Chapter 689 - Dont you want to go back? (1/2)

“It’s not possible…”

Chu Yunsheng’s body trembled slightly and fell into a huge shock. His eyelids twitched violently in the fierce questioning of the old nan No. 1, like a sleeper who was about to wake up at any time. He suddenly realized that he had never really considered this question before.

Others may not know the characteristics of black gas, but he knew it well. As long as the emitted black gas did not completely dissipate, it would definitely return to his consciousness. This had been proved by countless battles.

Although he didn’t know what it was, it had always been closely related to consciousness. Moreover, consciousness could not have a clone; it only existed in the zero-dimensional s.p.a.ce, and it should be unique at any time. When he transformed between a human and an insect, he was either in a human body or an insect’s body. It was impossible for both to exist at the same time.

But then why did it want to return the spear? Why did he think it was too late at that time? Why did he feel that the sound the arrow made was mournful?

He seemed to see the last moment before his world became completely dark again.

In an instant, Chu Yunsheng’s soul trembled, and his face became extremely pale.

‘Am I really dead? The dying consciousness really attached to the spear!? There is no other explanation besides this? But why did it become like this!?’

‘No! It’s not possible!’

‘I’m still alive, and my memory is still continuing, how can I imagine such a huge and detailed world?’

‘This is impossible. No dream can be this real and clear. No.1 must be lying to me. Pre-Cambrian Beings are the creators of the Pseudo-Monolith. No.1 must have some way to manipulate the Pseudo-Monolith.’

‘It must be so. I shouldn’t believe it. I have reasons to refute it and ignore it. No matter what it says, I shouldn’t believe it!’

‘I need to believe in myself!’

Chu Yunsheng kept building confidence in himself, and then frantically looked for the perfect answer to solve the question of the black gas returning to the spear, but he couldn’t find anything for a while. In a hurry, he instinctively said: “You are lying to me! This is the world inside the Pseudo-Monolith, everything is the simulation of the Pseudo-Monolith, including you!”

Old man No.1 smiled bitterly, then sat down disappointedly and said, “Are you still unwilling to believe it? You are so stubborn! You are still persisting in something that is not real! Perhaps I really cannot understand human feelings.

The whole thing about the Pseudo-Monolith is just your own imagination. I have never said anything about Pseudo-Monolith to you before. If you calm down and think about the conversation we had in the Arctic base. I’ve only told you the discovery of a Monolith on earth, and the explosive development of technology of the Pre-Cambrian civilization. Even until the discovery of the secret of immortality, it was only merely a few thousands of years. Then disasters and wars broke out. So you tell me, how did they have time to establish what you call Pseudo-Monolith?

Furthermore, Monolith has always been on earth. You have seen it with your own eyes. It disappeared after the great darkness. In the world you imagined, the reason why the fifth heaven’s messenger Tan Ning would tell you something about the construction of the Pseudo-Monolith was because of that incident. Because this is exactly a reflection of your subconscious mind in the world of your imagination to the real event that the black Monolith flew away.”

Chu Yunsheng insisted on not believing it, and said coldly, “Nonsense! Why do I need to create a Pseudo-Monolith? Besides, it is baseless. How did I even make it?”

Old man No. 1 looked at Chu Yunsheng and said quietly, “Is it really? It is just a desperate attempt by you to pin all your hopes on the most mysterious things in extreme despair.

How big of an impact that the black Monolith in Jin Ling City had on your mind? I think you know better than me! So you want to deny it? Although I don’t know exactly what you saw in the black Monolith, I knew you saw something after touching it. It is a shame that it is your closed inner world, so I cannot enter it. But I am still able to figure out something through this imaginary world of yours because only it is open to me.

That black Monolith must have given you a feeling of traveling through time and s.p.a.ce or some similar experiences. In short, it gave you the idea to create a Pseudo-Monolith. And then through Tan Ning’s mouth, you give it the ability that you wanted it to have – Simulating the whole world from your memory! And relive it again!

In order to be realistic, you even make Tan Ning tell you that you might get lost inside it or commit suicide!”

Chu Yunsheng’s brows twitched and snorted coldly: “In your eyes, everything is just my imagination! Is there any evidence of that!?”

Old man No. 1 sighed and shook his head, looking at Chu Yunsheng pityingly, and said, “All the evidence, you have clearly seen them already but chosen to ignore them. What you need now is not evidence, but reason.

Have you ever thought that even if you don’t want to think about why the arrow of destruction returned to the spear instead of your body, have you ever thought about why the information about Pseudo-Monolith appeared so suddenly? What was even more coincidental was that the Pseudo-Monolith was still working, and it just happened that it only had one slot? And Tan Ning knew how to operate it?… Don’t you think that there are too many coincidences there? How can there be so many coincidences? And it just happened that it was everything that you wanted to happen?”

Chu Yunsheng’s heart was beating abruptly. He tried to convince himself not to believe in No.1, but it seemed that another voice kept asking himself, “Yes, why were there so many coincidences? Have you ever had such luck before?”

Was the Pseudo-Monolith really just an imagination? Was it really just an idea inspired by the magical ability of the time travel experienced that he had inside the real black monolith?

However, there was one thing that old man No.1 said was wrong. Chu Yunsheng was actually a rational person. He would not ignore the fact. When he realized that he really couldn’t find any reason to explain why the black gas returned to the spear, he knew that it was impossible for him to enter the Pseudo-Monolith. Think about it, could he even talk to Tan Ning when he was in the spear, and how could he enter the Pseudo-Monolith if he was a spear?

At this moment, Chu Yunsheng’s belief was shaken. His gaze flew past the holographic image of Old Man No. 1 in confusion. He looked out the window, full of sadness.

After a while, he said very flatly: “You say you can see everything that I imagined? Is there anything you can’t see? Do you know what I did in Nanjing and what I saw? Do you know the world of that blue-haired girl?”

When he said these things, although he was asking the question, he didn’t seem to be asking old man No.1, but himself.

Old man No. 1 smiled with relief and said with mixed emotions, “You finally remembered it, and finally realized that it is the opportunity given by your ‘consciousness of wanting to wake up’ that I can appear here and have a chance to talk to you.

I just said that no one can enter your closed inner world except yourself. I can only capture your inner subconscious’ intentions from the world you have imagined.

Fortunately, those who escaped from Nanjing with you are still alive. Perhaps your ‘consciousness of wanting to wake up’ deliberately left those clues behind. Otherwise, with the stubbornness inside your subconscious, you would have already killed them all! Never let them know your secret.

In Nanjing, those floating monsters are actually just your reaction to the “dream”. It is a metaphor for illusory and unreal dreams. Do you remember the scene of the Nuptial flight? In that cruel battlefield, how can there be such a beautiful scene? Everything is a dream that combines reality and your imagination, reflecting your infinite yearning for a normal and happy life in the age of light. But you know that it is already impossible and can only exist in fantasy, so you place such a beautiful scene in such a place full of violence and conflict.

In terms of what else you saw in Nanjing? I don’t know, but I can guess that there must be a place where only you can get in, and others will be blocked by all kinds of restrictions you can imagine. Although I don’t know what the world is like, it must be a lifeless, deadly silent and even corrupt world!”

There was a sorrowful smile at the corner of Chu Yunsheng’s mouth. He was the only one who had been to “The Inner World”, and no one knew about it. Moreover, it had eventually collapsed. Even if No. 1 asked all the surviving Nanjing refugees, he could only know about the world under the rainbow. It was impossible for him to know the existence of The Inner World, let alone knowing that it was a lifeless, deadly silent, and even corrupted world!

Did No.1 guess this? Chu Yunsheng wanted to think so, but he was not a fool and couldn’t convince himself.