The mind-reading fake heiress changes her fate by eating melons.

An Ling listened again and again, but still couldn't understand.

Although Gu Chenming and the transmigrator's actions were despicable to An Ling, according to Fa Cai, if their actions were to succeed in the end, the energy they would gain would be far greater than if the world were allowed to develop naturally.

At least Anling felt that the current ending of their world was hardly cool compared to the original plot; at best, it was a miss. The Bureau of Management would definitely not have gained as much energy as the system and the transmigrators who successfully achieved the ending.

She voiced her doubts and asked, "I don't believe your Bureau is a charity. There must be a reason why you didn't choose the raiders, right?"

“Yes,” Fa Cai was quite frank, “Actually, as you have seen, their approach goes against the natural laws of this world. The most direct consequence is that it creates a super bug like you being stabbed to death, which would cause the novel's world to collapse. The chances of successfully achieving the ending are extremely slim.”

"In fact, they were preparing for both possibilities from the very beginning."

Fa Cai's voice was filled with rage, even the fluff on the flower ball stood on end.

"If they can successfully achieve the ending, they can seize these energies for themselves the moment the ending is achieved, but if a bug occurs and causes the novel's world to collapse, it will also fulfill their wishes."

"Because the energy released when a fictional world collapses is enormous, roughly equivalent to the energy released when it reaches its normal ending plus the energy released during its thousands of years of development as an independent world, they want to plunder this energy at the moment the world collapses."

"Actually, this is the ending they wanted the most."

An Ling gasped in shock:

"So, they were willing to destroy an entire world for this energy? And the reason I was stabbed to death was actually because of a bug caused by their previous actions?"

"Also, was the transmigrator in Gu Chenming's body who thought that as long as he achieved the ending of the original novel, he could become the chosen one of this world, but was he also deceived?"

Fa Cai nodded its head again.

"That's right. The bug in you is the butterfly effect caused by the series of actions of the transmigrator and the system. Even if your previous bug hadn't occurred, there would most likely have been other bugs. Once it caused the true collapse of this world, the system's goal would have been achieved."

"As for the chosen one... he's been tricked!"

Fa Cai seemed quite disdainful of the system's actions, explaining to An Ling:

"Even if he's really that lucky and manages to make it to the end, he'll just continue living as Gu Chenming. This world has changed from a novel world to an independent world; there's no longer any male or female protagonist or chosen one..."

Now An Ling can probably understand.

To sum it up, the Bureau and that traitorous organization likely had a disagreement about the concept of absorbing the world's energy.

The manager's approach is more like a sustainable development model, while the traitorous organization chooses a short-sighted, destructive approach.

Therefore, some of the information An Ling found from that transmigrator was actually wrong. He himself was also deceived by the system, thinking that as long as he did what the system said, he could achieve the original novel's plot and become the chosen one.

In fact, he will most likely not live to see the day he becomes the chosen one, before the world collapses.

And he himself will naturally disappear along with this world.

Later, Fa Cai told An Ling that thanks to its routine patrol, it discovered An Ling's previous bug, so it promptly activated the emergency program to turn back time and allow An Ling to be reborn. Then, it and its colleagues captured the system and brought it back, thus resolving the crisis.

"That was really close..." Fa Cai's voice still sounded a little scared.

"After this incident, the Bureau has decided to increase the frequency of routine inspections and find ways to increase the accuracy of detection. The traitors are too cunning, always choosing to hide in the souls of the natives to avoid the world consciousness and the Bureau's detection, which is why they are so hard for us to find!"

“Indigenous people?” An Ling keenly grasped the key phrase. “Could it be that the soul inside Gu Chenming’s body isn’t a transmigrator at all, but his own?”

The lucky flower ball spun left and right:

"No, no, that's not it. What I mean is that the soul inside Gu Chenming is indeed a transmigrator, but it didn't come from another world. It came from your world. That's the most cunning thing about that defection system—it doesn't bring in souls from the outside world. Instead, it directly selects people from the natives who can be used by it. It can avoid being expelled by the world's consciousness by hiding in the souls of the natives."

Fa Cai paused for a moment, then asked, "You know that the system has some items, right? For example, items that can change people's memories."

An Ling nodded. "That time traveler used it on Gu Chenming's mother, as well as Yang Yao and the three thugs who wanted to kidnap me."

“Yes,” Fa Cai continued, “that system was also used on transmigrators. It modified some of their memories, making them believe that they came from another world, when in fact they are from your world.”

After hearing Fa Cai's explanation, An Ling frowned: "Then what about Gu Chenming's own soul?"

“Alas,” Fa Cai replied sympathetically, “Actually, his own soul is inside his body, but it’s like being locked in a dark room, only able to watch helplessly as ‘himself’ does things against his will.”

In other words, Gu Chenming has been trapped inside his own body for twelve years?

Prisons have time to let out for fresh air, but Gu Chenming is not only constantly imprisoned, but also suffers the torment of having his life stolen by an outsider.

Whether you look at their actions towards Gu Chenming or their ultimate goal of destroying an entire world for the sake of so-called energy, it's clear that the members of the Betrayer organization never treated the inhabitants of their fictional world as living, breathing human beings.

"Get rich! Since you can take away the system, can you also take away the transmigrator and give Gu Chenming's body back to him?"

The lucky flower ball spun around again. "If I could do it, I wouldn't have waited until now to contact you. The system is an outsider, so of course we can capture it. But the transmigrator is the soul of this world, so we can't capture him."

An Ling had just sighed when she suddenly felt that she hadn't said enough about getting rich.

"You can't take him away... does that mean there are other ways?"

“That’s right. Although we can’t take him away, we can put him back into his body,” Fa Cai said.