The beggar picked up the coin, raised his arm, put it in front of Fang Xiaoling's eyes to show her the coin in his hand, and then said, "They believe this."
Fang Xiaoling looked at the coin and was in a daze for a long time. Gradually, the coin disappeared. She murmured, "Everything in this world exists, but it doesn't exist. If it doesn't exist, it just really exists."
She looked at the beggar again. He was shouting something in a panic, but Fang Xiaoling couldn't hear it. The more she concentrated on listening, the less she heard. The more she wanted to see the beggar's face clearly, that face. The more blurry it becomes.
In the beggar's consciousness, the god disappears.
And in Fang Xiaoling's awareness, she finally woke up.
Slowly opening her eyes, the sea of stars in the night sky flowed like glowing sand. She felt the biting cold. She sat up and found that she was by a bonfire, with people sitting around her.
To be precise, most of them are people.
"She finally woke up." The old man in a white robe on the right threw all the branches into the bonfire. The flames seemed to be more intense. "Now we can know the answer."
Everyone looked at Fang Xiaoling, no one spoke, everyone seemed to be expecting her to speak.
She looked around and found that this was an endless desert. Wherever she could see, there were groups similar to the one she was currently in. Most of them were sitting around one bonfire after another, but there were also different groups. , some are dancing and carnivaling, some are hugging each other, and some are standing alone in the flames, not belonging to any group...
"You're talking, how did you get here?" a sphinx not far away urged, "Are you a person from a fairy tale?"
"The people in the story don't look so ordinary. They must be some great people who really existed." Sitting opposite was a man in armor. He swung the giant sword in his hand towards the bonfire and cut the flames in half. , and then looked at Fang Xiaoling through the gap in the flame, "Are you Madame Curie?"
"I am Madame Curie!" A curly-haired woman not far away was a little angry, "You are so rude. We have each introduced ourselves before, and I still remember your name, Wang Yu of Xichu!"
"It's Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu." The man pressed his hands on the bottom of the sword hilt, "I'm sorry, why did I suddenly think of this name? I thought it was the subconscious mind that Mr. Jung just mentioned played a role."
Only then did Fang Xiaoling realize that she might recognize some of the creatures sitting around her. She pointed at the Man-Faced Beast and asked, "Are you a Sphinx? From ancient Egyptian mythology."
The human-faced beast raised its head and said, "You know me, which means that your era is in the future world, at least it is the future for me."
"That's right." She pointed to another monkey, "Are you Sun Wukong? From "Journey to the West"."
"It's my grandson! There's nothing interesting here. I'm going to play somewhere else!" Sun Wukong came here because he made a mistake. He mistook the Sphinx for the Green Lion King of Shituoling. When I came over and took a closer look, I realized I had made a mistake, so somersault clouds formed under my feet and I left here.
"You are all famous, right? Maybe I know it all, but I may not recognize it just by looking at it." Fang Xiaoling hugged her arms and said tremblingly, "Speaking of which, where is this place? Really? So cold..."
"Welcome to the astral world, my friend. Only great creatures who are deeply remembered by people in the real world can come here." The old man in white robe on the right did not know when a scepter appeared in his hand, and he raised his arm high , pointed the scepter at the night sky and said, "You fell from the sky and fell asleep all the time. Such a situation has never happened in the astral world."
"Creature?" Fang Xiaoling pointed to the robot sitting next to Xiang Yu, "Is it also a creature?"
"Gandalf just used the word 'creature' to give a rough explanation." The foreign old man with a bald head but a white beard said, "We all crawled out of the desert after waking up, but you fell from the sky. , and then fell asleep, why is that?"
"I don't know, I just traveled through time first, then stared at a point of light, and then went to a world where I was omnipotent, and then my abilities were restricted, and then I disappeared, and finally I was I woke up here." Fang Xiaoling wanted to explain all this, but she could clearly see that everyone's eyes were full of confusion.
The Sphinx slapped its claws on the ground, and the dust flew into the flames, making a crackling sound. "Girl, why are you remembered by people in reality?"
"I don't know... I'm just an ordinary person." Fang Xiaoling approached the bonfire and sat forward, but she didn't feel any warmer.
"This bonfire is an illusion." Gandalf put the scepter into the flames and took it out intact. "Everything in the astral realm is an illusion, including us. In a sense, it is also an illusion here. , only the cold is real..."
Fang Xiaoling started to stand up and stamp her feet. She felt that she might be more suitable for the group dancing and carnival in the distance. "Can you tell me how to get back?"
"Go back? Back to where?" Madame Curie looked at her with disdain, "Did you mean to go back to the deepest part of people's memories? Aren't you already here?"
"Of course we are going back to the real world. Did you mention the real world just now?"
"It's impossible to go to the real world. We have never existed in the real world, so how can we talk about going back?" Xiang Yu also stood up. He pulled out the giant sword from the sand, put it on his shoulders and looked around. He looked up, as if he was looking for someone, "This place is really too big, Yu Ji, if you wait a little longer, I will definitely find you."
"I have said many times that the woman you are looking for may not be remembered by real humans, so she is not here at all, so don't bother looking for her." Sphinx said with a yawn.
Xiang Yu pointed his sword at it, "I've said it many times! If you dare to say such a thing again, you beast, I'll chop you down!"
The Sphinx licked its paws and said not to be outdone, "If you can do it, just try it? Even if we are not an illusion, you may not be my opponent."
"Stop! Don't fight yet." Fang Xiaoling stopped them and said to Xiang Yu, "You just said that you have never existed in reality? How could you not have existed? You are different from the Sphinx, which is an ancient Greek myth. But you are a living historical figure! How could the Overlord of Western Chu not exist? "
"This..." Xiang Yu seemed to know what was going on, but he just couldn't describe it. Finally he sighed and said, "Hey! It's a pity that Ya's father is not around."
The robot sitting next to Xiang Yu stood up and walked stiffly to Fang Xiaoling step by step. Its diamond-like eyes suddenly flashed.
