Chapter 620: Faro's I Am the World

No one knows the location of the evil dragon Marodis' lair. They only know that it was last seen in a dense forest a hundred miles northwest of Black Rock City.

Although the Seven Kingdoms are prosperous and have a large population, once they leave the towns and villages, the wilds are full of ferocious monsters.

Even if the "Dawn Mercenary Group" is an S-class mercenary group, it can't move very fast in the mountains and forests.

They had to deal with the monsters that suddenly appeared along the way, and they also had to open a path in the dense forest.

In the evening of the next day, everyone arrived at the "Black Stone Forest Farm".

This is a natural forest farm with huge black cedar trees. The giant trees are towering into the sky.

Unfortunately, due to the perennial presence of the Gale Demonic Wolf, after the last family of lumberjacks was eaten by the demonic beast more than ten years ago, there has been no human trace for dozens of miles.

The sun had set, and everyone in the Dawn Group used the dilapidated hut of the woodcutter in the forest farm as a camping spot.

They are not afraid of the monsters that others are afraid of.

In the wooden house, a bonfire was burning.

Several huge pieces of barbecue were being roasted on the campfire, sizzling with oil. This was the [Earth Demon Bear] that was hunted during the day.

Everyone sat around the fire and chatted.

Archer Sival is using a knife to remove the fat on the bloody bear skin. After all, this complete bear skin can still be sold at a good price in the Adventurer Market.

Heavy knight Robert is oiling and maintaining his precious armor.

The magician Gwyneth was still frowning as she deciphered the dark magic secrets on several stone slabs.

Ji Xun was still reading Farlow's travel diary.

The hunter Ifa was holding some bread crumbs in his hand and feeding them to the nest of mountain rats that belonged to the "original owner" in the previous house.

He is an animal trainer and is proficient in some animal languages.

The mountain rat ate the crumbs and squeaked a few times.

Yifa seemed to understand, and turned to his companions and said: "Captain, these mountain rats said that the terrifying aura in the northwest underground should be that evil dragon."

Ji Xun nodded as he listened: "Yes. Then everyone should have a good rest tonight. There may be a fierce battle tomorrow."

They are all tacit partners and have long been familiar with their partners' abilities. Everyone nodded in agreement.

However, at this moment, Gwyneth, who had been frowning as she cracked the slate, suddenly brightened up: "I finally deciphered it! Oh my God, these magic ciphers actually use the 'Thirteen-sided Dice Encryption Method'!"

The things the magician studies are all elusive, and her teammates don't know why she is so amazed.

Heavy Knight Robert asked: "Thirteen-sided dice? Gwen, what is this?"

Gwyneth explained: "Well. This is a very special magic encryption method. The text is not viewed as a plane, but as a three-dimensional polyhedron that looks like a dice. That polyhedron will be sorted and sorted. A few simple words make up a complex sentence. A word may have different meanings in multiple phrases, and it will have a new meaning.”

Magic knowledge is a very precious thing in this world.

Usually it is not spread to outsiders.

In order to preserve the secrets of their research, magicians like to use various weird encryption methods to preserve their results and show off their knowledge.

Therefore, many times, some ordinary-looking ancient books on the antique market may be encrypted secret scrolls left by ancient magicians.

Of course, the most used black magicians are those who are considered "taboo", in order to prevent being discovered by the Seven Gods Sect.

Several teammates were still confused and could not understand the complicated encryption method.

However, Ji Xun captured something special: "Thirteen faces?"

In his understanding, multi-sided dice usually have an even number of sides.

Gwyneth nodded: "Well! This is the specialness of this encryption method. It is a high-dimensional pattern that can no longer be drawn and is folded on one side. It is called the 'hidden information of the gods'. I can't either Understand how it works and just know some of the formulas to crack it.”

Everyone became interested as soon as they heard it.

Their intuition told them that if this stone tablet could use this encryption method, it must be involved in some big secret.

After a pause, Gwyneth explained: "It is said that this encryption method was first discovered in ancient ruins three thousand years ago. The seniors of the magic academy in later generations studied for a long time before accidentally cracking it. The teachers who taught me were all Said, this 'Thirteen-sided Dice Encryption Method' is so special that it seems to be out of this world. If I didn't know some formulas, I wouldn't be able to decipher it even if I gave it hundreds of years."

Deciphering the text is a very boring thing. The simplest way is to observe the patterns and apply various known encryption techniques.

Being able to decipher it requires a lot of luck.

Ji Xun and the others didn't care how to crack it.

Rather, we care about what is recorded on it.

Gwyneth looked at the curious eyes of her teammates and then looked at the stone tablet with a slightly strange expression: "Well, although it is a little incomplete, it has been roughly deciphered. There is a very strange sentence written on this stone tablet."

The stone tablet reads: "I suspect that the 'will of the world' has blocked part of human cognition, causing us to lose the ability to perceive the reality of the universe. I want to open a rift in the world to see if my guess is true."

Upon hearing this beginning, everyone's expressions twitched.

"What a crazy guy. No wonder he is a taboo black magician. Opening a rift in the world? Oh, my God, isn't that guy afraid that the world will be destroyed as a result?"

"Hey, on the other hand, the Nan Shenyu three thousand years ago was really strong. It could tear the world apart? Isn't this already the power of a god?"

"Could it be that this valley is the ruins of the World Rift? If that's the case, there may be some top-notch magical babies. Maybe the evil dragon chose this place because he was attracted by the magical atmosphere."

"Hahaha, I'm looking forward to it more and more."

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After all, they are mercenaries, and they don't have to worry about black magic. The deciphered intelligence gave them a professional acumen with a premonition of treasure.

Ji Xun also became very interested.

He enjoys the adventure of exploring the unknown more than treasures.

However, for some reason, Ji Xun was not thinking about magic relics, but a question: "Encryption?"

Will it?

Ji Xun looked at the travel notes in his hand and suddenly had an idea in his mind.

Since this Faro is also a bard from three thousand years ago, and may be extremely powerful.

Could it be that this guy also knows Nan Shenyu?

Also, is it possible that the travel notes in my hand also contain encrypted information?

Thinking of this, he suddenly had a sudden impulse and turned around and asked: "Gwen, what is the principle of the 'Thirteen-sided Astrology Dice Encryption Method' you mentioned?"

Gwyneth heard that the captain was asking, and of course she was not shy about her words: "Ah, it would be very troublesome to explain. But as long as you remember a few formulas, it seems like this."

Ji Xun listened silently.

The teammates on the side had already become dizzy, with painful expressions as if their brains were unwilling to process the complex information.

However, Ji Xun didn't know why. He always felt that it was not difficult to understand.

Those words automatically turned into organized and regular formulas in my mind, and then formed a very strange thirteen-sided dice.

It was as if I had seen it before and was just familiar with it again.

Gwyneth roughly explained the principles of deciphering. Looking at the painful expressions of her teammates, she laughed and said: "Hahaha, don't just think about it and understand it. It took me several months to get started. "

It is difficult for a magician to get started, let alone some of the major melee professions.

Everyone was relieved, eating meat and smiling.

Gwyneth turned and looked at Ji Xun who was thoughtful. Of course she knew that the leader liked to study some weird knowledge, so she added another sentence: "Captain, if you really want to learn, I will give it to you slowly." explain"

"Um."

Ji Xun nodded, as if in response.

But the thoughts in his mind had gone to nowhere.

And the next second, his eyes fell on the previous travel diary.

A magical scene unfolded quietly.

The words that originally formed the travel notes suddenly seemed to come alive, automatically shuffling their order, and then forming thirteen-sided dice shapes.

"Eh"

Seeing this, Ji Xun didn't know what was going on, and felt surprised in his heart.

But before his thoughts could get any more surprising, he discovered that the text on those dice turned into another completely different content!

"Hey, adventurers of future generations. The fact that you can read these words means that you are not an ignorant believer deceived by the Seven Gods. Then, you have the qualifications to contact the truth of the world."

When Ji Xun saw this, his expression was startled, and he seemed to see an adventurer with a free and easy personality, talking to him after three thousand years.

At the same time, he felt an inexplicable familiarity.

Not just this time, in the past twenty years, many times, Ji Xun felt that what he experienced seemed familiar.

It was as if I had experienced it in a certain time and space.

But then, his next words made his expression serious.

"But unfortunately, the truth of the world may make people despair."

It was as if he had read a novel that was difficult to extricate himself from. From the first sentence, Ji Xun's gaze had been fixed on the changing words and he could no longer move away.

What follows is as follows:

"My name is Farlow. As you can see in the travel notes, I am an adventurer and a bard. In my life, I have traveled to the seven kingdoms, to the endless desert sea, to the abyss, to explore countless ruins, and to read I have read countless classics, and I am not ashamed to say that I have some innate deduction talents. This is why I can easily reach the peak of extraordinary power, so I am extremely convinced that the world we see may be there. Some 'problems'."

"Yes! I suspect that this world has 'consciousness'. There is a higher-dimensional consciousness that prevents me from exploring the truth."

When Ji Xun saw this, he felt an inexplicable sense of absurdity in his heart.

It was as if the understanding of the world that had been built up over the past twenty years was shattered by some foreign object in an instant.

Some strange thoughts came out of my heart.

And as he guessed, is this "Farlow" really a top powerhouse? !

Ji Xun continued to read.

"I'm not sure what exactly 'world consciousness' is. I only know that it is a high-latitude secret that humans cannot access. It must also be the truth of the world deliberately hidden by the 'Seven Pillar Gods' and 'Titan God Baal' . So if you want to find out the truth, you have to avoid the so-called gods."

"I traveled around, trying to find out the hidden truth."

"I'm sure if my rank was higher, I might be able to see clearly what the flaw is. But I can't break through. It's as if there is an invisible shackle in this world that prevents people from touching the mystery beyond the peak."

"In my deduction, the world is like a well. Someone has put a lid on the well, and even thinking is restricted. So, I have been looking for a way to open the lid."

"Later, I was convinced that there really was a mysterious force in this world that prevented me from seeing the truth."

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Ji Xun frowned.

The content in front of me seemed to be not just words, but like weird magic, entering my mind in a very strange way.

Then it was imprinted.

"Before, I always suspected that the area I explored was not broad enough. Perhaps the truth of the world is hidden at the end of the endless sea, the underground of the abyss, or even the end of the starry sky. But later, I discovered that the direction of my lifelong travels and explorations may be Wrong

"Hey future generations of brave men, when you saw these notes I left, have you ever thought about this question: How can you be sure that the world you are in now is real?"

Seeing this, Ji Xun seemed to hear a majestic giant asking questions to him in his heart.

Like being struck by lightning.

Stunned on the spot.

There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!

How can we be sure that the world is real?

It sounds like a ridiculous question.

The world is not real, how can it be false?

Ji Xun suddenly looked at his body, the bonfire in front of him, and his friends eating meat and laughing.

If none of this is real, then what is?

He wanted to reject this ridiculous idea and comfort himself that this might be some evil sect's trick to deceive people's hearts.

But for some reason, there was always a persistent thought in his heart that made him continue reading.

"Yes! When I doubted the real existence of this world, I realized that I had found the truly right direction. At least among all the conjectures I have explored, this is the only direction that can reasonably explain all doubts!"

"No, to be precise, the world is both real and not real. This is relative. At the level of our consciousness, it may be false."

"I know this is difficult to understand, just like it is difficult for the human brain to understand the pattern of a 'thirteen-sided dice', because it is a pattern that can appear in an abnormal world. I use an inappropriate metaphor. to describe"

"Everything in dreams is illusory, but people can only recognize it when they are awake. But in dreams, everything is real. Therefore, 'awake' and "awake" are the right direction!"

Ji Xun no longer knows how to describe the complex fluctuations in his heart.

For a moment, he actually fell into a trance.

It was as if he was in some kind of nightmare state at the moment, and he couldn't wake up even if he wanted to.

Everything around him was both real and like an illusion.

It was a terrible feeling.

And his intuition told Ji Xun that someone really had "put" some extremely profound knowledge into his mind.

More than the brain can handle.

This could have been very dangerous.

I don't know why, but Ji Xun feels very happy at this moment.

It was like someone was guiding him in a foggy world, guiding him to see the truth in the fog.

"Of course, when you realize this rule, congratulations, you finally have a 'soul'."

"Then what is a soul?"

"Why are you so sure you have a soul?"

Ji Xun really felt that his brain had turned into a ball of mush.

How could I have no soul?

Never doubted it.

But looking at what followed, he became suspicious.

"The fate of ordinary people has been determined from the moment they are born. It seems that a person's life has endless variables, but in fact it is always a causal line that can be deduced from the beginning to the end. 'He' will be different because of the family environment in which he was born. Becoming a blacksmith, a farmer, a tailor, a slave, a noble, a magician, or a knight, but there is no difference between birth, growth, and age. Go and be buried in the grave in the end. What you think is a variable is actually a choice driven by the instinct of desire. When you are hungry, you look for food. When you are restless, you look for women. The farmer is hungry and cold, the thief is poor and seeks wealth, and the noble is rich and desires. It’s the same, most humans are just beasts driven by instinct, so most people don’t realize where their souls are.”

"Life is like a script in a theater performance. Everyone plays a different role. So, is the role the soul of 'him'?"

"No. When you look at your performance from the perspective of an 'audience', you will find that the characters in the script are only part of your soul."

"The soul is in a higher dimension, a place beyond cognition."

"If the world is a stage and life is a script. Then...where is our real soul?"

"If we want to understand this truth, we must become 'observers' in the audience."

"So back to the original question: How can you be sure that the world you see is real?"

"It took me a lifetime to get a definite answer: this world is not real."

"To be more precise: consciousness is just the projection of the soul in this world."

"Consciousness is a projection of the soul?"

Ji Xun murmured in his heart.

I don’t know when his attitude towards Travel Notes changed.

From the beginning of doubt, doubt, and disdain, to now, it was as if a light had been lit in the darkness, illuminating a scene he had never seen before.

The bard named Farlow described the ultimate question of thinking about the world.

Before I knew it, I had seen the end of the travelogue.

There are a few more passages above.

"I'm sure I'm on the right track. But unfortunately, I don't have time."

"Because the 'will of the world' not only limits the human body's ability to reach the peak of power, it also limits the lifespan of human beings. In their limited lives, human beings cannot find an 'exit' to the world. This is something I could not have imagined." The dead end of any cracking method"

"Hahaha, I don't feel despair! On the contrary, I am extremely convinced at this moment that all my deductions are correct!"

"And the fact that I can understand these mysteries about the universe is not something new, but my soul in the high-latitude universe already knows it, and now the projected consciousness has just 'awakened'!"

"I created the rules I found into a secret method for awakening the spiritual world. I gave it a very interesting name, 'I am the world.'"

Ji Xun finished reading.

It seemed like a whole ocean of knowledge was crammed into my mind.

He couldn't even recall reciting any of the complete sentences he saw.

But his consciousness clearly told him that he had seen the ultimate secret of the world.

And for some reason, Ji Xun suddenly felt that he knew the secret method of "I am the world".

The feeling was like a little flame falling on the firewood, burning brighter and brighter.

Just like what was described in the travelogue, it seemed that I knew it all along, but it was only at this moment that I woke up.

"Captain, what's wrong with you?"

"Captain?"

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Ji Xun was immersed in that state of enlightenment. He suddenly heard a call next to his ears, and his pupils gradually focused.

The bonfire was burning brightly, and the faces of his companions all looked at him.

Ji Xun responded: "Yeah, it's okay. I thought of something and got distracted."

Gwyneth didn't think much about it, and made a habit of teasing: "Oh, I see, Captain, you have been staring at the travel notes for a long time. I thought you were bewitched by some black magic."

Pastor Xina on the side also laughed and said: "Haha, I actually encountered this when I was in church before. My teacher once treated a guy who read magic books randomly and was deceived by the succubus in the book."

Ji Xun smiled as he listened.

But before he could say anything, Robert, the heavy knight on the side, interjected enthusiastically: "Tell us more about the succubus!"

The warrior's strong energy and blood always have nowhere to vent. Of course, Xina knew what this guy wanted to hear, and smiled: "Well, it's just some indescribable action novels. Some less serious magicians use the blood of succubi to write classics , people’s thoughts are indulged in the fragrant description, and then the air and blood are exhausted. It is said that just by reading the text, you can have the real experience of having sex with a succubus.”

Robert's eyes gleamed as he listened, and he exaggeratedly teased: "Huh? Next time Xina you encounter that kind of novel, don't destroy it in a hurry, show it to me first. I want to criticize whether the succubus is really that evil."

Hunter and Trapper Ifa also echoed: "Hahaha, show me too!"

Everyone in the Dawn Group is a tacit understanding partner with each other. This statement made everyone laugh.

Gwyneth looked at Ji Xun and glanced at the travel notes in his hand, but didn't take it to heart.

It's just an ordinary travelogue.

Moreover, even if there was indeed encrypted information, she never thought that someone could just flip through it casually and decipher the mystery that other magicians could not understand in their lifetime.

Ji Xun didn't explain what he just saw in the book.

Because he couldn't tell what he saw.

Not long after, everyone in the wooden house began to take turns to rest.

As the captain, Ji Xun took on the first round of sentry duty.

He climbed up to the wooden roof, lay on his back, and looked at the bright moonlight in the sky.

The thoughts in my mind are extremely complicated.

Ji Xun didn't know what he saw, but when he looked around, everything seemed different.

At this moment, the world had a clear flow in his eyes.

The breeze, the bright moon, the trees, the earth, the bonfire.

Earth, wind, water, fire, light and darkness.

The flow of various elements forms a reasonable and traceable world.

Ji Xun felt very strange in his heart, it was an intracranial pleasure of catching a glimpse of the truth.

And once the idea came to mind, it seemed that the legendary knight bottleneck that had trapped him for ten years was about to break through.