[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-dungeon-has-zero-tolerance-i-inherited-all-t":3,"chapter-the-dungeon-has-zero-tolerance-i-inherited-all-t-the-dungeon-has-zero-tolerance-i-inherited-all-t-chapter-382":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Dungeon Has Zero Tolerance: I Inherited All the Dead Players' Last Wills",{"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},2293762,4486,"Chapter 382: Difference Engine","the-dungeon-has-zero-tolerance-i-inherited-all-t-chapter-382",382,"\u003Cp>\"How is that possible?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Phantom felt the steam rules suddenly appearing all around, his face full of disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were actually three Children of the Plane in the Steam Phantom plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surrounded by suffocating thick fog, the Phantom could feel the world's will suppressing him; that immense pressure made it impossible for him to use any of the transcendent powers within his body, including his Source power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even his physical attributes were weakened to a certain extent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Olivia's voice came from behind the Phantom, \"The words 'impossible' should not come from the mouth of a transcendent.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Following the sound, the Phantom turned and slashed into the fog, but the blade sank into the mist without dispersing it, nor did he receive any feedback of striking a solid object.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he withdrew his saber, faint rust had appeared on the blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not only himself, but even the items he used began to be rejected by the plane because they did not conform to the plane's rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steam rules Olivia mastered were even a notch stronger than Xavier's, aside from the lack of condensed divinity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This made the Phantom even more unable to comprehend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Generally speaking, only one Child of the Plane would grow to maturity in a single plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the sign of a Child of the Plane's maturity is the ability to use their own Source power to influence the entire plane's rules, thereby borrowing the power of the entire plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To borrow the rules of the entire plane, the plane's rules and the Source power must be identical, resonating with each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, only when the plane's rules are completely influenced by a certain rule will a Child of the Plane corresponding to that rule be born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And once a mature Child of the Plane appears, the remaining immature ones will be directly eliminated and unable to mature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the path has already been sealed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Olivia's situation was different; the Source power she used corresponded to the same plane rules as Xavier's, which allowed two mature Children of the Plane to exist simultaneously in the Steam Phantom plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And with Xavier's fall, the fortune of the Child of the Plane gathered entirely on Olivia, allowing her to further her influence over the rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Phantom panicked; he had to find a way to leave this place.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He followed his memory, heading in the direction of leaving St. George's Cathedral, while asking:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty Olivia, when did you become a Child of the Plane?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Olivia's voice came from all directions, making it impossible for the Phantom to distinguish her true location.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Five years ago, when I confirmed the feasibility of the transcendent steam engine.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Phantom estimated the distance in his mind and quickened his pace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then why did you allow the Steam Council to exist?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Olivia said in a flat tone:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Because the time was not right. Some things cannot be done by me; if discovered, Zhu Li would be unhappy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Phantom asked in confusion: \"Archbishop Zhu Li?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He did not understand what Zhu Li had to do with this; in his view, Zhu Li was merely Olivia's subordinate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it didn't matter, because he had already reached the secret passage leading to the upper level; as long as he left the underground space and returned to St. George's Cathedral, he would no longer be suppressed by the plane's rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, relying on his Source power of speed and slowness, even if he couldn't win, it wouldn't be difficult to escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He walked into the secret passage and moved quickly, but he hadn't taken two steps before he discovered something abnormal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thick fog around him had not dissipated, and the touch of the stone steps under his feet was not the same as in his memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Olivia's voice sounded again, and she said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, it is Zhu Li. Even waiting until I brought you to the deepest part of the underground to act was because I was worried that being too close to the surface would disturb her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Olivia spoke, the surrounding fog thinned, and the Phantom realized that he had not entered a secret passage, but a special space built of metal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steam rules not only suppressed his physical attributes but also misled his intuition.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A great sense of foreboding appeared in the Phantom's heart; he took out his instance departure item, wanting to end the instance, only to find that in this special metal space, the item could not be activated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next moment, he felt the temperature in the space rise, and the sound of steam faintly emerged all around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately after, the Phantom heard the last sentence of his life, \"What a pity, I actually thought quite highly of you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On White House Street, Wu Chang's main body and True Self returned to the Secret Security Force with Xavier's corpse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By the time he returned to White House Street, the Steam Phantom plane had already returned to the right track; the steam rules no longer restricted the abilities of transcendents, and the smog that had shrouded Grimland for years dissipated along with the steam rules.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking up at the starry sky, Wu Chang felt an indescribable freshness; he hadn't felt this relaxed even when he first entered the instance plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The members of the Secret Magic Knights were cleaning up the tragic state of White House Street under Lei Wendun's command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If it had only been the Executioners who acted, they could have found a way to expedite repairs so the public wouldn't notice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Xavier's rampage, nearly half the buildings on White House Street were severely damaged, and it could no longer be hidden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Wendun was pulling Randy and the high-ranking officials of the Police Department aside, contemplating how to give an explanation to the public tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten minutes later, Leng Shan and Jianxing returned from the Gray Church slums, and Wu Chang's True Self took the other players to the Steam Council's stronghold at the Collingwood processing plant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the underground stronghold, they found the Steam Council's core research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Franken-class transcendent machine tool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This machine tool could process inanimate objects possessing transcendent power together with living organisms, allowing the life form to gain some of the fusion's transcendent power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was precisely by being modified by this machine tool that the Steam Council members transformed from ordinary people into half-human, half-mechanical transcendents.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The acquisition of the transcendent machine tool did not bring about any anomalies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A \"Obtained the Pearl on the Crown of Industry\" prompt popped up before everyone, and the clear sky outside did not become shrouded in smog again because of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that with Xavier's death and the destruction of the Steam Council, all dangers had been resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next, the players only needed to wait for thirty days to witness the World Industrial Expo and complete Main Quest 1 to leave the instance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the True Self took the players to the Steam Council stronghold, Wu Chang's main body acted alone, arriving at Xavier's secret mechanical workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This place stored all of Xavier's research manuscripts; as a Child of the Plane born with mechanical talent, Xavier's research on transcendent steam engines far surpassed that of the Stilan officials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was recorded here was the essence of the Steam Phantom plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wu Chang divided the knowledge within into two parts: he would study the occult knowledge carefully later to refine his Source power, and he threw all the purely mechanical knowledge to He Yun for her to use as reference.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While sorting through the manuscripts, he saw dozens of design sketches pasted on the wall of Xavier's office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sketches depicted a huge, complex transcendent steam engine; according to the scale marked on the drawings, its size was close to a palace, and it was not only huge but exceptionally complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every individually separated area was densely filled with annotations, and the difficulty of building each area was no less than that of a complete transcendent steam engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Xavier's resentment, these sketches had appeared more than once; what was recorded in the sketches was the pinnacle of the transcendent steam engine as envisioned by him and Prime Minister Luo En.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A universal machine that connected to the world's rules and, with sufficient energy, could calculate the perfect solution to any problem through massive computation—the Difference Engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the original vision of Xavier and Prime Minister Luo En, as long as the Difference Engine was built, they could use it to find the most perfect solution to all problems, and all difficulties would be easily resolved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just that the Difference Engine was too complex; they had only just conceived the most basic sketches and hadn't had time to implement them when Prime Minister Luo En was suddenly assassinated, and the plan came to an abrupt end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Helpless, Xavier thought of connecting to the world's rules, condensing divinity, and attempting to transform himself into the ultimate transcendent steam engine to replace the Difference Engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, in the scriptures of the Holy Church, God is an omniscient and omnipotent existence; as long as he obtained the power of omniscience, combined with the steam rules, he might not be unable to replace the Difference Engine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if he couldn't replace the Difference Engine, manufacturing the Difference Engine in the form of a mechanical god would be much faster than as a mortal. Wu Chang looked at the sketches on the wall; each sketch recorded a massive amount of information, and just looking at them for a few moments made his head spin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If nothing went wrong, the pinnacle of the transcendent steam engine that Xavier wanted to witness in his bloody last words was the Difference Engine in the sketches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was confused just looking at the sketches of the Difference Engine; asking him to build it was a bit too difficult for him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let alone the Steam Phantom plane, even if He Yun came, it would take her ten days or half a month to study and understand it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out the Omniscient Crystal and asked it whether the Difference Engine was just a delusion of Xavier and Luo En, or if it had the possibility of being realized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The good news was that the Omniscient Crystal acknowledged the feasibility of the sketches, stating that the Difference Engine in the sketches could be manufactured even in the Steam Phantom plane, provided enough time and cost were paid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bad news was that this thing was of no use and might even have side effects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the Omniscient Crystal bearing the title of omniscience, although it could not achieve true omniscience, as long as it was given a tiny bit of information, it could infer the clues Wu Chang wanted based on that information.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Faced with the Difference Engine, which claimed to be able to find the most perfect solution to all problems and possessed the power of omniscience, the Omniscient Crystal was very disdainful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>According to the Omniscient Crystal, as long as the Difference Engine was built, it could possess near-infinite computing power; this was not false, but the problem was that the Difference Engine found answers to problems by connecting to the plane's rules, and its own intelligence level was extremely low, or one could even say it had no intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Steam Phantom plane was still in the steam engine era; being able to combine steam engines with transcendence was already the limit of the plane. Trying to use steam engines to churn out chips and build advanced artificial intelligence was asking too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The solutions provided by the plane's rules were very rigid and inflexible; although it wouldn't go so far as to cut off a hand for a hand ache or a head for a headache, the level of simplicity and brutality was similar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What's more, the rules of the Steam Phantom plane were not the natural rules of the plane, but rules that had been \"polluted\" and assimilated by the Child of the Plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The solutions obtained in this situation would be severely influenced by the subjective views of the Child of the Plane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, if the Child of the Plane were an idealistic philanthropist determined to build a utopia, the solutions obtained would be very humane.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if the Child of the Plane were a capitalist, or like Xavier, whose mind had been severely eroded by the flesh-and-blood transcendent steam engine, the solutions obtained would be very hellish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It can only be said that it was fortunate Xavier's plan did not succeed; if he had really been allowed to build the Difference Engine and handle the problems he raised according to the solutions given by the Difference Engine, the natives of the Steam Phantom instance would have suffered greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The turning point that deeply touched Xavier and led him to find the mission of the Child of the Plane was a textile worker who died of overwork in front of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The textile worker who died suddenly in front of him caused him to raise the soul-searching question of why productivity had increased dozens of times, yet workers had to work longer hours to achieve the same standard of living as before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he had taken this question to the Difference Engine to solve, Wu Chang could already imagine that before the problem was solved, Stilan was just in deep water and scorching fire, but after the problem was solved, it would likely be a scene of devastation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He packed all the information in the mechanical workshop into his portable space and then returned to White House Street to discuss how to handle last night's events.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next morning, when the residents of Grimland woke up and saw White House Street looking like ruins, they immediately fell into a panic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What happened? Was there a fight among the high-level officials of the Stilan Council, or had someone launched a military coup?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some who got up earlier saw the Conservative Party's \"sunny doll\" still hanging in the Garden Square, and the conspiracy theories they imagined were even more numerous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, Wu Chang and the others were prepared; they changed the *Hills Newspaper* overnight and described the attack that happened last night on the front page.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An existence like the Steam Council, of course, could not be exposed to the public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firstly, it involved too much, and secondly, the Steam Council had no name recognition, and people wouldn't believe it anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After everyone's discussion, they chose to push all the blame for last night's attack onto the Church of Tranquility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They claimed it was an attack from the Church of Tranquility, and to retaliate for Stilan's long-term suppression of the Church of Tranquility, the believers of the Church of Tranquility had launched an assassination attempt on Acting Prime Minister Glad and Justice Gascot last night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Church of Tranquility succeeded, immediately after the incident, the Secret Security Force, in conjunction with the Police Department, fought heroically and captured all the Church of Tranquility believers involved in the assassination, and the specific situation was currently under interrogation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This report seemed highly absurd, but the majority of the public in Gerimlan believed it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the founding of the nation, Stilan had been in constant conflict with the Church of Tranquility; it was a well-known villain, possessing extremely high notoriety among the common people of Stilan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many difficult, unsolved headless murder cases could be excused by claiming they were blood sacrifice rituals set up by believers of the Church of Tranquility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were quite a few\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the general perception of the public, the Church of Tranquility was rotten to the core; they were capable of committing any evil, and had the ability to carry out any evil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small portion of the public remained skeptical, but because they lacked evidence, they could only voice some harmless conspiracy theories.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was easy to find a scapegoat, but calming the subsequent fallout would take a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The first problem to address was the questioning from the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this attack, the leaders of both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party met with untimely deaths; it was easier to explain Acting Prime Minister Glad, as he was killed by the Executioner who broke into the police station in front of many people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were enough eyewitnesses to prove that Glad's death was an accident.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Conservative Party side was a bit harder to explain; the Chief Justice and his party were neatly hung from street lamps. This method of killing carried too strong a sense of retaliation, making it difficult to reconcile with the style of the attack on White House Street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But regarding the Conservative Party's questioning, no one cared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The rise of the Liberal Party had already marginalized the Conservative Party; the repeal of the Corn Laws and the failure to secure industrial regulatory power, combined with the current death of the Chief Justice, had turned the Conservative Party into a toothless tiger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wouldn't be long before the Conservative Party was completely hollowed out and became a mascot in Stilan's political arena.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No one would care about the dissatisfaction of a mascot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Power is conserved; when some lose it, others gain it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the attack on White House Street, two people gradually stepped onto the stage, one of whom was Randy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The successive exits of the popular candidates for Prime Minister made Randy a hot favorite for the next Prime Minister. Coupled with Randy's recent activity, people quickly took notice of this low-profile Minister of the Interior.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially after confirming that Randy had no obvious party labels, believing he would not favor one side and was more like a role that maintained balance, all parties expressed support for his taking office.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now everyone was trapped in a state of weakness and needed time to adjust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Randy received the approval of politicians, then the other person, Queen Olivia, received the approval of the public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To call it approval would be better described as the final option.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Glad was assassinated, Olivia no longer worried about the Liberal Party and let Connor reveal the inside story of the original Pine Coal Mine explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Combined with the previous cases, the Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, and the Industrialists Association all blew up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After looking around, the workers and the bottom-tier public discovered that neither politicians nor factory owners were worth trusting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They looked around and finally set their sights on Queen Olivia, who strongly advocated for science and had gradually stepped onto the stage in recent years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps only Her Majesty the Queen could truly support them and truly lead Stilan toward greatness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the final option, Olivia gained huge support among the people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Upper and Lower Academies sensed something was wrong and worried that Olivia would restore the power of the royal family, but hindered by the lack of a leader, they found it difficult to organize effective action and could only pin their hopes on influential politicians taking action.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the experienced ministers in the cabinet were all, to varying degrees, involved in the \"Church of Tranquility Attack Case.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the three cabinet ministers, only two remained: the Minister of the Interior, Randy, held a favorable attitude toward Olivia, while the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Evans, was discovered to have ties to the Steam Council and was currently under house arrest by the Arcane Knights, unable to speak out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Chief Justice died in the attack, and the Minister of the Navy, who held military power, was suspected of having close dealings with the Church of Tranquility; at this moment, he was busy distancing himself, so how could he dare to speak out?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like that, Olivia successfully accepted the support of the public.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking advantage of this tailwind, Olivia announced to the people that at the Universal Industrial Exposition coming at the end of the month, she would demonstrate Stilan's national strength and let all countries see in which direction the future of the world lay.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She would also officially announce the existence of the Extraordinary Steam Engine at the Universal Industrial Exposition and put them into use in all walks of life, significantly reducing people's working hours so that people would no longer feel pain for the sake of work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a time, words like \"Queen equals progress\" and \"Olivia will restore the glory of the royal family\" could be seen everywhere.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The people's support turned into an invisible force, coiling over the sky of Gerimlan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of this chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",3441,"2026-06-20T04:32:05.714Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","5ff0ceaec38c44a9c65dd1e87d0cf652c006a28024d97b45e441c326ec89f240","the-dungeon-has-zero-tolerance-i-inherited-all-t-chapter-383","the-dungeon-has-zero-tolerance-i-inherited-all-t-chapter-381",392,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-dungeon-has-zero-tolerance-i-inherited-all-t-cover.jpg"]