Neutrino Persona Order Center

A familiar face appeared in the mirror.

It was Yin Ge's face, no mistake.

But her left eye glowed red, and the bloodshot veins within writhed frantically. If one did not look closely, one might have mistaken them for some kind of blood-feeding insect.

Even more terrifying, her gaze seemed glued to the mirror, madly Peeping at all kinds of information within it.

Yin Ge used all her strength to pull her gaze away from the mirror. The writhing red veins scrambled back into her eyeball, causing such excruciating pain that it felt as though she were being pricked by needles.

Under the dim yellow light, Yin Ge collapsed weakly onto the floor, gasping for breath. The tearing pain in her left eye made sweat pour down her body.

[Breaking news: On the night of December 9th, a Bride fell to her death in this city's Youth Road Residential Complex...]

The phone video's audio was still looping through the room. Yin Ge struggled to look toward the phone that had fallen to the floor.

"It's December 10th now, 12:10. Has only ten minutes passed?"

She turned to look out the window. The sky was pitch-black, while the pain in her eye surged ever stronger like crashing waves.

At last, she could no longer withstand the pain. Everything before her eyes blurred again, and she gradually lost consciousness.

"Beep, beep, beep..."

The sound of medical equipment woke Yin Ge from her sleep.

She slowly opened her eyes, only to find herself not in her own room, but in a hospital ward.

"You're awake!" A powerful voice rang out.

Yin Ge turned her head and saw a tall, steady-looking man in uniform staring at her.

She propped herself up from the hospital bed and instinctively rubbed her eyes.

The tall man poured a glass of water and handed it to Yin Ge.

"Thank you." Yin Ge set the water aside, then asked cautiously, "Where is this? Who are you?"

"This is the Neutrino Persona Order Center. My name is Qin Li. You were involved in a scientific incident, and I'm here to learn about the situation from you," Qin Li explained patiently.

A scientific incident... the Neutrino Persona Order Center... Yin Ge silently pondered this.

She knew Qin Li was referring to the Son of Heaven Game, but she could not make sense of what the Neutrino Persona Order Center meant.

Seeing the wariness on Yin Ge's face, Qin Li snapped his fingers.

A section of the ward's wall broke apart at lightning speed into countless blue fragments. It seemed to be some kind of technology, and many different voices came from the fragments.

"Hell, it was practically hell! I obtained Commoner Divinity, but some idiot with a Son of Heaven Godhead framed me as the Killer."

"The Bride, the Bride was killed by her younger brother. I-I don't know how the game ended either. We clearly identified the wrong person at the time."

"[Court Minister], the person with the [Court Minister] Godhead saved us."

Though Yin Ge found the voices completely unfamiliar, judging by what they said, they were undoubtedly her neighbors.

"They're... still alive?" Yin Ge asked.

Qin Li waved a hand, and the blue fragments disassembled and recombined, returning to their original form as a wall. "It seems you don't know much about the Son of Heaven Game."

"In the Son of Heaven Game, the side possessing Godheads is called the Daylight Faction, while the side possessing Beasthood is called the Night Faction."

"If the Daylight Faction wins, everyone in that faction will survive, and vice versa."

"The Daylight Faction, the Night Faction?" Yin Ge narrowed her eyes slightly. "Are they named that because people with Godheads identify the Killer during the day, while the Killer—well, the one with Beasthood—acts at night?"

"That's right." Qin Li smiled faintly. "You're very smart. No wonder you managed to escape the Son of Heaven Game the first time you participated in one."

Yin Ge shook her head. "I only wanted to stay alive. Participating in the game was not my choice."

As for the Daylight Faction and the Night Faction, Yin Ge had no interest in them.

And the so-called Godheads, Personhood, and Beasthood—Yin Ge vaguely felt there was some philosophical significance behind them.

Yin Ge did not want to know.

But... was that possible?

She had no idea what was hidden in her eye now. It seemed to have been brought out of the Son of Heaven Game.

She needed to learn enough information!

And since the Son of Heaven Game had descended upon her once, could it descend upon her a second time?

The feeling of walking the line between life and death was not pleasant.

And the man before her clearly knew something. That Neutrino research institute was obviously a special organization.

Perhaps it knew and understood many things.

The best course of action now was naturally to pry some information out of him... Having made up her mind, Yin Ge said:

"I am willing to explain what I know, but may I receive some answers in return? I am very confused right now as well."

"Gladly." Qin Li sat down on the sofa opposite the hospital bed.

"Where did the Son of Heaven Game come from?" After pondering for a moment, Yin Ge asked a question that was not particularly related to her own situation.

Where did the Son of Heaven Game come from?

Qin Li froze for a moment, then smiled. "I thought you would ask about Godheads, Personhood, and Beasthood."

He shook his head and continued without hesitation, "The origin of the Son of Heaven Game is actually not important."

"Some say it is a state produced by quantum entanglement. Others say it is the effect of quantum tunneling and quantum fluctuations superimposed together."

"But no matter which explanation is correct, the Son of Heaven Game is a scientific, material existence beyond our understanding."

"A scientific existence? Material?" Yin Ge asked. "Something like this has already appeared, yet you still call it science? Isn't this theology? Or idealism?"

Yin Ge did not actually know much. She was merely asking out of curiosity.

To her surprise, Qin Li's expression grew more serious. "Anything that can be perceived and analyzed has nothing to do with theology or idealism."

"When gods appear before material science, material scientists regard them much the same way they regard monkeys. Well, if that god is exceptionally powerful, then it is an exceptionally powerful monkey."

"Even if that god can destroy the universe and create all things, it still falls within the scope of material science, within the scope of objective existence."

"Even if hell appeared, heaven appeared, or Sun Wukong appeared, the gap between all of that and modern science would only be a matter of distance."

"Just as our ancestors two thousand years ago worshipped thunder and lightning as deities, yet would have been equally unable to understand our science today."

Qin Li paused, then continued:

"For example, the Son of Heaven Game is like this. A group of religious lunatics regard the Son of Heaven Game as a miracle, while our institute is carrying on our ancestors' discoveries to study this so-called 'miracle,' gradually analyzing it, learning from it, and attempting to crack it."

"Crack it..." Yin Ge fell into deep thought upon hearing that.

It was shocking.

And it made a great deal of sense.

After Qin Li put it that way, Yin Ge no longer felt that the Son of Heaven Game was some bizarre, extraordinary thing. Instead, it seemed more like a rare monkey awaiting study on an operating table.

Only after a long while did she speak again. "Does the appearance of the Son of Heaven Game follow any pattern?"

Qin Li looked regretful. "A pattern? None has been found so far. Based solely on the current situation, the Son of Heaven Game appears randomly in different places, and its frequency of appearance has been increasing lately."

Yin Ge fell silent for a moment before asking, "Can the game be avoided in advance?"

"If a Son of Heaven Game descends upon a place, the best method currently is to seal it off." Qin Li sighed. "Only when the Daylight Faction wins will the Son of Heaven Game disappear."

"If the Night Faction wins, the game will continue to exist and draw people from an even larger area into it."

"Therefore, sealing off the area and preventing others from entering is the best method."