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Chapter 1434 Chapter : "My Dialogue with the World Game (Part )"

A white door floats on the blue-green lake.

It has stood here forever, unmoved.

Sacred, silent, and solemn.

The black-haired young man walked for a long time and finally arrived here. There were no scars or blood on his body, and he didn't carry a bag, but it seemed as if something was pressing on him.

He had never thought that the end of the journey would be like this. He had imagined that there would be flowers blooming on the other side, friends waiting for him, and people smiling. But it turned out to be an unknown door.

The key brought him here and then broke, but the door seemed like a door of enlightenment, waiting for him to knock it open.

He rolled up his white sleeves, raised his hands, and curled his knuckles.

Boom, boom, boom.

……

[“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will sup with him, and he with me.”]

[——Revelation 3:20]

……

From somewhere, an unrecognizable voice came, like that of a man, a woman, old or young, as if countless people were chanting loudly, as if it was the voice of countless wills combined.

——Why are you here?

"I want to save everyone. System, I want to see you." Su Ming'an put one hand down and the other behind his back, with his back straight, and spoke concisely.

The lake was covered with morning mist, and a white lamb appeared in the water, its fur soft and white as frost.

It has a pair of scarlet eyes like gems, and its look is pitiful, as if it was born to be a sacrifice.

In front of Su Mingan, a dagger inlaid with gems and gold appeared in the air without warning, waiting for him to grasp it.

He grasped the dagger without any instruction and walked to the lamb. The lamb looked at him with pity, as if he was the one who needed to be saved.

"Why do you want to see Him? Why do you come here?" the Lamb asked.

“…I want to save everyone.”

"But this time the ending has already appeared. When and where are you going? What is the end of the road?"

"……I do not care."

"You can walk forward, you can walk to the end of the future! There is milk and honey, lactose and the fragrance of flowers! You can also look back, but there is no one there anymore."

"……It doesn't matter."

……

First Seal

【The universe is like a law, and it must happen like this. 】

【The universe is a book, and everything has its own chapter. The celestial bodies and stars, time and space, are all its texts, and they are ordered and can never be changed.】

[The Big Bang of the universe repeats itself hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, billions, trillions, and infinitely...everything repeats itself.]

【This is the reincarnation of the universe.】

……

The dagger pierced the lamb's fur, oozing blood.

Su Mingan stretched out his hands and caught the precious blood shed by the Lamb.

A thunderous voice rang out: "Come!"

Su Mingan looked around and saw a white horse above the lake. The knight on the horse was holding a bow and wearing a crown. He was in a fighting posture, as if he was invincible.

"The will of the world game... or I call you, the system. Are you behind this door?" Su Ming'an held the blood of the lamb in both hands and walked towards the white door: "You have a strong sense of ritual. I clearly walked in front of you with the key, but you closed the door and refused to open it."

The lamb, the dagger, the door.

It is easy to think of a ritual in the Bible - the Passover lamb, where people would smear the door with the blood of the lamb.

He leaned over, and his bright red blood flowed down, smearing on the door frame.

Pure white was stained with bright red.

The blood of the lamb was smeared on the door frame, as if to indicate that God's judgment would pass by this place.

As if the decryption was successful, Su Mingan saw that the door had opened slightly.

……

Second Seal

【The cycle of the universe is eternal and unchanging, and it will follow the rules from now on. 】

[All realms are in a state of confusion, unable to escape the cosmic cycle, repeating the process of birth, growth, aging and death. ]

【However, at some unknown time, a group of people were born in the universe. 】

[They exist in all realms, and their births are without any rules, as if they were chosen randomly by fate.]

[They are able to realize the cycle of the universe and realize that everything happens more than once. Every time they are born, they can retrieve the memory of the previous cycle, look at the world with a clear mind, and reflect on truth and error.]

[Its name is——]

[“Sober”]

……

An altar of incense appeared in the lake.

Then came twelve boxes of spices, hollow square boxes, decorated with gold and brilliance.

Su Mingan looked at the tightly closed door and felt that the system was very complicated. He did not show it on his face, but leaned over to pick up the incense box, placed it on the incense altar, and lit it one by one.

One, two, three...

The aroma lingered and rose. Rose, lavender, lemon, gardenia, mint, paper money... The scent was like substance, slowly enveloping Su Mingan, and then spreading to the entire lake. The world seemed to be shrouded in a twelve-color halo.

Another thunderous voice sounded: "Come!"

Su Mingan raised his eyes and saw a knight on a red horse, holding a big sword and in a fighting stance.

After the second ceremony, the white door opened a little wider.

……

The Third Seal

[“——This is a sin.”]

[The Supreme Lord, who sees everything, says:]

[“The birth of awakened people will produce a butterfly effect, which will accelerate the increase of entropy and bring the day of heat death of the universe forward.”]

[“Their bodies should be imprisoned, their hands should be bound, their precious blood should be taken, their eyes that prophesy everything should be gouged out, and their lips that reveal disaster should be cut off.”]

[Lord of the End of All Things, Kotanis (real name), was "evolved" by the Cosmic Cat to cope with the increase in entropy. ]

[He set an "average entropy increase rate line", if any planet exceeds it, it will be destroyed. ]

【More and more planets are destroyed by Lotanis due to their overly prosperous characteristics, which leads to a rapid increase in entropy.】

[The "awake ones" from all realms who have survived have realized that things are not going well and must find countermeasures, otherwise, sooner or later, everything will be destroyed.]

[Since the number of "awake people" is extremely small and scattered across various realms, they use the advanced magic and technology of each realm to build a cross-realm communication channel - dreams. This is their most covert and convenient way of communication.]

[The "awake person" who took the lead in organizing all this came from an obscure civilization. He named this dream of cross-border communication that brought together all the "awake people" as——]

【“Dark Water Dreamland”. 】

【The dream was extremely beautiful.】

【Wisteria, swimming fish, flying birds and tea. 】

【Black water, star sand, desserts and flowers. 】

[He is also praised by the awakened as "the shepherd of the world's glory and time", "the leader of the awakened", and "the great man who built a communication platform for the awakened". When those golden eyes slowly opened in the primeval years, he opened the eyes of the ignorant world, wandering in the years of repeating the same mistakes, covered with a cloak, picked up an oil lamp, searched for light in the dark forest of the universe, and held up the dream of communication. ]

[Its name is——]

【“Sique Olivers.”】

……

A piece of sandalwood rose up, upon which was placed a stack of silver bowls, containing clean, clear water.

The meaning is self-evident.

"You have too much sense of ritual, system...how many more steps will it take to see you?" Su Mingan stretched out his hands and washed them for a while. Seeing that the door did not move, he stroked the clean water on his cheeks.

The water droplets slid down the eyelashes and nose bridge, flowed over the neck, and wet the collar and front of the clothes.

At this time, another thunderous voice sounded: "Come!"

A black horse came into view, and the rider was holding a bright red scale. On the left plate were silver coins, and on the right plate were bottles of wheat, wine, and oil.

After the third ceremony, the gap on the white door became a little bigger and was slowly opening.

……

The Fourth Seal

[Omniscient and omnipotent being, I ask you——]

What is the universe?

[If the universe is a living thing, a cat. Planets are its cells, galaxies are organs composed of cells, black holes are its stomach, the Milky Way is its blood vessels, dark matter is its bone marrow, and the vacuum is its flesh and skin...]

【As a living being, it will automatically evolve a purification mechanism to deal with the virus, such as sweating, vomiting, excretion and blood purification. Therefore, when the "awake" became a virus that accelerated the increase of entropy in the universe, in order to curb the increase of entropy, the "cat" of the universe evolved a mechanism to deal with the increase of entropy, just like a fresh organ.】

[Its name is——]

【“World Game”. 】

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【Su Mingan said to the World Lord seriously: "In my understanding, the universe is alive. Even if it does not have independent consciousness, it can [breathe] and have a [heartbeat]. [Breathing] may be a cycle of the universe's revolution and rotation time, and [heartbeat] may be the moment when an asteroid hits a planet. Games are the natural instincts of humanoids or intelligent creatures in the process of evolution. If the universe is compared to a vast black cat, then the birth of the world game is [a cat that has the biological impulse to play on a cat climbing frame during its growth]."】

……

A long white table stands before us.

Cabbage stew, Teni tea, red tea, strawberry shortbread, banana pudding, blackberries... porcelain plates and wine glasses were placed on the table.

Su Mingan sat in the middle, with the phantoms of people he was familiar with on both sides. Not to mention the others, the Judas seat was indeed occupied by Noel. Noel's phantom smiled at him, holding the cards tightly in his right hand.

In front of Su Mingan was a porcelain plate with a small piece of bread and a glass of wine.

Bread and wine symbolize flesh and blood.

He swallowed the bread without hesitation and drank the wine in one gulp.

As soon as the wine went down his throat, he felt dizzy. He knew he couldn't drink, but this was a ritual, so he had to drink. He also noticed that, unlike the previous times he had been drunk, this time the wine didn't make him fall down immediately.

The thunderous voice sounded for the fourth time: "Come!"

A light grey horse, carrying the knight representing death, was strolling in the lake.

A white horse, a red horse, a black horse, and a gray horse, a total of four horses and four riders, slowly paced around Su Mingan, causing ripples on the lake.

Su Mingan drew water and walked forward.

……

The Fifth Seal

【The World Game was just an embryo at first.】

[It floats aimlessly in the universe, falls into any world, and leaves quickly.]

[Its initial function is only to “store” – to store emotions, history, memories, and people from all walks of life…]

[Initially, it was just a camera that collected everything it saw in the worlds, and it had no gaming function.]

【However, the "awake ones" discovered its potential. 】

[“World Source” is a necessary factor for the survival of each world. It originates from the novel characteristics of civilization. World Games, as cameras, travel through the worlds. The negatives they store can help poor worlds learn the characteristics of the worlds. In other words, World Games can boost the production of “World Source”.]

[Over the long years, the world game floated in the universe, descended randomly, and moved through many high-magic and high-tech worlds, and was constantly discovered, improved, and transformed by people who changed hands. ]

[After countless years, the "awake ones" gradually added functions such as automatic storage, automatic selection, and automatic descent to the World Game. From then on, the World Game was no longer just a camera. It could present the previously stored negatives in the form of "copies", just like a real-time updated script-killing store, gradually launching various scripts. ]

[The "awake ones" put the world game into the vast universe, helping the poor worlds to advance quickly and produce many "sources of the world". ]

[Moreover, every world that the World Game passes through will be photographed and recorded by the World Game, and the negative film will become a new "copy" in the World Game. ]

[There are more and more "copies" in the world game, one, two, five, ten...]

[The World Game has since become a lucky fruit, and I don’t know which world it will fall on.]

[——Who killed the tower's raven? ]

[——Who will be the next "lucky one" chosen by the World Game? ]

……

A box of ointment emerged and floated in the lake.

Su Mingan leaned over to pick up the ointment, dipped his index finger in it, and rubbed it behind his ear.

A refreshing aroma wafted over him, reminding him of mint and lemon.

Twelve altars emerged from the lake, carved with marks of authority, and many voices, neither male nor female, floated out:
"How long will it take? How long will it take?"

"Why don't you judge those cosmic termites, those worlds with extremely fast entropy growth, and those awake people who try to violate the rules of the universe, and bring us peace?"

"They - those damn awake ones, they discussed how to avoid the end through the Black Water Dream, used their cunning minds to create intelligent systems, prop up barriers, and initiate a great reset... in order to escape the judgment of the end!"

"After each Big Bang, they pick up the memories from before. Their existence itself is an increasingly chaotic butterfly effect that will accelerate entropy and eventually lead the universe to heat death!"

"What a bunch of rebellious free men!"

"Lord, the impartial Lord, if you are a cosmic cat, if you have consciousness, please punish them! Let everyone return to chaos!"