novelraw Chapter 1131 - 831: We Were All Wrong!
Chapter 1131 - 831: We Were All Wrong!
"Didn’t escape?"
Matrix’s expression shifted: "Did you discover something in the Sin Domain?"
"Yes, this time I went to the Sloth Sin Domain..." Li Zheng recounted his experiences in the Sloth Sin Domain to Matrix: "That mysterious will asked me to tell you that we were all wrong."
"We were all wrong?"
Matrix murmured: "What does that mean? Did he tell you who he is?"
Li Zheng shook his head: "Didn’t say. Oh, and there’s another message. He’s waiting for me, but not for me; he was very disappointed when he saw me. I asked if he wanted to see you or Xu, he said both and neither, what does that mean?"
"Talking like a riddle master?" Matrix pondered for a while, appearing to have thought of something: "Could it be him?"
"Who?" Li Zheng was puzzled, calling others a riddle master, but Matrix was one too, wasn’t he?
Fortunately, Matrix chose not to be cryptic and explained to Li Zheng: "If I’m guessing correctly, you met the second-in-command of the Spring Rain Pirates, Meryl. Meryl is the strategist for the Spring Rain Pirates, nearly eighty percent of the strategies were proposed and executed by Meryl.
Back then, to monitor the Spring Rain Pirates in real-time—since most of them were in the Outer City—I had to limit their excessive behavior, so I sent the ninth clone to engage with them.
At that time, the ninth clone became close with Meryl. When the Spring Rain Pirates broke through the Sin Domain, they almost took the ninth clone away.
So, it’s likely Meryl was looking to meet with the ninth clone."
"What does that phrase ’we were all wrong’ mean?" Li Zheng asked, "And where did the ninth clone go?"
"I interpret that phrase as the Spring Rain’s decision to break through the Sin Domain being wrong, since you encountered one of them in the Sin Domain, confirming their approach back then was entirely unfeasible," Matrix replied. "As for the ninth clone... since Spring Rain left, he went to the Wilderness and never returned. I have sent more clones to the Wilderness to find him, but every one of them disappeared without a trace, none came back."
"Went to the Wilderness?" Li Zheng was intrigued: "Le Jia once said the leader of the Celestial Will Organization is also named Li Zheng, could the leader be the ninth clone? Also, the clones Matrix sent out, perhaps some were caught and brainwashed by the ninth clone because Zhan Zhouzhou mentioned killing someone in the Wilderness who looked a lot like me."
"No!" Li Zheng suddenly exclaimed: "That phrase doesn’t mean that!"
The phrase "we were all wrong" is definitely not what Matrix speculated as the decision to break through the Sin Domain!
Upon careful recollection, Li Zheng felt the mysterious will conveyed a deep sense of helplessness, unwillingness, and powerlessness.
That kind of "powerlessness" comes from thinking one understands everything, only to discover upon contacting the truth that it was all futile.
And the reason for this "sense of powerlessness" is only one!
That is, the Outer City and the Wilderness’s previous understanding of the Sin Domain and Emotion Storms are all wrong!
Matrix watched Li Zheng, waiting for what followed.
Li Zheng contemplated for a moment and asked: "Do you have records of the final battles of those past races?"
"Some, passed down by survivors," Matrix accessed some files stored in the database and asked, "Do you want to take a look?"
"Yes."
Li Zheng nodded, and Matrix started playing.
These are some memory images left by survivors, converted into data streams by Matrix and collected in the supercomputer. Because they come from different survivors, they are not coherent.
In these memories, Li Zheng discovered that during the final battle in every Sin Domain, even including the Sloth Sin Domain, twisted creatures would emerge in endless tidal waves forming armies charging forward.
The power of those twisted creatures gradually increased, from the point where any warrior could dominate within the horde of twisted creatures, to the point where a single twisted creature could dominate among warriors.
Lots of people were harvested and transformed.
Although on the surface, the number of twisted creatures being killed far exceeded those who were transformed.
But the next time the twisted creatures attacked, their numbers seemed replenished, returning again to endless numbers.
There are no memory images left from battles between the Spring Rain Pirates and the Celestial Dragon Race, because for the former, they all "left the Matrix", and for the latter, only one survivor remained, the rest all perished turning into the Golden Light Zone.
Li Zheng watched for a while, his expression solemn: "After so many years, did you never notice the anomaly in the numbers of twisted creatures?"
This is clearly wrong; twisted creatures are transformed from cosmic races, but the death and replenishment ratio in each battle doesn’t match, and Matrix hasn’t noticed?
"Of course I noticed this," Matrix said, "but I thought, every time I took away a race before an Emotion Storm, there were still many wild animals, insects, and plants left there, these should be the main source of replenishment for twisted creatures each time."
"Can’t rule out this possibility," Li Zheng shook his head, "but I believe, without you noticing, Emotion Storm has imprisoned... no, it should be said, raised a batch of cosmic species, using them as lambs, allowing them to reproduce without restraint. When they mature, they are converted into various types of twisted creatures, filling the army."
Matrix said: "I have considered this possibility, but Emotion Storm doesn’t seem to have a reason to do this. With the infective ability of Emotion Storm, even if there’s no wave of twisted creatures, we can still..."
He seemed to realize something, falling into thought.
"Discovered?" Li Zheng said softly: "Even without twisted creatures, with the inherent ability of Emotion Storm, it can wipe out all cosmic races, why does it laboriously breed innumerable twisted creatures and play a full-scale war like children’s games?"
Matrix speculated: "Maybe it’s because the spiritual power of some individuals among cosmic races is too strong, it can only weaken the opponent’s state through twisted creatures and then complete the transformation? No... this doesn’t make sense..."
"Of course it doesn’t make sense!" Li Zheng spoke up: "Before me, no one in the Outer City or Wilderness broke through the previous spiritual power limit, and this time in the Sloth Sin Domain, even my spiritual power almost got trapped inside!"
Matrix was aware of Xu giving his spiritual power to Li Zheng.
Because previously, Matrix had issued a universal task, and Li Zheng’s response upon completing the task was "infusion."
"But what does it want?" Matrix ran the supercomputer, simulating the problem, ten minutes later, he derived over a thousand conclusions, one of which seemed most unreasonable yet was most likely.
"Emotion Storm is pig farming!?"
"We and the ones it raises are all pigs!"
"The difference is merely we are wild, and they are domestic!"
"And the reason it does this..."
Li Zheng carried on: "Is for more and stronger spiritual power! Allowing you to take so many races away, hoping through you to cultivate even fatter pigs!"
"This!!!"
Matrix was struck like thunder, losing his composure, "Meryl was right, we were all wrong!"