Going mad is considered a relatively better outco for a Strayed One? Is that going to be my future ending as well?
Li Huowang had always thought that others calling him a Strayed One was because he had so rare gift, sothing akin to the unique talents he had read about in cultivation novels. However, the Abbess was telling him it wasn’t anything good. The na ‘Strayed One’ itself seed to carry other problems.
Li Huowang took a mont to calm himself, then took a deep breath and said, “Abbess Jingxin, I have previously eaten Black Taisui to cure my hysteria, and it was rather effective. Have you used it for your son before?”
Li Huowang was hoping to hear that she hadn’t used it before, but was imdiately disappointed.
“Yes, of course. But Black Taisui cannot be eaten just willy-nilly. Sothing like that can be eaten quite easily, but it is very difficult to get it out of your body. It will stay in the stomach for a long ti, sucking your blood and consuming your flesh. It’s manageable if consud in small amounts. However, if too much is eaten, it will occupy your entire stomach and burrow out from within your body,” Abbess Jingxin graphically described the situation, almost as though she had witnessed it firsthand.
Hearing this, Li Huowang touched his stomach, his expression growing even more ugly. There was a mass of tentacle-covered Black Taisui currently nested within his stomach. At the sa ti, he reaffird his understanding of Dan Yangzi—he was always up to no good. Even the dicine given by him was full of such serious side-effects.
But these small matters had to be set aside for now; he had more pressing matters to ask about.
“Abbess Jingxin, could you tell exactly what being a Strayed One entails? And why is it that the Strayed Ones end up descending into madness?” asked Li Huowang.
Li Huowang’s anxiety drove him into asking this question. He really needed an answer to this, since it concerned his future life and death.
Abbess Jingxin had been scarfing down her food when she heard his voice, and then looked up toward Li Huowang with her hollow eyes.
“What is a Strayed One? You are a Strayed One and you are asking ? Can’t you tell what is different about you compared to others? Then let ask you, where are you from?” asked Abbess Jingxin.
Li Huowang almost blurted out an answer, but stopped himself warily. The matter of him transmigrating here from the modern era was an extrely confidential affair. He could not just tell about it to this strange old nun without any preparation, especially when he considered that he had just t her. Who knew what thoughts this fat old nun would have after learning this secret.
“Hehe, let guess, you must think that you’re soone not from here? Soone from a different realm, a world completely different from this one?” asked Abbess Jingxin.
Jingxin’s words shattered Li Huowang’s psychological defense. “You actually know?!”
Unperturbed, Jingxin bent down to eat the sticky, yellow substance in her bowl. “No need to panic. A child really has no composure. Are you questioning how I know about this matter? Didn’t I tell you before? My son is also a Strayed One. He too used to think like that in the beginning.”
This made Li Huowang lean forward subconsciously, his voice trembling as he asked, “Your son is also from the modern world? Did he transmigrate here as well?”
Currently, his heart was beating extrely fast. The discovery that there were others like him in this bizarre world filled him with excitent. No matter who they were, male or female, as long as they ca from the sa world, he was not alone. He would finally be able to share the burden that was weighing down on him heavily with soone else.
More importantly, he couldn’t recall how he ca to this world. Perhaps they would rember, and perhaps he could return to his original world through them!
Abbess Jingxin didn’t answer him imdiately, and wiped off the yellow liquid from the corner of her lips. Then, she smiled and “looked” at the youth before her. “No, he didn’t. He ca from my tummy. That much is certain. Also, young man, dreams may be reality, and reality may be dreams. Don’t think that things are all definite, including any matters in your own head.”
“What do you an?” Li Huowang found that he could not understand what she was trying to convey.
“Why are you so certain that you must be from the other world? Why do you not think that you could be soone from this land? Who knows if those fantasy realms are fake, and all imagined by yourself?” asked Abbess Jingxin.
“Impossible! Definitely impossible! I know that so of the situations that happened in Zephyr Temple were hallucinations, but I definitely lived before in the modern world! I transmigrated from there! I am a transmigrator! I’m not so lunatic who concocted an entirely different world in my head!” Li Huowang’s eyes were bloodshot as he retorted loudly. His hands were trembling as he clenched them into fists. It was as though a sensitive nerve had been struck.
Jingxin did not dispute anything, and only slanted her face slightly, as though thinking of sothing. “Hehe, my son had said these words to before. Like you, he could remain clear-headed at tis. However, at other tis, he would be confused and spout nonsense. But as his mother, I’m certain about one thing—ever since he ca out of my tummy, he never left my side. He didn’t go to any other world. That was all made up by his imagination.”
Li Huowang beca petrified when he heard those words, his breathing becoming erratic. Everything from his past started to rapidly flash through his mind.
Yang Na, my mother, the hospital, my school.Are all these non-existent? Is it possible that that world never even existed? Does a modern world even exist?
In that instant, Li Huowang felt that everything around him was unreal and illusory.
What is real? What is fake?!
Did I not transmigrate here? Was I originally soone from here, and there never was any modern world in the first place? Everything I believed to be true was just sothing made up by my imagination? No, this is not right. There must be so mistake sowhere!
Li Huowang gradually began to lose control of his emotions. His breathing quickened, and his expression grew more and more nacing.
At this mont, his sense of self was crumbling, and he needed to find an outlet for the massive amount of stress built up within himself.
Suddenly, his gaze hardened, and he glared fiercely at Abbess Jingxin.
However, before he could even say anything, the plump woman pointed her greasy finger at him and mimicked his voice, "No! You're trying to deceive ~! You have sinister motives toward !! Everything you're saying is fake! You want to harm , don't you?! It's not going to be that easy!!"
After speaking these words, she looked at Li Huowang, who was frozen in place. A gentle smile was once again plastered on her plump and swollen face. "Hehe, you were just about to say these things to , right? In fact, my own son said the sa things to before. Ah, thinking back, it feels like it was just yesterday. I really do miss those tis."
Chacha and Char's Thoughts
Yeah it's pretty fucked up not knowing which side is real and which is not, but hey that makes the novel entertaining
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