"I may disappoint you, but I am the ruler, not the thousand men."
Yang Ling will not abandon those who want to live. This time, he will take the initiative to pull people into the theater of domination.
As Jian Yun was about to jump off the building, the black and white marks on her forearm vaguely emerged and gradually emitted light, and then she heard the voice.
[Welcome to the Domination Theater.]
……
"Is that you?" Jian Yun had completely lost control of her body, but she did not react at all. She had basically given up her desire for life and had shrunk her consciousness into a corner. However, the familiar voice pulled her back from despair. "You didn't abandon me. You came back to find me?"
"..."
Without saying anything, Jian Yun's current condition could be said to be caused by Su Jue. He didn't want to repeat the same mistake. The best situation at this time was not to let her have any unnecessary thoughts.
But even so, he clearly felt that Jian Yun's lost will to survive was slowly recovering. After discovering that his body was controlled by Su Jue, he directly gave up his control and handed over all activities to the Ruler.
Deep in the quagmire, she has been longing for someone to pull her out, both before the disaster and after she fell into despair.
What she hated was never Su Jue as a person, but her own powerlessness and the fact that no one helped her when she was most desperate.
"I heard that when a person dies, they will see the ghost who comes to take their life. It seems that I can still hear his voice before I die..."
Having been tortured by loneliness and darkness for too long, Jian Yun kept muttering to himself almost all the time, but Su Jue did not find it annoying. This was a means of self-help for people in despair. He used to be the same.
Pulling open the curtains, Su Jue looked at the tall buildings outside the window. It had been nearly a week since the Honkai outbreak, during which the incident had almost caused a sensation on the Shenzhou network. The officials of Tianqiong City finally noticed the potential safety hazards in the suburbs, resettled all the victims, and moved them to a new residential area.
Unfortunately, Jian Yun's family was refused resettlement compensation because Jian Yun was still alive, and they were only relocated. The post-disaster trauma continued to torture everyone. While everyone was licking their wounds, Jian Yun and his family became the excluded.
When you don't have the courage to look others in the face, a thousand people will give you the courage.
When you don't have the strength to break free from the quagmire, thousands of people will give you strength.
Pushing open the door of her bedroom, Su Jue noticed that Jian, who was talking nonsense due to drunkenness, was looking at her. Perhaps knowing that his daughter might have heard what he said, he raised his hand to explain, but Su Jue ignored him and walked out of the room.
When the door was just opened, the neighbor who lived on the same floor noticed her and cast a malicious look at her. But Su Jue looked at him and smiled widely.
"Good lunch."
"Stupid girl, you still have the nerve to smile even though all your classmates are dead!" The neighbor opposite was obviously irritated by his smile and cursed in a low voice.
"But I survived. You can say I was lucky, or you can say I was unlucky, but what cannot be changed is the fact that I am alive and well. I was able to survive the disaster, so why can't I smile?"
"..."
"Can I laugh? Everyone is obviously dead." Jian Yun's voice came in my mind. It was obviously my own body, but I made a choice that I dared not even think about. This feeling... is so strange.
When everyone wants you dead, the best option is to live better than them all.
"They are just a group of losers living in the mud. They don't have the courage to fight against reality, so they can only direct their malice towards the weaker innocent people." For some unknown reason, Su Jue patiently explained to her. She went downstairs alone. Most of the people living in the building cast malicious eyes at her, and some even cursed in a voice that Su Jue could hear.
But so what? Life is meant to be lived for yourself.
"Since the balance has been broken, why not try to draw a line between us and them?"
"But my family are just ordinary people." Perhaps it was because Su Jue controlled Jian Yun's body and performed a completely different way of living for her, and her heart was gradually infected by that kind of confidence, but she still maintained doubts.
"But they are not you after all. You are independent and autonomous. You don't need to care about other people's eyes or worries about other people's opinions."
"I saved your life. You don't need to live for them."
"Is it you?"
"..."
For a week, Jian Yun had locked herself in her room for most of the time. Later, she even dared not to touch the light. The long-term hunger and mental exhaustion had almost destroyed her body. What Su Jue needed to do was to help her live a normal life and live a better life.
after one day.
Jian Yun had gotten used to Su Jue's control, but when she saw where she was, her soul still trembled.
The victims are placed in the cemetery.
"Your classmates are all here. If you don't come here to see them, you will never be able to muster the courage to face them."
After verifying his identity, Su Jue came to this overly large cemetery. Because there were so many of them, he could see a large number of black and white photos at a glance. Some were familiar, and some were unfamiliar.
It was not until Su Jue stopped and saw a lot of familiar names and photos that Jian Yun could no longer control his emotions and sobbed softly.
"They are all waiting for you, but they don't want to take you with them. They want you to see them off."
With a deep sigh, Su Jue released his control over his body.
"Say goodbye to them, Jian Yun."
Chapter 64 ETStudio
Sometimes living requires more courage than dying. Only when you are stuck in the mud will you understand how bad the quagmire stinks. However, after passing through the swamp, crossing the valley, and breaking free from the black forest that devours people, you will see an even more moving view again.
Jian Yun looked at herself in the mirror. The heavy haze had dissipated, and there was a sparkle in her eyes. She gently patted her cheeks with her wet hands, and her cute cheeks immediately became moist.
"Come on, Jian Yun, be the best version of yourself."
Pushing open the bathroom door, the bright morning sun illuminated the entire room. Even though there were still corners covered in darkness, Jian Yun didn't care. Because from today on, she would leave here.
In the living room, her parents looked at her with some concern. Her father, Jian Zheng, even stopped drinking and raised his hand to try to keep her.
But Jian Yun was completely different from the previous two days. At this moment, her whole body was radiating light. She began to yearn for distant places and was no longer confined to this small city.
"Goodbye, Mom and Dad. I'm leaving now. I'll call you when I get there~"
"Xiaoyun..."
Having already dragged her luggage out of the house, Jian Yun smiled brightly at her parents' attempts to keep her. "I heard what you said that day. This city doesn't welcome me. Now I want to pursue a new life. Please don't try to keep me."
boom--
The door closed, and the couple looked at each other, which finally turned into helpless sighs.
Two hours later, Jian Yun had boarded a plane to another city. Because of his excellent writing skills, Jian Yun also got a new job, working for a company called miHoYo... no, ETStudio, where he was responsible for game animation copywriting. Jian Yun felt sincerely happy at the thought of being able to share his experience with everyone.
……
In the Domination Theater, there was a new girl puppet, she stood upright on the stage, covered by the falling lights. Su Jue sat alone in the audience, quietly feeling the benefits brought to him by the girl puppet.
"The life span has been increased by two years. Although the combat capability has not increased much, the shared attributes of the Thousand Herrschers have also increased a lot."
Born from the most beautiful love of mankind, it was then polluted by despair and finally redeemed. This made the emotions attached to the puppet particularly strong, and these strong emotions, after being swallowed by the sheep spirit, became the best tonic for Su Jue.
According to the style of the Thousand Herrscher in the original work, generally speaking the best option is to select people who are tainted with darkness, then make them fall into despair, and create puppets from despair. In this way, a puppet full of resentment can be created to cause destruction and disrupt order.
However, what will be created in this way is ultimately just a group of mobs, which look crazy but will fall apart at the slightest touch.
On the contrary, Su Jue did it unintentionally. He just wanted to leave a backup plan on Jian Yun to fight against Xin Yan. Later, when the plan was abandoned, he decided to help her, but the attack of the Honkai Beast came quietly.
At that time, his main consciousness was still dealing with the affairs of the World Serpent. The only person left in the school was the puppet named [Su Jue], who was only controlled by a part of his consciousness. Therefore, he was seriously injured by the attack of the Honkai Beast in that battle, and then the puppet entered a state of recuperation and disappeared from people's sight.
As a result, all the resentment of the people at that time was focused on Jian Yun, and the disappearance of the Su Jue doll made Jian Yun feel that he had abandoned him. He fell into despair and finally chose to commit suicide.
One wrong step, then another. Fortunately, Su Jue still had a way to save the situation. He used the wolf-goat mark to absorb the resentment in Jian Yun, and finally formed the current puppet. (The plot should have developed like this, and there would have been a plot about the World Snake obtaining the title of Ink Moth, but that would have been a bit disjointed so I skipped it, and ended up skipping it too far.)
The doll born from such complex emotional twists and turns is quite pure. Not only can the negative emotions be completely absorbed and turned into supplements, but there is no need to worry about one's mind being polluted.
It's really a pity that a tree has grown into a forest.
As for Jian Yun herself, Su Jue naturally blurred her memory and sent her to his own company as a worker.
With the strong support of our hardworking artist Xiaolei, the company [Qian Jue] has become famous and has produced many excellent comics. Many of these comics are taken out from Su Jue's memory, and of course some are original, but without excellent plot editing, the original comics are not very good.
With the shared abilities of the Thousand Herrschers, Xiaolei only needed to sketch a rough outline and then, through the uninterrupted overtime work of the tool puppets, she could finally draw what she wanted perfectly. This allowed the small company [Qian Jue] to almost impact half of the comics market with its terrifying quality and quantity, making a lot of money like crazy.
And now with Jian Yun joining, even if her writing talent is not outstanding, she can still create excellent works with Qianlu's support. It's time to expand.
However, although the [Qian Jue] company is not very famous at present, Su Jue took into account that it will inevitably have to confront with Destiny and World Serpent in the future, and continuing to use this name will easily lead to criticism, so he also established a new animation game company - ET Studio.
As for the name [Qian Jue], he had to gradually hide it as a link connecting all his industries. Anyway, the main persons in charge were all his puppet hosts, and there was no possibility of rebellion, so he let them cooperate with each other and gradually expand their influence.
Use "love and peace" to influence mankind?
No, I'm afraid that after Jian Yun is responsible for the game copywriting and animation scripts, he will definitely share the pain he has suffered with future players hundreds or thousands of times, providing Su Jue with hundreds or thousands of puppet reserves.
When Su Jue thought of that wonderful scene, he couldn't help but feel yearning. How wonderful it would be if he could drag young people all over the world into the vortex of resentment through literary works.
After handing over such a difficult task to the two of them, Su Jue turned his attention back to Tianqiong City.
So far, Su Jue's plan has been basically realized for the most part, but he knows very well that the real danger is still waiting for him, because the one he is about to challenge is Kevin, the world snake with the strongest combat power of the previous civilization.
Chapter 65: Ink Moth
Three days ago, on the 7th underground floor of Shencheng Medical Trade Zone.
As the minutes on the electronic screen return to zero again, it means that it is already nine o'clock in the evening. Even the staff who are used to working overtime are already a little tired, but fortunately it is time to get off work and it is time to return to the staff dormitory to have a good rest.
The lights in the work area went out one by one. The young assistant who had just packed her things yawned loudly. Her eyes were a little blurry due to sleepiness, but she still caught the figure of her boss accurately. She sat up straight and greeted him with a smile, "Is the supervisor still working? Thank you for your hard work."
Hearing the assistant's voice, the director in charge of export affairs in the trade zone seemed startled. His body shook unnaturally and then immediately returned to normal.
"Uh, why are you still not off work so late? Although the company's security robots are very reliable, you still have to be careful when walking on the road at night as a girl." He frowned and scolded the assistant half with concern and half with criticism.
The assistant stuck out her tongue, lowered her head and responded. After the supervisor left, she happily took her things and left the office.
Tonight she had an appointment with a friend to have a midnight snack. Although she was a little sleepy, she had to go because it was a friend's treat and she could enjoy the delicious food for free. Thinking of this, she subconsciously looked in the mirror through the glass in the lobby after taking the elevator back to the first floor. She did not find any signs of weight gain on her face.
"It seems that I am naturally beautiful. How could a mere midnight snack make me fat?" She was in a very good mood and naturally did not notice the dark shadow that flashed across the glass.
On the eighth floor underground, the supervisor who had just greeted the assistant was now cursing, "MD, she didn't go home so late at night and stayed here to scare me. I'll deduct her salary this month."
After silently taking revenge on the assistant, the supervisor came to the accounting audit office on the eighth floor and activated the shielding device in his hand, freezing the images of all the surveillance facilities in the area at a few minutes ago.
"I'll go abroad after finishing this job. What kind of rubbish company requires me to sign a confidentiality agreement..." He felt a little hot. He tugged at his collar and put the decryption card on the electronic lock with ease. With a beep, the electronic lock opened.
But what greeted him was not the company funds that were about to be embezzled, but a black muzzle of a gun.
"Hey? Good evening, Mr. Supervisor. It should be time to get off work now. I wonder why you are here?" The young woman looked at him with a smile, but her two ruby-like eyes were cold and without a trace of emotion.
"I just... No, who are you? This is the territory of Shencheng Pharmaceutical. You damn invaders, aren't you afraid of our security personnel?" Although the supervisor was startled, he reacted quickly and immediately began to question back.
"Hmm? That's quite clever. But unfortunately, I'm the person in charge of Shencheng Pharmaceutical." Raven took off his hood, and his short gray hair was exposed to the air. It was not until then that the supervisor remembered the information he had seen in the company's human resources department.
Thinking of this, he immediately lowered his posture and asked, "I wonder why Ms. Xiola came to the trade zone so late at night. Is there anything I can help you with?"
"Ah, there is indeed something I need your help with. I heard that the company's property has been transferred many times recently. What do you remember, Mr. Supervisor?"
“Ms. Xiola, is the word impression a bit inaccurate? It should be clue…” The supervisor wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. The strong feeling of uneasiness in his heart made his whole body tremble slightly.
Realizing that he really used the wrong word, Raven pressed his forehead apologetically, but the gun in his other hand did not move at all. "Sorry, I mean, explain - do you have anything to explain?"
"without……"
"No?" Raven seemed a little surprised by this answer. He didn't know whether he was surprised that he really didn't embezzle public funds or that he dared to say so. So he looked at his two companions who had been standing in the shadows at some point with this expression, "Hey, Chen Tianwu, do you need to show him what you found?"
Chen Tianwu, who had just finished checking accounts on an electronic board, looked up and glanced at her, expressing his dissatisfaction with her exaggerated acting skills.
On the other side, the middle-aged man lowered his brows and patiently explained to her: "According to my intelligence, Mr. Manager transferred 5 million and 3 million through trade channels 2 months ago, 1 months ago, 210 months ago, and 320 week ago respectively..."
"Alright, alright." Raven interrupted the middle-aged man's chatter and looked at the supervisor who was already terrified. "Is there anything you need to explain?"
"No! No! Don't kill me, don't kill--"
boom--!
Blood plasma was sprayed on the wall, drawing a portrait of a greedy person.
The fishy smell made Raven frown, and he led the two people out of the accounting office.
"How dare they embezzle so much funds, almost as much as my island..." Closing the door unhappily, Raven pressed the communicator in her hand. After the termites were dealt with, the rest of the matters would have nothing to do with her. Whether it was the corpses or the transferred funds, they would be left to the logistics department to deal with.
The middle-aged man, the father puppet controlled by Su Jue, heard what Raven said and couldn't help but interrupt, "According to my investigation, Miss Xiola's private villa island should cost 130 million..."
Before he could finish his words, the muzzle of Raven's gun, which had just been used to kill someone, was pressed against his forehead. Her face was very gloomy. "No matter how you know this information, I think you should shut up."
Su Jue immediately backed down and quickly made a gesture with his hand over his mouth, indicating that he would not say anything more. Only then did Raven move the gun away and put it back into his gun bag.
"Okay, you and Chen Tianwu, you found seven or eight borers for Snake in just five days, saving a lot of unnecessary economic losses. I will report your achievements. If nothing goes wrong, you will have your own code name soon." She put on her hood again, and the feather-like cloak on her shoulders covered her body. "Just like my code name Raven, you can also prepare a title for yourself. If Snake agrees, it will adopt it directly."
After exchanging a glance with Chen Tianwu beside him, Su Jue looked towards the lights in the corridor and whispered, "How about I name myself Mo E?"
"Hmm? What does that mean?"
"Ink is splashed on white paper, stained with darkness, drawing a moth that belongs to chaos. The ink moth painted on the paper does not chase the flickering fire, nor does it covet the pure white of the ground. It only serves its own chaos to the supreme snake." Su Jue lowered his posture, like a loyal believer, or a seeker who has glimpsed the truth.
"I didn't realize you were really willing to dedicate yourself to the World Serpent. Let me remind you that snakes are never so kind." Raven frowned when she noticed Su Jue's somewhat fanatical attitude. Although she was also a cadre of the World Serpent, she did not have much good feelings towards the World Serpent, and she knew how dark the things the World Serpent did were.
Su Jue smiled and said nothing, and Raven stopped trying to persuade him.
