It's time to improve the strength of the infinite world

Chapter 121 You are the Devil

A corner of the hotel.

The room was quiet, so quiet that only the whistling of the wind outside the window could be heard.

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The girl with long black hair and clear red eyes was sitting on the edge of the tatami with a frown on her face, looking at her sister who was sleeping there with no intention of waking up.

The howling wind outside the window was still accompanied by dull thunder from the end of the sky.

This makes people feel uneasy.

After all, according to the latest news reports, unusual weather changes have occurred around the world. The heat of the ocean and the land has risen abnormally, and although the cause is still unknown, the dangerous atmosphere contained in it makes people feel ominous.

However, the most obvious and violent disaster phenomenon seemed to be directed towards that person with a clear target.

The disasters suffered in other regions are more like the aftermath of this disaster, with relatively smaller scale and impact.

All we can say is that the pressure is now on America.

It is said that the entire coastline of the American continent is covered by thick rain clouds and violent thunderstorms. Although blocked outside the boundaries by some unknown supernatural force, the energy gradually accumulated in the storm continues to increase.

The earth was shaking, the sky was roaring, and even the air was filled with a sense of unease.

This makes one wonder whether the earth itself is angry and wants to completely eliminate certain factors.

If that was the case, just thinking about it made Miss Touka feel an indescribable sense of oppression. She had never thought that the huge planet under her feet would one day become angry and suffocating like a living being.

But as it stands now, this is not impossible.

After all, on TV, some scientists have already seriously brought up the "Gaia hypothesis" that regards the planet as a whole as a life form.

That was in the late 1960s, when the British atmospheric scientist James Lovelock proposed a theory that the Earth could be viewed as a self-regulating, living organism.

More precisely, it is believed that the life forms and natural environment of the earth——

This includes the atmosphere, oceans, polar ice caps, and the rocks beneath our feet.

——An overall system has been formed in which there is a complex and coherent interaction between organisms and the environment. The evolution of organisms and the evolution of the environment are closely related to each other, and together they maintain the stability of the earth.

Because it was too outrageous or too advanced, this theory was naturally severely criticized at the time.

It’s just that in recent years, somehow, it has become an important theoretical basis for the Western environmental protection movement and Green Party actions.

But overall, it is still not mainstream.

But now, it has been openly put on TV programs, with authoritative figures conducting popular science lectures and seriously discussing the possibility of this hypothesis... Scientists have begun to rethink the possibility of this theory and regard it as an important perspective to explain the complexity of the Earth's ecosystem.

All I can say is that the world seems to have become magical overnight.

——But it’s only natural.

——Because more magical examples have emerged.

Although many people still insist that they are aliens, advanced life forms from outside the planet, there are also people who think that they should be the immortals referred to in Chinese Taoist thought.

Although the light and shadow of the crown and nine qi were really blurry at that time, some details could still be roughly recognized.

Thinking of this, Miss Shihua sighed softly.

She prayed in her heart that the days ahead would return to peace and stability, that the world would be safe and sound, and avoid the brink of irreversible destruction... The end of the world was just hearsay, she sincerely hoped that it was only an unrealistic fantasy, and not a foreshadowing of cruel reality.

Although the Internet is full of complaints and dissatisfaction, and many people express their hope for the end of the world, people may only truly feel fear when the real crisis comes.

She hadn't expected it from the beginning, so naturally she didn't want the end of the world to come.

Miss Shihua sat quietly for a while, then she couldn't help but lean over and touched her sister's forehead. At the same time, she used her other hand to feel the temperature of her own forehead, but the sensation was normal.

There were no symptoms of fever, the body temperature was normal, and the breathing and heartbeat were stable, as if he was just sleeping and could not wake up no matter what.

Just at this moment, footsteps were suddenly heard in the corridor outside the door.

One after another, they approached this side.

Miss Shihua was slightly startled, and looked towards the door involuntarily. The familiar footsteps made her heart beat faster, and she felt nervous and full of anticipation.

The next moment, the door was opened.

The man's figure appeared in the corridor, familiar yet unfamiliar.

She heaved a long sigh of relief, as if a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders. No matter what the truth of the matter was, at least he didn't just give up like that.

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A few minutes later.

The room fell silent.

Touka Takanashi nervously watched Xia Zhi checking on Rikka's condition. She couldn't help but ask, "How is it? Is Rikka okay?"

"Don't worry, it's not a big problem..."

Xia Zhi tucked the quilt for the Master, turned around and gave her a reassuring look: "It's just that the consciousness exchange hasn't ended yet, so it's not time to wake up yet. Nothing has happened." "That's good - wait! Consciousness exchange? What consciousness exchange! Whose consciousness are you exchanging with?" After getting his assurance, Miss Touka subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, but then she reacted immediately and her voice increased by several decibels.

"Of course... with herself. The Rikka of three years ago, and the Rikka of now, I exchanged the consciousness of the two stages of Rikka."

The young man answered seriously: "The consciousness in this body now is Rikka from three years ago. In order to make her memory less confusing, it is better to let her continue to sleep and not wake her up."

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"Why...do this?"

The room was silent for a moment. Miss Juhua bit her lip, her eyes wandering between Xiazhi and her sister on the tatami.

"Because this is her wish, and it is also the reward for me being summoned by her." Xia Zhi said, glancing at the sleeping chuunibyou girl, "As for whether she reconciles with herself or chooses to let go, it's up to her."

"Let Rikka choose for herself?"

"Yes, let her choose for herself." Xia Zhi nodded and answered in confirmation.

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Tohka Takanashi couldn't help but frown tightly, clenching and unclenching her fists, seeming to be full of entanglement and anxiety.

She knew that her sister had been stuck in the past, and the memories of three years ago were like cold iron chains that bound her tightly. So she had always wanted to help her sister get out of it, because although the past could not be changed, people could not escape forever.

However, she never imagined that all this could be changed.

Is it really possible to go back in time and change what has already happened?

"Can this really be done?"

Miss Shihua couldn't help but whisper like this, murmuring as if she was talking to herself, but also as if she was seeking the other party's confirmation.

"Normally it's unlikely. Time travel that becomes a paradox is not an easy field to enter. It is basically equivalent to an impossible miracle. Many times, we think we have changed the past, but in fact we have just stepped into a new branch of time."

Xia Zhi shook his head: "However, special cases require special treatment. At least the "history" of these three years allows for ambiguity and deviation. This is because the world itself wants to adjust the causal rate and enter a better world line, which leads to this situation..."

For now, this is the most special thing in this world.

At least from the examples he had seen, this was the only special case. Other than that, strictly speaking, other examples were not considered true time travel, and at most they could only open up new time branches.

Even the history of Vivian and the Fairy Kingdom, and the false prosperity of those Lostbelts...

It is nothing more than a branch of the IF line that enters through the divergence point on the basis of pan-human history.

While thinking about it, Xia Zhi heard Miss Shihua's slightly solemn voice: "So what do you think she should choose?"

As the words fell, the air around them seemed to grow heavier.

He collected his thoughts and his eyes met with Miss Juhua's, and he felt that very serious gaze.

After thinking for a while, Xia Zhi slowly said, "Actually, both are fine. You don't need to worry so much. It depends on what choice Liuhua wants to make, and there is no absolute good or bad choice. If it were the old me, I might have brought out those great principles and made a long speech..."

He paused for a moment and then laughed out loud.

Refusing to admit the past seems childish; making peace with oneself seems mature... However, perhaps he had such thoughts in the past, but now, he just thinks these criteria are uninteresting and boring.

Shaking his head, he continued with a smile: "Nothing in this world is absolutely right, so just follow your heart and that is the right path."

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"Then let Rikka decide..."

Miss Juhua was silent for a while, then sighed and said this.

She didn't know what the man was laughing at, but she observed him carefully and seriously, and confirmed that choosing to change history should not cause any big problems.

Then she hesitated for a moment, looked at Xia Zhi as if she wanted to say something, but didn't say it.

"If you have any questions, just ask. Don't keep them in your heart." Xia Zhi smiled brightly.

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"You're not actually a hero..." Touka Kotori looked directly at him with her ruby-like eyes and took a deep breath: "You are the Demon King, right?"

　There are so many experts among the people...

　　I went there at noon today and found an old man next door talking to his father-in-law about how to treat cancer, "what method should be used", "what to do will work immediately", "I know someone who was cured this way"...

　　It makes my scalp tingle.

　　But my mother-in-law and the others were listening very attentively. I wanted to talk to them but I didn't know how to start.

　　Their current mentality may be to subconsciously grasp something as a life-saving straw.

　　Maybe it's not that I don't know that it's nonsense, but I just want to try it out of a fluke...

　　After all, what if? (_)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)