I went berserk in the game of gods.

Chapter 36 Boss, don't force me to kneel down and beg you.
Upon hearing this, An Li immediately stood up and asked, "Is the puzzle complete?"

She asked this question in the car last night, and Cao Yu's answer at the time was, "There's still an investigation to be done, so it can only be done during the day."

Cao Yu replied, "There's still one investigation to go through, but we can start now."

"What investigation?" the fitness instructor asked, puzzled. "Isn't participating in the hunt all that's needed? What else is there to investigate?"

"It's you...!? How... how come you're all alright?"

Just then, a voice mixed with surprise came from the entrance of the office hall.

Cao Yu and the others looked in the direction of the voice and found that the speaker was the bespectacled man who had participated in this instance with them.

The bespectacled man's right eye was swollen and bleeding, and his clothes were tattered. His exposed skin was covered with bite marks and lacerations, and purplish bruises spread from his shoulder to the tips of his left fingers. Perhaps due to the use of hemostatic spray, the wounds, large and small, had already scabbed over.

The most striking feature was his right arm, which was severed at the elbow.

After just one night, he was in such a sorry state that it was as if he had been homeless and begging for half a year, which was truly heartbreaking.

Behind the bespectacled man were a man scheming and manipulative, a female knight-errant, and a female executive.

The three were in slightly better condition than the man with glasses. Although they were also covered in wounds, panting heavily, and on the verge of exhaustion, at least they hadn't lost any limbs.

Upon seeing this, Cao deduced that the three men must have gone to the cemetery to gather intelligence the day before.

The cemetery is far from the city, so even if players encounter a crisis on their way back, escaping is much easier for them than for players in the city.

The remaining bald man and round-faced woman were nowhere to be found... they most likely died in last night's monster crisis.

"Why...are you all alright?"

The man with glasses repeated the question.

He felt surprised and puzzled.

The three men behind him, who were also green tea-like, looked at Cao Yu and his companions with a mixture of surprise and suspicion. They couldn't understand why the four of them could sit so comfortably in the office hall, without any wounds or even a torn piece of clothing. Was that reasonable?
Were they entering the same instance?

"Didn't you encounter any monster attacks last night?" the female executive couldn't help but ask.

"Of course we encountered that," the fitness instructor stood up and replied, "We were almost surrounded and killed in the city."

"...I really don't see that coming," the female executive said, puzzled. "Could there be some way to mitigate the risk?"

“No.” The merchant also stood up and shook his head. “Last night’s crisis was comparable to a zombie apocalypse. We were able to escape the city unharmed thanks to…”

At this point, both he and the fitness coach subconsciously glanced at Cao Yu.

Actually, An Li also contributed a lot last night, but they automatically categorized her as Cao Yu's little follower.

Noticing the two men's gazes, the female executives thought for a moment and understood.

This team is led by a big shot!

The female executive was immediately filled with regret and anger!

If it weren't for that round-faced idiot yesterday who insisted on emphasizing her gender in that kind of situation, she might have successfully infiltrated the big shot's group, instead of ending up in such a sorry state.
Sigh... Thinking too much about it only brings tears.

'From now on, if you encounter an idiot in a dungeon, stay away immediately!'

The female executive made a decision in her heart.

At that moment, a figure suddenly rushed towards Cao Yu.

He's a green tea guy.

He abandoned all pretense of decorum, and upon getting close to Cao Yu, he immediately and shamelessly said:

"Boss! Please help me! I'll beg you on my knees, okay? I was tortured by that idiot last night, sob sob..."

Such a ridiculous performance made many people feel embarrassed and unable to watch.

The female executive actually found the manipulative man somewhat appealing, and at the same time, she was thinking... "Is it too late for me to run over and kneel down now?"

Cao Yu laughed and said:

"If you survived last night, you've already cleared more than half of this dungeon."

He pointed to the staff in the lobby and kindly reminded them:
"You've probably already received the side quest hints. Fulfilling your wish means participating in 'Operation Pig Hunt'."

Just go and register with the staff now. Simply follow the hunting team and provide some support to remove the negative buffs of hunger and stamina loss. Then you can use stamina recovery potions.

"Oh, if you want to improve your dungeon rating, you'll have to risk your life and personally kill the breeder."

"It's that easy to remove the physical limitations?"

The green tea guy was a little surprised:
"I initially thought that the immediate feeling of hunger was a way to lure us into eating the food in the dungeon. But after learning that no one in the dungeon felt hungry, I became even more certain of this guess, and then I started thinking..."

He said rather embarrassedly, "I was thinking that maybe the people in the dungeon hate certain things, don't eat certain things, and that certain foods are safe. We have to do the opposite and eat these things to relieve our hunger..."

"Hmm, that's a novel idea," Cao Yu laughed. "I bet the people here don't eat shit."

"Uh... Boss, you're joking." The green tea guy chuckled awkwardly.

"You guys should hurry up and register," Cao Yu reminded them. "I think your physical strength is almost at its limit."

“Yes! Sign up, hunt down breeders!” The man with the green tea nodded, then asked, “Boss, are you coming with us?”

“During the hunt, playing a supporting role isn’t too dangerous, so don’t be so nervous. As for me…” Cao Yu shook his head: “Don’t ask.”

After saying that, he glanced at An Li and then left the office hall.

An Li followed closely behind.

The green tea guy and the others looked at each other, wondering what Cao Yu was going to do, and could only turn their questioning gazes to the fitness instructor and the businessman.

"Don't look at us, we don't know either." The businessman shook his head and joked, "The big boss told you not to ask anymore, if you keep asking... curiosity killed the cat."

……

the other side.

After leaving the office building, Cao Yu and An Li went directly to the ground parking lot.

The car I stole last night is now parked quietly in its spot.

After Cao Yu got into the driver's seat and started the car, An Li sat in the passenger seat and asked, "Where are we going?"

“The hospital,” Cao Yu said. “The largest hospital in the City of Truth.”

"Is it related to the piece of meat you picked up last night?" An Li continued to ask.

When the monster crisis first occurred last night, she noticed that after Cao Yu dismembered the first monster twice, he picked up a piece of flesh from its body parts and put it away.

She thought Cao Yu had just gotten into the mood and wanted to collect something.

Who would have thought there was a deeper meaning behind it?

"It's related. But your reaction was a bit slow this time." Cao Yu looked at An Li suspiciously and asked, "Are you thinking the wrong thing?"

“Yes,” An Li admitted without hesitation, “I thought you wanted to collect it.”

There's no need to hide anything from those who share your interests.

Cao Yu: "..."

An Li continued:

"It seems this piece of meat is the clue to finding the 'Creator of the City of Truth.' I thought you would look among the piglets being raised by farmers."

"The fact that you brought this up shows that you've figured out the logic behind it," Cao Yu praised. "That's good."

“But I haven’t figured out how to find the ‘creator’,” An Li shook her head.

The City of Truth has a creator who instilled in all its inhabitants the desire to "punish the breeders."

The desire to repeatedly act out a script with the entire city is most likely not a whim, but rather a product born from some deeply ingrained emotion.

So the question arises: why would the creator have such a desire?
Logically speaking, this creator likely harbors deep-seated hatred towards the farmers.

He is very likely a victim of a farming operation, having lost many things, and thus hates not only the farmers but also those who didn't come to his aid. Under this twisted desire, the City of Truth has become what it is today.

As for how it changed... that requires investigation.

In short, this is a guess that fits the current information quite well.

An Li had thought of this this morning.

However... she couldn't deduce a way to find the "Creator of the City of Truth" from this conjecture.

"It's right that we can't come up with a solution."

Cao Yu reminded him:
"The creator is a victim of the breeding incident, and his desires have distorted the City of Truth—the information in this line of reasoning isn't for finding people, but rather for reminding us..."

He paused for a moment, then gave his conclusion:
"The City of Truth may not be the original name of this city. It became the City of Truth only after it was distorted by the Creator."

"...So, the tomb we built didn't work?" An Li immediately grasped the key point: "The information on the tombstone is the most important part of the tomb, used to anchor the deceased. And since we carved the wrong name, it naturally cannot achieve the deceased's eternal rest."

This line of reasoning has yielded a result.

So, how can we find the creator and learn the true name of the City of Truth?
An Li thought of the piece of meat that Cao Yu had picked up last night...

(End of this chapter)