Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

"..."

"Bring it back to him first."

There seemed to be a moment of silence on the other end of the communication device, before a helpless tone was used to tell Peanut to take the person back.

After hanging up the call, Peanut looked at Wu Wang, who had a big smile on his face.

The other party asked cheerfully, "Where is your hideout located? You can't just have found any random house, can you? Let me guess... Outside the city? Hmm, that's unlikely. Only inside the city are there the [Eternal Force Field] and various technological conveniences. The residents probably don't even know what it's like outside the city anymore, right?"

“As for inside the city, there was no point in you leading me around like that. The city map can be accessed at any time, and the law enforcement officers are not pushovers. Besides, you couldn’t be bothered to blindfold me or put earplugs in me or anything.”

"This proves that you are confident that even if I go back the way I came, I will not be able to find the correct point."

Therefore, there are only two possibilities—

"Either you fly into the sky, or you burrow into the earth..."

brush--

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Wang felt the ropes binding him being pulled sharply, and he suddenly experienced a strong sense of weightlessness.

My line of sight suddenly dropped, and I could even see that it was parallel to the ground and was still falling.

The surrounding environment suddenly turned extremely dark.

Peanut, who was holding the other end of the rope, made a strange expression.

He exclaimed in surprise, "You're really something! You're quite the genius!"

boom--

The next second, the two landed heavily on a brand new floor.

The peanut, however, stood firmly on its own.

Wu Wang, because his hands and feet were tied, fell face-first into the mud.

But there was no dissatisfaction in his eyes. Instead, he lay on the ground and joked, "It's an old conclusion. When you eliminate all the impossibilities, what's left, no matter how absurd, is the truth."

After saying that, he slowly stood up.

I looked around at my surroundings, especially up at the ceiling.

That last move actually pulled me from the ground down into the ground.

The key is the ceiling above your head...

There wasn't a single trace of damage!

The two of them seemed to be on a different level from the ground, like in a 2D side-scrolling action game, where a single crouch caused them to fall directly from one level to the next.

How is this done? Is it some kind of teleportation ability?

Or is this not actually the underground of the Eternal City at all, but just a teleportation sensation that has led to a completely unexpected place?

Because the structure and environment here are somewhat like a sewer.

Yet there was absolutely no sewage or foul odor.

Wu Wang didn't believe that a city's sewer system could have such a good air circulation and fresh air system.

"Stop looking. Even if you make a hole in here, you can't get back." Peanut stood with his hands on his hips and laughed arrogantly.

Then he tugged on the rope and pulled Wu Wang forward.

He squinted and said, "I understand."

"This is a space that only heretics can enter. It may indeed be underground of the Eternal City, but normal residents would fall into the sewers, while you would fall into this place."

“And through this space, you can easily ascend to various different locations on the ground. No wonder the law enforcement has been trying to catch you for so long. How could they catch people who are on a completely different level from themselves?”

"The technical principles or effects used are probably the same as when you came to the library to arrest me earlier, ignoring the influence of the artificial intelligence [Annie]."

"The trigger condition must be [heresy], right?"

"Can a 'heretic' break free from the control of the 'city system'? Is that a system bug?"

He was faced with Wu Wang's eloquent speech.

The girl named Peanut gradually suppressed her smile, replaced by a slightly fearful chill.

He squinted and said, "To be honest, based on what you just said, I really don't want you to see the boss."

"What do you want to do?" Wu Wang asked knowingly.

Peanut said coldly, "I want to kill you right here and make you disappear from this city forever."

To this, Wu Wang said meaningfully, "Oh? Isn't the Eternal City a place of eternal life? How could you kill me? Why don't you try?"

Upon hearing his words, Peanut quickened his pace.

He said viciously, "Legend... truly extraordinary."

"I will not speak to you anymore. Just follow me."

To be honest, Wu Wang really scared her.

Since they met, all they've said to each other has been sarcastic and trashy banter.

However, the other party always manages to inexplicably deduce a whole host of things from these jokes.

The scariest part is—

His analysis was correct.

The reason why she appeared in the library earlier, ignoring [Annie]'s deletion of the memories of the people in the venue, was because the [City System] would fail to control [Heretics] under certain conditions.

The organization she currently belongs to, composed of "heretics," is precisely because it controls these so-called conditions.

This allows them to move freely within the city's regulatory system.

Law enforcement had absolutely no way to catch them.

From this perspective, it is precisely for this reason that this legendary figure from a century ago was awakened to capture them.

Now the other party has also confirmed it in person.

Legends do indeed have something unique about them.

Peanut was worried that the other party might try to get any more information from him, so he absolutely refused to communicate with him before taking him to meet the organization's leader.

And so, Wu perished with peanuts.

I walked through this dimly lit, fake sewer for about ten minutes.

Finally, the two arrived at a strange door.

The gate was nearly ten meters high, and its width on both sides made Wu Wang feel like a car lane, or rather, a two-lane car lane.

A huge oval dark pattern is engraved on the door, and many valuable gems are inlaid inside the pattern as if they were free. They are dazzling and sparkling against the dark background, like embellishments in the starry sky.

Peanut strode forward and touched the starry sky pattern with his hand.

The next second, the door was like a stone thrown into a calm lake, and ripples spread outward from where she touched it.

The solid surface somehow produced a liquid-like flow sensation, giving one an unsettling and uncomfortable feeling.

Seeing this reaction, she then slammed her head against the door.

Immediately afterwards, the person disappeared into the doorway as if it were just a phantom.

Wu Wang, who was pulled in by the rope, also disappeared into the strange doorway.

"Damn, what's Platform Nine and Three-Quarters? Am I supposed to go to Hogwarts?"

Wu Wang couldn't help but mutter a complaint.

But then he immediately realized that the environment inside the door was completely different from the outside.

Although the original passage was clean, tidy, and odorless, it looked like a sewer.

Now, this place is like a paradise.

It was truly enlightening!

The buildings were arranged in an orderly fashion, and the weather was as bright as day. Wu Wang even saw a sun in the sky.

This doesn't feel like we're still inside the Eternal City; it feels like we're in some isolated, modern mini-city outside the city.

But he was certain that these "heretics" could not possibly have moved away from the Eternal City.

After all, the space in this instance is already large enough.

If one could leave the Eternal City, then the word "eternal" would become a joke.

A dungeon with a scope large enough to expand to the size of the entire world shouldn't appear in a game like The Calamity.

I've never encountered anything like it before.

In other words, there's another city beneath this Eternal City!?

Damn, this is so fresh!
"Little Peanut is back? This guy is the 'legend' we captured?"

"Tsk, she doesn't look that good either, probably below average."

"..."

I heard five or six men and women surrounding me, making comments.

Wu Wang's lips twitched involuntarily.

Indeed, I admit that I'm not exactly stunningly beautiful, nor am I as monstrous as Qin Shusheng, whose handsome face could charm a hundred men with a single smile.

But isn't this "below average" attack power a bit too strong? The most crucial point is—Wu Wang really can't refute it.

After all, these five or six people are stunning enough to amaze people in the real world. Even without any acting skills, they could reach the top of the entertainment industry just by relying on their looks.

The average level of the Eternal City is indeed exaggerated compared to reality.

Faced with the teasing of the crowd, and seeing what they were about to say next.

Peanut quickly stopped him.

He pulled Wu Wang and walked deeper into the mini city.

He said, "I'll take him to see the boss first!"

She didn't want Wu Wang to glean more information from the people around him.

Peanut now has only one thought: to bring Yan Shuangying to his boss as soon as possible.

Driven by her conviction and drive.

Wu was brought to a bungalow building within minutes.

The storefront displays the four large characters: "Auspicious Flower Shop".

Upon entering, you'll see dark green velvet walls that resemble a stage's velvet curtain, calmly complementing everything before you.

The various flowers are not haphazardly crammed together, but rather arranged in categories like carefully mixed color blocks by a painter.

The air was filled with a unique aroma, a blend of various floral scents that didn't seem jarring at all.

The shop owner, with his back to them, was focused on making the final adjustments to a bouquet of flowers at his workbench in the corner—tying a perfect bow.

His movements were gentle and skillful, as if he were not handling merchandise, but creating a work of art.

The entire space was so quiet that the only sound was the snip of scissors trimming flower stems.

Crisp and clean.

"Boss, we've brought the guy back," Peanut said. "This guy figured out something along the way..."

However, she hadn't finished speaking.

The store manager then turned around, revealing a face that, at first glance, wasn't particularly stunning, but from any angle, it was flawless and grew more and more gentle the more you looked at it.

This person doesn't even look very old.

He's like the kind of gentle, approachable boy next door who smiles at anything romantic while walking down the street and even feeds his beloved animals.

He said calmly, "I know, it's okay, you can go out now."

Peanut opened his mouth as if to speak, but then stopped.

But in the end, he didn't continue speaking. Instead, he glared at Wu Wang fiercely and turned to leave.

Right now, inside this quaint little flower shop in this mini-city.

Only Wu Wang and the unnamed leader of this heretical organization remained.

It was Wu Wang, who was tightly bound, who spoke first.

He chuckled and said, "Should I call you a traitor, a junior, or perhaps Bai Cha's older brother—the Enforcer Bai Ta?"

"Since you chose to bring me here instead of knocking me out of town by knocking me unconscious and stuffing me in the back of some pickup truck, there must be something you want to talk to me about, right?"

Upon hearing what Wu Wang said...

The other person couldn't help but laugh.

Pick up the flower from the workbench and put it back where it belongs.

As he removed his gloves, he said, "Just call me White Tower. I'm no longer an enforcer."

"And I am honored to have made this decision, it's just a pity that I didn't bring the white tea with me."

"She was always too deeply corrupted by this city."

Wu Wang raised an eyebrow and said, "Poisoning? What makes you say that?"

Based on what he has seen so far, at least Bai Cha and the others he has encountered have not shown any dissatisfaction with the current society, and they all have a very high opinion of the [City System].

To put it bluntly, the jobs assigned by the city system are indeed analyzed from various angles, even taking into account factors such as personality and psychology.

This is to ensure that no one is dissatisfied with their current job.

In addition, robots have largely replaced some of the dirtier and more messy jobs in the city, a point that Wu Wang also noticed while learning about the development of Eternal City in the library.

Of course, aside from the fact that Wu Wang, as a player, was an outsider and genuinely felt uncomfortable with the [City System]'s ability to control people's memories, he couldn't understand why someone who had lived in this city for a long time would develop such a destructive thought.

The White Pagoda did not give a direct answer to this question.

Instead, he asked, "Yan Shuangying, the law enforcement officers of your era couldn't see [Trust Value] and [Heretical Value]. How did you determine whether a resident had become a heretic?"

Wu Wang: "..."

How the hell would I know?!

If you ask me, I'd say drag them straight into the law enforcement hall, handcuff them to a tiger bench, and give them a severe memory recovery treatment.

Whether you're suspected of being a heretic or not, when you get off the chair, even if I ask you how the dinosaurs went extinct, you'll have to admit that you did it.

Looking at his silent expression.

Bai Ta smiled, seemingly unsurprised.

He believes this is due to loopholes in law enforcement caused by the imperfect law enforcement system at the time.

Perhaps, even back then, some heretics still managed to slip through the net.

It's just that it wasn't exposed in society, which is why it created the so-called record of three hundred years without any heretics.

The other party must be aware of this problem themselves.

So it's normal that you find it hard to talk about.

So he continued, "Do you know about [Suicide Show]?"

After thinking for a moment, Wu Wang nodded.

He had seen this thing before in the history of the Eternal City.

It's probably a product from three or four hundred years ago.

It is indeed something from the same period as the identity of [Enforcer Yan Shuangying].

This is the name of a variety show.

However, the variety show "Suicide Show" does not feature singing, dancing, or anything else. Instead, it is a bloody program in which people commit suicide in various bizarre ways in front of the audience.

However, even though it's called suicide, the existence of the "Reincarnation Pool" means that the dead will come back to life the next day.

Therefore, this may simply be a program created by the residents to seek more excitement in this seemingly eternal time.

Similarly, in order to increase the program's ratings and attract more attention from residents.

This is also one of the few variety shows in Eternal City that allows any profession to participate.

It's not considered a violation of professional conduct for anyone to participate in the competition, nor will it increase their "heretic value" in the eyes of law enforcement.

I can't believe this show still exists after all these years!
Even in the Eternal City, this is considered a very long-running program.

Bai Ta continued, "It's not that I think you're old-fashioned; after all, you've been poisoned for a longer time, and that's not your fault."

“Some things cannot be understood or felt by words alone. So, I have two main reasons for inviting you here. The first is to invite you to the latest episode of the ‘Suicide Show.’”

“If you win the championship, I will go back to live on the ground for a while, which will give you law enforcement officers a chance to catch me.”

"You should also know very well that if I am determined not to leave here, the law enforcement officers will not be able to come down and arrest me, right? Sooner or later, the fact that I, as the previous head of law enforcement, have become a heretic will not be able to be hidden, and the impact caused when the news is all over the place is not what you want to see."

"If I fail, I hope you will live on the lower level for a while."

In response, Wu Wang looked at the ropes binding him and said, "Why bother? Aren't I already tied up by you? That guy named Peanut also said that I can't go back on my own."

The white pagoda shook its head.

He took a pair of scissors from the table and casually cut the rope binding Wu Wang.

Looking at the exquisite bouquet on the table, he said, "Keeping you here is not my purpose. Even if I let you stay here now, you will always be thinking about how to escape back. Your heart is still in the upper level, and you will not be able to feel what I want you to know."

"I need you to stay willingly."

"How about it? Want to make a bet with me?"

Wu Wang looked at the other party's leisurely stroll, seemingly not worried at all about him rushing up and subduing him.

Looking around at the layout of the entire flower shop, it was clear that Baita had put a lot of effort into it.

Then, he suddenly asked, puzzled:
"If I really have to feel something, how about this—"

"Tell me now where the core of the [City System] is located in the city. I'll go over there and burn it down, or find a way to destroy the [Eternal Life Field], and then we can sit down and have a proper talk about what constitutes heresy."

White Tower: "?"

Of all the answers he envisioned.

Yan Shuangying gave an answer that he had never expected.

And this kind of answer should never come from the mouth of a guy who has been a law enforcer for three hundred years and is even hailed as a legend!
What do you mean you plan to burn down the [City System]? And destroy the [Eternal Life Field]?

I couldn't detect even the slightest hint of deception in his tone.

Is it that the other party was too good at disguising themselves, or that this guy really thought that way?
Holy crap! Which of us is the heretic?! (End of Chapter)