Chapter 300

Am I always very unlucky?

Hearing the lazy young man's question, Li Ang, with a surprised face, couldn't help but straighten his expression and hurriedly asked:

"Yes! My luck has never been very good. No matter how well I plan, every time I execute a mission, something goes wrong, and I always encounter some inexplicable dangers. Even watching a play, I can run into an anomaly suddenly losing control... Senior, do you have any clues?"

"Clues... rather than clues, it's more like experience..."

Throwing the sour apple in his hand, hitting the picture frame on the wall on one side of the stairs, the lazy young man said with a heartbroken face:

"If I'm not mistaken, our situations should be about the same. We have both offended the World Will because of certain things and are disliked by this world."

"Disliked by the world? What does that mean?"

"To put it simply, it's inexplicable bad luck and lack of smoothness."

Looking at the picture frame whose hanging nail was slowly dislocating and falling toward the stairs, the lazy young man pulled Li Ang forward a step and sighed:

"I don't know your situation, but my situation is that I leaked too much of the future, erased some things that should have happened, and caused many changes in the direction of the world, so I was abandoned by the World Will.

For example... you know the Aquarius Director, right? Did the Director tell you that my core anomaly, that pair of dice that can calculate probability, was crafted by him for me?"

"She did say a little..."

"If the Director told you about this, then it's more than 'a little', she definitely said a lot."

The lazy young man said helplessly:

"She also told you to be wary of me and not to trust me completely, right?"

"Uh..."

"It's okay, the Director is right."

Amidst the harsh sound of the heavy solid wood picture frame crashing down and breaking the stair railing, the lazy young man explained to the somewhat embarrassed Li Ang:

"The Aquarius Director's target was exposed by you. Now the management members of various branches already know that he is planning to mix into the Watchtower Palace. However, I was actually the first to know about this target of his. It can even be said that I conspired with him. The Director is right to tell you to be careful of me."

"Ah?"

"Sigh, it's mainly because I'm unlucky myself..."

After sighing gloomily, the lazy young man muttered with difficulty:

"When the anomaly was created, the Aquarius Director asked about my ability, and I told him. Then he became interested and said he wanted to ask me to help him with a small favor.

The Aquarius Director's secret art of anomalous creation is quite exquisite. I don't know how many people in the Cleanup Bureau have used the anomalies he created. His connections are comparable to those of Lord Taurus. When such a big shot asks you to lend a hand with kind words, would you help if it were you?"

"..."

If it were me... facing the request of a Director who has high prestige and status and can also create anomalies, I'm afraid I would probably agree...

"Right?"

Seeing the look of agreement in Li Ang's eyes, the lazy young man couldn't help but complain:

"I'm really too unlucky. Who knew that a Director could still harbor evil intentions? So I agreed without thinking at the time. It wasn't until he placed a verbal restriction on me forbidding me from leaking secrets that I realized the taste didn't seem right, but it was already too late by then."

Avoiding the railing that fell to the side after being smashed, and pushing Li Ang's back by the way, bringing him down before the suspended stone stairs collapsed, Tang Mu said with a dark face:

"The Aquarius Director has an ritual-type anomaly that can temporarily raise the Li Ang value. He forcibly poured a bunch of True God flesh and blood into me, temporarily changed my race, forced me to drink his blood, cut open my arm to stuff his rotten meat, and planted his fallen teeth in the center of my brow..."

After pointing to the strange scar on his brow, the lazy young man gritted his teeth and said:

"After tossing me around fiercely, he forcibly raised my Li Ang value to nearly 70 points, and then forced me to use the dice

to help him calculate how he could replace the next Palace Ascender and become the new Palace Ascender to ascend to the Watchtower Palace.

And I helped him out of desperation, raising his original 12% probability of taking the palace to 66%, but because of this, I was disliked by the world. Now I have bad luck at every turn... Hey! Is anyone up there? The stairs suddenly collapsed, we can't go back!"

Not knowing that the person asking below was the culprit who destroyed the nearly fifty-meter-long stairs, after hearing Senior Tang Mu's question, the people who rushed over after hearing the commotion answered hurriedly:

"We are trying to find a way... How are you doing now? If you are uncomfortable, please continue downward. Our Masaini family's head is also below. He can help you come up. Also, this is the token needed to continue downward, catch it!"

Accompanied by the somewhat blurry shouting from above, a bright silver cat-claw badge was thrown down. After bouncing twice among the ruins of the stairs, it fell precisely into the lazy young man's open palm.

"Alright, my badge is also in hand, let's talk as we go."

After pinning the badge thrown back by the sour apple to his collar, the lazy young man led Li Ang downward while explaining:

"This world likes humans. Compared to demons that will turn the entire earth into lava, evil gods preparing to let the sun never rise, Children of the Moon wanting to hollow out the earth's core like hollowing out the moon, or prehistoric people hoping to freeze everything and return to the Ice Age, we humans are the gentlest creatures to her, and we even consciously maintain her stability.

Therefore, any existence that can pose a danger to humans and the world, or has the potential to destroy this stability, will be subjected to invisible exclusion from the World Will. And the World Will cannot directly come down to kill us, so it can only use some crooked means to make us unstable elements have endless bad luck, wanting to kill us or drive us out."

"..."

No... it can be like this?

"Don't worry, this abandonment from the world is not entirely a bad thing."

Looking at Li Ang, whose expression was somewhat stunned, the lazy young man didn't know where he fished out another apple and handed it over, saying with a complex expression:

"The Wheel of Fate is equal for everyone. It is impossible to always stay at a low level. So, as long as we unlucky people who are disliked by the world can withstand the bad luck gifted by the World Will, we will usher in a wild rise in fate.

However, after the wild rise, there is an even more fierce fall.

Compared to others whose fate only has small fluctuations, the fate of people like you and me is like a wave line with increasingly strong fluctuations. The gains obtained and the crises encountered will constantly increase until we become gods surpassing everything on some towering wave peak, or are sent to the world of the dead by sudden bad luck in some fatal wave trough."

Is it either "become a god" or "become a ghost"?

Feeling Senior Tang Mu

doesn't seem to be lying to himself, Li Ang pondered for a while and couldn't help but ask:

"Then what about you, Senior? What is your situation now?"

"I can't become a god, but I can't die either... under normal circumstances, I can't die."

After pointing to the apple in Li Ang's hand, the lazy young man suggested seriously:

"If you are willing to believe me, carry more apples with you. When you find that your luck has become worse, eat one, and then throw away the apple core. This thing can save your life at critical moments."