Everything is going as planned, but planning itself is not easy.
If there is one thing that Yin Ren's hundreds of years of life as a "beast" has taught him, it is that no matter how strong you are, if you want to survive, you must never underestimate any opponent.
Not to mention the visitors from the other side who are extremely powerful.
Yin Ren used all his strength to devour Mr. Le's body and replenish his strength. Even though his perception was weakened, the pungent taste of the poison still stimulated every nerve in his body.
Sure enough, Mr. Le soon noticed something was wrong.
The cub swallowed more and more, but showed no signs of being burdened by the poison. A quarter of Mr. Le's body had disappeared after squeezing into the transition space, and his feet had been reduced to skeletons. No matter how hard he stepped, the cub could always dodge. If he continued like this, he would only be gradually consumed.
The situation is different.
Mr. Le immediately stopped secreting toxins, and the countless feet that were trampling on him instantly collapsed into dirty foam. With the sound of "dong dong dong", more foam fell from the other side.
Mr. Le's body became more and more crowded, but all of it went around Yin Ren. No matter how hard the darkness tried to get closer, Mr. Le would always move away and avoid it. At the same time, the surrounding bubbles became more and more dense, and Mr. Le was using his own flesh and blood to build a cage, trapping the black cub in the middle.
The biological toxins on the physical level are called happy mental toxins. Since one has no effect, then use the other. The two are constantly crossed, and the cub's true colors will always be forced out.
[Give it to me.] Zhong Cheng said as his thoughts turned in an orderly manner, [Then eat my eyes.]
"Give me all your pain, panic and fear, not a bit less." Zhong Cheng said during the break in his command, his thoughts were crystal clear.
The combination of ice and fire was enough to crack even the strongest objects. Yin Ren paused for a full second, and then repeated the torture hundreds of times.
[What are you doing?!] Yin Ren finally couldn't hold back any longer and asked.
Why not just use all your strength to create a gap and escape
They have sacrificed so much along the way, and a little more would not matter.
Why did Zhong Cheng say that there was no strategic change
This cunning cub can hide his identity and kill the "evil" who is in the limelight alone. If he doesn't use all his strength, he will inevitably become a nuisance in the future.
Oh, right... he and Zhong Chengshuo are not the same person, and Zhong Chengshuo is not an infallible machine.
What happened outside
Yin Ren gritted his teeth mentally and stuffed them back into the depths of his mind.
After the pain, there is a bliss that is almost crazy.
[Brother, I'm almost at my limit. If you lose focus again, we'll both be finished.] At this point, Yin Ren had no strength to hide his situation. His thoughts were broken, and his thoughts were transmitted intermittently.
This perception filled Yin Ren's mind. Even without any senses, the pain was still like a hot knife. His body was instantly pierced, and Yin Ren almost lost consciousness for a moment.
[Letting you recover is one thing, but I can't change my perception like you can, so I can only abandon the organ.] Zhong Cheng said calmly, [I have taken off the glasses, and the situation is better.]
His body structure is the most loose and light, so doing this is like putting his body into a meat grinder, the pain is beyond words. Mr. Le has been weak for nearly a hundred years. If he is damaged like this, it will take hundreds of years to recover.
The situation was so tense that Yin Ren still took two full seconds to react to this sentence: [What?]
But worth it, he thought.
He couldn't doubt or stop. Zhong Cheng said he was his best accomplice, and they had an agreement. According to the agreement, he had to do his best to deal with it.
Not to mention now.
The situation is worse than they thought. If they escape now, they can all survive. Why did Zhong Cheng say that escaping is not recommended
He inhaled the selfish pleasure, mixed with the high stimulated by the drugs. More emotions were directly injected into his body. If Yin Ren had not suffered this kind of pain before, he would have died in this attack.
As if sensing Yin Ren's fear, Zhong Cheng gently curled up and bit the darkness beside his mouth. Yin Ren was pierced by two or three poisonous lines of happiness, and his mind was shaky.
[But I need more darkness, more pain, more sense of crisis that crushes my instincts. This pain is not enough, far from enough.]
Yin Ren tried to find logic with his rusty mind, but he couldn't find it.
The black mass tried its best to avoid it, but it was surrounded by Mr. Le's body. Even if it gnaws on the spot, it cannot quickly obtain a refuge space. Several silk threads penetrated directly through the cub's body. The cub trembled a few times and collapsed completely.
Could it be that he was also injured in the attack
The desire to survive made Yin Ren's mind churn, and countless thoughts popped up uncontrollably. He sent a signal from the outside world that Huang Jin and Ge Tingting's actions were successful, and the human world's support was ready.
Zhong Cheng said that the mistake shouldn't have been this big
This situation is especially terrifying when you can't sense the outside world. If it weren't for the support of hundreds of years of experience, the huge pressure would be enough to drive Yin Ren crazy. Affected by ecstasy, Yin Ren struggled to maintain a sliver of clarity. But the pain was like an anesthetic, and his control over his body became increasingly sluggish, and the small wings on his body trembled uncontrollably.
He has already exerted all his strength just to deal with the current battle situation... Can the plan really be advanced at this rate
In the chaos, Yin Ren held on and continued to dodge according to Zhong Chengshuo's instructions. The incoming threads continued to cut his body, and even if he managed to move, more poisonous threads would pierce him.
pain.
[The outside world is narrow, the attacks are dense, and my vision can't keep up.] Zhong Cheng's thoughts were instantly imprinted in Yin Ren's mind, [The body in my eyes has not been fused. Eating it will help you recover a little.]
The dirty, bleak happiness condensed into thin threads, and the biological bliss created by the illegal drugs was coated with poison. The thin threads like piano strings shot out, hitting the black mass at a 360-degree angle without any dead angles—
Was it a mistake
[… Why did you…]
Mr. Le no longer allowed the cub to touch his body. His unprecedentedly large body kept spinning and the bubbles kept bursting. With painful convulsions, Mr. Le squeezed and squeezed the bubbles of his body crazily.
Malice is good for creating chaos, but using it on an enemy is just asking for trouble. Mr. Le is different. Even if Yin Ren retains a little consciousness, the pleasure that comes from time to time always makes him relax subconsciously. With his mind tense and relaxed, Yin Ren can only choose to read Zhong Cheng's thoughts and command his body to "blindly fight".
Yin Ren swallowed with all his strength and tried to dodge every attack, but the pain and bliss still mercilessly strangled his body, and the situation did not get better. Gradually, there was a little more panic in his movements.
Now Yin Ren finally understood why Mr. Qiu did not use emotional influence last time.
[Think about it again. I haven't reached that point yet.] Yin Ren tried to keep his spirits up and hide his weakness.
[…]
Yin Ren's consciousness was like a bird flying in a rainstorm, and he turned around dizzily. For the first time since the battle, he didn't really want to follow Zhong Chengshuo's command.
Although the battlefield changes rapidly, Zhong Cheng said that he had never seen such sudden mental and physical self-abuse.
[After walking on the land for a long time, it is difficult to express "how to swim" with your mind. Only when you fall into the water can your body remember that feeling... Yin Ren, a long time ago, I was also a great Yuanwu on the other side. But you have been transformed from a human being, and you lack the instinct to be shaped by the environment on the other side.]
Yin Ren fell silent.
[This may be the only thing I can teach you as a Yuanwu. From now on, my command may change completely.]
Zhong Cheng stretched out his hand and put the two wet balls on Yin Ren's body.
[Are you willing to believe me?]
[… Nonsense!] Yin Ren threw his thoughts back with difficulty.
[Even I find it a bit risky?] Zhong Cheng said that he touched his lover with his blood-stained hands.
Pah! A small wing popped out from the top of Zhong Chengshuo's head and tapped his head lightly.
[What time is it? Why are you still talking nonsense? ]
The next moment, Yin Ren opened up everything without reservation.
[Do what you need to do. Eat some more 'Happy' later to keep your eyes clear. ]
Pain, panic, confusion... darkness.
The two people's consciousnesses were completely connected, and they fell into the abyss of pain together.
Mr. Le was very pleased that the new tactics worked.
The black cub was cut and scratched by the fine wire, and its movements became slower and slower.
At first, it would crash into the wall that Mr. Le had built with his body. I don't know if it was because the flesh that had been compressed to the extreme was too hard to chew, or if it had no strength left, but the cub's struggle was visibly weakening.
Right above the blood and flesh prison, a giant foot took shape again. The cub, pierced by thousands of threads, was dying and could not even move. The wings on its body collapsed and turned into a soft pool. It no longer had the momentum that had just cut through the space.
It's almost over.
Mr. Le dragged his body in great pain and sighed in his heart.
Judging from the current losses, things are going better than they thought.
This giant foot is also more solid than the previous one. It turned into a foot wearing a hard leather shoe, and the thick sole was facing the trembling cub.
[… Why…]
Just as the foot was about to step down, an extremely sad groan came from the cub.
[… You attacked me first and knocked off my head… I was just defending myself…]
[… I infiltrated the security team only to obtain intelligence, and I was not loyal to humans… We are clearly the same species, why did you treat me like this… I don’t understand…]
The cub's question was tinged with tears and sounded extremely desperate.
Mr. Le stopped moving.
An innocent cub that had left the group long ago was crying in front of him. The other's death was something that had been decided long ago, and this situation was also caused by his own hands.
but…
[Even if you want to kill me... let me die knowingly...] The cub groaned in pain.
Above the sky, the vortex was still spinning slowly, and the thumping sound continued. The dirty foam was squeezed and burst, and Mr. Le was silent for a long time.
Another thin thread pierced through the cub's body, but this time it brought not the poison of happiness, but a memory. With their minds closely connected, Yin Ren and Zhong Cheng said they received the message almost at the same time -
It was a story that was almost like a warm fairy tale.
Long ago, there were other kinds of "day" and "night" on the other side. They were called "satisfaction" and "fear" according to the roots they represented.
Their source can be said to be the oldest and most primitive emotion of all living things. Compared to other elements, their size is like that of a human being in the ocean. I don’t know if it’s because they are too primitive and their size is too exaggerated, but they are closer to some kind of inorganic natural phenomenon than ancient life.
Other smaller elements, whether representing relatively powerful sorrow and joy or more complex and subtle emotions, will eventually be swallowed up and annihilated by fear.
For millions of years, the night-like fear has swept across the other side. Every time the darkness swept across, it took away hundreds of lives. It destroyed everyone equally, regardless of age or strength, and could not be resisted. When the fear is gone, the white satisfaction will flow quietly, prompting the birth of new elements in all emotions.
Ebb and flow, life and death.
Time flows slowly, organisms multiply and thrive, and countless nerves and brains build a broader world of consciousness. The elements swim freely in the sea of consciousness, living and dying with the "day and night", and everything is relatively peaceful - there is no mating and reproduction, no aging and illness. The elements only need to eat, and they will only die by devouring each other.
Until the rise of human aliens.
Disgust and love, both of which grew rapidly with the birth of human beings. Perhaps because they have absorbed too many human emotions, they have more human characteristics than other elements.
For example, "thought".
As the first wise man, "Love" could not stand the random mass death brought by fear. It persuaded disgust and happiness, who were equally powerful, and finally discovered the secret of fear -
It was just an ancient creature that was larger than them and had almost no thoughts.
[Kill it, and no one will have to worry anymore... Living with the worry of death every day is too heavy. We don't need to live like this.]
Love declared.
[What’s more, human beings reproduce very quickly, providing a huge amount of emotions, and we can’t even eat up all of them. “Fear” is just a disaster that destroys indiscriminately, and must be eliminated... It’s time to end this chaos.]
That battle lasted for hundreds of years. Countless objects followed love and finally severely damaged the ancient and huge fear - space was torn apart by the forces of mutual inclination, and fear fell into the trap of the gap. Its body was torn into pieces and fell everywhere in the other side and this world. Its remaining body could not move and was destined to perish.
The night will never come again.
Without the need to worry about sudden death, the lives of the Yuanwu are much more comfortable than before. They can plan their lives as they wish, and their favorite compatriots will not suddenly disappear. Humanity has rapidly multiplied and developed, and food is everywhere. The originally chaotic other side has become a real utopia.
[…] Yin Ren finished reading the memory in astonishment, and turned to Zhong Cheng and said—It turned out that he was not the only one who could stop the child from crying at night. The origin of that stupid rabbit was more important than he thought. It could be called a walking large-scale destructive weapon.
What's more subtle is that after all this trouble, Bi'an accidentally became the younger and smarter "Fear". No wonder Mr. Le tried every means to kill him. In Bi'an's view, "Fear" is a one-time harvester of death.
[This is blindly destroying the ecology.]
Zhong Cheng's thoughts exuded a hint of academic dissatisfaction when his once brainless predecessor "feared" to make such a comment.
[When love awakens, it happens to be the peak period of human civilization, and the resources produced are indeed enough for the other side to consume. However, after the global population stabilizes, the other side still does not have a suitable "death" mechanism, which will only bring about a comprehensive famine.]
Sure enough, Zhong Cheng's speculation was perfectly reproduced in Mr. Le's subsequent memory.
When the shortage first occurred, love established many rules, from the distribution of emotions within the tribe to the punishment of devouring those who did not follow the rules.
The situation eased for a while, but satisfaction continued to give rise to new beings, and hunger continued to grow. The beings began to devour each other because of hunger, and if this continued, there would be large-scale chaos on the other side.
Love still couldn't bear to see such a tragedy happen, this time, it turned its target to "food crops" - the human world.
[As long as they go crazy, they can double the output of various emotions. ]
Love once again found a way.
[Don't worry, the total number of humans won't decrease too much. I understand humans - if all humans are crazy, then none of them are crazy. They will just adjust to a new order, and it won't have any impact on us.]
[We only need to send part of our bodies to the 'other side' and guide them... There is no need to worry about the channel recovering on its own. As long as someone holds on in the gap, the gap will not close so easily. Didn't the fear of falling into the gap create a lot of weak points in the space? ]
Just as when it dispelled the darkness, its expression remains soft and firm.
[You ask who will hold it up? Of course it's me. ]
[I will impact space like fear, creating opportunities for you. I can hold on as long as you need. Whether it takes a hundred years or a thousand years, you will always do it... If you need strength, you can take my body and exchange it with humans.]
As a hero on the other side, the thoughts of love are very, very gentle.
[… The current situation is my biggest responsibility. I will never let my hometown fall into chaos, please believe me.]
After Mr. Le cast the memory, the cub indeed calmed down.
Presumably, it has deeply understood its own fate - having paid such a huge price on the other side, it is impossible for it to let this young god of death return and cause all its previous efforts to be wasted.
Whatever means they use, they want to get back the carefree days they once had—the golden days of fearlessness and emotional abundance.
The giant foot was raised to an unprecedented height and stomped down hard on the group of silent cubs.
The power of that kick shook the heavens and the earth. Mr. Le's spirit had just relaxed a little, but suddenly tensed up again.
It doesn't feel right.
The foot didn't seem to have crushed any flesh.
In an instant, countless black threads emerged from the gaps in the foot. They quickly spread along the giant foot, completely without the previous clumsiness and dullness.
[Varied…]
The intense pain of being devoured instantly overwhelmed Mr. Le.
Previously, the cub had only gnawed at it with its milk teeth, but this time the devouring was undoubtedly out of an older, more mature fear. In an instant, the flesh and blood on the giant foot exploded into fine mist, and was then completely absorbed by the expanding darkness.
The thread becomes a trickle, and the trickle becomes the ocean.
The ball of darkness seemed to turn into strong acid in an instant. It surged in the flesh and blood prison built by Mr. Le, quickly corroding the flesh and blood.
Fell into a trap.
That cub is trying to trick him!
As expected, what they were facing was not the brainless ancient terror from thousands of years ago, but a more cunning and deadly enemy of human origin. In the blink of an eye, before Mr. Le could react, half of his body turned into ashes.
[Thank you for your information. I understand the whole story... I understand your suffering.]
During the swallowing interval, the cub's breath instantly became steady, no longer the pitiful look just now.
[It’s a pity that I have never had much vision since I was a child, and I don’t want to know about the greater good—]
In the narrow transition space, darkness spread wildly, like the deepest night.
[—All I know is that I don’t like living in a crazy world, and I don’t want my friends to become crazy.]
The cub exploded, and darkness covered the sky with dirty foam.
[hehe.]
What answered Yin Ren was a smile of relief.
[As expected, it is called fear… ]
Those bubbles quickly tightened and rushed in the same direction -
Luo Chunlei wrapped in a meat coil.
Snapped.
The flesh cocoon broke, and before Luo Chunlei could even open her eyes, she was instantly enveloped by thousands of bubbles. The bubbles quickly merged into her body, like clear water entering a dried sponge. When she opened her eyes, the colors in her pupils mixed together, revealing a white color like that of a dead fish.
Exactly the same as those dirty bubbles.
The girl died silently, no more than a burst bubble. At the end of her life, she was probably still intoxicated by this legendary experience, imagining a future that no longer existed.
Come to think of it, as an extremely ancient creature, there is no reason for Mr. Le to be so intimate with a human girl - I think he is sure that they will not take the initiative to kill her, and that child is the perfect "escape capsule".
Squeezing the rest of the body into a human carrier, is this a preparation to return to the human world and cut off its tail to survive
Yin Ren regained consciousness without hesitation and rushed towards the replaced girl. The outer seal has been taken over by their own people. Mr. Le... No, Miss Le cannot escape.
He will not be softened by this image.
Just like when he dealt with Mr. Qiu, as long as he caught Mr. Le's body, he would let Destruction extend along its body and chase it to the other side. Now he was confident that he could kill it and devour it completely.
The time and place are right, we must not let it escape.
But "Luo Chunlei" just raised her head and smiled at him.
That smile was filled with relief and sadness, and looked just like...
Like a "hero" in the human sense.
The next second, "Happy" took off into the air and rushed straight into the vortex in the air. The center of the vortex surged instantly, exploding countless snow-white and skinny arms. They gently opened, and countless embraces bloomed like flowers.
In just a moment, they caught the girl's small body. Just looking at the movements, those arms did their best to protect the girl in their palms. It was like human fingers slowly closing -
Along with a sigh, a creepy chewing and swallowing sound came from the gap.
Occasionally, a little foam oozed out from the gaps, but soon disappeared. The snow-white arms took on more color and quickly became plump and healthy.
"Happiness" disappeared.
(End of this chapter)