Chapter 40: The Cancer of Fate

At the end of the path of fate, a marble arch suddenly appeared.

Behind the arch, the Place of Destiny is exactly as William expected, but it has changed, the rough rock road has changed to a marble road, and there is also a marble statue more than three meters high in the center of the square, and the whole square looks magnificent.

William came to the marble statue and looked up, the statue was dressed in a suit, with one hand on the handle of the knife at his waist, slightly tilted his head, and his face was a little sad, which was the image of himself standing under the cherry blossom tree.

"Were you talking before?" William said after looking at the statue for a moment, then suddenly asked aloud questions around him.

"Explorer 17631, you have obtained enough energy to awaken the auxiliary program in 841205 fantasy world. ”

A cold voice echoed in the Destiny Square, and William frowned, realizing that the voice was coming from his statue, and listening attentively, he realized that it was exactly the same as his.

"Who are you?" finally had such a "customer service", and William asked one after another, "Why did I come to this world? What is an explorer?"

"The Zero Universe is the soil that supports the formation of all fantasy worlds, so only the original inhabitants of the Zero Universe can survive in other fantasy worlds for a long time, and you were accidentally selected by a higher civilization to carry out a fantasy world crossing experiment, and the object participating in the experiment was named 'Explorer', as for me, it is an auxiliary program to provide you with preliminary navigation. ”

"This is an illegal experiment! Have you asked me for my wishes?"

The statue's voice was still cold: "The legal rules in the universe only exist between equal civilizations, and what can constrain the higher civilizations in how they treat the creatures of the lower civilizations is only morality, not laws, so use you to conduct experiments, and there is no need to ask your wishes." ”

William gritted his teeth: "Then can I leave here and return to the original world?"

"No!" the statue replied.

William had actually prepared for this answer, so although he was disappointed, he continued to ask, "Are you an intelligent program?"

"Yes by the technological standards of the civilization you're in, not by the technological standards of the civilization I'm in. I'm just a collection of instructions. ”

William pondered for a moment and decided not to dwell on these useless things for the time being, and to figure out the most important and urgent issues first.

"Why did the Path of Destiny appear?What is the principle of the Special Specialty?What is the Thread of Destiny?How do I get more bonus Specialization?" William asked.

"The existence of fantasy worlds is born out of the fantasies of the natives of the Zero Universe, and has its own established plans and processes....... ”

"You mean the original story content of those comics and anime?"

"Yes, the Aboriginal impression of a given process can have a powerful force, the more it is transmitted, the more it resonates, the stronger the energy, the higher the quality. ”

"So what is the meaning of the existence of the Destiny Road?"

"You are like a pebble thrown into a calm lake, after the initial waves, the lake will regain its calmness, and the path of destiny is what pushes you to continue to throw yourself into the surface of the lake to stir up waves. ”

William's brows furrowed even tighter: "In that case, does what I do in this world still make sense?"

"The world is still that world, the lake is still the same lake, but you will not always be just a pebble, you may become stronger and more influential in the future, and you may eventually evolve into a boulder, or even fill in the mountains on the surface of the lake. ”

William breathed a sigh of relief, if he knew that what he would do in the future would be meaningless, everything was just the aftermath of the lake, and he would eventually be brought back on track, then what was the point of him struggling?

Just listen to the statue continue: "But the emergence of the Destiny Road requires energy, it also takes energy to open more functions and paths of the Destiny Square, and it also takes energy to obtain the improvement of various specialties. ”

"What energy?" asked William quickly.

"Elastic force," the statue said, "The fate process of the fantasy world is like a spring, after being squeezed by an external force, the force of intention to return to the right is the energy required by the Destiny Square, the more the spring is squeezed by the external force, the more energy it provides, you can call this energy 'dark energy'." ”

William was already pacing in place at some point, bowing his head slightly, pondering the clues offered by the statue.

The meaning of the statue is obvious, that is, the more you change the original story direction of the fantasy world, the more energy you can provide, and the more you can improve the ability of the square, so as to provide William with a specialty reward.

After a long time, William suddenly thought of something, he raised his head, squinted at the statue, and asked tentatively, "Then what if...... I'm running to find and kill the protagonist in this fantasy world, is the dark energy provided by this event enough to make a drastic change in the square?"

"Yes!" the statue said.

But before William could continue to ask, the statue continued, "But the reaction of fate can also be very strong, and I don't recommend that you do it until you don't have enough power." ”

"Explorer 17631, before you, a total of 17,630 test subjects were thrown into various fantasy worlds, but as of you, only a single digit of these people survived. ”

Although he already knew the answer, William couldn't help but ask, "What about the other test subjects?"

"All dead," the statue said coldly, "Although the sudden outbreak of virulent viruses can have a greater impact in the short term, this impact is uncontrollable in the future, and it is likely to cause a violent backlash, in fact, the most successful viruses are not those virulent viruses, but latent viruses, and it is precisely because of their concealment that they can spread better." ”

William nodded solemnly, he just asked tentatively and put forward hypotheses, he didn't think about really running to kill the protagonist, not to mention that even if he wanted to kill, he couldn't find it, he didn't even forget what the name of the protagonist of the original book was, he only remembered that he was from the East China Sea.

If you use the spring metaphor mentioned earlier, the fantasy world formed by the hit work "One Piece" is obviously a rather thick spring, and after rashly squeezing, the force of the rebound alone is likely to injure the perpetrator.

In this world where lawless strongmen are rampant, a person who is not strong enough to be strong, the consequences of unscrupulousness are similar to those of indiscriminately crossing a highway with dense traffic, it is pure gambling, it is okay not to meet a car, once hit by a car, it will only be the vulnerable party who dies.

Taking viruses as an example, although the sudden outbreak of the virus is scary, it can attract the attention of human beings in the first time, and invest a lot of energy and resources to restrain the target, but those latent viruses are not easy to find, and even if they are discovered, they will not cause excessive panic, so as to overcome them at all costs.

William wants to subvert the original story and change the established fate, but he can't use drastic measures when he is weak.

"Wait," William suddenly sensed something was wrong, "you're comparing yourself to a virus?"

"If the established destiny is a living whole, then I am the virus that conquers and destroys his ability to restore his 'health', and I am the cancer of fate!"

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