APTnovel Chapter 635 The Beginning of the Story
Chapter 635 The Beginning of the Story
In the dark cave, the hoarse greeting of the white-haired old man echoed for a long time.
Fatty Tan looked at him in astonishment, his heart skipping a beat: "That aura before...was that old man's? Then...what about Song Yi?!"
He stood there in a daze, his thoughts a little confused.
Whoosh...
At this moment, figures emerged from above, and dozens of third-rank law enforcers dropped from the sky and stood beside Tan Pang.
"God-transmitter, please wake up Song Yi yourself, and we will protect you."
"It's less than twenty minutes to six o'clock now, so hurry up."
"...!"
Several spiritual officials reminded Fat Tan while forming a formation to seal off the space.
"Hey, ever since Binhai City, I have been entangled with the Great Power Heavenly Dragon. I have traveled several times, and I have benefited from your care."
In the southwest, the old man spoke again, smiling, "As the saying goes, it is impolite not to reciprocate. I will give this lotus lamp fire to you all, and may your future shine as brightly as your bald head."
The law enforcers who had just arrived heard a sound coming from the southwest and only then noticed that there was a white-haired old man standing there.
They were all stunned and thought, "WTF, where's Song Yi?!"
"boom!"
As soon as the old man spoke, the lotus lantern held in his right hand shone even brighter, emitting an extremely enchanting light.
The lotus flame burned brighter, swaying from the wick, as if illuminating a road to the underworld leading to endless reincarnation.
A mysterious atmosphere spread, and Tan Pang only took a glance at the wick and felt as if he had fallen into the underworld.
"brush!"
The old man slowly raised his right arm, put his middle finger against his thumb, and gently flicked it towards the faint flame in the lotus lantern.
"No...not good."
Fatty Tan's hair stood on end. He quickly made hand gestures and said softly, "Mirror!"
"boom!"
A ball of black light emerged from under his feet, allowing him to escape at his maximum speed.
At the same time, the old man's middle finger also flicked on the enchanting and dazzling lights.
"Snapped!"
"Hurrah!"
The middle finger flicked past, and countless tiny points of fire burst and scattered in the cave like fireflies.
"Puff puff……!"
Sparks flew everywhere, falling on the bodies of the law enforcers like rain.
After a while, the fire went out and the old man's figure disappeared with a whoosh.
The group of people with supernatural powers were completely stunned and stood in the darkness with bewildered looks on their faces.
"What kind of fire is this?"
"Who was that old man just now?"
"what!"
"what!!"
When several spiritual officials were communicating, they suddenly heard several howling sounds nearby.
They suddenly looked around, and saw their companions who were stained with lotus fire suddenly caught fire. However, the enchanting flames did not burn their bodies or clothes, but only illuminated their reincarnations.
"what!"
"I...I saw it."
Howls of pain echoed throughout the cave, and several bald law enforcers suddenly aged.
Their faces were covered with wrinkles, their flesh was rapidly rotting, their black hair turned white, revealing their white heads.
Their bodies changed from strong to skinny and then to exhausted in just a moment.
"Ah, I... I saw... myself in the reincarnation."
"This... this is the power of the old gods, but... why would they use it on us?"
Those spiritual officials murmured in despair, and their third-grade bodies that exuded vigorous breath of life withered and dried up in an instant.
“Bang, bang, bang…!”
Dozens of third-grade masters of supernatural powers died of old age in just a breath; in another breath, their flesh and blood rotted, their corpses collapsed, and turned into ashes on the ground.
When the fire of the lotus lamp slowly died out, the clothes of these dozens of supernatural beings visibly decayed in the ashes, and eventually turned into mud and dust, slowly drifting away.
A lamp was lit, reincarnation was revealed, and dozens of people disappeared between heaven and earth.
……
"boom!"
Above the Changsheng Temple, as the space was shaking, Fat Tan escaped from the distorted mirror, sweating profusely.
He floated in mid-air, looking at the Dan Palace below with disbelief, and actually sensed that it had become a dead place, with no sign of life at all.
not far away.
Ren Ye stepped on the Phoenix Fire Furnace, extinguished the Tiangong Fire slowly, and threw Xiao Shuai and Yin Hu into the furnace.
"The time is almost up. No matter what happens, both of you stay here. Leave the rest to me."
As he spoke, a deep wrinkle appeared between his brows, and his eyes revealed an indescribable sense of oldness.
As we all know, these taboos from ancient times all have prices and causes and consequences.
He had just used Feng Lin's body to forcefully activate the Lotus Lamp of Samsara for the first time, and unexpectedly saw a very old and lonely figure in the fireworks. It was blurry and unreal, but it almost made him lost in the scene.
If he did not have great luck, he would have been lost in the cycle of reincarnation like the law enforcers in the cave, and would have completely disappeared from this world.
Today, after he entered Changsheng Temple again, he had been looking for a secret place, and finally chose a cave in the Dan Palace. It should be the place where the bodies of the victims were handled, and few people knew about it.
After choosing this cave, Ren also summoned Fenglin's body. This body was specially left for him by Mumu when he left Shangyu Jiudi. There was no soul in it, just a high-quality corpse puppet shell, but it had a very simple secret method of controlling corpses, which was a wisp of divine thought, and could be learned with just a little perception.
However, Ren Ye never ordered him around, which could be considered a little respect for the "military advisor".
Therefore, when he sat cross-legged on the cave, it was never Song Yi that he awakened, but Feng Lin's physical body and the reincarnation power of the lotus lamp to create the second breath.
"brush!"
In mid-air, Fatty Tan suddenly turned around and looked at Ren Ye with a horrified expression: "You have inherited the legacy of the Human Emperor and are even a high order god, so how can you have the aura of the power of reincarnation? And... and the Fallen Lotus Lantern, this... this thing should not be in your hands?!"
"Whoosh!"
"Whoosh whoosh...!"
Around them, Pan Lianrong and other spiritual officials, after realizing that Song Yi was not in the cave, all gathered around aggressively.
A dense crowd of bald heads stood in the air, all staring at Ren Ye with cold eyes.
At this moment, almost all the law enforcement officers in the city have rushed to Changsheng Temple. At a glance, the sky is full of bald heads, numbering tens of thousands.
Ren Ye stood alone on the Phoenix Fire Furnace, ignoring the enemies around him, and looked at Tan Pang calmly: "...To be honest, I am more curious than you, why this lotus lantern sticks with me and won't leave."
"...!"
After Fatty Tan sensed the time, veins popped up on his forehead and he said urgently, "In the cave, since it is a fake body controlled by you, then where is Song Yi? Where is Song Yi?! You...you haven't found him yet, but you set up a trap here to lure me and the woman out together, wanting to see our bottom line first?!"
Ren also stood with his hands behind his back, remaining silent.
"Say something!!! You didn't find Song Yi at all, did you?"
"Sandbag, what the hell are you doing?!"
"The reminder at the beginning clearly stated that if Song Yi cannot be found, all players will die!"
"Are you a desperado? What good will this do for you?"
There were only a dozen minutes left before leaving at six o'clock, so Fat Tan was really anxious. He asked himself questions in a very puzzled manner.
Ren Ye looked at him, and his expression suddenly became very focused.
Fatty Tan was stunned for a moment when he saw his expression. He seemed to have grasped the key point in his heart. He shook his head and murmured, "No... that's not right. You know that you can't compete with me in terms of gold coins, so you want to fight with me here and snatch the woman or the gold coins in my hand before waking up Song Yi?"
"You...you know where he is, right?"
"But what about time? Is there still enough time?"
"Sandbag, I'll say it again, as long as you give up, I will definitely let the three of you leave safely." Fatty Tan gritted his teeth and said, "Tell me where he is!"
Ren Ye stared into Fatty Tan's eyes. After seeing his eyes filled with urgency and sincerity, he spoke faintly, "After we left the zoo, Tiandao activated the exchange hall..."
"That's not what I want to hear." Fatty Tan interrupted, "Tell me now, there's still time."
"Hear me out."
Ren Ye replied indifferently, and then he narrated again with a focused expression: "After the exchange hall appeared, Brother Hu gave me the fragments No. 13 and No. 16 in his hand for free. Now I have collected all the fragments of Song Mingzhe's autobiography."
"We went to the zoo, and I found nothing except that you were not dead."
"There is no other way. In order to find clues about Song Yi, the three of us simply discussed and decided to go to the exchange hall to exchange Song Mingzhe's complete fragments to see if we can find clues about Song Yi from here."
"After I entered the exchange hall, I saw a dimly lit space. There was a screen in the middle. I was on the north side, and Song Yi's shadow was on the south side."
"The phantom asked me several times whether I wanted to exchange for the fragments of the autobiography."
“But I hesitated.”
When Ren Ye said this, he paused with a frown on his face, as if he was still troubled by the dilemma he was facing at that time.
After hearing this, Fat Tan was dazed but did not interrupt.
"Why are you hesitating? Because I've been thinking about one thing." Ren Ye paused and said, "This star gate repeatedly emphasizes extremes, the ugliness of human nature, and shameless competition... Many of the rules of the game are also leading in this direction. So, will such a star gate secret realm really create a situation where players from three lines must work together to find Song Yi's 'bottom line'?"
"Will this go against the setting and tone of the entire Star Gate Secret Realm?"
"Let's take a step back and say that even if the condition for finding Song Yi is that we must exchange the complete autobiography for clues and the three clues must be combined to get the answer, then for my situation at the time, what use would a single complete autobiography of Song Mingzhe actually be!"
"Because I can only get one clue to trace back, and I still lack Pan Lianrong and Song An's clues."
"The most important thing is that even if the players of the three lines are united, they can still share the backtracking... But Pan Lianrong's fragment No. 1 has completely disappeared and can never be put together. This is like a missing link in the sky. It is impossible for players to get all the clues to backtrack."
"If that's the case, can Song Yi still be found?"
"Will Heaven really set up such a rigid logic and contradictory gameplay rule?"
"No, I don't think so."
A madman's light flashed in Ren Ye's eyes.
He narrated excitedly: "So, I was very hesitant at the time and did not rush to exchange the fragments of the autobiography because that was my only trump card. I needed to rethink and rearrange all the missing details..."
"I took out all the fragments of Song Mingzhe's complete autobiography and studied them carefully...but I accidentally saw a line of numbers above the fragment No. 15."
"I have seen this set of numbers in the retrospective world before. At that time, I thought it was an Easter egg clue that had not been triggered, so I didn't pay much attention to it."
“But now that I think about it, it shouldn’t be that simple.”
"I thought hard about what this number meant..."
"Until I accidentally raised my head and saw Song Yi behind the screen. He was sitting at a long table, reading a book under the dim light."
"With that one glance, all the confusion in my heart became clear."
Ren Ye's voice became increasingly excited as he spoke, clenching his fists and waving them continuously, "In the retrospective world, Song Yi has an obvious feature when he appears several times: he carries a backpack and holds two books in his hands. Whether it's when he left the zoo, or when he returned two years after disappearing, or when he appeared in Room 501 of the main building, or when he appeared as a phantom in the exchange hall... it's all the same."
"Why did he insist on holding those two books?!"
"Because these two books are the starting point of all the stories. All the struggles in Fulai County, the rise and fall of the Song family for more than 20 years, Song Mingzhe, Pan Lianrong, Song An, Song Yi, everything that happened to this twisted original family, are related to these two books that symbolize extremes."
"Also, the appearance of this exchange hall is also very abrupt. Players can obviously communicate with the Heavenly Dao directly to exchange fragments of the autobiography just like exchanging gold coins, so why do they have to set up an exchange hall and let Song Yi's phantom be the host? Is this setting really meaningless? Is it just for farting?!"
"No, it must have a deep meaning."
"Heaven is also telling us that these two books are the starting point and end point of everything."
Ren Ye said this, and then he looked at Tan Pang faintly: "So, I was in the exchange hall, and I asked Song Yi's phantom, can I exchange the autobiography with you face to face? He said yes."
"I walked around the screen and came to the other side, but I didn't see Song Yi. I only saw two books on the table."
"I walked over, picked it up gently, looked at it carefully, and tried to find some kind of pattern."
"Soon, I discovered that the numbers on the six pieces of autobiography corresponded exactly to the contents of the two books."
"For example, 1-2-12-7 on the No. 1 golden autobiography fragment respectively corresponds to: 2 - "Record of the Refining of Yin-Yang Soul System", 12 - page number, 7 - line number, 1 - the first word."
Ren Ye smiled and looked at Fatty Tan: "I cracked the six groups of numbers on the fragments of the autobiography, and finally got six words that can be connected into a sentence."
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