I haven’t finished fighting the battle in Volume 3! Chapter 44 If Everything in the World Is Reasonable
On the second day after distributing the medicine, at dusk, Shen Jin... was still waiting for the system's response.
“Shopping and eating~!”
Wu Yong, who was driving the strange car back, saw the boss sitting next to the 50-meter-high wall, looking up at the sky at a 45-degree angle. "Hey? What is the boss doing? He was here when we left this morning, right?"
Zhao Mingkai's task today was to distribute [Stone Swords] to the survivors who went out, and to watch the gate. He sat in the duty room in the city wall, opened the glass window and said, "Before the boss went up, he said he wanted to see if what he did could change the world and make it a better place~!"
"Hey! I don't understand. I am a rough guy who can't understand the tone of you cultured people. Open the door!"
Zhao Mingkai pulled down the lever on the wall, "Bang!"
Countless pistons pumped around, and what was originally a stone wall revealed a 4×4 meter gate. "Let's go shopping and eat~!"
Wu Yong controlled the strange car to shrink and squeeze through the middle.
“Bang!”
The big door that had just appeared was bounced back by the [Piston] and turned into an ordinary stone wall again.
People outside have no idea where to enter this sealed wall.
So much so that people who go out to scavenge would make a mark at the door before leaving, in case they couldn't find it when they came back.
Xing Lingmin looked at the most dazzling figure on the city wall... the diamond man. Although it was dusk, he was still the brightest being. She blinked her tearful eyes, took Li Zhe's arm and asked, "Squad leader, who is he? He looks... well-equipped!"
Li Zhe smiled and said, "As for him...you will know later!"
"ah?"
All the extraordinary people don't know that Li Zhe and Shen Jin are roommates...
Shen Jin watched the last team of the day come back and sighed, "Ah~! It seems that my National Pseudo-Supernatural Plan has not completed the task. Why is this task so difficult? There is no accurate hint, and it is so confusing!"
Shen Jin couldn't think of a better way to do what the system asked. "Is this [World Line] so difficult to obtain? System, what is the meaning of your existence? Isn't it to assist me? Just give me a 999 cut and stop using this nonsense, okay?"
system:"……"
Shen Jin: "How about this, I won't make it difficult for you. We are all in this together. You point me in a direction and I'll figure out a way to accomplish it, okay?"
system:"……"
Shen Jin: "I'm telling you! Don't keep silent! I already know you're not the only one! You must have two more system brothers. Sun Can took Huo away, so just tell me, right? Did I see through you?"
system:"……"
“Ahhhhhh!”
Shen Jin was furious and helpless.
Apart from the prompt sound, the only time the system spoke was in that mysterious space, telling him to choose one of the three objects in front of him. I remember... it was an ethereal female voice. Shen Jin recalled the entire space at that time, three obsidian platforms, and three suspended objects: a sword, a pickaxe, and fire.
Then he asked if he could choose the keyboard, and the system said, "Get lost!"
"Haha, I was such a fool back then... How could I have thought of the keyboard? This is such a stupid joke... Wait! Wait!"
Shen Jin suddenly woke up, and a point that was easily overlooked by him came to his mind. It was a very detailed point, but very important!
He remembered!
The system had communicated with him once!
It was that time he replied, "Miss, can I ask if you have a keyboard?"
"roll!"
The system said something very humane... Get lost!
"That is to say... when I was making the choice, there was a being that answered my question. A woman... at least a psychological woman, or maybe a transvestite, a voice actor or something, or a voice changer could do it... Damn! What a mess I was thinking!"
"If... the three items represent three systems, then the people behind all this... the creatures, must be able to see my choices at the time, and even answer my questions. After I came out of that space, I brought back the Minecraft Assist System. The world erased everyone's memory of this game and replaced it with another similar memory. They don't feel that something is missing, but... it has always been normal!"
"This kind of operation... could it be a brain in a vat? Like in The Matrix, we are just players soaked in liquid, and the world... is all illusion?"
Shen Jin's thoughts gradually diverged, and he began to recall his life. His childhood memories were vague. He only remembered that a kid in the next yard smeared shit in his mouth and lied to him that it was delicious. He then happily took it home for his parents to eat, and was beaten up. He didn't remember other things clearly.
But after I entered primary school, my memory gradually became clearer:
Classmates, deskmates, glass balls, red and white game consoles, junior high school, surfing the Internet, first love, masturbation, high school, parents’ disappearance, villa, loneliness, depression, university, work, mining, the end of the world…
"No! It's definitely not the brain in the jar, because... the brain in the jar cannot allow itself to be exposed to the movie The Matrix. The creatures outside will never let the people inside doubt the reality of their own world, otherwise the world would have been in chaos long ago!"
"Then... who is the creature that wiped out the will of everyone in the world? And what exactly is the zombie virus that has broken out in every corner of the world? There is no vaccine. Is it really a... virus?"
"At the same time... the world's thermal weapons became ineffective. They are thermal weapons! Anything that relies on gunpowder or similar chemical reactions to provide energy to cause harm, or directly uses the energy carried by fire, chemicals, lasers, etc. to injure people (such as flamethrowers), is a thermal weapon. Anything that meets this definition is ineffective!"
"Wait! Wait! No... the whole thing... was not at the same time!"
Shen Jin began to recall the time before and after he obtained the system. He clearly remembered that it was only after he saw the zombie virus on TV and radio that he entered the mysterious space of the selection system!
This seemingly inconspicuous detail constitutes the most important part of Shen Jin's reasoning!
"If, I say if! Everything in the world is reasonable, because only in this way... reasoning can exist!"
"The entire timeline is like this... The zombie outbreak and the failure of thermal weapons happened at the same time, because the army was dispersed by zombies without firing a single shot. About an hour later, I entered a mysterious space and met someone with human touch... Yes! Human touch, because she understood the meaning of 'keyboard'. If she wasn't from Earth, she wouldn't understand this joke at all! I understand, behind the system... there is a being who understands Earth jokes!"
"She asked me to choose a system and then I was teleported out. Then... three months later, I met Sun Can. He is likely the owner of another 'Fire' system. So when did he choose the system? Damn it! If only Sun Can was here, I could find more clues!"
Shen Jin calmed down and continued to reason, "Sun Can is the owner of the system... This is just my speculation. If it is just a coincidence, or if "New World" is simply a meaningless term, then I am the only one with the system!"
"The following timeline is... the mission was issued on the day I obtained the system, and I completed it three months later. Then the system issued a series of missions. I complained at the time that the system didn't want me to stay at home and force me to become a lord, a saint who saves people from suffering. All the missions point to one goal... to save humanity!"
"Wait! Wait! I overlooked another detail, the first three tasks!"
Shen Jin recalled the past frantically in his mind. Some details that seemed very normal at ordinary times were infinitely magnified in his mind.
"If I remember correctly, the first task of the system is... to kill 10 zombies, but the task description says this: The world has changed dramatically, and you need to find out the details of the zombies and understand why these strange creatures appeared!"
"The second task: initially build your own territory and allow yourself to survive in it!"
"The third mission: Zombies have begun to adapt to this world and have begun to mutate horribly. Find out where their energy comes from!"
The seemingly ordinary system tasks were connected together, and Shen Jin recalled...
My scalp is tingling!
"All these words connected together form the truth behind the system. If , I say if! Everything in the world is reasonable, then the emergence of the system... is also reasonable!"
Shen Jin suddenly thought of a word: "Born at the right time!"
"The system was created to... fight against the catastrophe that has befallen the Earth! Rather than asking me to find out the details of the zombies, it is more like... 'it' wants to find out the details of the zombies, and by issuing tasks, it makes me gradually follow the will of the system. Sure enough! The system succeeded, and I went from a fat otaku to a small lord. I have been pushed by the system unknowingly onto a path... that the real me would never choose!"
"I understand... I understand... Everything is for one goal. The system has made it clear: to change the world for the better!"
"So... the mission of [World Line] is to make me understand the meaning of all this, to let me know my... mission. Haha, I never thought that a fat otaku like me would be given the word 'mission' one day!"
"If my reasoning is all correct, I should now be called the Savior!"
"Savior……"
After Shen Jin figured it out, he slumped down on the city wall, threw two wool carpets behind him, and lay down on them.
Looking at the orange sky, Shen Jin felt himself filled with powerlessness. Every part of his body was crushed by the overwhelming pressure. He did not have a single bit of strength in his body. He just lay there, watching the sun set, the moon rise, and the zombies become silent.
"Sometimes...if you don't know the truth, life will be easier!"
