Chapter 949: Chapter 897: Scaring Yourself
If it weren’t for the chainsaw being absent, Gu Mian guaranteed he would immediately lift the chainsaw and saw at the head of the person making a sound behind him.
He recognized it as the voice of the Evil God.
This time the classic line didn’t start with a scene, everything was still pitch black, and Gu Mian knew it was the Evil God toying with him.
He turned and saw Xu Xingcheng, whom he hadn’t seen for a while.
It was still dark around, but their feet had somehow turned into a huge chessboard—Gu Mian guessed this was the full view of the chess game instance, now being used by the Evil God as a carpet underfoot, probably thinking it very classy.
Gu Mian didn’t say a word, swiftly walking toward Xu Xingcheng.
The revenge for the many cycles in the Paradise World wasn’t complete yet.
The other side saw something was wrong and quickly moved too, circling the chessboard edge with Gu Mian, the two of them spinning around it like a novel kind of duel.
Xu Xingcheng spoke as he ran around the chessboard: "Don’t rush, don’t rush yet, I’ve already given the entire Paradise World to you, and you’re still chasing me, it’s really chilling..."
"Did you give it to me? You forced me into performing your crappy script, luckily I have a high perception, otherwise I’d still be spinning in your Heroes Battle the Evil Dragon script."
"You have to experience things personally to understand the truth, see, you understood it after experiencing it yourself. From a young age, I knew you had high perception, wasn’t it just like you said to Jin Hu the first time you entered Paradise World..."
Gu Mian stopped walking.
He recalled his final conversation with Jin Hu in the Slaughter game instance.
Jin Hu, the humble lower-class person in Paradise World. In Jin Hu’s time, the relationship between the upper and lower classes was not as tense as later, which allowed him to have delusions.
Wanting to change his status, change the status of lower-class people through his efforts.
Later he found his efforts insignificant and laughable, even mastering and skillfully using all the means of the upper class, trying his best to change the status quo, but in the eyes of the upper class, he was still a small joke, not even a big joke.
His efforts were like a clay ox entering the sea, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye.
Later he came to understand, he felt relying on himself was useless, the world must change. He wanted to eliminate the exploitation and oppression of this world, eliminate the inequality, sounding similar to the initial wish of Xu Xingcheng and his group.
Unfortunately, Jin Hu ended up the same as their group.
His grand wish was not fulfilled before he died, his soul remained in the forbidden zone of the Slaughter game, continuing to serve the upper class, still holding the great wish to change the world.
Later, Gu Mian entered the Slaughter game, met Jin Hu in the forbidden zone hospital, and learned of his wish.
"You told him destruction is rebirth."
"Only by destroying this ignorant and mindless world will a new order sprout, eradicating all exploitation and plunder, realizing his dream."
"Since the world has irreversibly rotted, it must be destroyed to save it."
Xu Xingcheng repeated the words Gu Mian said before killing Jin Hu, then concluded himself: "Back then I thought Paradise really didn’t have the need to struggle anymore."
Listening to Xu Xingcheng’s retelling, Gu Mian’s forehead twitched twice.
Who said life doesn’t have many spectators?
At first, he was just using those words to fool Jin Hu, trying to stop him from resisting when stripping his clothes.
For a long time afterward, Gu Mian thought only he and the already dead Jin Hu knew those words. Until entering the Circus instance, Lu Yi told Gu Mian he was downstairs listening when Gu Mian deceived Jin Hu, felt it very reasonable, and awakened the desire to destroy the upper-class people, later planting bombs beneath the Circus show’s audience seats.
Now Gu Mian discovered that back then, Lu Yi wasn’t the only spectator, Xu Xingcheng was there too.
You guys were having team building in the Slaughter game, huh? How many were there at the time, why not all come out now, don’t jump out one by one like Calabash Brothers rescuing Grandpa.
Xu Xingcheng continued: "Of course I know those words were something you made up on the spot to deceive him, but they make sense."
Well, what Xu Xingcheng said was similar to what Lu Yi said at the time.
"I’ve long had this thought but didn’t dare to think too much." Xu Xingcheng took a deep breath, "I think since the prologue of the story was opened by the three of us, the ending should be drawn by us too. Regardless of whether the ending is good or bad, it’s better than the story being cut off midway, but later I found I couldn’t write the ending nor stop the story, all previous efforts were unrealistic fantasies. Now that someone capable of ending everything has appeared, I’ve decided to lay down the burden."
Your burden is laid down, but on me, right? Gu Mian thought inwardly.
Gu Mian decided to discuss this hot potato with him.
"Now your world has become a seed, what about the people inside?" Gu Mian long wanted to ask Xu Xingcheng about the Paradise seed, completely unaware of why Paradise World turned into a seed, what effect this thing would have in the future, nor knew if Xu Xingcheng’s two partners were still alive.
"They’re all still there, when the new world grows again, they’ll reappear."
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