25. The Bleach World Special Theater is about to be filmed
After hearing the sacred sound coming from outer space, Urahara Kisuke did not treat it as a joke. Instead, his expression became stern and his eyes became serious.
Urahara Kisuke had long guessed about Mo Yu's identity, although he had never been able to come to a conclusion. But to be honest, Urahara Kisuke didn't care too much about this issue.
Whether Mo Yu is the will of the Spirit King, or a high-level existence derived from the Spirit King's fragments, or a stranger existence, it doesn't matter, because this world is sometimes very complicated, and one move can affect the whole body, but sometimes it is very simple. Even the most powerful person, if he really has an idea, will face various constraints and may not be able to really overturn the whole situation.
But one thing is certain, for a being of this level to condescend to cause trouble in the world, there must be corresponding troubles behind it.
And now, trouble comes.
Urahara Kisuke didn't intend to shirk his responsibility, and said frankly, "Oh, oh, oh, it's an honor for me to be valued by you. Please let me know what the crisis is. Did old man Yamamoto finally go crazy and decide to kill all those nobles with all his strength, or did Yhwach come back to life and plan to destroy the Three Realms, or did the mastermind behind the scenes who has considerable power in Hueco Mundo come up with some big conspiracy? Could it be that something went wrong in the Soul King Palace or Hell? If it's these troubles, I do have some props and plans..."
The history of Soul Society was erased by the nobles, but for truly smart people, they can always restore the truth of history from clues and thus know more than others. However, knowing more does not mean happiness. For these smart people, they cannot live a life of drunkenness and dreams like those corrupt nobles in Soul Society.
Whether actively or passively, these smart people will always take some actions to try to change something, or in other words, when change comes, they can turn the situation in their favor.
Whether it is Aizen or Urahara Kisuke, they are both such smart people, but their choices and approaches are different.
Upon hearing this, Mo Yu felt that Urahara Kisuke was worthy of being the Batman of Karakura Town. Under his nonchalant appearance, he was indeed quite reliable. If a theatrical version was to be made in the future, the preparation work for the filming could be handed over to him. But this was not the time to talk about this. After saying "I'll take you to see it", Mo Yu stretched out the hand of God, grabbed Urahara Kisuke and soared into the sky, flying towards the edge of the city.
For Urahara Kisuke, flying was not a new experience, but being held by Mo Yu's God's hand was an unprecedented new experience.
Unable to detect, incomprehensible, and irresistible, this is Urahara Kisuke's preliminary analysis of the Hand of God. Mo Yu can interfere with him unilaterally, but he has no way of affecting this interference. No matter spiritual power or other means, he cannot have any effect on the Palm of God, as if the Palm of God did not exist from the beginning to the end. What is highlighted is unscientific.
After reaching this point in the analysis, Urahara Kisuke felt that there was no need to continue the analysis, because the existing data alone was already very challenging to his three views.
After Kuroba brought Urahara Kisuke to the edge of Karakura Town, he put him down in a safe place and said:
"Look at the area thirty meters ahead. Tell me, what do you see?"
From Mo Yu's perspective, the area thirty meters away was a void of chaos. He was very interested in knowing the residents in the world bubble and what this void of chaos looked like.
Urahara Kisuke was a little puzzled, but after observing for a while, he said, "In my opinion, the 30 meters ahead is an ordinary city street scene. I have some impression of this place. Although it is a little off the beaten track, it is also a commercial street that was just built a few years ago. Various promotional activities are occasionally held here."
Mo Yu raised his eyebrows after hearing that. He didn't expect that the empty chaos in Urahara Kisuke's sight was still the city street scene of Karakura Town, which was so different from his own perspective.
Mo Yu casually used the Hand of God and pulled up a street lamp from the side, then stretched one part of it into the void and took it back. At this time, one third of the street lamp had been swallowed up, and then Mo Yu placed this part of the street lamp in front of Urahara Kisuke.
"The street lamp was originally eight meters long. Now take a closer look at how long this street lamp is."
Urahara Kisuke was a little puzzled, but he still examined it carefully. Mo Yu paid attention to observing Urahara Kisuke's reaction, and then found that when Urahara Kisuke's hand reached the part of the street lamp that was swallowed, both his movements and expressions seemed as if the disappeared part still existed.
Urahara Kisuke frowned, completed a detailed inspection, and finally said: "It is still eight meters. Apart from the physical damage caused when it was pulled up, it is intact in other aspects. However, if we ignore the evidence and preliminary test results, and just go by intuition, I feel that there is something indescribable about this part of the street lamp."
Urahara Kisuke's hand still pointed to the part of the street lamp that was swallowed. Seeing this, Mo Yu felt relieved. Even if it was just intuition, it at least proved that Urahara Kisuke was still able to detect the problem. Then Mo Yu said bluntly:
"Do you know what the area 30 meters ahead looks like in my sight? There is nothing there, only a void and chaos. I put this section of the street lamp into that area, and then one section was completely swallowed up. But in your sight, the area 30 meters ahead and this section of the street lamp are all normal."
Urahara Kisuke, whose mind worked very quickly, did not doubt after hearing Mo Yu's words, but continued to think in this direction. Thoughts one after another surged in his mind, and he continued to understand and analyze. Then, he quickly looked around, and looked carefully at the thirty meters ahead again. Finally, a chilling feeling surged in his heart.
Urahara Kisuke held up his fisherman's hat to hide the fear in his eyes, and tried to speak in a steady tone:
"It's normal, but it's not that normal. As a passage from the city to the emerging commercial street in the suburbs, there shouldn't be so few people. It's as if people instinctively avoid this place. And in the commercial circle thirty meters away, people are coming and going, but no one is walking here. Not a single person. And more importantly, no matter whether I fell from the sky or you pulled up the street lamp and stretched it over, the people on the opposite side didn't react at all..."
In Mo Yu's sight, the so-called "business circle" thirty meters away only existed in Urahara Kisuke's description, but he could also sense some weirdness.
The commercial street that still "exists" thirty meters away seems to be just a recurring dynamic sticker. Although it can still be observed by the residents in the world bubble, it is difficult to generate any interaction.
After Urahara Kisuke found the abnormal point, he began to make further attempts. He directly used the Kidō, and a loud and bright light cannon shot up into the sky. Then he began to observe the void area thirty meters away. Perhaps knowing that Mo Yu could not see these, he also gave a verbal description during the experiment:
"After I used the Ghost Technique, the people on the commercial street still didn't react at all, as if they couldn't see or hear anything. Now I'm going to conduct further experiments..."
Urahara Kisuke raised his hand and cast a ghost spell at a sign hanging on the second floor of the commercial street. Of course, in Mo Yu's opinion, Urahara Kisuke's ghost spell attack just sank into the void and was swallowed up, but Urahara Kisuke still described it in a serious manner:
"The sign was shot down. There was a reaction over there, but they regarded it as the sign falling naturally due to aging..."
Urahara Kisuke kept trying, constantly interfering remotely with the Kidō magic, and soon discovered that the people on the other side would still react. They would call the police, gather around to watch the fun, pedestrians would be frightened, store owners would come out to apologize, and patrolmen would come to check. Everything was acting according to the "normal" logic of behavior.
The reason why "normal" is put in quotation marks is because Urahara Kisuke discovered that although the people in the void zone have behavioral logic, the logic is actually quite slow and mechanical when it comes to reality. Even their laughter or surprise are delayed for several seconds, and the performance is not natural. Watching it for a long time actually deepens Urahara Kisuke's sense of horror.
More importantly, Urahara Kisuke, who was thirty meters away, was using his extraordinary ghost technique at will, but no one even looked at him...
During Urahara Kisuke's experiment, Mo Yu suddenly said:
"Watch out for that streetlight, it's disintegrating from what I can see!"
The street lamp, one third of which was swallowed by nothingness, seemed unable to maintain its integrity. It collapsed step by step and then completely disappeared. Reminded by Mo Yu, Urahara Kisuke also stared at the street lamp.
The strange changes were happening right before his eyes, but Urahara Kisuke's face was so solemn and confused, because he didn't notice anything. From his physical eyes and spiritual perception, the street lamp had always been the same street lamp, without any changes...
Until the street lamp completely disappeared, Urahara Kisuke was completely stunned, with a rare look of confusion and astonishment. He stood there in silence for a long time before looking up and asking:
"Did you do anything just now?"
Mo Yu also immediately replied: "I didn't do anything, what's wrong?"
Urahara Kisuke rubbed his temples, as if to relieve his extremely tense nerves, and then said in a tone of confusion:
"I still remember that street lamp. It lay on the ground three meters away from me. This is a complete memory. But just now, it disappeared right before my eyes. No, strictly speaking, it did not disappear, but returned to its original state. It was there, and had always been there, standing quietly. However, there were still some scratches on it from when I checked it. Now it lights up, just like other street lamps..."
The logic of Urahara Kisuke's words was a little confusing, but it was not a big problem. Mo Yu looked in the direction where Urahara Kisuke extended his hand and found that the place where Urahara Kisuke was pointing was the void zone.
Mo Yu said calmly: "Urahara Kisuke, can I understand it this way? A street lamp that was originally located in the normal area appeared in the void area when it reappeared, and then worked normally, right?"
"Let me add one more thing. I have two memories in my mind. The first one is the normal memory of you pulling up the street lamp and placing it three meters away from me, and then I conducted an experiment on it. This memory has complete logic and is very clear. The second one is the memory of the street lamp being in the void area after I came here. The second memory is quite abnormal, lacking a sense of picture and logic. It's as if it was just a mechanically implanted piece of information, telling me that the street lamp has always been in the void area, and it has always been like this..."
Urahara Kisuke quickly calmed down, and then he walked to the original position of the street lamp. The broken marks that were forcibly pulled out by Mo Yu with the hand of God were still there, which was solid evidence of the existence of the street lamp.
But now, that street lamp has jumped from the normal area to work in the void area.
After Urahara Kisuke regained his composure, he returned to his usual playful uncle voice: "Oh, oh, we now have good news and bad news. The good news is that I remember that this commercial street was holding a limited-time supermarket discount event some time ago, which means that even if we are swallowed up, we can just jump to the Void Zone and continue living. But the bad news is that the environment in the Void Zone is a bit bad, and the people there are not very normal."
Mo Yu said calmly: "Although I can understand that you are joking to lighten the atmosphere, there is one thing I must reiterate again, Urahara Kisuke, although in your eyes, the scenery of the world still exists, it's just a little weird, but I guarantee in the name of God that there is nothing there, no people and no streets, only empty nothingness and chaos, there is no such thing as job-hopping..."
Although Mo Yu didn't quite understand the mystery of the Void Zone, there was one thing he was sure of, that is, there was nothing in the Void Zone. This was the enlightenment given to him by God's omniscience when he was thinking, and it was quite credible.
Urahara Kisuke reached out and held up his hat. This was a habit he had deliberately developed. Every time his emotions fluctuated strongly, he would hold up his hat to hide the look in his eyes. It was also a psychological hint for himself to calm down. Then he said to himself:
"A guarantee from God? Well, if that's the case, the situation is really bad."
The world still exists, but there are some abnormal situations. The world is gradually collapsing and disappearing, with only the texture left outside. These are two completely different situations. The latter makes Urahara Kisuke a little overwhelmed.
Over the years, he had made so many preparations for possible crises, even for the event of the Spirit King's death, he had created two artificial Spirit King reserves as a precaution. However, the crisis that appeared before him now was somewhat beyond his understanding.
But Urahara Kisuke quickly pulled himself together and said calmly, "I still need to do some research, at least collect more intelligence and data, to determine the truth of the crisis. God, what do you think?"
Mo Yu said: "You go ahead and do it. The situation is still unclear and I don't have any specific ideas. I will find some people to come over. In any case, one more person means more strength."
Mo Yu switched the perspective to Kurosaki Ichigo and found that he was not at school. Instead, he was in the room, doing push-ups with one finger in a straight handstand position. He had been exercising for a long time, and sweat was dripping down his body.
"Not bad, you are actually doing this kind of combat-like physical training by yourself. Ichigo, your purity has greatly increased."
After hearing the voice, Kurosaki Ichigo tapped the ground with his finger, used the force to spring up, did a backflip, stood firmly, then picked up a towel, wiped the sweat off his face, and said calmly:
"Because of the fighting competition you organized, people in school were a bit annoying today, so I asked for leave. I have nothing to do at home, so I exercised. What's the matter? Are you going to shoot the second episode of Legend of the Strongest Academy Security Guard? No problem, as long as the villain is strong enough."
Mo Yu was only concerned with getting things done, and he would outsource whatever he could during the process. Although this fighting tournament was promoted by Mo Yu, the real organizer, Fisher, perhaps on a whim, or perhaps because he was quite serious by nature, did some other things around this fighting tournament, such as placing advertisements for preheating, contacting the media for coverage, and setting up a considerable prize money for the tournament.
So, this morning, when Kurosaki Ichigo went to school, he was immediately surrounded by the media. Then, surrounded by flashing lights, he signed for a large prize money for the competition. When he returned to the classroom, his classmates and teachers looked at him with the eyes of a rare and exotic animal. Kurosaki Ichigo was fed up with it and asked for leave to go home.
"I don't have any ideas for the second episode yet, and I came to you because I have other important things to do..."
Before Mo Yu finished speaking, the door of the room was pushed open, and Inoue Orihime's energetic voice rang out:
"Kurosaki-san, the agent appointed by God is coming in. Hey, you... you are not wearing any clothes. Sorry!"
When Orihime Inoue pushed the door open, she saw Ichigo Kurosaki wiping his sweat with his upper body naked, and she immediately covered her eyes. However, maybe it was a mistake, the gaps between Orihime's fingers were wide open, and she was so engrossed in watching that her nose bleed immediately in an extremely exaggerated posture.
With the blessing and tempering of purity, Ichigo Kurosaki's body shape is no longer the same as yesterday. He has strong yet smooth muscles, perfect inverted triangle shoulders, sea dog waist and eight-pack abs, fully demonstrating the masculine muscle charm of the spiritualist.
Not to mention Inoue Orihime, even Rukia, who followed Inoue Orihime in, couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. She looked at him with admiration for a few times, but finally her eyes turned to a little disdain. Perhaps she felt that Kurosaki Ichigo's muscles were not as strong as hers after the transformation, and they still lacked a bit of purity and maturity.
After Rukia came in, Ishida Uryu and Chad also filed in. Kurosaki Ichigo was slightly stunned when he saw so many people, and then asked them why they came. He found out that they just came to visit him because he still had a day off today. During the greetings, Ishida Uryu couldn't help asking:
"Kurosaki-san, how is your injury?"
In the center of Kurosaki Ichigo's chest, there is a fist mark. The fist mark is deep, as if it contains a strange power, and is always in a state of uninterrupted eruption. With every eruption, blue-black wounds appear around the fist mark. From a distance, it looks like an abstract black sun pattern, tightly wrapped around Kurosaki Ichigo's chest, showing its existence.
Ichigo Kurosaki lowered his head and looked at his injuries with a complicated expression. Then he said in a calm tone:
"It's nothing. Fisher's super ultimate move didn't work completely after all, so it didn't have any effect on me. It's just that my body's ability to recover may have weakened during this period of time."
Maybe it was because Ichigo Kurosaki was not good at lying, so what he said was obviously false. In any case, none of Inoue Orihime and the others believed it. But seeing that Ichigo Kurosaki didn't want to say anything, they didn't ask any more questions.
At this time, Mo Yu saw so many people gathered and felt that it was fate, so he said:
"Originally I just wanted to call Ichigo Kurosaki, but since you're all here, why don't you come with me? If we really face a crisis, you guys might be able to form a bond like the protagonists in a theatrical version."
26. Death World Movie: Wandering Noah's Ark
When Mo Yu brought the protagonists over, Urahara Kisuke was still doing some experiments.
He wanted to bring the people out of the Void Zone.
The specific experimental steps are not complicated. It involves a long enough rope with a hook in front. Urahara Kisuke stands on the edge of the void area, swings the hook suddenly, wraps around the "person" in the void area, and then pulls him to the normal area.
The experimental results were released just when Ichigo Kurosaki and others arrived.
The "person" entangled by the hook was dragged and staggered, and then after crossing the boundary between nothingness and normality, the "person" disappeared, as if he had never existed, and after a while, the hook in Urahara Kisuke's hand disappeared.
And the "person" who was chosen as the test subject reappeared in a store in the Void Zone. He was holding a shopping bag and stuffing a long rope with a hook and lock into it, as if he appeared in this commercial street just to buy a rope with a hook and lock.
"The 'people' in the void zone have their own simple behavioral logic. If they encounter something beyond this simple behavioral logic, they will ignore cause and effect and forcibly rationalize it. But this is not the point. The point is that after a simple experiment, I found that these people in the void zone are indeed not real..."
Urahara Kisuke talked to Ichigo Kurosaki and others who looked confused, but the only one who could truly understand what he was talking about was Mo Yu.
Ichigo Kurosaki was confused and couldn't help interrupting Urahara Kisuke's long speech and asked, "Wait, Uncle Urahara, please explain to us what happened first. How could that person suddenly disappear after being caught by your hook and lock, and then suddenly appear there again?"
Urahara Kisuke raised his eyebrows, and did not care about Kurosaki Ichigo interrupting him. Instead, he designed a small experiment on the spot and asked Kurosaki Ichigo and others to perform it themselves. The experiment was not complicated, and it was basically a replica of Mo Yu pulling out the street lamp.
The physical objects in the normal area will soon disintegrate after coming into contact with the void area, and then reappear in the void area, as if they had always existed there, but the traces left by the physical objects in the normal area did not disappear. By comparing the two, one can quickly understand the abnormality, and then Urahara Kisuke explains a few more sentences, and Kurosaki Ichigo and others finally understand the seriousness of the situation.
Ichigo Kurosaki and the others all gasped, and Chad's reaction was even more intense. He looked at the Void Zone in disbelief. He, who was usually taciturn, couldn't help but say a series of words: "You said that only Karakura Town is left in our world, and the areas outside Karakura Town have long disappeared. How is this possible? I was still watching foreign TV programs the day before yesterday."
Chad lived abroad when he was young, and only later came to Japan with his grandfather. This experience allowed Chad to learn some English, and he also intended to maintain this ability and often watched various programs on English channels.
Urahara Kisuke touched his chin, "This is also what I was most puzzled about before, because I also received a discount promotion advertisement from this commercial street some time ago, and then I thought about it carefully. Although we have received information from the Void Zone, have we really had actual contact with the Void Zone? For example, besides watching the show, have you ever called the mail-order number above to buy something? Or to put it more directly, there should be no shortage of neighbors around you who are on business trips in other cities. Think about it carefully, have you really... met them?"
Japan's neighborhood culture is still very strong. Even if neighbors may not have much real friendship, and may even quarrel behind the scenes over trivial matters, such as throwing away garbage, there are still some basic greetings and inquiries into the situation. So, when Urahara Kisuke said this, Kurosaki Ichigo and others actually found some clues to prove this point.
All people and things outside of Karakura Town have only existed in the form of information, and there has never been any actual contact.
People who are on business trips are always on business trips and never come back. The scenery and things in other cities have always appeared on TV and in newspapers. Even for this nearby commercial street, I have only heard about various discount promotion advertisements in the past, but I have never seen anyone around me buy anything here.
But everyone came to their senses soon. It is not certain that some people went to other cities, but they definitely went to this commercial street. Otherwise, how did so many people with stickers come from this commercial street? And those who went there might have become the mysterious weirdo who is always shopping and never comes back, as in the sentence “My husband/wife went out shopping and hasn’t come back yet”.
Ishida Uryu's face looked particularly ugly, because as he recalled at this moment, there seemed to be such a strange story around him, and he could only hear the voice but never see the person.
Urahara Kisuke said, "I have a guess. I don't know if you have ever played computer games. The characters controlled by the players, the maps they walk through, and the NPCs they meet all exist. But in addition to that, the game system will also run some data in the background, and the results of these data will also be fed back into the game. For example, some cities and NPCs that have never appeared in the game but are often mentioned in the dialogue..."
Ever since he brought Ichigo and the others here, Mo Yu has remained silent. Instead, he has used the authority of God's omniscience to start thinking hard, hoping that the authority would take effect and allow him to have a flash of inspiration and intuitively gain insight into some truths. However, the effect of doing so is not great.
Mo Yu also discovered some problems with God's omniscience. When faced with some not-so-complicated problems, this kind of authority can play a big role. However, when it comes to some complicated issues that have never been dealt with before, this kind of omniscience is basically in a state of "This authority is thinking hard, dear God, please wait, I will notify you as soon as there is news..."
The moment Urahara Kisuke expressed his guess, God's omniscience heard it and it was like a bolt of lightning. Inspiration kept emerging, and then He gave Urahara Kisuke a thumbs up, and finally quickly stuffed this inspiration into Mo Yu's head in an intuitive way.
Mo Yu couldn't help but shook his head and threw the strange information he just felt out of his mind.
If you say that this omniscience and authority of God is very powerful, it is somewhat unworthy of its reputation, just like the shrunk omnipotence of God. But if you say that it is not powerful, Mo Yu can actually sense the operation of the omniscience and authority of God through his status as the omniscience and authority of God.
This is a shameful authority. Not to mention that they can't think of the answer themselves, they even copy other people's opinions and give them likes.
But no matter what, thanks to Urahara Kisuke's inspiration, Mo Yu finally touched upon part of the truth.
Outside of Karakura Town, there is indeed nothingness and chaos, and the scenery that the indigenous people like Urahara Kisuke glimpse from the nothingness is essentially the result of background information calculation of Karakura Town, or this world bubble.
After hearing Urahara Kisuke's guess, Ichigo Kurosaki and the others were still confused. At this time, Mo Yu spoke up:
"Urahara Kisuke's guess was correct. The original world should have been complete, but from that day on, the world began to lose information, just like the maps and characters in the game, which gradually lost their modeling, and even the textures. Later, even the logic of volume collision and other related relationships gradually disappeared. Now, only the basic 0 and 1 data codes are left, operating incompletely under simple logic, and barely outputting some information to the normal area..."
Ichigo Kurosaki and the others seemed to be good kids. They didn't play games very often, so they only half understood what was said. Mo Yu paused, a little hesitant, not knowing whether to continue, because his next words were still a bit cruel to Ichigo Kurosaki and the others.
But after thinking about it, Mo Yu decided to speak frankly. It was not that he did not like being a riddler, but if things continued like this, there would be some problems that Kurosaki Ichigo and others would have to face sooner or later:
"To put it simply, all the people and things outside of Karakura Town have vanished into thin air, leaving only some information flows that are like afterimages. It's just that Karakura Town, and this world, instinctively maintains these information flows in a mechanized background operation program out of its own integrity, and forces it to operate, continue to generate some new information flows, and then feed them back to you who are still alive. This is the truth that you can still see, but you can no longer touch."
Mo Yu is the God of the three-dimensional world. The background computing information of this world cannot be transmitted to him. This is why Urahara Kisuke can still see people and street scenes in the void zone, while Mo Yu can't see anything.
Kurosaki Ichigo finally understood. He pointed to the busy commercial street not far away and said loudly: "Audience, do you mean that those people over there have died a long time ago?"
Even though he possessed the ultimate purity of a fighter, facing this situation, Ichigo Kurosaki still felt cold all over. He hoped to hear a negative answer, but Mo Yu gave a negative answer as he wished. However, this answer was even colder and more cruel than Ichigo Kurosaki had imagined:
"No, they are not dead, because death cannot describe their end. As long as Karakura Town shuts down this dream-like background computing program, they will never have existed."
Seeing the faint look of collapse on Kurosaki Ichigo's face, Mo Yu regretted telling him the answer.
The same answer has different weights for different people. Urahara Kisuke knew everything, but as he had been through many hardships, he could still remain calm and composed. He was just thinking intensely. Although Orihime Inoue and others also showed expressions of fear and sadness, that was all. They are still in the early stages of the plot and basically have the mentality of ordinary people.
