Chapter 427
Carl and Phyge led Su Jin on a tour of the primordial star. In order to allow as many gods from the first cycle to hide here, they had maximized the use of space on the planet. Besides the large hall in the middle, the rest of the planet was covered in little caves that resembled a slum. It was hard to believe that a god would live in such a place.
But now, these little caves had no gods in them. Throughout the years and cycles, they had left the planet one after another to collect resources and information for the launch of The Beginning. No god who had left the planet was allowed to come back. All of them would eventually be discovered by the Handbook and killed.
The heartless flow of time seemed even more heartless to these gods from the first cycle. It tortured the lives of these people who were from the same era as the primordial deities and made it even harder for them to live day after day.
Su Jin sighed. He couldn’t imagine what he would do if he were one of them. Would he have made the same choice as them? Would he have agreed to sacrifice himself for the sake of a small chance of success in a future he couldn’t foresee?
“It sounds a little silly, but we’re talking about the creatures that existed before the first destruction of the universe. They had much fewer desires compared to the creatures that exist today. In fact, I feel that when a new cycle has new creatures, the Handbook adds several negative emotions into them during the creation process. Perhaps it was because our resistance was too aggressive, so the will of the universe realized that lives had to be controlled,” Carl smiled sadly.
Su Jin nodded slightly and said, “I’ve noticed that too. Us humans are considered more normal, really. The owners from some of the other planets are practically the embodiment of cruelty.”
Carl glanced at Su Jin, then asked, “Let’s talk about you. How did you escape the Handbook’s detection and tracking?”
Su Jin smiled and said, “I don’t know either. When I became an insurgent, I didn’t attract the attention of the Handbook. Perhaps I got lucky!”
Carl and Phyge exchanged glances. They knew that Su Jin was lying to them. The Handbook was a system that would not make any mistakes. It was probably easier to defeat the system than to introduce a bug into the system. Also, the Handbook would become even more sensitive to insurgents when a current cycle was reaching its end. Once discovered, the Handbook would target them continuously until they were dead. While they had heard of all sorts of miracles through the ages, they had never heard of any insurgent who could completely escape both detection and destruction from the Handbook.