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Chapter 290 The World of the Mind Flayer
“Aren’t you still single? I think you’re a pretty good guy. How about I see if any of my daughters would be willing to marry you? I also have some friends who are worried sick about their daughters’ futures. I’ll go ask them too. I should be able to find you a few dozen. Don’t think it’s too few. We can see how it goes.” The young man calmly said what Xue Dinglu found terrifying.

Xue Law: "..."

Forget it, your world is too terrifying, I really can't talk to you, and you always talk about dozens of people at a time. Xue Dinglu felt his head was starting to spin, and he quickly said, "Forget it, I'm going to be a partner of justice, feelings are in the way."

The young man looked at Xue Luding with a look of disbelief. In their world's value system, men are born to bear the heavy responsibility of procreation, so they attach great importance to this aspect. If a man has too few children, he will be criticized, let alone someone like Xue Luding with this mentality.

In their world, this would be considered a heinous crime, a serious offender who would be imprisoned and forced to have 100 children before being released.

In short, the young man talked about this for a long time, but Xue Dinglu didn't listen to a word and instead found it difficult to concentrate.

Their world is truly terrifying. The bizarre culture and civilization born from that extreme gender ratio instilled fear in Xue, a liberal.

The young man also spoke earnestly, saying that in his personal opinion, it was a heinous crime for a man to go out and make his own way in the world without leaving any descendants. If he died out there without any children, he would be letting down his ancestors.

Xue finally understood why his boss forbade him from discussing such matters within the interstellar column; it was torture for everyone.

In short, amidst their bickering, the two of them stepped into the coordinates of the Mind Flayer.

Although the two were having a nonsensical discussion about marriage and being single, they were actually well-prepared and even had emergency communication devices ready to be used at any time.

The plan was that if they were in the Mind Flayer's world, the two would start an investigation as quickly as possible while avoiding being controlled by the Mind Flayer. However, if they were in front of the Apostle, they would immediately make contact without saying a word. Then, Xue Luding would throw the Divine Tree to buy time, while Xiao Jiang would directly teleport to wait for reinforcements to arrive.

However, the moment they arrived in this world, the two who were originally bickering suddenly became tense, but the scene in front of them made them pause.

This is a bustling modern world, with people coming and going on the streets, just like in the 20th century on Earth. Old-fashioned motorcycles travel on the highways, and the streets are lined with strangely shaped buildings, each one as bizarre as a honeycomb.

Most importantly, everyone seemed to be living normal lives. Xue's Law saw students, office workers, laborers, and street vendors, all going about their lives normally.

Xue Dinglu and the young man were both stunned, and they looked at each other with confused expressions.

If they hadn't known that the coordinates were found on the Mind Flayer, they would have suspected that they had traveled to some planet that had just entered the industrial age.

However, after their initial moment of surprise, both Xue Dinglu and the young man noticed something amiss.

"Did you sense it?" Xue asked.

"Yes, I sensed it." The young general pointed to the passing crowd and said, "Why do all the people here have the same feeling as the Mind Flayer, but they are all normal people?"

This is what the two of them couldn't understand.

……

After making inquiries, the two found out where they were.

North Peak City, 58th Street, and the place they had just transmigrated to was the home that the Mind Flayer had mentioned.

Xue Dinglu and the young general both fell silent. This truly was the world of the Mind Flayers, but it was completely different from what they had imagined, almost like...

Everyone in this world has been replaced by mind flayers, to the point that the mind flayers have forgotten their original identities and have begun to follow the life trajectory of their original owners bit by bit.

After a long time, he completely forgot his true nature as a mind-stealer.

This was the conjecture the two came up with. After confirming the location, the two immediately broke into the Mind Flayer's home in Building 12, where the Mind Flayer had stolen the Angel's authority.

This is a very large house. Xue Dinglu looked around and saw that something resembling an old-fashioned fax machine was still in use. Traces of the owner's life could also be found here, as well as a large number of manuscripts written by that mind-stealer.

Xue Dinglu picked up the manuscript and looked at it. It was a story about a boy born with eight fingers who became a god through playing the zither in a world of swords and magic. It was handwritten, and the ink didn't seem to be completely dry yet.

"Hey, this Mind Flayer seems to be a writer too?" Xue Dinglu counted the manuscript and estimated the corresponding word count, then said casually, "38 words, that's a lot. It even looks like it's been submitted and is already being serialized in a magazine."

This situation stunned the young man even more. He kept pulling at his hair and said, "Mind Flayers can write long stories? Aren't they just a race that parasitizes other people's bodies and subtly distorts them? Let me see his novels."

The young man took the manuscript. He seemed to manipulate something on one of his virtual terminals, quickly deciphering the text of this world and beginning to read. The more he read, the more silent he became. After flipping through several dozen pages, he returned the manuscript to Xue Dinglu, saying, "There's a problem. This novel actually has logic!"

"If a novel has no logic, all that's left is history. But why is it strange if it has logic?"

"This is a novel written by Mind Flayer? Why do you think the logic is so strange? They shouldn't have such rigorous logic and creativity. Also, I read the novel. As popular literature, it's not a big problem, just a bit too vulgar. It explicitly describes a lot of activities with wives and girlfriends, but that's not a major issue." The young man kept pulling at his hair, looking like he really had a headache.
"Why is it that the Mind Flayer was able to write the entire story logically? It shouldn't be like this..."

He even looked around the room and added, "What's even stranger is that there are signs of life everywhere here. You can even see the water here; there's no dust in it, proving that the Mind Flayer just finished pouring the water and was about to fax the next part of the manuscript to the editor when it suddenly disappeared. It disappeared in less than half a day."

Xue Dinglu looked around at everything and nodded.

The Mind Flayer has been in the Theocracy for a thousand years. While the time of day and year may vary slightly across different planets, the macroscopic time is consistent, meaning this place should look like a thousand years in the future.

But everything in the room indicated that the Mind Flayer had only been gone a short while ago.

"This is so strange, so unreasonable, so utterly unreasonable! What have we overlooked?" The young man was so anxious that he kept pulling at his hair. Xue Dinglu quickly stopped him from doing this bad habit, afraid that he would pull himself bald here.

When he goes home, his hundreds of wives will probably cause chaos when they see him bald.

Xue Dinglu slowly unfolded the book "Innovation Century" in his hand.

Now, this travelogue, which he originally compiled, has become a treasure.

【Innovation Century (C+ - S+ level): Through the compilation of a 7-day travelogue, the primordial ritual is realized. Through the suffering and torment of people in the travelogue, the primordial destruction giant Goliath can be invoked. More functions await development, and the travelogue can continue to be written in the original future.

Note: Possessing this Noble Phantasm eliminates the need for a prerequisite ritual; a proper Genesis can be unleashed simply by obtaining the consent of the World Consciousness.

No ritual is required; simply connecting with the world consciousness is enough to unleash a proper Genesis, instead of the previously most commonly used "pseudo-Genesis."

Furthermore, given the right conditions, Xue's Law can summon even more human evil beasts.

The Destroyer is only one of the seven evil beasts of humankind. There are six other evil beasts of humankind that represent “compassion,” “lust,” “corruption,” “peace,” “slaughter,” and “primordial.”

Every human-born evil beast is powerful and capable of astonishing everyone with their strength and concepts. In terms of status, they are comparable to the primordial Zeus and Typhon. Although the conditions for their birth are extremely demanding, Xue's Law has seen many worlds of dog breeds and will always happen to be able to summon the most suitable human-born evil beast in the corresponding world.

Of course, the human beasts of evil can only rival the primordial Zeus; the creator Zeus is already far beyond that level and is not considered.

Just like the Destroyer, which could annihilate both the God King and the Divine Tree on the God King's home turf, the power of this Noble Phantasm may be even more exaggerated than imagined, and it is also more in line with Xue's Law.

In addition to completing the proper creation of the world and exchanging human evil, this Noble Phantasm has many strange little functions, such as automatic defense and automatic recording of special and unusual creatures from travelogues.

It's like it's been recorded with Mind Flayer.

The pages of "The New Century" fluttered, and the figure of the Mind Flayer appeared on them.

"Is this your home?" Xue asked.

“Yes, yes, this is my home. I remember I’m a writer. My manuscript is here, and I’ve already published it successfully. I’ll be receiving the second issue’s payment today. Am I right? I’m not a mind-stealer, I’m a time traveler!” he said immediately.

However, both Xue Dinglu and the young man remained silent.

"Didn't you notice anything wrong?" Xue asked.

"What's the problem? This is how it is in my house!" the Mind Flayer said.

"But a thousand years have passed, and your family is still like this without any problems?" Xue Dinglu continued to remind him.

"Isn't this normal? It should be exactly the same as when I left." The Mind Flayer's logic and thinking seemed to have been completely distorted. Even though Xue's Law had made it so clear, he still thought that everything happening here was normal.

Xue Dinglu and Xiao Jiang fell silent again. They looked out the window at the mind-stealers living normal lives, and suddenly a chill seemed to creep up their spines.

(End of this chapter)