Chapter 402
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Chapter 402: Match Between Lighter and Dynamite
At first, Guan Ling didn’t want to wake up from her dream in paradise.
She also didn’t have much willpower to break free from the dream.
Guan Ling really wants to go back to before she turned ten years old, to the happy time when her father wasn’t secretly replaced.
To her, those were the best days of her short life. So she constantly fantasizes about what her life would be like if her family could live a normal life together. Maybe it would be even better.
So, heaven granted her a beautiful dream.
It made her actually go back to the age of ten.
But then there was a problem. Ten-year-old Guan Ling couldn’t find Bai Wei in Yingzhou. Even the current Yagyū Simozi hadn’t experienced any significant family changes at this moment.
In the beginning, she could manage to keep up her habits for a day or two. But as time went on, a week, two weeks, and by the third week, she couldn’t resist the urge to run away and explore.
As a result, she went missing for several days during this attempt to run away from home. She ended up finding Yagyū Mansion, and at the moment she pushed open the door, she woke up.
The dream easily came to an end.
Guan Ling is currently using Yagyū Simozi’s body, but she doesn’t know how to pilot the Gundam at all. She can’t even understand a single word of the instruction manual. She can’t fully unlock the potential that this body should have in Broken Paradise.
But she was lucky, just nearby, she met another person who was more reliable.
Alena·Capesh.
She only stayed in the dream for a little more than half a day before breaking free from it.
If you ask why Alena could break free from the heavenly dream, it’s because she didn’t believe in it.
Alena’s childhood was not happy. Her mother was paranoid and her father was not a good person. From the bottom of her heart, she disliked her family environment. But now, the days she’s living are already happy and fulfilling for her. It’s not that she doesn’t dream of a happy and beautiful dream, it’s just that she never had one from the beginning. Instead, she became happier as she grew up.
The allure of the dream became very small for her.
At first, she thought that nothing had happened, so she went to school normally and practiced with Michelle. However, accidentally, she defeated Michelle with too much force… Defeated her.
Alena was stunned at first, then became angry and frustrated, and burst out against the fake Michelle, shattering the dream completely.
My Michelle is not that weak!
You’re pretending, aren’t you?
In the dream world, most people want to be the protagonist of a cheat-mode story. They want enemies to bow down to them, everything to go their way, luck and strength at their peak. They want to live like a legend.
But Alena, who also seeks realism in the virtual world, clearly cannot accept this. She casually crushed the fake world’s brain and tore open a hole, jumping out of the illusion.
After walking only a few steps, she encountered remnants of an outer god.
Let’s make a simple distinction between ancient gods and old gods, and outer gods.
Outer gods simply mean outsiders who have arrived, most of them coming to Earth riding meteorites or comets. Otherworldly malevolent gods are not considered outer gods because they don’t belong to the same universe.
To give you an example, outer gods are like people from different cities in the same country who come on high-speed trains. Because they are from different places, there are cultural differences and regional hostility. Each place also has its own dark history. So, outer gods often bring in dark and evil forces, but because they come from different places, they also find it difficult to unite.
Evil gods are powerful. They are like foreign forces, and it’s not just about being crooked. It’s a direct struggle for survival, coming to plunder resources and territory. When outer gods encounter them, they must draw their swords.
Supreme Will is one of the outer gods.
The ancient god refers to the original beings, the old gods who were born on this planet. They may be the embodiment of ancient magic or the source of some kind of life. It’s like the local people, the old gods, referring to the gods of the past. They could be outer gods or ancient gods, and they must have once created or ruled over an era of time. They are called old gods because of their powerful strength, so there are very few of them.
The Chaotic Witch is one of the old gods. She is also the last recorded old god. The rise of each old god means the fall or disappearance of the previous one.
The era ruled by the Chaotic Witch is called the Chaotic Era. At the end of the era, after her battle with the Supreme Will, the world entered the Dark Era.
The Supreme Will was also heavily injured and slept for an era.
Ancient gods die or escape, and outer gods no longer descend. The old gods either break apart, fall, or move away from the material world.
In this era, many powerful dark races emerged, most of them with the bloodline of ancient gods.
Ancient dragons and deep sea giants are among the top of these races.
The chaos continued for a long time, and as different populations developed their civilizations, the Dark Era came to an end and the Supreme Will established the Sacred Religion.
It can be understood that the Supreme Will is the ruling god of this era, but it didn’t create its own laws, perhaps because of the broken heaven, or perhaps because the Dark Era was too long.
The Sacred Religion, who always saw themselves as the rightful ones and the world as their possession, has always felt unwilling for not being able to rule the world. Since the Supreme Will has ultimately won, the world should have been dominated by it, and the Sacred Religion that represents it on earth is the true ruler of the world.
They always thought so and firmly adhered to human supremacy.
If it weren’t for the sudden appearance of the Golden Clan, perhaps the Sacred Religion could really have unified Europa, expanding their dream of holding the world in their hands from west to east.
No one knows the origin of the Golden Clan, and many suspect that it is a mysterious seed left behind by an outer god, so archaeologists still can’t find a reasonable explanation.
But let’s get back to the topic.
Alena encountered some residue from an outer god, and the residue said, "I want to play a fun game with you."
The noble bloodline is not so easily deceived, so Alena asked, "What game do you want to play?" and was forcefully drawn into the game.
She was very angry.
The game that the outer god residue wanted to play was also very simple, clearly these old fogies couldn’t come up with any creative games.
It said that Alena had to tell a joke to make it laugh, then it would let her leave here and give her a nice thing.
Alena looked worried and frowning.
She had lived for twenty-one years and had never thought that she would be trapped in a situation where her sense of humor was lacking.
Alena was not naturally aloof like the Yun sisters. She appeared cold, but most of the time it was just an act. However, she truly didn’t like to smile and didn’t see the need to, so she didn’t have much sense of humor. Even when making sarcastic comments, she was serious. She belonged to the "unhappy" group in the comedy combination.
When she was in middle school, it was her turn to be the host. Two people who had prepared for a long time went on stage to do a comedy skit, but they didn’t even finish half of it and bowed down from the stage. The truth was, they were doing a great job, but it was purely because Alena always stood there expressionless like an emotionless air conditioner.
When it was her turn to perform on stage, she casually turned off the lights, lit a candle, and sat in the center to tell a horror story to everyone. The next day, all the classmates came to class with dark circles under their eyes, as if they hadn’t slept all night, simply because she said, "Based on a true story."
The outer god residue asked her to tell a joke, and Alena struggled for three minutes but could only come up with a pun.
She said, "Or how about I tell you a demon story?"
The outer god residue wasn’t interested in demon stories. "I’m already enough of a demon myself, why would I want to hear a demon story? Tell a joke, hurry up!"
Faced with this annoying demon that wouldn’t leave her alone, Alena’s patience was almost gone. She held a sword to the demon’s head and said a joke with a straight face, "Once upon a time, there was a group of cannibals. They captured two people, an old government official and a young ordinary person. The government official was in his seventies or eighties, not appetizing at all. The young person, on the other hand, was strong and chewy. But the leader of the cannibals let the ordinary person go. Why do you think that is?"
"Because they prefer older meat?"
"No, the cannibals said it’s because the young person was too bitter." After saying that, Alena raised the blood-infused ice sword, "Now laugh! Why aren’t you laughing?"
Finally, the reluctant outer god residue showed a smile. Alena passed the test, and it kept its promise by giving her something – a map of the Broken Paradise. However, it was incomplete, only showing a small part that only it knew.
Then the outer god residue floated away. Just as Alena was about to leave, she suddenly heard a voice.
"Miss~ Tell me a demon story! If you get it right, I’ll let you go and give you something nice."
The outer god residue attached itself to a newcomer.
Alena clenched her fist. Just a moment ago, they were telling jokes, and now they wanted a demon story? Are they trying to win her over?
She shouted at the approaching girl, "Don’t pay attention to it!"
Guan Ling stopped, and in a not-so-skilled European language, she stammered, "I… I don’t understand what you’re saying, um…"
Alena looked at Guan Ling and asked, "The country called Ming?"
Guan Ling shook her head and said, "I know a little bit of the language of Ming… I’ve taught myself a little. I’m from Yingzhou."
Alena thought to herself, "This is trouble. She knows some foreign languages, but not Yingzhou. She only learned the language of Ming because Sasha is a diplomat."
While the two women were silent, the outer god residue spoke, "I have a pair of tools here that allow for telepathic communication. They’re a bit broken, but still quite useful. If this young girl can tell me a story that can scare or move me, I’ll give them to you. How about that?"