I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

"No, this won't do. If this ship stays here, similar Chosen Ones will keep appearing. We can guard against them this time, but they might not be here next time. We must completely resolve this situation."

Feng Yu said.

"Keep appearing?"

Lu Ban quickly realized what was going on after asking the question.

If the Silent Land can transport people to other realms at any point in time, then so too can this storm.

The city's existence caused a typhoon, and during the typhoon's duration, countless chosen ones may come here to try to break the seal.

After all, even without Lu Ban, this mission is not easy. It has the difficulty of "mutation", and there will definitely be chosen ones who die here or the entire team will be wiped out.

Therefore, the opposing deity will continuously throw in chosen ones, allowing them to attempt to pass the test.

While Lu Ban was thinking, he vaguely grasped some key information.

"Wait a minute, why throw it onto this ship instead of onto the island? This ship seems very important... Is it because of the setting?"

Lu Ban watched the two enter the engine room and disappear into the darkness. He stood at the door, lost in thought in the sunlight of the corridor.

"Even silence cannot arbitrarily place a person in any time or place; it must also follow certain rules?"

Feng Yu did not respond, seemingly deep in thought, seemingly hesitant.

"No matter which mission it is, the start time is always abrupt, and there is always a certain amount of time and distance before the core of the mission. Does this mean that the current situation must form a pattern before the Silent Land can send us here?"

Lu Ban's thoughts became clearer and clearer.

It's like a game.

In RPG games, players are not usually immediately faced with a boss upon entering the game. Instead, they are given time to level up and fight monsters. However, the Silent Lands quest is different because most Chosen Ones are pressed for time and do not have extra time to level up. The experience of entering the quest is similar to the experience of completing it.

The Silent Lands quest is more like a scene, a scene without beginning or end. The elements of the scene are fixed; the only difference lies in the chosen ones who enter.

These deities place the chosen ones into the scene, give them tasks, and let them complete the objectives. If they fail, they send someone else to do it again until they succeed.

Furthermore, Lu Ban suspected that these scenes might not even be the actual history of the ramblings, but rather a projection, a simulation.

After extracting this scene separately, the Chosen One is placed back in, and this process continues until success is achieved. Then, the successful moment is overwritten, becoming true history.

Lu Ban quickly came up with an answer to why it was so complicated.

That is, these scenes did not appear out of thin air or were created without any reason, but were reproduced following certain rules.

For example, this temple might be a necessary event for this ship. The chosen ones must set off from the island for the mission to proceed.

Thinking about it this way, the Starship incident might also be the work of the Chosen Ones. The inconsistent actions of those key figures in the public's accounts might be because their existence was replaced by other Chosen Ones when the incident occurred!

As for why even the gods couldn't create these scenes and had to reproduce them exactly as they were, Lu Ban thought of the mission's exploration progress.

The quests in the Silent Lands all have an exploration level setting, encouraging the chosen ones to explore things beyond the quest objectives. So, if these scenarios were set up by these gods, there's no reason why they wouldn't know what's inside the scenarios they created.

Considering all this, Lu Ban could only draw one conclusion.

That is, these scenes were originally constructed or collected by beings other than certain deities.

Whether it's the Silent Land or the other Chosen Ones, they all seek to explore these locations and uncover certain secrets.

As is well known, in foreign lands, knowledge is considered a form of pollution.

The intelligence and information obtained from these missions are nothing short of serious corruption for the Chosen Ones!

However, those great beings who place the Chosen Ones in the scene can acquire the corresponding knowledge through the Chosen Ones.

This is probably the true purpose of the Silent Land!

Chapter 301, F2, then A

When Lu Ban realized this, he felt that the world around him suddenly became unreal.

The ship, the sea, the temple—they all seem like artifacts built from piled-up data. He himself is like a player in a game, dying, clearing levels, and conquering the game again and again in a constantly repeating, endlessly reincarnated world.

Compared to Feng Yu's replacement body and the Night Kingdom's conversion of knowledge into temporary items obtained through prayer, these great beings hidden behind the veil are clearly far more sophisticated.

They somehow obtained information about these scenes, constructed the Silent Land system, threw the chosen ones into the scenes one by one, watched them struggle, watched them suffer, watched them die, watched them reap, and finally took the knowledge that they had obtained at the cost of their lives.

At the same time, they are also using the Chosen Ones to engage in political maneuvering, releasing some things, sealing some things, destroying some things, and creating some things for their own benefit.

"It seems you've pretty much grasped it."

Feng Yu's voice rang in Lu Ban's ears.

"This is the picture of the Silent Land, and this is the picture of these other realms, the other realms you know and don't know. Those gods who are outside the universe and whose true faces are unknown to anyone, this is how they control the chosen ones and make them understand that corrupted knowledge."

Just like how Feng Yu would replace one body when the pollution in one body reached its limit.

Those extraterrestrial gods also treat the chosen ones as expendable resources; once their sanity is lost, they are discarded like trash.

Even if the tasks that Silence is currently giving are all normal and she has no intention of harming the world where Lu Ban is, it cannot change these facts.

When you're playing a game, do you feel sorry for the death of a minion?

Instead of going through all the trouble and maneuvering to keep this soldier alive, it's better to just create another one. All you need to do is press F2 to select them all, then A to move them over, and you're done.

It's not that you have any malicious or benevolent feelings towards this soldier; you're just mechanically operating for your own purposes.

To those gods beyond the realm, humans, chosen ones, and other races within the alien realm are all the same.

"However, if you think about it this way, you can actually deduce another conclusion."

Lu Ban suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of something.

"If these gods were omniscient and omnipotent, they wouldn't need to go to such lengths to do these things. Therefore, it can be assumed that these gods are not omniscient and omnipotent. Furthermore, it can be deduced that they still need us to explore knowledge from other realms and to keep trying. Does this mean that their own power is also limited?"

"You mean, they were sealed away too?"

Feng Yu quickly understood what Lu Ban meant.

If these gods are truly incredibly powerful, then they could easily intervene personally. The reason they need the Chosen Ones and the framework of the Silent Land is because they are confined to this place.

Therefore, it is more likely that these deities have had their powers sealed to varying degrees, or have fallen into slumber, or are unable to directly intervene for some reason, and can only act within the current framework. Whoever can obtain enough knowledge to break free first will be able to suppress the other beings.

As Lu Ban was thinking about this, he heard a sound coming from the engine room.

First came a slippery sound, like tentacles dragging across the ground, followed by the sound of water, then a slight explosion, and then Lu Ban felt the earth tremble.

No, that was the ship's tremors.

A rhythmic sound arose, and as time passed, the tremor gradually subsided, replaced by the revival of the entire steel behemoth.

clatter--

With a crisp click, the entire cabin lit up.

Lu Ban saw that the lights in the engine room had also come on, and the bandaged man and the fishman were fiddling with those complicated instruments. The fishman was the one who was mainly studying them. He didn't seem like he was encountering these machines for the first time. He skillfully pressed the buttons and started the Starship's engines.

As for the Shadow Demons, Lu Ban couldn't find any trace of them.

The bandaged man's body seemed to have grown larger, as if he had swallowed something.

"Can they handle Shadow Fiend?"

Lu Ban increasingly felt that he couldn't show himself rashly. These guys definitely had some trump cards, and if he confronted them head-on, he might suffer a loss.

"Perhaps those Shadow Fiends were planted by the people behind them..."

Feng Yu fell into thought. Judging from her tone, Lu Ban could imagine Feng Yu deep in thought, chin in hand. Although he had never seen it before, his intuition told him that it must be very interesting.

"Perhaps there is a third party involved. Besides the silence and the gods behind them, there are other gods watching this place as well."

After the engine room started normally, the Star began to slowly set sail as the turbines rotated.

However, such a heavy ship requires a great deal of power to move, and the Stars moved at an extremely slow speed.

The two waited for a while before finally leaving the engine room.

Lu Ban frowned slightly as he looked at the equipment that was operating steadily.

How do you stop this thing?

He had Feng Yu remove the cloaking from his hands and press the stop button, which, according to Lu Ban's understanding, should be the switch to shut down the engine.

No response.

"broken?"

Lu Ban pressed it several more times.

Da da da—

There was still no response.

"That's not right..."

Lu Ban pulled down the speed control lever again. According to the scale, the turbine should now be rotating in the opposite direction, and the entire ship should be moving backward.

However, the Starship continued to accelerate forward, showing no signs of slowing down or reversing.

"Could it be that these devices weren't actually started up using the normal method?"

Lu Ban thought of what that fishman had done.

His world may not have such mechanical ships, but he uses them like a seasoned veteran, which certainly wasn't learned on the spot.

Well, although Lu Ban doesn't know how to drive a boat either, he looks very professional.

Lu Ban guessed that the fishman's extraordinary ability might be to understand the operating principles of these machines, or to make them operate on their own in some way.

So this is controlled by supernatural power.

It is impossible to stop the machine using normal methods.

With this in mind, Lu Ban made a decision.

He materialized his "last words" and chose one of the bullets to speak.

Lu Ban aimed at the machine and pulled the trigger.

bang——

The next moment, the machine flew out at high speed and crashed into the wall, its parts flying everywhere, and even the lights flickered a few times.

There's no doubt that the device is broken.

"Oh no, will doing this cause the ship to explode?"