You wanted healing, but you wrote Honkai Impact 3rd?

The audience grew restless, but most were still completely baffled.

They understood now—the most cryptic one of all was actually Su Nian!

He must have written it this way for a reason.

But they just couldn't grasp it!

Damn riddler!

Before they could flood the screen with question marks, the next segment came out.

Their confusion was justified, but Mei really didn't die here.

Still, this was Su Nian's fault—his audience had already become paranoid.

Guessing where the knife would fall...

It was starting to resemble Genshin Impact Leakers running multiple accounts to play prophet.

That is, guessing every possible place where a knife could land, eventually hitting the mark and becoming a real prophet.

When popularity rises, drama follows.

[Just as Raiden Mei was about to meet her end, Aponia finally appeared.]

["Mei, experiencing death... is part of your destiny."]

[Raiden Mei's goal was precisely to force Aponia out, and now she had indeed appeared.]

["At last, we can witness each other's existence with the same state of mind... Without despair, you would never believe it is inescapable..."]

["Enough. The time fate has promised has not yet come."]

[To protect Mei, she used the Law of Retribution to drive away Chijie.]

["Aponia, do you want to die again?!"]

["Chijie." Aponia's tone shifted.]

[Her voice had been like listening to ASMR, deeply hypnotic, but these two words sounded like Guanyin Bodhisattva calling out to the Monkey King.]

[Chijie raged impotently, then left in bitter resentment.]

So that's how the problem was solved?

So Raiden Mei wasn't just seeking death?

It seemed like some clarity was emerging?

Now the apparent mastermind, the ultimate boss, Aponia, had truly made her entrance.

[6, Guanyin calling the Monkey King, that instantly painted a picture—you know childhood.]

[[Please] stop being a riddler]

[Is she that strong? Chijie couldn't resist? Power level jumps every episode]

[They didn't fight; not being able to fight is one thing, losing is another]

[If the prophecy process isn't absolute and only the result is correct, if Aponia's prophecy goes wrong, would she kill Mei herself to maintain accuracy?]

[woc, you actually understood?!]

[We'll know once Su Nian finishes writing! My predictions aren't necessarily accurate]

[gkd, reveal the truth already, I want to know what's really going on!]

But the story kept dragging on, though Mei had roughly grasped Aponia's prophecy and the fate she spoke of.

Her intelligence was such that even Vill-V had said she should be the Herrscher of Reason.

[She saved Mei from Chijie's hands and brought her to the Paradise Hall.]

[This time she didn't stay long. After Raiden Mei inquired further about Aponia, she seemed to have reached a definite conclusion, only needing verification.]

[The Deepest Place hid secrets. Rather than prophesying Raiden Mei's certain death, it was more that she knew Mei was pursuing this secret, and to prevent its leak, she had to kill her...]

Chapter 57, The Truth of the Ten-Day Death (Subscribe for First Chapter!)

[What? Someone lied? It can work like that?!]

[emmm, it was so brain-burning I forgot that "a lie that can be deduced" is also part of the mind games...]

[Damn, this is too strong, I never would have thought of it—and Su Nian wrote it without hesitation? That outline had nothing to do with this story]

[God among gods!]

[The bad woman dares to show herself? Raiden Mei will beat her to her knees and make her spit out all the truth!]

[But a Psychic Flame Chaser is a Civil War God! Easily brushed off Chijie—will Mei win?]

[Mei: I will win. I am a Herrscher!]

[Fast forward to: I couldn't make Lady Aponia go all out, truly sorry... (2.5-Mei)]

[It was too brain-burning before, I couldn't even chime in. Is my chance to participate finally here?!]

When the audience realized there was falsehood in the words, the most bewildering point of the entire plot—why Aponia wanted to kill Mei—suddenly became clear.

If Aponia had used "selective truth-telling," or "seven truths, three lies," or "complete falsehoods" from the very beginning...

Then the nonsensical parts would also be easier to explain.

As it stands now, Aponia's prophecies are true, but there's a tiny bit of ambiguous information mixed in.

That is the unknown process.

On this point, Otto has a lot to say.

He is an honest villain.

Sometimes, telling only the truth can achieve the same goal, and it makes it harder for people to distinguish truth from falsehood.

The three scenarios above could also produce completely different directions for the intellectual conflict.

Now, the truth of why Aponia wanted to kill Mei is crystal clear.

There must be some incredible secret deep within the Elysian Realm!

Is that the truth Raiden Mei seeks?

All truths will eventually surface.

At this moment, Otto is also a little worried, but not about the plot, nor about whether Su Nian can handle it well.

Is this story of the Elysian Realm, with its somewhat complex composition, about to reach its conclusion soon?

Judging by the content Su Nian is writing now, if she can maintain this level of quality, it will definitely make her famous far and wide.

But there is still one flaw, a fatal flaw.

And that is...

It's not enough! Who is this little bit of writing supposed to satisfy?! Give us more!

If other fans saw this, they'd think we look down on it!

Otto wishes he could just give Su Nian a technological boost. What's limiting her now is definitely not her ideas, but the limit of human typing speed.

It's a good thing the other contestants can't see the show's livestream.

Otherwise, they'd all be cursing their mothers!

It's one thing that he writes Kevin's storyline so smoothly—though it's difficult, it's still... barely acceptable.

With talent and a few years of hard work, they could write something on that level.

It might take a while, but it's not impossible to match.

But who could have guessed! Now Su Nian is using Kevin's story as a framework, stuffing puzzle pieces into the main text, and still fitting in the corresponding main storyline!

This part of the intellectual struggle, she barely paused at all.

Does this even count as reasonable?

And the real main storyline of the Elysian Realm is so brain-burning! They can't even understand it, yet all the clues fall into place.

For someone on the same high level as Otto and Welt, this is merely outstanding.

But for ordinary contestants, it's already an insurmountable ladder.

Even though they are all prodigies of Shenzhou.

Compared to Su Nian, they are utterly eclipsed.

Just looking at this one outstanding point is enough.

Her peers are utterly crushed by her results, her colleagues reduced to mere foils. Only two or three can catch a brief breath under her tyrannical rule.

Is Su Nian even human?

Sherlock Holmes reincarnated, right?

If they saw this, they would definitely complain like that.

After the buildup of the previous series of plot points, everyone's passion, after being suppressed for a while, has had its confusion dissipate.

Their enthusiasm has instead become even more intense.

The truth is still being unveiled, and the words on the screen keep growing.

Aponia, one who can see fate but is utterly unable to change the outcome, truly a slave to destiny.

Raiden Mei, the former winner of the "I Can't Do Anything" grand prize.

The collision between these two is also a collision between two ideologies...

[Today is the last day of the prophecy, the tenth day. Raiden Mei comes before Aponia and speaks all of her deductions.]

[Her death and her intention to go to the Deepest Place are one and the same.]

[And Aponia admits frankly that she did play a little word game. Their fates intertwine and then both are severed, with no future path visible thereafter.]

[There are only two possibilities for this situation: Raiden Mei dies, or Aponia destroys the Elysian Realm. But the latter is clearly impossible.]

["Perhaps there is another explanation you've forgotten to mention, Aponia. What if... I were to erase you?"]

[The battle between them is on the verge of erupting once more.]

[Griseo provided her with assistance, and Raven successfully persuaded (kidnapped) Klein to grant Mei a boost... Aponia fell backward.]

[Raiden Mei defeated Aponia.]

[But after a flash of light, everything returned to the starting point as if nothing had happened.]

[Aponia still knelt there, maintaining her praying posture.]

[But the power Raiden Mei had expended was real.]

Unbeatable.

Raiden Mei couldn't beat Chijie, and Chijie was bound by Aponia. There was no logic in Mei defeating Aponia when she couldn't defeat Chijie.

The Law of Retribution was simply too broken.

Still, this was a common illusion technique used in some works, and the audience caught glimpses of familiar stories.

[Flashback to the Sharingan showdown, is that you, Second Pillar?]

[Isn't this Infinite Tsukuyomi?]

[This is Gold Experience Requiem—you will never reach the truth of defeating me!]

[When did you get the illusion that I wasn't using Moon Reflection Water Flower?]

[It's over, feels like the 13 Flame-Chasers are about to revive and Mei will join the fight.]

[So? Kevin: Polite fuck you? I'm not dead yet!]

Overwhelming déjà vu.

Compared to reasoning, most people preferred watching something more straightforward.

Fighting, and winning.