Volume 13: The Son of Darkness, the Lord of the Netherworld, the Happy One Chapter 79: Growth comes after the crash
"You are..." Before Shi Luo could finish his words, his will was quickly assimilated and then disappeared.
Then Shi Luo looked at the gourd Taoist, frowning with confusion.
"I didn't expect that we would have visitors from outer space at this point in time." Shi Luo said unexpectedly.
"You really got to see my immaturity."
The new person who appeared and occupied Shi Luo's body was also Shi Luo.
It’s just Shi Luo in the future timeline.
This world is actually his backyard playground.
As the one in the timeline, no matter how he commits suicide, without an external source of power, he will be fine, he will just be a little embarrassed.
According to the normal timeline, he will "conquer" Rota later.
However, all this was just an illusion. Rota realized that something was wrong with his future vision, so he pretended to surrender and kept struggling with Shi Luo.
Afterwards, Shi Luo overturned.
The whole person was captured by the Countermeasures Department, his space-time operations were restricted, and he was locked in a jar, becoming the core component of the space-time engine. All his space-time operations became the energy source of the engine.
If he gives up and doesn't perform time and space manipulation, there will be various means to abuse him and stimulate his body to make him continue.
He was imprisoned like this for hundreds of years, and with him as the foundation, a huge explosion of social productivity was promoted, and society became unprecedentedly developed.
Unfortunately, after that, the older generation died and gradually forgot the disasters brought about by the changes in time and space.
Especially after Rota's death, his new successors had different ideas about the engine.
They want eternal life.
It was just that the whole group had imposed restrictions at the time, so that Shi Luo was imprisoned in the engine and could not move at all.
They had no way to break this constraint, so they came up with a solution.
A public trial was held that year, allowing the public to judge, and Shi Luo was imprisoned.
Now, all that is necessary is to hold another public trial.
But we certainly can't say that we let him out because we covet Shi Luo's secrets and want to use him to achieve immortality.
Therefore, they promote the white left-wing Madonna doctrine and talk about truth, goodness and beauty.
In the future society with abundant material resources, people will naturally pursue the so-called spiritual realm, so that set of arguments will really be useful.
Even if he was wrong, he had been imprisoned for hundreds of years.
Being imprisoned there and being stimulated and tortured every day is completely inhumane.
Words like "We have forgiven him on behalf of our ancestors" kept coming out one after another.
Even if there are smart people who see the problem, their voices will immediately be labeled as evil, merciless, disgusting, and mean, and their social status will plummet.
They even collectively launch cyber violence against the real opponents offline.
At this point, a public trial was held again. During the first public trial, Luo's proposal was overturned when he was detained.
People came to the periphery of the space-time engine, holding up colorful signs, welcoming Shi Luo back to the human family.
Those people in the upper class, while laughing at the stupidity of ordinary people, unlocked some restrictions within the engine, and then wanted to use this to divert Shi Luo and conduct detailed research on him.
However, he did not expect that once Shi Luo's restrictions were lifted, large-scale space-time changes began to occur, and all kinds of monsters rushed in frantically from different time and space.
The originally "developed society" seems vulnerable to such a disaster.
Shi Luo regained his freedom.
He went mad with the resentment of being imprisoned and tortured for hundreds of years.
He tortured everything madly and looked for all traces of Rota, but found that Rota seemed to have predicted the future, so he chose to burn his body directly into ashes using a time machine.
In this case, even if he controlled time at that time, he could only obtain a pseudo-individual through reorganization.
So, Shi Luo wreaked havoc for hundreds of years, and only after paying for his own humiliation and pain did he gradually return to normal and begin to rebuild his future.
It was also from then on that although Shi Luo's paranoia became more serious, his mentality at least had some more of the aura of a superior.
Completely abandon this loser image.
However, I didn't expect that visitors from other dimensions would appear during this period.
He himself is the timeline, so he naturally knows that this kind of external factors is most likely to change the timeline.
This timeline of his own growth is above the ordinary timeline, and he calls it the "absolute timeline".
Because this ensures that the timeline has a real future.
The impact brought by Gourd Taoist at this time is just to change the normal timeline.
But if it is allowed to continue, it will affect the absolute timeline.
"I don't care what your purpose is, but don't continue to affect my growth, otherwise, you will be overwhelmed by endless time." Shi Luo said to the Gourd Taoist.
"If you just spread your true self, I will give you a chance later."
"But remember, what I give you is yours, you can't take it on your own initiative..."
Before he could finish his words, he felt a pain on his left cheek. The power of the Gourd Taoist was released on Shi Luo's face without reservation.
"Did I give you face?" The words of Taoist Gourd made Shi Luo narrow his eyes, but he was not as angry as he is "now".
"I am the one giving you face, but you are shameless." Shi Luo's voice seemed to come from ancient times, carrying an unattainable weight of history.
"Pah!" There was another sound, but this time it was not the left cheek but the right cheek, and Shi Luo's hand raised on the left side of his cheek looked a little funny at this time.
"In terms of background, behind me is the path of all living beings, and behind you is the past."
"In terms of identity, I am the incarnation of the Lord of All Living Things, and you are just a pawn cultivated by Them in the past."
"Even if you are the landlord, you can only sit next to me when drinking. You are really overthinking it by setting rules for me."
Taoist Gourd's words made Shi Luo sneer twice.
At this moment, Shi Luo didn't care about these things.
He naturally knew about the existence of the past and myths, and even knew that everything about him was arranged by the other party.
I am just a meme of humans, and they guided me, arranged the best environment for me, and simulated my journey.
The purpose is to give oneself a hint of the aura of an outsider.
And then, you will grow further and become the true master of all things.
Maybe it's a chess piece, but so what? Becoming a key chess piece can determine everything outside the chessboard.
Ultimately, one must become a being that transcends everything and controls everything.
"Time is the master of everything. In the end, I will be above you." As he spoke, Shi Luo's figure gradually faded. The physical humiliation was like dust to him. After being imprisoned for hundreds of years and tortured countless times, he was no longer the same person he used to be.
This timeline needs to be greatly changed.
The only thing he cared about at the moment was what the Taoist Gourd said about the path of all living beings.
That’s right, Shi Luo already knew the existence of the real dimension at this time.
However, in his impression, he seemed to have never heard of the past or myths mentioning the real dimension of the path of all living beings.
However, his connection with the past and mythology is not that close.
In order to conceal his existence, the past and myth did not have too much power here.
Even the transmission of information needs to be hidden beneath the waves.
But now it turns out that Gourd Taoist is not just an ordinary Sun-level being, but has the existence of the Way of All Living Beings behind him, so the problem becomes much more serious.
Of course, he still couldn't connect with the past and mythology on a large scale.
After all, the one who came to the door was only an incarnation of the real dimension.
And once this place is exposed on a large scale, what may come knocking on the door may be a bunch of real dimensions.
For now, Taoist Gourd has not made a big deal out of this, and he obviously knows this.
"So his real purpose is to use this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with the past?"
"Because, there are only so many external things." Shi Luo smiled and pulled out this timeline that was contaminated by Gourd Taoist.
Then his eyes became unusually deep.
In the past, as an existence that controls the upstream of time, it itself is the most top real dimension in the multiverse.
Later, mythology served as a supplement, so the past served as the original text and mythology served as the object of deconstruction and sublimation.
What they are able to do is far beyond the expectations of many people.
For example, pushing time back to the original source, when "change" has not yet truly grown.
Shi Luo, although he is not an outsider, possesses the characteristics of an outsider because he simulates the past and myths.
However, this kind of thing is taboo.
"Use the other party's mentality to play a game."
"Bury it completely in the river mud of timeline."
Shi Luo's disappearance did not attract much attention, or rather, this was what they had expected.
When he was young, Shi Luo thought everyone was too stupid.
He thought he was pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, but he didn't expect that as a dragon pretending to be a pig, he would only leave many loopholes.
Shi Luo left many traces in history, which when put together, have become clues to identify him.
If this were not the case, even if Rota sacrificed himself and lurked beside Shi Luo, he would have passed back a lot of valuable information.
They may not be able to imprison Shi Luo in the end.
Even Rota now is not particularly clear about this point.
In short, Shi Luo's downfall was actually inevitable. He was too cautious, so he didn't have much control over the cards in his hand except for the ones that overturned the table.
Eventually, the general was defeated by a group of ordinary people.
If Shi Luo was not immortal and had infinite time, he would be able to wait for the opportunity to come.
He might actually fall into the gutter and never get out.
