Chapter 244: What You Want
Chi Yizheng once tried to explore the great rift in the abyss.
It was shortly after the couple's wedding in Paradise, and not long after the deification ceremony. His inspiration and vitality were at a peak, and he naturally recalled the concept of "monsters crawling out of the great chasm in the abyss." It was only natural that he wanted to explore that place.
However, a sudden sharp pain stopped him from thinking this way. The pain came from his head, which was a warning from his precognitive ability.
He had asked the game what was going on, and the game said it didn't know, but since it was a warning from the foresight, it was best not to touch it. So Chi Yizhen chose to trust his own skills.
Some time later, the tree spirit baby Naqia brought a group of white-haired mice to rob the food stored by the rolling sheep.
Although Naqiya did something as immoral as stealing, Chi Yizheng had a good impression of Naqiya at that time. At first, he thought it was because Naqiya was just a baby. After all, a baby who was only a few months old would not be punished by law even if it stabbed someone with a knife, let alone stealing things.
Later, he vaguely realized that it was not his precognitive ability that was silently reminding him that Naqia might be very useful.
Afterwards, when Chi Yizheng faced the white-haired rats, a relative he was not very satisfied with, he did not change their image after all. Instead, he sent the white-haired rats into that world through the cracks in the world barrier, allowing them to dig holes and reproduce in the other world.
Not long after, Nakia was sent back to his hometown by the leader of the tree spirits in the paradise, and was taken in and trained by the tree spirit chieftain Namea.
Tree spirits are a species that extend their roots into the ground to absorb nutrients, and white-haired mice are a species that survive by burrowing underground. It seems natural that the tree spirit baby meets the white-haired mice again.
After that, Chi Yizheng never paid attention to them again and allowed the white-haired rats to multiply and grow in the other world.
Although they are the descendants of Paradise, the group of white-haired rats were not created by Chi Yizheng. They were sewer rats that already existed in Paradise. They transformed into a kind of extraordinary creature under the influence of Paradise's extraordinary energy field and the extraordinary particles from other worlds that seeped out of the caves.
Therefore, under Chi Yizhen's intentional control, they will naturally obey him, and without Chi Yizhen's control, they will return to their nature and survive and reproduce naturally.
The aura of paradise on the group of white-haired mice was so weak that it was almost non-existent. They had no natural enemies in the other world, so once they entered the new world, their population increased exponentially.
They continued to multiply in the alien world, digging holes everywhere, and brought Chi Yizheng a lot of information. However, most of it was useless.
The evil gods who are high and mighty don't bother to care about the joys and sorrows of their believers, and of course they won't pay attention to a group of rats in the sewer.
But if these rats enter the Great Rift of the Abyss, the evil gods will definitely notice it.
Chi Yizheng once thought that the Great Rift in the Abyss was frozen because it was a compromise made by the evil gods to the humans and strange races from other worlds. Later, he discovered that the evil gods' control over the local world far exceeded his expectations. So why did the plan to freeze the Great Rift in the Abyss pass?
Most of the monsters created by the evil gods would crawl out from the great rift in the abyss. After being frozen, fewer monsters would crawl out.
Why would the evil gods go through such a plan to bind themselves? What secrets lie within the Great Rift of the Abyss?
Thus, the warning from his precognitive ability came back to him. Chi Yizhen had imagined that if the evil gods were willing to maintain peace on the surface and allow the Earth to develop steadily, then he wouldn't necessarily have to disturb the Great Rift in the Abyss.
But the four seasons were ultimately no match for his inner greed. After devouring the life, he chose not to plug the hole, but to tear open the crack completely and descend to Earth.
He was gambling, gambling that he could completely conquer this vast new world with violence before being influenced by the collective will of the large population of the earth.
However, just as the Sea God was influenced by his followers, he was also influenced, and like the Sea God, he was unaware and unconscious. Most monsters who became gods through faith would embark on this destined cycle of reincarnation.
After the rift was completely torn open, Chi Yizheng finally decided to use the white-haired rat as a hidden chess move.
Why did Si Ji still dare to come to Earth confidently despite losing hundreds of thousands of monsters and 100,000 fanatical believers? It was simply because he had a hidden card. What card could make him put everything on the line?
--resurrection.
Perhaps there is something in the great rift of the abyss that can allow Si Ji to regain his position on the stage of ruling the world even if he loses everything.
He made this most terrifying guess, then he sorted out his cards and found that he was not sure he could defeat Si Ji, but he was sure he could drag Si Ji to death together.
That's enough!
When the four seasons came to the earth and he trapped them in the paradise, he urged the group of followers he had released to enter the great rift of the abyss together with the tree spirit baby and the little Thorn King.
Without a contracted extraordinary person, the Little Thorn King's killing power is very weak. The same goes for the tree spirit babies and the white-haired mice. Such weak creatures are like a few mosquitoes flying in when they enter the big rift in the abyss. In addition, with the paradise as isolation, they did not arouse the vigilance of Four Seasons.
It was not until he dragged Siji to the negotiating table and saw Siji's face change drastically that he knew that he had won this gamble.
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A few days later, in Fantasy Paradise.
[Ding! New information captured, data updating...]
[Data updated... Loaded successfully! ]
【Welcome back, dear players. 】
When Chi Yizhen woke up, he felt like he had lost his memory. His mind was empty and his body was in extreme pain, as if he had been blasted with dozens of holes. Fortunately, he recovered very quickly, and the intense pain disappeared rapidly, so he didn't feel very uncomfortable.
His mind went blank for a moment, and he vaguely recalled what he had seen last. It seemed like a paradise riddled with holes. His face suddenly changed, and he clutched his chest in pain, "Ah, my paradise, the paradise I worked so hard to build..."
[Players, please don't worry. Paradise is your divine domain. As long as your body fully recovers, Paradise will also recover.]
Very good!
Chi Yizheng breathed a sigh of relief and asked Youxi, "What happened?" He couldn't quite remember what happened and felt like he had a brain injury.
Yugi answered him dutifully, like a VIP customer service representative. "In the final battle, because you channeled most of your strength into the white-haired rats gnawing at the abyss, you were powerless against the Four Seasons and were severely damaged by their final counterattack. The paradise was almost reduced to ruins."
After hearing what the game said, the director vaguely remembered a little bit. In the end, in the crazy counterattack of Siji who tried his best to fight to the death, he was finally unable to maintain the dignity and composure during the live broadcast, and started to fight with Siji like a beast.
All skills and props have been used up, and in the end all that is left is the instinctive fight and the constant use of "happiness" to influence the four seasons' mind.
Fortunately, I didn’t have the energy to maintain the live broadcast at that time, otherwise the scene would have been really embarrassing.
[No, from my perspective, it's a very heroic beauty.]
Chi Yizhen just thought Yugi was complimenting him, and asked, "Are the strange races in the paradise okay?"
Game: [Don't worry, they've moved to the underground parking lot in advance.]
At this point, Chi Yizheng finally relaxed completely.
Yugi was still dutifully reporting, "You were severely injured and shouldn't have woken up so soon. However, your four children, sensing your weakness, sacrificed themselves, giving you all their strength and nutrients. Now, they've regressed into character cards, waiting for you to awaken them again."
[Your followers, the white-haired rats, died in large numbers while gnawing at the abyss, with fewer than a hundred remaining. Fortunately, they completed their mission.]
[Gondra and the Kingdom of Theodore are still at war, but after the complete fall of the evil god, the power of the church has been greatly weakened, and the war will soon end.]
[A coalition of strange races is currently suppressing the forces attempting to revive the evil god's rule, and the results are currently impressive.]
On the day Paradise was severely damaged by the evil god, Earth was caught in a total solar eclipse, disrupting global communications and causing economic losses... Currently, things are slowly recovering, but some soldiers were injured in the battle to protect the world and were unable to enter the Sky Aquarium for treatment.
…
Yugi reported a lot of news. Chi Yizhen closed his eyes and listened. Suddenly, he asked, "Are all the evil gods really dead?"
【Yes. 】
Chi Yizheng felt that the mountain that had been pressing on his shoulders had finally disappeared. After thinking for a while, he asked, "What about the Sea God?" Chi Yizheng admitted that he did not take the Sea God's safety into consideration at that time.
[After the abyss was devoured and destroyed, the Sea God was also severely damaged. His followers saved him. When the Sea God wakes up again, he will be a new and true god.]
"That's great!" Chi Yizheng finally smiled. Even though he still felt a little pain, he felt as if he could lie there forever.
When I get better, I want to travel around the world and say goodbye to working overtime until three or four in the morning every day!
Unfortunately, once he woke up, he couldn't fall back asleep so easily, so he asked, "What's in the Great Rift of the Abyss?"
The white-haired rat gnawed everything it could in the abyss. Chi Yizheng himself also had a vague feeling, but it was not very clear.
Game: [The source of monster power, the key to the evil god's deification, or, according to the setting in modern novels - godhood.]
Chi Yizhen's pupils dilated slightly, and he murmured, "Godhood?"
Game: [For your convenience, I can describe it in two words. The things in the abyss originate from the mysterious power of the Earth's core and are part of that world. Those who obtain them possess the qualifications to become gods. In a way, the Psychic Dolls bear a passing resemblance to those things. However, the emotions humans infuse into them are only sufficient to allow them to grow into ordinary, exotic races.]
Those who possess the Godhead, or even demons, are eligible for transformation by the collective will. This collective will generally refers to the intense pursuit and devotion of intelligent beings. Yoluya has sixty thousand followers, but he lacks the Godhead, so he doesn't possess the qualities necessary for godhood, nor does he possess the ability to rely on his followers for power. You possess the Godhead, and you bind yourself to Paradise. Therefore, the collective impression of Paradise qualifies you for godhood.
[The character card is a part of you, and also a part of God. Therefore, the impression of the character card by the extraordinary can help the character card develop related skills. Once they are awakened by you and transformed into truly independent individuals, they will be like hair cut by humans, which loses the ability to continue growing.]
After listening to this, Chi Yizhen was silent for a moment, then said, "I guess the 'God Cultivation Game' is that godhead. You told me at the beginning that it was left behind by a high-ranking being who couldn't stand the evil god's actions. But that's not the case, is it?"
Yugi paused for a moment before answering: [Yes.]
Chi Yizhen was not surprised by this. He continued, "Then who brought you to me? Was it the head of state of this country? Does he also have precognitive abilities? Or is he a reborn person?"
Game: [When did you know? ]
Chi Yizhen was helpless, "This is too obvious, okay?"
From the very beginning, the establishment and operation of the park went very smoothly. In the beginning, he was worried about how to explain the park to the country. Later, he found that the government not only turned a blind eye to the development of the park, but also helped to clean up at critical moments and quietly opened a green channel.
Later, Chi Yizhen guessed the authorities' intentions and directly called to request personnel and resources. The authorities were generous and responsive, their trust reaching an incredible level. Even the head of state possessing precognitive abilities couldn't explain it, nor could even the rebirth of a single individual. This kind of coordinated and unparalleled cooperation could only be achieved by a whole group of people being reborn.
Yugi said: [The player guessed correctly. However, rather than rebirth, I think a more accurate term would be restart.]
"Restart?" Chi Yizhen smelled something bad from the word. "I remember you once told me that the crack in the world barrier abroad could not be opened because someone paid a huge price."
Yugi: [Yes. In fact, the monster invasion began thirty years ago. That time, the slowly widening rift was the one outside the country.]
At first, people mysteriously disappeared and died. Then, some gifted individuals began to see demonic creatures. As the rift widened, extraordinary energy poured into Earth, and more and more people began to see demonic creatures. Later, the gods from famous religious records appeared.
Chi Yizhen: "...Is it a monster in disguise?"
Game: [But people don't know. They all think that it's the local gods who have come to save the suffering. By disguising themselves as local gods, the evil gods have stolen the faith of a large number of people on Earth.]
The result is predictable.
Game: [Earth has fallen into unprecedented chaos. To gain more faith, the evil gods deliberately create conflict and provoke war. They believe that only those who live in misery can develop fanatical faith. Indeed, when human life is in utter darkness, their only hope is the gods.]
However, no matter how perfect a conspiracy is, someone will always discover its clues. In a faithless region like China, the evil gods' tactics are no longer effective. Furthermore, because they are eager for quick success, they lack the patience to understand the local cultural background, thus revealing their true colors.
However, humanity's battle with the evil gods lasted for decades, with repeated defeats. The area reserved for human habitation was steadily shrinking. Finally, the nation launched a plan to create gods, deciding to defeat gods with gods.
The creation of a deity succeeded, but also failed. The god, created with the combined efforts of the nation, found himself swept up in the collective will and inevitably fell into chaos.
[Because at first, people hoped that the gods would rescue them from monsters. Then, people hoped that the gods would give them a happy and stable life. Later, people hoped that the gods would curse those they disliked to death, hoping that the gods would help them gain more benefits...]
Of course, this was also due to the conspiracy of evil gods like Shiki to sow discord, but fundamentally, it was because people realized that the path of creating gods was fundamentally wrong. More precisely, the idea that a real god existed was fundamentally wrong.
When people pray to gods and Buddhas, they are ultimately worshipping their own desires.* Even gods cannot bear the desires of millions of people. Unless they degenerate into evil gods and treat their followers like pigs and dogs.
This man-made god could not save himself, let alone the world. As the world gradually fell, and the evil god gradually tempted the god to abandon humanity and join his side, the god chose to dissipate all his power, restart time, and permanently fix the time of the rift abroad. After the restart, those high-ranking officials who had made outstanding contributions during the disaster retained their memories, which is why they have been secretly helping Paradise.
Chi Yizhen vaguely guessed something, his chest trembling slightly, "The evil god's godhead came from the abyss, so how did my godhead, or this game, come about?"
Game: [The man-made god is a great woman. She was born from a stone excavated near the center of the earth. Initially, she was placed in a museum. Later, people discovered that monsters were inexplicably attracted to her. So, as part of the god-making project, she was carved into a female figure. With constant faith, she finally came to life. Her initial faith came from the thousands of martyrs who had sacrificed their lives to save the world, heroes who truly sacrificed everything for the future of humanity... And so, she chose to embrace their original aspirations as her own.]
[After dissipating all her power, she became an ordinary woman. After giving birth to you, she aged rapidly, and later...]
Chi Yizhen's eyes suddenly filled with tears, "It's my grandma, right?"
The game was silent for a long time before it spoke again, "Player, your mother is actually very happy and proud, because she protected her original intention until her death."
Paradise and I are the legacy she left you before she passed away. Every quest I issue and every reward in my backpack are from her collection and design.
【Players, it’s not the game that chooses you, but you who didn’t abandon the game. 】
[You are the godhead itself, an unconstrained player, and an ordinary headmaster.]
…
Chi Yizheng appeared in front of grandma, no, it should be mother's tomb.
In fact, everything had been foreshadowed long ago: the little paradise that my mother had bought, Meng Le, who had strange abilities and whom my mother had taught. My mother had no relatives at all...
"Man has countless wishes for God, but only one wish for Paradise."
"Mom, I understand."
***
Five days ago, Jinan City was suddenly hit by an earthquake, followed by a province-wide communication failure and a total solar eclipse. Everyone was chasing new hot spots, but their interest in the park remained unabated.
Even though the park was closed for five days, the live broadcast continued uninterrupted. Although the screen was pitch black, people treated the live broadcast room as a global village chat room and enjoyed themselves. Occasionally there were a few complaints, but they would be quickly refreshed.
It wasn't until the sixth day that the live broadcast screen suddenly showed the scene inside the paradise. It was peaceful and tranquil, everything was intact, as if nothing had happened.
At the same time, the Paradise app sounded a system prompt, [Congratulations everyone, the evil god is dead, and Earth has won!]
The evil god is dead, and the Earth wins!
When seeing these eight words, people from different time zones and cultures all felt their noses blocked and their eyes sore for unknown reasons.
"It's so strange, I suddenly feel a sense of sadness and happiness after all the hardship."
Most people don’t understand what this feeling is, but at this moment, millions of people couldn’t help but start clapping, and their joy and excitement were beyond words.
Very good!
They didn't know why, but it felt like they had been waiting for this moment for a lifetime. Fortunately, their wish came true.
【End of the article】
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