[You have discovered "Sique’s videotape."]
[Received Exploration Points: 30 points.]
[TE2·"They have waited too long for redemption" (win the championship of the Disciple Ga, reach the Dark Side, end the World Ga): 73%]
...
... Unexpectedly found Sique’s videotape.
Su Ming’an looked up; this was a rundown underground library, bookshelves covered in dust, emitting a musty sll.
If not for the "Clue Insight" Divine Skill, Su Ming’an wouldn’t have been able to find Sique’s videotape in this shabby room.
Su Ming’an lowered his head, focused on watching the video.
In the image, a purple-haired young man dressed in a white gown with the zipper pulled all the way up to the neck, hands folded on his knees, seated properly and obediently. His purple long hair was tied into a neat high ponytail, like a well-behaved student.
"I’m ready." Sique’s clear voice erged.
It seed he was a candidate undergoing a career interview. At this ti, Sique was not yet the famous Creator, still showing a touch of naivety.
Su Ming’an pulled up a small stool and sat down. Such a naive and pure Sique was rare indeed; this must have been a long-ago videotape. The current Sique had turned into a super lazy bird.
"First question: Your na?" A cold electronic voice began to ask. At the sa ti, a screen behind Sique started displaying his real-ti heartbeat, blood pressure, and breathing.
"Sique." Sique’s eyes were bright.
"Second question: Your background?"
"I ca from a remote village with golden wheat fields, later attending the Red Tower Royal City Academy in the Royal City."
"Third question: Briefly describe your interpersonal relationships."
"My adoptive father is Qiao, he brought from the village to the Royal City. He is a special engineer in the Royal City, always dedicated to researching chanical airship careers. I also have so relatives in the village; Teacher Peir is very kind, Uncle Laman is a brave Hunter, and..." Sique spoke more and more, like a chattering magpie.
"... Stop, only direct relatives." The electronic voice interrupted him.
Sique smiled, his rapid speech finally ca to a halt.
"Fourth question: Briefly describe your Race."
"I am from the Magpie Clan, my adoptive father is from the Witch Race."
As if detecting key information, the electronic voice imdiately followed up with questions, its tone relentless:
"Additional question: The average lifespan of the Magpie Clan is only 10-20 years, you are already at the end of your lifespan. Are you sure you can complete the work of Cleatory’s Cyber Tech Church with your remaining limited lifespan?"
Su Ming’an’s pupils contracted slightly.
... The Magpie Clan has such a short lifespan. Clearly still a youth, yet already at the end of life.
There must have been so opportunity later that allowed Sique to live so long. But for the current Sique, he was fully aware of his impending death.
Sique sat on the chair, the cold right-angle chair close to his spine, his heartbeat and blood pressure did not fluctuate much, his expression was calm, and he slowly said:
"I can do it."
"Even if only one or two years remain, it doesn’t matter."
The cold electronic voice paused for a mont before continuing with questions:
"Fifth question: Please briefly describe your employnt intentions."
In Sique’s eyes, a fla suddenly ignited, he leaned forward and said: "I heard your Cleatory Cyber Tech Church worships the Supre Lord Toso Lius. You advocate combining cyber technology with religion, which greatly interests . This is the early period of the Second Epoch, the concept of Creators has just erged, presenting sharp contradictions with modern scientific establishnts, I want to join you to help reconcile these contradictions."
"Then..." At this point, the electronic voice changed to a human voice, and a figure behind single-sided glass asked a question: "I’ve heard your na, Sique, you are a well-known young Creator in the Royal City, recently won the Autumn Ceremony Literature First Prize, earning the Princess’s favor. How do you guarantee not leaning towards the Creator side as a Creator?"
Sique’s fingers clenched: "... Because my adoptive father is a scientist, I would consider his interests."
A period of silence ensued before the electronic voice continued to ask:
"Basic questions are completed, now entering the structured interview period, candidates please listen to the questions."
"First question: You are a newly employed Creator, at work, your scientist colleague is complaining, upset that the recent World Rules changes and the ergence of Creators have disrupted Luowasha’s order, how would you handle it?"
Sique thought for a mont, then said: "I would calm my colleague, telling him perhaps in the Domain of Creation, we can find a scientific path..."
He talked for a full three minutes before stopping. Even separated by a screen, Su Ming’an started to feel tense.
The electronic voice went on to ask many questions covering a lot of information.
Su Ming’an listened to the information while opening the clue bar and taking notes:
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[Su Ming’an’s Luowasha Ti Notes:]
[Second Epoch 136, suspected birth year of Sique.
Second Epoch 150, Creator concept erges, Sique is fourteen years old, writes the first original character Elisa.
Second Epoch 317, Lin Hejin distances himself from Sique.
Second Epoch 487, The Day of God’s Fall (Gods split the God of Intelligence into the God of the Internet and the Steam God)
Second Epoch unknown years: Independent War (War between the Angel of Wisdom and God of Inspiration)
Third Epoch unknown years: War of Eden (War between the Order’s side Goddess of Life and the chaos side God of Oblivion)
Fourth Epoch 182: Ti when the instance started]
...
The electronic voice asked a bunch of questions, Sique answered fluently. Until a particular question—
"Twelfth question: So far, you have personally killed two of your original characters, don’t you feel guilty and remorseful?"
Sique’s expression paused for a mont.
Screen data on his heartbeat, blood pressure, etc. showed dramatic fluctuations, indicating inner turmoil. After taking a deep breath, he replied: "I don’t regret it. If everyone’s talent causes disaster, my talent is enough to sweep across half the World, like a poisonous apple from God. If not controlled, it would lead to dire consequences."
The electronic voice imdiately asked, "Clearly, once they’re written, they’re beyond your pen, yet you’re going to kill them just because they exceeded the boundaries?"
Sique answered, "It’s not killing, it’s reclaiming, like revising a docunt, they’ll reappear in a more suitable form. Also, I need to correct you: when writing characters, one must maintain basic moral boundaries because the characters will vividly co to life in this world, potentially harming others. If we were to create Pandora’s Box, we would have an obligation to and the box—otherwise, how are we different from those creators who arbitrarily alter scientific laws and fear chaos in the world?"
At this mont, Sique’s expression overlapped with that of Sique millennia later.
The electronic voice was silent for a mont before posing the final question:
"Question fourteen: Can you forever uphold the World Tree, resolutely maintaining the existence and orders of the World Tree?"
Sique’s eyes flickered.
At this very mont, the data on the screen, such as his heart rate and blood pressure, showed dramatic fluctuations.
"Yes." He answered.
But the fluctuations in his heartbeat betrayed him—he was not loyal to the World Tree.
The room beca quiet, and just when Sique thought he was going to fail the assessnt, a figure walked in through the one-way glass.
The person had a low, golden ponytail, with a soft white ribbon hanging down, blue eyes, and was dressed in a wine-red, knee-length robe.
"You passed the entry test," said the man, "I am Cardinal Hui Bai of Cleatory Cyberpunk Church, follow ."
Su Ming’an widened his eyes, he didn’t expect to see Hui Bai on the tape!
Why does this person keep popping up? He’s a Red Tower Scoundrel, an Order Guardian of the World Tree, and a Cardinal of the Second Epoch, truly a man of a thousand faces.
The next mont, the scene switched to Sique back at ho, undressing.
Opening thunder strike.
Su Ming’an imdiately spread his fingers to block the screen, preventing himself from seeing sothing strange.
Thankfully, Sique was only taking off that obedient student uniform and opened a bottle of colorful fizzy drink, sitting in the chair half-slouched.
"Luckily I got into the Church, pretending to be a good kid is really annoying." Sique’s eyelids drooped, tossing a USB stick: "Fortunately, I got the confidential information."
... The taste is right.
Su Ming’an nodded, this was more like the lazy bird he knew. Indeed, as the saying goes, by three, one sees the end of the old.
Sique opened WORD, typing based on the content of the USB stick. This docunt he had already been writing for a long ti, with thousands of words:
...
[Magpie Notes.]
[Currently collected history of Luowasha, recorded as follows:]
[The existence of Luowasha is an error.]
[In the early First Epoch, Luowasha was not a complete planet, but half of one. A half planet surely couldn’t live long, after endless wandering in the universe, Luowasha found another habitable planet and decided to collectively relocate to the new planet.]
[And the World Tree was on that new planet.]
[Before the collective relocation, people planned to adjust the world rules of the new planet, transforming it into a beautiful Eden with "no violence, no harm, no lies, and deceit," allowing everyone to live in a perfect world from then on.]
[However, only the master of the planet can adjust the world rules. But the master of the new planet was the World Tree, so people decided to negotiate with the World Tree.]
[After a period, negotiations succeeded, and the World Tree gave them the World Origin.]
[The World Origin is the most important thing for a planet, equivalent to a human’s heart, a machine’s chip, or a plant’s root system. It autonomously evolves based on the planet’s features, continuously driving civilization to develop and iterate. Without the World Origin, a planet has no new possibilities and would quietly perish in unchanging years.]
[However, a human traitor nad "Kasadia" erged. After taking over the World Origin, he had no intention of creating a beautiful world without harm and violence, but frantically wanted to create a fantastical and magnificent world, adding fantasy creatures such as dragons, elves, angels, and demons to it. His exact words were: "I’ve had enough of the 996 life! The no-magic world is too boring, with endless exams and work! Do I have to still be grinding and paying off a mortgage in the second half of my life, and only retire at sixty-sothing? I want to build a two-dinsional otherworld! Angels, demons, elves, dragons, here I co! Bwahahahahaha!"
[Thus, he colluded secretly with the World Tree, infusing the World Origin with these absurd elents, causing great changes in the new planet’s evolution—it evolved automatically based on these fantasy data and beca an extrely dangerous world, which is the Luowasha we are familiar with today.]
[This is a super mélange world with angels, demons, dragons, elves, blood clans, insect races, sea monsters, witches, and food chains... Interstellar, Western fantasy, Classic of Mountains and Seas thes, gender-bending and transformation, group adventuring, card drawing, fragnted storytelling... Various elents have everything, extending an old two-dinsional’s imagination to the fullest.]
[When people wanted to settle accounts with him, he disappeared.]
[People could only pinch their noses and accept it, as they could no longer turn back, moving collectively to this extrely dangerous world—a single breath of fire from a giant dragon could kill thousands of people, and the hot weapons that humanity was proud of didn’t even have the chance to launch. Faced with fantasy creatures like demons, angels, insect races, and blood clans, hundreds of billions of humans fell from the top of the world to the bottom of the food chain, suffering heavy casualties.]
["This is not the beautiful Eden!" they scread.]
["Let’s go back! This is not ho!"]
["Once, we could kill pigs and eat cows at will, but now the Wild Boar Clan and Bull Clan can easily kill us, I can’t bear this disparity! Humans should be the masters of the planet, not servants!"]
["Haha, who told you that humans must be the masters of the planet? We are just the moths of the planet! This is all retribution, retribution!!"]
...
[After learning this history, I got inspired. Based on the character of ’Kasadia’ in this history, I wrote a character nad ’Kasadia,’ because I am very interested in people with this personality.]
[But to my surprise, the Kasadia who disappeared in the First Epoch did not die; he even beca a god. He sensed mimicking him by writing characters, and so he appeared before .]
[The cara in my room captured this scene:]
[First eting with Kasadia.avi (click to view)]
...
Su Ming’an was shocked.
——Who knew the essence of Luowasha was crafted by an old two-dinsional fan!
Old two-dinsional fans longed to visit another world, but lacking a reincarnation thod, they straightforwardly turned a planet into an otherworld.
Too terrifying... Two-dinsional, truly too terrifying ()
Su Ming’an continued watching the recording, showing the first eting between Sique and Kasadia.
...
In the video, two masked individuals stood before Sique. One was Kasadia himself, and the other was the character "Kasadia" Sique had just written.
"Bwahahaha! You actually want to imitate , interesting, interesting!" Kasadia himself emitted a sharp laugh, bright oils flowing around him, with a mask adorned with an exaggerated smile.
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