Reincarnated as a bamboo rat, it begins its extreme survival struggle.

Each girl who has been transformed here has her own unique number, with the region where she was collected as the prefix and her number as the nth child collected as the suffix, forming her exclusive number.

For example, the child who was reformed today is Huangtan No. 427, which means she is the 427th child from Huangtan City.

Because producing crimson marrow requires the mother to have considerable talent, the various powerful families in Chishui City were obviously unwilling to let their own people produce crimson marrow. This only happened in the early days of Chishui City's founding. After Chishui City consolidated its position among the top four cities, the mothers producing crimson marrow have always come from other surrounding cities and areas that have not yet formed cities.

For Chishui City, the more chaotic and barren the surrounding area, the better. This way, many talented individuals will not be able to demonstrate their extraordinary abilities so early, and will still be in a weak stage when they are discovered.

Huangtan City, a closed city with a large population, served as the best source of the fertile ground for Chishui City over the past few centuries.

In order to ensure that Huangtan City could continuously provide Chishui City with talented children, the higher-ups in Chishui City even deliberately strengthened the isolation measures in Huangtan City.

Although behemoths like the Upper Four Cities have a long tradition of recruiting talented children from the surrounding areas, most of them are trained to become city guards or members of secret organizations. It is rare to find a city like Chishui City that directly produces resources on the spot.

However, the reason for its extreme rarity is technological limitations. It is believed that if Chishui City's technology were handed over to other cities, the city administrators would certainly establish similar underground bases to Chishui City and frantically extract the essence of Chishui Light.

There's no way around it; the profits involved are simply too enormous.

Currently, there are 198 mothers underground in Chishui City who can produce Crimson Light Essence. This means that Chishui City can produce nearly a thousand Crimson Light Essences every month. Only one-fifth of these Crimson Light Essences will enter the market to generate income for Chishui City.

This money will provide the underground base with ample funding for maintenance, the purchase of various consumable materials, and the acquisition of new mother structures.

The buying and selling of people and slavery have always been illegal practices in human societies around the world. The Church has spared no effort in preventing the emergence of slavery and the buying and selling of people.

But while it's forbidden to do it openly, such things happen secretly all the time.

When there is a significant gap in individual strength, it is not uncommon for the stronger to enslave the weaker, not to mention the different development situations in different regions.

When famine occurs in areas like Huangtancheng, the underground organizations in Chishuicheng...

When large quantities of food appear here, and the offer to exchange the food for children is made, the success rate is frighteningly high.

They don't even need to make deals with the children's parents. They just need to find a few strong thugs with professional hand-to-hand combat training, tell them how much of a reward they'll get for luring or abducting someone's child, and these thugs are happy to do it.

Where there is demand, there will be a market. If the transaction amount is appropriate, the church will be powerless to stop it no matter how much it tries.

"I thought I had become accustomed to the bad things in this world, but I didn't expect this to be just the beginning..."

Bell couldn't judge this world's treatment of people as less than human. In his mind, even as a bamboo rat, he didn't feel inferior to intelligent beings when interacting with them. Similarly, despite possessing various powerful abilities, Bell didn't see himself as fundamentally different from Edu and his ilk.

But the reality of this world is that people are different, and there is a general perception of hierarchy and social status.

Bell had already experienced this in Azure Star City, which was relatively wealthy, so this kind of trend wasn't strong there. It was only among the subhuman groups like Edu that there was a phenomenon of being ostracized, but it wasn't particularly prominent in other places.

In Huangtancheng, the people there had already divided themselves into several different groups.

The most typical examples are the homeless people in the slums. They have no jobs and are unwilling to look for jobs. They spend every penny they find. When they have no money or jobs, they smash up the relief centers. If you try to persuade them with the mindset of a normal person, they will proudly reject all advice and suggestions from normal people with the words "We come from the slums". But if you give them money or supplies, they can break out into a looting frenzy.

When city administrators or powerful adventurers appear before them, this group of people will slink away like stray dogs, afraid of offending others. If those people show the slightest dissatisfaction with them, they will immediately become so humble that they would hide in the ground, demeaning themselves to the extreme.

Those experiences had already given Bell some ideas, but when he saw the underground of Redwater City, where the strong treated the weak as mere resources, Bell's emotions reached a fever pitch.

If it weren't for his fiery rationality constantly burning away Bell's excessive emotions, he probably wouldn't have been able to control his rage and would have caused a huge scene in this underground base.

"Hoo—As an outsider, my anger has reached its peak. How could you, as the ones who have been modified, not have any emotions?"

Bell jumped off his assistant's shoulder and walked among the numerous glass houses. Looking at the many Mother Bodies inside, their faces withered, their eyes vacant, and drooling with silly grins, his mental energy quietly spread out.

Their brain regions were cut off, and their spirits atrophied due to the loss of physical tissue, but their souls remained, and so did the sea of ​​depravity.

In this hidden base seventy meters underground, at the very bottom of this land, Bell's consciousness first ventured into the sea of ​​despair in the human world, attempting to touch that deepest despair and rage.

A blurry trace slowly coalesced in the sea of ​​despair, and the despair and anger shaped her into a clear image.

She is the queen of this sea of ​​desolation, a regional lord like Bell, except that she has no physical form.

"Thank you for coming, unknown king from afar. I have been waiting here for six hundred years."

Chapter 222 Help Me Ascend to Godhood

The Sea of ​​Depths in the human world is completely different from the Bamboo Forest controlled by Bell. The Sea of ​​Depths, which is gradually recovering and growing in the Bamboo Forest area, is still in a disordered and wild state, with a chaotic and unclear structure.

However, beneath Redwater City, the Sea of ​​Depths is in a highly ordered state, and Bell can clearly sense that different areas here serve different functions.

After all, the Sea of ​​Desolation within Chishui City has been repeatedly developed by the Church over the years and has become part of the Church's control.

The church uses the Sea of ​​Depravity to bury the dead, strengthen its own members, and generate resources...

It can be said that the entire Sea of ​​Depths is under the control of the Church, and they are able to use the Sea of ​​Depths as a means of perception, just like Bell, to explore some secrets in Redwater City.

It is certain that the Church was not entirely unaware of the modification experiments beneath Chishui City.

"However, the fact that such a transformation site, which clearly violates the church's doctrines, can persist for so long is due to the conflicting interests involved, making it difficult for the church to intervene. They even have to cooperate with the underground base in Chishui City to dispose of the corpses of those modified people."

Once the underground mothers lose their ability to produce red marrow, their lives come to an end, and the disposal of corpses cannot be done without the participation of church members.

As one of the largest organizations in the world, churches also have members dedicated to handling these dirty jobs.

"Under these circumstances, it is not easy for such a powerful collection of souls to appear in the Sea of ​​Oblivion."

Bell appeared in the Sea of ​​Despair, his entire body engulfed in flames. This was the [Fire-Loving Wisdom] protecting his will from the corruption of the girl-like soul aggregate before him.

She is the collective soul of the mother of death here over the years, a super monster fused together with despair and madness as the glue. Even the slightest perception of her presence will cause severe trauma to one's consciousness.

Humans of the level of the nun from Azure Star City would suffer a complete mental breakdown if their consciousness came into even slight contact with her in the Sea of ​​Depravity.

In a sense, she could be considered the queen of the Sea of ​​Sinking in the Chishui City region, but this queen was in a rather miserable state, not daring to reveal her existence and constantly drawing power from the Sea of ​​Sinking.

"Hiding in and out of hiding is my normal state. As an outsider, you should know just how strong the Church's control over the sea of ​​depravity in the human world really is."

The desperate soul entity calls itself Phili, and this is her third rebirth in the Sea of ​​Depravity.

According to her, Feli was born in the seventieth year since the Crimson Essence Production Project began. At that time, although Crimson Water City already had the method to produce Crimson Essence, it had not yet developed to the level of systematic mass production it has today.

The first awakened Feli had no name of her own. Driven by despair and rage, she infused the power of the Sea of ​​Depravity into the early modified mothers, causing them to rebel violently.

That resistance resulted in a certain number of casualties in Chishui City. After all, the level of the Mother Entity, which had been infused with her power, rapidly expanded to around level 40, and the combined fighting power of dozens of Mother Entities was quite astonishing.

But this

Blind resistance, in the face of Chishui City which had secured its position among the top four cities, would have an obvious outcome.

After her defeat, Feli not only lost all her maternal bodies, but also lost herself in the process, her soul condensation in the Sea of ​​Depravity was violently shattered.

Of course, she was not completely destroyed in the Sea of ​​Depths. After a considerable period of time, Feli was resurrected in the Sea of ​​Depths.

Two hundred years had passed by then, and Chishui City had not only resumed the production of the red marrow liquid, but also found the most efficient and convenient production method available today.

Having been resurrected for the second time, Feli gained wisdom. She chose to delve into the Sea of ​​Depth, constantly drawing power from it, hoping to use her status as the Queen of the Sea of ​​Depth to overthrow the entire Redwater City.

Unfortunately, before Phili could grow powerful enough, the Church reacted sooner than other organizations in Redwater City.

Within the human world, the Sea of ​​Depravity is clearly a private domain belonging exclusively to the Church. It is the source of power for many professionals within the Church and also their source of resources.

The Church's powerful members gathered their strength and stormed into the Sea of ​​Depravity, catching Philie off guard as she prepared to unleash her power. Philie's second act of resistance began hastily.

This time, her resistance was even stronger, causing considerable trouble for the church and Chishui City, and even killing a level 54 elderly powerhouse in Chishui City.

However, Feli, whose power comes from the Sea of ​​Depth, is also trapped in the Sea of ​​Depth to some extent. Her attack methods, growth rate, and even hiding places are all predictable.

When the church summoned powerful figures stationed in other regions to form a regional bishop's siege force, Phili's second counterattack came to an end.

She was shattered once again, and her existence has drawn the attention of the church. Now, the church has designated people to regularly inspect the Sea of ​​Depravity, and any signs of Phili's resurgence will trigger a siege by the church.

This also greatly slowed down the progress of Felicity's third resurrection, which was not successfully completed until a hundred years ago.

But after her third resurrection, she became even more formidable, her intelligence greatly enhanced.

During this relatively long period of resurrection, her will fragmented, constantly traversing the Sea of ​​Depth, drawing upon the wisdom of the deceased from Chishui City over the years.

During this process, Felicity kept thinking and realized that even if she overturned the underground base of Chishui City, it would not change the status quo in the slightest.

Since the technology for manufacturing the Crimson Marrow Mother has matured, and the massive population represented by Crimson Water City has a strong demand for Crimson Light Essence, what does it matter if Feli overturns an underground base?

Chishui City allows people to establish new underground bases in other places, where they can continuously collect raw materials and replenish the population needed from other places. With enough profit, building one more underground base, or even ten more, would not be a problem.

"I can handle the underground base, but I can't handle the continuous supply of raw materials for Crimson Light Essence, nor can I meet the needs of countless customers who have a high demand for Crimson Light Essence."

Having gained access to a great deal of wisdom from the deceased, Felicity realized that this was a problem she could not solve. As the unseen ruler of the Sea of ​​Depths in the Redwater City region, she alone could not break through the social status quo here, nor could Bell, an outsider.

Even if Bell rushes out and kills everyone here, the production line for the Crimson Essence will be re-established after he leaves.

"You can't change this place, and neither can I. Human desires cannot be changed, but the existence of the Crimson Light Essence can be changed. There is only one solution I can provide."

Felicity revealed her plan: to eradicate the essence of crimson light from the very source of the world.

For Feli, she is the embodiment of despair and anger, and her only mission is to solve the problem of human modification brought about by the Crimson Light Essence.

"Foreign king, I need your help to become a god."

Chapter 223 In exchange for divinity

By revealing her plans, Felicity opened herself up to Bell, giving him everything he wanted and allowing him to perceive everything about her.

With [Information Insight], Bell also saw Phily's amazing attributes. Having accumulated power in the Sea of ​​Sinking in Redwater City for so many years, she was much stronger than Bell, this dubious king.

【Philip】

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