Chapter 2056: Inside the Void

Lin An froze, as a huge amount of information and memories, like particle collisions, burst forth with countless possibilities in his mind.

Before Gao Tian and the others noticed his abnormality, in less than two seconds, a thought spontaneously arose in his mind.

"What situation would have no past and no future?"

"Even a dead person, even a particle, would have it."

"Chu An absolutely could not nonexist; my memory of him is real, and what he left behind continues to affect reality."

"Therefore the reason for his nonexistence cannot be himself, but an external thing, the 'environment'!"

Lin An's heart jolted; after confirming his guess, he looked with utter disbelief at the freezer where Chu An was.

He thought he had found the answer.

But in the shock, Lin An also didn't realize how terrifying his thinking speed was.

Since he condensed the prototype, every puzzle he encountered would find an answer in an extremely short time. Ling An's prototype is like a second brain; the boost to his thinking is far from simple addition, but a qualitative change!

When thinking, he and Ling An seemed to complement each other, pulling each other to climb higher.

Often, before he even had a chance to think, Ling An would instantly fill in the gaps, skipping the process and reaching a conclusion directly!

"Captain Lin!? What's happening? What did you figure out!?"

"Is the pervert Chu saved!?"

Xiong Hanzi asked nervously, but just as he finished speaking, he saw Lin An shake his head, a bitter smile appearing on his face.

"No, I just thought of something else."

While speaking, Lin An looked at Yun Lin and asked seriously:

"Yun Lin, your ability can't be used on things you can't see, right? Even if some illusion obstructs you, you can't see hidden things either, right?"

Faced with Lin An's question, Yun Lin's eyes filled with surprise.

"Yes... yes! Not only can I not see things that are invisible, but I also can't see things that are too far away or unclear."

After saying that awkwardly, Yun Lin nervously looked at Lin An, fearing he was dissatisfied with her.

In her eyes, Lin An was like an ancient tyrant, ready to launch a massacre at the slightest displeasure.

Unmindful of Yun Lin's fear, Lin An nodded, confirming his guess was correct.

Looking at the anxious crowd, Lin An thought for a moment, then spoke briefly:

"Chu An is not here."

"It's not that he doesn't exist; he is in a space of nonexistence."

After speaking, Lin An let out a long breath, the complex feeling in his eyes hard to express.

"What do you mean? Captain Lin, I don't understand what you're saying!"

"Lord Lin An, are you saying... Yun Lin actually didn't see Lord Chu An? The one inside isn't Colonel Chu!?"

"What the heck! Hey, no. How could it not be Chu An inside? I personally caught this kid back then! I've been staying at the foot of the mountain all along! Absolutely no mistake!"

Mistakenly thinking he had brought back someone other than Chu An, Zhang Tie immediately panicked.

Besides Yun Lin and her brother frowning, they also didn't fully grasp Lin An's meaning; like Gao Tian and Jiang Haochen, both turned pale and stiffened on the spot.

They understood what Lin An said!

They had all been to Ghost Skull!

"Brother Lin, you mean...!?"

Gao Tian stared at Lin An in disbelief, feeling a bone-chilling cold like a venomous snake, making his scalp almost explode.

In the real world, what is nonexistent, what is void!?

There is only one answer: the void itself!

Yun Lin cannot see the future of the void, nor can she see the "inside" of the void!

Like a white cloth that blocks vision, Chu An is wrapped inside it, so Yun Lin naturally cannot see what's beneath the cloth.

Lin An slowly nodded, forcing out a faint smile.

"This is the only answer."

"If Chu An once left related information, or Kelai En himself inferred some clue, then the answer might be this."

"It's not that seeing the future can retrieve Chu An; rather, Chu An is using this to tell us in reverse, he..."

He couldn't continue speaking mid-sentence.

Too exaggerated, to the point of being perverse!

Speaking from the depths of his heart, he didn't think Chu An would easily meet trouble. But if this conjecture holds, Chu An's scheming would be terrifyingly excessive.

Merely roughly simulating a few possibilities, Lin An felt it was unbelievable, to the point he'd rather believe it was a coincidence.

(Chu An... had entered Ghost Skull before! His true body is in Ghost Skull, although we can't explain why his outer body is like this, but perhaps it relates to the "unity" theory.)

Lin An furrowed his brows, striving to recall every detail of Ghost Skull.

After coming into contact with a large amount of Fifth Stage knowledge system, he could understand that in the real world, matter's coordinates need not be where they are seen.

Like the divinatory civilization, like observing the world from different angles, like believing all things have inner connections, the theory of the thing-in-itself.

In fact, Lin An could even find three clues proving this conjecture!

(1! Chu An early on had contacted other worlds, such as the corpse of Long An, which came from his cross‑world trade! Before the Apocalypse appeared, the passages to other worlds had opened before! This can also be verified against the situation at Linjiang Yiyuan! So it's not impossible that he entered Ghost Skull beforehand!)

(2! Chu An's strength! Although my perception wasn't strong back then, even after I reached Third Level I still couldn't tell how strong Chu An was! Back then I thought Chu An was somewhat special, or really just First Level. But now the most reasonable explanation is that Chu An's body is not his true self at all!)

(3! Chu An's desiccated corpse form! The first time I saw this guy, he claimed he had turned into a desiccated corpse to avoid the Ghost Infant, out of necessity. Regardless of the truth, this shows his body is problematic!)

After piecing together a clue that had previously been overlooked and never linked to anything, Lin An slowly closed his eyes, actually not knowing what to say.

Moreover, he also keenly noticed a detail.

When Yun Lin entered the Amoeba World to begin "observing" Chu An, the time point happened to be exactly when Ghost Skull opened...

"Could it be.."

"Coincidence?"

"Or... you want to tell me, tell me not to worry, that at some point in the future you'll completely figure out what you're doing?"

Ten minutes later.

Lin An rubbed his brow wearily, giving up on trying to figure out what Chu An was really up to.

Although he had vaguely guessed some things now, the crucial clues were still too few, or rather some guesses were too exaggerated, and he couldn't be certain.

But, no matter what, Lin An unconsciously let out a sigh of relief, feeling much better inside.

He now has at least a seventy percent certainty that that guy should 'not be dead', and can be saved.

Someday, the two of them will meet again.

"Lin An, when you see this passage... I should still not be dead."