Zongman: Please stop destroying the worldview!

The voice of the book sounded again: "In order to protect this world, the first thing you have to do is to bite this world?

Does this world really need your protection? Chen Mo, ask yourself, is this world so dangerous that you have to resort to such means?

Or is it that you simply cannot bear the weakness of losing your power?"

Chen Mo felt his voice tremble. "No, it's just the engulfment of this insignificant place. No one lives in the ruins hit by the meteorite, and only broken walls and ruins remain of the buildings. Even if it disappears, it won't hurt anyone. I can do it. I won't hurt anyone this time—"

Shu: "But this is not a necessary price. Chen Mo, your thirst for power, your reliance on violence and destruction have reached a level of madness.

You've wreaked apocalyptic havoc in nearly every world you've crossed. The camp has deemed you a new threat to the multiverse, calling you "the apocalyptic enthusiast," "the humanoid Eldrazi Titan," and "the fourth scourge of the multiverse." If it weren't for Ms. Irene's intervention, the camp would have resolved to eliminate this immature threat, even at the cost of casualties!

We have seen too many dangerous enemies like those obsessed with power."

Chen Mo punched the wall. "Can you blame me for this? Do you think you don't want to save everyone? Do you think I don't want my friends to live a happy life?

Tens of millions of thieves have sneaked into a hive city, and the followers of the Four Chaos Gods have begun to summon the Great Demon. The shadow of the Warp is already looming over our heads!

What can I do?! Even if reinforcements from the Imperial Navy arrive, they'll just issue an extermination order on the planet!

Violence, destruction, power, you think I don't like love and peace, but this is all I know!"

Yet, Book's voice was a cold judgment at this moment: "What about here? This world isn't dangerous; it's even kind to you. But from the moment you arrived, you've been intent on devouring it. Your physical fitness is sufficient to disregard most of the world's violent threats. You don't need the power of the [World-Devouring Curse], yet you do it anyway."

You have been deceiving yourself, imagining this new world to be filled with destructive malice, and glorifying your desire for power as a necessary means to deal with danger."

"Are you going to be a coward? Are you going to be a thug who can't survive without the illusion of power?

Stop, Chen Mo, there's still time."

The sound of the Quest Book ended here. Chen Mo's fingers tightly pinched the cover of the Quest Book. The dangerous red light that was leaping almost decomposed this sophisticated magical creation into basic mana - but he still didn't do it.

Chen Mo felt as if all his strength had been drained away. He helplessly covered his face and collapsed into a sitting position. Having traversed layers of hellish worlds, escaping countless life and death separations, he was finally overtaken by exhaustion as surging as the ocean.

"Yoha! You're here early! I'm so lucky! This town still has the wine I want. It's perfect for drinking while enjoying the scenery!"

Suddenly, a frivolous voice came from behind. I didn't know when Kikuri had come to me, carrying a newly bought bottle of wine, and said drunkenly:

"You look so tired, can we help you carry some of your stuff?"

"Oh, no, I'm fine."

Ju Li's voice brought Chen Mo back from what happened before. He slapped his face and thought, damn, he was so distracted by a book. He was really lazy.

Let’s talk about those long-term things later. No matter what, the things in front of us are the most important.

Chapter 50 Picking up a God

Long had been to this town three years ago, and many people here still knew the young man who was so anxious at the time. An acquaintance rented him a van, and Long drove the van with Chen Mo and the other two to the ruins of Itomori Town.

Originally, there was a large, shimmering lake here. After the town of Itomori, built on a corner of it, was destroyed by a meteorite, a new lake was formed. From the mountain, it looked like a gourd.

Taking advantage of the last remaining darkness, they climbed up the circular mountain range. The cool night breeze caressed their bodies, and they remained silent for a moment—for the breathtaking beauty they witnessed.

A strange, circular mountain range enclosed a circular valley. Dense, long grasses swayed in the wind, creating rhythmic shapes. The disaster six years ago seemed like a fleeting spectacle to these tenacious creatures. In the center of this small grassland stood an exceptionally tall tree. Several forked streams at the valley floor converged and disappeared into a cave beneath the tree.

You don't need clairvoyance to know that the answer is in that mysterious cave.

Chen Mo arranged for everyone to turn on their flashlights and enter the valley surrounded by the circular mountain range, moving forward step by step.

"Haha, you actually know the manager of Fanxing!"

In the leisurely atmosphere of walking and chatting, Juli pestered Chen Mo and asked him to tell him about his recent support for the band's performance and the formation of his own girl band in RING. When listening to Chen Mo's complaints about Xingge's arrogant attitude, Juli was very surprised.

"I know Xingge too. She was my senior in college. We used to play in a band together!"

Chen Mo hadn't expected that the people he knew would actually form a circle:

"With Xingge's temper, she actually tolerates your careless behavior. Even her own sister is under a lot of pressure."

Ju Li laughed: "That's why every time I go to Fanxing, Xingge will quickly kick me out!"

"You're pretty proud of yourself."

-

As we walked further, we began to see traces of rituals performed here. We could see lingzhu (rice ropes) wrapped around the surrounding trees. There seemed to be strange, tiny dots of light in the air, and an ancient voice seemed to carry on the wind.

Taki looked around, as if remembering something: "I've been here before. At that time, I didn't just spend a night on the mountain—no, I remember it was earlier. I came here with someone, and the old man told me—"

"This is where the knot (birth spirit) is."

Chen Mo: "Chanling? I remember it was the land god in Japanese legend. As a local god who protects the land and the people, does it also have the function of matchmaking?"

Taki shook his head. In his memory, the voice in the wind became clearer: "What connects threads is a 'knot', what connects people is also a 'knot', and the flow of time is also a 'knot'. These are all the technology of the gods.

Gathering together to form, twisting and entwining, sometimes recovering, sometimes breaking, and then linking together again. This is true of time, the world, and the fate between people.

Jianzi scratched his head and said, "I don't understand. It's so profound. Is it true that the speaking style of righteous gods is always so difficult to understand?"

A tipsy Ju Li walked over and hugged Jian Zi and Chen Mo: "I can understand. We are paired together, right? We are completely different people. Logically, we will never speak to each other in our lives, and we will never travel to a place like this in our lives.

But we just came together in this magical way.”

Ju Li opened her wine-red eyes and looked at Chen Mo, her tone no longer so casual:

"Chen Mo, you are the knot that brings everyone together."

Chen Mo looked away: "It's fate, it's easy to get together, but it's even easier to break up."

The atmosphere fell silent as everyone finally reached the cave beneath the large tree. After removing the rubble from the entrance and brushing aside the weeds, a shrine, as simple as it could be, appeared before them. In the narrow, dark cave, the stone shrine, barely a dozen centimeters high and covered in moss, sat two bottles of Koujianshu (Japanese sake), one of which had been opened, the empty bottle spilling onto the ground.

Taki: "I seem to have an impression, this is... is this the place?"

Chen Mo nodded: "Yes, it's here."

Jianzi also covered her mouth: "Wow, it's so... cute?"

On the small shrine, a phantom little fox lay, its white fur covered in mysterious red patterns. It looked frail, its ethereal form flickering constantly, as if it would vanish into the dark cave at any moment.

Chen Mo stepped forward, squatted down, and stroked the little fox's body with his hand, infusing a little mana into its almost dissipating form:

"I didn't expect that this time, I could actually bring back a god."

Chapter 51 Separation and Aggregation

This is a profound bond that transcends time, space, destiny and memory.

Taki Tachibana, who was a high school student living in Tokyo, and Mitsuha Miyamizu, a high school girl living in the mountain town of Itomori, suddenly began to exchange bodies at irregular intervals one day.

When they wake up, they discover they've transformed into each other—Taki, a shrine maiden, clumsily navigating Mitsuha's rural life; Mitsuha, a Tokyo teenager, shyly experiencing the hustle and bustle of the big city. The two communicate through mobile diaries and messages, from initial panic to gradual accustomed to each other's presence, while complaining about each other messing up their lives, they inadvertently develop vague feelings for each other.

However, when Taki decided to look for Mitsuha, he discovered a cruel truth - Itomori Town was destroyed by comet fragments three years ago, and Mitsuha had died in the disaster.

It turns out their bodies had swapped across three years of time, and the woman Taki knew was no longer alive. In desperation, Taki traveled to Mitsuha's former home and drank the "kuchikamizak" she left behind, attempting to reconnect their destinies. Miraculously, at dusk, they finally met briefly, only to be separated by the barriers of time and space.

To save Mitsuha and the entire town, Taki returns to Mitsuha's body and tries his best to convince her father to evacuate the villagers. Mitsuha, in turn, uses Taki's body to create a commotion with her friends to attract people's attention. Ultimately, they successfully change fate and allow the residents of Itomori Town to escape the devastating disaster.

It should have been a happy ending where the boy and girl met and worked together to save everything from the disaster, but after Itomori Town was saved, not only did the soul exchange phenomenon suddenly disappear,

They gradually forgot each other's names and even forgot this unforgettable encounter.

Will they separate in the crowd, never to meet again? Or will they meet again on the street many years later, relying on the memories deep in their souls to encounter each other again?

The future fate is unpredictable, but now the broken knot has been tied again by a visitor from outside the world.

-

“So, this is my story.

I remember everything, it was real, it was not a dream, I want to find that person, she really lived here,

Her name is——Miyamizu Mitsuha!"

Recalling everything, Taki sat around the campfire with everyone and told them that unforgettable story.

After Chen Mo poured a bit of mana into Ito Morishin's body, the illusory little fox instantly solidified. It immediately jumped onto Taki's body and almost transferred all of its newly acquired strength into the ethereal red thread. It transformed from an almost invisible thin thread into a red headband.

At the same time, all the memories came back to Taki's mind.

After doing all this, Itomorishin returned to his weak state and fell asleep on Chen Mo's body.

After listening to Taki's story, Chen Mo also remembered the plot that he had almost forgotten before crossing over, and learned the truth of this story: Itomori-shin was a small god that had been worshipped in this small town to protect this place, but facing the meteorite that was about to destroy everything, it was powerless.

But Taki, who had a bond with Mitsuha, the shrine maiden who worshipped Itomori-shin, and exchanged souls through time and space, really reversed the ending and protected the townspeople who believed in him, so it favored this big boy so much.

However, after the destruction of Itomori Town, the townspeople scattered to seek a living, and their faith, which was already gradually declining, was now even less popular.

The little god, unable to communicate with the sealed earth veins and unable to divide his power from people's beliefs, can only hide weakly in his own shrine, and can only try his best to maintain the fate between Taki and Mitsuha.

Everything has been sorted out clearly. Except for the "cannot be obtained" of unknown origin, Taki's problem is almost solved.

Chen Mo recalled that although according to the original plot the two would meet again many years later, that would be too troublesome. Wouldn't it be better to let the lovers get married in advance?

Night had fallen, the drizzle had completely stopped, and the dense dark clouds gradually dispersed, revealing a few stars. Chen Mo and his three companions lit a bonfire in the valley and set up four tents, preparing to spend the night there.

"I'm so touched! You will definitely be happy in the future!" This is Jianzi, who was moved to tears by the love story. At this time, she seemed like a normal high school girl.

"Ha, I heard such an amazing story. With the night breeze, how can I not have a drink?" Ju Li was listening to the story, drinking in the breeze, feeling very comfortable. She even put a plate of peanuts on the ground.

Taki sat on a rock, his eyes resolute. "No problem! I remembered her name, and she will definitely remember me too! Back then, she dreamed of living in Tokyo, and I'll definitely find her when I return to Tokyo!"

Chen Mo: "No need to bother. I'll have new mana tomorrow and do a divination for you. If it's accurate, you can meet tomorrow!"

After hearing what Chen Mo said, Taki became flustered and uneasy:

"Really?! Damn! I just changed into this outfit from my sportswear, it's old and ugly, and I'm still sweaty from walking all day. It would be terrible if she saw me in this mess again after three years!"

Chen Mo: "Don't worry, she might be as embarrassed and flustered as you are right now!"

Taki: "She wouldn't be like that. Three years later, she should have become, uh, well, she's definitely better off than me, who's still worried about college and employment!"

Chen Mo cast a disdainful look at her: "Look, this is the ugly side of love. You're already protecting your wife before you even start dating!"

-

Although we can still get back to town before nightfall if we start now, it would be a shame not to experience the green valley since we have brought our camping equipment.

The problem was solved remarkably smoothly, and today was a fun day. Everyone sat on the ground in a casual manner, sharing the instant food they'd bought from the convenience store, chatting idly, and even trying to roast marshmallows over the campfire—unfortunately, no one could control the heat properly. Only Chen Mo managed to roast a few skewers that were completely black in appearance but surprisingly delicious.

During the conversation, Ju Li became interested in how Chen Mo solved the evil spirit for Jian Zi.