328: Chapter 327 Can You See Me?

So that's how it is.

Seeing this, Chu Xuan roughly understood.

Chu Xuan: [Is it like a privileged class from one country losing their privileges when they go to another?]

[Tang Zheng: That analogy isn't quite perfect, but it's close enough. In short, if you obtain items and skills in an otherworldly realm, it's difficult for him to interfere!]

Even if you can be in the same otherworld as him, there would be more opportunities to kill him!]

[Chu Xuan: In which world would I have the chance to obtain such items and skills?]

[Tang Zheng: At your current point in time, among the accessible otherworlds, the Cangyun World is probably where they are relatively easier to obtain. I can't go into specifics; the taboos and secrets involving that world are deep, so it's inconvenient for me to say more. Find a way to explore it yourself.]

Cangyun World?

Chu Xuan suddenly recalled that the four people, including Junior Brother Shen Guyun, whom he had detected with the Eye of Insight in the underground command room earlier, were from the Cangyun World.

[Tang Zheng: Something special must have happened during that missing month; otherwise, Revelation wouldn't be trying so hard to hide it.]

Given his Rank, world missions are indispensable.

His traces in otherworlds will inevitably remain. Next, I will try to travel to other worlds and actively look for clues about him.]

Chu Xuan: [Do you know about the Child of the World? Upon returning from the War Dragon World this time, I got caught up in St. Lianna Hospital and saved a youth named Lin Jie. His Talent is roughly the same as the "Heavenly Secret" I once fabricated.]

My escape from the hospital earlier, as well as resolving the nuclear explosion crisis this time, were both significantly aided by Lin Jie's Talent...]

Next, Chu Xuan sent all the information about everything he encountered in St. Lianna Hospital and everything regarding Lin Jie to [Future Tang Zheng], including the fact that the other party's identity did not exist in this world.

He also proposed a hypothesis: was Lin Jie related to the world will, and could the Heavenly Secret be used to deal with Revelation?

However, the message [Future Tang Zheng] sent next caused him to frown deeply once again.

[Tang Zheng: I have never heard of a Child of the World, nor have I ever heard of a person named Lin Jie. Although you have changed the future many times, no matter how the future changes, there has never been a person named Lin Jie, even on this current timeline.]

Chu Xuan's heart jolted, and he abruptly turned his head to look at Lin Jie.

The people at the door had been waiting for a long time.

They had originally agreed to head to the spatial rift in the backyard at seven-thirty, but seeing Chu Xuan constantly fiddling with his phone, everyone could only wait outside patiently.

Now, seeing Chu Xuan look over, they all followed his gaze toward Lin Jie.

"Brother Chu Xuan, wha... what's wrong?" Lin Jie's face looked slightly nervous.

"Wait for me a bit longer."

Leaving those words behind, Chu Xuan continued to look at his phone.

[Tang Zheng: Think back again. Are you sure the System mission you received at St. Lianna Hospital was specifically to save the Child of the World?]

Chu Xuan lowered his eyes slightly and searched through his past missions via the System. Soon, the mission interface from that time appeared before his eyes.

——

[Life withers, spirituality is stripped, rules are replaced, and the Origin is near its end. The Child of the World is about to die, and a portion of the Origin's power will be lost. Detected that you are a Purifier; exclusive mission permissions have been opened for you in advance.]

[Mission Content: Lead the remaining twelve survivors to leave St. Lianna Hospital alive.]

——

Chu Xuan's eyes suddenly narrowed.

Then, he sent this snippet of System content to [Future Tang Zheng] in text format.

[Tang Zheng: So, this System mission only asked you to lead the survivors out, but it didn't explicitly state that the Child of the World was among those twelve people...]

So, is there a possibility that you, who became a Purifier, are the Child of the World?

Was this System mission only given to you because of some special reason? Have you ever thought about why Lin Jie just happened to appear right when you returned?]

Chu Xuan glanced at Lin Jie again, whose face suddenly turned deathly pale.

[Tang Zheng: You mentioned just now that when you were about to leave the Inpatient Building, Lin Jie gave you the wrong information. Could this have been intentional to harm you? To make you die there?]

St. Lianna Hospital is a special taboo land with multiple S-rank Specters inside. Even if you are a Purifier with the Fire of Nirvana, you would at least need to Rank up before you could handle them.

If you had truly believed Lin Jie's words back then and gotten trapped, it would have been difficult to escape again!]

As for resolving the nuclear explosion crisis, think carefully. What would you have done without Lin Jie? Would you really have died in the nuclear blast?]

Chu Xuan fell into deep thought.

If not for Lin Jie, Chu Xuan would have charged directly into the headquarters, seeking to seize control of the situation in a short time and thoroughly investigate the military deployments to break the deadlock.

[Tang Zheng: It's possible that Revelation, among the countless possibilities of the future, realized that you couldn't be killed no matter what. Thus, he arranged for Lin Jie to gain your trust, waiting for an opportunity to screw you over in the future.]

I know of an ability that can split oneself, setting memories and granting related abilities, which happens to match the unknown Origin of Lin Jie. Perhaps Revelation possesses a similar skill or item.

Maybe Lin Jie is a part of Revelation, but he himself isn't aware of it, being completely in a controlled state.]

Thud!

The sound of a stumbling fall rang out from outside the door. Under the startled gazes of the crowd, Lin Jie hurriedly scrambled up from the ground, his entire face devoid of color as if he had a premonition of something.

"I..."

[Tang Zheng: Wait, don't kill Lin Jie yet...]

Zheng!

A Slash boomed out, and Lin Jie was instantly split in two. Accompanied by the burning of Black Flame, the entire person vanished in an instant.

[You have slain Lin Jie. There were 185 points of spirituality value remaining in his body, all of which have been absorbed by you after being burned by the Fire of Nirvana.]

[You have killed the Child of the World.]

[Detected that you are a Purifier, exempt from mandatory erasure. Detected that you are currently in a dream, you have been exempt from the Lightning Tribulation.]

Chu Xuan looked at his phone for a while before slowly typing: [I have already killed him. The System prompt says Lin Jie was the Child of the World.]

After a moment, the other party sent a message back.

[Tang Zheng: It seems my deduction was wrong. Perhaps I never heard Lin Jie's name in the future precisely because he wasn't rescued and died in the hospital.]

Chu Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly: [Can you see my current actions?]

[Tang Zheng: Although I can't see them, I could guess you would do this. Because I was just thinking, if Lin Jie really were the Child of the World, you might be punished even in a dream—just like me being struck by lightning—or you might even be struck after waking up, and you might not necessarily be able to withstand it.]

Chu Xuan continued to ask: [In the previous dream, how did you foresee that I would encounter a nuclear explosion attack?]

After a moment's thought, Chu Xuan added another message:

[You once mentioned that future scenarios are only mapped out when I return to reality. But before that, I was clearly still within a dream.]

As the you from the future, logically, you should only know that I would eventually die to the Debt-Collecting Ghost. Why were you able to foresee the nuclear explosion event?]