The knowledge that poured into Lu Ban's mind along with the melody had already been shattered.

He could only vaguely know that this star seemed to belong to a great being who possessed power far beyond the imagination of humans. The ripples caused by this power were enough to drive people into eternal madness.

And now, at this moment, in the ruins of the Jiangcheng Grand Theater, the power of the god resonated for some reason.

Reality is distorted, and the underlying cognition collapses. In just a moment, all humans in this area will have their rationality completely destroyed, and become slaves like insects.

"...Jiangcheng Grand Theater is in a delicate position. Every once in a while, such a situation will occur..."

"...Du Danping might have come here to complete a mission, or he just happened to encounter a moment when the power of the gods was aroused..."

"...the ordinary people present have fallen into madness and are about to become servants of that great being..."

"...Du Danping used his performance to balance the two and tried to save these people..."

"…but the power switch failed due to the impact, and the fire spread and engulfed the theater…"

"...Du Danping's ghost, for some unknown reason, stayed here. Whenever Aldebaran lights up, he would start playing..."

“…and today is the day with the greatest impact!”

Lu Ban woke up.

If I were to be so intoxicated by the piano music of Du Danping's ghost, my consciousness would probably be affected to a certain extent, and I would eventually fall asleep. Witnessing his ghost, I should be able to unlock certain secrets.

But now, after knocking down Du Danping's ghost, with no one playing, the Jiangcheng Grand Theater and its surrounding areas will be completely covered by the light of Aldebaran!

"I have triggered a hidden plot, which has increased the difficulty of the mission..."

Lu Ban could feel that some drastic changes were occurring in the air.

His hair stood on end. This was a reaction caused by the most instinctive and deepest fear of human beings. It was a fear that human beings had already understood tens of millions of years ago, before the society we have today was formed.

The civilization that humans have built up over thousands of years collapsed just after a glance at this planet dozens of light years away.

Knowledge is meaningless, progress is futile, and rationality is not worth mentioning in this vast starry sky.

The crowbar in Lu Ban's hand fell to the ground with a clang.

He stared blankly at the stars that were gradually becoming colorful, bright and dazzling, and occupying all his consciousness.

That majestic, grand, and cold will irreversibly destroyed Lu Ban's nerves and reason.

In the corner of his sight, the words formed by the twisted starlight could not help but tremble, and pointed out the landing in a crooked way.

[You looked directly at the indescribable existence]

[Sanity -4]

[Sanity -1]

[Sanity -3]

…

The little sanity he had left was evaporating at a speed visible to the naked eye. As the value decreased, Lu Ban felt that countless bizarre scenes appeared before his eyes.

Some of these images show huge and ugly worms gathering and crawling in a yellow sand desert; some show monsters with several slippery, dark, and thick tentacles lurking in the deep seabed; and some show humanoid monsters with hunched bodies, full of malice, ice-blue skin, and bulging eyes worshiping on stone altars.

These are not scenes that humans can witness, record, or endure.

Lu Ban's eyes were bloodshot, his pupils were dilated, veins on his body were bulging, blood was flowing out of his nostrils, eyes, ears, and mouth. His brain felt like someone had inserted a red-hot iron rod into it and stirred it violently thousands of times. It was even difficult for him to maintain normal functioning.

He knew that before becoming a servant of that great being, he should first go completely crazy.

But in the moment when self-awareness emerged, a will as fast as lightning allowed Lu Ban to grasp the last straw.

In the brilliant light of Aldebaran and the pure whiteness of the Pleiades, a bright yellow dice appeared in front of Lu Ban.

This dice has ten sides, with numbers from zero to nine on them. These numbers continue to evolve and become two digits, circulating from zero to ninety-nine. In that maddening light, the dice stands still, as if it has been like this since the distant and unknown eternity.

There is no malice, no goodwill, just following the laws of the self and controlling everything.

【put all one's eggs in one basket】!

The last bit of rationality Lu Ban had left made him use this last trump card.

The dice spun rapidly, as if picked up and thrown by an invisible hand. After it spun and fell, it revealed a number like the Last Judgment.

Almost at the same time, the starlight in Lu Ban's eyes twisted and refracted into words that would be remembered for a lifetime.

【Launch a last-ditch effort】

【Lucky Judgment】

[Toss result, lucky: 1/20]

【Great success】

A number that Lu Ban was familiar with appeared on the top of the dice. At the same time, some subtle changes spread out from the space. Lu Ban's empty hand, which had lost the crowbar, suddenly grabbed a solid and slender object.

He raised his hand, it was a suona.

“…play…yes, play!!!”

Lu Ban was lucky enough to regain some rationality from the storm of pain that was enough to tear his cognition apart. He received some inspiration that could be called divine revelation in religious scriptures.

Through playing, the influence of that great being on people can be suppressed to a certain extent.

The melody is irrelevant, what matters is the act of playing the part.

From ancient times to the present, in the culture of faith, performance itself is an entertainment that evolved from a dedication to the gods.

That is, it is a ceremony to worship gods, pray to gods, and summon gods.

At this moment, Lu Ban had already ignored the trouble that the suona had brought him before. Now, Lu Ban even longed to see that dim deep yellow star.

The only remaining rationality Lu Ban had at this moment told him that humans have their limits.

No matter how we develop a magnificent civilization, build a siege of rationality, and explore the supreme truth...human beings have their limits.

Only a great being can fight against a great being.

He picked up the suona, and played the black instrument at a moment when even his vision became fragmented and the words with reduced rationality had fallen into the eternal darkness.

beep--

A high-pitched voice sounded, like an unruly bird that would never bow its head, flapping its wings and flying high into the starry sky.

Countless other birds chirped around it, but none of them matched its brilliance.

Lu Ban's body moved naturally, playing this melody that he had not heard many times.

It can be seen that the black color on the suona began to spread from Lu Ban's fingertips to his wrist, and his bulging blood vessels were gradually dyed black. In Lu Ban's vision, the fragmented picture was reassembled, and he saw the dark yellow planet and the silver-white stars complementing each other. There was a huge distortion between the two. A confrontation that he could not feel, hear, or think about was completed in an instant.

Desperate, incomprehensible, and thought-challenging mutterings kept growing wildly in Lu Ban’s ears, almost bursting his brain.

【Sanity has returned to zero】

Lu Ban only had time to memorize a few sentences by instinct. What he saw in the end were the words formed by the transformed plants on the dome and the real starry sky that he had never seen before.

In the vast sea of ​​stars, the sky and the universe merge into one.

He lost consciousness.