Doomsday Wonderland Vol. 12: New Game Launch [Complete]

1529: Find Ten Righteous People

As Nüwa slowly turned around, the cement-gray room's background seemed to suddenly turn into dark currents, twisted, drawn by her movement, swirling around her and dissolving. By the time she fully faced Lin Sanjiu, the room was gone, the press conference was gone, the planet was gone, and the cries of the people in that world were pushed to an unknown far distance, a place without existence.

They floated in the perpetually silent dark universe, where distant cold stars dotted the space.

Nüwa looked at the two and smiled slightly. Her hand lightly raised in mid-air and suddenly thrust downward—the sharp end of her staff lodged into the soft darkness, pinning the passage of time.

This description, "pinning the passage of time," seemed irrational.

But Lin Sanjiu felt this inexplicable sensation; time was no longer flowing beneath them. Yu Yuan seemed to have felt a touch as well, looking around and uttering a soft "ah," as if he had understood something.

"Yes," Nüwa said to one or both of them. She raised her other hand, pinching the air lightly with her thumb and index finger, and began to speak with a sigh-like tone.

"Like this, extending your finger to pinch time, and there in your fingertip, you have a moment caught between two forces, motionless. Time before still moves forward, time after still goes backward, only the moment where we are is eternally suspended."

Lin Sanjiu did not understand, nor did she try to. The more she learned about Nüwa, the more incomprehensible she seemed.

All she knew was that although she was surprised subconsciously, deep inside she wasn't that surprised at all—ever since the Reverie Libretto, she had been waiting for this day. Moreover, with such distinctive traits in this underground new game launch, Nüwa's name might as well have been written on the wall.

Despite being mentally prepared, Lin Sanjiu still felt an almost irresistible fatigue, as if she had been running a never-ending marathon for years, and someone had finally called a stop.

She looked down at her feet, not understanding where she was or what she was standing on, but she sat down dejectedly and said, "Yeah, you found me. Is this another one of your testing grounds?"

Nüwa's face expressed a cold and ultimate compassion. "No, a process with a known result cannot be called an experiment."

Lin Sanjiu nodded, still confused about what she was doing. She searched her bewildered mind for a while, looking for what to ask now, seeking some sense of normality.

Having thought for a long time, she could only think of the grand prize, the only question in her mind—but after uttering "Ji..." she thought she saw something flash across Nüwa's face, so she changed her words. "Why are you here?"

Nüwa smiled, like watching a child trying to be clever.

"I am here because I am here, as simple as that. It's not because of something I did that I appear here at this point in time; it's because I will appear here at this time that all these events occur before and after," she said patiently. "When you understand my meaning, you'll naturally understand why I can 'foresee' the course of events."

Yu Yuan asked, "You mean, your influence on cosmic things is now emanating from yourself, not your actions?"

Lin Sanjiu rubbed her temples and exclaimed, "What?"

Yu Yuan thought for a while before finding an analogy. "For example, she told me that I would bring you to her. Not because she foresaw the future or she or I took action to make this come true, but history will naturally be affected by her existence, like a cloth being bent... or like water flowing downhill. The difference is, Nüwa can clearly see the water flowing towards her, the influence she produces."