Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 193 The Boy Who Lived

In the hotel in Enmat Port, Star recalled the last scene he "saw" and felt it was a bit absurd in a self-deprecating way.

If that scene is real, it is a record of something that happened in the past in the mist of history.

There is good news and bad news for Star.

The good news: Star is not like his pseudonym "Wayne", who has six legs when entering the alley and two legs when leaving the alley.

In other words, Star's body has never had parents.

Of course, this is also bad news for Star: he is not his mother's biological child.

This made him doubt the life of a human being.

His body is surprisingly similar to that of a famous stone monkey, with the word "wild" being the most prominent feature.

Apart from his experience as an orphan in modern times, Star originally felt that he was just an ordinary orphan here.

Unexpectedly, the scene he saw from the mist of history told him:
In fact, his experience is not ordinary.

Even this "body" that began to grow during the "childhood" with its own memories was suddenly created at a certain moment.

That’s right, in that scene, Star “saw” countless “spots of light” suddenly appear at the door of an orphanage at a certain moment, and then reorganized the surrounding objects to create his “body”, and then became dim and disappeared.

And that orphanage was the orphanage he had donated money to today, and the orphanage where this body was raised.

Star even saw those "light spots" carrying a soul that could barely be recognized as his modern appearance stuffed into the body of that child, but there was a problem like an incompatible version of the game, and it got stuck for a moment as if there was a malfunction, and then it became as dim as those "light spots".

This is...

This is difficult to comment on.

"So, I have traveled to this world for many years?"

"It was only at that time, when I became a Beyonder, that my previous memories were fully restored?"

"Or to put it another way, seeing through the 'mystery in the womb' and awakening the memories of the past life?"

Under the dim gas light, Stanai in the room couldn't help but have this guess in his mind.

As if to verify his guess, Star placed the mirror in the hotel in front of himself.

Then, Star erased the rest of his facial features, leaving only a pair of dark eyes staring at him in the mirror.

Without calling up his memories, he just intuitively changed his appearance back to his previous appearance, the appearance before he traveled through time.

In just a second or two, Star returned to his previous appearance:

His cheeks are well-defined, his face is handsome, and his delicate features have a touch of bright charm.

Without stopping, he adjusted his face based on his impression of the facial shapes of most people in the Kingdom of Loen.

With a different and unique "re-enactment", combined with his old face in modern times, Star saw "himself" created by "face-pinching".

This is also the face of the so-called "original body".

Or now we have to put it another way, there has never been any "original body", this is him turning back into "himself".

Until then, Star had to confirm a fact:
In the last moment of his promotion, what he "saw" was a scene from past history, but it might not be an illusion.

He actually traveled here more than ten years ago.

If this is the case, it would be easy to explain why the self in memory is indifferent to everything here, and why after Star truly awakened his memory and came here, he did not need to deal with any real interpersonal relationships left over from his predecessor -

Because in this life, he has no friends worth making close friends with.

Because he is a "time traveler" who has lost his memories of modern times, and cannot feel any emotional or world view resonance with the people of this era?
Of course, perhaps, this is also because after he traveled through time, his soul, or spirit, was clamped by this body which was still a "child" at the time, causing him to lose part of his personality and have no spiritual factors?

No, this is wrong...

Star immediately rejected this speculation:
The spirit and the flesh are two separate parts. Even if it is said that the body created at that time still needed to develop and could not carry all of his consciousness, it is more reliable than the reason that his original style was indifferent because his spirit was clamped by this body.

Or to put it another way, he actually had some problems when he "traveled" here?

Star had no more guesses about what it was specifically - he had no relevant information in this regard.

As for his memories, if his formal awakening is used as the dividing line, Star's consciousness seems to be separated, with one part covering the modern times, and the other part covering his experiences from childhood to becoming a Beyonder.

What follows is his experience of waking up from a "strange dream" and beginning his adventure.

There are not many suspicious points that Star can study here.

As for that dream, he was just like a person waking up from sleep, and when he just "traveled" through the waking memory, the memory of this aspect receded like the tide, leaving almost no trace.

It was "almost", so there was still some trace for him to think about -

That was the pain I felt in that "strange dream".

Before this, Costa seemed to have forgotten the follow-up, as if it was an instinctive protection for himself, so he better not recall it.

I thought it was to escape the pain that cannot be expressed in words, but maybe there is some reason behind it?
Star connected this strange spot with his own spirit that he had "seen" in the mist of history before, and the scene where the "spot of light" that seemed to be "between reality and illusion" dimmed at that moment, and came up with a guess that frightened him:

He can't be being hunted, right?

Otherwise, why would one disguise himself so thoroughly?

But one cannot set flags randomly, and Star wisely stopped himself from thinking about it in time.

At this moment, he would not set a flag like "I am Da Nuo, and Fushengtian is chasing me now, but it doesn't matter, my 'confusion' is more thorough than His"!
There is no way to think about such a development, and Star will not try to challenge such speculation.

As if to ease the tense atmosphere and adjust his mood, Star touched his forehead, revealing a scar shaped like a "lightning bolt", and joked to himself:
"That's great. I've really become the child who survived a disaster."

Of course, intuitively, Star also wondered if his background might be related to his experience during his promotion.

However, when he thought of this, Star's premonition of danger started to warn him frantically, advising him not to think too much, otherwise something he didn't want to see might really happen.

Even though he and Between Reality and Illusion are different now than they were then.

Besides, if we can’t cure the “between the virtual and the real”, can we not cure him?

In other words, Star knew he might not die, but he would definitely miss a lot.

There will be a lot left...

Pity?

Simply, Star stopped making any further assumptions, because his possession, "Between Reality and Illusion", reacted normally to this, without any further feedback, as if it had received some kind of satisfaction.

So Star gave up further research on the answer.

Forget it, don’t think about it anymore... Star sat in the room for a while, emptying his mind.

After using meditation to concentrate his attention, Star raised the corners of his mouth and joked to himself: Well, now I don’t have to worry about the "original body", or what secrets the original him is hiding.

For example, normally, after understanding the potion formula, no one would prepare two sets of potion materials. After all, the potion materials needed to become an extraordinary person have been clearly described.

Even if it was to leave some room for error, I wouldn't buy so many potion materials.

That was an item worth four hundred gold pounds, equivalent to half a house in a nice community in Tingen City.

Star originally thought it was a coincidence, or that the original body subconsciously wanted to sell the potion ingredients and formula to other interested people.

Thinking about it now, this guess was a bit rough.

After all, who would spend hundreds of gold pounds to purchase a formula whose origin is unknown and whose authenticity cannot be verified? In Tingen City, there are generally no people like "Eye of Wisdom" or Mr. Fool who organize extraordinary gatherings for people to communicate and trade knowledge related to the mysticism.

Those who are not short of money and have some knowledge of the occult generally do not risk becoming a wild extraordinary person and being targeted by the authorities. Isn't it better to purchase materials privately and hire the services of extraordinary people on their own rather than taking the risk of becoming extraordinary people themselves?

(This is not targeting any noble lady. Yes, it is targeting the silly Miss Hazel.)

The rest of the people who grew up in an orphanage, after earning such an annual pension of gold pounds, which is enough for a decent life in the future, would not invest the money in such expenses that would not produce any immediate results, so they prepared the ingredients for two potions in a row.

Only Star knew what kind of instinctive need he had for this at that time, and for this reason he did not hesitate to travel back and forth between the north and south continents across the Storm Sea just to obtain two doses of magic potion.

One of them allows him to awaken his memories of his past life.

Of course, perhaps, there is also the awakening of “between reality and illusion”?
Star made reasonable speculations based on the "between reality and illusion" that appeared simultaneously with the awakening of modern memories after he became a Beyonder.

The other one is naturally for opening the "tampering" channel between "reality and virtuality".

As for why he knew to collect these potion materials before he regained his memory.

In the past, Star might have regarded it as a habit of his own in his memory, and while subconsciously pursuing power to become an extraordinary person himself, he also satisfied his desire to collect and prepared an extra copy.

Or to be more conspiratorial, he was arranged and a "writer" was deliberately designing him.

Just like "this is all the choice of Steins;Gate", Star used to think that maybe there was someone behind the scenes pushing his predecessor to be obsessed with mysticism, so that it would be convenient for him to become a "lawyer" as soon as he "traveled" through time, and then he had a little courage to embark on the "tampering" path to take the drug across paths.

This was the guess that Star had made before he went to "Source Castle" with "Between Reality and Illusion".

It was only later revised that Star targeted the conspiracy theory at some more powerful ceiling existence.

It now appears that there is no mastermind behind this.

If there is one, he is the mastermind behind it.

Add to that the "between reality and illusion (remnant)" that is also stuffed into this body.

These two factors together drove him, who was not so lucid before and had not recovered his memory, to truly wake himself up. From then on, he had an instinctive and fanatical yearning for the occult, like a... stupid kid?

Anyway, without mentioning any embarrassing things that happened to him, Star only felt that:
As expected of me.

Even with this hellish start, you can get two bottles of potion.

Of course, it shouldn't be considered a hellish start. After all, judging from the fact that "Between Reality and Illusion" was pinching his own body at the door of the orphanage, "Between Reality and Illusion" still had some choices to make.

Otherwise, in the absence of memory, what is pinched “between reality and illusion” is a child’s body placed on the street.

At that time, it could be said that the situation was devastating.

In addition to these, Star also noticed one thing:
That was his luck, from the very beginning, it was "60" points.

Normally according to the coc template, the luck level of ordinary people is about 50 points.

A luck value of 60 points means that his luck is much higher than that of ordinary people.

You know, if the maximum value is 10 points, then the luck value that is points more than the normal level is not a simple linear growth.

The dramatic change can be seen from the fact that Star rose from humble beginnings to become an extraordinary person.

Of course, this was also earned by Star himself through "Between Reality and Illusion".

Unsurprisingly, he said:
Everything I have now is due to my own efforts.

Luck? It helped a little bit.

However, Star still finds this versatile attribute quite useful.

He also recalled the scene when he first met Will:

At that time, after he was given a debuff, or in other words, after being inflicted with bad luck, his luck value was still the normal value of fifty points.

And the "narrator" also gave such a message:
["Between Reality and Illusion" is automatically protecting, rebounding to 50 points]

From this perspective, will the protection of “between reality and illusion” always exist for oneself, but in some secret and unknown form?
To put it in a more vivid way, "Between Reality and Virtuality" has been running in low-power mode since then.

But Star had to wait until he drank the "Lawyer" potion before he could say:
"Between reality and illusion, start!"

After figuring out these things, Sta also understood why he was not affected at all when he received so many memories when he woke up - it was not because of any compatibility, but because this was originally himself.

Well, now I understand everything.

Sitting upright beside the chair, Star looked at his own face in the mirror and sighed narcissistically:
So, no matter how I develop, will I always have this appearance?
Star quietly looked at his figure under the gas light, thought for a while, and finally sat on the bed, trying his best to stop thinking about these things.

Outside the window, crimson moonlight shines, and inside the window, dim spots of light are cast.

In such an atmosphere, Star folded his legs, put his left foot on top of his right foot, and sat quietly.

He sat down slowly.

Suddenly, an idea flashed through his mind, and Star sighed slowly.

Read:

"A lifetime of specialization and achievement."

"I hate having an empty wallet."

"Suddenly, the truth is revealed."

"Break the shackles here."

"what!"

“The fog of history has fallen away, and today I know who I am!”

Thanks to the book friend Suoyue for the 500 points reward
PS: Maybe it would be better to reveal the secret later, but I thought of the role of Miss Justice later, plus the historical fog, so I explained it all at once. I will cover up some holes while filling them up.

So, Star is not a person who has traveled through time and space, but has been "reincarnated" after being created into a new body due to ***** reasons.

Also, Star can see the scene in the historical mist because it is information that is closely related to him. If other beings want to spy on it, they must be able to intervene in that part of the historical mist.

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(End of this chapter)