Simulation: Starting from Under One Person

If you can't use good people to test it, then use bad people!

"If that's the case, then why are you asking?"

Dumbledore and Nicolas Flamel were speechless. One of them turned and left the room, while the other put the Horcrux into his storage bag and followed him out of the room.

Fang Rui shrugged lightly and left the room as well.

"The question is, who should we use for testing?"

The first name that came to Fang Rui's mind was Lily Evans—not just someone he knew, but someone very famous…

Especially considering that the other party protected Harry Potter with the magic of "love," which could resist magic that destroys the soul, then the magic of "love" must be related to the soul...

Perhaps this could serve as an "anchor" to bring Lily Evans back to the present world; the feasibility is quite high.

Wait a minute, wasn't the plan to search for the underworld? How did it turn into resurrecting Lily Evans?

After a moment of stunned silence, Fang Rui pulled his wandering thoughts back on track and continued to ponder...

After a while, Fang Rui looked up at the ceiling and said softly, "It suddenly occurred to me that I only know a handful of people..."

After a moment of silence, Fang Rui headed towards the Forbidden Forest.

Due to yesterday's chaos, there should be quite a few eight-eyed giant spiders that have been cursed and sent to the underworld. Let's pick one to test!

At the edge of the Forbidden Forest, in the game hut, Hagrid and the centaur were talking.

"Hagrid, what are you talking about?"

In a flash, he appeared beside the two of them, and before they could react in surprise, Fang Rui posed the question.

Upon hearing the sound, the two instinctively raised their hands, almost launching an attack, but slowly lowered them.

Hagrid patted his chest lightly, a muffled thud echoing in his voice, tinged with a hint of complaint: "Mr. Fang Rui, don't show up suddenly! It's dangerous!"

"Oh~ I'll be more careful next time. Tell me first, what are you talking about? I'm quite curious..."

Fang Rui's perfunctory response brought the topic back on track.

"...We were discussing the cause of the chaos in the Forbidden Forest. Based on the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider's senses, we can guess that the cause of the chaos is the Basilisk. After the centaur's investigation, it has been confirmed that the guess was correct."

"The centaur and I discussed how to find the basilisk. Such a dangerous dark creature hiding in the Forbidden Forest makes us uneasy."

Upon hearing this, Fang Rui's gaze became increasingly subtle, and he looked at Hagrid with a strange expression.

Is it appropriate for you to say such things?

Whether it's a fire dragon or an eight-eyed giant spider, both can destroy the ecosystem of the forbidden forest.

Why didn't you say anything when you were raising it before?

After a few seconds of silence, Fang Rui stopped paying attention to the matter and remembered the purpose of his trip.

"Hagrid, give me one of those named giant spiders, even if it's not alive."

"Oh~" Hagrid's expression did not change. Snape had been picking and choosing from him for a long time and, having already experienced this, would not evoke any extra emotions in him.

From the pile of mangled limbs beside the ruins of the wooden house, he pulled out the torso of a spider without arthropods and placed it in front of Fang Rui.

With a wave of his wand, the spider's torso floated up. Fang Rui stopped halfway through his turn, turned to look at Hagrid and the centaur, and reminded them, "I have no objection to you wanting to find the basilisk, but do you have a way to deal with the basilisk's abilities?"

Hagrid and the centaur: "…………" There's nothing we can do…

The basilisk's abilities are indeed unreasonable; once it makes eye contact, it's instant death, and indirect eye contact turns it to petrification.

"But we don't need to go looking for it ourselves. The basilisk is afraid of roosters, wouldn't it be easier to scare it out?"

Hagrid scratched his head and asked in return.

"Such a large forbidden forest, can you calculate how many roosters it would need? And without your protection, ordinary roosters would be..."

After a few seconds of silence, the centaur said, "Let's try it first, and if it doesn't work, we'll look for other methods."

Given the centaurs' divination abilities, they should theoretically be able to pinpoint the basilisk's hiding place, but...

The divination was disrupted, so the basilisk's hiding place was not found, but things that can interfere with divination are very rare.

Fang Rui didn't say anything more. He turned around and left with the eight-eyed giant spider.

Take your time looking! There's no danger anyway...

I don't think so... right?

Fang Rui squinted. What was hidden in the Forbidden Forest was something no one could say for sure; it wasn't impossible that there were some particularly dangerous magical animals there...

However, both the centaurs and Hagrid frequently roam the Forbidden Forest and should be well aware of its dangers, so there shouldn't be any problems... probably!

It would be better to remind Dumbledore to keep an eye on things, lest Hagrid, that kind big guy, accidentally feed himself to the magical creatures.

Thinking this, Fang Rui arrived at the Black Lake, located on the slope to the side of the castle.

With no one around, Fang Rui placed the eight-eyed giant spider on the ground, then used telepathy to send a message to Dumbledore. He then took out the Resurrection Stone and summoned back the eight-eyed giant spider's soul.

"emmm..."

Comparing the information from the soul and the body, Fang Rui discovered something: damn it, Hagrid gave the wrong spider!

But it's not a big problem; we just need to summon one of the souls.

The soul retreated, and Fang Rui followed behind it, entering a dreamlike and illusory realm from the mortal world—the edge of the underworld.

A dreamlike realm can reflect the inner world of living beings; inner desires will appear within a dreamlike realm.

However, the truth or falsehood can be easily discerned, as if it's openly telling you that what you see... is fake.

When Fang Rui entered the illusory realm, the realm tried to reflect his inner thoughts, but failed.

If the rule isn't particularly strong, it can be blocked.

Follow the spider's soul as it moves through the hazy, dreamlike realm.

Along the way, I saw some souls, reflecting the projections of the real world created from the souls' inner world.

In terms of 3D projection, the realism is very high, but when you see it, you will have a thought in your mind, simply put, "Ah! This is fake."

Even if it's fake, there will still be souls that can't let go, these souls...

Some return to the mortal world as ghosts, wandering the earth; others remain in a hazy, illusory realm, struggling between pain and illusory satisfaction.

In addition, there are souls moving forward in a bewildering illusion.

Some wore expressions of struggle, others of composure... a variety of expressions, yet they still moved forward with firm steps.

With no time for careful observation, Fang Rui followed the spider's soul, quickly passing one after another, until he arrived at the underworld beneath the hazy illusion.

Looking around, surveying a corner of the underworld...

To be honest, the underworld is a real mess!

Ancient houses, medieval houses, modern houses... all haphazardly piled together, the whole area looks like a jigsaw puzzle, very messy.

In a city with a chaotic layout, pedestrians come and go in droves, living a normal life... a relatively normal life.

After all, it is the underworld, which is different from the real world. Apart from "housing" being easy to solve, food, clothing, transportation, and entertainment are all difficult to solve.

After all, here, wizards no longer have any fancy abilities and are no different from ordinary people. The resources in the underworld... apart from the exceptionally abundant soul energy, are very scarce.

Without careful examination, Fang Rui turned his gaze to other areas, searching for any possible Grim Reaper.

All sorts of detection methods were deployed in a concerted effort to search...

Then they couldn't find it, not even a trace of it.

"Since that's the case, let's cause some trouble and lure Him out!"

Putting his idea into action, Fang Rui gathered his spiritual power and began to invade the core of the Underworld, and then...

"Hey! Stop bothering me!"

Fang Rui retreated at full speed, escaping the underworld.

Unfortunately, he was still a bit too slow and couldn't escape completely.

'Authentication successful! Divinity bestowed...'

A mechanical, ethereal voice echoed in Fang Rui's mind, and new power emerged from nothingness within his body, with high-level knowledge and authority appearing one after another...

"Tsk~" Fang Rui grinned, "They didn't escape!"

When his spiritual power touched the core of the underworld, he discovered that there was no Grim Reaper at all; the Grim Reaper that appeared in the story of the three brothers was an evolution of the rules of the underworld.

As for the three sacred artifacts, that's a different story.

It is indeed related to Death, but it is not a gift from Death to the three brothers.

There's no need to go into detail; just know that even collecting all three holy relics doesn't make you the Grim Reaper...

Gathering his thoughts, Fang Rui turned his attention to the issue of divinity.

The world is conscious, and the strength of consciousness varies depending on the level of consciousness.

Even the weakest world consciousness is still the world's consciousness. It discovered Fang Rui's uniqueness, felt it was worth investing in, and then...

That's how things have turned out!

Although I gained a lot of knowledge, having an extra job doesn't feel like a worthwhile investment.

What?! You're saying you have flexible working hours and, except for special events, no other management tasks?!

Hehe! This job is pretty good!

The underworld currently operates according to a set system that does not require Fang Rui's management. Simply put, he has just gained an official position, but nothing else has changed.

The idea is that once he becomes successful, we need to bring along the global mindset that invested in him, so that we can all prosper together.

Fang Rui responded that there was no problem; if you give me benefits, I will of course give you benefits in return.

With that thought in mind, Fang Rui returned to the present world.

Looking at the ordinary resurrection stone, he, with his corresponding authority, examined it again and discovered even more flaws.

At the same time, a bunch of remedial measures came to mind.

(“▔□▔) Well, how should I put it~

The benefits are truly immediate!

After thinking for a while, Fang Rui decided not to enhance the resurrection stone's effect. The three sacred artifacts were already very powerful. If he were to enhance them further, it would likely cause a lot of fighting among the wizards.