Chapter 103 part 1
Golden fragments exploded one by one at Shu Changze’s fingertips within the chaos, like fireworks at a celebration. Confined within the range of the chains, their light strove to get as close to Shu Ci as possible.
It was a way of expressing gratitude mixed with excitement and joy.
Shu Changze’s gaze softened amidst the small golden fireworks.
This wasn’t the first time he had set off such dazzling fireworks. On the night Shu Ci arrived, successfully escaped the Central Hotel, and met Lu Wanqing, he had already set off a round on the surface of the Chengxin Sea.
The boy Shu Changze had once glimpsed in the deep sea, soaked like a wretched puppy, had grown up to be bold and unrestrained. The moment he stepped into this world, Shu Changze immediately sensed itâperhaps he could be saved.
“Youâthis world is waiting for me to save it?”
Shu Ci pointed at himself in disbelief.
Influenced by his experiences in his youth, he rarely created works with Hollywood-style heroism.
He had survived rainy nights and high fevers, endured obscurity and universal scorn, and was someone who truly climbed from the mud to the stars. Therefore, he never believed in any saviors, nor did he believe that a tiny individual could change the torrent of history and the fate of the world.
Moreover, he had never taken himself too seriously just because of the transmigration. After all, nine out of ten protagonists in contemporary web novels were chosen ones like this.
Therefore, after listening to and understanding Shu Changze’s words, his mood was incredibly complex and subtle.
This entity, who could be called the World’s Original Consciousness and his father, was suffering under the Plot Consciousness while waiting for him to break the game and change the “fate” written for everyone.
And what had he been doing since he arrived?
…Hooking up with the cheap tool-husband sent by the Plot Consciousness.
“Don’t underestimate the efforts you’ve made.”
Shu Changze smiled meaningfully. Shu Ci couldn’t help but lean closer to Lu Wanqing.
His smile made Shu Ci suspect that the World’s Original Consciousness was actually omniscient and omnipotent. Why did it feel like he could see through even his psychological activities?
“If you hadn’t been resisting its settings, hadn’t remained unwavering under Gu Lanzhu’s coercion and bribery, if you hadn’t insisted on walking a path completely different from that book, we wouldn’t be meeting here.”
As Shu Changze spoke, he tugged at the chains on his body.
Amidst the crackling sound of the chains, Shu Ci suddenly saw the mottled cracks on them.
“As the Plot Consciousness comes from a constraint of another dimension, I can only resist, but I cannot break free. But you are different.”
“Because I come from the same world as it?” Shu Ci asked.
“Maybe… also because you are a director, a director who loves to dream.” Shu Changze tilted his head to look at him.
After Shu Ci arrived, he could sense all the information belonging to this soul from another worldâ
He was a creator.
His job was to create, to create fictional stories, to build worlds in another dimension. So he was born with the ability to shape and change the origin of a world.
“You once came to this world through dreams, and later you also dreamed of your marked partner. From the moment you remembered his face, you dropped an anchor in this world. So after you read that book, I linked to your consciousness in the dream and brought you over.”
Shu Changze examined him carefully. “If I’m not wrong, you are an existence of an even higher dimension than it.”
Shu Ci: “…”
If he was talking about that book that made him stay up for several nights, then indeed. From that perspective, he was 3D, and this world kidnapped by the plot in the book was 2D.
Wait. Shu Ci turned to look at Lu Wanqing.
“So to me… you are actually a paper person?”
Shu Ci froze, the tips of his ears turning slightly red.
He suddenly thought of that unique connection between them which could be described as very eroticâ
Every touch he made on Lu Wanqing in the photo could be felt by him; he had dreamed of the crisis Lu Wanqing was in, and Lu Wanqing could hear his urgent calls.
“You guessed right.” The corners of Shu Changze’s mouth lifted, admiring Shu Ci’s unpredictable expressions like watching a play. “You are an existence above our dimension. As for… that’s probably because the moment you re-established a connection with this place, you saw him.”
Shu Ci jerked his head up and glared at Shu Changze.
He really was omniscient and omnipotent!!!
In the days after the complete marking, Shu Ci had used this wonderful connection to play some large-scale games with Lu Wanqing quite a few times. He just thought about it briefly in his mind, and this improper dad knew it all!
No, to be precise, he should have known all along?!
A faint blush flew across Shu Ci’s cheeks, and he ground his teeth secretly, considering whether to give Shu Changze a hush fee after solving everything so he would forget all this shame, or to figure out a way to deal with him along with the Plot Consciousness.
Suddenly his waist tightened. Turning his head, he saw Lu Wanqing pull him into his arms.
“He hasn’t shown such a grumpy expression for a long time,” Lu Wanqing said calmly to Shu Changze. “Even if you can be tentatively called his father, please don’t tease him anymore.”
Shu Ci raised his eyebrows in surprise.
Then, he leaned naturally into Lu Wanqing’s arms, nodding at Shu Changze with borrowed authority.
“Good, you know how to be angry for your wife. But he’s already thinking about how to silence me; you don’t need to worry about him being aggrieved.” Shu Changze looked kind and benevolent. “I’m just doing a little test for his parents. After all, it’s easy to be an excellent husband, but much harder to be a son-in-law approved by the elders.”
Lu Wanqing’s slight anger that had just condensed vanished instantly.
After all, no husband didn’t want the approval of his in-laws.
Just then, the cave shook violently. The chains on Shu Changze’s body tightened, strangling him until he coughed repeatedly.
“Oh my, it seems anxious. I won’t tease you anymore.”
After coughing a few times, Shu Changze touched the tip of his nose and exhaled a long breath.
Wait until the chains stopped tightening, he continued, “Thanks to your arrival, when you took actions different from the Omega in the settings, you reversed the trajectory of event development. This power greatly helped me resist its binding.”
“With the resistance and opposition from your higher dimension, the confinement on me loosened. The power struggle between me and it became more obvious, more… intense enough to be brought onto the stage of the whole world.”
Speaking of this, Shu Changze couldn’t help but look at Lu Wanqing with relief.
“Should I say you are keen or alert? In the last repetition, you already discovered the existence of mutant creatures and reported it to He Lian. The progress at the start this time was faster than I imagined.”
“Just stumbled upon it by luck.” Lu Wanqing didn’t dare to take credit.
He just did what a Golden Shield should do. He didn’t expect the tiny clue he caught would be the guy affecting the whole world.
“Mutant creatures are the product of the Plot Consciousness, wandering on the surface of the earth, accompanying products generated to suppress me. And it also needs to consume energy to suppress me, so every time I resist and struggle, abnormal atmospheric changes form in the atmosphere.”
A trace of guilt appeared in Shu Changze’s eyes.
He was a trapped person after all, unable to stop the steps of the mutant creatures. The Plot Consciousness played its accompanying products to the extreme, even hoping to use them to force everything back to the “right track.”
“Actually, whether it’s the rainfall in the Central District different from previous years, the tsunami in District 3, or the warming in District 7, they are all manifestations of the power struggle between us.”
Of course, the situation in District 7 today was different from the other two. That was the Plot Consciousness actively provoking him to threaten Shu Ci into submission. But Shu Changze didn’t care.
As long as Shu Ci could reach here, he didn’t mind being used by Zhao Qinfeng.
“I think I basically understand.” Shu Ci straightened up from Lu Wanqing’s warm embrace, rolled his neck, and moved his wrists. “So, can I understand it as: only I, a person from the same dimension as it, can completely get rid of it?”
Shu Changze: “Correct.”
Lu Wanqing said cautiously, “There are also the mutant creatures; they must be eliminated simultaneously. According to you, as long as it continues to suppress you, new mutant creatures will appear forever.”
“That’s simple.” Shu Ci seemed to think of something, the corners of his mouth tilting up slightly. “Just make it unable to suppress Dad, right?”
“…How?”
With more urgent matters at hand, Lu Wanqing didn’t dwell on the address “Dad” for now.
Shu Ci turned to look at Shu Changze, raising his hand to gently stroke his own neck, understanding in his eyes. “Mutant creatures are its accompanying products. What about you? You have them too, right?”
Shu Changze chuckled aloud. “I knew you could do it. There’s nothing that head of yours can’t think of.”
Lu Wanqing looked at the two playing charades, suddenly a bit confused.
But soon, he saw the clue from Shu Ci’s movementâ
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