Eternal Night

Chapter 786 Egyptian Civilization

(PS: A terrible trip that not only failed to mend the relationship, but completely tore it apart. Oh well, I'm giving up on family relationships from now on. I'll just let things be.)

Arrived in Chongqing. Will start updating diligently today to catch up on my reading debt.
Wu Pifu wondered how much exploration, research, and mystery Ai Xiu and his companions had done about the White Child. He suspected that they had used the Catalogue of Forbidden Books or something similar to find out information about the Dream World outside this world. Much of the information there should not have been known to them, but they had indeed recorded it.

Although the creations of the Egyptian civilization possessed a certain degree of information self-enclosure, and this intelligence also contained similar animetic properties, causing them to forget this intelligence and where it came from, there was no doubt that Wu Pifu knew they had indeed put their heart into it just by seeing this intelligence.

"The original name of the Egyptian civilization is unknown. Due to its characteristics, it has been named Egyptian by many civilizations and worlds. It is the Egyptian as in dust, because once it invades and succeeds, everything will disappear, leaving only endless dust."

"The invasion characteristics of the Egyptian civilization can be divided into three types. One is the 'descendant' mode, which mainly involves the debugging of biological weapons. They would go to a world with basic intelligent life, modify some of the intelligent beings with biological weapons, and then use these modified beings as leaders of the intelligent life to completely cover the civilization's evolution. Ultimately, the modified life would rule the civilization. At this point, all the intelligent beings of the modified life would be erased by a predetermined program, turning into fluid flesh and blood, which would eventually combine to form a tower of flesh and blood. At the top of this tower of flesh and blood, a flower would bloom. Eventually, the flower would wither and turn into a crystal fruit. This crystal fruit would be projected out of the world, and the remaining flesh and blood would turn into dust. The entire world would contain nothing but dust..."

"The second mode of invasion by the Egyptian civilization is the flesh-planting parasitic mode. This mode is generally used in intelligent life worlds with advanced technology. Egyptian civilization stowaways will capture the main body of the civilization in a hidden area of ​​outer space and then parasitize it, giving birth to a powerful individual that far exceeds the upper limit of the civilization. Then, with this individual as the leader, a full-scale invasion of the main body of the civilization will be launched. After annihilating most of the civilization's resistance forces, a certain organism will be transformed into plants on a large scale. These plants will spread all over the surface of the planet. This planting process will continue until the plants bloom. Once the plants bloom, they will completely capture all the intelligent individuals of the civilization and integrate them into the plants. Their intelligence and civilization will be absorbed by the plants. Finally, the plant flowers wither, all the seeds are shot into space, leave the world and disappear. After that, all the plants wither and die, and everything in the world turns to dust."

"The third mode of invasion by the Egyptian civilization is called the Autonomous Artificial Root. It is the ultimate creation of the Egyptian civilization and is extremely rare. The exact number is unknown, but it is speculated that there are no more than three, and there may only be one from beginning to end. This mode is only for super-powerful worlds. It launches a saturation attack on the outer wall of the world from the beginning, with a large number of biological weapons and flesh-planting weapons of the first and second modes attacking. In the process, it analyzes the characteristics of the civilization of the world and finally launches the Autonomous Artificial Root into the world. Because of the information self-closing effect of this Autonomous Artificial Root, it is almost impossible to detect before it fully sprouts. The Autonomous Artificial Root carrying the information analyzed by the civilization of the world will parasitize the core of the civilization of the world. After absorbing all the characteristics of the civilization of the world, it will grow in a specialized way and eventually grow into the natural enemy of the civilization of the world, completely devouring the civilization of the world, and finally leaving only endless dust to escape into the distance."

Upon seeing this, Wu Pifu was utterly terrified.

This Egyptian civilization is far more dangerous than he anticipated...much more dangerous!
The three modes are simply to deal with weak, newly formed dream worlds, technologically advanced but weak dream worlds, and dream worlds like the Scattered Heavenly Dao with powerful supernatural systems and supernatural beings. They are progressively more difficult to deal with. The first two modes are relatively easy to deal with, as they are just a matter of strength. However, the third mode is truly a killer.

By using information self-isolation effects similar to those of the root cause to evade all attacks and searches, and then collecting the extraordinary characteristics of that civilization, they specialized themselves based on these characteristics, specifically targeting that world and that civilization for dimensional reduction attacks. This truly embodies the word "natural enemy".

That's what a natural enemy is like. No matter how strong or terrifying you are, they can launch a targeted and specialized attack to kill you, and you will have almost no power to resist!
In fact, Wu Pifu also drew an analogy with current human civilization.

There's no need to worry about the first or second modes. Even disregarding the existence of the main brain, Chu Minghao alone could wipe them all out. No matter how many come, they'll all die without question.

But what about the third mode?
Information self-closing is one of the two unique abilities of the Root. Even if this so-called artificial Root does not have the characteristic of infinite loop, it is still very terrifying. At least human civilization has no way to find anything that has information self-closing. Even Chu Minghao and Liang Min's superbrain cannot do it, the main brain cannot do it, and Wu Pifu cannot do it by using the Nodos Crystal to summon the Heroes.

Wu Pifu was able to kill the four Roots in the Warhammer Dream World because the four Roots were entangled with each other and attacked each other. In fact, they had broken out of the information self-enclosure. At that time, they were only passively enclosing themselves in the information self-enclosure. Moreover, Wu Pifu was only able to see and attack the Roots because of the perfect characteristic of the Hero race that he had drawn at that time.

Therefore, he fully understood the helplessness and despair of the extraordinary beings in this world when faced with autonomous artificial sources. Not to mention them, even the current human civilization would probably be helpless if it encountered them. If it were to be completely specialized into humanity's natural enemy, human civilization would probably be completely destroyed.

The Heaven's Cup is the solution devised by the world's strongest superhumans... or at least a way to survive against all odds.

These documents also describe the Heaven's Cup project in detail.

Humanity, as the main body of civilization, will have its entire population materialized into souls, abandoning the physical body and all its characteristics, such as hormones, food, excretion, sexual desire, etc. At the same time, it will abandon language communication and replace it with communication of soul consciousness. It will abandon the supernatural based on the physical body and replace it with a civilization of eternal life of the soul.

If it can be perfectly achieved, it would be excellent, even beyond just excellent. It is a path that is almost a path of ascension for all and for civilization. If it can be successfully completed, it would be no less significant than ascension to the fourth dimension, information, or even dimensional ascension.

Unfortunately... this road is completely impassable.

"...Negative accumulation?" Wu Pifu looked at the information about the Heaven's Cup and asked in confusion.

Ai Xiu lowered her head and said, "Yes, this is actually the only flaw in the Heaven's Cup Project, or rather, the biggest unavoidable flaw. Many years ago, I conducted a test. The result of soul materialization is that no negative effects can be eliminated. All negative effects will accumulate permanently in the soul, and the resistance to negative effects will approach zero. What may seem like insignificant negative effects to a life with a physical body is like the pain of bone fractures or toothaches every moment for a permanent soul. Moreover, it cannot be healed and will only get worse."

Wu Pifu looked at Ai Xiu with a strange gaze. Ai Xiu sighed and said, "Actually, the so-called soul materialization is the content of the Third Law. Great being, you see, I am now in a human body or something, but this is actually my soul. My soul transcends matter, energy, time, and space, achieving an eternal existence. Moreover, as long as a thought does not perish, I will not perish. Furthermore, I possess many special abilities, such as entropy reversal, and being unaffected by the law of conservation of energy, belonging to a higher-dimensional life form. And compared to the audience of the Heaven's Feel, I am not affected by negative influences... But in reality, I am also an experimental subject." Wu Pifu was silent for a moment and then said, "Tell me about it."

The others were somewhat confused, but a few who looked like heroic spirits were very uneasy. They even put their hands on their weapons, and their feet and fingers were trembling slightly.

For some reason, they felt that this place was dangerous.

"Yes."

Ai Xiu, the Third Magician, showed no resistance or hesitation. He respectfully said, "I was born at the end of the Age of Gods, as I told you before. My birth was actually the result of the choice of the two major restraining forces, which was to fight against the White Child. At the end of the Age of Gods, the existence of the White Child had been discovered by the two major restraining forces. However, even the two major restraining forces were helpless against the White Child, which had become specialized in restraining this world and this civilization. As long as it is a life or power of this world, the White Child has immunity and special attack characteristics. Under these circumstances, the Third Magic came into being. I am actually the first experimental subject and template of the next generation of civilization. If successful, then my data will be used to carry out the birth of the next generation of intelligent life."

Wu Pifu's expression was somewhat strange, but the oppressive atmosphere from before seemed to have dissipated considerably. He shook his head and said, "The two suppressive forces are really audacious. To make the soul of the entire civilization eternally solid? They're insane. I'm sure you're not immune to the negative influences, but rather that someone else is bearing the brunt of them, right?"

Ai Xiu nodded with a wry smile: "Yes, I only found out much later that I was also generating negative effects every moment. However, these negative effects were borne by the two major restraining forces, which is why this is the third law, known as magic, and also the authority and rule of the world... My example cannot be replicated, because while the permanent solidification of the soul brings super strong combat power and ascension to a higher-dimensional life, it is also an inevitable hellish ending."

If that's the case, then Wu Pifu understands.

He already knew from the Lost Lands that the soul possessed terrifying power. According to the three categories of the transcendent system—physical body, spirit, and soul—the power of the soul transcendent system was the most terrifying and bizarre, but it also had great limitations and negative effects. It seems that the accumulation of negative effects that he could not bear was one of its negative effects.

In fact, although Wu Pifu's sea of ​​consciousness was filled with endless negativity, he was actually consuming and neutralizing it every moment. This is the instinct of every living being. For example, laughing, being happy, eating delicious food, sleeping until you naturally wake up, getting a massage, or even just taking a hot bath can alleviate and eliminate some of the negativity. Moreover, as time goes by, the living body can also eliminate negativity. This is a mechanism of life itself.

It was only then that Wu Pifu realized that a soul alone could not eliminate negative influences, leaving only accumulation, and its resilience was significantly weaker than that of a physical body.

"Even so, you still carried out the Heaven's Cup Project?" Wu Pifu asked.

Before Ai Xiu could speak, one of the superhumans behind him said, "Yes, we still carried out the Heaven's Feel plan. Although only three of the five great magicians agreed and the other two opposed it, we chose the Heaven's Feel plan, which might still offer hope, rather than dying immediately. That's the reason."

The leader of the Silent Organization who came with him, an old man who only had a head and arms left, had a complicated expression on his face. He lowered his head, and for a moment he couldn't figure out the meaning of his dozens of reincarnations.

So... the future of Heaven's Feel is to fight against an even more terrifying enemy, then what's the point of his struggle?
Meanwhile, Wu Pifu finally finished reading the data and roughly understood the situation of this world scattered under the Heavenly Dao.

The ultimate creation of the Egyptian civilization has invaded, leaving this world with no other choice. In order to survive, it has no choice but to transform itself into a weapon with extremely negative consequences... It really is a desperate struggle for survival, and it's hard to say who is right and who is wrong.

That being the case...

"Alright, let's go then. I'll go meet this so-called Son of White, and then... the Holy Grail will be mine. Do you agree?"

Wu Pifu stood up and spoke, and everyone present bowed their heads respectfully in response to his direct gaze.

"As you wish, great being, as long as the White Child can be defeated, the Holy Grail will be presented as promised!"

Everyone said in unison.

(End of this chapter)