Using the MC system to pretend spiritual revival

Chapter 215 Creation (1+1)

Finally, a scream ended the ordeal.

Amidst the streets filled with parked vans and motorcycles, only the girl's silvery laughter could be heard.

And, like the eerie, sticky sound of some kind of mollusk moving.

Throughout the streets, large clumps of bright red flesh spread, wriggled, and expanded in a thread-like manner, eventually growing into slender bodies as dense as grassland.

One layer after another, pile after pile.

Until every drop of blood and every strand of flesh scattered on the ground, as they expanded, lost their crimson color, grew skin and flesh, and stood up.

It only took about ten minutes in total.

The once deserted street was now filled with identical figures, bringing the once quiet street back to its bustling state.

As the last drop of blood that rolled to the ground stood up, the Tomies looked at each other, put on sweet smiles, and began to speak.

"...Hello...you..."

"...Do you have...food?"

"..."

A brief uproar ensued amidst a somewhat monotonous cacophony of noise.

A moment later, as if they had reached some kind of consensus, they all turned around and went into the nearest street.

In just a few breaths, it had vanished completely.

All that remained on the ground were clumps of wrinkled and torn clothing, and a vehicle that was running but no one was driving.

……

The field of vision is raised.

At this moment, the bright moon hangs high in the sky.

Just above the street where the unrest had just subsided, at the edge of the rooftop of a towering building overlooking the surrounding old six-story residential buildings.

A figure with an ethereal air sat there in the moonlight, quietly watching everything below calm down and the dust settle before withdrawing its gaze.

"Hmm... I didn't expect the visual effects to be so good."

Lu Gu muttered to himself.

Looking at the bottom right corner of my field of vision, the ten or so lines that pop up average out 15 points of MC income per person.

Then, on a whim, he closed the notification box.

Clearly, these people were genuinely frightened.

The emotional fluctuations caused by the fear of death are even greater than those experienced when a person is killed.

The output, which should have been 10 points, was more than 50% higher.

Overall, it turned out to be surprisingly successful this time.

Kawakami Tomie.

This humanoid creature, unlike any of the previous creations, was a byproduct of Lu Guxian's extremely boredom and research attempts.

Because of the split-screen module, although the work is still done by the individual, each person has become idle.

Staying in Yinghua Kingdom, Lü Gu, who was in charge of the initial push for monsters and extraordinary beings, soon found himself with nothing to do.

I originally thought that when I released the Dark version of the Cloud Whale, I would see a scene similar to the domestic fight against the Tomb of the Hundred Kings, where everyone worked together, gathered, blocked, and fought against it.

But he never expected that the local governance system would create such a huge mess for him.

After probing a couple of times and realizing they couldn't win, they directly sent troops to blockade the city and the roads.

Then let the monsters destroy the city and slaughter the residents.

This left Lü Gu speechless for a while.

But upon reflection, this actually suited my job quite well; the difficulty of the spiritual energy revival in Yinghua Kingdom was directly reduced from easy to baby level.

We can simply wait and see how these officials, who seem to be thinking nothing, mess things up, and the virus will quickly spread throughout the country.

It didn't even require his intervention; it was all done behind closed doors.

After wandering around for a while, I quickly grew tired of the repetitive scenery.

Later, Lü Gu was extremely bored, so he thought of a problem that had been bothering him for a long time.

Create oxen and horses to do the work.

Although we've become more independent now and can build simultaneously in multiple locations, it's still ultimately exhausting for us.

This inevitably brings to mind the fully automated underground villager factory and the two-bird response program that was previously implemented in Los Santos, United States.

By utilizing villagers with a certain level of logical intelligence to combine commands, a certain degree of semi-automatic operation can be achieved.

However, due to the villagers' limited intelligence and execution capabilities, they were still unable to accomplish much.

For the first time in history, the purchase of a large module, the Sky Mirror, also added a number of new creatures.

With nothing else to do, Lü Gu decided to try testing it again.

At least in the past, the Narwhals have shown that they are much smarter than the original neutral creatures.

Then, after a series of creations that could be described as a bolt from the blue, something truly extraordinary happened.

After further testing and experimentation, they created the extremely eerie prototype of Tomie, which is shown below.

Lu Gu also came to a conclusion.

The creatures in the mod are indeed smarter than those in the original game.

This includes creatures like the Celestial Pig and Celestial Cow, which are simply original versions with different colors and wings.

The BOSS creatures in the Trial Hall are even more intelligent, sometimes surpassing the villagers' limited logical abilities.

Lü Gu, bursting with inspiration, directly drew upon his previous experience in creating vampires.

The game simply and mindlessly combines several high-IQ bosses from the new mod with the original villager, who is the source of all the game's intelligence.

This is also the first time we've tried this, with so many biological templates nested together.

Fortunately, the anticipated bugs did not occur.

It seems that, after being removed from the game's intellectual property, these operations that could have caused the system to crash were executed perfectly thanks to the game's strong adaptability in the real world.

The result is that, after adding a bunch of bosses and villagers, the intelligence of the creatures created increases dramatically.

Although Lu Gu's tests revealed that he was quite human-machine in terms of emotions.

However, in terms of rational thinking, it is already very close to the thinking of intelligent beings, and is generally below the level of normal people, at the level of mild intellectual disability.

Furthermore, it's unclear whether this is a BOSS from the Sky Realm module, but it does have this dialogue feature.

So after equipping it, not only did their intelligence increase significantly, but they could even speak.

Unlike before when Lü Gu manipulated the sound through permissions, this time it could speak on its own based on logical thinking.

Although the AI ​​is somewhat rigid, it's still an epic buff.

At least for some simple character skins, Lü Gu doesn't need to change his own skin and add them to the top.

This can be considered a complete solution to the problem of monsters not being able to speak or communicate.

After all, it makes sense that they were originally of low rank and lacked intelligence.

But when the spiritual energy resurgence intensifies, and stronger, more powerful monsters appear that still cannot speak or communicate, it becomes somewhat illogical.

This can be considered as fixing a small bug in the spiritual revival.

And looking at the experimental results, the multi-modal superimposed organisms twisted and expanded among the constantly changing organisms.

Lu Gu was also caught up in the moment, and his mind suddenly went blank, and inspiration surged.

All overpowered skills and equipment were removed, leaving only the massive amount of health.

Finally, bursting with inspiration, Lü Gu added another slime, creating a rather wickedly sculpted shape resembling the manga character Tomie Kawakami.

She has waist-length black hair, bangs, and a classic beauty mark under her eye.

Then, with his extraordinary control, he made the other party immerse themselves in a sea of ​​data on the computer for three days and three nights.

After completing his studies, he was placed in this city by Lü Gu.

He also thoughtfully found the leader in charge of information registration, based on the wealth possessed by Minecraft players.

—Mountains of gold and diamonds, with a little bit of military assistance.

They successfully created a complete archive of a twenty-year residential history that did not exist at all and was fabricated out of thin air.

The records were a bit too rigid and inflexible, but they absolutely did not detect any errors.

After all, it's quite frightening to see a gold nugget fall on you.

By throwing money at the problem, Lü Gu knocked down every obstacle, whether greedy or not.

It's not that there are no other options.

For example, now there are BOSS templates that can talk and have intelligence.

It can be used in conjunction with a skin modifier to quietly replace a character.

But that's too much trouble; you have to study and there's a lot of stuff involved.

As you can see, it took a whole afternoon to get an identity for Tomie Kawakami.

Although the workload of each clone has decreased and they are less busy now that there are clones, time shouldn't be wasted like this.

After doing all this, Lü Gu released it back into the big city.

After all, although its appearance has been sculpted into a beautiful human shape, it shouldn't be too difficult for it to die.

Lu Gu added a lot of potion effect buffs.

After all, it was the first being he created himself that could be called an artificial human, so it was quite memorable.

To a certain extent, this should be called the original work?
After that, Lü Gu became completely immersed in his art of sculpting people, oblivious to the world around him.

They started modifying various creatures, adding restrictions and rules, and were preparing to create some ghost stories.

It just so happens that this entire city is under lockdown, creating a very strong visual and stylistic effect.

Lu Gu spent several days not only creating various monsters, but also sculpting them.

When she had sculpted 1,756 pieces, she felt the first creation of the mark, the individual Tomie Kawakami, come near her.

It appears that a battle took place, triggering the slime template.

Since I had nothing else to do, I came over to take a look.

Unexpectedly, the seemingly cute and easy-to-bully slime splitting effect in the game looks so terrifying after being reskinned in real life.

"...But thinking about it carefully, Tomie should be considered the first ghost story I introduced here, right?"

"Then how should this rule be calculated?"

Having already absorbed the supernatural tales into his mind, Lü Gu immediately asked this question.

During this period, he used various original and SkyCraft mod creatures to create quite a few monsters, and has gained considerable research experience.

There is a tall, thin, unemployed ghost that wanders around. If you make eye contact with it, you will be instantly teleported in front of it and attacked wildly.

There are also murder dolls that wander the streets at night and freeze in place when watched.

There are also giant human-head balloons floating in the sky, a gruesome corpse, a spider with a human face, a pig-headed butcher, a strange dog, and many other wonderful characters that you can watch endlessly.

There's also a large group of miscellaneous, weak cannon fodder left over.

In short, this wave of rain caused the city, which had just calmed down, to become lively for two days, but it quickly became quiet again.

This made Lü Gu marvel at how incredibly adaptable people are.

Although at the beginning, all sorts of monsters that he deliberately squeezed into particularly disgusting or distorted and terrifying shapes emerged.

Many people were eliminated in fear and without any ability to resist.

But soon, someone stepped forward to take charge, quickly uncovering the patterns of some powerful monsters, and then adapting to and avoiding them.

Many others, through guesswork and speculation, came up with some kind of supernatural rules, printed them out, and circulated them among various small organizations and groups in the aftermath of the turmoil. These rules became a survival "gold" even more important than food and fresh water.

In just over a week, Lü Gu was shocked to discover this.

In this city, which was under lockdown and in turmoil, and filled with ghosts, people had somehow adapted to living there, navigating between various rules and life and death.

It's as if this place has always been like this...

"Humans are truly amazing, resilient yet fragile, dark yet sacred beings..."

Muttering to himself, Lü Gu looked up at the city, now plunged into darkness due to the damaged and severed power lines.

After nightfall, lights began to twinkle in safe spots on the top floors of some high-rise buildings.

Then he turned to look into the distance.

With his extraordinary eyesight, Lü Gu could easily spot the ribbon-like lights swirling around the city in the pitch-black darkness on its outskirts.

He couldn't help but purse his lips.

"It's truly incomprehensible; monsters kill people, and people kill people too..."

With a hint of sarcasm in his voice, Lü Gu pushed himself up from the ground.

After dusting off non-existent dust, he turned around and disappeared from the rooftop in a flash.

Finally, a remark, whether an exclamation or a comment, drifted slowly away in the night breeze.

"What an abstract country..."

……

at this time.

On the far edge of the city, amidst mountains, plains, and streetlights.

As the camera zooms in, you can see a series of searchlights, vehicles, and crowds mounted on detachable brackets.

Barbed wire fences were erected at every intersection and on the open ground, and even further back, walls were being built by workers working overtime.

Beams of light shone on the flat area outside the barbed wire fence, where trees and grass had been cut down, resembling a clear, unobstructed area in front of trenches during wartime.

Behind these structures, lights were hoisted up, and the roar of various construction machines mingled with the noise of people.

Cement bricks, steel bars, and iron frames were quickly stacked up among the workers, moving about like building blocks.

Surrounding all of this were soldiers in uniform, armed and alert, looking around warily.

Correspondingly, the sky was also interspersed with the rumbling of helicopters.

And at the very center of it all, in the brightest spot of light.

On a main road that runs through the city center and connects directly to the outside world, two armored vehicles are positioned across the road, blocking the road.

Behind this, a gate-like structure, several meters high, is already taking shape.

At some of the elevated platforms, searchlights and armed soldiers were on guard.

"Leave here and return to the city!"

"The road is blocked; no one is allowed to pass!!"

The loudspeakers mounted on the front of the armored vehicle kept repeating these kinds of phrases.

Epidemic prevention signs and quarantine markers were placed all along both sides of the road.

Beyond these, there were various vehicles crammed into the hundreds of meters of suburban highway, and a dense crowd of people behind the median strip at the front.

There were shouts and curses, children crying, and soldiers taking a step forward roaring.

"Back off, or I'll shoot!!"

A soldier wearing a gas mask and holding a gun roared.

Amidst the clanging of metal, he raised his rifle and aimed it at the angry, well-dressed middle-aged man who had stepped out of the police cordon.

"Let me through, do you know who I am?! You..."

The man roared, swinging his arm adorned with a glittering luxury watch, and took another step forward.

He glared angrily at the soldier, completely oblivious to the cold glint in the soldier's eyes behind the gas mask visor.

The next moment, the soldier lowered his gun without hesitation and pulled the trigger.

"boom--!!"

A bullet, accompanied by the flash, heat, and whistling of the gun barrel.

It struck the man in the suit's thigh instantly, drawing out a large amount of blood before passing right through his body.

Everything happened without warning, too suddenly. After a moment of stunned silence, a sound was heard.

"...Ah!! My leg! Damn it!!"

After the man in the suit cried out in pain and collapsed to the ground clutching his gunshot wound, the soldier, under the frozen gaze of the crowd, coldly put away his gun and returned to his original position.

"You have been infected by a special virus! No one is allowed to leave this lockdown area until it is confirmed to be safe!!"

With the example of the person still groaning on the ground, the previously noisy crowd immediately quieted down.

Many people had already turned around and were heading towards the city.

Although the area is currently fraught with danger, at least there are still some supplies available.

Many of the people gathered here had rushed here in a panic and had very little food. Staying here would only mean dying of thirst and hunger.

Prior to this, some people had tried to find these soldiers, but they were not allowed to even get close to them or speak to them, let alone provide them with resources or supplies.

This applies to more than just this road.

In fact, there have been more than a few incidents of riots on the roads leading from Tokyo to the outside world, and more than a few people have been shot, injured, or even killed.

Gradually, the crowd that had gathered also began to despair and disperse.

Only a few people who still held onto a sliver of hope remained, squatting at the congested intersection.

I'm hoping that when I open my eyes tomorrow, the lockdown will be lifted, and that people from the official Sakura organization will come to rescue me.

But the outcome was destined to disappoint them.

If they could take a closer look at the nearby construction sites and the scale of the fences and walls, they would be able to see the scale of the city.

Then you'll know that those construction standards are not for temporary use over a few days, months, or even years.

Soon, as people dispersed and left again, the crowd shrank once more, but there were still hundreds or thousands of people stuck in the traffic.

This time, however, everyone fell silent, partly because they were startled by the soldiers' gunfire, and partly to conserve their energy, since food was really scarce.

However, this quiet did not last long.

Soon, the commotion coming from what everyone perceived as the passage leading to the outside world caused another uproar among the crowd.

The heavy steel gate that blocked the road slowly opened amidst the roar of several stationary tractors.

A large, camouflaged armored vehicle led the way, followed by several troop transport jeeps, and drove in with an air of nonchalance.

The soldiers who had blocked the way simply removed their obstruction without saying a word, and the crowd retreated to both sides of the road.

As if welcoming them, they watched the strange convoy drive by.

How could the crowd that witnessed this scene possibly remain calm?
The disturbance had barely subsided when another round of protests and shouts erupted.

But perhaps because of the people in the convoy, this time the soldiers only looked at those who were jumping the most enthusiastically with cold eyes, but did not choose to fire again.

Soon, the vehicles passed by.

The steel gate, cast in metal, was slowly lowered, and the roadblocks and protective barriers were moved back by the soldiers working together.

The large armored vehicle, as wide as some kind of heavy truck, slowed down, turned off the engine, and stopped in front of the noisy crowd.

The side doors slowly opened, and two heavily armed elite soldiers got out of the car and stood on either side, lowering the stairs.

Then, a black-haired young man with an arrogant expression appeared, his style completely out of place, dressed in a smooth, lustrous silk robe.

He stepped out of the wide car door with his arms outstretched, embracing two beautiful young women.

He stepped out of the carriage as soldiers bowed their heads respectfully.

"Tsk~ This place is such a mess, the roads are all blocked, how am I supposed to get through?"

As soon as he got out of the car, his expensive custom-made leather shoes touched the ground, and the young man scanned his surroundings.

Looking at the crowd and vehicles blocking the road behind the police line not far away, glaring at him and shouting insults.

He raised an eyebrow, clicked his tongue, and spoke with obvious dissatisfaction.

"Is this the attitude of you Sakura people? With so many people blocking our way, why don't you tell them to get lost!"

These words, made no attempt to conceal their disgust for the crowd, and this blatant insult and offense naturally fueled the crowd's discontent.

The disparity in treatment between the two sides, coupled with the double standards of these soldiers, only fueled my indignation.

The shouting grew increasingly intense, and even trash and bricks were thrown at them.

"Who are you? Why can you come in while we can't leave?!"

"Yeah, what are you people doing?!"

"..."

With shouts and curses, various objects were thrown towards the young man like a shower of petals.

But the next moment, the arrogant and cocky young man simply raised his hand.

A gust of wind suddenly surged and gathered in the night, swirling and squeezing around the young man's raised hand.

"boom--!"

In the blink of an eye, the trash and stones that filled the sky were swept away by the gust of wind and flew into the crowd.

The next moment, a scream and a cry of pain rang out.

But it's not over yet after all that.

The young man stopped his palm on his fingertips, and more air currents gathered and compressed into a powerful, visible gust of wind that hovered.

Because of the attack and curses, the young man's face, which was originally just disdainful and arrogant, was now covered with frost, and his eyes were gloomy.

"Since you don't want to get involved, then I'll take care of it for you..."

After saying that, he made a move to throw the compressed wind ball in his hand, which looked terrifyingly powerful, into the crowd.

Perhaps it was the debris that had been swept back earlier that had an effect, or perhaps it was the feeling of fear.

The previously noisy and cursing crowd fell silent, and fear permeated the crowd.

At that moment, in the car behind, stood a bald, gaunt old man wearing a cherry blossom-style kimono.

He stumbled and ran over, looking rather disheveled, followed by two uniformed officials.

His eyes were filled with panic, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he was shouting as he ran.

"Lord Wang Fan, please stop!"

As Ito Taiji ran, he cursed the soldiers around him in his heart for being so clueless and not taking action to stop those lowly people.

But everything happened so fast that he had no idea what was going on.

It's only been less than a minute since we got off the bus, and such a big thing has happened. We were just a step too late.

Fortunately, his words seemed to have had some effect.

Although the young man looked impatient, he still stopped what he was doing.

However, the gathered wind did not dissipate and continued to point towards the terrified crowd.

Finally, under the increasingly impatient gaze of the young man, the bald, short old man ran up to him, panting heavily and covered in sweat.

But he still forced himself to stand up, put his arms together at his sides, and bowed deeply in apology.

"I am truly sorry, Lord Wang Fan! It is my fault for failing to discipline my subordinates properly, which allowed these lowly people to offend you!"

"Please wait a moment, I'll have these people removed..."

(End of this chapter)