Lord: Sequence Overlord

Chapter 289 Pioneer Explorers and the World Recycling Station

Chapter 288

"What the hell..."

Rosen watched helplessly as the engineer and the Lynx King donned identical human faces and snake heads.

It's obvious that the engineer and the Lynx King had problems a long time ago.

Moreover, even after the problem occurred, they were still able to enter the old camp without anyone noticing anything amiss.

Since the two of them had problems that went unnoticed, and the three guides he selected this time were problematic, it means that more than two-thirds of the demigods in the Old Camp are likely to have issues.

Rosen actually hoped that it was his bad luck, otherwise the incident involving thousands of demigods would be a huge event.

The world domain that unfolded instantly granted Rosen the ability to create a space that flickered.

Although spatial movement in the Old Continent is incredibly difficult, the area within the domain is an independent space. Therefore, the timely use of Void Blink allowed the user to successfully dodge the dark green poison arrow spat out by the Lynx King.

Rosen dodged, but the more agile and faster ghost did not.

Because the Lynx King locked onto the ghostly figure spitting out a poison arrow, its pair of snake eyes directly stunned the ghostly figure's divine consciousness, causing a momentary delay in its evasion. The passively activated defensive skills and extraordinary artifacts were utterly destroyed by the poison arrow.

The ghost figure, realizing it was too late to dodge, was struck in the left shoulder by the poisoned arrow.

The terrifying paralyzing poison not only affected the body but also simultaneously affected the divine essence, causing the ghost to instantly lose all ability to resist and watch in despair as the Lynx King drew his scimitar and beheaded him.

The Lynx King removed the human-faced snake head and placed the ghostly head on his own neck.

The ghost's face contorted and struggled for a moment before returning to normal.

However, the one in control of the body at this moment is no longer the Beast King Hunter Lynx King, but the Phantom Assassin Ghost Shadow.

Rosen finally understood that this kind of creature with a human face and snake head had the ability to swap heads.

By taking someone else's head and attaching it to one's own neck, one can perfectly control the extraordinary power that head possesses, and manipulate that head. It's possible that the head's divine consciousness might not even realize that it is dead, or that its body does not belong to itself.

In a sense, this is somewhat similar to the methods Rosen used.

He replaces other people's entire bodies with flesh and blood clones, while this human-faced snake head only replaces the body below the head. However, he cannot perfectly manipulate the other person's divine essence when he replaces the body, but this human-faced snake head seems to be able to manipulate even the divine essence.
Rosen was somewhat tempted; he wished he could acquire such an ability.

However, to seize the opponent's abilities, you must at least be able to capture them alive.

The ghostly figure instantly split into dozens of phantom clones, which rushed towards Rosen's world domain from all directions.

The moment they approached the domain, they each unleashed the domains that bound their bodies and rushed in.

However, no sooner had he stepped into the world than he was met by the Assassin Golem.

Although the Assassin Golem, a Sequence 1 Gundam, is far less intelligent than Ghost and lacks Ghost's divine domain, its Sequence 1 level is far superior to Ghost's Sequence 3 level. Ghost is simply unable to overcome these two levels to defeat the Assassin Golem.

The two assassins exchanged blows for only a few moments before Ghost Shadow's head was ripped off by the assassin golem.

The ghostly body wanted to replace its head, but the portrait that Rosen threw out directly distorted space and sealed it into the painting.

The engineer, seeing the situation was not good, tried to escape, but his burrowing skill was not affected by the spatial restrictions of the Old World.

As long as you don't worry about encountering danger while burrowing underground, traveling thousands of miles at once is not difficult.

However, he was unable to move at all, because the Abyss Shadow Demon appeared in front of the engineer and cast the Law of Calamity, generating a terrifying earthquake. He also cast a Calamity Seal on the engineer, concentrating the calamity power of the earthquake on his body.

The sappers instantly bore the full destructive force of the earthquake that stretched for thousands of miles. Their bodies were instantly turned into a bloody pulp, and even their divine essence was shattered.

Even so, he wasn't completely dead; like a ghost, he was sealed into the painting by Rosen.

Rosen slipped into the mysterious study and began to carefully examine the two unknown monsters with human faces and snake heads.

He attempted spiritual parasitism, but it proved insufficient to parasitize monsters that were equally adept at it.

With no other option, Rosen teleported the Necromancer Queen over via data transmission.

The Necromancer Queen possessed even stronger spiritual parasitism abilities and had quickly parasitized the divine essence of the Ghost Shadow.

To be precise, the Ghost Shadow's divine essence was already dead. When his head was placed on the neck of the human-faced snake-headed monster, his divine essence had already been parasitized and devoured, leaving only his sea of ​​consciousness and extraordinary essence.

He doesn't appear to be dead yet, and he can still perfectly control the divine power of the Phantom Assassin.

That's because the human-faced, snake-headed monster perfectly embodied the divine essence of the ghost. This embellishment could even deceive the extraordinary essence, making the ghost's extraordinary essence mistakenly believe that it was the ghost's divine essence.

Rosen also discovered that this terrifying human-faced, snake-headed monster was actually human.

The human-faced snake-headed character is a real human being, and a human superhuman being very close to the actor's lineage.

His impression was that the human-faced, snake-headed monster seemed to be an actor sequence that had undergone a mutation due to extraordinary source matter.

Or to be more precise, this is a sequence of actors heading down the wrong path.

In that instant, Rosen considered a terrifying possibility.

The initial extraordinary sequences are unlikely to be perfect from birth. New extraordinary sequences may have various problems and may go down the wrong path. The initial extraordinary sequences are like blind men feeling their way across a river. Only a few actually succeed in crossing the river, while the vast majority drown in the river.

Could the monsters with human faces and snake heads have once been pioneers in exploring the path of actors?
In the Old World, are there still many monsters that have gone astray in their exploration of the extraordinary sequence, ultimately resulting in the distortion of their extraordinary source matter?

These are all just speculations, and it's still a long way from being confirmed.

Rosen also gleaned two pieces of news from the human-faced snake-headed monster's memories: the good news was that the human-faced snake-headed monster didn't have many companions, at most a little over a hundred, so only a little over a hundred demigods in the old camp had been parasitized and replaced.

The bad news is that these snake-headed, human-faced monsters have their eyes on him.

Originally, both Lynx King and Engineer were fine. The timing of their parasitism and replacement was during the final preparation stage before departure. If he had chosen another guide at that time, the other demigods would have been replaced by parasites.

The reason Ghost was able to escape was entirely because Ghost's ability to hide was so strong that the human-faced snake-headed monster did not have a chance to catch it.

The reason those human-faced, snake-headed monsters targeted him was because they coveted the divine-level power of fortune emanating from him.

Now that the human-faced snake-headed monster's plan has failed, it certainly won't give up easily.

But that's all for the future. The most urgent task is to find the miracle treasure he desperately needs.

Rosen took out his Miracle Pocket and used it to search for possible miracle treasures in the vicinity.

Half an hour later, following the signs, he arrived at a perfectly intact cabin in the mountains.

The entire Old Road is full of ruins and relics, and many of the ruins and relics of the Archaeological Institute originated from the Old Road.

Those ancient civilized cities have all become ruins, but this small wooden house, which was built at least 20,000 years ago, is still intact after such a long period of time, and the material is just the most ordinary wood.

Such wood would normally rot away in a few decades, but it has remained intact for at least 20,000 years.

It's obvious there's something wrong with this little cabin.

The Hunter's Eye attempted to see through the illusion, but unsurprisingly, it couldn't see through the internal situation.

The cabin had no windows, so Rosen casually drew a Sequence 4 paladin and went to scout ahead.

Paladins have the strongest survivability among the Knight sequence branches. Even a Sequence 3 Paladin would find it difficult to kill a Sequence 4 Paladin. However, the moment a Paladin pushes open the door, he disappears without a trace, and the door of the cabin closes automatically in an instant.

Rosen watched from a distance; when the door opened, it was pitch black inside and he couldn't see anything.

His test yielded the exact same result as recorded in historical documents.

The Vanished Wooden House – that's the name given to it by historians who studied the house.

This wooden house not only doesn't decay, but it also actively avoids deities and true gods. Wendy once came to investigate it herself, and even a true god from the World Government came, but they couldn't find the wooden house at all.

As long as sequence 1 or higher is nearby, the cabin will disappear without a trace.

Below the level of gods, no means can destroy the wooden house.

Years ago, a Sequence 1 historian formed a five-person team, but after entering the cabin, none of them came out alive. No matter how they explored afterward, they couldn't uncover any more valuable information.

The wooden houses gradually disappeared and were forgotten; no historians came here to do their futile work anymore.

If it weren't for the mysterious study and the God Computer, Rosen wouldn't have dared to take the risk.

Ordinary probing was no longer feasible, so he released a self-portrait clone, enhanced it with various defensive measures, and then cautiously walked towards the cabin. As for his main body, he hid in the mysterious study, then anchored himself to the clone and moved with it.

The moment Rosen pushed open the wooden door, he had already disappeared in front of it.

The surroundings were endless darkness, which swallowed up all outward divine perception.

When the darkness suddenly dissipated, a world of madness, chaos, distortion, and aberration had appeared.

Everything in the surrounding world seemed to be alive, whether it was soil or rock, plants or flowing water, everything was alive, but everything was distorted, devoid of any beauty, only ugly distortions that made one want to go blind.

Rosen looked around and spotted a dilapidated history museum not far away.

But like everything else, this history museum came to life, its surface covered with twitching tumors, rotting tentacles, twisted and grotesque mouthparts, and countless other distortions and deformities.

Rosen cautiously approached the history museum, and the moment he got close, the history museum attacked him.

All the tentacles coiled around him, all the tumors exploded, spewing out thick pink mist, and all the mouthparts extended long, thin tongues to seal off the surrounding space. The camouflage enhanced by the wolf totem on his body was completely unable to deceive the perception of these unknown mutations.

Seeing that he could not enter peacefully, Rosen let out a silent dragon roar.

The sound waves, so profound they were almost imperceptible, penetrated the damaged gap in the history museum and swept back and forth inside, discovering several grotesque monsters within. One of these monsters had a crystal embedded in its forehead.

The moment the spiritual energy in the sound waves came into contact with the crystal, the crystal immediately detached itself and actively came into contact with the spiritual energy.

After the two parties made contact, Rosen received a message that was actively transmitted from within the crystal.

This crystal is called the Eternal Crystal. It is the only thing in this world that will not be distorted. The Eternal Crystal was left behind by Sequence 1 historian Suad Pope, who sealed his Eternal History Book inside the Eternal Crystal.

The Eternal Crystal flew out of the history museum through the gap and landed in Rosen's hands, where he examined it carefully at first.

As for the attack on the distorted history museum, anyone who gets close to it will have their time frozen.

Rosen took out the sealed Eternal History Book from the Eternal Crystal and eagerly began to examine the last section.

It turns out that after Suyad led his team into the cabin, they arrived in this world full of distortions.

With the combined strength of three Sequence 1 members and two Sequence 2 members, the team survived in this world for a long time.

However, as time went on, Suyad and his five teammates began to show signs of abnormality.

Having tried everything, I can't escape this world; I can only continue searching for a glimmer of hope.

In the end, he never found it before he died, but Suyad did make some discoveries.

First, Suyad discovered that almost everything in this world has a prototype in the main world.

Moreover, the distortions in this world are not purely ugly and terrifying. There is a very low chance that they will distort into normal things that conform to normal aesthetics. However, apart from the Eternal Crystal, which cannot be erased, all of these distorted normal things are destroyed by those ugly and twisted distorted monsters.

After decades of research before his death, Suard discovered that this place might be the legendary World Recycling Station.

Anyone who has used a computer knows that there is a recycle bin on the desktop.

In the human world, there are also so-called waste recycling stations.

According to historians, there must also be a World Recycling Station in the main world.

The birth of all things in the world and the evolution of life species have included successful cases as well as unsuccessful cases. The successful cases are the countless species in the main world today. So where did those unsuccessful cases end up?
If you asked this question to an ordinary person, they might answer that if evolution fails, then they will be eliminated!

After being eliminated, their numbers continued to decrease, and eventually they quietly disappeared into the annals of history.

But if you ask the true God this question, the answer is the world's recycling center.

Because not only ordinary species can fail to evolve, but extraordinary life forms can also fail to evolve.

If a supernatural life form fails to evolve, it is unlikely to perish in a short time. If it does not perish for a long time, it will definitely leave traces of its existence. True gods with lifespans that are almost infinite could not possibly have never seen these species that failed to evolve.

But the true God has never actually seen it, as if the natural evolution of all life species is on the right track.

But this is impossible, so someone proposed the concept of a world recycling station. All the species in the main world that failed to evolve were sent to the world recycling station at the moment of their birth. This world recycling station is the main world's garbage disposal plant.

In Suyad's view, those mutated and twisted species in this world are those that have failed to evolve.

Rosen continued reading, and Suard offered another conjecture in his final years.

This world could also be a species laboratory.

Through the random evolutionary mutations of countless species, normal species are born by chance. These normal species will then appear in the main world one after another. All species that fail to evolve are left in the species laboratory, and only species that successfully evolve will be released into the main world.

Whether it's a global recycling center or a species laboratory, Suard ultimately proposed a verification method.

Suyad once witnessed a normal life form born from countless possible mutations, and then meticulously recorded everything about this normal life form. If similar life forms have emerged in the main world over the years, then it can be confirmed that this is a species laboratory.

While Rosen was checking information about normal life forms, the main body was already searching for relevant information online through the main god's computer.

They found it quickly; it was a new intelligent life form that was born in the deep sea two thousand years ago.

Tear Demon is a new species derived from mermaids.

Suard's analysis is correct. This world is indeed a species laboratory, but the possibility of it being a world recycling center cannot be ruled out. Life forms that successfully evolve here will appear in the main world, and life forms that fail to evolve in the main world may also appear here.

Rosen's intuition told him that this world held one of the most fundamental secrets of the main world.

However, he also felt that staying in this world would cause him to become deformed.

Rosen quickly found the place where Suyad kept his teammates' belongings in the Eternal History Book. Apart from the Eternal Crystal, the Miracle Treasure was also unaffected by the distorted power of this world, so Suyad sealed the Miracle Treasure inside another Eternal Crystal.

The reason they weren't placed together is because it's unknown whether the history museum will remain in its original location after being completely distorted.

If you go too far, there's a copy of the Eternal History in another Eternal Crystal.

Rosen quickly found the second Eternal Crystal inside a hollow of a deformed tree nearby. Finding the Eternal Crystal was not difficult as long as one carefully explored the surroundings. He took the Eternal Crystal and immediately hid in the mysterious study.

At this moment, another self-portrait clone left outside the cabin begins to open the mysterious study using itself as an anchor point.

Silently, the mysterious study had left the species laboratory and appeared outside the cabin.

Rosen broke the seal inside the Eternal Crystal and obtained three miraculous treasures from it.

The second-order spatial pottery pot has the ability to teleport to another spatial pottery pot.

This was what gave Suyad the courage to enter the cabin, but in the end, even the space pottery jar could not escape the species laboratory.

Sequence 3's Secret Compass can point out nearby hidden secret spaces.

Both of these miraculous treasures are very valuable, especially the spatial pottery jar which leads to Suyad's secret base.

However, none of these were Rosen's goals for this trip. He directly picked up the lowest-level Sequence 8 Miracle Treasure.

[The Hidden Brass Book: A Miraculous Treasure]

[Level: Sequence 8]

[Miracle Attribute: The Hidden Brass Book can hold and record all secrets]

[Miracle Traits: Secret Key, Unique in Heaven and Earth, Eternal]

The Hidden Brass Book was once a sacred relic of a historical secret realm. The vast majority of extremely dangerous historical information, information that could bring endless disasters if it were to circulate in the world, was sealed inside the Hidden Brass Book.

If you thoroughly master this book through the Miracle Sequence, it's equivalent to mastering all the secrets recorded within.

(End of this chapter)