Uplifting Journey

On the ambiguous boundary between reality and illusion, the consciousness of the deceased slowly awakens in the darkness.

The shocking and terrifying scene echoed in his heart along with intermittent memories——

In the morning peaks and evening valleys, the sea is dry and the rocks are rotten.

History has been tampered with, reality has been ravaged, and the future has been distorted.

Time and space are groaning, soul and matter are derailing, and all life can only watch helplessly as everything in the world collapses and shatters, wailing silently in the vortex sweeping across the sea of ​​stars.

On the tiny earth, the tiny so-called ultimate life witnessed the terrifying power of the awakened transcendent.

King Crimson, made in heaven.

In the aftermath of the war between the emperor who ruled the world and the first apostle of the gods, in the terrible natural disaster where the soul was pulled away and everything collapsed and reshaped in the vortex of time, the ultimate life named Katz gave up struggling and followed the unknown path. A lifeline dangling from nowhere escaped this terrible world.

In the abyss-like darkness with nothing left, Cheng Bin's consciousness got rid of the shackles, and he woke up again amidst the chaotic memories and emotions.

I'm alive?

After being numb for a long time, Cheng Bin temporarily got rid of the imprint of fear left in his heart, pulled out his consciousness from the disaster that overturned the world, and managed to sort out his thoughts——

Before, he should have been suddenly involved in some kind of high-level war. In order to protect himself in the turbulent time and space, he did not hesitate to lift the restrictions on his substitute and Katz consciousness, and use its power to protect himself.

A stabbing pain at the spiritual level interrupted Cheng Bin's thoughts, he was blinded for a while, and the whole person completely returned to normal.

I successfully escaped and returned? Then, the infinite lord who took me out of that terrible world and stabilized my consciousness that was on the verge of collapse?

All the senses returned to their original positions, and Cheng Bin, who noticed the sensations of ordinary human hands and feet, had no time to move, and saw a piece of pure white land expanding under his feet. White light balls of different sizes and distances quietly floated above his head.

Familiar information flows in Cheng Bin's consciousness——

[It is detected that the tester is fully awake, and enters the task settlement process——]

[Story World: JOJO's Bizarre Adventure]

[Trialist: Cheng Bin; Trial Mode: Advent; Advent Body: Katz]

[Trial Mission: Origin - Completion: 43%]

[Task Reward: Official certification of God Eater, Level 2 authority once, Level 1 authority 3 times, points 2540]

[Evaluation: Is it not good to live? 】

Everything experienced in the trial mission, the key parts of the scene were extracted and edited into a film, and the words of the Lord of Infinity flowed into Bin's mind.

He saw once again the research on himself and the exploration of the world after his descent, the battle with other substitute messengers under the causal fate involved in the descendant body, the predicament of being hunted down by the world emperor who distorted history, and being hunted down by the apostle of God. The embarrassment of crushing and persuading, the insignificance of struggling in the aftermath of the natural disaster-like war between the two transcendents.

Will the danger gradually increase over time? Some dangers ignore the order of time. I knew I shouldn't be so curious, and I should return directly before all the contradictions intensify.

Touching his bald head with undulating meridians, Cheng Bin frowned, and examined the strange comment of the Lord of Infinity: 'Isn't it good to live? I was not very positive before, just trying to survive?

A vague uneasiness spread in his heart, Cheng Bin closed his eyes and meditated for a while, before he caught the source of this uneasiness——

Under the dirty white coat, the ordinary human-level body that has been tossed into a very fragile body by viruses and experiments, and the brain under the bald skin is inefficient, frequently disconnected, and cannot fully withstand the trial experience

He lost the ultimate life body that came to Katz? Back in the shell that was first pulled into this infinite space?

If it was Cheng Bin before the trial, he might not be aware of certain problems in this process, but after seeing the terrifying power that interferes with parallel worlds and timelines, his vision has been broadened to a certain extent, and he has noticed some sensitive things. Question - who am I now, who am I?

Is he the Cheng Bin who stayed in the infinite space with his body and obtained the memory fragments of Cheng Bin in the trial world, or the Cheng Bin who came back from the trial world and seized his body to cover the body in the infinite space?

Or, his situation is worse than currently imagined?

Recalling the indirectly verified existence of Cheng Bin as a tester in other parallel worlds, Cheng Bin's face in the infinite space became a little cloudy——

Should I, taking advantage of the special environment of that trial world, try to verify and leave something behind?

Regardless of paying attention to the task rewards, Cheng Bin searched for the key mechanism of the return process in the information flow sent by the Lord of Infinity, but only found a description of strengthening reservations——

The trial in the advent mode protects the original body and mental state of the tester to the greatest extent, so the tester's body will not be directly contacted with the trial world.

At the end of this type of trial, the tester can retain the things that bring back according to their will, consumption authority and points, including but not limited to blood, power, and even complex condensed knowledge with mysterious characteristics, and reshape it through the Lord of Infinity Infuse ontology into forms that are common to all kinds of worlds.

So, the blurring of some of my memories about the trial world is not only because my brain is relatively slow now, but also because some information requires points to be retained?

Cheng Bin frowned slightly, feeling a little uncomfortable with the situation where the Lord of Infinity even treats memory information as a kind of commodity at will - if he doesn't redeem the reservation, will some memories be washed by the Lord of Infinity? Lose?

However, he who came here with the desire for a miracle, after all, he is not qualified to ask for anything. The price of this level made him feel uncomfortable, but it was only a little uncomfortable.

Carefully examining the details of returning and strengthening reservations, Cheng Bin gradually figured out some hidden information: Looking at this mechanism, the current me should be the me who stays here as the main body, and the me who returned from the trial world. The state after the two consciousnesses are overlapped and fused in a certain way will only return to the main body after the task is settled in the intermission.

So, how many such ontologies are there? The me who returned here is just me who was tested on a world line. It is impossible for Cheng Bin, a tester in other parallel worlds, to return successfully, right?

In this world, there are no free miracles. The God Eater in the infinite space cannot escape his own destiny after all.

After a dark sigh, Cheng Bin, who could not change the reality, focused his attention on the task rewards. He opened the list of things he brought back and could be exchanged for reservations, and carefully examined——

[Soul ripples, Zhuren bloodline (evolution), biochemical knowledge tree derived from the soul matrix, special ritual medium - arrow (*2), substitute infinity, substitute key, Katz's personality memory (residual)]

After filtering out the unaffordable items through available funds, the list of redeemable and reserved items is not long. After all, Cheng Bin before his return was involved in the aftermath of the Transcendence War. In addition to the things he carried with him, the precious things hidden in the laboratory All lost in the space-time warp.

Without the environment over there, do the avatar and the arrow still have their original functions? Cheng Bin, who saw half of it, thought for a moment, then raised his head and asked the Lord of Infinity.

The feedback he got surprised him——

His trials have established a connection between the Lord of Infinity and the trial world. With his return, the substitute soul system has been added to the vast exchange list of the Lord of Infinity as a unique strengthening item.

The substitute he can redeem at this moment roughly retains the ability he has in his impression, and the two arrows he can redeem can be used as one-time consumables, allowing all kinds of trialists in the infinite space to awaken and test the world at will Substitutes that existed in .

It's no wonder that exchanging an ordinary arrow will consume a level 1 authority, except that the consumption of points is less and the consumption of exchanging a double is the same. If you follow the fate of the Crimson King, Heaven Made or something, tsk.

The terrifying war scene of the Transcendents destroying the world appeared again in his mind, Cheng Bin shook his head: ...but simply counting it according to the probability, the awakening of a substitute like the key that can only be unlocked is a high probability event, although based on In such a crazy idealistic world environment, the lockpicking that has been promoted to the conceptual level is also very strong.

Due to the low degree of task completion, Cheng Bin didn't get many rewards, and the things that can be exchanged are very limited, because the permissions used as consumables must be kept at the highest level——

Without consumption, simply holding level 1 permissions, you can know the general information of the target world before the start of the general trial mission, you can also unlock many query permissions in the infinite space, and you can even visit some public spaces and participate in group trial missions , Team formation and so on, the potential benefits far exceed the direct exchange of power, not to mention the higher level 2 authority that involves more secrets in infinite space?

Among other things, there is only one that can be temporarily exchanged in the trial world. Such a simple and rude, applicable, and targeted function is enough to prove the importance of retaining level 2 permissions. Under the same level of consumption, taking out kryptonite on the spot is more useful than anything else.

High-level permissions can be split into low-level permissions, but low-level permissions cannot be synthesized into high-level permissions. When there is a choice, it is best to keep the highest-level permissions as consumables.

Since he found out that there is a trading place in Infinity Space, but he is not very clear about the market, Cheng Bin struggled with the exchange interface for a long time. After using the convenient level 2 authority to inquire a lot of information, he finally determined what he wanted to keep.

However, when Cheng Bin exchanged for a special ritual medium—an arrow, and planned to exchange for other things.

The infinite ball of light hanging in the sky, with a sense of eternity, suddenly twisted violently.