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Rather, Xia Zhi and Lilia interact more often than not, and she can also see that Lilia actually has some special feelings for the boy.

She didn't know whether Xia Zhi noticed this, but no matter what, she couldn't understand the boy's behavior.

"...Lilia can't do that." Xia Zhi was silent for a moment, shook his head and said: "Her identity as a human means that she is destined to stand on the opposite side of us. This kind of thing is not something she can decide on her own. If she continues to follow us, she will only be in a dilemma in the end."

"So, you just took it upon yourself to make the decision for her?" Kirisu Madoka asked back.

She didn't think the boy's behavior was right.

"Besides..." She paused for a moment and continued, "According to what you said, Xia Zhi, as a human being, I should be standing on the opposite side of you, right?"

"It's different." Xia Zhi answered without hesitation: "Because you are special, Mr. Madoka."

If other boys said such words to her, Kirisu Madoka might think that he was confessing to her. But she was familiar with Xia Zhi's personality and knew that the boy's words did not actually have any other meaning. What he said was special was special in the literal sense.

Isn't it because I, like him, am not a human being from this world?

Kirisu Madoka thought to herself with some confusion.

This seems to be the only explanation, but...

She lowered her head and looked at the girl with long crimson hair who was still sleeping in her arms, and her doubts deepened.

If I am special because I am a human from another world, how should Eluko explain it?

Could it be that……

Kirisu Madoka looked at the black-rimmed glasses on the girl's face and suddenly realized something:

It seems that there is no such thing as "glasses" in this world?

"Um……"

Just when she was hesitating whether to take off the girl's glasses and take a closer look, she saw the girl's eyelashes tremble slightly and she slowly woke up.

"Good morning, Mr. Mafuyu..."

Eluko rubbed his eyes sleepily and greeted Kirisu Madoka weakly.

"It's almost noon now." Kirisu Madoka rubbed the girl's head and corrected her: "If you don't wake up, you will miss lunch."

"Oh, I see..." Ailuko yawned. Maybe he was a little confused because he just woke up, or for some other reason, but he didn't seem to care about it at all.

Kirisu Madoka frowned slightly at the girl's abnormal behavior and asked worriedly, "Are you not in a good mood recently? Are you feeling unwell somewhere?"

"No." Ai Lu Ke shook his head and said, "Because I'm preparing for something recently, so I can't come here often."

Kirisu Madoka was a little confused: Preparing things? Coming here?

Combined with her previous guesses, she vaguely felt that she seemed to have noticed something.

"Eluke, you...are not human?"

"Human?" Ailu tilted his head in confusion and said, "No, Ailu is a star god."

Star God?

Kirisu Madoka's hand holding the girl trembled slightly.

As an existence that is equivalent to the creator god in this world, even though she came from another world, after staying in this world for so long, she has heard the legend about the star god more than once.

Kirisu Madoka had been curious in the past about what the star god who created this world looked like, but she had never imagined that the lovely girl who lived with her day and night was actually the legendary star god.

"Ah!" Seeing the surprised expression on her face, Ailu Ke seemed to have just realized what he had said. He quickly covered his mouth and made two unclear "mumbles", as if he was saying something.

Xia Zhi had clearly warned her more than once not to reveal her identity to anyone else, but she just blurted it out in a daze.

No, no, we must make amends!

"No no no!"

"…What did you say?" Kirisu Madoka had a puzzled expression on her face.

"You didn't hear anything just now!" Ai Luke put down his hand and said anxiously.

Isn’t this a bit too difficult?

Seeing the girl's face showing an expression that was about to cry, Kirisu Madoka hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded: "Okay, I..."

"I heard everything." Xia Zhi's voice came from outside the car.

"Woo..." Ailuko let out a cry like a little animal, and his whole body drooped, lying in Kirisu Madoka's arms.

“…Is this really the god of this world?”

Looking at this girl, Kirisu Madoka began to worry about the future of this world.

Chapter 53 New Rules

Kirisu Madoka felt that she probably understood why Xia Zhi said that he would stand against the humans in this world.

"So, that rumor was false from the beginning, right?"

After coaxing the girl and watching her fall into deep sleep again, Kirisu Madoka finally breathed a sigh of relief, came out of the carriage, found a seat next to Xiazhi, and sat down, and asked him.

"If you mean the fact that the last star god wanted to destroy humanity, that is indeed false," Xia Zhi replied.

Kirisu Madoka was not surprised by his answer. After all, personally, she could not associate the image of Eluk with the most evil evil god in the eyes of humans in this world.

"But it is true that humans want to kill Ailuko," Xia Zhi continued.

"Why?" Kirisu Madoka couldn't understand. Eluka had no ill will towards humans, so why did people in this world want to kill her?

"This is a bit difficult to explain..." Xia Zhi thought for a moment, then changed the subject and asked, "Teacher Madoka, do you think that sacrificing a few people to save the majority is the right thing to do?"

“…I can’t say it’s right.” Kirisu Madoka was silent for a moment and then said, “But it’s hard to say it’s wrong either.”

"What about sacrificing the majority to save the minority?" Xia Zhi asked.

"..."

Kirisu Mafuyu fell completely silent.

Of course such a thing was wrong… She didn’t say such a thing.

If you think that the former approach is not wrong, it is a completely rational thinking. If you think that the latter approach is correct, it is an answer obtained from an absolutely emotional perspective.

Sacrificing the whole world just to save the person most important to you is certainly wrong from the perspective of the victim. From the perspective of a bystander, you can of course condemn this behavior without any psychological burden, but what if you stand from the perspective of the person involved?

"So, from their respective perspectives, neither of them is actually wrong." Xia Zhi concluded: "After all, humans are selfish animals by nature."

Kirisu Madoka frowned slightly. She thought Xiazhi's view was too negative. She wanted to correct the boy's point of view, but she couldn't think of a good example to refute it.

"So, your choice is the latter?" She temporarily gave up this idea and turned to ask Xia Zhi.

Although she could understand it, she didn't agree. If the boy gave a positive answer, she would try to stop him no matter what.

Just as she couldn't leave such a boy alone, she would not watch him go down the wrong path.

however……

"No." Contrary to what Kirisu Madoka expected, Xia Zhi shook his head and said, "No one has stipulated that you can only choose one of these two options, right?"

The carriage gradually stopped. The mountain path had come to an end and there was no further road for the carriage to travel on.

"It seems there is still some distance..."

After comparing his current position with the map in his mind, Xia Zhi murmured softly.

"Forget it, let's do it here." He jumped out of the car.

"here it is?"

Kirisu Madoka looked around in confusion, and what she saw was a forest made up of a mixture of trees and grasslands. There was no sign of human habitation anywhere, and it was a completely uninhabited area.

She didn't quite understand why Xia Zhi came here on purpose.

"Don't underestimate this forest. This is the battlefield where the first generation of heroes defeated the copper dragon Nierkinelson." Xia Zhi introduced to her: "At the same time, this is also the place where the first holy sword of mankind, Senioris, was born."

To be precise, it was near the birthplace, some distance away from where the original holy sword was actually born, but Xia Zhi was too lazy to walk there.

"Is there any connection between this and what you just said?" asked Kirisu Madoka.

"no."

Xia Zhi picked up a fallen leaf from the ground and placed it in his palm, looking at the patterns on it, and replied: "I just want to find a place with more commemorative significance as a witness for what I am going to do next."

What’s next?

Kirisu Madoka felt a little uneasy.

"Now, it's my turn to ask questions." Xia Zhi pinched the petiole, pointed the leaf at Kirisu Madoka and asked, "Question, if there is no way to break the deadlock under the existing rules, what should we do?"

Without giving Kirisu Madoka time to answer, he continued, "It's very simple. Just add new rules."

With a slight buzzing sound, the leaf in his hand began to emit a faint white light.

"Then, there is only one question left." Xia Zhi let go of the leaf, letting it float slowly above his palm, and looked at Kirisu Madoka and asked:

“How should this new rule be set?”

Chapter 54: The Setting Ends, Collapse Begins

The task requirements of the main mission one seem simple, it is just to solve the crisis of human extinction.

Knowing that the reason why humans in this world are facing the crisis of extinction, this crisis can be resolved by either using Eluk's soul to strengthen the curse or reducing the number of humans to below the critical line.

But these are all temporary. As long as humans are not completely exterminated, they will continue to reproduce, and one day their numbers will return to the dangerous critical line.

Here comes a question: How long does Dream Game define "soon"?

As far as Xia Zhi knew, even the human beings now described in the mission as facing the crisis of extinction would not cross the final boundary until six or seven years later, transforming into a herd of beasts and destroying the entire world.

In other words, the game’s definition of “soon” has been around for at least six or seven years. What’s the maximum?

Ten years? Twenty years? Or even longer?

It is impossible for Xia Zhi to stay in this world for so long. Let alone ten years, he doesn't even want to wait five or six years.

So he decided to come up with a way to solve the world's overpopulation problem once and for all.

"Set..." He took a deep breath and said in his mind: "Set the current number of humans in the world as the threshold, and add the following world rules..."

It is unrealistic to control the population by human effort alone, and it is even more unrealistic to let humans implement family planning themselves. The characteristics of conscious life forms determine that they are inherently uncertain.

Uncertainty represents accidents. It is precisely because of such accidents that humans have broken through the "protection mechanism" set up by the star gods and have reached the current situation on the brink of extinction.

Xia Zhi will not make the same mistakes that the star gods once made, and he plans to set up a new "protection mechanism".

This mechanism is not like what the star gods do, which is to limit the number of humans by reconstructing the ecosystem and adding new natural enemies to humans. Instead, it is like the most basic law of the universe, coldly, ruthlessly, and absolutely rationally executing the order to cleanse humans.

Just as Sophon had locked the technological ceiling of humanity with the laws of physics, he was going to use this new rule to lock the population ceiling of humanity in this world.

However, the objective laws of the universe are an extremely large concept. To forcibly insert an underlying concept that can affect the whole into it would require far more dream points than Xia Zhi could afford at the moment. Therefore, he finally had to make some compromises.

"First, this rule only applies within the atmosphere of this planet."

If the entire world is compared to a person, then a concept setting like this that only affects a part of the body is like a small virus in a person's body. The world can adapt to it, ignore it, and allow it to exist.

In this way, the cost of dream points is greatly reduced.

But this is far from enough.

“Secondly, this rule will have the following specific manifestations.”

It is extremely counterintuitive to wipe out something out of thin air like the main god space or the infinite gloves. Adding such counterintuitive settings to the rules that already violate common sense will also require the consumption of dream points that are beyond Xia Zhi's ability.

Therefore, the summer solstice needs to be given a specific form of expression.

After searching through countless fantasy works in his mind, he quickly found a setting that met his requirements.

——Collapse!

It appears periodically, is born with civilization, but is the enemy of civilization. It becomes stronger as civilization becomes stronger. It is a disaster that can never be overcome by mankind, but will disappear on its own after destroying human civilization. It is simply the most appropriate setting template.

However, in order to save on dream points and to make it more in line with the setting of this world, Xia Zhi still needs to make some localized modifications to this template.

First, fix the occurrence cycle of the Great Collapse, based on the population threshold just set. When the human population reaches within plus or minus ten percent of this threshold, the Great Collapse will be triggered, leading to the appearance of the Herrscher.

Secondly, the setting of Honkai energy was removed and replaced with magic power, supplemented by concept-tampering curses, wish-fulfilling abilities, and curse blessings, so that the Herrscher of this world could also have the power to distort the physical rules of Honkai.