As soon as Gu Qing Shan grabbed the black crab, he immediately returned to the other side of the hole.
“Gongzi, it was so dangerous just now”
Shannu’s stunned and fearful voice resounded in his mind.
As soon as Gu Qing Shan returned, she also hid into his Thought Sea.
“Hm, I was just literally a hair’s breadth away from being unable to return”
Gu Qing Shan sighed in relief, then placed the crab on the ground.
Since the world overlap has ended, the crimson shadow wouldn’t be able to pursue them for now.
Following this, I’ll need to look for a chance to ask this crab what kind of message it brought.
But first, I’ll need to explain this crab’s background to everyone.
Gu Qing Shan suddenly noticed something off.
It was completely silent around him.
Everyone continued to remain still, nervously waiting——– as if they didn’t notice Gu Qing Shan.
Gu Qing Shan asked Crow and the duck plushie: “Hey, what happened to you?”
Crow was wielding her rapier with a calm and collected expression, seemingly ready to reinforce him when necessary.
But she didn’t react at all, not to Gu Qing Shan’s question nor his appearance.
What’s going on?
Gu Qing Shan tilted his head to look.
The hole remained open in the void of space and still hadn’t closed back up.
——-has the world overlap not ended?
This is troublesome, that crimson shadow would definitely catch up.
While Gu Qing Shan was pondering, a voice called out from his feet:
「 Don’t worry, this is only an illusion. The world overlap had already ended, that guy won’t be able to pursue us 」
The giant black crab told him.
Gu Qing Shan looked at the crab, then at everyone else, asking: “Why can’t any of them notice me?”
「 Because I brought you a message, no one can know about this 」the giant crab replied as if that was obvious.
Gu Qing Shan was speechless.
This was essentially creating a magical barrier out of thin air, one that couldn’t only hide me, allowing me to observe everything outside, but also disallow any living beings outside from seeing me.
Crow, the Viscount envoy, even the knight captain Moore are all very powerful people.
Even they were fooled by this technique.
—–that’s a bit terrifying.
“So a ‘me’ from a parallel world had already managed to grasp such a powerful technique, huh?”
Gu Qing Shan spoke emotionally.
「 What are you talking about? A parallel world ‘you’? 」the giant crab asked.
Gu Qing Shan looked down at the crab, asking: “Didn’t you say you wanted to bring me a message? Other than ‘me’ from a parallel world, who else would send me a message this way?”
The giant crab explained: 「 Parallel worlds… are actually just a masquerade」
Gu Qing Shan scowled, quickly pursuing the question: “A masquerade?”
The giant crab swung its pincers in irritation, replying: 「 Don’t ask. I’m just a technique, I don’t actually know a lot, if I talk too much, there’s a chance I might mislead you 」
Gu Qing Shan’s expression remained still.
“Shannu, is it a technique?” he silently asked.
The Six Paths Great Mountain sword was capable of cutting all Laws, so it was very sensitive to spells and techniques.
After a moment of silence, Shannu replied:
“…Gongzi, it’s a living creature, but I can faintly sense that it isn’t a natural life form”
Gu Qing Shan was once again shocked by this giant black crab.
Not only did this crab use an isolation technique, but it itself is also a life form created by a technique.
What kind of people would be able to achieve such a feat?
And that message as well.
With that in mind, Gu Qing Shan said: “Now that you’re safe, please give me the message”
The giant black crab crawled in front of Gu Qing Shan, then said: 「 See the spikes on top of my shell? Put your hand on the longest one 」
As a life form created by a technique, and something that managed to hold off that crimson shadow for so long, it had been weakened to the point that Gu Qing Shan no longer had anything to fear.
He reached his hand forward like instructed.
As soon as his hand touched the spike, a drop of blood was taken.
The blood flowed into the spike, quickly disappearing.
The black crab said: 「 Hm… quite correct, you have the War God authority, it must be you 」
「 Then, the technique shall be activated now 」
Saying so, the black crab scattered into a mass of black water that quickly filled every corner of space.
Darkness. Silence.
Suddenly, a burst of light.
This light came flying from extremely far away, erasing all the darkness around him.
Around Gu Qing Shan, countless images quickly appeared.
——they detailed each of his battles so far, his conversations, his days, his expressions, his decisions.
Time was flowing backwards while displaying every single day he had lived through so far.
Reversing.
And continued to reverse.
This life.
The past life.
Every scene quickly passed by Gu Qing Shan’s eyes.
Up until a certain scene—–
The Freedom Confederate.
The slums.
The 22nd floor of a certain building, the third room from the left.
A small figure was standing in front of the window to observe this world.
Looking at the figure, Gu Qing Shan’s pupils contracted.
He stepped forward, walked up to the figure, then looked carefully.
——this is me.
My child self.
The innocent and immature face was full of pain and loss, but he was wiping his tears away, trying not to cry.
Gu Qing Shan’s gaze scanned across the room, focusing on the electronic calendar on the wall.
“This period…” he muttered.
As I thought.
My parents were caught in a car accident and died 7 days prior.
On this day, I stood in front of the window, looking down at the city of iron, wondering how to survive on my own.
Why?
Why did I return to this moment?
At this point, the War God UI seemed to have realized something and abruptly lit up.
Lines of glowing text quickly followed:
[Receiving unique scenario, identification in progress]
[Identification complete]
[Resonating with the scenario to activate the spell hidden here]
[3]
[2]
[1]
[Activate!]
A figure suddenly appeared in this small and narrow room.
This figure was so faint, so transparent that it basically didn’t exist, no physique or facial expression could be inferred from it.
The figure looked at Gu Qing Shan and began talking:
[The crab is an undying Causality technique, hidden in the space vortex. Only when it sensed that you’ve grown to a certain degree would it awaken and seek you out]
[—-If you were not able to grow to this degree, there is nothing wrong with living the rest of your life as is]
[But if you’ve grown this much, and were found by the crab, then managed to pass its test, you will receive this message]
[While it’s a message, I truly wanted to talk to you a bit longer, but there simply isn’t time…]
The figure waved its hand.
Below the War God UI, among the row of unlit icons, three of them suddenly began glowing.
One of them was very familiar to Gu Qing Shan, the golden saber that was silently growing longer.
The other two icons were accordingly an eye and a square.
Gu Qing Shan had never seen these two icons before.
The figure seemed to be able to see the War God UI, pointing to these three icons and said: [The meaning of my existence is to help you activate one of these three icons]
[But remember, once you’ve chosen one of them, the other two will forever disappear]
“Why?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
[Because they contain different Causality and logic, they cannot exist together] the figure replied.
[The first—–]
The figure pointed to the eye icon and explained: [This is the Eye of Truth. By selecting it, you will be able to freely foresee the future of the majority of living beings inside the Reality Gate as you wish]
Saying so, then figure pointed to the square icon, explaining: [This is Dimensional Journey, it will allow you to immediately escape your current world and freely enter any other worlds you wish within the Reality Gate]
Gu Qing Shan nodded: “The truth, and immortality”
[Indeed] the figure nodded [Having the Eye of Truth means you are able to predict many possible truths of the future, allowing you to easily deal with many of your future issues. Having the Dimensional Journey means that you would be capable of escaping from any situation, no one would be able to kill you—– what do you think about these two abilities?]
“Powerful, far surpassing the power of Deities” Gu Qing Shan replied.
[Indeed, and then we have the final option]
The figure paused a bit before pointing to the third option, the golden saber icon:
[This option does not have any use, nor will it be able to help you in any way, it is merely a compass]
“What is it pointing towards?” Gu Qing Shan asked.
[An answer] the figure replied.
“What sort of answer?”
[Who you are]
Gu Qing Shan was shocked.
