Chapter 507
487 Overlapping World
Chapter 507, Section 487: Overlapping Worlds
So...you ended up with a mom and dad like this?
Jiang Jianxin looked at Xie Yan, who nodded and slowly said:
“They are not my mom and dad.”
She spoke vaguely, but Jiang Jianxin understood.
The miracle has clearly been greatly distorted by the source of truth; it may have originally intended to give Xie Yan a good ending, but the facts have been seriously reversed.
It spawned two monsters, and the roles of these two monsters were reversed.
Xie Yan's mother is portrayed as an apron-wearing wolf, but in reality, she never cooks.
"Then why..."
Jiang Jianxin frowned, his confusion almost overflowing:
Why should you acknowledge two completely 'unlike' people as your parents?
Xie Yan slowly shook her head, her gaze passing over Jiang Jianxin and landing on a certain place in the void, as if looking at the shadow of that pale staircase deep in her memory.
"Because later... someone told me..."
Her voice became ethereal:
“That ladder is a ‘link.’ It’s not a one-way street to heaven; it’s… a needle, a slit, that allows two worlds that should have been parallel to pierce each other and overlap.”
She paused, took a deep breath, and continued:
"Those who have climbed the ladder are like those coated with the glue of that world. A part of their soul will be permanently 'stuck' to the other side."
In that world where we were glued together, they truly were my mom and dad. Not just like them, but *were* them.
Jiang Jianxin was completely confused.
"Overlapping worlds," "sticky souls"... these concepts are far beyond the scope of her daily experience.
She could only manage an awkward yet polite twitch of her lips, deciding to temporarily abandon delving into this troubling mystery and steer the conversation back to the more pressing reality:
"Okay, I think... well, I've heard your story. So, where is that gaze and pursuit from over there that you mentioned before? I haven't felt it at all."
Xie Yan did not answer directly.
She simply turned her head slightly, looking at Jiang Jianxin with eyes that didn't reveal much emotion:
"Look out the window."
Jiang Jianxin followed her gaze and suddenly turned his head.
The view outside the window has been completely transformed.
Suddenly, the continuous rain stopped completely. Time seemed to be violently turned by an invisible hand, abruptly jumping to dusk as the sun set.
The sky was dyed in intense gold, red, and crimson, and the slanting sunlight cast long shadows on everything.
The most chilling thing is that the familiar street below the apartment building has disappeared.
Instead, there was an endless, eerily calm blue sea.
The seawater almost licked the foundation of the building.
Right there where the sea meets the sky, the afterglow of the setting sun cuts a clear line between yellow and black on the sea surface.
On the sharp edge where light and shadow meet, a pale white staircase stretching infinitely into the depths stands silently beneath the sea.
It is so real, yet so abrupt.
Jiang Jianxin's heart sank suddenly.
She slowly turned her head back.
Inside the room, two more people had appeared at some point. A middle-aged man and woman stood quietly in the shadows behind Xie Yan.
The man wore an incongruous floral apron, held something empty in his hand, and wore a stereotypical, slightly stiff, kind smile.
The woman was dressed in a smart suit, holding a newspaper that seemed to never be finished. She stood upright, but her eyes vacantly swept over Jiang Jianxin and landed on some unknown distance.
They were like two exquisite wax figures that had been suddenly placed there, yet they exuded a sense of life.
Jiang Jianxin gasped.
She held her breath and focused intently, urgently calling out in her mind:
[The answer is the truth! Are you there? What on earth is going on?!]
Deep within my mind, there was only deathly silence.
The truth that usually appears at crucial moments is nowhere to be found now.
Jiang Jianxin's palms were covered in a fine layer of cold sweat, but her eyes quickly calmed down after the initial shock.
She simply stood there quietly, her right hand slowly clenching its five fingers, and then—
"Clang—!"
A clear, resonant sword cry shattered the deathly silence in the living room.
The Tangguang Sword was drawn three inches from its sheath, its gleaming blade shimmering like autumn water in the dim twilight.
Jiang Jianxin's gaze was fixed on the gleaming blade of the Tangguang Sword.
The sword's blade was like a mirror, clearly reflecting the scene behind it.
Inside the sword, behind Xie Yan stood a middle-aged couple with clear features, ordinary clothes, and concerned expressions.
The man's apron was still there, and the woman's newspaper was still there, but their faces were human faces, with normal human expressions, and one could even see facial features that vaguely resembled Xie Yan's.
Jiang Jianxin suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Her natal sword wouldn't lie to her. If the monstrous appearances Xie Yan's parents first saw and their current human faces were both real, then, as Xie Yan said, the worlds overlapped.
If you want two images to overlap perfectly, you need an anchor point as a reference point for overlap.
For example, if she wants to overlay two sunset pictures, she will first adjust them so that the two sunsets overlap, and then the whole picture will naturally overlap.
If the world could overlap, it would certainly need such a reference point.
The situation is now quite clear.
This twilight staircase is not a ladder to heaven at all.
It is the nail that holds the world together.
Making up for yesterday's double update
Answer:
[Question] Why were the ladders in the illusion reversed in the previous chapter?
[Answer] The ordinary world and the world of divine descent coincide with the ladder as a reference point, so the ladder is always upright in reality (refer to the previous description of the state of the world of divine descent from the perspective of the miracle worker, the ladder is going up at the twilight boundary). The illusion is generated based on the brain. The brain thinks that it has climbed the ladder and should be upstairs, so in the illusion, the ladder is going down.
Xie Yan saw the descending ladder and instantly recalled how she had climbed up, realizing that her surroundings were fake.
She can't distinguish between the two worlds now because the ladder is always upright, proving that both sides are real, so she acknowledges her monster parents.
But there's a problem here: the miracle was distorted. It forcibly took Xie Yan's body away from the illusion, but her spirit didn't actually escape. So her divine descent world was an illusion, and the second world she saw was a fake one generated by the illusion.
Jiang Jianxin could see that her fake parents were normal people because Xie Yan was a fool who could turn the illusion into reality.