Crossover: Is this how it's sewn?

Chapter 5.004. Project Root

Xu Zhenqing sat at his desk, placing the souls he casually seduced into a notebook with a black rose cover.

Meme infections, especially those involving basic abilities like possession, spread very quickly.

As Xu Zhenqing's consciousness returned, words that only ghosts and monsters could see appeared on the notebook.

Root Cause Project.

Project goal: To become immortal.

Note: The Immortal, a corner of the rules, eternal truth under limited conditions.

Step 1: Increase the scale of meme infection.

Note: Avoid exposing "horror" memes.

Method: Ghost banknotes. By allowing a spirit to possess a US dollar bill, the liquidity of the banknote and the secondary infection ability of the ghost banknotes are used to reduce the risk of exposure while expanding the scale of infection.

Step Two: Creating a God.

Method: Utilizing the characteristics of American cults and the fusion of souls, evil gods are created to provide a credible source for the emergence of the curse system.

Step 3: Ghost Realm.

Method: Utilize the elite talents who have died in various countries to establish a ghost realm, explore the world, and improve their abilities.

Xu Zhenqing realized there was nothing more to add, so he closed the notebook, which appeared to be empty but was actually filled with dense annotations.

He had a feeling that as long as memes persisted, "Xu Zhenqing" would never die.

Note that it is "Xu Zhenqing". Over the years, Xu Zhenqing has never dared to use his own soul to merge with other souls, resulting in the "horror" meme having only a few characteristics, namely the fear of losing the "anchor point".

Imagine if Xu Zhenqing merged with the soul of an extraordinary being, he could certainly gain greater power, but wouldn't the other party's consciousness also divide Xu Zhenqing's will?

Yes, just like the child spirit with a karmic destiny in Xu Zhenqing's friend's family. After merging with Xu Zhenqing, it gave him an extra childlike heart, the pain of struggling in an incubator, and the instincts of an infant.

We can't put all our hopes on having a lucky charm.

It is true that one cannot cross the same river twice, but Xu Zhenqing still hoped to retain his original self, firmly pursue his true self, and allow himself to change.

Xu Zhenqing does not believe in "Tao," but he believes in "me." In the future, I will be the source.

The drizzle outside the window turned into a violent storm, with lightning and thunder, and purple lightning snakes dancing wildly. The thunder could not shake "me" in the vastness of space.

Xu Zhenqing fell into a deep sleep, a smile playing on his lips; he was having a sweet dream.

However, the two marked by the Ten Thousand Snakes Curse were in a terrible predicament.

"Boss, what's the matter that warrants using spirit words?"

"Snake! There's a snake! I saw a snake!"

The middle-aged man who had been traveling with Zhao Xian'e touched the snake pattern on his neck, his pupils contracting. He "saw" five green snakes flying towards him and hurriedly chanted in the dragon language to release his spiritual power.

Beneath his slightly dim golden eyes, invisible "needles" shot out like a rain of pear blossoms, inflicting injuries of varying degrees on the twenty-eight subordinates and mercenaries present.

Bee Blood No. 016: Gathers wind element to form a dense, needle-like attack within the area. Advantages: Minimal resource consumption, stable effect, extremely fast speed. Disadvantages: Weak attack power.

"There's a fucking snake... how dare it unleash its power on us!" A thug in a suit, one hand covering his bleeding eye, the other drawing a large knife, pointed at the middle-aged man and growled through gritted teeth.

Although the middle-aged man was his employer and had a powerful background, his God organization was not to be trifled with.

The thug in the suit clenched his fists, his body jolted violently, and he let out a long howl, first a tiger's roar, which startled the middle-aged man and his men into tensing up.

"Be careful, the opponent is proficient in Tiger Style Fist. Watch his footwork..." The knowledgeable person had a serious expression and wanted to remind his own people, but then he shut up.

The thug in the suit took a step forward, and a gun... a pistol emerged from his sleeve and fired in quick succession, killing several people. He was truly like a tiger descending the mountain, unstoppable.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

A gunfight broke out between the two sides, with blood and flesh flying everywhere. These days, anyone who has a gun and doesn't use it is a fool.

There was no time to chant incantations, no chance for close combat, and the ground was littered with dead and wounded—the tragedy of ordinary hybrids and warriors.

"Damn it, I called you 'boss,' and you're already getting cocky. I'll kill him." A young man from the God organization who had miraculously survived shot the last enemy and laughed arrogantly on the phone before passing out from blood loss.

After a long silence on the other end of the phone, the call ended. He couldn't understand why things had suddenly turned into a conflict.

……

A moment later, the five heavily infected hybrid souls were brought back by the Green Snake. The Green Snake's secondary infection ability takes more than three hours to infect a person's soul, while Xu Zhenqing only needs less than an hour.

The souls of hybrids are stronger than those of ordinary people; if they were ordinary people, the infection rate would be much faster.

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The basic infection does not include any [traits]; it only brings back the purest souls.

The Soul Splitting Spell uses the inherent [characteristic] of the "Terror" meme—[Soul Splitting]—which can divide the soul.

In addition, the ability to fuse with other souls is the [Soul Fusion] trait, which is also one of the only two traits inherent to the "Terror" meme.

The Thousand Serpent Curse is a multi-attribute spell, including [Wandering Soul], [Dream Entry], [Misfortune], and [Possession]. Infecting with [Misfortune] results in an advanced version of the Thousand Serpent Curse. All of these require infecting the serpent's soul with the corresponding [attribute]. The attack sequence can be customized.

[Misfortune] is a trait obtained after fusing with the sick child.

As for [Wandering Soul], [Entering a Dream], and [Possession], those are...

Xu Zhenqing took out an octagonal stone with a blue sheep pattern engraved on one side and played with it for a while. The other side was engraved with four oracle bone characters. He had obtained it on a train when he was away working.

The Sheep Talisman is one of the twelve talismans. It has the ability to make the spirit leave the body and fly away, causing the body to enter a state of death due to the lack of support from the soul. It is also related to the soul state of the Holy Lord.

It allows the soul to be invisible and silent, enabling it to enter the dreams of sleeping people and possess the soulless bodies of others.

The two core characteristics of the Sheep Talisman are [Out-of-Body Experience] and [Immortality].

This is also the source of Xu Zhenqing's confidence.

It is worth mentioning that these properties do not disappear even if the talisman is lost, a fact that Xu Zhenqing also tested.

However, without the covering, the aura of the talisman would be revealed, which is exactly what Xu Zhenqing wanted.

Xu Zhenqing narrowed his eyes, his perspective rising, and what he saw was a deep space with only two scattered points of light representing infected souls. He turned his head to look at the other side of the ocean, where there were only scattered stars.

This is a wide-angle view of the "horror" meme, and also a method of monitoring infected souls.

A figure sitting atop a portal in deep space read, "The audience's characteristics have been largely digested, and it's time to get the rest started. Let's make America the setting for my script."

After exiting the higher-dimensional perspective, Xu Zhenqing unknowingly removed the "horror" meme's shielding of heavenly secrets from the sheep talisman and casually tossed it onto the bed. It was just a useless external thing; only I am eternal.

Xu Jiujiu tilted her head, picked up the sheep talisman, and tossed it onto the map on the table. She kicked it around casually, and when she got tired of playing with it, she stuck out her red tongue and licked it twice. The talisman rolled to the location of San Francisco, and then she looked for a moose toy.

(End of this chapter)