Alternate Dimension Game: Happiness is all that matters! -
Chapter 220 - 204 "Time River of the Past" and "Mysterious Zone
Chapter 220: Chapter 204 "Time River of the Past" and "Mysterious Zone
A Demon God wanted to invade a certain world, but without sufficient anchorage, using all his might, he could only transmit a fraction of his power to the endpoint.
Even if humans carelessly missed removing this fraction of power, this is primarily the "Game" territory. The "Game" only needed to use a minor part of its power to counteract and remove the influence of "Delusion."
Thus, "Delusion" settled for second best and chose the "Time River of the Past."
Number 24 paused for a moment, explaining, "One reason is that the ’Time River of the Past’ is vast and nearly impossible to monitor completely. Earth has existed for 4.6 billion years; even a Demon God cannot keep track of every detail of the ’past.’"
"But the farther back in the past, the more it’s set in stone, making invasion exponentially more difficult. Therefore, ’Delusion’ chose about twenty to thirty years ago."
"In the ’Blood Demon’ incident, the ’Game’ merely projected a trace amount of power to stimulate the butterfly effect by creating a Saint. Moreover, the ’Game’ invaded Taoyuan Village, a minor world, not our major one."
Number 1 nodded slightly, acknowledging that Taoyuan Village indeed counted as a Parallel World with fewer life forms and thus fewer variables.
"In the same vein, to conserve energy, ’Delusion’ could only project power on a small scale, attempting to change the future through the butterfly effect. But, the power projected by ’Delusion’ was discovered by humans of our world and was directly eradicated. There might have been some guidance from the ’Game’... After all, the ’Game’ holds a strategic advantage in terms of time. In any case, the situation seemed very strange and perilously risky."
"One careless move, and humanity could be annihilated."
The meeting room fell into a slight silence.
Just thinking about the butterfly effect, which could change the world at any moment, yet humans being powerless to do anything but watch helplessly.
This feeling of passively awaiting death was unpleasant.
However, this was indeed a contest at a Demon God Level.
The elderly man sitting in the front furrowed his brows and sighed, "Narratives on the level of time axes are difficult for us to interfere with... and we can never be sure whether the power ’Delusion’ projected is completely eradicated. Maybe some elements slipped through the cracks?"
"Indeed... the past is hard for us to interfere with," Number 24 nodded, "And these elements that slipped through might evolve into unsolvable problems that can only be delayed by methods like sealing."
Looking worldwide, the mysteriously sealed areas were...
Numerous!
From Pyramids to the Sky Gardens, to ancient civilizations now submerged under the sea, and even the "Stairs to Heaven" are categorized as strange areas.
But which of them ’It’ created is hard to distinguish for the time being.
As ’Their’ powers continue to project, to avoid detection by humans, the ether value will also slowly change... True Demon Gods indeed possess such capabilities.
Humans, naturally, lean towards siding with the ’Game.’
Not to mention the cooperation with the ’Game’ in the past month has brought immense benefits to all of humankind, with major gains like ’Spiritual Beans’ and compounded Strange Objects, data on disease curses... If the ’Game’ fails, where would humans find another trustworthy Demon God?
Most Demon Gods harbor immense malice towards humans!
Who knows what disaster ’It,’ untethered from the ’Game’s’ anchoring and deeply integrating into our world, could bring to humanity.
It’s likely not any benevolent entity.
"Now the question is, what can we do?" Number 1 gently tapped the table with his fingernail, asking, "Are we to passively wait for these two Demon Gods to decide the outcome in the ’past segment of time’?"
After a moment of silence, he proposed an idea, "Or perhaps, we could forcibly remove those strange areas... making those weird places return to normal."
Number 2, an old man, said, "Although it’s not impossible, the difficulty is immense. After all, these strange areas involve other inactive Demon Gods..."
For a simple example, deep within Kunlun Mountain, there lies a secret realm filled with singing birds, fragrant flowers, exotic beasts, and even some primitive tribes, which is considered a strange area.
In the ’Classic of Mountains and Seas·Great Wilderness West Chapter,’ this secret realm is called ’Buzhou Mountain’: "Beyond the Northwest Sea, in the corner of the Great Wilderness, there lies a mountain unharmoniously called Buzhou."
Buzhou Mountain also involves numerous Demon Gods from mythology: the war between Gong Gong and Zhuanxu which ultimately punctured the heavens, giving rise to the story of Nuwa mending the sky.
And in the extremely cold northern lands, there lies the mythology of the Demon God ’Candle Nine Yin,’ commonly referred to by the people of Xia Country as the ’Candle Dragon’ or the ’Extended Candle Dragon.’
The ’Candle Dragon’ has not fallen but is in some inactive state.
The reason for its inactivity remains unknown.
Researchers temporarily believe that it might have found a better anchorage, a more suitable world, hence its reluctance to project too much power in Buzhou Mountain. Or perhaps, it’s satisfied with the stability of its current anchorage and is too lazy to exert more effort.
But if humans forcibly removed the ’extremely cold land’ secret realm and annihilated all life within, ’Candle Nine Yin’ might become active, which could turn out to be not such a good thing after all.
The waters of Earth World run deep, no joke!
Number 3, an elderly lady responsible for creating Rune Blades, spoke, "Let’s start by prioritizing the investigation of strange areas that have suddenly emerged in the last 20-30 years, especially those that are hard to contain and pose a greater threat."
"This needs a global effort, not just a matter for us, the Black-clothed Guard."
"That’s true..." Number 1, an old man, nodded and responded, "The upcoming global cooperation conference will also be held at the Taishan Altar, and I hope everyone can start organizing the relevant data. I will contact the leaders of various organizations as quickly as possible."
"This issue is troublesome and serious, but it must be resolved."
...
Just then, suddenly, the phone rang.
In such an important meeting, only a significant event could disrupt it.
After one of them answered the phone, he frowned slightly, "Gentlemen, a major incident has occurred. Chen Xinyi and Xu Zhijun have vanished in an elevator shaft at a branch base!"
"What?" Everyone was shocked.
"It could be an invasion by ’Delusion,’ or perhaps a counterattack by the ’Game’!"
After about five minutes, as if on cue, another important call came through. A professor from a subordinate branch, speaking very quickly, reported on the situation concerning "Pan Hao."
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