[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-above-destiny":3,"chapter-above-destiny-above-destiny-chapter-75":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Above the Heavenly Fate",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2225776,4117,"Chapter 75","above-destiny-chapter-75",75,"\u003Cp>[New here, little brother?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[How come I've never seen your model before? You aren't human, are you?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[My waist hurts a bit, help me take a look.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Don't, don't, don't, don't touch that, ah ah ah ah, eh? Holy shit? Cured instantly, brother, thanks!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[I'm all better!]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through personal visits and the enthusiastic introductions of various mechanical big brothers, Ji Jue finally determined the situation of the camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was truly just a very ordinary gathering place for survivors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Everyone here was a 'resident' of the Rift, or rather, a 'creation'.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under various loopholes and errors, they had more or less noticed the abnormalities in their lives and their own problems, which was why they feared the world above, fled here, and huddled together for warmth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Prophet rarely appeared, but the atmosphere within the gathering place was quite friendly and harmonious; there was no bullying or exploitation common in post-apocalyptic literature. Occasionally, people would flee here with their families from other places, and they would all be arranged properly very quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Food came from two very old starch converters and automatic production equipment in the warehouse, and drinking water came from the water pump protected in the middle of the camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some people spontaneously maintained order, and others would regularly go out in groups, trying to explore the entire Rift, but the harvest was often bleak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it were the protagonist in a web novel, they would have figured out the color of the Prophet's underwear in six hours, but Ji Jue had spent most of the day just doing good deeds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fixing air conditioners, fixing refrigerators, welding sheet metal after fixing car skins...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn't stop being happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Little An recorded in his notebook, stroke by stroke: The third day of entering the Rift, Brother Ji Jue returned to his old trade, and he looks very happy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, Mom!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fragmented 'child' on the small cart pushed the cart back and forth excitedly, grabbing an old man and shouting excitedly: \"The big brother from outside fixed my wheels, look!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's good.\" The aged man wriggled his snake-like lower body, stroked the child's hair, and seemed to smile gently: \"Don't run around, though; everyone has to find you every time you go out.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mm-hmm!\" The child laughed: \"I'm a good baby!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, the child pushed the cart away in a flash to find other moms to show off the brand-new small cart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue watched such a scene from afar, holding a wrench, focused on repairing the water purifier in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The filter element is already rotten and clogged. Do you have charcoal? Finding some wood to burn some is fine too; just open this thing, fill it up, and put it back on.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue rubbed his old waist, moved his body, and finally said: \"The water pump is fine, the wires are just a bit aged, just replace them. You guys can handle this kind of thing yourselves; you shouldn't need me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thanks.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man who had been following him from the beginning grunted for a long time, squeezing out a muffled sound from his throat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he had suspected Ji Jue of having ulterior motives at first, seeing Ji Jue repair most of the damaged tools in the camp in just half a day, it was hard to maintain a look of vigilance and defense.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hesitating for a moment, he went back and brought a bottle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Ji Jue finally finished dismantling two old cars and welding them into one, he walked over with a cup, \"Want some?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The clear liquid fell into the paper cup, carrying a faintly pungent smell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is...\" Ji Jue sniffed, unable to confirm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Wine,\" the middle-aged man smiled bitterly: \"Introduce myself, just call me 97. Before I came here, I was... made into a worker at a winery, and I collected some materials to make some myself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Made from starch, the taste isn't great, but this is all we have, don't mind it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be honest, I don't know if my stomach can digest local ingredients,\" Ji Jue smiled self-deprecatingly, took a shallow sip, and put it down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This amount shouldn't be enough to get him drunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, 97 was stunned, unable to believe he was so straightforward: \"You... aren't afraid I'll poison you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue just smiled and said straightforwardly: \"If it's poisonous, I'll take revenge on you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the Mouth of the Ancient hanging around his neck, he really wasn't worried about this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention that no toxin could fool Brother Ball's scan, Little An was standing right next to him; if anything was added, he would know just by smelling it. Besides, if there really was a problem, with his abilities, making the entire camp collapse would be a snap of his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>97 was silent, and after finishing a full cup himself, he sighed: \"It seems the Prophet was right, you really are different from those outsiders in the rumors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh? What about the outsiders?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It is said that outsiders have come several times before, but every time they only destroy things everywhere and kill 'people' who don't even know what they are.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the sake of treasure, they will do anything. But don't we know whether there is treasure or not? There is nothing here but hell.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet they seem to like this hell even more than we do.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...\" Ji Jue sighed, \"'Players' are like that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not to mention Mercury's legacy and treasures, even if there were only a few common drops, they would treat the entire Rift like a dungeon and completely wipe it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It's just that the local gangs aren't very friendly, and the water is too deep; once the destruction is too great, Mercury's workshop might directly wash the ground and shoot all the outsiders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Players?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The middle-aged man didn't understand the word, his expression gloomy: \"The Prophet said they are all demons, demons just like Mercury.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue was speechless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He just felt how ironic it was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the creator, she should have been longed for and worshipped by her creations like a god, just like the Furnace's loyalty to Mercury until the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the creations of the Rift regarded her as a terrifying demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What is this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out-of-control AI in a novel? AI rebellion?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But no matter how out of control or rebellious they were, they had no way to stop the workshop's operation and could only passively flee and endure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Do you guys trust the Prophet that much?\" Ji Jue asked curiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Of course, if it weren't for the Prophet, I might have been recycled and recast as a tool long ago. Without her, there wouldn't be this camp.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>97 answered straightforwardly: \"I know what you want to ask; the Prophet is the Prophet, the Prophet knows everything—at least, in this 'Rift', that's the case. That's her exact words to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was the first among us to awaken and understands all of this deeper than anyone.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't know what you outsiders are thinking, but you don't need to be so vigilant; we are just a bunch of poor wretches huddling together for warmth. Even the reward can only be this little bit of stuff.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised his glass and smiled self-deprecatingly: \"If you want to do something, talk to the Prophet; there isn't much time left until the restart.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Restart?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue was curious and wanted to ask further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, a screaming sound rang out, so familiar—sharp and muffled, like the painful wails, shouts, and roars of countless people trapped in the same body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of crying and howling rang out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mom, Mom!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The cart flew up, landed on the ground, and shattered into pieces, but the fragmented child was rolled up by a sharp tentacle, lifted into the sky, waving wildly, with fragments constantly falling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>97's face changed drastically, he dropped his wine glass and ran wildly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ironization!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone in the scattered crowd shouted in terror: \"It's ironization disease, 32 is having another episode!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the middle of the chaos, a bloated, fat man had half his face crying and shedding tears, while the other half had already shown insect-like alienation. Two tentacles extended from the crack in his chest, sweeping wildly and destroying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Lies! You're all lying to me! It's all fake—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That face twitched, shouting madly: \"I have a child! I have a child, my child is seven years old, he's still waiting for me at home, he, he... he...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That twisted face twitched, despair appearing, wailing in vain:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"He's dead.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang! Bang! Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the low, muffled sound, a net made of iron wire had covered the twisted, alienated figure, and then, the huge firearm Ji Jue had seen appeared, aiming from afar at the struggling, rapidly expanding figure in the net, and pulled the trigger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What flew out was a spear like a harpoon, jet-powered; the lethality was nowhere near Ji Jue's rifle, but they used it so skillfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, he was nailed to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Kill him quickly, he's already out of control,\" someone in the terrified crowd shouted: \"He couldn't control it yesterday, he insisted on going out to find his wife and child, the inhibitor is useless.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>97 was stunned, hesitating, struggling with difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trembling muzzle slowly lifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was pressed down again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...So, why did I expect anything from my shitty luck.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue sighed, rolled up his sleeves, and stepped forward: \"I'll do it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tentacle wriggled and smashed down towards him, but in mid-air, a flash of silver light cut it into two. It was Little An.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the net, the out-of-control figure had already expanded to two or three times its original size, and more and more alienated features appeared on his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the original face was about to disappear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only one eye that could vaguely be distinguished as human was shedding tears hollowly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue hesitated for a moment, his raised hand hovering in mid-air, and then, pressed down without hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fine, I'll eat shit then.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He squeezed the words through his teeth: \"Brother Furnace, I'm paying back your interest!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slap!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, Deus ex machina, activated!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pain, despair, wailing, sorrow, madness, care, hatred, compassion, joy, sorrow... all the emotions of the world turned into a flood and rushed towards him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Swallowing him completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ji Jue's face instantly flushed red, feeling that incomparably manic and chaotic spiritual quality eroding his soul; he didn't even have time to care, anyway he had his cousin, at worst he could just pull it out later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He issued an order again:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—[Stop]!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that instant, Ji Jue's vision went black again, but that decree, as if from a god, had already been transmitted down from his ability.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An invisible ripple rose from his body, like a giant bell being struck, and the mighty echo spread from his hands, covering the entire camp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Making everything come to an abrupt halt!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the fever, my throat started to hurt... red and swollen...\u003C\u002Fp>",1845,"2026-06-17T22:21:51.502Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","2cad4032631cd088646262618739344ca6775181cf1290beefd7a80c7b560e65","above-destiny-chapter-76","above-destiny-chapter-74",461,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fabove-the-heavenly-fate-cover.jpg"]