"To be honest, this is very interesting. I've suddenly grown curious. What, exactly, do good and evil mean to you?"
Qi Si lowered his eyes and sighed. "People see things differently depending on their position and perspective. I imagine a God who 'does not love humanity' wouldn't indulge in that tiresome notion of universal values, would they?"
The God said, "God is God. Good and evil, righteousness and wickedness, mean nothing to us. 'Sin' lies beyond good and evil. It has existed since time immemorial, and will exist forever."
Qi Si asked, "What about me?"
The God said, "Under the Rules, all beings are guilty of sin, and yours is profound."
The golden river flowed steadily. Corpses like fish skeletons lay silent as islands, while a tide of thoughts surged into Qi Si's mind, filling every corner from another dimension.
His consciousness merged with an immense, surging body of knowledge. Of the vast mass of information, only a small fraction was within his grasp.
He listened in silence, committing it to memory, as understanding slowly dawned.
The Rules... The strange rules of the Eerie Game, or perhaps, on a deeper level, the laws of survival that applied more broadly...
The supreme beings above the gods could not be defied...
The Three-Line Divine Name... The Lord of Gods, exiled beyond the Rules of the world...
Countless fragmented images churned through his mind but refused to form a coherent whole, as though an invisible force were preventing him from understanding the truth.
Qi Si noticed this and smiled. "I have a lot of questions. For instance, why was I able to spot the clues before I became a player? And why was I able to come into contact with an existence at your level so soon? I think you'll tell me the