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Chapter 193 The Girl Named Alaye
Odysseus knew his infiltration wouldn't last long; unless these mystics were idiots, he would likely be exposed within hours.

After all, he did a very crude job of disposing of the body, simply replacing the previous host with the next one. Even the group of AI idiots who infiltrated the game would definitely realize the problem after discovering that so many people were missing.

Now he has to figure out a way to make the four evil spirits go out of control before the mystics can react.

"I should have asked for more bacteriophages." Odysseus thought of the 0.1 gram of bacteriophages he had gone to great lengths to get from the old man who loved crafts.

He originally obtained the bacteriophage just in case, but now he finds himself having to rely on it to interrupt the ritual of the four evil spirits, and preferably let them go out of control and wreak havoc.

These correspond to the Wendigo's curiosity in childhood, the evil spirit's dream of learning in adolescence, the evil spirit's desire for work in adulthood, and the evil spirit's debt in old age...

These four evil spirits completely represent a human life, the endless cycle from birth to death.

Even Odysseus, who knew nothing about mysticism, could imagine just how extravagant the elaborate ritual they were about to perform was.

Just as he was about to dive down again, he was stopped by someone.

"Go and organize our work results, and then report them to Lord Brinton," said a person who seemed to be a junior manager.

“Okay…” Odysseus sensed that this person even had just entered the legendary level. Just from the fact that he could hardly see any branches or bark on him, he knew that he was one of the people who had received a higher level of blessing.

After constantly changing hosts, Odysseus also gained a lot of information. One was that the stronger the blessing, the more human-like it became, while the weaker the blessing, the more it retained the characteristics of a plant.

The man in front of me, however, only showed signs of plant growth in a very small number of places.

After the supervisor left, Odysseus slipped inside and immediately began searching for intelligence.

Even though there was a constant risk of exposure, Odysseus had no choice but to do so, but a few minutes later, he was consumed by unparalleled rage.

"In 372 days, a total of 52 billion people have been infected, and in six months, it will completely infect 86 billion people worldwide..." Odysseus's hands trembled as he read these numbers.

"The reason for the slowdown in infection progress this quarter is that the populations covered by the concepts of 'curiosity,' 'learning,' 'work,' and 'debt' are gradually reaching saturation. We should develop a more suitable plan for covering the remaining population and strive to achieve the target within six months..."

"The next concept to take shape is the 'death' evil spirit..."

As Odysseus read the report, looking at the self-congratulatory presentation and the figure of 52 billion, he felt as if his long-lost heart was burning.

52 billion people! What do you take human life for?
He now understood why these corrupt mystics chose these abstract concepts as the source of evil spirits' power: their true aim was to spread the "fear" of these concepts to enough people.

However, because they were all high-ranking mystics, these were the greatest human sufferings they could imagine, and that's why they chose these as their concepts...

Therefore, the 52 billion people basically include everyone in those four concepts.

Even those who weren't included are no longer important...

Odysseus closed his eyes. What would the world be like if all people with the concepts of 'curiosity,' 'learning,' 'work,' and 'debt' died and turned into zombies?

That was a hell he could never have imagined.

He immediately passed this information to Xue Dinglu, and then handed over to Xue Dinglu all the things he needed to do next, as well as the old man's general plan.

This was also the last time he delivered intelligence.

He didn't even have time to think further. Odysseus only had 0.1 grams of bacteriophages (fungi phages) on him, and he had roughly learned about these little guys from the old man who loved crafts. These were plagues that specifically targeted bacterial and fungal structures.

Just as nature specially created a deadly enemy specifically for all bacteria (fungi), bacteriophages die quickly after leaving the bacterial host, and may even appear dead inside other organisms.

However, when it comes to dealing with bacteria (fungi), they are the most terrifying and intractable nano killers.

“I don’t know how long you can survive in the air, but you little guys, you must live as long as possible…” Odysseus opened the test tube containing the bacteriophages.

The next moment, a bow and five arrows materialized in his hand. He carefully coated the arrows with the bacteriophages, and then nocked all five arrows onto the Greek longbow...

"To hit five enemies in five different directions at the same time is really a challenge for a hero like me who is known for his strategies..." he laughed, but the next moment, without hesitation, he aimed the five arrows at the four evil spirits and the ancient tree at the very center of the four evil spirits that kept laying baby eggs.

"However, I am at least the most 'despicable' hero of ancient Greece!" Five arrows were fired at the same time, the wind howling as if a sonic boom exploded in everyone's ears.

There was no time for the countless mystics to be puzzled or panicked, because the next moment, the four evil spirits and the ancient tree at the very center all went berserk.

The bacteriophages, these little guys that came from this world and were cultivated by "Doctor Xue's Law" and his wife specifically to target "wild bacteria," have for the first time revealed their fangs.

This bacteriophage would be utterly defeated by any other microorganism, achieving no victories whatsoever. For viruses, whether it's targeted culture or modification with cursed blood, it's like resetting or adding points; this bacteriophage is like washing away all other survival points, retaining only basic reproduction.

Then, all the points that had been washed away were added to the treatment of "wild bacteria".

This is the most targeted and decisive strike against those ancient microorganisms!
The evil spirits let out a series of wailing sounds. At that moment, the bacteriophages entered their bodies. These nanoviruses, also from the ancient past, unleashed their most terrifying targeted and reproductive capabilities.

If the original bacteriophages could only fight each other to a draw against the wild bacteria, now they kill indiscriminately when they come into contact with the wild bacteria. Their nanomachine-like bodies can easily penetrate the cell walls of the wild bacteria, thus filling the wild bacteria's cells with their "special attack" RNA.

Then, within minutes, the wasteland will be completely filled with bacteria until it bursts and overflows. Billions of replicated bacteriophages will shoot out like shrapnel, hitting the surrounding wasteland, and then the above process will be repeated.

From a macro perspective, the pollution spread rapidly in an instant at the places where the four evil spirits and the ancient tree were hit by arrows.

Just as easily as they infect humans, it would be even easier for bacteriophages to infect them!
The evil spirits went berserk. They had no thoughts; they simply instinctively grabbed the bewildered mystics around them, then brutally crushed and absorbed them, attempting to use the energy obtained from the outside world to resist the monster that had twisted them so drastically within their bodies.

As a result, the entire earth began to tremble and twist, endless tree roots grew wildly, evil spirits slaughtered the mystics, and the mystics fled for their lives. Chaos and death became the only themes here.

"What? My archery skills are pretty accurate, aren't they?" Odysseus laughed as he sheathed his bow.

The next moment, he was twisted and entangled by endless tree roots, completely crushed, leaving only the tattered scarf that was transmitted back to Xue Luding's consciousness space. That was the last piece of information he brought back.

……

Meanwhile, Xue's law had already received information from Odysseus.

"Curiosity, dreams, hopes, and the final future... that's what the mystics want to collect..." He looked at the twisted school, where everyone was studying desperately, yearning for the future.

Evil spirits are born from the "fear" in the human heart...

The horrors that the mystics envisioned were no longer the tangible evil spirits like those in Xue's Law, but rather monsters yearning for babies, fear of going to school, fear of working, and the embodiment of the fear of debt.

These four concepts cover 52 billion people...

Their fifth evil spirit is prepared to use "death" as its concept, so there probably won't be many people left.

Therefore, the school that Xue's law saw was not an illusion, but rather a reflection of the fact that countless areas in the world have been transformed into such "ghostlands".

Of those 52 billion, babies became eternal sacrifices to Wendigo, students were forever trapped in the demon realm, forced to study endlessly, and those burdened with work and debt were like the "zombie" remnants with only faint souls left, as seen in Xue's Law.

They lived in a daze, simply waiting for the day they would die...

All these concepts became the sustenance for the rituals of those corrupt mystics, who would use the fear of 52 billion people to depict a final, ultimate monster.

"Damn it!" Xue Dinglu clenched his fist tightly.

However, there was one exception: in this world, there appeared a girl who seemed to be a collection of everyone.

Her personality was terrible; she was repressed, lustful, lazy, greedy, cowardly, selfish, vain… encompassing all seven deadly sins of human nature.

But she is also incredibly real. She is curious, she fantasizes about the future, she wants to be a mother, she likes superheroes... In this hellish school, she seems to be the only normal person, someone so normal that she is almost too average...

She seemed to be the embodiment of everyone who had fallen into this realm.

"Do you have a name?" Xue asked.

“Alaye! Alaye Hermin, that’s my name!” she said with a smile, telling Xue the law her name.

(End of this chapter)