One line of text on the screen was deleted, and another line of text emerged:
“Why are you unwilling to tell me the specific location of Year-End City?”
Luodun pondered for a few seconds, then decided to tell the truth:
“Year-End City is my home, and I don’t want to harm it in any way.”
Two hands then appeared on the screen, clapping:
“Well said!”
Three large characters radiating golden light popped out one after another.
“Then can you tell me which Overseer you believe in?” A new question followed.
This wasn’t something that needed to be concealed, so Luodun solemnly replied:
“The great ‘Controller of Fate’.”
“Will eventually return to the ‘Controller of Fate’!” The text on the screen expressed its excitement with an exclamation point.
“You also believe in the ‘Controller of Fate’?” Luodun was both pleased and a little worried.
Due to different understandings of scripture, the relationship between different sects might not be harmonious.
“Yes, yes.” The owner of room “131” replied with text.
Luodun rationally didn’t ask which sect the other party belonged to and happily nodded:
“So, we share the same faith.
“What exactly do you want to do by inquiring about Year-End City?”
The text on the screen changed rapidly:
“Want to understand some things.”
“Ask away. As long as it doesn’t affect the stability of Year-End City or blaspheme the Overseer, I can answer you,” Luodun said, seizing the opportunity. “But you also have to promise that if the information I provide is of any value, you will loosen the restrictions, collect the memories, and provide convenience for me to explore your psychological shadow and find the ‘New World’ gate.”
“No problem.” The owner of room “131” was quite straightforward, without any dragging.
Then, new text formed a new question:
“Has anything strange happened in your Year-End City?”
Luodun thought for a moment and said:
“Everything is normal. At least in my memory, there is nothing particularly strange.”
“Don’t you even have ‘Heartless Disease’?” The text on the screen was tinged with a bit of white, as if expressing shock.
Luodun’s consciousness was split in two, half outside and half inside, and his thinking wasn’t very agile, so he was a little stunned by this question.
After a few seconds, he replied:
“It would be strange if there was no ‘Heartless Disease’.
“Where on the Graylands is there a place without ‘Heartless Disease’? There are always some cases every year.”
“That’s true.” The owner of room “131” acknowledged this explanation.
Where did you come from? Don’t you even know this common sense? Luodun couldn’t help but grumble in his heart.
Considering the other party’s mental state, he felt that it was meaningless to argue with a sick person.
“Really nothing strange?” The owner of room “131” asked again with text.
Seeing that the other party cared a lot about this matter, Luodun felt that whether his answer could be considered valuable might be reflected in this regard. So, he didn’t repeat the answer categorically, but instead asked:
“What exactly do you include in strange? Can you give me a few examples?”
After a brief pause, the text on the screen changed:
“For example, a large number of people die inexplicably, for example, many people mysteriously disappear every year, for example, someone goes crazy from time to time, not because they suffered trauma or increased costs from exploring mental rooms.”
Luodun carefully went through his memories of the past many years and said hesitantly:
“These three situations do not exist in our Year-End City, I can be sure of that.
“However…”
“However, what?” The text on the screen was very cooperative.
“However, the probability of people in a certain position going crazy is quite high,” Luodun said with a silent sigh.
“Which position?” The text on the screen popped out one after another.
Luodun replied with a solemn expression:
“Grand Elder.”
“Believes in the ‘Controller of Fate’?” The owner of room “131” seemed to be typing quickly.
“The Grand Elder of Year-End City can only be a believer in the ‘Controller of Fate’,” Luodun gave a definite answer.
He continued:
“Since the establishment of Year-End City, there have been a total of six Grand Elders. Excluding the current one, of the remaining five, one entered the ‘New World’, one died from injuries during an external mission, and a full three went crazy.”
“The probability of going crazy is as high as sixty percent?” The text on the screen asked as if confirming.
No one knows what the current Grand Elder’s ending will be, so he is not included in the calculation for the time being.
Luodun nodded:
“So, I said it’s a bit abnormally high.
“Our own explanation is that the Grand Elder is too close to the Overseer and often gazes at the gods. If they cannot enter the ‘New World’ in time before exceeding a certain limit, they will easily go crazy.”
“Yes, frequent contact with the Overseer either scares you to death or scares you crazy.” The owner of room “131” seemed to have deep feelings about this.
The text on the screen continued to change:
“What happened to the three who went crazy in the end?”
“One ended his own life a few days after going crazy, one brought too much of a threat and was jointly eliminated by us, and one escaped Year-End City while we weren’t paying attention, but he shouldn’t live for long,” Luodun replied truthfully.
“Why?” The owner of room “131” asked in text form.
“The Year-End Great Mass had just been held not long ago, and the Icefield was in the coldest and most uninhabitable season for humans,” Luodun had a relatively deep impression of this matter.
“What was that Grand Elder’s name, and what did he look like?” The text on the screen changed the question.
Luodun didn’t hide anything:
“His name was Qin Ke, and he was only forty-nine years old when he went crazy.
“As for his appearance…”
Luodun tried to present the image of Qin Ke in his memory in this deep darkness.
The next second, the light on the screen surged, illuminating the pattern he had manifested.
Qin Ke was a man with shoulder-length hair that was already half white.
He was about 1.7 meters tall, wearing a black robe, with slightly dry, wrinkled skin on his face, and his eyes seemed to be sunken inward due to mixed blood, making him look quite serious.
“What did those crazy Grand Elders say or do after they went crazy?” The owner of room “131” deleted the original question and typed new text.
“Some shouted that I wanted to kill you all and acted on it, some said that the end of the world was not over, some told us to commit suicide and return a clean earth…” Luodun said while recalling.
Those mad ravings sounded a bit profound, but they didn’t have any substantial content, which made the light on the screen flicker but fail to form new text.
In the end, Luodun said:
“After Grand Elder Qin Ke went crazy, he seemed to have become a different person and even changed his name.
“He seemed to have suffered from ‘Allknowing’, but after inspection, we ruled out this possibility.”
“What name did he change to?” The text on the screen finally had a use again.
Luodun said truthfully:
“He called himself Du Heng.”