Chapter 1969

Natasha, while drinking soup from her bowl, rolled her eyes and looked at Shiler, asking, "What do you mean? What does this have to do with you not changing your image?"

"My image is the anchor point I set for myself. This represents the different roles I play and cannot be easily changed," Shiler flipped the pancake and said. "Although it seems like there isn't one, some symptoms of autism still exist in me. You will find that many autistic patients don't like change because they treat the things they have already accepted as anchor points."

"When the anchor point exists, they will feel calm and relaxed. And if the thing used as an anchor point changes, it will make us feel nervous and uneasy."

"Just like Pride likes circles, so he values umbrellas very much, while I prefer squares, so you can always see me holding a medical record book. Our appearance is the same principle."

"Although it's not completely impossible to change, it might distract us. If we perform psychological treatment on others in this situation, it's not very professional."

Shiler's explanation was already very clear and concise. In summary, he was sick, so the others didn't delve into it further.

"Then what do you plan to do?" Lucifer sighed and said, "I can clear their memories in Battleworld, but you can't have me modify their memories every time you become famous, right? That would be chaotic."

Shiler clearly also knew this was a nearly unsolvable proposition.

No matter which Shiler it was, his style was infinitely close to that of a mastermind. Even those personalities who were more violent rarely solved problems with pure force. For Shiler, force was always the option with the lowest priority.

But this would lead to a problem: the big plans he formulated would inevitably involve a wide range of people. Compared to the force-based players, the speed of becoming famous would definitely be faster.

After all, even in a group fight, at most a dozen people participate in a huge war, and only a few dozen people in the local area can notice you.

But which of Shiler's plans didn't involve a wide range of people? Not to mention Greed, who was famous for his twists and turns, even Pride, who didn't like to make big moves, often had one measure involving several forces and factions.

Still the same old saying: superheroes aren't stupid. Once or twice is fine, but after many times, they will always realize someone is planning behind their backs, and there will always be someone who can summarize the method of staying away from Shiler's plans.

The truth about strategy in this world never escapes one rule: fools defeat masters. The principle can be roughly understood as: standing still in a rainless rainstorm, the probability of being hit by raindrops is the lowest. No matter how you predict, as long as I don't move, I won't be hit easily.

Time in the universe is flowing, and people in the universe are constantly growing. They will gradually learn from their mistakes. It's only a matter of time before Shiler's famous name spreads to all universes.

Since Shiler had thought about this point long ago, he should have had a response method long ago. So the people at the dining table looked at Shiler with some curiosity, very much wanting to know what other methods he had to scam people when all the fat sheep were vigilant.

And Shiler gave the answer—he wasn't scamming anymore; he was changing to open robbery.

"Starting tomorrow, the Battleworld recharge system will be opened with a limit of five games. Those who have participated in five games must either choose to buy a point card to stay or get out quickly. Those who don't pay will be kicked out immediately!"

Shiler waved his hand and said quite ruthlessly, "If you don't provide me with emotional value, you still want to enjoy the multiverse communication platform for free? I'm not doing charity!"

"In other words, I've already lost emotions, so do you want me to lose wealth too? Doesn't building a server cost money? Doesn't designing a game take time? Doesn't operation cost money? If you don't play, there are plenty of people who will. Love to play, play; don't love to play, get out!"

Stark slapped his forehead and said, "Didn't you curse the universe administrator for being a profiteer before?"

"Question the profiteer, understand the profiteer, become the profiteer, transcend the profiteer!" Shiler said quite righteously, "What era is it, and you're still being a traditional profiteer? The universe is yours, but it's ultimately the Creator's. Working is just working for others, and entertainment after work is living for yourself. What's wrong with spending some money?"

"Wait," Lucifer reacted. He looked at Shiler and said, "You couldn't have planned this long ago, right? Let them play for free for a period of time first, wait until they are all familiar with each other, discover that the other party has what they want, and that communicating with them can bring benefits to themselves or their universes, and then suddenly charge fees, forcing them to ride a tiger and have no choice but to play?"

Shiler looked at him sinisterly and said, "Is it only them?"

Lucifer and Owen were both stunned.

They only realized now that they had also fallen into the pit.

At that time, the Beyonder said he wanted to watch fun, and Shiler advised him: what fun is there in playing with the universe like a billiard ball? It's gone after one touch, and it's not sustainable. You might as well set up a platform, organize various competitions, and let contestants from various universes come to participate. Wouldn't you be able to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight?

Facts proved that as long as they are intelligent creatures, they have no small interest in funny things. The Beyonder thought it made sense. Universe collisions at most allow you to watch fireworks for a moment, but organizing a competition allows you to watch fun for a long time. One meal full, every meal full—he would still choose this.

But at this time, Shiler proposed again: you are basically omnipotent in this universe, so picking superheroes from here to participate in the competition is meaningless. After all, you can see through the timeline, so you might as well go to other Great Worlds to pull in some strange heroes, which would be fresher.

The Beyonder felt that was of course possible, but he really didn't know much about the situation outside the Great World. Shiler immediately proposed that he could help him contact them.

And the person Shiler contacted on the DC side was, of course, the ultimate fun-seeker, Lucifer.

Lucifer returned to Heaven and remembered why he ran out in the first place. Heaven was really, really, really, really, really boring.

For humans, a place where you can live forever without worrying about food or clothing, and live freely and carefree, can naturally be called Heaven. But angels are born with these things, so Heaven is just a company to them.

Angels basically have no lives of their own. Their daily routine is to handle various cosmic daily affairs, answer prayers, and contact God. Archangels are responsible for guarding the Holy City and the Garden of Eden, but in fact, there is nothing to guard here at all.

Lucifer staying in Heaven was basically equivalent to living in the company 24 hours a day, and he grew up in the company. Running to the human world was just to play. He believed Shiler's nonsense, went back to show off, and immediately fell into the exhaustion and boredom of a corporate slave again.

Hearing that Shiler had found another big fun, Lucifer almost couldn't wait to agree. Anyway, God didn't have time to manage him now, and borrowing some superhero souls to use wouldn't matter.

Both sides hit it off under Shiler's matchmaking, joined forces to find a place between the two Great Worlds, and built a fragment universe.

Because it was just used to watch crickets fight, it didn't need to be very stable or complex. It was enough to be usable. Still the same old saying: don't think that gods and angels aren't makeshift troupes. Everyone is actually about the same, mainly focusing on making do.

After the basic structure was built, it was time to select people. These parts were basically discussed by Lucifer and Owen. Saying it was a discussion was probably just random selection. And five or six hundred people sounded like a lot, but in the vast universe sea, it didn't count for much, completely failing to reach the level of being noticed by the two universe administrators.

In fact, they had planned to get more people in before, but Shiler stopped them. Now they finally understood that Shiler doing this wasn't just to let the participants taste the sweetness and then show his true colors; it was the same for them.

These few days did indeed give Lucifer and the Beyonder a lot of fun. Mainly, intelligent life with humanity is full of strange things, and infinite combinations have infinite changes. Watching all kinds of combinations intrigue, fight, and battle every day is really fun.

Excluding the fact that Lucifer was extremely bored, Owen also tasted the sweetness and realized the fun of watching crickets fight for the first time. If you asked him to stop now, he definitely wouldn't do it.

Things developed to this point, and Shiler actually couldn't provide much help, but Owen and Lucifer both knew very well that if you didn't play according to Shiler's rules, Shiler would make it so you never had anything to play with.

So they didn't oppose Shiler's idea of charging fees, but Lucifer asked: "Are you sure anyone will be willing to pay to play? I feel they are all in a hurry to go back."

Owen also nodded, indicating his feeling was similar to Lucifer's. He had heard many people in the camp studying who the mastermind was and how to break through the space stillness here to return to their own universe.

"There might not be anyone willing at the beginning of the game, but that might not be the case now," Shiler revealed a confident smile and said, "This is why I let you design the game to be simple."

Everyone at the table was stunned. Matt raised an eyebrow and said, "This doesn't fit your style, Doctor. Isn't it better the more complex and difficult it is?"

"Yes, just from the performance of the contestants, the more difficult the game is, the more different states they can present. But a simple game also has another advantage, which is that it will greatly enhance the communication between contestants."

Everyone basically understood what Shiler meant. Even if you just imagine it, it's not hard to think of that kind of scene.

If the game is very difficult, the contestants will face great psychological pressure. Although elimination won't really kill them, the terrifying death scenes will still stimulate the contestants, making them focus more on the game content itself in fear.

But if the game difficulty is relatively moderate, and the game type isn't that kind of horror killing game or zero-sum game that must eliminate a certain number of people, but can be chosen by themselves, each picking a dungeon that suits their style, then the pressure on the contestants will be much smaller, and their mindset will be easier to calm down.

In this case, people's attention will shift to communication with other contestants. After all, they are all people from different universes, so they will definitely have curiosity. You ask me about the situation in my universe, and I ask you about the annoying things in your life.

This kind of communication and exchange will make contestants from various universes realize how different other people's worlds are from their own, and more often, they will realize that they have many things they can learn from each other.

Some are scientific technologies, some are development routes, and some are organizational structures. Even those who don't pay much attention to their own civilization's development will want to know what another possibility another universe might produce.

Even a lunatic like Joker is quite interested in other types of Batmen from other universes, let alone others who prioritize profit or righteousness.

Five games is a just-right number. After all, the people in Shiler's team have only participated in three or four games now, which means there is only one game left before the point card expires.