A journey of seven souls escaping from the basement

*Anyway, I’m here to help people achieve their goals, so I’m not following anyone.

-------------------------------------

Chapter 6 Out of reach

Stacked armor, also known as set of shields.

Of course, this does not refer to the kind of armor stacking in the game, but to the act of getting vaccinated in advance when speaking.

This can simply be understood as a disclaimer, and because of this, such behavior may be considered a sign of cowardice and a fear of speaking out.

In fact, it cannot be completely understood this way. Although it is sometimes true, the original intention of such behavior was not like this at the beginning. The essence of vaccination is to prevent yourself from making mistakes when communicating with strangers. Inadvertently offending others.

After all, it is difficult to truly empathize with someone else's situation if you have not experienced it. When chatting with someone with eye problems, you may casually say something related to what you saw, which will make the other person feel sad, even if the essence of what you are saying is If you care about the other person, sometimes if you care, you may also hurt the other person.

This cannot be summed up simply by saying that it is too pretentious.

"This doesn't mean anything else, and I'm not laughing at you or anything like that. I just want to understand and see if I can help you solve this problem. Of course, if you don't want to talk about it, kid, we can't Talk about this." Yabu looked at the child's eyes that had been closed. Although the child was a complete stranger to him, he couldn't help but be worried about it. "But if it is something that is not good for your health, please be sure to do it. Tell me please?"

Therefore, when Yabu communicates with strangers, especially when he cares about the other person and asks the other person something, he will always show that he has no ill intentions, and then perform a series of overlapping behaviors.

After all, Yanbu has indeed seen many works where a simple sentence added several episodes to the plot, and may even directly lead to another ending.

But... there are exceptions to everything.

"Don't talk to me like this, Yabu."

"Huh? Tone? Sorry, can you tell me what it is? I'm a little confused, um...!"

"So, don't do this." Yibor suddenly reached out and grabbed the soul on Yabu's chest, pulling the man floating in mid-air in front of him.

Looking at Yabu who couldn't stop shaking due to the feeling of his soul being touched, Yibor brought himself in front of Yabu, almost touching Yabu's face, and asked softly: "Do you want to see it? ?”

"Look...what...?"

"Do you want to see my eyes? If it's Yabu's, yes." Before Yabu could answer anything, the girl opened her right eye and looked at him.

She knew that, having just recovered from that state, Yabu should be extremely confused at the moment.

He seemed calm, but he was trying to suppress the confusion, because compared to figuring out his own current situation, it was more important to have a child who seemed to be in bad health, even though he didn't know him at all.

He is very considerate. He is trying to create a suitable communication atmosphere. While trying to prevent anything in his words from inadvertently hurting the person he is communicating with, he keeps his body very low, as if he is begging. When the other party accepts his help, he gives almost all the choices to the person he is communicating with.

But the problem is that Yabu ignored an issue.

Such a polite way of speaking may have the opposite effect on people with whom you are close.

"Isn't this nice...why do you have to keep it closed?"

It is a very peculiar eye. In the golden pupil, you can vaguely see a four-pointed star. I don't know if it is due to the color difference or the subtle movement of the eyes. Yabu always feels like the stars are vaguely flickering. .

But before he could take a closer look, Yibor closed his eyes again and returned to the state of tightly closing his eyes.

"I close my eyes because... I don't want to see anything."

Except for Yao Bu, a person who is not from this world, she does not want to see anything in this world, especially she does not want to use her right eye to see it, because in her opinion, this is something that Yao Bu gave to her, this precious thing. should not be used to look at this world that made her feel sick.

"Don't want to see...? Wait, where's the left eye?"

"Those eyes are ugly, so don't look at them..." Yibor said while letting go of his hand on Yabu's soul, "Look, it's like this. If you want to know, you can Ask me directly. If you care about me, you can care about me directly and don't say so much. We are not strangers, at least not in my opinion."

"...because you can know the future?" Combined with what the child had said before, Yabu immediately understood what was going on after a brief thought.

千;!.寻?.免";费'..,"小""说,:'."裙':'2;'5:,:5".,5":!"9'5".3.:0!:?0　　“是，我能知道未来的事情，所以我们之间其实要远比你所知道的熟悉。”

This kind of communication method will indeed make the other party feel more relaxed for strangers, but if used with acquaintances, it will be counterproductive. It will be like being polite to family members, which is very awkward and will make people feel uncomfortable. You are deliberately trying to distance yourself from others.

"But...I don't know anything, kid."

"You can ask me, but don't be so blunt, okay? I understand that this is only my unilateral knowledge, but I really... don't want to pretend to know nothing when I'm familiar with you, and You get to know each other from the beginning.”

She knows Yao Bu's preferences, knows Yao Bu's past, and knows most and almost everything about Yao Bu. If she is willing, she can rely on this information to establish a future relationship with Yao Bu.

But she really couldn't wait. Knowing the kind of relationship in the future, she didn't want to have such a strange feeling for even a second. She wanted to reach that result directly.

"Will you be closer to me, Yabu?"

"Is that so..."

This request is actually quite unreasonable.

It was like someone suddenly approached me on the street and said that I can predict the future because we will be husband and wife in the future, so let’s get married right where we are.

Although the mark Yabu knew that this child did know the future, this kind of thing still felt very outrageous. After all, human relationships are essentially built on memories, and the act of directly seeking results is no less than telling the construction team I like the second floor, so you can just build the second floor.

Generally speaking, even if you refuse such an excessive request, it is reasonable and reasonable. It is better to say that it is normal to refuse politely.

"Of course, if you want, kid."

But the child had asked Yabu for such a request, and Yabu naturally would not refuse. In order to show his attitude, he reached out and wanted to pat the child on the shoulder like a friend.

Then, his hand passed through Yibor's shoulder.

He forgot that he had no physical body at all now, or in other words, he actually remembered that Yibor could touch him, so it gave him an inertial thought that he could also touch Yibor.

"...I knew it." Yibor felt the hand that passed over her shoulder and could not touch her, a trace of sadness flashed in her expression, but then she turned her back to Yabu, He continued to walk forward, "I knew you would agree, Zhe Bu."

"Huh? Do you know...? Wait, you didn't say that just because you saw the future and I would agree."

"Hmph~ Anyway, you agreed."

-------------------------------------

*The left eye is a snake pupil.

*Because it was formed by inheriting someone, Yibor doesn't like it very much.

-------------------------------------

Chapter 7 The Curse of Knowledge

It didn't take too long to come out of the cold area. Yibor seemed to have walked this route many times and looked familiar. This made Yao, who originally thought that he might be able to use his marking ability help, The cloth served no purpose at all.

This is not surprising to Yabu. After all, since the other party can know what will happen in the future, it is quite normal for him to understand where to go.

However, during this period of time, Yabu did not hang up next to Yibor as if in follow mode. He took advantage of this time to go out and roughly figure out the principle of his own activities.

If he wants to move now, he doesn't actually need to take steps, but if he moves like this, it will feel a little awkward. It looks like the texture is moving, so as long as he is not floating in mid-air, Yabu will basically be able to move. I will still take two symbolic steps.

Then, as a spirit body with no collision volume, it seems that he can pass through anything at present, but this movement is not unlimited. Judging from the feedback from the mark, he found that the range of movement he can move is about It is a square with a side length of 12 meters. As for the center of this square, it is determined based on the position of the pendant itself.

In other words, if Yabu stands still, after the distance between the pendant and Yabu is 12 meters, there will be a drag screen similar to when two players walk in opposite directions in a two-player game on the same screen. In this case, after the range reaches the limit distance, the cloth will be dragged and continue to move with the pendant.

It's just that this information was not found out by Yabu himself, but what Yibor told him personally, because the pendant is now in Yibor's hands. Originally, Yabu really wanted to try it out for himself, but after talking to Yibor, She refused very simply.

"Ya Bu, there are two things that you must not do now." Yibor stretched out two fingers towards Ya Bu, "First, don't leave me too far, and second, don't let the pendant be touched by others."

"So what's going on with me now..."

Most time-travelers are either flesh-transporters, bringing their original bodies to another world, or soul-transporters, whose souls come to another world and are reincarnated into a series of things including but not limited to people, swords, hot springs, vending machines, etc. .

My physical body didn't follow, and my soul didn't possess anything. I got stuck in the middle. What kind of thing is this?

"What should I tell you? Let me think about it..."

While talking, Yibor looked around and walked to a place where no one was around. After all, she was the only one who could see Yabu now. If she talked to the air on the road, she might be treated as mentally ill after a while. Photographed.

"Well, to use an analogy from what you remember, you are a bit like a hot-swap now. Do you understand what a hot-swap is?"

"I know what hot swapping is..."

To put it simply, it allows components such as hard drives to be removed and replaced without shutting down the system or cutting off the power supply.

"But I still don't understand why I'm hot-swapped, and what does it mean to use something in my memory as an analogy?"

"Ah? No, you really don't understand? Yabu? Isn't this... clear enough?" Yibor listened to Yabu's question and gestured randomly with his hands in the air in confusion, "This Isn’t it a plot that’s easy to understand? I’m a mobile hard disk, and you’re a hot-swappable device. If you’re too far away from me, you’ll feel tired, and if the pendant is touched by someone, you’ll lose your memory.”

"...?"

"hiss......"

Seeing that the expression on Yabu's face became even more confused, Yibor also started to have some difficulties. She could feel that Yabu was like a student who was seriously trying to keep up with the teacher, but couldn't understand no matter how hard he tried. This doesn't look like acting, it's better to say that Yao Bu doesn't insist on playing tricks on himself in this matter.

Faced with this unclear situation, the two of them suddenly pressed their knuckles against their lips. After thinking quietly for a moment, Yabu and Yibor looked up at each other in tacit understanding and proposed a word.

"Is this...the curse of knowledge?"

"The Curse of Knowledge, using the words in your memory, it should be like this." Yibor patted her forehead, and she realized that she had made a mistake.

She made a mistake, that is, because she was overly familiar with the plot, she skipped too many processes because she thought it didn't matter.

Just like a person who knows the result of a question at a glance, when solving the problem, he feels that it is so simple that there is no need to write down the process at all, so he writes a brief process and then directly writes down the answer.

When you know something, because it is too common for those who know it, you feel that other people should also know about it. People who know it can hardly imagine what it would be like if they did not know it. What does it look like.

And when you want to explain what you know to others, because of the asymmetry of information, it is difficult for you to put yourself on the other person's behalf and explain clearly to the other person what you know.This is also the reason why some teachers have very strong academic knowledge but very poor teaching skills.

It's like the joke that the more cheese, the less cheese, has the same purpose. From a performance point of view, it is because knowing more means "knowing less", just like being "cursed" by knowledge.

Namely - The Curse of Knowledge

"Ah..." Yibor felt a little distressed about this kind of thing and scratched his hair, and then said in a broken voice: "It's very troublesome to explain. We still have things to do now. Anyway, you Just remember that it will be very troublesome if you are too far away from me and the pendant is touched. You follow me first, and I will explain it to you in detail later."

"Okay...so what is this going to do?"

"I'm going to 'buy' something, and then use the pendant to save someone. You should know about the pendant, right." Yibor shook the pendant wrapped in his hand at Yabu, "So, do you want to follow me?"

"go."

"..."

You are so decisive, why don't you ask who to save?

Why weren't you so decisive when I asked you to accompany me before?

Although it was normal to think of him, Yibor still felt a little unhappy that he couldn't express...

-------------------------------------

*yibor has most of Yabu's memories.

-------------------------------------

Chapter 8 You are the most important, it is others who should be patient

If a person can travel through time and go back to the past, he also has the ability to predict the future. What will happen if this person predicts the future before going back to the past?

If the perspective is positioned on an individual, and the event of traveling back to the past is itself counted as the future on a separate individual's timeline, then one can predict what will happen after traveling to the past.

And if you position your perspective on the world, then when you go back to the past, you can only see the future of the objective time at this moment, but you cannot see what the individual will have after going back to the past.

Judging from Yibor's words, what she said about knowing the future may be the former type.

"So...you're saying that you saw that the person who asked for help was seriously injured, and we need to buy something to stop the bleeding?"

"It's not entirely true, but it's generally true."

For Yibor, it is not about seeing, but knowing. What she said from the beginning is knowing the future.

But Yao Bu understands it so well now, which is exactly what she wants. After all, she doesn't want Yao Bu to know too detailed things now. The ability to mark is too cheating for seeking answers.

Just follow him without knowing anything. Not knowing anything is happiness for him.

"What are those, bear ears? Are all the orcs in this world...huh? They can't even see me."

"Only I can see you." Yibor seemed to be very proud of this matter, and his voice was slightly raised.

However, this kind of behavior is somewhat strange to people who can't see Yabu. It makes people passing by her unable to help but look at this person who has her eyes closed and talks to herself in the air. The child's eyes were full of pity and regret.

Hey...he looks so neat and tidy, how could he be like this?

"Is that so..."

Because Yibor could see him, Yabu thought that his state was visible to everyone.

"Then is there any way to let others see me?"

"After buying the bandages, it's best to buy some clothes..."

"?"

What is this child talking about, and why does he suddenly answer questions that he doesn't understand?