Chapter 253

Chapter 253: History Is Written by the Winners

At this time, Du An Rao had no idea about the “evil intentions” of the person beside her. Her whole mind was still sunk in the complicated plot lines in her head.

She had only skimmed the book related to Liu Tian Yuan before. She only remembered the story in a rough way. Now that she was studying it line by line, she really did find some small details she had ignored before.

This so-called infinite stream was like a level-clearing game. You either cleared the level or you died.

The difference was that if they died here, they really died. There was no chance to reload or start over.

The protagonist team that Liu Tian Yuan belonged to had a total of six people. Besides the male and female leads, who were the main line that linked all the instances together, the other four were teammates who joined their two-person team later.

Liu Tian Yuan’s first appearance was when they entered the fifth world, which was also the last world where their team finished gathering.

It was a strange, eerie mountain village in the wild. Several teams had already gone in before and been wiped out.

After the male and female leads and their team entered this village, they were as careful as they could be, but even so, they were almost tricked and wiped out together.

At the critical moment, Liu Tian Yuan suddenly appeared and saved them.

It turned out that this village had suffered a famine before. Almost half the people had starved to death. The bodies of those who starved were not cleared away in time, which started an epidemic. The other half of the villagers also died.

In other words, right now, besides them, there was not a single living person in this village!

The teams that came before, as well as the male and female leads, were all trapped by usual human thinking. They thought there were still living villagers there and were fooled by “villagers” who came close to them pretending to be kind. Step by step, they walked into the traps set for them and almost became food for the ghosts.

Here, Liu Tian Yuan’s cheat ability showed its special advantage. He did not need to work to tell who was human and who was a ghost. His cheat would help him make the judgment and keep him safe.

With Liu Tian Yuan’s help, the male and female leads and their teammates quickly cut through this instance and successfully escaped this ghost domain village, returning to the real world.

Because of this, Liu Tian Yuan smoothly joined the male and female leads’ team and became the true team favorite.

Reading up to this point, however, only made Du An Rao feel disgusted.

In this part of the story, the author kept writing about how deep the feelings between Liu Tian Yuan and his cheat were, how good he treated it, paving the way in advance for the cheat’s later betrayal, and using the strong contrast to stress the unchanging rule that “anyone who is not one of us is definitely untrustworthy.”

If Du An Rao did not know the truth behind it, she would probably also have been misled.

But once she knew the true identity of Liu Tian Yuan’s cheat, and thought about how, if Mr. and Mrs. Liu and Ms. Qiu had not managed to contact her and find her by accident, this family would probably have died without ever knowing how or why they died…

They not only killed the whole family. They also painted the family’s “background color” black, just to prove that their own actions were just.

Even though she was an outsider, Du An Rao could not help feeling sympathy for this family at this moment.

Listening at her side, Xi Jing Yue also felt a bit heavy-hearted. History had always been written by the winners.

From the point of view of the male and female protagonists, especially the female lead who was also the author who created the infinite-stream world, Liu Tian Yuan stood for justice, and the little ghost beside him stood for evil.

But in the eyes of outsiders like them who knew the truth, it was nothing more than cause and effect, retribution that could not be avoided.

Without the person in front of them, would these wrongs ever have had a chance to be cleared? Would their tragedy ever have been avoided?

The answer was clearly no. Or maybe this was the real reason why Heaven Above allowed them to hear Du An Rao’s inner voice and unconsciously favored her.

Once a fig leaf was torn away, it was not so easy to cover things up again.

After realizing that Liu Tian Yuan only looked kind and harmless but was actually a hypocrite, Du An Rao re-examined the whole protagonist team and found that none of them were much better.

They looked united and friendly on the surface, but in truth, each of them had their own selfish plans and no bottom line. It was just that in a strange, infinite-stream otherworld, all rules and human nature had been replaced by the law of the jungle. All trickery and schemes had been beautified as “just trying to survive.”

The more Du An Rao read, the more stifled she felt. She simply skipped ahead to the last world. This final world was also the real world where the protagonist team was completely wiped out.

In this world, the male lead was a doctor, the female lead was a teacher, Liu Tian Yuan was a student about to enter university, and the other three teammates were a lawyer, a rich second-generation heir, and a reporter.

By chance, this group all ended up at the same university. Using the advantages of their identities, they did very well there. The rich kid and Liu Tian Yuan did especially well. With help from the female lead and the rich kid, Liu Tian Yuan became the student council president. Then, as a return favor, he used his position to stuff the rich kid into the lab of a certain powerful professor at the school to polish his resume.

Not long after, the rich kid met another super rich and powerful heir in that lab.

To help this young master get what he wanted, the rich teammate joined hands with the female lead and Liu Tian Yuan to accuse a doctoral student in the lab of plagiarizing his thesis. They used this to steal his research. After that, they used public opinion to push that doctorate holder to his death, and with help from their lawyer teammate, they exploited loopholes in the law and got away with it.

The funny thing was that these people might not even have noticed that after staying in the infinite-stream world for so long, their values had already been changed by those worlds filled with blood and terror, where the strong were kings and the weak were like dirt. They had brought those ways of thinking and those habits back into reality.

Because of this, the protagonist team paid only a small price and yet got a huge return. Everyone tasted the sweetness and could not stop.

They started hunting for prey in the real world, changing from chosen victims into active attackers, happily swinging their butcher’s knives at ordinary people who had no power to fight back.

Because of their actions, the real world slowly fell into panic and chaos. The dark power that fed on human fear and desire quietly gathered in secret and successfully turned the real world into the last, and also the hardest, infinite-stream real-world instance.

As veteran players of the infinite-stream world, the protagonist team were the first to notice that their own world had also turned into an infinite-stream instance.

They were shocked at first, but what followed was an excited eagerness, because they realized that compared to the normal, orderly real world, they actually missed those earlier worlds more, the ones that were thrilling and full of ups and downs, yet had no restraints and allowed them to do whatever they wanted.

Besides, as veterans who had gone through several worlds, they had plenty of experience and naturally stood ahead of others.

As soon as the world fell into chaos, they could use this chance to climb one step higher. Maybe they could even become key figures protected by the country, gaining both fame and profit, being admired by the public, and becoming people who stood above tens of millions of others.