Chapter 47: The Head of the Coffin

  I came before the corpse in the coffin, looking at the kasaya that had been stained red with blood. When I lifted it up, however, I found that there was no body wrapped inside the kasaya. Only the part that was exposed was real, but inside the kasaya there was nothing at all.

  I stretched out my hand, feeling around as if I was performing magic tricks in the empty space. What on earth was going on? The more I thought about it, the less I understood. I looked around, wanting to ask that strange dwarf, but he was nowhere to be found.

  "Hey!" I shouted loudly.

  "Where are you?" Only my own voice, I really want to ask the me thirty years later, but at this time he should still be outside the tower, just like he said, a person's future is all known by oneself, what's the point of life? Really, seeing that the me thirty years later is still alive, I completely let go of my worries about this place, because no matter what kind of danger, I can get through it, just like a game, I opened the cheat code, on the premise that health never decreases, clearing the level, although the difficulty has decreased, but the joy of playing the game has also decreased.

  I sat on the ground, just waiting, waiting for the plot to develop further, waiting for that dwarf to appear again.

  "Hey, Pong Pong's brother-in-law!"

  The person I heard called me, searched around and followed the sound to find that it was the head of a coffin thrown down from the bridge by a dwarf. I jumped off the small bridge and saw the face of the coffin constantly calling me.

  "You died with your eyes open, I know that too. It wasn't intentional on my part. You can rest in peace now." I said to the head, perhaps it was because my heart felt too guilty, which led to this hallucination.

  "Relax, you bastard, hurry up and pick me up, I'm not dead yet."

  "Is my hallucination this severe?" I quickly pinched my own face.

  "Don't pinch me anymore, I'm really not dead. Hurry up and pick me up, or else I'll really die soon."

  I believe it's true now, took off his clothes, carefully placed his head on top, wrapped it up, and climbed onto the bridge.

  I held his head in my hands and looked left and right, just like the Great Sage plucking out a hair to transform it in "Journey to the West".

  "Don't look anymore, you're making me sick."

  "I'll put you back right away, can your neck and head still grow together?"

  "My god, what are you thinking?! You really don't know anything. The world here is a gap in time, it's a blank area between the future and modern times, so everything here doesn't grow, they all remain the same."

  "What's going on with you now?"

  "It all started with the kasaya that Pong Pong obtained, which is no ordinary kasaya. It has the ability to break through time and space because the stones embedded on it are not precious stones, but meteorites that we humans know of today. It itself contains a huge magnetic field energy, so it can change the distortion of time and space. The door you came in from is actually the gateless gate, which is the entrance to the gap between time and space."

  "Never mind about that for now, where's Pengpeng? Didn't he come in with you?"

  "He? He left first, and only when I started talking about this kasaya did I find it strange that Pengpeng and I saw things completely differently. Why did I see a golden light, but he still needed to use his flashlight saying it was too dark? After we took out our belongings one by one to check, we discovered that the reason for everything lay in this kasaya. Wherever the kasaya covered, everything there would instantly disappear, or you could say return to the real space-time. You can't see the water under the bridge, right? That was because the kasaya accidentally fell into the water and created this situation. We only thought of this when we saw that, and realized that this kasaya is not ordinary."

  "Wait a minute, you said Pongpang left here first, but before I came in, I was ambushed by Pongpang at the door? Which Pongpang is that? He seems to have completely lost control of himself."

  "This I don't know, anyway, Pengpeng wrapped himself in a kasaya and disappeared immediately. Before I could react, that dwarf appeared, I don't know what method he used, my whole body couldn't move, I could only sit there like this. Actually, I knew you came, but I couldn't make a sound."

  "But when your head fell off, there was indeed blood splashing out, look, there's still some on the kasaya now."

  "Oh! That's not my blood, it's the rift in space-time and parallel spaces reopening due to distortion. Think about it, when we humans get hurt, we bleed, so when this space-time gets fractured, it also needs to 'bleed' a bit."