Chapter 440: Flowers in the Mirror and Moon in the Water
More than a minute later, in a quiet jungle of Emu trees, a blue figure slowly separated from the water.
After eating three pieces of grilled fish cakes, Sherlock's depleted physical strength finally came back. When the recovery ability of cooking took full effect, he turned into a shadow cat and ran deep into the jungle.
Getting rid of his own clones is only temporary, and God knows how many clones of him there are in this maze now. If you want to be completely safe, you can only quickly find a way to separate these overlapping fate lines.
At present, he has several clues. As long as he clarifies the connections between the clues, he should be able to find a specific solution.
The first is the treasure of the Pirate King. Rogge robbed Sambia's treasure ship in order to completely control his own destiny, so there must be props related to destiny on that ship. It is precisely because of such props that this Starry Night Island appears.
kind of mutation.
The next question is how to find such props.
He met two NPCs on the way, a girl and a griffon. The clue should be in the conversation with these two NPCs.
There are rules to be followed in creation, and everything must have a cause and effect; destiny determines life, and destiny depends on one moment.
Do these two sentences have any deeper meaning?
The last and most crucial thing is the prophecy Anshar gave him.
Entering without cause, leaving with destiny;
Good and evil, truth and falsehood, mirror flowers and water moon;
He finally knew the meaning of the first half of each sentence now.
Since he has no cause, all his encounters actually started when he encountered the first random variable, which was the girl's five bottles of potions.
The maze of good and evil, true and false, seems to amplify the malice in people's hearts. Coupled with the occurrence of a series of small-probability events, those replicas have undergone huge changes.
In this case, if you want to find a solution, it is probably related to the last two and a half sentences.
If "Flower in the Mirror, Moon in the Water" is an adjective, it would be a metaphor for the current illusory scene. But if it is a simple noun, would it refer to a special place, and it is probably the place where the destiny is buried.
There is no doubt that the word "go" means to unravel the line of fate. The key is where the word "destiny" comes from.
Destiny is cause and effect, and there seems to be something in him that is related to this island.
He remembered that on Graben Island, Anshal told him that besides the treasure, there was another thing that was also related to the curse on the island.
That ball of black yarn!
When Sherlock thought of this, his constantly moving steps couldn't help but stop. All of this was really developing as predicted.
So he will definitely succeed in finding the object of destiny, reorganize the line of destiny, and then solve the curse on the island?
Okay, let's pause for a moment for this secondary thought. If he had a protagonist template, he wouldn't have had to hang out in the slums for so long. Let's think about where the black yarn is.
It is now almost certain that the black yarn is an entity related to fate.
Last time, it was because of the lucky power on the four-leaf clover that returned to the wind that it was suddenly stimulated. Although it disappeared afterwards, it should still be on his body.
Sherlock rummaged through the space ring for a while, and a mace appeared in his hand. If we talk about the power of luck, the power contained in this lucky magic hammer should be no worse than that four-leaf clover.
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Sure enough, as soon as he held the Lucky Magic Hammer in his right hand, a ball of black yarn reappeared on his right wrist, exuding a black light, and slowly climbed up the handle of the hammer along his hand.
Feeling the power in the black veil, the hammer head of the Lucky Magic Hammer was also shrouded in a faint glow.
At this moment, Sherlock could finally see the properties of this black veil.
The yarn of doom: the yarn that weaves destiny.
The power of the Veil of Doom and the Magic Hammer of Luck finally come into contact. They repel each other but blend with each other. In the process, a weak attraction connects from nowhere, pulling him toward the goal.
Walk in one direction.
Jungles, streams, mountains, grasslands, he followed this attraction and crossed one terrain after another. He also encountered more replicas and witnessed their encounters in another line of fate.
He even stopped to communicate with the other party several times. After all, this kind of experience is quite interesting if you think about it carefully, provided that your life is not in danger.
After another day and night of trekking, he arrived at the center of the maze under the moonlight, and the clone that had been chasing him finally found his trace and followed him.
The center of the maze is a large lake, with hazy shadows of flowers on the lake, and a shadow of the moon flickering in and out of it, which coincides with the four characters "Flower in the Mirror, Water, Moon".
Sherlock stood in the center of the lake, looking at the figure by the lake and said: "You are late!"
"Destiny is like this flower in the mirror, the moon in the water, do you really think you can touch it?" The figure also stepped onto the water, slowly walking over with circles of ripples.
"This tone doesn't sound like what I would say?"
"Are you sure you know yourself?"
"I know better than you!" he said with a hint of disdain. It was a bit ridiculous to think about an artificial intelligence talking to him about human nature.
"Really, can I be so confident?" The clone probably didn't like being treated with this attitude, and said angrily with a bit of ridicule: "Human nature is indeed elusive, but if the number of samples is large enough,
It’s not something that cannot be analyzed.”
"Maybe you haven't seen many copies of yourself, right?"
This is indeed a problem. He has seen three or four hundred of the other four people in the past two days. Apart from the one in front of him, he has only encountered three copies of himself.
However, the other party was not prepared to help him solve his doubts, but continued to speak according to his own words.
"This maze will amplify a certain point in each clone's humanity."
"Have you ever felt that your four teammates have been taking advantage of you during this operation?"
"Has there been any further communication with Cindy?"
"Have you ever regretted your own life experience?"
"Have you ever imagined that you are the strongest person in the world and everyone is kneeling at your feet?"
"Have you ever..."
"Yes!" Sherlock interrupted the other party. He could not deny his human shortcomings, and he did not need to deny them, just like he would never deny his character of a virgin bitch.
"But so what!" His tone became more determined.
Life becomes more memorable when there is death, and human nature becomes more beautiful when there are shortcomings. The key lies in how you master the balance between the two. This is also the joy of being a human being, isn't it?
Oh, an AI might not understand the fun.
"Put away your arrogant face. I will soon have something like humanity." The clone's way of thinking is also based on the original body. At this moment, it is natural to guess what the original body is thinking, and it roars and strides forward.
