“Siwei… you…” Guyu Gege looked at Siwei Jie with some surprise. “You think so too?”

“In this world… is there a more reasonable answer than this?” Siwei Jie blinked, thinking through the possibilities from my perspective. “Could that display screen and bell… both be people?”

“This is a bit too fantastical…” Guyu Gege was also stunned. “You’re saying… there are two living people, one who became a display screen and one who became a giant bell…? They’ve been standing there for decades?!”

“Yes. Then have someone with immense strength ‘assemble’ them together, and everything makes sense.” The more Siwei Jie thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed. “So who were that ‘bell’ and ‘display screen’ originally…?”

Guyu Gege hurriedly interrupted: “Siwei… are you really going to hypothesize along this line of thinking…? Although ‘Fragrances’ are all supernatural abilities, this situation is too rare! If there really were people whose ‘Fragrance’ was to become a ‘display screen’ or ‘bell,’ logically speaking, once they activated their ‘Fragrance’ they would transform. If that’s the case… wouldn’t ‘Dao City’ be filled with bells and display screens everywhere?”

“This…”

“Moreover, the distribution of ‘bells’ and ‘display screens’ in ‘Dao City’ follows a pattern. They’re located in four groups at the east, south, west, and north—clearly someone made a distribution design in advance.” Guyu Gege explained to Siwei Jie with a serious expression. “Although Hero’s line of thinking is indeed very novel, I think the other party must have used some other more ingenious method to build these two things…”

“Could there be another method…?” Siwei Jie pondered. “If the ‘bell’ and ‘display screen’ aren’t alive, how do you explain how they’ve been operating all this time…? And the way they operate…”

At this point, Siwei Jie paused slightly and asked: “What words did you say were written on that display screen?”

“I heard an echo.” Guyu Gege answered.

“Do you think… ‘I heard an echo’ and ‘I smelled a fragrance’… could they mean the same thing?”

“What…?”

“I mean… could the one standing there… be a ‘Fragrance holder’ with something like ‘Spirit Smell’ or ‘Spirit Hearing’?”

“But… but…” Guyu Gege followed Siwei Jie’s line of thinking for a long time but still felt it was somewhat absurd. “According to what you’re saying… only one person needs to stand there… Who is the ‘giant bell’? Why do two people need to stand there?”

His question made Siwei Jie fall silent again. The two discussed for a long time without reaching a conclusion.

Siwei Jie proposed that during roll call the next morning, they should first compile statistics on ‘Fragrance holders’ with similar abilities to see if they could replicate roughly the same equipment based on what they currently had.

Seeing the two of them busy all day like this, I often felt somewhat uneasy.

As the “Hero”… what exactly should I be doing?

The next day, Siwei Jie and Guyu Gege compiled statistics on the abilities of many ‘Fragrance holders,’ but the situation didn’t seem optimistic.

“Siwei… after removing two hundred and nine support types, one hundred and twenty-six self-enhancement types, over seventy illusion types, and over forty combat types, the number of creation-type ‘Fragrance holders’ is at most twenty-some people. But most people’s creation-type ‘Fragrances’ are fixed creations with no way to freely create shapes. Right now, only abilities like ‘Strong Sand,’ ‘Soft Mud,’ ‘Frost Ice,’ and ‘Crystal’ barely come close…”

After hearing this, Siwei Jie’s expression became heavy. She thought for quite a while before speaking: “It sounds like they could create something like ‘cement’… but can this really work? After listing all these abilities, I finally know just how outrageous that display screen is…”

“Yes.” Guyu Gege nodded. “Not to mention anything else… a display screen contains at least cathode ray tubes and chips. Cathode ray tubes require large amounts of glass and phosphorescent materials, while chips need silicon and heavy metals. If we want to build a giant bell, we need large amounts of copper ore… And this is just obtaining the materials. Finally, combining all these fantastical things together to make them actually operate… and operate continuously for many years—this is an extremely incredible thing.”

“So initially you thought this wasn’t a ‘Fragrance’ but some kind of ‘technology’…”

“Exactly.” Guyu Gege said in a deep voice. “Siwei, it’s not that I don’t believe in the power of ‘Fragrances,’ but the difficulty of this matter is too high. Take Fang Jie’s ‘Frost Ice’ for example—she can only produce a small pile of ice blocks when she’s in good condition. Think about it carefully… if I told her, ‘Now I need you to produce a giant bell made of frost ice’ or ‘I need you to produce enough quantity to build a giant bell’…”

“Yes, this is too absurd and goes against common sense.” Siwei Jie nodded. “Then… could there be another possibility?”

“What?”

“That is… the person who built the display screen and giant bell didn’t use created materials but used local materials instead…?”

“You mean…” Guyu Gege thought for a moment. “That person directly used materials from the city?”

“Mm!” Siwei Jie nodded. “There are also many chips and circuits available in the city, right… Could that person have directly taken and used them?”

“This question stumps me.” Guyu Gege said. “I never paid attention to whether the old televisions remaining in ‘Dao City’s’ buildings were dismantled… But thinking about it this way doesn’t work either. The workload is still extremely massive… This would require at least a large group of people helping to transport materials together. Even more outrageous is the giant bell—a bell as big as those in temples weighs at least over ten tons. If it’s made from local materials, how many people would be needed to collect copper? Moreover, such an exaggerated display screen and giant bell aren’t just one set but four sets—the manufacturing materials have quadrupled! Without any transportation vehicles or mechanical equipment, the workload would be like building the Great Wall. The difficulty is unimaginably huge.”

After hearing this, Siwei Jie’s expression became heavy: “So… Hero can’t be liberated after all.”

After so many days, I finally seemed to understand what they were worried about. They wanted to save me, but I didn’t need to be saved.

They probably didn’t know how I felt… From birth until now, this was the first time I had been needed by so many people.

I was willing to do anything for this feeling of being needed.

I just didn’t want Guyu Gege and Siwei Jie to work so hard because of this matter.

“We can’t completely give up hope…” Guyu Gege sighed. “I’ll first have them try to create something like a display board… If it really doesn’t work, we can arrange for people to handwrite and erase it daily. Whatever lightens Hero’s burden a bit, we’ll do…”

“Big brother, big sister.” I spoke up and interrupted them.

“What?” Siwei Jie looked at me.

“I think you’ve overlooked the most critical problem.”

“What problem?” Guyu Gege asked.

“No matter what we build… it won’t come alive.” I said softly. “The person who senses the ‘Fragrance’ is always me, but in that city, the one who senses the ‘Fragrance’ is the display screen.”