Chapter 1909: Ultimate Answer 2

Simulation continues.

With the third granting of power.

Amidst the shocked shouts of the crowd, the girl desperately charged into the city. Although her power had risen to the Second Level, she dared not kill a single soldier at this moment.

She jumped around the city in terror, only wanting to quickly find her sister.

Faced with the Awakened Ones relentlessly pursuing from behind, her mind went blank, feeling as if the sky were collapsing.

(Why does everyone want to kill me...!? I'm not a monster... I'm not!)

(It hurts so much... Is there anyone who can believe me, who can make them stop!?)

Desperate prayer.

The encirclement formed.

Surrounded like a wild beast, the girl tears streamed down her face, two tracks of tears flowing across her filthy, grimy face.

Like a small beast trapped in a cage with a fork, she tried to drop the knife in her hand to prove she posed no threat.

Yet no one was willing to discern what she actually was.

Soon, amidst the girl's desperate pleas again.

Power transmitted for the fourth time.

Simulation continues.

Violent explosions and roars echoed within the city.

Seeing the girl who had already obtained Third-Level power, she resembled a monster unable to control her own power, desperately fleeing in confusion within the city.

Each leap triggered an earthquake; although the soldiers pursuing her were no longer a threat to her, the girl, who had never before gained power, now had no courage to resist or strike back at all.

She clenched her teeth tightly, allowing skill after skill to smash her rear into a bloody pulp.

She was afraid, afraid that if she fought back and killed these soldiers, it would only summon more!

Find my sister! Take her and flee!

Or... wait for the Safe Zone Leader to appear; that kind of strong one might be able to tell whether she is human or monster!

Soon, following a sharp whistle that suddenly rang out from the inner city's air, a startled, furious, icy roar instantly exploded.

"Where did this monster come from!?"

"Kill it!"

"Boom!!!"

Faced with the leader's attack, the girl fell into despair again. At a glance she saw that this leader, revered as a god by the survivors, gave her no chance to explain at all.

This time, the girl could no longer endure.

Her whole body trembled; she could only spit out the salt block in her mouth and cry out loudly:

"I am human! I am human!!"

"Please look closely, I am human! I am not a monster!!"

However, pleading was useless.

Only see the leader's face drastically change, instantly realizing that this monster whose power surged wildly before them was actually a scavenger from outside the city.

A mutated human!? If this power grows stronger, wouldn't it threaten him!?

Without Hesitation.

A flash of extreme wary killing intent appeared in the man's eyes; he ignored the girl's pleas, even her words saying she only wanted to take her sister away.

"Attack! Kill her together! She deserves death; she must have mutated!"

"Boom!!!"

Simulation continues.

Fifth transmission of power.

The girl, frightened, clutched her sister and rushed out of the Safe Zone.

Sixth transmission of power.

The girl broke down in tears, clutching her sister, repeatedly shouting to the surrounding many Third-Level beings that she was not a monster.

Seventh transmission of power.

After rushing into a Safe Zone with Fourth-Stage, the girl, holding onto her last hope, charged toward the Fourth-Stage powerhouse she believed could absolutely discern whether she was human or a 'ghost'.

Eighth transmission of power.

The girl, like a walking corpse, clutched her sister's half corpse, just like a doll refusing to let go even in death, staggered across the land.

From her mouth came only the repeated insistence that she was not a monster, pleading for people to spare her.

And behind her, countless Awakened Ones were charging forward.

Simulation ends.

Failure.

Under Gao Tian, Lin An silently gazed at the already insane girl, at a loss for words.

In each power transmission, he would try to guide the girl.

But to no avail.

The girl never understood why people wanted to kill her, nor did she realize what had reduced her to this state.

Could her enemies be the lowly scavengers of humanity's depths?

Or the soldiers who had lost conscience and cared nothing for her suffering?

Or the high-ranking elite who only wanted to preserve their status?

Or the high-ranking humans who feared that lowly survivors could become powerful 'monsters'?

No, none of those.

But..

"Not even the first step can be realized."

Lin An looked back at the entire simulation.

Don't even say clearly who is oppressing oneself, who caused all this suffering.

The girl was like a refugee of an ancient uprising; from beginning to end she naively believed that the strong would be the masters of her household, while the bad ones were only those scavengers who shared her lowly status, and she didn't even have the courage to brandish a blade at those stronger than her.

She dared not resist, dared not change anything. Even after repeatedly gaining power, the prolonged suffering, the fear of the powerful, had long been deeply engraved in her bones.

"Just like in human history, every peasant uprising."

"People always overthrow the tyrant above them, then mistakenly think everything is over. Even the most strong-willed, the leaders, they fail to realize what their pain and hatred truly stem from."

"It is the social structure, the civil system, the feudal thought, the intangible, the invisible, seemingly eternal and unchanging, the heavenly principle that ought to exist."

"The dragon-slayer ultimately becomes an evil dragon, and even that evil dragon is nothing but a pitiful worm."

For the weak to brandish a blade at the strong already requires great courage.

What if one were to face something even stronger, more terrifying than gods, the ultimate?

Such courage, such thought, such idea—probably wouldn't even appear in people's minds.

In fact, Lin An had already discovered this when he first attempted to condense faith in the Houston War Zone.

Those lower-class survivors who have been oppressed layer upon layer, although they understand better than the girl whom they should hate and take revenge on.

But when their "enemy" dies, when revenge is fulfilled, their belief seems to dissipate, and they no longer know what they should do.

"Why..."

"How should I guide?"

Lin An asked himself in a low voice.

"Is it that the level of hatred is too low? Is it that they don't know how to use this power to resist?"

"Is it that people cannot consciously realize why the truth is...? Perhaps I need deeper guidance."

The second round of simulation begins.

Lin An wants to verify his own idea, or rather, Chu An's.

(In human history, every emergence of ideological thought is a civilizational transformation; each ideology is a beacon of salvation akin to an apocalyptic disaster. These ideologies can guide human civilization to endure to this day, standing immortal. Within them must lie the correct path to the very essence!)

"The same predicament.."

This time, Lin An decided to simulate the path that humanity has walked in history.

In that age resembling the apocalypse, when humanity was about to self-destruct, in the dark era of earthly war.

There was a group of people who similarly guided humanity, leading people to awaken consciousness.

They went forward one after another, holding high torches, with fervent passion and iron-like will, ultimately forging a red miracle in human history.

That might be...

The first batch of perfect beings.