Yama Reborn-Chapter 447 - 444 [She is your "Anchor"]

Chapter 444: She is Your "Anchor"

Chen Nuo was silent, his face extremely unsightly.

At this moment, he felt as though his heart was being viciously squeezed by an invisible hand. His chest was heavy, he struggled for breath, yet a frustrating pressure built within him, as if it were about to explode.

After a while, he hoarsely whispered, "So... Lu Xixi will die because of you?"

Seed, in the mirror, looked at Chen Nuo but shook his head. "Indeed, Chen Nuo is still Chen Nuo... You made that same face and spoke to me like this in your past life. And now, you still have the same expression.

"The obsession humans have with emotions, after all, is something they can’t cast aside."

Chen Nuo ignored that, staring intently at the Blood Mirror, and slowly said, "I just want to ask you, Lu Xixi’s death..."

"Is because of me. I made that very clear," Seed admitted unabashedly.

Chen Nuo asked, "...And then?"

"And then?" Seed laughed. "Then... naturally, you were not satisfied."

Having said that, Seed in the Blood Mirror actually shook his head.

Then he leaned forward, his body half-emerging from the curtain of blood. He drew closer, almost face-to-face, and gazed intently at Chen Nuo.

"Once the Seed dies, the shared life connection with the primary party is severed.

As the weaker party, they will gradually weaken, and their life will slowly wither. This is the symbiotic relationship between a Seed and its Chosen One; it cannot be reversed.

Originally, when I killed The Fourth Seed, Lu Xixi was already doomed to die.

You were unwilling to accept such an outcome; you wanted to find a way to save her. You certainly don’t remember. That time, that day, right here, in this very place.

You knelt before me and asked if there was any way to stop her death.

You said, evolution or anything like it didn’t interest you at all; you just wanted to live out your human life properly, to be with the person you love, to care for the people you value..."

At this point, Seed shook his head. "It was on that day I suddenly realized something.

Maybe the answer sought by the Mother, the direction of evolution, truly is reverse assimilation.

But... you humans, you really can’t free yourselves from emotions.

You evolved from primal beings into humans, developing your emotions, which you believe to be what differentiates humans from common animals—a higher level of existence.

Indeed, you call yourselves higher animals.

You developed emotions between parents and offspring, which you call maternal love, paternal love.

You developed emotions between mating partners, which you call romantic love.

You developed emotions between hunting companions, which you call comradeship, friendship.

You transformed obedience to the strong into loyalty.

These emotions that you evolved over tens of thousands of years have made you humans superior.

But at the same time, they have also ensured that you lock yourselves within this cage.

Perhaps...

You humans...

Simply aren’t suited to evolve into Four-Dimensional higher beings!"

Chen Nuo said coldly, "What does it matter if we’re unsuitable?

This ’evolution into Four-Dimensional Life’ or whatever is something pursued by you alien beings; it’s never been what we sought."

Suddenly, he looked up, staring closely at Seed’s bloody form, directly into those blood-red eyes, "So it’s something you forcibly seek, yet you insist we must also accept it?"

Seed fell silent for a moment, then nodded and sighed.

"It’s really... the same exact words."

Seed shook his head and then said slowly, "She shared the life height of the Seed, so when the Seed dies, her life ebbs away... It’s like a leaking bowl; eventually, the water inside will run dry. I told you it was impossible. You didn’t believe and then did something foolish. You devoured me; you could have stepped up to a higher level. Yet you chose not to. You took the life height you gained from me and used it to fill the void in that woman’s life. As she dwindled, you replenished. You kept her going for two more years, but ultimately, you still failed."

"Why did it fail?" Chen Nuo asked rapidly, "If Lu Xixi’s death is because the life of the Seed she shared no longer exists... then after I devoured you and evolved to a higher Life Level, why couldn’t I completely stop her life from draining away?"

"Because it didn’t match, foolish one!

I’ve told you before. Seeds can share their life height with Chosen Ones because, ultimately, Seeds and Chosen Ones are both three-dimensional beings! And you, after rectifying your defects, have already stepped one foot into the Fourth Dimension! How can a fourth-dimensional life replenish a third-dimensional one? If you want to..."

Chen Nuo suddenly had a thought and voiced it, "If I want to save Lu Xixi, unless... I elevate Lu Xixi to the Fourth Dimension as well. Or, I could downgrade myself back to the Third Dimension?"

Seed was silent for a moment, then, in a strange tone, he uttered, "Why... does your mind always arrive at this same idea in the end?"

Chen Nuo frowned. "Did I think the same in my previous life?"

"...Yes."

Chen Nuo began to think rapidly. Elevating Lu Xixi to the Fourth Dimension was clearly impossible. In his past life, he had devoured Seed. But who could Lu Xixi devour? The Fourth Seed had already been killed. So... the only option was to downgrade himself back to the Third Dimension?

"Is there any way to downgrade..."

"No."

"What about hypothetically? Speculatively?"

"Not even hypothetically, at least I’m not aware of one," Seed answered crisply.

Chen Nuo blinked.

Eventually, he sighed. "Since it’s not possible to change the dimensional level, then... it seems the only option is to time travel..."

Seed suddenly burst into loud laughter. He laughed as though extremely joyful, yet with a certain eccentric undertone.

"Indeed! As expected!

The same human character, the same way of thinking, when faced with the same things, always arrives at the same idea! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA..."

Chen Nuo’s body shook!

"So... after I died in my past life, I returned to the end of the year 2000, became another person, and traveled through time and space... I came back to save Lu Xixi?"

"Yes. I must say, it is a most foolish act," Seed commented bluntly and without mercy.

Chen Nuo fell into deep thought. Died in 2021. Then returned to the end of the year 2000, in this era, to save the lover from his past life who had died... But the problem is...

Chen Nuo suddenly frowned. "But when I returned here, I forgot all my emotional memories with Lu Xixi! I lost two years of memories! In such a state, even if I returned to the year 2000, how would I save Lu Xixi? I wouldn’t even remember my relationship with her!"

As he said this, Chen Nuo’s expression changed. "It was you! You erased my two years of memories with Lu Xixi! Are you trying to stop me?!"

Seed stared at Chen Nuo, his gaze shifting slowly from cynical and sarcastic to pitiful.

"What do you think my current life form is?

Do you think, in such a state, I have the power to seal your memories?

Once you devoured me, your life form and life height surpassed mine... Even at the peak of my power, I was lower than your life height.

How could I possibly seal your memories?"

Chen Nuo felt as if his heart were struck hard by a hammer!

His body swayed repeatedly. Seed’s life form was indeed beneath his own... So, if Seed couldn’t seal his memories, then the only one who could have... Then he voiced his horrifying conclusion:

"So... was it me... who sealed my own memories?"

After Chen Nuo uttered these words with a frown, he shook his head. "No, that’s not right! Why?! If I came back to save Lu Xixi, why would I seal my own memories?!"

Seed’s expression vanished, and he shrank back into the Blood Mirror.

His complexion became serious.

"First, let’s talk about this so-called time travel. Chen Nuo, have you ever considered why you traveled back to this era and became the current Chen Nuo, while the Chen Nuo of your previous life completely disappeared from this timeline? Have you ever thought about this?"

Chen Nuo nodded. He naturally had thought about it but hadn’t understood.

Fortunately, Seed directly provided the answer.

"When your life form has entered the Fourth Dimension, your life height starts to detach from the Third Dimension.

What is the Third Dimension? It’s countless third dimensions existing across countless time scales, each defined by life.

That is to say, relative to the Fourth Dimension, there are countless third dimensions.

You could understand that as... countless parallel universes.

Theoretically, when you are a three-dimensional being, there are countless ’you’s in countless parallel universes!

And once you become a Four-Dimensional Being...

Then, the ’you’ in the three-dimensional world disappears.

This is a fundamental concept.

Life forms of different dimensions cannot see each other.

Just as three-dimensional beings cannot see two-dimensional life.

Don’t talk to me about comic books—those are what you humans, as three-dimensional beings, have created as pseudo-two-dimensional interfaces; the characters in comics are pseudo-two-dimensional, not ’life.’

So, once you step out of the Third Dimension and become a Four-Dimensional Being,

in all the third-dimensional worlds where you should exist,

you disappear completely.

This disappearance is not just about being physically invisible and untouchable, but your manifestation of existence, your meaning of existence, everything about you—everything completely disappears!

It’s as if every trace of your presence in this world has been completely erased.

Therefore, in this timeline’s era, there won’t be a young Chen Yanluo.

Because the ’you’ who has entered the Fourth Dimension will not exist in the Third Dimension!

Do you understand?"

Chen Nuo furrowed his brows as he listened, "I roughly understand... but what are you trying to say?"

"A world that does not have you in it.

That is to say, from the standpoint of existential meaning, no one in this world remembers you, no one knows you.

No one perceives you!

In this world, there isn’t any ’anchor’ for your existence!

If you suddenly appeared in the year 2000, manifesting as Chen Yanluo, it would be impossible to conform to the ’reality’ of the Third-Dimensional world!

To put it simply, if Chen Yanluo were to appear in the year 2000, where would you have been born?

Your childhood experiences, the people you’ve met—classmates, friends, teachers, relatives... every being that should recognize and perceive you is an ’anchor’ for your existence in this world!

But the problem is, they’re all gone!

Where would this recognition come from?

You don’t exist in this world anymore! You’ve already jumped out of the Third Dimension! You’ve been erased from the Third-Dimensional world!

We say the world exists within the cognition and perception of life.

That which cannot be cognized or perceived does not truly exist.

In the Third-Dimensional world, no one perceives or recognizes your original identity anymore, so... you shouldn’t exist!

Therefore, a non-existent person means that in any timeline, any parallel space, any real world, there are no ’anchors’ that can perceive you!

So, you can’t just appear out of thin air.

Meaning, you can’t be reborn into a past era as a young Chen Yanluo.

You can only return as someone who already existed in that past era.

That’s the rule.

In other words, for someone like you who has stepped into the Fourth Dimension, the first problem to solve with time travel is identity.

Or, more precisely, it’s not just identity; you need a vessel in that era capable of accommodating your consciousness.

This vessel must be genuinely existent—existing in the cognition of others, existing within this world’s perception.

It must have enough ’anchors’—many of them—to support a ’real’ existence.

Identity is the first issue to address."

Chen Nuo listened intently, then nodded. "Since there’s a first, there must be a second."

"The second is the time you go back to."

Chen Nuo asked, "Can I control the time I go back to freely? Then, the best solution would be to return to Lu Xixi’s childhood... before she was chosen by The Fourth Seed! Wouldn’t that solve everything? Isn’t that the simplest and most trouble-free method?"

Seed shook his head. "Nice idea, but you can’t do it."

"...Why not?"

"Because Lu Xixi is older than you."

Chen Nuo was stunned. What kind of ridiculous reason is that? Damn it, I happen to like older women! How has that become a limitation for time travel? Is there any logic to this?!

"Because you are fundamentally still Chen Yanluo.

Even if you enter the Fourth Dimension, you’re not an omnipotent god—in human terms.

Entering the Fourth Dimension means you can overlook countless Third-Dimensional spaces with your life as the axis.

But this overlook is not unlimited.

Let’s say you are overlooking the Third-Dimensional world from above the Fourth Dimension. If we compare this action to you flipping through a book,

then for you, the first page of this book cannot be earlier than your birth date!

Do you understand?

And unfortunately, the time when Lu Xixi became a Chosen One is even earlier, before your birth.

You cannot go back to a time where your own body hasn’t been born yet."

Chen Nuo pondered for a moment. "Then why this timeline? Why did I return to the end of the year 2000? Is there anything special about this time?"

"There is."

"What’s special about it?"

"Because this identity was suitable.

Your current identity, this era’s Chen Nuo, in the original history, at the point of your time travel, was fated to die very soon."

Chen Nuo exclaimed, "What?!"

"On December 23, 2000, Chen Nuo, a student from the No. 8 Middle School in the JN District of Jinling City, Huaxia, was sent to the hospital in the afternoon due to an accident. A brain tumor ruptured during emergency treatment, and he died after unsuccessful resuscitation."

Seed’s words stunned Chen Nuo!

He was shocked for a while, then... suddenly remembered a question!

"Hold on! How could I know this before I traveled back? What I mean is, when I died in 2021, I had no idea there was a Chen Nuo who died in Jinling in the year 2000! I also didn’t know there would be such a fitting identity! How could I choose him as my vessel if I didn’t know?"

Seed spoke slowly, "Because of a person."

"A person?"

"Sun Keke. You learned from her that in this world, there once was a young man with the same name as you, who died on December 23, 2000."

Chen Nuo took a deep breath, suppressing the shock in his heart. "Wait... wait a minute, do you mean that in my past life..."

Seed provided the answer.

"Yes, in your previous life, you knew Sun Keke."

Before Chen Nuo could digest this astonishing news, Seed delivered the next line.

"Sun Keke knew that deceased Chen Nuo, so Chen Nuo existed in Sun Keke’s perception and cognition.

Therefore, Sun Keke is the ’anchor’ you chose for your existence in this world when you traveled here!"