This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 306 Delivery of Thoughts and Messages

As night fell, a figure silently slipped into Bitterwater Town and precisely located Nie Weiyang.

Bai Yu has returned.

Nie Weiyang was examining a map in the temporary command post when he saw the other party return. Without exchanging pleasantries, he simply asked the other party to sit down.

Bai Yu succinctly reported what he had seen and heard in the abandoned mountain village—the Return Sect's collection of [Heart Crystal Type 7], mentioning that the 'Lord' had foreseen this item, and the information about preparing to send it to 'Mount of the Lord'.

"They had a messenger responsible for delivering the crystals, and he's already left the mountain village with the goods." Bai Yu's voice was calm and even, as if stating a trivial matter unrelated to him. "Intercept or follow?"

Nie Weiyang lifted his gaze from the map, his red eyes appearing particularly frightening in the dim light.

“Tracking,” he said. “Finding the location of the main mountain and figuring out their teleportation nodes and defensive setup is more important than intercepting a crystal.”

He paused, then looked at Bai Yu: "With your abilities, keeping an eye on them without being detected shouldn't be difficult."

"We don't need to alert them. By the way, when you have time, could you make a map-sharing tool for Russell?"

Bai Yu nodded expressionlessly. To him, this was just a task option. Since Nie Weiyang had made the decision, he would simply carry it out.

However, he immediately raised another question, his tone still flat: "Both the Returning Sect and the Mother Goddess Cult seem to pay special attention to the existence of the 'Second Administrator.' If I encounter this world boss in the wild, should I try to communicate with him directly?"

Nie Weiyang tilted his head slightly.

“No,” he said. “You don’t need to try to communicate.”

After all, Bai Yu's communication skills were barely passable, let alone exceptional. If the other party said something wrong, it wouldn't be appropriate for him not to give them a light-energy blast, but giving them one would be even more inappropriate: what if he killed them?
Nie Weiyang simply said, "Regarding Administrator Number Two, I will try to contact him to see if I can arrange a meeting between him and Pingdu. But if you run into him, just stay away. Of course, if you need help, you can try asking for assistance."

If someone who doesn't know the truth were to hear this, they would probably be shocked.

A player wants to contact a world boss and arrange a meeting? That's insane.

However, although Bai Yu was not familiar with this information, his expressionless face remained completely calm.

He simply looked at Nie Weiyang calmly and nodded: "Okay."

There was no surprise, no doubt, not even a trace of curiosity. It was as if Nie Weiyang was simply stating an objective fact: "Water is wet."

Nie Weiyang stared at his empty, white eyes and shook his head helplessly in his heart.

After taking his revenge, this kid had almost nothing to do except serve as a sharp tool and a research subject. Even though he had become quite human-like, he was still not very human-like.

His tendency to let things run wild and his lack of normal emotional response are somewhat worrying.

Or rather, Bai Yu subconsciously allows any 'possibility to occur,' no matter how absurd that possibility may be.

I don't know what absurd and desperate things he went through during those days to become the way he is now.

“Go,” Nie Weiyang suppressed his thoughts and instructed Bai Yu, “follow that messenger and keep in touch at all times.”

"Be careful. As always, if you find any direct trace of the Void-Crossing Demon, hide first and do not engage in a direct confrontation."

Bai Yu nodded slightly, and his figure once again seemed to melt away, silently retreating into the shadows as if he had never appeared.

Silence returned to the command post. Nie Weiyang stood alone, his gaze once again falling on the map, but this time his focus was different.

The Tide Diver departed with her discourse on Rest and the King of Gods, promising the crowd lavish rewards. But Nie Weiyang remained unmoved; he didn't even bother to listen to the details of those promises. He would never allow the Mother Goddess Cult to achieve its desires.

Not to mention that if the Homo sapiens sea wanted to become a place of rest, it would have to be completely cleansed, destroying all traces of Homo sapiens from the past—including those of the current Homo sapiens who have died.

Based solely on the other party's true nature, the blood debts of last week and the observations of this life have already confirmed it without a doubt: an enemy.

If he doesn't actively sabotage or obstruct what the enemy wants to do, it can only mean that he has other plans or that the time is not yet right.

How could he possibly let the enemy succeed?

The reason he didn't stop the Tide Diver group on the spot wasn't because he was kind, but because killing these envoys was pointless. As long as the forces behind the Mother Goddess Cult remained, eliminating the puppets would only alert the enemy and put him in a more passive position.

The real key lies hidden behind the veil of the Mother Goddess religion.

Before returning to Pingdu as the second administrator, Nie Weiyang needed to figure out what that was.

He closed his eyes, trying to retrieve from his memory the information he had just captured from the mind of the Tide Diver.

Mind reading is not a panacea.

Beyond specific questions and answers and information exchange, when most people recall a complex concept or image, what comes to mind is not a high-definition image, but a blurry phantom, an image mixed with emotions, colors, and subjective understanding.

Just as many people cannot precisely construct a 'red, fragrant, smooth-surfaced apple' in their minds, the Tide Diver's own understanding of 'gods'—an abstract and deliberately deified existence—is inherently vague.

All Nie Weiyang could see was a deep, boundless blue, like an abyss ten thousand meters below, cold, silent, and containing immense pressure.

Within this deep blue expanse, a colossal object covered in star-like scales glides silently by at a breathtakingly slow pace.

It has no specific shape, no clear features, and its size is difficult to estimate...

This is one of the limitations of mind reading.

When dealing with a host computer like the human brain, whose internal information is kept secret, it is difficult to obtain accurate intelligence unless interrogation or leading questions are conducted.

Fuzzy search can only yield a vague impression.

But Nie Weiyang was certain that this deep blue, this phantom of star scales, was the imprint left in the consciousness of its followers by the 'Heavenly God' truly worshipped by the Mother Goddess Cult.

What is it? Is it some kind of cosmic behemoth? Is it the embodiment of some concept? Or... a terrifying being from beyond the heavens, similar to the Void-Crossing Demon?
Nie Weiyang opened his eyes, his red eyes filled with icy coldness.

Whatever it may be, since it stands in opposition to humanity and is entangled with forces that seek to plunder and destroy, then it is an enemy.

Before completely breaking off relations, he needed more information, to know what role this god hidden behind the deep sea and stars played in the grand theme of 'rest,' and what his schemes were.

The Mother Goddess Cult wants to curry favor with the second administrator? Fine.

But whatever their goals are, Nie Weiyang will personally guide them in the exact opposite direction!

Nie Weiyang stretched his limbs and stepped into the darkness. Soon after, Pingdu received a message from Nie Weiyang—Administrator Number Two will arrive in Pingdu soon; please prepare for the meeting.

This time, I've only been in the new world for less than a year.

The game has just begun.

(End of this chapter)