Chapter 792: Nothing
Chapter 792: Nothing
"Matthew, my name is Matthew Notmeli."
After repeating her name slowly, Ma Shemei, who was called to the director's office, said shyly:
"The small room on the right side of the storage room opposite your office, with half of the roof occupied by the stairs, is my office. I usually stay in there, but occasionally I come out to help clean up or something... By the way, is the salary in the bureau paid every three months?"
"..."
Actually, it’s paid once a week… But mainly when I paid my salary before, I really didn’t think of you, so…
"Well, our bureau has a relatively flexible way of paying salaries. We can pay weekly or annually. It depends on how you want to receive it."
In the face of Leon's strange expression, the red-haired director coughed dryly, vaguely explained the matter of forgetting to pay the salary, and then said:
“Matthew, Leon and I called you here this time because we need to tell you something… You must have been involved in an extremely dangerous mission.”
After explaining the anomalies of the King-Slaying Society and the Kingdom of Miko, as well as the future that the Freckled Prince saw, the red-haired chief said in a serious tone:
"Matthew, although the exact situation is still unclear, one thing is certain. That is, I'm afraid you guys can only follow the future of being hanged and go to the Kingdom of Witches together."
"what?"
After hearing what the red-haired chief said, Matthew, who looked so ordinary that he would be lost in a crowd in a second, couldn't help but ask in surprise:
"If the Miko Country is dangerous, why do we have to go there? If we don't go to the Miko Country, won't that future never happen?"
"Because if we don't go to the Kingdom of Miko, we won't be hanged, but we will encounter more troubles."
After taking over the conversation from the director, Leon opened his mouth to tell the truth:
"Matthew, before asking you to come here, the director and I tried some other methods, but in the end we found that no matter what we did, as long as we didn't arrive at the Kingdom of the Witches at a certain time, the four of us would fall asleep together immediately."
"sleep?"
"To be more specific, what you are about to enter will be an eternal sleep of wakefulness."
Recalling the scene described by Joshua, the red-haired director couldn't help but sigh, then frowned and said:
"What's waiting for you in the Kingdom of the Miko is a pre-arranged [Bedtime Story]. If you take the initiative to join, you will become a person in the story, and if you refuse to join, you will become the one listening to the story.
Although choosing to be a person in the story may be subject to many very harsh restrictions, if you choose to be the person listening to the story, then after the [Bedtime Story] is finished, you who have listened to the story can only go to bed.
According to the bureau's past records, you will lose the ability to control your own body, but retain all perceptions of the outside world, becoming a living dead who knows everything but can do nothing.
During this period, you don’t even have the power to choose death. Unless the next [Bedtime Story] begins, your souls will continue to remain awake in eternal sleep even if they reach the realm of the dead.”
What? !!! After hearing the red-haired chief's description, Matthew's ordinary eyes suddenly widened.
Being a living dead who can never move while still retaining one's senses is undoubtedly an extremely terrible torture. Compared with this end, being hanged might be considered a good ending.
"Anyway, I'm afraid you really can only go to the Kingdom of Miko."
The red-haired director informed helplessly:
"After Leon told me the situation, I immediately went to His Excellency Taurus to check past records. According to what His Excellency Taurus told me, the one who attacked you was an ancient pillar god, so ancient that even the anomaly that recorded its information has decayed.
The only thing we can be sure of now is that his "name of truth" should be called [Nuance], and the Bureau has no way to fight against his "truth". Any story told by him will almost certainly become a reality. "
Wait! Almost?
Hearing this, Leon beside him couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, and the red-haired director seemed to know that he would react, and turned his head to explain:
"The only exception was the Third Director. When he was capturing the True God in the Heaven Mountain Plane, he was briefly dragged into the story by [Nuyuzhishuo]. However, the Third Director was a person who could not sleep, and he was only half a step away from becoming a Pillar God. That's how he managed to get rid of the influence of [Bedtime Story].
In other words, you need to have a Leon value of more than 69 points, half a step on the threshold of the Pillar God level, and you must also have the ability to conflict with the "truth" of [Nothingness], otherwise you are doomed to be unable to defy the story it tells. "
"..."
So, once the story of [Nothing] is established, everyone below the Pillar God level must be controlled by him and cannot resist at all? This ability is too shameless!
After listening to the red-haired chief's explanation, Leon's brows couldn't help but furrowed tighter and tighter. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this ability was a bit too strong.
After all, apart from the fact that the ability itself is lame, [Bedtime Story] can also pass through the barrier of the Watchtower Palace and directly lock onto himself. This means that except for Director Huang Dao and the twelve directors, [Wu You Zhi Shu] can deal with anyone he wants in the entire Cleanup Bureau at any cost. It is simply outrageous!
“There is definitely a price to pay. Even if the situation of [Bedtime Story] is special and can pass through the [Watch Palace] to take effect directly on you, the King Slayer Society will definitely have to pay something.
In addition, [Bedtime Story] itself probably has quite a few limitations. Apart from the fact that only one story can exist at a time, I guess it is not possible to perfectly control the content of the story, so it is not completely unmanageable.
But the problem right now is that we know so little about it, and apart from its name, we know almost nothing about it, so we have no idea where to start."
Seeing what Leon was thinking at a glance, the red-haired director sighed and leaned back in his chair, also with a bad look on his face:
"The ability of [Nuance] is too hidden. If it weren't for Miss Caitlin's reminder, I might not have known about the existence of [Bedtime Story] until something happened to you in the Witch Country.
I even have reason to suspect that those geniuses who suddenly died in the bureau in the past were probably targeted by [Wu You Zhi Shu] and then killed with the help of [Bedtime Stories], and we don't even have any relevant records.
The last record of [Utopia] in the bureau was left by the third director. It has been thousands of years since then, and many of the records engraved on the stone tablets have decayed. No one knows what its current status is..."
(End of this chapter)