Global Examination

Chapter 152

Bustling World

Chapter 152: Key Information

“Boss——–” 922 called out.

He had quickly returned to his senses this time because he had something to tell Qin Jiu.

“You’re still calling me boss?” Qin Jiu raised his brow.

922 scratched his head and smiled, “Got used to it. I’ll leave it as is.”

After saying this, he stored away the smile on his face and his expression turned serious, “Boss, I just dreamt of the past and that’s why I hurried here. Be careful of that old man in the punishment sector.”

You Huo, Qin Jiu and 154 stopped in place. They all exchanged looks, “We were just discussing him.”

922 asked in surprise, “Did you also realise that something’s wrong?”

“Yes, but before you woke up, we had just crossed him off the list of suspects.” After 154 finished saying this, he quickly explained what had just happened including the conditions they had listed and Wu Li’s denial.

922 shook his head and said, “He shouldn’t be the person Doctor Wu saw if the person Doctor Wu saw was during the early years.”

As You Huo tried to recall when Wu Li had met the leader, he heard 922 throw out another astonishing line, “Because that old man had died many years ago.”

That line was on par to a clap of thunder.

The corridor fell deadly silent. The three listening revealed incredulous expressions.

922 said, “It may sound far-fetched, but the fact is that he is someone who is long dead.”

You Huo knitted his brows, “Who?”

“The system designer.” 922 paused and emphasised, “One of them.”

Everyone was even more confused.

“One of them?” Qin Jiu repeated those words.

“Yes, one of them.” 922 asked him, “Don’t you remember, Boss? Weren’t we each given some information before entering the system? It’s about the system and there was a brief mention about the team.”

“It was mentioned, but the content of everyone’s information is different and each has its own bias.” Qin Jiu said, “My mission was directly related to Invigilator A and Z, and the destruction of the system’s core, so all I had was a one sentence background introduction about the team.”

What they didn’t expect was that it would result in an outcome like this. The two different logics caused the system to fundamentally contradict itself. As long as this contradiction existed, one party would end up having the upper hand.

And so, one day, the internal logic prevailed and the system began to deviate from its original purpose.

This was the root of cause for the system’s loss of control.

To some extent, Du Deng Liu was both a ‘person’ and also a part of the system.

Everything made sense now.

He had ‘reported’ to the system allowing it to interfere with You Huo and Qin Jiu’s plans because he didn’t want the system to be destroyed and he didn’t want himself to disappear.

To him, he was saving himself, allowing himself to prolong his life.

154 suddenly realised, “I was just wondering why the both of you are still alive after the rebellion. Why didn’t the system just let the two of you die and end it for all?”

Qin Jiu also smiled mockingly at himself, “Until just a few minutes ago, I thought it was because you helped.”

“No.” 154 shook his head and said, “I couldn’t do that at that time and couldn’t be of any help. It should be him, that Du Deng Liu. On one hand he wanted to interrupt your plans to prevent you from succeeding because he wanted to live. On the other hand, he didn’t want to kill. If he is the original designer, he might have observed you or even watched you grow up——”

He looked at You Huo and said, “He probably didn’t wish for you to die so he made the system remove you instead. As for boss, you——-”

154 looked at Qin Jiu, “You and A are both troublesome threats. You were already thrown out once but it didn’t work so the changed the method the second time and left you behind.”

After he finished saying this, he was silent for a moment. He then murmured, “You guys......Are really troublesome. More troublesome than the other.”

Qin Jiu laughed and then slowly stored away his smile, “It really is like this.”

In this world, very few people are born evil. No matter what they did, if you went back through their years, the reason or reasons could be found.....

But this didn’t mean that it didn’t exist.

Du Deng Liu may have many reasons and the most fundamental one is very easy to understand —- He didn’t want to ‘die’, he didn’t want to disappear.

Everything he didn’t want to happen to himself, happened to the others.

He may also not have wanted to harm others, but he had all along been doing that.

“Alright. Once or twice is enough. It would be stupid to let him interfere with us the third time.” Qin Jiu said to 154, “Your ‘luring the tiger away from the mountain’ tactic should be over now, and he should’ve almost returned to the punishment sector. Can you tie him down?”

You Huo said, “If you can’t, we can go there directly to kidnap him.”