WTYTIAAN Chapter 277

Yan Yunqing twitched the corner of his mouth.

Having deduced this much, he could even complete the fill-in-the-blanks exercise for the two forces behind this game.

The side focused on opening the game for internal testing and accelerating the merging of worlds was undoubtedly filled with malice. Just insert Qien’s name without thinking.

Qien might not be the ultimate boss, but he was definitely closely related to the ultimate boss. Whether it was becoming a god or something else, he was full of bad intentions, a born troublemaker, and all the bad things had his shadow in them, so he definitely couldn’t escape.

And the side that wanted to confront Qien, that wanted to prevent the worlds from merging, to prevent the world from being destroyed, this description seemed vague, but actually didn’t fit many, especially those that fit and could achieve it… there was probably only one.

“Divinity.”

As mentioned before, the Demon King, after killing the God of Light, obtained the God of Light’s divinity and the divinities of all the gods who had fallen at the hands of the God of Light.

These divinities gathered together to form a new divinity. According to the Demon King’s achievements at the time, as long as he accepted this divinity, he could become a new god.

However, the Demon King had originally come to fight the gods and had no interest in becoming one, so he entrusted this divinity to the High Priestess Sylvia of the Eternal Empire for safekeeping. From then on, the age of the gods came to an end, no new gods were born, and the only remaining Earth God in the world signed a contract with the Demon King, vowing never to interfere in the rule of the land.

Logically speaking, the story should have turned a new page, but the Demon King disappeared, and the “Divinity” entrusted to High Priestess Sylvia was lost. Sylvia, to make up for her mistake, foretold the whereabouts of the “Divinity,” but in the end, she received a prophecy about a transmigrator.

“The gods fall, the divine seat collapses, eternity ceases, the griffins and centaurs ascend the stage, the embodiment of evil and greed returns, war and calamity descend, the world is annihilated, only the transmigrator can save everything.”

The merging of the worlds had been predicted by Sylvia, so her prophecy was clearly not wrong.

Then, the other force behind this game also came to light—”Divinity.”

Yan Yunqing had previously considered that since Qien’s goal was likely related to becoming a god, could the “Divinity” possibly have been stolen by him as well?

After all, according to the timeline of the fall of Erandik City, Qien should have already been resurrected before and after the “Divinity” was lost, or was acting in the world in some way.

Looking at it this way, it was quite possible that Qien had stolen the “Divinity,” and Yan Yunqing wasn’t wronging him.

But now, Yan Yunqing understood.

The loss of the “Divinity” might not be a real loss. It might have run away from home on its own. The reason was simple: it had discovered the anomaly of the two worlds.

Zhai Yingyi said that before the game’s internal beta began, the “anomaly” had already appeared, indicating that the two worlds had a tendency to merge before that, even if they weren’t merging, they were slowly moving closer.

Since player deaths were anchor points, catalysts, then was there a possibility that the tragedies Qien created after his resurrection, including Erandik City, were all means he used to promote the merging of the two worlds?

It was just that the effect was slow, but it was still discovered by “Divinity”?

So “Divinity” ran away from home, sneaked into the game system, all in order to compete with Qien—

Yan Yunqing’s eyes narrowed.

Wait, then what was the deal with the “Demon King” game he had played before?

Could it be that Qien’s idea of merging the two worlds had started as early as the age of the gods? Then the divinity transformed into the game “Demon King” and tricked him into doing hard labor?

That’s not right, wasn’t the “Divinity” still in the hands of those gods at that time? How did it become “Demon King”?

Yan Yunqing’s reasoning was interrupted. He really couldn’t find a reasonable explanation for this part. The main reason was that there weren’t enough clues.

He tried to talk to the game system, but the game system was as dead as a doornail, not making a sound, not knowing if it was absent or had a guilty conscience.

It was clear that he had some feeling when he cursed the game for being inhumane before.

Seeing that Yan Yunqing was lost in thought, Zhai Yingyi also thoughtfully didn’t interrupt his thinking, just quietly waiting.

Yan Yunqing came back to his senses. “Player deaths are catalysts for accelerating the merging, then what?”

“Regarding this point, I believe the official side should have a way, right? If you can’t prevent player deaths, can’t you fundamentally prevent players from logging into the game?”

Yan Yunqing knew that for players to log into the game, they first had to go through a game helmet as a medium. According to the official research results, it was possible to find all these players and restrict them from logging into the game.

Although there were a lot of people, in the face of the state apparatus, it didn’t seem to be a big deal?

Zhai Yingyi said helplessly, “Perhaps this method would have worked before, but the third internal beta has opened up 40,000 more spots…”

Yan Yunqing understood. Zhai Yingyi’s implication was that there might be a fourth, fifth, or even a public beta next. Restricting players from logging into the game could only be said to be a stopgap measure, especially since this measure might also cost a lot of money and human resources.

Zhai Yingyi continued, “Moreover, just recently, ‘Otherworld Projections’ have not only appeared in our country, but also in many densely populated areas in foreign countries. If foreign forces get involved, restricting them only in our country won’t have a good effect.”

Ah, this was talking about how foreign countries had recently been eyeing China’s every move very closely! It would be fine if they didn’t move, but if they moved to restrict 50,000 players from entering the game, they would definitely be noticed by foreign forces, and if they got involved, the consequences couldn’t be guaranteed.

Not all national leaders could rationally reject the temptation from the Ermann Continent.

Not to mention the wonders of magic and alchemy, just the fact that magic could extend life, and that levels could reach eighty or ninety, even a hundred, with lifespans possibly reaching the human limit—two or three hundred years—was tempting enough.

Being able to learn and master the mysteries of magic and also extend life, this kind of temptation was really hard to resist.

Perhaps they would just gamble—betting that they would be among the lucky ones left after the merging.

Yan Yunqing hadn’t thought so much at first, but now that he heard Zhai Yingyi’s implication, he didn’t mention this anymore.

He knew that the desire to extend life was human nature, and even they themselves might have such thoughts, but under this temptation, they valued the crisis brought about by the merging even more.

This coincided with what Yan Yunqing valued, at least their goals were the same now.

Yan Yunqing decisively changed the subject, feeling that discussing this topic in depth wouldn’t be a good thing.

“This so-called Project Dawn, the core is to do everything possible to prevent the two worlds from merging, to prevent the world from being destroyed, right?”

“So, what do you need me to do? What is the content of our cooperation?”

Seeing that Yan Yunqing had no intention of refusing to cooperate, Zhai Yingyi’s heart relaxed a little. “According to the researchers’ estimates, the merging of the two worlds will be completed in at most one year, but now it seems that this time estimate is still conservative.”

“The latest data is—three months.”

Yan Yunqing’s pupils shrank slightly. “Three months?”

He had thought that this matter was imminent, but he hadn’t thought it would be so fast—

Wouldn’t that mean the end of the world was right in front of him? He didn’t even have a clue on how to save the world.

Yan Yunqing felt like cursing the system a little.

[Whimper]

Yan Yunqing suddenly raised his eyes and looked into the void. He had once again felt that kind of vague existence.

Sure enough… the “Divinity” behind the game system?

That existence pretended to be dead again. Yan Yunqing had a clue in his heart that he should be able to find some clues if he worked hard in this direction, but the time was really too tight.

He had to think of a way to extend the time a bit. How about uniting the alien races and plowing through the entire continent? Wouldn’t they be able to find Qien like that? If they couldn’t kill Qien, at least they could give him a good beating, which would at least delay the time a bit, right?

Yan Yunqing thought fiercely.

Zhai Yingyi was a little confused, not knowing why the person in front of him suddenly changed three expressions in a second, as if he was thinking about something very important.

“Yes, three months.” Zhai Yingyi nodded seriously. “So we need your cooperation, or we can cooperate with you. If you have any solutions, you can propose them.”

“For the sake of the survival of the two worlds, we will definitely do our best to cooperate with you.”

Yan Yunqing looked straight into Zhai Yingyi’s eyes. Those eyes were full of determination, and they didn’t flinch when meeting Yan Yunqing’s dark red eyes with their strong sense of oppression.

“—Okay.”

“I also have some clues. The clues you provided are indeed useful, and I can also provide information exchange.”

For the sake of the survival of the two worlds.

Both of them saw the meaning in each other’s eyes. Their goals were the same, their hometowns were the same. Was there a better partner than this?

“Next, what I want to tell you is about the history of this continent, and my speculation about the truth of the world merging.”

Yan Yunqing recounted the entire historical process from the age of the gods to the Eternal Commemoration, to the present time when the two great empires stood side by side. During this time, Zhai Yingyi also brought in two people who looked like recorders, recording with pens and memory crystals, and another existence who looked like a person in charge.

Yan Yunqing didn’t hold back, and told everything he could, except that he didn’t say that [Demon King = him], but told it as if it were someone else’s story.

The person in charge listened and sorted it out, confirming that what Yan Yunqing said was extremely consistent with the information they had collected during this time, and was even more detailed than their information.

Of course, after all, these were all Yan Yunqing’s own experiences.

“As for the merging of the worlds, I don’t know if you’ve heard a prophecy.”

“Do you mean, ‘The world is annihilated, only the transmigrator can save everything’?”

“Yes.” Yan Yunqing said, “The entire sentence of the prophecy is actually ‘The gods fall, the divine seat collapses, eternity ceases, the griffins and centaurs ascend the stage, the embodiment of evil and greed returns, war and calamity descend, the world is annihilated, only the transmigrator can save everything.'”

“This is the prophecy of the High Priestess of the Eternal Empire. Before this, I always wanted to understand what the annihilation of the world in this prophecy meant, but after receiving the clue of the world merging that you gave, I understood the meaning of the prophecy.”

“I think, the key to preventing the merging of the two worlds lies in the sentence ‘The embodiment of evil and greed returns, war and calamity descend.'”

“‘The embodiment of evil and greed returns’ refers to Qien.” Yan Yunqing thought for a while, “That’s the legendary necromancer Qien I mentioned earlier. He was resurrected through some means. Before this—that is, that day near the blood pool in the underground altar of the Eternal Divine Church, I saw him after his resurrection.”

“He’s using the identity of ‘Demetrius’… hiss, this person is not easy to explain. In short, it’s someone I know. I guess he should have other identities. This guy is too slippery.”

“As for the Eternal Divine Church, I also said before that it’s a cult established using the name of the Demon King. I only recently learned that the person controlling the Eternal Divine Church behind the scenes should be related to Qien, or rather, it’s Qien.”

“Qien is very important.” The person in charge listened and said, “I understand. The next goal is to find Qien and capture him?”

“No, it’s to kill him.” Yan Yunqing said heavily, “But this is very difficult. I… the Demon King once killed Qien once, but you also saw that he was resurrected again.”

“So far, I still haven’t been able to figure out what resurrected Qien. Only by figuring out this point can we be sure to kill him.”