ps: Many people said that they guessed it right in the last chapter. I want to say that the beginning is just the simplest, and you can only guess it with the author's various hints. The rest will not be that simple.
"Rika?!"
The moment he took off the mask, Chen Nian was so shocked that he suddenly lost his voice.
The woman in front of me is almost carved from the same mold as Tsuchimikado Rika!
But appearance alone is not enough for him to make a judgment.
More importantly, she knows all the abilities that Rika knows, including the ability "Heaven-Piercing Finger", and its power is countless times stronger!
"Why... why did you stop?"
The woman bit her lip hard, her emotions almost collapsed at this moment, like sea water bursting from a dam.
"Why! Why! Why!"
"If you don't kill me, aren't you afraid that I will kill you, idiot!"
She wanted to swing her fist to hit Chen Nian, but it didn't look like an attack, but like a broken girl pouring out her emotions.
Chen Nian calmly grabbed her hand and said in a deep voice, "Because I feel your desire to seek death. You want to kill me just to provoke me to use all my strength. You simply want to commit suicide."
"..."
The intention in her heart was revealed, and the woman lowered her head sadly.
Silence represents default.
"Tell me, who are you and what is your relationship with Rika? Don't say you are her mother."
"I..."
The woman bit her lip, was silent for a moment, and then slowly said a few words.
"I'm from the future."
"The future?!"
Chen Nian suspected that he heard wrongly.
It turns out that time travel, a setting that only exists in science fiction movies, actually exists?
"Wait, you mean, you are the future Rika?"
"Ten years later."
Adult Rika stared at Chen Nian with his big eyes, which were crisscrossed with bloodshot eyes. "It's you, it's all your fault! If you hadn't asked me to learn forbidden arts and open Pandora's box, how could I have... you bastard!"
This time, Rika's fist finally hit Chen Nian's chest.
Chen Nian recalled that it was indeed him who asked Rika to help break through the plane barrier, so she took the initiative to learn the forbidden technique.
This means that if the original Rika had not learned the forbidden technique, then she would not have the ability to travel through time and space, and the Rika ten years later would not appear in front of her.
"Calm down, calm down!"
"Let me sort it out. You went from the future ten years later to the present in the past just to seek death?" Chen Nian asked.
"That's right."
"Why?"
"Because as long as I live, more people will suffer."
Rika gritted his teeth and said slowly, "Today is July 20th. If I guess correctly, you will return to the World Tree Academy in a few days."
"You even know this?" Chen Nian was stunned.
"Not long after you leave, a Heavenly Torrent Rank Calamity Beast will come quietly, with the purpose of kidnapping Rika."
"Wait...Heavenly Torrent Rank Calamity Beast, how could you possibly know the existence of Rika? She is just a little girl living in an ordinary village." Chen Nian was puzzled.
"One of Origin Demon God has the ability of "divination". During one of his divination, he learned about Tsuchimikado Rika, who is me, which has a huge effect on them."
"Because you... can break the boundaries?!"
"That's right."
Chen Nian Suddenly my scalp felt numb.
Calamity invades from the lower level of World Tree to the upper level.
Their aggression is like going up the stairs, you can only go up step by step, you can't jump. Unless like the academy, it consumes energy to teleport over long distances.
There is a limit to long-distance teleportation. The stronger you are, the more difficult it is.
Therefore, the academy cannot send powerful students to far away worlds, and the other side cannot send stronger enemies.
However, Rika's ability has the possibility to break through this limit!
She is like a key.
"After I was kidnapped, I was forced to accept the power of Demon God Tower and became one of them. I have been used in the following time to break the world's barriers again and again and bring Destruction to different worlds."
"I am a sinner! But I cannot die."
Rika clenched his fists. "There is a Demon God Tower restriction in my body that prevents me from hurting myself. And since I practiced the strongest barrier defense technique "Zero Barrier", it will spontaneously protect me in all directions, and ordinary people can't hurt me."
Not being able to wish for death was her situation.
"In the future Those Years, I can't die, I can only secretly learn the time forbidden technique. Finally, I have achieved something..."
"After hundreds of failures, I finally returned to this moment ten years ago."
Chen Nian noticed that Rika had white hair fluttering on his temples.
He subconsciously reached out and took off the black cloak that the girl was wearing.
"You..."
The girl's hair is gray-white.
A color without life color.
"Oh, reversing time is against the rules of the world. Plus I've tried it too many times, so it's understandable that it's like this."
Chen Nian asked, "Then if you go back to the present, if you successfully prevent Rika from being kidnapped, will you be able to change the future?"
"Can't!"
This is a classic time paradox.
Suppose you have the ability to go back in time, and you go back ten years and kill your father. Since your father is dead, naturally there will be no son like you. Isn't that a contradiction?
"From the moment I set foot here, the world I live in and the world you live in have become parallel worlds and will never intersect."
Chen Nian Got it.
She returned to today ten years ago, and her only purpose was to save Xiao Rika, and at the same time, seek death with her own hands.
The ending is that Xiao Rika will not be kidnapped, and she will be able to escape through death.
Kill two birds with one stone.
She would not travel back to three years ago or five years ago. It was too late. Rika had already been poisoned by then. Only Rika ten years ago was safe.
"So, where is Rika now? I mean the little one." Chen Nian asked hurriedly.
"I sent her to the world ten years later."
"What?!"
A city full of smoke, a gloomy Tiankong.
After Xiao Rika defeated several Calamity Beasts one after another, she suddenly found a human waving to her in a dark alley.
"Come here quickly!"
These humans are the survivors after the city was invaded.
They used the cellar as their base to survive.
All of them were starved to the point of becoming sallow and thin, completely opposite to the fair and tender Rika.
"Why are you, a little girl, running around outside without fear of death?" The people in the ruins were quite surprised.
"No, I haven't figured out the situation yet. What's going on here? Do any of you have a mobile phone? I'll call my sister and that guy Chen Nian."
Rika muttered angrily.
The survivors looked at Rika as if they were looking at a strange creature.
Soon, Rika borrowed a mobile phone.
The moment she saw the date above, she froze in place.
2034.
How is that possible!
I... came to the world ten years later?!