High School of Demon Hunting

Chapter 2512: Chapter 733: The Origin of the Two-dimensional World

”...Because it is a concept condensed to the extreme, the Forbidden Curse is extremely ’solid,’ solid to the point that even if it falls into the Two-dimensional World with me, it can still retain its true ’height.’ In other words, in the entire Two-dimensional World, it is the highest.”

”...Remember I mentioned the concept of ’consciousness height’? During my wandering through those worlds, I found that those who excel in the Two-dimensional World usually possess very high consciousness... To give an inappropriate comparison, it’s like ’reincarnators’ or ’transmigrators’ who know the story in advance and have a higher, farther, and broader vision than the natives, allowing them to defeat opponents early, cling to the powerful, woo beauties, seize opportunities, and so on.”

”...To put it in more common terms, it’s about standing high and seeing far. Having a higher and further vision is really, really, really important. Just like in this world, as a Legendary Wizard, when your true self surpasses reality and has length in the dimension of time, when your body is as long as time, you will understand why vision is so important.”

”...I don’t have to struggle to easily flatten those Low-dimensional Worlds, just as easy as flipping through comics and novels. According to my habit, or rather, according to your nature, we can live these happy and carefree days for hundreds or thousands of years. But as I reincarnate in one world after another, completing mission after mission, plundering one origin after another, I gradually feel that my connection with the entire Two-dimensional World is also becoming closer... To use a stronger term, the two dimensions are gradually assimilating me.”

”Then, I realized that if I don’t want to lose myself, I must find a way to transcend.”

At this point, the Shadow Cat looked up at the moon in the sky, its expression solemn, and for a moment, the Black Cat seemed to see the figure of that big black tiger in the first hunting competition again.

Of course, now is not the time to reminisce about the past.

Seizing the opportunity when the Shadow Cat fell silent, the Black Cat opened its mouth to ask a word he intuitively felt was important: ”You just said ’plunder the origin’... What is the world’s origin?”

The Shadow Cat looked at him strangely.

”Don’t you know? I remember you know... Hmm,” it seemed to recall something, lifted a paw, wiped the whiskers at the corner of its mouth, and mused, ”Oh right, you seem to have exploded once before, maybe indeed lost some concepts.”

Without waiting for the Black Cat to speak, the Shadow Cat directly countered: ”What do you think is the origin of the Two-dimensional World? Here’s a hint: you can start thinking from the origin of the Three-dimensional World, then conduct a dimension reduction induction.”

The origin of the Three-dimensional World?

Zheng Qing almost cursed out loud.

If he knew what the origin of the universe was, what need would there be to write any thesis? But immediately, he realized that the Forbidden Curse is the result of the world continuously condensing, in other words, he could completely view the Forbidden Curse as a manifestation of the world’s origin.

According to this logic, the world’s origin should be the sum of various rules and concepts.

Regarding dimension reduction induction.

The Black Cat frowned, thought for a moment, and tentatively looked at the Shadow Cat: ”If the origin of the Three-dimensional World is the sum of rules, then the origin of the Two-dimensional World should also be a similar existence.”

”Not clear enough.” The Shadow Cat shook its head, hinting: ”What do you think is the ’origin’ of a novel or a comic?”

Zheng Qing’s mind immediately recalled Harry Potter.

”Character portrayals, plot, and the background environment?” His tone was slightly uncertain: ”Or perhaps the narrative structure... like the beginning, development, climax, conclusion?”

The Shadow Cat looked at the Black Cat with disdain.

”You’re a character of this world, and so am I, so are those Professors, the North District Mage, and the commoners living in Yunhua Residential Complex.” It drew a large circle in the air with its raised paw: ”The environment we live in is the background, and what we experience every day is the plot... From one’s birth to death, or from a star’s birth to its extinction, it’s all a beginning to an end... Can you see the world’s origin in this?”

”I can’t see it.” The Black Cat shook its head earnestly.

The Shadow Cat nodded satisfactorily: ”Indeed, you can’t see it... Let me give you another hint, for instance, the Count of Monte Cristo, what story do you think this book tells?”

The Black Cat responded without hesitation: ”A story of revenge.”

”But you can’t say ’revenge’ is the essence of this book.” The Shadow Cat seemed to transform into a teacher on a podium, gently guiding: ”The Count in the book once said—All human wisdom is contained in these four words, ’wait’ and ’hope,’ which form the basis of maintaining the theme of ’revenge.’ I think these four words can be called the origin of this Two-dimensional World.”

Just a simple explanation immediately made the Black Cat think of more.

For example, in Harry Potter, the surface-level treasure hunt and the war between white and black magicians aren’t the essence; ’love and justice’ are the truths that run through the seven works; similarly, the hot-bloodedness, adventure, and resilience in the Pirate King, the cause and effect and destiny in Shu Mountain, the destiny and lineage in Naruto, and even the madness of the Justice Universe, the abnormality in the Marvel World, the consumption in Immortal, etc., every Two-dimensional World has its distinctive origin characteristics.

”You should have noticed, the origin of the Two-dimensional World is incomplete.”

Without paying attention to the Black Cat who was deep in thought, the Shadow Cat continued: ”Just like every book, every comic, every story, within their limited length, they can only describe limited origins. Therefore, we are thrown into different Two-dimensional Worlds to gather different origins... Su Da Fox’s experimental idea is very simple and straightforward, which is to let the Shadow Reincarnators collect enough diverse origins, then smelt different origins together to form a complete concept that can describe all Two-dimensional Worlds... This concept belongs to a specific Two-dimensional World, yet does not belong to any Two-dimensional World, it’s a transcendent existence. In other words—in the endless universe, countless parallel worlds have countless versions of you; if these different versions of you unite, wouldn’t that form a higher-dimensional life form?”

”With so many ’me’s, who is the real ’me’!” The Black Cat instinctively sat up straight.

”Bingo!”

The Shadow Cat rubbed its paws as if trying to snap fingers, though this effort was somewhat challenging for cat paws, it didn’t mind at all, and said excitedly: ”As expected of me! Immediately grasped the core problem of the whole experiment. In fact, before Su Da Fox hosted the lab, the previous owner of the Two-dimensional Evolution Lab failed because of the unification of different souls, losing ’self,’ and becoming a madman.”