"Are you implying that the entire island plane has been set up by someone?" Li Yunmu still didn't understand much, but that wasn't important. The important thing was that he had grasped the main point.
As for whether it was the work of a human or not, it was just a general concept. Regardless of who had set it up, it had to be done consciously.
[Yes, the current situation is what the creator had anticipated.]
"Then what is the goal of the creator? Why did you mention that it was a protective mechanism? "Li Yunmu felt that more and more mysteries couldn't be unraveled.
[According to the comprehensive information, the creator is searching for a successor for the island. No, it would be more accurate to say that he is searching for a successor.]
"The person who set up this trap made use of the dimensional passageway's energy consumption by invaders, which was why the dimensional passageway was naturally closed, achieving a situation where the invaders were protected. As for why the System said that the person who set up this trap was choosing an inheritor, the answer is obvious. When the entire island's dimension is closed, the inheritor will be able to survive the combined resistance of all the creatures on the island and obtain the Boundary Stele's recognition. Only then will the inheritor become the island's true inheritor."
The system explained a lot in one breath, analyzing every aspect of the situation extremely clearly. Li Yunmu finally understood what was going on.
But understanding was one thing, but after understanding it, he couldn't help but curse the perverted mind of the creator. How was this choosing a successor? It was simply using a method to harm others.
"Then according to your meaning, if we want to return to the Origin World, there is only one method to obtain the inheritance of the island?" Li Yunmu asked.
[Yes, after becoming a successor, you should be able to find the method to reopen the passage to the Origin World. Apart from that, there is another method to leave.]
"What method?"
[Absolute power. When you possess absolute power and blast open the barrier between the two worlds, you can go anywhere in the vast world.] The System repeated its theory of absolute power in a calm, seductive, and yearning tone.
Li Yunmu suddenly had a guess, and he couldn't help but ask, "System, was your previous master a person who was obsessed with absolute power?"
However, when he asked this, the System fell into a long silence. After a while, it said, "The host guessed wrong. The previous owner of the System was an incompetent person. He received my help, but he did not live for more than three months."
"Pu!" Li Yunmu almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
This was the first time he talked about the origin of the System. In the past, the System had never mentioned it, but now he could talk about it.
Presumably, it was because the system had already risen to the fifth level. Secondly, although the system was an intelligence, Li Yunmu knew that it was an extremely high level one. Perhaps it didn't have any emotions, but Li Yunmu's recent performance had probably obtained its approval and sympathy.
Therefore, they could talk a little about the origin of it now.
"How long was the previous host? Which host am I?" For a moment, Li Yunmu forgot about the perilous situation of Zheng Quan and the others and seized the opportunity to ask about this matter.
[Host, you are the one hundred and fifty-sixth host. The previous master was born two hundred and eighty-nine years ago. At that time, the human civilization of Earth encountered the dimensional meteors and entered the Dark Ages.
Unfortunately, the previous master was incompetent and perished early. Otherwise, the Dark Ages of Earth wouldn't have been like this.]
This time, the System revealed a lot of information, but Li Yunmu understood one thing. He was flabbergasted. "So your responsibility is to protect the humans of Earth?"
Li Yunmu couldn't be blamed for thinking too much. Ten years before the Dark Ages, the System had been born.
And now, the Heavenly Transformation was about to occur, and the System had been born a few years in advance to choose him. If the System wasn't a guardian, then what was it?
However, the System's next reply almost caused Li Yunmu to collapse. The difference between this answer and what he had guessed was like the difference between heaven and earth.
[Host, you have guessed wrong. Every time the System appears before the Great Calamity of Earth, it isn't to protect the humans of Earth. Instead, it is to take advantage of the chaos of the Great Calamity to nurture host's rise. Only during the chaos of the Great Calamity is the System's best opportunity.]
Li Yunmu was completely startled by the System's reply.
It wasn't a guardian or a savior, but the System's words weren't wrong. In times of peace, there really weren't many chances to rise to the top.
Just when Li Yunmu wanted to obtain more information about the System's origin, the situation on Zheng Quan's side finally changed.
Under the slaughter of twenty something giant scorpions, regardless of whether it was Zheng Quan or Zhang Yuan, both sides had no choice but to flee into the jungle under the pursuit of the black scorpions.
Clearly, this wasn't a good idea, but they didn't have any other choice.
"Pollen, ghost kapok powder, quickly take it out, we need to escape into the jungle." Zhang Yuan was almost going crazy.
The situation which had originally been under his control had suddenly disappeared along with the collapse of the passage, which was a huge change.
The most frightening thing was that not only was their path of retreat cut off from the Origin World, a terrifying giant killer scorpion had also appeared to hunt them.
Even with Zhang Yuan's strength, who had the qualifications to challenge the top ten of residential region fifteen, he and Lei Yun managed to kill a killer scorpion with great difficulty, but now they had no choice but to flee.
It was all because the giant scorpions were extremely terrifying.
Their thick armor made it difficult for people to kill them in a short period of time, and their enormous pincers could easily cut steel into two.
As long as the stinger of the scorpion's tail entered the body, the person would instantly turn into a pool of poison. It couldn't be described as an ordinary poison, but as an enormous poison.
When it reached the level of enormous poison, let alone a flux expert's constitution, even a great flux expert's tyrannical constitution wouldn't necessarily be able to resist it.
Just this point alone made Zhang Yuan and Zheng Quan lose all thoughts of resisting, not to mention the fact that there were still more than twenty scorpions.
Entering the jungle was their only way to escape. This was probably the result that the creator of the Origin World wanted, or at least, that was what Li Yunmu guessed.
Although Zhang Yuan and the others knew that there were countless giant ants and unknown dangers in the jungle, they could only do this. The only thing which gave them a glimmer of hope was the ghost kapok powder which Zheng Quan had prepared beforehand.
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