Chapter 59 Talk
“However, I think I should talk to the two scouts from Classic first,” LEGO Prophet continued. “After we’ve finished our business, I’ll answer your questions and your companion’s in detail.”

Feng Bujue said, “Okay, I won’t interrupt. You guys chat.” As he spoke, he even made a zipping motion across his mouth with his right hand.

For the next ten minutes, the two Transformers, the LEGO Avenger, and the Prophet engaged in a lengthy and tedious negotiation.

The atmosphere of this conversation wasn’t too tense, because the misunderstanding itself was easily explained. Basically, the NOVEL toys had stolen a batch of LEGO bricks from here and assembled a team of helicopters themselves. If there was any responsibility on LEGO’s part, it was that they hadn’t managed their resources well enough. It wasn’t up to the Classic side to point fingers.

“So, LEGO’s neutral stance will not change, and NOVEL will pay the price for their trespassing. This is already a matter between LEGO and NOVEL,” Tony said as the conversation drew to a close. “As for the losses the LEGO helicopters caused your army, we can only express our regret.”

“Hmm…” Jazz was silent for a few seconds, exchanged a look with Nightwatch, and then replied, “Alright, we’ll pass these words on to Optimus Prime.” He turned to face Feng Bujue and Xiao Tan, and said, “Recruits, Nightwatch and I will return to the Corps headquarters to report. Come back on your own after you’ve finished talking with the Prophet.”

“Yes, sir,” Feng Bujue replied. He seemed very disciplined at the moment, apparently hoping the other party would leave quickly.

Jazz shrugged noncommittally and walked out the door with Nightwatch.

“Tony, you guys go out too,” LEGO Prophet said at this moment. “I want to talk to these two guests alone.”

“Prophet, these two gentlemen look unfamiliar…” Steve cautiously reminded. “Are you sure you want us all to leave?”

“Don’t worry,” LEGO Prophet replied. “These two won’t resort to force against me, and I’m not afraid of threats of force anyway.”

“Since you’ve said so… then alright.” Tony answered for Captain America, patted Steve on the shoulder, and then they left with the other Avengers.

After the door of the building closed again, LEGO Prophet spoke again, “Hello, Madjue, Wang Tan Zhi.”

As soon as he heard the guy call out his name, Feng Bujue perked up. “Heh… Prophet is indeed a prophet, living up to the name. Logically speaking, only a small portion of the toys in the Classic camp should know our names. And since entering this LEGO city, Jazz and Nightwatch haven’t mentioned our names even once, only referring to us as ‘recruits.’ Under these circumstances, you’re calling us by our names… then there are only…”

“Only two possibilities,” LEGO Prophet continued. “First, I can obtain information directly from Classic through some means, such as wiretaps, spies, or the like.” The rhombus paused for a moment. “Second, I have the ability to observe you from the data level.”

Feng Bujue laughed. “Your reasoning is quite quick…”

“Mutual respect,” LEGO Prophet replied.

Feng Bujue added, “Since you’ve proposed these two hypotheses yourself, then I think… there’s about a 70% probability that it’s the second situation.” He crossed his arms in front of his chest, raised his head, and said, “Therefore, I have another hypothesis… you are not ordinary data.”

“That’s obvious,” LEGO Prophet laughed. “This rhombus-shaped brick polymer is just a carrier for me in this space. I myself am not here.” He didn’t hide his identity and introduced himself, “I am one of the twelve jury members of the ‘Court of Truth’—Prophet.”

“Why am I not surprised by this development at all…” Xiao Tan said with a twitch of his lips.

“Then you must know what’s going on in this war being staged in the supermarket?” Feng Bujue asked.

“This isn’t a supermarket, it’s a prison,” the Prophet said in a tone that wasn’t joking.

“The toys are all prisoners?” Feng Bujue followed his train of thought.

“Yes, and all are serving life sentences,” the Prophet replied. “Of course, they weren’t originally toys. These prisoners may have been office workers, students, hoodlums, millionaires, athletes, murderers, actors, etc. In the past. After coming to this prison, their memories and ideologies will be adjusted. And ‘personality,’ as a value that cannot be modified, can only be retained. So they are usually turned into toy characters that are closest to their own temperament.”

“So… the Donkey Kong from Nintendo is actually a transformation of Sorachi Hideaki from some universe…” Feng Bujue casually said.

“Hmph… how could that be?” The Prophet replied in a relaxed tone, “The ape that Sorachi Hideaki could create would at most only swing on tires. Donkey Kong has to be transformed from the level of Takenori Akagi at least.”

“Hmm… indeed,” Feng Bujue replied, stroking his chin. “But… Isao Kondo also seems to…”

“Hey! Why do you have to drag in those inexplicable things when the NPC is seriously telling the plot secrets!” Xiao Tan couldn’t help but complain from the side, “What’s so good about discussing which character’s ape is stronger! Besides, the two people besides Sorachi Hideaki are fictional characters anyway!”

“I see…” Feng Bujue suddenly said in a serious tone, “No wonder these toys can’t say the reason for the war, and they don’t care about the flaws that might be discovered by humans.”

“Ideological adjustment is a very practical technique,” the Prophet continued. “It can effectively limit the thinking of the adjusted person without destroying their ability to think.” He paused for a moment and explained, “In the minds of those prisoners, there are many blind spots that cannot be entered. To use an analogy, it’s like ‘a color that doesn’t exist in your cognition at all.’ Before you see this color with your own eyes, you can’t imagine it at all. Even if you really see it, you don’t know what to call this color.”

“You two switch in and out of the act too quickly!” Xiao Tan shouted, “It’s as if the previous discussion about apes never happened! You instantly returned to the previous topic in a serious manner!”

Brother Jue and the Prophet ignored him and continued their conversation.

“Then… what are the supermarket security guards? Prison guards?” Feng Bujue asked again.

The Prophet sneered for a while, “The night shift security guards here start work at eight o’clock and patrol every three hours. It’s almost two o’clock in the morning in another ten minutes. You can go and see for yourselves what ‘they’ are…”

“Wait!” Xiao Tan was still trying to interject, “I have a question too! Since this is a prison, why is it set up like this? What’s the point of turning prisoners into toys and making them fight for no reason?”

“That’s not surprising. I’ve seen even weirder settings…” Feng Bujue couldn’t help but recall the corridor that imprisoned Billy, Rabbit, and Alden.

This time, the Prophet responded to Xiao Tan’s question, “The duty of the Court of Truth is to supervise, judge, and detain. In the 42 known main universes, all highly intelligent life forms are under our jurisdiction. Among them, there are many very powerful criminals who must be imprisoned separately, and sometimes we even have to design corresponding prisons specifically for them.” He paused for two seconds and then said, “And this prison where you are now is a place to detain ordinary criminals. There are thousands of them, and they are extremely difficult to manage…”

“But as long as you keep them busy, it’s much easier,” This time, Feng Bujue stole the Prophet’s line, “Every night, they are engaged in a war that they can’t win and can’t finish. Although there will be casualties, new criminals will continue to be turned into toys to replenish them…

War is an activity that requires absolute participation from the participants. It can make these prisoners rack their brains and exhaust themselves. They have no time to think about other things, and they have no time to do other things. As toys, they are busy every night in the limited areas in the middle of the supermarket. No one will think… I want to climb out of the window and leave this supermarket."

“Won’t this kind of confinement produce any exceptions?” Xiao Tan asked doubtfully.

“The key is still in the so-called ‘ideological adjustment’,” Feng Bujue replied. “When those toys think about the question of ‘why am I fighting this war,’ it’s as if you are thinking about ‘what is the meaning of life?’ Obviously, you won’t get a definite answer, but you won’t stop living because of it. Similarly, the toys can’t say why they are fighting this war, but they will still fight it.”

“Haha… as expected, very sharp,” the Prophet laughed. “Madjue, you truly are the man who helped Billy and the others escape from prison.”

As soon as Brother Jue heard this, he felt that something was wrong, but he remained calm on the surface and tentatively replied, “What are you talking about… I don’t understand…”

“Haha… don’t be nervous, I’m on your side, otherwise I wouldn’t have told you so much,” the Prophet said. “You should still remember Rabbit, right? He and I are old friends. I am very happy that he was able to escape from the Time Lord’s prison.”

As soon as he said this, Feng Bujue remembered that Billy had said something like this… “Rabbit and his cousin were originally members of the jury, but they were convicted of contempt of court.”

At this time, the Prophet sighed and said, “Actually, when Billy and Alden were summoned to court for the crime of ‘spreading chaos,’ I also voted not guilty. But the final verdict… was still ‘guilty.’ So Rabbit and Bugs Bunny lost control a bit. Rabbit used a spinning kick on the jurors who voted guilty, and Bugs Bunny attacked the judge with dung balls (rabbit droppings are mostly spherical), and the scene fell into chaos.”

“Hey… there’s too much information in this…” Xiao Tan’s shock value inexplicably increased as he listened to this bizarre narration.

“Oh… so that’s how it is,” Feng Bujue seemed quite calm. “The final result was… Bugs Bunny took advantage of the chaos to draw a hole on the wall and ran away, while Rabbit was imprisoned in the Time Lord’s prison with Billy and Alden for contempt of court.” As he said this, he had already straightened out the timeline in his mind, “After that, the prison guard Samodier defected, met me, and was caught again and sent to Chew Demon Island. Billy and the others were second offenders, and this time the guard was changed to FausT. Later… still because they met me, the three of them successfully escaped again.”

“Yes, that’s exactly it,” the Prophet replied.

“Are we really playing the same game…” Xiao Tan looked at Feng Bujue with an awesome expression, and the degree of Brother Jue’s strength in his mind climbed to a new peak.

Feng Bujue asked, “Judging from what you said earlier, the supermarket security guards are not the guards here. Could it be that you are?”

“No, I’m just a more enthusiastic bystander,” the Prophet replied. “I use this ‘LEGO Prophet’ identity to control the neutral LEGO forces and maintain the balance and intensity of the war.” He smiled, “What I do is actually very simple, I just need to ‘speak.’”

“Hmph… it seems that the people from Classic didn’t wrong you,” Feng Bujue guessed the meaning behind the other party’s laughter in just one second. “It seems that the reason why NOVEL was able to steal the bricks so smoothly was because you deliberately leaked the information.”

“Hehe… it’s a pity that you are a traveler from another world, otherwise I would really like to recommend you to join the jury,” the Prophet laughed. “We happen to have a vacancy.” His words basically confirmed Brother Jue’s speculation.

Feng Bujue wasn’t very interested in the Prophet’s proposal. He continued to ask for the information he wanted to know, “The topic from just now isn’t over yet. Since you said that the supermarket security guards are not the guards, and you are not the guards, then who exactly is the guard of this prison? Where can I find him?”

The Prophet replied, “Do you need to find him urgently?”

“Yes,” Feng Bujue said in a very normal tone, “I want him to help me end this war.”

Upon hearing this, the Prophet obviously hesitated for a few seconds, and the surface of the rhombus fluctuated violently at this moment, “Mr. Madjue, you should be clear that whether it is me or that guard, our duty is to ensure that this war can continue indefinitely.”

“Aren’t you a bystander?” Feng Bujue’s eyes became cold and sharp, and he said in a deep voice, “Where does the word ‘duty’ come from?”

This sentence made the rhombus fall into silence.

At the same time, the building they were in began to change… every brick on the walls and floor was restlessly agitated like a living thing.

“Hey… what’s going on with this atmosphere?” Xiao Tan said in surprise, “You guys went from talking happily to turning hostile too quickly…”

“You told me nine-tenths of the truth, just to mix in one-tenth of a lie,” Feng Bujue said with a sneer to the rhombus, “But the more information I know, the more those doubts stand out, making it impossible for me to ignore them…”