Volume 8: The Bug House Chapter 9: The Demon in the Heart
Listening to their conversation, Lin Shunan hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Should we pass this news back as soon as possible?"
Ren Qingning looked at him strangely.
"What's wrong?" Lin Shunan asked.
Ren Qingning said: "We probably won't be able to go back before the changes are over."
"Ah?" Lin Shunan turned his head to look at Jiang You.
Jiang You nodded and said, "We were also excluded."
"That……"
“Unless we go back to the mountain first,” Ren Qingning sighed, “but we don’t know where the mountain is.”
"So..." Lin Shunan thought for a moment, "So you asked Wang Jin about the coordinates of the mountain before?"
"Yes." Ren Qingning admitted.
"That……"
"Now that things have come to this, it doesn't matter whether we go back or not," Ren Qingning glanced at Jiang You again, "Originally there was still a way."
"What method?" Lin Shunan asked.
"He left many doors in our world. With his legacy, we naturally got the keys to those doors," Ren Qingning glanced at the sword in Jiang You's hand with a mocking look on his face. "But now the legacy is gone, the doors are gone too. Too much alien spiritual power was released in an instant, causing the way of heaven to change prematurely..."
Ren Qingning suddenly gave up on himself. He said, "Everyone knows that the way of heaven is going to change. Otherwise, why are they all in seclusion? Why are there official metaphysics departments in the secular world? Where is the cooperation between the mountain and the people below? What's the result? There is no breakthrough on the mountain. Not long after the Special Operations Department was established, it was almost kicked out. It just managed to save the research institute."
"The gods and demons have come again, what can we rely on to fight? The forces are not on the same level at all!" Ren Qingning looked outside the cave, his mockery growing stronger, "Rely on the favor of heaven? Or will we rely on the property left by our ancestors and fill it with human lives like we did more than 30 years ago?"
"Or wait another thirty years, three hundred years..." Ren Qingning suddenly stopped. He saw a huge red tail sweeping across the entrance of the cave.
The ground began to tremble.
He heard Jiang You say, "Thirty years is too long. We must seize the day."
After saying that, Jiang You threw the magic sword to Tang Butian. Tang Butian caught it, gritted his teeth, and stood up holding the sword.
Large and small pieces of debris fell from the stone wall.
Red light shone through.
Lin Shunan covered his eyes with his hands.
"Can you see it?" Jiang You asked Tang Butian.
In the blinding red light, her body was shaking.
Ren Qingning understood his intention, and he said, "Do you want to borrow the power of the magic sword? Even if she is a sword cultivator, it is impossible..."
Tang Butian raised her head with an indifferent expression.
Ren Qingning heard her say, "I can see it."
As soon as the words fell, there was a sound of heaven collapsing and earth splitting, and then a huge tail smashed down from above. On the dense scales were twisted terrifying faces, the faces of monsters.
Ren Qingning looked up and saw piles of uneven and grooved flesh balls slowly squeezing into the cave.
Suddenly the tail twitched and attacked left and right desperately, but it seemed to be suppressed by an invisible force, as if it was trapped by an invisible circle.
Ren Qingning looked at Jiang You in horror.
Jiang You pointed his right hand at the giant beast, clenched and unclenched his fingers, and said, "Hurry!"
As soon as the words fell, the transparent divine sword flew out of Tang Butian's hand and pierced into the giant beast's body. All the flesh balls expanded to their maximum size at the same time and then exploded. The scales on the tail also exploded and shot out in all directions.
But the invisible circle remains.
Gradually, the tail began to rotate inward, rolling up the meat ball together, the speed became faster and faster, and the volume became smaller and smaller, finally turning into a red ball the size of a ping-pong ball suspended in the air.
Jiang You reached forward and grabbed the red ball. After twirling it in his hands, he turned and looked at Ren Qingning. He said, "In chaos, laws are born and destroyed at every moment. It's not a rare thing."
Ren Qingning said: "But the road to immortality in this world has long been cut off."
"After the changes in the laws of nature, human technology may have a leap forward. Maybe in a few years or even decades, a group of scientists will figure out what laws are, and a new discipline, theology, will emerge. Many new professions will emerge, and those who write code today may be writing laws by then," Jiang You said, turning to Lin Shunan, "Doctor Lin, am I right?"
Lin Shunan said: "Uh... maybe..."
"Who knows, maybe future games will be projected into various small worlds," Jiang You thought beautifully, "Each novel can generate a small script world, and playing script-killing games in it must be nice, Master Ren, your ability is still quite useful."
Ren Qingning snorted coldly and said, "I am not as skilled as you. I am defeated. You don't have to make fun of me like this."
"Everything I said is true." Jiang You walked aside and sat down.
At this time, the cave returned to darkness again, and sparse green light outlined his figure.
Jiang You said: "Countless laws intersect and construct the space in which we live. Therefore, in this space, it is very difficult to construct new laws from the gaps in these laws. These laws are sometimes even incompatible or conflicting. The more they develop and mature, the more this is the case. It's like a mountain of shit, but it's unusually stable."
Jiang You threw another mint candy into his mouth. "But if there is no external force to supplement it, everything will eventually move towards disorder and chaos, and the laws will collapse. This is the root of the corrosive force in chaos... So, those so-called gods or demons outside... They want to come to the world to harvest a wave of fear first, and then harvest a few waves of faith to sustain themselves. To the Heavenly Dao, they are nothing more than food."
Ren Qingning listened in silence.
"As for humans, the way of heaven does not favor humans. However, during the long battle, humans gradually came to dominate this world, and human will also became part of the will of heaven..."
Ren Qingning smiled when he saw Jiang You.
He suddenly felt a chill, as if Jiang You was about to say something extremely terrifying.
"Thousands of demons sacrificed themselves and sent him into the world, seeking the opportunity to rule this world. But who were they sacrificing to? And this world has never been ownerless, because..." Jiang You smiled again, "Because the existence that created it died the moment it was born, and no one can become its master."
Jiang You threw the red ball up and caught it again. He said, "The reasons you gave were all lies you made to yourself for peace of mind. You were seduced by his inheritance, and you developed a demon in your heart and committed a mistake. The section chief and I chased the criminal thousands of miles away, arrested you, and rescued the hostage, Dr. Lin."
"I don't believe it." Ren Qingning said.
At this moment a shadow spread across the wall of the cave.
Jiang You looked at Tang Butian.
Tang Butian held the hilt of the sword and nodded.
Then, Ren Qingning and Lin Shunan worked together with Jiang You and Tang Butian to shoot one small colored ball with one sword.
After an unknown amount of time, when Jiang You and Tang Butian had waited for a long time but no more demons passed by, Ren Qingning said, "We can't go back, no matter how many demons we kill..."
"Who said I can't go back? I just want to get some local specialties," Jiang You patted his bag, which was almost full, "I obviously know where my son is. I am a person of faith."
