Extra #6
In the middle of the night, Shen Yuan vaguely remembered something.
When Luo Binghe fell into the Abyss, the system also went offline, but left an automatic reply. It seemed to have said that Luo Binghe was its primary energy source!
Why not tell Luo Binghe this and see what he thinks? Shen Yuan got up and found that Luo Binghe was not there.
I guess he went out to observe the world again. Children always have a strong desire to explore when they are in a new place, which is understandable.
Just then, the system logged on with a soft "whoosh".
system:
A letter from the entire system: We earnestly request that you communicate with Luo Binghe, the head of the energy company, and urge them not to dismantle this product.
Do not sever the connection between the system and the current owner of the account "Shen Qingqiu". [crying loudly.gif]
Shen Yuan, also known as Shen Qingqiu, found it difficult to look directly at this thing that had once put so much pressure on him.
Luo Binghe is the main energy source; if you unplug it, it can't resist. So, this is... trying to pull some strings with him?
Shen Qingqiu tentatively asked, "If I help you, what can you give me in return?"
System: If you are willing to provide assistance, the system will gift you a "Decryption Gift Pack" to explain the mystery of the system's origin!
And such a thing?
Shen Qingqiu waved his hand: "Granted. Bring it here!"
Anyway, I only agreed to communicate with Luo Binghe. As for the outcome of the communication, I've already done my part. Communication can fail!
But reading this "decryption gift pack" seems to have a very high barrier to entry!
Shen Qingqiu was pulled into a space by the system. Looking at the mountain of scrolls around him, he asked the system with a dark expression, "How many characters are there in total?"
System: 921 million.
It has over 900 million words! Over 900 million words! What does that even mean?!
You know, even though "The Arrogant Immortal Demon Path" was less than 20 million words, it still made him faint. Even with 900 million words, he wouldn't feel like he'd solved the mystery, because he'd already lost his mind!
System: Do you want to pay 100,000 points of enjoyment and 100 points of integrity to enable easy mode? Yes/No.
Simple mode, where dreams begin!
Shen Qingqiu's principle is that if he can spend money, he'll never grind. He clicked "Yes" without hesitation!
Then, the overwhelming number of scrolls vanished instantly, leaving only a small scroll in his hand.
Shen Qingqiu sat down on the ground, tossed the scroll aside, spread it out on his lap, and began to read it carefully.
Just as he expected, everything was far more complicated than he had imagined.
First of all, there are not only three worlds.
Long, long ago, there was a fourth world.
That was the world where the earliest "Luo Ice River" was born.
And like a flame that has burned out, that world has long since come to an end.
Shen Qingqiu was stunned: "Wait, the end? Can your fantasy cultivation world really end?"
System: Of course, especially without the Luo Binghe, the world would be unable to withstand any apocalyptic catastrophe. For example, a catastrophe that could have occurred in the modern world: approximately 66 million years ago, an asteroid impact…
Earth, through volcanic activity and climate change, led to the extinction of a number of ancient species, including dinosaurs…
Shen Qingqiu: "Stop the science popularization immediately. That's enough, I understand, thank you!"
So, in fantasy worlds, comet collisions with Earth are serious matters too!
So, how should we shorten "Luo Binghe" from the Origin World? Bingmei's apprentice used it; Bingge was used by the harem; and Bingdie is strange, as he seems easily confused with Tianlangjun... It's decided, let's call him Ice Ancestor!
The original world was a world of "Luo Binghe," a world of eternal solitude and perpetual oblivion. He personally sank his father into the sea of lava, and until his demise, no one ever entered his heart.
Shen Qingqiu looked at it carefully and summarized: Ice Ancestor seems to be quite sick... Well, every Luo Binghe seems to be quite sick, just in different ways.
However, Bingzu doesn't seem to be as ruthless as Bingge.
Ice Ancestor doesn't engage in harem activities, because he doesn't get close to anyone at all...
After thinking about it carefully, he felt that Ice Ancestor was actually closer to Ice Sister.
Luo Binghe lived for millions of years, eventually losing all desires and becoming utterly weary of his own existence.
His fate is beyond redemption. Even if the past were changed, it would only create a completely new world, but it wouldn't change his own existence on this timeline.
But he still wanted a different ending.
Although he could no longer see that ending. Although he didn't know what kind of ending he wanted.
But if he couldn't have a better ending, he wished he had never existed.
So he used his own body as a furnace and his own soul as fuel, and in the burning fire of his soul, he forged a group of spirits.
These spirits, carrying his last wishes, will help him find an opportunity to change his fate.
Hundreds of years after his death, a cataclysmic disaster struck.
Without "Luo Binghe," the world was transformed into a sea of fire amidst a magnificent meteor shower, and was annihilated forever.
The spirits wander through many spaces and times, searching for those with the potential to change the outcome, and sending them to the starting point of Luo Binghe's birth.
In the modern world, in order to help the host understand their existence as quickly as possible, the spirits learned a popular concept from online novels.
So they got a new name—system.
The system selected Xiang Fei as the number one contestant.
Xiang Fei is an ordinary online novelist who writes diligently but lacks market awareness, and therefore has not achieved much success.
One day, he subconsciously sensed some fragments from the original world and decided to use them as inspiration to develop a novel.
In his original outline, although Luo Binghe ultimately remained alone, he encountered many wonderful people along his life's journey. Though his life had its regrets, it was still not in vain.
The ending wasn't particularly good, but it was better than before.
This person is essentially a biographer of Luo Binghe, who has drastically altered the story, but done a good job of it.
The systems peeked at his outline, really liked the new story he had woven, and had high hopes for contestant number one.
They secretly imbued his keyboard with a powerful ability:
When the author was writing the story of Luo Binghe, he only needed to type on the keyboard to guide the direction of another world.
But to everyone's surprise, the person they had placed their hopes on failed!
Contestant number one has a fatal flaw: his family is not harmonious, he lives in poverty, and his parents often forget to give him living expenses.
Because he had no idea what mission he was shouldering or what abilities he possessed, and was under immense emotional and financial pressure during that period, he panicked and decided to go all out, abandoning his original outline and choosing to cater to the market.
He abandoned his principles and wrote a "masterpiece" — a low-IQ, padded, and overpowered fantasy novel called "The Arrogant Immortal Demon Path".
He twisted the ending in an even more bizarre direction!
The most incredible thing is that, in reality, whatever the plane wrote shouldn't have affected Bing Ge. Because "Luo Binghe's" personal will cannot be manipulated!
But the problem is, other people can be manipulated!
For example, Ning Yingying, Ming Fan, and others were indeed just average people with low IQs. But if their original IQ was 50, contestant number one directly reduced it to a negative number for them.
This caused "Luo Binghe" in that world to seem to be surrounded by a group of inexplicable pseudo-humans, and under the subtle influence of the environment, he also became abnormal!
The systems had never seen such an absurd development and were utterly astonished.
What's wrong with this guy? He may have potential, but he has absolutely no integrity!
He was able to strangely establish his own logic, indirectly influencing the protagonist.
He is indeed the creator god, but he is also the god who created the entire world...
To prevent this person from continuing to distort the world, and to give this talent another chance, they retrieved the plane's keyboard and abilities, and kicked him directly back to the starting point.
Now that you're here, you can't possibly be this shameless, can you?
This is absolutely unbearable...
Highly powerful beings can physically traverse the barriers between worlds, but ordinary people cannot.
For someone from the real world to enter the world of "Arrogance," they need a physical body.
Fortunately, the systems have their own pool of physical bodies. They often trade with those who hate the world and hate themselves, exchanging other paths for their souls in exchange for the right to use physical bodies throughout the entire timeline.
Contestant number one drew a card and got "Shang Qinghua".
The luck was decent, so it was a good choice. Aside from his identity as the Peak Master of Anding Peak, there weren't any major flaws.
But he once again left the systems in despair.
This person is truly... a complete slacker!
Even with a whip, you can't get it to move!
Each system observes its host, testing the limits of the pressure the host can withstand. This is similar to a dynamic difficulty mechanism in a game. Each system is tailor-made for a specific user. The behavior of a system depends entirely on the host.
Shang Qinghua's style is extremely conservative. Although he has worked diligently for many years, his impact on the world is almost negligible, a complete waste of his high level of inspiration!
What's most infuriating is that—when the mission target was changed to Mobei Jun, that damned contestant number one suddenly had a surge in execution and action!
I yield to Luo Binghe, but I strike hard against Mo Bei Jun!
Seeing this, Shen Qingqiu roared inwardly, "Xiang Tian* airplane, you still dare to say you're not a fan of supporting characters?!" —————In the end, the systems discussed it and decided to give up with tears in their eyes. Oh well!
Say nothing.
The most urgent task right now is to find the second seed!
Restarting the world would consume a lot of mana. In order to conserve resources, the systems decided to also put contestant number two into the same world.
Because it looks like it can still be saved.
The policy of non-interference and passive resistance also has its advantages.
After careful selection, the system identified one person in the book review section.
Very well, this reader seems quite dissatisfied with the book's level of integrity.
This is truly touching. Because those who fully appreciate the book "The Mad Path of Immortals and Demons" will...
Such poor taste resulted in being immediately excluded from the candidate pool by the system!
Most importantly, this person was deeply concerned about Luo Binghe's fate.
His long reviews are always insightful, and his short reviews are always to the point. Every donation he makes powerfully demonstrates the depth of his love, and every criticism he makes fully reveals his earnestness. He clearly has a profound understanding of this story and its protagonist!
This is definitely the perfect candidate!
—————That's how it should have been.
Unexpectedly, two devastating events occurred when contestant number two's soul crossed the world barrier.
One is that the time is wrong.
Shen Yuan was placed at the time when Luo Binghe was fourteen years old.
Second, the role is wrong.
Shen Yuan drew a card and got "Shen Qingqiu", who abuses Luo Binghe in every world.
—Two overlapping events, a hellish start.
This account is useless from the start. How can you even play it?! Go play by yourself!
To prevent the butterfly effect and ensure Luo Binghe's smooth path to becoming a demon (career), several major events in Luo Binghe's life have been welded shut and cannot be changed.
This includes the requirement that Shen Qingqiu must personally knock Luo Binghe into the Abyss of No Return.
In other words, Shen Yuan will inevitably be killed by Luo Binghe in revenge a few years later!
How can such a short-lived character change the world?
The systems were arguing again during their meeting.
One system thought, "Let's just give up on this world; it's hopeless." Another system thought, "We should give him a new body so he can continue fighting." They argued back and forth, unable to reach a consensus.
To everyone's surprise, the performance of contestant number two soon shocked the system.
This person is incredibly efficient!!!
They had never seen such a capable host. Give him even the slightest push, and he could run eight hundred meters!
The difficulty and pressure of the task kept increasing. But contestant number two maintained a very stable mental state throughout. Although he seemed relaxed, he never stopped taking action.
Having seen so many hosts who slack off, run away, are ambitious but do nothing, or only want to exploit the system's abilities without doing anything, the systems were overjoyed to suddenly see one that was actually working diligently…
But the surprises brought by the "Shen Qingqiu version of Shen Yuan" don't stop there.
Unlike Shang Qinghua, who had already given up, Ning Yingying and the others' IQs, under Shen Qingqiu's influence, did not decrease but increased, breaking through the passing grade and skyrocketing upwards!
Not only did he push through everything in his path, reaching the level of Tianlangjun that no one had ever been able to surpass before, but he also managed to rescue many people who were completely unrelated to him, such as Liu Qingge, who should have died long ago and had not escaped death in any other world.
Luo Binghe was more radiant and cheerful than ever before.
Each of the Luo Glaciers is a source of total energy. The systems can sense that the energy they transmit is always abundant, warm, and pure.
This world is radiating an unprecedented and extraordinary vitality.
Finally, the system also told Shen Qingqiu some of their internal "gossip".
The system that recommended Shen Yuan has long since risen to a high position and is now the leader of the entire system.
System: It is I [^_^].
Shen Qingqiu: "What do you mean by sending that emoji? Am I supposed to applaud you?"
System: If your desire is so strong, the system does not object [^_^].
After a moment of silence, Shen Qingqiu asked, "So, you've completed your mission?"
System: The mission has been successfully completed.
Shen Qingqiu: "Then why do you insist on blaming me?"
System: Your company offers the best employee benefits.
Shen Qingqiu didn't want to ask what kind of benefits they were.
The system proactively explained: Your body contains abundant "satisfaction" resources, which can be used for salary payments to the entire system.
Shen Qingqiu: "I'm warning you, don't use such strange sentence structures!"
I see. So, if Luo Binghe strips it from Shen Qingqiu, it won't be able to pay salaries to the other systems.
While Shen Qingqiu was still deep in thought, the system had already begun bombarding him with a series of pop-up message boxes.
System: Click here to download the attachment and see a review of the entire system's difficult past.
System: The system also needs a peaceful old age.
System: [crying loudly.gif]
Shen Qingqiu: "...Okay, okay. I'll go talk to them for you..."
System: Thank you for your cooperation. It's been a pleasure working with you! In the future, we will continue to provide assistance whenever needed. [Sprinkling flowers.jpg]
Forget it! No, no, if it's a situational facilitator or a multiple-choice question in a visual novel, then...
I really don't know what you guys have learned in modern times...
Shen Qingqiu suddenly remembered something: "Oh right, I have another question. When you first sent me there, I remember during the early missions, I asked you what would happen if my integrity points were reset to zero. You said I would be sent back to my original world."
System: Yes.
Shen Qingqiu tentatively asked, "So... if my integrity points had been reset to zero back then, I would have gone straight to the hospital..."
woke up?"
System: Correct.
It's poisonous!
It turns out that if he had just trembled slightly, he could have gone straight home!
One can imagine that if he had been deported, he might have been both happy and confused in his hospital bed: "Why did the system suddenly get angry? There was no punishment at all." It seems they genuinely thought this account was useless and had no future, so they decided to send it back…
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