Eternal Night

Chapter 553 The First Declaration of War Against an Alien Civilization... A Fight to the Death!
"Let go!"

Wu Pifu said in a deep voice.

But Chu Minghao not only didn't let go, he pulled him even tighter.

Wu Pifu turned his head expressionlessly and said in a deep voice, "I still have my senses, so I'm willing to listen and think, but be quick, my senses are rapidly fading. Buddy, I respect you and thank you for your help in the past, but on this matter... you'd better not try to persuade me with things like the big picture, righteousness, or sacrifice."

Chu Minghao's hand trembled, and he almost lost his grip on Wu Pifu's arm, which made him feel a chill in his heart.

The speed at which you're getting stronger... is too fast, bro.

However, this is naturally a good thing. He and Wu Pifu have never been enemies, and they will never be enemies in the future. The stronger their own people are, the better.

Chu Minghao immediately said, "Of course I'm not trying to stop you, nor am I trying to pressure you with the big picture or anything like that. But since you've made up your mind to fight, whether it's a fight to the death or to rescue people, you need to have a method, a plan, and a strategy, right?"

Seeing Wu Pifu's still gloomy face, Chu Minghao said seriously, "What you need is not to go somewhere and kill something, but to rescue your comrades and partners. So do you want to kill them all as well?"

Wu Pifu remained silent upon hearing this, and eventually sat back down in his chair.

Chu Minghao sat back down in his chair, glanced at his watch, and said, "Give me five minutes. And... Liang Min, come here. This is serious."

A voice came from the young man: "On the way here... I also called your strategist over."

Chu Minghao nodded and said, "They've already called..."

After saying that, Chu Minghao looked at Wu Pifu and asked, "Do you have any trustworthy wise men or think tanks on your side?"

Wu Pifu paused for a moment, then nodded. With a slight movement of his lips, a sound rang in Gao Changgong's ears, and Huang Rong, who was in the hospital at the same time, also heard the sound.

Soon, Huang Rong peeked her head out from the office doorway and ran over quickly after seeing Wu Pifu. A moment later, Hao Cheng also arrived. After arriving, he first saluted Chu Minghao, then looked at the restless young man with a puzzled expression before saying to Wu Pifu, "Chu Yuyan will be here in a while. He seems to be conducting some kind of experiment."

Wu Pifu nodded and said to Hao Cheng, "I'm sorry, I need your and Chu Yuyan's help, I..."

Hao Cheng laughed heartily and said, "Brother Wu, why are you being so formal? Even if we don't talk about our friendship, helping you is helping ourselves. On the contrary, if Brother Wu hadn't called me at a time like this, I would have felt disappointed."

Wu Pifu revealed a slight smile.

After waiting for a while, Liang Min arrived with five men and women, Chu Minghao's group of three also arrived, and finally Chu Yuyan arrived with her face still charred.

After everyone had arrived, Chu Minghao printed out several extra copies of the document, and then everyone present received one.

Chu Minghao said, "This is the result of Wu Pifu's actions over the past few days."

Next, Chu Minghao relayed the message from the real civilization of the previous era. Wu Pifu accepted the high-risk exploration mission issued by the mainframe, and after a series of explorations and battles, finally obtained this result.

Before long, almost everyone present changed their expressions, and they looked at Wu Pifu with some horror. However, considering Wu Pifu's current identity, especially the strength of his superbrain aura and the ever-mythologizing superbrain combat power since the Fourth World War, everyone showed an expression of complete indifference.

Then everyone looked at Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu didn't mince words. He said directly, "I fought my way through, but who knew that the coordinates of the contained civilization I was heading to would fall directly into this mental civilization... That's right, it was in this spiral world of unlimited nothingness and dimensional reduction. Although I fought against the three sources of nothingness and dimensional reduction, broke through them, and finally obtained the message from the contained civilization, at least I came back, but..."

"My companions were left behind inside."

Wu Pifu said, "As you all know, the chirping bird, Daphne, the big dog, Beelzebub, the big fly, and the newly acquired golden tree bonsai that I have with me—they are either my life-and-death companions, or my future wives, or..."

Suddenly, Huang Rong slapped Wu Pifu on the back, and then clapped her hands repeatedly without caring about anything else.

Wu Pifu paused for a moment, then continued, "They are either allies to whom I made promises, or people who have done me a favor but have not yet repaid it... Therefore, they are very important to me, and I cannot abandon them."

The people present exchanged glances, and one of the people Liang Min brought asked, "So, Mr. Wu, can we conclude that they were indeed lost in the spiritual civilization?"

Wu Pifu remained silent. He took out the Magic Conch, followed by the Whispering Skull. He first addressed the Magic Conch, asking, "Magic Conch, where are the consciousnesses of my four companions now?"

"In the book."

The magical conch shell, as always, only uttered short sentences, but this time it didn't say anything useless; instead, it presented a riddle.

Wu Pifu used the Whispering Skull again, and everyone heard the skull speak: "From that infinite cycle and perfect closed loop of nothingness and dimensional reduction, four souls are drifting and reincarnating within it... Do not delay too long, for each death will cause their essence to dissipate, become nothingness, and dimensional reduction. Once they fall too deep, they will also be unable to escape that endless cycle of reincarnation."

Wu Pifu nodded and said to everyone, "That's right, I'm sure they're in that spiritual civilization."

The group exchanged glances. They were either extraordinary individuals or high-ranking members familiar with the inner workings of the dream world, so they naturally knew that these were fantastical objects, rare items obtained from the dream world, each possessing incredible and unique powers. Therefore, they did not raise any doubts about them.

The people Chu Minghao had summoned whispered a few words, and one of them asked, "What are Mr. Wu's plans?"

Wu Pifu said, "The essential goal is to rescue my four companions. This is a must, there is no room for discussion. Only after this is accomplished can we talk about anything else. If you ask me about my ultimate goal... I want to destroy the Mind Civilization!"

The man immediately asked, "Destroy the entire civilization? Even if there were innocent people in that civilization?" "No!"

Wu Pifu said decisively, "This civilization no longer has any innocent people, or rather... this civilization no longer exists. Every individual within it has actually ceased to exist. They are things 'dreamed' out by the source that represents infinite cycles and self-enclosed loops!"

Chu Yuyan immediately agreed, saying, "That's right. Based on the information in the document, plus Commander Wu Pifu's description just now, this civilization has actually become a dream of three roots. Even they themselves have become part of this dream, then a dream within a dream, a dream within a dream, and so on, iterating endlessly. Apart from the root that possesses infinite self-circulation and perfect self-closure, everything else that is not a root has long since ceased to exist!"

Hao Cheng immediately added, "Rather than calling it a civilization, it's more accurate to describe it as a variant nightmare representing the root of pollution. This thing is extremely terrifying. Once it erupts, it could very well become a nihilistic and dimensional-reducing pollution catastrophe that sweeps across countless dream worlds. My personal guess is that this might be why the containing civilization left it with us. They are watching to see if we can resolve this mental civilization time bomb, and then assessing our handling of the situation to confirm our communication with us!"

Everyone present paused for a moment, pondered for a moment, and then slowly nodded.

Among the group Liang Min brought, one woman said softly, "So now there's only one question: how should we attack them?"

Everyone looked at Wu Pifu, Chu Minghao, and Liang Min.

Liang Min spoke first: "I'm already here, is that so hard to understand? I, Chu Minghao, and Wu Pifu, the three of us will definitely attack. As the main fighting force of the Gaia human civilization, there is no doubt about that. You can definitely take our fighting strength into consideration."

Everyone nodded, and the woman continued, "In that case, we need to consider two issues: first, the battlefield setup; and second, how to resist the source of contamination."

Everyone nodded again, their hearts filled with awe.

Being able to come here and participate in this meeting that concerns the future of all humanity, everyone present has extremely high access to information. Therefore, they naturally know a great deal of information that Wu Pifu obtained from the Lost Lands, including the relationship between mortals, ascendants, and origins, as well as the fact that they can only cross one level to fight against each other's original bodies.

The three superbrains present were all very powerful, and everyone present had a blind confidence that had been intoxicated by the superbrains. This was a series of incredible battles and wars, based on long-held beliefs.

In fact, Wu Pifu's appearance further reinforced this impression.

Even though Wu Pifu is a newly born superbrain, and not even a special superbrain, he can still sweep through the dream world.

Therefore, they are not worried about combat power at all. What they are worried about is the forced instant death state that transcends combat power, which is the pollution characteristic of the root body.

Of the three super-brains present, none of them had become sublimated beings.

Soon, the group came up with a general strategic plan.

To destroy a spiritual civilization when victory is assured, the primary condition is to introduce a root-level variable. Ideally, a friendly root should be found as a bottom line. If that is not possible, then a hostile root should be introduced to create chaos.

"...These are the prerequisites. Otherwise, with the current combat power of us Gaia humans, we cannot fight against the Mind Civilization. And if I may be frank, Mr. Wu, even if you are unparalleled in combat power, together with the two adults, you two, without becoming sublimated beings, cannot fight against the three roots of the Mind Civilization... even if they are just fragments at the very bottom of countless iterative dreams!"

Someone said to Wu Pifu.

Wu Pifu remained noncommittal, only asking, "Besides the root cause, are there any other requirements?"

The group then spoke in hushed tones in three separate groups. After more than ten seconds, Chu Yu said, "We need to draw out the active mechanism of the Mind Civilization. Currently, the Mind Civilization is under containment, which is a low-energy passive hunting state. Under this state, its mechanism is unclear, and it is also difficult for us to find your four companions. Therefore, we must have enough prey to draw out the hunting mechanism of the Mind Civilization. Only by observing its mechanism can we find its loopholes, and then the main force can enter."

"It's cruel, but we may need the spiritual consciousness of millions, tens of millions, or even more intellectual beings to draw out the loopholes in our spiritual civilization!"

Wu Pifu fell into deep thought for a while, then suddenly said, "If that's the case, then I really have a good battlefield that you can all consider..."

"A being that possesses both an infinite spiritual consciousness to lure and prey upon spiritual civilizations, and a descent into existence as a primordial entity or projection, and deep within it lies a dormant, level 0.3 primordial core..."

Wu Pifu grinned menacingly, "Gentlemen, what do you think of the subspace?"

After speaking, Wu Pifu described the situation of the warp in the Warhammer Dreamworld.

The group pondered silently, and the more they listened, the more surprised and delighted they became.

Isn't this the perfect pre-designed battlefield?

One is a spiritual consciousness that uses the mind as its guide, devouring all intellectual life around it and turning it into infinite nothingness and resources for dimensional reduction. The other is a cesspool that spreads out from the root body to absorb spiritual consciousness. If it is based on a galaxy or even more dream worlds, the number of intellectual life spiritual consciousnesses inside is probably in the trillions.

Smiles finally appeared on everyone's faces. They began to discuss the feasibility of this battlefield, and after a moment, everyone nodded in affirmation, confirming the feasibility of the strategy.

"That's it."

Chu Minghao finally spoke, his expression solemn as he looked at everyone present and said, "Then, I will issue orders in the name of the President of the Unified Human Government."

"The Gaia civilization will declare war on the civilizations of the mind and the subspace!"

"War-level..."

"A fight to the death!!"

(End of this chapter)