Light Fortress

"If I were killed... this world would reboot?"

Gu Shen was quite surprised.

Gu Shen didn’t expect... that before he came to this world as an "outsider," "he" was actually such an important role here.

"Yes."

Luo Er said helplessly, "At first, we couldn’t understand either, but to uncover the secrets of this world, we must protect you... this is too difficult. The best solution we could think of is to ensure that the trajectory of this world remains unchanged until we leave the Five Continents."

In his first life, Gu Shen lived very well.

So as long as they held out until the Moon City Disaster Realm appeared, and the senior brothers and sister trio left the Five Continents, their impact on the fate of the "Five Continents World" would be minimized.

"You can understand it as... before leaving the Five Continents, our mission is to protect you."

Luo Er slowly said, "Ensure that when you step into the Moon City Fortress, you are still alive."

"But now..."

Her expression was somewhat troubled.

Now, Gu Shen had also entered this repeatedly rebooting Dream World.

A moment later.

The rooftop returned to silence, Lu Nanjin escorted a prisoner away from the old building. She originally wanted to chat with her senior brothers and sister, but the two had suddenly disappeared...

Luo Er and Zhong Wei had already met.

Plus Zhou Jiren.

This master and disciple trio, who had already rebooted 137 lives, gathered on the rooftop.

Gu Shen found it somewhat amusing.

He now felt as if he was on a secret mission.

The identities of the four were each more open and upright than the other, yet they had to conduct a "meeting" ceremony on this small rooftop. But this was reasonable, as they all knew they were just travelers, seemingly perfectly integrated into this world, but actually alien to it.

Now, it was a long-awaited reunion of the sect.

Also a gathering belonging to the "outsiders."

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"What? Little junior brother is an ’outsider’?!"

Zhong Wei’s expression was very surprised, and he couldn’t help but raise his voice.

During the day, Zhou Jiren noticed something wrong with Gu Shen, but didn’t alert anyone, just passed the information to Luo Er. Once everyone met, this heavy news could be revealed.

reboots!

Each time rebooting, Gu Shen would become the "core role" in the trio’s mission.

To them.

These 137 lifetimes... Gu Shen was already more than family to them.

The reason is very simple.

To explore the "truth" of this world, they must ensure Gu Shen is alive... In a certain sense, Gu Shen’s life is even more important than theirs!

Everyone had arrived.

Gu Shen finally had the opportunity to talk about the things that had happened outside. Over the years, the Five Continents’ situation underwent great changes. After the "Moon City Disaster Realm" appeared, the struggles between the continents became fierce... The trio had plenty of time, Gu Shen talked all night, and when dawn broke, the morning light piercing through the clouds, he finally finished recounting the important events that happened over the years.

This intelligence was very important, and there was a lot of information.

Speaking of the final Deep Sea battle, Gu Shen piloted an airship and chose to sacrifice himself, being exiled by the [Deep Sea]...

The scene was silent for a moment.

"Damn it... I knew from the beginning that the Deep Sea was no good!"

Zhou Jiren lit a cigar leaning on the railing, suddenly cursed harshly, then quietly asked, "How was the battle when you left?"

The things over the years should be in the past.

Now the most important thing is still the human versus Deep Sea war...

This war concerns the future fate of every human being.

Luo Er, Zhong Wei, both pricked up their ears, anxiously waiting for Gu Shen’s response.

"It’s not good."

Gu Shen honestly replied, "The Sky Divine Throne was dragged into the Divine War, and Bai Shu’s Divine Throne and Empress Lin Lei don’t know how long they can hold on. Now the Five Continents desperately need a new Divine Throne to be born and save the world."

Saying this.

Everyone’s expressions changed subtly.

Zhong Wei and Luo Er exchanged a glance, choosing to remain silent...

"I have to tell you some really bad news."

Zhou Jiren flicked off the ash, speaking in a deep voice, "Once you enter this wretched place, there’s nothing but constant ’reboots’. To leave... very, very difficult."

Gu Shen also leaned on the railing.

He looked at the distant sunrise, smiling and asked, "How difficult?"

"In theory, this is the Dream World. But in reality, I can’t find a shred of opportunity to discern the Dream."

Zhou Jiren lowered his eyelids, his tone somewhat frustrated, "Your senior sister is the same, we’ve tried many times to break the dream, all ended in failure. Finally, we tried through another Moon City voyage, to find the ’unreasonable’ part of this world, but currently each reboot is caused by our own ’death’, or your ’death’, accidentally triggering it."

"So... you might be stuck here with us for a long, long time."

Zhou Jiren turned his head to look at Gu Shen.

He said seriously, "It’s possible, to be stuck here forever."

Gu Shen knew what the teacher’s words meant.

If kept being trapped here...

It also meant that when he got back, the Five Continents war might have already ended.

At that time, perhaps Meng Xizhou had successfully comprehended the Light Fire, became the new Divine Throne, leading the Three Continents Alliance to win the war...

Perhaps humanity is defeated, and the Deep Sea holds absolute power of speech.

In this war, what humanity lacks most is "time", and the biggest trouble when trapped in this world is "passing time".

"Gu Castle Fortress has established a defense line strong enough."

Gu Shen murmured: "With the current strength of the Northern Continent Guards, at least we can ensure this war lasts for ten years... or even longer."

The Initial landed at the breach of Gu Castle Fortress, it will become the sturdiest support for humanity at present!

Once the Traveler Tribe attempts to cross this chasm, Red Shadow will go to battle. In the simulated environment of the Initial, Red Shadow’s combat power is extremely impressive... The group assault from the Traveler Tribe is a significant problem for the Five Continents Guards, but for the Initial, it’s only a minor issue. The Initial fears most the "dimensional reduction attack" of High Order Extraordinary Life.

Origin Power will cause substantial damage to the Initial.

But Meng Xizhou will soon arrive at the Northern Continent... so the attack from the origin can also be ignored.

[Deep Sea] can use the authority left behind by Qinglong to cultivate false Origin Strong People.

The Three Continents Alliance also possesses Angel Envoys with Authority Power to confront them; needless to say, Aluer and Song Ci, during Meng Xizhou’s process of refining the fire, can continuously expand the Angel Envoys under his command to balance the high-end forces in the Central Continent.

King against king, general against general.

Both ends of the scale in this war are approaching balance.

Humanity’s war with the Deep Sea will be dragged into a long "stalemate period".

"137 times of restart... it’s truly a desperate matter."

Gu Shen smiled.

He looked at the teacher and said seriously: "You’ve already done very well... But think carefully, could it be that we haven’t escaped because you haven’t encountered me?"

Zhou Jiren, Luo Er, Zhong Wei were all shocked.

"In your words..."

"Am I not the ’protagonist’ of this world?"

He smiled and said: "At least there’s some good news right now. As I intervene in this world as an ’outsider’, you no longer need to worry that I will suddenly die."

"..."

Gu Shen looked at the expressions of the three, which became very peculiar.

Especially Zhou Jiren.

The old man had an expression of doubt written all over his face.

"Really? Truly don’t need to worry about you suddenly dying?"

Zhou Jiren exhaled a puff of smoke and sighed: "I remember during the 14th restart, I was just having a drink in the bar, and you got blown into pieces in the next street... The explosion sounded before I finished my drink, and then the whole world was forcibly restarted."

"During the 21st restart, little junior brother, you were killed by Han Dang’s [True Words]."

Zhong Wei also sighed, saying: "It’s my fault. That time I altered the original world trajectory and didn’t include you in the Judgement Institute, thinking you could live a normal life, but unexpectedly, you still ended up in such an accident."

Gu Shen vaguely guessed what happened in the world line during the 21st restart.

Not being included under the Judgement Institute, he naturally would return to Wulaoshan to visit his grandma... However, the investigation of the fire case would not stop here, so eventually, he would still encounter Han Dang.

Without the identity of Zhou Jiren’s disciple, with Han Dang’s personality, once he sensed something odd with Gu Shen, or found him displeasing, he would casually eliminate him.

Thinking to this point.

Gu Shen broke out in a cold sweat.

As for such examples, only two are mentioned briefly.

"During the 137 times of restart, half was caused by your death, leading to world restart."

Tian Tong smiled bitterly: "Otherwise, why do you think we would want to maintain the original world trajectory unchanged? Because you are too prone to sudden death; if we are not watching closely, you will die... The flowers sheltered in a greenhouse are not so easy to die young. I really wonder how you grew up so big."

Gu Shen listened, feeling a headache.

"Am I that fragile?"

He could hardly believe it... In this false Spiritual World, he actually died so many times?

After hearing the examples given by three people.

He found them very reasonable.

The Changjiu Foundation and Han Dang would target him, in those few restart worlds, his "death" was indeed justified.

But Gu Shen vaguely felt, behind the deaths...

There must be deeper reasons.

Perhaps it is because he is the "Netherworld King", thus inherently carrying a strong aura of misfortune?

"Don’t worry... Now I am a battle-hardened ’outsider’, not a newbie who would casually perish."

Gu Shen murmured: "Theoretically speaking, you no longer need to worry that changing the world trajectory will lead to my sudden death. I will live well."

"Besides, I have another good news..."

"The outsiders in this world are not four but five."

Gu Shen murmured.

"If I’m guessing correctly, there’s a top-tier ally on our side."

"Top-tier strength?"

Tian Tong seemed puzzled.

She exchanged a look with Zhou Jiren, both were very confused.

With Gu Shen now being a Quasi-God by refining the fire seed, their titled strength probably wouldn’t catch his eye.

To be called by Gu Shen as an existence with top-tier strength...

Throughout the Five Continents, there should be only a few.

"The leader of the Fourth Legion at the northeast border of the Northern Continent."

Gu Shen slowly spoke, uttering the name of the missing person: "Rustbone!"

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(That’s all for today, more will continue tomorrow in the daytime.)