“This…what’s going on?!”
The young man looked in horror at his right hand which kept writing new things on the paper.
He tried to throw the pen away, but his entire arm was completely out of control and no longer obeyed his command.
At the same time, he also realized that something seemed to be flowing out of his body.
That was his body, his soul, his vitality, all the evidence of his existence in this world...
Gradually, the young man stopped struggling. His eyes became dazed, his face became old, and his straight back hunched. He seemed to have completely become a puppet who only knew how to write on books.
Outside the one-way glass, the man in a white coat holding a document frowned, turned around and looked at the person next to him and asked:
“Which one is this?”
The man was also wearing a researcher's white coat and looked like a white man in his thirties, but his eyes did not have the irises that ordinary people have. His entire eyeballs looked like only the white of the eye and a little black pupil.
Hearing the question from the person next to him, the man with the white eyes counted and said softly, "The twenty-third one."
"…Is it the twenty-third one already?"
The man in the white coat who was asking the question rubbed his temples with a headache and sighed, "The lives and existences of twenty-three D-class personnel are still unable to defeat the [World Destroyer] this time."
"Oh my god, what on earth did 1-189 come up with?!"
My eyes moved from the man in the white coat to the file in his hand, which recorded all the information about the book.
[Project number: 1-189]
[Project name: The old-fashioned story of a brave man fighting a demon king]
[Object Class: Apollyon (formerly Euclid, now corrected)]
[Special Containment Procedures: 1-189 needs to be placed on a desk made of any material and placed in a completely isolated study room. A team of monitoring personnel must be deployed outside the study room to monitor it in shifts 24 hours a day.]
[If any abnormal situation is found, such as text appearing on 1-189-a, or 1-189-b moving without being held, it must be reported to the "Observer Team" immediately, and reading and writing experiments must be carried out with at least one "Observer" present.]
[Acquisition log: 1-189 was found in a burning apartment. All the furniture in the apartment was burned. Only 1-189 survived the fire without any damage. This special phenomenon attracted the attention of the agents. They investigated the residents of the apartment and found that they could not find any information related to the tenants. Even the landlord did not remember why he rented out the apartment. ]
[Description: 1-189 consists of two parts, 1-189-a and 1-189-b. 1-189-a is the manuscript of a Japanese light novel writer, and 1-189-b is the last pencil used by the writer before his death. After material testing, the material composition of the manuscript and pencil is the same as that of ordinary notebook paper and pencils, but they have physical properties far beyond the material itself.]
[Any human holding 1-189-b will lose control of their arm, and under the control of an unknown force, continue the subsequent story of the hero fighting the devil in the blank part of 1-189-a.]
[Once the story is finished, the writer will start a new line and start describing the story again. The general structure of the story does not change (crossed out). The general structure of the story usually does not change. Only in very rare cases will new plots appear. In other cases, usually only the names of the characters will change significantly. ]
[According to 'Observer' XXX, he insisted that he had read a light novel with the same story as the original manuscript, but now, the whole world except him has 'forgotten' the existence of this book and its author. ]
[Based on the 'Observer Effect' and writing experiments involving D-class personnel, there is reason to believe that the act of continuing a story will consume the entire existence of the writer, including but not limited to life, memory, social traces, etc.]
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(PS: Euclid refers to anomalies that require more resources to fully contain, or anomalies that have been contained but are not completely reliable.)
(Apollyon refers to an anomaly that cannot be contained, or is expected to break containment in the near future.)
"As far as I can remember, this is the fourth time that 1-189 has experienced an abnormal storyline."
The man with the white eyes said calmly, "In the previous two story plots, a goddess and a visitor from another world appeared respectively."
"Among them, the goddess of the first time was assimilated into the background of the story, and the alien visitor of the second time was easily defeated by the hero."
"The most special one is the third time, when a demon dragon from the demon world appears in the story and fights with the summoned hero for twenty-seven world cycles."
"That time, we didn't let the D-class personnel continue the story in time, which resulted in 1-189 being unable to do anything to the dragon. He could only use the goddess exorcism to banish the dragon to the outside world, which is our real world, and caused a large-scale containment failure at Base 17."
"Therefore, I have reason to believe that the character that caused the anomaly in the plot was most likely not edited by 1-189 himself."
The man in the white coat nodded. "I know about the world theory in the book. This theory is very popular among the survivors of Base 17, but it has not been confirmed after all. I can only reserve my opinion."
At this point, the man in the white coat paused, then seemed to understand something, frowned and said, "Madden, you don't want to suggest that the base stop continuing the experiment and release that abnormal character, do you?"
“…”
Observer Madden did not answer directly, but looked directly into the eyes of the man in the white coat and said seriously: "The last abnormal character released by 1-189 was a dragon that could not communicate, but this time, the abnormal character is a completely communicative being."
"If we can find a way to contain the abnormal characters, we can communicate with them and obtain more information related to 1-189 and the world in the book..."
"Are you sure?" The man in the white coat frowned tightly, "Don't forget, this time it's the Devil of Destruction who appears!"
"Even a hero who has undergone hundreds of rounds of enhancement and can destroy the world with one strike is still no match for the Devil of Destruction. If such a being appeared in our Base No. 3, do you know how great a disaster it would cause?"
"...Li Yun." Madden suddenly emphasized, "His name is Li Yun."
"This is a typical Chinese name. The story depicted in 1-189 is set in a Western fantasy setting, and no Chinese name has ever appeared. This phenomenon can already be used as part of the proof of the 'world theory in the book'."
"And he wasn't the Devil King of Destruction from the beginning. He was only given the title of [Devil King of Destruction] after the second round of stories."
"In addition, in the worlds from the sixth to the twenty-seventh round, he used various methods to try to reach a consensus with the hero, as if he had realized that the world would reincarnate and start over again."
"This has never happened before in previous experiments."
"So, I infer that this abnormal character named Li Yun may be a visitor from another world like the second abnormal character, but he possesses a much stronger power than the previous visitor from another world, which is why 1-189 is helpless against him."
"All the above information is stored in the experimental records in my mind. When the experiment is over, I will record it and voluntarily accept the A-level mental examination..."
Hearing Madden's calm words that didn't sound fake, the man in the white coat couldn't help but frown.
Since the writer of 1-189 will become unobservable after his death, the story he wrote cannot be directly observed. Only those who are infected with the observer effect can retain complete memories.
This is why experiments require at least one 'observer' to observe and record.
At this moment, the D-class personnel who were continuing the story finally exhausted everything and exploded into spots of light in the sky again.
The man in the white coat pressed the button within three seconds of his memory disappearing, releasing the 24th D-class personnel, and then used the same dialogue to order him to pick up the pencil and continue writing the story in the book.
"Number twenty-four. The rate at which D-class personnel are consumed is increasing."
Observer Madden looked at the man in the white coat and whispered, "At this rate, all the D-class personnel in the base will be exhausted in thirty-six hours at the latest..."
“…”
Hearing Madden's words, the man in the white coat looked hesitant.
After a moment, he gritted his teeth and said, "If the experimental records are really as you said, then I can submit the application with you, but whether it will be passed or not is not up to me to decide!"
Madden nodded and said, "No problem, I will take full responsibility for this."
…
…
On the other side, Li Yun had been fighting with the brave man for 213 rounds.
With each round of battle, the hero's strength is getting stronger, and now he has reached the early eighth level.
At this rate, Li Yun estimated that after about a thousand rounds, the brave man would be able to barely fight him.
Li Yun naturally had a headache about this situation.
After a little thought, he made a decision. If the hero's strength could reach the level of True Immortal, he would have to ask the alliance for help.
At this moment, Li Yun was suddenly stunned. He found that the brave man and the world that were destroyed by his blow did not reappear.
Instead, there was an endless void of chaos and darkness, in which stood a dazzling white light figure.
She has beautiful facial features, a perfect and graceful figure, a sacred and pure face with a smile that makes people feel like spring breeze. She is the so-called goddess in the records of this world.
After appearing, the goddess looked at Li Yun with her golden eyes, slightly opened her red lips, and under the cover of sacred white light, she declared to Li Yun that he would be exiled from this world.
Hearing this declaration, Li Yun was slightly stunned, and then he couldn't help but sneer.
"…Exile me?"
"Do you think you are worthy?"
Before he finished speaking, Li Yun circulated the energy in his body again, and with the same force that had killed a true immortal in the world of immortal cultivation, he released the powerful magical power that came with the 4.7 immortal cultivation version of "Fission Divine Art".
"Immortality——Nuclear Light!!"
In an instant, the blue-green silk thread was like an extremely solid whip, carrying the tremendous power to tear through space and shatter the void, and it lashed towards the goddess in front of it who was shrouded in white light.