NOVEL WEB Chapter 191: Awakening!
The man was slightly startled.
He wasn't because Su Qi's questions were too difficult.
Quite the opposite,
...they were actually too simple compared to before.
His brows furrowed in displeasure, and his eyes looked at Su Qi with some confusion, "…these two questions… are you sure?"
"…" Su Qi paused, "It seems you are pretty confident?"
"I can sidescrape along any trivial trace of the past timelines through reverse deduction, the older, the traces tend to be slighter," the man explained patiently and calmly.
After answering the previous eight questions, his symptoms of madness and pain had significantly reduced. Indeed, thinking could alleviate the erosion and mixed pollution of his brain.
"And yet, your questions are about the present moment, far too simple, even..." he shook his head, "somewhat disappointing to me."
"I'm considering whether to give you a chance to change your questions."
The man's face showed a calm and peculiar expression, "After all, the previous ones had me somewhat expectant, but thinking it over, letting you stay here forever is also not a bad choice."
"Hmm... If that's so."
Su Qi paused, "Then how about adding a little more weight to the challenge?"
"That can be done..." the man said calmly, "I want to study your soul. You are different from other ordinary assistants, there must be something special about you, naturally. Of course, this also means dissecting and analyzing your entire soul, with the best outcome being ending up an idiot."
Su Qi, feeling the heat of the other's gaze, remained unperturbed, "What if you can't answer."
"You can take one item of value, as you see it, from this room and leave."
Su Qi was aware of the existence of the five rooms, all Divine... Though they seemed ordinary, the items within those rooms likely held extraordinary value.
The reason he hadn't helped himself to those—was because of the caretaker and the so-called Doctor Doli.
It was crucial to understand the purpose of their existence.
It appeared that they were there to clear away things derived from the Black Fog; his every move could hardly escape their notice. So as long as he adhered to the principle of voluntariness,
Su Qi felt he could score some decent spoils.
"A good proposal," Su Qi said, "Do I need to count down from 3, 2, 1, and provide you with three lifelines?"
"This... isn't some quiz show."
The man's glasses flickered slightly, "I can know... everything about you!"
The next moment!
His pupils became extremely deep, just like when he was answering questions before.
He could see... all the surrounding traces, a massive, terrifying density of them appearing around his line of sight.
If one were to draw a comparison,
These traces were like countless, dense, frenziedly spinning data, even a pencil dropped on the ground, containing all its cyclical past traces, would be enough to burn through all the hard drives in the ordinary world.
Even the man... as a Divine being with an extraordinary sequence, had to exhaust all his power and spend a lot of time and energy to trace them back.
Therefore,
Usually, he would first select a target... and during the reversal, he would ignore all other distracting traces.
This would allow him a respite... from the constant envelopment of endless traces and the brain assault by endless data, reliving him slightly from the agony akin to suffocation in the deep sea.
This is why,
His thinking could ease his pain.
And the next moment,
The man looked directly at Su Qi, making eye contact.
The countless surrounding traces were weakened, and the extensive data was blocked from his senses, mitigating his pain.
Regrettably,
He didn't think this relief would last long, because... retracing from his own extended traces, he had already discerned quite a few things...
This cluster of traces was his own reflection...
This cluster of traces was the reflection of the room...
Other clusters of traces also showed the reflections of a few old friends...
And then... Hmm?
Whose traces are these... why so strange... Let's take a closer look?
The man was about to trace back further, eager to find out more!
A massive amount of traces circulated in his brain, and as a Divine being with a terrifying analytical capacity, he could almost know all knowledge. This is also why spiritual power is extremely important because only through the sequence pathways related to spiritual power could one... become an Old Trace Master.
Almost all Divines competed to cultivate such beings.
Traces were overlooked at a rate hundreds of times faster than before, yet the man still couldn't trace them back.
What was going on?
What exactly was this?
Why were there still such vast traces?
...It seemed a shape was forming...
Wait... It's another reflection.
In that instant!
The overwhelming traces suddenly made the man shiver all over... the terrifying data spiked his headache by dozens of times in a moment!
His facial expression twisted, his pain was maximum, a screech stuck in his throat.
How could it...
Who is this... why...
Can't capture, have traced back, must avoid... otherwise, his own injuries might get directly exacerbated!
The man's face turned slightly pale, though he had been sealed here, suffering erosion and grave injuries, he was still a Divine being! To end up like this!
He decided to first avoid it.
At this time,
The man noticed... a strange trace, quite different from the others; it just stayed quietly in its place and didn't form a data cluster with other traces.
He slightly furrowed his brow,
Just about to explore...