"Indeed, this is an answer that only humans could give."

After a moment of silence, He suddenly smiled and said, “But child, I must regretfully tell you that there is no absolutely correct future in the rules of the game controlled by your master.”

There is no absolute truth...

Xiao Linlin was taken aback, her eyes narrowing slightly: "It's alive?"

The absence of absolute correctness implies that a higher being is constantly monitoring everyone and may intervene and modify the future path that everyone is about to embark on, continuously making corrections.

It's like a programmer staring at a piece of software, constantly improving and adding or removing code, so that it can never run according to its own will.

"This guess makes you seem rather unwise."

His laughter carried a hint of disappointment: "Child, not all beings use life forms that humans understand."

"I'm sorry, it was my fault."

Xiao Linlin lowered her head and said softly and sincerely, "Carbon-based life is not the entirety of the universe, so... is it a more advanced form of life?"

He did not answer the question, but continued, "Regarding Sulin's future, I cannot give an answer given the power to change the answer. I can only offer suggestions in a way that conforms to the form of the answer to your question."

"Promotion, battle, and sacrifice—there's a tiny chance you'll achieve what you want."

His answer was still only one sentence, but it was as detailed as possible.

Or to be more precise, this is the process and thought process for solving the problem.

It's like a 1+1 problem. Everyone knows the answer is 2, but if someone with absolute power can change it to 3, then whether answer 2 is the truth becomes irrelevant.

At this point, the important thing is the problem-solving process—how to do it to get the answer you want.

"Sacrifice? Is it death?"

Xiao Linlin pressed for an answer, but He remained silent for a long time.

"Brother, it's over."

Xiao Linlin was somewhat disappointed, but she still turned around to look at Su Lin.

She understood that the game was over. Her small mistake had displeased Him, and it also proved that He had the right to refuse the survivors from continuing to participate in the game of wits.

"It's okay, at least I got the badge."

Su Lin stepped forward, took Xiao Linlin's small hand, and then took another deep look at the endless darkness surrounding the platform.

He could not see His appearance, nor could he feel any gaze upon Him.

But at this moment, Su Lin understood that there was hope of breaking free from the cage, and even if His answer was not obvious, it at least proved that.

A moment later, Su Lin led Xiao Linlin, who was deep in thought, back along the long corridor to the entrance of the passageway.

Just as Su Lin raised his hand, about to push open the door.

His laughter suddenly came from behind.

"You're very smart. I met the same person a long, long time ago, a man."

"He asked me the same question, but he used a different approach to find the answer."

"Child, I'm curious, will you also walk this path?"

Su Lin turned her head to look at Xiao Linlin, who had already turned around to look behind her, where there was still only emptiness and darkness.

Xiao Linlin asked loudly, "Sir, is he human?"

"......"

There was silence until Su Lin was about to lose his patience, when a calm voice finally came through.

“It used to be.”

This time, He did not laugh; His voice was filled with caution.

"I see."

Xiao Linlin nodded, stopped asking questions, and took Su Lin's hand, striding through the passage back to the brightly lit waiting area.

He had already shown extraordinary favor, bestowing upon her even more important information. Xiao Linlin dared not ask for too much, lest she ruin the advantage she had already gained in terms of clues.

Congratulations to survivor "Su Lin" for obtaining a "Wisdom Badge".

You have acquired a new badge type, and its effect can be triggered at any time.

[Wisdom Badge (Privilege)]: In this promotion match, you can choose to restore one of your non-individual strength type mechanisms, or there is a 50% chance to restore two non-individual strength types; the privilege of a badge can only be used once. After use, the badge loses its privilege, but it can still be retained as proof of successful promotion.

A new notification appeared amidst the cacophony of voices in the waiting area.

"Brother, restore two followers, Lyanna and Li Xingtian."

Xiao Linlin offered a suggestion in a soft voice: there are still two badges left, Courage and Patience. Judging from the information on the badges, getting weapons and armor would be a better choice.

However, both of these belong to individual strength items, while followers are not individual strength items, so naturally restoring followers is more helpful.

"good."

Just as Su Lin was about to do it, she couldn't help but look down at Xiao Linlin and ask, "Did you understand what He just said?"

"A little bit, but this isn't the place for conversation."

Xiao Linlin looked up at the crowd, seemingly searching for something, then quickly looked away: "Brother, let's recover first, let's go to the next badge location."

"Um."

Su Lin completely trusts Xiao Linlin, not only because the two are bound by a shared destiny in terms of strategy, but also because they have a great dependence on each other emotionally.

Shortly after using the badge privilege, two humanoid figures slowly emerged around Su Lin, and Lyanna and Li Xingtian stepped out from them.

"Ah... finally I can breathe some fresh air!"

Li Xingtian stretched out his arms, swung his hands and feet, and looked at Su Lin with a smile: "Lin'er, I thought you were going to continue playing riddles in that dark place for a while, but I didn't expect you to let me out so quickly."

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