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"help?"

"help!"

"How can I help?"

The two looked at each other, and neither of them could explain what was going on.

At this moment, Wang Chuan's voice sounded again:

"If you want to help these survivors, count me in."

"But there's nothing we can do." Mo Ling said helplessly.

"I have a way." Wang Chuan said calmly, still with that flat tone.

"You have a way? You can deal with those heavenly soldiers? Your control over the heavenly soldiers has reached this level?" Mo Ling asked in surprise.

"No, I am still far from being able to control all the heavenly soldiers. I just have a way to destroy the underlying logic of those heavenly soldiers."

"You mean... destroy the core of the Heavenly Soldiers?" Mo Ling thought for a moment and asked tentatively.

"No, the core cannot be destroyed. The Heavenly Soldiers have so many abilities that it is very easy to restore the damage. I am talking about the underlying logic, which is deeper than the code. It is the logic that operates all the Heavenly Soldiers and even the entire city. Once it is destroyed, everything will collapse..."

Hearing Wang Chuan's mysterious words, Mo Ling could no longer hold back and asked quickly, "What on earth is it?"

Wang Chuan did not answer immediately. Instead, after a moment of silence, he asked the two of them a question:

"Aren't you curious about why all the beings in this city, including the heavenly soldiers and the survivors, who possess powerful abilities, use relics without paying a price?"

…

The cost exists in parallel with the relic ability.

Those survivors are the carriers of the relics, and of course they have to pay a price to use their abilities.

The heavenly soldiers must pay a price to collect relics and use their power.

But in this city, everything has changed.

The survivors became non-consumable "mutants". When they used their abilities, at most their bodies would become tired and require time to recover.

As for the heavenly soldiers, there is no trace of the existence of a price at all. They seem to be able to use the relics trapped inside endlessly and release all kinds of abilities at will.

In this city, all "costs" seem to have been wiped out.

"I'll take you to a place and then you'll know." Wang Chuan kept it a secret.

"Where to?" Mo Ling subconsciously thought that they had to hurry on their journey again.

But Wang Chuan did not guide them in other directions. The surroundings suddenly turned dark, and Wang Chuan seemed to pull them into the "insensible space" where there was nothing.

Mo Ling was stunned for a moment, and when he came to his senses, only Li Luo was around.

As footsteps sounded, Wang Chuan's figure appeared in front of him again.

When she saw him this time, his face was still expressionless and he looked cold, but Mo Ling felt he was much friendlier.

After all, he had become quite familiar with the other party along the way.

"Let's go." Wang Chuan said softly, then waved his hand at the two of them: "Let's talk while we walk..."

Mo Ling and Li Luo looked at each other, then followed Wang Chuan forward in the pitch-black space...

"This is a space created by me using the power of the heavenly soldiers I control. It is a spiritual space that can connect to other people. You don't have to be afraid. It has no effect on your body. Thoughts are very fast. A long time may pass here, but only a second may pass outside. Don't worry about your body getting hurt..."

After explaining the origin of this dark space for a while, Wang Chuan began to talk about the "underlying logic".

"Do you know about transfer payments?" Wang Chuan asked as they walked.

"Of course I know." Li Luo replied calmly.

"It is a unilateral flow of resources, and the recipient does not need to provide direct returns. The 'underlying logic' I mentioned comes from this."

"Can the price of the relics also be transferred as payment?" Li Luo seemed to have guessed something, but was still a little uncertain.

"Of course, any resource can be transferred. As long as there are enough resources, the recipient only needs to enjoy the benefits brought by the relics, and the cost is provided by the resource provider. The cost is transferred, and the resource provider uses other methods to supplement the resources..."

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Wang Chuan explained in an orderly manner, while Li Luo's eyes behind him became brighter and brighter.

"Is there a being in this city who pays the price for all the heavenly soldiers and survivors? So they can use their abilities for free and enjoy the benefits of the relics unlimitedly?"

"Yes, you can understand it that way, but this is not unique to this city. It was researched by humans in this parallel world that has already died, and it is on a larger scale."

Hearing this, Li Luo was stunned for a moment.

"How big?"

"It could be a country, or... the whole world." Wang Chuan paused and said hesitantly, "It depends on how big the human government's jurisdiction is in this world. I'm not sure, but it must be more than one city. One city cannot meet the conditions for transfer payments."

"It is undeniable that the humans in this world have indeed surpassed us in the study of relics. The more we use them, the deeper our understanding of them becomes."

"They can find a way to make relics, and they can also find some 'commonality' in the use of relics, and find some axioms that can explain the phenomenon of relic payment, just like the laws of physics, electricity generates magnetism, magnetism generates electricity, a 'grand unified theory' applicable to relics."

"I found these in the data they left behind. These studies are definitely beyond the technological achievements of humans in our world. They went off the track, but they definitely didn't slow down..."

After Wang Chuan sighed, he continued to talk about cost transfer payments.

"The judgment of the cost of a relic is very broad. For example, if the cost is a finger, then only one finger is needed. You can cut off someone else's finger to pay the cost, of course. Or you can use biotechnology to cultivate a 'finger meat ball' that can pass the judgment, which is also possible."

"From this, we can extend the point that the object of payment does not have to be the user himself, but can also be someone else, unless it is a strongly designated relic."

"But the payment of the price for the mandatory designation of relics can also expand the scope of designation in some way."

"For example, if the price is 'a finger of the user', then after paying for the finger, we can use biotechnology to grow a 'finger flesh' and insert it into the body of the user who has lost the finger. As long as the process is fast enough, the user will not have paid anything."

"Resources are paid in one moment and replenished in another moment. In a sense, this is also free. It is meaningless to force a designation in this situation."

"Similarly, this method can bypass all mandatory relic cost determinations, but it only requires one more step than non-mandatory costs."

"For them who have a large number of relics, this is nothing..."