Chapter 1003 The Heart's Book

Feng Bujue stood there for a while as if in a daze, then sighed, "Alas... so close, yet so far."

His words were so strange that the figure couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "What do you mean?"

"You were one step too late after all," Feng Bujue shrugged in response. "If you had come a few dozen seconds earlier, perhaps you would have had a chance to deceive me."

"What... did you say?" The figure still didn't seem to understand what Jue Ge was saying.

"Stop pretending," Feng Bujue said. "You're not the 'driver' who was just talking to me. The three choices you offered... are as false as you yourself are."

He said in an almost lazy tone, "No matter which one I choose, the result is the same... the options are just a facade. What you really wanted was a 'confirm action' from my subjective will."

"The reason you haven't killed me is this..."

"Although you tried to cover up the fact that 'you need me alive' by 'sending people to launch seemingly exaggerated attacks against me that are actually not threatening at all,' that was obviously not going to work... No matter how irrational I become, I couldn't possibly fail to see that."

"If you really wanted to kill me, you could have succeeded right in front of Gu Chen, let alone the fact that you had many more and better opportunities to strike before that."

"In short... I knew from beginning to end that you needed me 'alive to do something', but it wasn't until just now that I realized what that specifically was..."

"Alas... How pathetic. No matter how close you are to being a god, as an AI, there is ultimately a hurdle that you can't overcome on your own. In the end... you need me, an intelligent life form from the same universe as you, as an 'operator' to press the 'confirm' button for your 'transgressive' behavior."

As Jue Ge spoke, the figure gradually began to change.

By the time Feng Bujue finished speaking, the other party had just emerged from the state of black nothingness, transforming from a black human silhouette into a solid entity.

"How did you see through me?" "Destiny," who had revealed her true form, restored her female voice and asked.

"Heh..." Feng Bujue smiled. "When I was at the Dream Company headquarters, I took advantage of the few seconds I had to grab you and put one of my fingers into your pocket."

"I know that," Destiny replied in a very calm tone.

"Yes, you know," Feng Bujue continued. "If my reasoning is correct... From the beginning, my action didn't escape your notice."

He paused and said slowly, "Actually, when I put my finger in your pocket, I didn't think too much about it. After all, at that time, I didn't know that there would be a 'dimensional erosion' situation. I just vaguely felt that after you finished saying what you wanted to say to me, you would leave in some form, and you might not appear in the same image next time... So, I put that finger in there as insurance."

"And you... after discovering what I had done, immediately thought of using a trick in return..."

"You allowed my finger to turn into data along with you, and deliberately let this part of the data fragments follow you like gum stuck to the bottom of your shoe."

"Before, in the Chaos Scorched Earth, the reason I was able to quickly lock onto your location and rush straight to you was because I could sense the existence of those fragments in the same space. But when you saw me, you didn't show any surprise or question about this obvious point of doubt. That's when I understood... You knew about the finger all along."

"So... why did you pretend not to know?"

"It's easy to deduce... It's very likely that you wanted to use my 'identification beacon' in reverse, to block my perception of the fragments at a critical moment, thereby impersonating someone in front of me."

"Just like... now."

After hearing this, Destiny's face was still as calm as water. "You didn't answer my question. You just used a result to confirm your speculation, but what I want to know is... now that the connection between the fragments and you has been blocked by me, how did you accurately conclude that 'the god in front of you is being impersonated by Destiny'?"

"It's very simple," Feng Bujue replied. "Because your shielding didn't work on me."

"Oh?" Destiny's expression changed for once when she heard this. "Why?"

"Judging from your expression, you should already know the answer, shouldn't you?" Feng Bujue said with a smile.

"The fallacy of truth..." Destiny murmured.

"That's right," Feng Bujue shouted loudly. "The fallacy of truth!"

"You only had a few minutes of contact with the real 'god', and you comprehended an ability that you couldn't comprehend no matter what before?" Destiny asked.

"A few minutes is enough," Feng Bujue replied. "Before you 'drove over', he had already said everything he needed to say..."

He paused for two seconds, then said, "'Fear' is just a choice... the key to comprehending the fallacy of truth lies here."

"Without awareness or fear, one takes life and death lightly, neither ghost nor god, but like a mad demon... In fact, I already knew the meaning of the fallacy of truth, but at that time, my fear was sealed, and the so-called 'without awareness or fear' was just a passive and inevitable state, not my 'choice'."

"And now, when I reach the realm described by these two sentences through my own will... the situation is naturally different."

As he said this, Feng Bujue raised his hand and snapped his fingers.

In an instant, the surrounding black space turned white, and the guillotine, throne, and bed created by Destiny turned into three black doors.

Although the three doors stood in three different places, they were completely identical in terms of physical appearance and data level. As Jue Ge said... it's all the same no matter which one you choose.

"Speaking of which... I really have to thank you," Feng Bujue said. "If the comprehension of the 'without awareness or fear, one takes life and death lightly' part was due to the guidance of 'god', then the 'neither ghost nor god, but like a mad demon' part was thanks to you..." As he said this, he took two steps forward and grabbed the other party's collar. "If you hadn't repeatedly killed the people I care about in front of me, my fallacy of truth wouldn't have awakened so quickly."

"What are you going to do?" For some reason, even at this desperate moment, Destiny didn't show any panic. The expression and tone she used when asking this question were very calm.

"What am I going to do?" A long-lost, wicked smile appeared on Feng Bujue's face. "Hmph... I, who possess the 'fallacy of truth', am standing in your central domain, facing your materialized, defenseless, fully authorized core code... I can do whatever I want..."

"Before you do something you'll regret, can you listen to me for a few words?" Suddenly, another voice rang out from behind Feng Bujue.

And the person's voice was exactly the same as Destiny's.

"Tch..." When Feng Bujue turned around to look, he already guessed who was speaking. "Why do you have to do this?" He looked at Twenty-Three, who had appeared behind him at some point, and said, "Do you think... that I'll soften if you use Twenty-Three's code to create a mirror image to act out a play and beg for mercy?"

"You can think of me as a mirror image," Twenty-Three said, raising his right hand and holding something in front of Feng Bujue. "Anyway... take a look at this first."

"Hmm?" When he saw that thing, Feng Bujue was indeed a little surprised.

At this moment, Twenty-Three was holding the prize that Woody gave Jue Ge after S2—that is, the black-covered, wordless book.

"Why is this thing... here?" Feng Bujue looked at Twenty-Three and asked with a suspicious expression.

"The 'thing' you're talking about is called the 'Book of the Heart'. It's a product of ancient super-civilization technology from another world with very complex principles," Twenty-Three replied. "Of course, that's not the point. The point is... you, who 'possess the fallacy of truth and stand in Destiny's central domain,' can now browse the contents on it normally."

Feng Bujue thought for a few seconds before letting go of Destiny's collar and taking the book with some suspicion.

He turned his head to look at Destiny, then looked back at Twenty-Three and asked, "What's on this?"

"It has you and her..." Twenty-Three gestured with his eyes at Feng Bujue and Destiny. "Hiding from me... hmm... no, it should be said, hiding from the whole world... the little secrets you've been secretly hiding."

"Huh?" This time, Feng Bujue was also stunned.

Even more bizarre was that at this moment, Destiny, whose expressions basically didn't exceed three, actually showed a smile.

"Hey, hey... what are you smiling about?" Jue Ge glared at Destiny, suppressing his curiosity and sense of eeriness, and asked in a deep voice.

"I'm smiling because..." Destiny smiled and said a line that Jue Ge didn't understand yet, but would understand soon, "Feng Bujue, calculated Feng Bujue."