Simulates history, but Chongzhen is the Divine Emperor at the beginning

Chapter 187 Send everyone to heaven!
"Turn all living beings into memories..."

Upon seeing the description of this new prize, Zhou Liang couldn't help but frown:
"The Fantasist's Sacrifice... turns reality into illusion, and illusion into reality..."

"This...isn't this the end of the world?"

Just looking at the description, there is a sense of madness and mental illness. If you look at it carefully, it is even more chilling!

This prize wasn't a reliable remedy for salvation, but rather a madcap gamble. The specific method was to kill everyone and completely destroy the world, using everything as sacrifice and stakes, gambling on a vague possibility...

What are the possibilities?

Answer: It is "Western Paradise"!
This was originally just a fantasy world that "Zhou Liang" used to deceive people, but now he actually regarded it as a lifeline, so much so that he ignored its illusory nature and only believed in its real existence...

This is ridiculously morbid logic:

It’s not that we cannot believe in the existence of “Western Paradise”. After all, anything can happen in the world. Maybe “Zhou Liang” really guessed it right.

But everyone needs evidence!
It's just like on Earth, you can tell people that aliens exist, you can tell people that gods and monsters exist, you can even shamelessly say that you are the creator god and that others are NPCs you imagined... No matter how outrageous what you say is, you always have to provide enough evidence to prove it. Things without evidence can only attract attention and eventually become a laughing stock.

Did "Zhou Liang" produce any reliable evidence?
The answer is no, not even one.

His only evidence was the red light Wang Chengen had given him, and the three generations of people that appeared before him when the red light resonated with him...

What exactly is the red light? Is it really the key to unlocking the "Western Paradise"?

Answer: I don't know.

What were those people who appeared? Were they images? Or were they simply hallucinations?
Answer: I don’t know either.

Does "Western Paradise" really exist? Are those people really living happily there?
A: I still don’t know…

There was no credible evidence at all, only Zhou Liang's delusion and paranoia after the hallucination:

I have no evidence, but I just unilaterally believe that the Western Paradise exists...

This is simply outrageous!
Zhou Liang scratched his head:
"System...Does Western Paradise really exist?"

【Maybe it exists, maybe it doesn’t. 】

Zhou Liang:?
After all this time, you still don’t know about Tongzi?

Restraining the desire to ask further questions, Zhou Liang asked again:

"Then...what exactly is that red light?"

This time the system gave a definite answer:

[Replying to the host, that is the spiritual light left by those who believe in "Zhou Liang".]

Spiritual light?

Zhou Liang raised his eyebrows. "You mean... the spiritual light of the sacrificed? The kind of prize you gave me before?"

【Yes. 】

Zhou Liang asked doubtfully:

"But didn't you send this to me? How could a character in a simulation also produce something like this?"

[Replying to the host, anyone who devoutly believes in and follows "Zhou Liang" can generate spiritual light. The system is simply distributing something that already exists to you, rather than temporarily generating spiritual light.]

We don't produce water, we are just nature's porters?

Zhou Liang suddenly realized, but...

“But why can those who follow him generate spiritual light?”

After thinking about it, Zhou Liang was even more confused:
"Is it because he's the protagonist?"

[It is like this... Because he is the protagonist chosen by the simulation system, he has the ability to make his followers generate spiritual light after death.]

As the saying goes, "He who keeps company with vermilion becomes red, and he who keeps company with ink becomes black." The protagonist, "Zhou Liang," is the only truth in this false world. When people choose to follow this one truth, they naturally acquire certain unique traits.

[The generation of spiritual light is a manifestation of this special quality...]

After getting this answer, Zhou Liang couldn't help but be curious:

"Does it really have special properties?"

"So, it's not impossible for these followers to enter the so-called Western Paradise after death? After all, they already have special properties, so it wouldn't matter if they were even more special... So the Western Paradise really exists? He's not just imagining things?"

【Maybe it exists, maybe it doesn’t. 】

The system's answer is still so ambiguous...

This is really strange!

Zhou Liang was confused: There was no need for the system to keep him in suspense. If it existed, it would just say it existed. If it didn’t exist, it would just say it didn’t exist!
How come even words like “maybe exist” come out?

After much thought, Zhou Liang still couldn't figure out the logic of the system. It always felt strange...

Moreover, this time the prize is also very strange!
Zhou Liang returned his gaze to the prize description:

In the past, the prizes would clearly explain their usage and effects in their descriptions, just like an instruction manual, making it convenient for you to use.

This time, however, the "Imaginer's Sacrifice" leaves people completely in the dark about what it is, and the descriptions of its use are also insane, saying only that all living beings will be boiled into memories, and that the entire world will be sacrificed to an "unknown existence," and then gambling on the slightest possibility of success...

I have no idea what you are talking about.

After being confused for a long time, Zhou Liang finally shook his head:

"Never mind all that... Let's just continue with the simulation."

Regardless of what this means, continuing the simulation is the only way forward... I just hope "Zhou Liang" can control his madness and continue to complete the mission until he finds a perfect ending... Zhou Liang took a deep breath and gave the order:

"Continue the simulation!"

[Ding! We've detected that you're currently simulating. Would you like to return to your last life choice point and continue the branch simulation, or return to your birth node and start over?]

Then of course continue the branch line!

"Return to the previous life node!"

[Ding, returning to the previous life node...]

【…】

In the 133rd year of the Chongzhen reign, facing the signs of the end of heaven and earth, you anxiously found the corpse of the Divine Emperor hanging from a tree in Coal Hill, and by infusing the corpse with divine power, you explored the truth behind the end of heaven and earth.

Unexpectedly, the Divine Emperor is still alive... With your divine power, the starving Divine Emperor finally regained some strength, and the signs of the destruction of heaven and earth disappeared.

[But this doesn't mean everything has been resolved, because the resurrected God-Emperor still disagrees with your conditions for coexistence...]

Last time, you chose to use the "Creator God Theory" to attack Him, but He simply didn't believe it. So you switched from persuading Him with reason to forcing Him with force. You stopped reasoning with Him and instead forced Him to inject your divine power, hoping to use this method to maintain eternal peace in the world.

[But in the end, your divine power source and His divine power source clashed violently, ultimately causing even the heaven and earth to crumble and fall apart, ushering in destruction...]

[This time, you have returned to this critical moment, so you know full well: if you continue to force the Emperor to accept your divine power as you did last time, it will only lead to meaningless destruction again.]

【So, you need to choose a better path...】

[At this critical moment, what is your choice (?)? Please choose your own answer! ]

……

"New answer?"

Zhou Liang thought seriously for a moment:
As far as the current situation is concerned, the Divine Emperor is the biggest problem... If we want to create a permanent era of peace and prosperity, we must overthrow the Divine Emperor, because the Divine Emperor will not voluntarily give up his power and position!
The weapon of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons. If "Zhou Liang" wants to get rid of the Divine Emperor, he can only use force!

However, if he were to resort to force, the Divine Emperor would go on a hunger strike. To maintain his life and the safety of heaven and earth, "Zhou Liang" could only forcefully infuse him with his own alien divine power, ultimately repeating the same mistake...

The attitude of the Divine Emperor meant that he could not accept the coexistence conditions with "Zhou Liang" as the dominant force, nor could he be forcibly controlled to serve as a tool.

After much thought, it seems that the only thing left is to kneel down and kowtow, begging Him to have a change of heart and stop acting recklessly from now on...

"But doesn't that make us surrenderists?"

Zhou Liang shook his head decisively:
"No good will come of surrendering. The all-powerful God-Emperor will never truly stand with the people. As long as He remains above the people, He will always be a threat. This has been proven long ago in the First and Second Worlds!"

"So, I can only find another way out..."

But...where is the way out?
Zhou Liang couldn't help but look at the description of the prize "Sacrifice of the Fantasist":

"Since the prizes have been given out, it means that this path really exists..."

The system cannot give itself a completely useless prize. It must have its reasons.

Furthermore, there is the system's previous thought-provoking answer:

[The Western Paradise may exist, or it may not exist...]

Maybe there is...

These four words kept appearing in Zhou Liang's mind, so that even though he knew that "Western Paradise" was just a scam of simulating a person, he still couldn't help but fantasize and believe it.

After all, reality is too bitter, and people always have to find a good psychological sustenance...

So, after a long period of deliberation, Zhou Liang couldn't help but write down his strategy:

"The Western Paradise... really exists!"

"All followers of you, the protagonist, will ascend to the Western Paradise after death to enjoy eternal bliss, and will never again suffer the myriad sufferings of the human world!"

"The sea of ​​suffering is boundless, and the Western Paradise is the shore...Go and save all living beings, carry everyone on your back...Use your body as a boat, and then cross the sea of ​​suffering and ascend to the Western Paradise!"

"After all, you don't have any other choice, so why not give it a try?"

……

"Why not give it a try?"

You mutter to yourself the strategy passed down by your "other self," and gradually a clear understanding comes to your mind.

[Yes, I no longer have a choice...]

In this illusory world filled with suffering and injustice, rather than allowing people to live forever in perpetual agony, why not strive for that glimmer of possibility and lead them to heavenly bliss?

"The Western Paradise is not a fantasy. Haven't you already concluded that? What's crazy? What's imaginary? What's no evidence?"

[This isn't madness! It's not fantasy! Your evidence is incredibly strong!]

[Since even the "other self" has personally acknowledged the existence of the Western Paradise, what reason do you have to not believe it?]

So you smiled and muttered to the bewildered God Emperor, "The Western Paradise does exist... I will send all of you there!"

“No more worries, no more suffering…”

[Hearing this bizarre mumbling, the Divine Emperor felt an inexplicable chill, and then broke out in a sweat...]

……

(End of this chapter)