When Liu Xiao woke up, she was in darkness. She couldn't tell up and down, and she didn't know whether she was standing or lying down.
Raising his hands, he found that he could see his own hands.
He finally understood that it wasn't darkness and lightlessness here, it was just nothing.
I tried my extraordinary abilities and found that my abilities also disappeared.
Where is this?
"you're awake."
A voice came from all directions. It was a man's voice, but his age was indistinguishable.
"Who are you and where are you?"
Liu Xiao clearly remembered what happened just now. If nothing else happened, he should be dead.
With strong unwillingness.
In the frustration of not being able to return to her original world, in the grief of Yuefei sacrificing herself to save herself, and in the unwillingness to avenge her even though she tried her best, she left the world.
"Underworld."
"Underworld? Am I really dead?"
Liu Xiao paused. Now that he's here, it shouldn't be possible to go back, right?
All of his hopes were ultimately in vain.
As the depression and sadness spread in his heart, the surroundings gradually changed, and what he saw was actually a picture.
There are parents who found themselves lying in the hospital. After four months of coma, they finally woke up. They cried with joy...
You Yuefei, she blocked a fatal blow for herself. Although she was seriously injured, she did not die. She fulfilled her promise to marry her, and Si Dian personally hosted the wedding...
And Su Gu, she and Hui Heng also got married...
Pictures kept flickering, all of which were my past regrets, modified into perfect looks.
Looking at the faces of his parents crying with joy, he gradually became addicted to it, and unconsciously raised his hand, getting closer and closer.
Suddenly the picture disappeared, as if it was crushed and discarded by a pair of hands.
Liu Xiao's face was full of anger: "What are you doing!"
"Let me tell you two short stories."
The so-called story is usually the answer.
Liu Xiao nodded.
A slightly aged voice spoke eloquently.
"A long, long time ago, there was a land of nothingness. Nothingness is not a place, nor does it exist. I think you should understand."
Liu Xiao seemed to understand but not quite.
"There is no concept of time or distance in nothingness. Eternity there is just a moment. At a certain moment, an existence is born out of non-existence, but at the same time, another opposite existence is born. From then on, time has meaning.
.
"These two existences grew up like people, but they chose two completely different routes. One of them turned into a world, and the other turned into... a person."
people?
Liu Xiao was stunned. When the world was born, a certain existence was born at the same time as the world. Is such an existence equivalent to the god of this world?
But what the other party said later made Liu Xiao understand that his guess was not entirely correct.
"There are countless such worlds, so-called thousands of worlds, but there are very few people who appear in pairs.
"Infinite years have passed, and the world has evolved in different directions, but one thing is the same, that is, with the existence of living beings, the world can evolve to a higher level.
"The being who was born at the same time as the world also discovered this. He has no aura of living creatures, no nourishment from all things, and no evolution of the vast stars. He has always stayed at the moment of birth.
"In the end, He became him, the nourishment of the world, a vassal.
"There is not only one such existence. After one of them lost himself and became a vassal, in order to avoid repeating the same mistake, he thought of a method. The method was very simple, using himself as the world and repeating the journey of evolution.
"In order to complete the evolution quickly, they modified the speed of time change and the size of the world."
This is normal. Small worlds pass time quickly and can speed up the evolution process.
The voice continued: "Two symbiotic but opposite existences cannot coexist harmoniously. The first one has been discovered, which means that other existences will be discovered sooner or later.
"They have only two paths. One is to evolve quickly and devour their opposites. The other is to be discovered before they grow up and become vassals."
Two roads, the difference between life and death.
After finishing speaking, Liu Xiao waited for a long time without any follow-up. He understood that the other party had finished speaking, but he still didn't quite understand, so he asked
"So, you are one of them?"
"No, you are."
Liu Xiao laughed out loud: "You are mistaken, I am not."
"You were not in the past, but you are now. Not only you are, but everyone in that world is. You are the beginning and the end, you are the individual and everything, you are the history and the future."
His smile froze, he understood.
I used to be Liu Xiao, an ordinary person in the original world.
Now I am a person with no life experience, a citizen of Shishen Kingdom, and an inspector of Jinluo City.
That world was created by a certain being and is in the process of evolution?
But why, why did you come here?
Liu Xiao asked loudly, asking if the other party arranged all this.
"Don't you ask me who I am?"
"Since you are not Him in evolution, then you are in the opposite world." Liu Xiao had an idea and immediately replied.
"Hehehe, yes, I am the opposite, the master of the world that is about to be swallowed up. If I have the ability to arrange everything, why don't I just eliminate the threat and insist on dragging you over?"
"Didn't you do it?"
"It's not me. You need to think about how you got here."
"Is it the painting I restored?"
When there was no reply from the other party, Liu Xiao immediately thought that the other party might not know what he had done.
Then he said: "I read the words on the painting and came here. I have been looking for a way to go back."
"I can't give you any advice. The only thing I can be sure of is that since you can come, you can definitely go back."
Really?
Liu Xiao's eyes shone slightly as she thought of a possibility: "Is it to give up your current identity, or become that existence completely?"
"Maybe, but I don't want you to choose the first option, because that will be the end of me."
"So who exactly are you, I mean what should I call you?"
"I have many names."
As the sound sounded, the ground appeared under Liu Xiao's feet, boundless and paved with black stone slabs.
A huge figure appeared directly in front of him. His face could not be seen clearly, and his whole body was covered with dark smoke. He was sitting on an equally huge stone chair.
Although the figure is far away, it is so tall that it still feels like it is right in front of you.
"You can call me Lord Hades."
Liu Xiao's heart was shocked: "Underworld Lord? Yes, this is the underworld."
There is no underworld in the myths and legends of the Kingdom of Samurai God, and there is not even a mention of the soul, because the underworld and that world are two opposite sides.
Liu Xiao thought of those soul pets that Xiao Yu could summon to become his soul pets after death, but these soul pets had no sanity and did not know who they were.
From another perspective, they are no longer the same people they were before death, which is different from the myths and stories I know.
Liu Xiao fell into silence for a while. This was his first story and the amount of information was a bit large. He needed some time to sort it out.
The underworld was born in nothingness. With the emergence of thousands of worlds, the underworld gradually took on the nature of the underworld and accommodated the dead in all worlds.
But there is also a crisis in the underworld. The crisis comes from a certain opposite existence at the beginning of its birth. In order to prevent itself from becoming a vassal of the underworld, it turned into a world and is now in the process of evolution.
Precisely because it is opposite to the underworld, there is no reincarnation in that world, and people disappear forever after death, and there is no soul.
After sorting it out, he thought of Yue Fei, his heart felt sad, and the surrounding scenes began to reappear.
Liu Xiao frowned and asked, "What's going on?"
"This is the second story, and it is also related to why you left your original world. I hope it will help you return to your original world."
Liu Xiao cheered up.
"long, long ago……"
This is the beginning again.
"...There is a child about your age. No one knows where he comes from, but he just appeared and discovered the crisis in the underworld.
"He came here forcefully without permission and came in front of me, claiming that he could solve the crisis in the underworld, and I only had to pay a small price.
"At first, I just thought he was talking nonsense and didn't take it to heart, but after talking, I found that there was something special about this child.
"He found all the worlds with opposites, gave each world a name, and used a word to describe each of these worlds."
Found everything? This person can come and go freely in all worlds?
Liu Xiao's rapid breathing does this mean that as long as I see him, he can take me back?
"He told me that he called these opposite worlds poles. There are eight poles in total, and my underworld is just one of them."
Wait, this statement seems a bit familiar.
"The extremes of heaven and earth are called eight directions?"
Ming Jun, who was sitting high, suddenly stood up from the back of his chair, leaned over and looked over: "Where do you mean this?"
"That painting."
Ming Jun suddenly burst into laughter. This laughter spread all around, causing the whole world to start shaking.
Countless pictures emerged from the boundless nothingness all around, and each one was a tragedy or comedy in the human world.
There are similar worlds that Liu Xiao is familiar with, as well as various existences that are difficult to identify, and even various creatures that cannot be seen as humanoid.
This is a world of thousands.
"He actually wrote these contents on it. Does the painting call the underworld 'luxury hope'?"
"I don't know, but it did mention extravagant hopes, fantasy, reality, etc."
Lord Ming murmured: "Extreme Hope... He never calls me Lord Ming, he always calls me Lord of Extravagant Hope. The underworld is the grave of the dead and the end of everything. All the dead who are nostalgic for the underworld are trapped in their own fantasy world."
It's hard to extricate yourself from it.
"Over and over again, I am unwilling to wake up and make up for my wrong choices in the illusory world, revising the established facts in vain.
"So he calls this place a luxury.
"I think you should understand why I prevented you from entering."
If Hades hadn't stopped him, Liu Xiao would have fallen into a false fantasy world from the beginning and never been able to wake up.
After another long time, Ming Jun stopped talking. Liu Xiao knew that the second story had been told, but he still didn't understand.
"What did he ask you to do, and at what cost?"
"He told me that at some point in the future, I would meet someone with an antagonistic aura, and asked me to tell him a story and promise him one thing. He said that as long as I could accomplish these two things, the future crisis would be
It’s solvable.”
Is this really a child my age?
For a god-like existence like Ming Jun, he can indeed call himself a child due to his age, but can the person who let me come into this world without my permission really be called a child?
Maybe except for children, adults can't do this kind of thing.
Ming Jun slowly leaned back, and the surrounding scenes disappeared, returning to darkness. His voice came: "So what do you want me to do?"
What to do... It is impossible to send me back to my original world, and it is also impossible to let that "child" come to see me. Everything about that world should be impossible to achieve.
After all, if the underworld could interfere with that world, he wouldn't have to worry about the crisis in the underworld.
Then there is only one request that can be made, the only one.