Asking the Endless Turtle to calculate whether my death was imminent really stumped the Endless Turtle.
If it lied, the person before it probably couldn't be fooled, but to speak the blunt truth... No one would take the news of their impending death well.
After hesitating again and again, and feeling the intensity of Tang Xian's knocks on the turtle shell growing stronger, the Endless Turtle, unable to bear the burden, finally spoke:
"You...cannot...live...and...leave."
Tang Xian frowned, was it really a death tribulation?
If he were to jump off the holy mountain now, a fall from thousands of ters wouldn't be able to kill him.
"Did the judge do sothing to ?"
"Cause...effect...cycle...realm."
"Realm?"
Tang Xian let the Endless Turtle continue explaining while he pondered on his own, since the Endless Turtle spoke way too slowly.
By the ti Tang Xian had worked it out, the Endless Turtle still hadn't finished speaking, but it had more or less confird Tang Xian's suspicions.
"So in that old guy's realm, no creature can leave, and even if they leave, they'll be dragged back? Does he still have that ability?"
Tang Xian looked solemn, and the other light-hearted topics he had in mind were no longer easy to broach. However, before long, he stopped knocking on the turtle shell, which had already begun to dent.
Tang Xian said:
"I heard you've never been wrong before?"
"That's...correct."
"Then it looks like I'm really going to die. What a hassle. When?"
"Can't...calculate...that."
"What use are you? Since life is short, I might as well enjoy it in ti. I'll eat you tonight."
"Seven...seven days later!"
The Endless Turtle was once again scared into speaking coherently.
Tang Xian nodded, his heart having anticipated sothing.
"The things I'm telling you today, you'll also say to others, right?"
"Dare...not."
"Better not dare. In the coming days, I will visit you, and if the judge steps out of the altar early, or sends soone to invite to the altar, I will kill you."
The Endless Turtle shed a few turbid tears. Tang Xian continued:
"Now that I'm about to die, let's talk about sothing cheerful and relaxing. No, that's not quite cheerful either. I'll ask you, do you know Bai Mansheng and Qing JiuYu? You calculated for the both of them, said they were going to compete for a man."
"Sowhat...recall."
"That's good, tell , who is that man?"
The Endless Turtle struggled. It indeed had calculated many years ago, after all, Qing JiuYu was a catastrophe-level creature, and the judge would require the Endless Turtle to divine for all catastrophe-level creatures.
Because what the Endless Turtle could see also wasn't controllable.
Many creatures' futures could only be glimpsed in fragnts, so were of death, so were just a fra in their lives.
Qing JiuYu and Bai Mansheng, however, appeared in the sa fra.
But who that man was, it couldn't calculate.
"Can't...calculate."
"Are you just responsible for digging holes without filling them? Were you mixed up with so Chinese web in your past life?"
The Endless Turtle did not understand, but added:
"That...person...is very...much...like...you."
"This is troubleso."
There wasn't a hint of happiness in Tang Xian's eyes. Firstly, the death tribulation was imminent, and secondly, the man Bai Mansheng and Qing JiuYu were competing for couldn't really be him, could it?
Shaking his head, Tang Xian said:
"There's one more thing, can you calculate anything that has appeared in this world?"
"Mostly...yes."
"Tell where the ruins of Eden are."
The Endless Turtle didn't understand why, knowing that he could only live for seven more days, this person still wanted to concern himself with such an epheral place.
Tang Xian said:
"What? You won't tell?"
In the end, the Endless Turtle still slowly relayed so information about the ruins of Eden.
But it still sounded sowhat superfluous, because the ruins of Eden, too, were a wandering secret realm.
It had no fixed location.
This did resolve the confusion in Tang Xian's mind. If humans had been able to find the ruins of Eden, then why couldn't existences like the judge find it?
So perhaps it wasn't humans who had found the ruins of Eden, but the ruins of Eden that had found humanity.
"From what it seems now, after the Twilight of the Gods, with the six great beast gods fallen, only the judge survives, and humans within the Pyramid are playing two roles. On one hand, they are like lab rats for the keepers of order to observe and learn from, and on the other, they are becoming the raw materials for the chanical race."
Tang Xian silently pondered that the judge, or humanity behind the holy mountain sanctuary, may be constructing so vastly grand plan.
All these inferences made sense. If it were so, the future seed too hopeless.
And now, the hidden clue that would truly complete the puzzle was Eden.
What exactly was his power of Eden all about?
What had his parents done back then?
"I'll ask you, do you know of the two humans who ca to this world?"
The Endless Turtle slowly shook its head.
Seeing that the Endless Turtle had always been truthful, Tang Xian no longer pressed the issue. He let out a helpless sigh and said:
"Do you like playing word gas?"
"Don't...understand."
"Like a phrase that because of your unclear descriptions, leads to differing thoughts in the listener?"
The Endless Turtle still didn't understand and just looked at Tang Xian, sowhat confused.
"Like competing for a man, like I cannot live and leave."
Tang Xian stood up.
Seeing the Endless Turtle still confused, he didn't offer any explanation. He patted the turtle's head and said:
"Actually, I can prove that this world doesn't have a predetermined future."
"How...can...you...prove...it?"
Reviews
All reviews (0)