Eternal Night

Chapter 37 Return, Harvest

All the muscles in Wu Xianxiao's body were tense, and his state of alert was much greater than when he faced the wild boar monster before.

Even though he entered the controllable demonic state as soon as he faced the wild boar monster, that was to be able to kill it with minimal damage, not because he was facing a desperate situation.

But now, Wu Xianxiao doesn’t even have the courage to enter the controllable demonic state. That thing outside... is too terrifying!

Even though no one could see it with their naked eyes, even though there was a big door between them, he now had goosebumps all over his body. If he had to describe it, it was equivalent to the horror of ten and a half paper men, or five wild boar monsters combined.

This is definitely a BOSS-level monster!

Even though Jiujiu was still asleep, he was awakened instinctively by the approach of the monster, which shows how powerful it was.

Now Wu Xianxiao was at his wit's end. The door of the utility room was not strong, and the monster outside the door did not seem to be trying its best to break the door open. It was unclear whether it was just trying to play with the monster or if it was not in its right mind.

The most likely possibility is that it was attracted by something, either the living breath of him and Jiujiu, or the breath of the flesh and blood of the wild boar demon that he cut off.

Wu Xianxiao gently let go of Jiujiu's mouth, shook his head at it, then lightly picked up an iron rack and piled it on the gate, and then piled some heavy objects from the utility room on top.

(There are still about 20 to 30 minutes left before the end of the 24 hours. According to my previous experience, this should be the time when all kinds of monsters start to run wild during the "weekend" and become aware of the existence of "outsiders" like us. As long as we can survive this period, we can return safely...)
Wu Xianxiao pondered silently in his heart. After pressing almost all the heavy objects in the utility room against the door, he said to Jiujiu in a very low voice: "If we die soon, don't move around after resurrection. Confirm the situation of your location. If there is no immediate danger of death, then lie dead where you are. If there is, run immediately and keep delaying time. Injuries are not important. Nod if you understand."

Jiujiu's eyes were full of fear, but she still nodded obediently.

At this moment, the thing outside the door suddenly increased its strength, and the entire door seemed to be squeezed into the utility room.

Wu Xianxiao didn't dare to say anything, but pushed his whole body against the iron frame. Strength burst out from his whole body, and his qi and blood were stimulated to the extreme. With his arms, waist, and legs, he pushed up with an explosive force of about 1.5 tons, and began to bend the metal frame. The entire door was pressed back little by little.

Seeing this scene, the fear in Jiujiu's eyes began to gradually dissipate.

But this did not last long. As time passed, the monster outside the door suddenly began to increase its strength, and the entire door was pushed inwards again little by little.

At this time, blood beads began to appear all over Wu Xianxiao's body, and at the same time, a large amount of steam rose up, turning into a light red blood mist that began to spread.

Even so, the door was still irreversibly pushed inwards bit by bit. When it was about to be completely pushed open, Wu Xianxian suddenly closed his eyes, then opened them, and then his eyes turned blood red again. The next moment, the door was once again pushed outwards bit by bit.

A large amount of blood immediately spurted out from the joints and wrists of Wu Xianxian's arms. The muscles and bones in his arms seemed to be squeezed into juice by some powerful pressure. As he entered a controllable demonic state, there were no more protective restrictions on his body, and his enormous strength even exceeded the limits of what the flesh could reach.

But he couldn't sustain this state for long. Wu Xianxiao also knew that he was just delaying for the last bit of time, the longer he could delay.

But this time, the door was pushed back for less than two minutes before the monster outside increased its strength once again, and this time the strength was so great that not only did the entire metal door break into pieces, but the outer wall of the utility room was also shattered. Then Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu saw hundreds of heads extending out from the darkness of the sewer, looking at the two of them with a very strange look.

"...Wu Xianxiao! There's an exam tomorrow!"

A hand slapped Wu Xianxiao's shoulder, startling him from his dozing off. He was a little dizzy from sleep, and suddenly remembered that class was about to start, so he waved his hand and said, "Stop it, Li, Wang, Zhang... who are you?"

Many names flashed through Wu Xianxiao's mind, but he suddenly felt something strange, because this voice was both familiar and unfamiliar to him, and he couldn't call out the name all of a sudden. He turned his head to look in the direction of the voice and the arm, but he saw a head with a weird smile hanging in the air facing him, and then the next moment, everything around him began to dissolve, the classroom, the desk, and even himself...

When Wu Xianxian opened his eyes again, all he saw was a blur. He was in a translucent liquid, and his entire body was solidified by the liquid, like a bug frozen in amber. As he woke up, he felt unimaginable pain all over his body. His hands, feet, torso, and even his head were slowly dissolving.

"No! Corrosion!!"

Wu Xianxiao was greatly shocked, because this was not death, because although his whole body was dissolving, he could still feel that the dissolved parts were not digested, but transformed into another life form, and were merging with other lives!
He is being corroded rapidly!

Moreover, if one loses self-awareness and the anchored cognition of reality when being corrupted, such as falling into hallucinations, then he will not be able to return to the real world!

Just as Wu Xianxiao was thinking this, he saw Jiujiu, who was not far from him, whose body was also dissolving, and about one-fifth of its body had disappeared.

Before he could do anything, his consciousness became hazy again...

"Ants, eat more." A gentle female voice sounded.

"Summer vacation will end tomorrow, remember to listen carefully in class." A male voice with a bit of authority sounded. Wu Xianxiao was eating, and his tears rolled down into the rice bowl while he was eating. For a moment, he was reluctant to look up.

He knew that all this was an illusion. If it were someone else, what they saw might be his parents or classmates. However, his inspiration was too strong, coupled with the blessing of the Yellow Lotus fragments, and perhaps the effect of the Tiger Demon Art's sleepless consciousness, so he was able to see the truth and break free from these illusions.

but……

Why use his parents...

Wu Xianxiao silently raised his head, and indeed saw two heads hanging in the air facing him with strange smiles, and then everything began to dissolve again...

Wu Xianxiao opened his eyes again, and part of his eyeballs began to dissolve, and one third of the Jiujiu not far away had disappeared. Once the degree of corrosion exceeds 50%, it means that you are no longer a human being, or a "life" recognized by the main brain. At that time, it will be impossible to return to reality.

"Here you go! Take them all!!"

Wu Xianxiao used the last of his physical control, and without any restraint, his blood and qi flowed upstream. His eyes turned blood red, and his entire sea of ​​consciousness rushed wildly into the depths of negativity in his mind.

In an instant, the solution that wrapped Wu Xianxiao began to boil, and the translucent solution began to turn pitch black. Countless black auras spread from the remaining flesh of Wu Xianxiao, infecting everything around it like ink.

At the same time, at the moment when Wu Xianxiao fell into the state of being possessed, his sleepless consciousness controlled him to let out a final roar, like thunder and whistle, spreading from the solution to the surroundings, first affecting the nearest Jiujiu, she suddenly opened her eyes, and then tears welled up in her eyes, followed by those heads with strange smiles, all of them stopped smiling, first they were confused, then in pain, and then they began to gradually dissipate.

In just a few seconds, the huge monster turned completely black, and then all the solution began to evaporate. Wu Xianxiao and Jiujiu, who were in it, had disappeared without a trace and vanished into the sewer.

After a while, the top of the sewer suddenly exploded, and a man in skeleton armor fell from the sky. He looked around and reached out to touch the ground. At this time, two more people fell on the street above the sewer, a man and a woman. The man was holding a long staff with an alien head and spine, and the woman was holding a colorful bead.

"What is it?" the woman asked.

The man in the skeleton armor shook his head and said, "I can't confirm it, but an extremely strong pollution source just erupted here, and the pollution figures have reached millions!"

The man holding the staff and the woman holding the beads were both shocked. The man holding the staff immediately said, "Million level!? That means it's at least 0.5 of the baseline reality!?"

“More than that!” The face of the woman holding the bead became serious. She said, “The pollution data is the most direct manifestation of terror. The baseline reality of 0.9 is one to one hundred, and then 0.8 is one hundred to one thousand, and 0.7 is one thousand to ten thousand… Calculated in this way, the level of one million to ten million is the baseline reality of 0.4… The realm of gods and demons!”

The man in the skeleton armor listened to the two people's conversation in silence. He looked up at the sky and sighed, "It's too late this time. The weekend is about to end, and the task of hunting down the remaining members of the Human Revolutionary League has not been completed, especially... Him!"

The three of them were silent, and then their bodies gradually faded away and disappeared.

Wu Xianxiao opened his eyes suddenly, turned over and looked around nervously. At this moment, a chirping sound came from above his head. The next second, Jiujiu came with a piece of yellow paper and a black object the size of a fingernail in its mouth, and landed on his shoulder, while tilting its head to look at him.

Wu Xianxiao breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around and confirmed that he was indeed in Gaia. He collapsed to the ground and said to Jiujiu, "How could you, a fat bird, be corrupted so easily?"

Jiujiu was furious and dropped the thing in its beak. The whole bird hit Wu Xianxun's eyebrow and kept pecking at his forehead.

Wu Xianxiao felt relaxed instead. He picked up the yellow paper and the black object and was about to throw them away. However, the moment he touched the two items, the voice of the main brain sounded in his mind.

"Important information discovered... Judgment completed. Second-level maintenance personnel Wu Xianxiao, whether to provide important information or not, you can exchange one of the following options."

"The job title was upgraded by one level."

"Based on your current power system, you will be randomly given a basic technique that matches your baseline reality of 0.7 to 0.5."

"Teleport five hundred carbon-based nanounits."

"Wake up ten first-level maintenance personnel."

"please choose."

(End of this chapter)