hotmtlnovel 148-48 Exploring
148-48 Exploring
When Mo Bei and his companion passed two or three wishing pools and arrived at the spot where the dark figure had been, the figure vanished, as if avoiding them.
Mo Bei tried to project her spiritual energy, but found it suppressed by the Wishing Pool and she couldn't see anything. Helpless, she had to give up. Chen Jia Hong also noticed this phenomenon and muttered something like, "Slice it up...?" But only the readers heard it. Mo Bei ran to the other side to observe the wall.
As Mo Bei circled the wall to the other side, he spotted the dark figure. The figure was startled and hurriedly ran away. Mo Bei followed, calling out, "Chen Jiahong, come here." Then, a thought crossed his mind: "Could it be that they've mistaken us for bad guys? Oh no! Thinking about it that way, it makes sense. After all, what kind of good scholar would chase someone in a deserted place?" He then crashed into the wall, the force of the impact causing it to shift slightly.
Mo Bei chased after him to explain, and said to Chen Jiahong, who was staring at him as he was being knocked off his feet, "Come quick, come quick, don't look!"
Mo Bei used his lightning-flame slash to catch up with the shadowy figure, discovering that the figure was wearing an evil cat cloak. He then said, "We're not bad people, we just wanted to have an academic exchange with you..." Seeing that escape was impossible, the shadowy figure removed the cloak.
Mo Bei froze upon seeing this, then slowly uttered a few words: "Ah... got hot from running?" Chen Jia Hong, who had caught up, spoke up...
"Pa Ying, you're still here."
Mo Bei turned around and looked at Chen Jia Hong with a puzzled expression, saying, "You two know each other?" Seeing Chen Jia Hong deep in thought, she said, "The memories Mo Bei saw earlier were the parts he was willing to show. The specific details of entering the forest and Tianxing weren't shown, so I have no way of knowing. There's only the part about the accidental killing, which makes sense. The author's patch was timely enough." She then turned back, suddenly realizing something, "You're... the one who caused Nipawan's death..." Pa Ying nodded, "It's okay, it's over." Hearing this, Chen Jia Hong pushed the wall and said, "It can move here." After drawing their attention, she shared her thoughts.
Soon after, a wall connecting the central pillar to each of the six sides of a wish-fulfilling pool appeared. Water began to surge and boil within the pool, which was now connected by these six walls. Finally, a number appeared in the upper layer of water: 7￣. So, to clarify, it wasn't that our protagonist was too fat; it's just that the original walls could be moved. Please don't criticize our Mo Bei TnT
After everyone had seen the Wishing Pool, Chen Jiahong and Mo Bei restored the wall. Standing there, Chen Jiahong pondered, "Is it a countdown or a distance...?" Pa Ying replied, "It should be both. The Senhuo civilization values ritual." Chen Jiahong went to the front of the Wishing Pool with water and, with Mo Bei's help, successfully restored the previous structure. The displayed number was 7. After restoration, testing showed the right side was 7- and the left side was +7, proving that the point 20 Wishing Pools in a straight line ahead of the number 7 was exactly zero. As for where that came from, that depended on the spiritual value.
Mo Bei wanted to go directly, but the two stopped him: "A sense of ritual." And so, starting from 7 and moving towards zero, the closer the numerical beauty approached zero, the more turbid the boiling and surging water became, until it reached zero.
Chen Jiahong waited for the commotion to subside. The words on the wall reflected the golden light of the divine tree in the great forest, and at the same time, golden light also shot out from Zero, shining back onto the wall. As soon as the movement subsided, a phantom appeared: countless golden leaves, with light shining through the layers of overlapping leaves.
Mo Bei reached out to touch the phantom, only to find it hitting her hand. Chen Jiahong then walked to the area outside the 21 Wishing Pools and activated the other "zeros" until the images of the seven phantoms merged together, revealing a ring of interwoven golden leaves.
Chen Jiahong and Pa Ying returned to where Mo Bei had been. Mo Bei was still figuring out how to get in, looking at the inscriptions on the walls: some walls even had inscriptions from another wall—these were just words! There were words and sentences, all simple expressions. Then he looked down and was startled by the sight of white bones.
Chen Jiahong held down Mo Bei, who had jumped up, and together with Pa Ying, they looked at the Forest Fire Great Forest passage that everyone dreamed of. At the same time, they realized something: "It's not that the predecessors didn't know about the illusions, but that they were too eager to understand the relationship between the illusions and the entrance to the Great Forest, and forgot the essence—the desire to enter. And the illusions are the 'virtual energy' that connects them!" Mo Bei's head spun after hearing this: "Um, are you guys the protagonists or am I the protagonist...? How about I let you be the protagonists? Can't you let me think a little longer, let the author pad out the plot a bit more?" Then he walked towards the illusions.
The three of them stretched out their hands together, thinking of entering the great forest. The next moment, the barrier rippled, the illusion became reality, and the three entered the great forest, where the seven wish-fulfilling pools returned to their places.
Nipawan's voice came from beside her ear: "I want to..." This was probably how she felt at the time.
Blinded by golden leaves, once parted, one drifted through this space for an unknown amount of time, only knowing that one lay in a sea of golden leaves: the golden veins stirred everyone's imagination, the golden branches presented everyone's hopes, and the golden leaves built everyone's visions. Finally, a golden light appeared, then dissipated, followed by the appearance of a gigantic tree entirely golden, with wheat-ear-like saplings on it, one falling from time to time—these were the saplings of the Boundary Tree. The giant tree had leafless branches, and in the center encircled a pure white trophy—the Cup of Memories!
Pa Ying and Chen Jiahong exclaimed in unison again, "The Cup of Memory!" Mo Bei, still searching around, asked, "Where? Where?" Chen Jiahong lifted his head, and they floated over a cluster of floating, flowing ethereal energy, surrounded by perceptible ethereal energy. Finally, they arrived at the Cup of Memory.
Chen Jiahong grasped it, and he saw what was about to happen—he would fall in a dark and hopeless wasteland.
Chen Jiahong roughly understood that this was his fate, but he didn't panic. He just thought, "Since I know how the ending will be, I might as well enjoy the process of moving towards it, be bold and live in the present. No matter what choices I make, I can't change them." Then, at that moment, he had an epiphany: "Nipawa! She knows the past and uses the power generated by someone in the past to create non-inhuman wish power in the present—that is, analyzing wish power!" Pa Ying nodded after hearing this: "Wish power is wanting to do something and being able to do it, while wish power is wanting to do something but being unable to do it. Wanting to do it is the cause, and being unable to do it is the effect. The reason why creating wish power is inhuman is this—forcibly creating something that someone cannot solve in the present but wants to solve. And things vary in size. The most direct way to take a lot is to accumulate. At that time, Nipawan wanted to concentrate the people of Earth on Tianxing and use the wish power of the past for the present. For example, you want to buy an eraser but you can't buy it. This is something that has already happened and cannot be changed..." Mo Bei just swayed his head from side to side, watching the two of them perform their act, making him dizzy.
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