stonecrandall Chapter 698 Substituting one thing for another
Chapter 698 Substituting one thing for another
No one knew how long the silence lasted. The upholder of justice did not respond, Zuo Xi was in no hurry to urge him, and Nashida did not dare to say a word.
Until the guardian of justice broke the silence, the gradually tense
"What are your conditions?"
Zuo Xi seemed to hear a sigh that didn't exist... It seems that even a Maintainer, who needs to abandon emotions and subjective identities to a certain extent, will feel helpless because of certain things.
"It's easy to talk about the conditions... You can rewind, right? No, it can't be considered rewinding... You should be able to restore the data, right?"
The result that Zuo Xi wanted was not something like rewinding or reading a save file, because this would still make some of the things he experienced non-existent in the sense of Teyvat.
This would result in some things being known only to him, while everyone else would have forgotten them... He didn't like this feeling. Even as an Adventer, he didn't want to be a witness who could only record.
Since he has been here, he must leave his mark.
So for the same reason, he also hated the fact that traces left by others were erased. If it was someone else, it would be fine, but this happened to be someone he knew, and since it was related to him, he couldn't accept it.
It was fine before, he had no choice but to accept even if he didn't want to. But now he is strong enough to overturn the table, if he is still forced to accept something he doesn't want to accept, then wouldn't he have become a god in vain?
Therefore, Zuo Xi would definitely not accept the situation of rewinding. What he wanted was not to go back a part of the long river of time, but that the actions of "modification" and "restore" themselves were still recorded.
Otherwise, he could have solved the problem in a more secure way, and there would not have been a need to alarm the kingdom of heaven.
In fact, if he could accept that the Great Compassion Tree King disappeared into history, then he only needed to find the lost Great Compassion Tree King and restore her memory.
Just like the original Scaramucci... This can only be considered a small move and will definitely not alarm Sky Island.
But in his opinion, this would be equivalent to denying the existence of the Great Compassionate Tree King, and everything about her would be denied.
Phew… In short, he felt very unhappy. Since he felt unhappy, he naturally wanted to avoid this situation.
"Only this one time."
Since it had been decided to resolve the issue through negotiation, the upholders of justice became very straightforward when agreeing to the conditions.
The act of modifying the World Tree itself is not allowed. Even if it is the former Ruler of Grass who has the authority over the World Tree, such an operation should not be allowed.
Normally, such irregularities should have been corrected to avoid huge, irreparable deviations in history.
However, before this, neither she nor the person above her had the time to deal with such low-priority trivial matters, and unless there was a serious deviation that would wake them up, nothing would be done.
This time, it was the birth of a new candidate for the throne that caused her to wake up, and then she noticed the abnormality here... If it was just to fix a loophole, she could accept this condition on behalf of others.
"Not only that, I also need to rewrite some things... Don't rush to do it, it will only benefit the tree. You and your master don't want the World Tree to wither, right?
To be honest, this World Tree-level disease didn't alarm you, but I, who had just ascended to God, actually blew you away... Tsk tsk tsk, it's hard to judge.
As expected, the biggest worry about something that is stolen is that it will be lost in the same way."
It is not enough to just transform the Great Compassion Tree King back, that would only be considered a return to the starting point. Their fundamental goal is to solve the pollution of the World Tree, that is, a series of problems caused by the forbidden knowledge.
Zuo Xi’s method is very simple. Since knowledge from outside the world is called forbidden knowledge, or forbidden knowledge is a special kind of foreign knowledge... In short, no matter which one it is, there is a certain inclusion relationship between these two nouns.
Since there is such a relationship, it means that in concept, the two are similar or even the same. Replacing one with the other can avoid bugs caused by the modification to the greatest extent.
What Zuo Xi has to do is to replace the original forbidden knowledge with his own knowledge, so that it will not affect history... At most, the Red King's technology will change its appearance and become another form based on his technology.
Without affecting history, the forbidden knowledge of Teyvat became something he could control.
The original forbidden knowledge was obtained by the Scarlet King from outside the world. All the problems that followed were caused by various reasons of infringement and contamination, and in the end, no one was able to completely expel this knowledge.
After replacing them with the knowledge mastered by Zuo Xi, he will take them all back at this point in time, so that the pollution to the World Tree will subside.
This is Zuo Xi’s method, fundamentally replacing the forbidden knowledge with something else.