Gates of the Myriad Realms Chapter 318
by“Proof: Tooth.”
“First synchronization.”
“Synchronization rate: 0.19%.”
“Synchronization time: 1.3 seconds.”
“Start synchronization?”
The tiny, faintly glowing words kept flickering.
But Shen Ye did not respond.
Only 1.3 seconds.
Such a precious 1.3 seconds must be used at the right time.
“Let’s escape first, out that door, and down the stairs—and take the gun, just in case,” Shen Ye said.
“You’ll have to use it, I don’t like weapons,” Shah Telai said.
“No problem,” Shen Ye said.
Only then did the little girl grab the handgun and cross the room, heading towards the stairs through the back door.
Shen Ye had already flown out, observing the situation outside.
At the end of the stairs was a protective door.
Originally, a password was required to open it, but now, due to the earthquake, the corridor had collapsed, and the door was leaning askew.
Further out, there was a blasted hole, with strong winds howling in from outside.
Shen Ye rushed over, peering out through the large hole in the wall.
Outside was a vast expanse of snow, covering the…
Sky.
Damn it, it’s the sky!
So this was a mobile fortress suspended in the sky!
Those tremors just now weren’t an earthquake.
Instead, this fortress had developed some kind of malfunction and was constantly exploding!
Shen Ye looked down.
The land below was an endless wilderness forest, already covered by thick snow.
—Too high!
The flying fortress was several thousand meters above the ground!
What to do?
Shen Ye said nothing, turned around, and flew through wall after wall, heading deep into the fortress.
Along the way.
The various rooms were filled with strange and bizarre experimental creatures.
There were also particularly spacious rooms where monsters had gone out of control and were eating some of the staff.
And some rooms were filled with piles of bones.
Since it was a fortress…
Shen Ye had a thought and simply flew upwards.
After passing through a black metal interlayer about seven or eight meters long.
He found himself in a command center.
It was still very safe here.
Various uniformed personnel were busily operating the enormous flying fortress.
Judging by their calm demeanor, this accidental explosion didn’t seem to be an impending disaster.
A soft electronic female voice echoed through the command center:
“Close all backup isolation doors, and put all lower-level experimental subjects back into isolation.”
“Clear out, disinfect, and retrieve all living experimental subjects.”
“Make sure to record data.”
“Execute!”
“Clear out.”
As soon as Shen Ye heard that word, he immediately flew back.
He quickly returned to the little girl’s side.
“Did you find anything?”
The little girl asked, full of anticipation.
Behind her, dense black heads emerged, floating erratically, like a dark, lightless wall, enveloping her.
Once the clear-out began, she might discover everything.
What would she do?
What kind of awakened personality would emerge?
If she clearly saw everything here, and the evil and resentful personality was born, Shah Telai would be replaced.
That would be the end!
…No.
I must catch her.
“We’re on the verge of victory—you need to go back to that room, take your teacher’s coat from the back of the chair, and be careful when you go through that door, the floor is full of broken stones and glass shards.”
Shen Ye said with a smile.
“Understood!”
The girl carelessly stepped on the scattered stones and glass, not even a hint of pain on her face.
—Compared to the tests she endured, this level of pain was nothing.
She quickly ran through the corridor, crossed the alloy door, went back to the room to get the coat, then turned around and came to the blasted hole.
The wind and snow were chilling to the bone.
“On the verge of victory?”
The little girl looked at the large hole and then back at Shen Ye.
Beep beep beep!
A rapid electronic sound rang out:
“Attention!”
“Closing all backup isolation doors!”
“Initiating clear-out!”
Too late—
Shen Ye said, “It’s fine, I’m good at this. You just jump out, I’ll take it from here.”
“Okay, I trust you!”
Shah Telai wrapped the coat around herself.
Not far away.
Two people in fully enclosed experimental suits had already appeared at the end of the corridor.
The wind and snow were too heavy here, and they hadn’t yet clearly seen the situation.
The little girl said nothing and jumped straight out.
Wind.
The strong wind instantly blew her away, and she vanished into the fierce snowstorm in a flash.
The two people in fully enclosed experimental suits slowly approached.
They looked at the wind-swept hole not far away and rationally stopped their steps.
“Damn it, there’s a big hole blown here, immediately send robots to repair it!”
“Yes, boss, calling repair robots now.”
…
The little girl plummeted rapidly through the wind and snow.
“Don’t you fly? Can I use your body now?”
She asked, looking at Shen Ye, who was falling with her.
“Not yet!”
Shen Ye shouted into her ear.
At this moment.
All those black heads disappeared.
The little girl no longer had the chance to see those tragic sights.
And those negative personalities would not be born.
But—
What would happen if she just fell to her death like this?
Shen Ye shook his head, not daring to gamble.
Because he hadn’t yet figured out whether this was a dream, a past era, or just a memory.
If it was just a dream created during the struggle between the two Nine Aspects, that would be hilarious.
He would have offended two Nine Aspects at once.
He wouldn’t even know how he died.
The strong wind made the little girl unable to open her eyes.
She clutched her coat tightly, completely covering her head, and said in a muffled voice:
“When you need to use my body, just use it, I’m not going to care anymore.”
“Good!” Shen Ye said.
He looked down.
The wilderness was vast, covered in white snow.
Forests and mountains were all covered by heavy snow.
Although the snow was quite thick.
Although the little girl’s body was quite light.
But falling from several thousand meters up would still be a dead end.
“Can you glide?”
Shen Ye asked.
“No!” the little girl said.
“Block the wind with your coat, I’ll teach you a trick,” Shen Ye said.
He only had 1.3 seconds, he had to teach her something.
“…Baxter, you’re not going to teach me to fly now, are you? We’re about to land,” the little girl said, staring at him, no longer even afraid of the wind.
“Of course not, just a small trick. When you take over for me later, you can use it to control your body,” Shen Ye quickly said.
“Then hurry up, we’re about to land in the forest!”
“Okay!”
Shen Ye rushed in front of her and immediately used the “Deer’s Walk Under the Moon” technique—
“Deer’s Walk Under the Moon” has three stances: dodge, thrust, and sidestep.
Time was limited, so Shen Ye only demonstrated the most basic “dodge” once.
“Did you understand?”
“The wind and snow are too strong… I can’t see very clearly.”
“Look again!”
Shen Ye demonstrated it again.
“What about this time?”
“Saw it a little more clearly.”
“Then again!”
Demonstrated it again.
“I saw it this time,” Shah Telai said proactively, “but we’re also about to crash to our deaths.”
Shen Ye looked.
Below was already dense jungle.
“Are you scared?”
“No,” the little girl said, then couldn’t help but scream.
Her figure swept past the bushes, falling directly towards the clearing in the forest.
Too late!
In an instant.
Shen Ye flew up, his body overlapping with the little girl’s, taking control of her body.
At this moment, the little girl was only a few centimeters from the thick snow on the ground, seemingly about to fall to her death.
“Door.”
The little girl suddenly whispered.
One of her hands was placed on her chest, while the other was held behind her back, palm tilted at an angle, pointing towards a distant towering tree.
A flicker of light appeared, revealing lines of glowing small characters:
“You have activated the ‘Door’ ability.”
“You simultaneously activated ‘Stars Transferred’, setting up a tilted door teleportation coordinate behind you.”
The second hand ticked.
1 second!
Swoosh—
A door opened in front of the little girl.
She rushed straight into it.
But behind her, a tilted door appeared simultaneously.
The little girl burst out of this tilted door, flying like a cannonball towards the distant towering tree.
“Ah ah ah ah ah—”
She shrieked in panic, flailing her arms and legs, the wind and snow rushing into her mouth.
1.3 seconds passed.
Shen Ye left her body and shouted loudly from the side:
“Calm down! Watch out and dodge, don’t crash to your death!”
The little girl screamed even louder.
She grabbed the oncoming branches with both hands, pulling them taut like a bow. As soon as she heard a “snap” from the branches, she immediately let go, then gracefully traversed the trees, leaping onto another branch.
—Deer’s Walk Under the Moon!
“Beautiful!”
Shen Ye cheered.
The little girl stepped on the branch, her whole body leaning forward, then leaning back, her hands rowing like oars, letting out “ah ah ah ah ah” screams from her mouth.
After a while, she finally stood steadily.
Shen Ye also breathed a sigh of relief.
This five-year-old child was quite capable, no wonder she grew up to be a top expert spanning the universe.
Suddenly, a faint light emerged, gathering into words:
“Proof: Tooth.”
“First synchronization ended.”
“Synchronization rate: 0.37%.”
“No rejection observed.”
“Synchronization time increased to: 1.9 seconds.”
“Next synchronization available in ten minutes.”
I didn’t expect there would be rejection.
But since I saved her life, there naturally wouldn’t be rejected, but it might not be the case in the future.
No.
She cannot reject me.
“Baxter!” Shah Telai cried out angrily.
“I’m here!” Shen Ye responded.
“Don’t you fly? Why do I have to jump around myself?”
“Because you’re a genius, Shah Telai should try something this amazing too.”
“…Humph.”
“Precisely, it’s not enough for me to be the only one fighting. Shah Telai, you also need to learn to fight.”
“Why?”
“To protect yourself—like that test, do you like tests?”
“No.”
“If you’re good at fighting, no one would dare to put you through such tests.”
“Really?”
“Really.”
“Okay… but what do we do now? It’s so cold here, I’m afraid I’ll freeze if it takes too long, and I’m very hungry.”
“Listen.”
They both cocked their ears.
The cold wind blew through the sea of trees, bringing with it the sound of pine waves.
Faintly, a beast’s roar echoed from afar.
“Shah Telai, you’ve communicated with the white world, have you learned any abilities?”
Shen Ye asked.
The sound seemed to be from a bear.
Bears can climb trees.
They had to find a way to resolve the current crisis immediately.
“I don’t know what Shah Telai can do, she’s mysterious all the time.”
The girl’s tone became soft and gentle.
Shen Ye turned his head to look at her.
She was also observing Shen Ye, and smiled at him:
“I am Nancy, who are you?”
Was this the little girl’s original personality?
“I am Baxter. I just escaped that place with Shah Telai. Now there seem to be beasts around, you’d best not make a sound,” Shen Ye said.
“It’s so good to have escaped, thank you, Baxter,” Nancy said with emotion.
As she spoke, an adult brown bear darted out from the distant jungle.
Nancy whistled at the brown bear.
“Don’t worry, Baxter.”
She said.
The brown bear quickly looked up and spotted the little girl in the tree.
“I’m hungry, please get some food for me, and I’ll thank you specially later.”
Nancy waved to the brown bear.
The brown bear sat in the snow, looked up at her for a while, slowly got up, and ran off in another direction.
“It understands?”
Shen Ye asked in surprise.
“I could communicate with animals when I was very young. My family discovered this on my fourth birthday.”
Nancy showed a look of recollection: “They excitedly announced the news.”
“And then?”
“Then I was brought here to go to school.”
Shen Ye quietly changed the topic:
“But your talent wasn’t developed; instead, you were put into a project like this. I don’t quite understand.”
“I heard them say I was still young, and had more possibilities,” Nancy whispered.
Behind her, layers of dark shadows appeared.
“—But now we’ve escaped, and we won’t have to suffer torment anymore. We can live a good life,” Shen Ye immediately said.
The freshly condensed black heads became somewhat thinner.
“Is that all? I feel very sad, Baxter.”
Nancy said, bowing her head.
“Let’s go back and find your parents together,” Shen Ye said, softening his voice.
Nancy froze.
Parents…
“It’s been too long since I’ve seen them, I miss my mom, and I miss my dad—Baxter, you’ll take me back, won’t you?”
“Yes, Shah Telai and I agreed, I’m in charge of such important matters.”
“That’s great.”
The dark heads behind Nancy gradually disappeared.
A line of tiny glowing words then appeared:
“Synchronization rate increased to 1.5%. Due to this effect, synchronization time increased to: 2.1 seconds.”
The time increased.
This gave him more opportunities to interfere with the Nine Aspects.
However—
A question arose in Shen Ye’s mind:
—What would happen if the synchronization rate reached 100%?
A low roar sounded, interrupting Shen Ye’s thoughts.
Only to see the brown bear returning.
It let go of its mouth, placed a few frozen red osmanthus fish on the ground, and then began to climb the tree.
It climbed all the way to Nancy’s branch.
“Thank you.”
Nancy walked over and hugged the brown bear tightly around its neck.
The brown bear then gently returned the way it came, all the way to the ground.
“Ask it to get some wood, I’ll need it later.”
Shen Ye said.
“But it has already done so much for us, and I haven’t repaid it, it will cause trouble,” Nancy said with difficulty.
“Tell it, we’ll treat it to something even more delicious later,” Shen Ye said.
Nancy told the brown bear.
The brown bear became excited, let out a deep roar, shook its whole body, and disappeared into the distance again.
After more than ten minutes.
Nancy was surrounded by a pile of wood.
These were all remnants of trees broken by the strong wind in the forest.
After being exposed to the sun and frost, they had become excellent firewood. The outer layer of bark, once the snow was shaken off, could even be burned directly.
The brown bear sat on one side, looking at Nancy expectantly.
Nancy looked at Shen Ye.
Shen Ye silently calculated.
2.1 seconds.
Almost done.
“Stand next to that pile of firewood,” he told Nancy.
“Okay.”
Nancy walked over and stood still.
Shen Ye thought it over again, and finally overlapped with Nancy.
Synchronize!
First second.
The little girl’s entire body released a strong mist of icy cold air, rising into the sky and forming a vast semicircle.
Second second—
Lightning erupted from the little girl’s hands, and she flung it towards the pile of wood!
Time’s up.
Boom!
The firewood was struck by lightning, instantly bursting into a raging fire.
The biting cold wind in the forest completely disappeared.
A wide, cold, icy ring, formed by ice crystals, enclosed an area of several tens of square meters, creating a massive ice “tent”.
Although the firewood was burning, it could not easily melt the frost imbued with lunar energy.
The entire frosty tent immediately became warm.
“Let’s start grilling fish, first solve our hunger, then grill some for the bear too.”
Shen Ye said.
He glanced at the brown bear.
The thunder and fire just now had startled the bear.
But food was too hard to find in winter, so despite its fear, it couldn’t bear to leave.
“I can do these things!”
Nancy said happily.
She processed the fish, threw it into the fire for a while, then poked it out with a stick, tossed one to the brown bear, and took one for herself.
The fish was delicious, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside.
The little girl was full after eating half a fish.
She roasted the remaining fish, threw them to the brown bear, then found an unburnt piece of firewood by the fire, sat on it, and began to rest.
The firelight illuminated the little girl’s face, quickly warming her whole body and bringing a flush to her cheeks.
“Baxter.”
“What.”
“You haven’t eaten yet, have you?”
“I don’t need to.”
“Really? I’ve never seen anyone who doesn’t eat…”
Her voice gradually became faint.
She sat by the fire, slowly falling asleep.
Shen Ye vigilantly glanced at the brown bear.
The brown bear was a bit afraid of the fire, but it coveted the warmth here, so it lay curled up in a corner of the “tent” at a distance, enjoying the delicious osmanthus fish.
Shen Ye withdrew his gaze, looking at the girl in front of him.
She was too tired.
Let her sleep for a little while.
A faint light appeared again:
“Synchronization rate increased to 1.9%. Due to this effect, synchronization time increased to: 2.9 seconds.”
Buzz—
A sound suddenly echoed in the sky.
Immediately after.
A small aircraft emerged from the snowstorm, sweeping towards the direction of the icy “tent”.
The brown bear sensed something amiss, clutched its fish, and quickly ran away.
Nancy was still asleep.
Shen Ye stood beside her, his heart a little surprised.
—Are these pursuers?
They clearly weren’t discovered at the time.
How did they find their way here?
The small aircraft slowly came to a halt, opened its hatch, and seven or eight heavily armed soldiers jumped out.
Then came several men in standard winter uniforms.
They almost immediately noticed the icy “tent” nearby.
The leader made a gesture.
Everyone surrounded it silently.
Shen Ye looked at the time.
He still needed two minutes and seventeen seconds before he could synchronize with Nancy.
Let’s wait.
—After all, he needed to figure out how these people discovered Nancy.
Otherwise, even if they got rid of them this time, the other party would keep pursuing.
The group of people gradually approached.
They surrounded Nancy.
“Boss, she’s asleep, should we wake her up?”
“No, let her sleep a little longer—this is truly astonishing.”
Everyone looked around.
“Forming a protective layer with ice, this proves she can control ice and snow.”
“She didn’t bring a lighter or anything similar, and look at her hands, soft and delicate, it doesn’t look like she fire-started by rubbing sticks.”
“So she might also be able to control fire.”
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“Truly astonishing!”
The leader said excitedly.
The deputy standing beside him pulled out a device and activated it.
“Beep beep beep beep—”
The device emitted a rapid series of beeps, followed by a prompt:
“Test subject number 72578619 detected!”
“The test subject is at the current location!”
Shen Ye had been watching quietly until now, when he suddenly turned his head and looked at Nancy.
Locator!
Nancy had something like a locator on her.
Where was it?
The leader took a few steps forward and touched Nancy’s arm.
“The chip is still there.”
“It seems she doesn’t know what happened, she probably fell out accidentally when the flying fortress exploded.”
“She doesn’t even have a single injury!”
“Quick, photograph all the surrounding scenery and report it.”
“This test subject must have evolved.”
“Give her a sedative!”
“After the sedative, we’ll immediately take her back—and replace her chip when we get back!”
Everyone immediately became busy.
Shen Ye stood aside, lost in thought.
The girl didn’t know about the chip.
So, according to the original course of events, she must have seen the bodies of those children and then a new personality was born.
She would then resist and flee, but because she didn’t know about the chip—
She must have endured a lot of hardship.
Perhaps she had escaped to a very, very distant place.
Perhaps she had integrated into society.
But in the end, she would always be found, forced to fight with her pursuers, and then captured and taken back.
And then one day, she would learn the truth.
What kind of life was this?
Shen Ye floated beside the little girl, watching as those people gave her a sedative and then carried her onto the aircraft.
He did not intervene.
The aircraft rapidly ascended into the sky.
The little girl was placed in the center of the cabin, with everyone’s eyes on her.
Shen Ye sat by the bed.
At this point, he was somewhat worried again.
If Nancy were to suffer some kind of punishment from this organization next, or learned the truth about the flying fortress, who knew what kind of personality she would split into.
Shen Ye subconsciously glanced at Nancy.
He saw that she was already awake and asked:
“Where am I?”
Her tone was cold, her voice imbued with indifference.
Shah Telai.
Her personality had switched to Shah Telai!
The leader of the organization responded:
“You’re on your way back to base, don’t talk, child, you can continue to sleep, we’ll be there soon.”
He winked at the person next to him.
That person then took out a disposable sedative syringe from their pocket.
“Uncle, don’t bother, those medicines don’t work on me—I’ve connected to the white world and am immune to the effects of any medicine.”
Shah Telai said, glancing at Shen Ye.
Shen Ye immediately understood.
She was telling him that if he were to save her, he needn’t worry about her falling into a deep sleep.
The guard thought she was talking to him and shook his head:
“Monster… I wouldn’t believe you.”
The syringe was plunged into her arm.
The medicine was pushed all the way through.
“Just pretend to be asleep, we need to go back and sort some things out,” Shen Ye said.
“I don’t want to go back to that place again,” Shah Telai sighed.
“What do you know?” the leader asked cautiously.
“Hang on, we have to go back once, and then we can leave completely,” Shen Ye persuaded.
“I’m scared,” Shah Telai said.
“What exactly are you afraid of?” the leader asked again.
“It’s nothing, I’m here. Let’s go see if we can completely solve the tracking problem,” Shen Ye said.
“What if we can’t?” Shah Telai asked.
“Can’t? Can’t what?” the leader pressed.
“I’ll give them a little trouble so they can’t come looking for you for a while, and then we’ll figure out another way,” Shen Ye said.
“Okay, I trust you, but I feel ashamed to always rely on you,” Shah Telai said.
“You trust me?” The leader laughed.
But Shen Ye saw a human head appear behind Shah Telai.
The head silently merged into Shah Telai’s body.
—Is a new personality about to emerge?
No.
The more personalities, the harder it would be to deal with.
Shen Ye said, “Future battles will surely be like this—”
“Like what?” Shah Telai asked.
“You will endure all sorts of suffering, like how you’re drugged right now, or the previous tests. You must fight the enemy while enduring this pain and torment, and you must win. If you don’t win, we’ll all die together.” Shen Ye said.
Shah Telai froze.
“I guess—those thousands of tests must have been very painful, I think only you could endure them,” Shen Ye asked.
“It seems… I’m not really afraid of these things,” Shah Telai muttered to herself.
“That’s right, and, how long did one of your tests take?” Shen Ye asked.
“10 hours.”
“When fighting, if you’re stabbed by a knife, shot by a gun, burned by fire, or have bones broken, the pain will persist. There are no doctors, no treatment; you must endure it for at least several days, you must save yourself.”
“Endure the pain… I can do that. As for healing, I can draw power from the white world to heal myself.”
“Hmm, that’ll do.”
At this moment.
Shen Ye saw that head fly out of Shah Telai’s body again.
The head flew into the air, glared at Shen Ye with intense resentment, and then disappeared.
Shen Ye’s lips curled into a slight smile, his face full of disdain.
Watching mom watching.
That kind of pain beyond human endurance, only Shah Telai could bear.
She was a genius, a sufferer, able to connect to the Dharma realm through pain and achieve self-healing.
What kind of personality are you?
Get lost!
“Child, what are you not afraid of?” the leader asked.
“I understand. I can’t run away. I have to participate in the fighting too,” Shah Telai said, looking at Shen Ye.
The leader followed her gaze, but only saw an empty space.
“She’s crazy.”
The leader said to the person beside him.
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