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"It's very difficult to further restrict power."
Hearing Ancient Sun God's words, the younger Lin Ruo seemed to ponder for a moment longer. He suddenly tilted his head slightly and glanced in Lin Ruo's direction.
This time, unlike before, it was a very obvious movement.
Lin Ruo's heart instantly leaped. He watched his younger self in front of him, expecting him to do something, but the younger Lin Ruo's gaze moved away, returning to Ancient Sun God.
He said:
"However, it's worth a try."
"It just requires time."
Ancient Sun God naturally noticed the younger Lin Ruo's undisguised movement. He also first glanced in Lin Ruo's direction, but likely didn't discern anything.
Then Ancient Sun God looked at the younger Lin Ruo and said:
"You can try while undergoing the next stage of treatment. If all goes well, by the time you impose restrictions on your power again, your humanity should be able to achieve balance with your divinity."
"Just a false balance."
The younger Lin Ruo said indifferently, yet there was no hint of mockery in his obsidian-like eyes. Or rather, the younger Lin Ruo in this state had no such emotions at all.
His only normal emotion now was focused solely on preserving his humanity.
As for everything else, let alone the myriad things in the world, even his own life and death, he simply didn't care.
"But for you now, isn't even a false balance extremely precious? Only by first achieving the false can you hope to touch the true." Ancient Sun God clearly didn't mind the younger Lin Ruo's attitude, as, being a Psychologist, he fully understood the state of the being before him.
That the other party could still maintain rationality, and still possess the humanity of "wanting to preserve humanity," was already a miracle.
This was not merely the result of his treatment; while his treatment was effective, the most crucial factor was the sliver of humanity the other party had managed to retain.
Without that fragile humanity, which seemed on the verge of annihilation at any moment, even he, as the strongest Psychologist in this world, would not have been able to unearth humanity from a purely divine being.
The younger Lin Ruo didn't retort, merely saying, "Is there anything else?"
"I'd like to invite you to go outside and see the world. You haven't seen this world yet, have you?" Ancient Sun God said gently.
The younger Lin Ruo's movements paused slightly, and he said, "I have seen this world, but my memory is in a state of loss."
Ancient Sun God was stunned for a moment. He seemed to ponder the meaning of the younger Lin Ruo's words, then heard the younger Lin Ruo say:
"You may."
Ancient Sun God immediately realized that this "You may" was a response to his recent invitation, and he smiled, saying, "I'm very pleased that you're not completely uninterested in the outside world."
"I just feel that I should understand the world where I will spend a long time in the future. I don't have the emotion of 'being interested' right now."
The younger Lin Ruo said indifferently. He got out of bed, and as he walked towards Ancient Sun God, he glanced at Lin Ruo again, then withdrew his gaze dispassionately.
Immediately after, the dream shattered abruptly, and Lin Ruo opened his eyes in reality.
He blinked, still somewhat disoriented as he looked at the familiar first-class cabin ceiling. After about a second or two, Lin Ruo finally sat up from the bed, rubbing his temples with a slight headache.
"Damn it, I just came to Bansy Harbor, and the amount of information I received is inexplicably huge."
Lin Ruo, of course, hadn't forgotten the content of the dream he just had; in fact, he remembered it very clearly. But precisely because he remembered it clearly, coupled with his previous conversation with a certain famous Outer God, Lin Ruo felt a stomach ache.
To be honest, as someone who could be considered knowledgeable about Cthulhu myths, Lin Ruo already had a slight idea about his true self in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it, or even think about that name.
"This is too absurd. I must have guessed wrong..." Controlling his thoughts to avoid a certain name, Lin Ruo couldn't help but mutter in a low voice, then tried hard to distract himself with other things.
First, Lin Ruo was basically certain that what he had just been in was definitely not a normal dream, but a memory presented in the form of a dream.
The timeline in the memory should be shortly after he first arrived in this world, during the period when Ancient Sun God was giving him individual treatment, and it even happened to be just before he was taken by the infamous professional Red Maid, Medici.
Furthermore, it was not difficult to deduce from the dialogue between him and Ancient Sun God in the memory that Ancient Sun God understood his true identity. Moreover, his past self's ability to maintain a "false balance" was likely due in no small part to Ancient Sun God's efforts.
Ancient Sun God clearly knew the purpose of his arrival in this world and was happy to help him.
Of course, Lin Ruo wasn't surprised by this. After all, he now strongly suspected whether the Mysteries World had been targeted by Outer Deities like Nyarlathotep. In this situation, Ancient Sun God, as the elder brother who wanted to protect the world, would naturally spare no effort to help him maintain his humanity.
Lin Ruo knew that with his humanity, he would be a great help in protecting Earth. Without his humanity, even if he couldn't directly destroy Earth, he could at least break the balance. So, even without considering the existence of that "Day of Agreement," simply from the perspective of the destruction he could personally cause, his humanity could probably be directly linked to Earth's safety.
And besides that...
"Restricting power, tsk, Truth and Fallacy should be the result of that restriction, but if that's the case, what about those eight years I spent in the Bungo Stray Dogs...?" Lin Ruo pursed his lips. His mind was honestly a bit jumbled right now, countless conjectures flashed through his brain at the same time, only to be rejected one by one.
Finally, Lin Ruo suddenly sighed, then smiled with some relief:
"Never mind, it doesn't matter. Those emotions won't be false anyway."
Lin Ruo knew his memory had issues, but he could still be certain that those eight years were not false, and that world was not false.
Perhaps, he merely had a dream during his slumber, and his Spirit Body went to that world in the dream, unknowingly spending eight years with a weakened version of Truth and Fallacy, then unknowingly ending the dream and returning to this world?
"Speaking of which, my past self looked at me a total of three times... He definitely could see me, and originally his answer regarding restricting power was 'no,' but after seeing me, it became 'worth a try.' Tsk, does this count as the present influencing the past?"
Lin Ruo continued to shift his attention. He wasn't too surprised that his past self could see him, after all, this wasn't the first time something like this had happened.
However, compared to the time with Roselle, this time he was clearly much colder, and also seemed to have no intention of saying anything to him.
"Divinity, huh..." Lin Ruo suddenly felt a little melancholic, but this melancholy completely vanished when his gaze fell upon the notebook on the table beside him, the one he specifically used for writing novels.
"The Bansy Harbor incident needs some artistic embellishment later. How can I really let Gehrman in the book not participate...?" Lin Ruo's thoughts suddenly veered off to the content of his new book. After a brief conceptualization, Lin Ruo remembered another thing:
"By the way, I wonder if my state yesterday scared Klein. Nyarlathotep really has ill intentions..."
"I should never come to this broken place, Bansy, again. I'll report those troublemakers later."
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