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Published at 18th of October 2019 06:10:07 PM
Chapter 566: 566

The sense of weightlessness ceased as soon as it appeared .

Lin Sanjiu did not feel any wind or pain upon hitting the ground hard . Her mind was clouded, and she did not have the faintest idea of what had transpired . The feeling of microgravity was swift . When her senses returned, she found herself falling slowly on a chair .

Her heart was slowly descending to her stomach .

‘What is going on?’

Looking around, Lin Sanjiu had never been so confused before .

Ever since she entered the white fog, Lin Sanjiu had a misconception that she was having a weird, messy dream that consisted of many meaningless images . She had no idea how she ended up here, nor did she know why Soulsqn suddenly disappeared . If the hall made of metal and those human bodies really existed, then how was it possible for her to end up in a wooden room after crawling through a wall?

With that thought in mind, Lin Sanjiu raised her head and looked up . The lining of the wooden ceiling overhead was a delight to the eyes . There wasn’t even a gap in between the planks…

“That weirds… How did I come into this room?”

The wooden room had a low ceiling and a rectangular-shaped body . From an aerial view, it looked like a wooden box with Lin Sanjiu trapped in it, like a cricket trapped inside a wooden box . The room wasn’t huge, so Lin Sanjiu finished surveying it in a glance . Lin Sanjiu soon realized she was in an attic when she saw a stairwell built at the center of the floor behind her, which would lead her to the lower floor .

Different from the hall that was made entirely out of metal, the wooden room was wholly made of wood . The walls, the floor, the desk, the chair, even the stair handrail was carved out of wood . The differences were so substantial that they looked as if they belonged to two different worlds .

“Nice to meet you . ”

A voice came without warning, snapping Lin Sanjiu back into reality . She jumped up and almost knocked over her chair . She hastily turned around to see a man standing on the stairwell, which she was looking at only half a second ago .

“Who are you?” Lin Sanjiu took a step back, and her guard went up . She immediately activated the “Hypersensory”, as she was startled by the fact that she had not noticed the man’s presence at all .

‘If he had not said anything, he could have easily snuck up on me!’

The man raised his head slightly as if something in the air had gotten his attention . However, there was nothing in the air .

The next words he said caused Lin Sanjiu’s heart to skip a beat .

“Interesting surveillance method, but I’m afraid it won’t work here . ”

After that, the man walked to the wooden desk with a smile . He pulled out a chair and sat on it . By the time he had finished the series of actions, Lin Sanjiu’s heart had already sunk to the pit of her stomach .

Her “Hypersensory” had failed to catch anything .

When the man swung his arms, the air surrounding him remained so still as if it were a pool of stagnant water . There weren’t any footfalls when he walked, nor any vibrations . The only sound made was a squeal as the legs of the chair scraped along the floor .

Though the squeal quickly dissipated into the air, Lin Sanjiu did not sense any vibration from the chair .

“Have a seat . ” The man walked to the other side of the desk . He pulled out a chair and sat on it as he offered Lin Sanjiu another smile . “Asking your guest to have a seat—this is what your species calls ‘hospitality’, correct?”

Biting her lips, Lin Sanjiu dragged a chair to herself; a similarly short, brief squeal came from the action .

Stunned, Lin Sanjiu looked at her chair before shifting her gaze to stare at the smiling face across the table .

If her ears did not fail her, the two squeals were similar .

‘But… what could this mean?’

Lin Sanjiu could not think it through, so she sat down at last .

“Judging by how you said ‘your species’, can I assume that you are not one of us?” Lin Sanjiu looked at the man and asked, “Since you are not a human, what are you? A god?”

The man had an ordinary but decent, near good-looking standard of appearance . But perhaps his facial features were too standard that his face appeared nondescript . He was that type of man you wouldn’t be able to find him anymore once he walked into a sea of people .

“A human is a living creature, correct?” The man shook his head . “No, by that standard, I am not . ”

“You are not a living creature?” Lin Sanjiu raised her brows in concern . There were so many questions in her mind that they nearly drowned her . Before she knew it, she was barraging the man with a multitude of questions . “Then what are you? Are you a god? Then why do you look human? What’s happening in Salvation of God? Where am I? What do you want from me?”

The man looked at Lin Sanjiu quietly . He did not change his posture, and still had that smile on his face . He waited patiently until Lin Sanjiu had finished with her questioning . Only then did he open his mouth to respond flatly and steadily . “That’s a lot of questions . ”

There were a lot more questions Lin Sanjiu wanted to ask, but she held herself back .


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“It will take a lot of time to explain the present situation to you, and I don’t see any need for that . But first, I can tell you that the word “god” does not exist here . ”

Lin Sanjiu froze .

“The concept of “god” exists only on the planet beneath our feet . ” The man grinned . “I suppose you have some ideas in your mind of where you are now, don’t you? You are now in a different world . To be honest, all of us, including me, are surprised to see that you and that strange creature were able to survive until here . I thought you would die while burning up when you broke through the atmosphere . ”

“You… you are not the elder brother?” Lin Sanjiu rose to her feet .

“Nope,” the man flatly denied, “I know who you are talking about, but unfortunately, I’m not him . However, that doesn’t impede me from knowing you . I have obtained every piece of information about you from him . ”

“I… Please explain that again; you’ve lost me . ”

“Don’t worry, it’s fine . I don’t expect you to understand anyway . The other creature—your friend, I assume—has the same problem as well . But that creature is pretty snappy . It tried to attack my colleague—I suppose that’s the word, right? Or a partner at work? Anyway, it tried to attack my colleague a few times when it could not comprehend what we’d told it . You’re much more sensible than it . ”

‘Seems like Soulsqn is getting at it again . ’

Lin Sanjiu let out a sigh and forced herself to calm down . She did not speak for a few whole minutes, but the man did not rush her . Her mind was a complete shambolic mess, and it took awhile for her to summarize everything into two questions .

“What are you? And what do you want? I suppose it shouldn’t take too long to answer these two questions, right?”

The man remained in the same sitting posture from the moment he sat down . He did not even blink his eyes, and his smile looked like a sticker that had been plastered on his face . The only thing on his body that possibly moved was his lips . “Let me answer your second question first since the answer to that question is shorter . To put it bluntly, we don’t care if you discover the secret of Salvation of God . All we seek is your information: all your information and all the knowledge that you know . ”

“My information?”

“Please don’t interrupt me,” the man continued to say, “as this is related to your first question . It’s a bit of a hassle to answer this question, so I’m now offering you two options . First, you can surrender yourself completely to us . With that, you can access all the information about us in a flash . It’s the best, most comprehensive and clearest approach . If you do not agree, I have no choice but to continue this primitive and inefficient conversation with you . ”

The man suddenly stood up, causing Lin Sanjiu’s heart to pick up its pace . She summoned the [Battle Item] and held it tightly in her palm .

The man slightly tilted his head again . He stared at the air for a few seconds and smiled . “This is something new . It’s different from the thing you used before . Your body is still operating based on the same system when you were on the planet below… That’s interesting . You see, this is the reason why we want all your information . ”

“How, how did you know—”


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“Which one do you choose?” The man ignored Lin Sanjiu’s question, smiling at her .

No matter how eager she was to know about them, there was no way she would completely “surrender” herself to them . She eyed him skeptically and made her choice . “I choose the second . ”

The man sighed, although he wasn’t surprised at Lin Sanjiu’s choice .

‘Though he said he isn’t human, I can still see shadows of human qualities in him…’

“Well, as expected . Come, let me show you something . ” The man walked to the stairway then reckoned Lin Sanjiu with a finger . “Come over . Tell me what you see . ”

Lin Sanjiu walked closer to him .

“A wooden floor?”

“How about now?”

As the man spoke, Lin Sanjiu’s eyes widened in surprise . Seawater began to fill the lower floor right before her eyes . And before she knew it, the entire lower level had been turned into an underwater world . When Lin Sanjiu looked closely, she could even see a few jellyfish bobbing up and down inside the water .

“Is this an illusion? Or a simulation?” Lin Sanjiu retracted her gaze and turned to the man . There, she was taken aback for a second time . The man’s face had become so blurred that it appeared to have been soaked in water . By the time his face became clear again, he was no longer a ‘man’, but instead, a woman with an equally standard appearance .

At this moment, Lin Sanjiu was about 80% sure she dreaming .

“This is not an illusion or a simulation . ” The woman gave Lin Sanjiu a dazzling smile . “We are just fortunate enough to be graced with the technology of ‘coding’ . This room, my appearance, and the seawater are all nothing more than a very primitive and unsophisticated atmosphere we’ve written for you . When you look at it at the core, you, me and even the jellyfish in the water are essentially the same thing . ”

Lin Sanjiu looked at her, a dazed look dawning on her face .

The woman sighed .

“Trying to make you understand the technological concept of a higher intellectual race is like asking you to explain to a gorilla the concept of quantum mechanics . ”

Lin Sanjiu knew the woman wasn’t being sarcastic . She was genuinely having a hard time making Lin Sanjiu understand .


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“Salvation of God is not the first civilization we ever encountered, although it was already destroyed by its indigenous species by the time we discovered it . But like all the civilizations we have seen before, the technology in Salvation of God has taken a wrong path . ”

The woman frowned as she used the most straightforward and understandable way to explain to Lin Sanjiu . Perhaps it was an exhausting task to her, for she sighed every once in a while . “Physics, mathematics, and every branch of science is developed based on this foundation . Although they seem reasonable and can be used to explain some phenomenon, when that primitive technology of yours is developed to a certain extent, you will hit a plateau . At that time, the things you cannot explain will surmount the things you can . ”

Lin Sanjiu wasn’t a tech-savvy person, so everything just went in one ear and came out the other .

“In fact, we discovered a long time ago that everything in the universe can be explained in one way . ” The woman suddenly stopped and emitted a long and weird syllable . Just when Lin Sanjiu was wondering what she was doing, the woman continued to talk . “There is no corresponding term for this word in your humans’ dictionary, so it’s difficult to explain it to you . But if we really have to put a term on it using vocabulary that you can understand, I guess we can say it is ‘data’ or ‘information’ . ”

“Data?”

“Try to imagine it this way . Beyond the so-called physical traits, we can digitize all matter into data . Once we come to understand the data make-up of a certain substance, we can naturally write out its code . For example, adding a wooden room or changing part of the wooden room into seawater in the data Streams Library is nothing to us . It’s just coding . ”

“Data Streams Library?” Right now, Lin Sanjiu really felt like an uncultivated gorilla .

“When you broke the wall, you entered our world, the Data Streams Library . Everything that comes in here will automatically change into a set of data… That’s right, no need to look around, you’re now a set of data . The ability you used when you first saw me, in my eyes, is also a… well, let’s call it a script . ”

‘No wonder why I couldn’t feel the movement of air using the “Hypersensory” . Because there isn’t any air here!’

“But just now, the chair made a noise…” Lin Sanjiu said .

“We seek perfection . If we had not written in a sound code, everything would have been too unreal . Be that as it may, everything here is pretty simple and crude since we wrote the code in a hurry . ”

The woman then smiled at Lin Sanjiu, who looked at her with a gaping mouth . “As a relatively mature and complex organism, your data make-up is not open to us . We can only see the surface of your operating system . For example, you have a program around your neck that can trigger a five-minute effect, and there is a set of data on your hand that can alter its own parameter’s setting… But that’s all we know . If we wanted to know more, we would have to go deeper . Hence, we really hope that you will allow us to extract more internal data from you . ”

“What if I don’t agree?”

The woman smiled .

“Then, that’s very unfortunate . ”

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