Death Game: Starting as a fraudster, pretending to be a god.

Chapter 1285: Yonglian's Path to Godhood

"You mean... about the connection between Ghost Ship and Project Fear, did you guess it by accident?"

Buyetian Yonglian looked at Lin Yu and asked back.

There was clearly some disbelief in her tone.

However, Buye Tian Yonglian quickly shook his head.

"Forget it, it's not important to me..."

"Since you wish to learn about Project Fear, then ask."

"Of course, in exchange...you have to do a good job on this project."

Buye Tian Yonglian said this, and Lin Yu nodded.

"Don't worry, Patriarch... I will definitely complete this project if I have the chance."

"So, I want to know if the origin of the 'Fear Project' is related to the [Ancient Notes]?"

Upon hearing this, Buyetian Yonglian chuckled and said, "I thought you would ask more tricky questions... That's for sure."

"Research on the emotion 'fear' has actually been around for a long time. After all, humans only have so many emotions. After the alchemy of the emotional spectrum was discovered, of course, there were people who thought of 'fear'."

"However, all those previous studies... were completely unable to touch upon fear. For a long time, fear seemed to have no existence—until I obtained the [Ancient Notes]."

"Speaking of which, this is also a coincidence... I mentioned before that after I discovered the truth about the [Ancient Notes], I tried to throw it out of this world through the Boundary Gate."

"It was at that time that I discovered... it had actively absorbed some information from the Boundary Gate—primarily information about the gods and authorities of other worlds."

Lin Yu was a little surprised when he heard this: "This is why... you were able to take the crucial first step in the field of fear, which has never been conquered."

"Yes, although most of the information is difficult to interpret, I still found some parts that I can use... In another world, fear has appeared as a specific authority and is in the hands of a specific god."

"It is precisely for this reason that controlling fear has always been impossible—because from the very beginning, fear has been the 'private' possession of a higher being from some other world."

"Although that 'Outer God' cannot interfere with the world I live in, we are unable to integrate fear into the system of alchemy."

Lin Yu frowned slightly, but did not rush to raise the new question in his mind. Instead, he continued, "Then how did you take the first step towards fear?"

"Because the god who mastered fear, like the God of Fate that Allan had once sought help from, has fallen," Buyetian Yonglian said calmly. "However, compared to the God of Fate, who completely dissipated and whose authority seemed to have completely collapsed, this God of Fear... seems to still have some willpower left, maintaining the operation of his authority."

"So, I spent some time, with the help of my Lord, researching a simple ritual that could bypass and utilize that residual will and directly extract 'fear'."

"With this ritual as the core, like an adapter, we can graft the emotion of fear into the alchemical system, or even directly incorporate it into the emotional spectrum, and develop some alchemy specific to fear."

As Buyetian Yonglian spoke, Lin Yu thought for a moment, then said: "But in the end, the project was stopped."

"Yes. Not only is my plan to utilize visitors from another world completely unattainable, but also... the power of 'fear' seems to be shifting towards our world as my understanding of it deepens and I continue to practice related alchemy."

"I can't predict the risks that will come with it. From the Ancient Notes, I've already understood that 'authority' can flow between different worlds... but every time it flows, it inevitably has a huge impact... For me, this impact is directly equivalent to the possibility of paying a huge price."

As Buye Tian Yonglian spoke, Lin Yu reacted.

"I see. So, the reason you agreed to my proposal to restart 'Fear' is because my identity as a 'visitor from another world' would eliminate the impact of the cost, right?"

"Just like I carried the [Ancient Notes] in and out of various worlds without causing any impact, we, the visitors from other worlds, can ignore the cost when we carry authority... or at least minimize it."

"So, if I can take your place and lead all rituals related to fear, or even go one step further, then the power of fear will naturally not affect the Wasteland Realm and the City That Never Sleeps."

Buyetian Yonglian said with relief: "That's right. I really like talking to smart guys like you who can draw inferences from one example..."

Lin Yu also smiled and said, "So, on the Ghost Ship side, the entire 'material reality scene' fell into another world. Was it a price you, the Patriarch, paid voluntarily, or was it paid passively?"

He looked at Buyetian Yonglian.

In the old bookstore environment, the girl narrowed her eyes, moved slightly, and moved closer to Lin Yu, like a high school girl who wanted to whisper to her friend.

"You're really too smart... Phew, this is also the disadvantage of talking to smart people."

"Indeed, you know more than I thought."

Lin Yu whispered, "It was just good luck... What I saw in the other world was not the record of the Ghost Ship, but the sealed Ghost Ship itself."

"The Ghost Ship is in the world where the Authority of Information and the Authority of Fear originally existed—and has also communicated with their higher-level beings... These two authorities were originally lost from their world together."

"When these three coincidences are stacked together, they're no longer coincidences, Master Patriarch... I wonder if A'Luo has ever told you about a technique called 'montage'—in my opinion, your narration just now was a montage, a 'narrative trick'-style deception against me."

"It was only after you approached the border gate with the authority of information that you learned about the nature of 'fear' as authority... But, that was after the Ghost Ship project."

"And the authority you wish to send away isn't information... but the 'fear' that has already descended upon this world, correct?"

"The so-called 'cost' and impact is that if an authority that does not originally belong to this world appears in a world, then other things will move to the world where that authority comes."

Lin Yu looked at Buye Tian Yonglian, took a deep breath, and said an extremely dangerous conclusion.

"So, the Ghost Ship project team was like a sacrifice... You used it as a medium to summon authority, and you could also make it look like it would attract visitors from other worlds. You weren't looking for the 'source of fear', but... you must have had helpers among the visitors at that time, right?"

"In return, you... should have briefly mastered the power of fear, perhaps even attained the status of a god."