Eternal Night

Chapter 566 Extraordinary Creature Yamata no Orochi
Wu Pifu was naturally unaware of Huang Rong's thoughts. Unless it was necessary for battle, he would not use emotional perception on his own people.

He was puzzled as to why Huang Rong, after going for a stroll, looked at him with such pity and doting eyes.
That look...it's so much like the way his mother held him back then...

This made Wu Pifu extremely uncomfortable, but fortunately Xu Ruonan arrived soon, which saved him from embarrassment.

Xu Ruonan naturally saw Huang Rong, this stunningly beautiful woman, but she didn't harbor any hostility towards her. To be precise, Xu Ruonan was a true political creature. Even though she had previously proposed a marriage alliance with Wu Pifu, it was entirely for political purposes. And since Wu Pifu refused, she naturally couldn't harbor any romantic feelings for him.

At this moment, Xu Ruonan walked aggressively up to Wu Pifu and said loudly and bluntly, "You've gone off to have a good time with your little beauty, do you know how many days I've been waiting for you? Do you know that my team gets paid for waiting around every day?!"

Wu Pifu nodded and said, "Yes, I was delayed this time because there were too many non-humans and they were spread out too widely... I'm sorry, but I can set off at any time now."

Xu Ruonan didn't understand at first. She asked in confusion, "What non-human? You didn't go to a new dream world in these twenty days, did you?"

Wu Pifu shook his head and remained silent, but Huang Rong couldn't help but say, "Brother Pifu returned to the small world where he had established a sanctuary. The people in that world actually dared to rebel and harm the common people. For the sake of the common people, Brother Pifu killed a million non-human beings and returned!"

Xu Ruonan was stunned. She couldn't help but ask Wu Pifu, "...Did you really kill a million people?"

Wu Pifu hesitated for a moment, thought for a moment, and said seriously, "Close...right? I'm not sure."

This tone and attitude completely shocked Xu Ruonan, causing her original intention to confront him to vanish unconsciously.

They really killed a million people!?
Xu Ruonan would never misunderstand that Wu Pifu used his power, the army, or his supernatural abilities to passively kill millions of people over a wide area.

If someone else said they killed a million people, she would naturally accept that conclusion. But when Wu Pifu described it that way, she immediately knew that Wu Pifu had truly killed a million people with his own hands!
It's nothing for you to kill millions with a single button or decision; out of sight, out of mind, so the psychological pressure isn't that great. But if you actually kill someone, let alone millions, even killing just one person will cause immense psychological pressure. Xu Ruonan has genuinely studied this kind of psychology...

The three remained silent for a long time before Xu Ruonan finally revealed a hearty smile and said, "So what if it's delayed? It hasn't been long. If Mr. Wu feels it's alright, let's set off now for the Zero Point Seven Dream World where the extraordinary beings reside?"

Wu Pifu had no objections; having already agreed to help Xu Ruonan, he couldn't possibly go back on his word now.

He immediately agreed, and once Xu Ruonan was ready, he went with them to the 0:07 Dream World.

Xu Ruonan hurriedly went to make preparations, while Wu Pifu took Huang Rong to the hospital to check on the three small animals lying in the medical pod and the golden tree in a small medical pod specially modified for plants. After confirming that they were all physically unharmed, they leisurely went to a base of the Xu family in this land of redemption.

Inside the Xu family base, over a hundred elite personnel were already prepared. When Wu Pifu arrived, he could tell at a glance that these hundred people were all elites. Although there were men and women, these hundred people were all carefully selected backbone members of the Xu family, and there were even eight extraordinary individuals among them.

When Xu Ruonan saw Wu Pifu arrive, she immediately smiled and said, "We've been waiting for you. If there are no problems, let's set off now?"

Wu Pifu had no problem with it. He nodded and then put his arm around Huang Rong's waist.

Huang Rong showed a slight shyness on her face, but she did not flinch. At the same time, the hundred elite Xu family members all breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that Wu Pifu had really arrived.

Xu Ruonan took in everything, and her smile widened. She immediately said, "Master, activate collective dream world penetration. The target group is everyone present, and the target dream world is the Ninja Technique Dream World."

"Judging in progress... Judgment complete, penetration confirmed."

The main brain's voice sounded. Wu Pifu had some doubts when he heard the word "ninjutsu," but the main brain's dream world penetration had already been activated. After a brief blur, what appeared in front of him was a cluster of low houses. Outside these houses was an uneven dirt road, and on both sides of the road were a small number of short people.

"Daily life in ancient times?"

Wu Pifu frowned, looked at Xu Ruonan and the others who had appeared beside him, and immediately asked, "You just said it was a dream world of ninja arts? So this is ancient life here?"

Xu Ruonan asked, puzzled, "What little day?"

Wu Pifu remained silent. He carried Huang Rong into the air, soaring ten thousand meters above the sky. Looking down, he indeed saw the sea beyond the horizon, and the land beneath his feet was clearly an island in the sea. However, this island was enormous, much larger than the territory he knew of. Furthermore, he didn't seem to see any other landmasses overseas. Once Wu Pifu landed, Xu Ruonan suddenly realized, "You mean Fusang, right? That's right. The civilization of this world is very similar to ancient Fusang. Based on the historical culture and mythological information collected before the Three Wars of the unified human government, the civilization of this dream world does indeed resemble the ancient Fusang civilization. However, this world is a specialized type of dream world; apart from this landmass, there are no other landmasses on the entire planet."

A specialized dream world? That's quite rare.

Starting from the 0.9 Dream World, there is a deviation value from the prototype of the real world. Basically, they all follow the baseline realism of the dream world. For example, in the 0.9 Dream World, the deviation value generally does not exceed 10%, while the deviation value is larger the further down the dream world is.

However, there are occasional extremely special exceptions. Even in the 0.9 Dream World, such exceptions can occur. Although the entire Dream World is at a high level of realism and the supernatural powers and strange pollution within it are very weak, its worldview, geography, history, civilization, and so on will have huge deviations from the real world.

Although Wu Pifu had never encountered it himself, he had indeed heard Gao Changgong mention similar situations. For example, a Night Watchman had once encountered a specialized dream world at level 0.8. In that world, there was only one building, and outside the building was nothingness. However, that building was extremely large, and the floors seemed to be endless. The higher the floor, the brighter and more positive it was, and the lower the floor, the darker and more negative it was.

This type belongs to the specialized dream world.

Wu Pifu was just curious; this was the first time he had encountered a specialized dream world. After confirming it, he asked, "Where is that extraordinary creature you're targeting? Mark it, and I'll go kill it for you. Then I'll head back first."

How could Xu Ruonan agree to let Wu Pifu leave so soon? This time, in addition to getting Wu Pifu to help kill the supernatural creature, another goal was to have him follow her into the dream world. The longer he stayed, the safer she would be in the future, and the more influence she would have on various government issues.

She then smiled and said, "There's no need to rush. That extraordinary creature lives in a volcano, and we need to prepare beforehand to lure it out. Besides, I heard you're searching for various extraordinary paths, right? Are you interested in the ninjutsu of this world? That's also a kind of extraordinary path."

Of course I'm interested. If it really is the ninjutsu from the ninja manga that Wu Pifu read, then this extraordinary method can be considered quite impressive.

Wu Pifu immediately asked, "What kind of ninjutsu does this dream world refer to? Is it an illusion technique? Or is it the literal meaning of the art of endurance? Or is it a supernatural path that possesses extraordinary energy?"

Seeing that Wu Pifu's interest had been piqued, Xu Ruonan smiled even more happily and said, "You'll have to explore it yourself. The reason this world is called the Ninja Dream World is because when my people came to explore this world, they encountered an attack by ninjas while tracking various extraordinary creatures. They possessed strange supernatural powers and could launch flames, rocks, lightning, or summon mist to turn the earth into a swamp, causing more than a dozen of my people to die. However, their own strength was not that great, and many of them were also killed. Then they disappeared without a trace."

"The number of ninjas in this world must be extremely small. If you want to obtain extraordinary ninjutsu techniques, you will have to find them yourself."

Hearing this, Wu Pifu's interest in ninjutsu grew even stronger. Just from the description, it did indeed resemble the ninjutsu in the ninja manga he had read, such as fire release, earth release, lightning release, and water release. However, judging from the description of its strength, it was somewhat ambiguous.

Because the ninjas in that comic book not only launch these extraordinary attacks, but their physical bodies are also much stronger than ordinary people, so they do not have the weakness of "not being strong enough".

Wu Pifu asked, "Any clues about a ninja gathering place? If not, then I'll just have to patrol and explore around this island."

"Probably not."

Xu Ruonan shook her head and said, "The supernatural system in this world is probably ninjas and ninjutsu. The place where they live should be a kind of demi-plane, subspace, or other-dimensional space, which these ninjas call 'ninja village.' It doesn't seem to belong to the realm of real space. However, there are clues. According to the exploration of the personnel I sent, the ninjas and supernatural beings in this world seem to have a symbiotic relationship. The more powerful the supernatural being, the more ninjas can gather. Unless the supernatural being is completely irrational and cannot communicate, as long as you find the traces of the supernatural being, you can basically find the existence of ninjas as well."

Wu Pifu seemed to be deep in thought. He thought of the summoned beasts in the comic and the gathering place of the three strongest summoned beasts in the comic.

Xu Ruonan then added, "By the way, the extraordinary creature I'm targeting, a giant snake beast with eight heads, is a mad and irrational creature. That's why no ninjas are following it. If you want to obtain the extraordinary path to ninjutsu, you can only kill this snake beast first and then search for it."

Wu Pifu was stunned again.

A giant serpent beast with eight heads?
Isn't that Yamata no Orochi?

The legendary ferocious beast in Little Days is actually just an extraordinary life form in the Zero Point Seven Dream World?

Is it really that bad?

Or is it... merely an information projection of Orochi in the higher-level dream world?
(End of this chapter)