The living room suddenly fell silent. It was as if the sound source of a TV had been cut off. The few of them stood rooted to the ground. Their mouths were agape, but no one made a sound.
If there was a word to describe the atmosphere, it would be "bewildered".
Soulsqn was a little flustered. She lowered her voice as if she was afraid that she would scare someone. She stammered, "W-What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? Why aren't you guys talking? "
It was at this moment that Lin Sanjiu came to her senses.
She hurriedly took a few steps back from her grand prize. She thought that she would bump into the transparent barrier, but to her surprise, the barrier behind her had already been opened. When Ji Shanqing saw that he had been abandoned, he immediately called out, "Sis!" and hurriedly followed after her.
However, just as he took a step forward, his face suddenly flattened. He had bumped into something invisible. It turned out that after Lin Sanjiu was released, a new barrier had appeared and isolated the grand prize from the outside world.
Lin Sanjiu turned her head subconsciously and saw Puppeteer snorting coldly. He looked away.
"What's going on?" Ji Shanqing's face was flushed. He slammed the barrier with all his might. "I really don't know what the Veda is!"
Lin Sanjiu stared blankly at the familiar face. He looked so real. The wrinkles between his brows, the flush on his cheeks when he was excited, the veins on the back of his hands and neck … She found it hard to believe that he wasn't the real grand prize.
"Explain everything from the beginning," Puppeteer said coldly as he stared at Soulsqn.
The young girl with twin ponytails was still a little embarrassed. Her face kept sliding down. Soulsqn was still pressing down on the deformed human body on the ground. She sighed and said, "Lord Puppeteer, please trap this guy too. Don't let him escape."
The human body was just one of the countless unconscious people on the ground. Besides, half of its head had been crushed by Soulsqn, so it was no longer alive. No matter how Puppeteer looked at it, it did not look like it would jump up and run away. Puppeteer glanced at Soulsqn suspiciously but nodded anyway.
After Soulsqn broke free from the barrier, she studied the grand prize and the human body trapped in the glass box. Finally, she said in a cheerful tone, "This is great!"
"What?" Lin Sanjiu asked blankly. "What's done?"
Even though Soulsqn had lived for many years, her way of doing things had always been very simple, crude, and straightforward. When she met someone who was not convinced, she would just go up and kill them. This was an effective tactic, and it did not require much intelligence or eloquence. Therefore, it took a lot of effort to explain the situation to the two humans.
"Let me start from the beginning." Soulsqn sighed and looked at the two of them pitifully. She could not understand what was going on. From its point of view, this matter was extremely simple. "As soon as we came out of the wormhole, we saw this Li Shanqing, right?"
The two of them nodded blankly.
"If he was created here, then the Veda that created him must be here as well, right? We just can't see it. "
That might not be the case!
Lin Sanjiu opened her mouth and swallowed her retort. She was afraid that she would make Soulsqn's already confusing explanation even more confusing.
"What if the Veda went back and reported this to the others? What should we do then?" Soulsqn said smugly, "I placed an ability on this Li Shanqing so that Lord Puppeteer and you would not see the same face. That was why Lord Puppeteer insisted on killing him. When the Veda saw that they were going to kill my work, they definitely wouldn't leave. They would stay to save him. "
'Does this make any sense? ' Lin Sanjiu silently suppressed the confusion in her heart.
"Then, when I told Lord Puppeteer to open the barrier and kill him, I knew that the Veda would definitely make a move. So, I kept an eye on the situation around the barrier. Lord Puppeteer didn't incorporate any more puppets, but suddenly, someone on the ground opened his eyes. I noticed it right away! " Soulsqn said happily, "I already knew that these Veda could put on a human skin, so I rushed forward and crushed the skull. Just like the last time, I trapped the Veda inside the barrier. Oh no!"
Both of them were silent for a long time. Coincidentally, they had too many questions to refute Soulsqn's words, but they didn't know where to start.
After a few seconds, Lin Sanjiu asked hesitantly, "In other words, there's a Veda trapped inside the barrier right now?"
"That's right."
"How do you know that the Veda would stay to save him?"
Soulsqn was also stunned. "I worked so hard to create this thing, but it's going to be killed before it can do anything. If I were you, I would also stay!"
Lin Sanjiu's almost self-righteous linear thinking was like a fishbone stuck in her throat. Just as Lin Sanjiu was frowning and planning to interrogate Soulsqn with questions, Puppeteer suddenly asked softly, "Why is it that when I look at Li Qingshan, he doesn't have a face, and there's only a bunch of numbers flashing around him?"
Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She finally understood what Puppeteer wanted her to see. "No wonder he said I'm blind!"
Soulsqn suddenly stuttered, "This … is because I've cast a layer of my ability on you … I didn't expect it. My lord, you didn't realize it at all …"
Puppeteer had indeed let down his guard against the flesh worm during their journey here. He scrunched up half of his face and suppressed his anger. "Why?"
"If both of you work together, you can kill him in the blink of an eye. How are you going to lure the Veda out?"
Both of them were flabbergasted. For a moment, they didn't know how to respond to Soulsqn's logic. At that moment, a voice that they had never heard before suddenly rang out in the hall. It startled both of them. "What … do you want to do to me?"
The voice was hoarse and muffled. It was as if the person's vocal organs were broken and he was barely able to speak. Lin Sanjiu followed the source of the voice with a sense of disbelief. Her gaze fell on the deformed head.
Soulsqn had entered the body through the mouth, so there was only a large, black hole where the mouth used to be. The faint, muffled voice came from the black hole.
"You … You are a Veda?" Lin Sanjiu asked, bewildered.
"Didn't that strange creature tell you? I am." After a pause, the voice continued, "My name is Sven Bin Caliside. You can call me Sven. We've already met once, in the Salvation of God instance dungeon. "
"You are the younger brother!" Lin Sanjiu exclaimed in shock. "Why are you here —"
Sven ignored her. He sighed deeply and said, "As a Veda, I don't believe in fate. But … Other than being unlucky, I can't explain why I was captured by you guys. "
"What do you mean?"
"Because that strange creature's speculation about me …" Sven said calmly, "Other than the first sentence, everything else is wrong."
Soulsqn leaped up, but Puppeteer pressed her back down.
"However, it managed to arrive at the correct conclusion step by step, even making the right choice. Do you know how low the probability of that happening is?"
"For example?"
"For example, it said that this young man was written here, so the Veda who wrote him is also here. This young man was indeed programmed, but not here, and not by me. However, I have just returned from the Salvation of God and am now in this hall — "Even the Veda seemed to be confused. Sven asked softly, perplexed," Tell me, how did I manage to come up with such a flawed explanation? How did I manage to come up with such a good guess? "
"Slander!" Soulsqn leaped up again. "If the conclusion is correct, it means that I'm right!"
Even Sven ignored her.
The Veda sighed and said, "It also said that because I was the one who wrote this young man, I would stay and wait for an opportunity to save him in order to protect my work."
"What's wrong with that?!" Soulsqn was the only one who was so agitated.
"Why don't you think about it … If I can write him once, I can write him ten times. So what if you guys kill him? I can always go back and write him again. It's just a matter of time. "
This time, the twintailed young lady was speechless.
"However, I really have to stay and protect him. I can't let you guys kill him because I didn't write him." Sven sounded a little confused. He turned to Lin Sanjiu and Puppeteer and asked, "Is this really just a coincidence?"
"Why do you have to protect him?" Puppeteer, who looked like he didn't care about anyone else, asked the question.
"It's a long story," Sven said calmly. "When I met this young man in the Salvation of God, I felt that there was something wrong with him. It was as if he had been written. I didn't expect that he would escape from me. After spending so much time, I finally found him and brought him to our territory. I wanted to study him … But as soon as I arrived, I bumped into you guys. You guys kept saying that you wanted to kill him. I had just returned, so I had no idea that you guys were being hunted by my compatriots. Left with no other choice, I put on a physical body and tried to negotiate with you guys. You know what happened next. This creature hit the mark again by a fluke. "
Before Sven could finish his sentence, Lin Sanjiu jumped up abruptly. She didn't hear the second half of Sven's words. She turned to look at Ji Shanqing. When their eyes met, they both had a complicated look on their faces.
"Is this grand prize really the real person?"
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