Xu Tuoran has this will.

"But what exactly does this ceremony refer to?" Xu Tuoran frowned slightly, "Don't tell me it's just to play some vicious female supporting role."

"...Actually, it wasn't you who 'played' it." Speaking of this topic, the system's tone became a bit heavy.

In addition to being heavy, it also brought a little confusion.

"Your position is not originally a 'player'. It is an observer, a perceiver. You should parasitize different individuals, observe their life trajectories, witness their birth and death, and collect their eruptions due to various reasons. extreme emotions. And eventually, under the nourishment of these emotions, hatch again.

"This is the awakening ritual you devise for yourself.

"And when you really wake up, you will know who you are. You will also know what you should pursue next. What to get back."

Xu Tuoran raised his eyebrows slightly, and caught one of the words: "'They'?"

"One individual alone is certainly not enough. Incubation needs to be accumulated. Although this is only your first awakening in this world, before that, the same ten-year cycle has been carried out countless times."

And the system—or, the task of this umbilical cord is to select suitable candidates for Xu Tuoran before she hatches, and to ensure the smooth progress of this process.

It's not an easy job. The same person cannot be parasitized twice. In addition, the emotions they can provide should be different. More importantly, as Xu Tuoran's consciousness gradually became active, she also began to exert a subtle influence on the world—

Monsters called abominations began to appear, and corresponding ability users also appeared on the stage. Ability tendencies have given many people different life choices, and most of their life trajectories have changed as a result.

This kind of change will even continue to accumulate along with the cycle. For example, an ability user who has already reached the light level in the first play, he is likely to rise to the light level faster than others in the second play. In the third week, the advantage will continue to the torch level, even the hui... abominable.

Both advantages and disadvantages are constantly superimposed, and their life trajectories will be shifted more and more seriously because of this.

Such unstable objects are absolutely excluded from the scope of alternatives. And if you want to find a reliable candidate, you need to lock in the "protagonist".

"Protagonist?" Xu Tuoran's heart skipped a beat, "You mean Fang Xing and Qu Mian?"

"They are two of them." The system said, "Since you already have the belief box, you should have noticed it too? In the same 'area', there are always some people whose trajectories are particularly easy to lock. In other words, stability."

…really.

Xu Tueran glanced at the dots of light floating in the air, and couldn't help thinking of Jason in the time fragments. No matter how many times she enters the box, no matter how the world inside the belief box has changed, Jason wakes up every day, and the first thing that bothers him is always not wanting to go to work.

"Fang Xing and Qu Mian are like this. No matter how the world view changes, their life lines are very stable. And this stability will radiate to the surroundings with them as the center."

That is to say, the life development of people who are closely related to them will also be more predictable. And the system, in this circle of people, picked the original "Xu Tuoran".

Emotional extremes, strong emotions. Most importantly, combined with the previous major cycles, it is basically certain that she will die within the first year of encountering Qu Mian. Because this is the last round, after her death, theoretically speaking, Xu Tuoran can wake up directly, and then use the last few years of the end to regain his strength and avoid dying out.

But what the system didn't expect was that the original "Xu Tuoran" died more than a year earlier than scheduled.

This also caused Xu Tuoran to wake up early. But because the ceremony was not actually completed, she has no memory of the past, nor does she know where she came from.

Not even sure what to do.

"What can I do? I can only use a pretense to bluff you first." The system said, "If you lack accurate self-awareness, even if you gain power, you will not be able to return to your original position. Therefore, the ceremony must continue of."

And the remedy that the system can think of is to let Xu Tuoran replace the original "Xu Tuoran" and continue to complete her original life line until the end of her destiny.

"If the ceremony is successfully completed, the long night inclination will return directly. In addition to the foreknowledge that has been put back on you. Next, you only need to retrieve the two inclinations of beasts and natural disasters and upgrade them."

When the system said this, it couldn't help but collapsed again: "Who would have thought of the problem, I just left for a while—"

Xu Tuoran: "?"

"...a few months!" The system changed the wording smoothly, and continued to crash, "When you come back, you will pile up the chaos for a long time... The ceremony has not advanced at all!"

Xu Tuoran: "..."

Speaking of this, she probably also understands where she made a mistake. However, she carefully reviewed the wording of the system at the beginning twice, and she felt that the blame could not be blamed on her: "You yourself said that you want to 'death'. I don't understand it wrong. And that death The value system keeps counting..."

"It is yours. Of course, it will give you whatever you want." The system's tone revealed a bit of helplessness, "Fortunately, I have set it up in advance, so it's useless... I should have thought of it a long time ago, That thing is unreliable."

"What are you talking about?" Xu Tuoran didn't understand for a moment, "What do you mean it's mine..."

When she said this, her words suddenly stopped.

It was only then that she remembered that the shoddy system had said another sentence just now.

It says, "plus the precognition that has been put back on you".

When did she have a foreknowledge?

Xu Tuoran was silent for a while, recalling the tentacles raised on the death value panel he had seen, an outrageous guess came to his mind.

Just at this time, the system spoke again, with a tired and heavy tone:

"The death value system was temporarily made by me according to the situation at the time. It is essentially a collection of part of your strength. Because you want to hatch and cannot carry it, it is temporarily deposited with me."

"In order for you to continue the ceremony smoothly, I deliberately sorted out part of it and returned it to you in the form of a death point system. According to my settings, it should predict the next step based on your actual progress. The development of the situation and give corresponding information. And until you reach the last step of the ceremony and face the life-and-death crisis brought by the abomination, it will follow the trend to unlock new functions and begin to return power.”

Unexpectedly, Xu Tuoran jumped directly to the step of life and death crisis. The death value system is also very good, one dares to do it, and the other dares to give it.

Xu Tuoran: "..."

In this way, the rewards given by the death value system are indeed quite predictable—at least most of them can be used quickly.

Saying so—

With a move in her heart, she summoned the death value panel again. Because it was in the domain, the panel was also directly presented in a materialized form, and the long value bar stretched out in front of her eyes, and suddenly, like a living thing, it squirmed slightly.

Xu Tuoran tentatively poked his finger over. Sensing her approach, the long value bar simply turned up, and rubbed the end of her finger on her finger, looking very happy.

…really.

Xu Tuoran gradually came to a conclusion in his mind: "Is it the foreknowledge?"

"Do not."

Unexpectedly, the system actually gave a negative answer.

In the next second, I heard it say again: "To be precise, this is the authority of the 'foreseeing' tendency. It is the starlight you brought out from the end of the foresight corridor."

"It is also the most complete and only complete tendency force that you currently have."