Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 345 May there be no riddle tellers in the world
The darkness receded.

Lin Yu woke up again.

He was still in that pure white room, and the pain and destruction he had experienced before seemed like a distant dream.

My body is still intact.

He can still move freely.

After he stood up and reached out to touch the wall, the wall, just like before, turned into mist and gradually dissolved.

"you're awake?"

The voice from the void echoed once more.

Lin Yu suddenly looked up, as if trying to find the source of the sound.

But all he saw was an empty sky and a high-hanging sun.

Who exactly are you?

What exactly was I seeing?

"Dream on."

The voice said calmly:

"It's difficult for me to explain what that is in a language you can understand."

"But you can treat it as a dream—a dream we've woven for you."

"What is your purpose?"

Lin Yu looked at the village in the distance, which had been restored to the size he had first seen, his eyes flickering slightly.

He suddenly realized that the world he was in now was different from the world he had "just" arrived in.

Here, no matter how far he looks, everything is clear.

In that world, distant scenery always seemed to be shrouded in a hazy mist, only becoming clear when one got closer.

"Did you notice?"

"You're very perceptive."

The voice above didn't answer Lin Yu's question, but continued:

"This is really all we can do; after all, it's a nested world."

"If we want it to be as realistic as the main world, we need to consume a lot of computing power."

"This is neither necessary nor meaningful."

"Therefore, we resorted to some opportunistic methods."

"However, you don't need to worry about it too much."

"That world exists only so that you can experience and feel it directly."

"Now that you've experienced it, you'll probably understand it more easily when I explain it to you, right?"

"I simply cannot understand it."

Lin Yu sat down on the soft grass, his mind filled with fragmented images and words.

Wounded beast.

Close your eyes.

reciprocal.

That's it.
What does it mean?
You're mistaken.

The voice sounded again.

"It's not an injury."

"It's entropy."

A word appeared in front of Lin Yu.

He was no longer surprised by such strange phenomena. He just stared at the word with a slight puzzlement and said:
"I have never seen this word before."

"I haven't studied it."

"Of course you won't learn it."

The voice slowly said:

"Actually, in this world—I mean the real world you originally came from—no one has used this word for a long time."

"Perhaps those merchants called the 'Circle Merchant Guild' would use this word."

"But they couldn't possibly understand its true meaning, because..."

"So what does it really mean?"

Lin Yu interrupted the other person and asked:
"Is it some kind of monster? Or some kind of force?"

"No, it is the rule."

The voice continued:
"For someone like you who has no basic knowledge of physics, I have absolutely no way of explaining what this means in a standard way."

"But you should remember that in the other world, everyone closed their eyes and counted down in their hearts."

"I want to ask you, at that time, were there any other thoughts in your mind?"

".No."

Lin Yu slowly shook his head.

"I was swallowed up."

"You're wrong. What's being swallowed up isn't you, it's the information."

"You have shut down your senses, no longer receiving information, nor sending information outward."

"So, does that village still exist?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Yu's heart skipped a beat.

Before he could speak, the voice rang out again.

"Originally, I planned to let you experience the entire storyline from now on." "But now I've discovered that your comprehension is even better than I thought."

"This has nothing to do with the computing power we allocate to you, but rather with your inherent way of thinking, which makes you more receptive to new things."

"Therefore, we don't need to waste any more computing power."

"Next, let me tell you a story."

Lin Yu nodded slowly.

His mind was quickly cleared of its jumbled thoughts, and then a story began to resonate in his ears.

"Long ago, there was such a world."

"The people in this world, like the people in all other worlds, quietly develop and build, and have achieved considerable success."

"But suddenly one day, an unknown disaster nearly destroyed the entire world."

"In the ruins, the survivors gathered together and built the village you see."

"They thought they had survived and that the disaster was over."

"Decades have passed in the blink of an eye, and they have even seen the backs of their ancestors, almost ready to embark on that upward path again."

"But it was at this moment that disaster struck again."

"No one knows what happened; all they know is that everything they have painstakingly built has been destroyed once again."

"But they are a resilient people, and they are never afraid to start over."

"And so, after several more decades of hardship, they returned once again to the starting line where they should have started."

"But soon, disaster struck again."

"Everything was destroyed, and their hopes vanished in an instant."

Nobody knows why.

"All they know is that they are facing one cycle after another."

"Finally, one day, a brave man and a wise man spotted the enemy."

“That’s a monster called ‘Entropy’.”

"It feeds on chaos and disorder, and this village is the most chaotic vortex in a world that has already fallen into silence."

"The chaotic fluctuations it creates are like a bright lamp illuminating the night sky, attracting enemies whose origins are unknown, or even whose existence is uncertain."

"As destruction followed, the survivors of this village finally touched the edge of the truth."

"They began trying to restore order from the chaos."

"As you can see, they tried many childish, low-level, and even ridiculous methods."

"But in the end, these methods did not allow them to escape the monster's attack; instead, they made the chaos even more chaotic."

"They can only try again and again."

"Until the very end, they discovered the secret of the chaos."

"They found the answer in ancient wisdom."

"The answer is called biophysics."

A wise man once posed a question: Do people's actions make chaos arise faster or slower?

Nobody knows the answer to this question.

"But this gives people in dire straits a direction."

"They discussed it day and night, and eventually all the discussions came together to solve one problem."

Is so-called free will a result of accelerated entropy increase, or a cause of accelerated entropy increase?

"If you were to explain it in a language you can understand, then it would be..."

Is the soul a result of chaos, or a cause of chaos?

"And this problem ultimately turns into a more fundamental and basic one."

Does the soul exist?

"So, in order to verify this question, they conducted a massive experiment."

"They used magic to extract everyone's souls and trapped them in a small tomb."

"Here, the soul no longer influences the outside world, nor does it depend on the body for its existence."

"If the soul truly exists, then the chaos should gradually subside."

"If it doesn't exist, then they have no other options."

"But I was lucky."

"They seem to have found the answer."

“Since the soul was imprisoned, that monster has not visited this village for a long time.”

"They lived peacefully for over a hundred years."

And this

"and many more."

Lin Yu suddenly interrupted the voice.

Then, he spoke:
"This village is the mountain town."

"Is it right?"

"wrong."

The voice suddenly became low and deep.

"Mountain cities are merely tombs that imprison souls."

"This village is the entire human world!"

(End of this chapter)