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Chapter 716 - 713: "Don’t come in.

Chapter 716: Chapter 713: "Don’t come in.

"Ding, ding, ding—"

A sound of dragging chains arose.

The room Su Ming’an was in was simple; there was a bed and a wardrobe, and the air was always filled with a dark, heavy fog.

Su Ming’an looked up and his gaze fell on the other. He noticed only a pair of dark eyes showing while the rest of the face was covered in fog, making it indistinct.

The other smiled faintly, "It’s useless, Yasa Acto. You can’t see who I am..."

Su Ming’an, "Aren’t you just the deity by my ear?"

The other was greatly surprised.

To reduce being tricked by NPCs, Su Ming’an was accustomed to analyzing everyone’s speech, including tone, pauses, and commonly used words. The deity had been whispering in his ear for so long, he was very familiar with its tone.

He never thought the deity was a good person. Even though the deity always taught him how to break the game, there was an ulterior motive.

The deity belonged to "Ta Wei", they were invaders, not good people.

Su Ming’an faced out with his palm, planning to attack first, "Spatial—"

He heard the system prompt:

[You are under the control of a special prop and cannot use any Magic Series Skills.]

...

No wonder the deity was so confident.

But unfortunately... he just happened to have non-magic long-range skills.

"Swish, swish, swish—"

A flash of red light appeared on the back of his hand, and a number of scales dominated above the deity’s head. Bringing ’Judgment,’ this was a Ruler’s Skill that superseded Magic Series Skills.

Suddenly, a burst of red light flickered over the deity’s head. Su Ming’an switched to Bright State, reached out, and the Sword of Yarman instantly appeared, slashing towards the deity’s neck.

"Clang—!" A sound like metal striking metal rang out, and the deity staggered backward several steps.

"Your Combat Power doesn’t seem very strong," Su Ming’an stood up. Compared to those deities with 9999 Combat Power from before, this self-claimed ’deity’ from "Ta Wei" was totally lacking.

"Yasa Acto," the deity said while retreating, "Can we talk? I have no intention of starting a war with you."

Su Ming’an, without another word, swung his sword again.

He wanted to see if the deity had the power to kill him outright. As for forming an alliance, that could wait till next time.

"Clang—!" Another sharp clinking sound. The deity no longer retreated. A dark mist surrounded him, and several "Ding, ding, ding" sounds of chains flashed out from the surrounding black mist, like shining black serpents. As Su Ming’an stepped forward, he suddenly heard a ’crack, crack’ sound and his arms suddenly felt like they had gone limp, the sword dropping to the ground.

The next moment, the chains pulled his body back up.

[You are in a Special Space, and per judgment, you temporarily lose control of your arms.]

...

What was this judgment?

"Listen to me, Acto," the deity walked back and crouched down again, "I really don’t want to kill you. We still have the Civilization Gambling Pact between us, so please don’t be rash."

Su Ming’an pondered.

He and the deity had a bet that he either could activate the Dawn System within twenty days. If he remained confined here, activating the Dawn System would be impossible. Was this the deity’s goal?

No...

There might be deeper factors.

Anyway, he had known all along...

Those who loved him, who wanted to help him, always had ulterior motives. Even if the deity constantly taught him how to break the game, it didn’t mean the deity was good.

He had always known, in the world there is no such thing as unconditional aid and love.

"Yasa Acto, I have observed you for a long time, and I have a question for you," the deity said, "In this world, any existence, whether a thing or an event, has a cause. Different causes interact and one thread may lead to whole-body movement. If we appropriately eliminate certain causes to steer reality towards our own expectations, can we achieve omniscience and omnipotence?"

Su Ming’an said, "If it’s you, you’ve already achieved it."

The deity said, "Then, like this world game, do you think because you see yourself as a Player and others as NPCs, your level of existence is above us?"

...Was this coming to discuss philosophy with him?

Su Ming’an slightly lifted his eyes.

At that moment, through the other’s eyes, he seemed to see a pair of firefly-like, amber-clear eyes.

"Free will is unregretful love and death," Su Ming’an said.

...

"Ding dong!"

[You have triggered a Favorability condition.]

[(?) Basic Favorability: 40 points]

...

[You have received the TE4 Main Quest "The Shepherd of Utopia"

Task prompt: Raise the Favorability of the person before you to at least 80 points (Cannot use Ruler’s Skills)

Task reward: Super-intelligent AI Evolution Permission

Task failure penalty: None]

...

Su Ming’an was slightly stunned. He hadn’t expected to trigger TE4, a quest he had almost never touched. He remembered that TE4 required... perfect construction of the Dawn System?

The reward for the main quest was very tempting; he had long desired an AI like Xike. If he had a strong AI following him in the future, it would be like having the strongest hacker and a super-modern computer with him, not having to stick to playing Underworld music and playing Snake like A-alone.

"A very interesting answer..." the deity muttered to himself.

Activating Strategy mode, Su Ming’an’s face showed a kindly smile, reminiscent of a sudden change in a Sichuan Opera:

"Deity, let’s have a chat then,"

The deity’s Initial Favorability was already at 40 points, with his SS-level Charm and Missionary Halo, it shouldn’t be hard to increase it to 80 points.

...

Half an hour later, Su Ming’an stared at the deity’s consistently unchanged 40 Favorability points, feeling puzzled.

Before him, the deity kept talking endlessly about topics of managing a city-state... Su Ming’an wasn’t sure how the topic had veered off in this direction, today strangely encountering someone who could lead the conversation.

"The longer a person lives in different worlds, the more characteristics they exhibit, thereby, we can simulate each person’s persona using computational methods," the deity still only showed a pair of eyes, but those eyes were filled with excitement:

"By using big data calculations, we can construct a precisely tuned and reasonable city-state. People are assigned their roles, resources are appropriately distributed, and by deploying a grading thought, they are divided into different levels... "

"That..." Su Ming’an couldn’t help but speak up, "In City of Measurement Year 102, they used this management concept you’re mentioning, it’s not new."

"...No, I think there were still problems with the City of Measurement in the year 102," the Deity said. "Beyond grading ideology, some element of elite ideology is necessary, applicable only in specific contexts. Moreover, the concept must be relative, with distinctions even within the same rank. A small group requires a captain; a larger collective requires a sub-group leader; and the upper echelons need trustworthy locales, virtues matching positions, different groups should not blindly cross over, leading to wastage of resources..."

Su Ming’an found this increasingly familiar as he listened.

In his livestream, a host of "experts" began to wail:

"Damn, isn’t this just part of Lighthouse theory? It’s etched into the DNA! Deity, stop repeating! I’ve almost been brainwashed in this half hour."

"I’ve always known this Deity was no good, but didn’t expect a brainwasher as well."

"Lighthouse Hierarch, charge! The thoughts of this Deity and the Lighthouse Church are nearly identical, this is simply handing out benefits, so easy to strategize!"

"..."

Su Ming’an again glanced at the immovable 40 points of favorability.

Finally, he couldn’t help but interrupt the Deity, "I know you are very adept at city-state governance. But you still can only stay in this dark world."

The Deity fell silent.

He stared at Su Ming’an for a while.

"Ding-dong!"

"(?) Favorability: 40 points + 10 points."

Su Ming’an was shocked.

They had chatted for so long, and the Deity’s favorability had shown no signs of change. How did it increase just because he had scolded the Deity?

...Did he enjoy being scolded that much?

What kind of strange Deity was this?

Suddenly, there was a strange noise from outside, and the Deity suddenly stood up, a wary expression appearing in his eyes.

"Acto, I will come to find you later," the Deity said, his figure gradually receding. Accompanied by a series of "ding-ding-ding" sounds, Su Ming’an felt the space around him heavy as if a thick black curtain was pressing down on him.

"You are in a special space, it has been determined that you temporarily have lost control of your limbs."

...

The room fell silent, Su Ming’an frowned slightly.

He was hesitating whether to commit suicide to reset, this route seemed all wrong, but it might still carry with it a vast amount of clues...

As the instance approached its climax, his mind grew more and more confused. Logically, having uncovered such complex theories like three-dimensional time streams, grid time streams, firewall overlaps, there shouldn’t be any unsolved mysteries left...yet he always felt as if he had missed something.

He suddenly remembered several previous loops, sometimes Edward would smile at him just before dying. As if he had fallen into a trap.

...Had he done something wrong?

Could it be that from the beginning... he had taken the wrong path?

...

"Caius Tower, One and a Half Dimensions"

Under the blood sun, an army of three hundred thousand lined up at the edge of the world, led by a black-haired woman in simple clothes. Her jade-like green eyes were especially beautiful, her features stunningly gorgeous.

She faced the edge of the world of zeros and ones and shouted, "Quick, release him! People of the [Three Dimensions], do you hear me!"

The data stream of zeros and ones fluctuated.

A shadow spread among the data, poking out a head, it was the Deity.

"Who are you looking for, 360 antivirus software?" the Deity said.

"I’m not 360... bring Lewis back!" Bi said coldly.

"What if I don’t? Do you think you can bring such a large army across dimensions?" The deity said with a smile, "With so many people from ’One Dimensions’ pouring into ’Three Dimensions,’ the Dawn System’s processing capacity will be overloaded. Do you still have enough resources? Besides, Lewis is doing quite well with me, he enjoys chatting with me."

Bi fell silent for a while.

After a moment, she finally spoke, her voice slightly choked, "So the people of ’Three Dimensions’ have indeed fallen?"

"Think about it. The people of ’Two Dimensions’ comfortably cycle through data. The people of ’One Dimensions’ calmly march towards the future. What about the people of ’Three Dimensions’? To survive, they depend on us from ’Other Dimensions.’ It’s only human nature," the deity said, "Don’t hate the scarcity, hate the inequality. Humans are always such creatures."

"Are you not human?" Bi said.

"Ah, right, I am too," the deity said. "Let’s play a game then. Guess who I am? Friendly tip, you definitely know me."

Bi stopped wasting words and suddenly lunged forward.

To the shock of onlookers, she leaped into the edge of the world of zeros and ones.

...

Su Ming’an stared at the surrounding darkness but ultimately decided to roll back his progress.

After all, this was someone else’s territory, and he was alone; getting stuck in a dead save would be the end. TE1 was already at 99%, staying in the Ruined World was safest.

He silently recited ’Spatial Vibration,’ planning to shake himself to death, but then he heard footsteps.

... Had the deity come back?

He opened his eyes, only to see a dazzling golden light coming slowly through the dense fog, like the dawn sun rising.

The one walking towards him, holding a golden sword, was Su Rin, as if every appearance he made was accompanied by sunlight.

"Follow me," Su Rin said.

Su Ming’an hadn’t expected to see Su Rin here—this was the enemy’s stronghold. If Su Rin, single-handedly breaking in, got caught, it was nearly impossible for him to get back.

"Su Ming’an. This is ’Three Dimensions,’ not ’Other Dimensions.’ ’Three Dimensions’ has become a temporary base for ’Other Dimensions,’ and ’Other Dimensions’ can already subtly interfere with this world." Su Rin grabbed him, a surge of energy entered Su Ming’an’s body, restoring his control over his limbs:

"I have only now realized how perilous humanity is. ’Three Dimensions’ has completely fallen, and I fear ’Two Dimensions’ and ’One Dimensions’ aren’t far off... After you were transported away, I sensed something wrong, so I followed you here using soul positioning."

"Did no one discover you?" Su Ming’an said.

"No. All along the way, there was only fog around me, I couldn’t see anything. I’m taking you out now..." Su Rin said, suddenly hearing footsteps outside.

... Someone was coming!

Su Ming’an pushed Su Rin into a nearby wardrobe—this was the enemy’s stronghold, Su Rin was very likely to lose control of his limbs just as he had earlier. To prevent a total wipeout, better to hide first.

"You..." Su Rin hadn’t expected to be stuffed into a wardrobe as soon as he arrived.

"Quiet," Su Ming’an said.

He had just closed the wardrobe when the people outside the door came close. They even knocked politely first.

"Lewis, good morning," it was Lin Guang’s voice.

Su Ming’an’s alertness heightened—Lin Guang was even more dangerous than the deity in his eyes. The deity at least always spoke politely. Lin Guang, on the other hand, was often violent, smashing bones and tearing tendons were common occurrences.

"—Don’t come in!" Su Ming’an said.

Lin Guang actually didn’t come in but stopped at the door, "What’s wrong?"

Su Ming’an racked his brain for an excuse, stuffing back in the corner of clothes that Su Rin had accidentally revealed from inside the wardrobe to avoid detection, "I’m already asleep, don’t come in."

"Oh..." Lin Guang said.

Then, the door was opened without any obstruction, Lin Guang simply walked in. It appeared that the excuse of "sleeping" couldn’t stop him. This sort of excuse could deter gentlemen, not villains. Unfortunately, Lin Guang was a villain.