The ga’s position was full of contradictions. Sotis, it would be ruthless, inflicting all kinds of punishnts without rcy, taking away human lives from the wasteland.
At other tis, it would distribute rewards and punishnts fairly. Anyone who deserved a reward would not get a penny less than what they deserved.
In the long run, the ga would only cause more and more humans to distrust it.
On the flip side, it also never changed its ways and executed its duties and responsibilities steadfastly. This was sothing that had been tried and tested many tis.
Su Mo thought that those duties and responsibilities were like remnant commands from the ga’s creator or operator. These commands were absolute, and the ga could only obey and modulate its actions within certain paraters.
What he did not foresee was that—his guess was correct!
“You guessed right! We humans aren’t the masterminds of this universe or dinsion.” “Your world, my world, the world we currently reside in together with foreign races, plus the 6896 other Earths, all don’t belong to us.”
“They all belong to the ga, and to the gamaster.” Jiang Chu spread out his hands to shut off the screen with a sigh of resignation.
The next second, a bottle of cola appeared in the grasp of his bluish phantom figure, which he poured into his stomach.
No one would ever accept the fact that their existence was rely a small piece of soone else’s private property.
No one would also accept that the Earth and the universe they lived in were nothing more than playthings for the other party. In Jiang Chu’s mory, when this scary reality beca common knowledge, countless researchers nearly went mad.
They observed, reasoned, calculated, and simulated but, in the end, they all chose to give up. It was a fact and the truth! “The Earth we lived on was so parallel universe, it was just the gamaster cutting corners and purchasing the sa product in batches, creating planets of the sa model.”
“The universe we’re in is also not a real one, but also a generic template that the gamaster bought, which he then uploaded us into.”
“The world we live in is real, but also fake and, because we were fooled from the outset, we lived our lives never being able to co up with a thod of escaping or lifting those shackles.”
“It was the suppression of the other dinsions that resulted in human kind suffering the greatest contempt!” “In the eyes of the beings of the higher dinsion, we’re just like ants locked up in an incubator, whose only purpose is to be observed and laughed at for eternity!”
Jiang Chu’s words did not contain personal feelings nor attachnt.
These words were spat out from his mouth like a docuntary narration.
Even so, after his voice quieted down, the blood-colored water outside writhed about imdiately while the ground erupted with bursts of flas.
Obviously, he had roused this world’s wrath by exposing the hidden rules.
Fortunately, Jiang Chu was already dead, and everything he just said was part of an audio he had pre-recorded for Su Mo.
This strange phenona outside ceased and everything beca tranquil once again, avoiding the ga’s attention.
“How is it? Are you flabbergasted?”
“Back then, when I found out about this, it took two hundred and twenty years before I ca back to my senses!” Seeing that Su Mo was still seated in front of the table in deep thought, Jiang Chu turned off the pre-recorded audio and smirked.
“Indeed! Unexpectedly finding out that one’s own world is soone else’s plaything would be hard for anyone to accept”, Su Mo smiled as he lifted his head.
His response left Jiang Chu in shock; it was as if he had just seen a monster. “It can’t be! Su Mo! Don’t tell that you’re already able to accept this reality?”
Su Mo raised his eyebrows, “No, it’s only this way because before you told , I had already guessed as much!”
Jiang Chu was stunned into silence. He could not understand how a depressing reality, that took him two hundred years or so to accept, had taken only a few minutes for Su Mo. This was despite the fact that he had already accepted that Su Mo was a genius.
Jiang Chu sat on his stool with a dejected expression on his face. Those who were a half-step quicker than others when it ca to the affairs of the world were considered wise.
If they were one step quicker, they would be demons.
If they were ten steps quicker, they would be Gods.
For soone like Su Mo who was a hundred, or even a thousand steps ahead, he was an incomprehensible freak!
“What you’re saying is that, in this world they created, it is fair to say that we will never be able to ascend beyond dinsions? And that all the information and data we have is just what that other party intends and allows us to obtain and see?”
Jiang Chu nodded. “Yes! Even though no one knows what happened to the gamaster that caused it to lose control over the ga, the administrator it left behind is still working its hardest to maintain the balance of the ga.”
Their roles were flipped. Su Mo was now the one who held the initiative and was asking the questions, while Jiang Chu was the one answering
What Jiang Chu did not realize was that Su Mo could accept it so quickly not because of his talent or knowledge, but rather because he had seen sothing from a higher dinsion personally—the system!
It was the only way to crush the ga, and perhaps even the gamaster’s existence. Since he possessed the system, Su Mo did not panic about his situation, but instead grew excited.
As a follow-up question, Su Mo asked again,” If we want to change our fate and go beyond our dinsion, we must first defeat the ga administrator and obtain all his authority. Are you of the opinion that we will only be able to figure out how to escape this cycle after gaining the power to decide our own fate?” Jiang Chu replied, “Yes, we are now ants in an incubator. We must first be able to gain control of this incubator before we can even think about opening it and climbing out of the incubator.”
“The ga is our biggest obstacle. It is the incubator’s intelligent operating system that abides by the rules and regulations that have been predetermined for it.”
“If our population is too large, it will summon the “ant exterminator” and create teorites, interplanetary collisions, epidemics, wildfires, earthquakes, plumting global temperatures, floods, gravitational fluctuations, continental collisions, and other supernatural disasters to diminish our numbers. If our population is too low, it will initiate a series of proliferation asures and restore the environnt in order to allow us to recuperate!”
“If those from the Butterfly space-ti continuum had failed to open the portal to the wasteland, and then later open the portals to the other dinsions in the incubator, we humans on Earth would still be in the dark about the truth, waiting for extraterrestrial civilization to arrive like idiots!”
“Anyway, this is also the case of the ga digging its own grave. It figured out that sothing was wrong and started revoking the authority of the wasteland’s gods. However, the ga had no way of outrightly massacring these gods, so it allowed us humans to beco players. We logged in using our consciousness, and were given the ability to infinitely respawn and, through missions, obtain the wasteland’s authority. In the end though, the ga retrieved the authority by taking back the bodies we used as ‘carriers’ when we beca players.” “It’s just that, when we humans accumulated authority exceeding 35%, it destroyed the ga’s equilibrium completely. As such, it had to hastily increase the number of living beings in this world, forcing it to level the playing field early. Once it got rid of our ability to respawn, we first-generation Gods, before our death, gave up our authority so that the humans from Earth who would co after us could inherit it. This was equivalent to us using our bodies and consciousness to obtain authority in a way that was even less under the ga’s jurisdiction!”
Su Mo looked thoughtful and asked, “Then why would the ga summon us to the wasteland to participate in this survival ga?”
Up to this point, Su Mo had almost pieced together the entire picture regarding his speculation based on the earlier explanations provided by Jiang Chu.
After all the explanations and questions, it all circled back around to what the primary goal was for humans participating in the ga. This was an unavoidable point. “This was the result of a thousand years of effort by the humans on the wasteland, and the compromise we reached with the ga. In other words, it’s the bug we worked ourselves into!”
Hearing the word “bug” co out of Jiang Chu’s mouth, Su Mo was naturally happy.
Jiang Chu, who was still sitting opposite him, also finally shook off the shock caused by Su Mo earlier and started smiling again. “Just as I said before, when our population is too large, the ga will activate reduction asures, whereas when our population is too low, the ga will activate proliferation asures.”
Su Mo nodded.
Jiang Chu continued, “As such, there is an incongruity in the rules!”
“When we’re at war with the ga to fight for authority, the mass culling of human lives would result in our population quickly reaching the lower limit of the ga’s settings. When that happens, according to the rules, the ga must activate the proliferation asures to increase the number of humans to avoid our population decreasing past the point of no return, otherwise the ga administrator would be punished, or perhaps the ga might even be forced to shut down.”
“However, just think about it. If it stopped fighting with us and helped us to increase our numbers again, wouldn’t that be the sa as changing his position from an enemy to an ally? That would give us the chance to obtain all the authority.”
“Hence, the ga had no choice but to negotiate and parley with us in order to protect its interest and avoid the destruction of the incubator.”
Speaking of this, Su Mo involuntarily tightened his chest.
It would have taken imnse human sacrifice to take advantage of this loophole in the rules and get to this step.
However, it would be the first ti humans had achieved success in the war against the higher dinsions!
“This negotiation had three participating parties.”
“First, the ga; second, the humans; and third, the native inhabitants.
“All the native inhabitants surrendered because of the humans’ crazy invasion. They had no way to fight back and gave up the 28% of authority they possessed to the ga from the outset in exchange for the privilege to be able to bring their people to other planets, which were different compartnts of the incubator, to survive.”
“With the ga’s protection there, they would be able to proliferate and prosper. Their gods would also be protected by the ga and continue to possess longevity.” “We humans were naturally one of the warring factions, and we sought to make a bet with the
ga.”
Su Mo asked, “The main battlefield where this bet would be decided was the wasteland?”
Jiang Chu nodded. “Yes, it’s the wasteland!”
“For this bet, we used the 43% of authority in our hands as a wager to gain the remaining 57%. We placed all the authority in a huge safe space. Everyone lost their authority at that mont and returned to the sa starting line. Whoever could get 51% of the authority first would be granted the remainder and beco the true owner of the incubator!”
“From that point onward, the real battle began!”
Jiang Chu once again glanced at the 1.46% authority flowing through Su Mo with great admiration, after which he continued, “We agreed that, on the wasteland, the ga can continue summoning humans from other sections of the incubator, as well as other living beings, to fulfill the conditions for the ga, including reduction asures such as disasters. Those who stood out and perford well would be rewarded with authority.” “For example, if we humans who arrived with nothing could survive the disasters using our own ability, we’d obtain so authority.”
“It was the sa for the foreign races. They could send people to fight us for the authority rewards given out by the ga.”
“The only exception is that, if we humans relied on 80% or more of the abilities given by the ga to survive the disasters, it would be recognized as them receiving the assistance of the ga, which ant that the ga could take their authority away.”
“After such a long ti, we humans only managed to accumulate 12.1% authority, while the ga’s authority has risen to 14.9% recently. Your 1.46% would help us bridge that massive gap! Aweso!”Jiang Chu gave Su Mo a thumbs up after saying all that in one breath.
Seeing the amazent on Su Mo’s face, Jiang Chu thought that his overwhelming praise had worked wonders and enthusiastically prepared to continue showering him with more flattery.
What he did not see coming was the previously silent Su Mo speaking up abruptly, “Hold on! If we humans survive disasters using our own abilities, how do we check our authority…”
Jiang Chu seed astonished. “Eh? Can’t you check yours now? Oh, right! I forgot yours was obtained via a backdoor thod from Bai Zhan Tang. If your other identity possesses authority, you just have to…”
Su Mo lowered his head and thought for a while as Jiang Chu uttered a spell rapidly.
Su Mo then swapped his identity without hesitation and started doing just as Jiang Chu instructed
The next second-boom!
Jiang Chu stared at Su Mo with so much surprise that his jaw almost hit the floor.
A more striking divine light than his previous 1.46% authority shone from-Su Mo’s body!
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