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Xue's Law didn't even need to say much to the Mimic King. At this moment, the Mimic King had already begun searching all similar areas based on this location and started to lock onto the Seventh Apostle's whereabouts.

Xue Law felt once again that he was carrying an ultimate powerhouse. Never before had it been so easy. When the Mimic King was gathering intelligence, Xue Law only needed to try to find the mechanism, or even the mechanism itself might not be necessary.

They will then be able to get through quickly.

Xue, a seasoned speedrunner, really liked these numbers. He didn't mind the low numbers; on the contrary, he felt that his numbers were still not good enough.

If he has the stats, he doesn't need to follow any storyline; he can just rush through.

At that moment, he instantly caught a glimpse of something interesting, something called "weird".

This tastes just right! Xue Luding naturally thought of the strange things in Su Su's hometown. In fact, they came here to take a look because a corpse that his mother had retrieved was related to the demon in Su Su's hometown.

In an instant, the faces of these elderly tourists all showed fear, and even the guy giving the tour, who had three rows of teeth, looked genuinely terrified.

"All I can say is that they are demons, monsters that take pleasure in killing us, and they will do everything in their power to prevent us from completing our mission. But there is always a way out. There are rules in the universe that will stop the bizarre killings, and those are our only way to survive. Well, that's all I can say. I have nothing else to say." He simply explained a few words and then stopped discussing the bizarre.

The other newcomers all looked embarrassed, and the guy who had been silenced was even more pale and embarrassed.

The rules... they still seem like those weird things from Su Su's hometown...

At this moment, Su Su wasn't using her phone either; she seemed to have just realized how familiar the place smelled...

"Brother Lu, where are you now?" Su Su asked.

"I think I've found the origin of the demons," Xue Luding said, trying to use language that Su Su could understand.

"Huh? Aren't demons born in hell?" This girl's words left Xue Lude speechless, but he still patiently explained his and the Mimic King's previous speculations.

Su Su was instantly wide awake and immediately said, "Brother Lu, Brother Lu, catch a weirdo for me to see!"

She felt like she was invincible again. When dealing with other enemies, she felt helpless and powerless, but when it came to this kind of thing, Su Su immediately felt the sun shine and the rain stop. She was now truly invincible.

When it comes to dealing with demons, Su Su is an absolute expert. Her Pure Land can devour all demons like snacks and digest their characteristics.

Even those demon kings who were once in hell, such as the Death Demon and the Dark Demon, did not make a sound after being devoured by the Pure Land, even though they were all hit by a layered storm before being eaten.

This ability is completely useless in most places, but here, it might actually have a miraculous effect.

However, Xue also had some doubts. They only had nine people, including the new recruits. How could the entire Death Cruise ship have so few people? Was the Seventh Apostle really a good person? As an apostle, why did he only kill so few people each time?

Xue Lude felt that there was something wrong with his thinking. He actually thought that it was too kind of the apostles to only kill a few people each time. There were just too many dogs in the past. Xue Lude even found the apostles who simply killed people to be handsome.

Moreover, according to this old passenger, they only need to carry out the Death Cruise mission once every three months. Even if half of them die every three months, it's only 5 people. This killing efficiency is too low. The Seventh Apostle's KDA might not even be as high as his own.

Xue Luding even grumbled inwardly, and he even wanted to pick up the mirror again and use his divine and demonic eyes to see the more than 10 billion heads above his head.

“Don’t overthink it. I’ve been probing the entire shallow subspace based on the baseline of this death cruise ship, and sure enough, I’ve found countless areas hidden in the crevices,” the Mimic King said immediately.

Xue's Law: "6"

opened?
He felt like he was playing a MOBA game when suddenly an old man told him to turn on the fog of war for the entire map.

This cheat code is practically being used on your own face.

"It's not as simple as you think. I found one Nightmare City, more than ten Nightmare Towns, more than one hundred Hellish Neighborhoods, three hundred eerie apartments, and thousands of strange things like killing theaters, death cruise ships, nightmare trains, etc... Although the Seventh Apostle's strength is just so-so, He has almost controlled the entire shallow crevice of the subspace."

The Mimic King spoke very seriously.

Subspace is such a peculiar place, without corresponding coordinates or references. Even if the Mimic King were right next to the space of this Death Cruiser, he might not be able to sense that there is such a peculiar area here.

Therefore, unknowingly, the Seventh Apostle actually occupied this part closest to the real world, turning it into a killing ground for Him, pulling others in, and then instilling fear in them to satisfy His need for power.

Even the dead were not wasted, becoming fertilizer for the divine tree. It could be said that this apostle even achieved a double benefit, making these people both give Him fear and provide fertilizer for the divine tree.

However, these numbers seem insufficient?
Xue Law: "..."

"Why does it seem like the Seventh Apostle is getting poorer and poorer?" he began to complain.

Mimic King: "?"

He slowly dug out a question mark, not even understanding the logic of Xue's Law.

Xue Dinglu began to explain to the Mimic King: "Look, at first the Seventh Apostle could build a city, then he could only build a few towns, and later he might not even be able to build any towns, and could only let these people who were toyed with and tortured by Him live in apartments."

Xue Dinglu continued to complain, "Even apartments are considered good. Look at what kind of rubbish they are after this. Cinemas, cruise ships, and trains. These guys who are tortured every three months to provide fear are living in increasingly worse conditions. They can't even find a decent place to stay during their rest time. And this cruise ship is rocking around. I think their sleep is already not very good."

"At least cruise ships have rooms, so how come people on the Nightmare Train have to live on the train under such high pressure? Do you think the Seventh Apostle is getting poorer and poorer, and can only continue to exploit these people's living conditions so that He can recruit more people?" Xue Dinglu's sarcastic remarks left the Mimic King speechless.

It seems... we really are getting poorer...

Even from the living environment of these "reincarnators," it can be seen that their accommodation and living conditions become worse the further they go.

This only proves that the Seventh Apostle can only further exploit the living conditions of these people in order to continue developing his farm. After all, the average lifespan of these people is estimated to be only a few months, so there is no need for them to live too well. Now, some of them can only live on cruise ships and trains.

If things continue like this, will the Seventh Apostle make new recruits live in the toilet?
What if we end up with a "despair toilet"? That would truly be despairing.

"Even including all the areas you detected, Your Majesty, there don't seem to be many people, maybe a million or so at most..." Xue Dinglu complained, "Are there really such kind apostles?" Mimicking Your Majesty: "?"

You've got some issues with your thinking, kid. When did a million or so people become a small number?

Well, for the apostles, this number is really small. In fact, the Seventh Apostle didn't just send them to their deaths, but pretended to give them a way to live. It even seems that some of the older ones can live for several years, continuing to provide fear.

At this rate of efficiency, how long would it take the Seventh Apostle to accumulate a single fruit?
Thousands of years? Or tens of thousands of years? Could it be that it takes hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate just one fruit? That would be incredibly pathetic; no wonder its strength is so weak.

"But if we calculate it this way, why does this Seventh Apostle not harvest the population efficiently, but instead resort to such a pointless method?" Xue Dinglu then complained, "Even if He wants to have two meals in one, both exploiting fear and providing corpses to the Divine Tree, this is really slowing down the efficiency. It is actually more efficient than other apostles who play with breeding."

Mimicry King felt that Xue's criticism was very accurate, and he probably didn't even realize that his casual remarks could point directly to the key to the problem.

The Mimic King immediately calculated in this direction and came to a conclusion.

"The Seventh Apostle may have lost control of his authority, so he had to prioritize satisfying his authority before considering the issue of the Divine Tree. This also resulted in his strength being severely suppressed. This is why he focused on reaping fear, while collecting corpses for the Divine Tree might even be a secondary consideration," the Mimic King explained.

Xue Law: "..."

He couldn't laugh for a moment. Xue Dinglu knew all too well the feeling of losing control of power. He had killed the Eighth Apostle last time by taking advantage of the loss of control of immortal power.

If the immortal authority hadn't gone out of control, he would only have a chance to kill Him if he could drag the Eighth Apostle into self-destruction, completely releasing the void monster into the Eighth Apostle's subspace, and then devouring both himself and the Eighth Apostle together.

Yes, only kill once.

The Eighth Apostle's greatest strength is not in direct combat, but in His ability to survive. As long as the Lich King exists in the universe, He can be resurrected in the Lich King's body through His immortal authority.

Unless all of His Lich Kings are killed and His true form is thrown into nothingness, it might be possible to kill Him.

But who knows how many fragments of the soul the Eighth Apostle, the Immortal King, split off from, or how many Lich Kings are scattered throughout the universe?
Xue's Law was unaware of this, so he could only induce the Eighth Apostle to lose control of the immortal authority, thereby causing a backlash from the authority, in order to completely kill Him.

Hassan himself, and even all the nihilists in the entire masquerade ball, can be considered to be the ones who have been devoured by nihilism.

Xue's law was unclear, but he felt it should count. This group of people could only keep running, with the ethereal monster chasing relentlessly behind them. They didn't know when the ethereal monster would catch up with them and completely devour them, just like their predecessor Hassan.

However, the fruit of the divine tree should be able to alleviate the cost of authority...

Xue Falun thought so.

He probably also understood why the fruit of the divine tree could counteract the side effects of authority: it was because in the subspace, the barrier constructed by the King imprisoned all the evil gods and himself together...

The fruit of the Divine Tree is itself a creation that draws upon the spirituality of humans to form a power that is incomparably close to that of a Supreme King.

Thus, the fruit of the divine tree offsets the side effects of other powers, which corresponds to the ritual by which the Venerable King suppresses other evil gods at the edge of the subspace...

At the same time, it can also further strengthen the power of the apostles.

This may be why Hassan wanted to explore the end of the warp before he died. The information he discovered allowed Xue to understand and connect a lot of information. And this was only for him. For the Mimic King and the Starfleet, the value of this information was truly priceless.

Now, without Hassan, even though the Mimic King has already been to the end of the warp, he dares not go there again.

In the real universe, He considers Him invincible, but in the other world, it's hard to say...

“Perhaps the Seventh Apostle has reached a point where he has no choice but to drink poison to quench his thirst,” said the Mimic King, glancing at Xue Lude at the moment. “He may have realized that he could not wait for the next fruit to give him the opportunity to offset the side effects of authority, and thus had no choice but to submit to authority.”

Xue Law: "..."

He suddenly remembered that in the struggle for the resources of the Super Iron Curtain, it seemed that the Seventh Apostle and the Ninth Apostle fought the fiercest, but in the end, the Ninth Apostle still managed to snatch them.

Thus, Number 9 was the first apostle to embark on the journey.

Why didn't He borrow the fruit from other apostles? Xue's Law, in the Mist Council, deeply understood the price of borrowing the fruit from other apostles. Simply put, you would become a complete vassal of the other apostles, just like Number 9 became Number 6's dog, and Number 12 became Number 4's dog.

Therefore, He would rather bear it all himself, and only consider this last resort if all else fails.

With the help of the Mimic King's computing power, Xue Law had already figured out most of the Seventh Apostle's current predicament.

At the same time, he also found that he seemed to be inseparable from this old man. The computing power of the Mimic King was too good. He had only been here for a few minutes, and the Mimic King had basically calculated what color the Seventh Apostle's underwear was.

This was without them actively seeking intelligence. When has Xue Dinglu ever fought such a rich battle?

"Whoosh!" The cruise ship emitted a steaming sound at this moment, and its speed gradually decreased.

"We're almost there. We're about to begin the next mission. Good luck to you newbies. I hope you can survive the mission. Finally, a word of advice: don't trust anyone during the mission," the veteran with three rows of teeth reminded them.

[Entering soon: Island of Wraiths]

Main quest: As tourists, you need to survive for 7 days on the Island of Vengeful Spirits and uncover its secrets.

Wishing you a happy life!

A line of red text appeared directly in front of Xue Lude, but Xue Lude simply said, "Your Majesty, can you calculate the origin of this text?"

"Yes, the source lies in the Nightmare City I told you about before." (End of Chapter)