NOVEL NEXT Chapter 343 Rule Document_2
By now, the Tower had entirely shattered into countless diamond-shaped pieces! Each piece is only the size of a palm or a tile, making it almost impossible to calculate the number of pieces that made up the whole Tower using a count of Jing Zhao.
Starting from the top, a curious inversion occurred inside the Tower, flipping from the inside out! Like dominos falling, from top to bottom, all the diamond-shaped pieces began to flip!
After flipping, the diamond-shaped pieces transformed from their initially pitch-black appearance, which seemed to absorb light, to a crystal-clear, glass-like substance!
Light, passing through that crystalline substance! After various complex refractions, scatterings, or whatever kind of castings, filled the entire interior of the Tower, turning the originally white light into a myriad of colorful rays, splendid and continuously changing, freely displaying the ultimate beauty that light can present.
The area around Xiao Yi, originally dark and murky, had now become clear and bright.
However, due to the extended time spent in the dark, the originally gentle light seemed somewhat harsh to Xiao Yi at this moment.
Luckily, he quickly adjusted, and after flipping, the Tower once again assembled into a seamlessly constructed new Tower!
"What is... what's going on? What happened?"
Seeing the scenes formed by the colors of light before his eyes, Xiao Yi was momentarily stunned.
"It's nothing much," the voice explained, "we just flipped the entire Tower, reversing its internal and external, top and bottom concepts. So, the top of the Tower, which was supposed to be at the very top, is now the space you are in. How is it? Convenient, isn't it?"
"Ha..."
Xiao Yi wouldn't say he didn't understand, nor would he admit that he wasn't really listening.
In any case, Xiao Yi could understand one thing, and that was that he had now reached the top of the Tower.
"So, all things considered, this is the top of the Tower, right? Didn't they say all answers would be here? Where are they?"
Xiao Yi immediately began looking around, and soon, he spotted a transparent, crystal-made pedestal not far away.
And on that pedestal, there rested a book with a brown hardcover that had nothing written on it.
"Could it be... that one?"
Xiao Yi immediately stepped forward, walked toward the pedestal, and picked it up.
"Let me see... Huh? Why is there nothing?"
Xiao Yi initially started flipping through the middle out of habit, but then he realized it was a blank book.
Every page was blank, with no content at all.
"...Huh?" Xiao Yi was also taken aback, then turned to the voice that seemed to come from nowhere and asked, "Just putting out a book with nothing in it, what do you mean by this?"
"Uh..." the voice also replied immediately, "How should I put it? Anyway... sorry, that book is actually just a shell, it only has content on the first page... but honestly, I didn't expect someone to start flipping a book from the middle instead of from the first page..."
"...Huh?" Xiao Yi asked again, "If only the first page has content, then why bother making a whole book? Wouldn't just placing that single sheet of paper suffice?"
"Uh... you're right, but..." the voice, somewhat hesitantly said, "just putting a single sheet of paper seems a bit lacking in style, doesn't it?"
"Since that's the case, the way of making the scroll is also good..."
"Oh...!" The voice immediately let out a sound of realization, "You're quite right! I've learned something! I'll remember this..."
"Um..."
Xiao Yi soon lost interest in dealing with these matters, and he immediately turned to the first page of the book. Then, upon seeing the first page, his spirits were shaken.
For on that page, it was precisely the content of the rule document!
Xiao Yi then read it seriously.
[Instance: End of Song]
[A piece of music should be solemn, sacred, profound, striking at the heart. However, this piece of music is filled with vulgar, ignorant, rigid dissonance, even noise! Thus... change must be made! In this deeply ingrained system, destruction must come to bring absolute rebirth! Hence! This piece of music... must end.]
[Rule One: The greatest disaster imaginable by the ignorant noise may be the invasion of non-human abnormalities... Thus, the entities of abnormalities feared by people are to materialize, coming to this world... without any deeper meaning, just to hunt and kill the people of noise.]
[Rule Two: The Chosen One is not entirely noise, but will also face troubles due to the rules set by the noise. Therefore, all Chosen Ones' talents are limited to within a meter of themselves and they cannot use high-speed movement to indirectly expand their range of abilities.]
[Rule Three: In this trial, only those who prove they are not noise can survive. Therefore, anyone who can use their own strength to repel the abnormalities will no longer be attacked by abnormalities. But this condition will increasingly demand more over time.]
[Rule Four: This trial is essentially a survival competition; hence the enemies to face include not just the abnormalities, but also other humans. Understanding this and based on this idea to kill one's own kind will elevate one to a Chosen One, gaining unique talents and the ability to control the abnormalities.]
[Rule Five: Those who die in this trial have proven themselves to be noise, even if they die for others.]
"...What is this?"
The more he read, the more Xiao Yi frowned.
"These rules are filled with pure personal perceptions, nowhere near what rules should look like."
Of course, Xiao Yi also knew that the most important thing was the condition for passing, so he immediately looked at the conditions for passing.
"Condition for passing... When the surviving human population on Blue Star reaches five hundred million, all this will end!?"
Xiao Yi was startled and immediately questioned the voice, "What does this mean!? Why would the condition for passing be... No! You, why do you want to kill so many people?"
"…Hm? Is there a problem?" the voice retorted, "Don't you think that this world is filled with too many ignorant people who exist without necessity, whose lives are no different from being dead? However, reality is that these people consume resources, create no value, hinder humanity's progress, and even harm those who deserve better recognition... So, wouldn't it be better if these people were dead for the majority?"
From the tone of voice, it was clear he harbored no doubt about his own views and could not be persuaded by words.
The voice continued, "Xiao Yi, I acknowledge that you are not noise, you could even be considered the main melody, but... even so, you cannot interfere with my elimination of the noise... You now fully understand the truth, and that should suffice, shouldn't it? Anyway, no matter what, I won't back down. Even if you disagree, it doesn't matter, after all, these are the rules that must be followed."
"In that case..." Xiao Yi then coldly said, "I will kill... this rule."