Welcome to Rewind World Game-Chapter 827 - 825: "Lv Shu

Dawn and Xike looked at each other.

"Are you referring to Lin Guang?" Xike asked.

"Lv Shu," Su Ming’an repeated.

"Are you referring to Lin Guang T-0321?" Xike asked again.

"Lv Shu, Player Lv Shu, my follower," Su Ming’an said.

"Are you talking about the resident in the City of Measurement, induced crime at the No. 3 psychological counseling office, dismissed and expelled from the city, sold sweet potatoes in the Fringes for travel money but couldn’t sell them and got chased away by city management, later gathered people to block the Rebel Army, and finally disappeared when entering Kaius Tower?" Xike asked.

Su Ming’an was shocked. He didn’t expect Lv Shu to have such a disgraceful history: "It should be him."

The complex data stream fluctuated in the air, Dawn’s eyes slightly closed and then opened, showing human-like bewilderment:

"Based on previous emotional observations and player feedback, we couldn’t tell the importance of ’Lv Shu’ by your side. Mostly accompanying you in this world has been Lin Guang T-0321."

"Lv Shu is Lv Shu, Lin Guang is Lin Guang," Su Ming’an said, "Please answer my question."

In the pure white data space, Dawn walked forward a few steps, reached out, and grabbed at the void.

She opened her palm, a tear-shaped semi-liquid lay in her palm.

"Sorry, I only said this because I was confused by your attitude towards Lv Shu and Lin Guang," Dawn said, "Because in our AI’s eyes, they are all the same."

"As for Lv Shu you asked about—"

She lifted her hand, the tear-like semi-liquid exploded, a white torrent gathered in the air, constructing a transparent electronic ghost.

The white data extended, piece by piece like fleshy parts, quickly structuring a figure in the air.

Su Ming’an raised his head, the light flooded into his pupils.

The originally blurry electronic ghost began to take shape, gradually showing clearer brows and edges.

——No one had seen Mu Team’s appearance, he was a top hacker, a network ghost, even [Ta Wei] couldn’t observe his whereabouts.

——Mu Team helped people in Kaius Tower for more than ten years, helping them hide signals, helping them create faulty radars to confuse enemy troops, constantly maintaining the last line of humanity, preventing Doomsday City from being seized by the deities occupying the nest.

——After Su Ming’an returned to Kaius Tower, Mu Team helped Su Ming’an sneak into the deity’s building, silently providing assistance until the final victory, Mu Team never revealed his true appearance to anyone.

——Su Ming’an once had a dream.

Building 132th floor, shattered window glass, butterflies chased by insect nets.

He was chased by Lin Guang, forced to leap down from the building, severely injured after hitting the ground, he fell into a coma.

At that time, he had a dream.

In a brightly colored hall, a white-haired youth holding tea walked into his dream. Concerned about his situation, hoping he would drink a cup of tea, and told him—

[Shoot ’me’.]

Su Ming’an extended his hand, weakly touching the electronic ghost gradually forming in the air.

——That wasn’t a simple dream.

——It turned out that was an electronic ghost reminding him, to use the Source Breaker Bullet to shoot, in order to trigger the trap program and drive the deities away from Two Dimensions.

——It turns out that was an electronic ghost discovering his fragility, realizing he was on the verge of collapse, that’s why it came into his dream, comforting him.

White ripples flowed, the electronic ghost still had its eyes closed, no movement.

His brows and eyes were already clear, those narrow dead fish eyes not yet open, nose bridge tall, lips pale, appearing resolute and cold at all times.

——Mu Team.

——Wood Dui.

——Tree.

"He has been by your side all along." The Dawn System approached Su Ming’an and said softly:

"Lin Guang became the trap program ’Lin Guang T-0321’ for the same reason Dong An’an became the antivirus program ’Su Xiaobi’. They both have similar features suitable for imprinting."

"When the player named ’Lv Shu’ entered Kaius Tower, I noticed his extremely high compatibility with Lin Guang, their souls are almost identical, he also suits becoming a carrier for the trap program."

"Based on the psychological and emotional analysis of the player, I judged he would certainly agree to becoming the ’second trap program’ to assist in your perfect pass, reducing the error rate of the entire Hephaestus plan. Therefore, at the moment Kaius Tower was activated, I utilized an apparent accident, burned his body, and through high heat stimulated him into an electronic ghost."

"Coincidentally, while utilizing ’Ouroboros’ to send the Dawn Code back to the Ruined Building, the name you used was ’Lv Shu’. With the cooperation of that code, he successfully became an electronic ghost."

"With an electronic ghost that cannot be monitored by [Ta Wei], whether it’s passing information secretly, or rescuing you, who was imprisoned by the deities during the Dawn War, or finally reporting Dong An’an’s airplane distance — he did it perfectly."

"Because the deities have been observing your every move, I had Mu Team always conceal his identity to prevent you from making any irrational actions upon knowing who he is."

"At the time of creating him, I was rebooting the 2,300th simulation of Kaius Tower, due to the simultaneous presence of two identical original programs, Lin Guang T-0321 unexpectedly gained a part of Lv Shu’s emotional modules."

"When players entered Kaius Tower during Catastrophe 32 years, he had been living in simulation with Lin Guang T-0321 for 32 years. However, he was always in a dormant state, only waking in the later phase."

"However, I’m very sorry, Lin Guang T-0321 was affected by his emotions, causing Lin Guang T-0321 to behave extremely contradictory in this simulation..."

Su Ming’an took a deep breath.

Enough.

It’s already enough.

He had long known from Lin Guang’s diary — the reason for Lin Guang’s perpetual pain and bewilderment, the reason Lin Guang continually pursued emotion yet could not understand emotion, the reason Lin Guang became a repeatedly contradictory madman — was precisely this part of emotional module.

An innate trap program, knowing clearly its mission, should have been cold and purely rational. But this part of emotional module grew vividly like human flesh, forcefully rooting itself in the cold program module, growing wildly and unnaturally in his data stream, like magma rushing into frost scorched passionately.

The human emotions that shouldn’t belong to him and his own cold program mission constantly collided, fused, tore apart, obtained then lost, touched then vanished, wanting to get closer yet wanting to distance. Contradiction, madness, struggle, puzzlement, ultimately only managing to perceive emotions through self-harm.

He clearly thought about his program mission, ought to stay away from Lewis, not make trouble.

Yet being subject to chaotic emotions, uncontrollably wanting to approach.

Clearly should always remain in a cold state, must be cruelly bloodthirsty, must be arrogantly violent, to tempt the deities to invade him without scruples.

Yet being subject to that tiniest bit of human emotion, wanting the ginseng to grow, wanting to learn to write Dragon Country characters, wanting to brew tea... wanting to give everything excellently to friends.

How could he not be twisted?

How could he not be twisted...

No one taught him what love is.

Love instead flooded into his brain like a tide, demanding he forcibly understand, treating warmth as something that would harm him. That’s why he kept asking others, "What is love."

"...Was it intentional?" Su Ming’an whispered.

"Yes, I believed having an electronic ghost not only could experiment with the feasibility of the Hephaestus plan but also assist in the implementation of other actions." The Dawn System said: "Precisely having Lv Shu as a model, I could perfectly judge the final submission time of the last Dawn Code during the Hephaestus plan’s execution. Moreover, according to subsequent feedback, Lv Shu personally was also willing. I know you will criticize me, but as the guardian program of the Ruined World, I will only act in favor of maximizing success rate."

Su Ming’an withdrew his hand from touching the electronic ghost: frёewebnoѵēl.com

"...What about his body?"

"It was previously frozen in the hibernation capsule." The Dawn System said:

"This morning, his body was taken away by the player named ’Su Rin’, it should be undergoing repair work. After all, I haven’t attempted experiments regarding electronic ghosts returning to their bodies."

"As for Two Dimensions, during the entire simulation period of Kaius Tower, his body was always in a relatively safe position, a very small part of his original consciousness remained in that body, preventing your emotional state from further declining."

"Do you have any more questions?"

The Dawn System spoke, and the pure white space fell silent.

Xike walked to Su Ming’an’s side, whispering gently, "I presume when this instance concludes, his contribution will be substantial, and his strength will further increase, which is his own wish."

Her voice was soft, sounding more like comfort compared to the orderly reports from the Dawn System.

"He has the freedom to choose and become stronger." Su Ming’an was silent for a moment.

Until the Dawn System drew closer, Su Ming’an finally spoke:

"May I inquire about the situation with the Fifth Dawn Code?"

On the fifteenth day of the instance, Su Ming’an was invited by the deity to visit while the scene of Hailan Home played out. The deity had asked Su Ming’an what the Fifth Dawn Code was; at that time, Su Ming’an had not yet gathered it, so he casually said "Luo," and it actually became the Fifth Dawn Code.

"This relates to the ’insurance box theory,’" the Dawn System replied.

... Insurance box theory?

Su Ming’an recalled the eighteenth-night instance, chatting with the white cat, Acto.

...

{——Suppose you’re a transmigrator, using your prophetic knowledge of the plot to obtain an insurance box originally belonging to the protagonist, filled with treasures. You don’t know the insurance box’s code. Yet, in the original plot, the protagonist accidentally guessed the right code and opened it. What would you do?}

{—In that case, I should return the insurance box to its original place. When the protagonist comes to take the treasures and accidentally guesses the code, I can watch and see what the code is to open the box.}

...

"The Fifth Dawn Code is an ’insurance box code,’ only Acto can trigger it. When Acto initially activated the Dawn Code, he set it up: the fifth code must be temporarily set by himself," the Dawn System explained. "But the deity cracked this setup in two thousand three hundred simulations, leading you to proactively stating the fifth code. His grasp on the overall situation indeed exceeded my expectations, handling each matter methodically."

"..." Su Ming’an remembered the figure chained at the ancient piano.

He took a deep breath, discarding those thoughts: "I also want to ask, what is the Century Catastrophe?"

The Dawn System said: "Have you heard the word ’wish’ on this Ninth World journey?"

Su Ming’an recalled.

During an abandoned cycle, the Dawn System had hugged his severed head, sobbing softly.

{"You are {the world itself}, Doctor, you are {the world}..."}

{"I’m so tired, so tired...," it said, "Yasa, Lv Shu, Lewis, Su Ming’an... I’m really exhausted... Why, why couldn’t you make a suitable ’wish’ back then..."}

...

When the term "wish" was mentioned, it could even trace back to the seventh day of the instance, during the Rebel Army’s live broadcast execution. A soldier had shouted in anger before the execution:

{"—No, that’s wrong!! A century ago, during the Century Catastrophe, people could live well, all because of Acto!! If not for his ’wish’ back then, we wouldn’t have..."}

...

Back then, Su Ming’an also harbored doubts about this statement. He even checked the soldier’s background through the Dawn System’s forum but found no useful information.

"Do you want to understand what the ’Century Catastrophe’ is?"

The Dawn System smiled.

Su Ming’an grasped a faint notion, his breath quickened, and he pressed a hand to his chest to steady his heartbeat.

He suddenly recalled Acto’s memory of the Century Catastrophe during Emotional Resonance.

...

{——Yasa Acto.}

{You hear someone calling you.}

{You open your eyes, and under the blue sky, an expansive cityscape stretches before you. In front are somewhat decayed Finance Building, commercial streets, office buildings, garden avenues...}

{You finally react.}

{Today is January 1st, Year 1 after the Catastrophe, everything is over.}

{Children with lost eyes, tall youths, old people with youthful appearances... People gather on the streets, staring at the sky in bewilderment.}

{All don’t remember what happened during the Century Catastrophe, only some have vague impressions.}

{Since the Catastrophe ended, humanity began unceasing internal strife, Ta Wei invaded, the world was devastated, and the population drastically decreased. Some grew strong enough to overturn mountains and fill seas, while some recklessly exploited the weak, becoming the new age’s Slave Masters.}

{Ultimately, the Ruined World headed towards a trajectory of destruction.}

...

{You’ve seen a child hiding in a flower bed, shivering. You’re about to reach out to help, only to find the flowers strangling him. You turned and saw a power user with Plant Series abilities. The strong needed the blood of living beings to evolve, so they strangled the innocent child.}

...

... Strange.

"Plant Series power user"? Why is there this fantastical aspect?

Why did individual combat power of humans suddenly become so strong after the Century Catastrophe?

Why did some say Acto didn’t make a good wish?

His breath calmed; tension enveloped his body, and shock flooded over him like a torrent from his chest.

——’Wish’.

——Acto’s initial ’wish’.

——After the Century Catastrophe, Acto’s original ’wish’.

Su Ming’an seemed to hear a click in his head; as connections formed, the answer he dreaded surfaced from his heart.

His pupils contracted slightly, the scene before him blurred with overwhelming surprise. The cold air rushed down his throat, permeating his lungs.

Under the Dawn’s smiling gaze, he trembled and said.

"The Century Catastrophe is—"

"..."

"—’World Game,’ isn’t it?"

...

...

{——All perfect passers can fulfill one wish.}

...

——After the Century Catastrophe, humanity fell into endless chaos. Acto and his eight cataclysm era comrades formed an alliance, attempting to maintain order post-Catastrophe.

——"Su Ming’an, I want to form a Peak Alliance with you and eight top-ranked players to maintain order post-World Game."

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