Chapter 113: Star Chasing Journey (End)
Professor Tang’s pupils constricted slightly, then she calmly took a sip of tea and said, “Continue.”
“And why you weren’t assimilated, perhaps you were very lucky, your will was very firm, and you very early on became what we call a ‘Yugui’.”
“Indeed, but for me, I am not a ‘Yugui’,” Professor Tang corrected. “As a director of the Friendly Association of Extraterrestrial Civilizations, an expert in inter-civilizational exchange, and a friendly ambassador of the Universe, I merely serve as a bridge.”
“Even at the cost of other people’s lives?” Liu Sheng cut straight to the point.
“For a noble ideal, sacrifice is inevitable. Our goal has always been the high dimension. Only by entering the high dimension world can we become higher life forms in the Universe and ultimately achieve salvation.”
At this moment, Professor Tang had torn off her initial gentle and friendly mask, revealing her cold and resolute side.
“So this is your purpose? To achieve salvation?” Liu Sheng asked.
“Aren’t you making all these efforts for the same reason? That inferior thing with a high dimension aura you secretly hold in your hand, and that little thing hiding in your body, afraid to face me—aren’t you making all those preparations just to survive?”
Professor Tang smiled gently, but there was a hint of mockery at the corner of her mouth.
“You can’t call it a little thing, that’s my ‘Mom’!”
“No, I refuse to accept it. Is ‘world 2.0’ still considered an inferior thing?”
Liu Sheng was not surprised that Professor Tang could see through her trump card, but she had no other thoughts besides that, feeling somewhat puzzled instead.
Professor Tang looked at Liu Sheng’s reaction and burst into laughter.
“So that’s it, so that’s it! You still don’t know that your world will become like mine… Forget it, not knowing is happier, otherwise, you’ll live in despair like me.”
“You continue.”
Liu Sheng ignored Professor Tang’s ridicule and continued to speak.
“Later, you were eventually sealed by the Federal Government, and you were imprisoned, but not in a prison, but in your laboratory in Cosmic Village.”
“Because the Federal Government hoped you could continue your research. The reason was that at that time, your world also began to have an endless stream of strange incidents, but only you could control, resist, and imprison these weird objects, which you called aliens.”
“Yes, I think what you mean is that both our worlds have become rotten apples, and those weird objects are like what you call food waste, flowing into them and ultimately polluting the entire apple, leading to a complete dead end.”
Liu Sheng had long seen the tragic state of the Seven Profound Decree World and also saw the darkness descending upon the Northern Territory now, so she was not surprised by the talk of a dead end.
“So you knew. Why aren’t you despairing?” Professor Tang was somewhat surprised.
“Because I don’t have the qualification or ability to worry about this matter right now. I’ll talk about it when I learn more.”
Liu Sheng’s idea was simple and very reasonable.
Walk the path that can be walked now, and never self-destruct.
“Perhaps it’s because you are already the tall one in your world, so you have no choice but to stand tall.”
Professor Tang gave a bitter smile, acknowledging the statement.
“Later, how you fell out with the Federal Government, I don’t know. Perhaps they started slaughtering your employees, your villagers, or perhaps they were just using you for experiments and didn’t really want to eradicate the weird objects, but rather wanted to use them to create ultimate weapons, or perhaps you just got tired of being locked up and wanted to go out for a stroll.”
With each sentence Liu Sheng spoke, Professor Tang’s face darkened a little more.
“Finally, one day, you began to use the collected weird objects to gradually transform yourself into the form on the blueprint, becoming a true weird object.”
“Because in our real three-dimensional world, only weird objects can travel through wormholes.”
“And your design was precisely that of a spaceship capable of moving at high speed through wormholes. Just like that, you became a spaceship, escaped from your prison, and ultimately entered the high dimension.”
Professor Tang applauded: “You’ve pretty much got it right.”
“However, I wanted to become a spaceship not just to enter the high dimension myself, but to carry my believers with me into the high dimension.”
“Are they with you now?” Liu Sheng asked curiously.
“No, they were all killed by the Federal Government.” Professor Tang gritted her teeth, her face gloomy.
“Then you didn’t bring any other Humans?”
“No, I killed the others.”
Professor Tang’s words were an understatement.
“Isn’t this just world destruction?”
“So the one who destroyed the world wasn’t the weird objects, but her own people.”
“No, she’s a weird object now too.”
“Yes, a world where everyone only knows how to chase fame and fortune, and doesn’t understand how to look up at the stars, has no reason to exist.” Professor Tang snorted coldly.
“So that’s why you unleashed such a Weird Domain to find believers who could enter the high dimension with you?”
“And these are all your petri dishes.” Liu Sheng pointed to the endless box worlds.
“When you travel in the Universe for a long time, you will be lonely.” Professor Tang followed Liu Sheng’s gaze to her creations and murmured, “Even if you have already become a weird object, you will still miss your own race.”
“So every time I arrive at a Human Race world, I start to investigate if there are any believers who can enter the high dimension with me.”
“At the same time, you also hope to use them to obtain supplies, right?” Liu Sheng frowned. “Since the raw Materials of your body are weird objects.”
Professor Tang nodded.
“Indeed, it’s impressive that you thought of that.”
She did not deny her selfish motives: “Traveling in the high dimension world is not always smooth sailing, so new alien creatures are occasionally needed to repair my body.”
At this point, the full picture of the story was pretty much pieced together.
Professor Tang praised Liu Sheng: “I like you very much.”
“Thank you,” Liu Sheng said very frankly.
“So, are you willing to join me and enter the high dimension with me?”
“Not as my believer, but as my partner.”
Professor Tang directly extended an olive branch to Liu Sheng.
Liu Sheng paused for a moment, then shook her head.
“Why?” Professor Tang didn’t expect anyone to refuse such a great opportunity.
“Perhaps you still don’t understand what the high dimension is like? If you really want to understand, it’s Ascension. Look at my abilities, how are they different from an Immortal? And in your world, because… haha, there’s no opportunity.” Professor Tang spoke very vaguely, as if she dared not mention a certain existence.
Liu Sheng still shook her head.
“I admire your perseverance and ability. You are even ruthless enough to transform yourself; you are very powerful. But I don’t like your actions, and I don’t agree with some of your ideas,” Liu Sheng confessed.
“Furthermore, I have my family, my friends, and my career in this world. I am far from the time to consider so-called Ascension.”
“Also, I don’t want to exist as food waste.”
Hearing this, Professor Tang smiled ambiguously.
However, she was not the type to force people; she preferred others to obey willingly, so she no longer tried to persuade her.
She knew that one day, they would meet again, so it was better to leave a line open now.
“So, can you let me and my partners leave, and then leave this world as well? My parents are too close to you.”
This was also the reason why Liu Sheng desperately wanted to jump out of the box and talk to the mastermind behind it.
As long as communication is possible, there is a chance for successful communication.
And Professor Tang was indeed exceptionally easy to communicate with people she admired.
“Yes.”
“Moreover, you can choose a world below to leave from.”
“Choose a world?” Liu Sheng blinked.
“You should understand that in each world, your experiences will be more or less different,” Professor Tang said.
She pointed her hand at the grids, then used her thumb and forefinger to zoom in on the situations inside the grids for Liu Sheng to see.
“For example, in this one, only you and Wen Weilan are alive, but you obtained more than a dozen weird objects, and you don’t have to share the money with others.”
“And this one, everyone is alive and healthy, and they also harvested nearly twenty weird objects.”
“This one is a bit worse; all the Mortals died, but you Hunters of the Strange are all alive, including Luo Lu, and the harvest is not small.”
“You can think about it.” Professor Tang was quite patient with Liu Sheng.
“I want to ask for clarification,” Liu Sheng asked, “These worlds are all based on my world unfolding on this cross-section of the Weird Domain, right? In reality, according to the longitudinal time axis, my growth and experiences in each world will be somewhat different?”
“Definitely, but as I said, you are you.”
Professor Tang understood Liu Sheng’s concerns, so she didn’t mind her considering carefully.
“So, choose!”
How will you choose?
(^－^)V Successfully published three chapters, my brain is fried.