Mystery: Survival from the Secret Doll

Chapter 144 143 Historical Pore Images
Entering the Euclidean space, Tang, who had exchanged the ancient scholar's secret doll, watched the ancient scholar of the secret order constantly trying to pull, as if he wanted to pull something out from the mist of history.

This movement was repeated three or four times, and then the ancient scholar's arm sank, as if grasping something. He then dragged it outward, his arm feeling heavy. It seemed extremely difficult, as if some terrifying behemoth lay on the other side of the mist of history.

But in the end, it succeeded.

When the ancient scholar withdrew his arm, a young man who was 90% similar to Tang, but more mature, emerged from the mist of history and appeared in the Euclidean space in the form of an image in the historical gap.

This is the future Tang.

The unique nature of Euclidean space is reflected in Tang's mythical creature form. His spirit insect can also be used to create a special yesterday's reappearance spell. Although Tang has not yet reached the level of the Ancient Scholar, he does have the Ancient Scholar's Secret Puppet.

By taking advantage of the special nature of the secret doll, which allows it to summon itself and respond to itself, ancient scholars were undoubtedly 100% successful in dragging their own (ontological) historical projection in their manipulation of the influence of historical pores.

...Well, summoning my future self seems a bit counterintuitive, so it's normal to fail a few times.

However, the opponent's dull and bewildered expression also proved that this historical pore image could only fight instinctively and was unable to do things such as dialogue and reminders.

"Because of a problem with consciousness?"

Looking at the historical projection of his future self, Tang quickly guessed the reason why this state appeared in the historical pore image.

'There can only be one consciousness' is the same as the law of 'uniqueness itself is unique' and 'there is only one true God'. They are all the cornerstones and underlying rules of the world of mysticism.

Those in high positions on the path of fortune-tellers can hide their true selves in the fog of history, among the countless symbols of historical fragments, thus entering a secret state and bringing the images of their historical gaps to life.

Tang looked at the ancient scholar's secret doll. He could naturally let the secret doll take him to hide in the historical light spot controlled by the ancient scholar of the secret society, and try to project the consciousness of his future self from the future to the past.

"However, if we are not in the same dimension, do we still have to follow this rule?"

Emmm, I don’t know, let’s try it.

Tang, who was quite interested in this kind of problem, had already thought out the specific steps of the experiment.

"Furthermore, a Sequence 4 fighting a Sequence 2, with a Sequence 1, who can think, speak, fight, and even pull historical pore images of other people in the future, isn't that too much?"

It seems that there is nothing wrong with the higher-level extraordinary people of the same path suppressing the lower-level extraordinary people, the miracle workers suppressing the trickster magicians, and the mysterious servants suppressing the miracle workers.

After all, he is also a magician, but he never performs unprepared performances. However, this behavior of using the historical pore images of his future self to fight, as far as he can see now, can work.

After preparation, the Tang Ancient Scholar Marionette brought this historical projection into the city-state destroyed by the Dark Demon Wolf Kotal.

When the image of the historical gap disappeared in the Euclidean space, Tang looked at the secret doll and projection that had appeared in the city-state. He was about to say something when his head suddenly felt dizzy.

The next moment, without even the system responding, Tang's consciousness fell into darkness.

At the same time, the dull expression of the historical projection that appeared in the destroyed city-state became lively, as if a dull puppet suddenly came to life. Something from somewhere in the future cast a gaze and manipulated this dull historical aperture image.

The ancient scholar marionette on the side was about to say something when the marionette found that the thread of its spiritual body floated out from the Euclidean space and extended to the historical projection it had summoned.

Ancient scholar: “…?”

Oh no, what happened?
Tang, who was essentially a projection of history, glanced at the situation around him, and without paying any attention to the stunned ancient scholar beside him, he took a step forward.

The next moment, the Euclidean space, which overlapped with the entire space but was in a higher dimension, 'above the spiritual world' at the spatial dimension level, began to vibrate. A large number of crystal fragments flashing with brilliant light, which were essentially the embodiment of the authority of the Euclidean space, crossed the door of the dimension and dotted the deep darkness.

Tang, who was in a deep sleep, was not awakened by this. Only the system, which had once again transformed into a screaming chicken, kept sending out a mess of garbled characters. The monocle worn in the right eye socket, in the vibration of Euclidean space, and Amon inside watched this miracle that almost fooled time.

Spiritual threads began to grow again on the corpses, flesh and blood reappeared on the dry bones, internal organs appeared, and clothes that had long been rotten extended again from the depths of the darkness.

Fine crystal fragments that fell from the higher-dimensional world melted into these withered bones, into these lives that were gradually becoming vibrant. Their spiritual threads continued to grow, and the ancient scholar's secret doll not far away opened its mouth wide and let out a meaningless sigh.

Sequence 1, Attendant of the Mysteries, can indeed allow things that once possessed a spiritual thread to grow again even if the spiritual thread disappears.

But the mysterious servant cannot truly resurrect the dead.

"History repeating itself? No, it's the different observation angles that make this area appear to be observed at different times, showing what happened in this area during the time when the Dark Demon Wolf turned it into a secret doll."

Although Tang's spirit worm was stuffed into it, the main body had fallen into a deep sleep. Relying on the personality traits set by the 'Bionic Secret Doll' module, the ancient scholar with a certain understanding of Euclidean space pondered this idea.

The main direction of observation of Euclidean space at present is only space, but obviously, its observation also has the level of time after reaching a certain high level.

Space and time, these are the authorities of Euclidean space, but it cannot be confirmed whether they are all the authorities.

The ancient scholar took out his notebook and began to write and draw.

"Considering that my previous main body would lose control whenever it thought about the future, I feel like it's more about time..."

The historical pore image belonging to Tang glanced at his own secret doll, and then caused the Euclidean space to continue to vibrate.

More crystal fragments fell from the sky surrounded by lightning and merged into the city-state.

The marionettes, whose flesh and blood had been regrown, stood up one after another and resumed the things they had done in life. There was a woman cooking, a man wiping a knife, a laughing child, a silent person watching the darkness of the sky and the occasional flash of lightning, and some who were anxious about the future...

This is a city-state that is also struggling in the darkness, but at a certain moment, a huge figure descended.

That was not a monster without flesh and blood, it was a real demon wolf that existed in ancient historical books.

The Dark Wolf, Kotal, the God of Wishes.

He transformed this city-state into his own secret doll. Some demigods holding powerful seals tried to resist, but their resistance was meaningless in the face of the gods once called subordinate gods.

In an instant, the city-state became a city filled with secret dolls. Civilization was destroyed, and those who struggled in the darkness died meaninglessly in large numbers in an instant.

As time passed, the puppets continued to do what they did in their lifetime. They still spoke, boiled water, cooked, and sharpened weapons. Until the giant demon wolf seemed to have sensed something, it quietly left the puppet-like city without taking any puppets with it.

The puppets fell one after another. Without their operators, they could no longer even recreate the traces of their former lives. An unknown amount of time passed before Amon, with a broad forehead and a thin face, staggered into the city wearing a black pointed hat, matching black magic robes, and a crystal monocle.

"Kotal is as cautious as ever." The figure sighed, fiddled with the secret doll on the ground, and then left the secret doll city with regret.

Time passed rapidly again. The out-of-control marionettes rotted, and the remaining extraordinary characteristics became food for monsters. When all the extraordinary characteristics in the city left for various reasons, this place eventually became the ruins of an ancient city-state swallowed by darkness and without any breath of life.

The dazzling crystal light illuminated the surroundings, and the images played at double speed gradually overlapped with reality.

Then, some tiny crystal fragments that had once lit up the dark wolf Kotar floated over from afar. Tang, whose essence was the image of the historical gap, stretched out his hand and took out a lantern emitting a dim light from the image of the historical gap.

The crystal fragments swayed in front of Tang, as if saying something. Tang nodded, and then the crystal fragments rushed into the lantern burning with orange-red flames.

The flames grew warmer, their color changing from orange to pure white, sparkling and transparent, like swaying crystals.

After doing all this, the vibration of the Euclidean space ended. Tang looked at the ancient scholar beside him and handed the lantern to him.

The ancient scholar took it in a daze, and then the image of the historical gap he summoned disappeared before his eyes.

The tool man, the ancient scholar, felt that the thread of his spiritual body was floating up again. He took a look at the city-state ruins which showed no abnormalities, and then quickly entered the Euclidean space. He saw Tang, who had slowly woken up and looked at him in a daze.

"This." The ancient scholar succinctly told Tang what had happened. After hearing everything, Tang silently took over the lantern, which was also essentially an image in the gaps of history.

“It feels like this space is really like a God’s perspective.”

Ah, of course, the God of this world is not a good thing.

Tang muttered to himself, looking at the lantern, "Then what is this?"

"It is said that it can be used to track the Dark Demon Wolf..." said the ancient scholar.

Tang, who summoned his future self to see if he could find some other way to find the demon wolf, said: "Ah."

Holding the lantern, Tang Jiangwei arrived at the city-state which had returned to peace. Then, he raised the lantern and saw a huge figure through the almost transparent flame burning in the lantern.

"That's the Dark Demon Wolf?"

A dark wolf covered with dark short hair, with eight legs and only a tuft of gray short hair on its forehead, was quietly leaving the city.

Tang saw the scene clearly through the light of the lantern.

"This is... the whereabouts of the Dark Wolf."

After putting down the lantern, the demon wolf in the distance disappeared, and Tang confirmed the purpose of the lantern.

Wherever you walk, you will leave traces.

"As long as it appears and exists, it can be observed."

After careful consideration, Tang quickly understood the principle of this thing.

Just like he had once reduced the dimensions of some tables, chairs and benches, and those tables, chairs and benches all appeared in different states.

A thing will appear in different states when observed at different time points.

"This is truly a trace of mysticism, and it's not something that can be easily interfered with by anti-divination or anti-prophecy."

After all, those things rely on interfering with the information in the spiritual world, and his approach of directly bypassing the spiritual world cannot be easily countered.

"But if the Dark Wolf takes on the full form of a mythical creature... well, just use the mosaic glasses to block it out and then follow the large mosaic."

Tang, who had already started completing the subsequent content, calmed down and said, "Perfect."

It seems that he can do everything well in the future. Ah, I believe that he will not mind helping to deal with the Dark Wolf again.

"Summon your future self, and then your future self will summon your future self even further away... Unleash the Dark Wolf's special ability, and then the True Creator will notice. Unleash the True Creator's special ability. When Amon and Adam look over and realize their father is gone, unleash them both."

If he gives the exploded characteristics to the secret doll, he can directly obtain a true secret doll and two Angel King secret dolls.

Perfect, perfect.

System: "...Host, are you mentally okay?" "You seem a little crazy, even talking nonsense."

"People are all crazy. They have to fantasize, understand?" Tang spread his hands. "Maybe. Who can predict the future?"

Waiting for his future self to charge into battle, he followed Tang, who was picking up scraps of scraps, and said, "Don't you often fantasize about it, having cyber dreams like 'Ah, the Secret Sage, ah, the Perfect One, so delicious, I'm eating!'"

System: "Ah~"

Oh, it will be shy if you say that.

After chatting with his own system, Tang held the lantern, thought for a while, and decided to let the ancient scholar return to the secret base of the secret society first.

Although the existence of the lantern is part of the historical porous image according to ancient scholars, this historical porous image is very special. It does not consume the spirituality of the ancient scholars' secret dolls, nor does it consume the spirituality of Tang itself.

Therefore, this projection can exist for a long time. Even if it is lost, ancient scholars with sufficient understanding and close connection with Euclidean space can re-draw the same projection.

"Well, this kind of tracking work will largely trigger the Dark Wolf's spiritual intuition."

So everything must be done in a secret country until the dark wolf is found.

(End of this chapter)