Glorious God Throne

Chapter 177

On the second floor of an apartment in Yuanyang City’s old district, extraordinary figures who appeared mysterious to the outside world sat around a table.

With Bai Yi at the center, clockwise around the table sat: Puppet Master Dongdong, K, the nameless Flower Speaker, Joey, Qi Jiu, Su Huijia, and even the newly acquired cards Palmer and “Black Day” limited skin Day, along with the long-hidden Pei Hefeng – all his vests were neatly arranged here.

All the identities wore the same lazy, sprawled-out posture.

“Cough!” Bai Yi at the head position cleared his throat pretentiously and knocked on the table. “Everyone be serious and mind your identities. You’re attending a meeting called by the God of Order, Lord White King who holds authority over the world – this is literally a divine assembly!”

The vests lounging horizontally and vertically on the sofa immediately sat up properly, then unanimously turned their gazes toward Bai Yi. They cooperatively lowered their heads, speaking in tones that would sound oddly indulgent to outsiders:

“Yes, yes, yes, what are your orders, White King?”

Though his consciousness seemed oddly split into multiple parts, viewing himself from different angles, Bai Yi felt no awkwardness talking to himself. Instead, he announced seriously:

“As you all know, this meeting has been called to address the Return to the Void calamity. That’s why I, the White King who doesn’t interfere with social development, had no choice but to gather top extraordinaries and give you all some ideological mobilization to ensure everyone works together. The local extraordinaries among you should already know your tasks – just follow the plan going forward.”

“Following your arrangements.”

Pei Hefeng, Flower Speaker, Joey, and the inseparable Qi Jiu and Su Huijia all stood to show respect.

“As for the other two visitors from different worlds who have long integrated into this world, I’ve been watching your actions. Since you’re willing to follow this world’s order, I’ll treat you equally. I hope that in the coming world changes, you’ll continue to contribute to this world like local extraordinaries. Moreover, you can’t return anyway – your original worlds were most likely destroyed by the Return to the Void.”

Bai Yi’s serious tone made it seem like he was really negotiating with two people, with no hint that he was talking to himself.

“You can continue operating according to your own methods. Continuing to clean up garbage is fine too. Do either of you have any objections?”

The Puppet Master and K, being controlled by his consciousness, naturally had no objections. Both vests happily accepted the arrangement. “No one can escape the Return to the Void calamity. Since we’ve become part of this world, it’s only natural to contribute.”

“Therefore…” both stood up, “We follow your arrangements.”

“Excellent, such high awareness! I’m glad we’ve reached an agreement!”

Bai Yi immediately started clapping, and several vests joined in. For a moment, applause filled the apartment’s living room.

Clap clap clap clap clap!

The cat Bai Xiaoxi, crouching on the middle table, looked at one then another, feeling that two-legged creatures were really strange. Its round eyes showed confusion. But seeing the two-legged creatures so happy, it cheerfully shook its ears in agreement.

Bai Yi couldn’t resist petting it, his smile brightening threefold. His gaze turned to the two newest card characters sitting opposite him, his tone suddenly becoming enthusiastic, as if saying “just the last two auction items haven’t been sold.”

“—-So, just these last two remain!”

“This is also the original purpose of our meeting.”

“——On the eve of the Return to the Void, two unexpected visitors from another world disrupted the original plans of various factions in this world. Especially you, Mr. Dark Wizard – you’ve made some quite dangerous statements. Someone like you should have been eliminated as an unstable factor. The reason you can be here, as you must understand, is because I’m very interested in the truth you grasp, your own powerful strength, and your methods of wandering through the void. Or rather, these things are valuable to this world.”

As he spoke, Bai Yi leaned forward, his eyes fixed directly on those purple-gray eyes opposite him, his posture full of pressure.

“This world needs your power, and you, who have fallen here and cannot leave in the short term, likewise need this world’s power. Since that’s the case, cooperating to deal with the Return to the Void calamity is the best choice, provided it doesn’t affect your own survival.”

The black-robed wizard nodded calmly. “You’re right.”

“However, I am a wizard who believes in equivalent exchange. So going forward, I will teach the wizard’s truth I possess to those in this world with talent. In exchange, all the truths of this world should also be open to me.”

“——That’s only natural.”

Bai Yi agreed immediately, then added, “However, teaching those with talent? To avoid wasting energy in the short term, just directly find geniuses in scientific research. It happens to gather the elite minds of the whole world, looking at wizard spells through scientific eyes might bring new insights. Then, the only thing you need to do is replicate the Life Tower, integrate this world’s multiple systems, and research how to create a more perfect Void Tower that can use minimal energy to carry more people away.”

A smile flickered in both pairs of eyes as they looked at each other. Bai Yi blinked lightly. “Under this premise, it’s fine if you secretly harvest life force, as long as you don’t disturb too many people. After all, excess garbage is destined to be buried in the old world——there are no tickets for them on my planned new world.”

Those deep purple-gray eyes cooperatively lit up, rippling with anticipation and pleasant surprise. The black-robed wizard stood and bowed like the others. “I follow your arrangements.”

“Now, only you remain, this completely mysterious autistic miss.” Bai Yi’s gaze fell on the last vest. The vest controlled by the same consciousness was wrapped in a polluted robe, staring back at him blankly.

After five seconds of staring, Bai Yi showed an expression of sudden realization, his gaze toward the other becoming gentle. “I see!”

The other vests began adding narration one after another, starting with Heavenly Master Qi Jiu. “After such and such, this and that, a series of exchanges outsiders need not understand, the White King successfully opened the heart of the mysterious otherworld visitor and learned of their background and past experiences.”

Su Huijia immediately followed. “It was a world already destroyed by Return to the Void. In that world, the most terrible Return to the Void calamity was polluted black rain. Due to her talent in Holy Light magic and extremely high pollution resistance, our otherworld visitor miss was seen by the remaining survivors as the Child of the Sun from prophecy, the embodiment of hope and savior.”

“…But she failed.”

Pei Hefeng added a line of narration from the side.

And a certain ghost killer lurking in the rainy night continued with a deep, cold voice, their tone revealing merciless mockery. “Not only did she fail to save everyone, but the collapse of excessive expectations for herself also broke her, turning the hope and mission she had always carried into complete despair.”

“Controlled by emotions of despair, realizing that world had no hope left and everyone would turn into monsters, the out-of-control savior became the Black Day, burning the entire world and destroying all people who had become or were about to become monsters.”

Puppet Master Dongdong stood up, dramatically spreading both arms and speaking in a sing-song tone. “Poor soul!”

“——To this day she still dares not face the fact that she destroyed everything with her own hands. Her only wish for living in this world is to fulfill the prophecy, to become the true sun that saves everyone!”

Flower Speaker let out a sympathetic sigh.

“From then on, this obsessive idealist locked her true self deep in her heart, her exterior just an empty shell, while deep inside she constantly studies her healing arts, as if waiting for the day she can return to the past and rewrite the ending, as if this is her only redemption.”

The relay came to Joey, who looked at Palmer next to him, and the “person in question” next to Palmer, his tone rising. “Now, she has been picked up by an evil dark wizard and brought to a new world, a world likewise about to face Return to the Void. Will she continue living like a walking corpse, or gather her courage to step forward and rewrite this ending?”

“Snap!”

Bai Yi raised his hand to snap his fingers while calling out “Cut!”n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

“That’s enough here, stories need to be continued to maintain suspense.”

He smiled at the last motionless card sitting there. “As for this last visitor from another world, given your special state, you can continue being autistic. After all, obsessive idealists will always be moved by key elements. For now, just consider it coming to a new world to relax.”

“Let me think, you haven’t really understood this world yet, have you? I mean truly seeing with your own eyes?”

Scripts were already being composed in his mind one after another, but Bai Yi still pretended he was seriously having a meeting with his vests. Everything was decided through discussion between the White King and the extraordinaries, definitely not him acting unilaterally, writing, directing and performing himself!

He arranged the future direction for this alternate identity in minutes, tilting his head to look at Day in snow-white robes wearing a snow-white mask, and couldn’t help thinking of the Sun Temple’s mask and robe attire. “Just realized even your fashion sense is so similar. Perhaps you’d be interested in the Sun Temple that worships the Sun God?”

The previously motionless vest immediately raised her head to look at him.

“…Sun Temple?”

……

“Alright, everything’s settled!” Casually tossing the densely written notebook onto the sofa, Bai Yi stretched.

——Regarding how the White King gathered top extraordinaries and reached agreement with them, and how he arranged and cooperated with otherworld visitors, a simple outline was completed. After all, he only needed to notify various countries’ higher-ups of the final results.

This was also why he was bored enough to act out scenes with himself.

Consider it a preview of the script before distributing it to others.

As for the person responsible for distributing the script, that would naturally be Qi Jiu. After all, this face was already familiar in various official institutions——surely organizations like the Special Case Investigation Team had been waiting for results since the two otherworld visitors went with him to see the White King.

Now it was time to let them focus on their own tasks with peace of mind.

……

“…So that’s how it is?”

Liu Ningshuang, who had taken a day off due to urgent family matters and just returned to work, heard the big news from her colleagues.

“Those few most powerful extraordinaries have all reached agreement under the White King’s gathering and will become our strongest support? That terrifying dark wizard has also agreed to cooperate and is willing to teach this world’s people the wizard system he possesses, and now geniuses from various countries’ scientific fields have been recruited, including Yin Xubai?” These successive pieces of news made Liu Ningshuang dizzy, especially the last news which gave her a strange sense of absurdity. “Really not joking? My cousin is going from scientist to wizard? How does that sound so ridiculous?”

Chu Xingrui retorted. “Science is just one way of observing the world. If wizard knowledge can be systematically categorized, learned and explored, then it can also be called science.”

Liu Ningshuang was stunned, looking at him with an incredulous expression. “You can say things like this too?”

“What do you mean I can say things like this too!” Chu Xingrui was unwilling, but under Liu Ningshuang’s skeptical gaze, he could only purse his lips, “Fine, these were your cousin’s original words.”

“That’s what he said to refute me before he left.”

“So you’re just repeating what you just learned…” Liu Ningshuang immediately rolled her eyes dramatically, speaking irritably.

“Oh right, what about one person?” She suddenly thought of something.

“Who?”

“That girl called Day.” Liu Ningshuang’s impression of her was too deep, after all she had only seen people from the Sun Temple wrapped up so completely from head to toe. Moreover, that dark wizard said she had destroyed the last survivors of a world, which sounded terrifying.

She asked curiously, “She should also be a powerful extraordinary, right? Is she a wizard or some other system? Is she also willing to teach her powers to us Blue Star people?”

“About that…” Chu Xingrui’s expression was strange, “You’ve really stumped me there. I really don’t know.”

“…After all, although she also went with Mr. Qi Jiu to meet us, she didn’t say a single word from start to finish. Mr. Qi Jiu only said she was interested in the Sun Temple, asked the Sun Temple people some questions, then let the Sun Temple take her away.”

“Huh? Take her away?” What kind of description was that?

Seeing Liu Ningshuang’s expression that was hard to describe, Chu Xingrui spread his hands and said, “Really just took her away, anyway Qi Jiu told her to follow the Sun Temple so she followed. Mr. Qi Jiu also hinted that this person isn’t as dangerous as that dark wizard… According to him, just treat her as a guest who came for exchange and tourism?”

Liu Ningshuang had a belly full of questions brought out by him, curious as if her heart was being scratched by a hundred claws. She was about to ask more when at this moment, Li Fufeng rushed into this office at sprinting speed. “Extra! Extra! The Pan-Human Alliance has been officially established!”

He took a big gulp of water, his face still flushed with excitement.

“——Now on the Capital TV news channel, the higher-ups have already announced the whole truth to the public, and it’s synchronized globally. Other countries’ TV stations are about to start too. It’s expected to be chaotic for a while, we should also prepare to do order maintenance work.”

At the same time, all over the world, in various countries’ news channels, high-level leaders speaking various languages appeared before every citizen, announcing to the world the truth about the approaching Return to the Void. The existence of the White King, other powerful extraordinaries and otherworld visitors who would contribute their efforts was also announced without reservation after omitting the causes, consequences and details.

In addition, they also announced various efforts made by countries during this period, including those civil defense projects, rescue equipment, and the continuously growing extraordinary teams…

Only half a month remained in the countdown given by the White King. Although they knew revealing everything would inevitably cause chaos, they had no choice. Before the announcement, they had already done their best to prepare——

The crisis of world’s end, powerful backing and support like the White King, and the fact that national upper levels never gave up trying… Everything was displayed before everyone, making them all fall into emotions of anxiety, worry, confusion and unease.

Then came inevitable chaos.

Fortunately, the higher-ups were prepared. While announcing the crisis, their displayed chips one after another, the spokesperson’s highly infectious tone constantly envisioning a beautiful future of defeating doomsday, and supernatural powers like extraordinaries – all of this prevented all citizens who learned the truth from falling into complete despair.

——Provided that the terrible nature of Return to the Void was concealed, the public only knew it as some kind of unpredictable doomsday disaster.

“Humanity will not be defeated by any disaster. Since ancient times, we have overcome too many difficulties and conquered too many catastrophes!”

They did everything possible to encourage everyone.

Finally, the various national higher-ups announced one more piece of news.

“From now on, the Pan-Human Alliance is officially established!”

“Whether ordinary people or extraordinaries, whether from Yao Country, Sang Country, or Chenxing Country… whether people of this world or other worlds, it doesn’t matter. What matters is that we work together for survival. From now on, we will unite closely under the banner of the Pan-Human Alliance, striving for everyone’s tomorrow, fighting for this world’s future!”

In rooms, hospitals, streets, many many people stood transfixed before TV screens, unconsciously holding their breath.

“…Additionally, with the consent of all members of the Extraordinary Forum, the Extraordinary Forum will become the official forum of the Pan-Human Alliance, renamed to ‘Dawn’. Anyone from any country in the world who identifies with the Pan-Human Alliance’s purpose and is willing to work with us can log into Dawn.”

“It has official disaster prevention and risk avoidance guidelines, providing rich guidance on what to do when doomsday comes, targeting multiple possible forms of doomsday. There are also sections exclusive to extraordinaries…”

Some people had already eagerly clicked into the new Dawn website.

Besides the most eye-catching disaster prevention and risk avoidance guidelines, they found introductions and promotions of powerful extraordinaries from various countries, task sections targeting various industries’ ordinary people and extraordinaries, various countries’ planned future goals and recent plans… In short, no need to be confused and idle, everyone could contribute to humanity’s future according to their abilities, even if just providing labor for various infrastructure work.

——Such arrangements could minimize chaos to the greatest extent. After all, once busy there would be no free time to think too much.

At the bottom of the webpage was a striking line.

[——From now on, let’s take action! For our common world, for all humanity’s common destiny!]