Chapter 1193
Chapter 1193 - 1179: Yearning
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"Come on, let’s continue watching movies today, who likes what genre, war films..."
Seeing that most people below showed a look of disgust, the projectionist above also smiled and shook his head.
"...who likes war films anyway? Their battles aren’t even as cruel and real as ours. Uh, how about a romantic film set in the Roman era..."
"Science fiction!"
"I want to watch a business war film..."
It seemed like another day where a consensus couldn’t be reached, but Lu Ping’an, who was also sitting in the back row, quietly asked the person sitting next to him.
"What do you want to watch? I’ll help you choose."
"I..." The Cyclops’s solitary eye emitted a faint yellow light in the dark night, and the young village girl could hardly recognize a few words, let alone the types of films.
"...can we watch that one again, the one from yesterday?"
Lu Ping’an immediately called someone over, gave a couple of instructions, and then, the large screen began to play the film again.
As the familiar scenery started, with the appearance of rust-stained high-rise buildings and the intermittent factory whistle sounds, some people complained...
"It’s that one again; we’ve watched it four times now, every day."
𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
"If you don’t want to watch, just leave; I actually want to watch..."
Some complained, some cursed, some turned around and left, but the majority of the audience stayed, over ninety percent of which were Long Hand People and Fishmen.
"Ancient city, situated in the south-central part of the Eastern Country’s Chuzhong Plain region, was once an ancient battlefield and Land of Civilization, but now, it’s also a populous modern city, diversity and advancement are what we pursue..."
Lu Ping’an yawned; the stuff up there was dreadfully boring. If it weren’t for the Long Hand People themselves digging up the videotapes, he wouldn’t even have known that he had brought a city promotional film of the Ancient city.
But strangely, this film was exceptionally popular, although it was just a routine city introduction film.
In the familiar male announcer’s voice, the city’s outline appeared in the movie, with high buildings and streets, and the busy citizens below.
The noisy foreign races all quieted down, staring intently at the world on the screen.
There, there was no war.
There, there were no slaves.
There, there was no famine, no dead bodies on the streets, and even no intermittent screams...
There, there was land everywhere, everyone had their own houses and their own families...
Earthlings who hadn’t experienced all this felt nothing, but those Long Hand People and Fishmen often watched quietly, then silently started to weep.
"Is your world... really like this?"
A somewhat hoarse female voice rang in his ear; Lu Ping’an turned his head to see those hopeful Magic Eyes staring at him.
Lu Ping’an happily noticed the other party’s look of disappointment before he continued.
"This is an old promotional film from several years ago; the city has expanded several times since then, and with technological innovation and the influx of immigrants, it’s much more prosperous than this worn-out city now. It’s almost like a different city. If you want, I can ask a teammate for some of their personal photos; there should be some of the street scenes."
"...Thank you."
The girl didn’t refuse; she couldn’t imagine what a city even more prosperous than the ’City of Heaven’ might be like, but she really wanted to know.
As the female companion watched the movie attentively and Lu Ping’an, accompanying her, rudely yawned and dozed off.
Following the sound of the whistle blowing again, the boring yet fascinating documentary for the Long Hand People finally came to an end.
Outside the theater, the stars sparkled as ever, and as Lu Ping’an, yawning, was about to really go to sleep, 313... the former 313, now Lu, suddenly grabbed Lu Ping’an’s sleeve and forcefully looked up.
"Can our world also become like this?"
"Anything is possible..." Lu Ping’an’s response brought a slight smile to the girl’s face.
"...but in your world, there’s hardly any possibility. As long as that thing is still there, it won’t let you develop."
In an instant, Lu was rendered speechless.
Indeed, it wasn’t a matter of development, but rather that as soon as you start to stack up the building blocks of civilization, that unscrupulous "adult" might just come over and knock it all down.
If it hadn’t come? It was probably just waiting for you to develop longer, to relish knocking it down later.
"What exactly is it trying to achieve..."
"Don’t know, who can understand the thoughts of a world..."
Hearing Lu Ping’an’s words, the girl grew even more bewildered.
You have a mortal enemy, yet you don’t know why it wants to ruin you.
"...I really didn’t know before, but now I have some guesses..."
At that moment, looking at the smug man, Lu realized why so many people wanted to beat up this "boss" Mr.
"...Previously it might have been just messing around, since its sealed world had no external interference, and it could only entertain itself. So, building a sandcastle and then knocking it down was normal. But this time, in its dealings with us, it has revealed its goal – it is trying to evolve..."
Since it has desires, naturally, there’s a goal to escape the ’world’.
"...It is mimicking our world, our Country of Ten Thousand Gods, seeking more deities to reshape its own world, needing more Concept deities, Element deities, Primitive deities."
The existence of deities isn’t simply about powerful forces; their World’s Reason varies, some are recognized and validated by the world itself, others are their own ’wealth’ that link up with the world, becoming the new rules foundation of that world.
The most obvious ones were the previous Moon God and the Sealing God, who added several paths to Earth and an entire ’technological system’, which was a major boon in every aspect.
This isn’t just baseless speculation...
"The subject of our deal with it, aside from aiding in the Ascension of a Quasi-God, also includes nurturing as many new local deities as possible..."
Letting Elder Liu’s clone attain godhood here was one of the objectives of the agreement, which was also why Elder Liu earlier mentioned that the ’trade item’ was his essence.
And if one is to nurture local deities... naturally, the local ethnic groups would need to be revived.
"This is why it wants you to support us, what does it think of us? Toys? Dolls? Previously destroyed on a whim, now taken up when needed as tools?!"
Lu Ping’an shrugged, his smile unable to hide the malice within it.
"I think all of the above... In its eyes, perhaps apart from itself, everything is merely tools to be toyed with, and considering its special identity, you really can’t say that’s incorrect."
Lu Ping’an couldn’t hide his smile, one filled with irony.
"It wants to support you, could you really refuse? Our aid also depends on this big funder paying the bills, would you refuse our help?"
The cruelest are always the truths and realities.
For the Long Hand Clan, they had already been near extinction... or rather, those who had already lost most of their civilization and heritage had virtually already "perished", now merely serving other races as livestock and slaves.
In such circumstances, Lu and her people couldn’t possibly reject any hand of friendship that was extended.
"Struggle, and merely become better slaves, then why should we bother..."
"That’s not necessarily true, I have seen Quasi-Gods knocked down by mortals, I have seen days when the world was truly destroyed, the only absolute in this world might be that there are no absolutes. The hunter playing with its prey will eventually destroy itself, we are just passersby; if anyone can truly make it pay a price, it can only be you locals."
"...Is it possible?"
"If I say no, would you give up?"
"No... How could I possibly give up." The girl’s teeth clenched audibly, her single eye turning blood red as the blood of the Abyss boiled within.
Feeling this hatred, Lu Ping’an nodded satisfactorily; among his many ’creations’, this one seemed the most likely to succeed...
"Then that’s enough, hehe, there are possibilities. Being weak has never been a barrier to survival; arrogance has, even for the ’World’s Will’, pride will be its downfall..."
— End of Chapter 1193 —