Swallowing the Stars: My Comprehension is Beyond the Heavens!

Chapter 149 The Madness of an Intelligent Life Form

Time passed second by second.

People frequently entered the deep blue castle. In the allied camp, numerous spies watched these people, unsure which ones had truly exchanged for the treasures and which were merely there to mislead.

Rorschach changed the form of the Black God Suit. From the outside, the alloy suit he was wearing was basically no different from the others who entered the castle.

If you cover your face, no one will guess who he is.

Rorschach walked step by step toward the castle.

Many people looked at him, secretly scrutinizing and speculating.

Just as Rorschach entered the castle, preparing to exchange for the treasure, on the other side, Brolin, the ninth prince of the Black Dragon Mountain Empire, also received the Thunderstone that his subordinates had brought him.

"Your Highness, this is the Thunderstone brought up by the second squad. They mined in two areas, killed three squads, and obtained a total of 2.0 Thunderstones."

"210 million..." Brolin nodded and ordered, "Pass the order to have the other detachments send over Thunderstones immediately. To redeem all three codes of the Inheritance Crystal Ball, we need a full 3000 million Thunderstones, and we're still far from that."

"Yes, Your Highness."

The subordinate respectfully accepted the order.

Brolin turned his head slightly and looked towards the castle, just in time to see Rorschach enter the castle.

He scoffed, "Hmph! A bunch of paupers! They went to exchange for treasures, all hiding their heads and cowering, and in the end, they all got the worst stuff!"

He stroked the spatial bracelet his subordinates had handed him. "The Thunder Realm Lord's bank account, ranked second, isn't important! The most important, the most precious thing, is that inherited crystal ball containing spatial secrets! It must be mine! And it can only be mine!"

At that moment, another subordinate rushed over, presenting a spatial ring and saying, "This is the 168 million Thunderstones obtained by the Fifth Squad!"

Brolin's eyes lit up. "168 million? Great!"

He stood up and walked towards the castle. "Follow me to the castle! These thunderstones are enough to exchange for a password!"

"Yes."

His subordinates obeyed and followed Brolin toward the castle.

He made no attempt to conceal his identity, walking right in without a care in the world, showing no regard for the rest of the coalition forces.

And Brolin has the confidence to do so!

Because within this realm within a realm, most of the forces in the Holy Land of Black Dragon Mountain absolutely support Brolin.

Of this army of over 200 million, Brolin can command more than 22!

Upon entering the castle, Rorschach was immediately guided by the intelligent life form to a cold, dark room.

"What do you want to exchange, little one?"

A deep voice echoed in the room.

Luo Xia looked around but didn't see the white-bearded old man. He blinked and said, "Of course, it's to exchange for treasures."

Do you have Thunderstone?

The voice asked, then, without waiting for Luo Xia's reply, continued, "These days, many people have deliberately come in, but haven't been able to exchange any Thunderstones for treasures. Although I'm happy that they come to talk to me, after a while, I'm still a little unhappy."

Rorschach chuckled. "Of course I do."

He waved his hand slightly, and a large number of thunderstones appeared in front of him, piled up as high as a person.

"very good."

As the voice faded, a beam of light condensed in front of Luo Xia, revealing the figure of the white-bearded old man. He looked at Luo Xia with a smile, seemingly very satisfied with the Thunderstone that Luo Xia had brought.

"It's rare to find someone who's genuinely here to exchange for treasure," said the white-bearded old man.

Luo Xia bowed slightly. "I still don't know how to address you?"

"You may call me..." the white-bearded old man squinted, "Lord Mist."

Rorschach nodded and asked curiously, "Greetings, Lord Mist. I've heard you've spent tens of millions of years in this castle. What's it like to live such a long time?"

To be honest, if he had internet access, a cell phone, and a computer, Rorschach felt he could stay in one place alone for years.

But someone like Lord Wu, who is like being locked in a cage, enduring loneliness all alone with nothing, probably wouldn't last a day.

Some people might ask.

Isn't this place supposed to connect to a virtual universe?

Why didn't Lord Mist, an intelligent life form, enter the virtual universe?

Well... of course, it's because Lord Mist doesn't have an account.

As an intelligent life form, Lord Mist must rely on Lord Kabu's account to enter the virtual universe.

Just like Babata.

On Earth, because Luo Xia and Luo Feng didn't have accounts in the virtual universe, she was also unable to enter the virtual universe.

After Lord Kabu died, his account was cancelled, so Lord Mist couldn't enter the virtual universe at all.

"What does it feel like?" Chaos and madness flashed in Lord Mist's eyes. His face suddenly became extremely ferocious, as if he were about to transform into a demon. "In the first tens of thousands of years, I was able to remain calm because at that time, I was not yet an intelligent life form..."

"But as I became an intelligent life form, I became smarter, gained emotions, and felt loneliness..."

"This place feels like a prison!"

"I'm locked up here! Loneliness is driving me crazy!"

"I want to die so badly! But I can't!"

Lord Mist glared at Luo Xia with a ferocious expression, his eyes wide. "Do you know what it feels like to want to die but not be able to?! Many people pursue immortality, but what if immortality becomes a source of pain and torment?!"

"I'm going crazy..."

His expression suddenly calmed down again.

It was as if he was speaking to Rorschach, or perhaps to something unknown.

"I was so bored, so I sorted through all the treasures my master left behind over and over again!"

"I created games for myself, and I immersed myself in them, but after thousands of years, I became completely bored."

"I have absolutely no idea what to do."

"After becoming a life, I realized that life isn't as wonderful as I had imagined!"

"Do you know? In those boring and desolate years, I wandered the grasslands again and again, counting every blade of grass and every grain of sand..."

"Don't you think the grass on the grassland is very flat?"

"Ah, that was when I was bored, I went out to rest..."

Inside the wristband's space, Babata muttered, "That old guy really has gone mad. But I can empathize. If I hadn't been able to observe the development of Earth's civilization during those 50,000 years on Earth, I might have gone mad too."

"Alright." Lord Mist regained his kind and gentle expression. He smiled at Luo Xia and asked, "Little fellow, I've been talking to you for tens of millions of years. You haven't really interacted with anyone for tens of millions of years... The scene just now must have frightened you, right?"

Luo Xia shook his head and looked at Lord Wu, saying, "No. Just hearing about the loneliness you described makes me feel hopeless. If I were in your shoes, I probably wouldn't be able to maintain my sanity and would already be a walking corpse."

He looked at Lord Mist and said with great admiration, "Perhaps only an intelligent being like you could endure that terrible loneliness and torment, and still retain your reason and thought to this day."

Upon hearing this, Lord Wu narrowed his eyes slightly.

He looked at Luo Xia for a long while before saying, "Now, shall we exchange for the treasures?"

With a wave of his hand, the projection of the ranking list appeared in front of Rorschach.

What would you like to redeem?

Sorry, this chapter is only 2,000 words. The next chapter might be a little later. I had something to do during the day, and I'm very sorry! Yun Song apologizes everyone!

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