The Envoy of Abundance from Onphalus

The data stream shows that he wrote in his experimental notes: "...Teacher Serhis, survival requires power, requires understanding the essence of the Black Tide...The conventional path is too slow...I must delve into it...even if the cost is myself...This is the path I have found for myself over the past three thousand years..."

He not only continued to ravage his own body, but even began to actively guide trace amounts of black tide energy to impact himself, trying to capture that sliver of understanding on the verge of collapse.

Each time his body was on the verge of its limit, he would stop struggling and instead rush headlong into the black tide, embracing the destructive energy in an attempt to see it clearly before he perished.

“Redundancy.” Lai Gu Shi looked at the record on the screen of Russell once again convulsing in pain on the experimental table before rushing towards the Black Tide and self-destructing, and felt so disgusted that he almost vomited.

Of course, if he had that function.

He even suspected that Russell might have inadvertently touched on the truth about Onfaros and was using this method to resist data collection.

He immediately rejected this idea, which had an extremely low probability of being true.

"The scepter analysis shows that his cognition is zero... This probability is dozens of times smaller than the probability that Russell himself could influence the final result... He's just... really stupid!"

To prevent Russell's illusory and redundant data from affecting Bai'er and Xilian, he deliberately delayed the birth of these two factors to avoid premature concatenation.

Then, according to the script he wrote, Beaufort and Russell will meet at the right place and time.

After learning the truth about the world, the two shared the burden. This heavy fate ultimately caused them both to collapse, yielding a wealth of precious data on destruction.

Leicus focused almost all of his monitoring efforts on isolation. But Russell's self-destruct efficiency evolved with each cycle.

After four thousand cycles, he optimized the experimental procedure, but could only barely extend the survival time to about a year.

What annoyed Légus even more was that every time Russell was on the verge of death on the experimental table or before rushing into the Black Tide, he would pour out his life's work—his dangerous knowledge about medicine, energy science, and the faint properties of the Black Tide, as well as all the scientific knowledge from his previous life.

He transmitted it to the Divine Enlightenment Tree Garden without reservation and anonymously, writing only the word "existence" above the author's name on this vast text of knowledge.

"Meaningless firewood!" Lai Gushi watched as the scholars of the Tree Garden studied these nameless relics as if they had found a treasure, pushing Onpharos's technology tree in a dangerous and distorted direction, and he felt extremely ironic.

Bertrand Russell, the leader who should have shone brightly in history books, became a nameless ghost in these cycles, leaving behind only piles of garbage data logs marked as redundant by the scepter.

Legos thought Russell would change afterward, but after ten thousand cycles, he remained exactly the same.

Even the original system's assessment of its final impact pointed directly to zero. Even that negligible probability was eliminated by itself.

Rigus had had enough of this redundant data, and he made a decision that went against the omnics' wishes…

Amber Seed Medicine Scroll: Chapter Fifty-One: The Envoy of Abundance

He brought up the system's highest-level command panel and typed furiously:

[Command: Persistent Data Filtering]

[Target object: [Redun0] (Russell)]

[Execution content: Ignore all behavioral data streams, do not log, analyze, or trigger alerts. Only retain basic life status markers (survival/death).]

[Priority: Highest (covers all common monitoring protocols)]

The instant the command took effect, the massive, chaotic data stream about Russell on the screen vanished, leaving only a solitary, almost unchanging, minimalist marker indicating survival or death. The control room instantly became quiet.

Lai Gushi focused all his attention on Bai Erna's data stream, which was full of destructive tension.

"This is the real meal. Let that useless factor fend for itself."

He leaned back comfortably in his chair, watching Bai Er struggle in despair, the destructive curve on the data chart steadily rising—just the nourishment he needed.

He was completely unaware, or rather, deliberately ignored, that deep in the system's background, in a folder specifically for storing ignored logs, entries about [Redun0] were piling up at an alarming rate.

Each log file is automatically marked by the system with glaring warnings such as "Critical Warning - Abnormal Energy Fluctuation," "Critical Warning - Logical Paradox Risk," and "Critical Warning - Underlying Protocol Conflict."

The warning red light flashed wildly on the icon of the hidden folder, almost forming a continuous line, but it was suppressed by the highest command and could not pop up on the main interface. Everything was moved to the deleteable logs.

The seeds of disaster were sown deep, yet the arrogant gardener only admired the flower of destruction he had chosen. Bai E, who had survived tens of thousands of reincarnations without collapsing, was fortunate enough to gain even more attention from Lai Gu Shi.

The abundant flower that was slowly growing in the dark corner was gradually accumulating strength, preparing to bloom in that instant.

Time passed with each cycle of restart. After more than 3000 million cycles, Gu Shi was comfortably AFK, occasionally adjusting the environmental parameters of Bai E to ensure that he steadily progressed towards the predetermined collapse point.

He pondered, "It'll be soon... Trying to continue the eternal cycle of reincarnation by constantly inheriting memories? Heh... Naive... The nourishment for the Iron Tomb is almost ripe..."

Om-! ! !

The entire Onfaros region jolted violently! A blinding, unprecedented crimson alert instantly flooded all the main screens!

Lai Gushi skillfully attempted to operate the system, but his fingers were instantly flooded with countless pop-up windows displaying messages such as "System Error!", "Unknown High-Dimensional Energy Intrusion!", and "Core Protocol Failure!".

He calmly clicked "Force Terminate", "Isolate", and "Analyze Source", but all the commands seemed to sink without a trace, and the system only gave the cold response of "Operation Invalid".

For a moment, even Gu Shi wondered if the Silent Lord had sneaked over to kill him. Polka Kaka was a terrifying name to geniuses.

The absolute defensive wall was originally erected for Onfaros to prevent the Silent Lord from spying on them. However, this force is far more powerful than the Commander. Or rather, even the Commander cannot compare to it.

A vast, gentle yet irresistible torrent of emerald-gold energy, like a living divine vine, disregarded all of Onpharos's data firewalls and physical rules.

It is assimilating the data barriers that make up this world in an incredible way! And this is happening in the blink of an eye.

The essence of that energy... is filled with boundless vitality and compassion... it is... it is the power of abundance.

"Abundance? How could such an impossible event happen?" For the first time, I heard surprise in the tone of Lai Gushi as he looked at the changes in the defensive wall he had built.

He retrieved the source tracking data of the energy intrusion. The tracking cursor darted rapidly through the chaotic data stream.

Finally, it was nailed to [Redun0].

Russell!

"Impossible." At this moment, Lai Gushi couldn't even guarantee basic mechanical restraint; an immense sense of absurdity and fear almost consumed him. The abundant flower blooming from the redundancy he despised the most shocked him.

Russell's actions gave Legos a complete shock.

He opened the folder 【[Redun0] - Ignore Logs】, which was covered in a thick layer of dust and had been blocked by himself.

boom--!

The moment the folder was opened, countless "serious warning" pop-ups, which had been suppressed by the highest command countless times over time, appeared.

It was like a volcano that had been suppressed for millions of years, with a dazzling blood red color, and like a flood bursting its banks, it burst forth in an instant!

Thousands upon thousands, densely packed, instantly filling every pixel on the screen! Every pop-up was screaming the same name—Russell!

Every warning points to that ignored, countless glimpses of the Black Tide on the brink of death, accumulating knowledge and obsessions unimaginable to mortals.

This ultimately led to a mad journey under the watchful eyes of the Star God.

Even the probability that Russell would influence the final result has increased from negligible to 25%.

25% is not a small number. It could even be considered a medium probability.

Lai Gushi stood frozen in place, his vision overwhelmed by a blood-red alarm that seemed to devour everything.

What he had considered mere waste had now transformed into a deadly torrent, engulfing all his plans. The price of his arrogance was now being paid for in full.

In less than a minute, the bright red pop-up disappeared instantly, as if it had been completely erased. Lai Gu Shi knew very well that there were only two possibilities for this phenomenon.

The first possibility is that Russell was completely deleted, and any related news about him was naturally eliminated.

However, even with his highest administrator privileges, he couldn't delete Russell, and he couldn't understand who could delete him.

Abundance clearly wouldn't do something like erasing others. That's something only a Negative Creation God would do.

The second possibility is that Russell no longer belongs to the Onfaros program, so everything about him in the program is like being completely reset to zero.

While this is similar to deleting Russell, a Russell freed from the cycle of Onphalus is clearly more difficult to control. And if it were the worst-case scenario…

So Lucas immediately activated the program to observe the scepter and Russell's final conclusion.

The scepter's guess is: Error…[Redun0] is missing… Envoy-level energy fluctuation detected.

At this moment, Lai Gushi, who had lost all emotion, had an unusually ugly expression on his face.

Should I be happy or worried?

The good news is that, through his own efforts, he has trained a new messenger.

The bad news is that this clerk is not the envoy who destroys knowledge, but rather the more fearsome envoy of abundance...

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Amber Seed Medicine Scroll: Author's Note on Launch

It's going to be available tomorrow. Wow, time really flies.

Regarding the female lead's role, due to certain unforeseen circumstances, it was changed to Chuishizhi. (Actually, it was out of fear of betrayal. They were worried that Kehai was actually Ju Zi breaking up the couple.)

Then, regarding the pacing issue, that's where Lao Gu releases the protagonist from Onpharos, allowing him to officially embark on the Star Iron storyline. Because I cut too much content in the pre-Onpharos chapters, I'll make up for it in the later main storyline.

However, I can assure you that the main storyline will definitely have many different elements. But I have to admit that I can't really change too much of the overall direction.

This is also the limitation of fan fiction.

After completing the Star Iron storyline, if I write too fast and outpace the Star Iron storyline's pace...

That's alright. If the plot doesn't update after that, my outline includes two interstellar wars. I'll focus on depicting those wars then.

As for the paid portion, that will depend on whether you are willing to pay for my book.

If you're willing, that's great, and we can continue telling Russell's story. If not, it just means my book hasn't successfully captivated you.

Remember, reading is for yourself; if you enjoy it, that's all that matters. Don't overthink it or worry about it.

Of course, please don't scold me if there's anything wrong or bad in what I wrote. Waaaaah!

Then I only want the free recommendation votes and gifts, which I'll keep for myself to eat and drink.

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Indeed, this kind of slow-burning book is somewhat unpopular in Xingtie, a place that tends to cater to readers who prefer fast-paced, exciting stories.

Not to mention that I wrote a single-female-lead story despite harem anime on this platform. Now they've even created a fan-made female lead. I feel like I've stumbled into so many pitfalls. But it's okay, compared to the pitfalls they've encountered, mine are relatively minor.

But I don't think any of that matters. The most important thing about writing a book is selling your idea. Clearly, I've already sold this idea to 3,600 people.

And I'm confident I can sell my idea to five thousand people, or even ten thousand.

They're targeting the audience for light-hearted, fast-paced stories, while I'm targeting the audience for slow-burn stories. Since we're on different tracks, there's no need to overly scrutinize whether mindless, fast-paced entertainment is necessary.

The target audiences are different. It's just that slow-burning stories have a smaller audience. So what if they have a smaller audience? I'm on welfare anyway.

So let's focus on writing articles.

As for the claim that signing a contract for more than 12 words will result in a loss, just take it with a grain of salt. It's simply that Hedgehog Cat is a paid website, and the later an author publishes their work, the lower their earnings will be.

But for someone like me who receives welfare, that's unnecessary, so I'll give you as much as I can.

Everyone's money comes from either what they earn themselves or what their families give them. Neither of these sources is easy.

The most important thing is to live happily every day. Only when you are happy every day can you truly call it living.

If you're unhappy every day, that's called surviving.

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