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Chapter 1064 Chapter One Thousand and Sixty-One·"Caught by tides on all sides (Part 2)."

 Input the code and output the result - in essence, it is equivalent to "fiddle with one end of the thread, and the other end will change accordingly". There is no need to stick to silk threads at all.

 —system command (system command).

If everyone is equivalent to a "player" and their [life] is equivalent to a [game], then the thing that can best control their destiny must not be a thread. What could it be?

 What can it be that can control [the game]?

ˆKeyboard and mouse.

  It is a game system instruction, a program, and a code.

　　—It’s here.

This central control room is full of monitoring screens, these keyboards and system commands—

　　——It is the [destiny] that is locked.

  Knock it down with your fingertips and the result will be output.

 Press "←" to delete, left-click to select, "Ctrl+v" to paste, and "Ctrl+c" to cut.

 Complete instructions.

 When he looked around at the monitor screens, his neck felt stiff, and his eyes were stuck between the keyboards.

 …A slight sense of panic hovers.

  People’s lives in all eras are broadcast to the central control room through monitoring screens and transformed into a dream patrol game. People simply cannot seek truth and freedom while being monitored.

Those who play games don’t know that their own world is also someone else’s game. When others are playing games, they don’t know that they themselves will also be other people’s games, other people’s other people’s games… until infinity.

Hei Que also said before that those "Su Ming'an fragments" live in various rooms, and are watched and fine-tuned by Hei Que, just like the Truman world. Little does he know that the world Black Magpie lives in is still a Truman world. He claimed to be the Lord of the Nine Netherworlds, but he didn't know that the real Lord of the Nine Netherworlds was sitting in the central control room, laughing at his struggle and pain, and implanted in him the subconscious idea that he was "not allowed to enter the central control room."

“…So, [Killing Destiny] means destroying this central control room…right?” Su Mingan said.

 It was difficult for him to think of this truth.

Even though he is well aware of the stubbornness of fate, he feels that it is magical, like a dispelling spell. But he didn't expect that the essence of fate is keyboard and mouse.

  —It is the absolute suppression of [three-dimensional] on [quasi-two-dimensional].

  —It is the absolute monitoring of [off-screen] on [on-screen].

  —It is the control of [Instruction] over [Program].

 At this time, he saw a monitoring screen from the steam age. He stepped forward and fixed the screen's perspective on an airship in the sky. This is Su Lin and Xiao Hei's airship.

 “Do you mind if I do something?” Su Mingan tilted his head.

"I don't mind. I don't play this game anymore, and Xiao Hei is gone." Su Lin said lightly.

Su Wensheng didn’t stop him. He looked at Su Mingan with interest.

Su Mingan followed the instructions on the note and entered [7837]. The moment his fingers tapped the last number, a very destructive scene appeared - the airship suddenly seemed to be ravaged by some invisible hand, and the next second it fell apart and fell into the sea.

Such a solid airship crashes only because of a few keystrokes from someone off-screen. The command meaning of [7837] is: eliminate the items in the center of the screen.

 …This made the chill freeze in the hall.

Su Mingan stared at the monitoring screen in silence. In the picture, people on the ground shouted:

“Look, the airship in the sky has fallen!”

“Could it be that the gods were angry and thought there should be no flying objects in the sky, so they chopped them down?”

“O God! Forgive us! I will go to report to the church and hold a ceremony to appease the anger of the gods...”

They knelt on the ground and prayed fearfully into the air. It's almost like... the game's real-time calculation system.

 …If everything is typed by keyboard and arbitrarily changed by mouse, how can the people on the screen resist fate?

 —Who are they to express their hatred to?

Who are you going to pick a knife against?

 —Who do you want to be filled with resentment and anger against?

 The controller outside the screen is watching their every move coldly and can change their life's destiny with just a few input commands.

Who can break through this barrier and stab the outsiders with a knife?

How are they going to kill [Destiny]?

Su Mingan suddenly felt heavy breathing.

 He looked at these screens, and the dense screens glowed faintly:

 …

  【24 years, the age of the old gods. People sang the songs of the old gods and recited the poems of the old gods, hoping to bring back the old gods. 】

 【Game name: "History of Faith Struggle". This game is a camp-based game. As a player, your ultimate mission is to assist the gods in erasing the remaining traces of the old gods. 】

  【Current main plot progress: 66%】

  【Online number: 29103819 people, emotional accumulation: 1210239471 people. 】

 …

  【87 years, primitive era. As the gods erased all traces of the old gods, humanity fell into a primitive period of slash-and-burn farming, where men farmed and women weaved. 】

　　【Game name: "Primitive Village". This game is a farming management game. As a player, your ultimate task is to build the most powerful tribe. 】

  【Current main plot progress: 85%】

  【Number of people online: 201927421, emotional accumulation: 1920391471. 】

 …

  【213 years, the age of knights. People advocated knightly gladiatorial combat to determine the ownership of fiefdoms and slaves. The plague spread, many people turned into monsters, and the people were in dire straits. 】

　　【Game name: "Knights and the Living Dead". This game is a competitive strategy game. As a player, your ultimate task is to find a potion to end the plague. 】

  【Current main plot progress: 76%】

  【Online number: 129,103,721 people, emotional accumulation: 381,926,318 people. 】

 …

  【287 years, the undersea era. The mermaids of Atlantis met the explorers on land. The mermaids exchanged pearls for food. The careerists began to capture the mermaids, and the two sides launched a long war. 】

　　【Game name: "The Legend of Atlantis". This game is an RPG. As a player, your ultimate mission is to explore the deepest secrets of Atlantis. 】

  【Current main plot progress: 68%】

  【Online number: 381110121 people, emotional accumulation: 2910271812 people. 】

 …

  【328 years, the age of witches. The church captures the witch, and Blackberry, the child adopted by the Supreme Magician, becomes emperor and intends to unify the world. 】

  【Game name: "Witch's Narrative". This game is a war strategy game. As a player, your ultimate task is to help or prevent the BlackBerry unification. 】

  【Current main plot progress: 87%】

  【Number of people online: 391,027,419 people, emotional accumulation: 3629,371,021 people. 】

 …

  【398 years, Fu Zhuan era. Orientals who mastered talisman and seal script came by ferry, and their cultures blended together, creating a strong academic atmosphere. 】

  【Game name: "Oriental Talisman and Seal Script". This game is a casual farming game. As a player, your ultimate task is to build an eternal university and train students. 】

  【Current main line...】

 …

 【Magic Era...】

【steampunk era…】

 【Era of Faith...】

  【Martial Arts Era...】    【Lou Yue Era...】

【Industrial Age…】

  【Electrical Age...】

 …

  【818 years, experimental era. Politicians capture children and lock them in experimental cities in an attempt to create qualified people. 】

　　【Game name: "Escape from Experimental City". This game is a highly difficult operation game. As an experimental subject, your ultimate task is to burn down the experimental city. 】

  【Current main line...】

 …

Su Mingan seemed to be reading a vast history book.

 From the earliest 23rd year of the Old Day to the 818th year of the Old Day. Countless eras gather here, and they are all called "games".

The current world is in the year 833. From this point of view, fortunately, this world does not belong to the game... huh?

Su Mingan suddenly thought of something.

 In an instant, a thunderous light flashed across his mind.

 He ​​looked at the instruction codes on these notes: [Make stones], [Gather labor force], [A miracle], [Popularize scientific knowledge], [Plague]...and suddenly realized something.

 Feeling extremely cold in hands and feet.

 …

　　【Throughout the game, you will have three values: faith value, kindness value, and danger value. 】

 【When any of the three values ​​reaches 100 points or 0 points, the game will end immediately. Please balance these three values ​​until you reach the ending. 】

Su Mingan immediately looked down and saw an [Action Card] icon. He clicked on it and saw that there were various cards inside - [Make Stone], [Make Plant], [Miracle of Advent], [Plague]...]

　　【He pulled out the card configuration of [Stones] + [Labour Gathering] and placed these cards where they were most in demand. Soon, the faith value increased. This is indeed a very interesting strategy game that is not that tiring to play. 】

 …

 The pieces of keyboard seemed to begin to distort in his eyes.

 "Cat and Her", "Louyue Kingdom", "Girl's Dream Project", "Witch Narrative", each game represents an era, but... what about "Destiny Simulator"?

It does not represent any era, it is just a simulation game. Su Ming'an had previously wondered why there was such a special case and why it didn't have any main plot. But now he suddenly realized that this "Destiny Simulator" originally represented...

　　present world.

 —This world is also a game.

 The current world is ongoing and will be changed by Su Mingan. Of course, it does not have a main plot.

 …

　　【There is no novice tutorial in this game, and every second symbolizes the rapid passage of time on the map. Just by being in a daze for a second, months may have passed on the map. This made Su Mingan feel confused. If he were "Xiao Su", he would only stay on the map for twenty days and would not span such a long time. 】

 …

 All games only represent one era, why does Destiny Simulator span such a long time?

 …Because the concept of "time" in the central control room is flat.

Jiuyou's central control room is the place where this game is played. When Su Mingan plays "action cards" one after another in "Destiny Simulator", Su Wensheng will timely tap the keyboard according to the simulated situation and enter system commands for each era.

 In this way...the "simulation effect that spans thousands of years" is completely achieved.

The action cards played by Su Mingan in the game were realized through Su Wensheng's central control room.

Dream Patrollers claim to be beyond the chessboard and can play in other people's eras. However - the era they live in is also a game, and its name is Destiny Simulator.

No one can escape.

 …

　　【"Xiao Su" is your protagonist in the game. You cannot control the actions of most people, but you can control the actions of "Xiao Su". Please use "Xiao Su" to influence the world! 】

 …

 “So, Xiao Su is…” Su Mingan muttered to himself.

Su Wensheng stepped off the platform. The bare flower branches opened slightly with his palm and fell to the ground.

 He looked at Su Ming'an with a smile, his eyes filled with colorful light.

"'Xiao Su', who else here has the surname Su?" Su Wensheng asked.

Su Mingan finally knew who Xiao Su was.

 But something suddenly occurred to him.

 …

  【Name: Xiaosu】

  【Health: 78】

  【Life expectancy:? 】

 【Skill: Death Recovery】

  【Expectation: World】

 【Character: Calm and composed】

 …

 This is Xiao Su’s data in the game. It clearly states “death rollback”, so Su Ming’an feels that Xiao Su is himself.

“The death rollback belongs to me. Since you are Xiao Su, why does it say ‘death rollback’ on the panel?” Su Mingan said. His death retaliation is not Xiaosu's.

"Let me ask you a question." Su Wensheng suddenly approached: "...what did you name your reply?"

Su Mingan was startled.

 He has two retracements, his own death retracement and the unique retracement of the tenth world. He named the unique backstage of the tenth world—

 …Xiao Su returns to the file.

  “—!”

 For a moment, his throat seemed to be blocked. Goosebumps suddenly appeared all over my body.

…how did you do that?

 …Xiao Su’s return…Xiao Su’s return…

"Let me tell you, fate is a very stubborn thing." Su Wensheng lowered his eyebrows and smiled without emotion: "'Xiao Su's return' is something I give you. I am 'Xiao Su', so you give this When the back file was named, its name was - 'Xiao Su Hui File'. You see, the fate is so perfect."

 The logic is perfect. But what makes this logic true is the naming that I casually thought of.

Su Mingan was silent for a long time:

  “…Is it calculation again? Calculate my naming habits?”

 He does not believe that his destiny is controlled by anyone.

"Whatever you think, the omniscient Laplace's Demon is essentially a calculation of extreme complexity." Su Wensheng spread his hands and suddenly raised his head.

Su Mingan looked back.

Su Lin stood in front of a monitoring screen, with flowing fire surrounding her hands.

 (End of this chapter)