Collapse Iron: I just transmigrated! You want me to save the Black Tower?!

"Hi, have you eaten yet?"

Laigushi: "..."

Lai Gushi hadn't even had a chance to be wary of this outsider who had suddenly appeared in the imperial scepter when he was stunned by what he heard.

“Machines do not need to eat, Your Excellency. Thank you for your kindness.”

Jiang Jiu nodded: "Then you are really pitiful. Weren't you human before? After becoming an AI, you didn't even have the ability to eat. So what do you eat? Do you drink engine oil?"

Laigushi: "..."

Lai Gushi was a little confused by Jiang Jiu's strange thought process.

He reflected on his knowledge base and couldn't help but ponder.

...So this is what the younger generation of the Genius Club are like now? It seems I need to expand my knowledge base.

He had only been thinking for half a moment when a sword light appeared before his eyes.

The omnic's head fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Chapter 150 The Paradox of Cause and Effect +1

The omnics are dead, but they are not completely dead.

When Laigushi reappeared, his gaze toward Jiang Jiu was scrutinizing.

"What is the meaning of this, Your Excellency?"

Jiang Jiu shrugged: "I'm in a bad mood, senior. Shall we have a fight?"

Lai Gushi paused for two seconds, then shook his head: "While I would be happy to oblige, you should be well aware that what stands before you is merely a replica..."

Another sword strike.

When Lai Gushi appeared in front of Jiang Jiu for the third time, Jiang Jiu was studying the progress bar of the Iron Tomb.

83%.

In other words, from now until the future, over a period of five hundred years, the progress bar of the Iron Tomb has only increased by a little over ten percent.

Even the last part of the progress bar was sped up by Ragus.

Jiang Jiu sat on the rock, idly adding a few bugs to the program that created the Iron Tomb, and even kindly downloaded 360 Security Guard for him.

This thing didn't originally exist in this world.

But Jiang Jiu suddenly remembered something, so he built one himself, stacking up various underlying codes that were even better than the original.

"Senior, how long have you been building this?"

Lai Gushi listened to Jiang Jiu's use of the term "senior" but couldn't detect any respect in the tone.

"Who is your Excellency?"

"Can you call me Shijin? Never mind, it's not important. What's important is, are you really that patient? Building an Iron Tomb for thousands of years?"

Lai Gushi shook his head.

"Compared to the fact that the Star God of Wisdom has defined the boundaries of wisdom, it doesn't matter if it takes tens of thousands of years."

This is not a joke.

Laigus, or rather Zandal, really has that kind of patience...

Jiang Jiu tried to get the exact start time of the research a few more times, but failed.

Okay then.

According to Jiang Jiu's own estimation, the possibility of an 83% chance of finding an iron tomb cannot be ruled out.

If you can get 0%, that's even better. If not, anything below 20% is within your kill threshold.

What if we kill Zandal himself before he builds the Iron Tomb?

Although Zandal's strength should not be underestimated in theory, a genius is a genius, and a genius is just a genius. Being able to cause the end of the universe casually does not mean that his own strength is strong enough, right?

At worst, we can just engage in skirmishes...

Before leaving, Jiang Jiu didn't mind getting a few more questions out of him.

"Senior, why did you create the Iron Tomb to destroy the Venerable Master Boshi? You know that in the realm of knowledge, all your actions are within the Venerable Master Boshi's calculations, and you cannot kill the Venerable Master Boshi."

"Someone will definitely stop this farce in the future, even if it may have a significant impact."

After hearing Jiang Jiu's words, Lai Gushi remained silent for a few seconds before asking without warning, "Are you stopping me?"

Jiang Jiu shook his head.

"It wasn't just me, or rather, it wasn't originally me. It was a future genius, and a pioneering unknown. Senior, the mess you left for future generations is really hard to clean up."

Laigushi: "..."

Jiang Jiu kept calling him "senior" and complaining about the mess he made.

What was the final result?

"The result?" Jiang Jiu thought for a moment, "Bo Shizun's fourth-moment anchoring failed? And the price was a genius suffering? Senior, if you ask me, you should have been prepared to sacrifice yourself. Why should we pay for your mistakes?"

After Jiang Jiu finished speaking, Lai Gushi remained silent for a long time.

Jiang Jiu got a little bored while waiting and even considered switching timelines.

Actually, he didn't expect any answers from Lai Gushi; he was just venting his frustrations.

Just as Jiang Jiu got up to leave, Lai Gushi spoke up.

"First of all, this is not a mistake."

Lai Gushi repeated, “This is not a mistake, but a success of a project. The fact that the erudite monk’s formula is wrong means that the boundaries of knowledge have been broken. This is not the mistake you are talking about.”

"Secondly, if possible, I wouldn't mind personally offering myself as a breakthrough point for this research, but..."

Lai Gushi looked at Jiang Jiu.

"I regret to inform you that I am already dead."

"A long, long time ago."

Jiang Jiu: "..."

Jiang Jiu and Lai Gu Shi, who had a faint smile on their lips, looked at each other for a while, and then calmly said "Oh".

"Oh, so what? You died so you used other geniuses as scapegoats. You're not a good person either."

Lai Gushi shook his head: "Perhaps it's not that I'm using other geniuses as shields, but rather... that you geniuses still have a conscience."

Jiang Jiu ignored him.

Perhaps the Black Tower truly saved the world out of conscience, but he was different; he didn't have that much conscience.

Since determining the exact time was not very useful, Jiang Jiu decided to change the time.

He did a quick check.

The underlying code of the Iron Tomb, the Anti-Life Equation, was proposed by Rupert I, and the timeline at that time was roughly during the First Imperial War.

Since the underlying code was proposed at this time, the Iron Tomb must not have been created at that time.

Why not just kill the researchers?

Jiang Jiu felt that he was a genius.

"Your Mightiness......"

Lai Gushi stopped Jiang Jiu's actions and hesitated, "Could you find another place to commit suicide?"

Jiang Jiu: "..."

Hesitatingly, the Void Order's suicide is equivalent to releasing a huge bomb, right? Considering that the people in this timeline don't deserve to die, Jiang Jiu will change locations.

Having skillfully repeated the same suicide and re-election timeline, Jiang Jiu suddenly appeared in Zandal... oh wait...

"...So you died so young?"

One of the slices of Zandal, or perhaps we should call it Lai Gushi.

Lai Gushi nodded slightly: "The Silent Lord deals equally with all those who attempt to break the boundaries of knowledge, including me."

Jiang Jiu thought for a moment and asked, "So, if I kill all of your fragments, will you stop creating the Iron Tomb?"

What is the Iron Tomb?

"Is this the Extinction Lord you're planning to use to kill the Learned One in the future? Hmm...? Was there a Destruction Star God at this time? Sorry, my history isn't very good."

Lai Gushi thought for a while and then shook his head.

“I don’t think your history as a genius of the Genius Club is bad, but the First Imperial War is not over yet, and as for the destruction you mentioned... Star God... I’ve never heard of it.”

Jiang Jiu remained silent for two seconds.

He wasn't thinking about how to kill Lai Gu Shi right now, but instead silently circulated the power of destruction within him and fell into deep thought.

In fact, their own Star God hadn't even been born yet, so where did this Destruction Envoy come from?

If he were to go and save Nanook's homeland now, would a Destroyer Star God still be born in the universe...?

......

I'm so sorry, I have a slight fever and a terrible headache. I need to take the day off tomorrow. I'm really sorry.

Leave request + explanation

It was supposed to be a leave request, but it seems it was written at the end of the chapter early yesterday morning.

I don't want to break my streak of updates, so I'm posting a short one.

Actually, I'm not used to taking breaks during serialization. From the last book until now, I've rarely taken leave.

Since that's the case, let's talk about the problems we've encountered so far in writing this book...

First, there's the much-anticipated issue of bullet comments.

Okay... I really got a lot of flak, all sorts of avoidance tactics, direct confrontations, and even personal attacks...