Chapter 214: Challenging Pisces

As a "thick, thin booklet," if Wen Xishu were to read it all the way through, it would certainly be a waste of time.

After quickly finishing it, he began to simulate Yin Junchi's tone, stating the most concise sequence of events.

"Regarding the arrival of the apocalypse, I truly never expected it to be so egalitarian; even a powerhouse like the Three Spheres Group, under the apocalypse, faces certain gods and can only struggle to survive."

"The first story Sirius told me was the truth about the Inverse Seven—it was nothing more than a conglomerate leader, desperate to survive in the apocalypse, praying to the gods to become a power in the chaotic world, so that in the future, he would be qualified... to become a piece of food on the dining plate."

"This is the apocalypse."

"Ordinary people under the apocalypse will become... the lowest-level food scattered across the world. Of course, this does not exclude a few lucky ones who, despite having no innate aptitude, can survive through acquired effort."

"There are even those who start as plain, ordinary species, eat their way up to rare species, mix their way to elite species, and slowly climb to leader... or even sovereign level, eventually being recognized by Leo and obtaining immense fortune."

"Of course, these things all come from Pisces' pre-enactment. In Pisces' pre-enactment—Sirius is an extremely important character."

"Sirius' power can make the situation even more chaotic."

"At first, I didn't understand why Sirius was telling me this, but soon, Sirius told me that aside from the advancement routes of ordinary species, elite species, leaders, sovereigns, and divine servants..."

"There is another extremely special existence, and that is the Aptitude Holder."

"Aptitude Holders do not start as mindless monsters like ordinary species. Aptitude Holders master sequence powers."

"Sequence power is the power that concerns the origin of everything."

"And the sequence power I possess is called Strange Sequence 36: Prestige Paving."

"I was astonished; I had never thought I was the Aptitude Holder he spoke of. Aptitude Holders are actually considered high-level existences; they can have the same evolutionary path as ordinary species, but they can maintain their sanity and have a sequence start. Moreover, some sequences are quite powerful."

"Under the apocalypse, there is no pure land, but he can create a pure land. He is the key to ending the apocalypse."

"He was severely wounded by Pisces, but he also obtained a prophecy from Pisces—a method that could truly allow him to survive, escape the entanglement of the apocalypse, and escape the fate of being killed by many brothers and sisters."

"I felt it was inexplicable, but soon, I believed what he said."

"Because I was no longer on the smuggling ship, but had inexplicably arrived at a deserted island."

"On the island was a long-abandoned, uninhabited tribe, and outside the island was a scarlet sea; yes, the seawater was red."

"I had heard of red tides, but I had never seen seawater so clean, as if it were blood."

"Sirius' voice came from the distant horizon; so this was his ability."

"His ability is also a sequence power, but it is the most advanced Three Towers sequence. This power allows his mental world to establish a certain connection with the real world, producing a special chemical reaction."

"In other words, he can create a world of his own... and this world is real, yet very difficult to find. This world will not be affected by the apocalypse."

"But Sirius still cannot find a way to control this power. The world he creates is very unstable."

"It has a weak connection with reality, and a strong connection with his own mental world..."

"He risked his life to obtain the future pre-enactment from Pisces—only by heading to the Ark could he find the true method to master his own sequence."

"To create a method that can avoid the apocalypse while allowing all living beings to survive reasonably."

"Therefore, my meeting with Sirius was actually the meeting of two stowaways, except Sirius saw through my power at a glance... He is very powerful; he should have been even more powerful, but it is clear he was not lightly wounded by Pisces. If not for that, he wouldn't even need to explain so much to me."

"He could have directly swallowed me into the world he created, given me an identity... and let me adapt myself."

"But he said, many people deserve to live, and I deserve to live too. The arrival of the apocalypse is a disaster for everyone, and no one has a choice."

"The Three Towers War is still some time away, and he also needs a true helper and friend. He needs to use my power to find the key to mastering his own power."

"I agreed. This was more adventurous than any of my books."

"Under Sirius' operation, on the journey to the Ark, I went to many places, all of which were worlds he created... there were deserted islands, deserts, ancient tribes, small towns, and one place that was very terrifying... there was a church there, and there were flying goats in the sky."

"Sirius told me that these worlds were not very stable yet, and once he went to the Ark and found the way to master his own abilities... he could create a pure land not affected by the Three Towers War."

"At that time, he and I could protect many people."

"As a novelist, being involved in such a massive event, I should have withdrawn. But after withdrawing, what would be left for me to face was the vast apocalypse, the Three Towers War he spoke of that would last a long time and bring endless chaos."

"Sigh, upon learning that the other residents of the Inverse Seven Apartment had been refined, I knew I had escaped death. If I chose to welcome the apocalypse... then there would be countless things more terrifying than the Inverse Seven Apartment waiting for me in the future. And it's not like someone like Wen Xishu appears inexplicably every time."

"So I decided to follow Sirius. To go to the Ark, to create a pure land."

"He can use his sequence power to sense a world called the Sinister Soil; that world is very good and is not affected by the apocalypse. He needs to further improve his power and establish a deeper connection with the Sinister Soil, at which point he can use the Sinister Soil as a medium to create a safe world."

"I thought... if that were possible, then many people could be saved in the future, right?"

"We traveled together, crossing the ocean, heading toward the Ark. But along the way, Sirius' wounds healed very, very slowly."

"He told me that Pisces' power is time... people always say that time can heal everything, but if time wants to kill you... how can it be healed?"

"But Sirius is worthy of being Sirius; he ultimately escaped the clutches of time."

"We finally arrived at the Ark. The captain of the Ark was very enthusiastic, and this captain was very capable... he actually knew at a glance that we were ability users! That is, Aptitude Holders."

"After the apocalypse arrives, if ability users do not suffer huge negative emotional shocks in their hearts... if they do not cause excessive slaughter, they often do not turn into monsters. Of course, this is not absolute."

"I seem to be the kind of Aptitude Holder who can still maintain a human form."

"Sirius and I were both well-treated, as guests of honor, and Sirius hoped to keep a low profile, so the captain didn't make us do anything."

"What we did every day seemed to be healing; on the Ark, I began to have relationships with various women."

"Yes, I am an ability user, and I am an ability user who writes stories. Damn it, I don't even know how many descendants I've left in other people's bodies."

"Alright, that's not the point. The point is, I began to realize that my life might be the protagonist of a story."

"Generally speaking, the beginning of a strange story is like this—in the Inverse Seven Apartment, there was a demon king who wanted to take my life, but I was the protagonist, so I ran away."

"Having survived a great disaster and encountered strange fortunes, I immediately met the existence that An Rong knelt and licked; yes, Sirius is definitely the kind of high-level stuff that has style even when placed in a novel story."

"Starting in a high-pressure environment, the protagonist escapes, then encounters a master... if this isn't a protagonist, what is?"

"Then I started hunting for beauties; if this isn't a protagonist, what is?"

"Of course, the protagonist must have a mission. I also asked Sirius, and Sirius told me that Aptitude Holders are people chosen by sequences. Different sequences descend upon people of different lives."

"There are those with bitter lives who will be chosen by sequences like the Goddess of Suffering; there are gamblers who will be chosen by luck-type sequences; and there are those like you, who write in a dawdling manner... who will be chosen by dawdling sequences."

"So that's it. I write articles, the foreshadowing is too long, the climax is too short, just like a man doing that kind of thing. And my sequence is the same; my sequence power is interpreted by Sirius as... similar to parallel sentence structures."

"I need to set up continuous obstacles. If I achieve them three times in a row, then starting from the fourth time, I can set up larger obstacles, but correspondingly, I can also reap greater miracles."

"In terms of sequence positioning, Sirius told me that this is a reversal sequence, a means to deal with fate. Sirius was very surprised to meet me."

"Simply put, I need to write a story... the plot of the story, the difficulty is not high at first, but after the protagonist completes it several times in a row, he can try a difficult one..."

"Books, of course, can be written however the author wants, but reality won't be like that. But the power of the sequence... will make reality also produce possibilities."

"Hmm, let me talk about my actual combat test. I used the sequence power on that kind of thing. The first time I wrote in the novel, the male lead took three minutes."

"The woman's face was full of disgust."

"But the second time, the male lead reached an astonishing five minutes. But the woman was still not satisfied."

"The third time, the male lead broke through ten minutes, reaching the level of a normal person. Of course, I am talking about a friend of mine here, not myself."

"The fourth time, according to Sirius, the fourth time can use Prestige Paving to try a qualitative change."

"So the fourth time I chose two hours, which is the average level of my readers."

"Hmm, the woman called me a pervert."

"This is the power of Sequence: Prestige Paving. It let me go from three minutes to two hours."

"I also asked Sirius what I needed to do. Sirius told me that he needed to use my Sequence: Prestige Paving to constantly pave the way and constantly guide his power to make the world he created... grow in scale."

"Yes, the world Sirius created, although not small, could not carry a civilization."

"When Sirius and I combine, Sirius can create a city that can avoid the apocalypse and allow all survivors to live."

"I succeeded; how could a protagonist not succeed!"

"I wrote down the story of Sirius and me in the book, with Sirius and me as the dual protagonists... I constantly used Prestige Paving, and in reality, Sirius also constantly broke through himself."

"Everything was getting better. I even thought that I would really become the savior! The things An Rong craved and couldn't reach, I had from the beginning! I am the one who changes the world."

"But next, the story begins to reveal its tragic side."

"Sirius slowly began to change. His world, inexplicably, would have some strange flaws..."

"And I don't know when it started, but after the Ark went to sea, strange red seawater appeared on the periphery."

"One day, Sirius told me that he was being controlled."

"Everything was a trap set by Pisces. Pisces could have killed him; he didn't escape from Pisces' hands. It was Pisces... who deliberately let him escape."

"I also didn't expect that Pisces was a master of playing with time. She used future prophecies to deceive Sirius, letting Sirius see what he would look like after developing his ability in the future, but she didn't tell Sirius that by then... he had already been enslaved."

"Sirius also thought that if he met these gods, his fate would only be a dead end, but he didn't expect that Pisces could endure the urge to kill him and try to control him."

"Sirius told me that he had been captured by a more powerful sequence. That sequence is called Weakness Path, a sequence that can completely control others, but like my Prestige Paving, it requires a long process and requires building a complex path. This sequence can even capture gods."

"As long as the path is complex enough."

"I don't understand, but I heard it; Sirius meant to let me compete with the owner of the Weakness Path."

"That person... is the owner of the Ark, the captain."

"The Ark is Pisces' Ark."

"The Ark is also a carrier used in Pisces' plan to connect to other worlds. This last refuge carrying human civilization was a conspiracy from the beginning."

"Pisces does not need the appearance of the Sinister Soil. In Pisces' view, the Sinister Soil is a variable outside of time that will make her prophecies lose accuracy. Unknown variables will be born in the Sinister Soil."

"If Sirius were really allowed to link to the Sinister Soil and create a territory oriented toward the Sinister Soil that is not covered by the rules of the Three Towers War... future prophecies would never be able to reach 100% accuracy."

"Pisces is afraid that some brilliant and talented person will appear in the Sinister Soil. For Pisces, the Sinister Soil is like a red chess piece suddenly appearing in a world of black and white Go. Pisces cannot accept this variable."

"And directly killing Sirius seems unable to completely isolate the Sinister Soil. So Pisces wants to control Sirius first and use Sirius' sequence to block the Sinister Soil."

"I thought to myself, this is too dramatic, right? Damn, how can there be more than a dozen existences as awesome as Pisces?"

"But I think all of this is quite damn hot-blooded. How could I miss such a hot-blooded story? Which storyteller doesn't want to drill into the story? I am an ordinary person, but now I am going to blow up the conspiracies of these gods!"

"I am going to save Sirius!"

"So, under the effect of Prestige Paving, I entered the depths of Sirius' mental world... a real city where tens of millions of people can live."

"But this city is gradually losing its freedom."

"As the captain uses the Weakness Path to arrange wave after wave of people to go to Sirius' mental world to build paths, the world deep in Sirius' heart is becoming more and more morbid."

"I realized that I want to wake them up, and I want to use my power to help them recall the concept of freedom."

When the story reached this point, Wen Xishu suddenly stopped.

It was only at this moment that Horn suddenly realized... the timeline was almost reaching them.

Horn didn't expect that Sirius, Pisces, Leo... these constellation names represented gods.

He looked at Wen Xishu:

"Have you dealt with them?"

Wen Xishu nodded:

"They... most likely all know me."

Horn was silent.

Wen Xishu said:

"Let me continue; there is only the last part left."

Horn nodded, although he knew Yin Junchi had failed, perhaps there were still details that could dig up intelligence.

Wen Xishu continued to narrate.

"I realized that if everyone in this world loses their freedom... Sirius might be captured, have his weaknesses built by the Weakness Path, and then become the captain's slave."

"I cannot let this happen; I cannot be the only person in Sirius' mental world who possesses freedom."

"But I found that if I shouted the concept of freedom... something would try to lock onto me."

"So, I began to use my sequence power."

"I want to emphasize the concept of freedom three times on a small scale. Then the fourth time, completely detonate this concept."

"At the same time, I also need to leave a backup plan. If... I mean if, am I also just a part of the Prestige Paving?"

"If I die, but have pushed forward a part of the progress... then there will be another person who dies, pushing forward a part of the progress, and finally there will be another person who dies, pushing forward a part of the progress. By the fourth person, this person will live, this person will change everything, and will save Sirius!"

"Ah, I don't hope this second Prestige Paving can be used, because I am the protagonist, I don't want to die; what kind of story is it without a protagonist?"

"But I also realized that sometimes, changing an era is not something one person can do; sometimes... it takes the efforts of several generations to present people's initial vision."

"Just like in the long history, no one is the absolute protagonist; they are all a bright pearl in a vast scroll."

"I hope that in this story of mine, I am the absolute protagonist. Sorry, I don't like ensemble stories; I just want to see a Dragon Overlord stand out alone."

"But if I die... latecomers, please take over my fate and liberate Sirius."

Wen Xishu sighed; this was the end of the story.

He thought of the living beings in the bunker again.

Is Albert the absolute protagonist? Am I one? Is Wen Zhaohua? Wen Renjing, Xun Hui? Or that mysterious Mr. Jin?

In order to let humanity leave the bunker, all kinds of geniuses among geniuses... who is the protagonist?

Tragedy is destined.

When Yin Junchi thought he was the absolute protagonist in this story, perhaps he already knew his ending.

At the end of the story...

Yin Junchi failed.

He succeeded three times. The fourth time, he let Hugo draw the blue sun; the sun's patterns and light could indeed wake everyone up.

But he was not the person who made the sun rise.

Wen Xishu really felt sorry for Yin Junchi, because Yin Junchi perhaps realized that what he was fighting against was a monster that could see the future.

Perhaps all the efforts he made were in that monster's calculations.

But he still did it, just as he said, all of this was so hot-blooded; no one who loves stories would miss these stories.

He participated, and so he died.

The three were silent for a long while, and Hugo said:

"Later... that sister died, that is, the teacher's lover, and later... that brother also died."

"They said they wanted to become the nutrients for the second Prestige Paving."

Horn was moved.

Nutrients for the second Prestige Paving...

The second layer is what Yin Junchi spoke of: after he died, two more people would die, and the fourth person would live, raising the blue sun of freedom for the whole city.

In other words, Yin Junchi, as well as the first woman in Yin Junchi's prophecy, and the third youth in the prophecy... all gave their lives so that Hugo could raise the blue sun.

Because of this, the second paving was successful.

Hugo wiped away his tears:

"I think... being able to meet Mr. Wen Xishu and Mr. Horn, this is the miracle of the fourth person the teacher spoke of."

Wen Xishu didn't expect that a small character he encountered in the Inverse Seven Apartment at the time would have such a wonderful storyline.

Fighting Pisces, saving Sirius from Pisces' hands...

Although he kept emphasizing that he was the protagonist, he was prepared to sacrifice himself to pave the way for latecomers.

This reminded Wen Xishu of those martyrs who had died.

The prosperous age that those people gave their lives to build was something they could never see in their lifetime.

But even so, even if it could only be achieved in the distant future, even if only their descendants could enjoy it, they would still resolutely die.

Horn said:

"We must raise this sun, Wen Xishu."

Wen Xishu nodded; he didn't believe in any absolute protagonist, but he believed that his story would not end here.

Hugo also said at this time:

"Actually, I have already completed the painting of the blue sun, and right at the top floor of the spherical building, there is a device that can project it into the sky, but the problem is... going to the top floor will alert the law enforcers."

"It takes a long time for the law enforcers outside the sphere to arrive here, but there are also many law enforcers inside the sphere... these law enforcers are all very powerful."

Hugo showed his painting.

It was a blue sun with a labyrinth of whirlpools; from a distance, it was a blue sun, and up close, one could see the various whirlpool patterns on the sun.

These patterns seemed to be able to unlock some kind of shackles.

Horn said:

"If it's not the Sinister Sea Behemoth... just law enforcers, Wen Xishu, we should be able to defeat them, right?"

Wen Xishu smiled:

"Of course."

Horn said:

"Then without further ado, let's start acting quickly."

Sirius' liberation plan corresponds to Pisces' conspiracy. And the Sinister Soil... is suspected to be his hometown.

Recalling the words of the old tea-selling man, Wen Xishu also had a new understanding of this mission.

And behind Wen Xishu, Horn looked at Wen Xishu's back, with light in his eyes.

"If the second Prestige Paving is actually not the two people in Yin Junchi's prophecy... if the Prestige Paving is only just beginning now, then..."

"Wen Xishu, I can also bet everything on you."

Horn did not say this out loud.

Of course, he hoped that everything was already over and that he only needed to stand on the shoulders of the sacrificed to pick the fruit.

He also hoped that Hugo was the one who brought the miracle, but he felt even more... that Wen Xishu was the miracle itself.

Horn always felt that everything was not that simple.

But he said no more, instead using the controller to manipulate Wen Xishu.

The Sirius Liberation Plan, the final chapter of the blue sun rising, began to be written.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 215 =====