My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Chapter 291 This is Hell
A thousand years later, the world, which should have been completely different, now presents a scene of normalcy and peace.

Everything was running smoothly and normally. Even the manuscript written by the Mind Flayer a thousand years ago, with the hot water poured on it, was still there, without any trace of time.

This is the most crucial point. What's even more terrifying is that the Mind Flayer actually thinks this is normal. Everything is normal now. He has been in another world for over a thousand years, wreaking havoc on over a billion people. His daughter is of marriageable age, and it's normal that the water in his own house is still warm.

His perception had been completely distorted; this was the shared thought that Xue Dinglu and the young man shared after exchanging a glance.

This mind flayer can no longer be considered a living being. His cognition and instincts are completely programmed. Rather than a living being, he is more like a pre-set program running.

Just as he never doubted the origin of the divine tree, and never doubted why his home was the same a thousand years later as it was a thousand years ago, this feeling of treating the abnormal as ordinary is the most distorted thing.

It's as absurd as a mentally disturbed person who killed his own mother but then pretends to be innocent and asks others, "How is my mother?"

Xue Dinglu immediately put the Mind Flayer back into the book. His views and information were no longer of any value. He could not believe a word he said, and perhaps he could not believe anything at all in this distorted world.

The two exchanged a glance, both sensing the strangeness and distortion of this world, but neither knew what the problem was.

The streets outside the window are bustling with traffic. A girl who has just finished school seems to be chatting with an old lady on the roadside about interesting things that happened at school. Vendors selling their products have set up all kinds of items on the roadside and are calling out their goods.

Everything seemed so normal, so normal that it was as if this was the most abnormal thing.

They would have thought this was a world teeming with wandering ghosts, a place where demons devour each other, or a completely parasitized world where the whole world was infested by mind-stealers and engaged in activities like a "pseudo-human hunting ground."

But now that the true nature of this world has been revealed to them, it is even more unacceptable.

“We’ll split up and then exchange intelligence,” Xue Dinglu said.

“Okay, I have a very bad feeling that I should use the emergency communication device immediately if there is a problem.” The young man said, he even felt a chill here, a fear and unease that came from the bottom of his bones.

"I will."

The two agreed to meet here the next morning, and checked the room and water glass one last time before leaving.

The warm water has cooled down, which means that the physical constants of the entire world are at least roughly the same. It is normal for the water temperature in the cup to decrease over time.

Now, the two begin to investigate in different directions. One investigates all the way to the outskirts of the city in the direction of sunset, while the other investigates in the opposite direction as well. They will meet here tomorrow morning.

Xue Dinglu started heading east, stopping to chat with many people along the way.

People in this world are very talkative. Xue's Law overheard an elderly woman at a street stall talking about how outstanding her daughter was, how good her grades were, and how she was destined for greatness.

Even though an office worker was so tired that he fell asleep while waiting for the bus, he straightened his back with excitement when talking to Xue about the city's development.

When he passed by an area that resembled a city hall, he went inside and ransacked it, finding it full of lists of where money was spent and project plans.

A large number of urban construction planning schemes were piled up, which was very messy and did not contain any content that Xue's Law was interested in.

There was one report that Xue's law seemed a bit puzzling to me.

On the Problem of Widespread Manic-Depressive Disorders Among the Public During Nighttime

This report states that some residents experience psychotic mania after dark, manifesting as numerous senseless stress behaviors and aggressive behavior towards anything around them.

A large number of citizens have been urgently sent to mental hospitals, but the problem remains unresolved. This mass mental illness has attracted the attention of many experts, and a large number of experts have come to Beifeng City to give reports on mental illness.

Looking at this record, Xue Lude frowned. Could mind flayers develop mental illnesses? They were like NPCs with fixed logic, like the God King. Such obvious abnormalities were right in front of him, yet he remained oblivious, speaking what he thought was right as if he knew nothing at all.

There was no more valuable information after that. Xue Luding looked at the sun outside and said, "The sun is about to set."

……

As the sun sets, Xue Dinglu strolls through this city, where the aura of mind-stealing demons permeates the air.

Lying there waiting for nightfall, he hoped to find out some information by locating the mind flayers who were in a state of stress.

Just then, a large truck stopped in front of Xue Dinglu.

The car window rolled down, and a girl who looked like a student asked, "Handsome, we're planning to go camping at the foot of North Peak in the suburbs. Would you like to come along?"
Xue Dinglu looked through the glass at the interior of the large vehicle with a puzzled expression. The three men and four women seemed to be waiting for Xue Dinglu's answer.

They seemed to be students from the same club or class, preparing for a picnic and having rented a large vehicle. The girls were all looking at Xue Dinglu with intense gazes, while the boys were very wary. Clearly, this trip was a long-planned project. In the middle of nowhere, with three men and four women, if something were to happen, everyone would probably turn a blind eye.

But Xue Dinglu's lips curled slightly. He was lacking someone to observe, and amidst the boys' gazes as they looked at the "enemy," he silently said, "Okay."

……

The bus slowly pulled up beside a stream in the suburbs. Before the sun had completely set, they took out an inflatable tent, set up camp, and prepared food.

Xue's law did not join them; he watched their actions from the sidelines like an observer from beginning to end.

But at least so far, they are all perfectly normal. The boys are in charge of setting up tents and making stoves, while the girls are in charge of preparing the snacks and drinks they brought, turning them into a meal that looks presentable.

They chatted and laughed, talking about school, their families and relatives, and some boys even took the opportunity to fawn over the girls they liked.

Unfortunately, their original plans seemed to have been completely affected by Xue Luding's arrival, and the girls' attention was all on Xue Luding.

This made the three boys look at Xue Luding with ill intent.

“We need to figure out how to deal with that guy who got on the bus out of nowhere,” one of the three boys said after leaving the camp.

"Yeah, that person ruined all the opportunities we finally found for a social gathering," another person said indignantly.

Looking at the setting sun in the distance, he said, "It'll be dark soon. We'll take the opportunity to push him into the river and then laugh at this scoundrel who came from who-knows-where."

The plan was unanimously agreed upon by the other two.

So they decided to come to the river before it got completely dark to check on the feasibility of their plan and to perfect their actions.

When the three of them reached the cliff and saw the steep riverbank several meters high, they immediately came up with a whole string of good ideas.

At this moment, the sun had completely set, and the scarlet moon hung in the sky.

Suddenly, the three of them pushed each other toward the riverbank. The change happened so fast that all three were stunned. They didn't expect the other two to reveal a terrifying smile in an instant.

The unlucky guy in the middle made a mistake and fell from the riverbank into the river. He was swept away by the current to who knows where, while the other two started fighting instantly.

Their expressions were twisted and crazed, as if they were facing each other's father's killers. They bit each other's ears and noses with their teeth, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

Until one of them completely broke the other's spine with his elbow, the bone spur piercing through the skin and causing blood to gush out violently, the man, covered in wounds, laughed wildly and rushed back to the original campsite, seemingly wanting to find Xue Dinglu.

But here, he only saw five female corpses lying on the ground, foaming at the mouth. They had been drinking together, but each of them had poisoned the other four, resulting in each person's cup containing four different poisons. Now they were all lying on the ground, their deaths quite abstract.

It wasn't just these three men and four women camping; in the nearest village, a husband killed his wife with a knife, and a son poisoned her wine.

In the city, the roads were filled with bumper cars speeding at hundreds of miles per hour, flames and thick smoke billowed into the sky, and limbs and fragments were scattered everywhere.

The whole world seemed to go mad in an instant, and everyone turned into a manic-depressive disorder, engaging in a series of primal killings and cleansings.

……

After searching around without finding a clear direction, the young man encountered a kind old woman.

The old woman asked him if he wanted to stay at a hotel for the night. The young man couldn't find any problems, so he decided to stay there and try to find out some information.

The old lady's house also had a little girl who had just started school. The young man quietly tried to find out some information, but he also came up empty-handed. He only overheard someone casually mention that "it's been very noisy outside at night lately."

However, later that evening, the young man suddenly heard a loud chopping sound coming from his grandmother's kitchen.

He was very puzzled; his wife looked quite old, so how could she have such strength?

When he peeked over to see what was going on, he was horrified to find the little girl's head lying to one side in the kitchen, and the old woman was vigorously chopping up the leg bones of the corpse wearing a little dress.

He looked at him, smiled, and said, "Young man, would you like to try some bone broth?"

(End of this chapter)