The self-cultivation of the passer-by hero

"Well - it seems a bit troublesome to explain his story based on your knowledge. In short, Takeya-kun, the first thing I want to tell you is that there is not only one so-called world, and the trajectory of the world does not develop in a straight line. , but has many branches, many parallel futures that you may not be able to touch at all."

It is not difficult to understand Huo Qing'e's words. If Wu Ye were to explain the meaning of this passage, then only four words would be needed -

"What do you mean, parallel world?"

"correct."

Huo Qing'e nodded briskly. Based on understanding this, her explanation would be much easier.

"This person is the 'Adam' in your mouth. He is the 'Takeya Kosaka' from the parallel world. At the same time, he is also the strongest 'you' in all the parallel worlds."

"Me in the parallel world."

Adam's identity has always been a thorn in Wu Ye's heart. Even at the moment when the secret is revealed, he can't be completely relieved. He doesn't care if he is in a parallel world. What he cares about is how many such guys there are.

If every Wu Ye in the parallel world is thinking about killing himself in this way, how many times will he have to do it all over again to kill these guys.

Because of Adam's existence, Wu didn't have the slightest fondness for himself in the parallel world.

"Don't worry, Takeya-kun, what you are worried about is absolutely impossible to happen, because -"

After a pause, Huo Qing'e suddenly lowered her voice and said quietly: "Except for you, all the other 'Takeya Kosaka' in the parallel world have been dealt with by Adam."

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The atmosphere became tense again, and Wu Ye always felt an unspeakable fear spreading in his heart, not because he was afraid of Adam's actions, but more profound, originating from that unknown fear.

"Why?" he asked sullenly.

"You should have realized the reason a long time ago, right?" Huo Qing'e avoided the important and took the easy, but she gave Wu Ye a hint with her eyes.

He lowered his head and looked at the weapon of mortal sin in his hand, and his tone was unexpectedly sad: "Is it because of the weapon of mortal sin?"

"correct."

Huo Qing'e didn't use Wu Ye's weapon of great crime, that would only arouse unnecessary suspicion, she just stared at the seven weapons of great crime on Wu Ye's body from afar and said:

"The weapon of great crime—that is an existence that is completely above the rules of the world. It is absolutely impossible for two weapons of great crime to appear at the same time in the same world, but your world has collected seven of them. You Do you think this is just a coincidence?"

"Could it be that he did it, but why?" Wu Ye looked at Adam, and suddenly felt unnatural from that face, and silently looked away.

"'When the weapons of the seven deadly sins return to my hands, this world will surely become our enchanted utopia'——"

Humming a weird ballad, Huo Qing'e whispered to Adam's body: "That guy got such a 'prophecy' and believed it deeply."

"This" Wu Ye frowned slightly.

"It's true," Huo Qing'e said in a firm tone, "At least, it's not wrong to gather the seven weapons of great crime to change the world. That's why Adam embarked on this crazy journey without hesitation."

She talked about Adam's story with a sigh: "Unlike you, Adam's world has already been destroyed. It was at the very end that he discovered the weapon of the great sin in his own world—the weapon of the arrogant sin." The ability of the device is the ability to connect to parallel worlds."

"However, the weapon of great crime is an extremely special existence. It cannot be observed or detected. Unless the owner of the weapon of great crime shows up on his own initiative, it will take a lot of time to take the initiative to find it. thing."

"A weapon of great crime is likely to be the foundation of an entire parallel world. If it is forcibly separated from the world, the world closely connected with it will inevitably be destroyed."

"You should have seen it once, right? That is what you call 'the world of shadows', and that is the world where all living things disappear after being destroyed by Adam."

"What's more, not every host of the weapon of great crime is fully awakened like him, and many of them are often unaware of the existence of this power."

"However, despite all the difficulties, Adam has no choice. He can only choose the most efficient way to search world by world. Because there is no way to detect, there is no way to classify. He can only destroy every parallel world he finds. , to ensure accuracy.”

"I don't know how long this journey lasted. It was so long that the original 'Takeya Takasaka' couldn't even remember his own name, and couldn't remember his past. The only thing left was the code name 'Adam' and the collection of weapons of great crime. It’s just a mission.”

"And finally, after destroying countless worlds and destroying the happiness of countless 'own's, he finally came to the end of this crazy journey, and that is, Takeya-kun, your world."

"You are the last 'Takeya Kousaka' and the last master of the Weapon of Sin, the Weapon of Greed. Everything was going smoothly, but when I entered your world, something unexpected happened."

"The Greedy Weapon of Sin has extremely overbearing power. When Adam invaded the world, it took away all the remaining six Weapons of Sin he brought. However, because Takeya-kun, you were not awakened at the time. Master, so the six weapons of mortal sin did not come into your hands, but were scattered throughout the world, eventually forming the history you are familiar with."

Huo Qing'e finished telling Adam's story in one breath, but Takeya was even more confused: "Wait, if it is really the same as what you said, then why did the weapon of great sin appear in the distant past, the Heian era, the Nara era, or even Is it the Age of Gods?”

"Because only in this way will the story be interesting." Huo Qing'e lowered her head and said something strange.

"What did you say?" Wu Ye was taken aback.

A faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and Huo Qing'e explained: "Actually, it's very simple. That's because the timeline of the world does not continue all the way forward. Wu Yejun, in this endless reincarnation, the future you is the first. The creator of history, then through Nara, Heian, the Age of Gods, and finally back to the future, this is a complete cycle."

"But" Wu Ye wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Huo Qing'e's simple words.

"Put it another way, Takeya-kun, didn't you find anything wrong when you went back to the past era? For example - a very powerful historical figure suddenly turned into a good friend you knew. .”

"." Takeru's eyes widened. Huo Qing'e was right. This was exactly what he had always wondered about. Minamoto no Raimitsu, Hime Miko, Natsu Ji, and Yuji. They should not have appeared in that era, or rather , shouldn’t be such a coincidence.

"The reason for this situation is very simple, that is, they are not characters that originally existed in history."

"Huh?" Wu also couldn't understand.

"Ah, I'm sorry, should I be more thorough?" Huo Qing'e smiled apologetically and said slowly: "Well - that is to say, before your world was invaded by multiple weapons of sin, there was no such complicated history. Yes, the reason why it became like that is because of the existence of Adam, so in fact, the peaceful era you went back to for the first time did not really exist, but was another world built based on Adam's memory."

"Adam's, memory?"

"Yes, because that is the past history constructed from Adam's memory, so if there are characters that do not exist in his memory, they will not exist, such as the Hime Miko you saw, Minamoto Yorimitsu and other characters, Adam has no memory of them, so there will be no traces of them in the past world. Meeting them is a journey that only belongs to you."

"My journey...?" Wu Ye murmured, as if he finally realized something.

Huo Qing'e's expression began to blur, and her voice became more strange and profound: "It is extremely difficult to create a new existence from scratch, so the only way is to use existing concepts to replace the familiar ones you see. It’s not a coincidence that they look the same as your friends, in fact—those people are the friends you know well.”

"In person?"

Wu Ye looked at Huo Qing'e blankly, and the incomprehensible scene that happened on that battlefield gradually emerged in front of his eyes. Lai Guang, who was shot down by Cuixiang, finally called out the name not Aaron, but Wu Ye.

Why is there such a strange thing? Why does everything seem to be put together deliberately, as if, these seem to be

"Yes, because he doesn't know what the real Hime Miko and Minamoto Yorimitsu looked like in history, so I had to borrow some concepts from your memory to replace it." Huo Qing'e shrugged and put the hairpin in her hair. He took it off his head and said while playing with it.

"Him?" Wu Ye wanted to clenched his fists, but found that his trembling arms couldn't be controlled at all, and the fear in his heart was becoming a reality.

Huo Qing'e used a hairpin to draw a circle on her back, and another person walked out of the mirrored passage. She had waist-length purple hair, flashing red eyes, a keyhole on her chest, a black dress, and a weird armor. Holding a scroll, the words "Gensokyo Origin" are written on the side in the script of another continent.

Huo Qing'e took the scroll from the mysterious girl, touched it gently with her hand, and said: "Collecting the seven deadly sin weapons will have the power to change the world. We are not lying, because he used the seven deadly sin weapons. Your world was created by the power of weapons, the world of Gensokyo where the character 'Takeya Kosaka' exists."

After Huo Qing'e's words fell, the hand mirror on Wu Ye's wrist seemed to have finally reached its limit. Several cracks on it shattered the entire mirror surface, turning it into golden light spots. Finally, it fell into the hands of the mysterious girl and turned into an ancient book. books.

"In this way, everything is over, right?" the mysterious girl asked while holding the book.

"Yes, Danterian, the story he created ends here."

With this vague sigh, the scroll in Huo Qing'e's hand was swallowed up by the light bit by bit, turning into starlight and completely shattered.

"Adam is just a wedge between everything. He exists to lead out the final you. Therefore, it is absolutely impossible for him to collect the seven weapons of mortal sin to save everything, because from the beginning, the weapon of mortal sin given to him by that person, It’s just fake.”

The complete hand mirror appeared on Huo Qing'e's wrist. At that moment, the immortal temperament was completely swallowed up by a kind of malice called arrogance, and her blue hair was replaced by gray.

"Allow me to introduce myself again, Mr. Wu Ye. I am the original owner of the arrogant weapon of sin. I just borrowed the identity of the immortal 'Huo Qing'e'. Because of the name, if I can return to my duties as a singer, I’m afraid it will be exposed faster, at least the miko lady over there will be able to notice it more easily, right?”

Huo Qing'e turned her gaze to Jing, who had remained silent from beginning to end, and said word by word:

"Am I right? Miss Miko? Isn't it because you came into contact with our world, which is different from this, and is not created by the power of the phantom book, but a real world that you are obsessed with? Or maybe? , I should call you this more appropriately, you are not a miko, you have nothing to do with Gensokyo, you are simply serving as Sobu Gao’s life guide, Hiratsuka-sensei~?”