This Spiritual Energy is Lethal!-Chapter 150 - What is Time?
Chapter 150: Chapter 150 What is Time?
Chen Ke finally figured out the source of his ability.
After the Blasphemous Dagger pierced Lin Mo’s heart, Chen Ke had traveled through time. The soul that was supposed to be taken by the contract demon was trapped within Chen Ke’s soul due to the effects of the time travel.
The Blasphemous Dagger’s inherent abilities of “crossing through time” and “connecting with killing intent” were also absorbed by Chen Ke. Such a coincidence was unlikely to occur a second time.
The ability to absorb killing intent replaced normal human lifespan. In other words, Chen Ke’s lifespan was essentially Spiritual Energy; he was a Blasphemous Dagger that needed constant recharging.
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The subsequent improvements and the development of abilities related to killing intent were definitely unique to the dagger. Chen Ke guessed that these abilities came from some kind of mutated Spiritual Energy, combining the traits of humans, Holy Relics, and Spiritual Energy, resulting in a unique and bizarre characteristic.
Of course, this was just his own speculation; whether it was true remained uncertain.
Ancient knowledge revealed that the seven Blasphemous Daggers originated from the Fan Hede Kingdom, deriving from the evil magic of the Pope Mazville. Moreover, the Blasphemous Dagger seemed to be mass-produced…
Chen Ke took out paper and a pen from the drawer and wrote down his analytical deductions.
He drew a stick figure, writing his own name in Chinese characters beside it.
Then next to the figure, he drew a dagger and next to the dagger, he sketched three horizontal bars to represent traits.
Then, he connected the traits and the figure with a dashed line. That was the relationship between him and the Blasphemous Dagger.
The Blasphemous Dagger came from the Fan Hede Kingdom; from the scholastic information, the dagger itself wasn’t the focus, the focus was the enchantment on the dagger—the evil magic.
The words of Mazville disclosed that this kind of evil magic was even older than the Fan Hede Kingdom itself and was extremely voracious, desiring this power to conquer all of time and space.
This meant that Fan Hede wasn’t from an Otherworld, but instead a part of human history…
And here, a new term appeared: the Dull Witch.
The enchanting techniques left by the Dull Witch allowed objects to perform ceremonies of traveling through time. The modern Silent Witch could conduct such ceremonies. Could there be some connection between them?
Chen Ke speculated that the Dull Witch could travel through time without relying on these sacrificial artifacts. If she really could… Where would she be now… Could she have come to the modern era?
Suddenly, Chen Ke thought of Parker, this man played by time.
In the present world, there was a dead Parker, and in the Fan Hede Kingdom, there was another Parker sitting by a church fire…
Chen Ke couldn’t help but think of many time-travel movies. Could the Parker in the church be from another parallel universe?
It was now confirmed that there was such a thing as time traveling. So what about this United Federation in the year 2009, and how did it compare to the United States he knew from 2009?
Chen Ke was almost confused. If he really had traveled to the year 2009, why was the country called the United Federation and not the United States?
Multiverse? Parallel universes? He couldn’t be sure of the answers.
Chen Ke wanted to return to being a normal person; that goal would not change. But now, the breakthrough had become the Dull Witch.
However, how could he find a woman who only appeared in the terminals of Holy Relics?
He didn’t even know if this witch still existed, let alone if she could travel through time.
Human recorded history spanned 5000 years, with history tracing back to the ape age a million years ago. Even just considering the civilized era, Chen Ke would have to search the Earth 5000 times…
That was too unrealistic.
Since the dagger’s knowledge came from the Fan Hede Kingdom, why not first limit the search area to that region? Perhaps he might find some clues.
Since the Blasphemous Dagger was discovered by Si’s consortium from the Fan Hede Kingdom, Chen Ke wanted to have a serious discussion with Pankia.
After all, he had been there before, and apart from a lighthouse, a straight sword, and several white and blue outfits, he hadn’t seen the Blasphemous Dagger.
Chen Ke carefully stored the pieces of paper that recorded critical information, and when he wrote this information down, he used Chinese characters—ensuring that even if someone else picked up these papers, they wouldn’t be able to understand the content right away.
Chen Ke thought that perhaps he should get a small notebook to carry with him at all times to jot down some information, even though a phone could record information, it wasn’t as flexible as paper and pen.
Speaking of phones, Chen Ke suddenly remembered that his red Nokia E63 was out of commission.
He didn’t plan to go personally to deal with Pihom and Lester before the transaction was completed, as it would only create trouble for the future, so he had no choice but to contact them via phone for now.
Besides, that mutated suit was still at Lester’s place; he needed to make a call and ask Lester to send someone to bring it over…
Hmm, it was time to get a new phone…
Chen Ke glanced at the time in the bottom right corner of his computer screen; it was currently 6 p.m. It was still very light out, and Yasla and the others probably wouldn’t come looking for him during the day.
So he put on his clothes and went out, heading to the nearest large shopping mall.
In the United Federation, people generally went to the service provider’s store to buy phones under contract.
For example, high-end phones like the iPhone, which cost 400 union coins, could be taken home for 150 union coins if signed with a two-year contract with the service provider.
Chen Ke already had forged identification, but he still didn’t want to apply for a phone card; instead, he chose to continue using the unregistered prepaid phone cards.
At least, using this type of card made it difficult to be located and searched by the County Police and other official agencies, which was exactly what Chen Ke wanted.
In the United Federation, few people went to Walmart or Metro to buy phones; generally, it was only older people who didn’t bother going to the service provider’s store or didn’t shop online who would buy phones in the store.
Therefore, the phone counter at Walmart was nearly empty, with only two old men consulting store clerks on how to use their newly purchased phones.
Even though Chen Ke disliked touchscreen phones, this time he still chose to buy an iPhone3G.
In fact, after June, Apple was going to release the latest iPhone3GS, but Chen Ke couldn’t wait two months for the new model.
If there was also an Apple company in this world, what was his original timeline like… As the clerk rattled on about the many improvements of the iPhone3G over the old models, he pondered this question.
In Chen Ke’s understanding, time continuously and unceasingly rolled forward, much like a river; time travel was still only a scientific hypothesis in his place.
He had always thought that the crux of the paradox of space-time travel wasn’t about reversing cause and effect, but rather about the travelers through time becoming innumerable.
If a person could travel through time, it meant that in this universe, he had nearly an infinite number of reflections—ten years ago, a year ago, a minute ago, even a second ago…
No matter how far he traveled forward or backward, he could encounter another version of himself.
Extending this thought, what does a three-dimensional being look like? In the eyes of a higher being transcending the dimension of time, is a being trapped in time akin to an infinitely long caterpillar?
From his birth to his death, countless versions of him were stacked together, extending endlessly in both directions…
If the current Chen Ke went back a week and headed to the West Gold Building, could he see Lin Mo still sprawled on the ground?
If he traveled even further back… arriving just a moment before Lin Mo’s heart was pierced by the Blasphemous Dagger and stopped him.
Would he still exist now? Would the events that happened in this period still stand?!
People of the past could only wonder, but the current Chen Ke could try!
