Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1548: Chapter 275: Creating an Eden

Even if the secret hidden here is discovered, the High Priest still manages to stay calm… At this time, he places both hands beneath the Scales of Good and Evil, exerting all his strength, but he is unable to lift them.

It seems as if it has taken root into the ground… The High Priest quickly abandons this futile attempt.

He brushes off the dust on his hands, supports himself with his knees, and stands up, facing the young guard in front of him, “It seems I’ve encountered something beyond my understanding. This time, Otto’s duplicate outside has not only brought Claudia but also some unexpected elements… what are you? The Lamp God with mysterious powers?”

The young guard… Boss Luo curiously asks, “It seems His Highness the High Priest has indeed learned many things from Mr. Otto… However, I don’t seem to see Mr. Otto here.”

He indicated that among these vitreous containers, there was no presence of Otto.

The High Priest said, “Sadly, Otto’s true body is hard to capture, even though he has already fallen into the City of the Sun. But it doesn’t matter, there’s a backup of Otto inside the Scales of Good and Evil.”

“Let’s discuss it carefully, I have a few questions.” Boss Luo smiled, then waved his hand, and a chair appeared out of nowhere behind the High Priest.

The High Priest’s body involuntarily sat down on the chair that appeared behind him; then the chair moved forward and directly transported him in front of Luo Qiu.

A round table, another chair… Boss Luo slowly sat down, a teapot and cups for serving began to appear on the table.

Luo Qiu poured tea into the cup and casually said, “You can stop whenever you don’t want to talk, but if you wish to continue the conversation, could His Highness please put down the remote control under the sleeve?… Even if you completely blow it up, I likely won’t get hurt.”

The High Priest stared intently at the young guard in front of him, finally placing a remote control hidden in his sleeve on the table without a word… He frowned and said, “You want the Scales of Good and Evil, you want the materials here… You can easily take them from me, why do you want to discuss with me?”

“Based on a kind of rule.” Boss Luo smiled and said, “Furthermore, rules are rules. I never intend to rob others of their things, the Scales of Good and Evil were discovered by you, and these people in the containers were collected by you over the years, can be considered your labor success, your things.”

The High Priest couldn’t but furrow his brow… He vaguely feels that this guy doesn’t have a universal concept of right and wrong, doing as he pleases.

“What do you want to know.” After a moment of silence, the High Priest knows that facing an incomprehensible power, he has no choice but to compromise—moreover, the power of the Scales of Good and Evil seems to be suppressed by the other party.

“For example, how did the High Priest obtain these Scales of Good and Evil.” Boss Luo thought it over and said.

The High Priest casually glanced at the location of Yamana, and he was surprised to find that the flash emitted by the scales had not disappeared, still trapping Yamana like a stand, and the wound on her abdomen was still there, only the blood had stopped flowing… her time seemed to have stopped.

The High Priest can clearly see a drop of blood suspended above the ground…

“There’s nothing special.” The High Priest calmly said at this moment, “I was just an ordinary refugee escaping from war. I fled wherever I could survive. I did not know my direction, as paths appeared, I walked them, and then I encountered a Temple in the Oasis, and obtained these Scales of Good and Evil. How about that, isn’t it disappointing?”

Boss Luo smiled and said, “On the contrary, this seems more realistic… If it wasn’t planned but a chance encounter, wouldn’t His Highness find it an interesting variable?”

“Do you believe in destiny?” The High Priest curiously asked.

This question was abrupt, and it bore no help to his current situation, but he just wanted to ask.

“I can’t say I believe in it.” Boss Luo thought it over and said, “But I also won’t deny it… if you deny it, it might not be happy.”

“It’s quite bold…” The High Priest couldn’t but let out a cold laugh, as if seeing a lunatic… Yet for some reason, at this moment, his heart raced, as though a voice was warning him in his mind, this isn’t a joke, this is real—truly someone who can manipulate destiny according to their whims.

But.

Manipulate destiny?

Who can truly manipulate destiny… Even those who pride themselves on having their destinies in their hands cannot predict the events of tomorrow—it’s highly likely they might encounter an accident tomorrow and die.

“Let’s just say I was joking.” Boss Luo smiled and said, “Liven up the atmosphere now… After all, if I appear more mysterious, I can gain some advantage in the upcoming discussion… I’ve been learning how to do business lately, so I might use some tricks, I hope His Highness doesn’t mind.”

“That’s not the rhetoric of a qualified merchant.” The High Priest shook his head.

“Probably.” Luo Qiu was noncommittal, “When you discovered the Scales of Good and Evil, was the City of the Sun already present?”

The High Priest nodded and then shook his head—he suddenly felt absurd—as he clearly had control of everything, why would things suddenly spiral out of control, and things he couldn’t understand appear… This felt like a joke, a joke quietly played by destiny.

Perhaps all living beings are merely toys in the hands of destiny.

“When I discovered the City of the Sun, it was just a dead city.” The High Priest recalled and said, “The Scales have the ability to measure a person’s good and evil and divide them.”

“The residents of the city were separated out through this ability?” Luo Qiu thought it over and said, “Soul splitting, reborned souls each develop, like a lizard’s tail… no wonder it’s possible to duplicate complete identical people.”

Saying this, Boss Luo shook his head, “Yamana told me, the people in the pool were separated out belonging to the unsightly side, they exist as batteries to power the consumption of the City of the Sun, but now it seems, the High Priest really didn’t tell Yamana the truth.”

“Oh?” The High Priest squinted his eyes.

Boss Luo casually said, “If it were as Yamana explained, naturally it wouldn’t be able to explain the people in the vitreous containers… Especially as far as I see it, currently, there are already three Yamanas… Claudias.”

One in the vitreous container sleeping, one here with the abdomen pierced by the High Priest, and one commanding everyone in the Royal Palace to resist the monsters.

“Do you… do you know Claudia?” the High Priest suddenly asked in a deep voice.

“We are sort of classmates.” Boss Luo candidly said, “Recently, for personal reasons, I enrolled in the school where Claudia studies… so I know a bit about the High Priest, about you Professor Xie Jiatu. By the way, I came to the desert because Claudia asked, hoping to find clues about the disappearance of Professor Xie Jiatu.”

The High Priest remained silent.

Boss Luo patiently waited.

The High Priest slowly exhaled, “I never imagined she would find her way here… It seems I did some things outside the expected in the external world.”

“Hmm…” Boss Luo thought for a moment, “It seems that the soul divided by the Balance also has some defects.”

The High Priest said indifferently, “After all, it is divided into its good side and evil side, hence the personality and behavior will differ somewhat.”

“And what about you, Your Excellency the High Priest?” Boss Luo curiously asked, “Which one are you?”

“I am Xie Jiatu.”

Boss Luo nodded, “If away from the Temple for too long, outside… outside the split person will turn to sand?”

“They cannot sustain for very long.” The High Priest said rather helplessly, “Their bodies are created with the sand of this desert, their implanted souls give them the ability to move, but leaving the Temple… essentially leaving the Balance for too long means their souls will not get the power replenishment. Their souls will vanish, and their bodies naturally will turn into sand.”

“What a pity.” Boss Luo suddenly shook his head.

The High Priest frowned, “What is pitiful?”

Boss Luo said, “It seems that the souls divided by the Balance are merely one-time consumables. No matter how good the quality is, it cannot be preserved for long… such souls do not even hold value. However, for the Balance capability itself, it is already a priceless treasure.”

The High Priest said in a deep voice, “The transformation of matter must abide by the law of equivalence.”

“Those monsters in the desert…” Luo Qiu shook his head at this point, “actually are the ugly side divided out of those people. The folk customs in the City of the Sun are quite simple. Though some residents have developed bad habits, I see their nature is not bad, right? …even if good-natured people cannot guarantee they won’t inherit bad habits—of course, if someone in the shadows manipulates the spread of desire, its proliferation will be very fast, just like the serpent in Eden.”

“Pure humans are more susceptible to temptation.” The High Priest smiled indifferently, “This is a fascinating experiment. Concerning the monsters in the desert, they indeed originate from the divided ugly side. I simultaneously initiated two experiments in the City of the Sun: Teaching desires to kind-hearted people, trying to let the ugly-side people learn gratitude. But regrettably, no matter how the ugly-side people can’t seem to grasp gratitude, instead, they fall into madness due to the infusion of beauty, ultimately mutating into destructive monsters… And when kind-hearted people, when they are infected by desire, also transform into monsters. Different categories, different methods, but yielding the same results.”

Boss Luo curiously asked, “What conclusion have you drawn, Your Excellency the High Priest?”

The High Priest expressionless said, “Human beings, go mad because of kindness, self-destruct due to desire… Humans, from the moment of birth, walk down the road of self-destruction. War, aggression, fighting for loved ones, fighting for family, fighting for nation, competitiveness, dissatisfaction, never-ending progress… In the end, all that remains is sorrow.”

Boss Luo thought for a moment, “Under modern civilization, many happy individuals have emerged, and these individuals are small families.”

“But aggression still exists, only the mode has changed.” The High Priest mocked, “The process of civilization is still barbarous, there are many who want to redeem it, but far more who do not wish to redeem human beings… Since Eve plucked the apple in Eden, the fate of humanity has only one.”

“The fate of humanity…”

Boss Luo thought of A Lai Ye, but he decided not to refute the High Priest—under the entire Araiye System, indeed countless Sub-worlds have only one fate… unless one of the Sub-worlds among them evolves into a perfect world.

Currently, the Sub-world 003 he resides in was originally on the path of destruction, but somehow it has been delayed by decades due to him.

“You cannot refute, can you.” At this time the High Priest’s gaze brightened slightly, “Because everything I said is enacted every day, outside the world endlessly staging powerless tragedies… Trust me.”

Boss Luo glanced at the High Priest, exhaled, “Your Excellency, I have no intention of refuting your point of view, I merely want to understand your concept… so no need to perform extra things for me, if further attempt to disturb my thoughts…”

The High Priest’s face suddenly turned extremely bad.

Intense chest pain, cold sweat pouring, as if his brain could explode at any moment, he felt unprecedented weakness, anxiety, fear… The claws of death seemed to have tightly gripped his heart.

But this feeling, merely lasted for a fleeting moment… In an instant, he felt a sense of exhaustion.

“Feeling any better?”

The High Priest nodded with a pale complexion, a bitter smile with a trace of awe, “Existence like yours probably never felt the control of fate over you.”

“Perhaps…” Boss Luo shook his head, “My presence here today is also a kind of fate arrangement. However, the fate you perceive, recognize, believe, is somewhat different from the fate I can understand.”

“Really enviable…” At this time the High Priest heavily sighed, “Just like the black slaves in Africa can never believe the luxury in Oth Aristocrat’s house… What on earth are you? God, Devil… or a new species evolved beyond human evolution?”

“Me?” Boss Luo slightly smiled, “I am myself, with only one identity… just as Your Excellency the High Priest, you too have only one identity.”

He fell silent, after a long while said seriously, “I need to create the perfect [Vessel], awaken the residual soul within the Balance, fully grasp the power of the Balance. Only in this way can good and evil be divided from the world… The way to make Eden eternally beautiful is to make sure Eve never plucks that apple—but first, I need to let Eden appear!”