eurekapd Chapter 312 Have you ever seen a god?
Chapter 312 Have you ever seen a god?
Chapter 312 Have you ever seen a god?
Have you ever seen a god?
The words of loss fell silently to the ground, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became quiet.
Everything seemed to fall silent at that moment; the entire bedroom was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
Seeing Tang Zijun's surprised and doubtful expression, Shi Xin sighed.
Sure enough, no matter how powerful the guy in front of him was, he was just a frog in a well. He possessed great power, but he still couldn't see how vast the sky was.
What Shi didn't know was that Tang Zijun wasn't frightened by the name "God," but rather didn't know how to respond to her for a moment.
Have you ever seen God?
How should I answer this?
Does it count if I see myself in the mirror every morning when I wash up? And does it count if there's a 'god' sleeping in the mirror world right now? Seven years ago, I personally... no, I personally killed someone with my own feet, does that count?
Just as Tang Zijun was about to dawn, Shi's change in expression caught his attention.
After a long silence, Tang Zijun's eyes flickered, and she immediately suppressed all her emotions, speaking meaningfully, "The fact that you can ask this question means you've already seen 'God,' is it the one from the Shadow World?"
"That's right." Now that things had come to this, Shi had no intention of hiding anything. She looked up at Tang Zijun and said calmly, "He saved my life when I was dying, and he also taught me the truth about this world."
"The truth of the world..." Tang Zijun narrowed her eyes slightly.
That's really bold of him. He hadn't been able to find out anything after all this time, but unexpectedly, this kind of person suddenly appeared in the Shadow World.
"You don't believe me, right?" Shi's voice rang out. Tang Zijun looked up and saw Shi looking at her mockingly. "That's how humans are. They only want to believe what they want to believe, yet they go against the truth."
Tang Zijun didn't care about the "I'm not human anymore" tone in the other person's words, and instead chuckled and said.
"It's not that I'm unwilling to believe it, it's just that all this empty rhetoric is too far-fetched. Only those 'masters' under the overpass would spout such nonsense. Your so-called truth should at least be grounded in logic." Tang Zijun's gaze hardened. "Was the plan you carried out before what that god intended?"
When she asked the question, Tang Zijun kept her gaze fixed on Shi's face, wanting to see her most genuine reaction.
Shi frowned slightly at this. "You think I did something wrong?"
"Isn't that right?" Tang Zijun countered. "'Let the world fall into shadow, and humanity will no longer need to fear the monsters in the mirror,'"
These are your exact words. I believe these words were not spoken by you, but rather told to you by that "deity."
"What do you mean?" Shi frowned even more deeply.
"I don't know much about gods, and I haven't seen many gods, but what I do know is that there is a difference between gods and humans. Gods don't help humans for no reason. To put it bluntly, the life and death of humans have nothing to do with gods. If a god wants to help humans, there are only two possibilities: either he is not a god, or he must have some ulterior motive."
"You mean, I was scammed?"
"What I mean is, whatever your God has assured you, He clearly hasn't told you the whole truth. At the very least, He..."
"It hides a lot of crucial information." Tang Zijun shrugged.
"Are you trying to sow discord between me and my god?" Shi frowned even more deeply.
Upon hearing this, Tang Zijun simply smiled indifferently. At this moment, he looked at Shi as if he were looking at a headless fly.
She has no goal at all, or rather, she has lost her goal. Everything she does now is standing on a futile platform, where a slight misstep could lead to a precipice.
She had no one to rely on except for that unknown "god," and she was obsessed with trusting him, which put her in an uncontrollable and unstable state.
After a while, Tang Zijun broke the silence. "Actually, you understand all of this yourself, don't you? You just don't want to believe it."
A strange glint flashed in his eyes, and he quickly looked away.
Tang Zijun continued, "Without the blessing of nature, you, like Tan Zhixin, have lost your ability to transform. In this situation, for the sake of revenge, you will desperately grasp onto anything that can give you power, even if that opponent is an entity like an external demon god."
"Shut up!" the voice roared. "I will not allow you to insult my god! You know nothing at all! His divine power is incomparable to that of a mere demon god! In his active period, heretics and greedy people alike are nothing but a pack of stray dogs by the roadside!"
"Oh?" Hearing Shi Na's somewhat excited words, this time Tang Zijun was surprised. He raised an eyebrow and whispered, "The period of activity...you mean, the one in the shadow world was once a member of the Earth's gods?"
Upon seeing this, he immediately realized that he had spoken out of turn.
The deity had solemnly warned her never to reveal her identity and origins to anyone, especially not to heretics or those driven by greed, lest it attract forbidden things.
Although she didn't know what the "forbidden thing" the deity was talking about was, she still kept it in mind. However, she didn't expect that after being subjected to a series of mental blows today, she would blurt it out without thinking.
Seeing that Shi had fallen silent, Tang Zijun did not press her further, but instead began to think quietly.
The gods of Earth are different from the gods worshipped by evil forces today. The gods of Earth originated from ancient myths and legends; they were real beings who held power in mythology. The gods of evil forces, on the other hand, are merely the result of gradual evolution in later generations.
For example, the God of Mirror Devouring Greed is one of them. That guy was originally a powerful greedy person, known as the "Mirror Devourer". Later, he raised his strength to a certain level and usurped the power of the Reverse World, thus becoming the controller of the Reverse World and calling himself a god.
In Tang Zijun's eyes, rather than calling him a "god," he is more like a dimensional lord who governs a mirror world that corresponds to the real world.
Tang Zijun has not yet seen the demon god mentioned by the heretics, but he guesses that the other party should be in a similar situation. Although it is called a god, it is very different from the gods of ancient times.
As for which of the two is stronger in combat, that is a question that Tang Zijun is not quite sure about.
Speaking of authority, since they are gods, they naturally possess their own laws. And what the gods said is not wrong. In ancient times, during the period when the gods were active, heretics and those driven by greed were indeed just a sideline, completely insignificant.
In this case, it would be interesting if the one in the Shadow World was also a survivor from the mythological era.
A god of Earth, who survived during the mythological era, now survives by relying on negative energy and has even created a shadow world right under the nose of the reversed world. This is something that makes one think deeply.
What is certain at present is that the gods of Earth once fought a war with the outer gods of the dream world in ancient times. No one knows the specific details of that war between the gods, and many secrets remain.
But one thing remains unchanged: since that war, the major divine realms of Earth have successively fallen into Ragnarok and gradually declined, bringing the mythological era to an abrupt end.
On the other hand, the dream world also seems to have been greatly impacted. The ancient rulers have gradually withdrawn from the scene, either falling into slumber or being sealed away, while new gods of the Void Realm have begun to emerge.
At this stage, the two dimensions seemed to lose their connection, with no more dream worlds invading the real world, and the real world also cut off the existence of superhumans.
It wasn't until later, when heretics and gluttons rose to power, and magical girls emerged among humans who could control natural energy, that new extraordinary individuals slowly began to appear in the real world.
By reorganizing the intelligence gathered earlier and combining it with the information that Shi had inadvertently revealed, Tang Zijun quickly figured out some key points—
First, the gods of the Shadow World are most likely beings who survived from the mythological era and were also part of the fight against the Dream World back then. However, they have now lost most of their power and can only survive by relying on the negative energy of humans.
Secondly, the opponent's divine power is clearly superior to that of a magical girl, and the authority he wields is related to life; otherwise, he would not have been able to reverse the life and death of the lost.
On this basis, what Tang Zijun was most curious about was the secrets of the Shadow World: how exactly did this world come about, and what was the purpose of the other party?
The plan that the god told Lost was to let shadows shroud the real world.
On the surface, this is indeed a way to combat heretics and greedy people. With reality covered by shadows, darkness will become eternal, and without light, the mirror will cease to exist.
At that time, all the reversal channels in reality will be closed, and no greedy person will be able to freely enter the real world. Similarly, when humans indulge in illusions in the shadows, no negative energy will be generated.
Humans are like those who enter game pods, forever experiencing unparalleled joy. There is no opening for negative energy, and heretics and demons cannot step into reality.
By then, the real world will be a truly solid block.
There was just one thing Tang Zijun couldn't understand, and that was the dream world.
Logically speaking, since the other party is an existence that survived from the mythological era, they should be very wary of enemies from the dream world. Using shadows to shroud reality can indeed resist heretics and greedy people, but it probably cannot stop those guys from the dream world.
Thinking about this, Tang Zijun became even more convinced of her idea.
That deity definitely concealed a lot of crucial information from the lost, and her own identity was definitely not as simple as imagined.