Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1560: Chapter 287: Left and Right

Underground Dark River, within the underground chamber beneath the small house.

When the mysterious girl revealed the true identity of the Pharaoh of the Kingdom, that it was an individual cultivated from the High Priest’s genetic material—naturally, Princess knew what this genetic material cultivation truly entailed and was unwilling to believe it.

There exists too much concealment and deception in this world—deception everywhere, even among family such as parents and children.

Believing or not believing is just a moment’s thought… yet Princess understood that the strong desire not to believe was…. that this matter was true.

“My father… does he know?” After a long silence, Princess took a deep breath and asked.

“Of course he doesn’t know,” the mysterious girl said calmly, “If the Pharaoh knew about this, then all his actions and thoughts would shift, and naturally Xie Jiatu couldn’t achieve the result he wants.”

“Have you always been in this place?” Princess asked abruptly, “Never left?”

“I haven’t indeed left this place,” the mysterious girl said casually, “In fact, Xie Jiatu’s abilities have always been superior to mine… even if I wanted to leave, I couldn’t.”

“Then how do you know what’s happening outside?” Princess asked coldly, “Everything, big or small, so clearly.”

“Probably afraid I’d get bored or something… Xie Jiatu set up some toys here to let me know what’s happening in the City of the Sun,” the mysterious girl pulled out an object from her bosom.

This is absolutely something the City of the Sun’s technology couldn’t produce, yet outside in the present world, everyone knows it, a globally widespread item—a smartphone.

“When bored, I can use it to connect to the network Xie Jiatu built in the City of the Sun, obtaining access to the entire City’s surveillance system,” she said with a smile, filled with laughter, seemingly hiding something else in her eyes.

Princess shook her head, only feeling a discomfort—a feeling of being thoroughly recorded every single day from the past to now.

“Yamana was truly the cutest in the world when she was little, see… this is what you looked like when you were a child!” the mysterious girl continued, her fingers sliding across the phone screen, opening a video.

In the video, an eight or nine-year-old girl was playing in the bath… playing with her mother in the bath, with laughter and joy.

Princess’s gaze froze, and then like an animal whose tail was stepped on, she bristled, feeling completely exposed—especially with the presence of the mysterious girl and a mysterious individual in royal guard attire.

“See, isn’t she cute!” Surprisingly, the mysterious girl brought the phone to Boss Luo, inviting him to watch, “Unfortunately, I can only watch here; if the person inside was me, it would be perfect… ah, missed so many opportunities to create beautiful memories with little Yamana… oh, watch this too, Yamana’s dancing was beautiful back then!”

Boss Luo is the type who patiently watches whatever you show him—without any particular hobby.

Beside him, Princess felt her eyes go black, with a faint feeling of wanting to pass out—almost unable to recall how many things from childhood were utterly mortifying now.

She stood in place, her body already trembling due to anger and shame… yet the mysterious girl seemed to have no intention of stopping, resembling an old lady basking her daughter like mothers do in a park.

“Stop it!”

No threatening words… even Princess herself must admit, the other party need not listen to her at all—this seems to be the sorrow of the weak.

Unexpectedly, the mysterious girl really put away the phone, blinking at Boss Luo, earnestly saying, “That’s all you can see, any more and my daughter will start growing up; if you want to watch, you’ll have to take responsibility!”

“Alright… ma’am,” Boss Luo thought perhaps ‘ma’am’ was the most suitable address, “Please, do not let me see.”

The mysterious girl burst into laughter, “I like your personality! Unlike that former one, looks like a gloomy character, talks here and perhaps plans how to harvest your all inside, and indeed has such capability, isn’t that infuriating! Absolutely infuriating!”

Infuriating, absolutely… Princess was outright seething with anger, her face turning livid.

The mysterious girl narrowed her eyes, seeing Princess’s look, full of amusement… the laughter faded quickly, and the mysterious girl suddenly exhaled, looking seriously at Princess, “Alright, Yamana’s lighthearted time is over; next… make your choice.”

Princess couldn’t help but furrow her brow.

The mysterious girl then clapped her hands, and the wall at the steps in front of the chamber housing the Goddess of Justice’s corpse suddenly opened into two doors.

Left, right.

“Listen,” the mysterious girl said calmly, “From the beginning, you knew your identity as a [vessel], Yamana… even you accepted this identity, knowing part of Xie Jiatu’s plan, even agreeing to this plan, thus Claudia’s identity appeared in the outside world. Now, since Xie Jiatu told you to come here, it means he needs you to initiate the final step of his plan—then, whether you are a perfect [vessel], will soon be revealed.”

Princess couldn’t help but tense.

The mysterious girl, her hands open to her sides, seemed to correspond to the doors opening on the wall, “The right door, hides the final item you need to become a perfect [vessel], once you have it, you’ll have a chance to become the master of the Balance—listen, just a chance.”

“The left one?” Princess furrowed her brow, recalling Xie Jiatu’s words when he instructed her to descend.

—You can only open the left room, absolutely cannot open the right one. This is the final advice from a father to you… my Princess.

The room… the door, refers to the two doors the mysterious girl just opened.

“Left…” The mysterious girl paused, looking at the Princess for a while before slowly saying: “Freedom—you chose the door on the left, you will gain freedom, no longer a container, everything about you as the Princess of the empire will vanish, you will be Claudia, that ordinary girl in the outside world, with nothing to bear.”

“What if I choose the left… the City of the Sun?”

“The City of the Sun is merely a large experimental field for cultivating containers,” the mysterious girl said calmly: “A place to create perfect containers. It has restarted many times before you. You might not be Xie Jiatu’s first suitable ‘container’, perhaps not the last either. Therefore, even if you choose freedom, the City of the Sun will continue operating until a ‘container’ truly capable of being the master of the Balance appears—so, even if you choose freedom, it doesn’t matter, there’s no need to burden yourself with anything useless.”

“Why…” the Princess murmured.

“That’s something you need to think about yourself,” the mysterious girl said softly: “I am just here to open these two doors for you who have arrived here, giving you the opportunity to choose, I will not offer any reference… that’s all. So, will you choose your own freedom, forget all the heaviness, or choose the unknown success or failure of fusion, possibly becoming a sacrifice in this cycle of the City of the Sun, and walk towards the door on the right.”

She instinctively walked to the two doors and stopped, unable to take a new step for a long time… The mysterious girl said nothing more, just watching silently.

Suddenly, the Princess moved… she once again closed the distance between herself and the two doors, then sat cross-legged between them and closed her eyes.

She meditated… casting aside both herself and the external, fully immersing herself in her own thoughts, with only one thought existing: left or right.

“This seems to be called meditation, right?” The girl thought and said at this moment: “Learned from the outside world… is it very useful?”

Boss Luo said, “Generally speaking, meditation can help people focus and relieve stress.”

“That’s nice,” the girl nodded: “The will of mortals can still be honed in this way, unfortunately, gods can’t do that, their minds are too active to stop… Shall we guess if she will choose the left or right with Seaweed Silk?”

Boss Luo shook his head, he said he would not guess… anything.

The mysterious girl pouted: “The guess from before was so accurate; it was as if everything was arranged in advance, how good it was.”

Luo Qiu smiled lightly, not making any assumptions due to her words—perhaps this was what she wanted, through his ability to influence the reality to a certain extent—she might not know what kind of ability it is… maybe she has just seen or felt it, even been one of those affected by this ability.

“Have you seen the former boss?”

“Seen him,” the mysterious girl said as she sat on the ground, watching the Princess enter a meditative state, and added casually: “I meant the guy lying in the coffin… Anyway, I don’t remember much, just some trivial matters, it seems clear that your predecessor and the Sun God Ra were gathered around a square table, rubbing colorful blocks of cards… what, aren’t the former and current bosses familiar with each other?”

“Only met once,” Boss Luo said calmly.

—Hmm… what on earth is the game of rubbing colorful blocks of cards around a square table?

“Oh?” the mysterious girl blinked, “Then the transition happened… so capricious? That’s nice, just one meeting and you could inherit such transcendent power, why is such good fortune not extended to me? I say, you must be the illegitimate child of the creator in your past life, right?”

Boss Luo shook his head, whether he was denying it or not wanting to say more, no one knew—perhaps he himself didn’t know either.

The girl found it uninteresting, also shaking her head: “The City of the Sun was bought from you by the Goddess of Justice and Truth, Maat. As for where she is now, I definitely don’t know, you see… even the Goddess of Justice has been nailed in the coffin for so long. Speaking of which, how much does this sister hate her own sister?”

She is a life cloned from the genetic extract of the Goddess of Justice, with some memories of the Goddess of Justice… but she seems different from the Goddess of Justice, speaking like an outsider, a bystander.

“There are many things I don’t know,” the girl yawned, seeming a bit sleepy: “For instance, during the long period the Goddess of Justice was trapped here, why did Maat disappear, why did her ‘Scale of Good and Evil’ remain here, and why on the Balance was there respectively Set’s eggs and the Left Eye of Horus, lastly, all the deities in the divine system seem to have disappeared… but why did they disappear? I don’t know any of this. Xie Jiatu indeed wanted to research these, so he seemed to have strived a lot outside, becoming a professor at the Theology Institute or something, but the history of the outside world seems different from what I know—I don’t know how much has been changed, or how much has been lost over the long period… Speaking of which, I am quite innocent, aren’t I?”

The boss silently listened to the girl’s near-complaint-like monologue.

“Let me tell you something,” the mysterious girl said again at this moment: “If it fails again this time, I won’t stay in this place, my power has recovered quite a bit, I can leave here at any time… So, are you really not going to guess which door she will choose?”

Boss Luo still shook his head, giving an official response, “If you really want me to guess, unless the lady can provide the corresponding fee.”

The girl shook her head, rolling her eyes: “There’s one thing in which you and the one before you are entirely the same—both of you look very stingy!”

Boss Luo smiled lightly, considering it a thrifty behavior.

At this moment, the Princess suddenly opened her eyes and stood up… She seemed to have an answer, knowing which door to choose.

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When Mr. Otto climbed the Goddess Statue with speed far exceeding ordinary human limits, he almost encountered no obstacles, successfully reaching deep into the head of this Goddess Statue.

Here, Mr. Otto stopped because what he saw was a massive set of… servers.

The lights of the servers kept flickering—working.