174: Chapter 174: Everything in the World Has Cause and Effect 174: Chapter 174: Everything in the World Has Cause and Effect “No traces of magic residue detected in the host’s body.”
After a moment of silence, the notebook slowly produced a line of text.
Li Mumu had an epiphany.
Li Ya had not used magic.
The Followers of the Guiding Bodhisattva, protected by the Red String, possess a strong resistance to all spells, curses, and toxins.
So Li Ya chose to use sophisticated speech and mental suggestions, along with the aid of sedatives, to imprison Li Mumu’s primary persona, creating an invisible prison within her mind.
Li Ya, this woman, is too terrifying.
She is never the traditional kind of witch who hides in the forest brewing potions with lizard tails and frog eyes.
Instead, she is a witch who grasps the most cutting-edge magic theories, capable of peeking into the future and choosing her own destiny trajectory.
Just as Li Mumu was about to guess the truth and had not even made up her mind, she had already sensed the possible changes in the future and, without hesitation, severed that trajectory of fate.
If magic is ineffective, then use physical means…
What kind of decent mother feeds her daughter sedatives!
If she dares to feed you, you dare to eat, Li Mumu, you’re really bold.
Li Mumu began to ponder the method to break out of this situation.
As a virtual persona programmed for emergency use, her emergence signifies that the primary persona has fallen into a predicament that is not easily escapable.
Therefore, this persona’s thought process was specially enhanced.
The two main problems to solve now are—
1.
How to awaken Li Mumu’s primary persona and release it.
2.
How to deal with Li Ya?
How can you fight an opponent who can predict all your moves in advance?
No, no, no…
this way of thinking is incorrect, I need to go over the intelligence again.
Li Mumu pressed her temples and muttered to herself, “Hey, list all the intelligence information I’ve gathered during this time for me.”
[You recall the memory of being urgently activated in the first loop, when you had already fused with the Elemental Body and were in a state of confusion.]
[You recall the scene when you entered the library, were deceived by Li Mumu, and killed.]
[You recall meeting with Father Lyon at the Hell Church with Wendy…]
[You recall…]
The scenes from her memories flashed before Li Mumu’s eyes like a carousel slide projector.
Beyond the memories were all the hypotheses and inferences she had made based on prior intelligence.
Just the last piece of the puzzle was missing.
Ah…
such an obvious fact, how could I only realize it now?
After standing silently on the deck for a long time, Li Mumu closed her notebook, turned around, and cast her gaze towards Li Ya, who, unbeknownst to her, had come up behind her.
They say a woman’s bust size is inversely proportional to her brain capacity, so how come this woman has it both?
Truly enviable and jealousy-inducing…
no, truly despicable.
“I know what’s going on.”
“You figured it out again?”
Li Ya covered her face and sighed, “Dear, please, take a pill and go back to sleep.
We’ll arrive in a few days; can you please stop making a fuss?”
“Is it really me who’s making a fuss, my dear mommy?”
Li Mumu asked expressionlessly.
“Isn’t all this chaos caused by you?
And now, you actually want to pin the blame on me?”
Li Ya shook her head and laughed, “What kind of mess have you concocted in your mind now…”
However, Li Mumu’s next sentence made her face change slightly.
“Where should my story begin?”
Li Mumu stared at Li Ya and spoke slowly, “Should it begin with the Spirit Possession Ceremony that Wendy and I screwed up?
I don’t think so.”
“The story about ‘me’ should start with my sister, the fertilized egg inside you right now.”
“The past, present, and future are not a continuous line.
Viewed from a high-dimensional perspective, these three should actually be in a state of trinity, which is the true meaning in the Sutra of the Guiding Bodhisattva.”
“The real ’cause’ began with your excessively high expectations for this child.
You foresaw her arrival in the river of fate, and you went to great lengths to select this voyage, all to ensure her birth at the center of the time-space string oscillations, right at the node of this Time-Space Retrospection.”
This line of thought was too insane, too ludicrous, yet it was the only reasonable explanation Li Mumu had left after discarding all the more far-fetched speculative scenarios when she sifted through her memories.
Before the Time-Space Retrospection, she had seen a passage left on a notebook.
[If the plan succeeds, history will be rewritten.
Under this premise, everyone has a motive to participate and become an accomplice.
No one is trustworthy, for a flaw called ‘regret’ inevitably exists in everyone’s heart…]
At the time, she did not understand what this meant.
She only suspected Li Ya but could not comprehend her motive.
Now, the motive had finally been found.
“As a witch, you indeed accomplished a miracle that no one before could have imagined, commendable.
But as a criminal, you did not completely erase your tracks, or rather, you couldn’t be bothered to.
In fact, you did not do anything, you just appeared at the right time, in the right place, without any reason for accusation.”
“But it’s not like no one was affected.
As you yourself said, the oscillations of the time-space strings are like ripples on water’s surface, and ripples keep spreading.
The influences of this Time-Space Retrospection are not limited to just this time node.
Because of your personal selfish desires, they have even permeated our past.”
“Father Lyon tried to buy me over to Hell Church with two thousand US dollars.
Dad’s colleague also tried to bribe him with two thousand US dollars to become a spy.”
“I asked Father Lyon for a hundred thousand dollars, and he did not agree.
Wendy wanted to borrow a hundred thousand dollars from the bank, and the bank also did not agree.”
“Li Mumu was not tempted by the notebook and discarded it.
But another Chinese-American youth named Arthur picked it up and took it aboard the vessel.”
“I saw two completely different buildings in the same place…”
“You told me that all things are mere illusions, all things are false, and everything is the ripple produced by the spread of the strings.”
“You’re not wrong; there are no coincidences.
These so-called coincidences are essentially the spatiotemporal fluctuations caused by the spreading ripples.”
“The ‘effect’ born from this ’cause’ is the reason ‘I’ am here.”
“Because of your selfishness, my sister has stolen the destiny that was supposed to be mine, altering my future fate.”
Li Mumu raised her hand, extending a finger towards Li Ya’s flat abdomen.
“You’re not with those people; you don’t care what intricacies are on board the Olympus.
You only care about her; you’re afraid I will correct my destiny line after the Time-Space Retrospection, so you have to weave a web of lies to trap me, allowing her fate to proceed in the direction you glimpsed.”
“So, what is this little one’s name?”