Chapter 351

Pulu Meiliya once thought about a question that many people have thought about: What will you see after death?

This is a very tricky question. People who haven't died can't answer it, and people who have died can't answer it. So there has been no answer, and now she finally seems to see the answer, but the answer is that she can't see anything, and all she can see is darkness.

Endless darkness.

*Si Tai Yi Zhe*, formless and qualityless, phase-less and division-less, chaos is not clear, clear and turbid are not distinguished, *hu xi nai he*.

This is a state of emptiness, even 'I' does not exist. Space is both big and small, time is both slow and fast, consciousness is both light and heavy, like sinking in the vast ocean, and like wandering outside the starry sky.

Maybe it was an instant, maybe it was ten thousand years, a mist suddenly rose in the confused brain, endless, something hidden in the hazy gray mist. Swimming like a snake, flying like a dragon, two curved long horns looming, a body of colorful scales emerald green, that is a behemoth that covers the sky and the sun.

A touch of crimson figure stood quietly in the hazy mist, accompanied by the swimming of that huge figure, humming a song she couldn't understand:

【Faintly swaying, lonely and traceless】

【Full like water, brilliant like the sun】

【... Zhao Zhao, the green flowers are fiercely shaking the sky light】

【Miao Miao, the smoke and clouds are vast, the dragon is wandering...】

Pulu Meiliya's Chinese language level is not very good, barely able to read and write some written terms in textbooks. She can guess that this sad little tune with a bit of Qinzhou rural dialect accent seems to be a Chinese song, but that's all. She can't hear what the content is singing at all.

So she tried to come behind that red figure, her gaze through the hazy gray mist examining the 'hundred birds facing the phoenix' pattern embroidered with gold thread on the blood-red brocade, and opened her mouth cautiously:

"Ni hao?"

The melodious and sad singing stopped abruptly, and the dead silence spread like ink. Pulu Meiliya was stunned and wanted to call again, suddenly, that beautiful head with cloud temples and gold flowers turned 180 degrees, facing behind, and the face without features was blank, which scared her into a stagger.

Pulu Meiliya slumped on the ground, subconsciously looking up at the sky, a huge face with obvious snake characteristics suddenly emerged from the mist.

"Ha——!"

Pulu Meiliya shuddered all over, and sat up abruptly subconsciously.

"Good night."

A lazy male voice came from beside her, familiar yet strange, as if it was the first time she heard it, and as if she had grown up listening to this voice.

Pulu Meiliya opened her eyes, the white light stung her two eyeballs slightly, and her whole body was hot and sticky. Reaching out to touch her chest, her close-fitting clothes had long been soaked by sweat, and a heart was thumping in her chest, the heavy suffocation made her chest tight, and she couldn't stop panting.

After her eyes slowly adapted to the light, Pulu Meiliya scanned the surroundings. She was lying on a sofa, covered with a wool blanket. On the table next to her was a chessboard. A handsome young man with black hair and black eyes and obvious oriental features was sitting across the table, holding a chess piece in his hand, examining and playing with it with great interest.

"Good night." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe held a chess piece in his palm and said softly.

"Uh... good night?" Pulu Meiliya nodded politely and asked: "What time is it now, where is this place? And, who are you..."

"Come here, play chess with me." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe didn't answer her question, just said his own words.

Pulu Meiliya was stunned for a moment. Her brain was still dizzy after just waking up. She looked at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe's face blankly, only feeling that this appearance was so familiar, and inexplicably felt that he looked a bit like herself. "Who are you?"

"Oh... almost forgot to introduce myself." Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe put the chess piece back into the chessboard. Pulu Meiliya looked down and saw that it was a black 'pawn'.

"My name is Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe, the 'Ning' of 'better to break than to bend', the 'Zhe' of 'wise to protect oneself'."

After speaking, Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe continued: "Okay, now you know my name, then what should you call me?"

Pulu Meiliya's eyes wandered, as if thinking? As if recalling. A piece of memory that did not exist and should not exist emerged from the depths of her brain to the water surface, like silk and thread, lingering and unclear.

Gradually, the look she looked at Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe changed. The confusion of waking up from a big dream began to dissipate, and what replaced it in the bottom of her eyes was something more profound. It was the docility of a lamb, the blind obedience of a believer, a kind of emotion that is difficult to describe in words. Two lines of clear tears slid down her cheeks to her chin and dripped onto her collarbone.

"My almighty Lord..."

The girl whispered, lifted the wool blanket, got off the sofa, and knelt down in front of Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe with her graceful body, her voice trembling: "I have finally come to your side."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe stretched out a hand, Pulu Meiliya lowered her head obediently, pressed her cheek against his palm, and looked at him with awe and worship, with tears flowing in her eyes.

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe gently stroked Pulu Meiliya's delicate cheeks, and his understanding of 'Tai Sui' added a point in his heart.

According to Fen Wu's current performance, Tai Sui's ability to influence memory has various forms of manifestation:

【Delete】, 【Paste】, 【Edit】... Maybe there are others, but it is not clear, at least Fen Wu did not show it.

"The 'Fen Wu' identity obtained by Tai Yi is not complete, and the 'Tai Sui' simulated is also similar."

"The ability to 【Delete】 memory is greatly limited. When used on Betang, it can only delete a small section of his memory during his time in the opera house, and it can't do more than a second."

"The ability to 【Paste】 memory is completely absent. I used Tai Yi's rules to let Pulu Meiliya steal my identity, and then poured the 'memory of Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe' together with the memory of 'Pulu Meiliya in Mei Lin's cognition' into her brain through stealing."

Then use Tai Sui to delete all memories except the latter, and this is the situation now.

"The ability to 【Edit】 is a little bit, but not much. I tried my best to experiment repeatedly, and only managed to confuse the concept of the 'God' she had believed in since childhood with the memory of 'Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe' she once had but was deleted, creating a glimmer of opportunity for Jue Yuan to brand her with the thought seal that 'Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe is God', that's all."

Tai Sui simulated by Tai Yi can only interfere with people's memory to this extent. If it weren't for Jue Yuan's broad trigger conditions, as long as there is a glimmer of opportunity, it can be fixed into a thought seal. Such a thin slice of identity is very difficult to use for any practical purpose.

"But with Jue Yuan, the situation is different."

Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe moved his hand away from Pulu Meiliya's face, looking at the expression of intoxication and loss on her face, somewhat puzzled:

"Jue Yuan's rules seem to be very compatible with 'Tai Sui', not just generally compatible. If Fen Wu could brand him with a thought seal of 'I am Fen Wu' when he brainwashed Yan Yukuan, then even if the Chuideng Ghost called his name until his throat broke, Yan Yukuan would not have a trace of doubt about his identity."

"The compatibility between Jue Yuan and Tai Sui is really very good, even a bit... too good."

So good that Seeing Seeing Ning Zhe couldn't help but suspect that Fen Wu had been entangled with him since Yu Zi Qian died, and even chased him to the Apennine Peninsula. Is he so persistent for Zhao You, or for... 【Jue Yuan】?

(End of chapter)