The sequel of OE that "we" expect (Twenty-one)
The gods pride themselves on being merciful.
However, the young high school student objected to this. He thought that they could just try to balance the grudges, so why did they have to kill each other? The other gods did not get angry this time, but lamented the naivety of the young god.
To make the wish power and the grudge a balance of power means that they will have to continue to worship the two Buddhas in the future. The balance requires maintenance and funds. However, if both perish and everything returns to zero, the cost will be much smaller. This time it is just the loss of 10 billion wish power, and it can be earned in the future. As long as the grudge power is controlled and eliminated in time, the Book Bureau will only have wish power.
It was nothing more than a matter of subsequent investment, and those old antiques wanted to get rid of the threat of resentment, but 404 asked a fatal question: "Since you said that as long as resentment appears in the future, it will be eliminated in time, so that only the power of will will remain, then I am very curious, how did such a powerful Z01 come into being?"
Longbeard readily agreed: "The current resentment has existed since ancient times, and has even lived longer than the gods here. It is a legacy of evil. Look, aren't we solving it this time? We have accumulated so many years of willpower just for this moment, so we can't miss this opportunity."
404 wanted to speak but was interrupted by the long-bearded god. A001, the first main god in the world except for the existence of real gods, directly started a vote at the meeting to choose between mutual destruction or balance. The speed was so fast that only 404 voted for balance, and the former Black Hood abstained from voting. Apart from them, everyone else agreed to the mutual destruction.
At this moment, it seemed as if 404 was the villain. The other silent guys finally stood on the side of the senior predecessors. 404 didn't say anything else. A001 with a long beard had a satisfied smile on his face, and then he comforted the young 404 with regret.
The final word.
Jiang Yuanshi and Z01 were doomed to die. After the man with a long beard walked away leisurely, stroking his beard, the unwillingness on the young man's face faded away. He just stared at the backs of the "winners" leaving, raised his eyebrows expressionlessly, and tapped the table lightly with his fingers from time to time.
“Knock, knock, knock—”
Who is it today? Jiang Yuanshi, who had just been awakened by the alarm-like prompt sound, impatiently sat up from the half-pile of gold coins. Before he had time to look at the red dot on the attribute bar, the knocking sound outside the door continued, knocking rhythmically.
Jiang Yuanshi patted his face, regained his expression, flapped his wings and flew to look at the cat's eye. It was the village chief again. Judging from his appearance, he should be an NPC.
The door slowly opened, and the village chief looked at a palm-sized object flying out of the door and asked, "Hello, what can I do for you today?"
The village chief paused while stroking his beard and replied, "Good morning, Sasa. Is the hero not at home today?"
Xiaolong nodded: "Yes."
While saying it was a pity, the village chief took out a blue earring. It looked so familiar, exactly the same as the one Z01 was wearing. Jiang Yuanshi said, "Isn't this the earring of the hero?"
The village chief said, "Yes, he came to me yesterday and asked me to bless the earrings and pick them up the next day. I saw that he didn't come, so I came here. It just so happened that my family made some honey cookies and brought them with them."
Xiaolong thanked him and took the package. The village chief asked where the hero was and when he would be back. Xiaolong replied, "He took a commission and went on a long journey. It will probably take several days. Will the cookies go bad after today?"
The little dragon held the biscuit and swung his tail, with stars in his eyes. The village chief stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Hahaha, yes, it's a pity that the hero can't eat it. We can only let Sasa do it for us."
Sasalong wagged its tail even more happily. He did not feel lonely at all because the hero was not at home. He was just happy to eat alone. Xiaolong's family didn't have much today, so Xiaolong gave the village chief a few gold coins. After exchanging gifts, the two waved goodbye to each other.
The village chief slowly left. When he turned around, his charitable look disappeared. He stroked his beard and sneered disdainfully, "What a good-for-nothing human being."
Jiang Yuanshi watched the village chief disappear from his sight, closed the door, his smile faded, his tail stopped moving, and his face drooped: "What a waste of my expression, you still have the nerve to come so early after acting like this."
He is stroking his beard, but what are those few hairs stroking?
Jiang Yuanshi opened the package, put the biscuits aside, picked up the blue earring and looked at it for a while, but could not see anything unusual. Looking at the bite marks on it, it was indeed from Z01, and they were all Jiang Yuanshi's masterpiece when he was making dragons.
But how did the earrings get into the hands of those systems? Did Z01 have an accident? Jiang Yuanshi had no way of knowing.
Things have come to this, and he can only do what he can, such as looking at the culprit who woke him up early in the morning. He clicked on the attribute bar, and saw that his personal attributes such as health and combat power were all 100, which he had obtained through hard work in recent days.
There was nothing special, but at this moment Jiang Yuanshi's attention was attracted by the upper right corner. It seemed like there was a bug. The number of gold coins turned into many zeros, and even those zeros broke through the bars and rushed out of the light screen. Before Jiang Yuanshi had time to complain about the new bug, he found something wrong.
Wait, it seems that the beginning is not 0, but 1.
If it is 000…1, it can be considered a bug, but 100…000, it is most likely money.
Jiang Yuanshi had never counted so many zeros in his life, it was dizzying.
Tens, hundreds, thousands, and millions of each... one billion, one trillion, and one hundred billion.
Ten billion in total, a very complete number, is this also a bug? Jiang Yuanshi had a strange premonition in his heart for no reason, and for no reason he remembered that Z01 had said that he would hand over his salary.
But... what a perfect number, without even a decimal point.
Jiang Yuanshi flew into the bedroom and picked up a gold coin. The 10 billion on the amount column turned into 10.1 billion, but in the next second, the gold coin in his hand disappeared and the amount turned back to 10 billion. Jiang Yuanshi lost a gold coin inexplicably.
Then, he lost five gold coins again. When he wanted to continue, a voice interrupted him:
"Don't try, it's useless. Force the correction. You're just wasting money."
After that, Jiang Yuanshi put the gold coin into his mouth very smoothly and chewed it, saying, "Hello, but why didn't you knock when you came in?"
"...Is that the point?" Ysl404 sat speechlessly on the chair at the dining table in the living room. "By the way, I wanted to ask you why you're not surprised by my sudden appearance? Aren't you startled?"
Jiang Yuanshi swallowed the gold coin and said, "No, you are not Z01 who came here out of nowhere. Besides, the system has already given me a shot of prevention. Z01 is not here, and he still came to see me. It must be bad news. The possibility of you coming is quite high."
"Is that why you think I'll show up?"
Jiang Yuanshi flew to the chair opposite 404, sprinkled a handful of gold coins on the table, and began to eat the buffet himself, without any intention of entertaining the Lord God. The Lord God mocked the other party's hospitality in a speechless manner. Jiang Yuanshi casually took out a plate of twisted food from his backpack and placed it in front of 404 and said: "In my house, there are only gold coins and these dishes, nothing else."
404 looked at the plate of twisting and darkly crawling octopus with difficulty, looked at Jiang Yuan with sympathy and said, "He usually gives you this to eat? You can actually eat it, it must be true love."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Ah, no, I ate all the food he cooked last night, so I had to cook for myself. This is what I made. It's not that I don't want to treat you, but I think it's better not to treat you. You might as well take some money and leave. At least you can go to the village to buy some food."
Ysl404 was speechless. Even though his system was powerful, he couldn't help but sympathize with Z01. He silently changed the subject: "Let's get back to the point. The current situation is a bit dangerous, so I came here to help you solve your doubts."
"So you still haven't beaten those old antiques?"
"Well, for now."
Jiang Yuanshi didn't say anything, just said: "Okay, let's get started. First question, where is Z01 now?"
Ysl404 continued smoothly, "In this world, but his location is unknown. No one can find his exact location. It is said that he came back after receiving the email and the mission reward, but his whereabouts are still unknown. Otherwise, the god would not come to find you in person. He has made up his mind that Z01 will come to find you, and even if he can't find you, he will have other means."
Jiang Yuanshi chewed on the gold coin and said, "That guy stroking his beard is actually the Lord God? Is the Lord God's hair so sparse? He has much less hair than the village chief."
404 said "uh", then laughed and said, "Yes, after all, the current main gods are not born gods. They are promoted to higher positions and obtain some divine power from the true gods to become gods. If you come to be a system, you can also become a god if you have good performance."
"If that's the case, why kill Z01? And why are you so afraid of him? Besides being a system, what else is Z01?" Jiang Yuanshi's question hit the nail on the head. 404 hissed and said that chatting with smart people is much easier. Then he answered, "Good question. Unfortunately, that person wasn't even a system originally. He was suppressed and his memory was tampered with to become a system. His true form is grudge power, the grudge of resentment."
"Grudge?"
"Yes, the Book Transmigration Bureau relies on the willpower of living things to operate, but living things cannot be only beautiful, so resentment will be generated. The speed at which resentment accumulates is much faster than willpower. There is no absolute fairness in every world. Where there is light, there is darkness. Beauty is accompanied by resentment. When resentment reaches a certain level, 'resentment' will be born. It is the combination of resentment and its essence. It is powerful and difficult to erase. The Book Transmigration Bureau spent many years trying every possible means to weaken resentment, but resentment is difficult to eliminate, so those main gods simply took the opportunity to transform it into their subordinates, let the 'resentment' work for themselves, and then use their accumulated willpower to kill themselves. However, they didn't expect that there was too much resentment, and they had to accumulate tens of billions of willpower points before they could start the eradication plan."
After Jiang Yuanshi heard the origin of Z01, his brows were furrowed and he couldn't relax at all. "But you also said that wishes and resentment are interdependent. Even if Z01 is killed, as long as the bookstore needs wishes, the resentment will always exist."
404 sighed and said helplessly, "Yes, it's something that anyone with a brain knows, but those gods think they are omnipotent and swear to create a utopia that only has the power of will."
People really laugh when they are speechless. Several gods combined have not yet destroyed Z01, and they still brazenly express such a stupid fantasy. They are still confident. "I can tell from the sound that it is a leader who has not descended to the earth for too long. There is no hope for him unless he is really dragged down."
404 said "hmm" to show his agreement. Jiang Yuanshi wiped his mouth, knocked out the octopus that was crawling towards him with a gold coin, and asked, "So now those guys want Z01 and I to kill each other? After all, the power of will seems to be with me?"
Then he opened the property bar to show 404: "Can you see it? This should be the 10 billion subsidy you mentioned, right?"
404 held his chin up and picked up the gold coin to throw at the octopus, forcing it to turn around and crawl towards Jiang Yuanshi. "Yeah, that guy took out his marriage certificate and the Lord God's certificate and directly transferred the assets to you. But you can guess everything. Who among us is the prophet?"
The octopus crawled towards Jiang Yuanshi's darkness. Although there was no mucus on the table, there was residual vegetable juice, which became more concentrated as it went back and forth. Jiang Yuanshi was too lazy to take action, so he simply pulled the octopus that was stretched out to him and took a bite. It was quite chewy. It looked ugly but tasted okay. Jiang Yuanshi reluctantly spurted flames from his mouth and cooked the octopus.
Another bite, that's it.
"Why don't you try it now? I can bake one for you."
"...That's not necessary, just eat it yourself."
"Oh well."
"You haven't answered my question yet?"
Jiang Yuanshi said casually: "It's very simple, because this is what Z01 and I planned, but the success rate is only 6%, but we will die anyway, so we might as well give it a try."
404 paused while fiddling with the gold coins, then raised his head and looked at Jiang Yuanshi who was eating with interest: "You... planned it? What do you know? You knew that Z01 was the power of resentment, so you asked him to give the power of will to you, right?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "I don't know. I just felt that it was a waste to give the money to my boss, so I let Z01 take it back for himself. It was expected that he would transfer it to me. After all, he can really do such a thing now. But I just learned about what you said. What Z01 and I planned was just to give some bugs to Chuanshuju."
"…Bug? What bug?"
"It's just a bug virus. Anyway, we know that the Lord God is going to kill Z01. I won't be able to survive like this. I'm going to die anyway, so I might as well cause some trouble to the Book Bureau. After all, there are bugs everywhere when I'm doing the mission. What exactly are the bugs... well... just some insignificant little things like signal delay, inability to receive messages, garbled characters, etc."
404 took a breath, this was no small matter, he remembered the delayed news in the meeting, it turned out that it was because they sent the virus, which led to the situation where the Lord God started the eradication plan. If there was no delay, then the application would only be rejected, and Z01 was destined to die on the same day. Everything changed because of this small bug.
Ysl404 laughed. In Jiang Yuanshi's eyes, he looked like a crazy worker at work. Jiang Yuanshi didn't dare to disturb him. He just held the octopus's head and started to gnaw on it, making a "crunching" sound.
404 laughed enough, took a breath and said, "Great, great, the turning point is really on you." Facing Jiang Yuanshi's puzzled look, 404 said, "So now you know, the willpower is in you, those old guys intend to use you as a temporary carrier, to become a collection of willpower. Once you meet Z01, the elimination plan will be automatically triggered. You are destined to become enemies. Under the urging of the Lord God, you will definitely perish."
Jiang Yuanshi asked a question: "According to you, Z01 is born with resentment, and I am just a container? Can't a container become a wish?"
404: "The container can become a wish, but the prerequisite is that the container is compatible enough and can carry so many wishes. To be honest, even if you don't meet Z01 now, you will explode after today because you can't carry so many wishes. At that time, this world will be completely destroyed, including Z01 in this world, because this world has been blocked, and I have only sent a trace of my divine consciousness here now."
Jiang Yuanshi had already finished eating the octopus. He wiped his mouth, looked at the increasing personal values on the attribute bar and said, "Then your divine consciousness will also be blown up? Is there divine power in divine consciousness?"
404: "You will be blown up. Divine thoughts are produced by divine power, which is equivalent to voice transmission over a thousand miles plus 3D video. What do you want to do?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "I don't believe you're here just to answer questions. After all, aren't you a prophet? Your little power will disappear anyway, so why not lend it to me?"
404 said with some regret: "I would like to, but I can't lend out the power of God. However... I did bring some things with me, but I am only a semi-outsider, so there is not much I can do to help you."
As he said this, 404 spread out his palms, and a blue substance floated in his palms, gradually decomposing from a ball into ten small things. That was... Jiang Yuanshi's finger, the soul that had been sacrificed.
"The soul you sacrifice will not disappear after you are blown up, so you may be able to survive, but this is also a matter of probability. It is equivalent to gambling because there is no precedent."
Jiang Yuanshi was least afraid of death and risk, but it sounded like Z01 would eventually die. 404 nodded. He couldn't change that. Jiang Yuanshi glanced at the blue, then turned to the bright blue under the mask of gold coins on the table. He stepped forward and took out the blue earring, asking, "What did the bearded god do with this earring?"
404 took it, looked at it, and returned it: "It's like a prison. Once it is brought to Z01, Z01 will be imprisoned and a space will be created. It will be convenient for a small-scale explosion at that time. In this way, this world will be preserved."
"That is to say, after Z01 and I met, we were locked into this space."
"Yes."
"Are the spaces connected to each other?"
"I know what you mean, but this space has been banned. You and Z01 will be isolated after entering. Then this space will be blown up as well."
Jiang Yuanshi asked again without giving up: "Can't I become the real collective of Yuan? Z01 has entity and consciousness, why doesn't Yuan have it?"
Speaking of this 404 was also puzzled. As far as he knew, the wish itself could take shape, but the formed wish would disappear after a short while and could not be retained at all. The possible reason was that the wish was constantly being consumed and the flow of funds made it impossible for the wish to accumulate.
Moreover, creatures have been tried to become containers of wishes, but none of them could withstand the pressure and exploded to death. The main reason is that wishes need to be fulfilled, and those creatures don't have that ability. 404 said with his face in his hand: "To put it simply, if you don't have the ability to fulfill other people's wishes, you naturally won't get their faith and offerings. If there is no offering, you will explode. Of course, it is not certain that there will be. I don't know about this. After all, we main gods have never been worshipped. We all became gods by sharing the divine power. If there is enough faith, we should also become gods, right? It's similar to the novels?"
After all, they are all legends and empty words. There is nothing we can do at the moment. Jiang Yuanshi took off the earring and hung it around his neck. The blue earring and the red earring collided with each other, making a crisp sound.
He checked the time. It was 9 o'clock in the morning. He had to set out early to look for Z01. If he couldn't find it today, the world would explode. Jiang Yuanshi didn't want this to happen. Before he left, he said to 404, who was left behind to look after the house, "Didn't I have a wish that I didn't tell you before?"
"Hmm? Yeah, but what are you going to do? I can't help you with your excessive wishes."
Jiang Yuanshi shook his head and said, "But it's not a problem. My real USB drive is in the urn I pre-ordered. Please help me create an ending for this world. The scripts for different endings are also in that USB drive. I died before I decided whether to put them in or not. Now that I think about it, a happy ending is not bad either. Sorry for the trouble."
"That's it? Your wish seems too simple."
"But it's very important to me. However, I can't do it even if I'm dead. Please forgive me. I have to find Z01 now. That guy is still waiting for me."
"Do you know where he is?"
Jiang Yuanshi shook his head: "I don't know, but I guess I can find it."
404 looked at the palm-sized dragon standing at the door and sighed, "Forget it, it's up to you. I can't help you. I can only give you some gifts."
After a snap of his fingers, the little dragon turned into a human form.
Jiang Yuanshi looked at his intact yet barely visible fingertips and said, "Thank you."
Jiang Yuanshi set off.
Embark on a one-day journey to find Z01.
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