Post-Apocalyptic Survival Modpack

Chapter 119, Section 118: Cognitive Changes (Reset)
After standing at the door for a while, Wang Ji shook his head and returned to the spaceship's parking spot along the same route.

Let's go back first.

Let's discuss it with the person in charge. Anyway, we have plenty of time, enough to make another round trip.

The spaceship started up and took Wang Ji away from this world.

Then it floated in the spirit world.

Wang Ji did not forget the keeper's instructions—before returning, remember to commit suicide first.

Otherwise, it seems like something bad might follow.

Thinking it over, Wang Ji placed a bed on the spaceship, anchored it to the respawn point, and then used magic to open the Ender Box, stuffing all his more important belongings inside.

The backpack was filled with nothing but a bunch of junk that I wouldn't feel bad about losing.

—And you won't lose it, since the respawn point is right next to you, you can just pick it up again after you revive.

After making some simple preparations, Wang Ji committed suicide, very decisively.

Rebirth

Bright eyes.

Wang Ji's figure appeared in the spaceship once again.

Nothing much has changed around us.

Wang Ji walked towards the place of death and picked up all the discarded junk.

"what?"

While taking inventory, Wang Ji suddenly realized that something seemed to be missing.

That business card.

The business card given by the young man who was suspected to be the loser's assistant has disappeared.

silence.

A series of clues connected and flashed through my mind.

Wang Ji suddenly understood something.

Something's not right. Something's definitely not right.

"That assistant is acting strangely."

There's definitely something wrong with him!

Wang Ji opened the spaceship's route map, looked at the world where the Doomsday Command Center was located, and hesitated.

Should we go back now?
But what's the point of going back? To scheme against the loser's assistant and find fault?
Forget it.

Wang Ji ultimately did not turn back, but instead returned all the way to the distant administrative world.

The Book of Wisdom has reconnected, signifying that it has left the apocalyptic zone.

Boom!

The familiar warnings, the familiar sudden acceleration, and the familiar but incomprehensible report documents were still there.

This situation lasted for two and a half days, after which it improved and did not recur.

The remaining days of travel were uneventful and went smoothly, and Wang Ji returned to the administrative world.

Then head straight for the tower where the keeper of the secret is located.

The keeper of secrets is always here; he doesn't seem to go out much.

Upon seeing Wang Ji, he asked, "Is the mission complete?"

“Uncertain.” Wang Ji shook his head and said, “I passed the message on to the loser, but he doesn’t ‘know what to do’ like you said.”

"Elaborate."

When the keeper asked, Wang Ji recounted the whole story.

However, when speaking, he did not mention the loser's assistant, but only talked about the process of talking to the loser alone.

The keeper stared at Wang Ji and said, "It seems you've noticed that thing."

"what?"

"That thing you didn't mention."

The Keeper of Secrets said, "Newly born Genesis-level beings, do you really think that someone of our level needs any 'assistants'?"

"That's as redundant as hiring someone to manage when you blink; it only reduces efficiency."

Wang Ji suddenly breathed a sigh of relief: "You mentioned that assistant. I thought he was the kind of person who could be infected just by mentioning him."

"I can make the suggestion, but others can't."

After the keeper finished speaking, he added, "You can listen, but others can't."

"why?"

"Because I am the Keeper of Secrets."

The Keeper of Secrets said, “That is my title and my ability—'Keeping Secrets' is my deepest characteristic. All secrets can be kept in my heart. If I do not wish to speak, no one can find out, not even in the end of the world.”

"Even if I recognize it, it can't find me."

After speaking of himself, the Keeper of the Secret spoke of the loser: "The reason why a loser is a loser is that he can only lose by himself, but he can postpone his failure indefinitely until an external opportunity comes along."

"'Losing' is the characteristic he possesses, just like me. This characteristic is high enough to have an impact on the apocalypse."

"Don't worry too much about the loser's side. The fact that you were able to deliver the message has already had an impact on him. Now it's up to him to decide."

"Ok."

Wang Ji calmed himself, recalling a remark made by the loser earlier: 'Any help from the outside world is invaluable to me, but help at the creation level is especially precious.'

That’s what it meant.

You yourself are the 'turning point' for losers.

"And what about my reward?" Wang Ji asked.

"We'll have to wait a bit."

The keeper said, "I need to make sure things have really changed before I can give it to you."

"You might need to make another trip before that."

Wang Ji: "How can we confirm that a change has occurred?"

The Keeper of the Secret: "I'm afraid only I can be certain."

Hearing this, Wang Ji was somewhat displeased.

Doesn't this mean that whether a task is completed or not is entirely up to the person keeping the secret? If they say it's completed, then it's completed; if they say it's not completed, then it's not completed.

According to him, no one else could verify it; only he could confirm whether it was completed.

That's what I think.

Based on his trust in the keeper's reputation since their brief acquaintance, Wang Ji chose to believe him.

However, there is another problem.

Wang Ji asked curiously, "What exactly is that 'assistant'?"

Even if I told you, you wouldn't remember.

The Keeper of the Secrets seemed somewhat uninterested, but still said, "It was an apocalypse that could alter human perception, and even a creation-level being could not avoid it."

"Everything he altered will be forgotten or ignored."

"Even I deduced its changes through some subtle clues from the side; direct contact would have exposed me."

The keeper of the secret said, "It was hiding from me while searching for me, and I was hiding from it while searching for it."

"Fortunately, there are losers, which can delay this doomsday entity indefinitely and prevent it from breaking out of the doomsday zone."

"However, from my observation, this entity is actually quite happy to be dragged along by the loser, since the information density is very high at the loser's place."

"That sounds complicated."

Wang Ji was somewhat confused by the words of the person keeping the secret.

But I can basically understand that the assistant, that friendly young man... was also a difficult person to deal with.

The 'loser' imprisoned himself, trapping this apocalypse within him.

"Poor fellow, he hasn't been lucid for a long time," the Keeper of the Secrets sighed in conclusion.

This statement seems to be a judgment on the loser.

Regarding the outcome of this mission, the keeper only told Wang Ji to wait for now and that he would be contacted if there was any news.

Wang Ji then found a place to stay.

There are many things you can do, such as learning; you can never have too many knowledge points.

And so, a day passed by, spent studying and occasionally browsing the market to search for information.

Wang Ji did not receive a contact from the Keeper of the Secrets. Instead, it was the exclusive senior scholar of the deluxe edition of the Book of Wisdom who contacted Wang Ji first.

"I found it!"

The scholar, clearly flustered, stepped forward and said, "The world that attacked the spaceship earlier was ravaged by the apocalypse!"

"Your spaceship has been traveling in a high-risk apocalypse zone for several days!"

"I'm very sorry, sir."

The scholar stated, "This is my dereliction of duty. On the one hand, the Book of Wisdom malfunctioned and connected to the network in the Doomsday Zone."

"On the other hand, my causal tracking spell also failed to help you identify the apocalypse."

This is a paid service!
"As an apology, we will compensate you with a world-class causal tracking crystal. It is a standalone item that can be used ten times and has the same effect as my spell."

Wang Ji was surprised when he heard what the scholar said.

His attention was not on compensation, but rather on the information revealed in the scholar's words.

What does that mean? What do you mean by a high-risk doomsday zone?

Wang Ji clearly remembered that he had never been there. He had been driving in the safe zone the whole time. The only world he had ever entered that belonged to the apocalypse zone was the command center where the losers were located.

Sensing something was amiss, Wang Ji returned to the spaceship and retrieved the flight records from the previous period.

Starting from the administrative world, after traveling for four days, they entered the apocalypse zone, and then traveled for another three days in the apocalypse zone before arriving at the apocalypse front command post.

Wang Ji stopped moving.

No, something's wrong.

The record has changed!

The previous record clearly stated that I drove through the safe zone for seven days and arrived directly at the command post.

what happened?

Just as I was wondering, a voice rang in my mind.

"Come to the tower when you have time; the matter has been resolved."

It was the voice of the keeper of secrets.

(End of this chapter)