In the sunlight, the wheelchair landed on a high tower.
Su Mingan was familiar with this tower. It was located in the central area of Doomsday City. It was a landscape building and usually there were not many people there.
But when Akto read a code, the scene in the tower changed drastically.
A stream of white light appeared in the air, like a transparent veil slowly being lifted. Countless white data streams of 0s and 1s suddenly appeared around the tower. Actor walked into the tower, followed closely by Su Mingan, as if they had walked into a pure white universe, and even every step they took had pure white ripples.
This feeling is very similar to returning to the main god's world, both of which are surrounded by endless white light.
"Where is this...?" Su Mingan said.
"The entrance to the Dawn system can be understood as the central console of the two-dimensional world," said Akto.
A white table with two chairs rises from the ground.
"Please sit down." Akto was polite, with snow-white data streams surrounding him like blooming flowers.
Even though he was just an AI, Su Mingan could feel the temperament of Akto from him, a temperament that was gentle to everything in the world, yet extremely steady. Sensibility and rationality were perfectly matched, and equally charming.
Su Mingan sat down on the chair, and a cup of tea automatically appeared on the white round table in front of him.
"What kind of tea do you like?" Akto's fingers rested on the edge of the teapot.
"Can anything be conjured up?" Su Mingan said.
"Of course, it's only limited to here," said Akto.
"Coffee." Su Mingan said.
He no longer wanted to drink tea.
Akto smiled and moved his fingers slightly, and a cup of steaming coffee appeared in front of Su Mingan.
"Su Ming'an, you have now signed a 'civilization bet' with the gods. If you cannot restart the Dawn system within twenty days, he will obtain the source of your civilization." said Akto.
"Yes. At that time, he offered to guide me to victory in the war as a bargaining chip, so I had to agree to him." Su Mingan took a sip of coffee.
He and Akto sat face to face in this pure white space, surrounded by flowing data streams. For a moment, it felt like a meeting between representatives of two civilizations.
The white light was reflected in his dark eyes, and he was also reflected in Aktor's dark gray eyes.
"But this bargaining chip is one of the gods' purposes. In this bet, the gods will definitely win." Akto said, "It's useless to say this now. This bet will do you no good. I'm here to help you break it."
"A civilized bet...should not be cancelled." Su Mingan said.
Su Mingan had long discovered that this world, including the entire universe, was like a game in which the rules could not be violated. Once a bet was signed, it had to be followed. Otherwise, like Blair, the player who revealed that "those who cleared all levels perfectly could make a wish", he would be killed by the organizer with white light.
Aqto took a sip of Biluochun and said with a smile: "We can't go back on our bet, but we can find loopholes within the [rules]."
"For example?" Su Mingan said.
"The terms of your bet are - 'The Dawn System must be restarted within 20 days.'" Actor's fingers traced in the air, like a piece of chalk sketching in the air, and wrote three words:
'Twenty days'.
'Performer: Su Mingan'.
'Restart the Dawn system'.
Su Mingan stared at these three words and said "Hmm?" softly.
"Which of these three conditions do you think we can exploit?" Akto's tone was quite persuasive.
Su Mingan's eyes were fixed on these three conditions.
"Twenty days." Su Mingan replied.
"Why?" asked Akto.
"From the current clues, 'time' is the content in the world of ruins that is most different from the definition of reality. If we want to break the deadlock, we can only start from this level." Su Mingan said.
Akto smiled and said, "It seems that your way of thinking has matured. I believe that even in the future world copies, you can keep going."
Akto stood up and drew a big circle in the air with his finger, starting with "twenty days" and ending with "restarting the Dawn System".
"--So, now that we have chosen the breakthrough point - Su Mingan, how do you think we should break through the shackles of 'twenty days'?" Akto's voice became serious.
Su Mingan had put down the coffee cup in his hand. He realized that Akto was teaching him "how to play the world game."
Split the problem bit by bit, break it into pieces, guide it, link clues bit by bit, sort out your own thinking patterns, and decide what to do next - Actor is teaching him this "universal thinking template for perfect clearance". This is a skill that can never be found in the world forum, and it is countless times more precious than purple-level equipment.
Su Mingan thought for a moment and said, "Tomorrow is the 'twentieth day'. If I want to save the ruined world, I will definitely reach the twentieth day. Time cannot be reversed. The only breakthrough point I can think of is the Central City Laboratory, which I have not yet solved the mystery of."
The Central City Laboratory, where time stopped at the year 72 of the Cataclysm, was where he spent three days at the beginning of the game. There, there was the amiable Mrs. Meera, his life assistant Treya, and the lively twins Dongxu and Xudong, and everyone loved him.
That might be the breakthrough point, but there were too few clues for him to figure out.
Seeing that Su Mingan was unable to come up with the next step, Akto knocked on the teapot and gave the answer:
"Su Mingan."
"——If we can lead the fulfilment person to be someone who 'can never reach the twentieth day', this bet will have no end and can never be lost. This is the best solution."
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