Eternal Night

Chapter 512 Unexpected Gains and Monsters

Wu Pifu earnestly did what Beelzebub asked him to do. Although it looked rather comical, he trusted Beelzebub and didn't mind doing it.

Of course, nothing changes after these things are done, nor can anything change, otherwise it would turn from suspense and horror into comedy and absurdity.

Wu Pifu didn't think too much about it at the moment, and just continued to wait, waiting for the possible loss and pollution that would follow.

It's around 4 AM now. Based on past experience, the Lost Contamination will decrease significantly once it gets light. Although many other resistance members were also contaminated during the day, such as those empty convoys, Wu Pifu and the androids weren't attacked during the day. So, all they need to do is wait until daylight, and at least... most of them can survive. That's Wu Pifu's plan. As for testing the Lost Contamination... nothing is more important than life. Wu Pifu understands this very well.

As time passed, the three little animals fell asleep again. Wu Pifu sensed something was wrong once more. He opened his eyes, shook the three pendants onto the ground, took a step, and arrived next to an artificial human. He reached out to grab it.

With a grab, he indeed followed the android back to that bizarre and peculiar lost space. This time, he still didn't know what to do, so he simply grabbed the android with one hand and held the cleaver—no, the Heroic Spirit Shattered Blade—in the other and slashed wildly into the lost space. This time, he didn't hold back at all. In addition to his control over the national martial arts and the immense strength of the human immortal martial arts, he also fully unleashed his domineering aura, venting it all wildly into the lost space.

And in his hands, the android was still changing, while the faint voice sounded again.

This time, Wu Pifu did not deliberately ignore these voices, especially those without any source, which he listened to carefully.

……

"Don't even think about breaking the fourth wall, you little rascal."

"Use facts to counteract falsehoods."

"Next, the Primordial Era – Creation of Heaven and Earth!"

"Attempting to launch a crowdfunding campaign to write a book..."

"Are you going to ask us?"

……

"Ah, I don't know either..."

"Light up the light in your heart!"

"Stop rushing me, it's being written, it's being written."

"You must reach a depth deeper than loss!!"

"You yourself are the ultimate truth of this world. Rather than seeking help from outsiders, let yourself answer the questions..."

……

This time, the strange voices suddenly became numerous and chaotic, including men, women, young and old, and many of them were malicious jokes with no clear meaning. However, among these numerous strange voices, there were actually a few that had meaning, which made Wu Pifu pause for a moment when he swung his knife.

His attention was incredibly focused at that moment, and almost instantly he categorized the countless sounds and extracted the useful information from them.

"Use facts to counteract falsehoods."

"Light up the light in your heart!"

"You must reach a depth deeper than loss!!"

"You yourself are the ultimate truth of this world. Rather than seeking help from outsiders, let yourself answer the questions..."

Of these four pieces of information, Wu Pifu considered the most important. The use of facts to counteract the nihilism startled him, and he immediately shouted, "Mainframe, use the points system to protect this android!"

"……recognize……"

The mainframe's voice was so muffled and distorted that Wu Pifu could only make out the word "recognize," and he immediately said, "Confirm!"

At the same time, without waiting for the main brain to start its actions, he immediately stared into his own sea of ​​consciousness, his eyes narrowed, and he activated the negative backlash of his mind!

Whether it's the so-called "lighting up the light of the soul," or "reaching a depth deeper than loss," or "being the ultimate truth," all these words seem to point to his difference from others... the negative consciousness left behind after countless personality iterations.

"...Then, let's go!"

"Negative psychological backlash rate: 20%!"

"Thirty percent!" "Fifty percent!"

Seventy percent!

Ninety percent!

When Wu Pifu recklessly increased the rate of negative backflow of his mind to ninety percent, the several "tigers" he suppressed in his sea of ​​consciousness began to tremble violently. At the same time, the world before his eyes underwent a strange change. He saw things that should not have been seen by the naked eye, no, they shouldn't even be things that could be specifically identified...

The essence of the soul!
He couldn't understand what it was, but the instant he saw it, he instinctively knew what it was: the fundamental existence of all life, the essence of the soul's existence...existence!
Unlike the physical body and consciousness, existence is unique to each life form, an unrepeatable miracle, and the reason why the real world exists!

The ultimate anthropic principle...

Suddenly, a familiar yet unfamiliar word popped into Wu Pifu's mind, and its meaning instantly appeared in his consciousness.

The real world is essentially a mixture of absolutely lifeless matter and energy. Because of matter and energy, space and time are derived, but they are essentially meaningless. Meaning itself is a concept derived by intellectual life through intellect.

When a sentient being gives birth to a real world, that world gains meaning. Its physical laws, its matter, energy, space, and time all become meaningful and defined because of the existence of sentient beings.

The word "reality" only gains meaning when the existence of intellectual life is born from the real world.

The essence of Lost Pollution is the extraction of the existence of intellectual life. Once its existence is lost, the real world in which it exists also loses its meaning.

This is loss; its existence disappears or changes, causing reality to disappear as well.

Such concepts arose in Wu Pifu's mind, all of which came from instinct. He didn't know how to explain them. Similarly, he couldn't know more, such as what exactly the Lost Pollution was, what its source was, why the real world fell from the Zero Dream World, and so on. He didn't know any of these things.

But now he knows two things. First, the "reality," that is, the points issued by the mainframe, can indeed effectively pull the lost androids back, but this is only a temporary solution. The core source of this world's lost pollution must be severed to prevent the androids from becoming completely lost. He can't stay in this world indefinitely, constantly consuming points to offset their loss, because…

The sense of loss was endless. When his negative emotional state reached 90%, the sense of loss he experienced was unbelievably vast, like a human looking out at the universe from space. The word "endless" was insufficient to describe it; it was truly infinite and boundless...

The second thing is that his negative emotional outpouring actually works to counteract his sense of loss!
Even if it's just seeing a tiny bit of loss, just seeing the mechanism by which loss and pollution work, that is, "seeing" its existence, that's already quite remarkable.

It's important to understand that his current so-called 90% negative backflow of the mind is merely 90% of the capacity his personality can bear, not 90% of the endless negative backflow in his sea of ​​consciousness. It's probably not even a drop in the ocean, let alone a fraction of it. Just like the boundless expanse of loss and pollution, the negative backflow in his sea of ​​consciousness is equally boundless. If he continues to grow stronger and suppresses enough tigers, perhaps he can achieve a 100%, 200%, 10,000%, 100,000%, 100 million...

He can see everything now, but he doesn't dare to think about what he can do in the future!

Wu Pifu was incredibly excited!

What he feared most was complete ignorance, utter incomprehension of the pollution of loss. This was more terrifying than being unable to defeat it. However, since he could see its mechanism of action and could use points to offset it, and since he would continue to grow stronger in the future, the negative backlash in his mind might not be unable to pose a threat to it and provide an opportunity for victory. Thinking of these things, he felt as if he had seen a ray of hope.

"You...you are all good people!"

"thank you all!"

"If you could come to the real world, I would definitely thank you properly, I would even kowtow to you!"

Wu Pifu felt gratitude and goodwill towards those unknown things that existed in the dark. Heaven knows what they were; they might be a lump of mud or some indescribable entity. At this moment, he shouted loudly to express his thanks.

Immediately afterward, with his mental state experiencing a negative backlash of 90%, he grabbed at the core of the absorbing existence. Although he didn't completely stop the android's existence from escaping, he significantly slowed down the rate of loss. At the same time, he felt an even larger torrent of reality coming from nowhere, filling him and the android he was holding, and isolating him from the sense of loss...

In the blink of an eye, Wu Pifu reappeared in the cabin, and this time, he was still carrying the powered-off android in his hand!

Upon closer inspection, Wu Pifu realized it was actually the leader of the resistance army, that stunningly beautiful red-haired mature woman!

She was not disappointed!
He really did save her!
Wu Pifu carried the red-haired mature woman, his heart pounding with excitement. After a few seconds, he placed her on the seat and then sat back down at the entrance. At that moment, the three small animals started chirping and fussing at him.

"Yes... I stopped the Lost Contamination!"

As Wu Pifu spoke these words with certainty, a faint light shone through the window next to the cabin. He looked in that direction and saw a faint golden light shimmering out from where the sun was rising on the horizon.

“Beelzebub, it really works! I got their hints, they…”

"They're all good monsters! No, they're monsters full of humanity, they... they're monster-men!"

(End of this chapter)