The black substance in the Soul-Devouring Swamp is a mixture of extremely high concentrations of resentment and various negative emotions.
With their great assimilation abilities, they slowly erode Zero's inner world.
Even the white mist might be able to isolate the consciousness damage caused by these black substances, but it cannot absorb them.
Jing Wuyuan thought that he was invincible. At least the Jing family's method was simply unsolvable in the spiritual world.
But this time... Jingwu showed a look of horror.
This was also the first time it felt a hint of panic during the confrontation.
The red fire could actually burn his own Soul Devouring Swamp! Although it was not absorbed by the strange red house, the flames seemed to have vitality and began to spread continuously. Soon, the black swamp was like a layer of red carpet.
Countless wailing sounds were heard between heaven and earth, as if the vengeful spirits in the black matter were screaming in pain because of the burning of karmic fire.
The burning of the karmic fire caused the black tide to disappear at a speed visible to the naked eye.
There was no cry of a phoenix in the sky, but looking at Zero... or the white fog that was coming with endless fire, it seemed as if it saw a phoenix.
For the first time, Jingwu felt that he needed to avoid Zero's attack.
It was not afraid of the flame, but it had to admit that the powerful Soul-Devouring Swamp in the other world was restrained by the flame.
After barely avoiding the impact from Zero at an extremely fast speed, both Zero and Jingwu felt the gap.
The red room opened, and fire burst out from the skeletal body, and Jingwu's means of weakening Zero were destroyed.
But the strength gap between Jingwu and Zero has not narrowed.
But Jingwu also understood that the more they fought, the stronger Zero would become!
It cannot allow this to happen.
"You keep getting up again and again. You're just an ant, but you keep killing me! Damn it, damn it! Zero! I'm going to kill you!"
A crack appeared on Jingwu's forehead. Zero sensed what it was going to do and charged again!
The scarlet body streaked across the night sky like a comet, but the moment it approached Jingwu, it was blocked by a powerful black barrier!
A "horn" grew out of the crack on Jingwu's forehead. The purple-black horn had a certain flowing luster. He still looked the same as before, but his aura was twice as strong!
Bai Wu couldn't imagine that under such circumstances, Jing Wu actually held back.
But soon Zero's consciousness corrected him.
"No, it's not holding back. It's just putting itself into a state of overload, intending to use some powerful means to devour us in a short period of time!"
Zero's judgment was correct. Even when facing a weak Zero, Jingwu did not hold back his strength.
But it also has the means to increase its own strength once used, even if this means accelerating its own consumption.
But it was too afraid of Zero's recovery to his peak strength, so it had to stop Zero from recovering no matter what!
"Extreme Release!"
The horns on Jingwu's forehead grew more and more majestic, and his eyes turned pure white.
A strange aura began to spread, and the sky and earth were instantly filled with a thick black fog.
"Stop it!" Bai Wu shouted.
The white bones grew in a spiral along Zero's arm, finally forming a bone spear.
But the growth rate gradually slowed down, so that the preparation time for this ability was somewhat long.
"My ability... has declined again..."
The spiral bone spear burst out with red flames and began to charge at the black barrier!
It was like a red arrow hitting a black shield. The shield was so thick that Zero could never break through it!
This time, Jingwu did not mock Zero.
The state of extreme release is also a very stressful state for it, which will suddenly expand its domain. At the same time, it will also continue to make the entire space more and more resentful and negative emotions.
The black tide that was originally burned by the flames of hell expanded at a speed faster than the burning speed. Soon, a layer of black liquid that submerged the ankles floated on the streets of the entire mechanical city.
The black mist in the air made visibility extremely low in less than half a minute.
Zero's strength, and the negative emotions that were originally burned away by the karmic fire, are increasing little by little.
But now his power was suppressed again.
Looking at the scene in front of him, Bai Wu felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.
"It's Jing Si..." Zero reminded Bai Wu.
Bai Wu also remembered it instantly.
The extreme release state is a special state for the Jing family where they constantly release resentment and negative emotions.
Under normal circumstances, people like Jingwu would not enter this state because it consumes too much physical energy.
But Jing Si is different. Jing Si's body has been in a state of extreme release all year round.
Even if Jing Si does not deliberately restrain himself, the effect of the extreme release will continue to expand.
This is why scientists said during the exploration of the Heart of Well Four that an out-of-control Well Four would constantly turn the surrounding creatures into evil.
Because if you get close to Well Four, you will be infected by strong negative emotions.
Well No. 4 is like a source of pollution.
And now, Jingwu is entering the state of Jingsi. However, for Jingsi, the state of extreme release is as normal as breathing. It even has to hold its breath to prevent the people around it from being affected by this negative emotion and resentment.
As for Jingwu, he needs to expend a lot of energy to enter this state.
But Zero and Shiroku must admit...
Even if he absorbed all the negative emotions in the cloud of sorrow that had been floating above his head for seven hundred years and transformed them into red lotus fire, he would still not be able to match the speed at which Jingwu released the black substance.
The entire inner world finally regained its color, but now it has turned into a gray world again.
As Jingwu's limit release continued, the black barrier that blocked the white mist and Zero became thicker and thicker.
The offensive methods of the two were no longer able to deal with Jingwu.
Jingwu's voice came:
"Extreme release will make me weak. I must admit that your trump card today, Zero, is a problem for me! But that's it!"
"You will eventually be submerged by the black tide. Although the red flame on your body is strange, it is too weak. I will kill you when your body is weakened to the limit! This is your only ending!"
The black substance between heaven and earth became increasingly dense.
In the mechanical city beneath his feet, the Soul-Devouring Swamp was spreading faster and faster. Throughout the city’s streets, the black liquid was already above people’s knees.
These highly corrosive black liquids are devouring the city bit by bit.
Zero's body began to grow weaker and weaker.
Bai Wu also realized that this kind of flame... might be enough to deal with the Lake God, but it was not enough to deal with Jing Wu in his limit release state...
It’s far from enough!
Bai Wu also felt the power of Zero. Everything Jingwu did was actually to weaken Zero.
It attacked the weakened Zero for so long, but it never killed Zero completely.
But if Zero can't recover to his peak form... there's no hope of winning this duel.
"This fire is not enough, but... there is not much negative emotion left to absorb." Zero's voice was filled with some regret.
Zero kept hitting the black barrier, and its wings began to shrink gradually. The huge phoenix not long ago had already collapsed.
In the state of extreme release, Jingwu seemed unable to do anything.
But it didn't need to do anything because Zero's power was decreasing too quickly.
When the city was completely devoured by the black matter, Zero would cease to exist.
Connected to Zero in the distance, feeling the black tide that had submerged the white fog halfway up, he suddenly thought of something:
"Since the negative emotions that have accumulated on you over the past seven hundred years are not enough, then absorb those from the entire Mechanical City! Draw on those infected with the Rawu virus!"
Number Zero was stunned.
"Absorbing the negative emotions of the infected?"
Zero can indeed do this kind of thing, but this idea has never occurred to him.
Because before merging with the white mist, this behavior would only aggravate the degree of his own Lawu virus infection.
But now it’s different. Although the white mist cannot absorb Jingwu’s black matter, it can absorb the negative emotions of himself and everyone in the mechanical city.
Those infected with the Lawu virus are simply an endless source of karmic fire!
As long as we rely on them, maybe we can still survive this battle!
Hope suddenly emerged in Zero's eyes, but suddenly dimmed again.
He realized that he had dug his own grave. He had arranged for 80% of the people infected with the Lao virus to be sent to the underground city in the southern part of the city... to be executed!
I'm afraid that by now, these infected people have been crushed under the collapsed ground, and their cores have been shattered.
It's like suddenly seeing a road to heaven over a cliff, but the road suddenly collapses.
But Zero has no time to be depressed. Even if only 20% of the people are infected, he will try his best!
Just as Zero did this, an incredible expression appeared on Zero's face.
At the same time, Bai Wu, who was synchronized with Zero's information, also showed the same expression.
A miracle that neither of them could have imagined happened in the South City District.
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South City District.
"Bai Xiaoyu, are you crazy?"
Not long ago, members of the anti-virus security team locked up all the infected people in a huge sewer city.
It waits for the coming of the rage tide, then it will destroy the area and let all the infected people be forever buried by the huge ground stone, thus ensuring the peace of the mechanical city during the rage tide to the greatest extent.
The idea of the anti-virus vigilante is not wrong.
But just as it was about to do so, Bai Xiaoyu blocked the way in front of the anti-virus guard team members.
"Don't do this! Please, don't do this!"
Yan Zizai couldn't believe that this man who had lived for more than seven hundred years would do such a childish thing.
The anti-virus guard team was so powerful that their huge firepower was aimed at Bai Xiaoyu. Even if he was in endless nirvana, he would definitely not be able to recover if his entire body was destroyed in an instant by the terrifying power.
"Come back here! You idiot!" Yan Zida shouted.
The anti-virus team member said:
"Please do not interfere with our duties. Warning, please leave here immediately, otherwise you will be eliminated as well."
Just a few minutes ago, Bai Xiaoyu and Yan Zizai both received S-level missions and headed to the East City District for support.
But Bai Xiaoyu looked at those people infected with the Laou virus, who walked into the sewer city of the southern urban area one by one as if they were walking into a execution ground. He made a decision that Yan Zizai could not imagine.
Bai Xiaoyu gave up the S-level mission and begged Yan Zizai to rescue the infected people.
This undoubtedly seems to be an extremely stupid act. Not to mention what these infected people will do to the city when the tide of anger comes.
Just saving these infected people and facing the terrifying anti-virus guard team was already a stupid act for Yan Zizai.
If Bai Wu were here, he would definitely scold Bai Xiaoyu.
Yan Zizai refused immediately, but Bai Xiaoyu seemed determined.
He actually ran alone to the anti-virus security team members who were carrying out the destruction of the sewers.
"Come back! Come back! Bai Xiaoyu, do you want to die?" Yan Zizai shouted loudly.
Bai Xiaoyu didn't know why she was so persistent.
It's just that he has been observing the mechanical race in this mechanical city these days. Although Lord Yan has always said that they are just a group of mechanical monsters and not real life, Bai Xiaoyu doesn't think so.
Faced with the huge and destructive firepower, Bai Xiaoyu also became frightened.
Hearing the warning from the anti-virus security team, he was terrified and burst into tears, but he still did not retreat.
He seemed to know that he was about to die and began to speak nonsense as if he was leaving his last words:
"They... all have souls, sir. They are all alive!"
Yan Zizai was already prepared to launch a polar replacement and, if necessary, replace the anti-virus guard team. Although Bai Xiaoyu's behavior was stupid, he didn't want this obviously old yet naive man to die.
"Didn't Captain Bai say that? Sir, the captain will find a way to crack the Rawu virus, and then they will become normal people! If they die now... deep down in their hearts, they must be very unwilling!"
"Who do you think you are? A savior?" Yan Zizai said angrily.
The anti-virus team issued another warning.
Bai Xiaoyu said with tears in her eyes:
"I don't have that ability... Saving the world... That's something that only people like you and Team White can do. I just want to save some insignificant people like me..."
"I'm not stupid, sir. I just don't want to see them die unwillingly like this!"
"Seven hundred years ago, the purpose of my life was to save others. At that time, I had to undergo various organ transplants every day. My liver, kidneys, even my heart and brain were constantly removed and regrown... I was hovering on the edge of death every day.
I didn’t have a happy childhood. I envy Danderel for having a father and mother who love him, and for the people around him who love him…”
"I also want to be liked and remembered, but... later I found that no one liked me, and no one remembered me."
Yan Zizai was stunned. He suddenly realized that this kid was not being foolish. He really wanted to save those mechanical creatures that might not be living things at all.
So he probably really thought he was going to die... and was leaving his last words
Are there such stupid people in this world
My organs are constantly being taken away... Is it because of the endless nirvana
"But... I don't regret it, because there are many things in life that can't go as planned. Although no one likes me... no one remembers me, at least I saved those people. At least I saved Danderel!"
“When I think about how such a happy person was also saved by me, I feel very happy too!
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Perhaps it is because Bai Xiaoyu has always been so pure that even a cannibalistic and evil person like Dandeler always regards Bai Xiaoyu as the pure land in his heart.
"I want to save them. I know that a weak person like me cannot be a savior, but I still want to save them! Because this was the only value of my life seven hundred years ago! When I think of these people's desire to live... I really can't just ignore it!"
Yan Zizai felt something inside him was disintegrating.
It turns out that there are such people in this world...
This coward was so frightened that his legs were shaking and he was crying and sniffing. He looked so miserable.
But he was extremely brave in carrying out his will. This has been the case for ten years, and for a hundred years...
It will probably be the same for seven hundred years or even longer.
As if a knot in his heart had been untied, Yan Zizai let out a breath of foul air:
"Forget it, I'll just accompany him in being stupid for once. Even if this city is destroyed, it has nothing to do with the interests of my Yan family! Just think of it as accompanying him in being stupid!"
At the moment when the ruthless anti-virus guards were ready to open fire, Yan Zizai made a decision that he thought was stupid, but he had no way of refusing.
"Polar displacement!"
These words that suddenly appeared seemed to ring the bell of a miracle.
The members of the anti-virus security team suddenly disappeared.
Bai Xiaoyu looked at Yan Zizai who appeared in front of her in surprise, and she laughed instead of crying, and shouted in surprise:
"grown ups!"
“I’m not saving them.”
Yan Zizai turned his back to Bai Xiaoyu and looked at the anti-virus guard team member vigilantly.
What he didn't know was that what he thought was a "stupid" decision from Bai Xiaoyu had actually become the most crucial link in reversing the entire battle situation.
In the other world, Zero, who witnessed this scene, couldn't imagine that there would be such kind people in this world, people who were so kind to the point of being twisted.
Bai Wu also said that distorted kindness is also distorted, and Bai Xiaoyu's kindness is more or less pathological.
But this time... this angelic boy created a miracle.
In the huge sewer in the southern part of the city, countless mechanical creatures who were furious at the coming of the tide suddenly became quiet.
At the same time, the criminals who were committing crimes on the streets and the infected people who were not detained and were venting their anger suddenly stopped.
Behind Zero in the other world, black wires kept extending out, and thousands of wires connected to the shadow-like black souls in the other world.
In reality, the eyes of these mechanical creatures all showed the posture of data link.
The whole city seemed to stop in an instant!
Only the light emanating from the core city's temple was becoming increasingly hotter.
In the other world, the fire phoenix that kept hitting the black barrier in the sky was already wilting.
But as the negative emotions that seemed endless poured into the red house.
The karmic fire suddenly became stronger again. The karmic fire that was enough to burn everything was like blood-red wings, quickly covering Zero's entire body.
The thick black fog that permeated the entire city actually became thinner under the flames of the devil... and even thinner.
The impact of the huge phoenix finally caused Zero to create cracks in the black barrier!
This long battle has finally come to an end.
Jingwu looked at the black barrier that was about to break in surprise, and his heart was full of confusion.
How can we kill this mechanical monster
Why is it that time and time again... he is always able to rise from the ashes
Suddenly, Jingwu seemed to remember something, but it was too late...
Under the crimson fire were those white bones. He looked at those bones and finally understood why they looked familiar.
He had seen the same white bones when he was on Black Gold Island.
He had invited the owner of the bones before! But he had also invited the evil creature that had transformed from a human to explore the disappeared cruise ship.
The black barrier was completely shattered, and the huge phoenix that rushed over flapped its wings, sweeping up endless hellish fire.
In the entire inner world, all black matter was swept away by the fire of karma and slowly turned into nothingness.
The bone spear attached with the hell fire finally pierced through Jing Wu's body. Jing Wu's eyes were looking at Zero, but also at the white mist.
It finally understood everything...
"So it's you! It turns out the biggest threat is you! White Mist!"