Before rage quitting, Lin Xun had casually swiped one of the starting shells. Through the shellâs memories, he had a rough understanding of that chapter worldâs background.
Now, he strained to recall what he had seen in those shell memories, intending to use that science fiction worldâs background to cover for his own real world.
âReally, sorry, better the fellow cultivator dies than the poor meâŠâ
Lin Xun finally understood why The Book of Salvation liked to dump disaster onto others. If it were him in that seat, he would do the same.
[You answer cautiously that the technology of your homeland is extremely advanced. Ordinary people can ride in transportation tools similar to a refined copper carriage and cross the barriers between worlds to reach the starry skyâŠ]
[The Servant of Knowledge seems very interested and motions for you to continue.]
Lin Xun took a deep breath and began his great art of scapegoating.
[Under the gaze of the Servant of Knowledge, you continue your narrationâŠ]
[Your homeland has no concept of nations. The entire world is controlled by a single political body called the Human United Community, a united polity voluntarily formed by all the continents.]
[Its purpose is to expand into extra stellar space and develop more colonies. With a common external goal of struggle, the continents were able to unite into a unified regimeâŠ]
[At first, once your homeland possessed the technology to explore the starry sky, it began to frantically investigate worlds beyond its own.]
[This accelerated the depletion of your homelandâs energy. The prices of basic living necessities that the populace needed soared dramatically. Ethnic conflicts and regional disputes flared up endlesslyâŠ]
[Facing a severe crisis of resources and energy, the Human Union created the Eternal Church to give the people faith, very successfully diverting the attention of the lower classes.]
[In the doctrine scriptures of the Eternal Church, the Eternal Holy Book describes a peculiar existence in the endless starry sky called the Eternal Stone, which contains infinite energy. As long as the Eternal Stone can be found, it will resolve all the problems currently facing humanity!]
[The lower classes, deceived, become fanatical believers. Not only do they not oppose the Human Unionâs interstellar colonization project, they even actively join it, becoming interstellar pioneers searching for the Eternal Stone fabricated in the Eternal Holy Book.]
[Your homeland should have been destroyed once its resources were exhausted, yet no one expected that humans would actually find an Eternal Stone on a certain star.]
[After obtaining the Eternal Stone, the technology of your homeland advanced at breakneck speed. The series of problems caused by the severe resource crisis were alleviated in turn.]
[For a time, the Eternal Church became the only orthodox religion in your homeland. Even those human elites who had originally fabricated the Eternal Church began to firmly believe in the Eternal Holy Book, completely forgetting that it had been made up from the start.]
[Eventually, the Eternal Church gradually replaced the Human Unionâs rule. The world slowly shifted from a united political system into a religious polityâŠ]
[To find more Eternal Stones and completely resolve the energy problem, your homeland formally entered an age of grand interstellar navigation and colonizationâŠ]
[Yet no one realized that the Eternal Stone contained not only infinite energy, but also nurtured an extremely terrifying evil god withinâŠ]
[You cannot help but stop here, because the shell memories you had obtained back then only went this far.]
[If you want to recount more of your homelandâs background, you can only start making it up on the spotâŠ]
[After listening to your story, the Servant of Knowledge says slowly that you honestly answered its question, without fabricating anything, using real memories to describe your homelandâs situationâŠ]
The tight knot in Lin Xunâs chest finally loosened a little.
He quietly let out a breath.
[The Servant of Knowledge suddenly shows a look of sympathy and comforts you, saying it can feel the bone deep hatred in your memories. You must have been forced to follow that evil god into the endless starry sky only after your homeland was destroyedâŠ]
Lin Xun blinked. What hatred? How come he himself did not know about it?
Oh, right, that was the hatred inside the shellâs memories. Then it was fine.
âBeing forced to flee the endless starry sky with the evil god after my homeland was destroyed, this explanation is airtight, why didnât I think of itâŠâ
âNo, how did the Servant of Knowledge arrive at the conclusion that my homeland has already been destroyed?â
[The Servant of Knowledge seems to see through your doubt and explains that the knowledge you spoke to Coleman, although indeed a true body of knowledge that the true Lord has never analyzed, contains far, far too much Disorder.]
[Disorder on that vast and redundant a scale only saturates to such a degree after the destruction of a world.]
[After the true Lord fell into slumber, He constantly expelled Disorder in an attempt to purify Himself and awaken, which is why this world is filled with Disorder.]
[But even so, the amount of Disorder in this world is far inferior to your homeland.]
[The amount of Disorder in the knowledge you stated has already surpassed a certain critical point. The world you lived in could not possibly withstand that much Disorder, so your homeland can have no ending other than destruction.]
Lin Xunâs eyes widened.
The scientific knowledge he had spoken was not plagiarized from some science fiction chapter, but real scientific truths that existed in the real world.
According to the Servant of Knowledgeâs logic, the world destroyed in the apocalypse was not the science fiction chapter he had rage quit, but the real worldâŠ
âDamn⊠the more this goes on, the more ridiculous it sounds. The real world is clearly still alive and well. There is definitely no apocalypse⊠unless this is a sign of an approaching apocalypse?â
âAnd also, Disorder⊠wasnât Disorder something that existed only in this chapter? Where would Disorder come from in the real world?â
[You cannot help but ask the Servant of Knowledge what exactly Disorder is.]
[The Servant of Knowledge does not answer your question, and instead continues, telling you not to be too sorrowful. The true Lord will eradicate all hatred and troubles for you.]
[Where is that evil god now?]
[As long as you tell it that godâs coordinates, once the true Lord awakens, He will help you remove this future worry.]
[âŠThis is considered your reward for the bumpy, arduous journey you took to awaken the true Lord.]
The corner of Lin Xunâs mouth twitched. He had no idea what coordinates to give. Even the evil god was something he had plagiarized from the background of the science fiction chapter.
âNo, hold on. According to what the Servant of Knowledge said, the amount of Disorder in my âhomelandâ far surpasses that of this world. So how can the Servant of Knowledge promise, or rather, how can it be so confident that once Omniscient True Knowledge awakens, He will be able to kill the evil god from my âhomelandâ?â
âBesides, the Servant of Knowledge sounds utterly certain, as if the true Lord can easily wipe out the evil god from my âhomelandââŠâ
His head was full of questions, yet the Servant of Knowledge clearly had no intention of explaining anything to him.
[The Servant of Knowledge does not rush you, quietly waiting for you to tell it the evil godâs location.]
Lin Xunâs mind spun. He did not know where the sci fi evil god was.
But he had indeed encountered an extremely terrifying evil god once, one so dreadful that merely meeting its gaze would drive you mad, turning you into a monster filled with malice that only knew how to kill.
âSince we are scapegoating, then we will scapegoat all the way. You agree, right? Extreme Delusion Fruit!â