Chapter 502: His Name
After that exchange, the atmosphere instantly grew serious.
"Thank you, Uncle Lin... I almost let disaster out of my mouth." The girl, realizing she had nearly brought about her own demise by speaking carelessly, incessantly thanked Lin Yanyang after regaining her composure.
"Perhaps I’d have become the most wrongfully deceased Transmigrator in the Ark’s history."
"Will you be a coward for life, or a hero for five seconds?"
"Next month’s sudden death list: +1."
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A flurry of jocular, mock-complaining remarks erupted from the surrounding people, somewhat dispelling the previously tense atmosphere. Yet, amidst their teasing words, a hint of bitterness lingered.
"We finally made it to another world, and we still haven’t even secured freedom of speech. Why is it so hard to just speak freely?" Xiao Silang, standing beside Lin Yanyang, said with a bitter smile.
"Without the power to defend your rights, what freedom is there? If we didn't possess the inherent power of our original bodies, we wouldn't even have the right to move freely.
In the wilderness, things the natives call 'demonic entities' frequently appear. Ordinary people, unless armed and moving in groups of one or two hundred, would simply be delivering themselves as takeout.” As usual, it was Lin Yanyang's lecturing time.
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"You can’t even *say* it?" After listening to their conversation, Lu Yuesheng’s understanding of Bai Mo was once again completely overturned.
She had never imagined that a single individual’s influence could reach such a level, compelling the entire world to speak and act with extreme caution.
In her memory, even the supreme leader of a nation could at most command such caution from their own citizens. Yet, people from other countries would mock and tease as they pleased, showing no respect, as there was no such thing as cross-border enforcement anyway.
But now it was different. Xiao Silang from Yamato, Lin Yanyang from the Huaxia Federation, and Su Fei from the European Union—they all, surprisingly, feared the very same person.
"Bai Wu Sheng... what is his real name?" Lu Yuesheng suddenly grew curious about this.
Despite conversing with the Flame Alliance members for so many days, no one had ever mentioned his name, seemingly out of fear of attracting Bai Mo’s attention.
So she smiled and asked the group, "If you absolutely had to say his name, what method would you use?"
"As expected, she’s not from the Ark; she doesn’t even know something like this." This thought flashed through many people’s minds after they heard her.
However, they had no intention of exposing her. After all, bringing in an experienced Transmigrator who had developed quite well in the Manghuang Realm was considered a significant achievement.
Moreover, any Transmigrator who could develop on their own without a cheat or system was certainly not simple.
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"After some tests by those who aren’t afraid of death, we discovered that this ‘Word Spirit’ is actually quite similar to an online keyword search system.
Once you know the principle, it’s not hard to fool this system. You just need to ‘sprinkle salt’ into what you want to say," Lin Yanyang replied as before.
"What does ‘sprinkle salt’ mean?"
"You can think of it as a simple encryption, where you mix enough meaningless characters into what you truly want to say.
For example, if I were to say, ‘The white sun rests on mountains, ink stains clear fate records.’"
"I’ve heard the first half of that poem, ‘The white sun rests on mountains,’ but what’s the second half?" Lu Yuesheng was utterly bewildered by Lin Yanyang’s sudden recitation.
"The ‘Word Spirit’ has a self-updating function, so you can’t use the same encryption multiple times. The second half of the poem was something I just made up," Lin Yanyang patiently replied.
"So, what does reciting poetry have to do with anything?" Lu Yuesheng still didn’t get it.
"The first character of both lines of the poem, when combined, make up his name." As he said this, he already felt that familiar frustration, as if hating iron for not becoming steel.
"She’s pretending to be from the Ark, but she should put more effort into it; she doesn’t even know his name..." This was the true thought in everyone’s minds at that moment. Of course, while they thought it, their faces remained smiling, pretending as if nothing unusual had happened.
From the gazes of those around her, Lu Yuesheng also realized that she seemed to have exposed some issues. She chuckled awkwardly, managing to muddle through.
"Bai... Mo...?" She silently recited the name in her mind.
"Are you looking for me?" Just as she silently read out those two characters, a voice, seemingly from nowhere, suddenly echoed in Lu Yuesheng’s mind.
"You can hear me?! Bai Mo is your name?"
"Because you have a system on you."
"A system... so, have you seen everything about me?!"
"I can’t read minds yet, but I can indeed see every cell of your body clearly."
"..."
"There’s nothing to be embarrassed about. If I wished, I could instantly assume an appearance identical to yours; at least on a cellular level, there would be no difference. Seeing you would be no different from seeing myself."
As soon as the voice fell, a massive 3D model of a human body appeared in Lu Yuesheng’s mind. She instantly recognized it as an enlarged model of her own body, with every minute detail rendered perfectly. All the necessary parts were there, and even the unnecessary ones were meticulously depicted.
"Perhaps I understand now why they fear you so much..." After Bai Mo’s voice vanished, she muttered to herself.
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"Yuesheng? Why is your face so red?" The girl who had just almost gotten herself in trouble for speaking carelessly noticed that Lu Yuesheng had suddenly frozen, her face flushed with a strange, reddish glow.
"It’s nothing, nothing at all. Just a bit warm," she replied. She even opened the folding fan in her hand and fanned herself vigorously a few times to conceal her inner turmoil.
"It’s good if nothing’s wrong. You seemed a bit off to me..."
"Really, I’m fine."
The husky with a cheat pretended to be a wolf among the pack of wolves, while the wolves pretended not to know the husky was pretending. Thus, time flowed day by day amidst this group’s mutual act.
The rampant spread of firearms and the impunity of their initiator seemed to send a signal to all the Transmigrators scattered across the Great Wei Dynasty—everyone could now begin their operations!
The large number of Transmigrators who had originally been lying low, worried that Bai Mo would interfere with them, began their operations openly and with great fanfare after discovering that the trailblazer pushing firearms hadn’t been struck down.
Thus, for a time, heroes rose from all quarters. From those like Lu Yuesheng, who intended to start rebellions and become emperors, to groups like the Lingao Expedition that practiced aristocratic republicanism, and even brave individuals who traveled around organizing farmers to fight local tyrants and redistribute land, aiming to plant the red flag throughout the Manghuang Realm.
This army of Transmigrators, harboring diverse goals, was now stirring up chaos across these ninety-nine states with their knowledge that transcended the era.
As for the Bloodline Houses that had ruled this land for thousands of years, apart from the very few who had personally experienced being hunted like 'soul-devouring demons,' none of the overly arrogant and supremely self-important Transmigrators seemed to genuinely consider them a serious threat.
PS1: Recommending the book "The Final Cataclysm," a dark-themed novel. (Finally remembered to recommend it, ORZ)
PS2: Recently, I checked my Qidian bookshelf collection and found many books that had been 'TJ'd.' My heart inexplicably ached.
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