Their commission was suspicious.

However, the monthly income of 8000 is just a figure of speech; in reality, the income of the world consciousness in this world is still quite considerable.

"Ask me any questions you may have."

"Do you know what this thing is for?" Chen Luo asked, as an object appeared in his hand.

This is the reward Chen Luo received after completing the mission of ensuring the survival of ordinary people in Mu Continent who were swallowed by the black hole.

Fragments of the world.

Chen Luo was somewhat surprised; how could fragments of the world still fall?

Chen Luo knows about the puzzle pieces, but what the heck are the world fragments?

"? 』

'?'

'???'

Then Chen Luo saw a huge number of question marks filling the entire sky, showing the world's consciousness was quite astonished.

Those question marks were practically plastered on Chen Luo's face.

"No, where did you get this?"

"It was given as a reward for completing a task."

"Give it to me, and I'll give you 20 portions of the Source of the World."

"...Do you think I need these 20 portions of the World Source?"

A mere 20 portions of the World's Origin are only worth 4 Origin Stones... nothing at all.

"I don't know if you need the Source of the World, but I definitely do. Sell it to me, and I'll give you 30 portions of the Source of the World."

"I'm not selling. I'm here to get answers to my questions, not to make a deal."

"Damn it! You rich bastard!"

They say you should raise sons frugally and daughters lavishly! How come you're so rich, kid!

"Huh?" Chen Luo was completely innocent, having been scolded for no reason.

"What are you looking at? You're innocent my foot! You put this thing in front of the World Consciousness and didn't give it to it. You should be grateful you didn't get beaten up," the World Consciousness said irritably.

"So what exactly is this?"

Chen Luo only knew that it was a fragment of the world, but he didn't know what it was. The description after obtaining this reward didn't say anything, only that: This thing might be used to smash people.

"As you can see, the world is fragmented."

"...Hearing your words is like hearing a lecture."

"What's so hard to understand? They're just fragments that fell after a world was shattered. Just like how Valkyrie fragments were broken by the Titans and pieced together to create a Valkyrie, world fragments are similar."

"Oh, really?"

"Of course it's true, why would I lie to you? World fragments..."

"No, I mean, if I use a Titan to smash the Valkyrie, can I really get Valkyrie fragments?"

"...Others can't, but you can theoretically. Don't you get item drops from monsters? As long as you have enough dying Valkyries, you'll get enough loot, and there's a significant chance of getting Valkyrie fragments, which you can then assemble into Valkyrie pieces."

"However, I don't recommend you go after Kiana and the others, because they have a lot of high-value items. You should go after the regular Valkyries; they have a higher chance of dropping Valkyrie shards, since they don't have anything higher-level than Valkyrie shards."

"???"

Chen Luo thought the world consciousness was joking, but he didn't expect it to be real.

"And speaking of the world fragments you possess... collecting all the fragments of that world could indeed piece together a complete world. But you probably don't need that."

"World fragments are the greatest tonic for a world. If the Source of the World can buy more luxurious and practical furniture for the house that is the world, then world fragments can expand the house's area. This is something that cannot be measured by the Source of the World."

"Because only by destroying the world can world fragments be created, but destroying the world is the greatest crime within the World Consciousness Headquarters! Unless... that world is being devoured by some great terror deep within the dimensional sea, and after all hope is lost, the World Consciousness Headquarters requests a powerful figure to deliver a swift and decisive blow."

"Such things were rare in the past, but they did happen. Fortunately, in recent years, thanks to a certain alchemist developing a special item that can shift the world's coordinates, these things have become much less frequent."

"If you can't measure it with the Origin of the World, why are you spending the Origin of the World to buy it?"

"Because your world fragment is very small. It's roughly equivalent to a corner of a puzzle piece from the 'Along the River During the Qingming Festival' scroll. You wouldn't have any use for it. Feeding the World Tree would kill it, and feeding your puppet world would gradually materialize it, giving it real coordinates, making it unable to move freely. Otherwise, what else could you use it for? To smash people?"

"How effective is this at hitting people?"

"Rounding it down is like throwing hundreds of real numbers at someone," the world consciousness said.

Although the world fragment in Chen Luo's hand is small, it is still a world fragment.

While the Qingming Scroll is indeed vast, and a single piece of it may only account for a fraction of a hundred thousand, the sheer number of real worlds in Honkai Impact 3rd is as boundless as a galaxy.

"Understood." Chen Luo nodded.

It seems the description is correct; this thing can indeed be used to hit people. However, the shape of this world fragment is not very complete; it's more like a fragment of a globe, slightly curved, and not comfortable to hold.

The key issue is that it's even less convenient to use.

After pondering for a long time, Chen Luo took out 20 Primal Stones and placed them on the World Fragment.

"What are you going to do?" the world consciousness couldn't help but ask.

"If you changed the shape of a fragment of the world, don't you think it looks terrible now?"

"Not beautiful? Are you serious? These fragments of the world are the most perfectly preserved and beautifully shaped I've ever seen... What are you doing!"

When World Consciousness wanted to promote its aesthetic view of the world's essence, World Meaning couldn't help but let out a sharp, explosive sound.

Because the world consciousness saw that the originally flawless fragments of the world in Chen Luo's hands were changing shape, slowly, very slowly, turning into a cuboid.

“A…brick?” Alicia tilted her head.

Alicia is not part of the world consciousness, so she cannot share the aesthetics of the world consciousness, nor does she find the world fragments particularly attractive.

Therefore, Alicia's current reaction is to truthfully express her current thoughts.

Chen Luo couldn't change the appearance of the world fragments because their nature was extremely complex. But fortunately, Chen Luo had other methods. When in doubt, quantum mechanics... seek help from the Primal Stone!

In short, there's nothing that Primogems can't handle. The only difference is how many Primogems it takes. Fortunately, it's just a slight modification to the appearance, not a matter of the essence of the world fragment. At most, it's just adding a layer of materialized illusion, so 20 Primogems will suffice.

However, the sharp, explosive sounds of the world consciousness continued to ring out, never ceasing, and the words were mostly angry rebukes and pointing fingers at Chen Luo.

If the World Consciousness could intervene now, Chen Luo wondered if it would grab him by the collar and give him an over-the-shoulder throw.

"What name do you think we should give him?" Chen Luo asked.

And right now, besides the super light bulb world consciousness above their heads, the only one present is Alicia.

"A brick," Alicia said instinctively.

"They have absolutely no sense of aesthetics!"

"No, this brick of yours is not cute at all. What kind of aesthetic sense do you have?" Alicia said irritably.

Alicia's aesthetic sense is beyond question, and Alicia's beauty is also beyond question, but the name Alicia chose this time is really not good.

"How about this?" Chen Luo thought for a moment, then placed five raw stones on the brick, and then other patterns began to appear on the raw stones.

First of all, the color of this brick changed from white to pink.

[That's right, that's right. A proper handsome young man should know how to use a weapon commensurate with his appearance, like... a pink brick.]

Immediately afterwards, Alicia saw her own image slowly appear on the brick, just like a sticker printed on the pink brick. A look of surprise flashed in Alicia's eyes.

Then, in the next moment, Alicia pouted unhappily.

Because many other profile pictures appear at the same time as your own.

Alicia, Möbius, Aponia, Eden...

"I've decided to name it '13 Heroic Bricks'..."

"I refuse!" Alicia rejected Chen Luo's proposal.

Because this pink brick is not cute at all!

"Refusal invalid!"

"..." Although, Alicia slowly accepted the fact before her. After all, no matter what, at least among the 13 heroes' portraits, her own portrait was in the very center.

However, when Chen Luo flipped the brick over, Alicia discovered that there was also a portrait on the other side of the brick, and it was a portrait that took up the entire brick.

"This isn't fair! Why does Xiaoshi get to take up the whole screen, while I have to share the screen with someone else?" Alicia complained.

"Ah, isn't this a black kite? Or did I draw it wrong?" Chen Luo muttered, holding up the black kite behind the brick.

"Whether you drew it wrong or not, you know in your heart. Ha."

If the black red kite doesn't represent Xiaoshi, then how could it represent the black red kite?

Sima Zhao's heart is well known to passers-by.

"I'm going to supervise the adventurers in the park. You can just keep playing with your brick, hmph." Alicia glared at Chen Luo before her body slowly disappeared.

As the primordial goddess of this world, Alicia's divine body could become even more magnificent.

For example, right now...

After Alicia disappeared, the starry sky shone even brighter, each star seemingly an eye, gently watching over the creatures of Earth, offering its gaze and blessings.

It is obviously difficult to understand gods from a human perspective. After Alicia became the Primordial God, as long as she was in this world, her strength was naturally vastly different from that of ordinary people.

Just like Madoka, after becoming the Law of Cycles, she can even look down on every magical girl and guide their soul away when they are about to become witches.

Ordinary people naturally cannot multitask, but the Primordial Goddess, Alicia, is clearly not one of them.

As for why the World Central Hub, despite gradually referencing and possessing the abilities of the Chronicles of Time, still has veteran adventurers from the Paradise guide novice adventurers to rebuild their homes on this planet, instead of simply writing a few strokes of the pen...

Chen Luo mainly wanted to be able to spend more money legitimately, to spend the Paradise Coins stored in the group network, instead of leaving them in the group network.

Wealth can only be effective when it circulates.

As Paradise Adventurers become stronger, they will naturally be able to kill higher-level monsters and obtain more Paradise Coins, thus creating a virtuous cycle.

In short: Even without the mission to rebuild a new planet, Chen Luo still had to find something for the adventurers in the park to do.

This will prevent those who have just become adventurers in the Paradise and have witnessed the apocalypse from having wild thoughts.

And coincidentally, the new world needs this kind of ritual that, while useless, is very meaningful.

Rebuilding the world...

Doesn't that sound interesting?

Actually, I don't think the name "13 Yingjie Brick" sounds very good.

"Oh, what's your brilliant idea?"

[Think about it, since this brick is essentially a fragment of the world, it should naturally be named after the fragment of the world and its essence. This way, at least the world consciousness that keeps wailing in the sky can get some psychological comfort and stop bothering you.]

"so what?"

Think about it, what are the attributes of the world? It's vast and expansive, but most importantly, the world isn't a physical object! So let's call it "out of touch with reality."

"..."

"I've never seen such a shameless bastard! Not only did you change the world fragment to look like a brick, but you even stole my name! Have you no shame?!"

The world consciousness has gone berserk!

Sorry, I'm not even human, so where would I get the nerve?

"..."

"I think this name sounds pretty good. Let's go with this one!"

『I■■■■■■■■』

The world consciousness is now experiencing a feeling akin to watching one's long-admired goddess fall into the arms of a blond-haired man, only to be dressed up as a ghost-fire girl by him.

Therefore, the rhetoric of the world consciousness is particularly intense now.

"It seems Alicia is busy, so I'll go take care of my own business, World Consciousness." Chen Luo waved towards the sky.

"You bastard, you better not let me see you in my world!"

"Yes Yes Yes……"

So, boss, what are you planning to do?

"Let's go to the bar and get some rough stones!"