In the live broadcast room.
[Awesome, the child psychologist expert from before got it all right. Miu Miu’s past is just as the expert said – her mother passed away early, and she lacked parental love at home, which resulted in isolation and exclusion at school.]
[Impressive, even if the expert doesn’t mention his profession, I think he could open a fortune-telling shop.]
[That’s not right. Don’t demean other professions with your interests and hobbies.]
[It’s not just guessing, there is scientific basis for this. Although human psychology is complex, subconscious and psychological activities can still be well understood after analysis. Otherwise, why would there be so much research in psychology? Take a look at advertising, it’s mostly based on psychology. Even the pioneer of advertising was a psychologist.]
[…Damn. So you’re saying that the desire to buy something may not necessarily be because you want to buy it, but because you’re being influenced to buy it?]
[That’s right. Sometimes when you’re watching TV, you don’t originally intend to buy something, but after seeing the advertisement multiple times, you start to consciously or unconsciously think about it and end up buying it. But why did you really buy it in the first place? Was it because you actually wanted it, or was it due to the herd mentality? After buying it, the item just ends up lying there. Sigh, when you think about it, we’re just the capital’s lambs. Advertisements are placed to make money, but what do we gain from watching them?]
[Haha, making contributions to GDP. Otherwise, why make so much money? Enjoy life while you can, time passes by in a blur, and I’ve come to understand that.]
[But Miu Miu is really pitiful.]
[Um… brothers and sisters, what was that black “thing”? Have you seen it before?]
[Yes, I have.]
[It’s my first time seeing it.]
[Don’t laugh at me, but I’ve already reached the 700th floor, and I’ve never seen anything like it before. And this thing feels strangely eerie, it doesn’t fit in with this fairy tale world at all. Miu Miu also said she has never seen this thing before. It’s like a strange life form that suddenly appeared from outside the domain and is completely out of place.]
[Are there experts from higher floors in this livestream room?]
[I’m here, I’m on the 700th floor.]
[800th floor.]
[Same here, I’m on the 800th floor.]
[Wow, so there are big shots on such high floors in the live broadcast room. I thought only the low-level ones were watching God Xin’s live stream.]
[Well, it’s interesting, and this is the first time there’s a live broadcast clearance of the time cage. I’m curious.]
[I have a bold speculation, the time cage copy might be another ascension for God Xin.]
[Remove “might”. According to God Xin’s previous operation, the copy will be closed when he clears it. So, after he finishes the time cage and fairy tale world copies, will the time cage also be closed? Will there be only one punishment method, [beheading]?]
[Hmm… good question.]
[I don’t think so. There are many copies, I think the system will find a new replacement punishment copy. Just like how game developers won’t let a player lead them around by the nose.]
[Haha, makes sense.]
[The barrage is full of analyzing experts, I dare not speak anymore. I’m even trembling in fear.]
[Your brain just wants to watch God Xin’s immortal love.]
[Who doesn’t want to watch immortal love? It’s just that the number of episodes for this immortal love story has tripled.]
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The ice ball rolled under the bed with a, circled on the floor and rolled to Bai Li Xin’s feet, all movements which were very inconsistent with gravitational logic.
Bai Lixin lowered his head and glanced at the ice ball stuck to his feet, then looked at the vines that were rooted on the table, swaying and flickering with eagerness.
The vines shook and every twist seemed to be saying “choose” “choose” “choose quickly”!
Bai Li Xin felt trapped between the two options.
Only the golden dragon scale lay quietly on the table, emitting a faint golden light.
It remained calm.
After hesitating for several seconds, Bai Lixin finally reached out for the dragon scale.
The dragon scale suddenly shone brightly, enveloping the entire room in a dreamy golden light.
The window suddenly shook and there was a cry of surprise from outside.
Bai Lixin walked to the bedside and pulled open the curtains, only to see a pair of large golden vertical pupils.
The golden dragon flapped its wings from outside his window, and with each flap of its wings, it created small hurricanes that slapped against the window with a resounding sound.
The dazzling golden dragon scales were arranged in rows on its body, glowing in the setting sun and the thickening dusk in the distance. It looked like a devout knight, romantically knocking on the window of its lover under the sunset.
The crowd on the street scattered and fled, and guards in military uniforms rushed over from a distance.
The guard team quickly arrived at the dragon’s location. The dragon flapped its wings and they raised their spears, looking at the dragon vigilantly.
Bai Lixin glanced at the dragon with a grin, and casually picked up ice ball and vines that were dancing wildly. With a neat motion, he opened the window and leaped onto the dragon’s back amid the astonished exclamations of the crowd.
[Heh.]
The man’s chuckle only he could hear rang out, and the dragon let out a roar that echoed to the sky, carrying the youth into the clouds and disappearing from the awe-struck gazes of onlookers.
“Just now, did I see an illusion?”
“No, it was a dragon! A real dragon!”
“Damn, the evil dragon is here! It even took away a young master!”
“The dragon ate him!”
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In the live broadcast room.
[I’m speechless. Atleast we finally know how rumors are spread.]
[Spread the word, the dragon will come to eat children tomorrow.]
[The dragon big boss: I’ve never been so speechless in my life. Unlucky.jpg]
[Just now, I was still immersed in Bai Lixin’s leap of love, and in a second, reality brought me back.]
[Hahaha, the joys and fears of the world are indeed not interchangeable.]
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[Long time no see.]
Dijia’s somewhat mocking voice rang out in Bai Lixin’s ear. Bai Lixin smiled and said, [Long time? How long has it been?]
The dragon replied, [I can’t remember clearly. It could be as long as a hundred billion years, or it could be only as long as three months.]
Hearing the words “a hundred billion,” Bai Lixin was instantly taken back to the fifty years he spent in the Eternal Diamond Mountain.
The world’s hardest diamond, the blood-red thorny path, and sea filled with bones.
Bai Lixin reached out and lightly traced the ruggedness on the dragon’s body with his fingertips, sighing softly. [It has indeed been a long time.]
[Aren’t you worried that the system will detect something?]
The dragon replied, [In this world, it won’t. The Eternal Diamond Mountain belongs to a semi-open magnetic field, and the system cannot scan all the information.]
[It’s because the system cannot scan it that I got a chance to enter the Eternal Diamond Mountain.]
Bai Lixin asked, [When did you wake up by the way?]
The dragon replied, [I woke up when your underworld copy failed and you entered the Time Cage.]
Bai Lixin asked, [What happened after that?]
The dragon’s voice was silent for two seconds. [What happened later may take a while to explain.]
Bai Lixin said, [It’s okay, take your time. We have plenty of time now.]
The dragon’s nasal laughter reached Bai Lixin’s ear. [Then I should also let you know that after entering the 900th level, players will gradually be assimilated by the main brain system and become part of the main brain’s thinking.]
[Some players with strong willpower still retain their sanity and attach themselves to the sub-system. Some players with weaker mental power have been completely absorbed by the system and become a means for the system to learn and evolve.]
[It also tried to absorb me, but my mental power was too strong, so we remained in a stalemate until I reached the 999th level.]
[It couldn’t absorb me, nor could it kill me.]
[Just like your system said earlier, once the system is destroyed from within, the players living inside will also perish. It’s not that it can’t be killed, but rather it must not be killed.]
[Only by creating a completely new container and transferring all the players can it be destroyed from within.]
Bai Lixin meditated for two seconds, recalling the words spoken by Dijia’s residual memories in the void. [So, direct destruction is not possible? And a direct destruction will cause a large spatial distortion?]
Dragon: [That’s right. That’s why we divided the plan into three steps.]
[The first step is to establish a completely new space and teleport everyone there.]
[The second step was to inject a virus into the main brain system to paralyze and influence its thinking.]
[The third step involved exploding the main brain and its associated copies. These copies are intertwined like ropes in a bag so as long as some of them are destroyed and the fuse is ignited at the end, all the copies, small worlds, and systems will get slowly stripped away, just like pulling grapes apart.]
[Once all three steps are completed, the power of the system will cease to exist, and the power of the distorted space will be able to annihilate the system. When the system disappears, the localized temporal and spatial distortions it brought about will also disappear. If the effect is good, it may even be possible to rewind time and return everything to its original state.]
Bai Lixin nodded in agreement with Dijia’s plan and was inwardly amazed.
He had always thought that Dijia had lost all his memories and although he was still at Level 999, that was all. It never occurred to him that Dijia had been planning how to destroy the system since early on.
Bai Lixin: [You said “we” just now. Who else is involved in this plan?]
Dijia: [There are others.]
[These plans were customized after careful consideration, and among them, I am responsible for the third step, which involves placing soul fragments in key central copies as markers. The first step that involves construction requires Song Tianyuan from the Sand Sea Guild. He has a prop that can construct the new space.]
Bai Lixin: [Does the second step involve Tan Yue?]
Dijia: [No, it’s not just him. He just happened to appear by your side. Among those who participated in this operation, some have already sacrificed themselves, and some, like Tan Yue, are hiding in the main brain system in a spiritual state.]
Bai Lixin: [You said earlier that you didn’t recognize Tan Yue, so have regained your memories?]
Dijia: [Not completely. That’s something I need to talk about next.]
[The system occasionally scans players’ brainwaves to ensure that it knows the psychological activities of all players. To prevent this plan from being discovered by the system, we had to sacrifice relevant memories like cutting off a gecko’s tail.]
[But we still needed someone to remember this plan in order to guide its progress, and that’s me.]
[All the memories were stored separately in soul fragments, and as the soul fragments returned, I gradually remembered some things, but not everything.]
[Of course, I have been quietly staying on Level 999 for a long time, and after repeated scans, the system has determined that everything is fine, so the probability of getting discovered is low.]
[However, for safety reasons, Tan Yue, who is capable of planting viruses, will do his best to guide the virus so that the system won’t discover it…]
Bai Lixin: [How do you know if the virus has been successfully released?]
Dijia paused for two seconds: [Do you remember seeing Tan Yue during the [Undead Magician] copy?]
[We agreed that if the virus is successfully released, Tan Yue will find a way to give a signal.]
Fragments of memories quickly flashed through Bai Lixin’s mind, and he quickly realized, [So it was during that time. Huh, I was too naïve, I thought he appeared only for Xia Chi.]
Dijia: [Of course, it was also to save Xia Chi. You can think that he put Xia Chi first and informed us accordingly.]
Bai Lixin’s eyes gradually deepened.
He remembered that during the that copy, a player called Wen Ziqing pushed Xia Chi off the cliff. When he was about to go to save Xia Chi, a blurry translucent figure appeared like a ghost and caught the falling Xia Chi.
That was Tan Yue.
However, he has never told Xia Chi about Tan Yue’s appearance partly because of Tan Yue’s plea, and partly because he didn’t want to give Xia Chi any psychological burden.
Dijia: [I got news of the virus the moment the soul fragment returned.]
[Then the memories stored in the soul fragment began to slowly unlock, and some memories began to gradually recover.]
[But these are only memories from the game, whenever I see you, I always feel like I’ve forgotten something important.]
[There can never be such a coincidence.]
Dijia pondered for a few seconds: [There is something else I want to tell you, our encounter was not a coincidence.]
[Do you remember the first time we met? You broke into the cave where the soul fragment was located.]
[After the soul fragment returned, I recieved your resume on the 999th floor.]
[In the age column, you wrote “30,000 years old.”]
*Btw “30,000 years old” is often used as a metaphorical expression to convey the idea of a very long time or an extremely old age, so Bai Lixin is older than that.
Bai Lixin: [I remember, how can I forget? Who can forget that they were made a widower.]
[Uh…] The man’s voice suddenly paused, and when he spoke again, it carried a tone of flattery, [Uh, that, ahem, it’s a misunderstanding, it’s all a misunderstanding.]
[Your name was like a pocket watch in the hands of a hypnotist, pulling at my subconscious.]
[I kept hearing a voice in my heart, “Help him, it’s him.”]
The man paused, [But let me explain, even without this psychological suggestion, I would still help you wholeheartedly.]
Bai Li Xin: [Heh.]
