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Chapter 309 - 120: Massacre Madness! A explosive plot that shocked all players! The Ninth Art worthy of godhood!_1

Chapter 309: Chapter 120: Massacre Madness! A explosive plot that shocked all players! The Ninth Art worthy of godhood!_1

The scene was almost identical to the first act of the game.

A stormy night, and a small boat drifting on the tumultuous sea.

There were also two sailors wearing yellow raincoats.

The only difference was that this time, Elizabeth was also sitting on the boat.

But Dai, who had made it to the end of the game, looked at the scene and suddenly felt a flicker of realization through the haze.

"Wait a minute... aren’t these two the same pair of man and woman who kept appearing at different times in the game?"

Because at the beginning of the game, the player is unfamiliar with everything.

Therefore, they wouldn’t pay too much attention to the two rowers, treating them just as NPCs responsible for transporting the protagonist. They were well-concealed, and Dai hadn’t looked too closely.

But now, looking carefully, weren’t these two the same people who kept popping up in the game all the time!

Starting with the bizarre coin-tossing game at the very beginning which was completely heads.

Then, to the beach where they handed Elizabeth a pendant with the images of a "cage" and a "bird," letting the player choose between the two.

Or after the gunsmith Lin Chen was killed, reminding Elizabeth that she could Rupture the space to another world to find weapons to give to Daisy in exchange for the airship to escape Columbia.

And eventually revealing to the player where the secret location of the Nightingale’s organ was hidden.

Now, players would realize that these two had been there from the very beginning!

They were responsible for transporting the protagonist to the Lighthouse, then boarding the Fire Arrow to be launched into the sky and arriving in Columbia.

If one thinks back carefully, although every time they appeared the timing was very strange, they were subtly helping the player throughout!

Meanwhile, inside the game.

The woman from the rowing duo, just like at the game’s start when she handed Booker the wooden box, this time also gave Booker something.

It was a phonograph.

When Dai hit the play button.

The tangled mystery, as complex as a ball of yarn, slowly started to unravel with the woman’s inner monologue blaring from the phonograph.

The woman’s name was Luster, and she was a bona fide mad scientist.

She was also the first to discover quantum levitation technology.

It was because of her discovery that Comstock approached her, hoping to collaborate with her to build a city that could float in mid-air, independent of the world.

Eager to secure more funding for scientific research, she happily agreed under the lucrative rewards offered by Comstock.

That was the catalyst for Columbia to break free from the earth’s surface and become the City of the Sky.

Comstock, with political power in his grasp and the faith of the people, delegated some authority to Fink who amassed a fortune.

Merchant Fink would hand over a portion of the earnings to Comstock, who would then allocate funds to Luster for the research of new technological Strength.

New technologies could help the residents lead better lives.

Comstock would gain more faith from the populace and could even attract many of the elite from the surface to settle in Sky City, further expanding the power in his hands.

The trio seemed to form a stable triangle, driving the rapid development of the Sky City.

But soon, this stability was shattered with the discovery of a new technology.

Luster, through quantum entanglement, accidentally found that even when located in two different space-times, they still had a connection.

With this, she opened the time-space rift to parallel universes for the first time.

At the same time, she noticed something else—the variables were different in each space-time.

That is, in another parallel universe, she found a male version of herself.

He, too, was named Luster and even bore a not too dissimilar appearance, also deeply engrossed in scientific research.

However, the Luster from that space-time had not joined the collaboration of Sky City and seemed destitute without extra funding for research.

Perhaps it was unbearable to see another version of herself fall into such straits in another world.

Or maybe by secretly observing her male self in that other world day after day, she gradually developed feelings.

Therefore, the female Luster wanted to bring the male Luster over from that other world.

However, hindered by immature technology.

She applied to Comstock for a larger research grant.

To get approval, she shared with Comstock the method to open parallel universes.

Originally, Comstock was just an ordinary false Prophet, attributing any honors and deeds to himself, and relying solely on self-promotion to gain support from the public.

But after this episode, he found that by observing parallel universes with different variables, he could predict the future to some extent.

Once he made several accurate prophecies, the people of Sky City became even more fanatical and intense in their worship of this Prophet.

’Observing the development of other worlds and then making prophecies’ also gradually drove Comstock mad.

He became obsessed with the adoration of thousands and could not extricate himself from it.

From pretending to be a Prophet to believing he was a real deity who could control everything after performing for a long time!

This also gave him a tremendous sense of superiority and quickly distanced him from ordinary people, even dividing Sky City into an upper and lower district.

As for the world outside of Sky City, he saw them as ignorant frogs at the bottom of a well.

He thought they needed his teachings and baptism to be called human.

Thus, he began to plot a mad plan to unify the entire world.

But soon, a bolt from the blue was revealed.

The unrestrained peering into other space-times caused Comstock’s body to age rapidly.

"I remember now! There was foreshadowing for this in the game!" Dai’s eyes widened as he said, "In the final part of the story, when Booker tried to rescue Elizabeth but was sent away by the older Elizabeth, half a year had passed when he returned. It shows that each time the time-space rift is opened, time itself rushes by."