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"Alice..." he whispered softly.

The morning glories drifted down, and his embrace was empty, the girl was gone.

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[Xiao Jingsan said, "The donor for the Exotic Species King needs to meet three basic conditions: First, the donor must be an exotic species. Second, the donor must acknowledge the Exotic Species King. Third, the donor itself must be very similar to the Exotic Species King."]

[Su Ming'an listened quietly, folding the peach blossom petals in his hand into the shape of a paper airplane.]

[Xiao Jingsan said, "The Exotic Species King of yore, although only remnants of myths remain, I roughly know what kind of existence he was: black hair, black eyes, a gentle and compassionate personality, idealistic. Therefore, I have been striving to cultivate a donor meeting these conditions."]

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—Actually, at the very beginning in Louyue Nation, Xiao Jingsan already mentioned the donor conditions. It had nothing to do with the crimson python.

Alice is not an exotic species, nor does she acknowledge the Exotic Species King, she doesn't meet Xiao Jingsan's donor conditions at all, the most suitable donor should be the Eldest Prince of Louyue.

—That is, someone like Su Ming'an.

Black hair, black eyes, a gentle and compassionate personality, idealistic — obviously, Su Ming'an meets these conditions. At the same time, he himself holds the dual identity of "Exotic Species King" and "Eligibles," and he highly acknowledges the resurrection of the Exotic Species King, perfectly meeting the other two conditions.

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["King." The call was soft, with the word he savored slowly and carefully: "...Is it you?"]

["What nonsense are you talking about." Su Ming'an said calmly.]

["At the instant I was about to harm you, an invisible force stopped me." The voice was gentle: "Only the King can achieve this."]

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Actually, Su Ming'an had long had suspicions—this Exotic Species King, who had slept for a thousand years and absorbed the negative emotions of people over the millennia—could very well be himself.

But later, in various texts and sayings, the Exotic Species King and the Old God seemed not to be the same person. Including the Deity and Mizushima Kawa Sora saying, "Don't awaken the Exotic Species King, the Exotic Species King will devour you." This led Su Ming'an to no longer suspect that the Exotic Species King was himself and to hypothesize it was another tiger, wanting to negotiate with the tiger for its skin.

Later, Xiao Jingsan sought power from the Exotic Species King to seize back Su Ming'an's corpse. This event corroborated that the Exotic Species King and Su Ming'an were unrelated. Because how could Su Ming'an, who was still dead, lend power to Xiao Jingsan as the Exotic Species King?

But now Su Ming'an figured it out.

—Dieying did it.

Dieying, under the guise of the Exotic Species King, lent strength to Xiao Jingsan. Many people still think Dieying and the Exotic Species King are one person, Xiao Jingsan couldn't distinguish them, resulting in a misjudgment.

In fact, one is the master of Nine Serenities, dormant for a thousand years, and the other is an observer above the starry skies. One below ground, one above, they're fundamentally not the same person.

And what is Alice's role?

Su Ming'an understood in that instant.

—Connection.

The "crimson python" should be Dieying's power. Dieying uses Alice as a relay station to reach Su Ming'an, the true Exotic Species King vessel, thus influencing the Exotic Species King.

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[Each echo seemed to resonate with Su Ming'an's chest cavity. That was an unusually harmonious... sense of fusion. As if Su Ming'an and the Exotic Species King's heart were inherently one.]

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When Su Ming'an steps into the Nine Serenities, carrying the three elements of becoming a god, he, as a human, bears the entirety of emotions accumulated by the Exotic Species King over the millennia—

He cannot possibly withstand it.

When he loses his rationality and becomes a walking corpse, Dieying can leverage his body to influence this world.

Thus aligning with the words of the Deity—"Do not awaken the Exotic Species King, lest you be devoured." What devours Su Ming'an is not the Exotic Species King but Dieying. The Deity knows this, but cannot speak of it; anything related to Dieying's intentions or bets cannot be voiced, otherwise one risks being erased like Su Wensheng. So all it can do is warn him under the guise of the Exotic Species King's name.

The three elements of becoming a god are indeed the key to awakening the Exotic Species King, and Su Ming'an as a vessel meets the requirements. However... the timing was wrong.

Su Ming'an's [Positional Rank] is insufficient to maintain rationality when bearing millennia of power—his progress was maliciously accelerated by Dieying. This place that was supposed to be reached on the twentieth day, Su Ming'an entered on the tenth. No matter how the Deity tried to block, nor how desperately Mizushima Kawa Sora intercepted him, they failed to stop him.

So, he will become the Exotic Species King, but he will not possess rationality or self.

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Late night, I sat alone atop the eaves drinking orange juice, and tomorrow the long and arduous Ark Project spanning millennia will commence. The night wind was slightly dry and cold.

A girl with black hair and emerald eyes sat beside me, bearing new burn marks.

"Sometimes I wonder, is orange juice really this delicious? You even refuse to drink a bit of alcohol." The girl swirled the wine glass in her hand: "Today Su Luoluo and I drank a lot of wine."

I said, "I can drink alcohol."

In disbelief, the girl said, "I've never seen you drink alcohol."

I chuckled, "I can drink, but I must not. Because I need to retain similarity with the [Old God]."

The Old God disappeared decades ago, but only His soul vanished, the shell remains. To maintain His rule and the vitality of His shell, as His friend, I relinquished my body, inhabiting His shell. All actions must align with Him, including abstaining from alcohol.

We must ensure... when His soul awakens, He has the best fitting shell.

"Tomorrow, you'll begin a millennia-long slumber," the girl said, "The current 'shield' only protects a very small area from the gaze of the [Word Spirit]. Therefore, you can only sleep in that small confined space. Until, a millennium later, we've amassed enough emotional energy to expand the shield..."

I took another sip of orange juice, saying nothing.

The girl's eyes glimmered slightly, "By the way, you haven't named the shield we've painstakingly created which isolates the high-dimensional beings. It's so powerful, what do you want to name it?"

I replied helplessly, "I wouldn't call us remarkable; we've simply used the knowledge left by the [Old God]. But if naming it is necessary, let me think..."

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["I don't agree with your radical ideas. The current 'The Republic' is still small, only enough to protect Dao Ya City," Li Mingyue said coldly.]

[Su Ming'an was utterly confused, "What are my radical ideas? And what is The Republic?"]

[Li Mingyue said: "The Republic is the name of the shield I created, and it can protect Dao Ya City."]

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[The Banana Sorcerer pondered the word "shield," which sounded very much like "The Republic" which Hei Que and others once stumbled upon. These eras are indeed connected.]

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Various ideals flashed through my mind, and I suddenly laughed: "Let's name it—'The Republic'."

Since we are all naive and romantic idealists, let's use a more romantic term. This name is very fitting.

The young girl drank the liquor, a fragrance of peach blossom brew floated up. Her arched eyebrows and blush on her cheeks: "We have exerted ourselves to the limit, yet have only managed to construct a small shield. Who knows how long it will take to build a shield that spans the world? A thousand years... is it enough? "

I said: "It's enough. Generations reincarnate over and over, accumulating emotion through the Life Hard Drive recording... as long as there is enough despair, enough pain... it's enough."

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[I inquired of the ancient Angel, with Shadow above, what is the resolution of this world? ]

[Thus spoke the ancient Angel: "With bones piled high, with past lives burdened, with the cycle of birth and rebirth turning, until after a millennium, the Old God returns, all paths unite, then forms the ideal shield, to dispel the Shadow, to fulfill the millennia-long wish."]

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The young girl held my shoulder and suddenly pushed me to the side.

Startled, I loosened my grip on the glass, spilling orange juice into the night sky. She held my shoulder, brought the glass close to my lips. Under the fireworks in the night sky, her eyes shone with warm light.

"Drink a little, it's okay. The similarity of our shells won't change just because of a sip of alcohol, today might very well be the last time I see you, so take a sip." The young girl said.

I knew it was the alcohol numbing her rationality, causing her to take such a bold action. Yet I saw her gaze... filled with tears, blurred waterlight.

This made me vaguely think… she too is reluctant. Clearly of a calm nature, yet so bold at this moment, alcohol truly is a magical thing.

So I slightly opened my mouth, drank a small half sip, the scent of peach blossom pierced my senses, suddenly feeling dizzy, is it the effect of the alcohol?

"I and others will meet again in generational reincarnation. Even if we won't remember each other at that time, just relying on the life hard drive of souls across lifetimes. But with you, we will likely never meet again..." the young girl said.

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[Thus spoke the ancient Angel: "Existing in the Soul Ferry, relying on past lives, transcending all generations, ancestors of a thousand years, great grandparents, grandparents, parents, children, grandchildren, all shall be you alone—making you both Jesus and his millions of followers, you both a doctor and his millions of patients. You both are life on earth and the millions of underground corpses. Thus inheriting, accumulating millennia after millennia."]

[My heart puzzled, a thousand-year plan, how long… hard for billions to see. Reincarnations and rebirth over millennia, ancestors and descendants all as one person, purely for generational schemes, how heroic indeed.]

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"I will sleep as the greatest hard drive in the shield, receiving all your accumulations of emotion, until the Old God will possess and harvest after a millennium." I smiled with my eyes: "I am not in much pain."

The young girl stared at me.

Tears gleamed even more in her eyes.

"...the Deity will surely erase our part of history, even if some remains, it won't be left completely bare, it must go through some retouching. It might be described mysteriously to gloss over all we have done. So it won't trigger the Causality perception of the Word Spirit." The young girl said: "Your place of sleep is essentially the 'hard drive hub,' what name do you want to give it?"

I laughed: "Mysterious speak... that place is dark and cold, let's call it 'Nine Serenities,' just like Hell."

The young girl said: "And what about me? My position was originally 'error handler,' what title will I leave for future generations?"

I said: "Since I am the Old God, you as my second in command, of course, suit 'Angel' as a title, just call 'Judgment Angel' then."

The young girl's eyes lit up: "Sounds pretty cool."

I said: "It does, doesn't it. Li Ying is responsible for exploring the Rules, so let's call 'Order Angel.' Xiao Ying, who deals with traitors, will be 'Slaughter Angel'... and the ancient Angel... come, let's weave our mythology bit by bit."

We talked for a long time.

Paradise, Nine Serenities, Angels, Reincarnation... all sorts of mysterious words we crafted, adorning all our actions, until we packaged our so technological and modernized era into an extremely holy and elegant era—shield beautified as "The Republic," hard drive hub beautified as "Nine Serenities," major scientific positions beautified as various "Angels," life hard drive beautified as "Papyrus."

Finally, the young girl asked me:

"...If the Old God is enticed by the Word Spirit, and enters the hard drive hub without meeting the conditions to protect Rationality, then what? He won't be able to bear the emotional accumulation spanning a millennium, and The Republic cannot be built."

I said: "Therefore, I set up a trigger mechanism. If he does not meet the conditions of Su Sheng, he will not reach Nine Serenities."

"What trigger?"

I thought for a moment: "How about storing an instrument full of information at a certain moment? When conditions trigger, under the normal flow of time, all sceneries revert to a certain moment. So as long as the Old God does not meet Su Sheng's conditions, all scenery in the world will revert to a past time point."

The young girl nodded: "It's a good method, you just setting this mechanism on the Old God's way to awakening you, is all."

I smiled: "Naturally, I will place this mechanism on a computer capable of calculating future scenarios, then disguise the computer as something mysterious, and call it 'Prophecy Stone Wall,' how about it?"

The young girl's eyes lit up: "Such a powerful mechanism, made using your Skill?"

I shook my head: "It's Equipment, called Ring of Time. This Equipment can rewind long periods of time without affecting the normal timeline."

The young girl put down the wine cup: "Gold Level Equipment, making this is really making the most of it. Hopefully, it won't be exploited by the Deity."

I stretched out my hand, wanting to sit up. She supported me, but my consciousness sank slightly… until slowly leaning against her shoulder.

Her hair fluttered across my lashes, accompanied by a scent of lemon.

Finally, I heard her voice.

"Really... a lightweight drinker."

Then she lightly embraced my shoulder, whispered in my ear:

"Will we win?"

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Long silence.

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