Genshin, but the real world

183 Chapter 182 - Guess
Ying was a little impatient.

This is not for Dynesreb, but for all Riddlers.

It seems that most people know something, but she, the most critical task, will always be like a fool, knowing nothing.

The point is, when you agree to complete the commission, you will tell Ying something.

Wendy told Ying to go to Liyue, and Zhongli told Ying to go to Dao's Wife, but Dao's God of Thunder... had a fight and got nothing.

After climbing out of Yuanxia Palace, Ying vowed to reject the entrustment of these gods.

All they can give is power, status or wealth, but this is the last thing Ying needs.

What she wants, these gods have not told her.

A sample of two or three gods is enough.

The gods of Teyvat may know something, but they never tell themselves.

Therefore, unless the next god encounters calamity, and the people under his rule live in great misery, he refuses to approach the camp of gods.

But... there shouldn't be such a god, right?

Although the current three gods of Tivat are a bit out of tune, Ying still recognizes the power of each god and the rule of their own country.

Even if it was Dao's wife, it was General Lei Dian's own choice, and the people also accepted it.

Although the eye-hunting order and the order to lock the country are a bit bizarre, it is not that Ying has not seen more special cognitions during the long journey.

The philosophy and will of some civilizations, unless you really plan to be their king and change from top to bottom, otherwise it is best to respect their civilization and destiny.

Perhaps the gods have their own difficulties, but Ying feels that she should not be so empathetic, and always forgive others for their difficulties.

She is just an adventurer, not the father of these gods, so there is no need to understand their embarrassment.

Her adventure is also based on life and death.

Why trade if you don't get a reciprocal benefit from the trade?

Dyensreb didn't know what Ying was thinking, but he could tell that Ying had a bad temper.

different from last time.

The last time she could bear her temper, she behaved gentle and well-behaved.

This time it was like a bomb that went off at one point.

So he had to trade secrets to calm down this bad-tempered Ying.

"The [Black Snakes] are the palace guards of Kanria." Dyne looked at the high place, "During the disaster in Kanria, most of the [Black Snakes] avoided the common Kanria The calamity of the demihumans has received another punishment."

Ordinary people have become Qiuqiu people, and the Black Snakes have become the current Black Snake Knights and dark shells.

"The one who can still retain part of his will is the Black Snake Knight."

"And there is still a part that has completely lost consciousness. It should be the empty shell you mentioned just now."

This is not a past that cannot be mentioned, and Dyne does not hide it.

"The purpose of the Palace Guard was to protect Kerriya, but in the midst of that catastrophe, they failed to protect anything."

Not to mention the people and the royal family, they can't even protect themselves, let alone protect others.

"At the last moment of the disaster, I, who bear the title of [Sword of Last Light], once issued a final order to all the palace guards - to protect the people of Carriya."

There was a hint of memory in Dyne's eyes.

"You mean, after becoming Black Snake Knights, they subconsciously still have the belief to protect the Kerrians?"

It sounds quite touching.

Ying's expression remained the same, nothing changed.

A person's standpoint determines the impact of an event on them. I don't like Wendy and Zhongli's gossip, but I also recognize the conduct of these two gods.

Then, in the disaster 500 years ago, Kanria, who was hostile to the gods, would naturally be judged as an enemy subconsciously by her.

At times like these, anyone can only take one stand.

If she is inclined to Kanria, then the curse, the protection of the Black Snake Knight... are all things that can impress her.

But she is partial to the Seven Gods, so Ying can only regard this sacrifice as the price of making mistakes.

It's miserable, isn't it?
But when people do something wrong, they have to pay the price.

If a person does something wrong, he may pay with his life.

If a country is on the wrong path, then the country will be destroyed.

As for whether everyone in this country is innocent, and whether they should pay this price because of the choice of the Kanria royal family-this is what the gods need to weigh, and the Kanria people need to refute.

Only she, a traveler who wasn't even a Teyvat, needed comment.

She is a traveler between worlds, not some goddess who protects the world.

Their deaths have nothing to do with Ying.

"In theory, it should be an answer."

Dyne wasn't sure about that statement.

His eyes stayed on the high place, where there was a black snake knight holding a big sword. From under the helmet, he seemed to be able to detect some kind of prying eyes.

Are you still sane?
Dyne shook his head subconsciously.

impossible.

No one could survive the 500-year curse, and even he had borrowed something special.

"What, old friend?"

Ying took the initiative to step forward, "They are quite miserable as you said, how about this, I will help them regain their lives."

There are two ways to get a new life, reopening or expelling the curse.

Ying couldn't do the latter, but after estimating her strength, she didn't think the former was too difficult.

The Black Snake Knight's gaze stayed on Dyne, and then he turned and left.

"He seems a little different." Ying thought thoughtfully, "Knows how to retreat, it seems that he still retains a certain degree of reason."

"No one can survive 500 years of torture until now." Dyne shook his head.

"This is even more interesting." Ying subconsciously grasped the Wufeng sword, "So, the new technology of the church seems to be very useful."

This is the only answer.

Or Dynesreb was wrong.

Otherwise, this particular example can only be related to this sudden appearance of the dispersing force field.

The progress of the church is so fast?

Dyne was a little confused.

But this is the only answer.

"Go ahead," Ying rubbed Paimon's cheek, "No matter how you say it, this kind of city must be special."

"Maybe, we will be able to see the truth when we go up."

Gradually climbed to the top along the mountain wall, approaching the upside-down city rooted above.

Then as expected, it was rejected by the purple-black mist.

Ying looked at the Frost Arrow that was still below, and was quite ready to move.

"It seems that there is no way to move forward," Paimon looked at Ying subconsciously, "However, according to our experience, there must be mechanisms around that can solve all troubles."

"Ying, it's time to use your strengths."

"That's not a specialty." Ying put her hand between her eyebrows, "Let's try another way."

Of course she is a master of mechanism hacking... If there is such a school.

This is not all talent, it should be more of a coincidence.

But today, the master intends to use another way to crack it.

reject?

You say you can refuse if you refuse?

Then my Wufeng sword and my elemental power are just decorations?

Inspired by Gan Yu, she suddenly discovered a way to crack it that might not be easier, but definitely happier.

But after thinking about it, she still hesitated.

"Forget it, if the brute force cracking destroys the entire Hanging City, it will be a loss."

This idea is exciting, but the possible price is also a bit overwhelming.

"There is no need to look for any mechanism," Dyne stretched out his hand, and the blue fireworks tumbling in the middle of his palm, "I know the breath of the abyss, Kanria's technology, too well."

The black mist receded, revealing the passage to advance.

"This relic is not in the architectural style of Kanria, but rather a creation of an older civilization."

He looked at the city that was gradually revealing its true face.

It really doesn't look like this... But if you look at it upside down, you can find similarities.

"An ancient civilization?"

Ying whispered softly.

Theoretically, Kanria and the Seven Kingdoms should be civilizations of the same era.

It's just that the seven kingdoms of the world chose the gods, or the gods chose the seven kingdoms of the world.

And Karriya is the so-called godless country.

In a way, special and different often means that it runs counter to the mainstream.

This often does not mean that there is any advantage, and there must be disadvantages.

During the period of the Demon God War, there was no protection of the Demon God, and the development continued until the end of the Demon God War.

Or Osiel.

With the destructive power shown by Oser, it is obviously not difficult to completely destroy a country.

In the end, Oser was just a demon god sealed by Morax. He might be considered a powerful demon god among the demon gods, but he was definitely not the strongest one.

The War of Demon Gods is a melee between a group of high-level life forms whose destructive power has no upper limit, and the beginning is to destroy mountains and mountains.

It is impossible for a country to remain lucky in this kind of war that lasts for hundreds or even thousands of years. In theory, as long as a demon god sees Kanria, their history ends here.

Demon gods love people, but in the battle of demon gods, destruction and being destroyed are not uncommon things.

I can love the world, but I must first love this group of people who are attached to me.

When Orobus launched the Eastern Expedition, he did not take the inevitable sacrifices in the war into consideration.

Didn't he know that he would definitely lose?
As the initiator of the first-hand war, he was indeed defeated in the end, and he knew what kind of liquidation the people of Haizhi Island should face.

But He still chose this way.

So in that era, Kanria had to master the technology to fight against the demon god.

It is impossible for a country and its people to completely place their own survival in the judgment of the Demon God.

What they need is the power to survive even if the demon god doesn't like you.

Rather than doing this to show our innocence?The Demon God will sympathize with us and let us go, right?

No one will put survival above the mercy of the enemy.

But this is the crux of the matter.

It is also a civilization developed on the basis of human beings. How can it be possible that when people in other countries are still praying for the blessing of the gods, you are going to rub the demon god on the ground?
There are real differences in talent between human beings, which Jiang Qing admits.

But between countries, between human beings and other living beings, Kanria people do not have such an absolute advantage.

Unless they are not human beings at all, it is impossible to lead the seven countries by so much when they start at almost the same time.

They hung up.

This is why Kanria fell.

They came into contact with the secrets that the seven kingdoms of the world would not touch, and gained knowledge and power from them.

This made Kanriya powerful enough to shelter itself from the Daedric Wars and to bury the ruler 500 years ago.

This power comes from the taboos they touch.

The contact with the taboo also led to the demise of Kanria.

And the Hanging City right now is a civilization before Kanria.

Ying became somewhat interested.

There are only two civilizations recorded in the past of the sun and the moon, the seven dragons and the dragon lizard, the original one and his favorite people.

But when the demon god appeared, this was not described by the sun and the moon.

Obviously, after the expulsion of the Seven Great Dragons, the change and evolution of civilization still took place on this continent.

And the ruins now seem to be the remnants of a civilization.

The truth lies deeper in the city.

Thinking would not waste too much time, they continued to move forward, and then encountered the Black Snake Knight standing in front of them.

"Look, it's from Qiuqiu!"

Having guessed, Paimon noticed the Qiuqiu people who were blocked behind the Black Snake Knight in advance.

Those Qiuqiu people leaning on the rock wall or simply lying on the ground looked dejected, exactly the same as Dyne's description.

"It's really an escort to protect civilians."

Ying put down the Wufeng sword in her hand.

There is no need.

After fighting these, there are some instinctive puppets left, and it doesn't matter whether you use weapons or not.

But after restraining his weapons, the Black Snake Knight's state stabilized a lot.

Actually, they are really knights who protect the people... If you follow Dyne's words, these people are still because of their obsession 500 years ago.

It should also be respected.

"[Halfdan]."

After the speculation was established, the identity of the person who led all the black snake knights was naturally revealed.

Dyensreb looked at him.

The other party's voice was muffled, but the black snake knights seemed to be able to understand, and stepped aside.

"What did he say?"

Ying hasn't encountered this kind of problem for a long time.

Teyvat people use one language and one script.

But this Halfdan is obviously not using Teyvat language.

Considering that the Chuchu people all have a set of Chuchu language, then the language of these people should be... Kanria?
"Retreat." Dyne glanced at her, "Can't you see it?"

"I mean, are you able to communicate with him?"

"Reluctantly." Dyne said succinctly, "Let's go, the road he gave way should be the place we are looking for."

Ying took a little look at Qiuqiu who was lying on the ground, with a strange look on his face.

After traveling to Tivat for so long, the number of Qiuqiu people she killed is definitely not a small number.

Now that she suddenly learned such a shocking fact, she wouldn't feel guilty about it, but there was still some change in her mood.

Paimon is different.

She really sympathized with these dying Quiet Qiuqiu people, and regarded them as a kind of life that was going to end, rather than those monsters on the ground that had to be exterminated.

"gone."

Ying rubbed Paimon's cheek.

In a way, Paimon is too easily influenced by something. She always sympathizes with the suffering of others, neither judging whether other people's words are true, nor considering whether she can do it herself.

Did he take good care of her?

Ying thought.

No matter how you say it, kindness is never wrong.

Anyway, she could bear the price Paimon had to pay for her kindness.

It doesn't matter.

Carefully bypassing these quiet Qiuqiu people along the way, finally arrived at the center at the top of the city.

"The pool water hanging upside down..." Dyne murmured softly, "This is the place we are looking for."

"In this place, the curse has been appeased to the greatest extent."

That's the only navigation.

This upside-down city is actually not small. The reason why it came here so quickly was not the guidance of the Black Snake Knight, but Dyne's perception of the curse.

"Pool water can weaken the curse, can it be removed?"

If the curse is removed, the Chuchus will turn back into Kerrians again, right?

Paimon asked.

"Impossible." Dyne shook his head, "You don't have enough respect for the power of the gods."

"It is the imprint of the causal level of this world, and its personality is even higher than that of human beings themselves."

"Is it a living thing?"

Fluorescent eyes flicker.

Curses can also have vitality, which can be regarded as a kind of life.

"You can understand it this way." Dyne did not deny it, "I have been struggling with pain and sobriety for 500 years, and I can feel that [curse] is becoming a part of me, and even gradually [replaces] me."

parasitic?

"You said it was replacing you...does it mean that as long as you continue to live, sooner or later, another you will be born inside your body?"

"It will inherit everything from Dyensreb, memory, emotion, body...but it is not Dyinsreb, but another kind of life."

"You may be special, but the curse is cast on every Kerrian equally, that is, others face this [replacement] too."

Ying couldn't continue to guess.

This guess was a bit nasty, but she was sure that Dynesreb must have had such a guess.

"The curse is a judgment mechanism. It detects whether a person has a certain qualification, and then grows on those who have talent, and finally is born from within him to replace him."

"You mean to say that?"

Dyne looked at Ying.

Among the Pokemon, there is an elf named Paras, which is a life composed of a worm body and a mushroom on its back, and the worm body occupies the dominant consciousness.

However, when it evolved into Patras, the worm died, and the mushroom behind it became the dominant consciousness.

curse······
Ying didn't know Pallas, but she could perceive the so-called "replacement".

In his own body, there is another life growing.

It peeks into the world with your eyes, listens to the world with your ears, and after a long time, it grows up.

So the eggshell is broken, and your consciousness is crushed and becomes its food.

It owns your emotions, your relationships, your knowledge and beliefs.

"Maybe someone has been swallowed by the curse." Ying murmured softly, "It continues to walk on this land as a certain person. You thought he was still him, but he is actually another person."

Having the same memory doesn't mean they will be the same person.

"You're scared," Dyne said.

"A little."

Ying stretched out her hand to hold her chest, "But I don't worry so much when I think that even you can carry it for so long."

Dyne was silent.

They all know where the so-called fear comes from.

"In terms of time, 500 years ago, before I woke up, my brother had already traveled to the mainland once."

So those gods should know something.

"The exact time is unknown, but at this node 500 years ago, he woke me up and wanted to take me away."

"And during this period, Kanria has been destroyed."

"When we were leaving, we encountered the enemy. In the end, I was sealed and my brother was taken away."

Ying looked at Dyne with a solemn expression.

"I have been avoiding a question... When I wake up again, it is already today."

Two months after waking up, she met Paimon and officially started traveling.

So Ying always knew that she was special.

It is not difficult for someone with this kind of means to kill her and Sora.

But in the end she was traveling, and Sora was the leader of the order.

If you say that the maintainer has no plan, Ying doesn't believe it.

"But this time is too long... 500 years is enough to do anything."

"You shouldn't talk about this kind of thing with me." Dyensreb hugged his hands, "Always thinking about things that you can't do anything about, it's not good for your mood or anything else."

"Maybe."

Ying let out a long breath.

"fluorescent······"

Paimon had a worried look on his face.

She moved closer and pressed her cheek against Ying's.

Dyensreb had a thoughtful expression on his face.

The two fell silent together.

But there was one more person who didn't stop.

The sound of shaking the stone wall suddenly came to mind, [Halfdan] stared at the two people who stopped suddenly.

"Do you have something to say to me, Halfdan."

Dyne looked towards the open room.

【Replacement】Similar to thinking about the brain in a vat, it's something that can't and doesn't need to be thought about carefully.

Like... Could someone have been replaced and it still walks the earth in some capacity.

Or, Dynesreb in front of him thinks he is still Dyensreb, but in fact he is already another living body.

This is the cognition of the human self, there is no fixed answer, and it is easy for people to fall into it.

Dai Yin put it down easily, and Ying didn't stay all the time.

Thinking is for direction and then moving on.

If the choice after thinking is to just stay and give up any action, they will not appear here.

Halfdan didn't say a word, but walked into the room first.

"Let's go." Dyne said, "Before solving a problem, we must first solve a problem that can be solved."

He walked quickly towards the room, his expression as usual.

(End of this chapter)