So I became a witch

All the equipment on my body, including the body machine, was automatically retracted into the inventory due to excessive damage. The long repair time made me more sure that I was indeed hit by the attack of the fortress. thing.

However, he somehow survived and appeared in such a strange place.

"Shouldn't it be impossible to retreat just like that... Ah, yes." I turned on the projection screen, and the button to give up the game in the lower right corner was still functioning normally, "I thought it would become like the knife O God's Domain" The development of ... No, if that is the case, it will be troublesome."

So, should we just give up?After hesitating for a moment, I chose to give up.After finally entering such a strange place, it would be a shame not to observe it carefully.Anyway, the time until the end of the first day is still too early, even if you go out directly now, you can only wait until tomorrow to be resurrected, so why not observe more here.

"The scan is complete, and the location is confirmed to be—the complex area of ​​the Eden Network." Ling said suddenly.

"The cluttered area? What's that?"

"The neural network of all human beings is connected to create a virtual world. However, in this process, there must be a large number of blank areas after processing. In analogy, it can be understood as Eden's 'subconscious world'." Ling quickly explained to me.

"The subconscious mind, that is to say, is it a dream-like place? So how did I get from Vutrisa to this kind of place?" I said with my arms crossed.

"I can't explain the reason for the time being. I can't connect with the outside world. Are you going to take an escape action?"

"Well, let's forget it for now. Since I decided to take a good look here, I'll just stay for a while." Saying this, I chose a direction at random and started to move forward.

But soon, I regretted my decision.After walking for more than ten minutes, the scenery in front of me still hasn't changed. Without a reference, I can't even tell whether I am moving forward or standing still.

Just when I was considering whether to forcefully use the Void Eye again, a glimmer of light finally appeared in the world that had never changed.

Following the direction indicated by the light spot, I finally discovered its original appearance after I approached it.

A door?

I froze for a moment, but pressed the handle anyway.At that moment, the bright white light dispelled all the darkness, and I finally saw the whole picture of the world I was in.The lawn covered with emerald green stretches out one after another, the sky is blue, white clouds are floating slowly, and the sun in the distance casts just the right amount of warm sunlight.Everything is so leisurely, people can't help but want to yawn.

However, if you look closely, you will find that this world is also absurd.A strip-shaped alarm clock wriggled on the ground, a snail the size of a hill slowly crawled behind him, leaving behind a sticky path, a goldfish with wings fluttered in the air, and the canopy of a lush giant tree covered the land In the middle of the tree, the roots of the tree are exposed outside... As long as you look carefully, you will find that there are too many unreasonable things hidden in this world.

"This is Eden's dream, and it is also the dream of all mankind." Someone's voice besides mine suddenly sounded in this world.

I turned around, and the door I entered just now had disappeared, replaced by a column made of sand, and a girl with black hair was sitting on it, looking at the sky intently.

"You are..." I subconsciously wanted to say her name, but when the words came to my lips, my brain suddenly went blank, as if my memory had been erased by something.I clearly remember her appearance and her name, but I can't remember her at all.

"Well, that's fine, there's no need to say anything. If it wasn't here, it would be really difficult to talk to you, but even if it's like this, it won't last long." The black-haired girl jumped directly from the sand pillar Coming down, with her movements, those sand pillars turned into countless sands again, and then gathered together again, turning into a table and two chairs.The girl sat on one of the chairs generously, looked at me with a smile and said, "Do you want to sit down?"

I silently sat across from her, and when I saw the height of the table and chairs, I realized that I had changed from my original avatar to a loli at some point.

"So, do you want to drink milk tea? Don't worry, this is not sand." The girl clapped her hands, and immediately two porcelain cups appeared on Shasha's table, and there was a cup of hot milk tea in the cups.

I took the cup, but didn't drink it right away, I just looked straight at the girl: "Don't we know each other before?"

"At least for 'this you', you probably don't know it." The girl replied straightforwardly.

I frowned: "What does this mean?"

The girl asked back: "So, do you think this is the first time we have met?"

"Huh? Of course it's the first time..." For a moment, an abrupt feeling of disgust appeared in my heart.Like a wrong-buttoned collar, my head was filled with uncomfortable feelings like, "No, it shouldn't be the first time..."

Something must never be forgotten, something went wrong.

"...It really is like this, already, don't you have time?" the girl murmured.

"What are you talking about..." I covered my head, the sudden sharp pain completely disrupted my thinking, and I could only ask instinctively.

"Of course it's the time when this world is completely swallowed up by the witch."

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"Witch...girl? Witch...witch..." I kept repeating this familiar but unfamiliar word, so that my mind could concentrate a little bit, "Witch...by the way...I am...for... The Seal Witch is..."

"It's not like that. Because, the witch has already awakened."

The girl's words were like a thunderbolt, waking me up from the confusion.

"You said the witch has awakened? What does that mean? In that case, this world..."

My voice stopped abruptly.

Yes, I should have known.

But why didn't he notice anything until now?

"I have a question." I said, looking into each other's eyes.

"Ah."

"How many times have we met like this?"

"Counting this time, it should be No. 11." The girl replied straightforwardly as if she knew that I would ask such a question.

"In that case, why can't I remember it once?"

"...That's because the power of the Corrosion Witch is far beyond your imagination. For this reason, I have to adopt such a method to avoid being discovered by her. But even so, after this time, it is already the limit Alright." The girl said lightly.

"Sorry, I'm still a bit confused, let me sort it out a little bit." I rubbed my head to clear myself up, "You're that voice that keeps popping up in my head, right?"

"That's right." The other party quickly admitted.

I didn't expect to catch the master so easily, which made me stunned for a moment.But soon, I couldn't help complaining: "So it's you! You've been saying weird things since the physical examination, but you haven't said them clearly, which made me really care about it!"

"Sorry, I'm sorry, because I have a lot of problems here." The girl folded her hands together and apologized, "Also, a lot of things happened on your side, right? If you just drag you over regardless, you won't be happy, right?"

"You said pull me over? And you know about my world?" I was taken aback.

"Well, because I can see it through it." The girl stretched out her index finger and tapped my chest.As if catering to her movements, the necklace shimmered, "Although it is only a key, it is also a part of the emperor's weapon after all. Like the 'Star Seal Sword' you hold, 'Eternal The City of Breaking Time and Space' also has a power beyond common sense, that is, in the literal sense, the power of the absolute field that no force can interfere with, 'sealed'."

"... How much do you really know?"

"Since it is a power that can isolate the dimension, then in turn, you can naturally use it to see the story of another dimension. The pain and torture you have experienced, your struggle and hard work, and the sinking of thousands of years, all I have seen everything." The girl said with a smile, "You have done well enough."

"..."

For the first time, I heard someone say this to me.

I have been confused, hesitated, and doubted whether I have really tried my best and whether I can do better.

Even Meng and Luo Yuze, I have never confided my uneasiness to them.

I have to move on, and I have to move on.If I stop, it's all over.

why?What is this feeling that surrounds my chest?

"...Ha, what are you talking about? I'm just an ordinary person who can't be more ordinary. If I were replaced by someone else, I would definitely be able to do better than me..." After a long silence, I slowly calmed down. exhaled.

"That doesn't exist." The girl categorically rejected my hypothesis, "There is no other person who can stand in your position in this world, because that is you, and only you can complete the mission. No matter the result For better or worse, there's no way there's a better guy than you."

"...you make it sound like you know everything."

"Because I just know that thanks to your hard work, I have persisted in this world until now." The girl smiled lightly, "It is you who made me understand that besides myself, there are still people who are still fighting for this rotten world. The world is struggling, and from beginning to end, she has never despaired or given up. To me, you are the 'starlight' that illuminates the road ahead."

"Wait, wait for me! Don't you feel too embarrassed to say this? Give me another way to say it!" I said, shaking my head with a reddish face.

"Is that so? I don't think so."

"All in all, I have never done such a great thing as you said! From the beginning to the end, it was all for myself! I am such a selfish guy! This topic ends here!" I I took a big sip of milk tea to calm my throbbing heart a little bit, "That is to say, you have been spying on me through this necklace since the time of the physical examination, right?"

"That's right." The girl agreed with a bright face.

"...So, how much do you know about me?"

The girl raised a finger to her lips, and began to think seriously: "For example, the Void Eye, witch transformation, and the matter of defeating the Nine Witches and becoming the Star King..."

"Isn't that almost all?!"

"Is that so? So I said everything just now. However, I'm not very clear about everything else. After all, it's impossible to observe your every moment because of the gap between the worlds. ’” the girl explained.

Judging from her reaction, it should be that she didn't know that my predecessor still had dreams. Although I don't know if it was her disguise, but it also made me feel relieved.After all, the existence of dreams is my biggest secret. Even Luo Yuze doesn't know about it. If she finds out, I really have no privacy at all.

"If I knew this, I should have thrown away that necklace." I said angrily.

"Don't say such heartless words, thanks to it, I was able to guide you to me when you drifted away from your own world." The girl said.

"... No wonder I felt something was wrong when I woke up from the desert. Before that, I should have met you, right?" I said.

"That's right, after being guided by the 'key', you did meet me first. However, in order to prevent her from noticing, I didn't tell you too much, and before you left here, I completely erased all information about me memories. Of course, all of this is done with your consent." The girl said unhurriedly.

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"So, what happened to the eleven meetings you mentioned earlier?"

"...We'll talk about that later. You should have brought it?"

"what?"

"It's what you bring with you every time you come here."

"Even if you say that, I can't remember... Huh?" I subconsciously took out a small ball from my pocket.

Strange, I clearly remember that it was not eaten by Ariel, why did it appear here...

No, it's not real.

"Is it a dream..." I muttered to myself, vaguely understanding what the girl said.

Anyway, I opened the orb, which contained all the objects I knew from memory, clothes, weapons, and a whole lot of messy data, and...

"This is?" I picked up a marked star map.

"Great, it seems that you brought it well this time." The girl said.

"Uh, is this what you're talking about?" I said hesitantly, "Isn't it just a few ordinary photos of the starry sky?"

"It's not just that, it's the only one left in the world, a portrayal of the 'real world'."

"'Real World'?"

"Well, it's a pity that the person who made it died after learning the truth, and that photo was also divided into many fragments, like what you hold in your hand, is part of it. It is said that As long as you can collect all the photos, you can get a glimpse of the reality of this world."

"It turns out that there are collection elements attached? But I only have these in my hands, so I can't get them all together?" I said with my hands open.

"Ah, don't worry about that, because 'every time' you come here, you will bring some 'fragments', counting the 'fragments' this time, it happens to be all." The girl snapped her fingers lightly , everything on the desktop except for the starry sky map disappeared without a trace, and more "fragments" appeared on the table instead.

Looking at the tens of thousands of photos piled up at that moment, I was really taken aback: "You said, I collected all these?"

"Well, it really took a lot of effort for this." The girl looked at the hill in front of her and sighed, "The next thing is to let the long-disappeared 'truth' return to the present world again."

Puzzle work is more cumbersome than imagined.Although there are serial numbers, the serial numbers themselves are also messed up, so I have to search for the connectable parts piece by piece in tens of thousands of almost similar starry sky maps.

The girl was sitting across from me, equally earnestly looking for the correct order.It's incredible, obviously in my memory, we met only for a moment, but I trusted her without thinking.I gently picked up a photo, carefully stroked the slightly raised lines with my fingers, and suddenly felt a sense of familiarity and strangeness pouring into my heart.In the memory, it seemed that someone held his hand tightly and shouted something loudly.

"..." I shook my head, so that I could calm down more.

Behind every photo, there seems to be a special encounter, but unfortunately, I can't remember anything now.I can only force myself to keep picking it up and putting it down, repeating almost the same work.

After all, how long has passed.In front of us, it was just a bunch of chaotic photos like hills, but they were gradually connected together.

"This is the last one." The girl gently picked up the last photo and put it in the last blank.

We all hold our breath as we look carefully at this map of the sky that connects the panorama of the universe.The rays of light composed of billions of billions of stars illuminate this vast and vast world, and in the invisible darkness, it is unknown how many planets are lurking.In front of such a vast world, the existence of the earth is not even a single pixel.

"...It's just an ordinary map of the starry sky." After carefully observing every corner, I sighed.Although it is indeed spectacular enough, it is still too insignificant compared to what we are looking for. "Could it be that there is something wrong?"

"No, it doesn't seem to be the case." The girl kept her gaze fixed on the picture, and said with a serious face, "I can feel that something is hidden."

She closed her eyes slightly, and then opened them again. The originally emerald green right eye seemed to be covered by a blood mist. She stretched out a finger and slowly touched somewhere in the photo.

Before I was even surprised by the change in her right eye, I saw the panorama of the starry sky, and the lights of countless stars started to move.It's small, but it's happening.The originally disordered rays of light, as if being pulled by something, gradually gathered together, forming a shape like a finger.

"This is...?" Before my surprise lasted too long, the changes in the starlight became more intense, and more and more rays of light converged. From a single finger, there were gradually more palms, ankles, thighs, The torso... the final result is a female silhouette like a crucified Jesus.

An indescribable fear spread in my heart.The answer to everything is obvious, why I still can't find the existence of the Four Witches, it turns out that she is not sealed somewhere in this world——

——It's the world itself, the Four Witches.

"It really is." Compared with my shock, the girl seemed much calmer.

"Have you already guessed that?" I asked.

"Well, it's just that there is such a guess, and it has not been fully confirmed until now. Why does the 'erosion phenomenon' occur, the cause of the first and second cataclysms, as long as you consider this, everything will be clear. It's all simple and clear. Having said that, I'm afraid the witch was not in this form from the beginning."

"What does that mean?"

"I discovered some long-abandoned memories from the depths of Eden." The girl said, "Once upon a time, the gods who came to this world in ancient times paid an extremely painful price to defeat the witch, but even so did not To be able to resist the Witch's pace, I finally had to use a family's inherited secret treasure, the 'City of Eternal Time Break', to seal the Witch forever."

"But no matter how you look at it, the other party doesn't look like he's been honestly sealed up."

"Because the 'City of Eternal Breaking Time and Space' is dubbed the Emperor's Weapon, but it is the ultimate weapon that only the Emperor can use. If the user is not qualified, it will be difficult to exert its full power." The girl whispered, "As a result, the sealed witch is still eroding the world. The catastrophe and the erosion mean that she is getting closer and closer to the time when she completely breaks the seal." gone."