Meteor Fall Master in the 'Starry Abyss'

Chapter 72: Is Your Filter Even Working?


"It's a total of six hundred Ammonium Gold, the service fee here is three percent, just give whatever you see fit."

After the payment was completed, Severston pulled a lollipop from the bar, peeled off the wrapper, stuck it in his mouth, and turned to look at Yutianxiao, who was packing food and drinks, curiously:

"Elevent—I mean Yutianxiao, when did you become so thrifty and household-minded?"

"Oh? Me?"

Yutianxiao didn't mind Severston's comment, after all, he could be counted as a minor public figure, people being interested in his life was quite normal:

"After the divorce, living alone made me become detail-oriented and cost-conscious."

"You were married?" Severston was surprised: "I thought someone like you would be the carefree single aristocrat type."

"How could you tell?"

"Usually, people don't like playing [Magician]. Out of the four occupations, it's the most mentally exhausting and intricate to operate, unlike [Mechanic], where everything can be handed over to AI for automated tasks, with auto-aim, perspective view, head-locking, tracking bullets. [Magician] requires recording spell models yourself, pondering spell slot allocation, and considering positioning and team stand. High output can lead to aggro issues, not only that, due to low attribute growth, most Spellcasters choose to add all points to [Intelligence], resulting in a frailer body with extremely low error tolerance."

Severston said:

"Players of this stuff, are seldom not sharp-minded."

"What does this have to do with marriage at all?" Yutianxiao packed onion rings into the lunch box and casually asked.

"Who with sharp brains would get married."

Severston joked:

"They say: The wise don't fall in love, they construct a better life."

"What a pity, I wasn't such a carefree person when I was young." Yutianxiao chuckled, speaking leisurely: "It's got nothing to do with love really. I just followed family arrangements, marrying the daughter-in-law they specified, simply playing a game."

"I'm really sorry, I didn't realize that..." Severston raised an eyebrow and said: "It must've been tough to be married to someone you don't like."

"No, she was a very traditional and gentle girl, took care of laundry, cooking at home. Even though she didn't understand my hobbies or my occupation, she at least didn't oppose. The kid was taken care of by robots, we hardly bothered, so life after marriage was actually quite happy."

The two packed their things, chatting while heading outside.

"Though it might seem a bit abrupt to say." Severston rubbed his chin, curious: "But if it's like that, why did you divorce then?"

"I don't know." Yutianxiao said casually.

Severston was taken aback: "What?"

"Suddenly one day, we thought, since there's no emotion between us, we're not together out of love, even though we complement each other's dislikes, it turns out, even if divorced, it doesn't seem bad."

"So, you just divorced?"

"Yeah." Yutianxiao said: "Only the divorce was a bit late, my age has passed the prime, reaction speed and awareness can't keep up with young people anymore, but Qiongyu highly regards my experience, so they still retained me."

"What a dull background story, I thought I could hear some exhilarating love story."

Severston curled his lips:

"Do modern people have no sense of sanctity regarding marriage? It sounds like you just found a bed partner."

"The natural world doesn't have marriage; civilization forced two people to form families. Love is innate, while family is an anti-life, unnatural product, fundamentally a contract against human nature. We just returned to the original beginnings, back to natural instincts."

"Your story is really boring, I better find Li—True General to play."

"Haha, I think my life is quite dull too."

Yutianxiao opened the teleportation device, the forms of the two began to gradually fragment, turning into white light particles.

[Teleporting to marked location...]

At the instant before teleportation commenced, Severston suddenly heard Yutianxiao faintly say:

"After all, seeing this world through a filter, no matter how you act, it's just a monotonous scene."

"—huh?"

Severston leaned forward, his eyes dazed, not yet understanding the other's meaning as teleportation initiated.

Their bodies were instantly shattered, swept up by an invisible force, rising into the air, crossing spacetime, and in an instant landed on the cliff of Boling Star.

[Rapid movement completed]

[Arrived at coordinate location]

Pop.

Upon landing, Yutianxiao immediately spread his arms, his arms laden with big bags, cheerfully greeting everyone:

"Brought over all the food and drinks, everyone come get some."

"Ah, perfect timing, my equipment isn't very cold-resistant, just right for a hot drink and adding a buff." Caramel Snail walked up, took a cup of hot ginger tea, and gulped it down.

"Can I have more fries?" Lanan's eyes lit up, raising her finger, showing a pitiful expression.

"No problem, there are still two servings here."

Yutianxiao laughed, took a box of fries from the thermal container, casually wiped off the moisture on top, squeezed some cheese and ketchup onto the fries and handed them to Lanan:

"Here, Yueyue, that's for you—Teacher Xia, anything you need?"

"A cup of calming tea, please. After delivering Arcane Energy, my summoned character's status became very poor, consistently showing 'Divine Soul damage' status."

"Okay, here you go."

"Thanks, Brother Yu."

Severston leaned against the ice pillar, arms crossed, observing this harmonious scene.

Yutianxiao is different from the others.

He's the oldest among them, with the richest experience, more importantly, he seems to have realized the problem with perceiving the world.

'Marriage within the cognition filter is merely a delusion.'

The number of Spiritual Warriors is basically fixed, with the few resources Lai Anding has, crafting a Xides leaves only a few materials for other Deities.

As for relying on Spiritual Warriors to reproduce themselves, that's even more nonsense.

As Deities, no matter how rich their emotions, they have no concept of reproduction.

Because Deities are inherently immortal beings, before the defeat in the War Beyond the Abyss, and Gaia's [Society] army flooded into Starry Abyss, no one believed that there was any need for noble Spiritual Warriors to reproduce.

No, they don't lack reproductive capability.

But the mission and divinity of reproduction are all centralized in Lai Anding's hands.

After the War Beyond the Abyss, the independent consciousness of each layer of Starry Abyss began to strengthen, all Spiritual Warriors reincarnated from Nether Abyss, now curled under Lai Anding's protection. Just maintaining the stability of "Starry Abyss" is already extremely difficult, how could there be leftover resources to create new Deities?

Perhaps, Yutianxiao—formerly Elevent—just discovered by coincidence the fact that his wife and love didn't exist.

It's sad, pitiful, but also a bit funny.

Looking at Yutianxiao's words and actions, he probably had not a bit of emotion towards that insincere marriage, which might not be a bad thing, a kind of liberation.

But there's no choice, since the cognition filter had issues, in retrospect he could only discuss it with Lai Anding.

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