Chapter 2
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Chapter 2: I, Gu Qingqing, Sever My Brother-Sister Relationship With Him!
A story editor?
Gu Ran’s spirit lifted—his “golden finger” had finally arrived!
But what exactly does this story editor do?
After carefully studying it, Gu Ran understood.
The purpose of the story editor is to allow him, even though he has crossed into this world, to still retain some of the powers of a sly author, enabling him to modify and edit the storyline.
However, these modifications come with limitations. Some cunning authors often excuse their characters’ behavior by claiming they are merely enacting the story, but those authors are just making excuses, whereas this is the real deal.
This story editor cannot recklessly alter the plot because the characters in these stories truly possess their own souls—they act out the story on their own.
For example, if he were to directly edit the story to make all those besieging him suddenly release him and then immediately commit suicide—it wouldn’t work. It would violate the original setting and logic of the story.
Nor could he simply elevate himself to an invincible status and break through the triangular crystal spire without proper buildup or logical support.
Writing a plot like that would easily provoke a friendly but harsh response from the dear readers.
The role of the story editor lies in supplementing the settings and plot. As long as it aligns with the logic of the story, everything will become reality.
Nevertheless, Gu Ran still tried out his two ideas with the mindset that if it worked, it would be a massive gain. As expected, both were completely rejected by the system.
He failed.
Indeed, he could not rely on the editor to directly cheat his way out.
“In that case…” Gu Ran frowned, thought for a while, and continued to try, “This triangular crystal spire has a weakness—attacking it from the outside is much easier than from the inside.”
This was his supplementary setting for the triangular crystal spire!
It worked!
This success proved that reasonable setting supplementation is entirely feasible.
Gu Ran suddenly had an idea.
Originally, he had intended to add some depth to the final boss’s story. In the manga, the final boss never appeared directly on stage; everything was expressed indirectly, leaving large blanks for supplementary settings.
Now, he could completely fill in those blanks and find a way to redeem himself.
Outside, the crowd that had been observing noticed that the triangular crystal spire projected a light screen.
“What’s going on?”
“What has the tyrant done inside? Is he about to escape?”
Facing this unexpected development, the crowd was shocked. In an instant, various emotions—nervousness, fear, regret—flooded their hearts.
“The tyrant… the Supreme Leader…
Could he really break free under these circumstances? Lin, didn’t you say there was no chance of failure?”
“What should we do? What should we do?
If the Supreme Leader escapes, given his nature, we won’t even have a place to bury our bodies!”
The scene quickly descended into chaos.
In truth, they had never thought of resisting Gu Ran before because Gu Ran had ruled the Human Alliance for so many years, his power and influence were deeply rooted—they didn’t dare to resist.
If it weren’t for Lin Fan giving them hope of defeating Gu Ran, they would never have raised the banner of rebellion.
Now, faced with the unknown, their deeply ingrained fear immediately caused them to panic.
Even Lin Fan’s face showed a trace of helplessness. Their success this time was due to careful planning, exploiting the element of surprise, and relying on the mysterious relics from the ruins to form this coalition to attack Meteor City and besiege Gu Ran.
If Gu Ran could escape under these circumstances, Lin Fan had no plan to deal with it.
“Everyone, there’s no need to worry.
The devices around Meteor Tower that disrupt space have all been destroyed. Even if we can’t defeat him in the end, I can still lead everyone to a successful retreat.”
At this moment, a beauty beside Lin Fan stepped forward and spoke. Her voice was clear and crisp, like a mountain stream, and her appearance was exceptionally delicate, reminiscent of distant green hills.
Her name was Gu Qingqing, Gu Ran’s younger sister, and an S-class space ability user.
This time, they mainly relied on her space teleportation ability to bring so many strong fighters to launch a surprise attack on Meteor City and assault Meteor Tower.
Upon hearing Gu Qingqing’s words, many present were somewhat reassured, and even Lin Fan’s brow relaxed.
An S-class space ability user, if there were no devices disrupting space around, could not be stopped if she was determined to leave.
However, at this moment, a voice suddenly emerged, soft but audible to everyone present.
“Of course you’re not worried,
After all, even if you didn’t have space abilities, you’re still that person’s sister. As long as he cares a bit about sibling ties, do you think he’d kill you? You can betray us at any time, without any risk. But we are different—if it comes to that, our entire families will be killed.”
As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone present changed.
Lin Fan had long had the idea of bringing Gu Qingqing, with her rare space abilities, into his harem, but he had never found a good opportunity.
Now, seeing Gu Qingqing’s face darken, Lin Fan thought his chance had come. He immediately spoke up in her defense:
“I believe in Qingqing.
She’s definitely not that kind of person. Without her, we wouldn’t have had the chance to launch a surprise attack on Meteor Tower and trap that tyrant. And that tyrant is mean and heartless; he even tried to seize Qingqing’s ability core. How could she possibly feel any sibling affection for someone like that?”
“I guarantee it with my honor—
Qingqing is absolutely on our side!”
As the initiator of this coalition, combined with his powerful strength, Lin Fan had considerable prestige, and the others could not ignore his words.
The person who had spoken up earlier remained silent, and the others exchanged glances, but said nothing more.
Gu Qingqing’s beautiful eyes scanned the crowd, but she couldn’t identify who had spoken earlier. However, she knew that person had surely planted seeds of doubt in everyone’s hearts—the rift had already formed.
“Gu Ran, as the Supreme Leader of the Human Alliance, is cruel and murderous, plunging the people of the nineteen main cities into misery. As his kin, he has shown not the slightest bit of familial affection.”
“I, Gu Qingqing, hereby swear, to sever all ties with Gu Ran, to renounce all kinship and loyalty, and to never stand on his side or assist him!”
“If I break this oath, may I die a horrible death!”
As she spoke, Gu Qingqing took out a small, slightly worn knife and cut it in half using her space abilities.
The knife clattered to the ground, split into two pieces.
This knife was something Gu Ran had given her when she was young. She didn’t know why she had kept it all these years, but now, it seemed fitting to use it to completely sever her connection with that cruel, unfeeling tyrant and dictator.
“Qingqing, don’t swear such a vicious oath—It pains me to hear it.” Lin Fan took the opportunity to show his concern.
At that moment, the light screen projected by the triangular crystal spire suddenly began to display images.
“Look! The light screen is showing something!”
Someone noticed the change and immediately cried out in surprise.
“Oh, I understand now.
This is a powerful tool used by that advanced civilization to interrogate prisoners. It not only has the function of imprisoning and executing prisoners but can also extract their memories, even after death. However, those people were usually executed so quickly that their memories couldn’t be extracted before they were completely annihilated.”
“But this tyrant is so powerful,
He has managed to resist for a long time, so it’s possible to extract his memories.”
“The images we’re about to see should be the deeply buried memories within the tyrant’s heart.”
Lin Fan suddenly recalled a piece of information he had previously overlooked and explained aloud.
So, he isn’t about to escape after all.
The crowd, which had been tense with worry, finally relaxed.
But at the same time, a strong sense of curiosity arose in their hearts.
Extracting memories?
So, this triangular crystal spire has that function? As the Chief Consul of the Human Alliance, what memories would this tyrant hold dear?
He must have countless secrets.
Could one of them be the source of his immense power?
With this thought, the crowd’s hearts suddenly burned with anticipation.
Everyone turned their attention to the light screen.