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    • Chapter 77: Hopeless Sea (I) – Ambition

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      by AshPurgatory2025 The salty, fishy smell of seawater soaking into the wooden planks and drying in the wind rushed toward him. Even his shirt felt like it had been dusted with salt particles, provoking an itch that felt like a hallucination. The darkness slowly dissipated, and as his vision settled, Qi Si found himself standing at the bow of a ship, stepping on broken, damaged wooden planks, leaning over the wooden gunwale. Before him lay a boundless sea. Dark yellow waves rolled on and on. The surface of the…
    • Chapter 76: The Old House

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Qi Si arrived at his rural hometown a little past noon. He got out of the taxi and headed straight for the old house he remembered. Along the way he passed a few scattered villagers at work—mostly unfamiliar faces who stole glances at this unexpected visitor. A couple who recognized him muttered, 'That's the one who jinxed his parents to death, then the whole family…' The village was in its twilight years: nothing but crumbling bricks like dandruff, withered grass, and a boundless…
    • Chapter 75: How is Chang Xu Alive?

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Liu Pu, this person, was just as ordinary as his name. In his childhood, he experienced the transition from a sovereign state to the Earth Federation; his parents both died in the war, and his family savings evaporated overnight following currency reform. In his youth, he obtained a loan from the Foundation, allowing him to finish compulsory education, and he ended up with a debt that seemed astronomical to him at the time. As a young man, he went to work in a factory with a few close…
    • Chapter 74: How Will Qi Si Die?

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      by AshPurgatory2025 The full-length mirror, acting as the instance entrance, was placed to the left of the high-backed chair. After Qi Si stared at it for a few seconds, the reflection was replaced by writing: 【Please start your next instance within 7 days. Once the countdown ends, you will be forcibly teleported into an instance.】 Official players could choose when to enter an instance. If Qi Si wanted to, he could even clear one instance every day to…
    • Chapter 73: Soul Contract

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Three days ago, in the Carnivore instance, by the banks of the golden river of blood, Qi Si asked what weights God could place upon the balance of their transaction. God told him silently: "I shall, within the scope permitted by the rules, tacitly allow you to exercise the authority of the Contract. You shall travel through infinite worlds, leading lambs astray with deception, standing shoulder to shoulder with divinity through sin and malice." A…
    • Chapter 72: You Shall Dominate the Eerie

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      by AshPurgatory2025 The intricate corridors of the temple wound like a maze, with countless intersections merging and diverging. People of varying heights ran through them, their expressions shifting between shock and curiosity upon unexpected encounters. "Who are you?" "Who are you?" "Who are you?" The figures questioned each other with different voices—some youthful, some mature—but their tones were identical. "I am Qi Si." "I am Qi Si." "I am Qi Si." They answered with the same…
    • Chapter 71: Dialectical Game (Finale) Existentialism

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      by AshPurgatory2025 The situation seemed to have changed again, but compared to seeing his own eight dead Corpses, this was nothing. Qi Si pretended not to hear the urging, acting on his own accord as he picked up the Corpse he fancied and held it tightly to his chest. Ensuring all critical areas were shielded by his own Corpse, he maintained his unchanging smile and asked the person behind the door, "Why can't you be the one to come out?" The voice behind the door chuckled, "Because you…
    • Chapter 70 – The Dialectic Game (8): Recursion

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Qi Si did a rough count: eight corpses in total, each dead in a different way yet all looking more or less the same, every one of them wearing the same style of white shirt he had on. The bodies lay silently in front of him, intact yet lifeless, like exquisite dolls arranged with care inside a display cabinet. Qi Si admired the scene for a moment, then smiled and shook his head. "The setting contradicts itself—have you finally run out of story to tell?" "If these corpses are…
    • Chapter 69: Dialectical Game (7) Survival Instinct

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      by AshPurgatory2025 Time flew; the lights went out, and a darkness thick enough to touch turned the room into an artificial night. Qi Si curled beneath the blanket, fingers on his pulse, silently counting the seconds. Seven thousand two hundred seconds—two hours—he reckoned the night was deep, rolled out of bed, tucked the pillow under the sheet, and folded the corners to shape a body still sleeping. He groped his way into the bathroom attached to the Observation Room and ran his hand along the…
    • Chapter 68: Dialectical Game (VI) game theory model

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      by AshPurgatory2025 When Qi Si was sixteen, perhaps due to his eccentric behavior and the fact that an extra mouth to feed was indeed a burden, his uncle, who had volunteered to be his guardian, finally reached his limit and sent him to a youth summer camp. The summer camp was located deep in the mountains and old forests, practicing militarized management and promoting doctrines like "Absolute fairness, universal harmony; sin is eternal, the Balance Guild endures" all day long. It practically…
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