Chapter 22: Key Intelligence

Chapter 22: Key Intelligence

Although Byers had witnessed Phil’s severed hand, Webber’s hanging, and Mr. Magician’s worms gathering to form a palm, and although he possessed a certain understanding of the terrifying mutations brought by 0-02, his level was ultimately insufficient. He could not see or clearly grasp the horrors hidden behind these events. He mostly understood them as ghost stories becoming reality.

Therefore, at this moment, though he was afraid, under the gazes of that miraculous Magician and the angel walking the earth, he still mustered his courage and quickly approached the rectangular table. Of course, this was also influenced to a certain extent by the Sailor pathway itself.

In only two or three steps, Byers reached a place where he could stretch out and touch the brass book.

He did not think. He directly extended his right palm, grabbed the front brass pages of 0-02, and flipped through them rapidly.

During this process, the back of Byers’s hand remained pressed against the brass page that had not yet been fully filled, preventing it from being covered, so that both he, Mr. Magician, and the angel lady could observe any changes on it in time and respond in advance.

Amid the rustling sounds, this Sailor saw the clause stating that “touching the Trunsoest Brass Book” would result in the death penalty. First, fear surged through him. Then strong doubt arose—the doubt over his own current condition.

However, this did not affect his movement of flipping forward through the book. Meanwhile, different brass pages were reflected one after another in Klein’s eyes, each one containing different rules and clauses.

The projections of these brass pages did not appear in a manner where one vanished and the next replaced it. Instead, they existed side by side, increasing little by little.

By the end, different numbers of brass page images remained in Klein’s two eyes. They were arranged neatly, row after row, as if 0-02 had been disassembled into individual pages and placed on a glass table to bask in the sun.

This was a dream-divination technique at the angelic level. Klein recreated everything he had just seen before his eyes.

As time passed, within his deep brown, almost black pupils, those brass pages began to rotate, highlighting one among them:

“…The Trunsoest Brass Book originates from the Uniqueness of the Justiciar pathway, contaminated by the Nation of Disorder…”

Just as I expected. Since the Trunsoest Brass Book can present all the foundational rules, then the corresponding contents must contain a description of itself! This is determined by its essence—unless it has fully awakened or activated, possessing sufficient wisdom to know how to hide things selectively… Joy had just flashed through Klein’s heart when he saw new mercury-colored words begin to appear on the brass page that had not yet been filled.

This meant that 0-02 had finally separated part of its power from the infinite loop and was preparing to add a clause, provide an explanation, and repair the loophole.

“Leave!” Klein shouted without hesitation.

Byers strictly obeyed the higher-level existence’s order. He immediately withdrew his right hand, turned around, and sprinted toward the floor-to-ceiling window.

“Pretend you are about to attack me.” Seeing that this Sailor with dual attributes had already left the municipal library, Klein suddenly added another instruction.

Byers was filled with confusion, but he still raised his right arm, pulled back his shoulder, and assumed the posture of someone about to swing a fist at Klein.

At that moment, the new clause finally formed:

“In regard to the above rules, the Trunsoest Brass Book and the people permitted by it possess immunity when enforcing the law…”

However, even though this clause had been successfully promulgated, Byers did not suffer any punishment.

Clearly, for problems that occurred during an infinite loop or during unclear definitions, the Trunsoest Brass Book did…