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"Long, long ago, three races lived on the land: the Celestials, the Demons, and the Humans..."

"...The Demon King's wife and daughter all died in the war between humans. The Demon King has completely lost control due to his anger and wants to take revenge on the entire human race. However, the True King, as the Demon King's only friend, has to stop the Demon King because of his duty to protect humanity."

"The True King faces a difficult choice: kill the Demon King and save humanity, or side with his friend, the Demon King, and let him kill countless humans to vent his anger... Little girl, if it were you, what would you choose?"

"..."

The hooded girl didn't know how to answer.

This should be the final test in this instance.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a multiple-choice question.

But her answer was certainly not the answer that Caesar the true king wanted.

Because her views and the other person's views are completely different.

At this moment, Fan Xiao suddenly said, "I will act ahead of time and teach the high-ranking members of the Celestial Race and the Demon Race a lesson with extreme violence, and warn them that I have my eye on them, so that they will not dare to do anything underhanded again."

"Or, I could discuss with the Demon King about bringing his two daughters to my residence to take care of them. With my personal protection, who would dare to plot against them again?"

"This..." King Caesar was taken aback: "This doesn't meet the requirements, does it?"

"Whose requirements? The one who set the questions... or rather, yours?" Fan Xiao met Caesar's gaze and said, "What's the point of adding so many restrictions? As long as the result is good, why care so much about the methods?"

“No, you’re wrong, you’re wrong!” King Caesar shook his head: “I can’t do any of what you’re saying.”

"You can't do it, but I can." Fan Xiao shrugged. "If I were in your position, the Celestial Race and the Demon Race wouldn't dare to resist me in the slightest. I would even kill off those high-ranking members in advance to prevent them from causing trouble in the shadows. What's the point of guarding against thieves for a thousand days?"

"They are your own kind!" Caesar the True King frowned. "How could you be so cruel!"

"So what if we're of the same race? Aren't human races also killing each other?"

Fan Xiao shook his head and said, "Your views are those instilled by the Celestial Race, so naturally they are in their favor."

"Under this premise, if they want to plot against you, you can only passively endure it. They have presented you with a dilemma. If you don't break out of the framework they have set for you, how can you thwart their plans?"

"The perfect answer to this multiple-choice question is that it wasn't even among the conditions specified in the question from the beginning."

"For example, if I asked you, if your wife and mother both fell into the water at the same time, and no matter who you save first, the other will drown, who would you save first?"

"This……"

Caesar, the true king, looked bewildered.

Fan Xiao gave a direct answer: "You should answer that you will avoid taking them to play by the river."

"..."

King Caesar fell silent.

After a long silence, he raised his head, looked at Fan Xiao, and asked, "Young man, did I... really do something wrong?"

Fan Xiao remained silent for a few seconds.

The answer was then given: "No, you are not wrong. The fault lies with the higher-ups of the Celestial Race and the Demon Race. They are greedy, despicable, insidious, and shameless. It is their inherent flaws that have forced you to face a choice between two options."

"No matter which one you choose, you will definitely regret it, but at that crucial moment, you have no choice but to make a decision."

"Will I regret it no matter what I choose...? If I choose to give up on my friend who's trying to stop me, will I... have fewer regrets?"

King Caesar was once again lost in confusion.

At this moment, Fan Xiao asked, "How long has it been since you last visited the human world?"

After asking the question, he pointed to the other side of the ocean.

"The human world..." Caesar shook his head and said, "I don't know. I think I slept for a long time, but I'm not sure exactly how long. I also don't know how humans are doing."

"Human beings...have developed so well now."

Fan Xiao smiled and said, "Human beings today have mastered a weapon called 'science', which allows them to summarize rules from the laws of the world and utilize them, which has greatly improved human life."

"Now no one goes hungry anymore, everyone can eat their fill and stay warm. With science as our weapon, humanity has even conquered the sea and the sky, going up to the sky and down to the earth, capable of anything."

"Humanity has created powerful weapons, weapons that can rival superhuman races. Even without your protection, humanity will no longer be at the mercy of others."

"At the same time, humanity also created a weapon of mass destruction capable of destroying the world. Its power was so immense that it was feared by everyone, and humanity thus ushered in peace and the end of war..."

As he described the wonderful human world, he took out some items from his storage space and placed them before Caesar, the true king, to prove the truth of his words.

And Caesar, the true king, listened in silence.

Finally, Fan Xiao asked, "Without your initial choice, such a prosperous era would not exist. Are you... satisfied?"

"Really...that's...that's wonderful..."

Beneath the smiling face, Caesar's obsession with the true king vanished like a thousand winds.

His somewhat translucent body began to dissipate into specks of light, like fireflies huddled together, flying towards the ocean and joyfully merging into the sea breeze.

Under the warm sunlight, the specks of light were swept up by the sea breeze and blown into the distant sky.

To go to a boundless place.

Go to a place where there is no sin and no hell.

……

[One of the mission requirements has been met; you can clear the dungeon at any time.]

[Have you cleared the level?]

The true king, Caesar, has completely disappeared.

At the same time, a game notification popped up on Fan Xiao's screen.

He asked the hooded girl next to him, "Did you receive the game notification?"

"No...it seems you received it."

The hooded girl shook her head slightly.

She wasn't the one who resolved Caesar's inner conflict, so the second instance mission naturally had nothing to do with her.

She murmured softly, "I never imagined it would end like this..."

"I think it's pretty good."

Fan Xiao said, "It's impossible for people to foresee all the unexpected events in advance and make comprehensive responses, so... at some critical moments, it's impossible to make perfect choices."

"No matter which side you choose, the interests of the other side will be harmed. Therefore, you can only try to make a choice that you won't regret... or at least make the choice with fewer regrets."

"The true king Caesar chose humanity, and humanity survived, gradually developed, and used technology to reduce the gap between itself and the extraordinary races, becoming more prosperous and thriving... His choice created this golden age."

"Isn't that good?"

"That's a lie!" the hooded girl frowned. "Humanity was wiped out by him long ago."

"Reality is often crueler than fairy tales. However..."

Fan Xiao tried to find a bright side, saying, "Although the true King Caesar was tricked and given a false life from birth, he also met his end in a false lie."

"But his will and his emotions were real, and at the end of his life, he experienced a true spiritual sublimation."

"From this perspective, the truth or falsehood is no longer important to him."

"……maybe."

The hooded girl felt a little better.

Fan Xiao looked out at the sea and said, "Let's go back to land and check the situation. Caesar's main personality has disappeared. Logically, his secondary personality and those monsters should have disappeared as well. I wonder if this instance will come to an end?"

Chapter 447 S-Rank Dungeon Evaluation

When Fan Xiao and the hooded girl flew back to the mainland from the island, they saw the scene of the scorched earth evaporating... No, that's not quite accurate. What was evaporating was a blackish-red substance constantly emerging from the earth; the earth itself was not greatly damaged.

This wave of "black and red smoke" quickly swept towards the sea, and countless strange substances emerged from the sea before disintegrating and dissipating into the atmosphere.

It was as if the whole world was being filtered.

A chorus of mournful wails erupted.

The large number of alien monsters were unwilling to die and let out fierce roars and howls.

But their very "roots" have vanished, and all their efforts have been in vain.

"Could all of these things... be the flesh and blood of the true King Caesar?"

The hooded girl stared in horror at the black smoke phenomenon that enveloped the world: "Even if his flesh and blood could expand and spread, it shouldn't be this large, right?"

“For one person, it is indeed a bit of an exaggeration,” Fan Xiao analyzed. “However… Caesar the True King can assimilate other life forms and bring them under his control. These alien flesh and blood should be the sum of all life forms in this instance world.”

At this point, he sighed and said, "This instance is about to end; we don't need to wait seven days anymore."

It is clear that the true King Caesar has died due to the exhaustion of his lifespan.

The incomplete spirit on the island was probably just a lingering obsession.

Now that his obsession has disappeared, the anomalies caused by his abilities will naturally disappear as well.

This instance world is returning to its original state.

Whether this isolated space will be recycled by the evolution game or used to create a new instance remains to be seen.

The instances are constantly changing—that's the nature of evolutionary games.

If the state of a dungeon is drastically altered by players, it will either be recycled or the game mode will be updated to become a new dungeon.

Some instances can even result in a drop in level.

"It would be good to leave here sooner..."

The hooded girl had mixed feelings.

However, remembering that he had urgent matters to attend to in the real world, he quickly put his mind at ease.

The two landed on the shore where the original lighthouse was located and found the handsome young man and the couple who were playing together nervously, watching their surroundings.

When the three saw Fan Xiao return, although they were somewhat afraid, their fear of the unknown was greater than their fear of people, and they all approached him.

The handsome young man, somewhat reserved, approached Fan Xiao and asked, "Brother, what's going on here...? Is all this black smoke... normal? Could it be poisonous?"

“Don’t worry,” Fan Xiao shook his head and said, “We have already defeated the true king Caesar. This is a sign that the game is about to end.”

"Uh... so fast?" said the woman with the low ponytail in the couple of players. "Well... we didn't hear much noise from the other side of the sea..."

"I never said that the so-called 'punishment' referred to combat."

Fan Xiao replied with a slightly wistful tone, "The hardest part of this dungeon is surviving the cycle and collecting complete intelligence."

"The dangers here have completely exceeded what a C-level player can handle."

"To clear the game, brute force... or rather, the brute force of a C-level player won't work."

The final challenge is a multiple-choice question—to be honest, it's hard to define the difficulty of this kind of challenge.

Because the answer is not within the scope of the multiple-choice question.

It can be so simple that it makes people laugh, or so difficult that it makes people scratch their heads and rack their brains without finding a solution.

The key is not the answer itself, but how to help the true King Caesar understand and achieve spiritual enlightenment.

If Fan Xiao hadn't noticed Caesar's unusual behavior, confirmed his "lifespan" guess, and deduced from the details of the other's words that the other's memories stopped at the moment of "sleep" and that he had no idea what happened afterward... otherwise, Fan Xiao wouldn't have known how to untangle the other's knot in his heart.

Even with the final lie he told, he wasn't sure if it would succeed.

He didn't even know if the true King Caesar had actually been successfully deceived.

"Lies can generally only fool those who are willing to believe them. Once the initial signs appear, the other person might even deceive themselves, even if the lie itself is absurd... Well, it seems to have fooled them."

Fan Xiao suppressed his thoughts and stopped thinking about it.

People should look forward and not dwell on the past.

"So, should we just...wait?" the handsome young man asked.

“Yes,” Fan Xiao said, “I’ve already taken care of everything else.”

At this point, he looked at the three handsome young men and earnestly suggested, "If you feel bad about winning by doing nothing, just give me some game coins as a reward. I won't ask for much; the three of you can pool together a few hundred thousand."

"..."

The handsome young man remained silent.

Even the married couples who were playing together pretended to be dead.