Enough of you Riddlers
"Okay, if you need it, you can trade with me in the form of questions and answers."
The ribs were exposed in front of him, and his eyes were covered by small wings. He smiled strangely without any sexual characteristics and said,
"Like what Bai Lizhong said in the reply I sent before - one question for another, can you accept this way of trading?"
"Okay, but first, I want to tell you something unimportant."
Ji Yunding looked at the opposite side with some doubt.
"Why are you here?"
"Do you have any opinions or dissatisfaction with me? Please feel free to raise them."
"No... You are Zero, right? Why are you here? Isn't the human station number 37?"
The monster on the opposite side showed a rare look of doubt. It looked at Ji Yunding and shook its head.
"Although I'm surprised you recognized me, it shouldn't make any difference to you."
"The last time I came here I said it's been a long time since we last met, and No. 37 told me I should tell you, so, it's been a long time since we last met."
"Actually, I can hear it. Our consciousnesses are interconnected."
"But for me, I didn't tell you, so I want to tell you."
It’s hard to say which side is more like a robot, but after this unusual greeting, the two officially started talking.
Zero sorted out the paper documents, then handed them to Ji Yunding opposite him with both hands, as a record for the research team - according to regulations, all transactions conducted in human bases in other dimensions must be basically archived.
"So, the two parties in this transaction are Baili Zong and the research team. The representative of the human side is Ji Yunding. The content of the transaction is the exchange of information. Please confirm."
Ji Yunding nodded, took the document, flipped through it, and then sighed.
"Thank you. It's great that I don't have to write the report myself."
Before, Ji Yunding always complained about Ji Liuxing not writing reports, but now that she has more things to do, she completely understands his feeling of not wanting to write reports.
"You're welcome. This is an additional service provided by Bailizhong. By the way, why are you the representative this time?"
"The team leader said he, well, forget it, you know who he is anyway. He made up a bunch of nonsense reasons, but he handed the matter over to me anyway."
In fact, Ji Liuxing has recently been slowly dividing his current affairs among other people as a form of business handover.
Ji Yunding thought about it and felt that the reason of "I get annoyed when I see something weird" might not be nonsense, but it seemed inappropriate to say it to his face.
Anyway, Bailizhong required that the representative for the transaction must be someone they believed to have a lot of information. Since Zero did not raise any objections, it didn't matter.
"We will ask questions first. Each side will have two opportunities to refuse to answer. If a question is refused, it cannot be asked again. The questions asked can only receive three answers: 'yes', 'no' or 'uncertain'.
If you don't know, just answer "I don't know" and the current questioner will ask another question. The answerer can add supplementary content after the answer. The supplementary content does not have to be accurate, but it must be correct.
In addition, the two parties asking questions may not intentionally ask questions targeting the other party's information in any way, but they may ask questions related to subjective opinions.
After one party has used up the number of times to refuse to answer, the other party automatically gains the right to end the transaction.
Please confirm the above transaction rules. "
"Does it have to be in the form of mutant turtle soup? Why can't we just not be the Riddler?"
Ji Yunding questioned this, and Zero still answered in that flat tone.
"This involves important intelligence. It is extremely difficult to define the value limit through normal trading methods, so we use the form of gambling to exchange. If you have no objection, I will construct a strange story based on this rule."
"Okay, let's add one more clause. With the agreement of both parties, we can have a freer and unrestricted exchange of intelligence and questioning."
"Yes, sir."
Zero nodded, and then the surrounding scenery changed. Ji Yunding looked around and saw that the surroundings had turned into a white room with no spatial distinction at all. She sat at the table, and the table and chairs were also pure white. Looking at it for a long time made people feel a little dizzy.
Ji Yunding closed his eyes, adjusted for a while, and then opened them, only to see Zero sitting opposite him. The wings covering his eyes spread out to both sides, and his eyes were a huge, abyss-like black hole, with thick black liquid flowing inside.
Ironically, in this dizzyingly white room, this look that should have been disgusting actually looked somewhat reassuring because of the incompatible black. Therefore, Ji Yunding stared at Zero's eyes unconsciously.
"First, we would like to ask whether the current Group 1 leader, Ji Liuxing, is the last special individual."
"no."
Ji Yunding shook her head and didn't add anything, but she became alert secretly. Before coming in, she didn't think that the information Baili Zhong wanted was related to this.
All along, Bailizhong's attitude was not very clear. They seemed to be just doing business, providing assistance to both humans and monsters. In Ji Yunding's memory, there seemed to be no relevant information.
For this negotiation, there were naturally people specifically assigned to help Ji Yunding prepare questions, directions, and ideas for the negotiations, but Ji Yunding still needed to improvise on the spot.
"Is the birth of Leviathan determined by Purple Moon?"
"no."
Unexpectedly, Zero quickly gave such an answer, smiling slightly, looking at Ji Yunding, the black liquid in his eyes seemed to be flowing out,
"This idea is not essential. Then, my next question is whether you think that special individuals are created by the world to save the world."
"……yes."
Ji Yunding looked at Zero and sighed. It looked like he was involved in some trouble again.
Zero smiled, and his smile widened, revealing for the first time an expression that was clearly extremely human and full of emotion. He seemed to be mocking something, but he didn't say it clearly.
At this moment, Ji Yunding was weighing in his mind which side of the problem was more important. Leviathan, or the special individual, and whether Zero's question was leading her down the wrong path and asking more useless questions.
"So, are special individuals created by the world to save the world?"
In any case, you should finish asking this question first. Otherwise, if you continue asking questions based on the wrong basis, you will waste countless questions.
"No. The execution date of the current Group One leader, Ji Liuxing, or in other words, the last time the extradimensional channel will be opened, is next Friday."
"Yes. The mistake in my question just now was about 'save'."
"Unsure. Is the last special individual a member of the research team?"
Ji Yunding listened to this question and thought about it. Since Zero could ask this question, it must not know Ji Yunding's identity. After all, the rules say that you cannot deliberately ask questions targeting the other party's information.
"Yes. Then, special individuals are just products of nature, not born with a purpose."
"Yes. Also, you are a very unique... person? Weird? I don't know how you identify yourself, but you don't seem to think that your race is anything special to the world, which is very rare."
Zero tilted his head, and Ji Yunding noticed that the table in front of him seemed to be faintly stained with black.
"Whether human or weird, they just arrogantly think in a self-centered way, but in fact, the world already existed long before humans were born, let alone weird things."
"You want me to join Bailizhong."
"Not exactly, not that I think so, but in my understanding, you will join Bailizhong."
Zero stretched out his hand towards Ji Yunding, and the black hole on his face seemed to have spread from his eyes to his middle part.
“As one of the finest specimens.”
"Thank you, I'm sorry but I have to go back and submit my report. Please continue asking questions." Ji Yunding's tone did not fluctuate, he just looked at Zero.
"It doesn't matter. I have almost unlimited time to play a quiz game with you. After all, the speed of time in the ghost story is different from that in the outside world."
Zero also responded in a calm tone, and both sides were very stable.
"Don't you think that existing species are too imperfect?"
"Not exactly. I like dogs, and I think a large, long-haired dog is perfect, even though objectively I know it's imperfect. Is Leviathan a weirdo?"
"Yes. You don't seem anxious?"
"Yes, I think I have a way, so I'm going to ask all the questions first. Even if I don't have a way, I will always have a way in the endless time."
Ji Yunding was somewhat glad that he had gone to the Rongku Cemetery first, otherwise he would have been a little scared.
"Leviathan is a monster that has no specific entity, just like the blood rain."
"yes."
Next, the few questions asked by Zero were meaningless, but its face became more and more distorted, and its originally standard smile seemed to have shifted to near the earlobes, with a magnitude so large that it was uncomfortable.
Ji Yunding didn't care about the strange behavior on the other side at all. He continued to ask casually and organize the information.
"Weirdness is the manifestation of the highly developed human sensibility. On this basis, Leviathan is...the weirdness formed by the emotions of living humans."
"Yes, it is changing and can induce the 'unstable' part of humans. Therefore, you cannot defeat this weirdness unless..."
Zero walked up to Ji Yunding and looked at her.
"Kill all humans, or leave human society. Are you really not interested in joining Bailizhong as the mother of a more perfect species? You clearly don't seem to care about humans or weirdness."
"To be honest, I'm a little annoyed by the fact that people try to get me into gangs wherever I go. But let me ask you, what is perfection? Do you think I'm close to perfection?"
"Yes, the closer it is to the concept of 'rules', the more perfect it is. Stable, certain, and objective things will not produce 'errors'."
Zero pointed at Ji Yunding and then moved closer.
“You may not know it, but ‘rules’ flow through you. Your likes and dislikes are definite, clear and unconfused. Contacting you is like contacting rules, and the feedback you get is eternal and stable.”
"I'm not sure if my intuition is correct, but I just felt that you have some kind of unreasonable malice towards me."
Ji Yunding tilted his head and thought for a moment.
"Hmm...jealous? Isn't that right."
Zero was silent for a long time before he spoke.
"I'm sorry, but I refuse to answer that."
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