Chapter 4 The Cage of the Body

Li held his breath, opened his eyes wide, and did not blink. He firmly believed that he had not moved just now, but in an instant, the world changed three forms in front of his eyes. After a while, he sighed and said, "It's really cool. Is this the Matrix?"

"Don't compare this with that kind of hypocritical and fake boring story. Everything you see has nothing to do with the Matrix. You are in my body, you are in my brain, and you are in my spiritual world. It's not the virtual world of a computer.

"You, do you also know the Matrix?" Li took a long breath and said, "I just heard your introduction. I thought you were not an earthman. I thought I had traveled to a different world. Oh, I'm so careful about these. It turns out that I'm still on the earth."

"If my estimate is correct, we are indeed on the earth, but not the earth you imagine. If you and I don't have such a gap in the definition of the word 'time travel', then I can say for sure that you have indeed traveled. What you are in now is not the world you are familiar with, but another world.

"Then how do you know the Matrix? Has the Hollywood blockbuster been broadcast across the world?

"How long do you think you have been in my body?" The middle-aged man sneered and said, "For you, it may be just dark in front of you, and you will wake up after a nap. But in fact, you have been sleeping in my body for thousands of years. In the third century when you entered my body, I looked through all your memories in boredom. I know everything you know, even those things that have long been forgotten by you.

"You, can you look through my memory?" Li was shocked that some things in people's interactions have already formed a certain formula. For example, people must wear clothes when they are opposite each other. If one day a person walks naked on the street to greet you, it must make you feel very troubled. The same is true in terms of memory. According to middle-aged, Li has no secrets in front of this person, which makes Li feel like he is naked and not used to it.

"It only takes one thought for me to know everything you've been through. I know your origin, the peaceful world you live in, the prehistoric planet that is also known as the earth. I know your peaceful but precious life. Don't make such an expression. Now our souls are in the same body. You have no secret to me. I am the same to you. Remember your original Did you see the battle?"

"Ah, you're talking about the 'Battle of the Outer Wall'." After saying that, Li frowned. He didn't know what the "Battle of the Outer Wall" was, but on the way, the word naturally blurted out.

"Yes, the battle of the outer wall, you know this word. This is a good phenomenon. It seems that you already know how to learn knowledge from my memory. The battle of the outer wall is the last battle I participated in. What you see is not movie special effects or absurd dreams, but what really happens. In that battle, someone attacked St. Gilles with great force, and I chose to protect him.

"I know, I see, er, and even feel it," Li recalled that feeling. The word "see" is not enough to describe his feelings about the battle. The memory before the new arrival was so clear that Li suddenly became Robert. Li rejoined the battle, which was so clear that he understood the battle of the outer wall. "Well, St. Gilles is your friend? Why do you have to protect him with your body and even life in the end?

"There is no friendship between me and St. Gilles. I work for the empire in different positions with him. I haven't said a word with him before that war. I haven't seen him at a time. I just heard his glorious name." Robert. Li saw the young man's doubts, and the giant said calmly, "I protect him just because he is very powerful. No, he is even the most powerful warrior in the empire. He can protect the emperor better than me."

"Is that all?"

"That's all," Robert. Li looked at the stunned Li and shook his head and smiled, "Don't look unbelievable. You know, what I finally faced was a difficult battle. At that time, it may take more good luck to survive than to fall. Well, don't interrupt now. Listen to me. I was hit by a powerful energy, which should be a curse. This power does not exist in the real world. He is an evil power from subspace, a kind of magic, witchcraft, or something else, and what is incomprehensible is your soul. Unexpectedly, it entered my body with this huge and evil power.

Li recalled the last scene on the battlefield. Robert stood in front of St. Gilles, and a deadly beam of light hit his wide back.

"You mean, I entered your body with that beam of light?"

"Yes," Robert nodded and continued, "At first, I thought it was some trick of the enemy, or a new and more terrible force. After all, you invaded my body with the power of the evil enemy. I wanted to wait for you to wake up and have a fair game with you. The contest, the contest between the will and the soul, to see who is the winner in the end. Robert shrugged his shoulders and said, "But you have slept too long. In the 300th year, I boredly looked through your memory and knew everything about you, so I understood that you are not a trick of the enemy. You are just a victim of bad luck, an ordinary person from a different space."

"So that's it," Li nodded. "So now that I wake up, what should we do?"

"Your reaction is very sensitive, boy. Unfortunately, it's not what we want to do, but what I want to do to you. Don't worry, I won't do anything to you. I'm going to teach you and pass on everything I know, and you have to work hard and study hard with all your strength.

"I don't quite understand this."

"The last thing that hit me in the battle of the outer wall was a curse. This curse trapped my soul in my body. I was not dead, but I was not alive. My body has become a cage for my soul. And everything my comrades have done to me has greatly extended this process, but no matter what, my soul will gradually weaken and eventually disappear because of this curse. And you, lucky, or unfortunately will not be affected by this curse, so when my soul dies, you will live alone in my body, and I don't know what you will do after that. You will be imprisoned forever, or wake up, no matter what, it is not lucky for you. Things, and we must prepare for the latter.

"I, I don't quite understand. My thoughts are a little confused, and things are too strange," Li stopped his words, thought for a moment, and then said, "Let me summarize. You mean that you are going to die, and I will replace you, so you have to educate me in advance so that I can continue to serve your emperor instead of you?"

"Yes, that's it."

"It will be an unfortunate thing for me whether I will continue to work for your emperor instead of you, or I will continue to be imprisoned?"

"It is not the emperor in the ordinary sense that you understand, but the sacred emperor who belongs to human beings." Robert said seriously, "In the world before you, the emperor was just a man standing at the top of the ruling class. But in my world, the emperor is not only the ruler of the empire, but also the savior, leader, prophet, and his power even surpasses all the gods in history. Without the emperor, human beings could not have won a great revival. The reason why human beings in this world can still stand in the sinister galaxy is because of the great emperor. This is our emperor."

"Well, our emperor," now Li doesn't know the emperor. He has never felt the great will or heard of the legendary story like the Bible, so he can shrug his shoulders in a relaxed manner. "Then go back to my question and continue to be imprisoned by your body. It's my misfortune, but why is it unfortunate to continue to work for our emperor?

"This is not a good job," Robert smiled. There was fatigue and pride in his smile. "If you go out in the future, you will know. As Astart monks, we are strong, perfect and have eternal life, but we also need to make a lot of sacrifices.

Li was stingled, and then shook his head and laughed, "Are you kidding? Why should I do these things at your mercy?"

"Because you are an outsider, you must understand that as long as I move my mind, you will disappear in terrible pain," said here. Robert just snapped his fingers, and Li twitched and fell to the ground. The unimaginable pain attacked Li in an instant. "I can make you understand. To the unimaginable pain and suffering," Robert said coldly, "So you'd better know how to obey and respect. Now, stand up quickly. You have wasted thousands of years, and there is no more time for you to spend! First of all, what you have to do is to read all the books here.