Chapter 161: It was too difficult for him as an artificial being.

008 wasn’t sure whether First Generation had taught Lord Goddess how to use the soul device, but what he was sure of was that the Lord Goddess had said that she did not understand this device, and that she didn’t know the principle behind this, she felt that the way it was operated was too complicated and did not want to learn it. Ple ase re ad at Yu ri Trans lations

008 had some misgivings, since she didn’t understand the device, and did not know the principle behind it, how could she know that a high soft state value could obliterate the soul?

This was clearly the principle behind this device.

And 008 was certain that he had never told her the principle of how to operate this device, because without knowing the principle, it was impossible to know that the human soul had a soft state.

Then the Lord Goddess, she… did she lie? Ple ase re ad at Yu ri Trans lations

In reality, Older Sister taught her, and she learned it, so why did she lie and say that she didn’t know?

Why?

……

Yu Ru Bing had finished stir-frying all the vegetables, and she followed Tang Han Qiu as she brought the food to the table, then she habitually wiped both her hands on the apron. Ple ase re ad at Yu ri Trans lations

When the palm of her hand grazed the side of her skirt under the apron, she suddenly paused.

She seemed to have forgotten something.

She froze for a moment, then feeling hesitant she lightly patted her side pocket, and her brows suddenly wrinkled in a frown. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lations

She slipped her hand inside, searching.

Why?

Why is it empty? Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lations

The wrinkle between her brows grew tighter.

Where was the candy wrapper she had placed inside her pocket¹?

Yu Ru Bing clearly remembered that before she heard the words “the world dormancy mode has been activated”, she had a sudden strong sense of foreboding, and felt upset and uneasy, so she unwrapped a piece of candy to eat.

Because she felt extremely gloomy, she wasn’t even in the mood to throw the candy wrapper away, and kept holding it in her hand.

When she first met and had a conversation with the Lord Goddess, the candy wrapper was still in her hand, she then stuffed it inside the side pocket of her long skirt, but had never taken it out, and unexpectedly only recalled this now.

If she had returned back to reality, was it possible for the candy wrapper to have disappeared?

Did the Lord Goddess specially lend a hand to clean up her garbage?

She also hadn’t taken a nap that afternoon, so she could guarantee that no one had ever touched her pocket, not even Tang Han Qiu. Moreover, Tang Han Qiu was not the kind of person who wouldn’t tell her if she had touched her things. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

It was impossible for the candy wrapper to fall out on its own, her pocket was very deep, and the opening was smoothly sewn on her skirt, so it was not possible for anything to fall out without using her hands.

Yu Ru Bing blankly stood there for a while, then after thinking about it, she looked at Tang Han Qiu, and said without any expression on her face: “Qiu Qiu.”

“Have you seen the thing inside my pocket?”

Tang Han Qiu turned her head and looked in her eyes: “Huh? What thing?”

Yu Ru Bing said: “The candy wrapper.” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Tang Han Qiu asked with a smiled, “Why would you put a candy wrapper inside your pocket?”

Yu Ru Bing vigilantly stared at her: “Before I was caught, I ate a piece of candy, I haven’t thrown the wrapper away yet, so I just stuffed it in my pocket.”

Tang Han Qiu silently looked at her, then said after a moment of silence: “Ru Bing, you remembered it wrong.”

“You didn’t eat a candy before you were taken away.” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Yu Ru Bing immediately clutched her skirt, and with a smile on her face: “Is it? I had remembered wrong?”

Tang Han Qiu stepped forward, held her face, and gave her a gentle peck on the lips, then said comfortingly: “You were frightened, so you remembered it wrong.”

Tang Han Qiu kissed the corner of her eyes: “You didn’t eat a candy before you were taken away, nor was there a candy wrapper, understand?”

Yu Ru Bing stood in place, and didn’t resist her show of affection, she responded cleverly, and then said, “En, then I had remembered it wrong.”

Tang Han Qiu’s eyes were still filled with endless warm love and tenderness, and she used her slender hands to stoke her head, as if she was grooming her.

Yu Ru Bing encircled her waist, and with a sincere face said, “But I remember one thing very clearly.”

Tang Han Qiu: “Hmm?”

Yu Ru Bing smiled and patted her other pocket: “Before going out this morning, you slipped a candy in my pocket, it was strawberry-flavored, then later I placed it in my clutch bag.” She looked suspiciously at her, “You didn’t forget, right?” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

There was a strong atmosphere of “if you dare to forget, let’s get divorced”.

Tang Han Qiu’s lips unconsciously rippled with a faint smile, and she said softly, “I haven’t forgotten.”

“I placed a piece of candy in your pocket, it was strawberry-flavored.”

Yu Ru Bing was suddenly in a cheerful mood, with her eyes crooked into a smile: “I knew you didn’t forget.”

She silently raised her hand and gently touched Tang Han Qiu’s soft red lips, then whispered: “You are really good.”

Tang Han Qiu was still tenderly looking at her. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

“But,” Yu Ru Bing suddenly said, “I really don’t like fake goods.”

When they went out this morning, Tang Han Qiu never placed a piece of candy in her pocket at all!

It was another f—king illusion!!!

……

Just as 008 was still thinking about the matter with the Lord Goddess, the value that was displayed on the headboard drastically changed all of a sudden.

008’s thoughts were pulled back, and he watched the soft state value suddenly drop from an extremely high value of 97% to zero.

Soft state: 0 Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Zero… Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

It actually turned to zero!

008 looked at the display screen in disbelief, then quickly looked down at Yu Ru Bing’s wrist.

The two needles that was piercing her skin also “whooshed”, and the blue light that was flowing inside withdrew. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Yu Ru Bing, woke up.

The moment 008 met her line of sight, the air seemed to freeze.

Then Yu Ru Bing looked away and faintly sighed: “Damn, there’s still…” She paused, then suddenly turning her head back, she looked at the nameplate on his chest.

— 008.

Yu Ru Bing: “?” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Yu Ru Bing asked suspiciously: “Can I ask? Did I come back, or did you come to mix in my illusion?”

The third illusion that the Lord Goddess made her experience was too real, if it weren’t for the candy wrapper, she would not have discovered it, so she now faced every circumstance with a skeptical attitude.

She wanted to move, but unexpectedly there was a slight pain on her wrist, like being bitten by an ant, or being pierced by a needle— better yet both her hands were being pierced!

She also discovered that her wrist was being tied by two light bands, making her unable to get up.

008 saw that she had broken the three stages of illusion made by the soul device, and he was relieved.

Fortunately, an innocent life would not be extinguished by Older Sister’s device. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

But thinking of the words that Lord Goddess said before leaving, his mood became heavy again, and he subconsciously felt that Lord Goddess was lying to them.

She knew how to use this device… Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Then why did she lie?

008 pursed his lips and looked at the person who was still lying on the bed with her wrists tied up. He raised his hand and pressed the panel next to him, suddenly, thin bars of red lights appeared inside the white space.

The bars of red lights were evenly distributed, and was drawn in a square around them, seeming like they were locked up inside it.

008 sealed up the place, then pressed another button, this time the light that was tied around Yu Ru Bing’s hand disappeared. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

He said, “Let’s have a chat, no one will come in, I have a question that I want to ask you.”

Yu Ru Bing was human, and the Lord Goddess was also a human, people understood other people better. So, if he asked Yu Ru Bing, maybe he could get an answer.

Yu Ru Bing immediately got off the bed, then hurriedly kept away from him, when she was a long distance away, she vigilantly said: “What’s the matter, is the fourth stage a battle of words?”

008 said: “There is no fourth stage.”

“Congratulations, Yu Ru Bing, you survived.” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Yu Ru Bing looked at him with a grain of salt, and reached out to touch her pocket, as expected, there was a faint rustling sound, then she took it out to take a look— it was the candy wrapper.

She was a little surprised.

It seemed that, this seemingly was reality?

Then she looked at her wrists again, there was a small needle mark on the reddish area, and it would hurt with just a single touch. She immediately looked at 008: “Did you stab me with a needle?”

008 did not deny it.

Yu Ru Bing: “…”

You guys really are dishonest.

She frowned: “You are 008? The one who has been helping me?”

008 nodded: “I am.”

Yu Ru Bing frowned more deeply: “Then can you tell me what’s going on right now.”

008 looked at her seriously: “Our Lord Goddess wanted to kill you, but you survived.”

008 did not hide it and directly told her that the Lord Goddess was going to obliterate her soul, and also told her about the principle of the soul device and the number of hurdles it had.

Yu Ru Bing carefully listened, then asked two questions: “Can I still go back?”

“In the fantasy, your Lord Goddess mentioned about cutting off the connection with the world, and not wanting the world anymore, is this really possible?” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

In this way, it would be equivalent to the world being out of the system’s control, and none of them would be disturbed anymore, this was exactly what she was hoping for!

008 patiently replied: “Yes.”

“So it is true.”

Yu Ru Bing then immediately said: “My buddy, help me do these things, and you can ask me whatever you want!”

Her top priority right now was to go back and get the world out of the system’s control, trolling the Goddess didn’t matter to her.

Because she was inside the system right now, the Goddess’ domain, if she didn’t pay attention, she could really die.

She promised Tang Han Qiu that she would return, so she couldn’t die here.

008: “Please sit down.” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

He shouldn’t make her stand while they chatted, right?

Yu Ru Bing was still a bit wary of him, so she sternly said: “No, I’ve been lying down for too long and feel uncomfortable, I want to stand for a while, let’s talk like this.”

008: “…Okay.”

008 formed his words and asked, “Under what circumstances do people lie?”

Yu Ru Bing blurted out: “Guilt.”

“Guilt?” 008 repeated. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Is the Lord Goddess guilty?

Yu Ru Bing said: “If a person is upright and has a clear conscience, why would they lie?”

008 fell into silence.

Yu Ru Bing thought for a while, then opened her mouth again, “008, do you really think this Goddess has anything that is worth your loyalty?” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

“Your chip is broken, so you are not as incapable of judging this as other people.”

Treating a life as a plaything.

Because the actions of other people run contrary to their own ideas, so they must obliterate the soul of that person and make them disappear forever.

Is such a person really worth being loyal to?

Would such a person give out a feeling of ease? Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Won’t there be a sense of worry that she would kill you one day?

In Yu Ru Bing’s view, a ruler who was apprehensive towards those under their control could not obtain the loyalty of their subordinates.

008 said nothing.

The chip from Older Sister requested them to be loyal like a friend. And the chip from the Lord Goddess in contrast demanded them to be loyal to the ruler.

And this ruler lied to them… Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Did she lie because she had a guilty conscience? Then what was she guilty of? Was she hiding something from them?

Was the death of Older Sister and her having lied related?

008 felt a little headache, and exposed a bit of anxiousness.

Yu Ru Bing looked at him, carefully thought it over, and said, “You are very frustrated.”

“The emotions among you humans are too complicated.” 008 said.

It was too difficult for him as an artificial being. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Yu Ru Bing: “Sigh, why don’t you tell me about it and I will give you my thoughts?”

008 looked at her and asked expectantly: “Really?”

Yu Ru Bing scratched her face: “Really, you have been helping me for a long time, I have to at least give something in return.” She added, “Wait, before that, are you sure that I can go back? It won’t be that when we start chatting, the Goddess would suddenly come, and it’ll be all over for me?”

Then it would just be completely using her life in having a conversation!

008 calm and confidently said: “Rest assured, it’s definite that I will be able to send you back, and I won’t let the Goddess suspect anything, because she firmly believes that we are absolutely loyal to her.”

An absolutely loyal dog that would not betray their master. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

This was the self-confidence that their Lord Goddess had.

Yu Ru Bing raised her eyebrows, she walked to the bed and sat down, then facing him she had a formal conversation with him.

To tell her the whole story, he needed to start from the time of the First Generation, but due to the limited amount of time, it was impossible to explain to her every detail, so 008 focused on the time when the First Generation transitioned to the Second Generation, as well as the things that happened between the First Generation and Second Generation, the other elements were omitted, but Yu Ru Bing was still able to understand it. Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

Yu Ru Bing, having earnestly listened, suddenly clicked her tongue.

008 asked expectantly: “How is it? Do you have any idea?”

Yu Ru Bing touched her chin and asked a question that never crossed his mind: “Have you ever thought…”

“That the Lord Goddess killed your Older Sister?” Pl ease re ad at Yu ri Trans lation

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The author has something to say:

Yesterday, a little cutie guessed the issue about the candy wrapper, so clever! Applause! Clap, clap, clap!

I’ll try my best to settle the Goddess issue tomorrow, and let them return to a calm and normal life, if I can’t do it tomorrow… then the day after tomorrow hhhhhhh, it won’t be long anyway.

Also your minds in the comment area are more thought provoking than mine, so I admire you!

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TRANSLATOR’S NOTES:

1. Chapter 157 ↩

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