Chaos

"According to the rules, you still have three more contacts to receive a pardon, but these are special times. As long as you complete this contact, I will prepare a report and grant you a pardon directly... provided you survive."

[First Contacts ] are serious criminals who have committed unforgivable crimes in society. After training and rehabilitation, they become consumables for contacting containment objects.

[Field Agent] What's absurd is that in the face of contained objects, madness knows no gender, race, or age, but this contained object was divided into male and female.

The First Contact nodded slowly, picked up the trash can containing the potential [Doomsday] containment material, and slowly walked upstairs.

Everything went smoothly. She went upstairs and found [TEA-045] lazily playing a game. Looking at the black and white screen on the digital simulator, she handed her the trash can without saying a word.

There was a note stuck on the trash can, written by the [Researcher], saying that she and the [Field Agent] didn't need to do anything extra.

[TEA-045] sat on the sofa with his head down, staring at the screen, showing no reaction whatsoever.

The First Contact panicked and began searching through the containment manual for this object.

"Sir, she... she doesn't seem to be feeling well."

What happened?

"I checked the transport channel according to the manual, and there was nothing inside... They must be short of congee."

[Field Agent]: "..."

Ten minutes later, [the First Contact] went downstairs to get the freshly made white porridge, fed it to [TEA-045] and woke her up, then handed her the trash can.

[TEA-045] Looking at the note on the trash can with confusion:

[Please open this container, take out the letter inside, read the message, and then tell the message to the [First Contact] in front of you...]

Following this were some promises. [TEA-045] pondered for a moment, then slowly opened the trash can.

She picked up one of the letters, looked at the unknown Text on it with some confusion, but still opened it.

As if by Mana, despite the unfamiliar, grotesque Text that even frightened her, she miraculously knew what Text meant.

She couldn't help but start translating the contents of the letter.

To the beautiful Miss Mu Hongyuan:

I saw your light.

That's the boundary between truth and falsehood, the ultimate beauty in a dream, a pitiful creature walking a tightrope, half madness, half emptiness... It's so beautiful it reminds me of that guy's dream I saw long ago.

As you've probably guessed, this letter is an invitation—I want to invite you to be my mask.

Come, become my mask.

You might not understand why a mask would be used... but nothing is more fitting as the dividing line between truth and falsehood than beauty.

What I will give you is: every side is true, every side is false, and every side is unrecognizable.

Do not be afraid, do not be excited, for you have already reached the point of "no form".

You're already inside me, I'm just letting you know.

You can continue walking the tightrope, continue weaving between truth and falsehood, continue your path of suffering... I respect your choice, I respect all those who think they are rebelling against me.

I believe this posture is my most refined side.

--The Crawling Chaos, the God of a Thousand Faces, the Messenger... (You may call me by any name; it is a gift from me, for each one is either true or false.)

The First Contact turned into a puddle of pus upon hearing the very first sentence from [TEA-045].

[TEA-045] had lost himself and read the entire letter aloud.

As the final signature was read, her shadow suddenly began to dance in a panic, and all the mirrors in the room began to slow down.

Two layers of sky overlapped and appeared, a false darkness and light poured over the earth, and people moving on the surface suddenly lost their faces.

The [Doomsday] containment object instantly transformed the entire world into a true Doomsday.

All was silent, then all things began to wail.

The Sun's surface suddenly cracked open, and a huge, murky, yellowish vertical pupil slowly opened, indifferently gazing at this Small World on the verge of collapse.

Everything was distorted, everyone had a different face, and even lifeless planets and Fixed Stars grew a completely new mask.

Time, space, contained objects, Divinity... everything that was known began to howl, as if unable to bear the arrival of Chaos.

The ancient, the Unspeakable true name of Chaos was uttered, and the transdimensional gaze officially descended.

The world was destroyed by a letter.

Mu Hongyuan, sitting in the containment room, sighed.

It's inevitable that the penalty for taking too long in the Career Advancement Dungeon will be imposed.

She was about to end the Dungeon when she saw a figure covered in gibberish emerge from the vast, unknown distance.

He held a five-pointed star stone in his hand and muttered:

"[The Faceless God]... You may come, you may not descend. You are real, you are false. You have a name, you have no name. A thousand faces appear, ten thousand forms return to silence, no face can cover, no body can bear..."

The mask's power froze for a moment, and the figure covered in garbled characters looked at Mu Hongyuan again:

"Walk."

Mu Hongyuan quickly fled from this Small World.

After entering the Dungeon, she first encountered the containment organization [TEA].

This containment organization is not limited to a single civilization or world; within this World Cluster, it is more like a conceptual organization combating madness.

Wherever anomalies exist, they exist, whether it's parallel worlds, multiverses, or even unrelated civilizations... they exist.

Mu Hongyuan also felt that joining such a powerful organization was a good thing; the Career Advancement Dungeon was indeed a perk.

Until she encountered an avatar of [Crawling Chaos], and that avatar recognized the aura of [Chaos] on her, and began an endless... pursuit of her.

Mu Hongyuan, as a "Fairy," had always been very elegant, but he was genuinely frightened at that moment.

[Chaos]!

The Mystery Side being behind the Survivors!

It's very likely the work of a [Great Being]!

How could it possibly be here?!

She didn't even speak on the World Channel, afraid that she had already been Contamination.

But soon, she learned from a powerful member of the [TEA] organization that all the Unspeakable in this World Cluster were generated by the World Cluster itself.

Perhaps these the Unspeakable beings, Elder Gods, Pillar Gods, and beings of unknown power in Mu Hongyuan's perception, which [TEA] regards as mortal enemies, have some conceptual relationship with each other, but they are ultimately just products of this World Cluster and cannot be separated from it.

"Sigh, he really has too much free time..."

"After my pseudo- Four Dimensions experience in Large Dungeon, I believe that beauty is both simulacra and hyperrealism, which is the path I was meant to take... It's similar to the path He invited me to take: [Beauty is the dividing line between truth and falsehood]."

"Could the true hidden danger of the Career Advancement Dungeon be that Survivors must face the manipulation of their path by those in higher positions?!"

Mu Hongyuan resisted the urge to immediately leave the Career Advancement Dungeon.

The situation is not yet so dire as to be absolutely intolerable.

She believes that going further down the path in [the US] will be more beneficial than simply obtaining a Rainbow Badge.

She didn't want to participate in the Continued Battle, which was full of Rainbow Badge.

Mu Hongyuan didn't want the Rainbow Badge.