Eternal Night

Chapter 539 The Source and Research Institute of Magical Potions
He's actually a lazy bum.

Why bother trying when it's so tiring?
A hundred years of life passes in the blink of an eye. What good is it if you're an extraordinary person? You might not even live as long as an ordinary person.

This has always been his idea. With the opening of the extraordinary world and the development of the dream world, the entire main world is thriving, resources are abundant, and jobs are available as long as you have hands to carry sacks of money. Most importantly, the usually strict government and the usually heartless capitalists have now become like great philanthropists, showing concern and care for the common people. It is truly the first time he has ever seen such a thing.

It is said that in the first few hundred years after the emergence of superhumans, governments, those in power, and the wealthy treated ordinary people like demons, exploiting and oppressing them in every way. Even in modern civilization, uprisings and guerrilla groups have emerged in various places, but most of them have been slaughtered and suppressed by the government's superhumans.

However, as the main world settled down and the dream world emerged and was developed, everything was progressing in a positive direction.

He didn't know the reason, and he was too lazy to think about it. For a lazy person like him, this era is really too good.

But fate had other plans. During the screening process for extraordinary abilities when he graduated from university, he was found to have extraordinary spiritual vision abilities by government agencies...

Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with extraordinary talent, which meant that his dream of a carefree, easy life was gone, and he would likely begin a career as an extraordinary being, growing stronger, fighting, exploring the dream world, and dying in the dream world...

Fortunately, his superhuman aptitude is spiritual vision, which is the most suitable superhuman aptitude for researchers. So unless the situation is very special, he can still avoid entering the dream world.

And so... he became a researcher's ox, and at the same time, he also began to come into contact with the extraordinary... the extraordinary path called magic potion, from an ordinary person.

Extraordinary methods of magic potions.

By consuming extraordinary magical potions with supernatural properties, and then performing rituals that conform to the characteristics of those potions, one can undergo a transformation and evolution of body and mind as a mortal, gaining extraordinary strength, speed, physique, and various incredible special powers that defy the laws of physics. This is the extraordinary path of magical potions.

That's how it should have been...

As a researcher with clairvoyance, he only learned the truth about the potion when he actually came into contact with the harvesting of the potion...

Every intellectual being possesses a spiritual consciousness, which is the unique "self" of each life, the so-called mind.

However, no one can have complete control over their mind. Whether it's the distracting thoughts and wandering mind in daily life, the deepest dreams in sleep, or every breath, every feeling, or every moment of daydreaming, all of these will cause various impurities to accumulate in the mind.

These impurities possess power!

The resurrection of the Holy Spiritual Master reveals all of this. As the first human to manifest the extraordinary, He demonstrated how to transform the infinite power of the mind into matter, and even change the entire world, transforming it into tangible physical rules.

The so-called magic potion is to manifest the mysterious properties of these impurities from the human mind. Not all impurities can be manifested, and what is manifested is not necessarily a magic potion. It could also be a poison, a monster, or some incomprehensible strange thing. The ability to distinguish the mysterious properties and precious attributes of impurities is the function of spiritual vision.

A person with clairvoyance can analyze and perceive these things, which is why he can become a researcher.

The work wasn't tiring; he worked seven or eight hours a day, and could rest three days out of ten. The salary was high, the benefits were good, and there was basically no danger. He became the envy of countless people, and he was quite proud of himself. Although he didn't become the king of lying-down salted fish, becoming a lying-down cow or dog wasn't bad either.

Moreover, his job is to use his spiritual vision to study the mental impurities of the target, and then work with other extraordinary beings to extract them. This not only purifies the mental impurities of the target, but also provides a magic potion for extraordinary beings who want to explore and develop the dream world.

He believes that what he did was meaningful!

Yes, all of this has meaning; he was a good person…

Until he discovered a deeper truth...

"...That is not merely impurity, but the mental image of an intellectual life!"

"The culprit behind the centuries-old phenomena of objectification, bestiality, and bizarre rules—the strange and unpredictable rules—is people like me!?"

"And that's not all, they, they actually want to..."

Wu Pifu recovered from his memory flashback. Before he could even process the information he had just received, the flesh and feather monster whose body he had shattered suddenly shrank, shrinking to the size of a fist and transforming into a core of light.

Endless light and heat burst forth from this light core, instantly scorching and flashing the surrounding air, turning it into a liquid sea of ​​fire. At the same time, a large amount of plasma surged from this sea of ​​fire, firmly protecting the light core within it.

If Wu Pifu wants to attack this light core, he will have to cross the sea of ​​fire, which is almost as hot as the surface of the sun, and the flickering plasma. This is not just five steps away. Even if he is hit within five steps, he will probably be seriously injured.

But having fought to this point, how could Wu Pifu possibly let this flesh-and-feather monster go?
Seeing the Light Chaser glittering above, Wu Pifu stood more than ten meters away, took out half of the Broken Heroic Spirit Blade and walked forward. He had just taken a step when his eyes narrowed and the whole world immediately turned into black and white.

"Super Brain World!"

In an instant, everything around seemed to freeze. Even the plasma, which was flashing at an extremely fast speed, flickered like a meteorite at an extremely slow speed. Wu Pifu stepped into this sea of ​​fire in the super brain world, aiming the half of the Broken Heroic Spirit Blade in his hand at the light core... A sharp roar that existed only on the mental level burst out. Wu Pifu was already hundreds of meters away, but this invisible mental roar still affected him. The surface of the light core cracked inch by inch, and finally exploded with a bang, turning into a red fireball that kept expanding. In just a moment, it expanded to a diameter of hundreds of meters, forcing Wu Pifu to continue to retreat. He retreated to a distance of 10,000 meters before the red fireball slowly stopped, and then condensed back at an extremely fast speed. In just two or three seconds, the red fireball had burned to ashes.

However, even in the shortest time, a huge crater appeared on the earth, thousands of meters deep, with the entire surface completely crystallized and a large amount of magma at the bottom of the crater.

Before Wu Pifu could even examine the distortions in his body caused by the mental scream, he was once again pulled into a flashback of memories.

"...We must stop this from happening!"

He didn't want to continue, but he had no choice. This made him increasingly irritable when he was alone. Then, a stranger secretly contacted him...

"...We are comrades united to stop all this tragedy and apocalypse!"

"...I believe you've seen the truth too, haven't you?"

"...We absolutely cannot let them open that river!"

"...Mountains, rivers, cities, forests, plains, and starry skies—with just these six symbols, the world can be replaced."

"...Hundreds of years ago, the wilderness had already been opened up by them."

"...The opening of the Wilderness led to the collapse of our world, and also caused a large number of extraordinary beings to appear, including your spiritual vision, which actually originated from the Wilderness."

"...This is the second symbol, and we must stop it, otherwise the remaining symbols will appear sooner or later. We absolutely cannot fail!"

He hesitated for a long time, but ultimately, driven by some inexplicable sense of responsibility, he joined the organization of strangers and became the organization's "eyes" in government research institutions.

"...We see light through our eyes, so your code name is 'Light Chaser'."

He changed his previous passive attitude and began to actively participate in various experiments, tasks, and research within the research institution. Because of his rare spiritual vision, he gradually began to come into contact with more and more secrets, including the six symbols, the Garden of God, and the ultimate plan that the highest level of civilization and all the nobles secretly planned and anticipated... The Last Supper!

He recorded all of this in his own code and hid it in his dormitory room at the research institute where he worked, hiding it as an ordinary diary. The more he came into contact with it, the more he realized the horror it contained.

He didn't know how much longer he had to live, nor how much longer the "himself" he was, could exist. Perhaps he would be replaced and erased in the next second, so he had to leave all of this to his comrades. Unfortunately...

Even until the very last moment before he was replaced, the diary was still not passed on.

"Our civilization is very special, even more so than previous True Eras, the True Eras before that, and even all previous True Eras. Perhaps we are the true, ultimate True Civilization..."

"The most peculiar thing about it is that...our civilization is destroying itself, we are losing ourselves, and I bet the moment the Last Supper plan is accomplished will be the moment our civilization begins to fall!"

Wu Pifu snapped out of his memory reverie and squinted as he pondered the information he had just felt and seen.

Unfortunately, perhaps because this Light Chaser had been lost for a long time, its memory flashbacks were incomplete. For example, what exactly do the six symbols represent? What does the Garden of God represent? Why is it said that once the final plan is completed, it will be the beginning of loss?
This information did not appear in the memory flashback.

but……

Wu Pifu looked up from the sky and gazed in a certain direction at the shattered earth.

The research institute from the Light Chaser's memory flashbacks is over there, and so are the diaries it kept.

This lost world is very special. Some of the important information or key clues that led to its loss can be automatically restored and reassembled even after being shattered and destroyed.

Now there's only one question left: does that diary fall under the category of similar items?

Wu Pifu touched his chin with the tentacles on his back, and then he froze.

How could a human possibly have tentacles?

Is he no longer human?!

(End of this chapter)