Deity Investigation Report

Chapter 260 The Truth Behind the Seven-Day Divine Descent
"So, she really has gone mad..."

The shimmering, iridescent crystal skull, resembling a work of art, released wisps of crystal color into Han Su's spiritual world the moment it touched his forehead.

In an instant, countless memories, information, and emotions flooded in like a torrent.

Only a sufficiently powerful mental capacity can withstand such an impact, and only with sufficient activity can one sift through it to find information of interest. After experiencing these repeated perilous confrontations, Han Su's mental capacity is now sixty years old, with an activity level of 79%.

That's already very impressive data.

Based on this basic data alone, he is already among the best investigators, and can even get close to some independent investigators.

However, this foundation is still far from enough to fully absorb all the contents of the crystal skull.

At this moment, he could only try to get a general understanding of what was inside the crystal skull while protecting his own consciousness.

It's like opening a book; you first browse the table of contents, and then gradually learn about all the details.

Fortunately, the things Ms. Shen left behind were not hostile, so he could proceed with the whole process at his own pace.

What exactly is this so-called Seven-Day Divine Descent? Why do people believe it can end the tides?
Using this question as a starting point, Han Su triggered a flood of related memories within the crystal skull:
"First, we must acknowledge that humanity will never learn to obey, so the will of history will surely awaken, and the tide will surely come!"

"Everything was destined from the moment spiritual power first manifested in reality and distorted the laws of physics."

"The reconstruction era is just a beautiful dream; humanity has always lived on a vast and chaotic wasteland!"

"..."

As these shocking sounds echoed in Han Su's mental world, Han Su instantly felt dizzy. Unprecedented knowledge and theories began to be actively captured by his mental tendrils and entered his memory space.

It's like data transmission has begun.

The tide will definitely come; this is the premise for everything to happen.

Because whether actively or passively, humanity can never stop stealing mysterious powers.

Han Su already knew these things, but it was only from the memories left behind by Ms. Shen that he realized how serious the problem had become.

Combating tides is an age-old problem.

The reconstruction of all human civilization was accompanied by the infiltration of divine will.

Therefore, the struggle against the tides has always been a crisis that all esoteric schools and ancient nobles have had to face together.

To some extent, it could even be said that it was precisely out of the need to combat the tides that the ancient nobles allowed outstanding individuals among ordinary people to access esoteric knowledge, thus forming the esoteric school.

Their earliest solution to combat the tides was the "Succession Plan".

Since it was destined from the beginning that humanity could not refuse the influence of these alien forces on reality, it simply sought a suitable container to contain these alien forces and control them within an acceptable range.

And in the name of the heir, he binds those who believe in these mystical powers, undermines and divides them, and, when necessary, leads them to their deaths.

The conflict between civilized society and mystical believers is like the conflict between reason and ignorance in the human mind—it is endless and has never ceased.

But even the successor plan can never truly eliminate the awakening of alien forces. Whenever such negative emotions accumulate, a force powerful enough to break through the three lines of reality will descend upon the world and impact reality. This is the ironclad law of the tide.

The tides are an eternal curse!
Since the beginning of the Reconstruction era, it has appeared time and time again, each time more intense, with increasingly shorter intervals.

Following this pattern, the Reconstruction Era may be completely destroyed in sixty years, and everything will return to barbarism.

Therefore, in order to solve this problem, outstanding geniuses emerged generation after generation from the four major regions of the east, west, south, and north.

They calculated the tides, studied the tides, and tried to solve the problems related to the tides.

The Divine Descent Plan was one such proposal.

It was proposed by an outstanding young man from the Eastern Region. After passing through layers of screening, it was placed on the desk of the World Council and given the opportunity to explain his plan to these ancient nobles of the highest and most mysterious status.

His answers to these questions had an impact on the entire world:
"Seven days!"

"When preparations are complete and the plan begins, it will only take seven days to solve the problem that has plagued human civilization for two thousand years!"

"..."

This young man created a miracle; he succeeded.

He not only persuaded those ancient nobles to support his plan, but also obtained the authorization to use the world's most powerful machinery.

The World Council also authorized the establishment of a dedicated studio to advance this project, named after the Abyss.

That person's name is Han Changming.

He is Han Su's father.

Of course, he was also the man Ms. Shen loved most.

Putting aside the mysterious and complicated background, Han Su saw from Ms. Shen's memories her adoration for this man and her unwavering belief in everything he said. She abandoned everything to follow him and help him perfect the Seven-Day Divine Descent Plan.

Of course, even in her own memory, Ms. Shen admits that she was only helping out in a small way, filling in the details.

The real core theoretical and technical problems were solved by this man.

All she knew was that this plan was so bold and ambitious that it was extremely rare even in the entire esoteric academic world.

The event involves gathering twelve heirs who have sealed away abnormal powers, and even using the most secret and unique power of the throne.

All of these things are capable of shaking the very foundation of this world; they can be considered the highest form of power.

In her memory, the time when they worked together to refine the details of the plan, searched for suitable historical sites to be transformed into altars, and analyzed and upgraded their control over the successor was probably the happiest time of her life, almost perfect.

But when she became pregnant and unexpectedly discovered that the child in her womb was the first person to be included in the plan, she broke down and went to confront him, making a huge scene. She had no idea that the divine intervention plan would involve her own child.

But his answer was filled with despair: "It's all determined by mysterious logic!"

"We are just refining this plan, but the truly suitable containers are all calculated by machines."

"We can't change this result because it involves far too many issues..."

"The Divine Descent Plan is based on successors, so there must be all twelve successors."

“In the past, the heirs were scattered and imprisoned around the world, changing every thirty years. Even if an accident occurred, it could be prevented and resolved in time. But this time, all twelve heirs need to be transferred at the same time, and there is no room for error.”

"So, trust the calculations. Since the machine has chosen the child in your womb, he can't escape it..."

"..."

Ms. Shen was unwilling to give up, so she followed a mother's instinct and ran away.

She fled to Qinggang and gave birth to her child alone.

She loved him dearly, yet she was always filled with fear.

Sometimes when I look at him, I feel that he was not destined to be my child, but rather a product of some plan.

She would feel that this child had ruined her perfect life and hate him.

Then she remembered that she had given up her ideal life for him, and that's why she loved him.

This fear lasted for ten years. She was found again, or rather, she never really escaped.

The person who found her was a traveling knight.

Those emaciated, ghost-like figures brought her devastating news:
The man has been punished.

After Ms. Shen escaped, he actually tried to change the machine's calculations to remove the child from the plan. As a result, the old nobles no longer believed him and imprisoned him in a secret prison.

However, the Divine Descent Project had already incurred too much cost and could not be terminated. Therefore, the ancient nobles chose Ms. Shen to continue the project in exchange for his chance to live.

Because Ms. Shen had been his assistant, she was most familiar with the details of the plan.

Unsure of what those ancient nobles were really thinking, they used this as a pretext to extend an invitation to Ms. Shen.

Ms. Shen broke down, went berserk, cried uncontrollably, and even tried to resist, but she really had no choice.

Because the gun was pointed at her child.

So she agreed.

Perhaps, ten years of fear made her weary of her current life, and she chose to give up the child and choose that man.

She took over Abyss Studio, acquired the license for that mysterious machine, and began to push forward with all of this.

Using the name of Abyss Studio, she found some people in Qinggang and signed a silent pact, designating Qinggang as the place where the gods descended.

Those who voluntarily signed a contract with her and were willing to cooperate with her in this plan received promises from the ancient nobles.

After the deed is done, they will receive noble titles and be made barons.

After that, the machine continued to use its calculations to select suitable children and send them to designated places.

Finally, the plan was launched.

Then, the plan failed.

Nobody knows what happened, it was all inexplicable, but a little child escaped, it was her child.

As a result, the entire plan came to an abrupt halt.

Or rather, the plan has entered a state that is difficult to define, somewhere between failure and success.

Eleven heirs appeared smoothly, but one was inexplicably absent.

On the surface, the failure seems to be due to the escaped child, her son. It appears that simply sending him back would allow the plan to proceed. However, things are not that simple. A screw has suddenly sprung out of a finely tuned machine; the solution is definitely not just to throw the screw back in.

They need to find out why.

More importantly, it would have been fine if the plan had simply failed completely, but the most crucial point is that it didn't.

All the data is showing as normal, but the progress bar is stuck and keeps bouncing and changing in a ghostly way.

The divine intervention did not fail; it simply stopped.

This result left everyone, including her, bewildered.

They recalculated repeatedly and used the hyperdimensional machine to scan and monitor the child, even going so far as to extract all his memories, making him forget everything that happened before he was ten years old.

However, apart from causing the superdimensional machine "Miss Ai" to crash once, this yielded no results.

So they had no choice but to stop everything and do everything they could to find the cause.

The ancient nobles gave Ms. Shen an ultimatum: either find the reason why the divine intervention plan failed and complete the plan.

Either declare the plan a complete failure, destroy all related traces, including her, the child, and that man.

She couldn't tolerate the plan failing, so she threw herself into it even more frantically, investigating everything.

It was at this moment that her condition became abnormal, prompting Han Su to utter that sigh:
This woman has indeed gone mad.

When the traveling knights first found her, she actually made a choice. Although there were many uncontrollable factors, she had personally agreed to send the child into the Divine Descent Plan.

But after making that decision, she began to suffer endless pain and self-blame until she saw the child escape. This pain and self-blame began to torment her day and night.

In order to find the reason for the failure of the divine intervention more rationally, and also to get rid of the pain, she sealed her emotions into the crystal skull. However, she also craved that pain, so she took the crystal skull more than once, letting her sadness overwhelm her.

Over time, she developed a highly schizophrenic behavior.

During the day, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to investigating the reasons for the failed divine descent, repeatedly replanning, dealing with the people of Qinggang, and traveling between the eleven altars to properly maintain the heirs and equipment that had already stabilized.

At night, she would hold the crystal skull, lost in her grief, her mind filled with thoughts of her child.

She was filled with fear and exhaustion, racking her brains and trying every possible means to find a glimmer of hope for him.

But this is undoubtedly very difficult. How can a child survive when faced with the attention of the world's highest-ranking figures?

Saving her own child might be more difficult than completing the divine intervention plan.

……

……

"So, this is the whole truth?"

Han Su stopped when he saw this.

Endless memories flooded his mind through the crystal skull, leaving him with a heavy sense of despair.

I have always hated this kidnapping case that ruined my life; it is my own curse.

However, it was her father who proposed the plan, but it was her mother who carried it out.
The reason I was able to escape from the castle was actually a bug whose cause I still don't know.

Most importantly, he actually saw the figure of "Miss Ai" in these memories?

If she initially calculated that she needed to enter the castle, then why did she later try so hard to protect herself?

It was through these memories that she began to understand everything that happened in Qinggang in her previous life story, and why Ms. Shen went mad the moment she saw the will of copper appear in her body.

Because she had never actually found the real reason for the failure of the Seven Days Descent, but the appearance of the will of bronze within her suddenly gave her hope to push the Seven Days Descent forward.

The reason why this screw fell out of the precision machinery is still unknown.

However, a suitable position inexplicably appeared, allowing it to be tightened again.

It was this absurd reason that forced her to descend upon Qinggang, put herself in a cage, and take herself back.

She truly both hated and loved herself.

She was like this when she was a child and taking care of herself. Sometimes she would hate herself and hit herself because of her fear of the future, and other times she would feel sorry for herself because of her blood ties. This state became more and more intense after she began to detach herself from her emotions.

He sat quietly for a long time before pressing the crystal skull against his forehead again to continue learning:
Most of the related information is just speculation by Ms. Shen in an attempt to escape under extreme division.

She knew how difficult her fate was, yet she stubbornly wanted to find a sliver of hope for survival.

However, they were ancient nobles, the most powerful people in the world.

She had no hope of resistance; Qinggang, right under their noses, was merely a small testing ground.

How could a small child possibly fight against that?

But over the past ten years, she has thought about this question for so long and so deeply that she has actually found a sliver of possibility.

"emperor!"

"My child, if you want to escape all this and fight against those descendants of knights, your only hope is to find the Emperor!"

"Those descendants of knights control everything in this world, and no one can resist them!"

The message she left inside the crystal skull was solemn and resolute: "But the cooperation and exchanges of the past ten years have also made me certain of one thing: these knights are also afraid of something."

"It's not the tide. The tide is something the whole world fears. What they fear is the emperor, the emperor who has always been mentioned alongside the Twelve Knights, yet leaves no trace of him."

“My child, now that you have been chosen, there is no way to escape, and no chance to survive.”

"The whole world will side with them, unless you can find all the fragments of the throne..."

"Only by reorganizing the sole throne can you have a single chance of survival..."

"..."

Is she crazy, or is she really thinking that way?
These memories, in some ways, resemble the ramblings of a madman.

It's like a crazy woman who keeps muttering about everything she's been through, the men she's loved, the children she's had, and those invincible rivals, and then suddenly shouts, "Go find the emperor! The emperor can defeat them!"

Her thoughts jumped around extremely quickly, and her emotions fluctuated greatly, which indeed matched how Han Su behaved when he saw her.

It's really hard to convince people of this.

Han Su had no choice but to stop and digest the memories for a while before continuing to read them.

When countless people imagined how to rebel against those ancient nobles, only to feel despair in the end, the concept of "emperor" appeared in Ms. Shen's mind, like a spark in the darkness, suddenly illuminating a glimmer of hope.

But she went in that direction and thought about it for a long time. In the end, she told Han Su with a sense of reverence: "I have studied too many documents and relics, and I have reason to believe that the legendary emperor and the twelve knights were not one and the same."

"They even hate each other!"

"It was because of hatred that the knights erased all traces of the emperor."

"Both history and everything known in reality can confirm this: the emperor disappeared too cleanly."

"If the Twelve Knights spread their bloodlines across various continents, hiding their identities and lurking in the shadows of this world, while their noble families and clans still maintain their own secret historical records, then the Emperor is an exception."

"He seems to have vanished completely, without any records, traces, or descendants."

"He was completely erased from everything except for his title."

"..."

This part of her memory is filled with surging and intense emotions, carrying a kind of madness: "I'm certain of this hypothesis, and I've even found evidence..."

"The throne left by the emperor can be activated with the blood of the knights' descendants!"

"This is the biggest secret I've discovered!"

“My child, I long for you to live. When you access this part of my memories, it means I have given you the Crystal Skull, and it also means I have given you this fragment of the throne as a gift.”

"Then let us take this mechanical fragment and seek the blood of the knight's descendant to sacrifice for this throne. Only the blood of hatred can activate the throne's true power..."

"This is the only hope..."

"..."

"..."

"The blood of the knight's descendant?"

Han Su saw this and suddenly opened his eyes, his heart churning with emotion that he could not calm down for a long time.

She did indeed give herself the mechanical fragments.

But actually, she didn't need to do anything; she had already obtained a mechanical fragment and discovered its unique characteristics.

But according to her, what she discovered was only a part of it. The true function of the mechanical fragments could only be activated with the blood of the knight's descendant.
Doesn't that mean I need to hunt down nobles?
First, through her memories, she saw the power and oppressive aura displayed by those ancient nobles, which no one could resist. Then she was told that their blood was needed to activate the mechanical fragments...

How can this sound so crazy?

Regardless of whether her thoughts had any basis, hunting down those high and mighty people was simply courting death.

But for some reason, Han Su's heart was acting out of control, his imagination running wild. It seemed, it seemed, that there was a so-called nobleman not far from him...

Did Akbai inadvertently mention that the owner of Skinning Manor was an earl from the Western Continent?

(End of this chapter)