You Bluffed Me?

Boom!

Yuan's words exploded in everyone's minds like a thunderclap. Bruis and the others fixed their gazes on Wu Daozi, gripping their weapons tightly as the atmosphere grew increasingly oppressive.

Wu Daozi's expression froze for a moment before returning to calm.

"Oh? Why would you say that? Because of those murals?"

"That's only one reason. More importantly, it's your attitude."

"My attitude?" A trace of confusion appeared in Wu Daozi's eyes.

"That's right, your attitude. What do you think I saw in these murals and carvings? Scenes from Dobilun Star's past? No. I saw arrogance. Conceit." Yuan stared at Wu Daozi, trying to read something from his eyes.

"Could you elaborate?"

"Why should I? You dragged us into this place and toyed with us in the palm of your hand. Why should I tell you?" A sly glint flashed through Yuan's eyes.

"Hah? Children really are greedy. Fine. You really are as you said—the greed of a scholar?" Wu Daozi muttered softly, then waved a hand. A small black object appeared before everyone.

Without Yuan's orders, Bruis and the others did not dare act rashly. Yet their taut bodies showed that they were ready to fight at any moment.

The moment it stopped, a circular Jade Wall floated before Yuan.

"This is the key to the experimental center. Without it, even if you enter the laboratory, you won't find the data you want."

Yuan had not expected Wu Daozi to actually give him something. He had merely been taking a shot in the dark, but who would have thought there would be an unexpected gain?

Still, he did not reach out to take it. Instead, he gestured for Bruis behind him to receive it. Wu Daozi narrowed his eyes in greater satisfaction at the cautious move and nodded approvingly.

Only after Bruis took it did Yuan slowly begin to speak.

"Super Seminary. How great must someone's ambition be to choose such a name? From the moment Wu Daozi descended upon Dobilun Star, he had never regarded the people here as worthy of notice.

"Eradicating war and calming natural disasters were merely methods for him to rule this planet's civilization. Then again, why would a god care about the people of these primitive civilizations?

"I don't know whether the experiment failed, or whether something happened to Super Seminary, but Wu Daozi left."

"Because the war had already ended. Their aptitude was limited, and research into beast bodies made no breakthroughs." Wu Daozi interrupted Yuan's speculation and gestured for him to continue.

"From the moment Wu Daozi created this so-called Dark Matter computer, he had made preparations. He handed Dobilun Star the computer's design concepts and blueprints, even carving them plainly onto the exterior, as though afraid others would fail to see them.

"A typical academy-type talent. His good deeds were never obvious, and his evil was never thorough. He disrupted Dobilun Star's balance. He thought he had brought peace, yet he destroyed its future."

At this point, Yuan could not help sighing. Gods... the simplest thoughts could create a civilization, and they could also destroy a planet.

"To put it plainly, he did not care. Whether it was Dobilun Star's sacrifices or the civilization's extinction, he did not care. In his eyes, I've already handed you the threshold to a God-making civilization.

"How much the experiments contributed, how many people died, whether the civilization survived—it had nothing to do with me anymore."

"Arrogant. Conceited. He never hid himself at all on Dobilun Star. But your eyes are different."

At this, Yuan looked directly into Wu Daozi's eyes and slowly said, "You are even more arrogant and prouder than him. If Wu Daozi simply did not regard the Dobilun civilization as people, then you are someone who disregards everything.

"He may be indifferent, but you are cold. A coldness that disregards gods, civilizations, lives—everything."

"That proves nothing, does it?"

"Right. I made all of that up. It's been thirty thousand years. So much information is gone, and I can't even read dark information. I'm not really a God King."

"You bluffed me!" Wu Daozi's eyes widened. He had thought Yuan had truly seen through something, only to discover that he had been talking nonsense all along.

"What else could I do? My Divine Body is still half-baked. You utterly outclass me in knowledge and technology. If I didn't resort to a few tricks, how else could I uncover the truth?" Yuan spread his hands helplessly, indicating that he had no other choice.

"So, you know who I am?"

"I have a guess!"

"Tell me." Wu Daozi became interested.

"Well, shouldn't you show a little more sincerity?" Yuan smiled and made a tentative gesture with his fingers.

But this time, he was disappointed. Wu Daozi coldly shook his head and spoke in an icy voice.

"No more, boy. Scholars are indeed greedy, but greed without limits is courting death. Whether you live or die next depends on your answer."

At that moment, the command center's atmosphere instantly froze. No one doubted his words. After all, someone who used stars to smash people would have no trouble wiping them all out.

"Do I really have to say it? Is it still too late for me to run?" Yuan gave a bitter laugh. He truly did not want to lay everything bare at this moment.

"What do you think?" He raised a brow, seemingly seeing through Yuan's little scheme, then offered some reassurance.

"Don't worry. I won't truly leave you with no way out. Otherwise, in the outer universe, you would have died countless times already, wouldn't you?"

"Oh, so you're such a benevolent god, Your Excellency Death God Karl!"

Bang!

Bang!

As Yuan's words fell, the two Taotie soldiers beside Bruis instantly collapsed to their knees, powerless.

"Bruis, take note. Those two fell over."

"Y-Your Excellency, don't... don't joke around. I can't take it anymore." His voice carried a faint sob. Clearly, Bruis himself was not doing much better.

His eyes were vacant, and both legs trembled violently. Worry, fear, and countless other emotions churned within him.

I shouldn't be here. I should be down in the hold, terrified by this scene from a distance. Bruis wailed inwardly without end.

As an elite adjutant of the Taotie, he was now quite accustomed to working under Yuan. Seeing this, Yuan did not blame him much. After all, Carl had been the Taotie's god for tens of thousands of years. Such fear was understandable.

"Good. Very good. Yuan, I truly admire you a little. How did you figure it out?"

"Come on, mighty god. How old am I? Two years ago, I was still mining in a primitive civilization. How many gods do I even know? The only one with both the ability and the motive was you. What was so hard to guess?"

Yuan rocked slightly in his command chair, not particularly pleased by Carl's praise. Just as he had said, he was only a few years old. Among the gods capable of causing him trouble and motivated to do so, who besides Carl, the supreme god of the Taotie Civilization, could there be?

"Hahahahaha! Makes sense, makes sense."

At that moment, Wu Daozi—no, Death God Karl—felt that she had not laughed so freely in a very long time.

She could not help reflecting on whether she had spent too long acting like Kaisha's dog. She had become cautious about everything, only to be bluffed into revealing so much information by a little brat.

After laughing for a few moments, Carl looked toward the laboratory, where the beast body model was growing ever brighter.

"Heh heh, Yuan, since that's the case, have you guessed what will happen to you next?"