Chapter 375: Since the Holy Infant needs a mother, why can

Since the Holy Infant needs a mother, why can't it be me?

Before Cheng Shi revealed part of the answer, Gao Ya was the first to figure it out.

This follower of 【Foolishness】 could always deduce the full picture of events from the slightest clues, but she didn't feel shocked by the current situation, because she had experienced even more absurd and outrageous things.

She only lamented that there were too many coincidences in this matter, and the result of connecting them was somewhat unexpected, but still within the realm of understanding.

Tian Xie, on the other hand, was completely dumbfounded.

He never expected that after coming full circle, things would eventually return to the track planned by Cheng Shi, and that he himself had done the work of setting things right. This left him somewhat at a loss and stunned.

He looked at Tulading and muttered to himself, "You... conceived a child with Afuluosi?"

Tulading nodded generously, "Yes, I conceived a child with him."

"So fast?

Ah no, what I mean is, so the mother of this child is you?"

Tian Xie's expression was somewhat complex; his eyes flickered with inexplicable excitement, but his brows were tightly locked. He seemed to be struggling between whether he should be happy or not. This strange emotion was seen by the other two, leaving both Cheng Shi and Gao Ya startled.

Cheng Shi immediately thought of one thing and asked with raised eyebrows, "Does it have to do with your wish?"

Tian Xie nodded with a complex expression, feeling even more admiration in his heart for Cheng Shi's ability to observe the human heart.

"Yes, that's right."

"So what exactly did you wish for? Can you say it now?"

Tian Xie struggled for a moment and said slowly:

"I wished to witness a miracle concerning 【Time】, so that I could understand 【Time】 at a higher level...

But I'm not sure now if everything before me is what I was looking for...

If it is, a person from a deduced future conceiving a child with someone from the present—how does this look like anything but a miracle of 【Birth】...

Also, I'm thinking, in the deduced future where Afuluosi existed, when I found him, he didn't look like someone who had personally experienced Tulading's pregnancy. I could feel a trace of fear and confusion at my appearance.

But now, he has become the father of this child...

So, did he deceive me and hide something, or did his arrival change the current future?

The 【Time】 miracle I'm looking for couldn't possibly be something I pushed into existence with my own hands, could it?

But this level of 【Time】 entanglement is far from being a miracle.

Brother Cheng, I remember you said that the Uma sinners of the Tribunal had already died in a great fire, so who exactly is he?"

Cheng Shi could tell that Tian Xie didn't really care who Afuluosi was; he cared about why Tulading chose Afuluosi as the child's father, because judging by her attitude, this pregnancy was entirely voluntary on her part.

In other words, it was likely not Afuluosi who chose Tulading, but Tulading who chose Afuluosi.

Why?

Tian Xie, who had been kept in the dark in every aspect, still hadn't figured it out, but this time Cheng Shi couldn't provide him with answers either, because he didn't know much about this kind of 【Time】 coincidence.

But one thing could be confirmed, and that was that Tulading knew everything.

He looked at Tulading and asked with a smile:

"You aren't surprised at all by our discussion, so you know Afuluosi is from the future, right?

Did he confess this to you?

How interesting. Even though he is someone who shouldn't exist in the present, you still chose him at this tense moment, so I guess...

You know him, don't you?"

Know him?

That would probably be a yes.

Tulading smiled and touched her belly, her eyes filled with both longing and pity. Her expression looked even more complex than Tian Xie's, to the point that Cheng Shi had an illusion: Tulading seemed to be feeling heartache for Afuluosi.

Heartache?

A vagrant, a philandering, ugly, hoarse-voiced vagrant—what was there to feel heartache for?

As soon as this thought arose in his mind, Cheng Shi froze in place as if struck by lightning. He swallowed hard, feeling his nerves twitching violently.

Because he suddenly thought that Tulading was also a philanderer. Before she changed back to her current self, she was also a master who advocated for physical pleasure. At the very beginning, the promise of cooperation between the two was Cheng Shi introducing Gao Ya to him; he had coveted Gao Ya, who had already turned into a young lady at the time.

And, most importantly, after Cheng Shi and Mo Li fought, Tulading was injured, her flesh and blood worn away by the power of 【Annihilation】, leaving her unrecognizable!

Even just now, just now when she called the three of them, her voice was still hoarse!

Philandering, ugly, hoarse voice...

When three coincidences collide, can this still be called a coincidence?

Cheng Shi gasped and immediately turned to look at Tian Xie to verify:

"I guess before you stepped into the deduction, you heard the thunderous roar in the city, right?"

Tian Xie was startled by this sudden question, then nodded quickly, "That's right. After five loud claps of thunder, the thunder continued incessantly. It was at that time that I escaped into the future."

Sure enough!

Cheng Shi narrowed his eyes, thinking to himself that everything matched up. Because at that time, Tulading had already been thrown out the window by him to escape, but the scars from the 【Annihilation】 poison still remained on his body!

And that Afuluosi, whom he had never seen, was very likely the future Tulading, brought back by Tian Xie from a future where the collective disappearance of players caused the spread of 【Corruption】 to fail!

Hiss—

Is this too much of a coincidence?

No, no, no, this is too absurd. How could there be such a coincidental thing in the world?

Cheng Shi felt he was overthinking it. He patted his face to sober up for a moment, but when he looked at Tulading again, he clearly saw something called self-pity in her eyes!

It's over, guessed right!

It's him!

He is the future Tulading, he is Tulading himself!

Crazy!

This world is crazy!

At this moment, Gao Ya also saw the clues. After Cheng Shi's expression changed drastically, her expression finally changed too.

The level of absurdity in the matter also exceeded her imagination. She looked at Tulading in shock, and for the first time, her tone carried no color of 【Foolishness】, but was filled with the desire for 【Truth】:

"Afuluosi... is you from the future, isn't he!?"

"Huh?" Tian Xie's brain was a mess, "No... no, don't, no, huh?"

Tulading stroked her belly and nodded affirmatively.

"Yes, he met me, recognized me, and told me.

He said he came from a future where 'the preaching plan failed, everyone disappeared unexpectedly, the 【Corruption】 faith withered, and I was expelled from the church.'

But considering he was the child of the Church Leader, they didn't drive him out of Duoergede, but faked Tulading's death and drove him out of the church to fend for himself.

So, having lost his identity, he could only rename himself Afuluosi.

Having lost all support, he had no other pursuit than to practice the final will of 【Corruption】 with his own body.

Until one day, more than ten years later, he actually saw this brother again."

As she spoke, Tulading looked at Tian Xie. A "boom" went off in Tian Xie's mind, and he suddenly realized that back in that alley, Afuluosi wasn't trembling out of fear, but out of excitement!

Because he seemed to have guessed something from the appearance of Tian Xie, and a glimmer of hope suddenly ignited in his heart!

That's why Tian Xie said he was both fearful and confused, because he never thought he would see a 【Corruption】 follower from back then more than ten years later!

A 【Corruption】 follower who had never aged!

"He was too happy, even unable to suppress the joy in his heart, wanting to acknowledge this brother directly, but he found that this brother didn't seem to recognize him anymore.

He saw the clues but dared not speak, fearing that this only opportunity would slip through his fingers again.

And when he was truly brought back to the past, back to the present where we are, he felt at ease.

He told me that at that time, he only had one thought in his heart: he could not let the faith of 【Corruption】 wither again in this era!"

"..."

Cheng Shi was already numb. He didn't know what expression to make, but he indeed had many doubts in his heart.

"So, how did he find you? Tacit understanding from shared memories?"

"No, it was tacit understanding, but not shared memories.

I don't know what he experienced in his own past, but what I want to say is that we bumped into each other unintentionally, not that anyone deliberately found anyone."

!!!

With just this one sentence, Cheng Shi had already guessed all the details of the whole thing.

Indeed, Tulading was right. Their meeting wasn't because of the tacit understanding of being the same person, but because of...

The fanaticism and firmness toward the 【Corruption】 faith!

Cheng Shi narrowed his eyes slightly and said with great emotion, "You two met in the prayer room."

"Yes!

I met him in the prayer room; he arrived a step before me.

I was thinking, since the Holy Infant of 【Corruption】 must have a mother, why couldn't this mother be me?

I worship Him, follow Him, and long for His will to save the whole world. If I have this honor, even if I die for it, it would be a worthy death.

So the first thing I did after struggling back to the church was go to the prayer room.

And he...

He wanted to change the misfortune of the future, make up for the regrets of the past, and let the will of 【Corruption】 continue to spread. So the moment he returned to the present—no, even the moment he was 'threatened' in the alley—he had already made up his mind: he could not let the faith of 【Corruption】 wither again on this land of Duoergede.

He just didn't expect that he would actually be brought back to the past, so when he found that he could have a greater opportunity, he decisively looked for a chance and slipped directly into the prayer room.

When I saw him, I didn't recognize him, but he recognized me. After all, my appearance was exactly his past.

And the moment he saw me, he withdrew his steps and gave this opportunity to me.

He told me about his miserable life and begged me, begged me not to become another him, a poor person who lived like a walking corpse for the rest of his life.

And it was at that moment that I suddenly felt the true meaning of the will of 【Corruption】.

Because I remember you once told me that obeying one's inner desires is the greatest offering to Him.

And at that time, I only had one desire in my heart: not to let him, nor myself, have regrets again!

So I changed back to my original self and asked him for a child." ===== CHAPTER 376 =====