Immortal I Speedrun Supernatural Game

"Abyss No. 5 Experiment Subject".

From now on, your name will be [Ilmui].

As that special Naraku, forcibly abducted from the wicked world to the real world, endured boundless suffering, a gentle voice rang out.

Because of the world's rejection, the soul was crushed, but miraculously it did not completely dissolve due to the body's survival instinct and evolutionary adaptation.

This left [Ilmuy] stuck in a very delicate situation.

At that time, its soul consciousness was already incomplete, and it could not even control its physical body well, nor could it see anything. It felt as if it was endlessly falling into a dark abyss.

I don’t know how long it took.

Driven by a strong will to survive and a yearning to see the outside world.

It could see the outside view again.

At this point, it had transformed into a mountain of flesh, devoid of limbs and facial features. It could only try to wriggle and perceive its surroundings, only to find itself trapped inside some kind of transparent container.

Outside the container stood a woman with waist-length hair cascading down like a waterfall, her face exquisitely beautiful, and a subtle beauty mark at the corner of her eye adding a touch of allure.

The other party is holding some kind of device controller and continuously inputting something.

She glanced at the fleshy monster that was scrutinizing her and said calmly, "[Ilmui] still has a weak sense of self and has grown eye-like structures. This is considered her first awakening record. Testing her physical activity begins."

Her voice was exactly the same as the voice she heard in the endless abyss of her falling consciousness.

She gave herself her name!
In the Naraku race's belief system, one's parents are the ones who name them.

However, before Irmui could express his joy to her...

He then felt a sharp, intense pain and a numbing sensation from an electric shock coursing through his entire body.

It began to howl and struggle.

However, they could not break free from the constraints and could only bear all the inexplicable harm without any warning.

It doesn't know what an experiment is.

We can only assume that these injuries are like the environment of that harsh world we once knew—a divine punishment that there was no way to stop.

So it continued to follow its instincts to adapt and change its form.

Fortunately, compared to the world's rejection of this kind of resistance to the very source of life, adapting to vicious attacks is much easier.

Within minutes, Ilmui was no longer afraid of the strange electric shocks.

Seeing this, the woman outside the transparent container continued, "Next item."

In an instant, another kind of damage, different from electric shock, struck it.

It let out another mournful cry.

Then they began to adapt to the harsh environment.

In the days that followed, whenever Irmui no longer showed any evolutionary response to its current environment, essentially becoming completely adapted, a new, harsh stimulus would appear.

After countless "next items"—

It ekes out a living in temperatures hundreds of degrees below zero; it struggles to survive in the magma; it becomes numb in places filled with neurotoxins; and it gradually assimilates within containers filled with liquid metal…

No matter how severe the stimulation.

They can all survive tenaciously.

The reproductive instincts of creatures like Naraku are gradually restored during this process.

Because the reproduction of Naraku is an extremely special process—they need to eat biological samples that can adapt to the current environment in order to reproduce new Naraku.

However, in the original, harsh world, there were no other creatures besides Naraku.

Therefore, they will eat a portion of their own body tissue after they have fully matured and adapted to their environment.

In this way, the newly born Naraku can adapt to this harsh environment more quickly, and eventually, through countless iterations, a certain Naraku will be able to perfectly adapt to the current environment right from birth.

Then it will become an envoy of expeditions.

He went to other harsh environments and became the first Naraku to adapt to the new environment.

They firmly believed that this method was the only way to create "skeletons" that could ignore all harsh environments even in their infancy.

The maturation period of [Hai] is when it changes from adapting to the environment to changing the environment.

However, Irmui's situation is now special.

It doesn't need to eat any part of itself.

Because the woman who visits it every day provides it with food to eat.

Driven by the instinct to reproduce, Irmui's fleshy mountain with only eyes slowly split open, growing a mouth and teeth for eating.

For the first time, it ate food from the real world.

Not long after, another Naraku was born, which did not look like its current form, nor like the other Narakus from the original, terrible world.

Instead, she resembled the woman outside in some ways.

Unfortunately, the child lost vital signs the moment it was born.

Its children are also rejected by the world.

Then comes a period of even more painful stimulation, until Ilmui regains its reproductive instincts, and new food will be placed before it.

Then came another failed production run.

So, the cycle repeats.

With each failure, Irmui's desire to successfully give birth to a child grew stronger.

However, throughout this process, it has always had two questions—why it gave birth to children that resemble humans.

Logically, the offspring born from [Naraku] should only be closer to their mother, but now, due to the world's rejection, it has become this monster-like existence, and there is no way to reverse it.

Even if the child dies young.

It's also clear that this isn't the shape of a tumor, which makes it all the more strange.

Another point is—why, after adapting to a certain kind of vicious attack, when one has clearly entered the mature stage of reproduction, does one inexplicably revert to the form of a fleshy monster after a period of time after the attack ends?

It's as if this form has been fixed.

Unfortunately, Ilmuy's soul consciousness had long since shattered, and it was unable to think carefully about these complex issues, only vaguely remembering them.

On the contrary, the obsession with successfully giving birth to a child began to be imprinted deep in her soul.

During this process, the woman outside the transparent container appeared less and less frequently.

Instead, a man wearing a mask appeared, and whenever he appeared, the attacks on Ilmui became even more severe. There were even instances where the intensity was so great that Ilmui couldn't adapt immediately and almost died inside the transparent container.

This was also when he was in charge of providing the food needed for reproduction.

Perhaps the man simply didn't think that the mountain of flesh-like monster, Ilmui, could have any consciousness, and was too lazy to process the food.

That's when Ilmui realized what he was eating each time—it wasn't a normal piece of meat, because it was covered with a piece of clothing...

Although Ilmui was not human, it always regarded that woman as its mother.

Upon seeing food that resembles its mother's, it instinctively chooses to refuse to eat it.

The man became enraged.

They forcibly manipulated the instruments to pry open Irmui's mouth, forcing it to eat and enter the breeding stage.

Surprisingly—

This time, it worked.

When a girl was expelled from Ilmui's body, although her breathing and heartbeat were so weak as to be almost non-existent, her vital signs were still very real.

Shortly afterward, the woman returned.

She took the successfully born child away and named it – [ZG2233].

Perhaps it was the fulfillment of its obsession with procreation, or perhaps it was the man's force-feeding behavior that disgusted it.

After that, Irmui never exhibited reproductive instincts again.

Therefore, ZG2233 was the final work.

What happened next is known without needing Irmui's assimilation process.

ZG2233 is Zhuge Yue.

After growing up at the Pluto Research Institute, she learned her true identity and couldn't accept that her mother was a clone monster and that she herself was a product of some kind of fate experiment.

She escaped after becoming a player of the Calamity.

Driven by an obsession to defy the prophecy of the so-called "weaving machine of fate" and a distrust of everyone's goodwill, she embarked on a quest for "immortality."

Finally, he encountered the fall of Wu.

He died at his hands.

call--

Wu Wang, who was now in the hollowed-out position of Irmui, took a deep breath.

Looking at his body, which was still changing along with the other's, he shook his head and sighed, "Naraku... Illumui... you are truly an inescapable hell."

"Actually, you don't need to think about going home."

"You don't have a home at all."

"Of course, you don't have a mother either."

Hearing Wu Wang's voice, Ilmui, who was struggling against the annihilating force within her body, paused for a moment.

Its remaining, dwindling soul consciousness spent a considerable amount of time failing to comprehend Wu Wang's words.

All he could do was ask, "What do you mean..."

In response, Wu Wang slowly emerged from his body and floated in mid-air to stabilize his erratic form.

He gave a thumbs-up towards the beach.

He could sense that the attack just now was filled with the aura of [Fragments of the Past].

It was clearly an attack launched by the second sister.

It seems I underestimated my second sister, or perhaps I was so focused on protecting her that I never considered putting her in such a high-intensity battle, and therefore I didn't understand her true strength.

Then, Wu Wang looked at Irmui.

He began to explain, "The place you are in is called the Pluto Research Institute. I didn't know what they were researching before, but what I just saw has shown me why they are hiding in Antarctica."

"You really think you're a [Naraku]? I don't think so."

These words left Irmui even more bewildered.

It couldn't understand Wu Wang's part about the Pluto Research Institute; it only understood that the other party thought it wasn't Naraku.

What a joke!
I don't even know anything about myself?
Before it could express any opinion, Wu Wang continued, "Do you really think you're special? Why can't other [Naraku] come here? Why are you able to survive in the real world? Is it just because of your strong adaptability?"

He held up his finger and waved it.

He shook his head and denied it, saying, "That's wrong. You're called the 'Abyss No. 5 Experiment Subject,' which means there were four similar experimental subjects before you. They probably failed and died."

"But this also shows that your existence is not special; you survived simply because you were luckier than them."

"The reason why it can be mass-produced and truly allows you to stay in the real world is simple—you are an experimental creation of Naraku and human genes."

Upon hearing this, Irmui's already halted collapse was reopened.

It was like its collapsing soul consciousness, completely out of control.

"What...are you saying...?"

After all, Wu Wang also experienced everything that Ilmui suffered under the influence of [Twisted Origin of Enemy and Foe].

To be honest, if it weren't for his "immortality," he would probably be another mountain of flesh monster by now.

Therefore, he was very confident in his reasoning.

"If you want to come from the dungeon world to reality, [Naraku] is indeed the best choice. Their innate weakness makes them less restricted by the world's barriers, and their ability to adapt and evolve gives them a better chance of surviving the world's rejection."

"But the most important thing is—not to be rejected by the world so completely."

"You underestimate the protection that the world's rejection and the 'spiritual disaster' game provide for reality before the [public beta]."

This is an insurmountable chasm that even Venerable Ones cannot cross directly! How could it be accomplished simply by adapting?
Wu Wang squinted as he thought of Zhuge Yue and how she looked when she last used [Fatal Blood].

Zhuge Yue doesn't have this kind of adaptability.

Aside from being rejected by the world because her blood contains information about a clone, she is basically no different from a normal human being.

This proves that the world's rejection of her was not actually that strong.

Finally, Wu Wang concluded—

Illumui, the source of the mother body, is not a pure [Naraku] at all!
Yes, dungeon creatures can't cross over into the real world, but it's not that difficult for players of the Necropolis to travel to the dungeon world.

It is almost certain that Wu perished.

That madwoman used human genes to go to the corresponding instance world, and then used the special adaptability of [Naraku], which may even ignore reproductive isolation, to create a lot of [Test-tube Naraku].

These "test-tube Naraku" remain in the instance world until they hatch, and are only brought back to the real world after they are born.

In this way, they retain the adaptability of [Naraku], and also have a small part of their origin in the real world at the soul level.

They weren't completely rejected or wiped out; it was like they exploited a loophole in the protection provided by the Spirit Disaster game.

As for why she did that...

In fact, there's an even more bizarre theory behind the fall of Wu—

Perhaps because humans born from the [Test Tube Abyss] contain components in their blood that do not belong to the real world, they have a higher probability of being chosen as Spirit Disaster players, even reaching 100%!

Before the announcement of the public beta test.

No one knew that the Necropolis game planned to select and purify all of humanity to become Necropolis players.

Moreover, decades ago, players of the Spirit Disaster were a rare supernatural group.

If the [Test Tube Abyss] experiment goes more smoothly, then the [Pluto Research Institute] could completely produce Spirit Disaster players in batches!
This is a very scary thing.

In other words, the Pluto Institute studies things that could easily disrupt the stability of the real world, which is why no country or organization can tolerate them!

No wonder they hid it.

On the other hand, if everything is really as I guessed, then it proves that not only Zhuge Yue was a tragic experimental creation, but also her mother, [Ilmuy].

His casual remark that it was homeless had come true.

The instance world is not its true home.

It is merely an artificial monster that does not belong to any world and was born to accomplish a certain research mission.

After listening to Wu Wang's explanation.

Ilmui trembled violently, and the metal fortress around his body began to crumble, like a crab molting.

When all the excess parts that had evolved due to their adaptability during the battle with Wu Wang were shed, the familiar fleshy mountain shell reappeared on the sea surface.

It returned to its original state.

However, its bloated, fleshy body is now beginning to show signs of decay.

The body's instinctive adaptability resisted annihilation, but Ilmuy's remaining soul consciousness wanted to give up the desire to survive.

This is a true dilemma.

It no longer has much desire to live.

He suffered throughout his life.

Even though all I ever wanted was to live a good life, without a single other thought, I couldn't even fulfill such a simple wish.

In the end, he discovered that he was destined to live in hell from birth.

It truly lives up to the meaning of the word "Naraku".

Just as I said before—

"Pathetic, laughable, and pitiful."

Seeing Ilmui's painful struggle, Wu Wang knew very well that it had no hope of being saved.

Even if they don't come looking for revenge.

It will forever be imprisoned in the Pluto Research Institute, suffering endless experiments and torture.

Even if it hides away now, it will never be able to find it, and that will be of no use.

After all, its soul consciousness had been rejected and crushed the moment it arrived in the real world, and it could only survive by relying on the body's adaptability.

In this state, it is actually suffering from the torment of a shattered soul at all times, yet it cannot truly fall into eternal sleep.

[Adaptation and Evolution]

This is both its reason for being alive and the basis of its perpetual suffering.

Perhaps, for it, death is a relief now.

After taking a deep breath, Wu Wang gently patted the sticky mountain of flesh and whispered:

Do you yearn for death?

I never imagined that one day I would actually ask this question to someone else, after all, I was the one who craved death the most in the past.

Faced with Wu Wang's sudden question.

Perhaps its mind, still as simple as a child's, needs time to understand Wu Wang's meaning.

Or perhaps it felt ironic about its own long-held obsession with living.

Irmus remained silent for a long time.

Until a dark cloud gathered overhead.

The pattering raindrops pattered on its enormous body, seemingly trying to wash away the slime on its body and the filth floating on the sea surface.

Looking at the human being, so insignificant compared to himself, the murderer who killed his child, Ilmui spoke.

“I’ve said it before… my child did nothing wrong… the only mistake was that I came to a place that doesn’t belong to me… I’ve dragged my child down with me…”

"I... crave death!"

Upon hearing this, a glint of light flashed in Wu Wang's eyes, and he lightly tapped the other's body with his fist.

He said calmly—

"Fine, I will grant you death."

"I will personally fulfill your long-cherished wish of a long sleep that you have never experienced."

Good night, sweet dreams. (End of Chapter)