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Capítulo 27

“If the goddess was just an ordinary girl when that bastard took a photo with his own corpse, it means that the goddess’s teleportation ability was destined to be activated at some point in the future because she wanted to get rid of that bastard.” Kobayashi quickly sorted out the logical deductions in his mind and said, “This means that the future is absolutely impossible to change.”

Old Lin Qunzhi thought about it.

Having lived for more than twenty years, he thinks more deeply than he did when he was younger.

While listening to the goddess's ramblings in the hotel, she mentioned that the day she was raped was also the day she unlocked her abilities. But the goddess herself didn't understand why that bastard would become so vicious that day, transforming from a prankster who bullied his classmates into a rapist who desperately wanted to kill her.

"If the key is..." A step too late, Kobayashi Qunzhi also entered the same line of thinking.

If the key point is... that bastard was greatly shocked and mentally collapsed after discovering that the corpse was actually his own, leading him to do some extraordinary things, such as raping the goddess... and thus accidentally activated the goddess's terrifying superpowers, then there is a logical contradiction of reversing cause and effect.

If that bastard had never intended to rape the goddess, she wouldn't have unlocked this superpower. If the goddess hadn't unlocked this superpower, that bastard wouldn't have become a corpse falling from a great height, and the other bastard wouldn't have suffered a mental breakdown and developed the idea of raping the goddess…

In complete chaos, Lao Lin, the wise man, ran his fingers through his hair.

"It's okay, don't overthink it." Still a step behind, Kobayashi also discovered the logical fallacy, but he did have an idea: "Since you and I are both here, there is a way to test it out and verify the causal relationship between the past and the future."

Kobayashi Qunzhi took out a knife, gritted his teeth, and stabbed it deeply into his left wrist. The wound was very, very deep.

learn.

Taking off his gloves, Lao Lin Qunzhi revealed his left wrist, and slowly, an old scar appeared on his left wrist.

The cause and effect became clear.

"Cause and effect, there is no effect without a cause, and the future can indeed be changed." Old Lin Qunzhi carefully bandaged Little Lin Qunzhi's wound, marveling, "What the goddess said is right, everything that happens in life has its meaning."

Yes, absolutely.

The Earth is so vast, and with different timelines, it's billions of times larger. Yet, these two people from different points in time meet in this icy wasteland. If it had been a minute later, Old Lin Qunzhi's parachute wouldn't have landed on Little Lin Qunzhi. Just thinking about it sends chills down my spine.

If even such a one in a trillion chance of an encounter has no meaning, then what is it?

“Since cause and effect are manifesting in our lives at the same time, necessary reinforcement is also essential.” Old Lin Qunzhi looked at Little Lin Qunzhi meaningfully and patted his biceps: “From now on, during the intervals between each departure, you must work hard to train so that our physical fitness can cope with more situations.”

"No problem." Kobayashi Qunzhi clenched his fist. Of course.

Upon hearing this, several parts of Old Lin Qunzhi's body suddenly swelled up. In just one breath, he felt that he was much stronger than before. It was truly a testament to the powerful feedback force of cause and effect.

“Very good, now I’ll tell you something you absolutely must remember.”

Old Lin pointed to his left eye, which was covered by a layer of gray mist, and solemnly said, "Listen carefully, if one day you set off into a jungle where it rains all day long, remember, do not provoke that little poisonous snake hiding behind a tree. In the end, not only did you not eat it, but its venom also shot into your eye. This one eye."

"I see," Kobayashi nodded.

"Did you remember?"

"I've got it."

Old Lin Qunzhi shook his head abruptly and said, "You still haven't memorized it, otherwise why would my eyes still be blind?"

But he thought about it and realized it made sense. He was starving and couldn't catch any wild monkeys to kill and eat. If he had suddenly seen that rather weak-looking venomous snake, he probably would have forgotten all his current advice.

“Tell me more about that venomous snake,” Kobayashi asked intently.

Beside the flickering fire, Old Lin Qunzhi began to meticulously describe the adventure that led to his loss of an eye, while Young Lin Qunzhi, with unprecedented memory, desperately tried to recall every detail before encountering the poisonous snake… like a large monkey wearing a blue mask stealing his spare shoe, a bolt of lightning striking a large rock beside a waterfall in the pouring rain, and a type of deep blue berry that could barely stave off hunger but at the cost of diarrhea. Old Lin Qunzhi described everything in meticulous detail, while Young Lin Qunzhi, drenched in sweat, diligently memorized and kept asking questions. This was no joke; it concerned an eye!

Suddenly, Lao Lin Qunzhi's left eye became clear.

"That's awesome!" Kobayashi Qunzhi shouted, he hadn't been this excited in a long time.

"You remembered it after all." Old Lin nodded with satisfaction.

He paused, and then a surge of "new old memories" suddenly swelled up in his mind.

With a helpless expression, Old Lin Qunzhi unfastened his left glove and shook it.

Xiao Lin Qunzhi was astonished. Old Lin Qunzhi's left ring finger was missing a joint, and his little finger was completely gone. Just now, when he showed the old scar, all five fingers on his left hand were perfectly intact.

"Well, I didn't lose my left eye, but another small accident happened in the same adventure soon after." Old Lin Qunzhi smiled bitterly and pointed to his left knee, saying, "A few years after losing two fingers, I fell hard on my left foot because my left hand was not strong enough. Now my left knee is an artificial joint."

Although she could understand, Kobayashi Qunzhi was still stunned.

“A healthy left eye obviously doesn’t just appear out of thin air,” Old Lin Qunzhi said quietly. “Changing one thing will soon affect other things; that’s what you call a chain reaction.”

The chain reaction could be large or small. To avoid a more disastrous causal chain, the two tacitly agreed not to discuss the details of what would happen in their future adventure.

They all knew perfectly well that knowing more details couldn't compare to real "luck".

Only luck could allow them to escape danger time and time again. That's enough, be content.

The two of them ate and drank on their own, temporarily putting the issue of food distribution behind them... Anyway, as long as Lao Lin Qunzhi was here, it meant that they could survive for the next few years, which was a great comfort.

"So, in twenty-two years from now, I'll parachute back here and meet myself again at thirty-one," Kobayashi said with a smile, eating high-calorie mixed grain biscuits and drinking a refill of hot cocoa. "I'll remember to bring lots of good food to treat my younger self, haha."

Old Lin Qunzhi looked at the snowstorm outside the cave, which had suddenly intensified.

"Maybe it's right, maybe it's wrong." His tone was full of sadness.

Xiao Lin Qunzhi didn't dare interrupt Lao Lin Qunzhi's thoughts, and just waited for more explanation.

"I guess I could say that... I might be the last one to set off."

"?"

Old Lin Qunzhi closed his eyes, his face, etched with the marks of time, appearing even more weathered in the firelight.

The goddess has almost stopped menstruating.

In the months before her menstruation completely stopped, the goddess desperately sent many backpackers off, one after another, even after they had no menstrual blood left, she still spread her legs and held back her tears, wanting the backpackers to ejaculate, to ejaculate...

For thirty-six years, the goddess who lent her vagina to a prostitute waited in vain for an answer, yet she never gave up. One time, while crying, she said that one day, a backpacker with extraordinary experiences would whisper to her by her bedside what the answer she had been waiting for was.

Old Lin Qunzhi absolutely could not tolerate that the warrior was not himself.

“I know there are many things you can’t say.” Kobayashi Qunzhi looked at his lonely, elderly figure and couldn’t help but shed tears: “But you have already said so much.”

"..."

"You know very well that I'm really afraid that I'll end up giving up anyway."

“I’m afraid of hunger, cold, losing my hands and feet, being eaten by wild animals, but what I fear most is that one day I will be so afraid that I will give up helping the goddess find the meaning of life. If that happens, my life will be completely blank.”

Well said. Old Lin Qunzhi has tacitly admitted his unchanging timidity over the years.

"It's so wonderful to meet you here." Kobayashi Qunzhi cried with excitement: "For the next twenty-two years, I will be a man who will never give up on my goddess."

There is no one in this world who appreciates each other more than these two.

6

The next morning, the two of them set off together.

After a night of wind and snow, the weather is clear and cloudless today.

The sky was blue and the earth was white, a beautiful arc of the heavens.

Old Lin Qunzhi led the way in high spirits, while Little Lin Qunzhi followed behind, admiring his own backlit silhouette.

Never before have I felt so good about setting off. There was no wind or snow today, so the two of us deliberately slowed down and continued our conversation from last night, still feeling quite engaged.

No matter how long they talked, it was still a wonderful thing to be able to talk to yourself. The air was dry and the place was deserted for miles around. Even though the two of them were ten meters apart, their voices were still very clear to each other.

“You know very well where I’ll go next after leaving the Arctic,” Kobayashi said, rubbing his hands together.

"Yes, I know very well that it's a very complicated place," Old Lin said mysteriously.

"And what about you?"

“Since I still have the chance to make love with a young goddess, I wouldn’t even dare to dream of it. Of course I’ll go back to Taiwan with you to find the goddess.” Old Lin Qunzhi smiled brightly: “I think, since I can use the goddess’s vagina to jump through time once, I can definitely jump a second time. Maybe on the next trip, I can find the ultimate meaning of the goddess’s ability.”

"That's wonderful!" Kobayashi exclaimed.

Old Lin Qunzhi gave Little Lin Qunzhi a thumbs up, and then a deep cracking sound was heard throughout the world.

Ka.

Crack! ...

Without warning, with incredible speed, a massive crack appeared in the millennia-old, high-pressure ice beneath their feet, splitting precisely between the two Lin Qunzhis. Thin wisps of air plunged into the thick ice, like a winding, zigzagging knife. The crack sank deep, piercing into the icy sea thousands of meters below. The two exchanged a quick glance, their bodies frozen in place.

Several past adventures served as a stark warning to both Lin Qunzhis; their feet seemed to be on a zero-sum seesaw of death, and they absolutely could not make a move. They couldn't move; they absolutely could not move now.

The sudden movement of the ice layer is extremely fragile. The slightest tremor at one end, even from the swooping of a seabird, will cause the energy beneath the ice layer to shift in that direction.

"What should we do?" Xiao Lin Qunzhi stared at Lao Lin Qunzhi.

It's understandable to be nervous, but there's no need to be too nervous... If this kind of accident happened in Lao Lin Qunzhi's "past," how did he overcome the difficulties back then? He should be able to get through it by following the same method now!

"..." Old Lin Qunzhi remained silent.

Huh? What's going on now? I have absolutely no recollection of this terrifying accident.

In fact, it was because of their unexpected encounter yesterday and their long talk and good sleep that their departure time this morning was different from the past, almost two hours later. Even though they were traveling the same route, they had been lucky in the past to avoid the time of the major ice rift, but today they just happened to run into it.

There is no solution.

Beneath the ice, far beyond human hearing, the fracturing continues to worsen.

"My good luck has finally come today." Old Lin Qunzhi shrugged helplessly.

"...Huh?" Kobayashi Qunzhi sensed something was wrong.

"Although this accident happened, I didn't disappear into thin air, which means you'll still stick to the same kind of adventure. Very good." Old Lin Qunzhi was a little sentimental, but also a little proud: "This is your future self from twenty-two years in the future, bringing you the final supply—catch it!"

Stunned and shocked, Kobayashi Qunzhi was still not fully understanding.

Old Lin Qunzhi stomped his foot hard and threw the heavy backpack over.

This forceful stomp completely shattered the fragile balance of the ice crevice. With a deafening roar, the high-pressure ice layer beneath Old Lin Qunzhi's feet collapsed completely, with a large chunk of millennia-old ice pressing down on a large chunk of ten-thousand-year-old ice.

As countless ice rocks suddenly tumbled downwards, Lao Lin Qunzhi also fell into the dark Arctic Ocean.

No more thrilling adventures in the Arctic Ocean where temperatures drop to tens of degrees below zero.

There is only a cold slumber.

"..."

Kobayashi Gūji did not shed a single tear as he watched his own death unfold.

With his heavy backpack on, he continued forward step by step, treading on ice and facing the backlight.

The weather was freezing cold, and the universe was vast and desolate.

Little did he know that his future self, traveling through time twenty-two years later, would bring his present self the most powerful supplies not a backpack full of food, but...

courage.