Although unable to see the whole picture, Sirius understood clearly that to incite chaos of this scale, to persuade so many ordinary people to risk their lives...
This requires strong leadership skills and charisma, as well as the ability to see through the essence of others. Of course, the captain also needs to be cruel and heartless enough.
Sirius sighed:
"Truly impressive..."
Wen Xishu once joked about himself that once he started giving speeches, he would critique speeches where the price of bread exceeded five hundred thousand Marks.
Thinking back now, Horn really was another version of himself. Although, there were many differences between the two.
The huge turmoil drew everyone's attention. Due to its overwhelming scale, even Von Neumann received orders.
At this moment, the Evil Sea Giant Beast had settled down, and everyone was released from the illusions...
To everyone, this seemed like they had successfully landed on the island, and everything started to follow procedure.
At this time, Sirius did not need to care. And such massive chaos forced the ship's higher-ups to care.
Wen Xishu also, at this moment, asked a crucial question:
"What exactly is the captain's ability? Why can he control you? Why did the world you created lose certain concepts?"
Sirius did not hide:
"That's an extremely advanced sequence, called the Weakness Pathway. A pathway is a ritual, and the terrifying aspect of this sequence is that it can create weaknesses for anyone."
"These weaknesses can be decided by the sequence's owner—whether to be a weakness that can kill the other person or one that can control them."
"Simply put, the captain relied on this sequence to create a weakness that can control me. After I possessed this weakness—my created world lost certain concepts."
"And for this weakness to always exist, the captain must construct a pathway, that is, a ritual, and pay the price."
"This price is to let eight or more people enter the world I created... and lose these concepts together."
"Of course, the gap in rank between me and the captain—no, to be precise, the disparity in position—led to the instability of the weakness the captain created. So, it is possible that someone in the world I created might awaken the concepts I lost."
"You did it."
Listening to this, Wen Xishu couldn't help but be startled. This ability is truly frightening. In a certain sense, as long as the captain has enough sacrifices...
He could even enslave God.
...
...
Elsewhere, as Sirius was conversing with Wen Xishu, Sirius's decaying flesh began to guide Horn. Once Horn initiated the largest chaos ever recorded—
Sirius was paving the way for Horn all along.
Under Sirius's guidance, Horn began to climb along the Ark's pipeline.
Due to the rotting flesh growing on the pipeline walls, although Horn felt a bit uncomfortable, the climbing process barely made any noise.
The decaying flesh paved the way all along, ultimately guiding Horn smoothly to the storeroom where Wen Xishu had been.
"Horn, stay right here, don't move."
The chaos continued to spread, and Von Neumann had already received orders.
Once Von Neumann's presence completely vanished, Wen Xishu and Sirius began their breakout.
They had to go back once again along the time turbulence.
However, this time, with all scenes being familiar, Wen Xishu and Sirius were quite confident.
For instance, when experiencing certain rule scenes, they were very clear about what the rules were.
And upon returning to the subterranean tunnel far from Wind City, the two did not say much, decisively choosing to head straight for the escape point.
Appearing once again at the chess battlefield of Leo and Scorpio, the future Wen Xishu, having long known all this, had arranged for someone to take Wen Xishu from the church back to the prison.
Yes, when going, it was from prison to the church, so when coming, it had to be from the church to the prison.
Wen Xishu and Sirius were in complete harmony.
Soon, they returned to the first time node, the city that consumed human children. But now, Wen Xishu had no interest in researching which city this was.
He and Sirius sprinted all the way, unconcerned with the gazes of the surrounding monsters.
One could say, compared to the first time, Wen Xishu practically blitzed through.
If Scorpio saw, he must be impressed—
How did he not use the ability to reload a saved game?
In fact, it wasn't Wen Xishu's first time gaining the ability to reload, but every time he encountered such a situation... he could achieve zero mistakes.
Even Sirius was amazed, unable to imagine escaping Pisces's time prison in a blitz manner.
Wen Xishu's intuition had become as strong as an experienced player facing familiar levels.
Finally, and initially, the node was broken through.
When Wen Xishu and Sirius opened their eyes, Horn already appeared in their view.
Wen Xishu couldn't help but break into a sweat:
"From the future to now... we've finally gathered together again."
Horn pondered a moment and said:
"It seems... future me trusts you greatly. But I have a question—if you successfully changed the past, then that future doesn't exist, does it?"
"If that future doesn't exist, then will this past still exist?"
Horn was always deep in thought.
Wen Xishu actually had thought about it. If the past were changed, he would no longer meet Horn in the future.
But Wen Xishu quickly realized this was normal time logic. Yet what he experienced was not normal time logic.