Deity Investigation Report

Chapter 321 The World's "Mistake"

Faced with Xue Zhi's question, Han Su had no choice but to honestly inquire:

"why?"

"..."

"Because our city shouldn't be like this."

Xue Zhi sat opposite Han Su, his expression calm, but his hands kept rubbing and moving back and forth, sometimes bouncing in the air as if he were typing on a non-existent keyboard, or using his fingers as a pen as if he were calculating something.

If you were to look at his face and hands separately, you would definitely think they are two different people; the contrast in their appearance is extremely striking.

“I realized there was a problem with this city a long time ago, and of course I have to thank Mr. Chan Kong for that.”

His voice sounded very steady, even a little slow.

However, he slowed down his tone, as if he was deliberately trying to make it clear to others: "He is the Secretary No. 5 you are talking about. I was only six years old when he approached me."

"At that time, he had not yet left the Crystal Skull organization, so he had the responsibility to find suitable people to develop new Crystal Skull organization members. Because of some congenital ailments, I was chosen by him, so he tried to corrupt me at that time."

"Six years old, pollution?"

Han Su's expression hardened slightly, and he asked, "And then?"

"Then I freed myself from his contamination."

Xue Zhi spoke calmly, saying, "I have hyperthymesia, which means I won't forget what I've experienced."

"This condition is not cool; it often just leads to people slowly going crazy because of the limited capacity of the brain."

"But fortunately or unfortunately, while I have hyperthymesia, I also lack the secretion of a certain hormone, which makes it impossible for me to control my brain's state of mind."

"I need to think intensely every moment. My brain is like an insatiable monster. When I stop thinking, this monster even starts to devour me, causing me to fall into severe anxiety and eventually have a mental breakdown."

"Roughly speaking, the amount of thought and calculation I do every day is more than twenty times that of an average person."

"..."

"This……"

Han Su noticed that his fingers were still trembling rapidly as he spoke calmly, and immediately realized that what he was saying was true.

Xue Zhi continued, "Because both of these illnesses exist in me, I began to learn to number my memories when I was six years old."

"At that time, Mr. Chan Kong, fearing that he might hurt me, used the most basic method of memory implantation to corrupt me. I easily saw through these false memories, and he was unable to truly corrupt me."

"On the contrary, he seemed to have wavered a little because of my performance."

"He originally thought the crystal skull was omnipotent, but that time, he discovered that even a small child could break the contamination."

"This confirms that the Crystal Skull is merely a force."

“I don’t know if his later betrayal and departure from the Crystal Skull organization was related to me. In any case, he let me go that time and did not report it to the Crystal Skull. Six months later, when he came to me, he was already in his independent identity.”

“I saw assessment and scrutiny in his eyes, followed by an invitation.”

“He adopted me… in name only, of course; in reality, he was just making an investment in me.”

"They took me away from that monster family and then provided me with care in my daily life, giving me the opportunity to access knowledge."

"Later, when I was only seven years old, I was exposed to all sorts of bizarre and incomprehensible things that happened in the mystical world outside of the comfort of reality."

"I have to say, this saved my life; this data satisfied my brain's computational needs."

"He gave me all sorts of strange and wonderful knowledge and unbelievable cases, which perfectly satisfied my thirst for knowledge. So, at the age of seven, I became his advisor, learning while helping him analyze situations and offering advice..."

"I have to admit, I did pretty well."

Xue Zhi spoke in a steady voice, because he wasn't expressing himself like others, but simply narrating.

Or rather, it's recitation. In a mere second, his brain organizes the language, and all that's left is to recite those words aloud, one by one:

"His ability to rise in the Qinggang secret school in just three years, and later to have the opportunity to sign that silent contract and become Secretary No. 5, is related to me."

"Is it related to you?"

Han Su was already somewhat shocked when he heard this, and his gaze suddenly became heavy, striking Xue Zhi's face.

Does Xue Zhi know that he was also one of the kidnappers?
Furthermore, in the castle, Xue Zhi was not as eerie as he was now describing. In his own eyes, he was just an ordinary child, not particularly clever, and even had a somewhat dull gaze, never uttering a word all day long...

Why did such an ordinary child suddenly become so strange after leaving the castle?
wrong!

According to him, he had already shown his supernatural abilities before he was ten years old, which had nothing to do with whether or not he entered the castle.

He became sluggish when he entered the castle.

It seems like you've taken medication?
Just as the thought flashed through his mind, Xue Zhi suddenly paused slightly and said to Han Su, "I know you're considering that issue. In fact, it's the same issue I was planning to discuss with you later, but if we discuss it now, it will disrupt our rhythm."

Looking into his eyes, Han Su nodded slightly.

Xue Zhi immediately breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "I'm telling you all this just to tell you my source of information."

"Information is the foundation of everything."

"Although I have never entered the mystical world, I came into contact with things on the mystical level very early on through him, and I also came into contact with all the highly classified information."

"I have always been free to log into Qinggang's top-secret database."

"In addition, I also have an account on the Black Table, and have access to a lot of confidential information that Qinggang does not have."

"It was based on this information that I began to discover the irrationality of this world, or rather, Qinggang."

"..."

Hearing him mention this, Han Su raised his head slightly: "What do you mean?"

"We all live in the comfort zone of reality."

Xue Zhi paused slightly at this point, gestured with his hand, and said, "It's like an ocean, or a reservoir. The size of the water and the number of mayflies determine the ecosystem, which in turn determines how many big fish and shrimp there will be."

"The existence of mysterious organizations, secret schools, and nobles forms a balanced system with one strong and two weak elements."

"Therefore, theoretically speaking, the real world is a breeding ground designed by humans."

"How many superhumans and how many mysterious organizations will appear is controllable and calculable. I have looked at data from many other cities, and they all more or less conform to the patterns I have calculated."

"Except for Qinggang!"

He slowly began to speak: "Qinggang has always been in a state of imbalance. There have always been some oddballs who live in this city for no apparent reason. They are not low-key, but they have not had much impact on the city. They have cleverly maintained a strange balance."

His serious expression made Han Su frown slightly, and he said, "Could you explain in more detail?"

“I started calculating this problem two years ago.”

Xue Zhi nodded and said, "That was when he started to be wary of me. Two years ago, his power was growing and he had more and more things."

"And as I grew older, he probably began to be wary of me, stopped sharing information with me, and even started restricting my access to confidential documents. So, unable to satisfy my thoughts, I began a boring and tedious form of calculation."

"That means using the information in my mind to calculate models of each city."

"These calculations are boring and tedious, and there are so many of them that he doesn't have the patience to look through them all."

"And ultimately, I calculated a model."

"..."

Han Su listened, already filled with surprise and doubt: "What model?"

"What Qinggang originally looked like..."

Xue Zhi slowly began to speak: "Every city is a breeding ground for reality. In order for this breeding ground for reality to operate more stably, there is actually a reasonable and precise model in existence."

"I calculated this perfect model, then compared it with the real Qinggang, and finally filtered out some ambiguous data. The source of this data, the core factors that caused Qinggang to be constantly overloaded, is what I call 'error'."

"This can also be calculated?"

As Han Su listened to his story, he even felt it was somewhat superstitious. Then he suddenly thought of the list the man had produced and couldn't understand how he could have connected the overloaded situation in Qinggang to these people.

Qinggang is too big, with various forces intertwined. Isn't it normal for these friends to be hiding in the city?
Although, theoretically, there exists a Qinggang that none of them ever existed...

"I know what you want to say."

Xue Zhi smiled gently and said, "In a real city, it's normal for mistakes to happen, since one more or one less person can make a difference. After all, life is unpredictable."

"Take the selection of athletes nationwide as an example. In theory, it should be balanced, but in reality, it is possible for the first, second, or even the top three to all come from the same city. But the key is that our city is fake."

"It was designed."

"The initial design was for balance, so it seems a bit strange that so many unbalanced factors suddenly appeared in a city."

"And so many mistakes have been concentrated in one city, yet the high-ranking nobles and guardians have not even noticed them until now, which seems like an absurd phenomenon."

"..."

Hearing him say this, Han Su couldn't help but feel a jolt in his heart.

He suddenly realized why this error had occurred.

That's because these mistakes shouldn't have happened in the city in the first place.

She raised her head slightly, looked at Xue Zhi, and said in a low voice, "Is this all you want to tell me?"

"of course not."

Upon hearing this, Xue Zhi laughed and said, "Discovering these errors is just the beginning; I soon discovered something even more interesting."

"For example, chaos is brewing."

"The most obvious example is this Mr. Ace of Spades."

His eyes lit up slightly, as if he had finally gotten to the part he found interesting: "He belongs to the Geeks League. I saw his information a long time ago and also researched the existence of the Geeks League."

"This is a loosely organized and mysterious group. Based on their activities in various places, it can be determined that they are a means for the nobles above to check and balance the power of various mysterious organizations."

"Many of the mysterious items they believe they stole on a whim actually meet the balance requirements of a real-world environment."

"And the distribution of the members of the Mavericks Alliance across different regions also conforms to this model calculation. A continent can have a maximum of seven to eight members, while a large region will only have two to three. But now, it seems that there is one more member in Qinggang..."

"It's not just that there's one more; this Mr. Ace of Spades is also very assertive and has a strong ability to survive."

"Because of his existence and his perverse sense of humor, many mysterious items have been stolen in Qinggang and the surrounding area. Some of these items were simply stolen, while others had special significance."

"For example, the Sea Man Coffin is the totem of the two Great Sea Man tribes. Its theft led to endless war between the two Great Sea Man tribes. Although independent investigator Mr. Lee Moses tried to mediate, the conflict between the two sides could not be extinguished and even intensified."

“Once the suppression is relaxed, they will probably start another war immediately.”

"This is the accumulation of chaos, and also the invisible drain on the city's power."

“I even suspect that someone has been adding invisible weight to the goal of causing the city’s order to collapse.”

"..."

"That is indeed possible."

Hearing this, Han Su also became slightly serious. In fact, he had also realized the changes brought about by rescuing more and more friends each time:
These guys are all quite a handful.

Take Lu Neng, for example; wherever he goes, he picks up things along with him.

It can be said that with each additional person like him, countless more victims were added to the city.

Take Wei Lan for example. Because of her, she became the Queen of Qinggang. But what about before she was rescued by Wei Lan?

At that time, I was not familiar with the mysterious circle, but I could imagine that without her, Qinggang would have had another queen.

Then there's Lü Xiaoba.

Before this guy appeared, the Buddha King of the Four Heavenly Kings was happily studying all kinds of knowledge every day.

Now, he spends his days thinking about how to hunt down the offending mercenary.

The overall rating has been lowered because of this incident.

Furthermore, if we broaden our thinking a bit further and look at it from Qinggang's perspective, Secretary No. 5 Chen Gang's radical actions in the Bailashan incident seem to have a basis in reason, but what is the truth?

If this person didn't have Xue Zhi's help in devising strategies, and didn't have a crazy pawn like An Wei to execute the plan, would he actually have planned this operation in other life storylines?

Therefore, the answer is obvious.

This world is becoming increasingly chaotic and insane, but no one is aware of it...

...except for Xue Zhi.

Thinking of this, Han Su suddenly became more serious and looked at Xue Zhi earnestly: "Is this what you wanted to tell me?"

"No."

Xue Zhi gently shook his head: "The chaos in this world is just a side effect of the mistakes that have occurred."

"I discovered the more direct impact of these errors."

"In this world, there have always been people who suppress the superhuman power in various cities. They regard it as a monstrous threat and have designed various models such as itinerant knights and triangular conflicts to make these lower-level superhumans consume each other."

"But these errors rendered their originally sophisticated models useless, and something quietly grew in places they couldn't observe."

"Correspondingly, because these errors were not suppressed or targeted, they also showed a strong vitality. This unusual vitality and activity level will attract some mysterious sources in the shadows of history to quietly approach."

"In other words, some unplanned recovery."

As he said this, his voice became a little heavy, and he chuckled softly, saying, "Mr. Butcher, the Guardians and nobles have always kept a very close eye on those who pursue mysterious powers."

"Moreover, they have suppressed this world for two thousand years and are very experienced, but the mysterious source is being attracted to people in reality, which is beyond their control."

"The terrible thing about these mistakes is this."

"They grow when they are not detected, and when they are detected, they have a strong ability to disguise themselves. Even when I was screening the data, I selected a long list because I could not be sure, so I could not use targeted strikes to eliminate the errors."

"But when the higher-ups really harden their hearts and, without fear of killing the wrong person, carry out a unified purge..."

"The situation is likely out of control, after all, the tide is only a few days away..."

"..."

Han Su finally understood the purpose of this guy telling him all this.

A wonderful sense of design!
All of this, which seemed like a coincidence, perfectly evaded the surveillance of the guardians.

This was by no means accidental, but rather meticulously designed.

Han Su was deeply shaken. Even though he already believed more than half of it, he suppressed his emotions and said in a deep voice, "These are all your guesses."

"Whether it is or not, we'll find out next."

Xue Zhi let out a soft breath, then suddenly dipped his hand in water and drew two dots on the coffee table. He pointed to one of them and whispered, "That Mr. Ace of Spades should be undergoing some kind of secret promotion right now."

"If I'm not mistaken, those itinerant knights of Tongshi City will be more interested in him than in pursuing the queen who holds the object of her desire."

"Heh, I've looked into his background. This Mr. Ace of Spades is definitely not an honest man..."

"Perhaps his seemingly fearless actions were actually an attempt to get the Queen to share the risks with him?"

"And if his unconventional promotion succeeds this time, then the clear and concrete case I described—where vigorous life force attracts the mysterious source from reality—will appear in this world..."

"In reality, there will be one more..."

"...The heir!"

"Or rather, the embryo of a god!"

(End of this chapter)