Volume 7: War and Peace in an Abandoned Town Chapter 28: A Rotten World
"Sure enough, the third world..."
Even if Sally wasn't there to rock the place, I would have no problem.
Listening to the scream that suddenly sounded in his mind, Li Lin, who had seen through all the routines, smiled confidently and admired the gradually changing world in front of him.
Rather than a change, it was more like a return to its original state. It was like a layer of skin was torn off, and the moment the book was touched, a large piece of the surrounding world was rubbed off, revealing the body and organs that were wriggling inside.
Without reading the book, just touching it with your palm, you can directly feel the dissolution of your skin and internal organs. Just by watching the world gradually collapse around you, you can hear the scream of reason. However, this did not surprise Li Lin at all. It is better to say that seeing this scene is the prerequisite for truly completing the task.
Will the rotten sun really give birth to the kingdom of God that ordinary people understand? Dream on.
The old gods were born out of fear. If you really regard those mountain villages and rooms outside as the main body of the old kingdom of God, then there is a real problem.
Why would a monster that only needs fear give you a world full of logic? He could just keep humans as breeding pigs, select them and release them into dreams, infinitely squeezing out the last surplus value.
There was no record of him going out to plunder, no internal records, and the Pale Temple had no way of even capturing any traces of him appearing. This meant two things: either his method was too covert, or he had intercepted a period of memory to copy and read it, and then never went out again.
Rather than believing that the Pale Temple was garbage, Li Lin believed that these monsters were actually just wandering forever in the dreams of hundreds of years ago, with no intention of leaving.
“So, this is the real body.”
Looking at the huge, wriggling monster like a maggot that slowly emerged in the collapsing world, Li Lin showed a slight smile on his face.
The dark magic flashed and disappeared, and the insects lingering on the skeleton were eaten away by more mosquitoes in the blink of an eye, leaving no residue. Only Li Lin felt an inexplicable breath lingering in his mind, opening up something for him that he should not have known.
Almost at the moment when the cold tentacles opened in his mind, the seemingly normal world outside fell apart in an instant, leaving only a hall made of countless flesh and maggots. Li Lin was standing on an unknown skeleton, holding an unknown flesh and blood that was still oozing with blood. If it weren't for the remaining magic light on it proving that this thing was a magic book, Li Lin might have thrown it away directly.
'System prompt: The player has activated the skill set - Gods of the Old Days.'
'System prompt: Your old knowledge has been opened and is now at level 5'
'System prompt: You are reading a heretical book that records ancient knowledge. You can use your library skills to speed up your understanding.'
This time, even if I die, I will gain something.
It turns out that going to the high-level map early does have its benefits.
Li Lin played with the meat magic book condensed from blood mist in his hand, trying to put aside the mouthparts and all the messy things spreading around him, and concentrated on studying the words and intentions recorded on it.
In fact, the book that Li Lin obtained was more of an autobiography than a knowledge book or anything else. Although the thick book did look a bit problematic, if you really interpret it in the way of a magic book, you will find that it records the story of a young man in words that normal people can read.
A young man looks at the decadent world and feels extremely absurd and puzzled.
He didn't understand why magic always appeared in the hands of cruel and tyrannical people, nor did he understand why fear and despair could give people power.
This is so weird. Why can't people just get along? Why can't people improve each other? Wouldn't it be great if everyone in the world worked towards the same goal?
So the young man decided to become the sun . To become a sun that shines on everyone. Warmth, peace, hope, these are what the sun has, and they are also what people hope for from the sun. With such hope, the young man walked along this path. He believed that he could create a different landscape than his predecessors, and that he had the power to change the world.
He learned from books that this world is not only filled with horror and despair, but also with many other things that warm people's hearts. He wanted to spread this warmth and knowledge to everyone, and wanted to reveal the kindness and hope beneath the despair of this world. But unfortunately, he failed in the end. Not many people recognized his ideas and concepts. He appeared at the wrong time, his ideas were wrong, and his logic of wanting to coexist peacefully with others was even more wrong.
Not only did the people in the original world hate him, but even the new people hated him. He tried to explain, tried to understand, tried to make everyone understand his thoughts, but to no avail.
Eventually, the young man became desperate and proposed an ultimate theory of world destruction, then brainwashed all of his former believers, turning it into a cult.
He became the backbone of the old world and a terrifying and powerful god, controlling both light and darkness.
Only when he finally sat on the throne did the young man realize how easy it was for him to control the world.
"…Is that all?"
The last part is simply the ramblings of a completely stupid psychopath.
It's really an eyesore to watch. It's better to just leave it idle and waste time.
After spending some time on auto-acceleration to finish reading the story of the magic book, Li Lin sneered and threw the piece of meat in his hand away.
"Look at what this is all about. You just do whatever you want, without any specific plan or process. You are full of the fanaticism of a petty bourgeois who takes things for granted. You know nothing about the difficulties, and you just talk to yourself. So you are just a half-baked person, and you will always be a half-baked person. Now you are still surviving by pretending to be a book to prolong your life. You are rotting away. Am I right?"
"…How did you figure that out?"
I don't think I exposed anything.
There was no grand illusion, no painful evolution. The magic book thrown out by Li Lin slowly floated up and then transformed into a glowing sphere.
A rather puzzled wave emanated from his not-so-smooth body, as if he was doubting his own acting skills.
