Chapter 61

Chapter 61

[When the same thing is said by one person, others might not believe it. But if it comes from several different people, from different angles, and even includes sworn enemies among them, then people will tend to believe in the truth of this matter.]

[This is the advantage brought by information asymmetry. The upstream party can deceive the downstream by fabricating false information.]

[...Adams successfully completed his guiding task. He led everyone astray into the pre-written script.]

[...Lies were gradually covering the truth.]

The double web of faith and thoughts, centered on the old town, spread outwards, gradually enveloping this world.

At the center, on the second floor of the apartment, Bai Yi put down his pen, lightly pushed off the desk with his palm, and the recliner beneath him rotated 90 degrees to the right with his effort.

The window facing him was spotless, and a thin, pale light, like a layer of glaze on a painting, spilled in from outside, also giving his pale face a faint glaze.UppTodated from nô/v/e/lb(i)n.c(o)/m

Although not picky about food, perhaps due to the dark cuisine, Bai Yi’s figure was thinner than his peers, and his complexion was excessively pale from rarely going out in the sun. This made his already pitch-black eyes appear even darker and deeper. Under his long eyelashes, they were like two jet-black glass beads.

Facing the sunlight pouring into the room, Bai Yi instinctively squinted his eyes and leaned back against the chair.

Like a deity sitting on a divine throne, overlooking his realm.

Invisible threads spread outward with him at the center, the rhythms of all things opened up to him, and he could hear countless voices.

At this moment, Bai Yi’s soul seemed to leave his body, ascending to the high heavens, sensing the rhythms of countless souls.

One soul among them was particularly special.

“...Want to develop you as an external staff member?”

Bai Yi’s half-closed eyelids moved slightly, revealing a hint of mild surprise in his eyes, which then turned into an interested smile. This faint smile spread to the corners of his lips.

“Such an interesting thing, of course I should agree!”

He seemed to be talking to someone else across space.

“Being unilaterally considered a friend? If you’re willing, of course you can accept it – why not?”

“I told you, right? Do what I want to do, and also do what you want to do – you’ve achieved the first point, but the second point doesn’t seem enough yet.” Bai Yi spoke with a smile, but his words could corrupt any honest child, “Being friends with someone and continuing to mislead them...these two things are not contradictory!”

“So, you don’t need to have any burden~”

...

The tide-like sounds in his ears were forcibly suppressed, changing from a great river and waterfall to a trickle, and the chaotic noises constantly entering his mind were no longer enough to affect him.

Bai Yi slowly and lazily stood up from the chair, and then slowly and lazily stretched.

His movements were like a movie scene played at half speed. Only after stretching his arms straight did he slowly and lazily yawn again, making observers feel anxious for him.

“Easily done.”

“Yes, a mysterious person. What he drew was a vague outline, like a dotted line drawn with white chalk, impossible to tell if it was male or female, young or old, just a human shape—anyway, this mysterious person stopped him and sent him back to the inn.”

Li Fufeng described while recalling, “After entering the inn, he slowly recovered from his weakness and no longer felt the pressure of that huge millstone... I think there must be different rules between Blue Star and the other dimension. Blue Star has a force that repels the existence of ghosts.”

“...Little Adams’ drawings described it more or less like this.”

In that abstract picture, only the mysterious person with a vague outline was saying something to the stick figure ghost. The content of the speech was automatically translated by Adams into several difficult-to-understand symbols. They were a balance scale, a hanging clock, and a large square divided into many small squares by countless horizontal and vertical lines, looking a bit like a page from a handwriting practice book.

This image was also recorded and presented to everyone for a brainstorming session.

Finally, they reached a conclusion.

The network composed of numerous small squares likely represented some kind of rules and order, the balance scale symbolized equilibrium, and the hanging clock naturally indicated time, or a specific point in time.

“...The most likely meaning he’s trying to convey is that this world has certain rules and order, maintaining a balance we don’t understand. Ghosts are currently not allowed to appear in this world, but as time passes, or at a certain point in time, the balance might be broken, and then ghosts might no longer be rejected.”

If Bai Yi were here and heard such a well-reasoned analysis, he would probably give a thumbs up and praise — True Master of Reading Comprehension!

Although he had instructed Adams to reveal some “information”, even Bai Yi wasn’t sure if his scribble-like level could be understood by people. In a sense, Li Fufeng was practically his best assist.

Without Li Fufeng’s translation, Bai Yi’s script, as performed by Adams, would probably have been incomprehensible to anyone.

“Rules, order, maintaining balance...sounds familiar.” After carefully pondering the translated meaning and looking at the mysterious person with only a vague outline, Yin Xubai was the first to react, “—The Flower Speaker!”

“What?”

“I mean, the Flower Speaker said something similar.”

They quickly found the Flower Speaker’s file and indeed saw that familiar passage—

[Now the world is in turmoil, spiritual energy is reviving, such space-time disturbances and visitors from other worlds will only become more frequent, but there are people maintaining order and human reason. Everything that should happen will happen. Everything that shouldn’t happen absolutely won’t. At least for now, major upheavals are impossible.]

“We analyzed before that there should be some rules governing extraordinaries, or order-keepers among them. But now it seems these rules don’t just apply to extraordinaries, but to the entire world.”

Chu Xingrui exclaimed, pointing to the shadow with only an outline, his expression indescribably complex.

“As for the order-keepers, isn’t this one?”

The sudden appearance of an order above Yao Country’s laws, and “order-keepers” above ordinary people, made him, as a member of the royal family, far more sensitive than others. This sense of the unknown felt like a sword hanging over his head, greatly offending him.

“We just don’t know if the one maintaining order is just one person, or a special organization?”

Author’s note: The protagonist, hiding under layers of aliases, now has an identity too!

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