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Xue's Law slowly typed out a question mark.

A demon? What demon?
Then he suddenly realized what the Mimic King was talking about. Xue Law had once handed over the civilization data from Su Su's hometown to the Interstellar Squadron as his final repayment to that civilization after obtaining the power of the demon.

Although, that was just the final epitaph.

However, the Mimic King was the last to receive that intelligence. After seeing the intelligence, the Mimic King instantly felt that these so-called "demons" were very much like defeated apostles.

That is, they walked the same path as the apostles, but they failed. In the end, they neither grasped the power of authority nor maintained their own identity, and thus became meme creatures that existed solely as concepts.

This is the essence of evil.

In essence, it is somewhat like an apostle, and also somewhat like a severely weakened version of a warp god.

For the civilization of Su Su's world, such demons are formidable enemies, and even the entire civilization, united as immortal and indestructible evil spirits, would find them difficult to resist.

But to the Mimic King, it was just a larger insect. After thoroughly studying its nature, He no longer paid attention to this strange memetic creature, and did not even think that such a creature could cause a cosmic catastrophe.

Because demons are beings that live purely on "concepts," they are not affected by objective facts, but only by concepts.

That is, as long as there is darkness, the dark demon will never die.

Conversely, if there is no darkness, then the dark demon must die. So, Dark Demon, step forward! Wait to die under the shadowless lamp!
These are demons; they are born of concepts and will die from their own concepts.

Xue Dinglu also began to have doubts and asked, "How does this thing have anything to do with demons?"

When Xue Dinglu saw the extremely gruesome corpse again, its chest was wide open and empty. It was less like a corpse and more like a whole roasted lamb outside a roasted lamb shop, its internal organs emptied, its blood drained, and then hanging on a meat hook waiting for buyers to choose it.

Wait... roast whole lamb...

Xue Dinglu immediately plunged his head deep into the dissected chest, searching for the hole. Sure enough, he found a hole through the chest under the ribs, along with the broken ribs there.

Even the flesh around the hole showed signs of bruising and knots, which didn't form after death but rather while the person was still alive, when they were hung on something like a meat hook.

Xue Luding gasped. He probably understood why Zunwang said this thing seemed to be related to demons. This cruel massacre seemed to be the behavior of an inherently evil monster, purely out of fear. Xue Luding felt that this thing could only be explained by demons.

Add to that the fear and pain on the corpse's surface, and the expression of regret and resentment, and you can see the twisted feelings he had in his last moments.

This really puzzled Xue. Even if the apostles killed people, they would at most do something intimate, which was understandable.

After all, what the apostles wanted was population. In order to stimulate population, they had to create tragedies in their crotches. Even the so-called crotch literature such as minotaurs and cuckoldry was no longer within the scope of ordinary apostles' considerations. They all came up with new and interesting ideas.

The Mind Flayers, subordinates of the Fourth Apostle, run human breeding factories, forcing the entire world to rely on administering veterinary drugs to produce offspring for survival...

The Sixth Apostle completely transformed humans into twisted, breeding "pseudo-insects," thereby gaining a large population.

The Ninth Apostle completely transformed humanity into perfect replicas. As long as he exists, he will reproduce endlessly like leeks. The humanity of that world will be completely wiped out once the Ninth Apostle loses his authority.

The Twelfth Apostle: Create a world where men and women are legally equal, transform all men into women using sex-changing drugs, and make everyone participate in reproduction. Men, get pregnant too...

There are so many apostles who do all sorts of things in their crotches that Xue's Law can even associate anything related to reproduction and such trivial matters with apostles. The apostles' aura is just too strong. It's estimated that only they in the entire universe would increase the population in such a shameless way.

The problem is, even with such utterly shameless actions, their impact on population growth is still less significant than the massive Iron Curtain that Xue's Law once witnessed...

After all, their methods of stimulating the population could easily turn humans back into beasts who only reproduce and have no thoughts. At that time, they would lose the spirituality that humans are born with and that is close to the King, and they would also lose the energy needed for the fruit of the divine tree.

In other words, the more they exploit, the lower their efficiency becomes.

But the Iron Curtain is different. In its fervent faith, its population once reached over 200 billion and continues to grow, while its spirituality has not diminished in the slightest.

This is very embarrassing.

Xue Lude silently gave the middle finger to those apostles who couldn't even manage to increase the population. Slave owners are slave owners until the end, thinking that they can increase the population through absolute exploitation and violence.

Just like the population "S" curve that Xue's Law once taught us, the population growth rate is the lowest when the population is extremely small or extremely large. The growth rate is slow when the population is small because the initial value is too low, and the growth rate is slow when the population is large because the environment has reached saturation.

The fastest growth rate occurs when the population reaches about half of the environmental saturation level. However, the apostles relentlessly exploited the population, causing it to remain at the bottom of the S-curve and the growth rate to never rise. As soon as the population in the upper echelons increased slightly, they were hung on the divine tree.

At the very least, the apostles he has met so far are like this, and it is uncertain whether there are any other far-sighted apostles who can know about this problem and find the key points.

Therefore, when Xue Lude saw the corpse, he was still looking for characteristics related to the Apostle, namely, the matter in the crotch.

I had no idea that it was related to the demons in Su Su's hometown.

However, now that the Mimicry King has been brought up, Xue Dinglu immediately realized what he felt was wrong.

Yes, this way of dying, this fear and pain before death, the expression as if one has experienced the most cruel torture before death, isn't that the expression of those humans who die at the hands of demons?
Because demons are memetic beings that live off human fear, they torment humans in ways completely different from other apostles.

Now, Xue's Law has taken a look, and hey! It really does look like it.

So, Xue Dinglu directly invited Su Su to come and take a look.

"Su Su, Su Su, come to the playground. I think I've found something related to demons again." As soon as Xue Dinglu sent this message, Su Su, who was happily scrolling through silly videos on her phone in the dormitory and laughing so hard her abs were about to burst out laughing, was immediately stunned.

Then, with a somersault, a small bamboo joint instantly appeared in his hand, and his entire face seemed to be covered in shadows: "Demon? What demon? A demon born evil! Come, come! You vile things, you disgusting monsters, all of you, die in the pure land that I opened with my own hands!"

She immediately opened the window and jumped from the fifth floor of the dormitory.

"Boom!"

Xue Dinglu and Mimic King both heard a muffled sound in the distance and then looked in that direction.

Not long after, Su Su was seen limping over, her face covered in mud and fallen leaves. The entire school now had basic vegetation cover. Originally, there was no such vegetation; the environment for plant growth in the subspace was not even satisfactory. But after the Divine Tree moved in, it met the requirements, and thus some basic vegetation appeared on the bare ground.

"What's wrong with you?" Xue Dinglu asked.

Others cannot see the Mimic King, since the fragments of the Mimic King have merged with Xue Lude's soul, so Su Su can only see Xue Lude.

"I accidentally fell to the ground and twisted my leg... It's okay, bro. Where's the devil?" She grinned, then got down to business.

Mimicking the King couldn't help but complain, "Where did you get this silly little girl from?"

Xue Law: “?”

"What do you mean I lied to you?"

"This silly girl was obviously tricked into coming here to work by you. Forget it, she's too stupid. I feel like looking at her again would pollute my computing power." The Mimic King turned his eyes away, revealing an expression of disapproval.

Xue Law: "..."

I'm so angry and cold. What's wrong with this world? Will we, the guardians of this planet, ever have any hope?

But this was just him undermining the Mimic King in his soul. In front of Su Su, he still asked expressionlessly, "Su Su, I seem to have found a corpse that looks related to demons. Use your demon radar to sense it."

Xue Lu looked at Su Su, who was limping, and then thought of the "thud" sound just now. He suddenly felt that this silly girl might have been preparing to jump out of the window, but accidentally tripped on the windowsill and fell off the building while flailing her arms and legs.

In fact, since she is now at the level of a materialized soul, she would not have broken any bones. At most, her soul would feel a little pain to teach her a lesson.

Similarly, the Blood Curse of Xue's Law, a treatment that acts on the physical body, was completely useless.

Without saying a word, Su Su seemed to recover from the pain as quickly as it came, soon limping over to the corpse, her eyes filled with confusion.

"It does feel like there's a demon in there, but no, it doesn't feel like it..."

"Yes, yes, this must be the person the demon killed. After all, I'm all too familiar with this smell..."

"Wait, something's not right! Something's not right. How come it doesn't seem to be related to demons anymore? Demons wouldn't just kill someone outright. Even if it's to make an example of someone to instill fear in others, this is such a waste..."

"Yes, yes, but that's the devil's method."

"No...something seems off..."

"Wait, is this right?"

After analyzing the situation, Su Su suddenly froze on the spot, staring at the apostle. Her mind seemed to be filled with only "Is that right? Yes, yes... No, no..." Her left and right hemispheres began to fight each other, and she almost completely crashed.

Xue Law: "..."

Mimicry King: "..."

Forget it, I can't bear to watch. She's a little girl who died at the age of 6, and then dropped out of school to become a witch. She only knows how to deal with evil spirits and demons. There's no need to rely on her brain. At least the delinquent girl and the landmine girl dropped out of vocational school. She's practically at the level of a kindergarten dropout.

Even the child's silliness made the Mimic King lose interest in her identity as Margaret's vessel. After all, she was at most just an avatar of world consciousness, her only special feature being her deep connection with the race called "Demons," which allowed him to provide them with some intelligence.

However, from her reaction, Xue Lude and Mimic King also got the answer they wanted, which was that this thing should indeed have some connection with the former demon, but the connection was not very close.

So, the Mimic King began to mobilize computing power to calculate, and at the same time, Xue's Law had a flash of inspiration.

Turning their heads, their eyes met, and the Mimic King said directly: "The origin of demons is the artificial god created by the previous civilization on the planet called 'Hell' in imitation of the corresponding apostle. It was only after the artificial god completely lost control that it turned into a demon."

“Yes, if we’re talking about something that’s related to both demons and apostles, it’s the apostle who once invaded Hell. After all, that apostle was probably the model for a man-made god. But we don’t know who invaded Hell... There are no valid records in Hell,” Xue Dinglu said.

“No, you haven’t thought of any more points. You’re only thinking from the records of Hell, so naturally you can’t think of anything. But if you work backward from the Mist Council to find out who invaded Hell, you can quickly draw a conclusion,” said the Mimic King.

Xue Lude thought for a moment, but there was still no information about the abilities and authority of Number Two, Number Three, and Number Five in the Mist Council. So Xue Lude was thinking for the time being.

As the apostles who serve as the blueprint for demons, what exactly are they...?

Although Xue Law did not know the details of the three apostles and the Lord of the Mist, if he had to choose from the existing apostles, he immediately locked onto one.

"The Seventh Apostle!" Xue Dinglu and Mimic King said simultaneously.

“That’s right, you’ve finally found the blind spot. The Seventh Apostle’s authority is strange. It’s not some evil god we saw at the edge of the warp, but rather the extremely narrow concept of ‘fear’,” said the Mimic King.

“Yes, the concept of fear is too narrow. It belongs to the category of emotions, and emotions belong to other concepts as well. In fact, this concept and authority are just a sideline among the Apostles. Perhaps there are corresponding evil gods at the end of the warp, but they are too weak. We treat them as just a sideline,” Xue added.

"Then why is this apostle at the front just such a weak concept? Is it possible that He didn't choose this concept, but because of His own personal reasons, He could only choose this concept, or that He is the concept itself?" the Mimic King reasoned.

The two began to reason with each other in their souls, as if performing a duet.

"Therefore, there is only one truth: the prototype apostle that the demons were modeled after is the Seventh Apostle! This apostle, whose power comes from fear, is why this corpse has a demonic aura and is filled with fear and torment!"

If it weren't for the fact that the Mimic King doesn't currently have a physical form, Xue's Law would really like to give him a high five; it's been far too long since he's seen someone whose reasoning logic is very similar to his own.

The last time I saw him was when he was a great sage.

As for the Mimicry King, it just feels like the thought process of Xue's Law has finally been guided here.

Meanwhile, the Mimic King became even more curious. Where was this Earth consciousness's fishing spot in the subspace? How could it be able to catch so many good things? Could the fishing spot really be right outside the Mist Council's gate? (End of Chapter)