Chapter 226 They Haven’t Done Anything Related to People

Monika’s explanation gave Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo a new understanding of this world.

For the first time, they learned that beyond this world, in this dimension, there exist countless other worlds.

They discovered for the first time that above these worlds are gods and the various schemes they set up, responsible for managing the order of all worlds.

They also realized that gods are into automation too.

To put it simply, the world they are in now is essentially a laboratory researching vaccines… no, maybe at best, it’s just a little lab rat within the lab; the vaccine must pass testing before it can be officially used, and before that, any little rat that gloriously sacrifices itself due to trial drugs has made a significant contribution to the ultimate emergence of the vaccine— even if they didn’t want to contribute.

Of course, the abilities of gods are better than humans; they at least won’t just watch the lab rats die from failed experiments. At the moment of impending failure, they will still step in and save the world, but while the world can be preserved, the life within it may undergo a drastic change—this would also likely be classified as a necessary sacrifice.

The good news is that the experimental vaccine being administered in their world seems to be quite effective, and at least at this stage, there are no signs of collapse, so the gods have no intention of intervening. In fact, to prevent others from interfering with the experimental environment, they have directly sealed off their world.

As for Monika… she coincidentally discovered what was going on here, reported to her superiors, and they directly sent her over as a caretaker. With her here, if any major problems arise in this world, those above can get informed and react quickly, potentially saving more lives.

However, her real mission upon coming here was reportedly because her boss was quite curious about the new type of terminal under testing, so she was sent to help watch over the two with the testing terminals; taking care of this world should be considered a secondary task.

It’s worth mentioning that Monika didn’t seem to realize that Xia Xinyan and Ling Mo had the same system.

It made Xia Xinyan want to laugh a bit.

She had gone through the final stages of her previous life, where the last-ditch counterattack of humanity could be described as tragic yet magnificent throughout human history— because this was the first time humanity had truly united to fight together to protect their world.

But in the eyes of Monika or those gods, this seemed like the lab rats struggling to survive under the effects of a vaccine— they might not even know what happened, at most just knowing one result: whether this world had been protected or not.

Yet besides feeling helpless, she seemed to have no means of resistance.

Before understanding all this, she felt rather impressive about her past experiences.

But now, she only felt her insignificance.

Her own rebirth even seemed to stem from Tianji’s desire to save itself from being destroyed due to testing failure.

It made her feel… as if no matter what she did, she couldn’t change anything.

—Ling Mo clearly noticed that Xia Xinyan’s mood had suddenly dropped.

She even stopped asking questions.

He tilted his head slightly, glancing at Xia Xinyan, hesitating for a moment but deciding not to say anything, instead looking at Monika and asking, “What exactly is the emergency protection mechanism in this world? Why does it do this? What are the dungeons provided to us? Are they real existing worlds?”

This was the matter he was most concerned about.

After contemplating for a while, Monika slowly began to explain, “This might be a bit complex, so let me simplify it…”

The main function of the world emergency protection mechanism is to resist a disaster capable of destroying the world— but it only resists once. Just like a nuclear bomb explosion leaves nuclear radiation that can last an unknown duration, world disasters are the same. When certain events occur, like a world disaster reaching a certain scale, the subsequent impacts can deliver a devastating blow to the world.

The world emergency protection mechanism cannot eliminate the follow-up effects of the disaster, but once activated and having withstood the largest impact, it automatically initiates the follow-up effect elimination mechanism— that is the current “Realm of Divine Presence,” using the powers left by the gods within the mechanism, along with the powers of the local civilization, to gradually eliminate the follow-up effects.

However, the world protection mechanism in testing has an additional feature— it temporarily turns the local civilization into part-time workers.

As Monika mentioned earlier, her job is a district police officer responsible for managing abnormal phenomena in the area, but the formal personnel are so scarce that in many cases, it’s impossible to handle abnormal situations promptly.

For example, the reality show world they encountered before is a case in point; when Monika discovered the world anomaly, that world had already built a dimensional bridge— for the existence of Monika’s dimension, that world’s actions were like a five-month-old baby picking up a gun that’s safety was off, trying to stick the muzzle in its mouth.

If she had been any slower, there might’ve been a huge problem.

But the formal auditing process is extremely strict; a civilization may not even produce a qualified participant. Thus, to resolve this issue, they introduced a temporary worker mechanism.

For instance, various system-bearing traversers, system-equipped quick transmigrators, and folks who can even cross dimensions by squatting in a toilet, are essentially all temporary worker-type investigators. The systems or other mechanisms on them guide them to complete investigations or directly resolve world anomalies, and after finishing their tasks, they might be sent back, but most remain in the other worlds.

So these temporary workers are essentially disposable. However, the personnel screening is also exceedingly strict.

Thus, rather than searching far and wide for suitable temporary workers, it’s better to let a group already infected by divine presence and endowed with power serve as these temporary workers—plus, there’s the added benefit of guidance from a gaming system. It’s cost-effective, recyclable, and all players transmitted to other worlds, known as “dungeons,” essentially exist as soul projections as Monika mentioned before; dying in that status doesn’t cause much impact. A bunch that hasn’t completed tasks can be discarded, with the cost being nearly zero.

Moreover, it also enhances the overall strength of the local civilization, allowing them to possess greater power to eliminate follow-up effects, making it a complete win-win.

—Ling Mo spent over ten minutes digesting this information.

Then he made a discovery.

It seems the gods are quite down-to-earth.

They surprisingly haven’t done a single thing related to people.