The Devil's Proof
"Do you know the boy in the computer science major?"
"You mean …?"
"I think his name is Du … Du Zhi? Du Zheng? I remember, his name is Du Ze. "
"Ah, you mean him, of course I know him! I heard that he has bad hearing and is a weirdo. He always talks to himself and does some strange actions. His classmates also don't want to get close to him. "
"Heh heh, do you know why? I have a friend in their major. Let me tell you a secret, in fact, that boy seems to be able to see 'those things'. "
"'Those things'? … You mean psychic constitution? "
"Bingo! That's why that guy always talks to himself, and other people who want to get close to him always inexplicably avoid him because 'those things' are around him. "
"You believe this kind of rumor?"
"It's not a rumor! You know, last week, the people from Guomao threw a discus and broke the glass, but Du Ze, who was sitting by the window, was not hurt at all. "
"He just happened to walk away."
"At that time, Du Ze was definitely sitting by the window. My friend saw it with his own eyes! Those fragments are completely avoiding him! "
"So magical!"
…
Du Ze listened to the conversation between two boys in the corridor and glanced at the person who made him a campus legend.
Noticing Du Ze's gaze, Xiu smiled and asked, "What's wrong?"
Du Ze shook his head and suddenly realized that this was the "strange action" that the boy just said. His head suddenly froze. Since he started school, Xiu had been following him to school. Other people couldn't see Xiu, but they instinctively avoided the place where Xiu was, which created a lot of strange rumors.
A certain silly boy thought about it and shook his head in front of a group of students who were seriously in class. It gave people the feeling that this guy didn't take his medicine today.
And when Du Ze shook his head, it immediately ruined it.
"The boy by the window." The Advanced Mathematics teacher knocked on the podium. "Look at you shaking your head. Do you have a problem with what I just said?"
Under the gaze of the whole class, the black-haired young man stood up with a stiff face and looked at the Advanced Mathematics teacher without saying a word. The Advanced Mathematics teacher frowned. Just as he was about to scold her, he suddenly felt a sense of danger. It was as if he was being stared at by a beast. The Advanced Mathematics teacher leaned against the podium and laughed dryly, "Sit, sit down."
Du Ze had just lowered his body by half when his entire body froze.
Xiu …! Du Ze silently called out the name of the beastman behind him. Just now, Xiu, who was originally sitting next to him, squeezed behind him. If he sat down, he would sit on Xiu's lap.
Xiu reached out and held Du Ze in his arms. In order to prevent himself from standing out, Du Ze could only lie on the table like a cat. Because he was sitting in the last row, the armrest of the seat was also very high, so for a while, no one could see anything unusual.
[Put me down.]
Xiu glanced at the note from Du Ze. Not only did he not put it down, his tail wrapped around Du Ze's arm.
"It's so boring to listen to him." Xiu rubbed Du Ze's neck. "Why don't we do something interesting?"
[I'm in class.]
"I'll teach you when we get back." Xiu said indifferently, "Yesterday, I looked at it in my human form. It's not very difficult to learn."
— — Top student, don't draw hatred! Young man, do you know how many students' corpses have failed in high school?!
"Or I'll tell you the answer when you take the exam."
… … No, don't be so shameful to tempt me to fall! What's more shameful is that I'm moved!
Du Ze could only watch as Xiu's tail slapped his high school math book shut. That person's hand had already reached under his shirt and stroked back and forth along his waistline.
"You don't have to move." Xiu licked Du Ze's ear. "All you need to do is feel me."
"… …!"
Du Ze leaned on the table and covered his face with his arm, so as not to show any strange expression or make any strange sounds. Fortunately, Xiu still had a sense of propriety. He only hugged, kissed, licked, and bit — — Don't make any obvious traces, my Lord!
"Du Ze, didn't you sleep last night? You've been sleeping on the table. "After class, the class leader, who had come to collect homework, asked.
Du Ze's seemingly cold but actually resentful eyes moved to the side. "… … I didn't sleep well." This was the truth.
"I can see that." The class leader nodded her head in understanding. "Were you harassed by mosquitoes all night yesterday? The back of your neck is full of red bumps. "
Du Ze subconsciously covered his neck and heard the dwarf lying on top of him chuckle. The back of his ears was completely red.
After careful consideration, Du Ze decided to put forward a small, um, suggestion to Xiu.
"Show your form?" Xiu asked.
Du Ze solemnly nodded. This was the countermeasure he had come up with after thinking about it all night. During this time, he was also "punished" by the Lord who was dissatisfied with his absent-mindedness. As long as Xiu appeared in front of other people, he would naturally not be able to do such and such things to him directly. In addition, there was another advantage. Most of Xiu's racial forms could not directly appear in front of other people. Whether it was the beasts, dwarves, elves, or dragons, they all had to go through some disguises. The celestials and demons were basically impossible to be seen by other people. In this way, only the human and undead forms could be used.
The human form Xiu was very easy to talk to. Du Ze's little abacus was very loud, and the undead form Xiu was not keen on bullying him. This plan of killing two birds with one stone could be said to be perfect.
… … Ghost!
The stupid readers had completely forgotten how destructive the appearance of their Lord Lord was. The Xiu set up by Yiye Zhiqiu was completely a weapon of mass destruction. When Du Ze and the blonde youth in casual clothes went to the teaching building for class, a certain stupid reader found that he was simply unable to move an inch.
"Classmate, what is your major?"
"Can we be friends? This is my contact information. "
… …
"Ah! I have seen you in my dream! "
Du Ze silently stared at the excited teenager in front of him. Yes, it was a teenager. The person in front of him who claimed that Xiu was his dream lover was a man in every aspect. The charm of the Lord Lord had reached the point of killing both men and women … …
Xiu did not speak and pulled Du Ze away. Under Xiu's aura, no one dared to stop the blonde youth's footsteps.
Even if they walked away, Du Ze could still hear the teenager shouting from afar, "I really have seen you before — at that time, weren't you looking for a person called 'Du Ze'?"
… …?!
Du Ze suddenly looked at Xiu. Xiu smiled at Du Ze and calmly said, "Well, he has seen me before — because I have summoned him."
Summoned … … summoned?
"Just like how the God of Creation summoned you to that world, I wanted to see you, so I summoned the people of this world. But the 'conditions' seemed to be wrong, I did not summon you. "
… … … … Eh!?
Du Ze was suddenly enlightened. At that time, the blow was too big. He only cared about himself and did not realize this matter — since the God of Creation could summon him, there was no reason why Xiu, who had become the Supreme God, could not do it!
— — No! Du Ze frowned. He remembered the most important point: It was not that he did not believe that Xiu's ability was not better than that of the God of Creation, but there was an essential gap between the two of them.
"You know … …" Du Ze opened his mouth slightly, no longer blocked by the mysterious power, "The truth of the world … …?"
If the frog in the well wanted to call in the frog by the pond, it must first realize that there were frogs outside the well and know that the sky it looked at from the bottom of the well was not the whole world. This truth seemed to be a thin layer of paper, but without the help of external forces, it would be difficult for the person in the well to see through it. That was why the rules desperately prevented Du Ze from speaking in the end, because once the truth of the world was known, it would be considered, observed, and even involved.
"Yes." Xiu reached out and brushed away the leaves floating on Du Ze's head. His words were as light as the falling leaves, without the slightest strength. "I destroyed the world, so I know the truth of the world."
It was just a short sentence, but the information contained in it made Du Ze feel dry in his throat. Since Xiu came to him, the two of them had not mentioned anything about the world. The time when they were separated was like a taboo, unspeakable and untouchable. Du Ze wanted to ask Xiu about what happened after he left. He wanted to ask whether Xiu really destroyed the world. He wanted to ask how Xiu came here. He wanted to ask a lot of questions, but his life now was too happy, so he did not want to uncover the pile of bones piled up under the happiness.
Du Ze opened his mouth and made a very strange sound. It was like an old radio, repeating the words with unclear meaning: "Destroy the world …"
Xiu stood there, the breeze gently blowing his blond hair. The fine ends of his hair were plated with a layer of fluffy edges by the sun. His handsome face was so perfect that he did not look like a human — he was indeed not a person of this world.
"Do you know about the 'No Proof'?" The god who did not belong to this world stared at the people of this world, his gentle smile was still so beautiful that it made people feel unreal. "In this world, it is called the 'Devil's Proof'."
Du Ze instinctively shook his head and blankly listened to Xiu's explanation: "The devil in this world is an imaginary creature. It is very simple to prove its existence, as long as you find the devil, it is a perfect argument. But it is almost impossible to prove that 'there is no devil', because even if you search the whole world and do not find the devil, there is no way to prove that the devil is just hiding in a place that you cannot see. People who think that 'there is' can say that the devil exists in this world, but you have not found it yet — I believe that you exist in that world, but I have not found it yet. "
"So I kept looking for it." Xiu said lightly: "Until I remembered a clue about you: Before you left, there was a person who said to me that I would regret it — and I did regret it, so I spelled out his fragment and wanted to find it. That fragment told me that in the whole world, only it knew where you were, and as long as I destroyed the world, it would give you back to me. "
A trace of cruelty crossed the blond youth's mouth, but it described the perfect and somewhat illusory person more realistically.
"I couldn't find you. I destroyed the world. "
Sentence by sentence, he simply stated two things, and the logical relationship between them carried a weight that no one could bear. Du Ze's breath was suppressed to the point that it could not be heard. He remembered the scene he saw in his dream and in the corridor of time. Even if it had become a dark past, at that time, he could only be a bystander and could not intervene. Du Ze could not help but say a belated reminder: "It is lying to you …"
"I know." It was as if a dark cloud had floated across the sky, and a faint darkness was flowing in Xiu's blue eyes. He stretched out his hand and stroked Du Ze's nape, as if he was controlling and comforting him. "I can't trust anyone except you — but I need to destroy the world because I want to prove your 'nothingness', just like proving the existence of the devil. I began to destroy the world little by little, narrowing the places where you may 'hide' step by step, so that you have no room to 'hide'. "
Du Ze could not help but tremble. The man's words were like bars woven into a golden cage, spiraling around him one after another, sealing all the space for movement. In fact, he knew that the person beside him now looked very normal, but this showed that he was not normal. He was like a planet that was about to explode. Endless power was compressed to the extreme at a certain point. Only a small atom or a detonation point was missing, and it would release destructive energy. However, no matter how terrifying the contraction and expansion of that power was, as long as there was no detonation point, it would always be in a twisted balance. Du Ze was that detonation point, so he honestly and willingly guarded the man who had already gone crazy.
"I destroyed the world, proved its lie, and also verified your 'nothingness' — since there was no you in this world, and then recalling your uniqueness, I realized that you were likely to come from outside the world." Xiu whispered, "So I discovered the 'truth of the world'."
The God of Creation discovered the 'truth of the world' because he could not find his own origin, while Xiu found the 'truth of the world' with absolute power and his memory.
Du Ze's mouth opened and closed several times, but he did not know what he should say. Xiu's fingers went from Du Ze's nape to the front and gently cupped Du Ze's cheek.
"I couldn't find you in the world, so I had to go outside the world to find you. After learning the truth of the world, I began to see the rules outside the world. "Xiu's eyes slightly closed, as if he was recalling. "Many, many rules. Perceiving the rules of this world, summoning the rules of this world … and going to the rules of this world."
A gust of wind blew, seeming to want to blow away Xiu's voice and erase his rebellious words.
"I know the truth of the world. I am a person of great destiny. I waited for the permission of the world's founder, so I came to this world."
In a short sentence, Xiu told the three conditions for coming to this world. Du Ze was so shocked that he could not say anything. Vivian and the others could not come because they did not know that there was a world above this world; the God of Creation could not come because he was not a person of great destiny and did not have the protection of the rules, so he was doomed to die; only Xiu, who was the protagonist, could live forever in that world. After learning the truth of the world, Xiu only had one last condition left to fulfill — waiting for the permission of the world's founder.
Du Ze remembered the illusion he had seen before and only felt a chill spread from the bottom of his heart.
In that darkness where everything was closed off, Xiu had been waiting for the "qualification" that might not appear at all? Xiu had waited for four years outside the wheel of time before he lost his mind. Judging from the time ratio of the two worlds, how did this person spend the almost infinite time?
Du Ze did not dare to think about it because it was too heavy. Just thinking about the nothingness and darkness after the destruction of the world was enough to suffocate him.
"Why …" Du Ze's voice seemed to roll out from his throat, dry and hoarse. "Must … it be allowed?"
He was just muttering to himself. There was no doubt, but more sadness and injustice. However, Xiu gave the answer, "Because of the rules."
The wind was getting stronger and stronger, but even though the leaves were blowing, Xiu's voice was still very clear.
"That world has rules, and this world also has rules; that world stipulates that two moons rise every night, and this world stipulates that there can only be one moon in the night sky; that world stipulates that the chaotic land is suspended in the void; this world stipulates that the earth exists in the universe; that world stipulates that creatures can become gods if they meet the conditions; this world stipulates that three conditions must be met before they can cross the world barrier." Xiu chuckled and said, "The rules of each world are determined by 'above'. No matter how unreasonable it is, even if it is instant destruction and rebirth, as long as the founder writes it down, it is the rule."
Du Ze listened in a daze. He looked up at the sky in a daze, as if he had seen the truth of some taboo, and he shuddered.
Xiu comfortingly pressed Du Ze's neck. As if he had thought of something, he suddenly smiled happily.
"Close your eyes."
Du Ze subconsciously obeyed Xiu's instructions. Even if he closed his eyes, he could feel the light shining on his eyelids first dim, and then suddenly become very bright.
"Okay."
Du Ze opened his eyes and looked at the baroque style luxury city in front of him. He lost all his words.
This is … the Sky City?!
Du Ze's pupils suddenly contracted. He looked at the opposite side without blinking. There, a group of people seemed to be waiting for something in boredom. When the short-haired thief among them noticed this side, his expression became excited in an instant.
"Hey! Why are you back so late? This thief has been waiting for so long that he is about to become moldy. "
"Little master, Master Du Ze, long time no see."
"Lord Xiu/Your Majesty, you are back."
Du Ze, I miss you so much ^
^
"Clang, clang ~"
A reddish-gold bird flew across the bright sky and gently landed on Du Ze's shoulder. The fire phoenix tilted its head to look at its female bird and rubbed Du Ze's cheek with its small head. Du Ze looked at all this dumbfounded. He turned his head almost mechanically and looked at the blond youth beside him stupidly. His thoughts were in a mess.
"When I went out, I met the founder of this world." Xiu slightly bowed his head and stared at Du Ze's black eyes very closely. His eyes were full of satisfaction and rebellion. "I gave him the right to create this world."
The supreme god of this world kissed the black-haired youth's eyebrows and welcomed back his only lover.
"Welcome back, Du Ze."
***
Jin Yi finally caught a certain 'hehe beast' at an author's press conference. Facing her editor who came to settle accounts with him, Yi Ye Zhi Qiu just said very kindly: "I gave it to someone else."
"To whom?!"
"The protagonist of."
"…" Jin Yi was speechless for a while. "Are you still holding on to your 'this world is a book' idea? If you want to start a new book about this topic, I will support you with both feet. "
Yi Ye Zhi Qiu chuckled and then asked a question. "Have you heard of 'the brain in the vat'?"
"What's that?"
"Suppose your brain is cut off from your body by an evil scientist and put into a vat filled with nutrients to keep the brain alive. The nerve endings of the brain are connected to a computer, and this computer sends information to your brain according to the program to keep you in the illusion that everything is perfectly normal. For you, people, objects, the sky — the whole world exists, and your own movements and physical feelings can be input. Your brain can also be input or intercepted to add a wonderful first love or an unforgettable scandal. "
Yi Ye Zhi Qiu looked at Jin Yi who had been completely confused.
"So, how can you be sure that you are not in this predicament?"
"How can you be sure that … you are not in a novel?"
The author has something to say: After a year, the rotten author finally filled in the epilogue of true love (you have the nerve to say that!) It mainly explains the reason why Xiu came to this world, and the ending is also full of memories = w =
The rotten author has started a new article, this is the new article's address: xet/? (Or you can click into some decadent column, the first article will be the first one) Welcome to play, ahhhhhhhhh ~
Since a lot of 'true love's' chapters were locked, a certain someone was going to deal with those locked chapters. Please don't be offended when you see the update notification.
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