Xyrin Empire-Chapter 217 - Reality or Illusion

Chapter 217: Chapter 217 Reality or Illusion Chapter 217 -217 Reality or Illusion Lin Xue’s words were so shocking that it took me ten seconds to finally react, and I let out an uncontrollable exclamation, “What!?”

Lin Xue somewhat evasively avoided my gaze, but spoke in an undeniable tone, “I’ve seen that one day in the future, Pandora is standing atop the fortress of Demons, commanding a large number of Variant Demons to charge at us… I know this prediction sounds bizarre, so I sent Sandora away because I wanted to discuss this scene with you first—our movements have always been in the enemy’s grasp, if all this is really related to Pandora…”

I took a deep breath to calm myself down. I knew Lin Xue’s character; although she usually asserted her presence with various annoying pranks, in this situation, she wouldn’t speak lightly. Since she told me this strange prophecy so earnestly and even sent Sandora away earlier, it meant that the prophecy truly appeared.

“Could it be because of interference?” I analyzed, frowning. “The enemy’s commander must be a quite powerful Fallen Apostle, and he also has ways to control our movements. He has interfered with your prediction ability multiple times before, causing you to see many bizarre scenes. Could this be another interference?”

“This scenario can be excluded,” Lin Xue said seriously. “Interfering with my prediction ability is quite difficult. In other words, this interference can only be a Passive Skill, activated only when I actively predict the future of a very powerful individual. For example, if I predict your future or Dingdang’s future, then the scenes in this prophecy will certainly be vague and full of errors. But no matter how powerful you are, you can’t actively interfere when I predict someone else. That means, if I predict whether a rabbit will be killed by a hunter three days later, even a True God couldn’t stop me from seeing that rabbit’s fate—just like how a Passive Skill can’t be actively used on someone else.”

After Lin Xue said all this, she paused for a while to let me digest these abstract descriptions, then continued, “Earlier, I initiated a prophecy out of boredom. This prophecy had no target, meaning what I saw was a random future scene. In such cases, no one can interfere with my ability, so the scene I saw must be unaltered.”

My head spun a bit again. “Wait, didn’t you just say that your prophecies can’t contain overly powerful individuals, or they would be interfered with? How do you explain seeing Pandora in the future scene? Pandora must be a powerful Xyrin Apostle, right? Seeing her means that the future scene has already changed?”

Lin Xue gave me a look as if I were an idiot and said, “Did you even understand? I didn’t say that my predictions can’t contain powerful individuals; rather, they can’t target a powerful individual. That means if I purposefully look at whether you, Chen Jun, will turn into a pig in a month, that prophecy won’t succeed. But if I’m looking at another unrelated future scene and you happen to appear in it, the prophecy won’t be interfered with. Understand?”

I was stunned and finally, before Lin Xue could bite me, I grasped her explanation, realizing and saying, “Ah, I get it now! So, you can’t proactively look into a powerful individual’s future, but if you unexpectedly see this powerful individual in the future scene you are viewing, that’s allowed! And this time, the future you prophesized was a random scene, so that scene must be real. And this scene included Pandora, who appeared as an enemy…”

I fell silent.

If that’s the case, what Lin Xue saw is what will happen in the future. Could it be that, in the near future, Pandora will stand before me as an enemy?

What a joke!

Indeed, Pandora is quirky, antisocial, solitary, and a bit aggressive, always dreaming of conquering the whole world and has opposed my peaceful views more than once… But no matter what, that slightly awkward kid could never become my enemy!

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Perhaps others don’t know, but the outwardly cold and proud Pandora is actually quite lonely. Because of her status as an Imperial Officer and her poor communication skills, she’s never had friends. She once told me that in her previous life, all her interactions were just with superiors and subordinates, enemies and allies. So, I can fully imagine how deep her attachment to me would be when someone who cares about her and treats her like a younger sister suddenly appears in her life.

And I also believe in my own feelings, Pandora’s dependency on me is definitely not an illusion.

“Come on, relax,” Lin Xue saw my expression changing constantly and rarely started to comfort me, “Although I saw such a scene, but you know, based on my experience, everything about the future is uncertain.”

I expressed that I couldn’t understand at all.

The future is uncertain? Wouldn’t that make your prediction ability useless? And weren’t all your previous accurate foreknowledge incorrect?

“You know you’re such a blockhead not getting it,” seeing the puzzled look on my face, Lin Xue’s mood instantly improved. She patted my shoulders and said proudly, “Let this young lady reluctantly explain it to you, dummy! The so-called uncertainty of the future doesn’t mean that what I see is an illusion, but that until the moment the future becomes true, everything can change. For instance, if I predict you’ll be hit by a car when you go out at a certain moment, and I tell you about this prediction, just by not going out that day, that future event can be changed, right? Actually, what I see is only the most likely thing to happen in a certain period of the future. Without external intervention, what I see can be regarded as fact. It’s not that once I see something, it cannot be changed. Besides, the saying ‘seeing is believing’ is inappropriate in predictions, due to the limitations of the power, the future scenes I see will definitely have some distortions, and in some cases, a small detail can lead to a completely different outcome of the whole event. For example, I predict that you will be hit by a car tomorrow when you go out, I might see a Santana hitting you, but in reality, it could be a Mercedes, a Toyota, or even a tractor, a road roller, an armored vehicle, a twenty-ton tank, or even a Transformer… hoo, what a thrill…”

Me: “…are you here to take revenge on me?”

“No, no, just suddenly thought of something worth celebrating universally.”

Alright, I felt slightly relieved. Although Lin Xue’s way of comforting was quite unique, the advice and explanation from an expert still eased my mind a bit. According to her, even if she saw Pandora as our enemy in the future, that future scene could also be changed, and even if all of it is true, there might be other circumstances when it happens.

Anyway, no matter what, I wasn’t willing to believe that Pandora would be the mastermind behind all this.

With these thoughts, I temporarily put the matter aside. Since this strange prediction was filled with abnormalities, it was better to leave it to the experts. Hopefully, Lin Xue could find the reason for the occurrence of this prediction before anything happened.

“Alright, don’t think too much,” I stretched a long lazy stretch, yawning, “I’m a bit sleepy, hopefully Qianqian and the others don’t make too much noise tonight, or it’ll be fun if we encounter enemies tomorrow…”

“Boom boom boom!!!”

Before I could finish, a few low booms sounded by my ears, and at the same time, blue and white dazzling beams of light streaked over our heads.

Lin Xue and I looked in surprise toward the sound, only to see a magnificent cluster of blue and white light beams crossing the sky, then exploding into a spectacular firework in the distant clouds. Following that, more blue and white or dark red energy beams raced each other, adorning the pitch-black night sky with a grand fireworks display.