AWB Chapter 489 The Truth About the Wasteland World
Chapter 489 The Truth About the Wasteland World
The moment Xiao Hui saw Qin Nan, tears welled up in her eyes.
"Sister Nan!!"
"Go away, you stink!" Qin Nan grabbed Little Gray, waved her hand in front of her nose, and then said, "Behave yourself this time, huh? Serves you right for not sitting still and flying around like that."
"I didn't think they provided me with a seatbelt on the train." Little Grey chuckled sheepishly.
Upon hearing this, Qin Nan couldn't help but tap his head. "Then I'll have Katie prepare a cage for you, and you'll stay in that cage obediently from now on!"
Tang Zijun didn't care about Qin Nan and Xiao Hui's reunion; instead, he looked at Chang Lei with some curiosity.
"Old Chang, what are you doing?"
"Oh, just kidding." Chang Lei casually picked up the phone and showed it to Tang Zijun. "See, it's all your fault. If you hadn't bothered me, I would have gone to the cellar."
Tang Zijun didn't understand at first, but when he looked down at his phone screen and saw the mechanical old priest wandering around and Chang Lei being cruelly captured, he belatedly realized what was going on.
The ability to see the whole picture, plus the parrot on his shoulder, and the monster that, like the hunter, constantly roams around the map searching for "survivors".
"Playing the Oracle, huh? Old Chang, when did you become a fifth-rate expert?"
"My daughter took me to play, hehe, it's a bit dark." Chang Lei scratched his head, readily shifting the blame onto his daughter.
Tang Zijun naturally knew that the guy in front of him wasn't telling the truth, but he didn't delve into it. Instead, he picked up the phone with great interest and started looking at it. The phone didn't just show the mechanical old priest; there were several mechanical cultists in the background chasing "Chang Lei and Xiao Hui," and they were assigned to different scenes.
Interestingly, the "survivors" being chased in each scene are Tang Zijun, Tang Cao, Qin Nan, Tan Zhixin, Chang Lei, and even Su Siyao.
Frowning as she watched this scene, Tang Zijun suddenly realized something and looked up at Chang Lei. "You locked them inside the phone?" "To be precise, inside the network." Chang Lei smiled mysteriously. "I noticed these guys' peculiarities a long time ago. When you were pulled into the wasteland world, I had contact with that force. In that brief moment, the lightning was actually trying to analyze my deceptive power, and that caught my attention."
"I started to counter this force, and later, after realizing that those guys could open virtual channels through network transmission, I became even more convinced of my idea."
"And now, my guess has finally been confirmed, Wolf Rider, I think I know the truth about that wasteland universe."
Upon hearing this, the atmosphere in the room suddenly fell silent.
Qin Nan and Xiao Hui both widened their eyes, seemingly surprised, while waiting for Chang Lei's next answer.
Tang Zijun narrowed her eyes slightly and softly uttered a sentence. "You mean to say that the wasteland world originated from a virtual world on the internet, right?"
"That's right!"
Chang Lei snapped his fingers; he wasn't surprised at all that Tang Zijun had come to the same conclusion as him.
"At first, it was just our guess, but now, with more and more evidence, our previous guesses are very likely to be true. Apart from some discrepancies in the details, we have guessed most of them correctly."
"Whether it's the omnics or the gods of the era, their power originates from technology, including their ability to analyze and limit our power." "Why is there no supernatural energy in the wasteland? Why do the creatures there have no souls? It's simple: because it's a virtual world, a strange world born from the network."
"From the moment that world was born, it was impossible to create rules about extraordinary energy, because every blade of grass, every civilization and every life there is an automatically running program."
"The reason why the humans there can create the Gods of the Ages is because they have simply created a program with higher authority." "Why can the timeline of the wasteland world be changed at will and destroyed arbitrarily by the Gods of the Ages? Because it is also part of the program; it is simply a matter of using a new program to overwrite the original one."
"In the wasteland world, the gods of the era are like GMs, the administrators of the 'game backend', but the real world is different. There aren't as many 'programs' here, nor as many 'bugs' for them to exploit."
"Perhaps the so-called God of Time and Space can achieve the ability to travel through time through the existence of the surface world, but he can never be as free as he is in the wasteland world. In fact, it can be said that he has been restricted since he came here."
Katie blinked, staring blankly at Chang Lei's words. "I don't think I understood."
"It's okay, I didn't understand either." Little Grey patted Katie's shoulder with its wing, looking carefree.
However, Qin Nan understood. She stroked her chin and tentatively asked, "Then can I understand it as the wasteland world being like a game world?"
"Just like those large-map RPG games nowadays, everyone there is an NPC, except that they possess extremely advanced intelligence and have their own lives and civilizations."
"Yes, you could say that." Chang Lei nodded slightly. "And that's why I was able to easily trap them in the virtual game; they even thought I was using an illusion, haha."
"How did you do that?" Qin Nan asked.
"From the moment they opened the door, I deceived their senses, and without them realizing it, they had been transferred to the network," Chang Lei replied.
"No, what I mean is, how did you manage to upload them to the internet?" Qin Nan pressed.
"Actually, they were using their own abilities. To be precise, they opened the virtual channel themselves and walked headlong into the trap I set."
Chang Lei shrugged and then continued to laugh.
"Don't forget, the Demon Surveillance Bureau uses an internal network. I just need to lure them into a subroutine that stores secrets, and the Demon Surveillance Bureau's system will automatically trap them."
"A classified subroutine...?!" Little Grey repeated, then his eyes widened suddenly. "Wait, you mean, those guys that mechanical monster just killed weren't illusions?"
"Of course not." Chang Lei looked at Xiao Hui. "Those are our files and records from the Demon Surveillance Bureau."
Little Grey gave a stiff, dry laugh.
No wonder he felt strange. Given the deception skills Chang Lei had demonstrated before, he was even able to turn the heretical demons in his memory into reality. There was no reason for him to summon several phantoms that could not transform.
Now it seems reasonable, since the files in the Demon Surveillance Bureau don't record any information about Tang Zijun being able to transform—at least not in the current timeline.
Tang Zijun, standing to the side, smiled knowingly. "It seems you've already uncovered the secret of the timeline."
"I was just adding fuel to the fire. No one can deceive me under my nose, but it's a different story if I deceive myself. Besides, I already expended a lot of energy protecting that parrot from the reverse time flow, and I also had to be careful not to be discovered by the people in the Magic Bureau. I simply don't have much energy left to disguise yourself as someone who can transform, so this data is enough."
"Perhaps they could easily break free of the Demon Surveillance Bureau's system if they were conscious, but they have no chance against my deceptive power. Sooner or later they will run out of energy and die here."
"But I'm afraid we don't have much time left," Qin Nan suddenly said.
Just as she finished speaking, a flash of lightning streaked across the distant horizon, followed by a thunderous roar that sounded like divine punishment.
"It's Deputy Director Qiu." Xiao Hui, who had the third strongest perception among those present, reacted instantly.
Qiu Yun was furious after being tricked by the stingray. As the most powerful magical girl in the world, no one wanted to mess with her at this time.
At this moment, Chang Lei's deceptive power was mainly affecting the mechanical cultists, and the remaining power was no match for a blue-level magical girl. If Qiu Yun discovered this situation, she probably wouldn't care whether these were greedy people having a team-building activity or not; she would probably just strike him with lightning. Thinking of this, Chang Lei couldn't help but shudder.
Qin Nan was also a little scared, so she quickly nudged Tang Zijun. "We should go. I was here that day, and Deputy Director Qiu's temper was no joke."
"Hmm." Tang Zijun didn't say much more. He didn't want to confront Qiu Yun either, as it risked altering the timeline.
However, just as the group made a move, they noticed that Chang Lei had stayed behind and hadn't followed. Qin Nan frowned. "Old Chang, let's go."
Chang Lei just smiled, without lifting his feet.
"He probably won't be able to leave," Tang Zijun said softly.
"Why?" Qin Nan asked, puzzled.
But Tang Zijun simply shook his head, and then turned to look at Chang Lei.
"Qin Nan fought a group of omnics in the desert. Those omnics were recovered by Katie. I'm leaving one for you. You know what to do." "No one can completely hide themselves for more than half a year without changing the timeline, except for your deceptive power. So, please..." Hearing this, Chang Lei's lips curled up.
Don't worry.