Chapter 226 Meat Grinder (VII)
"Stolen?" Jie Fangcheng was confused.
Yan Xun nodded, and several year numbers appeared on the virtual screen.
"Assuming our inference is correct, Ji Dai is a player of Three Thousand Worlds, and for some reason he entered the small world you are guarding. And in your memory, Dongyue Divine Lord appeared very early, more than two thousand years ago, right?"
"Yes." Jie Fangcheng nodded.
"So when was the first time you saw the [Ghost Eye]?"
Xie Fangcheng recalled: "1,500 years ago, not long after the war in the underworld ended, he gave me his divine eye."
Gods, immortals, ghosts, monsters, no matter which kind, when they practice to the extreme, their bodies will become treasures, which means that any organ in the body taken out alone will be a powerful magic weapon.
The gift from Dongyue God was not to dig out his eyes and then put them on Jie Fangcheng. It was more like an opening of authority.
Jie Fangcheng's eyes are still his own eyes, but after being gifted with the divine eyes, his eyes should have gained the right to see through the good and evil in people's hearts, and the karma and reincarnation.
It's just that Jie Fangcheng is too special. Strictly speaking, the civil servants of the underworld are actually gods in another sense. Although the yin energy flows in everyone's body, the yin energy and divine power are essentially the same source.
Jie Fangcheng is different. He is a real evil ghost, plagued by karma. Because his soul is broken, it is difficult for him to store Yin energy in his body, and he has a large amount of ghost energy.
In this situation, the God's Eye can only give Jie Fangcheng limited authority.
Seeing through the good and evil in people's hearts has been reduced to being able to smell the stench of extremely evil people, not to mention karma and reincarnation. How could Jie Fangcheng, a ghost who was supposed to have no future, possibly see through the reincarnation path of others?
At that time, Jie Fangcheng was indeed lacking. Unlike other civil servants in the underworld, he did not have a natural deterrent effect on ghosts and could recognize his targets at a glance.
But it's not that much of a lack, mainly because Jie Fangcheng's strength is there, so why would he need any deterrent power if he wants to catch any evil ghost?
But for some unknown reason, the Lord of Mount Dongyue insisted on giving the Eye of God to Jie Fangcheng.
Even though the entire underworld was almost full of opposition at that time, the Lord of Mount Dongyue still insisted on his own way in the end.
After he gave the Eye of God to Jie Fangcheng, he lost his authority over this part.
However, the Lord of Dongyue did not care and would rather risk losing this part of authority than move the Eye of God out and install the Ghost Eye.
What did he see through the ghost eyes?
Yan Xun in front of him continued to analyze: "According to the clues we know so far, this ghost eye is very important and has other effects that we don't know about. If this is Dongyue God's own prop, why didn't he install it earlier?"
As if he knew what Jie Fangcheng was going to say, Yan Xun had already explained in advance: "It is unlikely that it was left behind by someone who entered the small world later. First of all, from the clues we know now, since the presidents of the six major guilds attach so much importance to this item, the person who possessed it should have been very strong, at least much stronger than the five players of the Fallen Elves."
Think about it, as soon as Brother Yan went to the appraisal institute to identify the ghost eye, the person disappeared.
Then Xiao Qi and the other three were tricked into the devil's realm.
Not only was Satan determined to obtain this item, he also regarded the lives of the five players as worthless.
If the player who previously kept the Ghost Eye was not strong enough, then this item should have fallen into the hands of the presidents of the six major guilds long ago.
Therefore, if a player who later possessed the ghost eye item entered the small world and was defeated by Dongyue God, Dongyue God would get the item.
Apart from anything else, all this couldn't have happened so quietly that even Jie Fangcheng wouldn't have been aware of it.
Jie Fangcheng knew more about the strength of the Lord of Mount Dongyue, so he quickly understood what Yan Xun had explained.
"Indeed." Jie Fangcheng nodded, "It seems that the ghost eye is indeed very likely a prop that Ji Dai brought here himself."
Yan Xun continued: "And I think that before he installed the Ghost Eye, he may have met someone who knew how to use the Ghost Eye."
"Why do you say that?"
The virtual screen in front of the two people simulated the paper that Fang Cheng had mentioned, which was once found in the office of Dongyue God.
At that time, Jie Fangcheng and his friends discovered a prop pen called [Answer], and found three questions and two answers.
The first question is: [Who are those people from the bottom of hell?]
The answer is: [Player]
The paper used can prove that this is at least 1,500 years old, and the player invasion occurred before the war in the underworld.
At this time, Yan Xun analyzed: "Dongyue God is not an impatient person, but at that time, he was determined to thoroughly investigate the bad debts of the underworld, and even launched a war in the underworld to get to the bottom of it. I tend to think that he obtained some information or props during the player invasion, which made him sense the danger."
"What danger?" Jie Fangcheng couldn't help but ask.
"The God Realm closed its gates after the war in the underworld. According to the clues you found in the God Realm, not long after the war, cracks appeared at the edge of the sky in the God Realm. After an unknown amount of time, the entire God Realm became a dead place, and the divine power disappeared."
Yan Xun asked: "If we don't draw a clear line between ourselves and the God Realm, what will happen to the underworld?"
What will happen in the underworld...
Jie Fangcheng naturally knew the answer.
"The gods in the divine world have always looked down on the underworld. If the boundaries are not clearly drawn... those gods may regard the underworld as a second divine world."
Yin energy and divine power have the same origin, they are just two different forms of expression.
If the great war in the underworld had not taken place, and if the traitors who were in the underworld but whose hearts were in the divine world had not been purged, and if the divine world had not been frightened by a single war and forced to shrink back into it, even if cracks appeared at the edge of the sky and divine power began to dissipate, they would not dare to open the gate to the divine world for fear of being attacked from both sides.
So the underworld probably no longer exists now?
Jie Fangcheng had come into contact with that group of gods and knew very well what kind of people they were.
"It's possible that Dongyue Divine Lord got some information from the players who came to the small world. And there is one thing that I am concerned about."
The virtual screen in front of Yan Xun changed again, and a somewhat abstract scene of the bottom of the underworld appeared.
This is a model constructed based on the description by Jie Fangcheng.
“The third question is [how to close the channel].”
Jie Fangcheng entered the "Three Thousand Worlds" from the bottom of the underworld, and this passage most likely refers to the bottom of the underworld.
"Dongyue Divine Lord asked how to close the passage. Obviously, he wanted to close the passage not to prevent people in the small world from going to the Three Thousand Worlds."
Of course.
The level of chaos at the bottom of the underworld still left Jie Fangcheng with lingering fears. There was no need to close it at all. It was difficult for people in the small world to pass through the bottom of the underworld and come to the "Three Thousand Worlds".
Since it is not to prevent this, then closing the channel is most likely to prevent players from "Three Thousand Worlds" from entering the small world.
Jie Fangcheng frowned. He couldn't quite follow the robot's train of thought: "I'm a little confused."
So the robot patiently summarized it for him: "Then I'll start from the beginning."
"Ji Dai was originally a player of Three Thousand Worlds. For some reason, he stole the Ghost Eye and then entered the small world you were protecting. In the small world, he was gradually assimilated, forgetting his original identity as a player, and became the guardian of the small world - Dongyue God. Then, before the battle of the underworld, a player entered the small world. Such a player may have brought some information, which made Dongyue God realize that the God Realm might be about to collapse... or the small world you are in is about to collapse. So he launched the battle of the underworld, and took the initiative to completely draw a line between the God Realm and the underworld, with the aim of saving the underworld."
"After saving the underworld, he encountered the second wave of players. This can be seen from the second question he asked. He asked the question in a hurry and the question he asked was not very meaningful."
Indeed, the second question is [why did the player appear again].
This question was obviously not written after careful consideration. The pen used in the [Answer] had a transparent body, and the remaining ink inside the pen could be seen. Dongyue God was not a careless person. It was impossible for him to ask such a meaningless question when he knew that the tool in his hand was not very durable.
That was most likely because he was a little panicked.
"Obviously, this wave of players came beyond his expectations, and it made him very anxious. I think the reason why he was so anxious out of character is probably because this second wave of players arrived shortly after the battle in the underworld, when the underworld had not yet been repaired."
Jie Fangcheng understood: "So you think that among the second wave of players, someone knew about the Ghost Eye and how to use it, and then told Dongyue Divine Monarch. Therefore, Dongyue Divine Monarch was so persistent in replacing it."
"That's right." The robot added rigorously, "Of course, given that there are too few clues, everything I have done now is just an inference based on the clues."
But this inference is more likely.
"Who is this person who told him how to use the ghost eye?"
"I don't know." Yan Xun said, "But judging from the appearance of the five S-level players of the Fallen Elves, at least ordinary players don't know."
Jie Fangcheng nodded thoughtfully: "But Satan must know it anyway."
When he gets out, he’ll go and “ask” Satan.
"Anything else?" Jie Fangcheng looked at Yan Xun, "So 'Don't Answer' is indeed likely to be the work of Dongyue Divine Lord?"
“It should be.”
Dongyue God is indeed a qualified guardian, but why did he choose to create such an infinite game?
Jie Fangcheng hates "Don't Answer" very much. The game destroys people's kindness and exacerbates their malice.
But……
"Lord Dongyue...he is a very good person." Jie Fangcheng said softly.
Compared to Jie Fangcheng, this guardian went against the way of heaven every day, and once fought his way into the realm of gods, and almost massacred the gods at that time - of course, the price he paid was not just his own life.
Jie Fangcheng is the king of all ghosts. It can be said that if he really went crazy at that time and completely removed all the restrictions on himself, not only the world of gods, but also the human world and the underworld would be devastated.
He is not qualified as a guardian, and strictly speaking he is not the guardian of the small world.
He is the guardian created by Da Ru.
Perhaps as a human being, Jie Fangcheng was chosen by the small world, and the small world needed him to become a powerful guardian.
But later, Jie Fangcheng, as a human, died.
He can turn into a fierce ghost and appear in the human world again. He has nothing to do with the way of heaven, the world of gods, or the underworld.
It was the people of Great Ru who offered sacrifices of flesh and blood and used their souls as a guide to call him back.
But since he took office, every step taken by the Lord of Mount Dongyue has been for the benefit of all people in the world.
Therefore, even though he knew that he might be the one who created the "Don't Answer" game, Jie Fangcheng still immediately believed that Dongyue God might have his own difficulties.
Yan Xun, who is also the guardian of the small world, has more say on this point.
"We don't know what the ghost eyes are for, but since they are eyes... I guess, maybe these eyes can see something we can't see. Maybe it's the truth about the collapse of the small world, or maybe it's something that will happen in the future. And since the six major guilds attach so much importance to it, I am more inclined to believe that these ghost eyes can see the [essence]."
As he spoke, the virtual screen in front of Yan Xun kept changing.
"Just like why do matches burn? According to our explanation, from a chemical point of view, it is the heat released by the reaction of sulfur and oxygen that eventually ignites the paraffin and causes the matchstick to catch fire. But what about the deeper level? From a molecular perspective, from a smaller level - anything that seems mysterious can actually have a reasonable explanation in the end. If the [Ghost Eye] is so important, I tend to think that it can see the [essence] of things."
This statement immediately reminded Jie Fangcheng of "[Authority]."
The robot seemed to calculate for a moment, then nodded: "You can say that. It's just that authority is [granted], and [essence] is dismantling. If we understand the [essence], [authority] can be mass-produced."
If that's the case, then it would explain why even the presidents of the six major guilds are so concerned about a mere A-level item.
"When Dongyue Divine Lord installed these eyes, he might have seen something." Yan Xun thought backwards from Dongyue Divine Lord's perspective, "I guess... he might have seen the future of his own small world... He created "Don't Answer" and it seems more like he wanted to use this game to train people to adapt to such a dungeon environment."
Why should we adapt to the copy environment?
Jie Fangcheng got the answer almost instantly.
"That is to say, the small world I live in may become a place even more tragic than the hunting grounds in the future."
In the hunting grounds, players' entry is restricted.
For example, the interval between each dungeon opening is actually very long, and the number of players that can enter a hunting ground is also fixed.
Moreover, the hunting grounds were already protected by powerful guardians, just like in this small world now, although outside there was yellow sand everywhere, creatures were extinct, and humans were in a desperate situation.
Look at the Cangcui Island now. As the guardian, Yan Xun has still created an oasis in the desert.
In this hunting ground, people's social customs have not actually undergone any particularly significant changes.
It is true that they are in a desperate situation. But when faced with a desperate situation, human beings are united and the social atmosphere becomes better.
But in the game of "Don't Answer", the atmosphere is quite antisocial.
Only bad people and evil people can live well in the game, while the kind and fair people will be harmed.
This extremely extreme environment is definitely not the future that Dongyue God hopes to achieve.
"So he wants to get everyone acclimated ahead of time?"
It is possible that the horrific things that happened in the game will one day directly befall the entire small world. At that time, the people in the small world who are not prepared will suddenly face such a scene. It will be like when newcomers first enter the game "Don't Answer", with a mortality rate of more than 90%.
Is this considered an advance rehearsal?
"That's why he wants to close the channel...but this channel may not be able to be closed." So the usually generous person could only choose the most extreme way to deal with it.
Jie Fangcheng was silent for a while before he asked, "Then what should I do?"
If the passage could never be closed, and his little world eventually became a place more terrifying than a hunting ground, what could Jie Fangcheng do to avoid such an outcome?
"Go find the real owner of the Ghost Eye." Yan Xun said, shaking his head, "No, I should say go find the real founder of Three Thousand Worlds. He should have the answer."
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