Their commission was suspicious.

The root cause is the fear that they might develop the idea that "I can do it too."

The root cause isn't that they're worried about their own territory being taken away, but rather about the safety of the other party.

"That sounds pretty impressive." Yukari Yakumo nodded.

When Yakumo Yukari heard Genji describe Chen Luo's current state, she was indeed slightly tempted.

Just like the idea of ​​getting rich overnight, it's impossible to do, but you can't even think about it.

The world's consciousness takes turns, next year it's my turn!

There's definitely more than just Yukari Yakumo thinking this in the bar.

However, after hearing about the consequences, Yukari Yakumo chickened out.

Yakumo Yukari wouldn't even last three seconds in the Vortex of Origin before being dissolved, let alone reaching Chen Luo's level.

“Of course it’s powerful… What do you think if I took advantage of the moment when Chen Luo was the world consciousness, ran away with the money, and made it a fait accompli, so that Chen Luo would really become the world consciousness, wouldn’t I be free?” Genyuan said, stroking his chin.

"...Your thinking is very wrong. Shouldn't you be worried that Chen Luo is becoming addicted to the power of the world consciousness and can't extricate himself?"

"Tch, if Chen Luo couldn't even figure out which is more valuable, 100 tons of one-yuan banknotes or one ton of 100-yuan banknotes, he wouldn't even have reached the point of obtaining the Seed of Transcendence." Genyuan curled his lip.

“Indeed. I believe Alo can definitely hold on.” Xiao Shi nodded with great conviction.

"But... which is more valuable, 100 tons of one-yuan banknotes or one ton of 100-yuan banknotes?" Xiao Shi scratched his head.

"..."

"..."

"Yeah, which one is more valuable?"

"I don't know. Why are you asking me? I've never seen so much money in my life."

“That’s not the point! But in terms of standard Chinese banknote denominations, one ton of 100-yuan banknotes has a total face value of approximately 8,700 million yuan. And 100 tons of one-yuan banknotes have a total face value of approximately 1.35 million yuan. Of course, this is just an approximation,” Genyuan said.

"Wow, you know so much about the root causes."

"..." Being praised by Xiaoshi didn't give him any sense of accomplishment.

"Forget it, let's just wait for Chen Luo to finish his shift. But before that... we can't waste this body! Bring me 100 bottles of Coke and 1000 bags of potato chips!" Genyuan slowly walked into the bar from the Vortex of Roots.

"Is KitKat snacks okay? I bought over 1000 bags of KitKat snacks at Xianzhou a while ago and haven't finished them... I don't know why Chen Luo bought so many KitKat snacks," Xiao Shi asked.

"Hmm...give it a try?"

KitKat snacks and the like sound like a great way to boost energy.

Chapter 2241 Yukari Yakumo: Chen Luo, you smell so good!

Chen Luo was in a very strange state at this moment. He even felt that as long as he was willing, he could fulfill the wishes of those who prayed to him.

However, every choice Chen Luo makes is closely related to the world.

Every world needs a source of the world, because every world is like a ship adrift on a sea of ​​dimensions, and the source of the world is the wood to repair the ship. The world's instinct will subconsciously maintain the integrity of the world, but the source of the world is finite.

The existence of world consciousness is a mechanism that simultaneously maintains the world and the living beings within it.

When to repair a ship, and when to provide food for the crew, are matters that require coordination by a global consciousness.

Sometimes a ship leaks a little water, but it's not a big problem, as long as you bail water out faster than the ship takes in water, it won't sink. The world itself also has a certain degree of resilience to risks.

What Chen Luo needs to do now is to oscillate between the world's desires and the desires of living beings.

Should we use the limited resources of the world to repair it, or should we fulfill the wishes of all living beings?

What meaning would there be for living beings if the world of living beings ceased to exist?

But for the world, even if all living beings disappeared, the world would not lose a single hair.

The world's wish or the wish of all living beings?

At this moment, Chen Luoming realized how arduous the work of world consciousness was.

Moreover, Chen Luo was having an even harder time than normal world consciousness at this time, because humans are definitely more emotional than world consciousness.

Caught between reason and emotion... Chen Luo chose absolute romanticism.

While possessing absolute sensibility, act with absolute rationality.

At this very moment, within the solar system he could fully control, on this blue planet within the solar system, Chen Luo surveyed countless wishes, striving to find a balance between the world's desires and the desires of all living beings, and maintaining the world's order.

Chen Luo would listen to every wish, because these wishes formed the kite strings that held Chen Luo in place in this world.

But not every wish can be fulfilled.

Painful, joyful, sorrowful, ecstatic, fearful...

Chen Luo meticulously counted every kite string attached to him, until the end of time.

"Hi, how are you feeling?"

Chen Luo suddenly opened his eyes.

He saw it up close, observing the source of his expression with great interest.

"How much time has passed..." Chen Luo asked after a moment of silence, having processed the current situation.

“If the time spent in the Vortex of Origin is 1 years, then it’s only a few hours if we use the time spent in the bar,” Origin said, looking directly into Chen Luo’s eyes.

Those eyes remained as lively, clear, and sparkling as ever.

Great, this means the impact is minimal.

"Love at first sight?"

"Pretty much, but on a world level, it makes no difference whether it's a second or ten thousand years," the Origin said.

If the ten years that Frilian spent with Simmel and the others was just a fragment for her, as an elven mage who had lived for thousands of years, and it was only after the hero's death that Frilian seemed to realize something, then in the grand scheme of things, ten thousand years is just a blink of an eye.

Therefore, the world consciousness never considers immediate, short-term interests when considering problems, which is why the world consciousness of the Collapsed World has a high opinion of Chen Luo.

Even the time of a single reincarnation can be easily discarded, as long as it provides decisive help to this world.

"So, back to the question from before—how does it feel? What does it feel like to take my place as the world's consciousness?" Root asked, tilting his head.

"You seem... to be working quite hard," Chen Luo said, covering his head with his hands.

It would be better not to mention the root cause, because just bringing it up makes Chen Luo feel like his CPU is about to crash. The thought of having to deal with the relationship between the world and living beings, as well as allocating the share of the world's source, especially the constant shift between rationality and emotion, makes him even more uneasy.

"Hehe, actually you handled it quite well. How about being my substitute? I'll give you 10 shares of the World Source per cycle," the Root asked.

In any case, Genyuan will never tell Chen Luo that his normal operating expenses are 100 times that of Chen Luo when he was running Earth.

Fifty times of that comes from the world's own output.

The remaining 50 times comes from dividends from certain shares originating in the Dimensional Sea.

However, Genyuan did not provide Chen Luo with any additional help, not because Genyuan did not want to help, but because Chen Luo was in a state at the time and could neither help nor touch him.

"Don't even think about it." Chen Luo decisively refused.

Chen Luo was especially annoyed when he was in the God's-eye view of the world consciousness, observing the desires and sufferings of every living being, but could only selectively fulfill certain desires due to the integrity of the world.

"Hmph, actually what you experienced wasn't the true world consciousness, because the true world consciousness simply doesn't have the ability to fulfill everyone's wishes." Seeing Chen Luo's rather admiring gaze, Gen Yuan felt a little embarrassed and said.

The source actually wanted to maintain the status quo, but it was afraid that other world consciousnesses would let it slip, so it was better to just say it out loud itself.

"Hmm?" Chen Luo seemed somewhat surprised.

“Normal world consciousness can only perform macro-level regulation of the world and its beings. At most, it can implement emergency strategies when certain loopholes appear in the world, which is why agents exist. The experience of being able to directly use the source of the world to interfere with everyone's behavior and even help them fulfill their wishes, as a world consciousness, can only be felt here.” The Root was very proud of this.

"why?"

“Of course, it’s because I am both the world consciousness and the Root. As the world consciousness, I can only exercise macroscopic control, but as the Root, I have the ability to fulfill any wish. Like the Root Style. And ultimately, isn’t the fundamental worldview of magicians itself a product of the influence of the Root?” the Root said.

If the root cause cannot interfere with the world, then no magicians will be born in this world.

There are only a handful of cases similar to the Root in countless worlds.

“I see…” Chen Luo nodded.

Becoming the world consciousness wouldn't actually help Chen Luo much, but becoming the Root—a world consciousness that he could personally intervene in and that all living beings in the world could confide in—would be of great help to Chen Luo.

In a short period of time, Chen Luo became the God of Wishes, who covered the entire solar system.

Although a solar system doesn't sound that big, after all, Earth is the only place with a large number of living beings.

However... Chen Luo manages all the solar systems in countless parallel worlds.

"Thank you, Auntie. I learned a lot this time," Chen Luo said sincerely.

"I'm satisfied, but are you really not interested in covering my shift for a while?"

"Absolutely no interest. Farewell." Chen Luo, floating semi-transparently within the Vortex of Origin, clasped his hands in a fist salute.

At this moment, Chen Luo is manifesting in the Vortex of Origin in a soul state.

Because Chen Luo's power of desire exists only within his soul.

"Sigh, wait a minute, why do I only have 1.1 shares of the World Source left?" Just as Chen Luo was about to disappear, he discovered this problem.

Logically speaking, even if the source doesn't give you a small fraction, the entire share of the world's source that the source promised to you by the source should still be there.

"Oh, so you used up the rest. Where do you think the World Source you spent to fulfill your wishes while in a state of World Consciousness came from? I couldn't stop you." Root blinked and said.

To be precise, it's not that we couldn't stop them, but that we dared not stop them.

Compared to a brief moment of enlightenment, the waste of a fraction of the world's resources is actually within acceptable limits.

"Making money from the source and spending it from the source? Don't even think about taking a single penny home?"

“Who cares about this little bit of World Origin? You spent it yourself, okay?” Root categorically denied Chen Luo’s words.

If Chen Luo were willing to call her godmother, she would reward him with 10 portions of the World Source.

However, the cause and effect are too great, and the "help" is too much, so I cannot do it.

"Never mind, it doesn't really matter." However, Chen Luo didn't seem to care about the amount of World Source he had obtained as much as he had expected. He was even willing to give up the World Source altogether.

Although Chen Luo spent 2000 Origin Stones this time, his income was not as high as last time. However, the experience of becoming a temporary world consciousness was enough for Chen Luo to not want any World Source at all.

The Origin of the World is important to Chen Luo, but its importance lies in its ability to help Chen Luo acquire more things that increase his chances of transcending.

This experience was exactly like that, so it wasn't a loss at all. Besides, I still have a small share of the World Source.

Perhaps the root cause is even greater.

"Don't worry, Auntie, once I've truly transcended this world, I'll definitely get you some good stuff!" Chen Luo said.

"Really? It's not just empty promises?" Genyuan looked at Chen Luo with some suspicion.

Why would I lie to you?

"Heh, I'll take it seriously then." Genyuan didn't seem as excited as expected after hearing Chen Luo's words; instead, he rolled his eyes at Chen Luo.

As for why Genyuan didn't quite believe it... that's because Chen Luo's parents said the same thing. In the end, when those two heartless people became transcendents, they used the excuse that adventuring in the Dimensional Sea was too dangerous to bring Genyuan back to their own world.

“In fact, I have already left something within this root cause,” Chen Luo said.

"Ok?"

"I'm leaving now. Being in this soul state for so long isn't very comfortable. See you at the bar, Auntie." Chen Luo bowed to Genyuan and then immediately ran away.

"Hey, wait a minute, let me finish reading first. What did you leave behind?" But before Genyuan could finish speaking, he discovered that Chen Luo had already disappeared.

"Tsk." After Chen Luo disappeared into the Vortex of Origin, the Origin slowly regained its identity as the Vortex of Origin and even the World Consciousness, and restored its control over the Origin.

Before Chen Luo disappeared, the Root Source couldn't even fully perceive and control the Root Source Vortex.

This also illustrates just how thorough the transfer of power has been at its root.

However, it's hard to say whether the root cause is joy that Chen Luo didn't take away her power, or even greater disappointment.

If Chen Luo takes it, then the root of the problem will be solved.

I believe Chen Luo will definitely be a responsible world conscious person.

"Hmm? What is this? Let me see..." Genyuan also successfully discovered Chen Luo's belongings.

"An automatic wish response device? What's the use of that? As the Root, I can interfere with the world anyway." The Root didn't seem interested in this.