Stray Chapter 61: Advice and Changes

"It's not far away, it's actually very fast, it's just that your current transformation is not complete enough..."

The girl in the white kimono sighed and stretched out her slender index finger to poke the forehead of the guy who suddenly appeared lazy.

"It's not a natural longevity species. It also takes time to change the concept of time, but you can actually take advantage of your advantages. That realm monster's life history is very good, and it can help you save a lot of time..."

"I don't know how many seventeen years..." Xia Ran smiled dryly. It's good that he can understand it in detail. He must watch it with the mentality of a bystander, rather than being influenced by memory.

Memory is a very important thing. It determines why a person is such a person. For the sake of safety, Xia Ran just let herself deal with those unfamiliar memories like watching a movie or someone else's diary.

Normal people watching movies or other people's diaries, even if they have influence and feelings, generally don't lose their minds and feel that they are not themselves, but the person in the movie or diary.

But if you are completely immersed in it, it is easy to not know the boundaries between yourself and others - when all memories are like your own personal experience, compared to the huge records that are often thousands of years old, your short life experience Can it really dominate?

"It's up to you..."

The girl in the kimono did not withdraw her fingers, but continued to poke the boy in the face calmly.

"Your thinking is still correct. If you achieve something in the next stage, you will be able to match the state of integration between you and the realm monster, and the next stage will allow you to cross that threshold and reach the real world. where..."

"When you said that, my morale dropped..." Xia Ran sighed deeply, which means that he is still two big players away from becoming a rover if he climbs the route he envisages. realm?

—what a joy!

"Anyway, don't worry, you just need to follow the current rhythm. As I said before, we have no shortage of time..." The white kimono girl's eyebrows were full of gentle smiles.

"Huh? Are you leaving?" Xia Ran suddenly sensed a change, raised her head subconsciously and asked.

"Well, yes, that child is about to wake up... so it's time for me to go back." She was always so gentle, so gentle that no matter her eyes or her tone, she could melt everything.

Weary and gentle, but the ethereal and endless feeling deep in the pupils never disappeared.

Xia Ran hesitated for a while and felt that there were still many things she wanted to ask, but after thinking about it, she gave up the idea, so he hesitated and said, "Then... Should I say goodbye?"

"Well, bye..."

She nodded lightly and said cautiously, biting the pronunciation of the word "goodbye" very clearly, as if she was making a solemn agreement-

"One more piece of advice though."

"What?"

Xia Ran was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at the girl in the white kimono.

"The living cannot reach the first cause, this is the inevitable contradiction."

The two ceremonies said here, stopped and looked at him quietly: "I can show you the way, but you need to find the most crucial key to achieve all this... …”

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"I understand that." Xia Ran was silent for a while, and then nodded lightly. There seemed to be some kind of light flashing in his eyes.

This is something she told herself at the beginning, but what I heard then and what I heard now are completely two different feelings.

Probably because he didn't care too much at the beginning, but now he has begun to appreciate the scenery of a certain height, and has entered a wider stage, and he is more aware that if there is no power, everything is a lie.

Before, I hadn't experienced the real scenery yet, and simply relying on imagination was not real. I always subconsciously felt that starting to dismantle a house is like dismantling cardboard, and it can lead to seven out of thousands of troops. Seven out, he is already a strong man without pressure...

Until I inexplicably merged with Yakumo Zi once, I felt the power of the magician of the realm, and through this I achieved the second method, I could directly see the parallel world of infinite juxtaposition, and I really felt the tip of the iceberg of the infinite world. Infinite.

——It was only then that he suddenly realized that he used to be narrow-minded.

Perhaps people are always unwilling and always want to gain more.

The girl in the white kimono didn't say anything, but her figure disappeared so suddenly, as if it was black disappearing in the morning glow, swaying like the traces of the night, and disappeared alone.

It was as if she had never appeared before. Except for Xia Ran herself, no one noticed what had just happened.

Wow...wow...

The black long and straight girl heard the sound of turning pages from time to time. It wasn't until a few minutes later that she stopped the movement in her hand slightly, frowned and looked at Xia Ran opposite: "What are you looking at?"

"You." Xia Ran answered as a matter of course. Isn't this question obvious?

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Faced with such a righteous answer, the girl didn't know how to deal with it, she could only give Xia Ran an annoyed look, and then looked towards the door: "Are those strange people looking for you? ?"

"Probably, wait a moment, Yukinoshita-san, I'll deal with this first..."

Xia Ran also turned her head to look over, met everyone's eyes one by one, and said this calmly.

The group found that the young Taoist seemed to have finally sensed their existence, and instantly determined that this dream was indeed unusual, and at the same time felt a great sigh of relief.

The group of them had just stared at it for a while, and found that the young Taoist opened the door and walked in, sat down on his own, said hello to the dignified girl, and then Trapped in a daze.

Until now, after the girl said something, she suddenly turned her head to look at herself and others.

This made everyone feel speechless for a while. Dare you, the old man has been able to see us all the time, so he just didn't want to pay attention to us? Regardless of the reason, are we offended, let's say something first?

"This senior..."

Murong Ziying took the initiative to step forward and salute, and said. The group behind him, regardless of their expressions and different thoughts, at least let him negotiate by default, and there is no opinion.

However, the young Taoist on the opposite side didn't care what he said, just closed his eyes gently.

When you haven't seen this flower, this flower and you are in silence - so it's just a moment, the whole world suddenly turns into darkness and nothingness.

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At the same time, Xia Ran opened her eyes in reality, and everything around her had changed into a different look.

There are bright lights all around, it is in a certain hall. Holding a cup of tea in his hand, he seemed to be contemplating something, and the expressionless head maid stood behind him respectfully.

It may seem like a long time, but in fact it just happened in a few moments. From the time I received the intrusion report until now, I haven't had a cup of tea. Everything is just an out-of-body consciousness, experiencing a dream within a dream.

At this time, a girl in a long green dress was standing in front of him. After seeing him open his eyes, he leaned up and asked eagerly, "Teacher, I want me to invite those people over here. ?"

Looking at her excited appearance, she seems like a little girl who can't wait to show herself in front of her elders.

"Um... OK, but let Charlotte come with you."

Xia Ran thought for a while, nodded slightly, and simply agreed.

Because the past time in the dream is not the same as the actual past time, the souls of those people were ejected from the dream and returned to themselves at the moment, I'm afraid they won't remember what happened.

This is a very normal protection measure. After all, according to their subjective feelings, it has been a very long period of time and they have received a lot of information. However, when the soul returned to the body, it was only an extremely brief moment, but it brought back the same huge information.

In order to prevent the instantaneous data overload that burns the brain, it is inevitable to forget all the experiences.

Probably even Liu Mengli will not be an exception, but her talent is different, she should be able to realize what happened more quickly after she wakes up, and be able to actively dig this huge record that was blocked by the subconscious.

Other people need a certain amount of time to slowly recall a part of the fragment, so as to think of more things... So before that, probably only the subconscious feeling was preserved.

For example, although she can't remember anything, Murong Ziying's current attitude towards the protagonist group will still be affected by her subconscious, and it won't be like the cold attitude she should have at this stage in the original plot.

Because they are already friends, they can already trust each other.

It's just limited to a group of them. Now they are suddenly ejected from their dreams, and their spirits have returned to reality. They have no memory of what happened before, and may even think that they and others have been distracted for a while.

So probably they will still act with hostility and suspicion towards Ouyang Mansion, thinking that someone in this mansion is cultivating some kind of monstrous magic...

Xia Ran originally had her own ideas, but after thinking about it for a while, she felt that it was just right for her cheap apprentice to take action. Anyway, that group of people are in extremely poor condition now, and their mental power consumption is very huge.

Although there are a large number of people, there is no threat. Although Ouyang Mingzhu has a high level of cultivation, he does not have much experience in fighting techniques. —

The one who paid a lot of money for her father's life.

In this way, the two sides can barely be regarded as a fair and just duel... Yawning, Xia Ran also felt an unusual exhaustion, constantly emerging from all over the body.

I don't know how long it has been since he had such an experience. He put down the teacup in his hand and stretched hard. He felt that the whole person was a little more comfortable, but then he was keenly aware of a change that was different from the past.

Closed his eyes and carefully sensed it. Through the search of the second method, he noticed some kind of connection that was extremely far away and was conceptually separated by an infinite distance. It was not another self, but some kind of connection echo. Branding something in general.

Subconsciously recalled in her mind the scene where she poked her forehead with that slender, fair and slender index finger, Xia Ran vaguely understood that this might be what the girl in kimono did.

"Astral Records?"

After about determining the brand, he pondered. Before the return of that world, the Inhibition Force sent him an invitation letter, but he did not sign it out of some concerns.

But now, it seems that she still uploads her spiritual foundation to the Heroic Throne... Could it be that she has decided that she will not be able to return to that world in a normal way, so she has drawn herself a more direct line of cause and effect?

It's just that a little-known heroic spirit like myself...is it really possible to be summoned? Without legends and holy relics, could it be possible to rely on pure fate?

Xia Ran pondered seriously.