Welcome to Rewind World Game-Chapter 1435 - 86: Extra - My Dialogue with the World Game (Part 1)
The turquoise lake, floating with a white door.
Standing here for eternity, unwavering.
Holy, silent, dignified.
The black-haired young man walked a long road and finally arrived here. He had no scars or blood on him, nor was he carrying any baggage, yet it seemed as if something was weighing on him.
He never thought the journey’s end would look like this. He had imagined blooming flowers on the other side, friends waiting across, people smiling, but instead, it was an unknown door.
The transparent key brought him here and then shattered, and the door seemed like a gate of Wisdom, waiting for him to knock.
He rolled up the white sleeves, raised his hand, and bent his knuckles.
Thud, thud, thud.
...
["Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me."]
[——Book of Revelations 3:20]
...
A mysterious voice came from somewhere, indistinguishable, as if mixed of both male and female, young and old, as if countless people sang loudly, as if the gathering voice of numerous wills.
——Why have you come?
"I am here to save everyone." Su Ming’an let one hand drop, the other behind his back, standing straight, concise and clear.
The lake began to mist in the morning, and a white lamb appeared in the water, its fur soft, white as frost.
It had eyes like scarlet gemstones, pitifully looking, as if it was a born sacrifice.
In front of Su Ming’an, a dagger inlaid with gemstones and gold appeared in the air without warning, waiting for his grasp.
He intuitively grasped the dagger and walked to the lamb. The lamb looked at him with pity, as if he was the one who needed to be redeemed.
"Why do you want to see Him? Why come to this place?" the lamb spoke.
"...I want to save everyone."
"But the end of this time has already come, where do you want to go next? What is at the end of the road?"
"...I don’t care."
"You can walk over it, you can walk to the end of the future! There is milk and honey, lactose and floral scents! You can turn back, but there’s no one there anymore."
"...It’s fine."
...
[First Seal]
[Like the law, the Universe is predetermined to occur in this way.]
[The Universe is a book, and all things have their Chapters. The celestial bodies, stars, time, and space, are all its words, ordered with each other, never changing.]
[The Big Bang repeats one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred million, one trillion, Nāgārjuna times, infinite times...all things and events like words in a book, eternally unchanged, continuously recurring.]
[Thus is the cycle of the Universe.]
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The dagger plunged into the lamb’s fur, seeping out blood.
Not deeply pierced, the young man discarded the jeweled and gold-inlaid dagger, held out his hands to catch the lamb’s flowing treasure blood.
A voice like thunder called out: "Come!"
Su Ming’an looked around and saw a white horse over the lake, with a Knight on its back, holding a bow, wearing a crown, posed as if ready for war, invincible.
"The will of the World Game...or call you, System. Are you just behind this door?" Su Ming’an held the lamb’s treasure blood in his hands, walking towards the white door: "Your sense of ceremony is quite full, clearly I used the key to reach you, yet you keep the door closed."
Lamb, dagger, door.
Easily reminiscent of an event in the Bible.
He bent down, the crimson treasure blood flowing, painted onto the doorframe.
The pure white stained with bright red.
Lamb’s blood painted on the doorframe, seemingly indicating God’s Judgment would pass over here.
"Passover lamb..." Su Ming’an thought of the phrase.
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[Second Seal]
[The cosmic cycle is eternally unchanged, proceeding in an orderly manner from this point.]
[All realms are muddle-headed, unable to leap out of the cosmic cycle, not knowing when beginnings and ends start and finish. Repeating the process of birth, growth, aging, and death.]
[However, at some unknown time, a type of person was born among the Universe.]
[They exist in all realms, born without rules, seemingly selected randomly by Destiny.]
[They can recognize the cycle of the Universe, aware that all things and events occur not just once. With each birth, they can reclaim the memories of the previous cycle, observing the world with awakened eyes, reflecting on truth and errors.]
[Their name is——]
["Awakener"]
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An incense altar appeared in the lake.
Along with it were twelve boxes of incense, hollow square boxes, embellished with gold and glory.
Su Ming’an looked at the tightly closed door, thinking the system was indeed very pretentious. His face showed nothing, bending to take the incense box, placing them on the incense altar, igniting them one by one.
One lamp, two lamps, three lamps...
The fragrance swirled upwards, mist thick. Rose, lavender, lemon, gardenia, mint, joss paper... the scent seemed tangible, slowly enveloping Su Ming’an and spreading towards the entire lake, as if the world was cloaked beneath twelve-color halos.
Another voice like thunder called out: "Come!"
Su Ming’an looked up, seeing a red horse Knight, holding a great knife, posed for battle, as if amidst slaughter.
The lamb bled as it slowly traversed the lake, following Su Ming’an, the crimson bloodstains diffusing into the turquoise lake.
The white door, slightly ajar.
...
[Third Seal]
["—This is sin."]
[As the Supreme Lord who sees all said:]
["The birth of the Awakener caused a butterfly effect in the eternally unchanging Universe, accelerating entropy increase, causing that ultimate day of heat death to arrive prematurely."] 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦
["Their souls must be judged, their bodies imprisoned, their hands bound, their treasure blood taken, their prophetic eyes gouged, and their lips that utter calamities cut."]
["Noah must build an ark of gopher wood, making rooms inside and covering it inside and out with pitch. As for me, I will cause the floodwaters to prevail on the earth, ridding the world of all breathing life."]
[Master of the End of All Things, Kotanis (real name), evolved by the Cosmic Cat to address entropy increase under such a will.]
[It is as if He is the intestine within the universe, leaving behind what is useful and expelling what is not. He established an "Entropy Increase Speed Average Line," and any planet that exceeds it must face destruction.]
[More and more planets are destroyed by Kotanis due to their excessively prosperous characteristics, causing rapid entropy increase.]
[The surviving "Awakeners" of All Worlds have realized the gravity of the situation and must find a countermeasure against the doom, or else one day, all things will be destroyed.]
[Due to the extremely rare and dispersed nature of the "Awakeners," they utilized the advanced magic and technology of various worlds to set up an interdimensional communication channel——the dreamscape is their most hidden and convenient method of exchange.]
[The leader organizing all of this "Awakener" effort comes from a little-known civilization. He named this interdimensional exchange dream which gathered all "Awakeners"——]
["Black Water Dream."]
[The dreamscape is extremely beautiful.]
[Wisteria, swimming fish, flying birds, and tea.]
[Black water, starry sand, sweets, and flowers.]
[He was also revered by the Awakeners as the "Shepherd of the World’s Glory and Time," the "Leader of the Awakeners," the "Great One who established the Awakeners’ communication platform." In those primordial years, when those golden eyes slowly opened, he opened the awakened eyes for the ignorant people of the world, wandering in repeating years, donning a cloak, lifting an oil lamp, searching for a rare light source in the dark cosmic forest, hoisting the dream of exchange.]
[He is named——]
["Sique Olivius."]
...
A piece of sandalwood rises, placing a stack of silver bowls with clean water within.
The implication is self-evident.
"Your sense of ceremony is too much, system... How many more steps until I meet you?" Su Ming’an extended his hands, immersed them in the water, and washed for a moment. Seeing no movement from the door, he applied the clean water to his cheeks.
Water droplets slid down his lashes and nose, flowed past the neck, and wet the collar and front lapel.
At this moment, another thunderous voice rang out: "Come!"
A black horse appeared, with a knight holding a bright red balance, the left plate holding a silver coin, the right with wheat, wine, and an oil bottle.
The white door, its gap widened a little more, was slowly opening.
...
[The Fourth Seal]
[All-knowing and Omnipotent being, I ask you——]
[What is the universe?]
[If we say the universe is a kind of organism, a cat. Planets are His cells, galaxies are organs composed of cells, black holes are His stomach, the galaxy His blood vessel, dark matter His bone marrow, the vacuum His skin and flesh...]
[As an organism, it will automatically evolve purification mechanisms to counter viruses, such as sweating, vomiting, excretion, and blood purification. Thus, when the "Awakeners" became viruses accelerating the universe’s entropy increase, the universe "cat" evolved an entropy increase response mechanism within itself, like a new organ.]
[It is called——]
["World Game."]
...
[Su Ming’an seriously told the World Master: "In my understanding, the universe is alive, even if it does not possess self-consciousness, but it {breathes}, has a {heartbeat}, and will produce innate {instinct} similar to a creature. {Breathing} might be a cycle of the universe’s orbiting and rotating time, {heartbeat} might be the moment an asteroid impacts a planet. The {instinct of games}, the instant this instinct arises, is internalized as the {World Game} drifting within the universe. Games are a naturally occurring instinct produced in the evolution process of humanoid or intelligent beings. If we compare the universe to a vast black cat, then the World Game is the {urge to play on a cat tree that arises during a cat’s growth}."’]
...
A white long table stood before him.
Cabbage stewed meat soup, Teni tea, red tea, strawberry crisp, banana pudding, blackberry... Porcelain plates and wine glasses were placed on the table.
Su Ming’an sat in the center, and on either side were the phantoms of people he was familiar with. Not mentioning others for now, in the position of Judas sat Noel. Noel’s phantom smiled at him, the right hand tightly gripping a card.
In front of Su Ming’an was a porcelain plate with a small piece of pastry, a glass of wine.
The bread and wine symbolized flesh and blood.
He consumed the bread without hesitation, and then downed the wine in one go.
The moment the wine entered his stomach, dizziness surged forth. He knew he could not drink, but had no choice but to drink. Additionally, he vaguely felt that although he had collapsed several times from drinking before, this time the wine did not immediately make him fall.
For the fourth time, the thunderous voice rang out: "Come!"
A light gray horse, carrying a knight representing death, was walking by the lake.
A white horse, a red horse, a black horse, a gray horse, four horses and four knights in total, walked slowly around Su Ming’an, causing ripples in the lake water.
Su Ming’an drew water and moved forward.
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[The Fifth Seal]
[The World Game was initially just an embryo.]
[It drifted aimlessly in the universe, falling into any world, and would soon leave again.]
[Its initial function was only "to store"——to keep emotions, history, memories, characters of various worlds...]
[At first, it was just a camera, collecting everything seen in all worlds, without the function of a game.]
[However, the "Awakeners" discovered its potential.]
["World Origin" is a necessary factor for each world to persist, originating from the novel features of civilization. While the World Game, as a camera shuttling through the realms, its stored film can help barren worlds learn features from all worlds. In other words, the World Game can promote the production of "World Origin."]
[Over the eons, the World Game floated in the universe, randomly arriving in high-magic high-tech worlds, constantly being discovered, enhanced, and transformed by various people who passed it around.]
[After countless years, the "Awakeners" gradually added automatic storing, automatic selection, automatic arrival, and other functions to the World Game. From then on, the World Game was no longer just a camera; it could present previously stored films in the form of "instances," like a murder mystery game shop with real-time updates, gradually launching all kinds of scenarios.]
["Awakeners" cast the World Game among the vast universe. It can help barren worlds rapidly advance, producing numerous "World Origins."]
[Every world the World Game passed through will be filmed and recorded by it, turning the film into a new "instance" within the World Game.]
[The "instances" within the World Game are increasing, one, two, five, ten...]
[From then on, the World Game became a lucky fruit, its destination unknown, it could fall on any world’s head.]
[——Who killed the Raven of the Tower?]
[——Who will be the next "Lucky One" chosen by the World Game?]
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A box of ointment floated, drifting with waves in the lake.
The square box adorned with a white daffodil, like the stripes of a Full Perfect Clear.
Su Ming’an bent down to pick up the ointment, dipped his index finger, and applied it behind his ear.
A fragrance refreshing to the heart wafted, reminding him of mint and lemon.
Twelve altars surfaced in the lake, engravings resembling authority marks, surrounding him, emitting smoke, and many indistinguishable voices:
"How much longer? How much longer to wait?"
"Why not judge those cosmic pests, those worlds with rapid entropy increase, those Awakeners who try to defy universe rules, bringing us peace?"
"They—the damn Awakeners, discuss in the Black Water Dream on how to avoid doom, how to use cunning minds to fabricate intelligent systems, uphold ideal barriers, initiate a great reset... to evade the doom’s judgment!"
"Every time after a Big Bang reincarnation, they pick up the previous memories. Their very existence, increasingly chaotic butterfly effects, accelerates entropy increase, ultimately leading the universe to heat death!"
"This truly is a group of rebellious free people!"
"Lord, impartial Lord, if you are a cosmic cat, if you have consciousness, please punish them! Let everyone return to oblivion!"
