After receiving the news from Mu You, Fuya, who was shopping with Xiaoya, hurried back to the pet shop.
"You said my ancestor is here? Where is he?" Fuya rushed into the store like a wind and hurriedly asked Mu You who was waiting for her at the front desk.
Mu You looked up and saw that Fuya was wearing a cool summer dress. She was probably halfway doing her hair outside, with a bunch of colorful curlers on her head.
It's hard to imagine that a week ago, she was just a wandering and disgraced rich lady from another world, but now she seems to have completely integrated into urban life.
"This way."
Mu You took her into the living room and led her to the old man who had just entered.
"She is the descendant of the Chris family you are looking for." Mu You introduced to the old man sitting at the dining table.
Then he looked back at Fuya: "This is your ancestor."
"First, ancestors..."
Fuya looked blankly at the white-haired old man in front of her, feeling a little at a loss for a moment.
This was completely beyond her expectation. Fuya originally thought that an ancestor from a magic family would be able to prosper in this world without magic. Not to mention rich, at least he should have a prosperous life. He even established a new company here. It is possible to have a family full of children and grandchildren.
As a result, I didn't expect that the so-called ancestor was already so old...and simple. In this dress, he looked like a lonely old man who had just walked out of a poor mountainous area.
The old man also looked up at Fuya at this time. After a few glances, he nodded and said with a smile: "It is true that he is the child of my Chris family..."
"My child, how is the Chris family now? Which generation are you from? Who is your father?" The old man smiled kindly and asked Fuya.
"Ah... Chris's family has now moved to the capital of the Ran'El Empire. I am the seventeenth generation of the family. My father is Kris Swinburne Joseph, who is currently serving as an earl in the Ran' El Empire... "Fuya hurriedly introduced the situation at home.
"It's already seventeen generations..."
The old man was quite emotional when he mentioned his family.
After a while, the old man raised his head again, looked at Fuya and said with a smile: "After all, you should be my great-granddaughter."
"Ah...then you are, my...great-grandmother?" Fuya asked with some uncertainty.
"Good boy." The old man smiled and nodded when he heard this, and looked at Fuya with loving eyes: "It's a pity that I haven't saved any assets in the Forgotten Land, so I'm afraid I won't be able to give you much help..."
As the old man spoke, he tremblingly reached into the package. After groping for a moment, he took out a handful of crumpled banknotes, ranging from one hundred yuan, fifty, twenty or even a few yuan.
The old man grabbed a handful of banknotes and stuffed them into the stunned Fuya's hand: "Child, take these first and use them..."
Fuya stared at the scattered coins in her hand, but suddenly she felt a sore nose and her eyes suddenly became moist.
She really didn't expect that her ancestors would live such a miserable life on earth. Judging from the old man's behavior, this money may have been her entire net worth...
Looking at the old man's old and skinny appearance, it was obvious that no one took care of him at ordinary times. He was probably living a poverty-stricken life with one meal every day, but she activated the jade just out of curiosity, causing the old man to live thousands of miles away. He came to the city with his luggage just to give her money...
"What's wrong, kid? Is there not enough? Don't be afraid, there are still..."
The old man saw Fuya holding the money with her eyes red, and hurriedly opened the package again, revealing the bottles and jars inside.
"These are the magic props I brought from the Star Spirit Realm when I came here. Although the magic power inside has almost been exhausted due to too long time, and it is not as valuable as it was at the beginning, but it is still better to use it as an antique to find someone to exchange for some money. OK……"
"ah……"
Fuya was startled again when she saw the full bottles and jars in her bag.
She still has basic eyesight. Most of these bottles and jars are magical decorations of ancient nobles. Although they have little actual use, if they are really sold as antiques, their value may be higher than before. Every one of them , it’s not a problem to put it up for auction and get seven figures!
"Grandma, you have these things, why don't you sell them yourself?" Fuya asked strangely. The sale of these things would definitely be enough for her to live a fairly wealthy life here.
After hearing this, the old man smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Silly boy, I hid here because I was tired of the disputes. These things can be sold for money, but they will also expose my identity and get me involved in all the mess again. things, so it was too late for me to hide these things. After I came to the Forgotten Land a thousand years ago, the first thing I did was to bury all these things underground. If it weren’t for my descendants this time If you come to me in trouble, I will not dig them out again..."
After hearing this, Fuya felt even more guilty.
"I'm sorry, Grandma, I didn't activate the jade stone because I was desperate, I just wanted to see my ancestors, so..." Fuya lowered her head and said with a blush.
Not only was she desperate, Muyou lent her money, and Xiaoya and others took care of her, helping her take care of everything. She was simply enjoying her life here!
As a result, just when she was living in fine clothes and living happily here, somewhere thousands of miles away, her ancestors were lonely in the mountains, living a life of eating wild vegetables and eating soil every day. Thinking about it made her extremely sad.
"Oh? Is that so..." The old man glanced at Fuya in surprise, and then at Mu You beside him. He understood something, but was slightly relieved.
"I'm sorry, because of my willfulness, I made you come all the way here..." Fuya said guiltily.
"Haha, silly boy, just live as you wish. It's okay for me to take a walk. Besides, my old arms and legs will rot in the ground if I don't move..." The old man shook his head in amusement, and then looked at Mu You smiled and said: "Besides, when I came out this time, I also met an 'administrator'. It's not a bad trip. You don't have to worry about it."
"Administrator?" Fuya was a little confused.
"Ahem...Old man, I have some questions to ask. Is it convenient?" Mu You stood aside, watching the grandfather and grandson's reminiscing about the past come to an end, and then he had time to interject.
He had too many questions about the star spirit world and the giant world. Now that he finally met a friendly ancestor fool, he had to ask them carefully.
"Young man, I probably know what you want to ask. Unfortunately, I didn't follow Sky City to Gaotian, so I don't know much." The old man looked at Mu You kindly and smiled: "You ask Well, I can only answer you as best I can."
"good."
Mu You nodded, without being polite, and immediately asked the question he wanted to know most: "What happened to the small disaster in the Star Spirit Realm? What on earth did the Fools encounter in the sky?"
The old man glanced at Mu You in surprise: "You can ask about the minor disasters, which means you know a lot. Then have you heard of the 'big disasters'?"
Mu You nodded.
"That's easy."
The old man continued: "The fundamental purpose of the fools who desperately built the sky city to go to high heaven was to prevent the next great disaster, because after the large-scale damage to the wall of the Forgotten Land, it no longer has the ability to protect living beings from the great disaster. The ability of the Disaster. Unfortunately, after they landed in Gaotian, they encountered a large number of 'giant' attacks, which almost caused the Fool who landed in Gaotian to be exterminated, and then they had to return to the star spirit world..."
"At the same time that the Fools returned, some giants also followed Sky City and descended on the Star Spirit World, causing a horrific disaster in the Star Spirit World. This is the origin of the Little Disaster."
"Giant...referring to the God Clan?" Mu You was a little surprised. In the diary of the founder of Shadow Ghost, it was said that the God Clan was extinct. The Deng God also mentioned that the God Clan was extinct before.
But he met living giants in the giant world, and now the old man said that the fools in the past also encountered a "large number" of giants in the sky...
Mu You was a little confused, so were the gods extinct?
"They are gods, but they are not."
"Ah?" Mu You was startled.
The old man shook his head and explained: "These giants have the bodies of gods, but they have changed into something else inside and can no longer be called gods."
"It turned into something else inside...you mean, parasitic?" Mu You was surprised.
"You can say that."
The old man nodded with emotion: "I once heard those fools who came back from the sky describe that after cutting the bodies of the giants they hunted, their brains were filled with a cotton-like substance, which can be regarded as An unknown creature, it is this kind of thing that controls the thoughts and actions of the giants. Even the top gods can hardly survive.
Moreover, this kind of thing has extremely strong reproductive ability and concealment. After entering the body of a giant, it can copy a new one within a few days and then occupy other giants. The whole process is silent and almost invisible. There is no way to detect and prevent it in advance..."
"The fools gave this cotton-like thing a name, 'God-Eating Beast'. The former Protoss was constantly eaten away by this kind of thing until it was exterminated..."
"God-eating beast..."
Mu You frowned. According to the description, this thing is almost a creature that is specially designed to restrain the gods. One pass, two passes, two passes four... The growth is exponential. The key is that there is no way to stop it.
The zombies in the movie can still be seen as abnormal at a glance. There are no signs of this thing after it is first parasitized, and it is completely defenseless. It is no wonder that the gods are forced to exterminate by this thing.
"But why does this kind of thing make fools so scared?" Mu You asked again. If this thing is only aimed at the Gods, it seems that the Fools don't need to worry too much.
unless……
"Because this kind of creature also has the ability to parasitize fools. To be precise, all humanoid intelligent creatures with divinity are within their parasitic range. Therefore, in their eyes, all fools who reach high heaven, They are just walking prey." said the old man.
really!
Mu You was shocked. Fools can also be parasitized, which means that fools can also be defeated by this thing!
If you think about the fate of the Gods, you will know the situation of those fools who went to high heaven...
"I should be lucky that I didn't follow Sky City to Gaotian. Otherwise, I might be as miserable as those who were lucky enough to escape."
The old man sighed and shook his head: "Because of the silent contagion, the fools had to carry out internal cleaning in order to protect themselves. In fact, they were killing each other and killing all possible parasites, so there is no need for giants at all. If you take action, the Fool himself will be in chaos."
"But even so, it was difficult to clean up. When Sky City finally returned to the Star Spirit Realm, almost everyone was infected. Fortunately, the God-Eating Beast did not parasitize the Fools as thoroughly as the Gods, and later a Fool We discovered a way to cleanse the God-Eating Beast from the body, and this allowed very few people to survive.”
"However, even those who survive by this method have been drained of vitality by the God-Eating Beast. That person will lose the ability to release magic and lose most of their strength. Their bones and flesh will shrink greatly, their organs will seriously degenerate, and they will become Skinny and dwarf-like, some survivors could only survive by planting themselves in flower pots to simulate the absorption of nutrients by plants, becoming neither humans nor ghosts."
After hearing this, Mu You let out a sigh of relief, feeling sorry for the fools of the adventurous sect in the past.
To say that it was because of their selfishness that they attracted the God-Eating Beasts and triggered the Minor Disaster, that is not true. After all, their original intention was to solve the problem of the Major Disaster and allow everyone to survive in the future, but they did not expect that it would happen. cause such a disaster.
"The existence of this kind of thing is also the reason why the game "The Fool" appeared." At this time, the old man suddenly said again.
"Oh?" Mu You was stunned. When he mentioned the Fool's Game, he immediately thought of something.
You must know that he has encountered a living giant in the game before, and was trampled to death, but he was not parasitized afterwards...
"Could it be that through the Fool's Game, we can avoid being parasitized by the God-Eating Beast?" Mu You asked.
"Yes." The old man nodded and said with a smile: "What the Fools control through the game is just a clone of each person's mind, not his own entity, so naturally there is no possibility of being possessed by the God-Eating Beast."
"This is also the method that the fools of the past came up with after suffering a hardship: since the fools cannot go to the world of gods in person, then use the method of projection of the clone of the mind to allow the fools to move safely in that world indirectly, so as to continue to search. The way to solve the Great Disaster is also the only way to deal with the God-Eating Beast. So, after thousands of years of preparation, the game "The Fool" came into being."
"It's actually like this..."
Mu You looked strange when he heard this. In this way, everything makes sense.
This is the real "main line" of the Fool game: allowing players to enter the world of gods to prevent the catastrophe and save themselves while ensuring their own safety.
"Later, I came to the Forgotten Land and was appointed as an 'Observer of the Forgotten Land' by several administrators who made this game. I was given some permissions and my task was to report to them regularly about the Forgotten Land." said the old man.
"Then the other administrators are also on Earth now?" Mu You asked hurriedly.
"No, they are all in the Star Spirit Realm. I don't know exactly where they are hiding. After I resigned from my duties as an observer a few years ago, I have never contacted them again." The old man shook his head, and then remembered something again. Xiang Muyou.
"Speaking of which, I'm really lucky to meet you today. I just got a message recently and I need someone to help me pass it on to other administrators."
"Oh? What message?" Mu You asked.
"Tell them that the Forgotten Land is going to change in advance, and let them prepare as soon as possible!"
"Uh...what do you mean?" Mu You was stunned.
"It means literally. If you help me pass the message to them, they will understand it." The old man smiled.
"Okay...but, how to send a message?" Mu You spread his hands: "I don't seem to be able to communicate directly with other administrators."
"That's easy to handle..." The old man smiled and waved to Mu You. After Mu You approached, she stretched out her fingers tremblingly and touched Mu You's forehead.
Mu You suddenly felt that something foggy had been injected into his mind, which seemed to be what he said just now.
"Go find them, and the information will naturally be received by them." The old man said.
…
After leaving the message, the old man prepared to say goodbye and leave.
Mu You and Fu Ya both tried their best to invite her to live in the city for a while, or simply move to the city. Unfortunately, the old man seemed to resist life in the city and insisted on going back, so they had to give up.
"Grandma, I'll give it to you!"
Fuya personally escorted the old man home and bought a lot of daily necessities before leaving.
It was okay if she didn't know before. Now that she knows about her ancestor's situation, how can she continue to live so helplessly? She must try her best to improve her life within her ability.
After watching the two people leave, Mu You also returned to the study, closed his eyes and entered a meditative state, opened his inner eyes, and then followed the method last time to connect his thoughts to the giant ball of light.
There are still many lines of cause and effect on the light ball. After recent exploration, Mu You has figured out that the ends of those red and blue lines actually correspond to smoke beasts.
Mu You ignored the other causal lines and directly found the green line from last time, tracing all the way back to the source.
…
At the same time, on the other side, somewhere in a dark and mysterious space.
In the dark corner, a pair of eyes suddenly opened: "Not good!"
"What's wrong?" asked another voice next to him.
"I received a message from Franny. She said that the Land of Oblivion is going to change in advance!"
"What?"
One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and several voices shouted out in unison at the scene.
"How could this happen? Won't it take several years for things to change?"
"I don't know either. Maybe there are too many registered people in "The Fool" and too many players poured into the Star Spirit World, which caused some changes in the space..."
"I have said before that the public beta should not be launched so early. It should at least wait for another two or three years before it is stable..."
"Okay, what's the point of talking about this now? If we really wait two or three years, there might be new problems. It's something that God can't predict."
"Thinking about it now, I'm really lucky. Server No. 2 was breached in advance, urging us to speed up the process of some belief systems. Otherwise, we would be really dumbfounded now..."
"But, do we really want to put it directly into the market? It's still a semi-finished product..."
"Otherwise, do you want to watch a small disaster break out in the Forgotten Land?"
"Even if it's a semi-finished product, it must be thrown out directly!"
(End of chapter)
