"...These are the things I know."

Xiao Chu said somewhat nervously.

He is 24 years old this year but has already been an old tailor with 8 years of work experience.

Now Xiao Chu is wearing Divine Clothing — it's a plain-looking gray robe, yet it has an attention-grabbing effect, as if it comes with a spotlight.

Zhou Yi looked at the other party and a thought popped into his mind: This is a simple and honest person.

Panoramic Reading initiated on Divine Clothing

[This material has a certain capacity for one-way information transmission.]

Continue to analyze.

[Consciousness Conversion Rate: 0.00177%]

Much higher than the conversion rate of mobile phones, but still significantly less compared to consciousness nerves.

Zhou Yi continued to read.

[This material's consciousness is weak.]

Huh?

This so-called Divine Clothing... Could it be a type of consciousness?

Zhou Yi continued to observe but could not gather more information.

So he summoned the Cat God.

This entity is Concept Life, more accurate in judging the Consciousness Domain and has a deep understanding as well.

"Chairman, there are indeed fragments of consciousness in this clothing. It's a medium used to link specific consciousness bodies."

"Divine Clothing is the carrier of that deity; it can appear on every person wearing the clothing through these new clothes."

"This new clothing has a fixed special consciousness structure that can form a consciousness link with the wearers to trigger a special mechanism, which requires both to be consistent to manifest externally."

"However, it's strange. If it were Concept Life, it should speak out its name to expand its consciousness coverage, yet it didn't mention its true name at all."

Cat God said: "Chairman, I'll go check the source of the new clothes."

"Go ahead."

Concealing identity, using others' experiences to make new clothes.

Could it be just a personal preference?

Zhou Yi thought, and his gaze shifted to Xiao Chu: "You said that deity is a headless big bird, are there any other characteristics?"

"No, just particularly wide wings, no head, oh right, no claws either."

Xiao Chu recalled: "If I had to say something special... The first time I saw that Bird God was when I was making clothes for my wife. That was the first Divine Clothing, about a year ago."

It moved Zhou Yi: "You were making clothes for your wife, was there anything unusual at that time?"

"Around that time last year..."

The young tailor frowned and fell into thought.

"There were unusual things. On the day outside the tailor shop, there were continuous chirping monkey sounds, but when I opened the door, I couldn't find where the monkey was."

"At that time, I was very afraid, because as usual, it meant the Red Monster came to check. If I couldn't produce what they wanted, the entire shop would be torn apart by them."

Xiao Chu said: "I thought I was doomed, ready to pack up and flee immediately, telling my wife not to come home either. I stayed in the mountain for a month, but when I returned, I found nothing was wrong at all."

"The shop wasn't destroyed, and I never heard the Red Monster's cries again."

"Then I heard the deity's voice."

"It must have been the Bird God that drove them away."

Zhou Yi was noncommittal.

At this moment, the Cat God returned, bringing along a person.

"Why are you here?"

Xiao Chu looked surprised, as it was his wife Chen Yin who had arrived.

Chen Yin smiled lightly: "The Chairman called me here."

Zhou Yi said: "I chatted with Nurse Chen about hospital matters."

"Okay."

Xiao Chu said goodbye and left.

Then Zhou Yi looked at Chen Yin: "You are the deity who prefers to remain unnamed?"

Chen Yin nodded: "Yes, it's me."

She looked elegant and delicate, her clothes were clean, her long hair tied back, and her eyes were clear.

However, the Cat God had already locked onto her.

With Panoramic Reading, through comparison, it was found that Chen Yin, Xiao Chu, and Fang Hui's Divine Clothing all had strong consciousness links.

The so-called deity had always been by Xiao Chu's side.

Zhou Yi said: "Would you like something to drink?"

"Is there something sweet? I like desserts."

Zhou Yi nodded.

Yuan Xiao beside him poured her a glass of white peach-flavored sparkling water.

Chen Yin picked up the drink and drank slowly.

Zhou Yi was curious: "You can control consciousness bodies, but you are not Concept Life, who are you?"

"Me?"

The young nurse held a paper cup: "I have many names; once I was a traveling storyteller, recording strange tales and ghostly stories across different places, later I was called the Book-eating Demon, and now you are inquiring about me?"

Zhou Yi was somewhat surprised this time.

The Book-eating Demon turned into a human?

Panoramic Reading displayed.

[This unit possesses certain intelligence, weak consciousness.]

Chen Yin appeared to be a perfectly normal new human.

If not for the consciousness link, it would be hard to associate her with the famed Book-eating Demon.

"You really turned into a human?"

The Book-eating Demon raised the cup: "Could I have another one? This is delicious."

Yuan Xiao went to refill the cup for her.

Then the Book-eating Demon looked at Zhou Yi and said: "Actually, I tried many directions before, such as becoming a Mechanical Life. Their computing ability is outstanding, perfect for recording purposes."

"But I quickly discovered, Mechanical Life isn't ideal. They were bound by programs, their physiological mechanism decided their data-centric pursuit. If some information impacts the efficient operation of the entire program, they would just shelve it without hesitation and abandon it."

"The advantage of the Guangna Species is their robust bodies and unrestricted minds. Unfortunately, they excessively depend on their muscle power; fundamentally, they're still rooted in hunting culture, experiencing nothing but one battle after another, overly repetitive and monotonous."

"Humans are fragile but numerous; they widely populate the land of this world. For survival, they need to make various efforts and attempts, maintaining high diversity. Their professions are numerous, traveling across different places, also recording and witnessing various aspects of the world."

"So eventually, I chose the human perspective."

Chen Yin finished another drink, smiling and raising her hand: "Could you pour another one, please?"

Yuan Xiao nodded and refilled the cup again.

"You should know that in the past, I was called the Book-eating Demon because I consumed a large number of books, especially records of old humans from the age of deities, and contemporary books too. Of course, not in the literal sense of eating paper sheets, but collecting the information on them and taking it away."

The Book-eating Demon explained.

"I did this because my ability is 'book eating.' Collecting and completely cutting out various event records from their existing carriers, turning them into what I possess."

"The next step is 'book writing,' organizing these events into an endlessly written book, describing the world's changes, that is, the Book of All Living Beings."

"Everything I've done, whether in the past or present, is to write this book."

She opened her hand, and a thick leather book like a dictionary appeared in her palm.

Under the black cover, there were white pages with written words. The pages opened slowly, resembling a bird spreading its wings.

The headless bird Xiao Chu saw was it.

Zhou Yi read it.

[This unit possesses LV1 Light Core Body information, structure is stable.]

Light Core Body Level.

Zhou Yi didn't understand, asked Xiao Fu internally.

"Previously, Cave People Energy Blocks were Light Core Body level energy, but the Book of All Living Beings is Light Core Body information... I remember, information can't completely express consciousness, what does this represent again?"

"Da Zhou, information is encapsulated consciousness fragments. The world is often said to be divided into material and consciousness sides; actually, both sides are mutually integrated and highly interconnected, and information is an intermediate state between material and consciousness."

"Material transforms into information, information then transforms into consciousness, that's the entire process, reverse works as well."

"The transformation process requires a lot of energy, the flow and change of information are inseparable from energy."

Reverse Flow described: "Unmoved information is like a pool of stagnant water, like solidified words on paper, called consciousness fragments because they're inactive and lack evolution. To be called consciousness or consciousness bodies, they need to possess energy, still having the capability of movement and change."

Zhou Yi simplified and organized it.

If the world is seen as water.

Material is solid ice, information is liquid water, consciousness is steam.

Usually, they transform layer by layer.

Xiao Fu added: "Information, this intermediate layer, has unique advantages; it rests between material and consciousness sides, capable of converting towards either side."

"It isn't under the Great Holy Spirit's supervision."

"Therefore, I think the Book-eating Demon ultimately chose to maintain the information layer and split her complete consciousness body into numerous consciousness fragments, to avoid the Great Holy Spirit's monitoring. Being in an intermediate state, Heavenly People also can't directly affect her... This trick indeed shows great courage."

Zhou Yi looked at the Book-eating Demon in front of him: "Are you avoiding the Great Holy Spirit?"

"Have you figured it out? As expected of the renowned Mechanical Destroyer..."

The young nurse smiled: "Do you know what kind of information holds the most power?"

Zhou Yi pondered for a moment: "True information."

"That's correct."

The Book-eating Demon explained: "Many years ago, when I was a storyteller, I often traveled between material and consciousness. I collected and bought information from various places and recorded it."

"However, I slowly discovered that a part of consciousness always gets lost. After correlating the associated information, I found they all related to one thing."

Zhou Yi immediately thought: "Heavenly People?"

The other party shook her head, took a sip of sparkling water.

"It was the day when Circular Flow struck Earth."

"Any consciousness related to it was erased, no one can remember that day, nor can any consciousness fragments find any record of it."

Zhou Yi frowned.

So it was.

He had also attempted through various means to find out what happened on the day old humans were annihilated but found nothing.

The starting point of the Wasteland era is the day Circular Flow erupted.

"The Great Holy Spirit already existed before Circular Flow; after all, there were old humans then. No matter what, the Great Holy Spirit should have records."

The Book-eating Demon slowly explained: "After years of investigation and pursuit, I discovered that portion of consciousness was cleaned and deleted by the Great Holy Spirit. Only that part is the untraceable taboo."

"Skipping the tedious verification parts, I'll directly state the conclusion."

"This world's Great Holy Spirit has been controlled."

"That entity and Heavenly People are dividing the material and consciousness sides of this world."

Zhou Yi felt chills.

Besides Heavenly People, there's another group of rulers behind Wasteland Earth?

Is it the Golden Elephant Pastoralists?

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