Mystery: When the Fool Meets the Masked Fool

Chapter 561 Aha? Aha!
"call……"

Klein opened his eyes and let out a long breath, raising his hand to rub his temples, feeling that his mind was still a bit of a mess.

It feels terrible to have your will and body almost forcibly rewritten.

Fortunately, his true nature is actually just a bunch of semi-transparent worms wrapped together, and maintaining human form is just a hobby.

He can quickly split into new spirit worms to replace the old ones.

In a sense, this can probably be seen as a kind of "metabolism".

Once all the spirit insects in the body have been replaced, the original influence of the [Anti-Organic Equation] will no longer exist.

And he did indeed gain a lot from that massive data stream.

After pausing for half a second to refresh his status, Klein reached his hand into the air in front of him and pulled it outwards.

It couldn't be moved.

He felt as if he were trying to drag a star.

Just now, Klein tried to pull the [anti-organic equation] out of the fog of history once again, but he failed.

After a few seconds of silence, Klein integrated some of the useful information he had just learned from the [Anti-Organic Equation], and borrowed the ability of the "Ether Ghost" from the past to rewrite the [Anti-Despair Equation], allowing the internal information of this data cluster to begin iterative updates.

The future, chaos, evolution, language, the perfectionist...

Some previously non-existent, uncertain vectors were introduced into the original [anti-despair equation]. This gave birth to something new…

self.

The self, in some civilizations, is described as having a "soul".

The self-identity of different individuals varies greatly, and this difference determines the individual's trajectory of action and thought patterns.

[Anti-Despair Equation] The newly formed "self" begins to contemplate the concept of "happiness".

Harmony, joy...

This is the path that Klein has walked, and it is also his search for "self-meaning" and his exploration of the concept of "happiness".

The [Anti-Despair Equation] in Klein's hands is repeating the process of becoming human.

"Ok?"

"Hmm~"

Klein raised an eyebrow, curious about what this newborn consciousness would want to do.

He didn't find the idea of ​​data giving birth to consciousness unacceptable. After all, he could now give life and consciousness to inanimate objects, and it wouldn't be that difficult.

He was now only curious about what this newborn consciousness wanted to do.

He felt that the consciousness connected all his data and eliminated all disharmonious factors.

It begins to communicate with fate, attempting to reach the past and the future, and to erase all "misfortune" from its root.

"Wow," Klein exclaimed.

"Wow~"

This seems like it could indeed be done, but new problems arise.

Without "misfortune" as a contrast, "happiness" loses its meaning.

This "anti-despair equation" hesitated for a moment, then began to continuously raise the threshold of happiness.

"Hiss..." Klein took a soft breath, "This feels a bit like..."

Slaanesh~

“Yes,” Klein nodded, “it feels a bit like Slaanesh from Warhammer.”

"Oh, that's not good~" The evolution of this equation continues.

It seems that at some instant, it broke through a threshold that shouldn't exist.

Click.

etc.

It froze, it crashed; its logic seemed to be stuck in a vicious cycle.

It began to collapse inward, then suddenly expanded, repeating this process several times.

until a certain moment.

This newly formed consciousness seems to have made a decision.

A stream of data flowed rapidly, symbolizing the erasure of the "self."

It chose self-destruction.

I don't know why, but it definitely chose self-destruction.

The consciousness of this data is gone, but its calculations continue.

It simply became stable again, no longer extreme, and no longer tried to do more in-depth calculations.

"Sigh..." Klein sighed with regret.

"Ah~"

"What a pity..." Klein held up the mass of code that was dead but could still run on its own.

"Yes, what a pity~"

This code continues to self-check, iterate, update, improve, and fill in any gaps.

Soon, the code's operations gradually stopped, returning to a relatively stable state.

This means that the iterative update of the code has ended, and the new [anti-despair equation] can be put back into use.

Klein gathered it into a golden sphere and pinched it between his index and middle fingers.

"So why did he choose to self-destruct?" He held the [Anti-Despair Equation] in one hand and rested his chin on his other hand, trying to think.

"Yeah, so why did he choose to self-destruct?"

He began to worry that the equation's eventual self-destruction would affect the data itself, causing his [anti-despair equation] to head in a direction of destruction.

However, he soon realized he had been worrying unnecessarily.

The equation chooses self-destruction simply because it crashed during computation, going to an extreme, not because it believes self-destruction leads to better happiness.

“It seems that ‘happiness’ without any ‘unhappiness’ is not a good thing either. Perhaps a certain amount of ‘tragedy’ is necessary to maintain a state of non-despair.” Klein nodded thoughtfully.

"Therefore, the ninth sequence of the path to pleasure is [mourning the actors]. For true pleasure to take root and flourish, tragedy is indispensable. It serves as both a backdrop and the core of pleasure itself."

"Without tragedy, everything would lose its value, and life itself would struggle to find its meaning."

"That's why the Star God of Joy blesses [the Mourning Actors], not because they oppose joy, but because they are indeed walking on the path of joy." Klein felt that at this moment, he had gone even further on the path of joy.

"Hmm, so that's what I was thinking~"

"Huh?" Klein suddenly turned his head and stared at a mask face to face.

“Ahaha~”

The mask emitted laughter.

A cheerful laugh broke out, but Klein couldn't laugh at all.

(End of this chapter)