Uplifting Journey

World No. 0 of the Inner Domain, at a certain point in the 21st century of human civilization on Earth, in a certain city in the mainland of China in Asia.

Under the sparse and blurred starlight due to air pollution, a brown-black car was driving on the expressway around the city. While observing the road conditions, the black-haired young man was helplessly coping with the nagging of the co-driver and his parents in the back seat.

The short-haired young man driving the car is called Cheng Bin. Today is his birthday. He was dragged by his parents to a well-known restaurant far away for a big meal, and he is on his way home now.

Hmm, ah, Cheng Bin, who was dealing with his parents, glanced at the rearview mirror, stared at the familiar white car behind him, and sighed inwardly—no wonder his parents dragged him so far to celebrate his birthday in a mysterious way, feeling It's organizing a blind date.

Cheng Bin is very familiar with Uncle Liu's family in the car behind. After all, he was taken care of by them a lot when he was a child. Uncle Liu's daughter, let alone a childhood sweetheart, is not a big problem even if she is a younger sister.

But since he moved in with his parents after graduating from high school and going to university, he spent much less time with Uncle Liu's family, and he hadn't seen Uncle Liu's daughter who went to school in other places for several years.

So it was a bit embarrassing to be dragged over to go on a blind date with her all of a sudden today. I think the situation of the other party is similar to my own

Cheng Bin, who could not bluntly reject his parents' kindness, drove the car with complicated thoughts, and suddenly a strange feeling that could not be described rose from the bottom of his heart.

As if endless information flowed from the bottom of my heart without leaving a trace, Cheng Bin seemed to understand a lot of things in an instant, but when he thought about it carefully, he seemed to understand nothing.

In a trance, Cheng Bin's spirit seems to have been separated from his body, and his perspective and thinking floated up from the body driving the vehicle without any abnormality, entering an extremely mysterious state.

As if schizophrenic, Cheng Bin was talking to his parents while driving the vehicle, while paying attention to his wonderful mental state, while turning the focus of his eyes to look directly in front of the vehicle that was slowly turning.

When the focus of Cheng Bin's gaze was on the side of the curved driveway, in the void above the isolation strip, a terrifying black figure with a strange shape suddenly appeared there, and then penetrated the air, the car window and Cheng Bin's body like lightning.

Seeing this supernatural phenomenon beyond common sense, Cheng Bin's undisturbed body was still maintaining the normal and stable driving of the vehicle. Thousands of thoughts should have appeared in his heart, but in the end there was only one thought that illogically popped up in his heart float up.

——It turns out that after the high-dimensional interference force changes the state of matter, it exits from the time axis? That’s right, after breaking a chopstick with Nian Qi, even if the Nian Qi acting on that time point is retracted afterwards, the inexplicable force and the breaking of the chopsticks that are the result of the interference in the time segment will not change.

After this inexplicable idea appeared, Cheng Bin subconsciously glanced at the white car in the rearview mirror, and then his state of trance became more serious, and scenes flashed through his mind one after another——

Crash and tumble, blood and flames, hospital beds and tombstones

When Cheng Bin recovered from his trance, he was already lying in his bedroom. The fluorescent clock hands on the wall had just slightly staggered from the completely overlapping state.

Cheng Bin opened his eyes and lay quietly on the bed. The successive strange incidents did not make him feel uneasy. He felt that something was brewing in his thoughts.

Amidst the noise of vehicles and people in the distance outside the window, Cheng Bin could hear the slight breathing of his parents who slept earlier in the next room, and a complex feeling floated up in his heart—inexplicably relieved, but also with a faint sigh

The dim light penetrating through the curtains creates shadows among the furniture, and the black of different shades wriggles and twists. The extremely ordinary scene seems to have a strange meaning in Cheng Bin's eyes, a kind of absurdity that makes ordinary people The creepy strangeness filled the room in the middle of the night.

Cheng Bin's eyes fell on the twisted and deep darkness between the wardrobe and the computer desk. He always felt that there seemed to be something there, peeking at him from the darkness.

In the past, Cheng Bin might have been agitated by this kind of thing that became more terrifying the more he paid attention to it, but now his heart is full of peace.

Without thinking, all kinds of information will appear in Cheng Bin's mind, and without control, Cheng Bin's body will automatically respond.

Cheng Bin, who stared at the deep darkness for a while, felt a ripple in his heart. The distorted darkness, which cannot be discerned with the naked eye, gradually wove a concrete outline in his heart, which looked like...

A little black cat?

As if a switch had been pressed in his mind, Cheng Bin's upper body bounced stiffly off the bed as if electrocuted.

A few waves appeared in the ocean of information surging like a torrent at the bottom of the mind, and some things that could be recognized and processed by ordinary human brains emerged in Cheng Bin's consciousness.

Cheng Bin, who had too many things in his mind to form a complete thought, opened his eyes wide and looked at the ordinary shadow in the corner, and then went to the ground barefoot in his pajamas.

Cheng Bin, who walked to the window in two steps, opened the curtains with a slam, and slowly slid open the French window lock. Then he walked to the edge of the balcony, leaned on the railing, and looked at the brightly lit city in the distance of the dark neighborhood. Then he raised his head and turned his gaze to the bright moon and sparse stars in the sky.

A hallucinatory voice whispered in Cheng Bin's ear, and it seemed that he was talking to himself from the bottom of his heart.

——Compared to this infinitely vast starry sky, human beings only occupy a small amount of resources on the surface of a tiny planet. There are too many unknown scenery and knowledge in this world waiting for people to discover and explore

——Curiosity, seeking knowledge. The pursuit of the truth behind the vast world and endless time and space should be the ultimate dream of human beings.

"As far as this era is concerned, human beings are indeed super monsters capable of chasing such dreams, but people who are ordinary cells in the metabolic process of this monster are not. They can only focus on the life in front of them."

Cheng Bin suddenly laughed at himself, followed the feeling in his heart, stretched his shoulders back, and stretched his body. Under the action of an inexplicable force from which he did not know, his feet slowly left the ground.

After slowly floating up, Cheng Bin's figure suddenly accelerated. He avoided the high-rise balcony above his head, and completed a 360-degree turn while flying upwards, accompanied by the bright moon and starry sky and the residential quarters rotating from the field of vision. However, Cheng Bin finally landed on the roof of a small residential building.

The cold wind of September blew past, and Cheng Bin, who was standing barefoot on the roof in thin clothes, did not feel the slightest cold feeling. He glanced at the clothes on the steel wire between the long poles on the roof that no one knew which family had not recycled, and then turned his gaze to Throwing into the deep darkness at the corner of the roof fence.

A kitten the size of two palms, shaped by the twisted darkness, slowly walked out of the shadows and squatted not far in front of Cheng Bin.

A mechanically synthesized weird voice came from the mouth of the little black cat, which seemed to be open and closed: "Actually, you don't have to be so cautious. A mere body at a certain point in time is not a deep contact at all. It's okay to give it to you." There will be no negative impact."

Normal people should be surprised that the little black cat speaks human language, but Cheng Bin seems to be used to it.

Although he didn't understand what the little black cat said, the ocean of information at the bottom of his mind seemed to be able to analyze and process it, allowing him to skip all thinking and reflection steps and control his body to give correct feedback.

In the final analysis, it was because Cheng Bin had obtained too much from the waves of the ocean of information before, and Cheng Bin's mind seemed to be blocked and he was unable to think normally, but this did not affect his interaction with the outside world. This feeling is really Very wonderful.

Cheng Bin, who opened and closed his mouth automatically, responded to the little black cat: "After all, I am a part of the high-dimensional information body in the inner domain, and my act of interfering directly here is not much different from cutting people with a scalpel. Naturally, I have to be careful, but there is no interference with you in this process, which is really beyond my expectation."

"After all, you and the you in the inner domain are one." The little black cat looked down at the ground of the roof, and his eyes seemed to penetrate several floors.

Cheng Bin knew what the weird black cat was looking at—his parents who were resting at home.

Those intermittent pictures that were like illusions came to mind again, and Cheng Bin at this moment has understood what those pictures represent——

There was a car accident on the way back from the birthday dinner, his parents died, he was seriously injured, and he was finally admitted to a mental hospital.

"Thoughts." Cheng Bin gave a wry smile, "Just such a small thing has been changed, neighbors, policemen, doctors... a lot of people and things are affected. It's getting bigger and bigger over time."

The ocean of information in his heart once again had a few waves. Cheng Bin's vision seemed to transcend time and space at this moment. He overlooked the world spreading on the time axis, watching a trace of shock slowly enlarge and transmit, gradually forming a sweeping time axis. A huge tsunami downstream.

Too specific information can not be carried by Cheng Bin's current human body, but he still tries to observe the impact of this slowly growing tsunami on the world.

The fractured lines representing my parents continued to extend downstream of the time axis, but after the time-level shocks swept through, a large number of human lines in the distant future were obliterated before they were born, and the experiences of countless people were distorted and tampered with.

The human civilization that rushed out of the starry sky not long ago, after the time shock swept through, due to the lack of some key technologies, it wasted a long time on the earth with difficulty

Recovering from the grand vision outside the world, Cheng Bin continued to say without pause: "...why didn't you play the role of world restraint power, world correction power, etc., to eliminate the time caused by me?" What about the shock?"

The black cat sneered: "Does it make sense? Didn't you stop it? As long as you want to, directly and fully intervene in contact, and the world line of the inner domain can easily be brought under your control."

After a pause, the black cat sighed: "Since human civilization has not returned to the upper reaches of the time axis to protect itself, it means that it has not gained the power to approach dimensionality before the end of the corresponding time axis in the inner world. In this case, No matter how the timeline is changed, there will be no worse results, so why bother to adjust maintenance? Besides.”

After taking a deep look at Cheng Bin, the black cat shook his head: "The power of the high-dimensional information body here is no better than your current quantum avatar cluster. Even if you want to control everything, you will be powerless."

Cheng Bin was silent for a while, and then changed the subject: "At my current stage, I am only one step away from ascending the dimension, and it is almost within reach. You should stop perfunctory me with prohibited items, right? We can chat There are no more in-depth questions in the past.”

"However, Samael's warnings in the past are correct. Cheng Bin, the path of dimension ascension you took is destined to face the most terrifying danger after you take the last step to complete the dimension ascension."

The black cat of the system smiled, and then slowly said: "Cheng Bin, you don't need to ask too many questions here, as long as you take the last step in the inner domain, break through the most difficult obstacles and complete the dimension upgrade, you will naturally will know all that I know."

Cheng Bin narrowed his eyes slightly—has the system no longer called me the host? Is it because I have now been cut off from the high-dimensional information body it hosts? etc.

Cheng Bin looked at the black cat squatting in front of him with a subtle look, and asked in a strange tone: "Speaking of which, what kind of existence is the system you call boarding? From the high-dimensional knowledge I have accumulated so far Come and see.

"Quantum foam will be affected only by observation. It is impossible for the high-dimensional soul constructed on this level to operate internally, so the power of the high-dimensional information body can only be used by its main consciousness and related low-dimensional carriers, and you can mobilize the mind"

"Have you finally noticed?" The black cat of the system chuckled, "I implanted this system after the terminal created the inner domain and your high-dimensional information body, in order to control part of the power of the high-dimensional information body Qi, my form of existence can only be its soul personality.”

Under Cheng Bin's slightly changing gaze, the black cat's figure suddenly turned into an indescribable wriggling darkness, and then recondensed into shape while breathing.

A dark figure appeared in front of Cheng Bin, its height and outline were so familiar

When the black faded, as if looking in a mirror, a figure exactly the same as his current appearance appeared in front of Cheng Bin.

The black-haired young man smiled slightly and said: "In other words, if we put aside the spirit and only talk about material things, I am the high-dimensional you that is gathered from countless parallel you, Cheng Bin."

Then the black-haired young man kept a vague smile on his face and stepped forward, softly whispering amazing words in the breeze——

"So, come on and complete your final step of dimension ascension—kill me."

There are so many things, I almost wanted to write a leave note. By the way, it’s the end of the month, and I can use at least two leave notes, tsk tsk