novelraw Chapter 615: Should I Call You a Genius, or Just Too Damn Lucky?
Chapter 615: Should I Call You a Genius, or Just Too Damn Lucky?
Chapter 615: Should I Call You a Genius, or Just Too Damn Lucky?
The Heaven's Net ability couldn't achieve direct mind-reading; it was more like using these threads of energy to perform a high-density extraction of information.
It was like extracting countless puzzle pieces related to the other person from them.
However, in reality, a "mind-reading" ability wasn't always reliable. If a god wanted to seal someone's memories, or even implant false ones, it wasn't a particularly difficult thing to do.
So from this perspective, Xie Antong's Heaven's Net was a better method.
Of course, to fully accomplish this, she needed her strength to far surpass the other party's, and the other party's mental state couldn't be too resolute.
"Tsk... have They really run out of options?"
From the intelligence inadvertently leaked by the other party, the true core of the [Apostles] was essentially a complete defection to the side of the Game, becoming human traitors.
Though they themselves didn't accept the label of 'human traitor'. Their tenet was that everything about the Game was correct, that the world's future should rely on the Game and accept its transformation.
Therefore, their goals were to recruit more people to accept this ideology and eliminate those who stood in the way.
And currently, the biggest obstacle in the way appeared to be "Sin"!
Thinking this, Xie Antong couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Why does it feel like you're blocking everyone's path...
For the players before, you blocked everyone's path to ascension, and now, you've become an obstacle to the Game's propagation process?
"So... your most core mission is to take out 'Sin', isn't it?"
Xie Antong looked at the Apostle she controlled in the air and asked.
"What?!" The Apostle, his mind muddled, instantly felt his head go blank. "You... you can actually read minds?"
Xie Antong: ...
The competency level of these people was still too low. Mentioning the slightest thing made them spill everything.
Currently, no top-tier players should have joined the [Apostles], right?
Probably...
"It's good that you know," Xie Antong didn't deny it, just continued speaking.
"If one of your major objectives is to deal with 'Sin'."
"Then you really are... trying to steal business from our Divine Punishment."
No wonder they thought her Divine Punishment was part of the Apostles...
After all, the very first announcement, the founding purpose of Divine Punishment, was to "Punish Sin on Heaven's Behalf".
Tsk... this 'on Heaven's behalf' also sounded very much like receiving a mission from a god.
Could it be that now everyone in the [Apostles] thinks they are the first Apostle!
The idea of the [Apostles] stealing business from Divine Punishment was just a jest, but Divine Punishment had genuinely, concretely, positioned itself ahead of the Game, seizing this ecological niche!
The Game wanted to use this organization to deal with "Sin", develop human traitors, and implement some unknown specific goals.
Yet Divine Punishment was now also positioned in a similar place, and its biggest selling point—dealing with "Sin"—was something Divine Punishment proposed first!
She had actually become something like a spy chief overnight.
And during this world's chaos, she had accidentally, proactively uncovered the specific information and was the first to share it with the Dragon Group, which essentially meant she had gained official recognition from one of the world's major powers.
She suddenly felt that Divine Punishment's current position was exceptionally bizarre, and there were so many things it could do!
It was practically eating from both sides of the law.
Looking back to the past, which was who knows how many Games ago, to the words Lu Ce suggested when he advised her to establish Divine Punishment, she felt a shiver of excitement.
—"Maybe I'm going to become everyone's target, but you could absorb these people who oppose me and build up some strength."
At the time, she even thought those words sounded absurd. Back then, she only felt it was his way of trying to push her away.
But looking at it now, this action seemed more like a deep form of binding!
Did he, back then, foresee all of this that followed?
Was his brain really that good...
"Should I say you're just lucky, or should I say... you're truly a genius?"
Xie Antong's peach-shaped eyes, tinged with a sense of pleasure, were also somewhat dazed as she murmured to herself.
"Wh-what genius?" The Apostle still controlled by the Heaven's Net in front of her asked, confused.
Why was she suddenly praising herself?
"Tsk, shut up," Xie Antong instantly felt a bit annoyed. This person really ruined the mood.
"I suppose the Game also offered you a top-tier reward for killing him."
"Wait, maybe it's not necessarily for you specifically, but for everyone."
"Perhaps even this Proxy War was established for him. The more you oppose him, the higher your chances of being chosen, the greater the benefits."
"He really is... the Tang Monk's flesh."
After sorting out the general logic, Xie Antong even deduced things the Game had previously told Lu Ce, things she wasn't supposed to know.
The Proxy War was about the gods finding spokespersons among humans.
But to truly become a Divine Messenger, you still had to eliminate that "obstacle"!
Because the old rules could not be changed!
"Established rules can't be changed... haven't They considered that newly established rules might still have exploitable loopholes!"
"A massive program, bugs generally only increase the more you try to fix them."
"This piece of Tang Monk's flesh of yours... maybe it's better if I take a bigger bite!"
"What are you talking about! Who are you talking about?!" The Apostle in front of her finally couldn't help but roar.
He completely didn't understand what this devilish woman in front of him was babbling about.
Under the envelopment of the Heaven's Net, facing a top hundred expert in the world, his will and spirit had been suppressed all along, and now he finally broke down.
"Isn't anyone coming to rescue me! Apostles! Where is everyone else?!"
A shrill, desperate scream finally erupted, calling for help.
"Ah... sorry, I forgot you were still here. I got a bit excited," Xie Antong smiled at him.
"However, I just said too many things. You shouldn't think you can still live, right?"
"Sorry, I don't do this kind of thing often."
Then, the shrill scream was abruptly cut off, and Xie Antong also withdrew the barrier item.
Watching the area contract into the distance, she hesitated for a moment before charging toward that patch of purple light.
Perhaps it was a coincidence, but she and Lu Ce were heading toward the same destination, albeit by different paths.