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"Oh, don't be so tense," Vita shrugged. "If I harbored any ill intentions towards you right now, let alone whether I could keep you here, I'm afraid that Lucifer from the Intrinsic World would probably just come and beat me up. Besides... um... 'So' doesn't seem to have any intention of attacking you at the moment."

Su looked at Vita in silence. The feeling he got from Vita was the same as before, but it seemed that something else had changed. And according to what Vita said, "Sao" and she didn't seem to be the same person... No, according to Vita, Feng had made some kind of agreement with her hundreds of millions of years ago, but she also said that the people present now were not the real people.

So, can we understand it this way: "Suo" is the Vita that Feng met hundreds of millions of years ago, and the Vita in front of him is not "Suo" herself, but an agent or a puppet of "Suo".

"Hmm...you truly are another version of me in this world, you deduced the key point so quickly." Vita said, resting her chin on her hand. "That's right, I am not 'So' herself, but merely an agent of hers in this Sea of Quantum. Describing me as a puppet wouldn't be wrong, since the threads controlling this body have always been in 'So's hands. Originally, according to 'So's' previous plan, she would definitely use your body to enter the Intrinsic World, but now she has changed her mind."

"Changed your mind?" Su frowned slightly. He could clearly feel that all his thoughts had been read by Vita, and that this World Bubble seemed to be completely enveloped by the power of "So". So that's how it is. If we were to give an example to describe it, then "So" in her current state could probably be considered a "Law" of the Sea of Quantum, right? And her power is quite similar to, but not exactly the same as, the Eighth Law: "Omniscience".

"She's actually quite stubborn in some ways, and changing her mind isn't an easy task," Vita said, shrugging. "While you were carefully searching for special World Bubble in the Sea of Quantum, trying to find her, she also discovered you, and then I ended up here."

Vita paused, then smiled self-deprecatingly and said, "Of course, you guessed right. As the 'Law' of the Sea of Quantum, 'So' has the power of omniscience. Of course, her ultimate goal is... Ah, she told me not to say, so I can only obediently shut my mouth."

"How does that guy know Feng?" Seele couldn't help but ask. She didn't quite understand. How could a guy from hundreds of millions of years ago know that deadwood guy? It can't be that the deadwood guy is actually an alien who has lost his memory, can it?

"That's a good guess, this... former Sixth Law Lady." Vita said with a smile, "I'm allowed to know, and allowed to say, that there is indeed some information about this matter. To be precise, 'So' and that Lucifer, or rather, he should be called Feng, have never met. For 'So', her first encounter with Lucifer was just a dream she had over the past hundreds of millions of years."

"A dream?" Su repeated the word. Zhu Yufeng also said it was a dream of his, a little trick of the Cocoon of Finality. Hearing Vita say this, could it be that while Feng was having that dream, "Suo" in the Sea of Quantum was also having the same dream? But according to the theory of the Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum, this is unlikely. The Imaginary Tree and the Sea of Quantum are antagonistic. How could "Suo," lurking in the Sea of Quantum, possibly have the same dream as Zhu Yufeng in the Intrinsic World?

Standing next to Su, Seele clicked her tongue softly. It was really unpleasant that all of Su's thoughts had been read so clearly by the other party without her even realizing it.

"What a long-forgotten dream... Even though you knew it was fake, and you had long since abandoned what you thought you didn't need, at that moment, the past, like a ghost, awakened in your decaying soul..." Vita seemed to be sighing, or perhaps mocking the mastermind behind the threads binding her.

Then, a buzzing sound rang in her mind. At that moment, her consciousness almost seemed to be erased by "Suo". She smiled bitterly to herself. It seemed that she had been too arrogant and had slightly exceeded the bottom line that "Suo" had set for her. That was "Suo"'s warning to her.

After all, her life was still in the hands of her creator, "Suo".

However, "Suo" is indeed different from before. Previously, "Suo" would not care at all if she had any disrespectful thoughts towards her. Even the fact that she had developed self-awareness was irrelevant to "Suo", because she could be erased in an instant if "Suo" wanted to.

Mara... that clever "person" who awakened her self-awareness, that person whose consciousness data was mostly erased by "So", even though she was turned into a monster as revenge by "So", she never gave up the idea of escaping from "So's" control, even though the result of that escape was that she was completely erased by "So".

For Mara, all she needed was complete peace and complete freedom from the clutches of "Sa".

However, Mara's little schemes could not be hidden from "Suo," and "Suo" did not care about Mara's little tricks, believing that everything Mara did was in vain.

She watched Mara struggle for freedom, again and again, as if she were watching a circus clown.

Hundreds of millions, all like this... She was like a god delivering the final judgment to Sisyphus, watching Mara slowly push the boulder to the top of the mountain called "Freedom," then gently nudge it back into the abyss, and then watch Mara slowly push the boulder back up to the top again, over and over again...

Sue's assessment of "Sara" was entirely accurate; she was indeed a person with an extremely strong desire for control. Even when she still possessed the identity of a "human," when Mara exposed her self-deception, although she felt angry and deleted most of Mara's consciousness data, she ultimately left Mara behind, ordering Mara to continue "living" in a state even worse than death.

In theory, she did not abandon anyone on the planet, but for those data consciousnesses, they would probably rather be abandoned.

But this monster, whose desire for control was so intense and morbidly twisted, suddenly chose to let go after having a ridiculous dream.

She completely deleted Mara's data, leaving nothing behind.

As for herself, who had already developed her own thoughts, "Suo" still maintained an indifferent attitude. However, compared to before, the threads binding her had loosened slightly, although she would still warn her if she offended her too much.

Besides, what I did wasn't exactly offensive... Before, "Suo" had never cared about my or Mara's thoughts, but after having that dream, "Suo" actually seemed to have developed feelings, which was truly unbelievable...

Following her usual practice, "Suo" would slowly devour one World Bubble after another to enhance her power. After having that dream, "Suo" began to shift her focus to those special World Bubble that had peeled off from the Intrinsic World. As for what "Suo" was going to do, Vita didn't know.

Clearly, for "Sao", the energy in this level of World Bubble was far from satisfying her appetite.

While thinking these things in her own mind, Vita said to Su, "As you heard, the 'Maple' you speak of is indeed the Law of the Finality, born from your Intrinsic World. This is something 'So' personally confirmed. However, right now, he is probably not complete."

"Why do you say that?" Su continued to ask.

Vita looked up at the sky. "This isn't just about her allowing me to know about the situation. There's another question you have, which is that those World Bubble in the Sea of Quantum that are related to the Intrinsic World were indeed 'eaten' by her."

Su stared silently at Vita, some answers were found, and then more questions arose.

"Let's go, Seele. It seems we don't need to stay here any longer," Sue said, his gaze never leaving Vita, never letting his guard down.

He knew that he was no match for "So," but he wasn't entirely without power. He could buy some time until Zhu Yufeng came to his aid. Judging from what Vita had said, "So" seemed somewhat wary of Zhu Yufeng directly charging into the Sea of Quantum to fight him...

"Are you leaving? Hmm... According to common etiquette, shouldn't I say 'goodbye'?" Vita tilted her head. "Oh, by the way, 'So' also asked me to have you pass on a message to Lucifer."

"One sentence?" Su frowned.

"If you don't want to [illegible characters], then you have to do [illegible characters] well, or rather, [illegible characters]." Vita shrugged and said casually.

"Wait, what the hell are you talking about?" Seele frowned. She could only understand a few words; the rest was a bunch of incomprehensible gibberish.

What to think about? What to do? Or what to say? What country's encrypted language is this? Or is it that magical Shenzhou dialect?

Su looked at Vita deeply. Vita's words meant to tell Zhu Yufeng, so in other words, was it possible that they couldn't understand, but Zhu Yufeng could?

Judging from the fact that the former Tenth Herrscher had tried to have them relay a sentence to Zhu Yufeng, it is very likely that what "So" asked them to tell Zhu Yufeng was a translation of those inexplicable words spoken by the Tenth Herrscher. However, it is clear that "So" did not think they needed to know these things.

"Let's go," Su said.

"Huh?" Seele looked at Su, "Then how do we relay this to Feng?"

Su: "... We don't need to tell him, Feng has been listening the whole time."

After Sue and Seele left, Vita looked in the direction they disappeared, sighed softly, and had a hint of envy in her eyes.

She truly envied that they could act according to their own ideas, without being bound by anything, while she, no matter what she did, had to first accept the instructions of "Svaha" and watch those World Bubble be destroyed by their desires again and again.

Right now, this tiny World Bubble is about to be swallowed by "Suo". Before "Suo" swallows this World Bubble, I can still do some small things.

She approached the girl who had exiled herself and was now playing her harmonica alone, and asked with a smile, "Could you... tell me about 'Maple'?"

Conquer the world.

An eerie silence fell over the laboratory.

Zhu Yufeng silently watched as the instrument's readings gradually returned to normal, meaning that Su and Seele would soon be able to return to the Second World, and then...

He looked at Lilith and Elysia with a somewhat blank expression. "Vita... or rather, did you understand what 'So' asked Vita to tell me?"

"Don't you understand?" Lilith tilted her head and said, "This is something they specifically asked you to listen to, and you still don't understand. Could it be that the Finality of the World, the Cocoon, is personally involved?"

"Or perhaps the language we can't understand is Venusian?" Elysia thought for a moment and said, "But deciphering the language shouldn't be a problem for Mobius, right? Compared to this..."

Elysia squinted at Zhu Yufeng: "Shouldn't you explain properly what exactly happened between you and that Vita?"

To be honest, it was just a dream. So Vita kissed him, and that's that. Let's just consider it a twisted sense of humor from the Finality the Cocoon. But judging from the conversation in the World Bubble, it seems that Vita is most likely a human!

We really need to find out what happened. We already have enough rivals; we don't need another one like Lilith.

"Nothing really happened," Zhu Yufeng said helplessly. "I don't know why it turned out like this. I only heard her say a few words. Maybe 'Suo' was bored and wanted to have some fun during these hundreds of millions of years?"

Elysia crossed her arms and looked at Zhu Yufeng, clearly not satisfied with the answer. However, since Zhu Yufeng had already said so, further questioning might not yield any useful information. The most important thing was still what exactly Vita had said. Besides, did Zhu Yufeng really not understand?

Elysia looked at Zhu Yufeng with some suspicion and said, "You... really don't know what she was talking about?"

"Yes, when we get to the crucial parts, the language gets really weird, like I've never heard it before," Zhu Yufeng said, pressing her temples. "Could it be that I've forgotten what my hometown dialect is?"

"After all, so much time has passed, it's quite possible you've forgotten your hometown dialect," Lilith said, shrugging with a playful smile. "It does sound like a translation of what the pre- Finality Cocoon told you, but... it's still a bit too elusive. What's certain is that the first vague part is likely about not wanting the same thing to happen again, so the next step is to do things properly, and, or rather, that part is the solution. But what that solution is, that's the key in the end..."

"Hmm...that's true..." Elysia nodded thoughtfully, but something felt off. She had just wanted Zhu Yufeng to repeat what he heard and compare it with what she heard, but now that Lilith said that, she couldn't ask him anymore.

"Feng, you're really not lying to me?" Elysia asked, looking into Zhu Yufeng's eyes.

"I..."

Just as Zhu Yufeng was about to speak, Lilith looked at the location of Thousand Worlds and said, "It seems they have returned safely. As we agreed at the beginning, we should conduct a thorough check on them, right? After all, we also need to be wary of whether 'Suo' has left any contingency plans."

Elysia pursed her lips, knowing that Lilith was right; the most important thing right now was to confirm Sue and Seele's safety.

At this moment, Zhu Yufeng continued, "Elysia, no matter what this sentence ultimately means, I will keep my original promise to you."