Homecoming through online games

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In a bustling city, in a dark alley between two buildings, a wild cat with its hair on end stood on end, bowed its body and stared at a void, hissing sharply.

In the void, "it" slowly raised its height, stretching out its non-existent branches and leaves.

An invisible wave radiated to the surroundings, even the breeze didn't rise, but there was a terrifying aura that made the hair stand on end.The moment this breath appeared, the wild cat seemed to have seen the most terrifying natural enemy, and fled away like lightning.

As the breath spreads, it seems to be looking down on this area from a high position, and the surrounding situation appears more and more in the perception of "it".

"It" is familiar with this feeling.Not in that memory of Ye Mu, but in another memory of "it".

It was a tree.

In memory, it grows on the ground, with branches and leaves spreading in all directions.The aerial roots grown on the branches hang down from the air to the ground, forming a vast forest.It has been growing outward, until one day the outside of the forest becomes unsuitable for it to grow.It has lost a small part of the outer branches and aerial roots, and the remaining root system guards the land it has occupied.Many creatures came, moved in its forest, hunted, died, and reproduced from generation to generation.Those remaining corpses become its nourishment, and very rarely, it will also look for nutrients by itself.

For a long, long time it watched those creatures as it watches them now.

The buildings here are in European style, many churches, and most of the people on the road have the appearance of Caucasians. When they talk to each other, they don't speak English, but another language that they don't understand.There are many human beings gathered in a square.

It doesn't care about this, it's attracted by another thing it perceives.Somewhere in this land there are "nutrients", rich enough to allow it to grow more lushly.

It's a little far away, and its branches and leaves can't reach that place yet.

It will drop its roots, absorb all the nutrients within the range of its branches and leaves, and absorb all the nutrients it can from those soil plants, insects, animals, and humans, just like it did when it was a young tree.In this way, it can grow the branches and leaves farther, to the place with rich nutrients.

This is its natural instinct, its only course of action, and it never has the habit of thinking.

The invisible branches and leaves swayed, and in the long and long memory of the tree, Ye Mu's memory suddenly emerged, and a thought was thrown out.

【Why don't you go over there? 】

Compared with the years of trees, human memory is too short and small, like water drops in a pond.But when the water droplets come alive and fall heavily into the pond, the ripples they create will spread across the surface of the water.

This ripple temporarily prevented the air root from falling.

Thanks to the surrounding modern buildings, the only thing connected with these scenes is the memory of being "Ye Mu".This makes the effects of memory all the more apparent.

【Walk over and get those nutrients directly.You can also find the most suitable place for growth and plant the most important root system. 】

"It" convinced itself.The root system of the tree can't move around, "it" should look different.

In the dark, the air fluctuated, the branches of "it" retracted, the root system was uprooted, and the shape began to change.When this transformation begins, the memory of the tree falls apart.

——The worm's sharp mouthparts twisted off the hard tree roots, gnawed through the delicious tree trunks, and gnawed at the devil seeds hidden deep inside.The moment the worm swallowed the demon seed, the forest formed by the single log collapsed.

In a fleeting memory fragment, the worm brought the demon seed to the demon that drove it.The monster waiting there—

"It" condenses invisible limbs, a graceful body, and its feet land lightly on the ground.

What emerged was the memory of a new monster.

It, or rather, she.

The female monster who controlled the bugs murdered the dead tree that protected the monster, and became the first sky-level monster that was not eaten by the dead tree.Using the dead tree as nourishment, she used the power of the demon seeds to breed all kinds of strange-shaped bugs, making them tools for demons.She controlled the panic-stricken demons who had lost their sheltered forest, launched several wars against humans, and razed several border cities to the ground, and there was nothing left where the swarms passed.And thus got a new title--

"Devil God".

At the same time as memory emerges, thinking ability returns. "It" understands its own condition.

If memory is sand, a complete personality formed through memory and emotion is a sand castle.Then when the countless memories in the demon seed merged with the original memory of "Ye Mu", it was like a large pile of sand pouring in to bury the sandcastle.Every memory is the reshaping of quicksand integrated into the sand castle. If it succeeds, it will become a bigger and stronger sand castle. If it fails, the sand castle will collapse and become an unsurprising part of the sand pile.

——Memories belonging to monsters are just quicksand.When you realize this, it's like waking up from a dream, the invisible diaphragm is shattered, and the subject of memory is replaced.

Control returned to Ye Mu's hands.However, the demon's memory still exerts its influence, and it will take some time to completely resist this influence and open the next memory.

Ye Mu sighed at the temporary posture of the demonic energy, and walked out of the alley.On the bustling street at night, pedestrians came and went, turning a blind eye to Ye Mu - in their eyes, there was just an open space.Ye Mu tried to poke the wall next to him, he could feel the fingers of nothingness piercing through the concrete, filled with cement sand and gravel...uh.He withdrew his hand in disgust, unwilling to recall that touch again.

He looked around, observing the actions of pedestrians, the surrounding environment, and various details—this place did not look like an illusion constructed from memory, and all kinds of strange and exotic information were too real and logical.

The "nutrition" sensed before still exists in the sense, which is as irresistible as an air-conditioned room in hot weather.With the idea of ​​finding out, Ye Mu walked towards that place.Half of his mind was used to suppress the memory of the separation demon, and the other half was careful to observe and avoid pedestrians on the road.When he saw someone taking out his mobile phone, he immediately walked over and glanced at the lit screen.

The standby interface displays the time and date.

At 10:25 in the evening, the date is the day before his crossing.

It can't be a coincidence.

Ye Mu paused, and quickened his pace.He needs to confirm whether he has returned to the present world, or another time travel, or something else.

On the way to Nutrient, he took a slight detour and found the computer in the lounge of an open bar.

As luck would have it, no one was in the house.

Mobilizing part of the demon's memory, the demonic energy trembled at a certain frequency at high speed under the control, making a buzzing sound that was difficult for human ears to catch.Soon, there was a slight rustling sound, and several large black beetles crawled out.

Suppressing the idea of ​​summoning a large-scale bug swarm, Ye Mu drove the bugs to turn on the computer, bring up the browser, and enter Du Niang's website.

The beetle "clicked" on the Enter key, and the familiar page was opened.

Enter "ip" and press Enter.The address of the computer is displayed on the web page.

Country I... There is a six-hour time difference with China.The current domestic time should be around four o'clock in the morning on the day of crossing.About eighteen hours later, he fell asleep as usual that night, and when he woke up, he was in another world.

Investigated other information and verified that my online account, Weibo, activity traces and other personal information existed, and there was no discrepancy from my memory.

Ye Mu straightened up slowly.

Here is his world.

He just... came back?

Simple, unbelievably rushed.It's kind of ridiculous to stay in vain.

He really wanted to find a way to get back here.But that night in Xiliang, from the moment he responded to Jiang Wang's kiss, he completely cut off the idea.What's more, the threat of the demon god to the six spirits has not been eliminated, and the cure for the resurrection technique has not been found. Jiang Wang... After he arrived here, he didn't know what happened there and what the situation would be.

He wants to go back.

Find a way to go back to the world over there.

[How wonderful is the world here, stable and rich.With the ability now, I can live a better life than before.What's more, it was a coincidence that he came back, and there was nothing he could do if he didn't go back. 】

The memory of the monster popped up to persuade, Ye Mu quickly killed this idea.

This crossing should be related to the demon species.After completely integrating all the memories of the demon species, there may be clues.He returned to the time point before he traveled, and wondered if there was another Ye Mu in the country at this time.Although making a phone call to confirm is the quickest and most direct way, rash contact may also change history, and there is a risk of unknown changes.It's best to go back to China as soon as possible and confirm it with your own eyes——

Just before "Ye Mu" fell asleep, before everything happened.

There are still eighteen hours.

After searching for the necessary information, turning off the computer, and dispersing the beetles, Ye Mu walked out of the bar and ran towards the "nutrient".

He found the "nutrient" that attracted him.

On an isolated street, under the bright daytime searchlights, several researchers in biochemical suits were busy surrounding a piece of half-person-high red meteorite that had been smashed into the ground.

Ye Mu finally remembered when he saw this.

The day before the crossing, domestic news reported that a rare red meteor shower could be seen at four o'clock in the morning.He went to bed on time and slept until dawn without sacrificing sleep time for the romance of waking up early to appreciate the spectacle.The next day, I heard that the meteor shower the night before was particularly bright, and meteorites fell in several places around the world.For him, it's just gossip.

Not anymore.

Relying on the fact that no one could see it, Ye Mu walked upright to the side of the meteorite, took advantage of a researcher taking a few steps back to record, stepped forward and held back his discomfort, and directly inserted his hand into the meteorite.

He met that "nutrient", and the moment he touched it, it turned into his "nutrient".

Just like water dissolves into water, light merges into light.

Their essence is the same.

It is a "magic species".

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The author has something to say:

No Responsibility Small Theater:

Ye Mu: The people of Country I gathered in the square late at night, so they were there to watch the meteor shower?What a romance. (in a flat tone)

Someone: No, they're playing Pokémon Go.