From the end of the world

Chapter 531 The Fault in the World 2
"It's not the doomsday that caused the mistakes. On the contrary, it's the mistakes that caused the doomsday." Xiaowan said, "Although this is just my intuition... the essence of the doomsday should be the destructive process formed by the accumulation of countless mistakes."

It is just a conclusion drawn based on personal intuition, but precisely because of this, it is particularly persuasive.

Xiaowan is a child of divinity who can communicate with all things in nature. In a sense, she can be said to be the spokesperson of the world. The intuition and inspiration she generates are sometimes the revelation of the world itself to her; and the conclusions she draws from them can even be regarded as the conclusions drawn by the world itself.

Having said that, due to the lack of obvious material evidence, it is inevitable that some people may not be able to fully accept the feelings at the first time.

"The source of the error is something else. This source did not appear at the moment of doomsday, and it is even possible that it did not appear in the era in which you, Brother Zhuang Cheng, live." Xiao Wan said, "Just like a patient diagnosed with advanced cancer, he did not become ill on the day he was diagnosed. The initial error can be traced back to an extremely long time ago in history. From that time on, the factor of destruction has been buried.

"The longer time passes, the sicker the world becomes. Until a certain point, the disease enters the outbreak stage. The weirdness that is a symbol of error will also increase explosively, and the phenomenon of chaos will spread throughout the world, and human civilization will be destroyed."

The "end of the world" does not happen in the future, but in the past.

The same theory was once advocated by Gua Tianshi.

Although it was not through the same equation, Xiaowan actually came to the same conclusion by using the Zhengwei Fa Tianxiang Di strengthened by the power of the Divine Seal Fragment.

I thought about it and said, "...Your statement sounds as if the monster is the embodiment of the end of the world, but as far as I know, in the final stage of the end of the world, everything will be destroyed, even the monster is no exception."

"This is not a contradiction," Xiaowan said. "If the patient dies, the cancer cells will also die. It doesn't mean that strange things are things that come with mistakes and will not be eliminated in the doomsday."

I accepted this logic and thought about it.

There is some incredible external force that has caused the world itself to go awry - what kind of thing could cause such deep structural damage to the world itself?

From what I know, the only thing that can be suspected is the divine seal and the person who made the wish who used the divine seal to split the common sense world and the strange world into two.

As a kind of circumstantial evidence, the time when the weirdness entered a period of explosive growth and the first case of amnesia appeared were quite close to the time when the Fantian incident occurred, both more than four years ago.

Although Luo Shan generally believes that the Fantian incident occurred more than three years ago, Fu Feng mentioned to me that as early as more than four years ago, the phenomenon of the disappearance of the dividing line between the common sense world and the weird world had already been recognized by the Great Impermanence and the Great Accomplishment levels on a small scale.

Similarly, I don’t know if they should be compared together, but the awakening of my superpowers was also at a relatively close time point…

In short, the error of the world may be closely related to the wishes made by the users of the divine seal in the past. However, this is inevitably confusing. According to Xiaowan, the source of the weird things is the error of the world, and the world may have gone wrong after the wishing event; in other words, when the initiator made the wish, the concept of weirdness may not have existed - based on this, how could the initiator distinguish between the common sense world and the weird world?

This is simply a logical paradox of whether the chicken or the egg came first.

Is there something wrong with my speculation? Or is this logical paradox also a manifestation of the power of the Divine Seal? Is the Divine Seal a transcendent existence that is destined to be unfathomable and "wrong as soon as you think about it"?
The world in the apocalypse is in a state of death or madness. Can we interpret the inspiration and enlightenment given to Xiaowan by the power of the heaven and earth, which is closely related to it, as it is? Are there any distorted lies that do not conform to the facts? Even more extreme is to ask - is there any malicious part in it?
After a while of talking, Xiaowan still couldn't solve these mysteries. In addition, there are many major problems that we can't let go. Fortunately, we are not the type to waste time on difficult problems without clues. With many questions in mind, we continue to move forward.

Xiaowan took out the cartographer's map on the way, and looked down at it from time to time, as if she was using this prop to help herself locate the direction. I also gave her my blessing lantern. According to what the wandering soul said before his death, there should also be blessings over there where the survivors gather, which can help people holding blessing lanterns nearby to go there. With this item, Xiaowan may be able to save more energy.

Occasionally when I pass through a town, I will try to use my perception to scan the surrounding buildings to see if there are basements and what kind of basements they are. With the power of the unlucky star, I might be able to get close to the fifteenth floor basement by luck.

After noticing my movements, Xiaowan strengthened my perception and gave me a blessing. It was a bit like the blessing she had bestowed on me in the virtual world in the past. Last time, it allowed me to adapt to the virtual world, and this time, it allowed me to adapt to the doomsday environment.

It's just that I can't do it all at once this time, it's more like I've accelerated my speed in analyzing chaotic space and time. Even so, the effect can be said to be like adding wings to a tiger. Before, I was like half asleep and half awake solving math problems, now I finally seem to wake up, and I'm full of energy and inspiration.

Now even if I distribute the "fireflies" farther away, the information transmitted back will no longer have a lot of noise.

"If the wandering soul is still alive..." I thought of this.

If the wandering soul had persisted for a little longer, and knew about the existence of the basement on the fifteenth floor, and knew that there might be a way to return to the modern world, maybe he would not be so anxious to die. No... In the final analysis, it was because the wandering soul took the Sansheng Stone Powder and recovered his memory that I was able to reunite with Xiaowan and get the clue of the basement on the fifteenth floor.

A blessed monk is doomed to never get what he desires.

If the Wandering Soul had not become a Blessing Monk, would this not have happened? However, without the power of blessing, the Wandering Soul would have died at the hands of the cartographer, or more likely died in the endless suffering of the past. The power of blessing is both a weapon that helps the Blessing Monk survive the apocalypse, and the source of his misfortune. It is both a blessing and a curse.

I was glad that Ma Zao was not a true blessed monk, but he also had the extremely heavy curse of the power of the broom star. Similarly, "the more critical the part, the more powerless it is" - similar laws seemed to act on the Great Impermanence, including me, in a variant form.

Why is there such a rule that the more you desire something, the less you get it?

Is this also a reflection of where something went wrong in the world's operation?

"Brother Zhuang Cheng, how is the effect of your blessing?" Xiaowan seemed to be expecting my praise.

"Excellent!" I commented. "It will only take an hour or two for me to be able to use my spiritual power. If I were alone, I might not be able to do this even if I were given another month or two."

Xiaowan was obviously very happy, and his steps as he walked in front were much lighter.

Then, as if she was recalling the past, she sighed, "If I could do something like this when I was with Sister Ma Zao, how great it would be..."

Unfortunately, there was no sign of the fifteenth floor basement on the way. This was expected, because not only did the fifteenth floor basement not appear, but after meeting Xiaowan, the bad luck of being attacked by monsters after walking a few steps also stopped. Maybe the power of the unlucky star on my side was covered by her strong luck.

However, this can also be seen as the loss of her strong luck power in the same place as the power of the broom star. If she was able to delay the pursuit of the disaster demon by relying on this power, then the disaster demon would surely arrive in a while.

"Is it really okay to meet No. 7 now?" I was curious.

"Who are you referring to, Brother Zhuang Cheng?" Xiaowan asked.

"If we go to where the Tai Sui Army is in this state where we are being chased by the Great Demon of Disaster, we might attract the Great Demon of Disaster there. You should be able to predict this." I said, "I thought you would be worried about innocent people getting hurt... or is this also the result you want to achieve?"

"On the contrary, I want to avoid this result." Xiao Wan said, "I can temporarily cover the power of the Broom Star, but it is impossible to eliminate it in one go. Forced oppression will only cause it to rebound at some point.

“So, although we said before that we would find a way to go to the Tai Sui Army to meet Ms. No. 7… but even if we do nothing, the clues to the location of the Tai Sui Army will surely come to us sooner or later, or even the Tai Sui Army will take the initiative to bump into us.

“But we can’t let this happen.

"Allowing the power of the unlucky star to manipulate our rules of action will only lead to a double whammy. I can bet that by then, the Tai Sui Army and the Great Demon of Disaster will definitely converge on us at the same time. This must not be the first time that Brother Zhuang Cheng has encountered something like this, right?"

I thought about the adventures I'd had in the past and nodded.

"As long as we take the initiative, we can take control of the initiative to a certain extent, especially when my good luck can barely suppress the power of the Broom Star." Xiao Wan said patiently, "We must complete the exchange of information with Ms. No. 7 before the Great Demon of Disaster arrives... If we are lucky enough, we may even encounter the Great Demon Xuanwu chasing the Tai Sui Army..."

"Why is that situation considered lucky?" I wondered.

"The Great Demon Xuanwu and the Great Demon of Disaster have an irreconcilable relationship. Once they meet, the Great Demon Xuanwu will definitely attack the Great Demon of Disaster first." Xiaowan said, "And I can summon the Great Demon of Disaster directly."

(End of this chapter)