Chapter 283: Little Garden Hub: Sigh

"What are you thinking about?"

Shiroyasha watched the Halloween Queen with vigilance.

They had been old rivals for so many years that the Halloween Queen knew exactly what kind of shit this person was pulling the moment she stuck her butt out.

She saw through it at a glance: Wansheng was thinking about how to poach talent from under her nose.

Or rather, ever since she saw Su Nian, this bitch Wansheng had never once abandoned the idea of poaching him.

Shiroyasha looked at the Halloween Queen with black lines on her face and let out a scoff.

"Thinking of poaching? I'm telling you, that's impossible!"

"Once the favor is repaid, let's see if Su Nian still pays you any mind."

Hearing this, the Halloween Queen rested her cheek on her hand and looked at Su Nian with a smile.

"That may be, but doesn't a favor need to go both ways to strengthen a relationship?"

At this moment, the Halloween Queen clapped her hands, summoned Scathach, had a new table of tea and snacks set up, and brought over a seat, gesturing for Su Nian to sit down.

"Besides, if I'm not mistaken, you must have encountered big trouble and need my help, right?"

"Is it about the Spirit Status of the Last King?"

The Halloween Queen said with interest; for the Halloween Queen, who could laugh at the common people and stand aloof from the world, this was true.

The chaos caused by the Last King could never affect her; in fact, many old things would offer quite tempting conditions just to keep her from entering the fray.

Chaos might be a disaster for others, but for the strong, this was the time to pick up money for free.

And it just so happened that the Halloween Queen was someone qualified to earn money from a chaotic world.

"Yes and no."

Su Nian paused and said.

"Seeing the gods slaughter each other for the Spirit Status of the Last King is, of course, in our interest, and we are also happy to see such a scene so we can fish in troubled waters."

"But this is too destructive to Little Garden."

"At the very least, Baiye and I do not want the Little Garden that has finally stabilized to return to the chaotic world of the Dawn Period."

To put it nicely, the Dawn Period was a place where gold was everywhere and opportunities were abound.

To put it bluntly, it was a time of precarious existence, where Demon Kings were everywhere on the land plundering, and God Groups were slaughtering each other, while Dragon Species, gods, and Star Spirits fought one another on the earth.

To give an example, it could probably be seen as the situation six thousand years ago in No Game No Life.

It wasn't until the Star God War, caused by the death of Gaia, broke out, the arrival of the Vampire, and the establishment of the Layer Master system that Little Garden barely stepped into peace and established the current Gift Game system.

Later, due to the extinction of the Vampire, Little Garden almost fell into chaos again, but because Leticia voluntarily bore all the sins, the Layer Master system was preserved.

It barely maintained order, although it was not as stable and peaceful as when the Little Garden Knights were in office.

After that came the rise of Dystopia, and only after the Heavenly Army was formed did Little Garden truly enter the current peaceful era of Xiangting Dushi.

Although there were slight disturbances by Demon Kings, all disputes could now be resolved through Gift Games.

Of course, this was also partly because Human History could not continue to advance, and the gods could not obtain Merit, so they gradually settled down.

"Is that so? Still for the sake of Baiye, huh~"

The Halloween Queen propped her head up with one hand and looked at Su Nian with a few traces of doting in her eyes.

Hearing this, Shiroyasha raised her eyebrows at the Halloween Queen with some smugness.

See, this is my little brother, Shiroyasha; he considers things for me so much—you definitely don't have that.

The Halloween Queen smiled faintly, not caring much about Shiroyasha's provocation.

"But Baiye, when did you become so soft-hearted?"

The Halloween Queen asked back.

"When did you turn over a new leaf?"

Back when the White Night King was hammering all the Star Spirits of Little Garden, she never cared about casualties like this.

And during the First Sun Sovereignty War, Shiroyasha was the one who snatched the most Sun Authority, and she was also the one who caused the greatest casualties.

The title of the Oldest Demon King wasn't just slapped on casually.

Shiroyasha was stunned by this question from Wansheng; hadn't she turned over a new leaf?

It seemed she had, right?

At least now, apart from liking to take advantage of pure, beautiful girls, she could be called a moral model among the Gods and Buddhas at all other times.

Wait, no! Shiroyasha quickly reacted.

Wasn't this a mission assigned to her by her boss?

Damn, she got led around by this Wansheng character again.

"That's not it; we just don't want our Little Garden to be beaten into a mess."

Su Nian looked at Shiroyasha with some helplessness and said calmly.

How does it feel like Shiroyasha is so thoroughly controlled by the Halloween Queen? It's a real wonder she can still hold fourteen Sun Authorities now.

It was only Shiroyasha's good luck that she hadn't been deceived by the Halloween Queen.

"Moreover, Your Majesty the Queen, don't you think there is one thing: isn't the number of Gods and Buddhas in Little Garden a bit too high right now?"

Su Nian smiled as he looked at the Halloween Queen.

The Halloween Queen just tilted her head slightly, her ruby eyes reflecting Su Nian's handsome face.

An invisible pressure rushed toward him.

Even without using any power or any Authority, just that gaze alone brought a daunting pressure upon Su Nian.

She just looked at Su Nian like that and said in a very playful tone.

"Don't try to hide it from me; I don't think that is the real reason, is it?"

It seems her Knight is a bit presumptuous, daring to rely on her doting to interfere in the conversation between her and Baiye? And even daring to hide things from her?

Hearing this, Su Nian sighed and looked at the Halloween Queen with some helplessness.

"Alright, as expected, I couldn't hide it from you, Your Majesty."

"Then I will speak the truth: the Spirit Status of the Last King is nothing but a blank check, and even the Mythology of that world is a Fiction."

After Su Nian finished speaking, Shiroyasha was stunned.

"What? The Mythology of that world, which only had a few hundred spirits acting out the entire Human History, is a Fiction?"

"Then where did your Arthur and that Trinity Athena's Spirit Status come from?"

"No, how can Little Garden Central be so stupid? It even judged a fictional Mythology as real, and it even triggered such a serious Mythology shift?"

Shiroyasha said with a shocked expression; she had gained a further understanding of the stupidity of Little Garden Central.

Upon hearing this, the Halloween Queen's eyes curved, as if she had seen something indescribably amusing.

Even Su Nian almost couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Can't laugh, absolutely cannot laugh at this moment!

【Sigh...】

For some reason, a silent sigh drifted past Su Nian's eyes; even Little Garden Central didn't know what to say.

For a moment, Su Nian found it even harder to contain his laughter.

Su Nian and the Halloween Queen exchanged a glance, both understanding each other's thoughts, and the laughter in their hearts became even harder to hide.

It was just that Shiroyasha seemed to have sensed something, and she looked at Su Nian and Wansheng with suspicion.

"Are you two hiding something from me? You definitely are, right?"

"No, Boss, don't you trust me yet?"

Su Nian puffed out his chest and said righteously.

He hoped that when Shiroyasha later reclaimed the Spirit Status of the Original Star and truly took charge of Little Garden Central, she wouldn't want to kill his current self.

How did it happen that the Little Garden Central he had been calling a moron was actually himself?

The Halloween Queen did not speak, but quietly recorded this scene to serve as Shiroyasha's dark history.

However, from her eyes, one could still see that the Queen's mood was clearly quite pleasant.

"Wait, you brat, explain to me, how come you didn't tell me when you pulled off such a big stunt?"

Shiroyasha looked at Su Nian with a bewildered expression and asked in confusion.

"But, Boss, isn't this because you didn't want to listen? You said to go ahead and do whatever I wanted, no need to report, as long as I let you step in after causing trouble."

"It seems... there is such a thing?"

Shiroyasha scratched her head in embarrassment; after all, for Su Nian to tell her, he would at least need to be inside the Heavenly Rock Cave to avoid the risk of leakage.

She understood the principle that one more person knowing meant one more risk, so she had let Su Nian do his own thing.

"But since you want to know, I'll just say it: this is a byproduct produced when Canary attempted to break through to Four-Digit Exceptional and condensed her Authority—a variant of the Poet Spirit Status: Fictional Historian."

As soon as Su Nian finished speaking, Shiroyasha widened her eyes and looked at Su Nian as if she were doubting reality.

It was as if she were questioning: wasn't your relationship with Canary just made up? When did it become real?

Even the Halloween Queen glanced over slightly.

However, Su Nian acted as if nothing had happened and continued to speak on his own.

Everyone just needed to know these things tacitly; it was better to keep the story consistent that Canary did it.

"So, Your Majesty, are you interested in pranking the gods together?"

Su Nian revealed a very bright smile as he looked at the Halloween Queen.

However, there was one thing he still hadn't made clear: the Spirit Status of the Last King could be real, and it could also be fake.

After all, this thing depended on the judgment of Little Garden Central, and for Little Garden Central, the Fictional Historian was also a new thing.

Therefore, the right of final interpretation had always been in Su Nian's hands.

If Su Nian hoped that the 【Last King】 and this Mythology shift were real, then they were real.

If he hoped they were fake, then everything was fake.

Both real and fake—this was the true essence of Fiction.

"Interesting."

The Halloween Queen revealed a bright smile, took a light sip of tea, and nodded slightly at Su Nian.

"Naturally, I also want to see those old things jumping around, only to discover in the end that they've been played."

Of course, she was even more curious about what kind of interesting expression her cute student would make when she returned to Little Garden and suddenly discovered she had been saddled with such a burden.

Hopefully, Canary wouldn't be scared to death.

(End of chapter)