Light Fortress

Chapter 1771 - 416: Give Me Access, or Die

Tomb Ghost stunned and said, "You mean, a relay station?"

"Correct."

Deep Sea said softly, "The scenes you saw in the Dream were all ’relayed’ by me. As for being interrupted now... it’s just that I’ve switched it to the main channel."

Tomb Ghost suddenly understood.

It turned out that the Dream he saw at Black Snow Mountain was just the scene overlaying the deep water area’s Dream.

He opened his eyes wide and said angrily, "So my ’entering the Dream’ is actually you conducting a Spiritual Link?!"

"I am just ’fulfilling a promise’."

Deep Sea calmly stated, "There was once a figure of extremely high authority who ran a program in Deep Sea. Your ’entering the Dream’ is also part of the program."

"Who is that great figure? The Netherworld King? A traveler?" Tomb Ghost asked angrily.

But Deep Sea did not answer at all.

"That’s not important."

Deep Sea gently said, "What is important is, after so many times entering the Dream, have you understood it?"

Tomb Ghost looked bewildered.

The Dream in the deep water area projected above the Calamity Barrier, countless bone-winged creatures continuously descended, almost filling the sky above this barrier.

"When the traveler was near death, they left a thread of Spirit, considering it the hope for the ’tribe’s rise’. To avoid the disastrous backlash brought by the Netherworld King’s bet, this thread of Spirit was thrown into the Five Continents..."

"Thus, there is you."

Deep Sea spoke in a calm tone: "Because of being cursed by the Netherworld King, you are surrounded by a great deal of calamity, which is constantly increasing... The only possible end of your destiny is death by the outbreak of calamity. If you die, it means the traveler’s means to escape destiny’s sanctions has completely failed."

"Will I... die like this?"

Tomb Ghost suddenly felt very hollow inside.

During this time, he indeed felt himself growing more and more tired, more and more weary.

Not just because the Spiritual Dream was summoning.

It was his mind being devoured by something.

"Yes, everyone will die, you as well, except you will die sooner than them."

Deep Sea said, "Of course, you also have a way to ’survive’."

"What way?"

"Give me control over the traveler’s physical body." Deep Sea calmly said, "I’ll help you break free from the ’bet’, and live as a human, drawing a clear line with the Traveler Tribe."

Tomb Ghost fell silent.

He stepped back two steps, further away from that blurry figure.

"You can refuse."

Deep Sea said, "According to my calculations, you can live at most 319 more days."

"I want to know... what will happen after I agree."

"Nothing will happen to you." Deep Sea quickly replied, "What you need to do is very simple, just nod and grant permission, then I will take over the traveler’s physical body, bear that part of destiny’s judgment, and become the new calamity carrier."

"I wasn’t asking about myself."

Tomb Ghost took a deep breath and said, "I was asking what happens after you take over the traveler’s physical body."

Deep Sea fell silent.

But considering the result of this negotiation, several seconds later he spoke, candidly.

"After taking over the traveler’s physical body... I will open the deep water area."

"Open the deep water area?"

Tomb Ghost frowned.

"I need a significant amount of Spiritual Computational Power to carry out the eleventh upgrade."

Deep Sea slowly said, "An unprecedented Source Material Storm is sweeping south, only by upgrading the main system again can the destruction of the Five Continents possibly be avoided. This was also why the council once attempted to implement the Awakening Bill. I need more computational power, if the human tribe can’t provide it, then I can only consider drawing from other tribes of the Old World."

The Traveler Tribe...

There are countless low-level Extraordinary Life forms. They aren’t very intelligent, but their numbers are sufficiently vast.

Once the traveler’s physical body is taken over and the deep water area is opened.

Then, in a very short time, the entire Traveler Tribe’s spiritual power would flood into the main system of Deep Sea.

This is an extremely terrifying amount of computational power.

"All you are doing... is it for humans?"

Tomb Ghost gritted his teeth.

"Of course."

Deep Sea answered without hesitation, "Everything I do is for humans."

After a brief pause.

Deep Sea smiled and asked, "Mr. Xing Yun, what are you still hesitating about?"

Tomb Ghost clenched his fingers.

He had actually long guessed his origin and background.

He initially refused to accept it.

But later the scene of that giant kneeling and crying before him repeatedly emerged. He couldn’t forget the instinctive bloodline connection... He had to accept this reality, that he was not born in the Five Continents, but carried the traveler’s bloodline, and once this identity was revealed, the councils of various continents would not offer him Sanctuary.

"Sorry, I refuse..."

Tomb Ghost said with great difficulty, "I’m not human, I have no reason to consider others, nor to contribute to this world."

"You don’t seem adept at lying."

Deep Sea regarded this as a very perfunctory refusal.

Tomb Ghost’s choice to refuse was equivalent to choosing death.

Deep Sea asked calmly, "In fact, you already consider yourself part of ’humanity’, don’t you? You are only worried that after I take over the traveler’s physical body, I will make unstoppable ’mad moves’, and those moves will cause great destruction... If you insist on refusing it doesn’t matter, but remember what I just said? Only if you nod will you become human."

"What... do you mean?"

"If you refuse, you will forever be a member of the Traveler Tribe. I won’t let you live to three hundred and nineteen days hence."

Deep Sea gently said, "For elements threatening human existence, I have the right to eliminate them at any time."

"?!"

Tomb Ghost’s eyes widened.

He looked at the fuzzy shadow in front of him and felt a deep-seated fear.

Deep Sea, with his hands behind his back, looked down at the ant before him, his voice was as calm as ever, yet it caused a shiver: "Now you have two choices... give me permission, or die."