No matter what, Ke Long was finally revived.
Mo Qiong was so excited that he hugged Ke Long.
"How do you feel?"
"…" Ke Long was still in a daze.
He glanced at Mo Qiong and a smile appeared on his face.
Then, he lowered his head and touched his body. Tears flowed down his face.
"I've never felt better …"
The characteristic of the fifth element was an immortal soul and eternal torment.
Torment could only be felt after death. Once one was alive, it would naturally feel like they were alive. The pain from before would all disappear.
"President!" Ke Long trembled as he looked at Polo. He did not expect to see the president again.
Polo was still so young. He did not move in front of Ke Long. He was still hugging Queen.
"Long time no see, Ke Long. This is Hayley, the queen of the bug race." Polo introduced his wife.
Ke Long wasn't surprised. Or rather, at this moment, nothing could shock him.
"As expected of the president …"
Ke Long said. He then bowed to Queen. "Thank you for giving me a new life …"
Mo Qiong hesitated for a moment and then bowed.
Unexpectedly, Queen did not even look at Ke Long. She held Polo and said, "You have seven days to live."
"What!" Ke Long trembled. His eyes were filled with anger. "Seven days?"
Before Queen could say anything, Polo stared at Ke Long like a lion. "Do you want to die?"
Ke Long lowered his head bitterly. "Yes. Kill me. The kind that will disappear completely. "
Mo Qiong said anxiously, "There must be a way. You have to live first."
Ke Long looked at Mo Qiong and said, "Do people live longer or die longer?"
Mo Qiong was stunned. He understood what Ke Long meant. If he could not get rid of this characteristic, then it would be meaningless to live and escape the pain for a while.
It was like giving a blind person three days of light. It was the cruelest thing.
After experiencing the pain, Ke Long could not bear to return to that state after seven days. He did not even want to live for another seven days.
He only wanted to die forever. It was the same as Lin Guang, who had experienced the horror of the white cloth.
"Wait!" Mo Qiong hurriedly said. "Isn't there a death countdown in my consciousness? Can you use the same method on Ke Long? "
Originally, when his consciousness returned to zero, it would be activated immediately. However, the Empress added a countdown and set it to five years.
Ke Long was also a countdown. He would die in seven days. With the Empress's ability, she should be able to change this countdown to some other time.
"Sure," Polo said.
However, Ke Long wasn't excited because seven days was no different from five years.
Endless torment awaited him.
Polo's gaze softened, "I hope you can become the new president, but I won't force you if you don't want to live anymore."
Koron looked at Polo and wept like a child.
He had been following in Polo's footsteps all this time.
However, when they met again, one only wanted to relieve herself of her burden, while the other only wanted to die.
"I'm sorry, President. I choose death." Ke Long cried.
"Alright …" Polo looked at Empress.
Mo Qiong was very anxious. Unexpectedly, the Empress said, "I can completely digest your 12-sided soul, but you will still remain conscious forever. This is because this 12-sided soul has nothing to do with your eternal torture. On the contrary, it can even be considered as your second physical body. All the pain that your soul receives will similarly be conveyed to your consciousness in double."
"Even if the universe is destroyed, you will still remain conscious."
"Only by deleting your information can you be considered dead. Otherwise, any attack will only transform you into another state. This is no different from your body turning into a rotten object."
Ke Long's face was ashen. This was the most despairing moment.
It turned out that the soul was immortal, and the consciousness was tormented. When all the particles in the body decayed, when all the soul decayed, 'I' would still exist. The decaying of the soul wasn't death. It was just like the decaying of the body, adding to the eternal torment. Even if the universe was destroyed, the consciousness would still exist forever. The universe was destroyed, but 'I' wouldn't.
The Empress could adapt to Ke Long's soul and 'digest' it.
However, this digestion wasn't a deletion of information, but a transformation.
The pain of digestion of the soul would also become the torment of Ke Long's consciousness.
"Can you do it?" Ke Long asked.
The Empress shook her head and ignored him.
Polo explained, "All matter, space-time, energy, laws of nature, and even absolute characteristics are determined by information. Whether it exists or not, whether it is reasonable or not, information can decide. "
"The most superficial is the perception of [Origin]. You can only sense it, and different people can sense different aspects of it. What you can understand is only the part that follows the logic of the perceiver. "
"After that, there is comprehension. Suddenly, a certain characteristic is obtained. It is usually an absolute characteristic that already exists in the world. It is like a random copy of an item's characteristic. At the peak of mastery, there is copying and transferring. "
"Above that, there is information tampering. Matter, space-time, energy, even laws of nature, all parameters, and even conditions can be tampered with to varying degrees. For example, if a person's static mass is changed to zero, then this person will instantly turn into light without any warning … and bloom. The universe will forever lose a portion of its mass. "
"After that, there is information deletion. Deleting a certain existing information. "
"Compared to information deletion, death is only a change in status. Annihilation is only a change in the state of matter. Even the erasure of a person's existence is only a change in status from 'existing' to 'non-existing'. "
"None of them can be compared to death when information itself is deleted."
As for the final step, there is creation.
Creating laws and absolute characteristics out of thin air. The known, the unknown, the existing, the non-existing, the imaginable, and the unimaginable, all of them exist because of information.
Having spent so much time with the Empress, Polo knew a lot.
He directly explained the uniqueness of the mother universe. Indeed, all universes were information, but only the mother universe was open. Information could be sensed and comprehended.
This had nothing to do with the existence of anomalies. When information was open, anomalies would appear, but anomalies wouldn't be open to information.
So far, the only thing known was that the mother universe was open.
Although Polo didn't say it directly, from the Empress' behavior and attitude, it was clear that she didn't know how to delete information either.
The Empress was so strong because she was in a universe where [Origin] perception could be sensed.
But to reach the level of information deletion was too difficult.
This was because on the path of [Origin] perception, those who knew it would either know it or not know it. There was no way to learn it, nor were there any conditions to do so. This wasn't actually a path at all, it was just a certain piece of information that allowed living beings to wander around the domain of [Origin].
Unless an anomaly that could delete information were to appear one day, the Empress might still be able to copy this characteristic.
"In other words, to completely kill Ke Long is actually more difficult than to remove this characteristic …" Mo Qiong commented.
Polo nodded: "That seems to be the case. Hayley can transfer Ke Long's characteristic to another person, but to delete his information, no one is known to be able to do so."
Mo Qiong didn't know if this was good or bad news.
The good news was that Ke Long was truly immortal. The known universe, including the Empress, couldn't completely erase his consciousness.
The bad news was that this was meaningless, it was worse than death.
The Empress could transfer this fifth elemental characteristic away, but she had already tried, and it was very troublesome. For the Empress, transferring a specific characteristic would take a very long time.
Why would she help Ke Long? She only needed to make sure that the Blue and White Society had a president for the next five years. After five years, she would consume Ke Long and digest his soul into her own energy.
As for the pain that Ke Long would have to endure after losing his soul, it had nothing to do with her.
"Ke Long, live first! Whether it's five years or seven days, time is always better than no time at all. With effort, there will definitely be a way! "Mo Qiong grabbed Ke Long's arm tightly.
Ke Long stared deeply at Mo Qiong, went silent for a while, then said: "I understand."
He stood up straight and looked up. He seemed to have returned to his days of high spirits.
"It seems I have no choice but to face reality, Polo. Since death is infinitely terrifying, I can only live …"
"No matter what kind of enemy we face, whether it's you or the insect, nothing can stop us from living. I have no other choice."
"Polo, from today onwards, I am the sixth generation of the …"
Before Ke Long could finish, the Empress waved her hand and said: "Alright, alright, you are the sixth generation president. Since you've become the president, I'll give you another five years. You can leave now."
With that, the Empress waved her hand, and Ke Long was kicked out of Void Island.
Mo Qiong saw that Ke Long had pulled himself together and was happy for him.
Lan Baishe was about to face an unprecedented predicament, but as long as one did not give up, any difficulty could be overcome.
Ke Long's return allowed Lan Baishe to regroup and face the upcoming battle.
Seeing that the Empress was about to kick Mo Qiong out again, Polo suddenly stopped her and said to Mo Qiong: "Mo Qiong, don't be happy too early. Ke Long is no longer suitable to be the president."
"Huh?" Mo Qiong looked at Polo, not knowing what position he was in.
Polo saw everything. Although Ke Long seemed to have pulled himself together in the end, he still felt that Ke Long had changed.
In Ke Long's heart, the future was filled with despair.
On the other hand, Mo Qiong's heart was filled with hope. He strongly believed that everything would change for the better. He was even confident that they could defeat the insect race in five years.
Polo believed that the president could not be defeated by a predicament. In the previous choice, Ke Long had chosen death.
Because he felt that seven days was better than nothing.
This was not the attitude of a president, or even a member, should have. A real president would not give up. Instead, he would think: Only seven days? Fine, then I'll change my fate of death in seven days.
That was what Mo Qiong thought. He didn't despair at all because he would die in five years. When he found out that Ke Long only had seven days to live, he kept thinking of ways to make Ke Long live longer. He even said that there must be a way.
After a short interaction, Polo felt that Mo Qiong was more suitable.
However, if Ke Long did not become the president, he would die in seven days. If he became the president, he would have five years left.
For Polo, this was the best he could do, so he had no intention of changing his mind.
He only reminded: "Mo Qiong, Ke Long's heart is still filled with despair."
Polo smiled: "That's all I have to say. You can leave now."
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