It was at this moment that Conan once again felt the fear deep in his bones!
Stop, you must stop thinking!
We must never open Pandora's box containing the truth. Besides the truth, there is also despair and pain that can swallow everything.
Every cell in Conan's body was shouting this, warning Conan.
But it seems too late, because Conan's well-trained brain has outstanding experience in seeking death. He never cares how dangerous the situation ahead is. He only knows that reasoning and finding the truth are the mission of his existence. The danger of a mere instinctive warning is not worth mentioning at all!
At this moment, Conan's brain used reasoning as a crowbar to pry open a crack in Pandora's box that contained the truth, and the endless darkness was already looming.
And the next moment, Conan's thoughts were interrupted!
Because Ichigo Kurosaki retracted his physical body screen, turned it into a sphere again, and smashed it hard on Conan's face.
"I told you that you should learn to stop thinking properly. Since you still can't learn it, let me help you!"
Ichigo Kurosaki did not hold back. Conan was hit so hard that blood splattered from his nose. However, the remaining strength was still there, and he rolled in the air for more than ten times before falling heavily to the ground. After landing, he twitched violently for a few times, and finally stretched out his legs and did not move for a long time.
After a long time, Conan, who was lying on the ground, slowly raised his hand, gave Kurosaki Ichigo a thumbs up, and said in a muffled voice:
"This punch is very powerful!"
Seeing this, Kurosaki Ichigo's round body bounced a bit, and then he said: "It seems that your hidden power is a little stronger than I expected. I thought this punch would at least give you a severe concussion!"
"According to what you said, I am the protagonist after all. Although I look like an ordinary person on the surface, who knows what my true face is? To be honest, when I think back now, I realize that I have been injured since I can remember, but I have never suffered any injuries worth mentioning. Even if I was injured, I seemed to recover very quickly..."
Conan slowly got up. Although his nose was still bleeding, he seemed to have regained his former calmness and was no longer as confused and panicked as before!
Seeing this, Ichigo Kurosaki couldn't help but admire him: "You have good control over yourself. Have you had similar training before?"
Ichigo Kurosaki could see that Conan was controlling himself, and what he was controlling was the "thoughts" which were almost the most uncontrollable for humans.
Locking the Mind and Steadying the Will, gathering the complex thoughts into one and bringing them under one's control, this in itself is an achievement. Even Ichigo Kurosaki only gradually achieved this after he fully understood the mystery of purity and stepped into the absolute realm.
Conan said calmly: "I haven't been trained specifically for this, but now it seems that although there is no relevant information in my memory, there seems to be some evidence left in my body or my soul."
Conan discovered that as long as he was unwilling to "think", he could actually do it, and it was even very easy. It was as if, many, many years ago, he had used tremendous willpower to control himself from "thinking", and even used a long time to engrave this skill in the deepest part of his instinct.
Even if Conan stops "thinking", the detective instinct and destiny still play a role. Once he notices a problem, a series of suspicious points and suspected evidence will emerge, tempting Conan to continue "thinking" and touch the truth.
But fortunately, Conan finally learned his lesson and used reason to restrain and control his brain, so that he would not "think wildly" without permission!
The madman who once regarded reasoning as his life, now put shackles on "reasoning" with absolute rationality.
Ichigo Kurosaki looked at Conan through his spherical body. In his eyes, Conan's childish appearance disappeared from the material world again, and the towering giant made of gears and mechanisms reappeared again, but at this moment, the towering giant slowly closed his eyes. Although he did not close them completely, the divine gaze that descended to the mortal world changed from being as bright as the sun to being looming.
"Very good. In my purity radar, the towering giant that symbolizes your true identity has slowly closed his eyes. This proves that your attempt is effective. So, what are you going to do next? Do you want to stay in seclusion with me for a while? I can teach you the secret of purity, which should be very helpful to you..."
Ichigo Kurosaki actually has a good impression of Conan, not only because Conan, like him, was born to be the protagonist, nor because the two have fought side by side, but also because he has a vague understanding of Conan's nature.
Kind, just and full of action.
Faced with such a person, even if there was no other reason, Ichigo Kurosaki was willing to lend a helping hand.
But Conan just shook his head: "It's useless, I can't learn your pure fighting method of beating the world..."
When Conan transformed into the Giant of Light and became one with the other, he felt what the way of purity was. Although he did not have much extraordinary knowledge and could not describe it in detail, he knew that the so-called purity was an extreme sensibility condensed into belief and enlightenment!
Such extreme sensibility is totally incompatible with his personality!
It's not that he doesn't have emotional thinking, it's just that his innate rationality is too strong and always occupies a dominant position. Even though every cell in his body is infected and covered by the purity of the King of Purity Kurosaki Ichigo, his brain is left with only the hot-blooded thought of beating everything. But it doesn't take long for Conan's rationality to return, and he begins to think and reason naturally.
"I will not shirk my responsibilities. Since fate was created because of me and the results of many things have been changed because of me, I have the obligation to solve everything. I still have a lot of things to do and cannot stay here for a long time. However, before that, there is something I need your help with, Ichigo!"
Although Conan's tone was calm, he was determined.
Kurosaki Ichigo said, "What do you need me to do?"
Conan took a deep breath and said, "Since I have already noticed some problems, it is useless to ignore them and act like an ostrich. Therefore, I need to know some things that I can bear and know in some way, and find solutions. You continue to adapt to your body and find ways to break through the shackles of Nightmare Beika Town, but in the process, pay more attention to me. When you think it is necessary, stop my "thinking" to prevent me from interfering with fate again without knowing it!"
This determination to never escape, never give up, and to move forward despite difficulties made Ichigo Kurosaki couldn't help but smile!
Although his posture and behavior are completely different, his will and awareness are very similar to myself when I first set out on the journey to beat the world!
"No problem, leave it to me!"
Conan didn't say anything else, but just quietly returned to the cardboard bench, holding his chin with his hand, his eyes dreamy, as if he was in a trance.
He tried to "think", but it was different from the past. Instead, he conducted some targeted "thinking" while controlling the "thinking" itself!
When Conan decided to do this, a lot of information and clues naturally emerged in his mind, like pieces of a puzzle, just waiting for him to put them together one by one.
But Conan was not in a hurry to put the clues and information together!
Conan first confirmed one thing, that he could never really "find" the truth because he could not afford the cost of doing so.
Just now, when the brain was about to pry open the box of truth, the boundless darkness, even just a glimpse, was enough to frighten Conan.
That boundless darkness, every bit and every drop, is filled with despair and pain so intense that it is unbearable for any human being!
When Pandora's box is opened, the truth itself is no longer important.
Although it is impossible to "find" the truth directly, it does not mean that Conan has no solution. Sometimes, in order to solve the case, the detective also needs some creative thinking.
Q: How can you know what is in a room if you can’t walk into the room in person?
A: Through various indirect methods, to make assumptions, to verify, to speculate...
It's like a blind man touching an elephant, or seeing a leopard through a tube, but it is the only way.
Taking out the weapon called reasoning, Conan prepared to conduct an indirect investigation of the "truth". This is very difficult because Conan must wear shackles and chains and control his "thinking" to do this. At the same time, he does not know whether every attempt he makes for this will cause any unpredictable danger.
But fortunately, Ichigo Kurosaki is by his side and can protect him!
The bonfire is always burning. In the nightmare Beika Town, many phenomena are completely different from the reality outside. Just like this bonfire, it is burning with the "arsonist's crime" as firewood, without the need for actual fuel, so it burns forever.
The ball that Ichigo Kurosaki transformed into squatted for a while, then pulled up two trees and started lifting dumbbells, but he always kept his attention on Conan.
At this moment, Conan seemed to have turned into a sculpture, motionless for a long time. And perhaps because he realized that he was not actually a human being, but a separate protagonist in the racial genealogy, some strange changes gradually appeared in Conan.
When he is thinking, even the physiological phenomenon of blinking gradually disappears, and his breathing becomes inaudible. Sometimes he will even pause for a very long time before taking a breath again.
Conan's body seemed to be saying that since the main consciousness has realized that he is not a human being, the brothers do not need to continue pretending to have all kinds of unnecessary physiological phenomena.
Conan's thinking is not without problems, and there are occasional signs of danger. For example, in the eyes of Ichigo Kurosaki, the towering giant that symbolizes Conan's true identity suddenly moves. Whenever this happens, Ichigo Kurosaki will gently give Conan a brain-stabilizing punch to calm him down!
Conan had no complaints, even though at the beginning, he was only knocked into the air by Ichigo Kurosaki's punch and rolled a dozen times, but later, he had to roll in the air hundreds of times and was almost blown out of the Nightmare Beika Town Park. After landing, he smashed a dozen trees and was finally embedded in the ground. He still had no complaints, because it was effective enough.
No one knows what results Conan's thinking has achieved. Ichigo Kurosaki only saw that after his thinking was forced to be interrupted one time, Conan once again sat back on the cardboard bench, and then, as if he had made up his mind, he took out the insect arrow from his arms, held it in his hand, and fiddled with it carefully.
This imaginary insect arrow, in Conan's hand, showed a real feel, from the texture to the weight, all of which were explored by Conan over and over again.
Ichigo Kurosaki saw this scene, but he said nothing.
There were actually some things he didn't say to Conan.
He used the purity radar to look back into history, and what he saw was not just the scene of the final judgment.
In the eyes of Ichigo Kurosaki, who has just arrived on the mortal world, the timeline of this world has been through some kind of disaster and is fragmented and chaotic, and its length is extremely terrifying.
If the conventional timeline is like a long river that flows forward all the time and although it has tributaries, it will eventually converge into one, then the timeline of this world is like a super garbage mountain formed by pieces of time glass that are shattered into pieces and then randomly piled up.
Ichigo Kurosaki looked at the fragments and was able to obtain the information contained in the time fragments and estimate their approximate age, but it was difficult for him to connect the cause and effect, because no one knew where the corresponding piece of time fragment was.
When he realized that the timeline of this world was so chaotic and broken, Ichigo Kurosaki thought that he would not be able to see any useful information. However, when he really observed, he found that at the core of this chaotic and broken timeline, there was a chain of cause and effect that was fragmented but barely pieced together.
From the beginning of Mao Lilan's madness to the final judgment and the coming of the God of Sin, all causes and effects exist in that fragmented but barely formed chain of cause and effect.
It was as if an invisible hand had searched through this chaotic and broken mountain of time garbage long before Ichigo Kurosaki arrived, and then used the debris inside to forcibly piece together a small artificial timeline. Although the specific structure was still very messy, it had narrative significance.
Ichigo Kurosaki knows exactly who that invisible hand is!
Even Kurosaki Ichigo knew exactly where the invisible hand was in this world and what disguise it was wearing.
When God is filming, he likes to squat next to the protagonist and make trouble. Based on this speculation, and looking at the interpersonal relationship network around Conan, the answer is obvious.
Although Ichigo Kurosaki was a little surprised, as he didn't expect that the role that God tried to play this time would be so bold, he didn't tell Conan about these things.
When Conan was surprised that Ichigo Kurosaki had actually beaten up the incarnation of God who came to the mortal world, Ichigo Kurosaki was muttering in his heart, not to mention me, you even tried to murder God himself.
But these are not important. Although the broken causal axis is very long and Ichigo Kurosaki cannot see it clearly in just one or two glances, he basically knows part of the truth. Then Ichigo Kurosaki discovered that the small timeline with narrative significance was forcibly molded by the hand of God from an illusory concept into a worm arrow that can manifest itself in the world, and when it was thrown to Conan, Ichigo Kurosaki knew it clearly.
Although Ichigo Kurosaki is better at thinking with his fists, it doesn't mean that his brain is just for show. He knows that God would rather Conan find the answer himself, no matter what the result is!
Ichigo Kurosaki would never go against God's ideas in this regard, not because he is the Knight of Apocalypse under God, but because Ichigo Kurosaki also thinks so. Because the process of finding the truth, even if it is accompanied by pain and unknown dangers, is beneficial to Conan's growth and transformation.
Ichigo Kurosaki sincerely hopes that Conan will grow up as soon as possible!
The reason is simple, he is no longer the protagonist, but a super villain.
Since the protagonist and the villain are set in Mo Yu's script, Ichigo Kurosaki believes that this is not meaningless. At some point, he and Conan will have a battle.
In fact, Ichigo Kurosaki already had a vague feeling.
When Conan took out the insect arrow and began to explore the mysteries contained in it, some strange changes occurred in the world. The fragmented mountain of time garbage was rumbling and shaking, and some changes were taking place.
The timeline is broken and chaotic to this extent. In essence, this world no longer has any "future" to speak of. Everything is an overlap and reproduction of the past and present.
But at the moment when Conan took out the insect arrow, everything was reorganized and changed. In the impossibility, the seed called "future" was born!
From that still faint "future", Ichigo Kurosaki saw a slightly strange possibility.
There is a giant of light emitting dark spiritual pressure, a demon of light emitting pure white supreme brilliance, and a blood giant shining with blood light. These three giants, with their boundless power, are engaged in an endless battle. They move through time and fight all the way from modern society to the Cretaceous period, and finally all the way to the Chaos period billions of years ago when the earth was covered with molten magma, and then all the way to the cosmic era at the end of time!
And that possibility called "the future" was divided into three and then merged into one because of the battle between the three giants. It split and merged again and again, presenting different colors, but there was still no conclusion!
Ichigo Kurosaki can see that when the Demon of Light has the upper hand, the future will be an era of detectives where cases are respected. If the Blood Giant has the upper hand, modern society will be filled with a large number of small black criminals with black bodies, and it will become an era where criminals are respected. And if Ichigo Kurosaki, the Giant of Light, has the upper hand, then an era where force is respected will be born. Perhaps there will be a child who practices kendo, picks up a Zanpakutō, and embarks on the road of fighting against gods, demons, and aliens with a sword!
"Detective, criminal, swordsman, three completely different eras and possibilities, but in the end, can only one survive?"
Ichigo Kurosaki vaguely saw the possibilities of the future through purity. Standing outside the barrier of chaos, he touched his chin with his only remaining left hand thoughtfully!
173. Being in the past [Future] and being in the future [Past]
For Ichigo Kurosaki, glimpsing the possibility of such a future was a very pleasant thing for him.
Because this means that one day in the future, he will have at least two opponents strong enough to fight with to his heart's content, and one of them is an "old rival" whom he really wants to fight again.
God appeared in the world in the name and spirit of the Soul King and led him on the path, and Ichigo Kurosaki also reported it. With his fists, he gave God a strong beating in the preliminary round of the King of Fighters Fighting Tournament!
Ichigo Kurosaki was very satisfied at the time of the battle with the Fighting Soul King who was the incarnation of God, but afterwards, especially after the Battle of Genesis, he felt a little regretful.
At that time, he had only reached the realm of 99% of the absolute realm. It seemed that he was only 100% away from the realm of 1% of the absolute realm, but the gap was so huge that one was in heaven and the other was on earth. But at that time, the Fighting Spirit King, the incarnation of God, had never used his ultimate strength!
You know, the Spirit King is the original power entity nurtured by heaven and earth. He also possessed 100% of the power of the absolute domain when he was born. Of course, that power is more inclined towards authority rather than combat power.
No matter what, that battle, in which neither side reached its peak nor gave its "all-out effort", is now a thing of the past.
In the Battle of Genesis, the Fighting Soul King was beaten by powerful warriors until the world was created and all things evolved, and he would never come back.
Although God still exists, it no longer makes sense.
According to the Bubble Spirit Kings from other worlds who had met God, God existed in a higher and more unfathomable dimension. Although He lowered His gaze and looked at them and could communicate with them, they could not even detect Him, let alone touch Him.
After knowing this, Ichigo Kurosaki felt quite regretful, and just thought about talking to God one day and asking Him to come down to earth to fight him again.
But Ichigo Kurosaki never thought that his wish would be fulfilled so quickly.
The incarnation of God who exists under the name of Moriarty seems to be a strong enough opponent.
Thinking of this, Ichigo Kurosaki couldn't help but smile with pleasure. He now fully supports God's filming career. If God wants to go to the third studio to film, he will sign up at the first opportunity, even without the salary, and will bring his own food to join the crew quickly.
Being able to beat up God over and over, and beating up a different version of God each time, is a triple bliss!
Just as Kurosaki Ichigo was daydreaming, a vague voice suddenly reached his ears:
"Ichigo, you rebellious son, you didn't think it was enough to beat God the Father once, you actually wanted to beat God the Father three times. I have never seen such an unfilial son of God as you. One day, I will go back and change the corporate bible of Heaven Media, and I will definitely accuse you of being unfilial..."
Ichigo Kurosaki came back to his senses and looked carefully, and found that the rather teasing voice was not coming from the sky, but a picture reflected by future possibilities. The giant with blood-glow was speaking to him across time and space!
Ichigo Kurosaki raised his eyebrows subconsciously: "God, you can actually communicate with me through an incarnation that will appear in the distant future. This method is quite interesting..."
The possibility of peeking into the future is actually not a very complicated magical power. It is just like when ordinary people imagine what their future selves will be like. This is also a possibility of peeking into the future. However, ordinary people can only do this much. The possibility they peeke into exists, but it is only existence. It is still a long way from becoming a reality. It can even be said that the future peeked into by ordinary people is most likely a fantasy.
Of course, the future possibilities that ordinary people peek into are unreliable, but that doesn't mean that this is the case for everyone. For example, when Xiang Yu met Qin Shihuang traveling, he could have replaced his words with "a real man", and the future possibilities he imagined and peeked into would have really come true as he thought, collapsing from possibilities into reality. Of course, his efforts and the favor of the times and fate were also indispensable.
The past is the superposition of countless established causes and events, while the future is the collapse of all changes and constancy.
But this is a bit off topic. Of course, the way Ichigo Kurosaki peeks into the future is somewhat different from that of ordinary people. His unparalleled purity turns into a radar that searches the time axis. As long as they are strong, no matter whether they exist in the past or the future, they can be sensed by it.
If it were in the past, Ichigo Kurosaki would be able to do more things, because the past is past. If necessary, he could even go back in time with his fighting spirit and fight with the strong men in the past. Of course, this is not to change the past, but to have some interactions with the imprints of the strong men that existed in the past and were constructed by cause and effect!
As for the future, Ichigo Kurosaki cannot do much for now. The most he can do is to glimpse that some extremely powerful people may be born in the future. Then, he will maintain expectation and attention in the present, and also give some protection and help to allow them to grow towards the possibilities of the future as much as possible.
But whether doing so can guarantee that other strong people can successfully grow into peerless figures in the future, in fact, Kurosaki Ichigo cannot say for sure now, because the future possibilities he has glimpsed are not static. For example, with Hinamori Momo, Kurosaki Ichigo has not only glimpsed the possibility that she may become the Immortal Blood Phoenix Martial God in the future, but also the possibility that she may become the second super crazy scientist after Kurotsuchi Mayuri.
By the way, in this future of Momo Hinamori, the mad scientist, the strong man that Ichigo Kurosaki spied was a super-cyborg who was cultivated through multiple genetic modifications with Aizen's gene as the core. He was extremely powerful.
