[BL] Daily Disposable Persona

89: R'lyeh 13

Zong Yan was waiting anxiously.

He'd just used the Astrologer persona card, and he was about to find out if he'd guessed correctly.

If he was right, after he used the card he might immediately return to his human body. After all, the Astrologer persona was based on Zong Yan, the human being who attended Qingyang High School, not any other mythical creature or transformed being.

Success or failure would be decided in one move.

Of course, it was a dangerous guess. If Zong Yan's theory was incorrect, there was a very big chance he'd never return.

Right now he was 350 million years in the past. There was no way to know if he even existed in the future of this timeline.

Even after so many years, time was an obscure and unsolved problem for human science. With the addition of relativity, the puzzles became even more difficult to solve.

If time was always flowing, it meant that while Zong Yan was experiencing the passage of time 350 million years in the past, time continued to flow in modern times 350 million years later. A few months had passed since he arrived. In modern times, the college entrance exam might already be over. If Zong Yan had already missed the exam, forget about Tsinghua University, he wouldn't even be accepted by a diploma mill. After he returned he'd only be able to study at Miskatonic University.

What a painful realization.

But that was a much better scenario than some of the alternatives. If modern time was still flowing and no one had collected his body, he might still be floating in the vacuum of space.... He might even collide with the space station or something, giving rise to a global sensation of a horror story. In vacuum, the human body would be squeezed out of shape by the lack of air pressure. His corpse might not even look human.

If his body disappeared or no longer existed, what would the Astrologer card do? Create a new body for him?

Zong Yan was a bundle of nerves. He just hoped that wherever he ended up, not much time had gone by. Otherwise, not even the gods could save him.

Darkness. The darkness was overwhelming.

Zong Yan slowly regained consciousness. He felt the same as when he'd arrived in the underground cave in R'lyeh. He couldn't even open his eyes, let alone move a finger.

But it wasn't the first time Zong Yan had experienced something like this, so he was more relaxed about it now. Reborn once, reborn twice, not a big deal.

He couldn't move his body yet, but he didn't feel any discomfort or pain, and there was no sign of any missing arms or legs. If anything he seemed to be in perfect condition.

Zong Yan felt a surge of relief.

So he settled down to wait.

As time went on, Zong Yan managed to detect more and more about his surroundings.

First of all, the temperature felt normal. Also, judging from the lack of pressure on his body, he seemed to be floating.

After he went to R'lyeh, did his original body remain in outer space?

Zong Yan's doubts were growing. He even began to wonder if one of the three pillars of the original gods had felt merciful enough to collect his corpse. Maybe he was in a hospital morgue right now, lying next to fellow investigators who'd died gloriously defending New York. He couldn't rule out the possibility that one of the evil gods had kept his body to reuse it for some reason. For example, the Bloated Woman's favorite meal was fresh human brains.