Chapter 489 The furthest distance
After making a decision, Mu You immediately sent a message to ask the three avatars to come back.
【The cultivation is over, your fatigue is gone, and your attributes are fully restored. 】
Three hours later, in the middle of the night, Mu You's self-cultivation was finally completed.
At this time, both the herb picker and Linglong have returned, only the watchman is still slowly returning on the road.
Mu You tried to open the backpack on his body.
This backpack is his special backpack in the astral world. A few pets such as little spiders and chocobos are usually placed in it.
The backpack cannot be opened in different planes. If the location of the Bitter Garden is really a hidden space, then the backpack should not be able to be opened here, and Mu You didn't hold out much hope.
But to his surprise, the backpack was actually opened smoothly!
【You open the backpack, the gluttonous spider, the little phoenix and the little double-headed dragon scramble to get out of the bag, like pets that have been abandoned by the owner for a long time, circling around you excitedly, grabbing your leg, chattering non-stop, and begging for a hug...】
Looking at this text message, Mu You couldn't help but fell into deep thought.
Being able to open the backpack directly shows that his current location is the Astral World. but why?
Why has no one seen this sky city for so many years?
After thinking for a while, Mu You manipulated the characters to place a dark teleportation array in the room, and tried to jump into the array.
The result pops up and prompts: [Your other teleportation arrays have not been detected in this plane, so you cannot teleport. 】
"There is no other teleportation array?"
Mu You suddenly became even more confused. He had set up double-digit teleportation points in the Astral World, but they all lost contact... So is this the Astral World?
The more Mu You thought about it, the more confused he became, so he had to put it down first, and went out to find Xiaoya to get some pet cans, sent them into the game, fed the three pets one by one, and then distributed them to the three clones in turn according to the previous arrangement.
【You assigned the task of 'Exploring the Land of Calamity' to the second clone. The herbal picker took the little double-headed dragon and set off first to the north of the Bitter Garden, looking for the land of disaster. 】
After sending away the herb pickers, Mu You found a deserted place in reality, and summoned Linglong alone.
"Why did you make the move before?" Mu You looked at the girl in front of him seriously and asked.
"?" Linglong spread her hands while blinking her big innocent eyes: "Ontology, seeing such a beautiful and lovely creature being bullied by others, don't you have the urge to be a hero to save the beauty?"
"Impulse is impulsive. The difference between human beings and animals is that human reason can suppress many incorrect sensibility. If you do this, the mission will be wasted?"
"Oh, regarding this point, in fact, I have already completed the tracking task." Linglong patted her chest and smiled, "I can guarantee that this child is a good person and will not harm us, so you can rest assured."
"How are you sure?" Mu You frowned.
"A woman's intuition." Linglong said confidently.
Mu You immediately gave her an extremely confused look.
"Hey, what's that expression on your main body? You don't want to say that because your main body is a steel straight man, your avatar won't have sensibility? Please, it was separated from the skin of a real girl. Before I was your avatar, I was a real woman first. I have all the qualities that women should have!" Linglong said.
"Well, I believe... But you'd better make up a more plausible reason." Mu You said.
"Okay, okay, I'll confess, I actually checked it out before leaving." Linglong spread her hands helplessly.
"oh?"
"Of course, instead of directly divining the relationship between her and us, I used some indirect means to confirm that she is harmless to us. More precisely, she is harmless to everyone. This is a creature with a truly pure and kind heart, and..."
"And what?"
"Besides, her time is numbered." Linglong sighed, "I foresaw her death in the crystal ball, just recently..."
"so…"
Mu You nodded, the avatar and the main body only have one chance to synchronize memory every day, and today they can no longer synchronize.
But he didn't doubt Linglong's words. No matter how eccentric she is, she is his clone after all. The bottom line and interests are completely consistent, and she won't mess around with such key issues. She can be trusted if she says she can be trusted.
"And then? Ontology, you called me out specially, what's the matter?" Linglong found a chair and sat down, found a bag of melon seeds from nowhere, crossed her legs and started cracking.
She was sure that Mu You asked her to show up alone, certainly not just to break up a foregone matter with her.
"There is a mission, about one of the countries in the goblin territory..." Mu You didn't waste any time, and briefly explained to her the situation of the Rose Principality and the decision to arrange her to go undercover in the Rose Principality.
Unexpectedly, before Mu You finished speaking, she heard a clatter from the opposite side, Linglong stared at him with wide eyes, and spilled the melon seeds in her hand, looking in disbelief.
"Body, you actually... plan to let me trade my innocence for information?" Linglong looked at him incredulously, and suddenly covered her face and cried bitterly: "How can this be... Does the clone have no dignity? Do you know how important a name is to a girl? Although I am a clone, I am also a person. Have you considered my feelings..."
"Uh, I just mentioned it casually. I said it's not mandatory. If you don't want it, forget it. I didn't say it..." Mu You was ashamed. From Fuya's previous performance of resistance, Linglong might also reject him. He also expected, but he didn't expect the reaction to be so strong.
"No, you misunderstood the main body..."
Linglong sobbed and moved her hands away, raised her head, and looked at Mu You aggrievedly: "I mean, a girl's reputation is really, really important, so... there must be compensation."
"..."
Muyou's head full of black lines. He instantly confirmed that Linglong didn't care about "famous festivals" at all, and she was bargaining with him by pretending to be crying like this.
"what do you want?"
The crying on Linglong's face disappeared in an instant, and she put on a smile to please the benefactor: "Then get a time pocket watch!"
In this regard, Mu You gave her a supercilious look.
"Ahem, I was joking just now, let me think about it, really, who made you have too many good things..." Linglong changed her words decisively: "Then give me a secret technique crystal?"
Mu You couldn't help frowning and glanced at Linglong when he heard the words, "You...couldn't you have inherited the trait of 'greedy'?"
Linglong was embarrassed when she heard the words, and stuck out her tongue: "Unfortunately, it is not. My words and deeds seem to be greedy, but in fact, at most, I am playing tricks within the scope that can be won, and I want to try my best to get the best result. This is your nature inherited from the main body."
Linglong said with a slightly serious tone: "The real 'greed' is ignoring risks and seeking things that are not available. There is a big difference between the two. If I feel right, the 'greedy' attribute should be on the body of the evil clone."
Mu You nodded and agreed with her statement: "Go ahead, but be serious, we don't have much time."
Linglong finally turned serious when she heard the words: "Okay, to be serious, I have to borrow the shadow pompom for a few days and return it to you when the task is completed."
"That's more or less."
Mu You exhaled, snapped his fingers, and from the shadow under his feet, a black ball quietly emerged half of his head.
Immediately under his signal, the shadow pompom detached from his shadow, wandered along the ground, and finally merged into Linglong's shadow.
The three avatars all come from the same origin as him. For Shadow Pompom, the other three are also him. Therefore, the shadow pompom can be transferred between the shadows of the four at any time without any repulsion problem.
This is also a way to temporarily place the shadow pompom. Next, he will open the side belief, without having to think about the placement of the shadow pompom, just throw it to a clone.
"Be careful, conduct investigations under the premise of protecting yourself, and don't expose yourself." Mu You warned.
At this time Linglong has already regarded the shadow pompom as a pillow toy, hugging it in her arms, kneading and rubbing it in various ways, and the shadow pompom is like plasticine, constantly changing its shape in her hands.
"Don't worry about the main body, leave it to me, we are people from the information age, aren't we just a bumpkin queen who has never seen the world, look how I can handle her!"
After finishing speaking, Linglong automatically returned to Mu You's body, and Mu You sent her back to the game.
【Linglong set off with the Gluttonous Demon Spider to the southeast of the Bitter Garden, looking for the Rose Principality. 】
After dismissing the two avatars one after another, Mu You continued to wait for a while.
About half an hour later, the fairy girl who had been away from home for a long time finally returned.
【The goblin girl with a bruised nose and swollen face came back from outside, holding a flower basket in her hand, and floated into the door very cautiously, thinking of not disturbing you. 】
【However, after entering the door, she realized that you have already fully cultivated and are standing in the middle of the room, looking at her expressionlessly. 】
【"You're awake... This is the pollen I picked today. There was an accident, and some of it is missing... But I will definitely work harder tomorrow."】
【"Body injury? It's not a big deal, just an accidental fall, and it will heal soon, don't worry, really..." The fairy girl waved her hands indiscriminately, explaining to you clumsily, but suddenly noticed that the nuts and nectar on the table were the same as before she left, untouched. 】
【The fairy girl couldn't help being stunned, and looked at you with some grievances: "Don't you like it? Sorry, I'm so useless, I only have these at home, and the hospitality is not good..."]
【You released the holy light technique, and in the holy light, the wounds on the fairy girl's whole body quickly recovered. 】
【You took out the pen of order and started to repair the incomplete order on the fairy girl's wings. 】
【Soon, the scarred wings of the fairy girl returned to their integrity, and all the filth was gone, becoming neat and clean, and the wings shone with fluorescence under the light. 】
【The fairy girl looked at her completely new appearance in disbelief, and looked at you with surprise and gratitude: "Thank you..."】
【"You're welcome, this is a thank you for your pollen and the house." You said: "Thank you for your care today, but then, I need to leave."】
【"Ah..." The smile on the fairy girl's face froze for a moment, and after a second of stunned, she hurriedly said: "But, without dust protection, you will..."】
【"Actually, I have dust." You chose to show the fairy girl the lucky dust you carry with you. 】
【The fairy girl looked at the high-grade dust in your hand in surprise, but immediately felt a familiar smell from it. 】
【The fairy girl quickly realized what: "The person who saved me before was also you?"】
【Understanding everything, the fairy girl's expression suddenly became mixed, and her eyes dimmed: "So it's like this... I didn't need me from the beginning, I was just being passionate..."】
【"Can you... stay?" The fairy girl looked up at you unwillingly and asked with a trembling voice. 】
【Looking at the slumped look of the fairy girl, you choose...】
【Stay and slowly explore the hidden stories in her body】,【Leave resolutely, you have a more important mission】.
Two options, Mu You did not hesitate, and chose 'resolutely leave'.
He can feel that there may be some secrets hidden in the fairy girl, but if he wants to find out this 'side line', he probably needs to play house with her here for at least a day or two, and he only has four days left in total, and the progress of the main task is almost zero, so there is really no time to delay.
【You shook your head and rejected the fairy girl, and the fairy girl's eyes dimmed again. After you say goodbye to her, you turn and walk towards the door. 】
【"Wait, wait a minute..." The fairy girl suddenly stopped you again, and said in a begging tone: "Then can I help you lead the way? Although I am an unknown fairy, I have also been a high-level fairy. I am familiar with the directions of the various villages and cities in the Bitter Garden. I will lead the way and save your time."]
【"Please, at least let me do something for you..." The fairy girl had tears in her eyes, begging you with the most humble gesture. your choice…】
Mu You frowned, he was really confused now, this fairy girl who met by chance, why would she follow him even after doing this for him?
Mu You wandered through the two options [Agree] and [Reject] several times, and finally pressed 'Agree'.
【"Great!" Hearing that you finally agreed to let her go with you, the fairy girl finally burst into tears, and the gloomy eyes regained their brilliance. 】
"well…"
Mu You sighed. This fairy girl gave him a really strange feeling. He could sense that the other party had an inexplicable dependence on him, but he knew that this might not be a good thing, because once he accepted this dependence, it meant an invisible responsibility.
So Mu You has always instinctively wanted to cut off this relationship and draw a clear line with the fairy girl. However, in the face of the other party's repeated begging, he finally softened his heart a bit.
Mu You quickly shook his head. Now that he had made up his mind, he didn't think about it any more. He took the fairy girl out of the flower bud room, and then called Chocobo.
【"Glorious City? This...I don't seem to have heard of it..."】
As a result, before going on the road, when Mu You told the fairy girl about her destination, she got an answer she had never heard before.
"Have not heard?"
【"I'm sorry, I'm so useless. Maybe this is a new city that was built after I was deprived of my name?" The fairy girl apologized to you repeatedly with her face flushed. She just said such big words confidently, but she didn't know the first place, which made her extremely ashamed. 】
Mu You didn't care, anyway, he knew the general direction, so he asked another question in the game.
【"What do you know is the largest city in the southwest?" You asked. 】
【"Southwest, the largest city... um, do you mean 'Luohua City'?" The fairy girl said uncertainly. 】
"Have you heard of 'Luohuacheng'?" Mu You immediately looked at Fuya who was making dinner next to her.
"Luohuacheng?" Fuya hurriedly stopped eating, took the phone and started to operate: "Wait a minute, I'll tie someone up and ask."
Mu You was sweating from hearing this, you are a young lady, why are you so proficient in kidnapping...
Fuya's actions were very fast, and the results were obtained in a few minutes.
"Oh, that's right, Luohua City is the predecessor of Glory City, but Luohua City is an ancient place name that was abandoned a long time ago." Fuya said.
"It really is a place..."
Mu You nodded, but didn't care, and immediately told the fairy girl this in the game, and asked her to help guide Luohua City.
The goblin girl readily agreed, and acted conscientiously as a guide along the way.
I have to say that the fairy girl is really familiar with the terrain here, and helped Mu You avoid many inquiries and obstacles along the way. In just about an hour, Chocobo flew to the destination.
【You stopped on the road one mile away from the city ahead. 】
【It was late at night, there was no one on both sides of the road, and it was quiet, except for a few weird ones wandering unconsciously in the distance. You come to a wordless stone tablet erected beside the road. 】
"The square wordless stele one mile away from the south gate, right?"
Mu You looked at Fuya and asked. This is the meeting place he had just agreed with Fuya.
"Yes." Fuya is holding a cup of milk tea at this time, the mobile phone on the table is running Game of Fools, and at the same time, the other mobile phone in front of her is playing a TV series, she is very proficient in multitasking.
"Where I am with you?" Mu You asked.
"Huh?" Fuya was taken aback, and hurriedly lowered her head to look at Youyou: "Are you here? My character has been parked here, didn't I see you?"
"Are there other steles nearby?"
Mu You didn't think too much about it, and the manipulator left a word 'one' in Protoss language on the stele as a mark, and then he was going to ride a chocobo to continue searching nearby.
"Hey wait!"
Fuya suddenly yelled, picked up the phone in surprise, carefully looked at a large section of text that popped up, and frowned, "I suddenly noticed that there is an extra word on the stele... It's so strange, I was always reminded that it was a 'wordless stele'..."
Mu You's heart moved when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "What word?"
"A 'one' character."
It turned out to be his writing!
Then they should be facing each other now, how could they not find each other?
"What's the original text of your game?" Mu You asked hurriedly. He already instinctively felt that there seemed to be a big problem.
"Oh, it's like, 'You are bored and staring at the stele, but suddenly you notice a faint 'one' in the center of the empty stele in front of you. This is a very desolate and ancient handwriting. It seems to have existed for thousands of years. It has been blurred by years of wind and sand erosion, and it is hard to read unless you look carefully...'" Fuya reproduced the game text intact.
"Desolate? Ancient?"
Mu You murmured these two weird adjectives, feeling vaguely grasping something.
Thinking of all the details of this day, he was full of weirdness here, and Fuya had never encountered any weirdness from the beginning to the end, the backpack in the astral world could be opened here, but his teleportation array could not be detected, and the relationship between Luohua City and Guanghui City, Luohuacheng is the ancient place name of Guanghui City...
Connecting everything together, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in Mu You's mind, and he finally understood something.
Could it be that he and Fuya didn't just land in different locations in Bitter Garden, and even landed in different eras?
Fuya is in modern times, and he is in ancient times?
Thinking of this, Mu You hurriedly operated in the game.
【You suddenly asked the fairy girl, what year is it now? 】
【Although the fairy girl was surprised by your question, she still answered you truthfully: It is now 3870 years in the Celestial Calendar. 】
The astral calendar is more than 3,800 years old, and there are only a few hundred years left before the catastrophe period. The year is right!
And the current situation just shows that he is likely to be at a certain point in time before.
Then, there is only one possibility: it is not the time that is confused, but the era!
He is now in the Garden of Bitterness at the same time in the last epoch, that is... four thousand years ago!
And the reason why he can't see Fuya now is because although they are close at hand, they are separated by an incomparably far distance—the distance of an entire era!
(end of this chapter)