The Fool of the Gods

The battle in the flower garden continued. Honglin and Epsika fought fiercely, but under the pressure of the giant bear, Epsika had more and more scars on his body. The light blue fluorescent blood was almost sprayed on every piece of land in the flower garden, nourishing these "corruption flowers" inserted upside down in the land like fertilizer.

Outside the battlefield, Cheng Shi was still thinking.

He was thinking about what the so-called "future" was and why it was related to himself.

To be honest, he thought that the "future" that Zhen Yi was persistently looking for might be his future self. This is easy to think about and the easiest to think of, but the problem is that it is useless to think about it. This view needs to be supported.

Cheng Shi needs to find a key evidence to confirm that "the future Cheng Shi" is the key evidence of this prophecy, but he has been thinking for a long time and has not thought of any clues, so he decided to change his thinking.

First assume that Cheng Dashi has been here.

Although it is impossible to determine which future Cheng Dashi came from, and how similar his experience is to mine, it is better to use your own perspective to make the most intuitive guess: if this is a Cheng Dashi who has very similar experiences to mine and whose personality has never changed, then everything I am experiencing now has at least a little room for explanation.

At least, if I go back to the past, I won't let my past self discover my existence so easily.

Cheng Shi once thought that if he went back to the past, he would probably just watch his past self's fun and not do anything, but this premise is that his future self accidentally got the opportunity to go back to the past!

But if you connect it with the Su Yida incident, perhaps the truth is far from as simple as "just a look"!

So, if Cheng Dashi has other purposes, he will definitely leave a little clue for himself after he comes back, because he can only trust himself in this [time]!

And the most important point is... he still needs to hide it from the [Gods]!

If Cheng Dashi in the future wanted to do something in the past but still had to be completely exposed under the eyes of the [Gods], then he would not do it so secretly, and that would also mean that he was using the illusion of "going back to the past" to deceive people, which meant that in fact all this had nothing to do with him, and perhaps he was just playing a game with them in [time].

But since he did it so secretly, it means that he needs to hide it from the [Gods]. But the question is, what clues can not only make himself who can't hide it from the [Gods] think of it, but also hide it from [Them] at the same time?

Cheng Shi recalled for a long time but couldn't get the point, but thinking about it, he suddenly thought of a question.

Memory!

Is recalling in order to figure out all these things a clue?

So why do we need to recall, and for what?

Memory... Wait, wait!

[Memory]!

Cheng Shi's eyes widened suddenly. He suddenly thought of an incredible way to pass on information that "can make him think of it and hide it from the gods", that is:

Let [them] speak the hint unconsciously!

Cheng Shi finally thought of an important piece of information that he had overlooked, which was a sentence that [Memory] had said when he was summoned:

"But this farce has not yet come to an end. Your restless benefactor has added another stroke to the collection that has not yet been completed.

Although this stroke erased myself, this repeated provocation makes me lose face."

Cheng Shi's pupils shrank, and he finally found the "answer"!

This stroke erased myself!

Ha, hahaha, hahahahaha!

What a "future", what a "self", it is really exactly the same as myself, coming silently and leaving quietly!

No, he is much better than me, because he even calculated the temper of [Memory]. He used [Memory]'s complaints to give himself enough hints, that is: the future self has been here before!

Cheng Shi's eyes suddenly lit up, so, that killing game from the future was set by you, Cheng Dashi?

Did you send Su Yida back to kill me?

Okay, that's how you play it, right? You are sure that I can't die, right? You have to give me some strength, right!

OK, you are really good!

So far, although there is still no actual evidence to support it, after finding a logical basis that can explain the many appearances in front of him, at least all the thoughts in Cheng Shi's mind have been sorted out.

That is, the future Cheng Dashi did not come back quietly, but set a game for the present in the future!

What he did was in line with his temperament, and his behavioral logic was almost the same as his own. So, he probably didn't come back to pit himself.

But the problem is, heWhat do you want to do?

Again, if it is really Cheng Dashi who is exactly the same as himself, he will never have any intersection with his past self, just like he was in the cemetery in his dream just now. No matter how miserable Cheng Shi cried at that time, his current self would not appear beside him to comfort him.

Because this is our fate, a lonely fate.

So why did Cheng Dashi violate this principle and come back to set up a game?

Cheng Shi couldn't figure it out, because he didn't know what exactly happened in the future, but he could guess and bring himself into the guess.

If he was the Cheng Shi in the future, what exactly happened that would make him go back to the past so secretly and set up a game for his past self?

Due to the invisibility of the future, he couldn't completely substitute, so Cheng Shi began to work backwards from the present.

If the dream last night had not dissipated, under what circumstances would he intervene in the past and affect the self in the dream who was still in school?

He couldn't figure it out, because even when Lao Jia died, he didn't think of telling Xiao Chengshi to do something in advance, so what else could he change?

Cheng Shi pondered for a moment and began to think about the worst.

He was thinking that if one day he was about to forget Lao Jia, would he choose to go back and tell little Cheng Shi through a small thing so that he could prepare in advance and engrave his memory?

Probably, but Cheng Shi didn't think he would forget Lao Jia. Even if the [Gods] used all means, he had the confidence to remember.

Because the path he took, the things he did, and the people he served were all carrying the will of Lao Jia. He was brought up by Lao Jia, and as long as he was still alive, it was the best consolation for Lao Jia.

But what if... he died?

Death is death, no big deal, death is just another way of reunion.

But if he had the opportunity to continue to recall the past and miss Lao Jia, but had to die because of some events beyond his ability to deal with, would he want to give his past self a chance?

Just like now, if the dream is about to collapse due to external interference and can never be repeated in the years to come, would I want to give Cheng Shi in the dream a chance to continue the dream, even if it is an unfortunate nightmare?

Thinking of this, Cheng Shi hesitated.

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