Witch, Fireball and the Evil God of Steam-Chapter 869 - 171: The "I Reckon" School

Ethan gradually adapted to the changes brought by data and characters.

This was a place where nothing existed except for information. No emotions, hunger, or smells; these innate parts of humanity were transformed into various characters and codes, reconstructed and interpreted from the perspective of the God of Truth. It recorded events before the arrival of the First Epoch, containing almost infinite knowledge and insights.

The only issue was the search engine was terribly inadequate, making it difficult for beginners like Ethan to find the information he needed.

Thus, decoding this omnipresent code became his next task.

As the God of Truth said, they had plenty of time, and that night, Ethan found himself reliving the feeling of working overtime at the company, even though those memories were likely fabricated.

A computer, a cup of coffee, an enlightenment.

In the eyes of the God of Truth, this behavior was completely illogical and inexplicable.

He noticed those uncontrollable abnormal codes gathering to form a chair, a table, resembling a small independent office area in a big company, followed by a host, a mouse, a keyboard, a computer. After setting it up, the intruder even prepared a cup of coffee for himself.

He could understand the meaning of these codes individually, but their appearance here together seemed so bizarre.

The coffee had no temperature, no taste, and certainly didn't achieve the effects of alertness or excitement. It existed only in conceptual form, like words written on white paper. The computer, chair, and keyboard were the same. Ethan couldn't truly turn on a computer screen or connect to a network.

This world, this archive he created, fundamentally did not need a network.

But this was enough to make Him vigilant.

Because within less than ten minutes of this intruder's arrival, he had bypassed His permissions, extracted some codes, and infected them.

This was undoubtedly the most serious virus invasion He had encountered over the centuries, possessing an influence even the Old Gods lacked. Clearly, Ethan harbored secrets He was unaware of.

This thrust the God of Truth into deep conflict. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝚠𝕖𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝕖𝚕.𝚌𝗼𝗺

On one hand, the thirst for knowledge made Him want to uncover the secrets within Ethan, to see through this entity that, in terms of power, approached the Old Gods, yet was not entirely the same. On the other hand, the "firewall" had already sounded alarms; if this virus were allowed to persist, the entire information library could be polluted.

In fact, after Ethan's search, Old God Bazatous's information library had already begun experiencing cognitive-level contamination.

As terms like "Old Ba" and "Ba Zi" emerged, discrepancies in the perception of the Old God's identity began to appear.

Could Bazatous be a professor?

He had set up a course on "Introduction to Art" somewhere.

The contents of these searches stealthily permeated His information library, filling and completing many unknown boundaries. The troubling aspect was that these few simple terms, along with the entry of one piece of information, would immediately affect thousands of speculative results, much like a drop of ink in clear water, inseparable thereafter.

He couldn't stop the process of the information library being polluted.

Because before this, no one had ever reached here, nor could anyone else enter new data into His library!

After His transformation, even in facing the most devout Believers, to avoid endless information and knowledge frying their brains, He had to learn the ways of the Old Gods in meeting Believers.

This brief tenseness had already resulted in extremely serious consequences: all the virus-contaminated information codes vaguely suggested a new direction.

The possibility of communication with the Old Gods.

Moreover, the Old Gods might also possess "human" thoughts and emotions.

This thoroughly deviated from the original conclusion. In the initial hypothesis, the Old Gods were entirely chaotic and disordered entities, projections of certain thoughts and emotions from beings, products of those "ideas" inflated unchecked to extremes, because in His original information framework, human thoughts and desires were infinite expansions.

In the eyes of "gods," thoughts and desires were far more important than the human species itself.

But if at a time and place unknown to Him, Bazatous had become a professor and even opened courses for humans, then most of His previous understandings and conclusions about the Old Gods would be overturned.

The ubiquitous codes pulsed more violently, causing the whole world to tremble.

The virus initiated an internal war in His thoughts.

Ethan brought new possibilities. He could see its crucial value, so important that His mind and firewall began to clash.

"What... are you doing?"

Ultimately, the intense mental conflict transformed into a single question.

Because the God of Truth was surprised to find that Ethan actually "opened" the computer, though He still couldn't understand the purpose of these actions.

"Learning a foreign language... and programming."

Ethan was also experiencing a brainstorm, his state no better, as for him, this omnipresent code was akin to a foreign language with countless vocabulary. Unfortunately, he had become the unlucky programmer—he acquired a cup of coffee and matching office equipment, but in reality, he also didn't know how he managed it.