Chapter 649: The Grand Finale: Still the Same as Before

"Hiss—damn it, did they secretly change the odds?"
Su Hao bit his nails, staring at the blacksmith NPC on the screen, his gaze even more grave than when he was witnessing the global stock market crash.
On the screen, a character clad in god-tier armor stood before the blacksmith's shop, his backpack crammed with rare materials shimmering with iridescent light.
Pressing that button could create the server's first ultimate artifact—or turn it into a pile of scrap metal.
The guild voice chat had already exploded.
[Huang Fengwen: Holy crap, Hao, you've been sitting there for three hours! Are you really that superstitious?]
[Lin Fan: These are materials that everyone spent months collecting! Vice President, it's up to you!]
[Qin Han: Hurry up and click! I'm getting a heart attack from watching this!]
[Du Yuanhang: You don't understand, do you?! This is the legendary 'mysticism,' the vice president is waiting for the auspicious time!]
"Shut up, all of you! Don't interrupt my spellcasting animation!"
Su Hao growled into the microphone.
"This kind of thing is all about timing, location, and the right people, plus that one moment of 'inspiration'!
My intuition isn't there yet, I can't cast it!"
This is Su Hao.
To outsiders, he's a financial god who can turn the world upside down with a flick of his wrist, a fearsome global mastermind.
But at home, he's still that intuition-believing, game-loving shut-in.
It's precisely this seemingly mystical, illogical "intuition" that has propelled him from an ordinary person to his current pedestal.
However, that damned intuition seems constipated today, stubbornly refusing to arrive.
Just then, the study door was pushed open a crack.
"Daddy~!"
A sweet, childlike voice called from behind, instantly shattering Su Hao's annoyance.
He whirled around and saw a sculpted little boy, clutching a dinosaur toy, toddling towards him.
Su Hao's face instantly broke into that doting smile only a loving father could muster.
That was Su Yun, Su Hao and Li Huilin's precious son.
"Oh, my little darling, what's wrong?"
"Are you playing games again?" the little guy pouted, looking displeased.
Su Hao's face flushed red, and he quickly explained:
"Ahem, Daddy is... um, doing something important.
It'll be over in a minute, I'll play with blocks with you right away!"
Who would have thought that this man who controlled the fate of the world was now humbly explaining to his three-year-old son why he wasn't playing with him?
Since Su Yun came into his life, Su Hao felt his life was complete.
The lone wolf who once only knew how to fight on candlestick charts now had a weakness.
Watching his son grow up day by day, the wondrous feeling of blood ties was more fulfilling than any amount of money he could earn.
Looking back, Su Hao often sighed:
His greatest achievement wasn't ruling the world, but marrying the woman who had accompanied him through thick and thin, who respected and loved him most, and having the most adorable child in the world!
"Oh, my little darling."
Seeing his son climb onto his lap without a word, Su Hao quickly picked him up and placed him on his knees.
"Why aren't you playing with Mommy?"
"Mommy's watching TV, it's not fun. I want to watch Daddy play games!"
Su Yun blinked his big eyes, staring at the glittering button on the screen.
"Daddy, what's this shiny thing?"
"This..." Su Hao smiled,
"This is the culmination of months of hard work by Daddy and his friends, the dream of the entire guild.
But Daddy can't click it now."
"Why not?"
"Because... Daddy is waiting for an opportunity."
Su Yun tilted his head, seemingly not understanding.
He stretched out his chubby little hand, pointing to the red button:
"Then I'll click it for Daddy, okay?"
Su Hao froze.
"Uh... this..."
This was the material their entire guild had painstakingly collected day and night for months!
The only one in the entire server!
The success rate was outrageously low, basically equivalent to winning the lottery.
If it failed, all the materials would be destroyed!
If this little devil just clicked it randomly...
But...
When Su Hao met Su Yun's large, watery eyes, seemingly containing the stars and the sea, his heart melted instantly.
What was the number one artifact in the entire server? What were the world-class materials? Before his son's adorable charm, they were all meaningless!
To hell with game artifacts, his son's happiness was the most important!
"Fine! You do it! Daddy can grind for a few more months if necessary!"
Su Hao gritted his teeth, adopting a tragic, resolute expression.
"Yun, just press this button.
If it explodes…
Consider it a precious, spectacular firework display for Daddy!"
"Hehe!"
Su Yun smiled happily, stretching out his chubby little hand and grasping the mouse.
Normally, a child would eagerly press the button.
Su Hao closed his eyes, silently thinking:
Damn it, if it explodes, so be it, I accept it!
However, the expected click didn't sound.
One second, two seconds, ten seconds…
Su Hao opened his eyes in confusion:
“Ah Yun? Why aren’t you pressing anything? Just click that red one…”
Su Yun didn’t speak.
His once innocent eyes were now fixed on the screen, a strange light, incongruous with his age, flashing deep within his pupils.
He seemed lost in thought, his gaze suddenly becoming vacant, as if listening to some voice from the void.
This expression…
Su Hao froze.
This expression was exactly like his own back then!
Whenever the stock market was about to undergo a dramatic change, whenever a crisis was imminent, he looked like this!
“Ah Yun?” Su Hao’s voice trembled slightly.
In that instant.
Su Yun’s small hand suddenly moved.
Without any warning, without any hesitation, decisively and resolutely, he pressed the left mouse button!
And not just once, but a frantic barrage of clicks!
Tap tap tap tap tap tap!
Boom—!
Instead of a shattered screen, a burst of golden light erupted, dazzling enough to blind even the most hardcore gamer!
Immediately afterward, a gold-plated system announcement swept across every channel in the game!
【System Announcement: A Miracle Has Descended!
Congratulations to player [S.H] for successfully forging the server's first Mythical weapon—[Ragnarok]!
From this day forward, may heaven and earth live as long as the sun and moon!】
The world chat exploded instantly.
The guild chat was buzzing with excitement, like it was New Year's.
[Holy crap!!! It really happened?!]
[0.001% probability! Did he sacrifice his entire next life's luck?!]
[Vice President is awesome! I'm bowing down!]
[This isn't just lucky, this is practically the chosen one of this world!]
Su Hao was completely dumbfounded, his jaw slamming onto the keyboard.
“Holy crap?! It's done?!”
He gaped, staring at the dazzling, ridiculously powerful divine sword on the screen, then at his son, who was grinning foolishly in his arms.
This wasn't luck.
It absolutely wasn't luck!
In that instant, he felt a familiar fluctuation emanating from his son.
It was the fluctuation of causality, the tremor of fate being forcibly reversed!
“Ayun…you…how did you do that?”
Su Hao felt his throat go dry.
Su Yun turned his head, blinking his big eyes, innocently pointing at the screen, then at his heart.
"I don't know."
The little guy shook his head and said in a childish voice,
"It's just... I suddenly felt that if I pressed the button right then and there, it would definitely work!"
Boom!
A thunderbolt seemed to explode in Su Hao's mind.
Intuition!
That absolute intuition that could pierce through the fog of the future and seize the only winning opportunity among billions of possibilities...
It had been passed down!
This moment was more shocking than earning his first hundred million, acquiring his first company, or even the moment he reigned supreme!
This miraculous intuition was actually inherited from his family!
Su Hao looked at his grinning son in his arms, then at the newly created, dazzling divine weapon on the screen.
On the hilt, an ancient inscription shone brightly in the golden light—
[Royal power is not eternal, but bloodlines will continue.]
Outside the window, the sun shone brightly.
A new era might have just begun.
(The End)
***
【Author's Note】
As I typed "The End," I felt a sense of relief, yet also a profound sense of loss.
Outside my window in Wuhan, the autumn sun shone warmly, but the urban underworld depicted in the book still seemed to linger in my mind.
From the very first day I started this book, I set myself a challenge: to construct an extreme, alternative aesthetic within this story.
I wanted to write a story without villains.
There are no villains who do evil for the sake of evil, nor are there any fools who have lost their minds.
What I wanted to present was that everyone, from their own perspective, was running with all their might for their goals and for the circumstances they faced.
All the bloodshed and conflict were merely the involuntary collisions of countless ordinary souls on the chessboard of fate.
However, the invisible hand of fate was too heavy; with a gentle nudge, it swept everyone into an involuntary torrent.
There was no malice, only perspective;
There was no right or wrong, only impermanence.
Here, I want to thank my dearest readers!
Thank you for being my guides on this long journey.
From beginning to end, it is your unwavering companionship that has truly brought these characters to life.
It is every click and comment from you that makes me believe that this "unappealing" story still has listeners.
Though the storm has passed, our friends are not far away.
I will update Su Yun's side stories irregularly.
However, because I need to begin retiring to polish the outline of my new book, the update frequency of the side stories will be relatively slow—the so-called "updates at will." You can wait until they're more complete before reading.
Finally, at this moment of parting, if you felt this book ever touched you, even for just a moment...
Please take a moment to give this book a five-star review.
This is the greatest recognition for me, and the starlight that will guide me on my next journey!
May we meet again someday!
Thank you all again, bowing deeply!
Love you all!