Chapter 125 Traveler

Blazing flames burned in the void.

This silver-white world was incinerated by the fire... The Source Will turned into nothingness, and the dark sky was drowned in the light emanating from the Silver Gate.

The "Dream World" before Gu Shen burned like paper.

Finally, he arrived at a vacuum zone existing between reality and illusion, a place Gu Shen had visited once before, in the well water of Shenci Mountain.

Before the descent of the Divine Embryo.

Chu Ling's consciousness would be injected into the ancient well.

The colors of this world are not just black and white; there is another color that exists between reality and falsehood.

"Gu Shen."

A mellow voice rang out in front of Gu Shen.

The color of the blazing fire converged in the void, and Gu Shen stared blankly at the figure in front of him, standing where the Silver Gate had once stood.

"Turing... Mr. Turing?"

In Gu Shen's memory, Turing of the Dream World should have stood in that position after crossing the gate.

But...

Turing in the Dream World had already "disappeared."

At this moment, he sensed the familiar aura of Source Power flowing. The dream had been torn apart by the blazing fire, and he had completely arrived in the real world. So the one standing in front of him now... was the real Turing!

"It is I."

Turing smiled. "Judging from your expression, you seem very surprised... Didn't you already guess that, besides you few outsiders, there were others who had been here?"

The ancient text on the stone tablet was left by an unknown outsider.

The person Gu Shen had in mind as the outsider—

Was Turing!

"Yes..."

Gu Shen looked at the person before him in disbelief. "I just didn't expect... you would actually be here."

"Otherwise, how do you think your blazing fire was awakened?"

Turing said softly, "The 'awakening of the blazing fire' in the real world takes time. Without external assistance, you would need quite a long time to survive until the blazing fire's power fully recovered. Even if you have more schemes, you would have to restart dozens of times, right?"

Gu Shen paused for a second.

He had long noticed the strangeness of the blazing fire's awakening speed... but at the time, in the Dream World, he didn't have time to investigate carefully, nor was he able to investigate.

The blazing fire's awakening was a good thing!

"You have been... waiting for me here?"

Gu Shen immediately recalled the advice and instructions Turing had given him before their last parting.

【"Gu Shen, remember, go to the deepest part of the 【Old World】!"】

At that time, Gu Shen did not understand the true meaning of Turing's words.

Now, after experiencing the Dream restart...

He completely understood Turing's hidden meaning.

As long as he wanted to break out, 【Deep Sea】 would definitely use all its trump cards to exile Gu Shen to the deepest part of the 【Old World】... But it did not know that this was not Gu Shen's burial ground, but rather a blessed land exclusively for Gu Shen!

"It can't be considered waiting for you all the time, I suppose."

"I am just a traveler... Every meeting between you and me can be considered destiny, or that we are fated to meet."

Turing said something that Gu Shen did not quite understand for the time being.

He chuckled softly and said, "Didn't you just chat with me earlier?"

"If I know that I am confined in a circle, then I am the kind of person who must try to go out. Even if I know that the result of escaping will definitely be failure, and the result of failure will definitely be death, I will not hesitate in the slightest."

Even when standing before the gap at the end of the world.

Turing did not retreat.

He stepped out and disappeared into the silver-white glow, as if he had failed.

But now he stood here, his aura exactly the same as in the Dream World, as if he had succeeded.

"I don't understand..."

Gu Shen murmured, "Mr. Turing... I don't understand... what state are you actually in now?"

"You want to ask me, alive or dead?"

Turing smiled.

"I am in a state of 'neither'."

He said softly, "Just like... Chu Ling in the Shenci well back then. No one can say that I am already dead, and likewise, no one can say that I am still alive."

Gu Shen was even more confused.

"Do you remember the ancient text inscription you saw in the Doru River? That was left by me."

"I am a 'traveler' who has lived for a long time."

Turing said gently, "Or, you can understand me as... a human being who is not quite the same as you. Because of a disaster six hundred years ago, I obtained a very long, very long life. As the 'price' for accepting this long life, I am both one person and a group of people."

Alan Turing was the only man in this world who had fused the Longevity Technique.

He had successfully lived for a long time.

No one knew the specific time.

Just now, he had personally stated it: six hundred years. Turing had survived from before the establishment of the Five Continents Civilization. He had personally witnessed the years when the Northern Continent's high walls rose from the ground, and also witnessed the era-crossing transformation of human civilization as it evolved and finally boarded starships. And the most important link in this was... promoted by him personally.

"The original intention of establishing the Ancient Text Society was to develop a perfect 'Divine Infant' to cope with super-giant Source Storms."

Turing said softly, "I spent a long time trekking in the 【Old World】, but because of the lack of information, coupled with the excessively short time for civilization development, the technological level of the Five Continents Civilization was already difficult to catch up with the starship civilization before the next disaster arrived. But the only advantage is that the Five Continents Civilization possesses a separated Gospel Box, making it easier for them to create 'God Seats,' extremely powerful transcendent life individuals. Back then, the Starship Civilization's God-Hunting Seat relied on its own strength to inflict damage on the super-giant Source Storm... If the Five Continents Civilization can cultivate a perfect transcendent life that surpasses the God-Hunting Seat, then perhaps there is a chance to change the tragedy encountered by the starship civilization back then."

"This is... my birth?"

"Yes. But there is also a loser, 'Bloodfire' Owl."

Turing said, "This project could only be promoted by me at the beginning, so I analyzed the different transcendent factors existing in this world and listed the transcendent lineage chart. In order to create the most powerful individual, I made a mistake in trying to inject a portion of my 'transcendent genes' into the experimental subject... Owl inherited a portion of my 'transcendent genes'. It possesses an extremely powerful ability for multiple personality disorder."

Turing was not one person.

Owl... was not either.

The power of Bloodfire was devouring, seizing.

Thinking of this, Gu Shen looked at Mr. Turing in disbelief.

"You should also know that Owl is eager to cultivate the Longevity Technique. The compatibility between its 'Bloodfire' and the Longevity Technique is almost one hundred percent. Why is it so compatible? It's actually very simple, just because it inherited my transcendent genes."

Turing said calmly, "And I am the perfect carrier for the Longevity Technique."

Gu Shen murmured, "The price of the Longevity Technique is the extraction of life. If you want to live long, you must extract the lives of enough people..."

"Yes."

Turing said, "I extracted the lifespan of thirteen thousand people. Because it was a voluntary offering, the Longevity Technique completed the life transfer in an almost perfect way. I possessed a theoretical lifespan of five hundred and forty thousand years, and also possessed thirteen thousand split souls. These souls actively closed their own spiritual sea before the 'transfer', so their 'death' is not a burden to me, but a treasure. My mind almost retains all the spiritual treasures created in the starship era. These thirteen thousand independent souls are the most valuable knowledge base in this world, but the prerequisite is that my spirit can withstand the cost of opening the 'treasure'."

"Voluntary?"

"Do you remember the starship I sent to the Ice Sea? That starship is actually called 'New World'."

Turing laughed self-deprecatingly, "It did reach the New World, but it also encountered a super-giant storm... Those on the starship felt hopeless to survive, so they decided to choose a 'lucky one' to live on as a spark. They eventually chose me. When I accepted the gift of longevity, I was just an infant in swaddling clothes. This memory slowly opened up after I grew up. I spent a short and peaceful time when the Five Continents were first established, and lived carefree for the first half of my life."

"..."

Gu Shen was silent.

He did not expect Turing's lifespan... to have come from this.

An entire starship of transcendents voluntarily served as a wedding dress for one person.

"In these six hundred years, I have gradually opened the 'treasure house' sealed in my spiritual sea. I once drank and laughed with the Iron Dome Emperor in the Northern Continent, jointly building the giant wall. I also cultivated God Seats in the Central Continent, constructing the towering, sky-reaching giant tower... I went to the 【Old World】 to find the lost Dead Sea Scrolls. I tried to create a super AI 【Deep Sea】 that could allow human civilization to avoid destruction."

Turing murmured, "I walked in the long river of human civilization's restoration history. I thought I had done many great things, but looking at it now... I seem to have done many wrong things. The giant wall cannot withstand the bombardment of super-giant Source Storms, the Tower of Origin is decaying and festering, and 【Deep Sea】 has even launched an unprecedented inland war."

"No."

"I don't think... these are wrong things."

Gu Shen shook his head, his tone firm, "Without the giant wall, let alone resisting 'super-giant storms,' the Northern Continent would have given up half of its land long ago. Even the Gubao storm seven years ago could not be stopped by the Northern Continent."

Turing paused for a second.

"Although the Tower of Origin is now decaying, the Central Continent once emitted the most dazzling brilliance of the Five Continents under the guidance of this giant tower."

"As for 【Deep Sea】, your original intention was to make all mankind better. The creation of the spiritual network... did indeed cause epoch-crossing changes in the Five Continents Civilization. If we can win this war, then what you have done, is it really a wrong thing?"

Gu Shen said slowly, "Now that fate is uncertain, I think... everything is still possible."

Gu Shen's previous words made Turing fall into deep thought.

At this moment, he came back to his senses and smiled, "Indeed, everything has not yet been finalized... It's just that I have lived for too long, and sometimes, it is inevitable that I feel a little dazed."

Earlier, he stood here, looking at the world trajectory in the Dream World.

Looking at the "young" himself.

Although he was only a few years younger.

But under the "shaping" of the Source Will, Alan Turing in the Dream World was high-spirited and unstoppable, reminding him of the truly "young" years.

"The exile formation patterns mastered by 【Deep Sea】 are actually variant formations from the ancient text on the stone tablet of the Traveler tribe."

Gu Shen's eyes lit up, and he murmured, "You had already prepared a backup plan. Once 【Deep Sea】 masters the ancient text, it will touch the giant black hole at this 'end of the Old World'."

The disordered land condensed by this black hole had already given birth to its own intelligence.

According to the rules of the Dream World, a purely spiritual entity like 【Deep Sea】 could not enter it as an "outsider", so 【Deep Sea】 could only sense extremely chaotic, disordered Source Power, and extremely barren Old World aura!

With the "risk assessment mechanism" established by Turing when creating 【Deep Sea】.

This area would naturally become the most dangerous area... without exception, in 【Deep Sea】's view.

"You guessed very accurately."

Turing smiled and looked at Gu Shen, signaling him to continue.

Gu Shen frowned and asked, "Then what about Zhou Jiren, who entered the restarted Dream World in advance? At that time, 【Deep Sea】 had not yet mastered the exile formation patterns..."

"Could it be said that the opening of the Piyue City Disaster Realm... was also inevitable? From the moment the teacher and the others entered the Piyue City Fortress, the ending was already doomed?"

He looked at Turing.

"The existence of exile formation patterns requires someone to verify." Turing sighed softly, "【Deep Sea】 will definitely check after mastering the formation patterns. If it senses 'Zhou Jiren's' aura, confirming the fact that the former Grand Arbiter was exiled by the Traveler tribe, then the effect of this formation pattern will be made real. So you can understand it as... Zhou Jiren's exile was guided by me. I needed someone to be exiled, but I didn't expect it to be this old fellow."

Gu Shen paused for a second. He suddenly realized a very crucial issue.

"To engrave the ancient text on the steles, this kind of thing should only be done by the 'Travelers' themselves... If the exile formation patterns were engraved by you..."

Then.

The Traveler's main body should be an "old acquaintance" with Alan Turing?

At this moment, Gu Shen's stagnant thoughts were instantly cleared!

The reason why 【Deep Sea】 could complete the eleventh upgrade so smoothly was because Tomb Ghoul abandoned his "body", handing over control of the Traveler's main body to 【Deep Sea】, so 【Deep Sea】 obtained everything it wanted...

The "news of death" of Zhou Jiren's group back then could only be known through searching the spiritual sea of the Traveler tribe's giants.

In this inland war faced by mankind, the Traveler tribe played an extremely important role.

"The Traveler tribe is an incomparably sharp sword. Now it is stabbing into the human hinterland, but if the 'Traveler's main body' completely awakens, then everything will be different."

Turing said calmly, "This sword will always be held in one person's hand. That person is not Deep Sea, but... Tomb Ghoul."

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

"In the previous Dream World, the reason why my blazing fire awakened so quickly... there is only one possibility."

Gu Shen said seriously, "You changed the environment my physical body was in, accelerating the flow of time in my real world."

He stared into Mr. Turing's eyes.

"So the outside world is..."

"A Time Dojo?"

(End of this chapter)