"Can I ask how you ended up like this?"
Listening to Liu Yongcheng, Gu Xi felt that the man being able to survive at all was already pretty remarkable.
At first, Liu Yongcheng did not want to talk about what had happened to him.
But after thinking about it, even if he kept quiet, plenty of people throughout the Domain of Ten Thousand Machines knew about the matter.
Gu Xi could find out the details simply by asking around.
So Liu Yongcheng said bluntly, "It wasn't anything major. Ten years ago, the previous Omni-Knowledge Brain holder fused with the brain, freeing up the binding slot for the Omni-Knowledge Brain.
"The first in line suddenly died in a game at that moment, and the remaining heirs fought over the binding slot.
"You already know what happened after that."
"The second in line died in battle, the fifth in line took over and bound the Omni-Knowledge Brain, becoming the new brain, and my position went straight from third to seventeenth."
That was enough. There was no need to say what came after.
Gu Xi could already imagine it: the Red Equipment Holder merged into the brain, and the first heir died in a game.
Liu Yongcheng, ranked third in the line of succession, had been so close to binding the Red Equipment.
Especially with the second heir also dying in battle, it could be said that he had been just one final step away from binding the Omni-Knowledge Brain.
In the end, someone overtook him by one step. The fifth in line bound the Omni-Knowledge Brain, and he was pushed straight down to seventeenth.
What did that mean? It meant he had not even been given the chance to bind it before someone skipped right past him.
And his life over the