The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 213 Lady Luck is Smiling

He Yun paused for a moment and said:

"Mercury asked me if I was unsure and didn't dare to take the next step. At that time, my heart was filled with regret and self-doubt, and I told him that I was indeed hesitant."

"Then Mercury took out an agreement. To be more precise, it was a contract. He said that he had borrowed the power of the god of commerce in mythology. He could add special clauses to the contract to deceive the Desire Tablet and buy me some time."

"The content of the contract is that Mercury is authorized to develop and use the No. 88 underground shelter. The reward is that Mercury must restore everything to its original state after the contract ends."

Wu Chang frowned, not understanding what He Yun meant for a moment.

"You mean, the underground shelter fell into a time loop because of the restoration of the status quo ante in the contract?"

He Yun shook his head and said:
"I didn't understand it at first. Mercury told me that it was equivalent to entrusting the content and rights of my wish to him, and letting him create the contract to make the wish on the Desire Tablet on my behalf."

"If I am not satisfied with the wish I made, or have figured out a proper way to break the impasse, I can terminate the contract at any time. Once the contract is terminated, the wish he made on my behalf in the previous terms will immediately become invalid. According to the special terms in the contract, everything in Underground Shelter No. 88 will return to the state it was before I signed the contract."

“By then, I can continue what I left unfinished that day when I am fully prepared.”

"And my wish is that Underground Shelter No. 88 returns to the state it was in before our plan began."

Mercury's approach was a bit confusing, and it took Wu Chang a while to understand Mercury's operation.

To put it simply, He Yun did not write down her wishes on the Tablet of Desire herself, but had Mercury fill it out for her through a contract.

As long as the contract takes effect, the content filled in by Mercury is equivalent to the content filled in by He Yun, there is no difference.

The variable is that the contract signed between He Yun and Mercury can be terminated at any time.

Once the contract is concluded, the terms of He Yun's entrustment to Mercury will be directly invalidated, which is equivalent to the wish made before being just graffiti, which will not count if it is erased.

According to the scene Mercury described to He Yun, they could use this method, harnessing the power of the Desire Tablet, to restore the underground shelter to the state it was before the plan failed.

It would be best if we could start planning again and find the right path.

If he fails and tries again, He Yun fails again. That doesn't matter. He Yun can prepare a backup plan and use the extra time to come up with a feasible solution.

When she felt that everything was foolproof, she would terminate the contract and, according to the terms of the contract to restore the status quo ante, return to the moment when she stood in front of the Stone of Desire, hesitating.

If the plan succeeds, it will undoubtedly be a perfect free-for-all.

But the key point is that Mercury's contract can even cheat the Tablet of Desire. Wouldn't it be a side job to cheat He Yun, who is already confused?
He Yun sighed, transformed into Xianglin Sao, and said:
"I was really stupid. I was so foolish that I ignored the changes he made to the description under Mercury's persuasion."

"Before making the wish, the Mother Goddess of Desire was close to breaking free from the seal. She said she was worried that the gods in the stone temple would break free from the seal and return to the underground shelter in the past through the stone tablet, so she added a correction clause to the wish."

"They also said they were worried that I wasn't fully prepared, so they added an anti-accidental trigger clause, which stated that the contract could only be terminated if I was truly prepared, fully awake, and not under any hypnotic or hallucinogenic effects."

Wu Chang was grinning as he listened, feeling that there were traps everywhere and cursed these people for being so dirty-minded in playing with the contract.

He Yun glanced at Wu Chang helplessly. "There were many clauses in the contract at that time. I didn't have time to check it carefully. And because of us, the Mother Goddess of Desire was about to break free from the seal. The whispering in my mind kept affecting me and made it impossible for me to concentrate."

"My mind was completely distracted by Mercury. When I looked back, I had already signed the contract in a daze. It was with your help that I remembered the existence of the contract again."

Wu Chang shook He Yun's hand vigorously and told He Yun with his eyes that it was not his fault.

It was obvious that He Yun was too young and fell into the trap of that bastard Mercury.

From the very beginning, Mercury's goal was to get Underground Shelter No. 88 stuck in the middle layer, so the contract he prepared was actually a prison.

The so-called amendment clause is the culprit that caused Underground Shelter No. 88 to fall into a time loop. Only a stable plane state and an unbreakable time loop can be better used as a pillar of the present world by large organizations.

He Yun's lack of memory of the past and his confused state come from the anti-accidental triggering clause.

Mercury used some hidden clause and took advantage of He Yun's fear of facing reality and his desire to escape, and took the opportunity to seal He Yun's memory.

Through the contact with He Yun during this period, Wu Chang was able to guess that the inner demons in He Yun's heart should be divided into three parts.

Her former follower, He Yi, and herself.

When she came into contact with the fog of disaster, the zombie mechas that emerged represented her guilt for the deaths of her followers.

Her forgetfulness about the energy mine and the upgrading plan came from her guilt towards He Yi. He Yi did not agree to make full use of the power of the stone temple at first, but he supported and promoted all this out of his trust in He Yun.

However, the failure of the upgrading plan made her feel that she had let down He Yi's trust.

As for the failure of the final operation to the Stone Temple, it was her escape from herself. The successive failures in the Stone Temple shook her self-confidence and made her escape from the responsibility that she should face in the end as a decision maker.

She must defeat her triple inner demons before she can truly remember her contract with Mercury and find an opportunity to end everything.

Otherwise, even if she came to the stone temple, it would be of no avail.

It is extremely difficult to overcome one's inner demons, especially when one is misled, one will only sink deeper and deeper.

Escape is shameful, but useful.

Without the intervention of external forces, it would be difficult for He Yun to face his inner demons and stop escaping in this world that emerged because of escape.

But unfortunately, Wu Chang showed up.

He Yun felt the power coming from her hands, she looked at Wu Chang and said;
"Since I have remembered everything, it means that at this moment, I have made my choice."

The moment these words were spoken, a contract appeared on the Tablet of Desire.

He Yun tore off the contract and crumpled it into a ball of waste paper.

"No!"

At the moment the contract was torn, an inexplicable scream sounded in the main hall.

As the contract came to an end, Wu Chang could feel that some changes were taking place in the entire space of the Pillar of the Present World.

Everything in the main hall was rapidly moving backwards as if it were being played in reverse. Wu Chang even saw He Yi's body, which had been turned into a human stake, flying in from outside the door. Although the broken Stone of Desire was not restored, the human-like body returned to the state it was in just after death.

In addition to He Yi, in the space in front of the Stele of Desire, a figure appeared and disappeared as time went by.

When the main hall was completely restored to its original state, a man dressed in a full suit, like an insurance salesman, appeared in front of everyone.

This recognizable outfit was exactly the Mercury that Wu Chang had seen in Resentment.

Tearing up the contract will cause time to go back in the underground shelter, but it will not affect non-local players.

So what appeared in front of everyone at this moment was not Mercury himself, but a puppet dressed as Mercury. Its appearance was like a model in a shopping mall. Except for the suit, its hands and neck revealed an obvious plastic texture, and it wore a salesperson-like fake smile mask on its face.

However, at this moment, the corners of the fake smile mask kept drooping, and it seemed that it could no longer smile.

He Yun and He Yi couldn't see clearly, but Wu Chang saw carefully through the Eye of Breaking Law. The puppet in front of him jumped out from the destroyed contract.

Moreover, the puppet in front of him has divinity!
This divinity does not come from the puppet itself, but from Mercury, the guy who created all this. He obviously possesses the power of a demigod or a lower-level god.

The puppet turned its neck slightly stiffly, looked at He Yun, and said in Mercury's voice:
"He Yun, you actually chose to end the hard-earned peace and put the underground shelter into crisis again. You disappoint me." Wu Chang frowned after hearing this. He stretched out his hand to stop He Yun from saying something. He took the initiative to step forward and, with the help of the puppet in front of him, gave Mercury a gentlemanly and easy-going greeting.

"Where's your mother?"

Mercury was stunned by the scolding. He looked at Wu Chang and asked in confusion, "You are the one who destroyed everything? Do you know how big a disaster you have caused?"

Wu Chang shrugged. What can I say?

There is only one word I can say.

"Man!"

Wu Chang started at frame 0 and threw an elbow directly.

Facing Wu Chang's attack, Mercury didn't care and took the elbow with his face.

If possible, he really wanted to tell Wu Chang that what appeared here was just a puppet he sent to the wilderness. It was only responsible for delivering messages, and it would be meaningless even if you dismantled it.

But he soon stopped thinking so, because after Wu Chang retracted his elbow, Mercury's puppet actually started bleeding from the nose.

"Title: Blasphemer"

"Title effect: When wearing this title, if the target attacked by the player has divinity, the player will cause additional damage to the target, and the damage will reach the source directly. The player has additional resistance to the power of the gods, and can ignore the influence of the power and destroy the influence of the power by attacking the source of the power."

The effect of the title of Blasphemer allows Wu Chang to inflict damage directly to the source when attacking gods.

What does it mean to reach the origin directly?

The damage caused by the elbow on the puppet's face can go directly along the network cable and hit Mercury's face.

If Mercury did not have divinity, Wu Chang would really have no way to deal with him, but if he had divinity, he would first have to ask if he had eaten. If not, he would have to elbow me.

"No way, how could you hurt me?"

Mercury's panicked voice came from the puppet's mouth. He wanted to say something, but the puppet attacked by the blasphemer suddenly shattered into countless fine cracks. Through the cracks, lightning flashing inside the puppet's body could be seen.

Immediately afterwards, lightning overflowed from the countless cracks in the puppet's body, and the puppet's body exploded into pieces with a bang.

It was the divine thunder, and Wu Chang also used the divine thunder.

The divine thunder in the Five Thunder Method is responsible for killing, destroying altars and temples, and punishing evildoers.

It is perfect for dealing with an evil god like Mercury.

The divine thunder plus the blasphemer, this elbow strike will at least break the dog's two front teeth.

PUAing He Yun in front of Wu Chang, this is a slap in your face. How can Wu Chang survive in the Wilderness in the future?

As the elbow was thrown, Wu Chang was in a trance and saw a bloody will disappear in front of him.

[Help the boss get rid of the shadow of the past, don't let the boss blame himself for our death, and if you meet Mercury, punch him hard in the face for me! ]

As the bloody last words faded away, he vaguely saw Zhuo Jie giving him a thumbs up and saying, "Awesome, well done!"

He didn't have time to pay attention to the rewards brought by the Bloody Will and turned to look at He Yun.

Getting rid of Mercury is just to stop him from making noise. The real end of everything depends on He Yun.

Wu Chang smashed the Mercury doll, and also shattered He Yun's last bit of worry. He Yun and Wu Chang exchanged glances. She showed a confident smile, signaling Wu Chang not to worry, then turned and looked at the stele of desire, checking the contents on the stele.

Only at this moment did Wu Chang notice that compared to the previous desire stele, the current desire stele had a lot more content, almost filling up all the blank spaces on the stele.

While He Yun took out his computer and was busy working on the stone tablet, He Yi was explaining the current situation to Wu Chang.

After they discovered the power in the stone temple, He Yun had been trying to study and master this power, but controlling this power is very complicated. After all, the plane of Underground Shelter No. 88 is essentially a technological plane.

It is undoubtedly difficult to find a path to mysticism through technology.

But after a series of research, He Yun finally came up with a solution.

She discovered that the Desire Tablet itself was a rule, and to some extent, the power within it was out of the control of the gods enshrined in the stone temple.

If the primitive people who were learning to build temples came to the Desire Tablet to make a wish and then offer sacrifices, it would not only be inefficient, but it would also not take long for the gods in the stone temple to be resurrected.

The solution He Yun came up with was not to make a wish directly for what he wanted, but to write the rules for using energy on the desire tablet just like programming.

As long as a perfect rule is written so that they can use technology to directly leverage the power in the Tablet of Desire according to the rule, wouldn't it be possible to bypass the Mother Goddess of Desire, make a few wishes, and benefit from it for life?

This set of rules is the entity of He Yun's plane upgrading plan.

When this set of rules was first developed, Mercury, an outsider who was familiar with mysticism, was deeply involved in the development process and left behind many pitfalls.

When the plan was actually implemented, many rules conflicted, causing the entire underground shelter to be on the verge of collapse.

The last action of entering the Stone Temple was that He Yun wanted to make a final modification to the rules and try to see if he could save everything.

However, under Mercury's influence, the final remedial plan resulted in the underground shelter being completely controlled by Mercury.

Now that Mercury was no longer in the way, He Yun was not affected by the outside world and soon made progress.

In order to systematically control the power in the Tablet of Desire, He Yun wrote a total of eighteen rules. After experiencing the failure of the upgrading plan and his intentional or unintentional research on the abilities of the Mist of Disaster over the years, He Yun quickly sorted out the loopholes and conflicts in the rules.

But at the last step, she stopped.

Wu Chang asked, "Are you in trouble?"

He Yun showed an embarrassment on his face and said, "There are only three rules left. Their underlying logic is mutually exclusive, like an impossible triangle. I must delete the wrong one."

"But no matter which one is deleted, it will trigger a huge chain reaction. I can't determine which is the best solution for the time being. Fortunately, I still have time to conceive a new algorithm."

Wu Chang walked behind He Yun, reached out and held down He Yun's hand on the keyboard, leaned close to her ear and asked:

"Choose one of three, right?"

He Yun's face flushed slightly, and he lowered his head to avoid the heat coming from his ears. He lowered his voice and said, "Yes, we only need to delete one of them, and the new rules I built will run perfectly."

Wu Chang said, "Leave it to me then."

He Yun looked at Wu Chang curiously, "Can you tell which one is wrong?"

Wu Chang shook his head, "I can't tell."

"Then what are your choices?" He Yun asked puzzledly.

Wu Chang had three more dice in his hand and said with a smile: "Of course it depends on luck. I can see that the goddess of luck is smiling."

(End of this chapter)