"Um, Alice, are you going to sleep in your bedroom tonight?"
"The living room is fine. We did the same thing last night. What's wrong? Is there a problem?"
"Ahem, well..." Teb coughed twice, "Since it's just sitting empty anyway, why don't I..."
"ah?!"
Alice took a few steps back, staring at him suspiciously: "What are you doing? Why do you insist on going to my bedroom?"
This... Teb was also a bit stumped. Should he tell Alice that he would die if he couldn't get into the bedroom? But how was he going to explain it to her? Besides, there wasn't really a reason! It was just a rule; who knew if it was right or wrong before it was broken!
Therefore, Teb decides to use his ultimate trump card!
Come on! Next up is a divine skill that most people can't resist—
"Please! Let me in!"
Tebu knelt down and clasped his hands together in prayer!
Alice was startled, nearly dropping the spoon in her hand. She swallowed hard. "You, are you serious?"
Please!
Teb swore he had never begged so earnestly from a... hundred? thousand? person in his entire life!
"Fine, fine..." Alice looked at him like he was a freak. "If you insist on going in, you can sleep on the floor! I'll sleep on the bed. Oh, and don't touch any of my things tonight!"
"Okay, I understand! Thank you so much! You're such a kind person!"
Alice finally agreed, and Teb also noticed something was wrong. Alice had previously said she would sleep in the living room, but then changed her mind and decided to sleep in the bedroom instead.
If she didn't want to sleep with her, then there must be something important in the bedroom that Alice had to personally look after to prevent anything from getting lost.
However, this had nothing to do with Tebu. He had never intended to complete the game; he was just happy to be alive. He didn't want to investigate any secrets Alice might have; he just wanted to stay in the cabin and wait for someone else to complete the game.
Following closely in the giant spider's footsteps, Jiang Ran passed through tunnel after tunnel until he finally reached the deepest part of the entire cavern. He suspected that he was no longer in the original cavern, but had been transported to another cavern through connecting tunnels.
“The ‘King’ is just ahead. You can go in. I won’t accompany you.”
Above the cave, there is a large letter "K" carved!
It seems the word is indeed "mistake," just as Jiang Ran suspected.
Connecting each letter together forms the path to "King," and as long as you follow the correct path, the order of the letters will not be wrong.
Jiang Ran stepped into the cave.
It was a humanoid creature, resembling an old man with one foot in the grave, with countless earth-colored pipes connected to his back and inserted into the earthen wall.
The biggest difference between him and humans is the pure black chitinous armor he wears.
Is this what a "king" is?
"I am Laplace, the 'King' of my people, and the will of this place," Laplace said slowly. "Not many adventurers can reach this place. I'm giving you the opportunity to meet me, and I also want to ask you for a favor."
"Oh? Help? How can I help you?"
Unexpectedly, upon meeting Laplace, the latter asked for his help first.
“The water jug you’re carrying belongs to Alice, and I suppose you’ve already met her,” Laplace continued. “I hope you can bring her to me.”
"May I ask why?" Jiang Ran countered. "A long time ago, Alice seemed to have come here once, but you didn't go to see her then, did you?"
“I once thought I could save civilization from decline.” Laplace’s expression was somewhat pained. “You should be glad you chose to come here instead of going directly to the other side of the fork in the road.”
"That's a path to certain death!"
What does it mean to reverse the decline of civilization? And what lies on the other side of the fork in the road?
Gwen's curiosity was piqued, and she immediately pressed for more information.
“I once led the evolution of civilization, but fell into an abyss.” Laplace’s tone was somewhat low. “I wanted to abandon all of humanity’s shortcomings, but I couldn’t do it completely. I was too eager for quick success. I wanted humanity to become a more perfect species, but I abandoned the most important thing: humanity.”
"I once led the entire swarm with my own will, but that's no longer possible. I've reached the end of my road. Even if I spend my entire life trying, I will not find a way to defeat time. Once I die, the entire swarm will be like a machine without a commander."
"I tried to create units with their own thoughts, but unfortunately, they are not yet capable of shouldering this responsibility."
Laplace sighed deeply: "Perhaps this wrong path should be buried with my demise."
"I just wanted to see my daughter one last time."
"You led your entire race in the pursuit of perfection, yet you spared Alice?"
Even if it meant erasing everyone's "humanity," did Laplace ultimately not have the heart to harm his own daughter?
Laplace overturned this conclusion, which was expected to unfold this way.
"My daughter, Alice, she's 'perfect'!" Laplace suddenly raised her hands. "When she was battling a terminal illness, 'God' appeared! It was Alice's transformation that gave me an idea! What if all of humanity possessed such a life?!"
As he got to the point of being impassioned, Laplace's eyes dimmed again. There's no need to tell the rest of the story; he failed and ended up with this bizarre and incongruous swarm of insects.
"I believe you can do it and bring Alice to me."
"If I turn around, what should I be careful about?"
"Run faster."
"Okay, I'll go through this for you, so I have one last question."
Where is the Lost City?
"That's just a legend. Countless adventurers flock to it, but no one has ever reached the real Lost City. To see the real Lost City, you must first understand why it was lost."
“Because that is the kingdom of the gods, and the gods have abandoned it.” Laplace pointed upwards, “So, it is there.”
"God gave Alice an eternal and perfect life, and I wanted to pursue this beauty, but it turned out that I was just overestimating myself, so I no longer want to get close to God, nor do I have the ability to do so."
“Is it eternally perfect?” Jiang Ran looked up. “No, people with emotions will eventually have flaws, but those without emotions are even less perfect. In fact, God cannot create perfect beings because they themselves are not perfect.”
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