Eternal Night

Chapter 541 Points and Presence

Wu Pifu was somewhat puzzled.

He killed the Light Chaser, but did not gain any points, and the mainframe did not give any notification.

This is completely different from the golden skeleton.

This made Wu Pifu feel a little down. After all, his biggest goal in taking on this exploration mission was to accumulate points. With Huang Rong becoming another big spender of points, he now had far too many things to do with points.

Regardless, since he had already accepted the exploration mission and the task of traversing to this lost world, Wu Pifu had no choice but to complete it. Even if the mainframe didn't give him a portable level-seven sanctuary, it should at least give him a powerful reward, right? Uh… magical girls are an exception!!

As Wu Pifu flew with Huang Rong, his normal speed had stabilized at around 4,000 meters per second. Even at this speed, he had flown for a full 30 minutes. Clearly, something was wrong with the space in this world; the entire land was much larger than it appeared.

Finally, after more than thirty minutes, an abandoned building appeared on the ground. Unlike the other buildings he had seen along the way, this building looked relatively well-preserved. However, Wu Pifu felt a chill run down his spine as soon as he saw the building, and goosebumps naturally appeared on his skin.

On the contrary, Huang Rong showed no abnormality. Just like the previous mental scream, she seemed to be immune to many of the strange influences here.

When they arrived outside the building, Wu Pifu put Huang Rong down and said, "Rong'er, you wait for me outside. I'll go in and explore. If I encounter any danger, I'll use the interdimensional space. Also, if you see me come back, don't open it immediately. I always have a bad feeling... Here's what we'll do: unless you see me take out this broken sword and do a handstand and bark like a dog three times, don't open it."

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Huang Rong looked completely bewildered and said, "No, Brother Ant, why are you barking like a dog?!"

Wu Pifu said seriously, "Heaven knows if there are any powerful monsters here imitating me, but I doubt they would do something as shameful as barking like a dog and spinning around three times. These powerful monsters probably wouldn't dare to do something so embarrassing."

Huang Rong really wanted to ask, "And what about you? How dare you do this?" No, none of the highly skilled masters she knew were so shameless. Wu Pifu was a thousand times, ten thousand times more powerful than them, yet he still did this!?
By this time, Wu Pifu had already gone far away, and Huang Rong could only stay where she was and carefully observe her surroundings.

On the other side, Wu Pifu didn't take it seriously and just walked towards the building. When he got to the entrance, the feeling of being terrified became stronger. However, he was skilled and daring, so he continued to walk into the building.

The building appears dilapidated on the outside, but the interior is remarkably well-preserved, though it looks old and as if it has been uninhabited for a long time.

But precisely because of this, Wu Pifu became even more vigilant.

This also means that this building is special to this lost civilization. It has a certain significance and a special place in its loss and change, or that a certain important juncture occurred here, which is why it has been kept so intact. However, this also means that there is great danger inside this building.

As Wu Pifu ventured deeper, especially after arriving at the dormitory area beneath the buildings based on his flashbacks, he encountered nothing strange or dangerous along the way. Apart from the quiet and eeriness, it seemed to be just an ordinary, deserted building.

Without stopping or hesitating, Wu Pifu went straight to the Light Chaser's room in the dormitory area. Then, based on the information he had obtained from his memory flashbacks, he lightly tapped a wall twice. A moment later, the surface of the wall turned into a thin piece of paper and fell down.

At the point of memory flashback, the Light Chaser was also a superhuman. Although his combat strength wasn't great, he could still make some basic changes. And the more subtle the superhuman change, the weaker its manifestation and the lower the probability of it being detected. Perhaps that's why this diary was preserved...

Of course, it's also possible that the original diary was discovered long ago, and the existing thin piece of paper is just a reenactment after its loss.

Wu Pifu picked up the thin piece of paper, but before he could even look at it, the mainframe's voice rang out.

"Judgment in progress... Judgment complete. The Light Chaser has been killed, and an important node of lost information has been obtained, earning 1.2 million points." Wu Pifu was stunned and immediately looked carefully at the thin piece of paper.

The Light Chaser was actually very weak, at least to him. Although its attacks were powerful, they were mostly ranged attacks, and it had little intelligence and combat skills. It was completely countered by him. Unexpectedly, after killing it, he found an important node in its memory flashback and directly gave it 1.2 million points!
This invigorated Wu Pifu, and his resentment at being "coerced" into coming to this world by the main brain immediately lessened.

This is an entire lost world! If it's feasible, why doesn't he just grind to his heart's content here? Gather hundreds of millions or even billions of points, and everything will be solved!
The thin paper looked only the size of a palm, but when Wu Pifu looked at it, he could see a large number of words appearing directly on his retina, far exceeding the amount that the thin paper could hold. This seemed to be a kind of extraordinary power based on light.

"...Today, I have once again completed the 'salvage' of extraordinary characteristics. Yes, that's what my colleagues, mentors, and even the work regulations call this behavior 'salvage'."

"...Any intelligent life form accumulates impurities, or what can be called negativity, in its mental consciousness. This is essentially a collection of countless ineffective and chaotic pieces of information, meaningless to ordinary people. If accumulated excessively, it can lead to mental dullness or even damage. Therefore, I've always felt that salvaging extraordinary characteristics is beneficial to everyone. It cleanses the negativity of ordinary people, grants extraordinary characteristics to those with superhuman abilities, and strengthens civilization as a whole—it's a win-win situation, but..."

"...I was wrong. This negative impurity is inherently empty and disordered. For it to materialize into extraordinary characteristics, an essential framework is necessary. Negative impurities are the filler, while the essential framework is the entity of extraordinary characteristics. And this essential framework is actually the mental image of every intelligent life!"

"...The so-called mental image is the essence that constitutes personality, consciousness, and spirit. When it is retrieved from the consciousness of ordinary life, negativity fills it, giving birth to extraordinary characteristics that can be seen, touched, and used on a material level. The retrieved person may seem unharmed, but in fact, their self has been damaged. This damaged part is extremely easy for external pollution to invade and fill. Therefore...the disasters and horrors of beasts, monsters, and transformations over the past few centuries, those monsters, those indescribable strange things, they were all originally people!"

"...They're just like me!!"

When Wu Pifu saw this, his eyes narrowed.

Yet another inhuman civilization!
Just like that alchemical civilization, they're all trash!
Wu Pifu continued reading and noticed that the writing had become illegible, suggesting that the original owner had been very excited when it was written.

"...I originally thought that salvaging ordinary people was the worst evil I could imagine, but I was wrong. They, those powerful and wealthy people, those high-ranking officials, they are not human!!"

Wu Pifu murmured, "Yes, they are not human, so don't try to understand them with the same mindset you use to understand humans. These non-humans are creatures that don't know pain, joy, or good..."

"...Symbols! I now know what these so-called symbols are, and from my comrades, I also learned about the Garden of God, the Last Supper, they...they are more terrifying than the most horrible monsters, disgusting demons!!"

"...The salvage, combination, and rituals of extraordinary characteristics are all for the purpose of personal evolution and strengthening. However, the extraordinary individuals and the powerful soon discovered that this strengthening has its limits. The limit is the realm they have just explored, known as the Ascended Ones. Beyond that, they have nowhere to go. At the same time, even if they want to continue to become stronger in the Ascended One stage, it is extremely difficult."

"...The essence of the self is limited. Absorbing the essence (extraordinary characteristics) obtained from other intelligent beings is like adding external attachments to one's own essence. As more and more attachments are added, one's own essence is completely changed. They find that if they continue, they will become 'neither life nor matter'. They will be lost, distorted, and unable to bear the burden, thus leading to their demise."

"...But how could they possibly accept that? So for hundreds of years they have been trying to find a solution. Finally, they obtained a method from the Holy Mind Master... They want to create a collective consciousness for all mankind, and then use this collective consciousness to completely replace the entire universe!"

"...Transcendent beings at the sublimation level have an incredibly powerful spiritual consciousness, which creates what is called a 'domain.' This domain is actually the rewriting of their mind relative to the material world. This is also the most unique and powerful aspect of our civilization. As long as one stands within a domain, one is invincible, unless there is a clash of the same domain."

"...Their idea is simple: by unifying the mental images of all humanity—the so-called six symbols: mountains, rivers, cities, forests, plains, and stars—they are actually a collection of ordinary humans' cognitive concepts of the world. From a mystical perspective, the six symbols can encompass a person's entire spiritual consciousness. When the six symbols are gathered, the minds of all humanity will be completely opened, transforming into an unprecedented mental image. This mental image will be powerful enough to replace the world, and the replaced world will be called... the Garden of God!"

"...Then, they...the powerful, the elite, the extraordinary, they will use their spiritual consciousness, far surpassing that of ordinary people, to maintain the independence of their individual personalities. When the Court of God descends, they will devour 'God,' this vast being, which gathers the six symbols and can encompass and replace the heart of the world. Then, they will become the true, supreme gods, and all of humanity..."

"We will all be with them!!"

(End of this chapter)