The Vanished Controller, the Truth of the World!

The game's stance is contradictory.

Sometimes, he is ruthless and merciless, and without the slightest hesitation, he will unleash various punishments, taking away the lives of humans in the wasteland.

At other times, however, he is fair in his rewards and punishments, ensuring that all due rewards are given without any reduction or compromise.

Such a monster has led more and more people to distrust him.

But he never changed; he continued to carry out certain orders in his own way.

These commands have undergone multiple verifications and trials.

Su Mo has discovered that it is like some kind of legacy rule, which the game cannot transgress, but can only be regulated to a certain extent within.

But he never imagined that his guess would actually be true!

"You guessed right, we humans are not the masters of this universe, nor are we the masters of this dimension."

"Your world, my world, the world we live in now, the world of the alien races, and the 6896 Earths—none of them belong to us."

"They all belong to the game, to the game's owners!"

With a helpless smile, Jiang Chu shrugged and completely closed the curtain.

The next second, a bottle of cola, also a blue phantom, appeared in his hand, which he gulped down.

No one would accept being merely a part of someone else's private property.

No one would accept that the Earth they live on, the universe they inhabit, is ultimately nothing more than someone else's plaything.

In Jiang Chu's memory.

After this horrific fact was discovered, countless researchers went almost insane.

They observe, reason, calculate, and simulate.

But in the end, almost all of them chose to give up!

Because that's the truth!

"The Earth we live on isn't a parallel universe at all; it's just that the game's creator was lazy and bought planets from the same batch and model."

"The universe we live in isn't a real universe either, but rather a generic template purchased by the game's owner and loaded into it."

"The world we live in is both real and unreal."

"Amidst this illusion, we will never be able to elevate our own dimension, because our perception is flawed from the very beginning."

"This is the suppression of dimensions, this is the ultimate form of contempt!"

"In the eyes of higher-dimensional beings, we are just ants locked in a temperature-controlled box, used for their observation and amusement!"

Every word.

Jiang Chu did not let any personal feelings interfere.

These words came out of his mouth like a narration.

Even so.

As soon as he finished speaking, the blood outside surged up almost instantly, and flames began to erupt from the entire continent.

This clearly triggered the hidden rules of this world! But fortunately, Jiang Chu was already dead.

In addition, he is now only playing audio that was recorded beforehand.

This unusual phenomenon eventually subsided and failed to attract the game's attention.

"How about that? Are you dumbfounded?"

"When I first heard the news, I was stunned for a full two hundred and twenty years!"

Seeing Su Mo still sitting at the table deep in thought, Jiang Chu, who had recovered from the audio mode, smiled.

"Indeed, suddenly realizing that your world is someone else's plaything is quite hard to accept."

Looking up, Su Mo smiled too.

His reaction greatly surprised Jiang Chu, who looked at him as if he had seen a monster.

"No way, Su Mo, don't tell me you've already accepted this fact?"

Su Mo raised an eyebrow. "No, I probably already guessed it before you even said it!"

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When I type a question mark, it's not that I have a problem, it's that I think you have a problem.

Despite having accepted the premise that Su Mo was a genius.

But faced with a fact that would normally take him over two hundred years to accept, Su Mo accepted it in just a few minutes.

Jiang Chu plopped down on the stool, her face full of frustration.

In this world, those who are half a step ahead are the wise.

Those who are one step ahead are demons.

Those who are ten steps faster are considered gods.

But someone as fast as Su Mo, who can go hundreds or even thousands of steps, is simply an incomprehensible monster!

"Therefore, in this man-made world, we simply cannot find a way to improve our own dimension. The data we calculate is always what the other side wants us to have, and what we want to see is always what the other side wants us to see?"

Jiang Chu nodded. "Yes, although the game's owner doesn't know what happened and has lost control over us, the butler he left behind is still trying his best to maintain balance."

In a question-and-answer session, their identities were switched.

Su Mo regained the initiative.

Jiang Chu had no idea that his ability to accept things so quickly was not due to any talent or extensive knowledge.

Rather, it was because he had actually seen things of higher dimensions!

System!

This is a game that crushes everything, and it might even crush the existence of the game's owner.

With such a being by his side, Su Mo was not only calm about his situation, but even felt a little excited.

Then, Su Mo asked again, "If we want to change our fate and elevate our dimension, we must first defeat the game, the steward, obtain all the permissions, and have the power to decide our own life and death before we can even think about how to escape this circle?"

Jiang Chu: "Yes, we are like ants in a thermostat now. We need the power to control the thermostat in order to have a chance to open the entrance and crawl out."

"The game is our biggest obstacle; it is the intelligent control system of the incubator, which follows a set of rules."

"If our numbers are too large, he will summon ' Ant Extermination Device ' and create supernatural events such as meteorites, planetary impacts, epidemics, wildfires, earthquakes, sudden drops in temperature, floods, gravitational out-of-control events, and continental collisions to greatly reduce our numbers. If our numbers are too small, he will take a series of measures to increase production and strengthen environmental restoration, giving us a chance to recuperate!"

"If the people of our Butterfly Timeline hadn't been able to dig through the barriers to other parts of the incubator, and hadn't cleared the obstacles to the subsequent locations, we humans on Earth would still be kept in the dark, foolishly staying on Earth, waiting for extraterrestrial civilizations to appear!"

"However, this was also the game's own doing. It sensed something was wrong and wanted to revoke the authority over these Wasteland Gods, but it couldn't directly kill these gods. So it could only provide some vessels for us humans to log in with our consciousness, to complete tasks through continuous resurrection to obtain authority, and finally to regain authority by recycling our bodies."

"Unfortunately, when the total authority of humanity on Earth reached 35%, this balance was completely broken. He had to increase the number of creatures in this world, which forced him to leave the game prematurely. Once he was resurrected, our first god passed on his authority to the subsequent humans before his death. This means that we obtained the authority with our own bodies and consciousness, and we are no longer under the jurisdiction of the game!"

Su Mo pondered for a moment, "So now, why has the game summoned us to the wasteland to participate in this survival game?"

By now, based on the explanation given by Jiang Chu earlier, Su Mo has guessed most of the truth.

But all the explanations and all the questions ultimately come back to the purpose of participating in the game.

This is an unavoidable point.

"This is the result of our efforts in the wasteland over the past thousand years, the result of the great war game and our compromise, or perhaps, we just encountered a bug!"

Even Jiang Chu's words contained a bug.

Su Mo was immediately delighted.

Sitting opposite her, Jiang Chu also let go of the melancholy she felt after being hit by Su Mo and started to laugh.

"Just like I said before, when our quantity is too high, the game will trigger a production reduction operation, and when our quantity is too low, the game will increase production."

Su Mo nodded.

Jiang Chu then said, "Therefore, there is a paradox in the rules here!"

"When we fight the game for control, because of the massive human deaths, our numbers quickly reach the red line. At this point, according to the rules, the game must increase our production and prevent our numbers from decreasing further, otherwise it will be punished, or even forced to shut down."

"But think about it, if he puts aside his struggle with us and helps us increase production, wouldn't that be tantamount to indirectly aiding the enemy and giving us the opportunity to gain full control?"

"Therefore, the game has no choice but to negotiate with us humans at the cost of mutual destruction, including blowing up the incubator."

At this point, Jiang Chu involuntarily straightened his chest.

This was achieved only through massive human sacrifice, loopholes in the rules, and bugs.

But in the battle against the higher dimensions, this was humanity's first partial victory! "There were three main parties involved in this negotiation."

"First, the game; second, humans; third, the indigenous people."

"All the native inhabitants were surrenderers. Because of the humans' rampant invasion, they were unable to resist. So, at the beginning of the agreement, they handed over 28% of their permissions to the game. In return, they were allowed to take their people to other planets, which are the other compartments of the incubator to live in."

"There, protected by the game, they will continuously enjoy increased production, and their gods will also be protected by the game, continuing to gain immortality."

"We humans are naturally the ones who advocate war; we demand a wager with the game."

Su Mo: "The main battlefield for this bet is the wasteland?"

Jiang Chu nodded. "Yes, it is this wasteland!"

"In the bet, we used 43% of our authority to exchange for the remaining 57%, and placed all the authority in a huge safe. Everyone lost their authority at that moment, and everyone was back on the same starting line. Whoever could get 51% first could use the safe to instantly gather the other authority and become the true owner of the incubator!"

"And from here, the real struggle begins!"

Jiang Chu glanced once more at the 1.46% authority still circulating on Su Mo's body, and continued:

"We have agreed that in the wasteland, the game can continue to extract people and creatures from other incubators to meet the conditions for triggering his production reduction measures (disasters). Those who perform exceptionally well under his measures will receive privilege rewards."

"For example, we humans, starting from nothing, can gain certain privileges if we overcome disasters through our own abilities."

"The same goes for other races; they can also send people in to compete with us for access, which they then offer to the game in exchange for rewards."

"But the only exception is if we humans use more than 80% of the abilities provided by the game when overcoming a disaster, and overcome the disaster with outstanding performance, then we will be considered as people supported by the game, thus granting the game access."

"After all this time, we humans have only collected 12.1% of the permissions in total, while the game has recently seen a surge in permissions to 14.9% for some unknown reason. But with your addition of 1.46%, it's like you've stopped our massive bleeding!"

"Awesome!"

He finished reciting a long string of words in one breath and then gave a thumbs up.

Seeing the astonishment on Su Mo's face, Jiang Chu seemed to think that her praise had worked and was about to continue showering him with compliments.

But to his surprise, Su Mo, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up, "Wait, if we humans rely on our own abilities to overcome disasters, how do we check our own permissions?"

Jiang Chu was surprised. "Huh? Aren't you checking right now? Oh, right, I forgot that this is a backdoor Bai Zhantang opened for you. If your other body also gets access, all you need to do is..."

Lowering his head and thinking for a moment, Jiang Chu quickly uttered a string of incantations.

Su Mo, without any hesitation, immediately changed his body and began to do as Jiang Chu instructed.

The next second... Boom! Jiang Chu stared in disbelief, her jaw practically dropping to the floor in shock.

A divine Divine Light even more dazzling than 1.46% erupted from Su Mo's body!