Eternal Night

Chapter 824 Longevity Food Nitromomi
Wu Pifu didn't say a word, and his expression didn't even change.

He knew perfectly well whether he had actually attacked the man or not; he didn't need to prove it himself, and he wasn't afraid of being falsely accused.

From the past to the present, he has always only had to face himself, and that has never changed.

Therefore, Wu Pifu remained suspended in mid-air without any explanation or evasion, as he wanted to see how the people of this world would react.

As expected of his previous assessment, the humans of this world were all incredibly shrewd. They didn't even glance at Wu Pifu, not out of fear or guilt, but because they genuinely believed he was talking nonsense or had some hidden agenda.

"A hallucination? Or something else?"

Among the remaining nineteen strongest Nen users, someone asked.

"No, it's just an illusion. It can't cause similar damage. We just saw it; that kind of damage is similar to annihilation."

"That's damage transfer. I've seen this kind of Nen ability before, but the conditions are extremely demanding. Did he discover some key point in the Nen space?"

"It's also possible that he was continuously affected by the Hell Bell. We all know that some rule-based Nen abilities, if accumulated continuously, will trigger phased effects."

"...Don't you think this scene looks familiar? Not that we've seen it before, but that the information recorded by the Ochima Federation when they explored this place states that it was 'fratricide,' so before we entered, we tried to cover our ears and not hear any sound. But what we encountered was the Nen Space, so we thought it might be a record error."

"Yes, infighting. Isn't this situation exactly infighting?"

"The key question now is, what kind of logical rule is this self-destruction based on, and how can we avoid it?"

Everyone was discussing quickly, making the most of the time Wu Pifu had given them.

Within a minute, everyone had made a decision.

Keep testing the waters!

There is very little information available at the moment. All that is known is that there may be some kind of damage transfer mechanism in the Hell Bell Sound Space, but its triggering rules and avoidance methods are still unclear. Therefore, their only option at present is to continue probing in order to obtain more intelligence support.

The group moved forward again. Although hundreds more died during the second round of the Hell Bells, they were mostly ordinary people. Only one Nen user died, which proved that using Nen to resist the corruption of the Hell Bells was effective. Although almost no ordinary people could escape, as Wu Pifu had said before, once you set off, you are responsible for your own life and death, so you can't blame anyone else at this point.

However, this time, ordinary people without Nen abilities had a new way of coping. They voted by drawing lots, and then half of them knocked themselves unconscious, while the other half guarded the unconscious person one by one, in order to test whether they could safely get through the next round of Hell Bells.

Although they were unable to control their own bodies after falling into a coma, they were already risking their lives without Nen abilities.

For them, a single piece or serving of Nitromi, a longevity food, meant a lifetime of wealth and luxury. Since they had already set out, they had no choice but to try anything, even if it seemed hopeless.

The rest of the journey went smoothly, as if Wu Pifu had destroyed two anchor points of the Hell Bell in succession. After the second Hell Bell attack, there were no further attacks until about nine o'clock in the evening. During this period, the unconscious people had all woken up, and even the earliest unconscious person, Xuanlu, had woken up.

"...Then let's set up camp here for today."

Wu Pifu chose a high point in the swamp area. Although it was overgrown with weeds, at least the ground was dry, and the area was not small, about the size of two or three football fields.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared to Wu Pifu, everyone else was on edge the whole time, even the strongest Nen user was no exception.

Thoughts are the outward manifestation of vitality, but to control thoughts requires long-term concentration, which is extremely mentally taxing. However, they must follow Wu Pifu closely because he is their only chance of survival. By 9 p.m., to be honest, almost everyone was exhausted.

After saying that they would set up camp and rest here, Peter Young immediately jumped off the hovercraft, selected a flat and dry spot not far from the hovercraft, and then stomped down with one foot, breaking off all the weeds and sending them flying. He had finished clearing the ground.

His team members disembarked one by one, but they did not carry any items. Instead, a teenage girl timidly walked into the group. She was carrying a large backpack and began to take things out of it: a table, chairs, food, a bed, a tent, and so on. These items were significantly larger than the backpack, which was due to her Nen ability with spatial attributes.

Seeing Wu Pifu looking over, Peter Yang introduced, "These are the logistics personnel I selected. Their Nen abilities related to space are extremely rare. Besides her, there's another person who is a temporary shelter. She can open a large dimensional space, but this space cannot interact with the outside air, so it can only be used in emergencies or in harsh environments where rest is impossible." Apart from Peter Yang's team, the other ships also docked one by one, and the other team members began to go ashore to choose campsites. Except for a few people who also had similar spatial abilities, the rest brought food, simple tents, and the like from the ships. This showed that only Peter Yang was truly determined to venture into the Dark Continent and had been preparing for it for an unknown period of time.

The next steps were naturally to manage the camp, start a fire, and rebel; there's not much to say about that.

The dog-eared woman, Kido, kept her promise to Peter Yang. She contacted all the Nen users except for the top twenty (who were replaced), and divided them into three groups. Each group patrolled for four hours, dividing the night into three time periods. While everyone else rested, these Nen users guarded the safety of the camp.

Wu Pifu didn't care about any of that. He went straight to Peter Yang's camp, took a portion of food without any hesitation, and started eating by himself.

Paris seemed to be in charge of logistics, distributing food, drinks, bed sheets, and the like to everyone. Naturally, he also gave a portion to Wu Pifu. At the same time, Phnom Penh asked while drinking beer, "Sir, what was the most intense battle you've ever fought?"

After considering it for a while, Wu Pifu felt that it wouldn't hurt to say it and probably wouldn't cause any mental overload, so he said, "It was a battle in the starry river. At that time, I was facing four powerful enemies that I couldn't defeat on my own. Fortunately, these four powerful enemies were enemies of each other, and with various other coincidences, as well as a lot of help, sacrifices, and even the whole world helping me, I was able to kill them in the end. It was a stroke of luck."

A galaxy? A formidable foe?
Everyone in Peter Young's team was lost in thought.

They naturally didn't think it was a real battle in the Milky Way, but rather that the Milky Way was perhaps a metaphor, such as fighting under the night sky, or fighting on a great river, lake, or sea that reflects the stars.

But four powerful enemies make it extremely terrifying.

They couldn't even begin to imagine Wu Pifu's power. Even his serious exertion was beyond their comprehension. They had personally witnessed the sheer volume of spiritual energy that reached the top of the sky during the previous cataclysm, but that was only when Wu Pifu dealt with the Human-Nurturing Beast. It was clear that the Human-Nurturing Beast calamity didn't seem to pose a significant challenge to Wu Pifu. Therefore, the formidable enemy he spoke of... was simply unimaginable.

The people in Peter Yang's team all knew about the Nen Overload that Wu Pifu had mentioned, so much information wouldn't be explicitly told to them. At this moment, their curiosity was overwhelming, and they really wanted to know more about the Dark Continent from Wu Pifu.

Peter Young pondered for a moment and said, "Sir, is there any treasure in this world better than Nitromi, the ultimate longevity food?"

Seeing Wu Pifu looking over, Peter Young frankly said, "I am a person with endless desires, I know that too. So I want to go to places no one has ever been, to see sights no one has ever seen, and to obtain things no one has ever obtained. This world is so vast that nothing can stop me, unless I die. So after I have climbed over the scenery in front of me, I will go to deeper, farther, and to those even more incredible and magnificent places!"

After some thought, Wu Pifu decided it was best not to reveal anything about the Ancient Insect Realm, unless he had also learned Nen and knew the boundary of Nen Overload. Moreover, given their strength, they were not capable of escaping the Ancient Insect Realm.

So he focused his attention on the ancient insect realm itself: "I have indeed encountered it before. Besides this Thunder Pool, I once came across a place of hope and disaster in a vast and endless super forest. By the way, this forest is not the kind of forest you imagine. A small blade of grass in it is thousands of meters tall, a giant tree is at least tens of thousands of meters tall, and all the creatures in it are ridiculously large. The million-meter-tall behemoth I mentioned before roams freely in it. In short, it was in this giant forest that I encountered hope, which is called the Perfect Fruit."

"The Perfect Fruit?"

Everyone murmured and imagined.

Wu Pifu nodded and said, "Yes, unlike the longevity food Nitromi that you are pursuing, that hope only has one fruit. After I entered to harvest it, the disaster along with it disappeared. I guess there will never be another one. Its effect is to increase the limit of life essence in proportion. Even for me, it is effective. You can imagine how precious it is."

Peter Young and King's eyes were shining. They looked at each other and saw an intense longing in each other's eyes.

It's not just a desire for this perfect fruit, but more so a desire for the unknown.

Just as everyone was about to ask something else, a sharp whistle suddenly sounded from the patrol team, and at the same time, more than a dozen bursts of Nen energy erupted.

In an instant, several people in the team rushed out, and in less than a second, the twenty strongest Nen users had already reached the location where the patrol group had made their noise.

"We saw it..."

The entire patrol team stared intently at a certain spot in the swamp. One of them muttered to himself without turning his head, and he was even swallowing his saliva.

On the surface of the swamp within their sight, a fluid mass of flesh, enough to transform dozens of people, was suspended on the water. At this moment, something resembling plant roots or the muscles and nerves of a living organism was growing slowly and intertwined on the surface of this fluid, and at its tip…

Dozens of thumb-sized "rice grains" were born, their vitality extremely strong, and the dissipation of their vitality was even visible to the naked eye.

This is... Nitrogenome, the longevity food!
(End of this chapter)