Chapter 31: The Last Story
However, the good times did not last long, and in the boundary point, authority is more important than anything, and nothing can be done without authority, so the contradiction between the old school and the reform school inevitably broke out.
Emotionally, the old school is the biggest beneficiary of the predator system, and the reformists are the beneficiaries of the quota system at the same time, but also its victims, so the reformers who empathize with the players are willing to make changes, but this touches the interests of the old school, and the competition for the authority of the "Genesis" is the fuse, and a new round of all-out struggle is launched, known as the "eternal compensation", in this great change, the old school Duke Webb and the reformist leader Zhenzhi died, and then because of the death of the key person Zhenzhi, The struggle between the reformists and the old-fashioned gradually lost its meaning, and an armistice was signed.
And after the great change, due to the loss of "true knowledge", almost all research has come to a standstill, and the Eternal Council has fallen back into a harsh winter of technology, and after a thousand years, the Eternal Council has finally discovered a new true knowledge.
As a result, this world has been treated kindly, at least much more favorably than the previous worlds.
And telling the whole story from Owens' perspective is a different story.
In the first week, on January 1, 2021, from the north of China, south of Russia and east of Mongolia, an unprecedented chain of dungeons broke out in the border areas bordering the three sides, and the Shadow of the Doomsday dungeon was born, and the initial dungeon area covered nearly half of the territory of Heilongjiang Province, Mongolia and part of Russia, with a total area of an astonishing 370,000 square kilometers, and the number of players who were involved in the dungeon game in this diffusion reached 1,500, and it was finally confirmed that only 1,078 people were alive. The total number of survivors is conservatively estimated to be less than 1200.
Owens was also one of the survivors at that time, and the cost was the destruction of half of the entire family, so that the Tumendall family was in ruins, and no matter how hard Owens tried to save it, it was useless, and it was quickly drowned in the long river of history.
Although this was the first dungeon to be created in the real world, most players, including Owens, did not realize what a terrifying monster this dungeon was, and over the next twenty-two years, the Shadow of Whispers continued to spread, and the living space was gradually compressed. Five years later, Whispering Shadow had spread across Mongolia, a quarter of China, and a fifth of Russia.
It wasn't until this point that the quest really caught the attention of the higher-ups, with some players vaguely aware of what it meant for the quest to continue to spread, but most felt that the quest would eventually stop on its own. Ten years later, more copies were born in the real world, China was swallowed up 80, Russia 50, Japan and the surrounding island countries were all wiped out, at this time people began to organize the creation of copies around the Shadow of Whispers, the main means is to collect the title deeds of the areas around the border of the Shadow of the Whispers, all set as property ownership areas, so that they no longer produce ordinary copies, but at this time the scope of the Shadow of the Whispers is too large, and finally this self-rescue operation ended in failure, and the player began to enter the era of extinction, Since then, several attempts to save themselves have failed, and by the summer of 2043, the entire Earth will be covered by the Whispering Shadow, and the last players such as Owens will be wiped out after holding out in the dungeon for two weeks.
Later, under the guidance of racial consciousness, Owens's original time ability was greatly strengthened, and by burning a large amount of spiritual source, the maximum amount of spiritual power was determined to return to the timeline of the moment before the spiritual tide began.
Since a large number of spiritual sources will be burned with each reincarnation, the spiritual sources consumed by each reincarnation will increase, resulting in a large decrease in the maximum value of spiritual power, a large decrease in strength, and even the memory will be missing and blurred, and the closer the time point of return is to the spiritual tide, the smaller the consumption. Therefore, in many weeks, Owens does not pay much attention to the timeline before the Lingxi tide, so until the end of the week, Owens has missed the key to the key to human identity.
It wasn't until he decided to give himself a little vacation and simply start reincarnation at the age of 3, Owens finally noticed by chance that the night of the puppet was big, and the ruler of the puppet royal court, the ancient one, and the king of the puppets, Chamiyu, was a human.
2 to 9 weeks:
Because the difficulty of the 37-kilometer dungeon is really more than the level that players can tackle, so at first Owens chose the method of preventing the spread of the doomsday dungeon to avoid the end of the world, thinking that as long as the scale of the Whispering Shadow was controlled in time, he could prevent the disaster, and he spent all his energy on buying a huge number of title deeds and establishing a barrier. 2 weeks because of the opposing forces of the sabotage and mistakes made, 3 weeks of success in the establishment of the separation zone and let most of the president and patriarch understand the real horror of the doomsday dungeon, but soon because of the huge maintenance funds, each of the forces and the intrigue of the family can not continue, 4 weeks of the integration of most of the forces, the perfect establishment of the separation zone, but after ten years of peace, under the operation of the Eternal Council, the Shadow of Whispers began a new round of air spreading, Owens then realized, The diffusion attribute of the Doom Dungeon never disappears, and as long as there is time, the Doom Dungeon will engulf the entire world sooner or later.
This circumference has lasted for 78 years.
59 Five weeks are looking for a way to stop the birth of the Whispering Shadow, but all end in failure, Owens finally realized the existence of the Ancient Council in the 6th week, and in the timeline of the 9th week, he was surprised to find that the name of the doomsday copy has become the night of the puppet, and the enemies in the copy are completely different from the original black silhouette that has no mind and cannot communicate, all of them are spirit puppets, and the high-level spirit puppets have the ability to turn players and summons into puppet legions, and the humans in this week have not been completely wiped out after the copy swallowed the entire earth, However, it can only exist as a puppet that obeys orders, which greatly reduces the burden on the capacity, and most of them lose their sense of autonomy.
In Week 9, Owens finally confirms the existence of the Council of Eternity, the Great Tide and the role it plays in it.
10 to 30 weeks:
After searching for the reason for the change and spending several weeks trying to enter the Puppet Night's route, he negotiated with the puppets whether to stop the dungeon from spreading, whether to allow players to survive the dungeon, and even whether to maintain their sanity and partial freedom after the players turned into puppets, but this was denied.
After tasting many failures, Week 29 allows some players to survive in several areas of the dungeon, because although the capacity is limited, Chamiyu, who has the characteristics of True Knowledge, awakens his ability in a short period of time, takes over the research of his predecessor True Knowledge, and completes a key conclusion of True Knowledge Research, completing the crucial technology tree Genesis.
But Cha Mi Yu of this Zhou Mu line has not lost her memory, she has lived for thousands of years as a true knowledge, because of the unfortunate experience in her early years and the reasons why she is accustomed to seeing the changes of the historical times, she does not intend to extend too much help to mankind.
Relying on some of the life tasks in the Night of the Puppets dungeon, under the deliberate arrangement of the puppets, some levels were preserved to survive, although there were many inconveniences at the beginning, and some people even thought that Owens was a traitor to mankind and rebelled, but this was okay, as time passed, people gradually understood Owens's considerations, especially after clarifying what a terrible organization the Eternal Council was, the voice of opposition disappeared.
But one thing is unfortunate, humans can't reproduce normal offspring in the dungeon area, because in the night of the puppet, the whole rule has been distorted, and in this dungeon, the only life allowed to be born is the puppet, so the offspring of humans are not normal human babies, but puppet babies who obey the orders of the puppets. To make matters worse, because the player's strength is so weak compared to the incredible difficulty of the dungeon, the player's descendants are also weak, and all of them are classified as the lowest level of puppets who have no sanity, can only follow simple orders, and do not know what the fear of pain and death is.
Owens thinks that although these changes will bring a lot of chaos, but in the end people will eventually adapt, after all, such conditions are much better than the original, but human beings finally get used to it, but they also lose the motivation to live, and although it is slow, the humans in the copy are indeed dying for various reasons, a hundred years later, less than one-third of the population is left in the human race, but most of the offspring who try to give birth are only low-level intelligence, and a few can only reach the level of saying a few words Looking at the languishing humans, Owens had to turn back time again.
The 30 weeks focused on strengthening the strength of the human race itself, but although the human race that had just settled down had the strength, it was able to affect the balance between the two factions of the Ancient Council, so it was quickly involved in the power struggle brought by the new true knowledge, and in order to weaken the influence and power of Chamiyu, almost all human players were persecuted, and in the end, the human race still could not avoid the fate of total annihilation.
31 Weeks to Weeks:
Although each reincarnation will burn a large number of spiritual sources, and the spiritual sources consumed by each reincarnation will increase, resulting in a large decrease in the maximum spiritual power value and a great decrease in strength, but because of the continuous reincarnation, Owens's strength and experience have been outrageously strong, and he realized that only by overthrowing the old guard of the Eternal Council can we usher in the final peace and victory, but in all the weeks, wanting to rebel against the Eternal Council has proven to be a thing that cannot be succeeded by humans alone, and the key is that as the last backer of mankind, Cha Miyu, the king of puppets who can communicate, no matter what, is also an eternal person, she is unwilling to fall out with the old school, and the old school is not willing to really hurt this precious true knowledge, so in the case of both sides have their own concessions, caught in the middle, and must maintain a certain strength to survive, the human race is in a dilemma, and in the end, it can't escape the fate of gradual and disappearing, and everything seems to fall into a dead loop.
Until the 1st week, Owens, who had been reincarnated countless times, was already very calm about whatever happened, and decided to give himself a small vacation, simply starting to reincarnate at the age of 3, this time Owens finally noticed in an accident, the big night of the puppet, the ruler of the puppet royal court, the ancient, and the king of the puppet Cha Miyou, was originally a human.
Or, as early as hundreds of years ago, Cha Mi You was discovered by the Ancient Council of Precious True Knowledge, so the Tea Master even did not hesitate to restrain his own strength, weakened to the extent of almost an ordinary person to follow her, Cha Mi You obtained "eternal life", her physical age is always between 4 and 20 years old, reincarnated, so every once in a while, the two will change places to live, Owens, who realizes this, negotiated with the Tea Master many times in this week's program, and finally hit it off with the selfish Tea Master, The design makes Chamiyu amnesia and seals her abilities.
Cha Mi You thought that at the dance party when she was 8 years old, she was the first time she saw Owens but it wasn't, before that, she and Owens had met several times, although she had long seen that Owens was a time reincarnation, but at that time, Cha Mi You didn't care about this kind of thing at all, and even the attachment to the future of mankind and Owens, and even what he and the tea master avoided what she was talking about, at that time, Cha Mi You was not interested in these things.
Because of the characteristics of true knowledge, as long as she wants, Cha Miyou can know almost anything, and because of this, she is not interested in everything, no matter what happens, she can't have the slightest fluctuation in her heart, even if the tea master who has been with her dies, it is just a result in the development of all things for her, just a natural phenomenon of course.
She doesn't hate anything, she naturally doesn't love anything, she's like a high-up observer, she doesn't have any bad tastes, but she doesn't give any favor to what she observes.
It can be said that compared with the previous true knowledge, she who has no desire and no desire is more in line with the taste of the old school, or rather, it is the old school that secretly manipulates her and cultivates her into such a personality without desire, desire and love.
And the spirit puppets are indeed made by Cha Mi You herself, all the spirit puppets were born under her, and then the spirit puppets were persuaded by the tea master, agreed with this plan and fell into a deep sleep, the main reason is because Cha Mi You himself has no feelings about it at all.
Tea Master hopes that she can start over, try to see the life of an ordinary person and stay away from the whirlpool of struggle as much as possible, this plan succeeded, but it also failed, but Tea Master did not mean to interfere forcefully.
This new life like a blank sheet of paper is Cha Miyou's own, no matter what she does, she should decide by herself, no matter what the consequences are, she should also bear it herself, and the tea master thinks so and does it.
So this week's Cha Mi You, obviously more energetic and purposeful than any other week, can feel the beauty and love of this world, maybe because of this, she will be involved in the struggle for the fate of mankind, but this is luck or misfortune is something that she can judge herself.
Before entering the dream world, the reason why Owens went to Chamiyu was mainly to set up a time barrier and isolate the interference of the Eternal Council, because the Eternal Council could not fully control the system, and Chamiyu became a player according to the standard procedure instead of directly becoming an Eternal.
To be continued.
(Tianjin)