Eternal Night

Chapter 510 Lost

Wu Pifu silently stared at the androids that had shut down in front of him.

At 9 p.m., all the androids obeyed his orders and shut down on time. They were to be turned on again 12 hours later, at which point the spaceship could be launched and leave Earth.

Although it has been proven that shutting down the machines can effectively prevent the androids from falling into contamination, Wu Pifu still feels uneasy, as if something is about to happen. So he patrols the entire cabin every ten minutes to ensure that all the androids are safe and sound.

However, Wu Pifu didn't know if any of them had disappeared. Just like the three who had disappeared before, he had absolutely no recollection of it.

This was incredible to Wu Pifu. With his current martial arts skills, he would never forget anything he had. "Clear mind and bright eyes" refers to his current state. He would never forget anything he had seen. It was a state of divine enlightenment that came after practicing martial arts to an extremely high level.

But when faced with this loss and pollution, even the legendary martial arts realm is nothing but a hair's breadth; it should be forgotten.

“…Loss, loss, what kind of pollution is Loss Pollution? I always feel it’s very important, but I can’t remember it at all,” Beelzebub said.

After completing his patrol, Wu Pifu returned to his seat at the entrance, still staring intently at all the androids present.

At this moment, Chirp suddenly made a sound. Wu Pifu was silent for a few seconds before saying, "Yes, I heard it earlier... there are vehicles outside. This is the third group to arrive."

Chiu Chiu and Daphne looked at each other, and then the two little animals huddled together on Wu Pifu, both of them trembling.

This is terrifying. Three groups of vehicles have arrived in succession, which means that at least three groups of androids have arrived. However, nothing in the cabin has been activated. So where are these androids? How are they now? The two little animals trembled with fear whenever they thought about it.

However, Wu Pifu remained seated firmly in place, which gradually calmed the two small animals down.

At this moment, Beelzebub said, "Don't worry, you two little fools, we shouldn't be disappointed."

Wu Pifu, Qiuqiu, and Daphne all looked at Beelzebub. Beelzebub continued, "Loss, loss. Even though I have no memory of loss, as the name suggests, loss means something like disappearance. And judging from the results of the loss pollution that have already appeared, it means that its existence has completely disappeared. And signs of loss only appear after a civilization falls to a lower level. We are now a completely real civilization at 1.0."

Wu Pifu thought for a moment and said, "I am, but you are not. You are just a big fly."

"Ah ah ah ah..."

Beelzebub yelled and lunged at Wu Pifu's face, then hit Wu Pifu's nose. He was then bounced back by the soft force and fell onto Wu Pifu's legs. Even so, she was still cursing.

Chirp softly, and Wu Pifu replied expressionlessly, "Yes, you are also a little bird demon from the Zero Point Seven Dream World."

After saying that, he looked at Daphne and said, "You are the Samoyed of the Zero Six Dream World, that's right."

Then Qiuqiu also bumped into Wu Pifu's forehead, while Daphne bit his thigh and started tearing at it with a whimpering sound.

Wu Pifu let the two small animals vent their anger. After a long while, Beelzebub said, "You're wrong. We are real-world creatures. Otherwise, do you really think any creature can go to the 1.0 real world?"

Wu Pifu frowned, held the large fly up to his face, and asked, "What do you mean?"

Beelzebub immediately shouted, "Recall it yourself! When you brought the two of them back to Gaia, didn't you establish a sanctuary of a certain level before you could bring them? And before bringing them, the mainframe would ask or judge, right? Then all the monsters that went to Gaia by destroying the sanctuary, they would not only be judged by the mainframe and killed by the Night Watchers, but they were actually imprisoned in Gaia in a disguised way, because even the nightmares that could travel through the dream world were trapped in Gaia and could no longer enter the dream world!"

Wu Pifu pondered silently for a moment before nodding and saying, "Yes, that's right. So you mean to say that you are all actually beings from the real world?"

"Otherwise what?" Although Beelzebub was in fly form, Wu Pifu inexplicably saw a smug look on his face. She said, "Do you really think the mainframe is just a program? Or do you think you can send any dream world creature to Gaia without limit? Don't be ridiculous. Now we all know that 'reality' is a universal equivalent in the dream world, and it's the most precious equivalent. Every life that goes from the dream world to the real world needs to be filled with reality. Have you forgotten the figurines you put in the hibernation pod? Or have you forgotten the golden tree bonsai in front of you?"

Wu Pifu suddenly realized something, and at the same time seemed to be deep in thought.

Beelzebub continued, hands on his hips... no, rubbing his hands together, "So the reason we weren't targeted by the Lost Contamination isn't because you're too powerful, or because you have high resistance to contamination, but simply because we are beings from the real world! Of course, if you actively rush towards the Lost Contamination, it will also affect you, just like what happened outside that camp before."

At this moment, Chuchu and Daphne also quieted down. After hearing Beelzebub's analysis, they also showed a smug expression, looking at Wu Pifu with their hands on their hips.

“In that case…you stay here and watch them, I’ll go out and check the situation.”

Wu Pifu thought for a moment, then spoke to the three small animals and the golden tree bonsai. Before the three small animals and the golden tree could react, he quickly opened the entrance hatch and rushed out, disappearing from the spot in a flash.

The three little animals were all stunned. They looked at each other, and then the bird, the dog, and the fly huddled together tightly. Their previous smugness vanished, leaving only trembling. And it wasn't just the three of them trembling; the branches of the golden tree shook as if a strong wind were blowing...

On the other side, after confirming that the three small animals and the golden tree would not be corrupted by the Lost, Wu Pifu immediately flashed to the outside of the cabin and went to the spaceship entrance through the corridor. He saw that the spaceship entrance, which had been closed before, had been opened at some point. Outside, in the deep night, he could vaguely see many wriggling things, but he could not see them clearly.

Wu Pifu went to the hatch and looked out. Sure enough, he saw dozens of vehicles of various kinds outside. In addition to the vehicles, he also saw a lot of weapons. However, there was no one in sight. Most importantly, from the positions where the vehicles stopped and the positions where the weapons fell to the ground, he could vaguely see that people were getting off the vehicles and greeting or approaching other convoys and groups of people.

However… the three convoys arrived at completely different times, and there was no vibration or sound upon their arrival, which suggests that they may have already disappeared before they arrived. So how did the people in the convoys that arrived later communicate with them or travel together? These are things that should not be thought about too deeply. Even someone as bold and fearless as Wu Pifu felt a chill when he thought about the horrors of the Lost Pollution.

At this moment, he walked outside the spaceship and approached the vehicles step by step. There was nothing unusual in his sight, except that he seemed to see some dark things wriggling in the corner of his eye. However, he could not see anything when he looked closely. He did not care and just walked to the vehicles to examine them carefully. After he had checked them once, he turned around and walked back to the spaceship. At that moment, he heard several voices behind him.

"We've finally arrived. Our camp must be the furthest from the evacuation point."

"Strange, why aren't they going inside? And why are they waving at us?"

"I guess it's stuffy inside. Isn't that Yu Cheng? He helped us repair our vehicles last time..."

"Let's go, together..."

Wu Pifu immediately turned his head and saw several wisps of darkness suddenly disappear, and then a voice sounded behind him.

"Let's have a barbecue today, Dad!"

"Okay! Once I catch the fish, we'll have a barbecue today!"

"Where's mom?"

"What mother?"

"Dad...don't scare me, where's Mom?"

"...What mother?"

Wu Pifu turned his head again, but only a few wisps of darkness dissipated; he still saw nothing.

He immediately turned around and walked towards the spaceship, ignoring the sounds behind him.

"I feel like I've been experiencing this kind of horror a bit too much lately."

"I've seen too many of these ( )."

"You need to shut down the device."

"Old Wu, why did you turn around? Did you play something wrong this time?"

"The Demon Race, the Ghost Race, are running rampant in the Z Universe."

"That damned Wu Pifu, how did he find the safe zone?"

Gradually, the voices coming from behind Wu Pifu began to distort and become incomprehensible, but Wu Pifu still did not turn around and continued to walk towards the spaceship.

Just as Wu Pifu opened the hatch and stepped into the spaceship, a soft hand suddenly grasped the door as well, overlapping with Wu Pifu's. In that instant, Wu Pifu's vision flashed, and his entire field of vision shifted to a small lakeside. He saw a man fishing, and beside him was a little girl. The little girl was backing away in terror. The man fishing slowly writhed and twisted, then transformed into a writhing monster resembling a black liquid. This monster seemed to possess consciousness, struggling to control itself and not attack the little girl, who cried out and ran away into the distance.

Before Wu Pifu could do anything, a shattered female figure flashed before his eyes, sinking into the boundless black liquid. She was beautiful and had a graceful figure, dressed in the equipment of the Ruoye Squad, including a miniskirt and stockings. However, her figure was shattered, with her body and face reduced to fragments.

Just as Wu Pifu was about to reach out, the woman wriggled and melted into the little girl he had seen by the lake earlier, then wriggled and transformed into the fishing man. She continued to wriggle and change, while sinking into the darkness. Wu Pifu lunged forward, only managing to grab the man's collar.

"...Ah, this XX is really good to look at (play with)."

"I'm going to be late for class, I need to wake up..."

She (or he) made incomprehensible sounds, and finally, sank into the darkness and disappeared completely.

Wu Pifu was suddenly stunned. He realized that as soon as he entered the cabin, there was nothing unusual in front of him, and all the sounds had disappeared.

He opened his hand, revealing a piece of fabric in his palm, the same material and color as the collar of the uniforms worn by members of the Wakaba unit.

However, he could no longer remember whether the person who had sunk into the darkness was male or female, old or young, or any other characteristics, including their voice.

Just as he was staring blankly at the small piece of cloth in his hand, a gasp of surprise rang out from the cabin where the androids were staying.

(End of this chapter)