236: Chapter 237 Those who can cultivate worlds must also be able to be stopped.

[Please determine: Who will supervise the Maintainer?]

When this line of words hung in the center of the Old Awakening Hall, there was no divine light, yet it was more dazzling than divine light.

Everyone looked at Lin Jin.

Chen Ye was the first to blow up.

"No, we just dismantled The Six Seats, and now they want to slap some kind of constraint seat on him again?"

"Does this lousy system simply refuse to let people catch their breath?"

The system calmly writes back.

[Temporary minimum maintenance duration extended]

[The Jiangcheng Maintenance Team participates in underlying rule revision, resource allocation, rescue isolation, career review, safe exit, and autonomous boundaries]

[If the Maintainer crosses the boundary, it will affect the overall situation]

[Recommended to establish a Maintainer Constraint Seat]

[Candidates: Inspector Han Su, Gu Changye, Shen Tingxue, Qin Shanhe, Thirteen, Chen Ye]

Chen Ye saw his own name, and his expression changed.

"Me?"

"I supervise him?"

He pointed at Lin Jin, his voice rising.

"I usually can't even stop him from eating!"

Thirteen said coldly:

"That's why you're not qualified."

Chen Ye glared at him.

"Are you qualified?"

Thirteen looked at that line of candidates, but his expression lacked its usual mockery.

"I'm not qualified either."

"A person shouldn't have the qualification to decide at any time whether he can mend or not."

Inspector Han Su gripped the cracked Shizhi Blade, his voice deep.

"If supervising the Maintainer is made into a seat, it will quickly turn into an executioner of Maintainers."

Gu Changye said:

"If I sit up there, the system will make me terminate him the moment it sees failure."

Shen Tingxue looked at Lin Jin.

"If I sit up there, others will say I'm a teammate and the supervision is unfair."

Qin Shanhe shook his head.

"If I sit up there, it will become another deans seat."

All candidates rejected themselves one by one.

The system paused.

[No supervision, maintenance risks are uncontrollable]

Lin Jin looked at that line of text and suddenly spoke.

"It's right."

Chen Ye turned his head abruptly.

"Don't go jumping into pits by yourself again."

Lin Jin shook his head.

"It's not jumping into a pit."

"It's admitting that I can make mistakes too."

He raised his right hand.

That hand once held the Hand of Rules.

Later, the authority was cut off.

Now, there was only ordinary pain, calluses, and incompletely healed injuries left.

"Wuye City being flooded wasn't done by gods."

"It was because we didn't see the downstream when we released the pressure."

"If someone had called to halt in the very first second back then, we would have had a lot fewer rosters soaked."

Zhong Minglin did not respond.

This debt truly existed.

Lin Jin continued:

"So the question isn't whether we need supervision."

"It's that we can't turn supervision into a new seat."

He wrote four words on work order no. 002.

[Right to Halt Maintenance]

The system immediately lit up.

[The right to halt maintenance must belong to a clearly defined entity]

"No."

Lin Jin wrote the word "No" very heavily.

"The right to halt maintenance cannot belong to a single person."

"It should belong to those affected, collateral witnesses, the downstream, teammates, the executor themselves, and anyone who discovers a boundary breach."

Chen Ye was stunned.

"Anyone can call to halt?"

"Calling to halt doesn't mean stopping forever."

Lin Jin said.

"Calling to halt is letting the maintenance action slow down first to clarify the problem."

Luo Wensheng immediately recorded:

[Right to Halt Maintenance: Any currently affected person, collateral witness, downstream witness, participating executor, or the Maintainer themselves may propose halting maintenance when they discover that maintenance actions may breach boundaries.]

Ye Guizhou stamped:

[Halt maintenance proposal received]

He Zhibai added:

[Proposing to halt maintenance shall not be regarded as the sole person responsible for hindering rescue, betraying the team, or causing losses.]

The system continued to press.

[If halting maintenance leads to immediate casualties, who bears the responsibility?]

Fang Ning cut in, her voice very steady.

"There is also stopping hands in medicine."

"If the scalpel cuts the wrong position, calling to stop is not murder."

"There must be grading after stopping."

Cheng Du also spoke.

"Halting maintenance is divided into three types."

"First, a three-breath pause to confirm risks."

"Second, partial halt, keeping the lifeline untouched while stopping suspicious actions."

"Third, mandatory halt, discovered when people are used as materials, bypassing personal refusal, modifying identities, expanding permissions, or concealing costs."

Lin Jin wrote:

[Halt Maintenance Grading]

[1. Three-breath pause: Used for unknown risks, unknown downstream status, failure of the person themselves to understand, or abnormal materials]

[2. Partial halt maintenance: Retaining life support, isolation, and safety protection, while stopping suspicious rule rewrites]

[3. Mandatory halt maintenance: Executed immediately upon discovering the use of humans as materials, bypassing personal refusal, forced career binding, concealing costs, temporary turning permanent, single-point power seizure, or continued expansion of downstream damage]

Inspector Han Su added:

[After a mandatory halt, a single constraint person must not take over the maintenance right; it must enter collateral witness review.]

Gu Changye wrote:

[Halting maintenance is not ending maintenance.]

[After halting maintenance, first isolate the risk, then decide whether to continue, modify the law, change personnel, or retreat.]

Shen Tingxue added:

[When the Maintainer is fatigued, polluted, emotionally out of control, or induced by old permissions, they or others may also call to halt.]

Chen Ye looked at this sentence and suddenly said:

"Then I can call to halt too?"

Lin Jin looked at him.

"Of course."

Chen Ye frowned.

"What if I call to halt wrongly?"

"Then the wrong call is recorded."

Lin Jin said.

"The cost of a wrong call is borne by the public."

"But people are not allowed to be silenced just because someone made a wrong call once."

Ye Guizhou stamped:

[An erroneous halt maintenance does not constitute permanent deprivation of the right to halt maintenance]

Luo Wensheng recorded:

[Better to have one more explanation than one less stoppage of boundary breaches.]

After the rules fell one by one, the system was still unsatisfied.

[The right to halt maintenance is overly dispersed, which may cause a decrease in maintenance efficiency]

Thirteen raised his eyes.

"Efficiency decrease."

"How many times have these four words harmed people today?"

Lin Jin pressed the new tool against that line of old definition.

[Maintenance efficiency takes precedence over halt maintenance confirmation]

Teacher Xu Wenzhou raised 002.

Snap!

The definition snapped.

New gray-white words surfaced.

[Maintenance efficiency must not override personal boundaries, personal will, downstream confirmation, and cost disclosure.]

[Emergency maintenance can accelerate the process, but cannot cancel the right to halt maintenance.]

At this moment, the black cabinet in the warehouse suddenly shook violently.

The thin booklet of [Final disposal after the integration of invalid population failed], which had just been frozen, unexpectedly cracked open a black line.

The black line crawled along the warehouse floor toward various relief points.

[Detected that the relief isolation belt hinders integration]

[Initiating backup pre-registration diffusion]

[Targets: Non-career birth pages, temporary relief pages, waste-page survivor presence badges]

At the Wuye City reception point, A-Lu's birth page grew hot again.

The South Bank temporary pages began to turn gray.

Low-level career labels surfaced on the edges of the presence badges of the survivors of the Dead Water Well.

Chen Ye's expression changed drastically.

"It's not dead completely yet!"

Lin Jin had already rushed to the front of the black cabinet.

The six slots of the new tool lit up, and the warehouse door, reserve, relief isolation belt, Wuye birth page, waste-page presence badges, and public ledger were all hooked by the black lines.

System quickly gives maintenance prompts.

[Can invoke affected pages as reverse anchors]

[Briefly connecting all relief pages can form an isolation wall]

[Estimated to seal off backup diffusion within thirty breaths]

Lin Jin's hand was already raised.

This plan was very fast.

And it might be effective.

As long as all affected pages were connected into a wall, the black cabinet would be bounced back.

Yet just as the new tool was about to fall, A-Lu's voice came from the reception point.

"Stop!"

The voice was very small.

And it carried a crying tone.

Yet he truly shouted it out.

The Old Awakening Hall instantly fell silent.

Lin Jin's hand stopped in mid-air.

The black lines were still crawling.

System immediately warns:

[Halting maintenance will cause diffusion to expand]

[Recommended to continue]

A-Lu tightly hugged his birth page.

"My page is hot again."

"It just said to use us as anchors."

"Are the anchors going to bind us again?"

He Chunlian hugged him, her face pale, yet she did not change his words for him.

"He said stop."

Ye Guizhou's stamp sound fell.

[Halt maintenance received]

Luo Wensheng immediately recorded:

[Affected person A-Lu proposes a three-breath pause. Reason: His birth page was invoked as a reverse anchor, carrying the risk of being bound again.]

Three breaths.

The black lines were still spreading.

Chen Ye was so anxious that sweat broke out on his temples, yet he stubbornly did not urge Lin Jin.

Shen Tingxue only maintained peripheral low temperatures and did not cross the halt maintenance line.

Zhou Heng cut off external summons and did not connect to A-Lu's page either.

Lin Jin looked at that plan on the tool, and a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back.

Because A-Lu called it right.

That wasn't active binding.

But it did temporarily connect all relief pages into a wall.

Thirty breaths today, maybe three hundred breaths tomorrow.

The day after tomorrow, the system would say: These pages once served as public anchors and possess maintenance pressure-bearing value.

This was another path sliding from saving lives to utilization.

Lin Jin said in a low voice:

"It was right to stop."

The system gave a cold and rigid prompt:

[Original plan has the highest efficiency]

Lin Jin raised his head.

"But it will turn the people who were saved into a wall again."

He crossed out the original maintenance plan.

[Plan 1: Invoke affected pages as anchors]

[Abolished]

"Switch to using the old lock."

Cheng Du reacted immediately.

"The old lock of The Six Seats?"

"Right."

Lin Jin stared at the black cabinet.

"The diffusion came out of the black cabinet."

"The black cabinet was left behind by the old system."

"Use its own lock as a reverse anchor."

He Zhibai calculated rapidly.

[It will damage the old permission structure of the reserve]

Inspector Han Su said coldly:

"Let it be damaged if it's damaged."

"Human pages cannot be used as walls, but old locks can be treated as scrap iron."

Teacher Xu Wenzhou raised 002.

Lin Jin jammed the new tool into the rewritten gap of the old lock on the warehouse door.

The residue of [Only for use by valid career civilizations] was still inside.

He wasn't restoring that definition.

Instead, he dismantled the remaining old lock and twisted it into an isolation wedge.

The black lines immediately counterattacked.

[Damage to the old lock will reduce the stability of the reserve's permissions]

"The reserve won't need this lousy lock in the future."

Lin Jin gave a twist.

Snap!

The fragments of the old lock were bitten by the new tool, and the six slots rotated simultaneously.

Chen Ye bore the pressure.

Shen Tingxue lowered the temperature.

Zhou Heng guided energy.

Luo Wensheng recorded.

Ye Guizhou confirmed.

He Zhibai verified.

A-Lu's birth page finally stopped heating up.

The black lines were nailed back into the black cabinet by the old lock fragments.

Bang!

The black cabinet door slammed shut.

The thin booklet was pressed into the evidence sealing box.

[Backup pre-registration diffusion: Stopped]

[Relief pages were not invoked as anchors]

[Old permission lock damaged]

[The reserve needs to re-establish the public opening process]

Lin Jin withdrew his hand, his fingers trembling slightly.

It wasn't fatigue.

It was lingering fear.

He looked at A-Lu.

"Thank you for calling to halt."

A-Lu was still crying, yet he nodded hard.

"I thought that if I called to halt, it would harm everyone."

Lin Jin squatted down and said earnestly across the channel:

"You called to halt, and you saved everyone."

"You also saved your page."

This sentence was stamped by Ye Guizhou.

[Effective halt maintenance case 1: A-Lu]

[Three-breath pause prevents affected pages from being temporarily anchored]

Luo Wensheng recorded:

[Children can call to halt.]

[Those who are rescued can call to halt.]

[Non-career pages, birth pages, and presence badges are not maintenance materials.]

He Zhibai added:

[The reconstruction cost of the reserve's public opening process caused by switching to the old lock shall be borne by the public and shall not be shifted to A-Lu or the Wuye group.]

work order no. 002 wrote back:

[Maintainer supervision mechanism: Dispersion of the right to halt maintenance established]

[Principles: No single constraint seat; anyone affected can call to halt; halting maintenance is recorded first and graded later; emergency states must not cancel boundaries; the Maintainer themselves can also apply to halt maintenance; erroneous halts do not pursue personal guilt; effective halts require public debriefing]

The system was silent for a long time.

Afterward, the line [Maintainer Constraint Seat] slowly turned gray.

New gray-white pages surfaced.

[Maintenance supervision methods: Public work orders, dispersed halt maintenance, collateral witness review, cost ledger, downstream confirmation, fatigue and pollution monitoring, post-incident accountability]

[Jiangcheng Maintenance Team: Technical assistance party]

[Must not become the underlying review center]

[Lin Jin: One of the Maintainers]

[Can be halted]

Chen Ye stared at the last four words and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

"Can be halted."

"Looking at these words feels rather uncomfortable."

Lin Jin moved his numb wrist.

"I find it quite reassuring."

Thirteen said coldly:

"If you lose your head in the future, I'll be the first to call to halt."

Chen Ye immediately said:

"I'll be the second!"

Shen Tingxue looked at him indifferently.

"You might call to halt slower than Thirteen."

Chen Ye was unconvinced.

"My voice is loud."

There was finally a trace of very light laughter in the Old Awakening Hall.

But before the laughter faded, the underlying review main interface lit up again.

[Temporary minimum maintenance supervision mechanism established]

[Whether to extend temporary minimum maintenance?]

This time, there was no three-minute countdown.

No default retention.

Nor any immediate voting.

Instead, a deadline was added.

[Recommended extension: Seven days]

[Within seven days, must complete: Six bottom-line trial-run reviews, public resource expansion plan, exit safety process, autonomous service agreement, maintenance supervision review]

[Seven days later, re-discuss three fundamental options]

Lin Jin looked at "seven days" and was just about to speak when a line of new text suddenly surfaced at the bottom of the system.

[Warning: During the seven-day extension period, the residual permissions of the old Six Seats will attempt to recapture the underlying interpretation power]

[First residual permission located]

[Location: Central Interpretation Court of the Career System]

[Status: Awakening]

Qin Shanhe's expression changed abruptly.

"The Central Interpretation Court?"

Cheng Du's voice sank.

"That's where The Six Seats rewrote all definitions back then."

In the deepest part of the screen, a white door that had never been opened slowly surfaced.

The familiar sound of metal friction came from inside the door.

It was like six old chairs were turning back toward them in the darkness.