Yama Reborn-Chapter 542 - 539: Sun Keke’s Situation

Chapter 539 [Sun Keke’s Situation]

"Zero?!"

Chen Nuo widened his eyes. In such a particular scenario, he couldn’t help but feel a chill run down his spine.

"You can go to the control panel, the third button on the left, press it... Then, you can adjust the volume, and the resolution of the analysis, as well as the instrument’s efficiency to the maximum... Yes, the third on the left... then do you see that knob below? It adjusts the volume... a bit louder, there’s also a microphone beside it, you can speak into it..."

Chen Nuo quickly fiddled with the control panel.

A few minutes later, the sound from the loudspeaker became significantly clearer. Although it was still an electronic synthesized voice, the pronunciation seemed much more precise.

"Sorry, little Chen Nuo, I just have this one brain left. Here, the instruments can connect to my cerebral cortex, decode the neuron signals, and then through the computer analysis, finally convert them into speech... hahaha, that Octopus Monster guy spent several billions of dollars on these devices. However, the technology of this era is still not advanced enough. This set of devices requires a lot of energy consumption and amazing computing power, so there is another layer underground in this room, housing servers and supercomputers to parse and compute my neuron signals.

Normally, it’s in a low-energy standby mode, and today... it’s fully powered, but it can only maintain voice communication for thirty minutes."

Chen Nuo listened and understood.

In this day and age, computer processing power is still far from what it will be in twenty years. At present, a household computer with a Pentium 4 is considered high-end.

Chen Nuo spoke slowly into the microphone, "So... you are Zero?"

"I am, and I am not."

"What does that mean? Your brain is all here! So you’re actually dead but not dead, just left with one brain?"

"That’s not what it means." Zero answered slowly, "The brain you see is the brain from the last body I used, and it is just a storage container that holds part of my memory and consciousness. You can understand it as... a backup. The one you are communicating with is not a life form, just a Q&A machine storing my memories."

Chen Nuo didn’t care about that, he directly asked the most pressing question: "Then where is the real you? Where is the real you?"

"I... am dead."

Chen Nuo was stunned.

"I died before 2001."

"How did you die? A powerful Seed, and your abilities might even be stronger than Seed and The Fourth Seed... what exactly could kill you? How did you die?"

Zero’s answer left Chen Nuo completely speechless.

"I died of old age."

"..."

For a moment, Chen Nuo almost turned into the Son of the Sun, almost cursing out loud.

Died of old age?

A Seed that lived for who knows how many millennia, just happened to die of old age before 2001?!

Died of old age?

Shouldn’t Seeds be immortal?

"I really did die of old age." Zero’s response seemed helpless, and what it said next made Chen Nuo furrow his brow even deeper.

"The Mother created me, and my life form is different from other Seeds. I possess the time ability, but... this time ability also deprived me of immortality.

My life is pinned on the timeline, from one end to the other.

You can imagine it as a car filled with gas.

Starting from one point, how far it can go depends on how long the fuel in the tank lasts.

The time ability is not gained from nothing; it comes with conditions and a price.

The condition is that I can obtain the ability to manipulate time, but in exchange, how long I can manipulate time depends on my life energy.

My life energy ran out before 2001.

So, I was unable to come to the period after 2001, the time period when you, reborn through time, could confront me directly."

Chen Nuo nodded: "So you arranged things from a distance?"

"I had to; I didn’t have any other better option." Zero’s voice replied slowly.

Chen Nuo frowned: "You collaborated with the Octopus Monster to let him preserve your brain, didn’t you?"

"Again, the brain is of no special value to a Seed like us; in my timeline, I was a God! A God capable of countless transformations.

The brain is just a container from one of the bodies I used, one I casually discarded, handed over to the Octopus Monster as a method to wait until today to have a conversation with you."

After a pause, Zero’s answer was quite cheerful, "Of course, I did collaborate with the Octopus Monster. I certainly wouldn’t collaborate with Seed. That guy is too powerful, I definitely didn’t want to help him win the competition any faster."

"So what about the real you? Dead?"

"I suppose, when you came here, you must have talked to that Octopus Monster guy, and you should have your answer regarding whether I’m dead or alive."

"I see, so our assumptions and the Octopus Monster’s statement are all correct.

You, Zero, are dead to this era.

But you’ve actually achieved immortality in the past era."

"That’s right." Zero replied.

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Chen Nuo sighed.

A very... miraculous ability indeed.

It’s like a person who was born in 1900 and died in 1970.

For people in 1971, this person is already dead.

But he has gained the ability to travel through time, allowing him to repeatedly leap through the time from 1900 to 1970, reborn again and again, traveling through... never truly dying.

In the timeline of 1900-1970, he is a God-like existence.

The only difference is that Zero has a timeline far exceeding 70 years, far more extensive and enduring!

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"Arranging Chen Jianshe, leaving a secret entrance for time travel, pulling me back to the 1980s, then turning Yun Yin into Lu Xixi, and later Yun Yin into Sun Keke... so many foreshadowings you’ve left.

Then, calculated today, I would collaborate with the Octopus Monster, be brought here to talk with you?"

Zero patiently listened to Chen Nuo’s words: "The general plan was as planned, with some deviations in the process, but overall, it is as you say. Moreover, I did very well, didn’t I?

Respected Lord Yama, the great, the only, Four-Dimensional Being.

You were slowed down by my little plan, abandoning the four-dimensional life and staying in this so-called human world, saving your love over and over, weren’t you?

From this angle, my plan was quite successful."

Chen Nuo rolled his eyes: "You orchestrated this conversation today, deliberately leaving behind the brain, collaborating with the Octopus Monster... surely not just to mock me?

Tell me, Zero, what do you want to do this time?"

"I want to meet you."

"Huh?"

Chen Nuo frowned: "Although I gained some increase in capabilities from Chen Jianshe, I still can’t time travel at will like you; I can’t return to the past, to the era where you existed."

"Then increase your capability."

"How to increase it?"

"For instance... by devouring some things, oh right Chen Nuo... 17/17, have you completed it?"

Chen Nuo was taken aback.

Indeed... nothing can be hidden from a Time Traveler.

"Why should I meet you? To be schemed against by you again? The pit you dug for me has left me unable to escape."

Chen Nuo sneered: "Even if I meet you, I will fight you to the end, trying to find a way to gain..."

"I can help you solve your current predicament... Since I dug this pit, of course, I know how to solve it."

"...What?!"

Chen Nuo was stunned: "You... you’re saying..."

"The pit was dug so that you would have to give up the four-dimensional and leave a chance. And my ultimate goal, of course, is to let myself win.

If I told you I have a way to make myself win while also solving your troubles.

Would you be willing to cooperate with me?"

Frankly speaking.

Chen Nuo was truly tempted!!

Zero’s power, Zero’s scheming, Zero’s layout...

All of this had already left a deep imprint on Chen Nuo’s heart!

Even though Seed’s strength is undeniably formidable.

And Seed has never directly confronted Zero.

However, for some reason, Chen Nuo’s dread of Zero far exceeds his dread of Seed!

"Trapping you isn’t the goal; it’s merely a means."

Chen Nuo sighed: "Then... why didn’t you say anything when we met back in the eighties? Why didn’t you discuss cooperation with me directly?"

"It wasn’t the right time then."

"So now the time is right?"

Chen Nuo’s mind raced at once!

His mind rapidly reviewed all his experiences and everything that had happened since traveling back to the 80s until today!

It wasn’t time before, but now it is!

Which means that the important variables lay within the occurrences he’s experienced during this time!

But... which one exactly?

Zero slowly said: "I know what you’re thinking... but you can think about it after returning. Please note, our call time is only thirty minutes, and half of it is already gone."

"You..."

"Given the current level of technology, preserving this brain is already very difficult, and activating it for analysis, to communicate with you, can only be done once. After this call, the brain will die, and it will be impossible to hold another conversation, so Chen Nuo, please cherish the remaining call time."

Chen Nuo was torn.

"If you keep hesitating, then we really won’t be able to cooperate. And the way I offered to resolve your predicament, you’ll never know. Are you sure you don’t want to try, Chen Nuo?"

"Tell me your way of cooperating," Chen Nuo said, staring at the brain in the container.

"It’s not so easy to show my hand to you; the specific details of cooperation can only be discussed when we meet."

Chen Nuo shook his head: "I can’t trust you — you have trapped me so badly, leading to my current predicament..."

"No, no, no, you’re wrong, Chen Nuo." Zero laughed loudly: "I did trap you, but... think about it, if it weren’t for me, Lu Xixi, the little girl you met in London, would have died. Yun Yin would have died too.

The only difference is, you didn’t fall in love with them, you wouldn’t have gotten stuck in the quagmire of love.

But ultimately, I did trap you, but I also saved their lives, didn’t I?"

Chen Nuo frowned.

It seems... logically, it’s not wrong.

The little girl in London... if it wasn’t for me traveling back to the 80s, she definitely wouldn’t have lived to grow up.

And Yun Yin... as the Chosen One of the Fourth Seed, her fate was ultimately inevitable death.

Zero just made some arrangements, causing an entanglement between my fate and theirs.

But at the same time, he saved their lives.

However...

No!

It seems this claim has a bit of a problem.

"Wait a minute, what do you mean I fell in love with ’them’?? I definitely didn’t fall in love with Yun Yin!"

If anything, it was just Lu Xixi and Sun Keke.

"No, you did fall in love with Yun Yin." Zero’s smile carried a kind of joy of a successful trick.

Chen Nuo was taken aback.

"Alright, as part of showing cooperation intent, I can give you a hint of the answer," Zero slowly said: "The answer is... Sun Keke never existed in this world.

Sun Keke herself died in childbirth. It’s just that I implanted Yun Yin’s consciousness and soul into that deceased baby’s body.

I also placed a seal on this consciousness, like an alarm clock.

Before the alarm rings, she remains asleep.

The unconscious soul in slumber grows just like a normal baby, gradually being educated and developing into a girl called Sun Keke. But essentially, she has always been Yun Yin.

That means, from an essential perspective, Sun Keke doesn’t exist; she died at birth.

Ultimately, the one you fell in love with was Yun Yin with the name of Sun Keke.

Yun Yin’s consciousness was sealed, and she was in a state of amnesia, so from infancy, she developed into a Sun Keke persona.

But... do you understand?

The one you fell in love with is Yun Yin."

Chen Nuo’s heart skipped a beat!!

There were never two people, Sun Keke and Yun Yin!

There was always just one person!

Sun Keke and Yun Yin are the same person!!

So...

Wait!

No!!

Chen Nuo suddenly turned pale!

Previously, Yun Yin’s consciousness had already died!

So Sun Keke had returned to normal, becoming the original Sun Keke!

But if... according to Zero.

Yun Yin is actually Sun Keke, just that the seal on Yun Yin’s original consciousness and memory was lifted.

Then...

What about death?!

So...

Yun Yin...

Isn’t "dead"?!

·

Then what is Sun Keke’s current situation?