Danrito, become a consultant for the Millennium Game!

Bai Zi nodded and put down his rifle: "It's absolutely unfortunate."

31. Do you remember the main quest?

"The attackers' information has been found... but they don't actually have any intention of hiding their identities."

After moving the unconscious people in the convenience house to the newly built Abydos dungeon, Ayane wiped the sweat from her head. In the notebook at hand was the student information of the people in the convenience house in front of her - Alu and her friends were originally a registered club of Gehenna College, so it was normal for them to find the information of Convenience House 68.

"Let me see……"

Baizi reached for the laptop. He had looked up the names of Alu and the others from the public student files at Gehenna Academy. "Are they affiliated with... the 68 Convenience House Club?"

"Is this what the student clubs here are all about?" Danrito raised an eyebrow. "They're much more open than ours. They set up a club just to fight people?"

"Perhaps it's because of the motto of Gehenna Academy," Ayane explained to Danrito, holding up her tablet. "Gehenna Academy's approach is quite proactive, and most of its students have a strong desire to fight. Starting a fight over something is commonplace for them. Of all the clubs, large and small, more than half are related to combat. It's no surprise that there's a club like 68 Convenience House that relies on commissions to survive."

"Their attack on Abydos shouldn't have anything to do with you, right?" Danrito looked at Shiroko and Ayane, who shook their heads. "They attacked Abydos because of an employer's orders. As for this employer..."

Dan Lidou snapped his fingers and said, "Except for the Caesar Group, there should be no one else."

"Caesars attacked us... so they don't want us to continue paying our debts?" Ayane was smarter than Shiroko, but she was still a little girl after all. She had no idea about these conspiracies, which was why she was wondering why Caesars attacked them, who paid their debts on time every month. "That money... there's still around 700 million credit points, right? That's a lot of money..."

"That's really stupid. Do you think this money is important?"

Danrito rolled his eyes at Ayane, looking her as if she were a fool, but he still explained, "For the Caesar Group, it doesn't matter whether they take the 700 million or not. It doesn't matter to them at all. They obviously need the land of Abydos, which is why they kept urging your students to sell the land to pay off their debts..."

"But speaking of which..." Danrito looked at Ayane in confusion: "How on earth did you create such a huge sandstorm here?"

"We don't know either..."

Ayane shook her head, completely clueless about the incident. "Sandstorms occur with almost no warning. If anything, it's just a rumbling earthquake. After a violent earthquake, the sandstorm buries everything."

"Earthquake?" Tan Lidou was puzzled. "Is there any necessary connection between earthquakes and sandstorms?"

In Danrito's database, sandstorms are also caused by strong winds. What does it have to do with earthquakes?

"……etc."

Perhaps, the sandstorm was not caused by strong winds?

A possibility flashed through Danrito's calculating mind. He looked up at the desert in the distance, the endless desert. "Is this possible?"

Perhaps it wasn't impossible. But for Danrito, it was just a fleeting thought. For Ayane and Shiroko, the more important thing right now wasn't to think about the sandstorm that had been going on for so long, but to think about rescuing their companions.

"After Serika-san disappeared, Hoshino-san also disappeared." Ayane pushed her glasses up, her expression serious. "Hoshino-san might have known something, so she left Abydos alone. Maybe someone from the Caesar Group brought news about Serika-san to Hoshino-san, and wanted her as a condition..."

Before leaving, Hoshino only left a farewell letter and did not tell anyone where he was going. At that time, Hoshino made the decision alone, but he did not expect that sacrificing himself would not stop the tragedy, but a greater tragedy.

"If it was someone from the Caesar Group who deceived Hoshino-san, she would definitely find a way to escape, right?" Shiroko clenched the handle of the gun in his hand. "But... Hoshino-san didn't come back. And neither did Serika..."

"After all... our Countermeasures Committee isn't an official organization of Abydos."

Ayane lowered her head, a tone of loss leaking out of her mouth: "Among the five of us, only Hoshino-san is an 'Abydos Student Council member'. A campus without student council members will not be recognized by the Central Student Council."

"I didn't realize you had so many rules and regulations here." Danrito was quite interested in the students' self-governance system, but now didn't seem like the time to ask any more questions. "But let's save these asides for later. Those who disturbed us will be detained here for now—their weapons have been confiscated, and this prison is very secure."

This prison, built with the power of the cartridge, inherently possesses the properties of a "game building," a "health bar." Until the health bar reaches zero, all functions of the building remain fully functional. There's no chance of sawing off prison windows or digging holes to escape, and everything is managed by a one-click intelligently managed cat guard, making it incredibly convenient.

Danrito wiped his hairsprayed hand across his forehead and brushed his hair back. "What we should discuss next is the attack on the Caesar Group outpost."

Prior to this, Danrito had transformed a Helmeted Squad thug into a digital lifeform and retrieved the location where the kidnapped Serika was to be handed over from her mind. Although it had been so long since the kidnapping, it was unclear whether Serika was still at that outpost, but for the Abydos people, who knew nothing, that was the only place to start their search.

The thug from the Helmeted Group, who was transformed into a data life form by Danrito in the most painful and forceful way, was summoned again by Danrito at this time.

"I, I am..."

When the Helmet Group thugs were summoned, they were still confused: "Wasn't I in heaven before?"

32. Worship the God of Osiris - Danrito

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Until he was summoned by Danrito, the red-clothed thug from the Helmeted Group was still trapped in Danrito's game realm. In that strange world, the thug who was completely confused about the situation didn't know where he was or what he should do.

The weapon he'd always kept in hand was gone, as was the strange being who had tortured him. Instead, he found himself in a strange space. Tetris blocks floated in the sky, surrounded by a jumble of buildings constructed from various architectural styles. The platform beneath his feet was piled high with various pieces of furniture.

Sofa cushions, snacks, and a game console.

"Where exactly is this place?"

The little gangster had no idea what was going on, but that didn't stop her from exploring the surroundings out of curiosity.

Touch the sofa, it is soft and can be sat on.

I touched the TV, it was hard and the picture was on.

I touched the bag of potato chips and it rustled, it seemed like it was edible.

"Is anyone—?"

The thug's nervousness slowly subsided as time passed and the surroundings became deserted. He tried to sit down on the soft sofa cushions, opened a bag of cucumber-flavored potato chips, and reached for the game console remote.

"What kind of game is it?"

The gangster pressed the button with a bit of uneasy anticipation.

The TV screen in front of me lit up, revealing a row of fill-in-the-blank questions with flashing underlines.

"Please enter the player's name——"

"Do you want to enter my name?" The young gangster girl pressed the directional keys on the controller and typed her name character by character according to the pronunciation: "Tian, ​​Yu, Yu, Mei..."

After entering her name, the game screen unfolded. Leaning against the sofa cushions, Yumei pressed a button, controlling the little character on the screen that bore a resemblance to herself and starting the game.

The inexplicable game that began before Yumei's eyes seemed to be a retro RPG game in which the protagonist, a "collapse source body", was searching for his past, repairing his past mistakes, and finding the meaning of his own existence.

"Hey... So the Collapse Source is a kind of data life. Speaking of this concept, did you learn something similar when you were in school here? No... I think someone proposed this concept when I was watching the Millennium Technology Exhibition?"

Tapping the buttons, the helmeted gang member named Tianyu Yumei gradually understood what the "collapse source body" was. As a chapter reached its end, Yumei, regaining consciousness from the game screen, looked at her hands.

"Ah... So I'm also a 'Broken Source Body'."

Novel 9⑧0

A mirror suddenly appeared in the world of data. Yumei has learned to find some permissions that she can use here, such as... summoning a mirror that can see her current appearance.

The halo on her head was still there, but the helmet and mask on her face had disappeared at some point, revealing her true appearance - a girl with long chestnut hair, a little too long to cover her red eyes. Her hair, long suppressed by the helmet, fell down behind her shoulders. She reached out clumsily, lifted her overly long bangs, and fixed them with a hairpin that had come from nowhere.

"Does this look much better?"

Yumei stared at herself in the mirror for a long time, her face suddenly turning red with embarrassment. "I wear a helmet and mask every day, and I almost forgot what I look like..."

After completing the first chapter of the game, Yumei finally understood her current situation. After being hired by Caesar PMC, the rogue students from the Helmet Regiment had gathered together and, with their overwhelming firepower advantage, launched an attack on Abydos. It should have been a simple offensive.

Then, a Kamen Rider named Genm descends from the sky and knocks them all down.

Afterwards, in order to obtain information about the kidnapped girl, she was pulled out as the gang leader who dressed the most differently in the group. She originally thought that she could get through the questioning as long as she was tough, but the unknown adult tortured her in a way that made her feel terrified, and in the end, her consciousness completely fell into darkness.

"That time... it was truly terrifying. Is this what death feels like? What I'll learn in the lessons in Abydos."

Yumei remembered that she, too, had once been a member of Abydos. However, after the sandstorm, the school's land was sold, leaving the school saddled with enormous debt. She made the same choice as most students, or perhaps, they seemed to have no other options. After signing her withdrawal agreement, Yumei left Abydos.

"Then, I joined the Helmet Group and started making a living together."

Yumei remembers that when she was starving, a gang called the Helmet Gang came to her aid. Losing her school and her student status was a horrible thing. She couldn't find a proper job, didn't have a dorm, couldn't attend classes, and didn't receive any student benefits. Unsure of how to survive, Yumei joined a gang of thugs who were trying to bury their wounds.

After repeated robberies of convenience stores, mercenary operations, and workplace sabotage, Yumei gradually grew into a skilled helmet gang thug and formed her own team. By hurting others and committing crimes, Yumei saved her life and also realized her own worldview.

"As long as you have great power, you can have everything."

I'm not the one who can save you.

Whether it was the arrogant Caesar Group that purchased robots, the arms dealers on the black market, or the chairman of the Gehenna Discipline Committee whom she had met from afar, they all emphasized this point to her.

And today, she finally encountered an even more powerful force, the adult named 'Danrito', who effortlessly defeated all of them, buried her in pain, and forcefully decided her fate.

'The weak can only crawl under the strong.'

Such thoughts surrounded Yu Mei, and she looked around blankly: "But what's the point of leaving my life behind and turning into a Collapse Source Body?"

Could it be that such a strong man needs my loyalty?

The next second after thinking about this question, Tian Yu Yumei was summoned by Dan Lidou, teleported out from the game field, and stood in front of everyone.

"Huh? She's... the gangster from before?"

Bai Zi was stunned for a moment, and seemed to recognize the girl in front of him from her red sailor uniform. "Where did she come from?"

"Because she was injected with the Collapse Virus and forced to evolve to the final stage, she is no longer an ordinary life form. She is a Collapse Life Form like me."

Danrito crossed his arms and nodded, "Under my control, she retains her previous appearance. At the same time, she is a 'subroutine' under my complete control—my subordinate!"

"Broken Source Body... what is that?" Ayane was a little confused, but soon realized: "Ah! Could it be..."

"The first option I asked you to choose has turned out like this." Danrito patted Yumi's shoulder. "This child named Tianyu Yumi is now a digital lifeform that can survive on the Internet. In other words..."

"She lives forever after death."

33. Secret Society: Invite you to be my fellow sages!

The girl named Yumei was aware of her own fate. After enduring a torment worthy of agony and suffering, she had in some sense "died," only to be "resurrected" in another form. In Kivotos, this was a major event, one that could shake the city to its core.

In Kivotos, the topic of death is almost completely avoided. Aside from a few academies that briefly touch on it in their courses, the concept of death for others is, at best, "ghosts"—because ghosts can actually be found in Kivotos.

Apart from that, Kivotos is a 'paradise' and a 'pure land', where only beings called 'students', countless animal citizens and overly intelligent robots live.

"You've already experienced death. What do you think?"

Danrito looked at Yumi in front of him with great interest, while the brown-haired girl simply felt her body: "It feels... nothing very real."

"If I had to say, it was the sudden pain that left the most profound impression on me."

Yumei stood respectfully. After transforming into a Collapse Body, her body was completely controlled by Danrito before her. Even her life was a reshaping of his form. For Yumei, any order from Danrito was undeniable. This was the absolute suppression of the Collapse Body's life.

( Thousands of Xun )/㈠四⑨○㈢柒⑨汃

"When I woke up, I had a lot more knowledge in my head," Yumei recalled her experience. "It only took a few seconds for me to fully understand the reality of being a Collapse Originator."

"The knowledge necessary for becoming a Collapse Originator was already implanted in your brain when you became one," Danrito told her. "One of the advantages of being a data lifeform is the ease of transferring knowledge. It's so convenient that you can even download data at any time simply by connecting to the internet—and you don't have to worry about poisoning!"

The Collapse Source itself is the most powerful electronic virus, so there's no need to worry about computer virus risks. However, if the electronic virus's life were to encounter a program attack, if its strength is insufficient, it could be even more dangerous than an ordinary life. After all, the speed of data deletion is definitely faster than the speed of blood loss.

Ayane, standing by, was a little confused: "Mr. Danrito, why did you call out this... Yumi-san?"

"To increase manpower." Danrito gazed deeply into the distant desert. He had a feeling that deep within the desert, something exciting and thrilling was hidden. "It's also to understand the essence of this world."

This was another idea of ​​Danrito's - if the "billion" in his body needed to interpret the essence of this world before it could be taken out, then these students that could be found everywhere were exactly the research materials that Danrito needed.

He hadn't stopped analyzing these students with halos on their heads. Danrito was certain that the mysteries he sought lay dormant within them. After all, he had never seen a normal person with a halo, let alone wings and animal ears.

However, how to analyze the mysteries within these students became Danrito's current problem. Transforming Yumei into a collapsing body and extracting information from her was merely a side effect; it was envisioned as the first step in initiating the mystery analysis process.

Furthermore, the data life form characteristics of the Collapse Body can force everything into data and analyze it. For Danrito, this is the most suitable way for him to find the problem.

"If the mystery can also be digitized, she will be the key to my research breakthrough." Danrito patted Yumei's shoulder. "We're going to have a conflict with the Caesar Group's troops. Ayane, you'll be responsible for rear-line support, right? If Shiroko is the only one on the front line, I might not be able to take care of you if a fight breaks out. So I've found an extra helper."

"I can be fine on my own. And she's from the Helmets, can I trust her?"

Shiroko snorted, looking a bit unconvinced. Part of the reason was that the helper Danrito had brought in was the same Helmeted Gang thugs who had attacked them earlier. Shiroko was still a bit confused about forgiving them.

"She's now a 'Former Helmet Corps'," Danrito said with a smile. "She was transformed into a data lifeform by the Collapse Virus, and then I implanted a backdoor into her. She's completely under my control. There's no need to worry about her trust, because I have it all under my control."

"I feel like this is a line only a villain would say..." Baizi didn't know what to say about his impression of Danrito. Is this guy good or bad?

"The adult world isn't just black and white." Danrito stretched his shoulders. "You're still children, and your distinction between right and wrong is binary. But to me, justice or evil doesn't matter."

"As long as I can achieve my goal, this is the right choice for me."

"Mr. Danrito..." Ayane was a little confused. "Isn't the right thing the righteous thing?"

"Oh, that's what you think."

Danrito stretched out his big hand, put it on Ayane's head and rubbed it. It felt very good.

"What's just isn't necessarily right, and what's right isn't necessarily just." Tan Lidou was still explaining things seriously in the first half, but then his tone suddenly rose in the second half: "Of course, I'm an exception! This rule, if I say it's just, then it has to be just!"

"What kind of specious arguments are these..."

Looking at this uncouth adult who was turning everything back to normal bit by bit in a messy way, although Ayane had an embarrassment on her face, she was happy in her heart for the appearance of this adult who was so unreasonable and cleared away all obstacles.

"Well, let's get ready to head into the desert now!"