Food God "Su Mo," Ocean God, My Comrade-in-Arms?

After choosing to bind, the process became simpler after the Jade Pot absorbed a wave of identity information provided by Su Mo!

After closing all the game warning pop-ups caused by permission binding, Su Mo sat on the ground and quietly waited for the final permission allocation.

"The game isn't a higher-dimensional entity situated in the wasteland, but rather a role similar to a butler."

"If he could still manipulate the rules governing food in the wasteland before I chose to split the shares, then after I used the Jade Pot to take away 1% of the food..."

"Its authority will permanently disappear before I die and before I return the shares, and it will permanently lose control of the food!"

"Even if I could acquire shares in Temperature, in subsequent disasters, they wouldn't be able to recklessly lower or raise the temperature at will!"

"Acquiring equity is not just a process of gaining power, but also the strongest means of self-protection against natural disasters!"

The Jade Pot is like a key, used to unlock the "safe" where power and authority are hidden in the wasteland.

Upon feeling the Jade Pot vibrate and placing it on the ground, standing in this small Storage Room, Su Mo suddenly gained a clear understanding of authority and a completely new understanding of the so-called war of the gods in the ocean promotional video.

"If the wasteland's authority was previously controlled by a group of so-called ' Gods '..."

One day, for some inexplicable reason, most of the Gods had their authority revoked, with only a small number managing to retain some through various means.

"With more and more permissions, the game can unleash a continuous stream of terrifying natural disasters. Those gods who have lost their permissions are naturally unable to resist and die permanently!"

"But beings like Ocean God probably used some backup plan. While releasing most of their permissions, they also retained some key points or even a small portion of core permissions. With these methods, they survived, but in order to escape the game's search, they chose to put themselves into a deep sleep somewhere, waiting for an opportunity."

What kind of situation would you like to see in the current gaming landscape?

Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Su Mo comprehended the limited information transmitted after the authorization was granted, while pondering the true purpose of the ocean's attack based on the available information.

Does the game want to see Ocean God resurrected and regain his control?

How could that be!

Currently, the game only has 1% control over food, and the developers are already acting so frustrated. Imagine how much more they would handle the vast ocean.

"No, if the game doesn't want to see the Ocean God resurrected, wouldn't it be better to just unleash a natural disaster to destroy the so-called Ocean God?"

"Unless."

"The current Ocean God is not the one about to awaken and reclaim his power as the game suggests, but rather the game has roughly located the Ocean God's position through certain means and channels."

"But in this way..."

Sitting in the small storage room, Su Mo was able to concentrate better and think about each of the problems.

Grasp these details and continue to unravel the mystery. Suddenly, a guess flashed into Su Mo's mind.

While the binding process is not yet complete, the Game Panel for the new identity is still usable.

Su Mo opened the Game Panel directly, went straight to the friends function, and started searching.

The target of the search is none other than Yang Jian!

"Currently, we have been able to find a total of 318 players named Yang Jian."

"Including me, the last one to come in, there are currently 319 people in total."

Record the number, time it, and one minute later, Su Mo re-entered the Game Panel to search.

As expected, the number of results that could be found this time dropped sharply, from 319 to 211.

Don't rush, suppress your guesses, and wait another minute, and the number of people has suddenly become 123.

Even more outrageous, before Su Mo had even left, the number of people blatantly changed back to 122, the implication of which was obvious.

These characters with the same name as Yang Jian do not behave like ordinary people in the game's friend add panel, where their avatars turn gray and black after death, indicating that they cannot be added.

Without exception, they all disappeared directly from the search panel.

It was as if these people had never been to this wasteland world, nor had they participated in this game of life and death.

"As expected, the game, being a mere housekeeper, couldn't pinpoint my location at all. It could only know that someone named Yang Jian had taken 1% of the permissions."

"Holding the thought that it would rather kill them all than let them go, it instinctively chose to disable all the player panels named Yang Jian, making all game functions unusable, in order to force me, the clueless ' Yang Jian, ' to use the privileges."

"Stupid, but useful!"

While he was pondering, the progress of the "account ban" had not stopped. Moreover, Su Mo did not take any chances. When the fourth minute arrived, an invisible Light Wave flashed by.

Not only did the Tortoise Shell and cards on the ground turn into powder and shatter in the storage room, but the Game Panel also seemed to be dead, and no matter how much Su Mo called out, it could not get a response.

As the last Yang Jian to appear in the wasteland, numbered 319, the sealing of Su Mo's title signified the complete annihilation of all Yang Jian!

"Hahaha, so that's how it works, not bad, not bad!"

"Seal it, seal it off as you please."

"What does your ban on Yang Jian's game privileges have to do with me Su Mo!"

Having grasped all the tricks of the game, Su Mo breathed a sigh of relief and burst into laughter.

At the same time, Su Mo could only silently apologize to the 318 fellow Yang Jian who had been caught in his crossfire.

There is only one road forward.

If given the choice again and the result is the same, Su Mo would not hesitate at all.

"As expected, it was the right decision for a small portion of humanity not to trust games and not to use their features."

"That JD.com is completely untrustworthy!"

With the binding progress bar at 30%, Su Mo couldn't switch back to his original form to check the World Channel to see if anyone would react to the commotion. He could only wait quietly.

Fortunately, the waiting time was not long. About ten minutes later, as the Jade Pot in Su Mo's hand began to tremble and gradually turned into light dust and disappeared into the Storage Room, the binding of permissions was finally completed.

Meanwhile, having gained control over food, Su Mo saw the entire world undergo a dramatic transformation.

Everything, including the floor beneath your feet, the cabinets beside you, and even the dust in the air, has its own unique "smell".

Following this scent, Su Mo knew that with just a thought, even dust could emit the aroma of braised pork.

"Hiss, this kind of power... is this why everyone on Earth wants to be a privileged dog?"

"Color, aroma and taste"

"The permissions granted to food items are not solely based on their grade or attributes; no wonder they can occupy a full 1% of the permissions."

The more Su Mo experienced it, the clearer his understanding of this magical power became.

Why is it that even after gaining control over food, it takes fifteen natural days to use it once?

The reason is simple: if you want to add an attribute to food that never spoils.

It requires not only the authority over food, but also dozens of other permissions, such as permissions related to physical form, air contact, and internal microbial fermentation.

These numerous and varied permissions, when intertwined, form a simple attribute.

Food can access these other permissions, but it will take time.

Just like in a large company, if you need assistance from other departments in a project, that's fine, but you have to submit a report for approval. Only after approval can you make the call. You can't just do whatever you want.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as when you become the direct boss of these departments or the president of the entire company!

Back then, we could do whatever we wanted, and even dissolve the company altogether—it wouldn't be a problem!

"Looking at it this way, the purpose of the ocean attack is all too obvious!"

"The approximate location of Ocean God has been revealed for other reasons, and the game's administrator wants to reclaim the remaining permissions held by Ocean God."

"But unfortunately, firstly, Ocean God doesn't need the Game Panel to punish him, and secondly, we don't know his exact location, so we need to use some methods to force him to find us. That's why we came up with this version update."

"And the most cunning thing is that it didn't directly tell players to find the Ocean God, but instead used a very clever way to lure all players by creating the Ocean God is about to be revived, that the Ocean God is very powerful, and that those who rush in can be used as messengers of the gods to entice them."

"It even shamelessly implied that the Ocean God is currently weak, and that you could even kill Ocean God."

"This method seems crude, but it's actually quite effective. At least for now, even I fell into the trap half a day ago."

In fact, the game's objective was achieved the moment when all the creatures in the wasteland had no questions about the game's updated content.

From the very beginning, the game grasped this point, portraying itself as God, punishing everyone with natural disasters while simultaneously introducing game features to make everyone struggle to survive.

With a combination of carrot and stick tactics, no creature had the time or energy to question what the game was, what right it had to issue disasters, why it had Game Panel, and what its purpose was. Of course, after three rounds of disasters, the game felt that its position was secure and there were no problems, so it began to reveal its true colors.

They deliberately spread false news about the resurgence of the Ocean God, and may even have distributed other missions to the Five Great Royal Clans among the Land Alien Race, or to several powerful human refuges.

Because of their subconscious trust in the game, all the players who thought they had obtained the hidden mission naturally wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to lure out the Ocean God behind it and get a huge "reward".

Instead of telling others that they have a mission, they will rush over with others and secretly complete it on their own.

In this way, as long as the Ocean God can be found, the game's objective of releasing this round of creatures will have been achieved!

"So, in a sense, I, who have only been the ' Food God ' for a few minutes, and this still-asleep Ocean God are actually comrades-in-arms. I still have to protect him and make sure he can't be found by anyone?"

The rules of the game and the Golden Light are actually very rigid. In Su Mo's view, they don't seem like the work of a sentient being at all, but rather a pre-set logical judgment program.

Just like the previous inspection of Golden Light, which clearly discovered so many problems with the Underground Shelter, but after being blocked by the system and failing to detect any problems with the shelter's owner Su Mo, it still ignored the anomalies in the shelter and chose to disregard them.

This illustrates that to reduce punishment, whether through games or the Golden Light, there must be solid evidence! Without solid evidence, even if they discover the problem, they cannot break through the logical limitations and adopt another set of judgment methods.

Therefore, all the game needs to do now is find the stone hammer and break through its own logical limitations.

Finding the location of the Ocean God is the most important step in obtaining the stone hammer.

As for the Five Great Royal Clans who acted as tools throughout the process, they probably didn't know that the moment they found the Ocean God was also the moment they faced death.

"With a range of 500,000 kilometers and a catastrophic amplification of 500,000 times, if I, the Wolf Man, were to jump out now, even this so-called Ocean God wouldn't survive."

Just half a day ago, he was still thinking about how he could sit back and reap the benefits, waiting to wait behind all the alien races before dealing with this so-called "Ocean God" and getting a huge reward to develop in the New Continent.

Half a day later, he found himself on the same side as the Ocean God, not only needing to advance and retreat together, but also having to protect the "Sleeping Beauty" from being found by the guards sent by the evil queen. Su Mo felt a sense of wonder.

"No, if the Ocean God dies because I betray him, then conversely, if the Ocean God betrays me, I also die."

"Two Wolf Man can be allies in some situations, but in others they must ensure that the other won't betray them."

"So assuming we all survive this disaster, what would I think, and what would he think?"