Welcome to Rewind World Game-Chapter 1394 - 45: "I Saw the Lamb Open the Third Seal
["When the Lamb opened the Sixth Seal, I saw a great earthquake... The kings of the earth, the nobles, the generals, the wealthy, the powerful, every slave and free man hid in caves and among the rocks."]
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Under the World Tree.
"Plop."
Hui Bai closed the book he was holding.
In front of him sat a blue-haired youth wearing a crown.
Under the dense shade of the World Tree, they sat facing each other.
"... Order Guardian, Lord. We’ve only just gotten to the Sixth Seal. Why not continue?" The Sea Emperor lifted his eyelids: "I really like your voice when you read the Book of Revelations, it’s like my mother telling a bedtime story."
"With just a few words, the Sea Emperor is able to get closer to me. But I wonder, Sea Emperor, this is our first conversation, why have you sought me out?" Hui Bai smiled: "Just a moment ago, Su Ming’an was consumed by the World Tree, Lü Shu used the Divinity of the Shitposter Demon and is in critical condition, the other players exited the World Tree one after another. Why did you stay to find me? As the Order Guardian belonging to the World Tree, I cannot avenge you."
The sky was dyed with a rainbow-colored hue. In the distance, the sound of cries rose and fell; it was the players mourning Su Ming’an.
Lu chuckled lightly, his gaze suddenly sharp: "—Su Ming’an isn’t really dead, right."
Hui Bai raised an eyebrow: "Hm? You saw it with your own eyes, Su Ming’an was drawn into the World Tree, he’s dead, that’s undeniable."
Lu straightened up, staring into Hui Bai’s eyes: "Yes, Su Ming’an died, but there is more than one Su Ming’an. In fact, he’s not dead at all."
Surprise flickered in Hui Bai’s eyes; after a moment, he smiled and leaned closer, lowering his voice: "...It seems the Sea Emperor has retained the memory from last time."
Lu then showed a confident expression: "Seems you have too."
The two shared a knowing smile, full of tacit understanding.
"Last time, influenced by Ocean Angel Najasha, I fell into madness. I staggered to the North clutching the bloody remains of Su Ming’an that fell from jumping off a building. In a shelter, I met Dawn Goddess Kritchens." Lu declared candidly: "Then, at the moment the clock struck twelve, the world reset to the day before."
"The Sea Emperor has openly shared with me the experience from last time, I shouldn’t be stingy either," Hui Bai nodded: "What would the Sea Emperor like to know?"
"—Are you an only child?" Lu asked.
Hui Bai smiled: "Yes, since birth, I have been an only child."
"—So, what is the situation with the people of the Hui Family?" Lu inquired.
Hui Bai’s fingers stroked the pages of the book, his eyes downcast: "Those people... they are indeed my blood-related brothers and sisters."
Isn’t this contradictory?
Lu’s heart was seeded with doubt, but outwardly, he maintained a polite smile.
"—In the early stages of the instance, I heard the World Tree intensely dislikes those with golden hair, you were idling away as a layabout from the Red Tower Kingdom." Lu said.
"Yes, that’s true." Hui Bai nodded.
"—But by the mid-stages of the instance, you became the Order Guardian belonging to the World Tree, rising above everyone." Lu stated.
"Yes... that’s true too." Hui Bai smiled.
Again, a contradiction.
Lu’s heart was full of confusion, this Hui Bai was greatly different from before, like two different people, truly puzzling. He wanted to help Su Ming’an find the answer, but Hui Bai was tight-lipped.
"Hui Bai, I am willing to offer you help from the ocean." Lu said: "If you wish to find someone, I will mobilize the entire sea to help you. Provided you answer my question."
"Really? You are indeed a good person." Hui Bai made a gesture with his hands, his eyes glowing: "What question would you like to ask?"
He could only ask one.
Lu lowered his gaze, hesitated for a moment, then chose a new question:
"—What is the story of the Lamb’s Seal?"
This was a term he had frequently discovered in secretive books these days. He had a hunch that this story must be extremely important in Luowasha.
"It’s fortunate you asked me this, if you’d asked something else, I might not have known." Hui Bai chuckled, stood up, and took a dimly lit oil lamp, his eyes a ghostly blue like flickering will-o’-the-wisps:
"Follow me, Your Majesty, the Sea Emperor."
"I will lead you to the truth of the world."
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Lu and Hui Bai stepped into the inner chambers of the World Tree.
It was filled with soft crimson synapses as if walking through the uneven red caves. The surroundings held traces of blood, Lu furrowed his brows; he knew these were left by Demon Line Su Ming’an.
"Su Ming’an is the bravest person I’ve ever seen... He was able to mercilessly slice himself apart, letting every version of himself endure immense pain to gain the most information upon merging..." Lu said.
"Su Ming’an... he truly is unique." Hui Bai raised the oil lamp.
They journeyed inward, at the very end of the deep red tunnel was a small ornate door.
The red synapses were like roses, entwining around the door, blood vessels overlapping, leaves sprouting, the scene looked eerie and grotesque.
Behind this small door, surely lay the most hidden secrets of the World Tree.
"Don’t tell me there’s a white-haired, white-eyed deity sitting behind the door, or a giant octopus with tentacles, or a supercomputer system," Lu joked.
"What if it’s more bizarre than you could guess?" Hui Bai’s smile was restrained.
"Then I’ll pray to the aircraft carrier I recently bought in Luowasha, pray I don’t get my jaw dropped in shock." Lu raised his hands, making a gesture of prayer.
Hui Bai chuckled, pushed open the door: "Prepare yourself mentally, about the truth of the world—"
They opened the small door with the oil lamp lighting the way.
"Squeak—"
Purple-black Splendid Star light filled their sight, revealing everything clearly.
On a glass-like arched surface were rows of pitch-black bookshelves, a lamb stood among them, its back holding a jelly-like transparent scroll.
In the air, seven glistening white lines floated, forming a daffodil-like shape, resembling a Perfect Pass Pattern Mark.
On the ground, twelve apples were nestled, like bright red hearts.
On the left stood angels, holding string instruments, wooden xylophones, and trumpets, producing sound like a mournful song. On the right stood demons, holding iron knives, bronze gongs, and stones, making sounds like pounding.
A golden censer on the altar released thunder, lightning, hail, and fire, the smoke rising as if echoing the prayers of countless believers.
Witnessing such a religious scene, Lu, born from Italy, was stunned by the sight; both his grandmother and mother were devout believers, which led him to slow his breathing.
The Lamb bore the seven pattern marks, with glowing golden eyes sweeping in, gazing at Hui Bai and Lu as they enter, the mouth opened and closed uttering something. In this moment, endless world truths flooded into Lu’s mind—
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[Rev 5:1] I saw in the right hand of the one sitting on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back, sealed with seven seals.
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Legend has it that there is a scroll.
The plan prepared by God for humanity is written on this scroll, encompassing endless truth and wisdom, allowing the reader to know everything about the future. But it is sealed by the "seven seals," unable to be known before unsealing and observation.
Some say that this scroll is a land deed, proving that humans have wagered the Earth, mortgaged it to the demon Satan. The merciful Lord was nailed to the cross to redeem Earth.
The date set by this scroll sealed with the "seven seals" is nearing; the mystery of the scroll is about to unfold.
However, even as the appointed day arrives, it must be observed whether humanity is qualified to unseal the scroll.
— "Lamb Seal"
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The World Tree enjoys reading all sorts of stories, this story of the Lamb Seal, the World Tree has also read.
In short, the story says: In this world, there exists a book containing all wisdom, sealed by the "seven seals." The merciful Lord bled out to redeem the planet, yet must wait for the day the "seven seals" are unsealed before humanity can read this book. Before then, humanity must be tested for qualification to read the book.
Though it is Zhai Xing’s story, it remarkably aligns closely with reality.
Because the World Tree knows—indeed, there exist similar "seven seals" and "land deeds" in this world.
This leads to the question: What is the essence of each planet? Is it a round object composed of soil and microorganisms, or a collection of earth, water, wind, and fire elements?
— In reality, the essence of each planet is "books."
The Universe’s Long River flows endlessly, thousands of scrolls transforming into planets.
Not paper books in a literal sense, but planets can be understood using a book-like concept.
— Each book is a form of civilization’s existence. 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞
— Each page is a trace of a civilization writing in the Long River of time.
— The book cover is the protective barrier of civilization.
— The book’s index is the power system and world framework of civilization.
— Bookmarks are the key points of civilization.
— The page number is the current era of civilization.
— The word count is civilization’s longevity.
When the last page is turned, civilization is destroyed, unless excerpted into another book (a planet’s collective migration to another planet, resulting in fragmented fusion), or take pages from another book (plunder events and people from other planets to excerpt onto one’s own planet), or cover the book and stop observing it (establish planet barriers, akin to the three dimensions system or The Republic), equivalent to never ending, maintaining in the "Prince and Princess lived happily ever after" Schrodinger’s ending state.
It’s like a dynamic structure—blank pages written, eraser wiping, pages read, till the final page. Countless space-time record bodies are born, developed, and terminated.
Every civilization has its own "main storyline," such as Zhai Xing’s main storyline beginning from the first microorganism underwater, experiencing the Cambrian, Jurassic, nomadic era, Agricultural Age, Feudal Dynasty Era, modern times... developing all the way to high-tech civilization.
However, Luowasha fell into extreme chaos due to excessively fast entropy increase, losing its original story, making Luowasha’s main storyline seem arbitrarily pieced together, with no head nor tail.
Thus humanity, in the eyes of the World Tree, became a thorn in its side, human creativity was too disordered, stories should have a unique closed definite ending for civilization to last long.
After all, Luowasha has a unique creation system, with too many people, everyone wants to write their own story, how could Luowasha’s main storyline not be chaotic? How could it not fall into destruction due to entropy increase?
Therefore, the World Tree only wants to leave a few people to craft a reasonable main story, these few people must keep up with its thought process in constructing stories, preventing entropy from escalating again. As for more people, they are not needed.
Thus, He devised [Game Day]—seven instances, an allegory to the "seven seals" in mythological tales. Those who can receive the meaning of the "seven seals" (i.e., those who can clear the seven instances of the Disciple Game) are qualified to receive the "land deed" (i.e., World Origin) as the true owner (i.e., understanding His set storyline, achieving Perfect Pass)!
Such people can keep up with its thoughts.
Thus, Sique and other creators have been writing, attempting to write people who can align with the World Tree’s thought process. These people have an extremely high acuity for instances and can insightfully observe the construction thought of instances. Meeting the World Tree’s requirements.
But simultaneously, Sique is preparing a backup plan. After all, the World Tree only wants to leave a few, most ordinary people lacking inspiration, and not good at constructing will be abandoned. So, Sique also wants to build "Eden," allowing those abandoned to stay.
Whether it is the World Master, Qi Zhou, or other roles... they are just lambs used for "unsealing the seven seals." If they cannot understand the "seven seals," they are useless. If they can understand the "seven seals," they can receive the "land deed."
This also explains—why only achieving Perfect Pass can ultimately fulfill a wish.
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Su Ming’an and Cloud City God stepped into the World Lord’s Palace.
Upon nearing, they heard the voices of the World Master confronting Qi Zhou.
"Qi Zhou, my child." The World Master said calmly:
"...The reason I want to charge towards the World Tree and take all the books it collects is precisely because those books are the World Tree’s summary of its construction experiences of instances. Once I finish reading, I do not need to personally go through seven instances, and can still comprehend the ’seven seals.’"
"Once I comprehend the ’seven seals,’ I can obtain the ’land deed,’ which is to obtain the World Origin."
"With the World Origin, I can achieve anything. Even killing Sique would be no problem."
"I twisted your life, painstakingly cultivated you, hoping you can clear seven instances, making you a lamb not abandoned."
"However, it’s a pity, though you cleared the seven instances of the first Disciple Game, due to the low difficulty of your pass, didn’t fully grasp the ’seven seals.’"
"It’s okay, you just need to be my obedient child... I will find a way to get the ’land deed’."
"Clang——!"
Qi Zhou threw away the sword.
Suddenly hearing the truth of the world, he collapsed on the ground soullessly.
His pupils trembled, caressing the back of his hand.
There were seven perfect pass pattern marks from the first Disciple Game, dull in color, glowing brightly on the back of his hand.
— Like a pure white lamb.
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["In the last days, may all true lambs obediently follow the lead of the head lamb, receiving that never-fading fruit and robe, becoming the true master of the land deed—the residents of New Jerusalem!"]
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"...In the end, when the lamb unseals the seventh seal, the sky was silent."
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