Chapter 148: Puppet*
Edited by Crooked
Gu Xizhou didnt understand; his brain was just a ball of confusion. If Ji Jis world could change the past, maybe the task worlds he had experienced before could also change reality.
Whats the matter with you? Si Yu asked softly, furrowing his brows as he stared at Gu Xizhou with piercing anxiety.
I went into a strange world today. Gu Xizhous adams apple bobbed.
Si Yu grabbed Gu Xizhous wrists and asked with a frown, What happened?
I Gu Xizhou said finally, seeing Si Yus nervousness. I was drawn into a special world, but this world was especially strange. In this world I met my parents.
In that world I changed my parents death. They should have been shot down while investigating a kidnapping case linked to children who were begging and stealing. After entering the mission world, I changed their deaths, and when I came out they had been resurrected.
After Gu Xizhou finished speaking, Si Yu looked at him and said, But in my impression they have always existed.
En My guess is that the people who didnt experience the mission world dont know that this worlds history was changed.
Gu Xizhou didnt say anything about Ji Ji, only that he changed his parents deaths in the mission world. There are also the chains. Im certain those ghosts have chains. The mission world has something to do with those invisible chains.
After listening to Gu Xizhous description he fell silent for a moment. Maybe the mission world is a transaction. The creator of the mission world lets the mission taker fulfill the wishes of the ghosts. The ghost with the door can then break its own chains and return them to the creator of the world.
Creator? Gu Xizhou was silent for a moment. Who do you think that is?
Si Yu pointed up. All I can think of is it.
Gu Xizhou looked up unconsciously. Even though there was only a ceiling, Gu Xizhou knew what it Si Yu was talking about.
Heaven.
En, Si Yu said, spreading his fingers. Other than God I really cant think of anyone who could change the past and resurrect the dead.
Hearing Si Yus words, Gu Xizhous brain suddenly went nk.
God?
Si Yus words were a bit absurd, but really only God could be the master of these worlds.
Ma Qi was the best proof. He had been in so many fights with drug lords and yet he always survived. Ye Shu was over one hundred years old but the people who knew her, including secretaries, didnt find anything amiss. Only the mission takers were surprised when they saw the age in the report.
ording to human beliefs heaven could control fate, so God really could do something like that.
Controlling peoples fates, letting those who should have died live, Si Yu said softly.
The idea of controlling fates made Gu Xizhou suddenly think of something. He was certain about one thing: everyone should have chains, he himself had them! He knew because every time he tried to kill a ghost a strange force woulde over him rendering him unable to move an inch.
These words struck like lightning. If everything was controlled by heaven, could anyone be killed by heaven?
Si Yu continued on to say,bined with what you said, I think the chains are fate. Heaven uses them to control the fate of people and ghosts and the breaking of the chains are out of Gods control. Were sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our trantions keep getting stolen by aggregators so were going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
It cant control the fate of the ghosts, so it proposed the exchange conditions, Gu Xizhou analyzed, picking up the thread of the conversation. It creates each supernatural world and lets us go in and help these uncontroble ghosts fulfill their wishes.
He muttered to himself for a moment before continuing on to say, Maybe it cant kill them.
Anyway, dont you think those ghosts are pitiful? They already died miserable deaths only to be directly annihted.
Gu Xizhou was silent, but he had to agree with Si Yus words. A majority of the events in the mission worlds were things that happened in the real world. In their society tragedies urred day in day out. These people really were pitiful. If they really just annihted these ghosts directly, it would be too pitiful.
Maybe God had pity for all living things so it didnt directly obliterate these uncontroble ghosts.
But Gu Xizhou was more inclined to believe it was because they couldnt be killed. Before, Fu Yiran had said that he was a murder weapon and that everything he was experiencing now was only sharpening the knife. Now he knew that Li Yans appearance in the snowman world might not be idental, it might have been arranged by it.
Gu Xizhou couldnt help but feel a chill go up his spine. If his and Si Yus guess was correct, then the hand controlling him is probably heaven. Then who does the hand of God want him to kill?
If heaven couldnt achieve it, how could it be certain he could?
Was it because he had already traveled to a different world and practiced demonic cultivation?
Demonic Cultivation?
Gu Xizhous chest tightened making it hard to breathe. He found that his mind was nk. He always thought he was a demonic cultivator who had passed through different worlds and returned. But why, why was his memory of his life as a demonic cultivator so indistinct that he couldnt picture it at all?
Since his resurrection he couldnt remember the day he became a demonic cultivator. He could only remember vaguely that it was very hard.
Gu Xizhou felt a headacheing on and gripped his head as hard as he could. Why did he have no memory of living in a different world?!
Why was there nothing in his mind?
When Si Yu saw Gu Xizhou clutching at his head, he put his chin on Gu Xizhous shoulder and said softly, Dont think about it. Its pointless to think so much. Its better to let nature take its course.
En Gu Xizhou fell silent. Si Yu was right. If he really was being manipted by the hand of God, what could he do alone?
Gu Xizhou took out his phone and called Ma Qi. He needed to be certain.
Ma Qi, when you investigated cases rted to the mission world before did you research it ording to the content you saw in the mission world doors? Gu Xizhou asked.
Suddenly receiving a phone call from Gu Xizhou, Ma Qi was dumbfounded and replied a little stunned, Yes, ah. Whats up?
Just as I thought, Gu Xizhou smiled. Youre looking in the wrong direction.
Hearing this, Ma Qi was obviously excited. What did you find?
Help me investigate these cases first Gu Xizhou said, summarizing his experience in the mission world. As long as the circumstances are somewhat simr and all the data is collected, I want to confirm my guess before I tell you.
Okay, ba. Ill do it as soon as I can. Last time, I entrusted most of the research to a few friends, and they looked for information from after the door. Tomorrow, Ill have them filter the material ording to what you said.
Ive troubled you, Ma Ge.
Gu Xizhou hung up, eyeing the wine in the liquor cab. He got up and took a bottle, handing it to Si Yu saying, Open this bottle and sleep well after drinking.
Okay.
Gu Xizhous brain was a mess while drinking.
Ji Jis death along with everything else might have been arranged by heaven, and he wasnt able to do anything about it, he was still powerless.
Im sorry
Hearing Gu Xizhou repeatedly apologize and being used as a human pillow, Si Yus expression fell a little. His mood was unreadable, he just hugged Gu Xizhou gently and sat with him for a while.
Si Yu rolled up his sleeves, exposing the clean lines of his arms as he lifted up the drunken Gu Xizhou and ced him on the bed. He caressed his cheek gently, his deep eyes imprable.
He went over to the window and looked out at the night sky.
Sunlight spilled over Gu Xizhou as he rubbed his eyes sleepily. When he opened them, he saw Si Yus handsome face. He was still wearing his pajamas from yesterday. Because of his hangover, Gu Xizhou rubbed his forehead in difort as he sat up and rolled out of bed.
He found his phone in the living room of the hotel room. When he opened the dark screen, Gu Xizhou was surprised.
It was already 10!
He waste for work!
He shouldnt have drunkst night. If Ji Ji knew that he hadnt shown up to work and disappeared without a trace, he would rise from the dead out of anger. Gu Xizhou hurriedly made a call.
Chief Wang, its me, Gu Xizhou, he shouted hastily after the dial tone when the call finally connected.
In the police department Wang Ao was stunned when he received the call from Gu Xizhou and said, Whats wrong with you, kid? You didnt answer your phone, I thought something happened to you on the way to work!
Did you wake up with that voice, ah?
Hearing what Wang Ao said, Gu Xizhou ened vaguely and said, Chief Wang, can I ask for leave today?
Xizhou, as criminal police, we will see many bad aspects of society, but these bad aspects all need our effort in order to change. You should try to adjust your mindset. The death of that mother and child is regretful, but it cant be helped. Some people cant wake up. Society still needs improvement. Sooner orter there will be less and less people like that.
After saying that, Wang Ao changed the subject. Chuckling, he didnt forget to joke, I will give you three days vacation, so that you can rest well, ah. Dont let your parents worry. Every time your mom sees me she scolds me. She says that I use the women in the station as men and the men as animals. Am I really so cruel?
Of course not, Gu Xizhou said.
Wang Ao, Well, you rest well. I still have to go to the city for a meeting, so I cant chat.
Gu Xizhou hung up to find that both Fang Zhi and Ma Qi had sent him messages.
Fang Zhi returned his car to the police station when he returned yesterday. When he didnt see him at work today he called him several times out of anxiety.
Fang Zhi: Gu Ge, why arent you at the station yet, ah? You didnt have an ident on the way here did you?
Fang Zhi: Gu Ge, answer your phone!
ncing at the messages, Gu Xizhou smiled. He was about to reply when his eyes fell on Fan Zhis name and his hands froze.
The name he used when he entered the mission world was Fang Ran, because the pseudonym Ji Ji used in the world he was revived in was Gu Ran
Gu Xizhou shook his head, forcing these thoughts from his brain: Im not feeling well today. I already asked Chief Wang for leave, dont worry.
Fang Zhi: Thats good. Rest well Gu Ge!
Gu Xizhou: En.
Switching to WeChat, Gu Xizhou found that Ma Qi had already sent him the results from the investigation. After chatting with Ma Qi a little, Gu Xizhou opened the hotelputer and epted the data.
Sitting in front of theputer, Gu Xizhou looked over the material carefully. At that moment, Si Yu came out of the room in a bathrobe, the sun shining on his body, his eyes smiling faintly, handsome facial features and ink ck hair dyed with the sun. Up so early?
En, Ma Qi sent me the information. I was just reading it. Gu Xizhou rubbed his tired eyes. Hed read too much text and his eyes felt ufortable.
Si Yu walked over swiftly, Ill help you.
Gu Xizhou sat next to him and watched Si Yu work. After a little bit, Si Yu printed out some information. Look at these.
Gu Xizhou took the information. Adopted daughter kills foster fathers whole family beforemitting suicide. Ancestral temple copsed to reveal countless horrifying faces underneath.
This corresponded exactly to two worlds they had experienced. Lin Meng had killed her adoptive parents in the supernatural world corresponding to the death of an adoptive family in the real world. The female ghosts found their own faces in the ancestral hall, and in the real world their faces were discovered.
Gu Xizhou looked at the photos of the corresponding ces. These were the roads andndscapes of the ces they had traveled. The people who had helped Ma Qi investigate before had already removed cases like this so they didnt discover it.
Because hed been painting with Lin Meng at the time, Gu Xizhou could clearly remember what the reservoir looked like, which was identical to the photo.
The mission world connected the past and could change the past or even the future!
Gu Xizhous heart began to pound.
We Gu Xizhou swallowed, and said, should go look, ba.
Si Yu looked down at him and nodded, Okay, ah, now? Ill arrange it.
We can go now? Gu Xizhou looked up at him and asked.
Si Yu: Of course.
Gu Xizhou took Si Yus car to the airport in a daze. Sitting in the private jet Gu Xizhou stared in nk confusion, pointing at the ne and asking, Y-yours?
Si Yu ened nonchntly as if Gu Xizhou was asking about a toy ne.
Gu Xizhou bowed his head to hide his shock. He didnt think that the local tyrant would actually use his own ne.
In less than two hours of flying, Gu Xizhou could see with his own eyes the reservoir and mountain home from the mission world built by Lin Mengs adoptive parents.
Its really true
Gu Xizhous tone was saturated with powerlessness. His and Si Yus theory might actually be true.
It was very likely that heaven had controlled his resurrection.
Gu Xizhou revealed a confused expression. His heart couldnt help raising the idea that he might really just be a puppet. Afterall he was just a person.
The author has something to say: Later you cuties will see the title: xxxx*
That * is the reason for the mission worlds existence.
Anyway the use of the chains is very easy to guess, right ba! 2333