Chapter 2516 - 2517: Dilemma
"Who knows, these things, anyway I can’t do them."
Sitting on Rainbow Bubbles, Veronia said with a helpless face. It wasn’t like she hadn’t tried before, but unfortunately, her methods were completely unable to completely obliterate those bizarre humans.
In fact, Veronia was somewhat doubtful whether these things could be trapped forever. She glanced at Feng Yuan, thinking that if she hadn’t remembered incorrectly, Feng Yuan seemed to have a means to directly erase life, ignoring immortality.
As Veronia expected, Feng Yuan immediately took out the pitch-black Ancient Book. When it comes to combating immortality, this thing is much more convenient. He opened the Ancient Book, and his fingers slid across the pages, golden text emerged, but after a moment, the text shattered, and Feng Yuan furrowed his brow slightly.
"This thing, doesn’t feel right, it’s a life, but, incomplete?"
Muttering to himself, Feng Yuan didn’t continue to try. Forcibly clearing it wasn’t impossible, but there were many problems with doing that. Just now, he forcibly set the target’s lifespan to zero, which was effective even for immortality.
However, this approach doesn’t work on incomplete beings. Incomplete means that the entity appearing in front of them isn’t its whole form. A simple avatar doesn’t count as incomplete, as it always represents the same life, while this thing is different.
It must merge with other living beings to be considered a complete entity, but within the world scope, it’s relatively independent as a life form. If it were to be violently eliminated, it would directly cause other independent yet integral entities to get wiped out along with it.
Theoretically, this shouldn’t be too big of a problem, but this is only a theory. If you indeed did it, God knows what would happen, because Feng Yuan doesn’t know what entities are connected to its existence. If it’s something important, there would be trouble.
"Incomplete?"
Veronia looked at Feng Yuan curiously, but after Feng Yuan explained once, Veronia instantly understood what happened, while Qi Chen and the others were puzzled. What was all this?
"Simply put, does it mean they coexist with other people who haven’t appeared in front of us?"
After sorting out her thoughts, Dou Yanlan asked slowly. Feng Yuan thought for a moment and nodded, saying
"Sort of, but precisely, it may not necessarily be people. It’s just that they are different forms of the same entity. Anyway, this situation is extremely rare, not so easy to resolve, but it’s no wonder that this kind of miraculous thing called immortality would appear."
Feng Yuan sighed as he spoke. This actually cannot be called immortality, but rather a unique mechanism, leading to the inability to completely eradicate it without the ability to chain-eliminate all entities. The other party is not immortal, rather due to this unique mechanism, they revive continuously.
The two are very different. Immortality itself imposes almost no cost, while revival... Feng Yuan doesn’t know what the price is, but it’s surely borne by all entities collectively.
In other words, aside from forcibly cleaning up, repeated killing can also drain the opponent’s life altogether. It’s just, Feng Yuan can’t figure out what exactly the entities belonging to the same body are.
With non-main timelines, it doesn’t matter much, apart from East Continent Great Xia, currently, the Main World doesn’t have interactions or alliances with other timeline branches. But, Feng Yuan isn’t sure if the other party is connected to historical figures in the Main World.
If there indeed is, there would be a huge mess, as the Main World’s time correction would definitely create chaos in the modern era.
"He cannot be easily killed, because we don’t know what corresponds to him, and if there’s something critical to history, Agunas and the others might go crazy."
With a helpless smile, Feng Yuan directly pointed out the most troublesome issue. Hearing this, Veronia understood something and said
"Since that’s the case, they can only be temporarily imprisoned. It’s just, this is all well and good for me, but it’s not so easy elsewhere."
This isn’t mindless beasts we’re dealing with. Even confined in the Space of Mirror, those people are still thinking about how to escape. Veronia doesn’t believe the other Divine Beasts have such convenient conditions to keep those people trapped.
"This... How about we let Agunas and the others come up with an idea, like concentrating them for imprisonment? Anyway, killing them isn’t hard, if they are repeatedly killed, their overall life can be exhausted. But, just as I’ve said before, I’m not sure if they are directly connected to an important existence in history, doing this is a gamble."
Spreading his hands, Feng Yuan expressed that he didn’t have any better solution either. Qi Chen thought about something and said
"Aren’t they sent by the Imperial Timeline?"
"Hard to say. After all, the Maomu Shrine Show, this thing, can certainly be said to not exist in the warfare timeline. Or rather, even if it exists, it shouldn’t be used. As for the Imperial Timeline, Maomu City doesn’t exist, even more impossible."
Feng Yuan shook his head slightly and said. If it was something else, it wouldn’t be so easy to judge, but since they are related to the Maomu Shrine Show, it’s much simpler. First, the Imperial Timeline can be ruled out because there’s no Maomu City there concerning the warfare timeline.
Feng Yuan highly doubts there’d be a mood to hold the Maomu Shrine Show in such a constantly war-torn place? Knowing from Captain Yan’s explanation, the Maomu Shrine Show is Maomu City’s early attempt at developing tourism.
In a world burning with wars, attempting tourism? Feng Yuan feels something is off.
"Does the warfare timeline’s suspicion remain unresolved? How about asking then."
As Veronia said, she summoned a crystal bird and let it fly towards Maomu Academy. This is simple; whether it’s related to the warfare timeline, just ask Zhanzheng Qichen. He shouldn’t conceal anything, as he intends to make friendly relations with Feng Yuan.
If there are other intentions, this question could easily expose him as well. Lies, ultimately, are not real and will have a day when they’re uncovered.
"What should be done with these guys now?"
Sweeping her gaze over the quickly reorganized team, Veronia asked Feng Yuan. Entrusting those guys to Captain Yan and his team is impossible; it’s not a matter of trust, but they can’t keep an eye on those guys.
Though they couldn’t make a ripple in Veronia’s hands, facing Captain Yan and his team, it’s completely different.
"You take them first, wait until Agunas and the others make a decision."
Though the words were directed at Veronia, Feng Yuan looked at Captain Yan, who understood Feng Yuan’s meaning, and he happened to have no idea what to do with those guys.
Joking aside, an existence that can’t be killed—even knowing from Feng Yuan that they can ultimately be drained—how would they know how many lives those guys have? Now that a Divine Beast has taken over this trouble, they certainly don’t want to self-seek more trouble.
After chatting briefly with Captain Yan, Feng Yuan took Qi Chen and the others and left, while those trapped in the Space of Mirror were naturally taken away by Veronia.
"I didn’t expect such a thing to happen, but, is it really okay? Simply confining them..."
On the way, Qi Chen asked with some concern. In his view, those guys were like a time bomb; who knew when they’d explode?
"No, without ensuring there’s no threat, completely obliterating them isn’t the right approach. We can’t gamble."
Dou Yanlan explained before Feng Yuan could open his mouth. Feng Yuan made it very clear—it’s not that they can’t be eliminated, but they currently cannot determine what the consequences of elimination would be.
After ruling out the Imperial Timeline, if the warfare timeline’s suspicion is also ruled out, it means these guys are linked to the Main World, and that would be a hassle.
Because, in such a context, the situation Feng Yuan worries about is likely to become reality.
As for the warfare timeline side, there’s still no result. Although Veronia’s question was simple, Bai You and the others aren’t certain whether time correction phenomena would occur during this period.
According to their current memory, the Maomu Shrine Show or similar things haven’t taken place in Maomu City within the warfare timeline. After all, in that world, developing military strength is the right path, and things like the Maomu Shrine Show are utterly pointless.
To determine whether there are correction phenomena, Bai You specifically returned to the warfare timeline to investigate, and thus Feng Yuan and the others temporarily don’t know if it’s related to the warfare timeline.
But to avoid Zhanzheng Qichen and the others being affected by time correction leading to memory loss, Feng Yuan directly gave them the Wolf Tooth Necklace from the White Wolf Deity. Even if it can’t completely prevent it, it can avoid the effects of most natural corrections.
With the protection of the Wolf Tooth Necklace, they would not experience memory changes due to time corrections.
Though there’s no proof, Feng Yuan suspects that time corrections in the warfare timeline may continue to occur, and as for what the warfare timeline will eventually become, Feng Yuan doesn’t know either.