Throne of Radiance

"...Yao Nation and the royal family of the Morning Star Empire have reached a cooperation to jointly put pressure on the parliament, but the parliament has withstood the pressure and rejected Yao Nation's application for transnational arrest?"

Yao Country, Yuanyang City, the second floor of an apartment in the old town, in the faint golden light, a card slowly disappears at the fingertips, and Bai Yi casually turns his head to look to the west, as if seeing another piece of land across the ocean. , the spreading chaos.

"Well, the compilation is quite decent."

...If "K" is just "K", maybe they will really believe the council's nonsense.

... If there is only Bai Yi, an ordinary high school student, behind this vest, it will be difficult to find out the truth of the matter.

Unfortunately, this is not the case.

The existence of Adams made Bai Yi not clear about what happened inside the Mystery Detective Department, at least in the case of K, the whole Mystery Detective Department had no reservations about that little ghost.

How could Bai Yi not know the truth?

It is clear that Yao Kingdom voluntarily refused the cooperation of the royal family of the Morning Star Empire, so the application for international arrest was not approved. After Joseph's rhetoric, it became the parliament's effort to protect it without hesitation!Empty glove white wolf, nothing more!

Also in order to buy people's hearts, the difference in the style of work between the Detective Division and the Parliament has almost determined their pattern and fate.

"Hmm..." Bai Yi found out later that Adams had become a non-staff member of the Detective Department. If he had followed Joseph's words and agreed to make K a subordinate of the Morning Star Empire Council, it would be in the future. The official organizations of the two countries each released a [-]-year-old boy... This kind of thing is very interesting to think about!

It's a pity, K's character design doesn't allow...

As a game player who strictly abides by the role-playing of the vest character, Bai Yi sighed with great regret.

Thinking about it this way, the parliament would have to thank "K" for his refusal.

"... Another day I was touched by my own kindness."

Pretentiously sighing, Bai Yi wiped away his tears of emotion that did not exist.

Temporarily withdrawing her attention from the Morning Star Empire, Bai Yi closed her eyes and sank into her mind.

His consciousness kept falling, falling from the sky to the ground, and then jumping through the ground into the abyss, until he sank to the other side of the world, a space composed of shadows and blankness.

A series of blurred shadows twisted and twisted in this space, constantly filling those gaps.

Through these blurred shadows, it seems to be able to vaguely sense the distant places, one after another human figure scattered all over the blue star.Each of them seems to have a shadow thrown into this space and established a connection with it.

"The reputation is rising so fast! It seems that the real Shadow Council is about to materialize."

"Well done, dongdong, it's you!"

After praising herself, Bai Yi waved her hand to dispel the "Puppeteer" card that appeared in her palm, temporarily exiting the "Puppeteer" status.

He is like a vegetable farmer who is working hard to grow vegetables, checking one by one how the Chinese cabbages he grows are growing.

"Then now, let me know the progress of Kangkang's game hangup..."

In the next second, Bai Yi clicked on the copy of the nightmare game.

Waking up from the state of suffocation in the deep sea, Bai Yi was greeted by a familiar system prompt.

【Hook mode is off. 】

[The dungeon time of Nightmare Shards has been deduced to three years later. 】

He opens the history.

[The on-hook mode has been turned on, and the fate of the characters is being deduced. ]

[Under the training of the player in another way, your character Joey has successfully won the title of God in the three major art fields of painting, music, and food as a waste material, and has developed the following characteristics in the process: "Long-sleeved and good at dancing" "Gai Ru old", "Human genius", "Depressed art master", "Art first", "Cruel", "Paranoia" and "Toughness". ]

[The player has opened up a new field of depressing art, and your character Joey will continue to walk along this newly opened path and do his best to carry it forward. ]

[In the first month of being stocked by you, your character Joey participated in the World Dance Awards, and adapted it on the basis of the sacred dance dedicated to the God of Creation, adhering to the concept of depressing art and choreographing the ugliest but most beautiful dance in history. An infectious dance. ]

[The six judges suffered from nausea, dizziness, and other negative states due to mental shock. They almost died on the spot and ascended to heaven, but their infected spirits were miraculously purified, and their souls floated like heaven.As the only dance that allows people to ascend to heaven in different ways since the Art Awards was held, your character Joey, as the creator, was awarded the title of God. ]

[In the second month after being released by you, your character Joey participated in the World Screenwriting Awards. The entry was a script adapted from "The Last Supper". The infection is stronger than the original painting, and the mental shock effect is also better. Your character Joey has once again won the title of God. ]

[In the third month after being released by you, your character Joey participated in the World Sculpture Awards. The prototype of the entry "Gods Beyond Dimensions" is the one who sits at the head of the table in "The Last Supper" and cannot see his face clearly exist. ]

[That is, your character Joey is based on the player himself who has completely changed his life and destiny, and created the sculpture "Gods Beyond Dimensions" to participate in the World Sculpture Awards. ]

[This is a work created by him as a waste wood based on his own true level, and it should not have the slightest spirituality.However, the special prototype that does not exist in the copy of the nightmare fragments endows this sculpture with an unimaginable spirituality.It seems to be able to listen to the voice of all things, and spread the voice of all things, so that everyone close to it has to be forced to accept the pollution from this sculpture, which is rated as the same level as "Sabbath" or even higher level A work of dark art. ]

[Your character Joey once again won a title of God. ]

[In the fourth month of being stocked by you, your character Joey began to create novels, poetry and prose with the art of depression as the core, and submitted them to different authoritative publications. ]

……

[Under the unremitting efforts of your character Joey, the art of depression has risen rapidly in a short period of time, forming a new genre.Countless artists have followed behind your character Joey, posing as his disciples and promoting the art of depression. ]

[Your character Joey gets Fan 1 in the field of painting. ]

[Your character Joey gets 1 fan in the music field. ]

[Your character Joey gets 1 fan in the food field. ]

［Your character Joey gets 1 follower in the sculpture field. ]

……

[Your character Joey gains Fanatic Admirer 1. ]

[Your character Joey gains a follower of 1 heart. ]

[Your character Joey gets Depression Art Practitioner 1. ]

……

[Your character Joey has won the title of God in seven fields including painting, music, food, dance, screenwriting, sculpture, and writing, and has created a new field of depression art. He has become a veritable all-round artist in the current nightmare fragment dungeon. The god of depressing art. ]

After the historical record was refreshed, Bai Yi looked all the way down, dumbfounded: "Ah, this..."

The titles of gods in other projects are fine, after all, Joey, who can flexibly use the art of depression, is more than enough to win a few titles of gods.

However, what the hell are works in the field of sculpture?The characters in the game can actually sense the player's presence, know that they are controlled by the player, and have changed their fate?Is this really just a game?

In fact, the existence of Adams has already hinted at everything, and this new copy of the game is even more straightforward...

[That's right, the NPC in the nightmare game is not just an NPC, and the nightmare game is not just a game, for most people, it is a complete nightmare! 】

"...This tone is not like the system I am familiar with. It is more like a message that has been set up a long time ago, waiting for me to explain when I doubt it. Ah, this terrible tone..." Bai Yi revealed that he saw through everything. Eyes, lightly put together palms, "Sure enough, it's what I said myself!"

He had been guessing that the system might have self-will at first, but after discovering that the system might come from the future and was a plug-in by himself, he realized that his previous guess was wrong.

The system should be a pure tool only.Maybe sometimes its reaction makes the system look like it has human intelligence and consciousness, but that's only because the logical setting of the system comes from him-of course Bai Yi knows how to deal with himself!

"However, it's really uncomfortable to be arranged so clearly, and all reactions are expected by the other party."

—Even if this person is himself.

Puffing his face in depression, just when Bai Yi thought that everything was over and that he was about to settle the customs clearance as before, the system narration suddenly appeared, and lines of writing emerged out of thin air.

[You have become the honorary president of the Federal Artists Association. 】

[You have the highest authority of the Federal Artists Association. 】

[According to the authority, you are qualified to know the top secret of the Federation.Do you choose to crack the hidden world view of this dungeon? 】

"By the way, this kind of system setting is too rigid. Will anyone still choose no?" Bai Yi complained, then raised his hand suddenly, and said in a super loud voice, "I choose no!"

The system was silent for a second, and the handwriting appeared.

[Curiosity is the nature of human beings, the truth is right in front of our eyes, how is it different from salted fish if we don't try to crack it?You are determined to decipher the copy's hidden worldview. 】

"Is it really okay to complain about yourself? Xianyu protested..."

[You have fully mobilized your authority and learned the top secret that countless artists in the Federation have investigated over the years——]

"So, the choice of yes and no is really meaningless, right..."

In Bai Yi's thoughts, the system's prompts continued to appear without anyone else present.

[Everything is born and dies, and the world is no exception.Balance is the highest law of the infinite universe in the void.He stipulates that every world will come to an end and enter the end one day. ]

[Every moment, a new world is born in the void, and an old world dies, so that the void energy is always in a state of circulation and conservation. This is the supreme law of balance. ]

[The death of the world is called "return to the ruins". ]

[But the forms of returning to the ruins are different, and different worlds will enter death in different forms.It may be a natural disaster suddenly erupted by nature, it may be a man-made disaster within the world, or it may be an irresistible disaster from outside the world. ]

[This world has entered the third kind of return to ruins. ]

[—Mu Yin opened the door to the Ruins. ]

[As a down-and-out painter who regards painting as life, no, it is more important than life, his ordinary talent cannot support his ideal of becoming a world-famous painter, but instead gives him shock and despair time and time again, Let him gradually sink in countless encounters. ]

[Until he recognized his own mediocrity, completely gave up on his talent, no longer pinned his hopes on hard work, but began to look for all illusory and unknown sustenance. ]

[He first became addicted to hallucinogenic drugs, and later participated in illegal gatherings, praying to empty gods that did not exist. ]

[He believed the absurd words of the evil priests in exchange for the favor of the gods to obtain artistic talent, and in the hallucinations brought about by the drug, he raised the knife and swung at his wife and daughter. ]

[The skin of his wife, the blood of his daughter, the emotions conveyed by extreme love and hatred, and the ecstatic hallucinations brought about by drugs collide in the depths of his distorted soul. He sees the truth of the world and sees the destruction It is eternity, and the unique "Sabbath" was born. ]

[When he wakes up from the confusion, he cries and laughs. ]

[He created unprecedented paintings, which made him famous all over the world and lost everything. ]

[At this moment, Miao Yin's spiritual will breaks through the limit of ordinary people in the stimulation, and his unparalleled spirituality allows him to come into contact with the existence outside the world, opening the door to the ruins. ]

[Unknown pollution seeps into this world. ]

[Miao died by suicide, and the "Sabbath" carrying all his emotions and spiritual will has become the source of pollution in this world. The resentful spirits hidden in the painting crazily cursed every owner of the painting, and the opened door to the ruins will Memes of madness and pollution spread across the world. ]

[The artist leaps up and becomes an extraordinary existence. ]

[Since then, the world has ushered in the pinnacle of art prosperity, and it is also gradually approaching the countdown to the ruins. ]

[The artists at the top of the Artists Association captured the information about the ruins from the void with their spirituality far beyond ordinary people, trying to change the fate and save this dying world.They want to train more artists to delay the spread of madness and pollution, and they want to train an art god who surpasses everyone and create works that completely heal the source of pollution. ]

[——But they don't know that returning to the ruins is the inevitable result of every world, just like the metabolism inside the human body, the aging cells are bound to wither, and it cannot be changed by one person.Unless the old cells are revived, the dead world undergoes a radical sublimation. ]

[——This level of difficulty is equivalent to a mortal who should have followed the law of birth, old age, sickness and death and changed his life against the sky to embark on the road to immortality and get rid of birth, old age, sickness and death. ]

[And this world obviously does not have such an opportunity. ]

"Return to the ruins? The source of pollution outside the world? Get rid of life, old age, sickness and death, and re-sublimate?"

Seeing the handwriting fading away bit by bit, Bai Yi recited it with great interest.

"It seems that you still know a lot of things that I don't know, system." He said with a smile, "Is this also deliberately revealed to the present me? Is this why the future me sent you here? Because reality The world will return to its ruins one day, so I have to hurry up?"

Having said that, he snapped his fingers suddenly.

"Ah, I remembered, you said at the beginning that there are only three ways to resolve the endless noise of the rhythm of all things - complete your own sublimation, help everyone in the world to sublimate, and clear the nightmare game to become omnipotent god..."

While pondering, Bai Yi's smile became brighter and brighter: "Ah, I seem to have been fooled ~ If it is just to resolve the noise pollution of the rhythm of all things, as far as it is concerned, the network of thinking can do part of it."

"Those three roads should be used to fight against Guixu, right? And they may not be able to go through, they are just the greatest possibility."

Although he didn't get an answer from the system, Bai Yi has already confirmed that his thoughts are correct.

After all, he knows himself well, no matter which one.

"Damn, I was really deceived..."

Awakened to the truth, white resentment.

"Even if it's my future self..."

"Deceive yourself, are you still human?"

system:……

In the frozen dungeon world, Bai Yi was the only one talking to himself, with annoyed, unhappy, contemplative, and excited faces on his face. It was true that he was seriously ill.If the system is really an intelligent life with self-awareness, it is estimated that it will be so scared that it will run away with a bucket.

Fortunately, the system is not afraid of such emotions.

After venting her resentment and unhappiness, Bai Yi finally brought her wandering thoughts back to the topic.

"By the way, what is the topic..."

"Oh, even the real world may have to face Guixu."

Bai Yi regained his senses and fell into deep thought.

"Natural disaster? Man-made disaster? Invasion from outside the world? Which kind will it be..."

He was inexplicably excited.

"It's just that, is it really okay to give me the vulgar script of saving the world?"

"Actually expect me to pass the game before returning to the ruins. I look so like a righteous savior? Or is it that I have a wrong understanding of myself in the future..."

To be honest, living in the garbage dump is not pleasant, but a kind of torture.

If it were the end of the world right now, leaving him in eternal silence with the garbage heap wouldn't feel like an unacceptable future.

At least, those babbling whispers, those endless whispers that flooded into his mind will disappear completely, so he can have a good sleep, right?

Thinking about it this way, why is there still a little expectation?

At this moment, Bai Yi almost wanted to shout: "The power of human beings has its limit, I'm not a human being, ah bah, no, no, I don't want to save the world! System, exit!"

No, no, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.Such a way of death is too horrible, right?

This terrifying thought hit him all at once, and wiped away all the expectations in Bai Yi's heart.

It seems that he can only play his savior game honestly...

"...The one who knows me best is really only myself."