Chen Li: I Thought We Were Brothers, but You Want to Surpass Me?! (9k, continued)

If the Great Herta is in a state of bad luck, then when using Chen Li as an adapter, it should not damage the adapter, but rather damage itself.

The one who should be unlucky is the Great Herta.

Just like now.

"Stick out your tongue, I'll treat you."

"Ah..."

The Abundance power landed on the tongue of the Great Herta, instantly healing the scratches on it.

"I understand. This little thing possesses a special ability: it can overcome the strong with the weak through sheer luck. It can defeat incredibly powerful enemies using random, weak methods. The worse the opponent's luck, the higher the probability of victory." The Great Herta was still somewhat reluctant to leave after ending its Hyperdimension state, but it still explained the cat's problem to Chen Li.

"So that's why it chose you instead of me? Because now, no matter what you do, if there's a chance of failure, you'll definitely fail?" Chen Li understood.

This is the price of being rejected by the world.

If one in ten thousand people is going to have bad luck, that person will definitely be you.

If you win one out of 100 random rock-paper-scissors games, the world loses.

Probability no longer applies to you, because all misfortunes are inevitable.

Moreover, this misfortune will only worsen over time.

Heaven creates all things to nourish humankind, yet humankind has nothing to repay Heaven.

The world has nurtured you for so long, yet you are unwilling to give back to the world.

You're such a selfish person!

"That's right." The Great Herta nodded.

"But what does this little thing have to do with Destruction the world?"

"Because this little thing will generate an image based on the weakest creature in the vicinity, in accordance with people's definition of weakness, and instill contempt in the surrounding creatures. And every time it defeats the strong in people's eyes with its weak image, it will subvert common sense within a certain range. Because the weak defeating the strong is inherently subverting common sense. Until it subverts the laws of the entire world."

"Defying common sense? Oh no, did it just defeat you?" Chen Li was stunned for a moment, then immediately ran out of his house.

In fact, Chen Li didn't even need to leave the room; he had already keenly sensed the abnormality of the nearby [connection] when he arrived at his doorstep.

Originally, in Chen Li's eyes, the connections between all things were like threads of different colors, linking everything together. But now, these threads have become different colors.

Stepping out of the room, Chen Li saw water flowing uphill and people carrying bicycles...

After Chen Li watched as the other person walked a long distance away from his house, the other person put down the bicycle and rode away. Throughout the entire process, the other person never doubted that he was carrying the bicycle, nor was he surprised that the water was flowing uphill.

"...You little thing are pretty good." Chen Li lifted the cat that he had been holding by the scruff of its neck, which was baring its teeth and claws.

A short while later, the Great Herta also came out.

"Great Herta, are you... are you alright?" Chen Li originally wanted to ask Great Herta what else he had seen, but after seeing Great Herta's tattered clothes, he changed his question.

At this moment, Great Herta silk had several holes in it, his body was dirty, and his face was covered in Black Ash from who knows where.

"N-nothing, I just missed a step while going down the stairs." Great Herta shook his head.

"Huh? Then you'd better be careful, or the first genius in the Genius Society to fall to his death from the stairs will appear." Chen Li used his Fictionalize ability to restore the damaged state of the Great Herta to what it looked like two minutes ago.

"It's not a big problem. Let's deal with the immediate issues first," said the Great Herta, looking at the chaos in the area with a radius of 500 meters centered on Chen Li's house.

"Who do you think you can blame? Who told you to be so unlucky?" Chen Li rolled his eyes at the Great Herta and then took out the Judgment of All Things.

Since the connections between all things are disrupted by this cat, let's just sever all those connections and then piece them back together one by one.

Fortunately, Chen Li did not lose to the cat, so only seven or eight connections in this area were disrupted; otherwise, Chen Li would have given up on treatment.

The Great Herta was undoubtedly a top-tier powerhouse, but the reason it didn't cause much of an impact was because Chen Li, as an observer, subconsciously thought that it wouldn't be surprising if the Great Herta, who was rejected by the world, lost to an ordinary cat.

"That's not the case. Unless you have exceptional luck or are a special character with similar abilities, it's easy to fail against this cat. It can make countless mistakes, but you can only make one. That's what makes this creature so terrifying," the Great Herta explained.

When adults and children arm wrestle, it's perfectly reasonable for an adult to win 100 times, but if a child wins even once, people will exclaim how terrifying the child is.

While they were chatting, Chen Li had already severed these erroneous connections and restored the normal connections between all things.

Judgment of All Things doesn't cost anything, but piecing them together does.

The price Chen Li paid this time was that, for a period of time, there was a chance that the truths he spoke would be mistaken for lies.

Restoring correct connections from partially erroneous ones comes at the cost of turning some of the "correct" ones into "incorrect" ones, which is quite reasonable.

"Fortunately, you were the only one who observed me being defeated by the cat this time, otherwise the area of upheaval might have been even larger." The Great Herta breathed a sigh of relief after seeing that Chen Li had solved the problem.

Even if the world didn't reject him, he might still be defeated by a cat. But if he didn't want to experience what it felt like to be rejected by the world, he wouldn't have followed Chen Li to his house, and naturally, he wouldn't have been defeated.

Chen Li possesses the passive ability of a transmigrator, and the Constraint Bracelet can prevent Chen Li from being affected by fate and probability at any time, so Chen Li has no need to worry about losing to the cat.

"Does the larger the number of people who observe events that defy common sense, the wider the scope of the disruption? This little thing is truly terrifying."

"That's right, so what are you planning to do with this?"

"Kill him."

"Keep it? I advise you not to."

"I mean... never mind, I really can't raise it." Chen Li wanted to explain, but then he felt relieved when he thought about the price he had to pay.

"Let's leave this cat to Mobius."

What are you planning to do?

"Isn't it a coincidence that there's a cat among the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals, and this cat just happens to be lucky enough to be able to use it as an ability? Since Mobius is going to fuse with the Snake, it makes sense for Pardo to fuse with a cat, right?" Chen Li glanced at the nameless but incredibly powerful cat, then locked it in his Friends Circle.

Pardo's luck is truly outrageous, so outrageous that even though it's just Nihility luck, the rational May can give her the mission of "allowing Pardo to open a door to the Cocoon of the Herrscher of the End of the Cocoon of Eternity by luck, creating an opportunity for Prometheus No. 17 to tamper with the secret door called the Honkai program."

But Pardo actually succeeded.

Among the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals, Chen Li was most worried about Pardo because she was indeed very weak.

But this cat happens to be able to influence the probability of the weak winning by luck.

As for the question of whether subverting common sense will lead to chaos in the world... just Extraction the relevant entry.

Or let Mobius consider it.

"Hmm... a cat with the ability to subvert common sense? No problem. If we use a scalpel, we might be able to change the object of subversion from the rules of the world to a specific target. From a tool for Destruction the world to a tool for Destruction the enemy." After seeing the cat Chen Li was holding and hearing the introduction, Mobius immediately had an idea.

It's interesting to subvert this ability.

What If Pardo could influence the probability of defeating her enemy by luck, and choose to subvert the enemy's senses instead of subverting the rules of the world, then Pardo could escape even more smoothly...

Sending Pardo to fight? Why would you have such an outrageous dream!

Have Pardo give the Herrscher an Overhead Toss to overpower her senses, then let her teammates go up and beat her up.

At least it allowed Pardo to go from zero contribution to becoming an assist master.

This way, Kevin can be a little more assertive when he says, "Each of the Thirteen Arbiter-Generals Flame-Chasers the ability to kill Herrscher on their own."

As for how to deal with the cat now, Mobius's choice is to make a cut on its tail.

In this way, the cat will remain still while in surgery.

Although killing the cat directly is an option, Chen Li said that the cat can reincarnate. When it dies, it will be randomly reincarnated into the weakest creature nearby, along with its own traits.

"Don't you really need me to strengthen your scalpel?" Chen Li asked.

Chen Li increasingly felt that giving Mobius only a scalpel forged with 20 Crystals was a waste of his talent.

"No need." Mobius shook his head.

Mobius thought that if Chen Li had these unused Crystals, he might as well forge a Miraculous Item for Mobius that would allow him to evolve infinitely.

"So how did you fare in the Land of the Past?" Chen Li asked, looking around at the scenery.

At this moment, Chen Li was in the Land of the Past.

Mobius came to the Land of the Past yesterday in search of the Memory Fragment Mobius, and has been living here ever since.

Because the Land of the Past has a laboratory that best suits Mobius's aesthetic and is most suitable for Mobius to express himself.

—That's right, the Memory Fragment that Mobius has taken over is Mobius's laboratory.

"The harvest has been quite good. Memory Fragment Mobius hasn't been idle in these 50,000 years. Although the lack of a scalpel has slowed down the research progress, there are still some ingenious designs. Would you like to meet her?" Mobius asked.

The Memory Fragment Mobius possesses all of Mobius's Remembrance, and she has 50,000 years more time than Mobius (Land of the Past was built in the Previous Civilization, and the Forerunners slept for 50,000 years before waking up 5,000 years ago, but the Memory Fragment in Land of the Past did not fall asleep). Mobius spent a whole day but still couldn't empty the "things" from the Memory Fragment Mobius.

However, because the Memory Fragment Mobius was preoccupied with her plan to escape the Land of the Past the past, her research direction became somewhat distorted, and she did not make much progress compared to Mobius 50,000 years ago.

But he's still better than Mobius is now.

At least for now, Mobius has only just learned how to perform fusion surgery.

Meanwhile, the Memory Fragment Mobius was indeed as Chen Li had said, possessing a rebellious streak despite weighing 100 pounds...

"Isn't that unnecessary? It just feels a bit strange."

"What's so strange about that? That's your stuff."

"My things?"

"That's right, didn't we sign a contract before? All my experimental subjects would belong to you. This includes both the Gray Serpent and the Memory Fragment Mobius. Why do you think I was able to obtain this knowledge from the Memory Fragment so easily?"

"I thought you tricked her with Forced Transaction Coins once."

"It was indeed a case of being Forced Transaction Coins, but not yesterday, but 50,000 years ago." Mobius shook his head.

"Then I might go and see... where is the Memory Fragment Mobius?"

"Klein," Mobius shouted into the walkie-talkie.

"Doctor." A moment later, the armed doll Klein walked into the laboratory.

Although Mobius has not yet seen the real Klein, Mobius already quite proficient in using the armed puppet Klein.

Perhaps it was because the armed doll Klein was made by Mobius according to his own preferences that Mobius found it so easy to use.

"Take Chen Li to meet the Memory Fragment, Mobius."

"Okay, Doctor. Chen Li, come with me. Mobius is staying in her room now because the lab was taken over by the former Dr. Mobius. I'll take you to her. If you need anything, don't hesitate to ask, because I was also one of Dr. Mobius's experimental subjects," Klein said.

"Good..."

"Boom!" Not long after Chen Li left the Mobius Laboratory with the armed puppet Klein, he heard a series of explosions behind him.

"Oh no! It's the lab!" Sensing something was wrong, Klein quickly ran back to the lab.

Chen Li, who had run back with them, pushed open the door of the laboratory, which was billowing smoke, and saw Mobius and Great Herta, whose clothes were dirty but who were not injured.

"What happened?"

"Ahem, ask her." Mobius coughed as he pointed to the Great Herta.

"It all started when I picked up a Mobius doll on Mobius's lab table..." The Great Herta hesitated, then stopped.

While the Great Herta was discussing the topic of the Cocoon of Eternity with Mobius, he saw this doll. With Mobius's permission, he picked it up, and then... half a second after a beeping sound, the Mobius doll exploded and detonated the entire laboratory.

The Great Herta did its best to prevent the explosion, but the laboratory was still blown to pieces.

The only thing to be thankful for is...

"Why is your hat the only one in the whole lab that didn't have any problems?" Chen Li couldn't help but look at the pointed hat on the Great Herta's head.

In the already filthy laboratory, nothing was as frighteningly clean as this hat.

"That's not important. Why don't you use the Imaginary Value to recreate this laboratory?" The Great Herta changed the subject.

Everything depends on the Great Herta, that damned competitiveness.

If I say I won't let the world take this hat away from me, then I won't let "He" take it away!

"Snap!" Chen Li snapped his fingers, recreating the state of the laboratory, the Great Herta, and Mobius before the explosion.

Mobius walked coldly to the Mobius doll that had also been rewound.

Having learned his lesson from the Great Herta, Mobius finally discovered the problem... There was an explosive device inside the doll that would detonate if a living person touched it.

Besides Chen Li and the Great Herta, who had just arrived, Mobius only one other living person in the Land of the Past.

So it's pretty obvious who this doll was originally intended to target, right?

"Mobius!" Mobius gritted his teeth and uttered his name.

Mobius only person who could understand Mobius so well, accurately grasp Mobius preferences, and be so certain that Mobius would play with this doll, is a certain rebellious Memory Fragment.

"Maybe it's because I'm just unlucky... Maybe your Memory Fragment was just playing a joke on you." The Great Herta stroked his chin.