Ye Hanshan was temporarily at a loss for words, not knowing how to respond. He felt an urge to refute, yet had no idea how to go about it.
Ever since Liang Shuguang became the City Lord, his eloquence had been superb. Over the past thirty years, most of his administrative decrees had indeed been implemented only after he had personally persuaded everyone.
Damn, turning the entire population into aberrations while letting them retain their sanity, coexisting with the Evil Gods of the Old Days in a fallen world...
Mainly, Ye Hanshan had never even considered such a possibility!
Meanwhile, Xu Mo was absolutely thrilled.
On the game panel, from the moment Liang Shuguang started speaking, the progress of the 【Calamity of Dawn】 storyline had been continuously rising!
【Key Storyline: Calamity of Dawn, Current Completion Rate: 58% → 62% → 68%...】
With the continuous increase, the Completion Rate had surged from fifty-eight percent to seventy-five percent!
Holy crap! This is a straight-up surge!
Liang Shuguang is actually this damn critical? Killing Zhulong earlier barely yielded this much. Is Zhulong's life worth less than a few words out of your mouth?
Before meeting you, I was practically playing blind!
Xu Mo couldn't help but feel a pang of regret.
If I had known this earlier, I would have shamelessly pestered him for more conversations. If all else failed, I could have just captured him and beaten the answers out of him.
He could sense that the core of the Dawn City storyline probably wasn't some Evil God's corpse, nor some potion experiment, and certainly not the power struggles of the major families.
The true core was the man sitting in the wheelchair right before him!
Or rather, it was the extreme ideals born from this man when faced with the backdrop of the Old Ones' Awakening.
This is the real fucking storyline!
So the game's starting zone was hiding such a massive final-boss-level plot.
Then, Xu Mo happened to notice the description in the remark that appeared when the 【Calamity of Dawn】 was triggered.
【Remark: The fate of Dawn City has entered its countdown. Light and dark, good and evil, the most noble or the most base—everything awaits the day of the final day.】
Only now did Xu Mo understand what it meant, and he sighed with emotion:
“Interesting. Your performance as an NPC is truly excellent. You're easily the most compelling NPC I've encountered so far.”
Moreover, the man's assessment of the global situation was highly accurate. Indeed, the Old Ones would eventually awaken, and the world would inevitably be destroyed. Most of the endings Xu Mo had played through turned out exactly like that.
It's just... your ideal is also a massive self-delusion. Dawn City will be destroyed by your own hands long before the world itself ends!
After a round of silent complaints, he suddenly spoke to Bai Feifei in his mind:
“This guy is quite interesting. Speak a few words to him now.”
Bai Feifei was currently in a daze, her mind still reeling from the City Lord's words. Hearing the voice suddenly echo in her head, she asked subconsciously:
“Ah?... Say what?”
“I won't take control of your body. Just repeat whatever I tell you to say,” Xu Mo said.
Bai Feifei's Sanity was currently very low. Due to the issues with the Source of Bloodline earlier, even if he forcibly took control of her body, he wouldn't be able to sustain it for very long.
It was better to conserve his energy just in case. Having Bai Feifei convey his words for him would suffice.
“Just say... Sinking Black has a few words to leave with you.”
Bai Feifei was taken aback. Though she didn't understand why, she still nodded.
She looked up and saw Liang Shuguang shifting his gaze toward her. Thus, she spoke according to the Evil God's instructions:
“Sinking Black... has some words for me to pass on to you.”
Liang Shuguang: ?
As soon as these words were uttered, they instantly drew everyone's attention.
Ye Hanshan abruptly looked up, and Wan Qianhong's expression changed. Even Xie Xuan and Xie Jin, who had been silent on the side, turned their eyes toward her at the same time.
Sinking Black?
Many of the people gathered here had heard of this name.
The strongest figure of the Masked Hermit Society to have appeared so far, a suspected ancient monster who had survived from antiquity to the present day?
Did he also have some connection to Liang Shuguang?
Liang Shuguang was also taken aback. “Oh?”
Then, for the first time, an intense look of interest flashed in his usually calm eyes. He even spoke with a hint of surprise:
“Sinking Black? That senior actually knows what I intend to do?”
Following Xu Mo's instructions in her mind, Bai Feifei repeated the words the Old-Timer told her:
“Not exactly. He merely saw that you seem to have some ideas.”
“However, he wants to tell you that no matter what your idea is, it is bound to fail.”
The smile on Liang Shuguang's face faded slightly, but he wasn't angry. He simply inquired in earnest:
“Oh? Why is that?”
“Is there some flaw, or is there an insurmountable issue?”
Xu Mo: ...
Xu Mo fell silent for a moment. He hadn't really thought about the ethics or feasibility of it all.
He had said those words for no other reason than the simple fact that he had played through the game! He already knew the outcome.
Thus, Bai Feifei also hesitated for a brief moment before continuing to relay Xu Mo's words:
“He does not wish to discuss whether your philosophy is correct.”
“But he has experienced over a hundred futures of Dawn City, and in every single one, the end was the complete annihilation of Dawn City!”
“Regrettably, you have not only failed to find a way to save humanity, you have merely accelerated Dawn City's demise.”
As soon as these words were spoken, the entire area fell into a deathly silence. Everyone stared at Bai Feifei, their eyelids twitching in shock.
By comparison, they weren't particularly shocked by the revelation that Dawn City was destined to perish.
What shocked them far more was the underlying information revealed in Sinking Black's words—what did he mean by having experienced over a hundred futures of Dawn City?
What the hell does that even mean?!
Can that guy actually see the future?
No, he said 'experienced' rather than 'seen.' Phrased like that, it was far more terrifying than simply being able to foresee the future.
For a moment, everyone found it profoundly mysterious yet terrifying. All sorts of speculations and apprehension began to spread among the crowd.
In their minds, a terrifying figure who traversed the past and future, fighting against the Old Ones in the shadows of history, gradually began to take shape.
In Xie Xuan's eyes, a light unique to the residents of Turing City flickered—a feverish curiosity and intellectual passion that welled up instinctively.
He couldn't help but recall what Sinking Black had said to him and the warning he had given back in the North District's red soil region.
At this moment, he placed even greater importance on those words, glancing at Bai Feifei out of the corner of his eye.
No... we absolutely must invite members of this organization to Turing City!
As for Xu Mo, he was currently watching Liang Shuguang's reaction through Bai Feifei's eyes with a bit of a player's mischievous amusement.
He really wanted to see how this man, who had always kept everything under his calculated control, would react to his words.
Will his composure shatter completely, and will he choose to attack me and self-destruct?
Or will he question the authenticity of my words?
However, the result Xu Mo witnessed was that Liang Shuguang neither doubted him nor showed any anger.
He merely raised an eyebrow. The light in his eyes didn't fade; instead, it grew slightly brighter.
Then, Liang Shuguang muttered to himself in a low voice:
“Is that so?”
“So... it was only a hundred failures...”
Xu Mo: ?
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