Eternal Night

Chapter 809 "Save Dad, he... is tired."

"Need not."

Wu Pifu didn't hesitate for a second and walked straight toward the Human-Nurturing Beast.

A virtual human figure appeared in front of Wu Pifu. It was a human whose gender was indistinguishable, both young and old, both sacred and evil.

This was a form of information pollution. Wu Pifu didn't even bother to glance at him, and continued walking, crashing directly into his body. It was illusory and unobstructed.

"Why!? Aren't you outsiders the ones who most desire this? This is a Buddhist secret! It's a treasure that can grant you supreme power, supreme martial prowess, and supreme realm!?" the man exclaimed anxiously.

He kept flashing in front of Wu Pifu, but Wu Pifu ignored him and walked right past him.

"I will find it myself and obtain it myself," Wu Pifu said nonchalantly.

The man growled, "Don't joke around! Do you think you can just find the Buddhist treasures whenever you want? It's all about chance. The more people who know about it, the more of that chance will be taken! Now that I've told you the secrets and clues of this Buddhist treasure, that chance is yours. All you have to do is give up an infinite energy source. What else can you gain? Besides, the Buddhist treasure contains several kinds of infinite energy, and they're all of much higher quality than this Thunder Pool. If you get them, you can soar to the heavens, you can..."

"Non-human, shut up!"

Wu Pifu's eyes didn't waver at all; he continued to stride forward.

The man was stunned, his face filled with astonishment, then contorted with rage, but his expression quickly changed to regret and despair. He reappeared in front of Wu Pifu and said, "No, I just want to protect my civilization, protect my people, protect all of this. I'm willing to sacrifice anything for it. Please, give me a chance!"

Wu Pifu shook his head slightly, looking at the people lying in the membrane with pity before speaking: "I didn't know this when I was outside, but after entering here... why do you think these negative influences didn't enter my body?"

In Wu Pifu's eyes, the entire underground ruins were filled with a dense negative aura, which almost completely obscured the ruins. However, as Wu Pifu walked through them, the negative aura would deliberately move aside. Unless he wanted to absorb it, the negative aura could not touch his body at all.

The man's eyes were gloomy.

This was his doubt.

This ruin is perfect!

The inexhaustible, harmless, and pollution-free energy, along with the nurturing beast Pap who provided the foundation for the virtual world, also served as a security force. Pap could absorb newcomers as a load-bearing entity and the strongest among them as security puppets. Furthermore, as time passed, the thoughts of the dead expelled from the virtual world would fill this ruin.

The afterlife is an absolute attribute domain within Nen abilities. Small amounts of afterlife can be accessed through special methods or absorbed and slowly dissipated by Nen abilities of a special attribute. However, once the amount of afterlife reaches a certain level, it becomes an absolute barrier that cannot be broken!

Nothing, including disasters, can withstand this level of post-mortem consciousness unless it is born from these post-mortem consciousnesses in its very essence, such as the human-breeding beast Pap, which is why it can exist here safely.

Wu Pifu was already astonished to be able to appear in these ruins, and the fact that he could walk around them without hindrance was even more incredible.

It's a pity that he can no longer use any of his thoughts, otherwise he could have clearly seen how Wu Pifu avoided these thoughts after death.

Wu Pifu shook his head slightly. He didn't feel obligated to explain the negative aspects of a non-human being, especially since the negative aspects here were more numerous and intense.

He simply said, "They are telling me about the past..."

"Them!? No, that's impossible!"

The man growled with a look of astonishment and ferocity, "Besides knowing the truth about the Beastman Pap and this underground ruin, they can't possibly know anything else. The real world hasn't opened up their location; they've always been outside!"

"...If it's not human, why do you call that thing the 'real world'?" Wu Pifu mocked.

"How could it not be!?"

The man roared as if his defenses had been broken.

"Without birth, old age, sickness, and death; without encountering those you hate, being separated from those you love, or not getting what you want, what wouldn't be the real world?!"

"Otherwise what? Is this cruel world outside the real world? I already have everything, I'm not going to lose anything, I've already pushed myself to the limit, so why are you still making things difficult for me!?"

"They said the disaster would soon be over, that the catastrophe was just a hoax, that one day this world would liberate us, singing songs of joy, and then what? In the end, only one in ten thousand survived, the rest became prey for the hordes!" "Even after coming here, that naiveté remains. Even though resources are only enough for less than ten years, forcing them into cryogenic hibernation, they still refuse to implement the Transcendental Project. Even though they can't save anything, they still act like saints, doing it all for everyone's good. Pah, disgusting! I am the true savior, I am the one who will lead them out of this sea of ​​suffering!"

"That's right, I did it all. After everyone was in cryogenic hibernation, I used my privileges to implant a hacking virus into my cryogenic hibernation pod. I woke up alone. Resources were scarce, but I was alone, which was enough for me for ten thousand years! I spent seventy years researching and experimenting. I abandoned everything and endured all the loneliness. In those seventy years, I didn't even go back to that illusion for a single day. Finally, I perfected the calculation of the super-mind formula. I created the All Beings Mind Union Matrix Device all by myself. I designed a flawless chapter of the real world. I sacrificed everything, and I finally succeeded!"

"Everyone survived, they are all healthy and happy, no one will die, resources will no longer be an obstacle, there will be no more birth, old age, sickness, and death, no more resentment, separation from loved ones, or unfulfilled desires, everyone can stay together forever, they will not even quarrel or have conflicts anymore, in that real world, their hearts will be shared with everyone without barriers, this is real, absolute..."

Wu Pifu stopped and looked at him, who was so close, at his indistinguishable appearance, and suddenly asked, "Is it that you don't know how... or that you can't?"

His eloquent speech abruptly stopped, and the excited expression and lofty beliefs on his face seemed to be shattered by that one sentence.

Wu Pifu simply said calmly, "They love each other dearly. They will never experience birth, old age, sickness, or death again. They will never experience resentment, separation from loved ones, or unfulfilled desires. But at the same time, they gradually become monotonous. A thousand years ago today, they ate soy milk and fried dough sticks for breakfast. A thousand years later today, they still eat soy milk and fried dough sticks for breakfast. Ten thousand years ago, someone bumped into another person in front of the school. Ten thousand years later, they will still bump into each other at the same time every morning... So I ask you, is it that non-humans cannot or will not? Come, answer me."

His expression gradually became ferocious, more and more ferocious, and then his appearance and form began to distort, becoming terrifying like an abstract painting. His voice also began to become distorted: "No, it is that happiness that makes them yearn for it. It's not that they can't, absolutely not that they can't. Everyone is still here, everyone is still happy. I saved everything. I made sure that none of them will ever be separated again, never lose anything again. I... am not inhuman! I am the chief scientist of the United Nations, Arken Andover. I am the one who saved everything. I am not inhuman!"

Negative influences began to converge on the illusory humanoid figure, making its appearance increasingly distorted. At the same time, a terrifying aura began to emanate from it, and even the previously still humanoid beasts opened their eyes, their appearances gradually changing.

“Jenny Andover is asking you, Dad, you’re very sad, aren’t you?” Wu Pifu just shook his head and said softly.

Jenny Andover, the name seemed to possess some kind of magic. In just a moment, its transformation stopped, and she looked at Wu Pifu with surprise through pupils that were still barely recognizable as human eyes.

"What...what are you saying..." it managed to say with its illegible mouth.

Wu Pifu looked at the negative force that had barely managed to take human form. It was a little girl holding a doll, looking at her with worried eyes.

"This is incredible Nen, to be able to do even this..."

Wu Pifu sighed softly, then said to the little girl, "What do you want to say?"

The little girl looked at Wu Pifu in surprise, her mouth moving but no sound coming out: "Save Daddy, he... is tired."

Wu Pifu shook his head slightly, then looked at it again and said, “Your daughter said, ‘Save Daddy, he… is tired.’ But I can’t bear to tell her that something like you can’t be saved. Once a person becomes inhuman, there is no way to save them. The only way to save you is to destroy you and give you a little relief. I can’t think of any other way to save you.”

"My daughter, is she really here? But she hasn't even come into this shelter..."

Tears welled in those eyes, instantly transforming into something negative the moment they left the grotesque body. But as the tears fell, the image began to change rapidly, and this time, a truly aged man appeared, clutching his face and weeping, "My daughter didn't come in! She was gone the moment the disaster struck! You're lying to me, she's not here, is she? Tell me, she's not here! She didn't see me, didn't see me deceiving myself, didn't see me tormenting those who yearn for liberation! Tell me, she's not here!"

Wu Pifu walked up to the old man, raised his hand, and gathered his inner strength in it: "No, she is here, she has always been here. I don't know what kind of power this is that allows her last obsession to survive in a negative form, but she has always been with you, no matter what you do, no matter what you become, she has never abandoned you, so... now, I will set you free."

After saying that, Wu Pifu was about to recite a poem or something, and then slap this non-human to death within five steps, but the man suddenly stopped crying, his body began to gradually disintegrate, and the ferocity on his face slowly turned into a smile...

"Really? She's been by my side all this time, even though my father has gone mad..."

"Sorry……"

"I……"

The old man vanished, along with the negative energy that had stagnated throughout the underground ruins. All the nurturing beasts began to wither rapidly, and all the people inside the membranes began to turn into sand quickly. Except for the Thunder Pool, the entire ruins were completely cleared away in a few seconds, leaving nothing behind.

Do not……

Wu Pifu was slightly taken aback and looked at the ground.

The place where the old man had just disappeared...

A sandalwood prayer bead was left in front of him.

(End of this chapter)