The scenery in the Singularity gave Gu Gu an indescribable sense of comfort, like a cozy home that could rival a golden or silver nest. However, thinking about how this place almost trapped Lie Beishuang in the quagmire gave Gu Gu a sense of urgency.
It would be best to leave as soon as possible.
Gu Gu quickly found the exit. The layer of light membrane was still there, with a long staircase on the other side leading to Lie Beishuang’s office.
Climbing the stairs briskly, Gu Gu was pondering how to make a dramatic entrance and startle the big cat. Suddenly, the surrounding darkness began to twist, like a piece of black silk being pulled and spun from the center. The once-quiet space was now filled with sounds that grew clearer and clearer in Gu Gu’s ears.
“Master, there is one more thing. The main consciousness seems to have increased its dissatisfaction with you…”
Gu Gu stopped in his tracks, recognizing that it was the staff’s voice.
“I recorded the situation from that day. When I entered the Singularity to bring you out, a quagmire suddenly appeared beneath your feet and kept expanding. You tried to escape but got stuck in the quagmire. I had to quickly change form to slow down your sinking speed.
Fortunately, later, the young master arrived and managed to calm you down and guide us out of the quagmire.”
Listening to the staff’s description, Gu Gu put on a stern face and nodded repeatedly.
“Only the main consciousness can control the Singularity. This action of the main consciousness is clearly expressing dissatisfaction or issuing a warning to you. But before that, you were only running and rolling on the grass and licking fur, without any threatening actions.”
“Given this situation, the main consciousness might do something even more dangerous to you. My advice is to avoid entering the Singularity or the Second World for a while and have the inspector increase patrols.”
“Have similar incidents happened before?”
Hearing the deep and heavy voice of the big cat, it felt like feathers were brushing against Gu Gu’s ear, making it itchy.
“There have been incidents.” The staff hesitated slightly, then continued after a pause.
“According to confidential documents from the Alliance.
During the 14th term of the Alliance, Chief Bai Ying was involved in spreading rumors and slandering opponents during his election campaign. After taking office, he did not receive congratulations from the main consciousness. His tenure was marked by poor governance, resulting in the formation of complex factions within the Alliance and frequent struggles. Later, it was revealed that he had discriminatory views. When he entered the Singularity, he was expelled by the main consciousness. Bai Ying was impeached and removed from office before his term ended.
However, when he entered the Singularity, he was only expelled, while your situation seems significantly more dangerous.”
Accidentally hearing this confidential information, Gu Gu instinctively shrugged and took a small step back.
The main consciousness is really something. Gu Gu, while stepping back, felt unfair for Lie Beishuang.
The big cat worked so hard. Although it might not be said to be the best chief the Alliance has ever had, it is certainly not bad.
Gu Gu had seen the data on the StarNet. After Lie Beishuang took office, the Alliance’s GNH (Gross National Happiness) steadily increased.
A chief who makes everyone feel increasingly happy must be doing well.
“I will encrypt this matter.” The staff said in a somewhat comforting tone, “I will inform the young master and make sure he does not disclose this matter.”
I won’t say anything, Gu Gu instinctively covered his mouth.
“Strangely, Master, you have never angered the main consciousness. Why does the main consciousness have such aversion to you?” The staff was also puzzled.
The space fell silent for a long time. Gu Gu had retreated to the light membrane but heard the big cat speak indifferently.
“Some people are born into this world as a sin, without needing any other reason.”
Gu Gu stood in front of the light membrane, reminiscing about Lie Beishuang’s background, feeling a pang of heartache.
The gloomy appearance of the big cat in his youth repeatedly appeared in Gu Gu’s mind. Those beautiful golden eyes, hidden behind his hair, seemed devoid of life, as if he had lost interest in everything, preferring solitude and avoiding any plans beyond his own.
Lacking the vitality of youth, like a leaf fallen from a branch too early, still green but devoid of its original soul.
Gu Gu did not know how much cruel baptism Lie Beishuang had to endure, how many life-and-death scenes he had to experience, repeatedly contemplating and reflecting before finally reaching this calm demeanor. The transformation must have been extremely painful, yet no one was there to stay by his side.
Now, with the clouds parting at last, why did this strange main consciousness still make things difficult for Lie Beishuang without reason?
Staring at the light membrane before him, Gu Gu was furious.
What to do when your master is unfairly bullied?
The answer is clear: must seek justice for the master!
Striding into the Singularity, Gu Gu was determined and fierce. Seeing the small wooden house on the hill, he squinted his eyes and rolled up his sleeves.
“Main consciousness, why are you bullying my Lie Beishuang!” Gu Gu shouted at the small wooden house. “What did my Lie Beishuang do to provoke you? If you have the guts, come out and say it! Setting up a quagmire to trap Lie Beishuang—watch me tear your place apart!”
Without hesitation, Gu Gu began to dismantle the wooden house with his bare hands, aided by the mechanical exoskeleton’s strength.
The wooden house had a simple structure, and Gu Gu dismantled it with ease. In no time, the house lost its balance, collapsing with a loud crash, and the wood rolled down the hillside, leaving a scene of devastation.
Feeling quite exhausted, Gu Gu sat on a piece of wood to rest, wiping the sweat from his forehead. A piece of paper floated down from not too far away, landing gently in front of him.
Seeing the black blotch on the paper, Gu Gu picked it up, recognizing it as his own drawing after staring at it for a while.
At the time when he came in to find Lie Beishuang, he saw colored pens in the small wooden house and drew a picture on a piece of paper. He intended to draw Lie Beishuang in the center but ended up with an abstract blob of black, so he simply drew concentric circles of black, resulting in a black blotch.
Looking at the drawing in front of him, Gu Gu suddenly had an uncontrollable thought.
The center of the drawing was Lie Beishuang, with concentric circles of black around it. Could this scene… resemble Lie Beishuang’s encounter?
Standing still, a quagmire suddenly appeared under his feet, rapidly expanding.
Lie Beishuang’s color was black, and the quagmire was also black.
Gu Gu scratched his head, finding this thought a bit strange. He wasn’t a magical brush, so how could what he drew appear?
After pondering for a while, Gu Gu recalled a great person’s view, “Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth.”
Why not give it a try?
Putting away the black blotch drawing, Gu Gu turned around, noticing the dismantled wooden house. The colored pens and paper… were still underneath.
Reluctantly moving all the wood aside, Gu Gu finally found the pens that were trapped under the debris, intact. However, after rummaging, he could not find where the paper was.
He recalled that he had taken the paper from above the desk. Gu Gu found the desk, which had been crushed into wooden shards. After a while, he realized it was a plain desk without any bookshelves. So where did the paper come from?
Gu Gu fell into deep thought. Like last time, he raised his hand to pretend to pull, but his hand was empty.
Deliberately trying to get paper, he couldn’t obtain any. Gu Gu picked up the colored pen box, sat on the grass, and pretended to draw something. He raised his hand and made a false attempt, still finding nothing.
Did he remember wrong?
Puzzled, Gu Gu returned to the ruins. As he was about to put down the colored pens, he found another identical box of colored pens in the previous position.
Gu Gu quickly understood. Sitting on the grass, he opened the colored pen box, felt around beside him, and after several attempts, he found a stack of paper.
After repeating the process several times, Gu Gu figured out the pattern.
To obtain something here, first, you have to believe that such a thing exists. Second, you must use your subconscious mind. Deliberate attempts won’t work.
Gu Gu took the paper and pen and drew a stick figure representing himself. Next to the stick figure, he drew an apple tree with a swing underneath.
After finishing the drawing, Gu Gu felt a slight tremor in the ground. Almost instantly, a sapling burst through the soil, rapidly growing into a towering tree. Among its dense branches and leaves, red apples hung just like those in Gu Gu’s drawing.
Amazed, Gu Gu looked up and quickly ran to the other side of the tree, where he indeed saw the swinging swing.
How… is this possible?
It really can make what you draw appear!
Lie Beishuang being surrounded by the quagmire was because of him!
Gu Gu couldn’t believe it and pinched himself, but felt no pain.
But it clearly wasn’t a dream!
Gu Gu circled around the apple tree, unable to resist recalling what the staff had said.
Only the main consciousness can control the Singularity.
But he was just a living human. How could he be the main consciousness!
As Gu Gu walked around the apple tree, an apple suddenly fell from above and hit his head.
He had just subconsciously thought of the story of Newton and the apple. This was the consequence.
Sometimes people can’t control their subconscious. Like now, Gu Gu bit into the fallen apple and accidentally recalled a joke from the internet.
What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?
Finding half a worm.
Gu Gu looked down at the apple and indeed saw half a worm inside.
He couldn’t stay here.
Gu Gu picked up the pen and quickly drew a door on the paper, with one side representing the Singularity and the other the Second World.
Opening the door, Gu Gu opened his eyes and finally saw the normal scene of the Second World.
Standing in front of the insect swarm instance, Gu Gu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The Singularity was truly terrifying, especially for someone like Gu Gu, who used to enjoy horror and monster movies. With a lapse in thought, anything could appear.
Standing in front of the instance, Gu Gu carefully read the introduction. The low-level insect swarm instance only featured non-mutated low-level worker insects, but even so, one must remain vigilant. The advantage of the insect swarm is their large numbers; if the previous batch of worker insects isn’t cleared in time, the next batch will arrive and players can be overwhelmed by the sea of insects.
Gu Gu took out the transparent staff, waved it a few times to get a feel, and as he moved, his backpack shifted.
“Hm?” Gu Gu sensed that there seemed to be something alive in the backpack. Opening it, he found an apple that wasn’t there before.
Gu Gu clearly remembered throwing away the apple with the worm from the Singularity. Where did this one come from?
Picking up the apple, Gu Gu checked its attributes, which only displayed the word “apple.”
Just as Gu Gu was about to put the apple back in the backpack, he suddenly remembered something.
The Alliance didn’t sell apples; apples were something that only existed on Earth a thousand years ago. And the lightness of his backpack only meant one thing.
The pet egg had hatched.
If Gu Gu remembered correctly, the pet egg would gain new forms from the fairy tales he told it, and by the last time he saw it, it had accumulated 106 forms.
The one in his hand was likely the poisoned apple given to Snow White by the wicked queen in the story.
It even managed to conceal its toxic attribute, making others think it was just an ordinary apple!
Gu Gu squinted, realizing that things were not simple.
“Little one?” Gu Gu patted the poisoned apple. “Could you change your form for Lie Beishuang?”
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