Eternal Night

Chapter 565 Anchoring of "Wu Ants"
(PS: There will be an extra chapter for the Alliance Leader today. The second chapter will be a little later, the third chapter will be at 6 PM, and the fourth chapter will be at 9 PM.)
Huang Rong remained silent, observing Wu Pifu's actions.

She is very intelligent and naturally thinks a lot.

Upon careful observation of Wu Pifu's actions, it was not that she disliked or harbored any hostility towards him, even though Wu Pifu had committed a great deal of killing since arriving in this world, far exceeding anything she knew or imagined, or any underworld or demonic figure she knew of.

but……

Huang Rong confirmed that Wu Pifu was not cruel.

He genuinely believed from the bottom of his heart that the humans he killed were not "humans," but some kind of monster in human skin.

At the same time, based on Huang Rong's observation, Wu Pifu's logic in treating people and "monsters in human skin" is completely different.

He treats everyone equally, without discrimination based on their status or position. He can speak softly with the emperor or chat amiably with an old man selling drinks on the street. He can sit in the magnificent royal palace eating roasted whole camel or squat on the street slurping mutton soup. Even though he is a true god or immortal in this world in terms of martial prowess, he doesn't care about empty fame or face at all.

But at the same time, he can dismember and skin any non-human without any emotional fluctuation. He can completely ignore their struggles and cries, crushing, killing, hanging, or burning them to death. Even if there are ten thousand non-humans, he will not have any emotional fluctuation.

Huang Rong thought that Wu Pifu was a truly extraordinary and great man.

Why is Brother Ant so fixated on whether or not someone is human?

In the Song Dynasty dream world, Wu Pifu slaughtered for twenty days straight, from the Song Dynasty to Europe, and then from Europe to the far north, far south, sub-Saharan Africa, and even to North and South America. The killings in the later places were not as exaggerated, but all the superhumans he encountered were extremely unlucky and were almost wiped out.

In this situation, Wu Pifu would kill without burying the animals, because the extraordinary beings in this world are all very special. They need to cultivate with negative yin energy. Unless they are extremely lucky enough to cultivate with the yin aspect of earth energy, they are basically involved in the life soul, flesh and blood, negative emotions, etc. Therefore, as long as Wu Pifu senses the emotions, he will definitely not have killed the wrong person.

In short, the killing lasted for a whole month, from south to north, from east to west. Huang Rong was extremely worried about the large number of people killed. However, when they returned to the Land of Redemption, Wu Pifu was still as taciturn as ever, but he also seemed to have a rather incomprehensible and silly appearance.

He did not let the killing corrupt his heart.

That's why Huang Rong asked this question. She keenly realized that the reason Wu Pifu acted this way was likely because he distinguished between humans and non-humans.

Wu Pifu was resting with his eyes closed in Gao Changgong's guild building, waiting for Xu Ruonan to arrive.

According to his plan, after cleaning up the Song Dynasty Dream World, he should go to the Super Soldier Dream World, and then the Castlevania Dream World... However, he figured he could stop at the Castlevania Dream World for a while, since Daphne was still asleep, and he felt too ashamed to go there.

That was how it should have been, but who knew that the Song Dynasty Dream World would take so long, a full twenty days. This caused him to miss his appointment with Xu Ruonan to set off ten days later to kill the extraordinary creature from the Zero Point Seven Dream World. Now that he's back, he's decided to help Xu Ruonan kill that extraordinary creature first.

While they were already waiting, Wu Pifu casually replied to Huang Rong's question, "Isn't this a very important matter? Because only humans can feel pain and sorrow, monsters can't, so the way we treat humans and non-humans is definitely different."

This was somewhat irrelevant to the question. Huang Rong opened her mouth, her bright eyes flickered slightly, and she immediately smiled and said, "Brother Ant, when was the first time you confirmed that you could distinguish between humans and non-humans?"

When Wu Pifu was in Gaia and the Land of Redemption, it was the most relaxed time for him, so he naturally didn't use his emotional perception. When he heard Huang Rong's question, he smiled and said, "I heard it from my father. Speaking of which, my father was the one who told me to be a human being and a good person. When I was little, I often heard my father say things like, 'Those inhuman things should all be hanged on telephone poles.' He would tell me over and over again to be a human being, and he was willing to treat me like a human being... Thinking about it, my father probably wasn't very bright, after all, I wasn't even ten years old at that time."

Huang Rong was thrilled. She had finally heard Wu Pifu's heartfelt words and learned about his parents, which was the first time she had heard this since she met Wu Pifu.

Suppressing her excitement, Huang Rong asked in a calm and clear voice, "What else did your father teach Brother Ant?"

Wu Pifu shook his head and said, "Not much. In my memory, the younger I was, the more time my parents spent with me. After I turned ten, my parents spent very little time with me. They were too busy, busy with all sorts of things. Although my family's financial situation improved, we started having nannies, then two nannies, and later moved to a bigger house with servants and a housekeeper, but I spent less and less time with them. Every time I saw them, they seemed very tired, both mentally and physically, and then they talked even less..."

Huang Rong suddenly thought of herself. However, she had lost her mother since she could remember. Although her father loved her, it was ultimately her father's love. Moreover, her father was too aloof and domineering, and she didn't know how to explain it to him. That's why they had a conflict, which led to her running away from Peach Blossom Island on her own. In this respect, she suddenly felt that she and Wu Pifu were in the same boat, and her heart softened with pity.

Huang Rong moved a little closer to Wu Pifu and continued, "And then?"

Wu Pifu said, "I don't remember much of what happened after that. I only remember that after I grew up, I went to university, but soon I got a serious illness, a terminal one. There was no cure in my time, so it was almost certain to die..."

Huang Rong gasped. Although she knew Wu Pifu had definitely survived this ordeal, she still paled and clenched her fists. Wu Pifu continued calmly, "Then, to save me, my parents froze me, and I was frozen for seven or eight hundred years before I awoke..."

Huang Rong didn't quite understand this, attributing it to the so-called limitations of the era. Wu Pifu didn't explain further, simply stating his own situation before closing his eyes to rest.

Huang Rong didn't continue questioning Wu Pifu. However, she was clever and keenly aware that Wu Pifu's theory of "human and non-human" likely stemmed from his being frozen. Although he didn't understand all of this, there were certainly people in this world who did.

While Wu Pifu was resting with his eyes closed, Huang Rong wandered around the guild building on her own. Before long, she found Gao Changgong, who was busy working.

She recognized the man. When she attended a banquet with Wu Pifu before, he was clearly an acquaintance of Wu Pifu and also a general or minister of considerable status there.

So she patiently waited by the side for Gao Changgong to handle his affairs. After a while, Gao Changgong put down the documents and said, "Little Huang Rong, is there anything you want to ask me?"

Huang Rong immediately smiled and said, "Uncle Gao, I really have something I want to ask you, it's about Brother Ant..."

Gao Changgong listened to Huang Rong's question with a smile. In his heart, he could only praise Wu Pifu for finally being normal for once. He had actually brought back a beautiful woman instead of adding another animal or plant to his strange accessory set.

After listening, Gao Changgong remained silent for a moment before saying to Huang Rong, "I have researched Brother Wu's matter and have also made a special effort to understand the situation... Little Huang Rong, the cryopreservation of his era is completely different from the hibernation pods of our era."

Huang Rong didn't understand, so Gao Changgong explained it to her slowly.

Cryopreservation in the 21st century actually has many, many drawbacks.

The cryopreservation techniques of that era used substandard antifreeze. After the body was rapidly frozen, its tissues, muscles, blood vessels, internal organs, nerves, and so on suffered fatal damage. However, because of the rapid freezing, the body was not truly dead for a time, but rather in a state similar to Schrödinger's cat, somewhere between alive and dead. If thawed, it would simply be a corpse.

It wasn't until the 29th century that whole-body repair at the nanoscale was achieved using carbon-based nanounits, thus avoiding the inevitable death caused by inferior cryopreservation.

At the same time, there was no virtual reality system at that time.

“...According to our research, no cryogenic hibernation device can completely freeze an individual’s nerves and brain. As time goes by, a person’s consciousness will revive in the cryogenic hibernation state, but the physical body will remain frozen. Therefore, the revived consciousness will be trapped in absolute nothingness and darkness,” Gao Changgong said solemnly.

Huang Rong hadn't yet grasped the true meaning of this absolute nothingness and darkness. Gao Changgong shook his head and said, "Little Huang Rong, this is something more terrifying than death for anyone. Anyone trapped inside will go insane within a day, descend into madness within three days, and at most suffer a personality breakdown within five days, with the personality called 'I' completely disappearing. Brother Wu has been trapped inside for seven or eight hundred years; his personality has iterated countless times..."

Gao Changgong tried his best to explain the reasons to Huang Rong, but he did not mention that these people who had been cryogenically frozen in the past often did not live for more than a year after being revived. This information involved Wu Pifu's top-secret intelligence, and Wu Pifu had obviously lived for more than a year, so it was probably not applicable to him.

A moment later, Huang Rong walked out of Gao Changgong's office in a daze, her mind still reeling from what Gao Changgong had just said.

Brother Ant... is actually the personality of Wu Ant after countless iterations?
As she walked, a sudden inspiration struck Huang Rong, and she abruptly stopped.

She understood why Wu Pifu cared so much about people and non-people; in fact, it could be said that it had become his obsession.

"...After countless iterations, Brother Ant needs to use this method to confirm that he is a person; otherwise, after countless iterations, perhaps..."

A terrifying thought popped into Huang Rong's mind, but she immediately forced it away and ordered herself not to think about it any further.

perhaps……

perhaps……

The consciousness that has undergone countless iterations is no longer "human," which is why it is necessary to recognize oneself as a human being...

(End of this chapter)