The Simulator Chapter 124

From Tyrant Selene’s mouth, Lu Yao filled in part of Isabelle’s black history in the Abyss.
It was time to put this into perspective.
Lu Yao clicked on Isabelle’s avatar, and she was patrolling the air on her wand.
It was only then that he noticed that Isabelle had levelled up to Level 30. Undoubtedly, it was the previous Abyssal Battle that had allowed her to gain a lot of experience, but it was a pity that the Forest Sword’s Creation Creature hadn’t been triggered.
After opening the [Sword of the Forest], Isabelle’s stats were now updated once again.
……
[Apostle Lv30] Sword of the Forest – Isabelle
Life Value: 8404/8404
Mana: 1089/1089
Damage: 52
Defence: 50
Speed: 20
……
In addition to the direct increase in terms of combat panel stats, two abilities grew further.
[Wisdom] came to LV30.
[Sword of the Forest] was also raised to LV3, and the increased attributes became +25 damage, +25 defence, +5 speed, and the mana consumption per cast also became 150.
Isabelle landed on the ground and kneeled down to salute, “My Lord.”
Lu Yao typed a line and then deleted it all. He typed another paragraph, but in the end, he still felt that it wasn’t very accurate or appropriate.
As a god, giving orders was easy.
But this kind of job, talking to his subordinates, was truly Lu Yao’s blind spot.
Isabelle took the initiative to speak, “My lord, I’m very sorry for causing you so much trouble.”
“Earlier, I was also suspecting that my identity seemed to be unusual. I possess a special forest elemental ability, and I have a very keen perception of quite a few things, which is significantly different from ordinary apostles.”
“Now that I’ve finally determined it, it turns out that I’m a divine body separated from the God of the Forest.”
“Please destroy me.”
“Only then can the hidden danger be eliminated.”
“Now that you already have several apostles under your command, most of them are stronger than me, and they can surely provide a huge boost to your Flame of Faith.”
Lu Yao had mixed feelings in his heart.
The Sailorie of the past was a bad witch who excelled in flowery language.
The current Isabelle was a down-to-earth apostle who did things carefully and conscientiously.
Being a human being was about looking ahead.
What’s more, the Forest God’s plan to unite the three bodies had already been ruined by himself and the White God, and this matter had already been turned over.
Lu Yao crackled and typed, angrily rebuking Isabel’s suicidal nihilistic tendencies.
He stated that as a paragon of apostles under his own command, you must shoulder the responsibility of your duty and do the work related to further enhancing the Flame of Faith.
“My lord, please chastise me for my ignorance.”
Isabelle immediately admitted her mistake.
–Never again. Getting down to business.
An exclamation mark appeared above Isabelle’s head and she suddenly said, “My lord, recently I’ve been observing from the air and I’ve noticed that there have been some changes in this world.”
“The world is expanding at an accelerated rate.”
“Some of the borders already have the outlines of some land and floating islands, but those areas are under the protection of the borders, so it’s not clear to see them and it’s impossible to get closer.”
Lu Yao immediately clicked on the mini-map and switched perspectives.
He first selected the northern border.
Just as Isabel had said, the boundary of the Shardworld had advanced a large step outwards. There was a white blur of material that was revealing itself from the borderlands, and it looked like land or a cluster of islands.
The new continent and islands gave Lu Yao a few moments of anticipation.
Perhaps new populations or transcendent beings would be born over there.
These could be populations and beliefs.
Lu Yao looked down at the borderline of the entire world.
Not only the north, but the edges of every direction in the south-east, north-west and west were rapidly moving and evolving outwards. I don’t know what the reason was, but the world was evolving at a significantly faster rate.
–Continue to observe and find out the cause of the changes.
Lu Yao gave orders to Isabelle.
……
Near the time Lu Yao went to sleep, a reminder suddenly popped up in the simulator.
[The power of rules has entered an acceleration cycle, the world is about to undergo an epochal update, all the gods in this world are about to be forcibly ejected with slumber, the estimated update time is 72 hours.]
[Update countdown: 60:00.]
An hourglass floated in the centre of the screen, and a digital countdown began next to it.
Lu Yao froze for a moment as he watched.
This was the …… World Version Update?
He switched perspectives and asked Sarina, whose memory was relatively intact.
“My lord, Epoch means world turnover. Different epochs will have different world forms.”
Sarina said, “After an epoch change, the world usually undergoes a series of changes. The climate and geography would change, some powerful races might become declined, and the weaker races might have their boom period.”
“The birth of new races and the demise of old powers, these are all situations that accompany the Era Change and cannot be predicted ……”
Lu Yao understood as soon as he heard it.
The Pixel World was going to open a new version.
Speaking of which, the Earth’s version was updated at about the same time: the Cambrian explosion of life, the extinction of primitive organisms in the Ordovician, the extinction of a large number of marine organisms in the Permian, and the Jurassic dinosaurs’ domination of the Earth ……
One generation of versions is one generation of gods. Survivors have to quickly figure out the version of the world, and the competition is who can adapt to the version the most.
With only an hour to spare, Lu Yao quickly made arrangements.
He first arranged a task for Sarina.
In the absence of the gods, you are the chief apostle, and all the other apostles will listen to you.
Lu Yao asked her to maintain the stability of the group of believers as much as possible to reduce the losses that might be caused by the change of epoch.
A smiling face floated above the head of Sarina who had been given the importance.
“Please rest assured, my lord, I will definitely fulfil your orders!”
Then came the deployment of troops.
It would take three days for the world to update, and it might not be possible to log into the simulator for all three days.
Thus, Lu Yao used the temple to summon Isabelle and the Blood Knights to the real world to ensure his safety. Although there didn’t seem to be any danger at the moment, with two bodyguards, he was always more secure in his heart.
In the last half hour, Lu Yao followed every move in the Pixel World.
He always suspected that there was something left out.
This reminded Lu Yao of when he went out, he always felt like he had left the door unlocked, and sometimes he couldn’t help but come back to take a look. But basically this was all an overthought, muscle memory had already done everything.
As the countdown in the screen cleared to zero.
The entire simulator automatically shut down.
Lu Yao tried clicking on the client of The Divine Simulator and was able to open the initial interface. He clicked on [Continue Game] and entered the interface which turned pitch black.
There were two lines in the screen.
[Era Update in Progress ……]
[Update Countdown: 71:50:44]
Back in the initial interface, there was still the option of [New Game].
Lu Yao tried moving the mouse over, but found that [New Game] was grey, signifying that it was unavailable.
Being forcibly disconnected from the link suddenly lifted a burden off Lu Yao’s shoulders.
Not having to stare at the entire world of pixelated villains was suddenly a lot less annoying.
Lu Yao turned on Stephen Chow’s Domestic Ling Ling Paint, ready to watch the classic comedy and relax. In the past, he couldn’t get enough of the film, but he could never concentrate and his thoughts drifted around.
There wouldn’t be volcanoes and earthquakes or anything when the Era was renewed, right?
Or maybe it’ll go straight into a glacial period and have a massive cooling?
Or something more violent, a meteorite transformation ……
All nature has to do is lift a finger and mankind will struggle.
Modern society is struggling to cope with natural disasters, and the pixelated little people are afraid they’re going to lose a lot of money ……
What was I thinking?
Lu Yao rubbed his face with his hands.
This was probably how parents felt when they sent their children to kindergarten for the first time.
Happy at first, then worried.
He decided to find something to do to divert his attention.
Lu Yao walked around the house and suddenly his eyes glanced out the window.
The letter was still hanging from the streetlight on Parking Lane, swinging in the wind.
Lu Yao looked at Isabel, “Bring the white horse. Bring that letter over.”
“Yes, my lord.”
Under the advanced camouflage of the [Ghost White Horse] in prop stance, Isabelle flew up into the sky on her wand and took the letter down gently.
For safety’s sake, Lu Yao let Isabelle open the letter outside the house, and he used Isabelle’s eyes to view it remotely.
The envelope was ordinary kraft paper, and inside was a white letterhead.
Written on the paper-
Miss Mary:
Crossbands have appeared nearby that have not yet disappeared, and some ordinary citizens have disappeared after mistakenly entering them. I sincerely hope that you will lend a helping hand and join me in searching for the missing person, I would be grateful. If you would like to volunteer, please contact me.
I wish you all the best and good health.
Song Shiyi
Lu Yao remembered the piece of paper posted downstairs.
Since he was a child, Lu Yao had seen a lot of missing person notices, and going missing seemed to be a very unusual thing.
Because there was usually no process or reason for it, it was also hard to create the tangible feeling that a person had completely disappeared or had been killed. It was like every hitman, not knowing why they left or how they would end up.
To Lu Yao, Song Shiyi is a human-sized how-to book on simulators. A lot of questions might have to be answered at her place.
For example.
What was the crossbelt?
Lu Yao decided to contact and see first.