The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

However, at this moment, a strange idea suddenly popped into Xue's mind.

Wouldn't this be too radical? Is there any real need for the nobility?

The nobility maintains social stability and is the cornerstone of society. Furthermore, I need to prepare the population to hand over to the Fourth Apostle. Killing all the nobles would be too extreme.

This idea popped into Xue's mind. For a short time, Xue didn't notice the problem, but soon, Xue, who had lost his emotions, suddenly realized something was wrong.

Why do I have this kind of thought?

Xue Dinglu was stunned for a moment. He had lost his emotions and was now basically a rational thinker. Why did he have such "emotional", "thoughtful" and absurd thoughts?

If he were in a normal state, Xue Lude might have forgotten why he had such thoughts in an instant, taking it as just a slight pity for the nobles. But now, Xue Lude is under the influence of nothingness, in a state of complete emotionlessness!

Why would you still have this thought?

Xue Dinglu was completely bewildered, and he kept thinking about the reason.

Seeing Xue Luding's thoughtful expression, the nobles secretly thought that they had a chance. As long as this new god listened to them, they had a thousand ways to make him stop caring about these trivial matters.

Gods only need to rule from behind the curtain and never care about the mundane affairs of mortals, but these mystical nobles who are dedicated to the well-being of all people have much more to consider.

So they tried even harder to persuade him, like clowns in a circus desperately displaying their ugliness.

Xue Dinglu didn't even listen to their nonsense. Instead, he waited for these nobles to move to Tulip City, and then simply called out their names one by one.

'No, this won't do, it's too radical, the world will be in chaos!' The thought suddenly popped into my head again.

Xue Dinglu is now only showing horror and disbelief. Why would someone who came out of the college entrance examination and was born in the 21st century have such an outrageous idea?

He completely ignored the nonsense spouted by these mystical nobles and said directly, "Meeting adjourned! Tomorrow we want to see all of your families present!"

Then kill!

'No, without mysticism, aristocratic society would inevitably regress, and productivity would inevitably decline!'

A sudden thought flashed through his mind again, and Xue Dinglu finally realized that he had made a mistake!

It's not just the emptiness affecting one's emotions; it's a much more terrifying problem.

It seems that my thoughts and consciousness have been invaded!

Xue immediately thought of the 12th Apostle, Mephistopheles. According to Faust's intelligence, she possessed all kinds of means, including deception, illusion, mind control, and making the fake real!

"Could it be that Mephisto isn't completely dead yet? How is that possible!" Xue Dinglu had an extremely terrifying thought.

The instant his thought fully emerged, even the particles in the consciousness space that had been crushed into molecular states by the annihilation energy began to move.

Xue Dinglu immediately arrived in the consciousness space and began to study the problems on his body. Suddenly, he was horrified to discover that a face had grown out of the heart of the body he had possessed.

A Mephisto face!

Even Su Su looked over in horror, followed by deep worry: "Brother, what exactly is going on?"

“The 13th Apostle, A-Guang, we meet again!” Mephisto’s face opened and spoke.

"Pfft!" Xue Luding pierced through the chest of the face in an instant, and also through the heart of the body. But his face was expressionless, his brows furrowed, because he realized that when he pierced the chest, Mephisto seemed to be dead already, his breath gone...

But this time, there was no joy, only confusion and horror.

“Brother, you…” Su Su was stunned for a moment.

"It's nothing, just a minor fatal injury." Xue Dinglu didn't care about this possessed body at all; all he wanted to do now was find out the principle behind Mephisto's "resurrection"!

She clearly died within the realm of consciousness, and all her contingency plans relied on the authority of the world to sustain them. So why is she now affecting me? And even beginning to influence my thinking?

"Ah Guang, do you think you can kill me? I am immortal. Even the teacher can't kill me, so you can't either. No matter how many times you kill me, I can be resurrected in you, unless you die with me!" she said, as if mocking, as if declaring her victory.

Xue Lu, expressionless, pierced the man's shoulder with a single blow, causing his face to rot and killing him.

This time, however, his face appeared in his palm. He laughed and said mockingly, "Ha, you can't kill me, you stupid Number 13. You think you're saving others? Your useless, saintly heart will only kill more people. You're just a piece of trash and a coward. You don't understand that only my methods can save more people."

"You think you're saving them? No, you're just pushing them into an even deeper abyss. In that respect, you're far more cruel and disgusting than I am! I can already see that your end will be much worse than mine!"

The mouth on the palm mocked hysterically.

“Brother, I know, it’s cognition! Faust said that Mephistopheles’ power is to make the false real. As long as enough people believe that he is still alive, he can be resurrected!” Su Su said.

Xue Dinglu immediately looked at the mouth on his palm, while Mephisto just smiled and said, "Have you been discovered? But it doesn't matter. As long as you believe that I still have a backup plan, then I am invincible."

"But can you control your subconscious? As long as you think of me in your subconscious, and my existence appears in your mind, then I will be resurrected in you!"

"As long as there is a 'knowledge of Mephisto,' the concept of 'Mephisto' will exist forever!"

Xue's Law finally made sense; it revealed the underlying principle.

The face on his body was not the real Mephisto, the world consciousness, but rather something entirely new, existing alongside "Zeus the Progenitor" and "Faust the Projection"...

The Deceiver - Mephisto!

In other words, cognitive meme organisms!

Chapter 405 Stop worrying about hypocrisy and genuine goodness, just do what you believe is right.

Xue's law may have already guessed what he has forgotten.

Almost all of their previous schemes with Faust were aimed at the authority of Mephisto's world. They completely blocked Mephisto's power on the planet's home planet, and then greatly limited Mephisto's own abilities through absolute control of the consciousness space using Xue's Law.

However, even Xue Dinglu could not have imagined that within his consciousness space, the authority belonging to the apostles could still play a role.

It wasn't the power that Mephisto originally possessed through his own status, but rather the authority he gradually acquired after becoming an apostle. It was probably a power he hadn't fully controlled yet, just like Xue's Law's current control over the power of nothingness.

That is cognitive fraud!

As long as any living being still holds the belief that "Mephisto is not dead yet," he will "resurrect" in that person as a memetic being, gradually twisting their will until that person completely becomes Mephisto himself, achieving a resurrection akin to a cuckoo taking over someone else's nest.

When did I get infected?

Xue Lude frowned deeply; he had completely forgotten the circumstances under which he had been entangled with this meme creature.

Was it when I was using world access? Or was it when I returned to the original world right after killing Mephisto?

Xue Lude forgot, but he was indeed affected by Mephisto's methods, and even developed very abnormal thinking. Xue Lude couldn't believe that he would have the same "comprador" thoughts now.

This kind of thought can be very subtle and pervasive; it will appear directly in the deepest part of your mind, as if it were a thought that only you could have, gradually distorting your original thoughts and choices until you completely become a different person.

If I were truly a person from Sichuan and Chongqing during the late Ming Dynasty, it would be normal to have the idea of ​​becoming a comprador, just like how most civil officials felt "the water was too cold and their scalps itched" when they entered the pass. But I was born in the 21st century, and I survived a forest fire by sheer luck. Would I have such thoughts?

In particular, when he is in a state of complete calm and rationality, this is Mephisto's biggest weakness.

Even her distorted perception, her deception, and all the power she wields from this authority cannot have even the slightest impact on Xue's current state!

They are like water and cooking oil; no matter how they are mixed together, they will completely separate once left to stand.

After piercing Mephisto's face once again, this time his final appearance was on the face of this body, as if he had completely taken over the original face. The body's face also began to distort, the eye sockets sunken, and the whole person completely transformed into the appearance of Mephisto.

He even seemed to have complete control over the body, and gave Su Su a gentlemanly bow not far away, just like Faust used to, like a gentleman.

Su Su: "!!!"

She was completely flustered and had no idea what to do next.

Within the body, this memetic creature began a fierce struggle with Xue's Law, much like the incompatibility of water and fire.

Their souls were fighting and battling each other.

Xue's Law killed Mephisto again and again, and in the deepest part of his heart, Mephisto's corpse was scattered across the wilderness.

But the next moment, it will still appear and attack Xue's Law.

“You have absolutely no chance of winning against me. Even if you tell me the principles behind my existence, you won’t pose the slightest threat to me,” Mephisto said with a smile.

"As long as you have even the slightest awareness of me, I can be resurrected within you. Even if you erase your own memories, as long as I appear in your subconscious, it will still work. In fact, it will work as long as anyone has a similar awareness to me..."

"I can be born from you!"

"This is Mephisto's curse upon you!"

Like a sudden burst of deathly pronouncements and calamities, Mephisto spoke recklessly about the principles of his existence, completely disregarding Xue's Law's knowledge of him.

Because for it, there is no way to counter it. No matter what method Xue uses, it cannot erase the subconscious, even if it suffers complete amnesia, even if its entire brain is completely destroyed.

As long as there is even a trace of the original spirit and soul, the deepest consciousness will still bear the mark of Mephisto, allowing him to reincarnate in Xue Lude's body. In fact, given enough time, he will definitely be able to "possess" Xue Lude's body.

"At that time, everything you have will be mine—your family, your lover, your children, your power, everything you own will be mine, and you will die a more miserable death than anyone else!"

Mephisto's curse still echoed in the deepest recesses of my heart.

"Unless you are completely dead, with not even a trace of your spirit and soul completely obliterated, you can kill me. But do you dare? When you were plotting against me, did you ever think that this day would come?"

It wasn't the real Mephisto, but this memetic creature had completely inherited all of Mephisto's characteristics, and it recklessly mocked Xue's Law.

That deep-seated hatred was as if the real 12th apostle was about to be resurrected within him.

"Yes, I knew all along that I would die a terrible death..." At this moment, Xue Dinglu silently got up and looked at "Mephisto" in front of him.

“When I started killing, I was prepared to be killed. I even knew that I would die, and die a terrible death, worse than anyone I had killed. Everything I did made me an indisputable ‘murderer’ to any race. I never thought I would have a peaceful end.”

"But so what?"

Xue Lu grabbed Mephisto by the throat, tearing its trachea apart. The body fell onto the wilderness, and now there was another Mephisto corpse on the ground, but it served no purpose.

The next moment, it reappeared behind Xue Dinglu, mocking, "Haha, is that all? You who call yourself a savior, were you already prepared for a miserable death? Have you started deceiving yourself and preparing your own grave?"

"No, I won't even have a grave." Xue Dinglu grinned, laughing wildly in front of Mephisto.

"There has never been a savior, and I have never been a savior, Mephisto. I'm just a firefighter, do you understand?"

Hearing this, Mephisto laughed, a loud, unrestrained, and triumphant laugh: "I thought he was some kind of savior, but he's just a nobody, a hypocrite, someone who only saves those he deems worthy..."

"A hypocritical monster!" he mocked, laughing wildly, as if he had discovered Xue's weakness.

"So in your heart, what is worth saving, and what is not worth saving?" Mephisto snapped his fingers, and two teams appeared in front of Xue Luding.

A group of emaciated people were exchanging their children with each other, throwing other people's children into the boiler to cook them into food, and they were feasting on them with wild laughter.

On the other side, a group of nobles were using their own grain to help the poor, lamenting from their high positions: "How bitter is the world! Bones are exposed in the wilderness, and for a thousand miles there is not a rooster's crow..."

"Come on, make your choice. Which side are you going to save?" Mephisto seemed to have found a wonderful toy, laughing wildly.

"Are you on the side that saves more people, or the side that saves fewer people but is kind? You hypocritical monster, make your choice!"

Looking at the people on both sides, Xue Dinglu smiled.

In the next instant, whether it was the group of poor people who exchanged their children to eat or the nobles, they all died. The spiked wooden stakes formed from their blood pierced them from bottom to top, turning them into pierced wooden stakes that appeared on this spot.

This scene even stunned Mephisto, who turned his head in complete bewilderment to look at Xue Lude, who was grinning at the moment.