Chapter 169 Sacrifice? Betrayal

Excited? Thrilled?
No, when Zhao Si saw the new introduction of Jinwu Zhenhuo, his first impression was locked on one word:
Origin level!
The Origin-level prizes are naturally good, but for Zhao Si, the Origin-level also means...

boom!
A ball of white-gold flame rose from the phone screen. The moment it rose, Zhao Si's pupils shrank, and he stepped back repeatedly, shouting:

"System! Prepare to kick someone!"

As soon as the words fell, the white-gold flame suddenly glowed with purple light. The purple light became stronger and stronger, and a vast existence seemed to be about to cross the boundary and descend...

[Ding! A cross-border intrusion by a Primordial Origin-level character has been detected, and the security system has automatically started! ]

With a "ding" sound, the purple light lingering on the flame suddenly stagnated, and then completely disappeared.

[Ding! The invasion of Hongjun (Tian Dao) has been repelled! ]

Seeing the system showing its power again, Zhao Si finally breathed a sigh of relief:

Sure enough, anything that has anything to do with the word "origin level" is naturally a coordinate for invasion from another world. If the system could not kick people out, reality would have been infiltrated by those saints like a sieve.

Calming his mind, Zhao Si took the now harmless Golden Crow True Fire in his hand and began to curiously feel its difference from the past.

"It seems...no different?"

After playing with it for a while, Zhao Si felt a little confused because he didn't feel any obvious difference from it.

After all, it was a treasure that was brought into the Heavenly Dao by Jiao Ming and sublimated with the power of the Heavenly Dao. Its grade has been raised to the origin level. It can't be that there is no change at all, right?
[…Players don’t need to try again. It’s useless to try again in real life.]

"Huh? Why?"

[Because the biggest change between this fire and the previous one is that it can borrow some of the power of the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao on the opposite side has just been kicked by this system and dares not to come again. ]

"..."

Zhao Si was speechless for a moment, and then looked at the introduction of this fire:
[…Infected by the power of Heaven…Can borrow some of the power of Heaven…]

Well, the main changes of the Golden Crow True Fire are all linked to the power of Heavenly Dao. As a result, the Heavenly Dao of the opponent was kicked out by the system, which really means that there is no change...

"So can this fire still be used in the future?"

Zhao Si was a little worried:
Didn't I advance in vain?

[You can use it, but you can't use it in reality, otherwise it would be equivalent to an invasion of the Heavenly Dao. ]

So, it still doesn't work for me?!
The corners of Zhao Si's mouth twitched, but after thinking about it:
I have no enemies in reality, so why do I need such strong power?
Obviously the best way to use these gifts is to use them as props in simulation games!

In other words, this is high-level equipment specifically for the protagonist of the game...

The flame is a small matter; the simulator problem is the biggest.

Playing with the real fire in his hand, Zhao Si flipped through his phone thoughtfully:

The protagonist Jiao Ming of this chapter is dead, but the story of this chapter has not yet had a perfect ending. Neither has the problem of sacrifice been completely solved, nor has he lived forever in the primitive world like Jin Bing.

Jiao Ming failed to save all the lives, nor did he save himself. Although he was evaluated as "superior" because he accidentally ended the conflict between the monster and the human that Jin Bing could not resolve in his lifetime, he was obviously still far from perfection.

In theory, Zhao Si should continue to simulate the game until the true perfect ending.

But now even the protagonist is dead, so I guess this chapter won’t get stuck…

Zhao Si couldn't help but worry. After all, all his extraordinary powers now came from this simulation game. If he got stuck, wouldn't it be like his cheat code was scrapped?

“Is this still playable?”

After hesitating for a moment, Zhao Si clicked "Continue Game":
[Ding! Since you have collected enough information in the last round of simulation, this round of simulation will be slightly different from the last round. Please pay attention to control...]

[Returned to the initial node...]

[…On an ordinary day in a certain era, a certain association, a certain destiny, a bird egg inexplicably hatched from an old tree under a small volcano in the southern wilderness. A small bird with few feathers ignorantly poked its head out of the shell and looked at the world for the first time…]

[You are the only egg in the nest. You have no brothers or sisters, not even parents. Maybe they are dead, or maybe they don’t care about you at all.]

[Suddenly, endless memories emerge in your mind. You seem to have had a dream. You dreamed of a bird that looks just like you, and you dreamed of his three lives...]

【…】

what? !

Zhao Si, who was just trying it out, was stunned:

"No... Isn't Jiao Ming dead? How can we start a new round?!"

[Ding! Players please note, this is not Jiao Ming, but a brand new true spirit. ]

"no?"

Zhao Si looked at the description carefully with suspicion:
Although the description of this little bird’s appearance is exactly the same as Jiao Ming’s, if it is Jiao Ming’s reincarnation, it will definitely be followed by a description of the revival of his three lives’ memories.

And this little bird... nothing, all he had was a dream. He dreamed of Jiao Ming’s three lives!

Thinking of the system's enlightenment method for Jiao Ming, Zhao Si suddenly realized:
It seems that the system has enlightened another bird to replace Jiao Ming and continue to push for the perfect ending...

Jiao Ming, got what he wanted, and was deprived of his status as the protagonist!
[…You woke up from the complicated memories, and after realizing that the person was not you, you spontaneously reviewed the life of this fellow named "Jiao Ming" from the perspective of a bystander.] [Seeing that he was cowardly and incompetent, you sneered. Seeing that he committed suicide many times, you couldn't understand. Seeing that he could see through the truth, you gradually became silent. Seeing that he chose to resist, you gradually nodded. Seeing that he sacrificed himself, you were completely stunned…]

[How can there be such a fool in the world? ]

[You angrily want to scold him to wake him up, but then you realize sadly that this fellow is already completely dead, and no matter how much you say, it will be useless...]

[Then, you realize that you have become the next Jiao Ming: you are facing the same unsolvable problem as him.]

[If you fail to find the optimal solution, you will probably be even more miserable than him. At least he has died and that’s the end of it all, but you will just reincarnate again and again, gradually losing yourself in this unsolvable problem until you grow old and decay...]

[No! You can't go down this road of no return! ]

[Your heart tightened, fearing that you would follow in Jiao Ming's footsteps. You are not a pushover like him. You just want to survive safely. Whether you have to pay with your life or not is another matter. Anyway, you have to save yourself first.]

[Ding! Faced with the failure experience of this senior and the same kind, you have no idea what to do, so you can only put your hopes on the mysterious "other self"... What do you choose (?) Please answer freely! ]

Yo?
Seeing that this new bird had actually changed Jiao Ming's style and asked him for advice right from the start, Zhao Si was a little surprised:
"It seems that Jiao Ming's personality is really just an accident. This other bird is completely different from him... But this is even better!"

With a protagonist who listens to advice as a tool, it will be much easier to pass the level.

Feeling slightly satisfied, Zhao Si began to seriously plan for this new partner:
The useful information that was discovered after Jiao Ming III can roughly clarify the problems and difficulties of this chapter.

First of all, there are the Three Ancestors. As noble beings with twisted minds, the Three Ancestors formed an alliance from the beginning and planned to brush each other's KD to achieve enlightenment, so we must find a way to get rid of the three of them at the beginning!

The solution proposed by Jiao Ming is to bring Hongjun on board at the beginning, split the three ancestors by providing false information, first kill the core of the team, Ancestral Qilin, and then kill Ancestral Dragon, and the last Ancestral Phoenix can be killed or not, since he can't make any waves anyway.

The difficulty of this level lies mainly in the fact that the Ancestral Qilin must be killed in advance, otherwise the three ancestors will definitely kill each other. When the three of them reach the peak of Daluo, they are actually invincible in the prehistoric world. As long as Luohou does not leave the field, they will surely win. If Luohou leaves the field, the simulation will not be perfect.

The Ancestral Qilin must be killed before the Third Ancestor awakens his spirit, even if it has not had time to commit any mistakes.

The same goes for Zulong, kill him as early as possible.

However, even if the three ancestors could be eliminated before the problem arose, it would only solve the first level of the superficial problem.

The next step is to govern and civilize all the spirits in the ancient world. The blood of the three ancestors or the blood of the protagonist can be used to awaken the spirits. The focus is on what happens after the spirits are awakened.

Because Jiao Ming had no political talent, in order to avoid going against the trend of the times, he could only entrust everything to Di Jun.

Although we don’t know whether this new bird, who is different from Jiao Ming, has any political talent, it is better to bring Di Jun down from the Sun Star for safety reasons…

Finally, the most unsolvable part:
The dilemma between resource shortage and sacrifice for enlightenment.

If you want unlimited resources, you have to make sacrifices.

If we avoid sacrifice, we will enter the Dharma Ending Age.

Jiao Ming was stuck on this last level. No matter how perfect he was in the first two levels, the last level would overturn everything for him...

"Jiao Ming gave up becoming a saint to find out more information, so I still don't know if there is a way to get a perfect ending... Then let this little bird try to get a perfect ending."

Zhao Si thought about it again:
"However, we still have to try our best to avoid civilian casualties... By the way, Jiao Ming's true spirit is equivalent to half of the Heavenly Dao, and with the half of the Heavenly Dao of the Three Ancestors' true spirit, we can directly build the Heavenly Dao. It's better to do it in one step."

Try it!

Since there is no cost in trial and error, Zhao Si just started writing...

[Ding! Facing the worry about the ending, you choose: (First gain the trust of Hongjun, then split the three ancestors, work together to kill the Ancestral Qilin, then kill the Ancestral Dragon, then kill the Ancestral Phoenix, and put together half of the Heavenly Dao.)
(Then, in order to awaken the spirits of all living beings, in order to govern them well, it is necessary to go to the Sun Star in advance to find Di Jun to be the Emperor of Heaven.)
(Finally, sacrifice yourself and let Hongjun mold your and the Three Ancestors' true spirits into the Heavenly Dao, and everyone will be happy!)]

[You happily received the strategy from "your other self", and sneered in your heart: The last person of the same kind was really a god, why didn't you ask if you could? And you even rebelled, saying that the values ​​of a transcendent being are opposite to those of ordinary people, and you see that I am perfect... huh? ! ]

[Looking at the first strategy, you agree with it! ]

[Looking at the second strategy, you look delighted! ]

[See the third strategy...]

【you:……】

[You: Sacrifice?! Sacrifice your mother! Do you think I am that foolish goody-goody Jiao Ming?!]

【You: @#*#@#! ! ! (Bird swear word!)】

[Ding! Your strategy fully confirms Jiao Ming's description of you: the instructions of a transcendent being are often contrary to the three views of ordinary people.]

[Ding! The new bird is cursing at you! ]

[Ding! The new bird doesn't want to sacrifice himself, so he decides to defect! ]

[Ding! The new bird angrily took back its true spirit and decided to fly solo. No matter what the mission was, no matter how big the mission was, it was not as important as its own life! ]

[Ding! This round of simulation failed...]

Zhao Si: ???

……

(End of this chapter)