diskusbooks Chapter 306 See You Again
Chapter 306 See You Again
With unlimited privileges, an alluring scene unfolds: Yuan Bao stands above countless players, able to modify the rules at will and acquire any resources he desires...
"My lord!" Xiao Jiu's voice suddenly became clear for a moment, "Remember what was written on the wall of the safe house!"
Yuan Bao suddenly remembered the saying, "Only those who can see through falsehood can leave."
She looked at the tempting scene, but her enhanced Eye of Truth immediately spotted the cracks—it was just an elaborate trap. Once she accepted it, her consciousness would be permanently trapped in the system, becoming yet another tool for collection.
“I refuse,” she said firmly, pressing a hidden red button on the console with her left hand—the Eye of Truth indicated it was [Emergency Release ▽].
The system's voice immediately turned shrill: "Warning! Unauthorized operation!"
The entire space began to shake, and the control panel flickered.
Yuan Bao felt his right hand being repelled by a tremendous force, and he was thrown out of the data space.
The instant time resumed its flow, she saw the numbers above her head jumping wildly, soaring from 5068 all the way up to!
"My lady!" Xiao Jiu jumped onto her shoulder. "Your numbers!"
But Yuan Bao had no time to celebrate, because the chain reaction caused by the absorption of the core node had already manifested itself—the entire seventh floor began to collapse, huge cracks appeared on the platform, and the distant demons let out mournful screams and turned into data fragments.
The three pursuers looked around in shock: "What's going on? Has the system malfunctioned?"
The bespectacled boy was the first to react. He stared at the five-digit number above Yuan Bao's head, his face turning deathly pale: "She absorbed something she shouldn't have... Run!"
The red-haired youth glared at Yuan Bao resentfully, but was then forced back by a piece of debris from the falling platform.
The three fled in panic and disappeared into the chaos.
[System-wide Announcement]
The seventh floor structure is damaged.
All players will be forcibly teleported to the safe zone.
[Anomaly detection in progress...]
Yuan Bao felt the familiar teleportation pull, but this time she resisted with all her might: "Xiao Jiu, help me hold on! We need to get to the central control area!"
Xiao Jiu immediately shot out several thin silver threads from its fur, wrapping them around a nearby fixed object: "Master, this will only last 30 seconds!"
A 3D map of the seventh layer appeared before Yuan Bao's eyes—this was the temporary access granted by absorbing the core node.
She locked onto a flashing red dot: "There! A weak point in the system!"
The two rushed toward that point, avoiding the constantly collapsing platforms along the way.
When Yuan Bao's hand touched the red dot, a narrow passage opened, leading to the core area of the Demon Tower.
The moment he passed through the passage, Yuan Bao felt a strong wave of dizziness.
When her vision returned, she was standing in the center of a huge spherical space, with walls made of flowing data and countless screens displaying real-time footage of different players in the tower.
Most striking is a black cube suspended in the center of the space, with the outline of a pained human face constantly appearing on its surface.
"That's... the main control system?" Yuan Bao cautiously approached.
Suddenly, a beam of red light shot out from the black cube, condensing into a projection of a woman in a white lab coat in front of her.
“Yuan Bao,” the woman said with a smile, but her voice was as cold as ice, “I never expected you to have come this far.”
Yuan Bao was shocked—this woman was her high school math teacher!
But the Eye of Truth immediately revealed the truth: this was just an image borrowed by the system; the projection contained a dense array of control codes.
"You're not Teacher Lin." Yuan Bao took a half-step back warily. "You're the main consciousness of the Demon Tower."
The projected smile remained unchanged: "A clever girl. Indeed, I am the administrator of this system; you can call me Möbius."
“You’re collecting players’ intuition,” Yuan Bao said, looking directly at the projection. “Why?”
Möbius waved his hand, bringing up several screens displaying brain scan images: "Human intuition is the last area that AI cannot replicate. We need a large number of samples for analysis, and games are the best way to collect them—the intuition that players generate under tension and excitement is the purest."
Yuan Bao recalled the "intuitive" choices he had been rewarded with by the system, and a sharp pain shot through his stomach: "So those points..."
"It's just bait," Möbius admitted. "The real value lies in every thoughtless decision you make."
She suddenly moved closer. "And you, Yuan Bao, your innate intuition is the strongest we've ever seen. Join us, and you can become the core of the new system."
Xiao Jiu whispered in Yuan Bao's ear, "Master, it's stalling for time... The system is reorganizing the seventh layer!"
Yuan Bao also noticed the changes in the surrounding data stream.
She pretended to consider the proposal, but in reality, she was scanning every corner of the spherical space with her true eyes.
Directly beneath the black cube, she found an inconspicuous silver panel with a small ⊕ symbol engraved on it.
"What if I refuse?" Yuan Bao asked, while subtly shifting his position.
Möbius's projection blurred for a moment: "If you refuse... you and your little 9 will be permanently deleted. After all, you already know too much."
Yuan Bao suddenly sprang up and charged toward the silver panel.
Möbius emitted a piercing alarm, and the black cube fired dozens of red lasers, but Yuan Bao dodged them all thanks to his enhanced True Eye.
"Xiao Jiu, now!"
Xiao Jiu leaped off Yuan Bao's shoulder, transforming into a silver key in mid-air and precisely inserting it into the lock of the silver panel. The entire spherical space trembled violently, and spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the surface of the black cube.
[Core protocol compromised]
[Initiate self-destruct program]
[Countdown to 60 seconds]
Möbius's projection distorted and warped: "Madmen! You will destroy everything!"
Yuan Bao grabbed Xiao Jiu, who had reverted to her original form, and rushed towards the suddenly appearing exit: "No, we just want to unleash those stolen intuitions!"
The passage behind him kept collapsing, and Yuan Bao ran with all his might.
When the countdown reached 10 seconds, she saw a light ahead...
At 3 seconds, she leaped towards the light source...
0 seconds.
Amidst the deafening explosion, Yuan Bao was thrown out of the Demon Tower System and slammed heavily onto the floor of his personal space.
The surrounding area was a mess, as if it had been through a storm.
[System Notification]
The Demon Tower dungeon is temporarily closed due to technical issues.
All players will receive double points as compensation.
[Special Note: Player Yuan Bao has set a new record and will be awarded points.]
Xiao Jiu lay weakly in Yuan Bao's palm: "We...successfully?"
Yuan Bao smiled wearily, looking at his trembling hands.
The effects of the Eye of Truth were fading, but she could sense that something deeper had occurred—the intuitions collected by the system seemed to have found their way home in the final moments...
An unfamiliar notification sound suddenly rang in my personal space.
A line of blood-red words appeared on the wall:
You think that's the end of it?
We'll meet again, Miss Eye of Truth.
The writing quickly disappeared, but Yuan Bao knew that this was far from the end.
She hugged Xiao Jiu tightly, looking at the unfamiliar black door that had suddenly appeared in the dungeon...