Chapter 266: Evidence, physical evidence, the evil is clear.

Chi Xiaochi has entered countless doors in his life.

For him, the most impressive time was when he stepped into Zhu Shoucheng's house.

Inside and outside the door, one opening and closing, changed his life.

Before he stepped through the door, no one inside or outside the door knew what it would look like when it was opened again.

Inside the waterfall of light, Chi Xiaochi looked around every corner, even grabbing a piece of memory dust floating in the air, before turning his attention to the large, dark-red mastermind floating in the center of the room.

He snorted at the brain, "You're the Lord God?"

The Lord God looked down at this ant who had given him countless defeats and feigned calmness, "You've heard of me?"

"Lord God-sama is as good as his name." Chi Xiaochi commented, "It really looks like a brain flower."

The Lord God didn't want to engage him in a lot of verbiage, and lowered his status in vain: "Say what you want."

Chi Xiaochi paces herself, looks around, "Won't you bring me a chair."

The Lord God was cold, "You have a lot to say?"

Chi Xiaochi, who was not under Lou Ying's control, had no need to disguise the nastiness in his bones, and he lifted his face and said lazily, "Not necessarily. I just don't like to stand and talk."

The Lord God swept behind Chi Xiaochi.

Countless flying data coalesced into the shape of a chair behind him.

Chi Xiaochi sat up, teetered dashingly, and, not knowing whether he meant it or not, praised, "How convenient."

The Lord knew that no conversation within the "moment" would be transmitted to the outside world, but checked what Chi Xiaochi was carrying just to be on the safe side.

It nearly turned its back on this inspection.

A whole warehouse of cards, no matter what their function, all lit up by him, he even set up a spare card bin for necessary cards, and a lot of miscellaneous knick-knacks, cigarettes, alcohol, sleeping bags, tents, photos, peace knots, rings, shrimp sticks, whatever, everything went in there, a department store market in a nutshell.

The Lord God's tone was well controlled, and no joy or anger could be heard, "You've managed to gather things in full."

"I've traveled ten worlds." Chi Xiaochi's index finger tapped on the arm of her chair, "You can do anything if you have the time."

"And do you know how much time passed in your world while you were on your mission?"

Chi Xiaochi answered, "Three years and one month."

"Three years." The Lord God repeated the time, "Three years in bed paralyzed, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to even learn to walk again."

Chi Xiaochi smiled softly, "You care so much about me."

"Of course." The Lord God said, "I care about every host."

Chi Xiaochi holds her chin, "I can feel it. Farmers also care about how much milk the cows have milked today and how many pounds the pigs have fattened up."

The Lord God smiled skinlessly, "I can't understand what you're saying. I am very busy, so please speak your heart's desire as soon as possible. Which world are you going to?"

Chi Xiaochi pressed her knuckles against her lips, "Ah, that's a serious question, something to think about."

He leaned back in his chair, pondering, "The first world, is Cheng Yuan's world. It's quite ordinary and not too difficult for me, with a world line similar to my original world. However, that world is also quite memorable. --I have a guess that within the original host, the host and the original host exist at the same time."

The Lord God was creeped out, "...... Nonsense!"

Chi Xiaochi waved her hand, "I'm just saying that, you can just hear it, don't take it personally."

The Lord God mused.

It knows that "in a flash" is closed to the outside world, and 061 has already detached from Chi Xiaochi's host-host relationship, and Chi Xiaochi's authority is far lower than his, so he can't use any of the cards, so he won't be able to get into any trouble.

Anyway, he's not going to be able to get out of "In a Flash" again today.

If it wasn't for the General System setting up personal protection regulations specifically for hosts, the Main God wouldn't even have to use the strength of a finger to crush Chi Xiaochi into data fragments.

Let this ant be smug for a while.

Chi Xiaochi didn't seem to be very interested in the ups and downs of its mind, and continued, "I only told Lou about this conjecture. So, I quickly came to the second world and encountered - which by all accounts shouldn't be in the second world at all - A-rank difficulty."

"At first, I thought that you had the ability to eavesdrop on every system, and that the A-rank difficulty worlds were a punishment, a warning, against me. But I'm not completely sure, because if you have this kind of information gathering ability of putting your hand on every world, after I found out this secret, you shouldn't just do it on the difficulty level, you can completely just kill me and erase Lou's memory again."

"Why don't you do this? Is it because you don't have enough authority, or because you're afraid of something? Or, again, both?"

"However, your actions have also convinced me that there's a chance that I'm right: that I've offended you in some way, not terribly badly, but in a way that makes you angry."

"Then the third world further confirmed my thoughts."

As he spoke, Chi Xiaochi changed to a more comfortable position, "...... Dong Ge's world, level B difficulty. Compared to the second world, the difficulty has dropped back more than a star."

"Thanks to your reminder, after that world, I can be sure that you didn't just want to torture me by having a difficult world. You made Lou Sifan, whose last name is also Lou, appear, and made him somehow possess a memory identical to Lou's. You wanted to make me afraid, to make me hard, to make me attached - you were trying to make me produce some kind of energy that approximated the value of remorse."

"Figuring this out, and combining it with what Lou told me about what happened to the other hosts, I figured out most of it."

"It's possible that you're not only getting the Remorse Value from the Raider subject, but you're also planning to get it from the Host, or even ...... from the Original Host."

"And you're targeting me not necessarily because I guessed your secret, but because, well, I had too much of a pass in my first world and didn't produce what you needed."

"It would also explain why, in the second world, you suddenly upped the difficulty; in the third world, the difficulty was lowered and you threw me a Lou Sifan."

"The fourth world, it's an interesting one."

Here, Chi Xiaochi purses her lips and smiles, as if remembering a close friend.

"If, in the third world, I found traces of the original host's existence, in the fourth world, I can finally be completely certain that the original host does indeed coexist as one with is host."

"You went through a lot of trouble to pick the fourth world. On the one hand, it's an ABO world where bugs exist and lives can be in danger at any time, and on the other hand, Zhan Yanchao is indeed someone who can be saved. You want me to wallow, you want me to play God like the other hosts."

"Unfortunately, I've played so many roles that I have no interest in appearing as God."

The Lord God snorted, unsure if it was a noncommittal response to Chi Xiaochi's series of inferences, or if it was an attempt to hide a guilty conscience.

"And then, I went to the fifth world."

"I've deduced your mindset, and if it's a negative energy like remorse value that you want, the fifth spirit world is undoubtedly the most suitable. Moreover, you're starting to lose your patience, you want me to die."

"In that case, I'll need to throw in some timely warnings as well."

"So, at the end of the fifth world, I made it a point to voice the most irrelevant of all my guesses as I entered the swap space: that you would create phantoms and try to lure me to stay in a certain world in every world."

"I was trying to warn you and to see what move you would make next. After all, I've already experienced the S-rank world, so what else is there to fear?"

"In the sixth world, I entered a post-apocalyptic world."

"After this incident, I can be sure that you didn't know that I knew the secret that the original owner was still around, or else in the second world, you would have done this - you really wanted me dead."

"But I'm really sorry it didn't work out."

"In the seventh world, you've made even more small moves. You put a book-wearing system together with Lou, and you want to get at Lou to weaken me and then kill me."

Saying that, Chi Xiaochi raised her hand to press on her chest and quite sincerely bowed to the main god whose writhing amplitude had obviously increased, "Thank you very much indeed."

"This world also corrected one of my cognitive misunderstandings. At first, I really thought that Dong Feihong, Blue, and the Gan siblings were all people you arranged to paralyze me with kindness and make me stay in a certain world. Thank you for letting me know that those people are all Lou."

"You realize that coming too hard doesn't work. So there's the eighth and ninth worlds."

"Ancient battlefield world, battle royale world. You want me to experience what it's like to kill someone with my own hands, you want me to drift away from the original world."

"In the eighth world, I killed the Southern Frontier minions; in the ninth world, I killed Wei XVI with my own hands. You must be very happy, because then it will be convenient for you to arrange the last world for me."

"Finally, in the tenth world, you gave me a parallel world that couldn't be more peaceful."

"Here, nothing happened, you wanted me to heal here for the rest of my life, and for that reason even assigned a body to Lou. I have the real Lou, have the future, have everything ...... how good it is."

Chi Xiaochi's nostalgia is evident in his eyes as he speaks.

The Lord God made a double entendre, "You really should have stayed in that last world longer."

The lesson of ten worlds forced the Lord God to realize that it simply could not control a freak like Chi Xiaochi.

In that case, let Chi Xiaochi go back to his original world, be his paralyzed son, and wait for Lou Ying's return for the rest of his life.

Around the same time, with that unreported nondisclosure agreement, 061 was not going to be able to return for the rest of his life.

The Lord God does not allow anyone to escape its grasp.

It would memorize Chi Xiaochi's current smug face, and then go back to his worldline to see how he looked when he waited for Lou Ying and didn't return.

Thinking about this, the main god was in a much happier mood.

It said, "After all you've said, don't you want to know why I'm doing this?"

"Don't want to know."

To his surprise, Chi Xiaochi declined to continue the mind-guessing: "I have no interest in the journey of a murderer's heart."

"Then, you should have said enough as well." The Lord God tried his best to hide his inner gloating, "Which world do you choose? Return to the original world? I understand ......"

And then Chi Xiaochi interrupted it: "Sorry, I'm not going back."

For a moment, the Lord God thought he had misheard, "What did you say?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "I said, I'm not going back."

The Lord God was quite surprised, "So which world are you going to?"

Chi Xiaochi leaned back comfortably, "I'm not going anywhere."

"You ......"

No longer giving the Lord God any chance to speak, Chi Xiaochi said bluntly, "I want to be you."

Lord God: "...... What?"

Chi Xiaochi perfected his answer as the Lord God was swept away in his mind by monstrous disquiet.

"My heart's desire is not to go to any world or to return to the original world." Chi Xiaochi raised her hand, "My heart's desire is that I want your place. I want to be the main god here."

Lord God: "......"

After a short silence, the Lord God let out a loud laugh.

Chi Xiaochi let him laugh, sitting comfortably in his chair, his fingers wearing a silver ring repeatedly flicking a peace knot, the red tassel flicking in his palm.

After the Lord God had laughed, a puff of dust and smoke vacated the room and the huge brain was gone, while a cold hand, viper-like, wrapped itself around Chi Xiaochi's neck.

Slender data claws extend from the chair's perimeter, easily holding Chi Xiaochi in place.

The Lord God who had transformed into a human body held the armrests of the chair with one hand and pinched Chi Xiaochi's neck with the other, not exerting much force, only compressing his breathing, and between his pretended elegant demeanor, there floated a violence that could not be completely suppressed.

"Do you know where your stupidity lies." The Lord God made a point behind him, and eleven doors of light appeared, ten leading to the ten worlds he had experienced, and one leading to Chi Xiaochi's original world.

"...... You shouldn't have come to me to pick a fight. Be smart, choose a world and I'll let you go."

"Then you know where your stupidity lies." Chi Xiaochi raised an eyebrow and returned the original statement with a smirk, "Actually, you can't kill me at all, and there's no way you can just throw me through any door."

The sardonic smile on the Lord God's face stiffened a bit.

"If you could have killed me, you could have snapped my neck just now." Chi Xiaochi said, "By the same token, I can guess that when each host chooses the world they're going to end up in, they have to walk into it willingly, right, otherwise you could have just thrown me in."

With that said, Chi Xiaochi gave a polite nod, "Thank you, for telling me two more very important pieces of information."

The main god let out a harrumph and waved away the door of light behind him, "I've given you a chance, you're the one who didn't want it. Yes, I have restrictions and can't kill you, but I can keep you in the 'Whiskers' for the rest of your life, and you won't go anywhere without my permission. I just don't know if you'll die first from going crazy in the cage, or from lack of food and water."

Chi Xiaochi's response was muted, and he even expressed regret: "You really don't want to fulfill my request. Fulfilling my wish and stepping down voluntarily would be the best ending for you."

"Oh? Is that so?" The Lord God hummed, "Then I really must thank you for your kindness."

"You do have to thank me." Chi Xiaochi accepted its praise with an extremely thick skin, "Otherwise, when your matter reaches the ears of the upper level monitoring agencies and the main system, there's no telling where you'll end up."

The Lord God lowered his head and forced himself to look at Chi Xiaochi, pretending to be calm, but it was difficult to suppress the veins that throbbed under his translucent white skin, "You think you can still get out?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "Of course."

The Lord God laughed and asked, "Where do you get your confidence from?"

Chi Xiaochi said, "I have physical evidence and I have witnesses."

"...... Physical evidence? Witnesses?"

The Lord God was really trying to laugh now.

Chi Xiaochi knows but one 061.

The so-called physical and human evidence, combined into one, is 061, I believe.

Even though the Lord God detested Chi Xiaochi to the extreme, he had to admit that Chi Xiaochi was indeed smart.

But Lou Ying, 061, is his absolute weakness.

Chi Xiaochi's blind faith in 061 will soon turn to dust.

By the time one's evidence is presented, 061 will be formatted to the bone.

What physical evidence, what witnesses, it's all just Chi Xiaochi's delusion.

The Lord God deliberately put on a look of interest, "What physical evidence?"

Chi Xiaochi moved as if she was tied up uncomfortably, "How can I show this to you."

The Lord God followed the question, "What about the witnesses? Just outside of 'a moment's notice'?"

Chi Xiaochi cocked her head and thought, "Something like that."

After teasing him only twice, the Lord God had had enough of his old, as if he had everything under control expression.

It wanted to crack Chi Xiaochi's smiling face, to peer through the cracks and see his fear: "Whatever physical or human evidence there is, that has to be handed up as well. Do you think that the watchdog system will come here just because of some system's side of the story-"

Before the words left his mouth, the Lord God suddenly heard a loud, sharp sound outside that shook the data that made up its heart and made it palpitate along with it.

The Lord God rose in horror and inquired AI: "What's going on out there?!"

The AI immediately replied, "The ...... security system has been breached again!"

"Also ......"

The answer caused the Lord God to choke on a backwards, grimacing, "Where was it that was invaded? The archive room again?!"

The AI's reply actually stuttered a bit, "No, it's ...... the main God's Hall ...... And, this time, it seems to be a frontal invasion ...... "

On the shattered wall of information, the hand-like mechanical exoskeleton gripped the edges of the vortex-swirling fissure and moved around, making the clicking sound of mechanical joints twisting.

There were transparent fragments of information rustling and slipping through the visitor's fingers.

Ji Zuoshan's heavily armed mental body stepped in from the outside and, with a small sigh of relief, faced the crowd of systems, who had long been frozen in place, and bowed gently, "Please calm down, everyone. This is not an invasion, it is an invited visit. I'm looking for a host named Chi Xiaochi and a system named 061. May I ask, are they here?"

"In a jiffy".

Chi Xiaochi's fingers, which wore a special ring made of Naaman metal, still tapped nonchalantly on the arm of the chair.

He said softly, "My witnesses have come knocking at the door, Lord God, aren't you going to greet them?"

In a panic, the main god left Chi Xiaochi, who was already tied up, and swung open the door of "In a Flash", and was about to run out, when his whole body froze in place, and his complexion gradually changed from iron blue to greenish gray.

"In a jiffy" isolates most of the outside world's noises, and it's always amazingly quiet.

Fang Cai, the main god put his full attention on Chi Xiaochi, not realizing in the slightest that the PA system had been interfered with and invaded at some point.

There was a slight delay in the amplification, so when the Lord God opened the door to "In A Moment", a voice belonging to Chi Xiaochi was echoing in the vast and dead silence of the Lord God's space: "My witnesses are knocking at the door, aren't you going to greet them?"

All the systems that were in the main god's space and were unaware of the truth, including 023, 009, looked at the direction where the main god stood in shock, and even the one in charge of the security system just stood in silence, not taking any defensive measures against Ji Zuoshan who broke the firewall with his bare hands.

In the midst of the countless gazes, the Lord God was like being doused with ice water, and in a state of shock and anger, he turned back to look inside "In A Moment's Time" ---

Lou Ying was at Chi Xiaochi's side as soon as the door to "In a Flash" opened.

Chi Xiaochi, half untied by Lou Ying, turned and looked back at it, one arm resting on the back of the chair, his demeanor relaxed, "Now, Lord God, are you going to format all the systems under you, or are you going to take a guess as to how long, roughly, it will take for your monitoring system to get here?"