Point of difference doom

Chapter 183 182: Ways to break the blockade

In a short period of time, Zhou Baiyu knew very well that if he wanted to leave the Longxia area, he could only take the train.

Maybe one day in the future, I will take the train frequently.

And the opportunity is today.

After figuring out all this, Zhou Baiyu was very cooperative.

He followed Flight Attendant No. 1 and slowly passed through many carriages.

When he arrived at the kitchen carriage, Zhou Baiyu saw an interesting description of his talent as an alienator.

[Item name: Stubborn Guoge.]

[Specialty: Doesn’t stubbornness count? 】

[Introduction: When you are put into the pot, you become all kinds of food. You can be chocolate-flavored chocolate or shit-flavored shit.

Or you can mix it. Just put in the regular passengers, or passengers, and it can make the passengers into any delicious food according to the passengers' physique.

Some people's life is like a pile of shit, some people's life is like chocolate, and some people have a hot temper, which is suitable for making hairy blood.

Maybe you can go in and give it a try to see what kind of delicacy your life will be made into. I guess the taste must be very complicated? Anyway, you will die if you try it.

By the way, it is said that this was once the pot of a savior. When the savior was alive, it did not have such special abilities. It was not until the savior left it that it mutated proudly and was discovered by the new gods.】

[Status: Cannot be alienated. The Pot Clan will never be a slave, alienated, enchanted, sent a spirit, or diseased unless it wants to. 】

This is a pot placed in the kitchen carriage. Although Zhou Baiyu has no obsession with pots, he always feels that... this is a pot with a story.

Soon the two arrived at the power source compartment.

In the power source compartment, Zhou Baiyu saw various magical items that only existed in the realm of human civil science experts through various descriptions.

He had to sigh that this train was really magical, like something that appeared from some fairy tale world.

It would be nice if there were no passengers with those strange rules on the train.

After passing through the power source car, we arrived at the conductor's car.

After entering the carriage, Zhou Baiyu saw a long round table.

It looks like a giant round table used for meetings.

Sitting at the top of the round table is the train conductor.

The same blue uniform as Flight Attendant No. 1, but the conductor has no mask, only a thick white beard, and looks extremely old.

After seeing Zhou Baiyu, he pointed to the position in front of him.

If the company is holding a meeting, then Zhou Baiyu will sit in the second-in-command position.

This made conductor No. 1 a little surprised, but he absolutely obeyed all the conductor's arrangements.

"Sit down, young man."

Zhou Baiyu was not afraid. If he wanted to kill himself, the pile of regular passengers in the VIP room would be enough to kill him many times.

There is no need for the train conductor to take action himself.

Although I don’t know what level of corruption or pollution the conductor No. 1 and the train conductor are.

But thinking about it, it is definitely not easy to manage the passengers and regular passengers on this train.

But Zhou Baiyu still thought wrong. The train conductor's first words shocked Zhou Baiyu.

"I am just like you. I am also a human being. I am not a corrupt species. I am a pure practitioner."

"Many pioneers died on this train, and I have been paying close attention."

A pure practitioner?

Isn’t that the same as Constantine?

Zhou Baiyu was calm on the surface, but there were waves in his heart.

The Pure Walker appeared in the territory of Long Xia. This is completely in conflict with the rules of the gods, right?

The conductor continued:

"I used to drive a train on Sue's pacifist train. When Sue was still there, in an era when you might not have been born yet, I had already become a Pure Walker."

"You can understand me as...the first batch of Pure Walkers in World No. 3. About sixty years ago, I became a Pure Walker."

World No. 3.

Zhou Baiyu noticed this extremely critical statement.

This means that the other party, like himself, also knows that there are three worlds.

This is understandable, after all, there are many places that trains can go to.

No matter what, this is really a train that can travel through all the worlds.

But what shocked Zhou Baiyu was... Sixty years ago, there were pure practitioners?

If World No. 3 is my own world, wouldn’t that mean——

This old man sixty years ago, when the world was normal and nothing weird happened in any country...

Have you already started to come into contact with the advance world?

Wait, if the other party is a Pure Walker... then wouldn't the other party's timeline be the same as mine?

Does the conductor know this is version 2.15?

The train conductor seemed to see what Zhou Baiyu was thinking when he frowned, and he said slowly:

"The explanation of all this is very complicated. In your understanding, the forerunners of the Pure Walkers in this world only appeared not long ago, only a few years ago."

"Well...it's hard to explain what's going on here. You just need to know that I'm not a corrupt person."

Zhou Baiyu said:

"The current version is 2.15."

This sentence is a declarative sentence, but it is also a question posed by Zhou Baiyu.

The conductor smiled and said:

"I am different from the traditional Pure Walkers. I cannot travel through the timeline and travel in different versions like your forerunners."

"Because the God I believe in is a rather special God. When I gain certain rights and interests, I am destined to lose certain rights and interests."

"My journey is decided by my guests."

"Your journey is determined by the gods."

Zhou Baiyu thought about the last two sentences carefully and figured out the meaning.

The conductor said:

"The places I can go to are farther away than the places you recruited, and closer to the future. But the prerequisite for all this is that there needs to be a passenger."

"The train will look for destined passengers. The spirit of the train will appear in some people's dreams or hallucinations."

"It will tell these people where to get on the bus. And I will drive through these places and pick up these destined people to the bus."

"I may drive from 2.15 to 2.14. Or I may drive from 2.15 to 2.16... Who knows, the train needs an owner. I am the owner of the train, but it is our passengers who decide the destination of me and the train."

"Can you understand what I say?"

The conductor looked at Zhou Baiyu with friendly eyes.

Zhou Baiyu finally understood.

The conductor is a pure traveler. It stands to reason that the conductor should be like the forerunners, like Constantine or himself, able to go to various recruitment places.

For example, I occasionally go to version 1.01, and sometimes I go to version 2.49... Anyway, within this range, I will continue to be recruited.

Explore a whole world of puzzles.

But currently, there are two different points about the train conductor.

First of all, the time line for the train conductor to become a pure traveler is very early. It is earlier than any forerunner Zhou Baiyu knows.

So much so that Zhou Baiyu wondered whether the train conductor was a pure traveler at the end of the last era.

Secondly, the god that the train conductor believes in is the god of transactions and choices.

One of the responsibilities and authorities of a purifier is to be able to travel to different versions and purify pollution.

And the train conductor... seemed to use this responsibility and authority as a bargaining chip in exchange for the identity of the train conductor.

He can follow the train and go to any version and anywhere. The price is that he also loses the ability of the Pure Walker to travel to various recruitment and timelines.

So this is an equivalent exchange.

"In exchange of equal value, you exchanged the authority of the Pure Walker for the authority of the train conductor?" Zhou Baiyu asked.

The conductor nodded approvingly:

"You are really a very smart person. I think our cooperation will be very pleasant."

Zhou Baiyu frowned again:

"Cooperation? What cooperation? According to you, you have survived in several worlds for decades, and you can follow the train through different versions..."

"Your experience and abilities are superior to mine, and all the passengers in the car are in awe of you. Why do you need me?"

The train conductor already knew about Zhou Baiyu’s problem:

"Those rules will be updated from time to time... After some rules are eliminated, they will be replaced with new rules."

"Your journey is determined by the 'gods' or 'us'. My journey is determined by the passengers."

"Though those rule passengers will be afraid of me and my flight attendants."

"But any other passengers, unless they are extremely powerful beings... most of them need to deal with regular passengers."

"There are very few passengers who can reach the terminal. And we cannot interfere in this process."

"This is the principle of fair trade, this is the God I believe in...the most core principle."

"Everyone who boards the train must undergo a test. Boarding the train means that you can go to the place you want. This is cargo, and cargo needs to pay a price."

"The price is to survive in the train. The flight attendants will provide real or false information about the rules. All passengers taking the train must survive in the carriage full of rules before they can reach their destination."

"This has also resulted in many passengers being unable to arrive at all. I'm not afraid to tell you that out of a hundred passengers, only about one passenger can successfully reach the terminal."

"Even this is relatively optimistic."

"If I die before arriving at the terminal... it means that I will not be able to reach the place where the passengers are. When the passengers die, I will stop immediately and no longer go to the passengers' destination, but turn around and look for new passengers.

"

Zhou Baiyu probably understood.

The train needs passengers to start.

Without passengers, the train is useless.

And even if there are passengers, the train may only be halfway through... before problems occur.

Because passengers can't stand it, and due to various strange rules and regulations, passengers may die on the way before reaching their destination.

Then the train will have to stop traveling to its destination and instead look for new passengers.

“What happens if no passengers ever arrive at their destination?”

Zhou Baiyu has undoubtedly reached a critical point.

The train conductor said solemnly:

"Then the Pantheon may think that the value of the train is not high, and will find a way... to destroy the train."

Pantheon?

Zhou Baiyu didn't expect to hear the words Pantheon here.

He had a vague feeling that in the land of Long Xia, the Seven Demon Emperors and Sui Shen were the biggest masters. In the future version 2.49, there would be a battle for sovereignty between the Seven Demon Emperors and Sui Shen.

But outside of Longxia, the Pantheon is the real behemoth.

As soon as he heard about Pantheon, Zhou Baiyu became completely interested.

"The Pantheon may be a more terrifying existence than sewing a body, and even more terrifying than the Seven Demon Emperors."

"If I can collect information about such a behemoth before it notices me, it may be of great help to me in fighting them in the future."

"The most important thing is that the train conductor's remarks seem to be... inconsistent with the Pantheon?"

"This means the train conductor is a potential friendly force."

Zhou Baiyu analyzed the situation in his mind, and then said:

"What kind of existence is the Pantheon?"

"You can ask such a question, it seems that you have already been in contact with them."

said the train conductor.

Zhou Baiyu nodded:

"In the world I live in, I have interacted with people from the Pantheon several times. Speaking of which, the Pantheon will also take the train? Where are they going?"

The conductor looked at Zhou Baiyu and said slowly:

"The place they want to go to is the territory of Longxia. But so far, they have not succeeded."

"One hundred out of one hundred polluted species that went to the Long Xia area died because of the rules in the car."

"There was, however, one case where the pollution species arranged by the Pantheon successfully arrived, but was killed by a corrupt species called Sui Shen."

Sewing?

Zhou Baiyu felt that it was getting more and more interesting.

Suishen and the people from Pantheon... got into a fight? Together with Suishen, he actually became a pioneer in guarding Long Xia?

The conductor said:

"Anyway, what you need to know is that as a train traveling through various places, it is difficult for me to avoid the Pantheon."

"Their power is huge, and their followers are everywhere."

"Most of the passengers I met are their people."

"And I can feel...Pantheon has become very suspicious of me, and has become increasingly impatient with the train."

Zhou Baiyu still doesn’t understand a little:

"Once the Pantheon becomes suspicious of you and loses patience with the train, may it destroy the strange train?"

"Yes." The train conductor nodded.

Zhou Baiyu asked again: "Then what is the destination of Pantheon to Longxia?"

"Creating Gods." The train's voice was dull.

Zhou Baiyu must say that he heard too much shocking news today.

So much so that he is no longer so frightened inside.

Creating gods... actually fits the word "Pantheon" very well.

The train conductor continued to say the explosive information that shocked Zhou Baiyu:

"Gods will turn into rules. The same goes for created gods. To a certain extent, the highest level of the pantheon does not dare to become a god."

"So the most terrifying thing in this world is not gods, but demigods like the man in the black cloak in front of you."

"The purpose of creating gods in the Pantheon is to transport various mysterious treasures to the territory of Longxia, in an attempt to make the demons and corrupt species in Longxia's territory... become gods through these mysterious treasures."

Zhou Baiyu frowned:

"Is it possible that the mysterious treasures of the Pantheon don't cost money? Only one person in a hundred people can pass the test of the train alive, and this person may even be killed by the corrupt species in Longxia. This success rate cannot be achieved every time.

Are all passengers allowed to carry mysterious treasures with them?"

The conductor shook his head:

"Of course not. The mysterious treasures are also extremely important items to the Pantheon."

"So Pantheon is currently only in the experimental stage, trying to test the success rate of trains transporting the carriers of mysterious treasures."

"Only when the success rate reaches a certain level, the Pantheon will officially release the mysterious treasures for 'stowaways' to sneak across."

"It is precisely because the success rate is so low that the Pantheon may think that the existence of the train is of little significance and is not worth arranging stowaways, and even plans to destroy the train."

"And ensuring that the train is not destroyed is why I'm looking for you."

The conductor continued:

"I know what you want to ask. What you want to know is why the Pantheon wants to create gods in Longxia."

Zhou Baiyu admitted that his question was once again predicted by the train conductor.

The conductor took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, looking extremely solemn:

"Because there is such a rule among the gods. Once a new god appears in Long Xia's land, then——"

"The barrier on the Longxia border will disappear. At this point, there will be no obstacles for the people of the Pantheon to enter Longxia."

Zhou Baiyu suddenly realized:

"So the purpose of the Pantheon is to make the blocking barrier... disappear?"

(End of chapter)