Chapter Ten: And So, Chen Mo Made Up His Mind

But then Chen Mo reconsidered.

It wasn’t quite right to think that all of Chu Hao’s misfortunes would cause problems in every minor action. Even if issues arose, they should manifest within the larger scheme. For example, in the original storyline, Chu Hao’s various small missions and maneuvers—such as sending teammates to lure monsters, sniping enemies from vantage points, or detonating bombs at demolition sites—did not necessarily fail. Moreover, Chu Hao’s plans might encounter difficulties but wouldn’t inevitably collapse. If problems did appear, they wouldn’t surface before the aliens even arrived.

Although Chen Mo thought it was wise to remain cautious.

Absentmindedly, as he watched the passersby, Chen Mo took out the Hypnosis Eye he had won from a lottery in his item space.

In truth, kidnapping the protagonists was easy.

Using the Hypnosis Eye directly on the male lead might be risky—after all, in the original work, he had resisted the aliens’ blue light hypnosis. But hypnotizing his wife, his brother, or even random bystanders posed no problem. With these people under control, abducting the protagonists would be effortless and wouldn’t earn their resentment. After all, once the aliens appeared, a reasonable explanation could be given.

In this magic-less technological dimension, the Hypnosis Eye was terrifyingly powerful. If not for the alien invasion, Chen Mo could even try hypnotizing the leaders of various countries and factions, turning them into his puppets and becoming the shadow emperor of Earth.

So what distracted him wasn’t the flaws in Chu Hao’s plans, but other concerns...

After negotiating with friends in the chat group and successfully earning a satisfying reward from them, and then finding himself alone with nothing to do, Chen Mo began to ponder various matters.

For instance... the matter of this third-generation main god space he had traversed to.

If he simply followed Chu Hao’s steps and layout, the challenges might be significant. But Chen Mo could easily avoid them by relying on the chat group’s abilities.

What concerned him wasn’t the “simple” layout disruptions caused by Chu Hao’s bad luck or the problems encountered in the story world, because with the chat group’s help, these were trivial.

Like now, with the aid of group members, as long as he didn’t act recklessly, Chen Mo could safely navigate this story world, return to the main god space, and exchange gold for the twelve talismans of the Valor World, and even all the masks of the Ghost Shadow Legion. If he was greedy enough, he could attempt to obtain the inheritance of air magic or even demonic powers!

Once the chat group’s functions upgraded and member teleportation was enabled, these wouldn’t be problems at all.

If the main god raised the difficulty and sent a third-tier monster, Chen Mo could summon a fourth-tier ally from the chat group; if the main god released a fourth-tier monster, he could call someone even stronger.

When the group members wear down the monster, Chen Mo could finish it off, splitting the rewards and side quests evenly—everyone benefits, so why not?

Chu Hao’s layout problems?

Why not just charge through without any layout? Isn’t that better?

So the issues Chen Mo cared about were not these, but the crises and problems he would inevitably face in the future within the main god space he currently inhabited—the third generation.

As long as he stayed with the North Ice Continent team and remained in the main god space, he would certainly encounter:

The layouts of the clone Chu Xuan, the Second Equilibrium, the reincarnation of Hao, the Prehistoric Heavenly Court, the Lament of the Hung King, the Merit Calendar... These crises and problems revealed in the Infinite Dawn and Prehistoric Eras were what truly concerned him!

The difficulties and troubles these crises entailed—frankly speaking—were so immense that even if he tied up all his cheap allies, it wouldn’t be enough to fend off the mastermind behind the scenes. Even the future Time Dao Ancestor Han Li’s arrival wouldn’t guarantee a solution.

To solve these issues, stronger figures were needed—at least those possessing multiverse-level combat power to join the chat group, such as the great powers from super-model worlds like Perfect, Heavenly Dragon Talisman, and Eternal Galaxy. And they would have to be their future selves.

With the chat group, solving these problems would be as simple as waiting for such great powers to join. Once those top-tier fantasy protagonists arrived, everything would be fine... That had been Chen Mo’s initial thought. But upon reflection, he sensed a problem.

The issue was that these multiverse-level powers might not join the chat group—or at least, wouldn’t join anytime soon.

After all, there were countless works in the world—games, anime, online novels, even eroge—that each constituted a world. And the chat group had a very low influx of new members.

According to Kaguya from Mount Penglai, she was the first to join the chat group. A whole year had passed before Chen Mo and Valor joined, barely bringing the membership to eight.

That meant, on average, a newcomer joined every ninety days, two at a time... So when could they expect any great powers to join?

Moreover, even if such a power did arrive, who could say whether they were good or evil?

Based on the current members, the chat group seemed indifferent to their alignments. Whether it was the altruistic Shirou Emiya, the unlucky Lu Mingfei, the foolish Aqua, the antagonist-like Tokisaki Kurumi and Valor, the mysterious Kaguya, or Chen Mo himself—a new recruit to the North Ice Continent team in the main god space—the chat group treated all equally and invited them in.

Sure, the inhabitants of Perfect, Heavenly Dragon Talisman, Eternal Galaxy might be invited, but who said it would definitely be the protagonists? It could just as well be villains.

If that were the case, Chen Mo’s situation would become complicated.

Even relying on the chat group’s power, he could survive the story world and avoid being crushed by Chu Hao. Even if he couldn’t change Chu Hao’s fate, he could stick with Zhang Heng, who would inevitably join the North Ice Continent team, and muddle through until Zheng Zha and others found the Narnia dimension and confronted the Prehistoric Heavenly Court.

But if no order-aligned great powers joined during this period—which might only span decades, or less than ten years—that would be unfortunate.

Therefore, he couldn’t simply wait for a savior to appear.

Relying solely on a yet-unseen great power from the order faction, willing to selflessly solve the endless multiverse’s subsequent troubles for him... was less reliable than standing on his own two feet, leveraging the chat group’s nature to rapidly grow stronger.

If no great power came, he could try to become one himself!

After all, he had the backing of the main god space and wielded the chat group!

With these two treasures, aided by the chat group and the main god space’s strengthening opportunities, he could attempt to acquire enhancements above S-rank.

Although even Zheng Zha hadn’t solely relied on the main god space’s enhancements to achieve multiverse-level power—for various reasons—Chen Mo had the chat group!

Mutual help among group members, honest point farming in the main god space, achieving supreme strength together, even becoming a multiverse-level powerhouse... it wasn’t impossible.

After all, it’s good to rely on strong allies, but one cannot rely on them forever; one must learn to become a strong ally oneself.

Taking a deep breath, Chen Mo pressed his brow and gradually calmed the storm of thoughts in his mind.

Then, steeling himself, he made a firm decision.