"What are you going to do?" Although Yu Qiuping didn't believe it, he still asked.
"Then I may need your Highness to do a little favor. Tiancongyun Sword, Eight-foot Mirror, Eight-foot Magatama, just get one for the little girl." Qingshui Zhizi said with a smile, and his hands slid to Yu Qiuping's back, gently
Press lightly.
"Good guy, is this a small favor? You can get the emperor's three artifacts as soon as you ask for them?" Yu Qiuping almost choked at Shimizu Oriko's words, "The Amancongyun Sword is at Atsuta Shrine, and the eight-foot mirror is at Yi.
Shi Jingu Shrine, these two shrines are strictly guarded by the Oda family. And the eight-foot magatama is in the palace, how do you want me to take it out?"
"Of course you can't take it out in the shrine and the imperial palace." Shimizu Oriko said seriously.
"Then your method is useless?" Yu Qiuping turned his head back in frustration and said as he pillowed on the bed.
"But there is another artifact in the sea." Qingshui Zhizi leaned down, lowered his voice, and whispered in Yu Qiuping's ear.
"Huh?" Yu Qiuping was stunned when he heard this, "Didn't he say that one is at Atsuta Shrine, one is at Ise Shrine, and one is at the Imperial Palace?"
"Does Your Highness know about the Battle of Dannoura?" Oriko Shimizu said softly.
"I know." Yu Qiuping certainly knows this famous piece of history, "At the end of the Genpei War, the Taira navy was completely destroyed by the Minamoto navy."
"In that battle, countless desperate Taira clan warriors jumped into the sea and died, while the Empress Dowager Taira Tokoko also jumped into the sea and committed suicide with the young Emperor Ante in her arms. Along with them, there were three artifacts passed down by the emperor from generation to generation.
"Shimizu Oriko told the poignant history in a somewhat sad tone.
"Didn't you say that they were all salvaged?" Yu Qiuping asked puzzledly, "Otherwise, what are the artifacts enshrined in the Jingu Palace now? The three artifacts that Emperor Kameyama gave to Emperor Gokomatsu when the Northern and Southern Dynasties were united.
What is it again?"
"The Eight-foot Mirror and the Eight-foot Qiong Magatama were salvaged, but the Tiancongyun Sword was not. The Tiancongyun Sword that has been enshrined from generation to generation are all fakes, and the Tiancongyun Sword has sunk to the bottom of the sea forever."
After Oriko Shimizu said this, she fell into silence.
"How do you know this is not a rumor?" Yu Qiuping asked doubtfully.
"Because the ancestors of Izumo Shrine participated in that salvage, and saw with their own eyes how the helpless Minamoto samurai made a fake as a replacement." Oriko Shimizu stopped the movement of her hands and piously
Issei, "This is a secret passed down from generation to generation by the shrine maidens of Izumo Shrine."
"So you want me to help you salvage the Amancongyun Sword that sank at the bottom of Dannoura?" Yu Qiuping seemed to understand what Shimizu Oriko said, "It's probably very deep, given our current technical level.
It can’t be done. Besides, even if it is found, what’s the use? It has been sunk at the bottom of the sea for hundreds of years. It must have become rusty or even broken.”
"The artifact will not break or rust, because it is an artifact." Qingmizu Zhizi felt a little dissatisfied with Yu Qiuping's "blasphemous" words, and her tone also took on a reproachful tone.
"How is it possible? The divine weapon is not also a sword." Yu Qiuping smiled nonchalantly. It is impossible to explain this to people of this era. "And why do you want that sword? Is it important to Izumo Shrine?
"
"Isn't it to send His Highness back to see his parents?" Shimizu Oriko asked in surprise, "Otherwise, what would the little girl do with that sword?"
"Huh? I thought you asked me to help you salvage the Tiancongyun Sword in exchange for helping me. So it was a prop to send me back to the future?" Yu Qiuping found the Qingshui Oriko in front of him more and more interesting. On the one hand,
, she said mysterious words that Yu Qiuping couldn't understand. On the one hand, she knew Yu Qiuping's secrets, and obviously knew a lot more information than Yu Qiuping. But on the other hand, she said magical words: How is it possible?
How about sending people back to the future with this iron sword that has been sunk at the bottom of the sea for hundreds of years? Is this a TV series?
"Your Highness, you don't believe it?" Qingshui Zhizi heard the joking in Yu Qiuping's tone.
"How is this possible?" Yu Qiuping said with a smile without hesitation.
"Isn't Your Highness the one who should believe in these miracles the most? Otherwise, how could you come from the future?" Qingshui Zhizi's rhetorical question immediately left Yu Qiuping speechless.
Yes, I myself appeared in this place... If it wasn't a dream, wouldn't it be a supernatural power? When I talked to Honganji Kenjo, didn't I also make this clear? There are too many things in the world.
Things cannot be explained... If you scornfully dismiss everything that cannot be explained by science as feudal superstition, wouldn't you be like the ancients whose thoughts were imprisoned?
Are there really miracles? Is there really such a thing as time travel?
"You mean...as long as you can get the Tiancongyun Sword, you can send me back to the future and meet my parents?" Yu Qiuping was silent for a long time, and finally confirmed, "Didn't you say before that the future has been taken by me?
Did it make a mess?"
"If you want to go back to the future, Your Highness can do it in your own Heavenly Palace. But just like the little girl said before, the future has been changed and you will never see your parents. To be precise,
After you traveled to this life and began to influence the direction of history more and more, the future has changed and your parents have disappeared. So the parents you imagined in your mind who are desperately looking for you and are going crazy are actually not
It doesn't exist, everyone has disappeared forever." Shimizu Oriko whispered apologetically, "There is nothing a little girl can do about this."
"Then what did you mean when you said you wanted me to go back to see my parents?" Yu Qiuping felt as if he had been deceived, and his voice gradually became louder.
"Go back to the past first, and then slowly wait until the future." Qingshui Zhizi comforted the restless Yu Qiuping with gentle techniques, "Let the world return to nothingness, and start to evolve again from the creation of the gods and the arrival of the descendants. There is no time traveler.
If you don't bother me, history will continue to develop unchanged. After thousands or even tens of thousands of years, your parents will be born, and they will reunite again, and then give birth to you, Your Highness."
"What do you mean?" Yu Qiuping felt that he couldn't keep up with Shimizu Oriko's thoughts, "Going back to the Big Bang?"
"The little girl can't understand what His Highness is saying." Qingshui Zhizi shook her head and said.
"You mean, you can make everything go back to where it started? Can you go back in time?" Yu Qiuping couldn't imagine the meaning behind the girl's words, "If you have such a powerful ability, wouldn't you be invincible? How could you still be there?
Are you working as a dancer?"
"Your Highness can understand it this way, but the little girl must have the three artifacts. Because there are no three artifacts, the little girl can't do anything." Shimizu Oriko smiled bitterly, "Your Highness, let's just think so."
"Then where did we go after you went back in time? Will our memories be erased together?" Yu Qiuping suddenly turned his head uneasily, "Isn't that like amnesia?"
"Most people will do this, but His Highness and the little girl will not, and there are eight other people in this world who will not. Our memories will be preserved."
"Why?" Yu Qiuping simply turned over, stopped Qingshui Zhizi's massage, stared at her face and asked, "Is it because I am a time traveler? There are still 9 time travelers in the world?"
"Your Highness should be the only one... How should I put it? Your Highness may have made a mistake in logic. It's like wrapping a big circle within a circle and then wrapping a smaller circle." Shimizu Oriko pouted and explained, but
Yu Qiuping obviously still didn't understand.
"Then what if the time can be traced back to before we were born? Where have our memories gone?" Yu Qiuping touched his head in confusion.
"Well...why do you need to ask so many questions, Your Highness? Even if I can find someone to perform for me, Your Highness can't stay here for too long. Our time is very limited. If Your Highness wants to get to the bottom of it, it will be too late."
"It's not just this time. There will be plenty of time in the future." Yu Qiuping said anxiously.
"Only this time." However, Shimizu Oriko categorically refused, "After this time, the little girl will always be Izumo Aguo and will never have any involvement or dialogue with His Highness. Even if His Highness wants to arrest the little girl,
The little girl would commit suicide without revealing a single word. In fact, this meeting should not have happened in the first place."
"Why?" Yu Qiuping was completely confused by Qingshui Zhizi. After being silent for a long time, he asked, "What is your position, your intention, and your motivation? Why did you approach me dressed as a prostitute?
?Why are you telling me this?"
This time it was Shimizu Oriko's turn to be silent. After a long time, she murmured:
"The little girl doesn't know. Maybe it's just because I thought you were a very gentle and kind person last night, so I wanted to help you once. I don't know either."
"Are you crazy?" Yu Qiuping felt that he was going crazy, "Am I crazy?"
"They must all be crazy." Shimizu Oriko smiled miserably, and the two of them looked at each other and fell silent.
After a long time, Oriko Qingmizu finally said:
"In any case, Your Highness." Qingshui Zhizi paused, stared into Yu Qiuping's eyes, and said sincerely, "Now I have a way for you to see your parents again, and I won't tell you anything else.
That's it. Just tell me if you want to go."
"If I choose yes, what will happen in the world now?" Although Yu Qiuping felt that this feeling of being completely manipulated was very bad, he could only obey it honestly.
"The world will disappear and everything will turn into nothingness."
"Then how could I make such a choice? Wouldn't I be killing people all over the world?" Yu Qiuping shook his head resolutely.
"No, they are not dead. They will still appear after the historical evolution a few years later. It's just your son and daughter. These people who were born because of your time travel may not appear." Shimizu Oriko said with certainty.
nodded.
"Isn't this considered death?" Yu Qiuping obviously did not turn around, "All memories have been erased, nothing is left."
"But they are still them. Not a drop of sperm or blood will change." Shimizu Oriko said matter-of-factly, "It's just that they have lost their memory. Do people who have lost their memory die?"
"But this... is different. Life and death don't just depend on whether genes and cells are the same. I clone, oh no, copy a person exactly like me, and then kill my body. Then my body is death.
Oh, even if the clone is exactly the same as me, it's useless, the consciousness that I can really feel is over." Yu Qiuping felt as if he was trapped in a strange circle of ethical issues.
"But how do you know that your consciousness will not appear in your clone?" Qingshui Zhizi didn't understand Yu Qiuping's words, but she roughly knew what he meant, "It's like waking up and opening your eyes.
Opening your eyes is this body."
"But there will always be another consciousness that disappears."
"But there is always another consciousness." Qingmizu Oriko and Yu Qiuping said the same thing as the wheel, "Anyway, 'my' consciousness can only be realized after opening your eyes, and other people are none of your business."
Anyway, the person who opens his eyes will definitely survive."
Shimizu Oriko's words gave Yu Qiuping a strange association - isn't it a bit like hundreds of millions of sperm () sperm rushing towards the egg, and only one survives in the end. But the one who survives doesn't care about the rest.
There are hundreds of millions of "preconscious bodies" that are exactly like him, so he can really survive.
When you are asleep, clone an identical copy of yourself and then kill the original body.
When you open your eyes, the exact same personality, memory and consciousness will wake up in another body.
This is what countless people in this world will face after Oriko Shimizu goes back in time.
Chapter completed!