Chapter 124 God's Transaction
At this moment, Li Li suddenly thought of what the system told her every time she returned to reality.
'Opening a channel for you...'
So is this channel a network channel? Libra uses a network channel to connect the two worlds?
"No wonder Libra can come to this world." The cartoonist suddenly realized, "I remember that my previous setting was that SSS-level superpowers cannot escape from the world, so Libra will fight against the protagonists to stabilize the empire! Because he believes that the protagonists' behavior is wrong and will affect the stability of the world!"
"He came to this world through the Internet." Li Li thought for a moment, "So when He talks to us in the real world, He always uses a machine to read aloud, and He never shows up to do anything. He cannot really appear in the real world."
Now think about it, Libra's first appearance in reality was also on the cartoonist's computer, so the clues were already there at the time.
Libra may have made all kinds of calculations, but he probably didn't take into account that the Internet is not everywhere in the real world, Li Li thought.
When she was at school, there was campus network. When there was no campus network, she would turn on the mobile data on her phone. When she got home, there was WiFi. Now that I think about it, it seems that she really lived in a network environment all day long.
The same goes for cartoonists; their generation can hardly live without the Internet.
"Hey, I can tell you now, I can really tell you now!" The cartoonist was surprised and delighted, and then he pulled Li Li and said with his eyebrows furious, "Boss, hurry up, I'll tell you my original setting."
There were still several minutes before the plane landed, which was enough time for them to exchange information and reveal the secrets that could not be revealed when Libra was eavesdropping.
"Libra, the biggest villain in Extreme Darkness, divides humans into valuable and worthless. The value created by the SS class is more than the number of people the SS class will kill in their lifetime, so He supports the SS class and builds the empire. In the original setting, Libra did not find a chance to escape the world, but I don't know how Libra came to me." The cartoonist himself was also puzzled.
"You said before that you tried to draw the world's destruction directly in a comic, but failed?" Li Li asked.
The cartoonist nodded, and then said, "I drew a comic about the destruction of the world, and it was rejected by the editor. Then I posted it online with a second account, and some people did see it, but it still had no effect on Libra, and He even told me that it was useless."
"Can you see Haig's behavior and psychological activities, or are you just a bystander?" Li Li thought of this question.
"Sometimes I can feel it, sometimes I can't. It's just like drawing a normal comic." The cartoonist pointed to his head and organized his words. "Is it that feeling of a flash of inspiration?"
He explained to Li Li with his hands dancing: "I originally planned to arrange the plot without Haig, but when I was writing the draft, he popped up. At first I thought it was inspiration."
"Are you really stealing the pen?" Li Li thought it was quite funny.
The cartoonist nodded in agreement: "When it comes to your plot, Boss, it's like a wild horse that has run away from the wire, out of control."
All he could do was draw the comics honestly while saying "Fuck it!", and in the end he would be scolded by the editor for not following the outline.
"What does Libra want you to do?" Li Li finally asked.
"He wants me to draw comics. I can draw whatever comes to my mind, whatever inspiration strikes me, and wherever the inspiration strikes me." The cartoonist frowned, "I can't stop."
The cartoonist is essentially a poor office worker who has been exploited to the point of exhaustion, and Li Li can be considered a worker in another world. They really do share the same suffering.
But Li Li thought about it and was more concerned about the word "inspiration".
She turned to sort out the information and think.
Then she felt that she almost understood the relationship between the real world and the comic world.
The existence of cartoonists made her think that the comic world was illusory and was just the result of the cartoonists' artistic creation. However, it was obvious that cartoonists could not control the direction of the plot of the comic world. It was just that his thoughts were suddenly connected with the development of the comic world at certain times.
He cannot change the development of the comic world because he is not the creator. He just unconsciously observes another world.
Originally, these were two unrelated worlds, but the cartoonist's inspiration captured another world. He recorded his observations in the form of comics, causing the two worlds to intersect. At the same time, this intersection attracted Libra, who was originally unable to jump out of the world.
Libra entered the real world through the Internet because this comic was serialized on the Internet. He couldn't jump out of the Internet, but this was enough for him to do something.
Li Li can trade superpowers with Libra using the popularity value of the other world. According to her current recollection, the superpowers traded are not high-level, but they are also at the A-level. This proves that popularity value does have a very high value. Libra urged the cartoonists but did not let the cartoonists pay attention to the popularity value, and only let Li Li earn the popularity value.
Now that I think about it, Libra, who can only influence the real world through the Internet, may only be able to gain popularity with the help of Li Li.
He cannot get the popularity points from comics, so this god who is willing to sacrifice himself for the stability of the world will look for Li Li, because only Li Li, a person from the real world, can allow Him to obtain those popularity points. Li Li is the transit station He chose.
When Li Lijin reaches the SSS rank, Libra will probably transfer all of his popularity to the comics world in one go.
"Libra is the final boss, so he was originally designed to be very strong, especially strong." The cartoonist said worriedly, "His ability is [equivalent exchange], but this equivalence is defined by him, and he freely decides the beginning and end of the transaction. He does not need the other party's willingness, and he does not even need to ask. He is the god of that world, and everything is within his ability."
"Even if it's SSS level?" Li Li asked.
"Even if it's SSS rank." The cartoonist confirmed, "This is His rule, 'Everything can be exchanged.'"
"I can probably guess it." Li Li sighed.
Although Libra is restricted in the real world, he is still invincible in the comic world.
And although she knows that the Internet is the channel that connects the two worlds of Libra, she has no way to exploit this weakness of Libra at this stage.
Because the time travel at midnight freezes the real time, if she disconnects the cartoonist from the Internet, she herself cannot go to the cartoon world. This condition restricts Libra, and at the same time restricts her.
Even if that time was stuck, the internet was disconnected after they went to the comic world. After the internet was disconnected, the channel between the two worlds was closed. Not only Libra was unable to connect to the real world, but Li Li herself was also unable to connect to the real world.
Knowing the opponent's weaknesses but feeling useless made Li Li feel a little frustrated.
But she would not give up. She thought for a moment, and after a few twists and turns in her mind, a bold idea suddenly came to her mind.
"Cartoonist, can you do me a favor?" She turned her head and looked at the cartoonist seriously and asked.
The cartoonist was stunned for a moment, then nodded very vigorously: "Go ahead, boss, I will definitely do it!"
"I'm waiting for you, boss, to take me flying!" He gave a silly smile.
...
After getting off the plane, Li Li and the cartoonist did not mention this, nor did they ask Libra where he was. Libra also remained silent as usual, and both parties tacitly turned the page.
The audition was a bit boring. It was the first time for Li Li to participate in such an event, and the people in the comic world had already taken on real images in her mind. Now no matter what she heard, she felt that they were not that person.
Is this also a kind of falsehood? Li Li thought while holding her chin.
Thinking about Libra's "rules", and then thinking about her initial definition of the comic world as "false", and now that she knows it is a real world, Li Li found that her understanding of her supernatural powers seemed to have always been to make others believe, and if others believed, she could reverse the truth. But at the same time, if she believed, she could change herself and become the person she defined.
Libra SSS level can ignore the wishes of others and transform itself into a concept of "exchange", so what about her?
Can she also freely define the chaos in her heart and decide for herself what is true and what is false?
[You seem to have figured out a lot.] The system said during the audition.
"Count?" Li Li murmured.
She turned her head and looked at the cartoonist who was talking to the staff, then looked at the script in her hand.
"What if I haven't reached SSS level by the end of the comic?" Li Li asked.
[No, you will.] The system believed it very much and said, [This is what I vaguely felt. You will definitely become SSS level.]
"What else?" Li Li asked.
[Stabilize this world.] The system replied.
Li Li sneered and stopped talking to Him.
Libra didn't tell her the truth from the beginning. The resurrection was fake, the transaction was fake, only his purpose was real, and this might be the only thing about him that was sincere.
The value of the world in His heart is truly incomparably high. Under the premise of ensuring this, He does not care about the life or death of anyone else, including His own.
An emotionless god who takes value theory to its maximum.
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In the comic world, Yan Changxiao and Jianyue, who were originally A-rank, have been promoted to S-rank, and Yiming and others have also been promoted to S-rank relying on their strong talents.
Tidal force
The force is growing stronger and stronger, and they are gathering towards the floating city.
The time finally came for the tide to attack the floating city. Li Li left the meeting of these nobles out of boredom, knowing that no one would stop her anyway.
Those who want to confront don’t dare, and those who dare to confront don’t want to.
Li Li walked through the royal palace, through the magnificent corridors, and onto the terrace with her casual smile.
The turmoil cast a dark hue over the world's sky, like solidified blood. Even on a clear day, it looked like a rainy, irritating day.
Li Li pushed up her sunglasses, but her vision was not blocked by them at all. Black crows gathered around her, then spread their wings and flew into the sky, flying far away with the wind.
"If you continue like this, the praise that belongs to you in this world will be transferred to the boy named Ichimiya."
Petals fluttered, and Libra appeared beside her. He still had that smile that made people feel happy and close to him unconsciously, like the most compassionate god or Buddha.
But in fact, He is the culprit who allowed everything to happen, and He does not have those worthless people in His heart.
"Do I look like someone who would care about this?" Li Li said nonchalantly.
The red eyes of the crow in the sky looked down at the earth, and under the dark and oppressive sky that made it almost impossible to breathe, it flew outside the floating city.
The black wings flapped in the wind in the sky, slowly descending, and arrived at the station of the tide.
The crow rested on a branch, then cleverly hopped to a hidden place on its little feet, observing the place with its head tilted.
Yiming was fighting with Yan Changxiao. Both of them had supernatural powers in close combat, so they practiced more often in their free time.
"You are growing up very fast." Yan Changxiao praised heartily.
"Thank you." Yiming lowered his upper body, ready to respond to Yan Changxiao's moves at any time.
"Yan Changxiao! You are much more pleasing to the eye than before!" An Huyu was shouting outside the court.
The fists were delivered with great force, and because of Tang's healing powers, neither of them held back.
"I heard it." Yan turned sideways to avoid the metal fist of Yiming, and said, "Li Baige is Hege, the prophet of the empire, and our enemy."
"What do you think?" he asked.
On a tree not far away, a black crow quietly moved closer to the shadow, as if trying to use the shadow of the tree canopy to cover its pitch-black body.