I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

【melt】.

Just like his previous abilities, the corresponding knowledge had already been engraved in Lu Ban's brain.

He fully understood how to use this ability.

When Lu Ban arrived at the restroom, he looked in the mirror.

Lu Ban smiled in the mirror, as if greeting someone.

Suddenly, Lu Ban's face became distorted and flat, like an ice cream ball dropped onto a hot asphalt road at midday in the middle of summer.

Then, Lu Ban melted.

He turned into a puddle of slime, just like the famous Mud Pokémon.

Lu Ban can move and change at will, and sense its surroundings.

Next, Lu Ban arrived at the entrance to the sewer.

He cried.

Meanwhile, some of Lu Ban remained in the restroom.

The land, flowing down the sewer, soon reached the actual city sewers, where it was filthy and reeked of stench.

Lu Ban crawled out of the sewer crack again and came to the grass in the community.

There happened to be a young girl walking her dog here. The dog came to the bushes and was about to poop.

Seeing this, Lu Ban went over to them.

"You can't urinate or defecate anywhere."

Lu Ban thoughtfully offered a reminder.

The dog, which was halfway through defecating, suddenly smelled something. The whole dog tensed up immediately, and before it had finished defecating, it started running wildly with half of its feces still attached, dragging the young girl along with it as she stumbled and ran away.

Lu Ban felt he had done another good deed, and a thought crossed his mind.

The melting land splinters suddenly began to shrink towards a certain point. The land splinters on the grass floated up and disappeared into the cracks in the wall, through the vents and sewers, and back to the part of the land splinters located in the bathroom.

Lu Ban quickly took shape again.

Simply put, the ability of [Melting] grants Lu Ban the power to transform himself into a slime-like soft monster. He can move like a slime, split himself to expand his sensory range, and also quickly gather at any point in the slime to reshape himself into a human form.

When injured by a knife or other trauma, it can soften itself, dissipate physical damage, and essentially achieve the effect of physical immunity.

In the future, Lu Ban will only need to leave a piece of himself at home. Even if he goes abroad, he can instantly melt and recombine to achieve the operation of returning home.

Although he didn't know if inter-realm travel was even possible, Lu Ban was already quite satisfied.

"Next, I need to find some time to see what exactly happened at the amusement park."

Lu Ban thought to himself.

It's the end of the month, please vote for me!

Chapter 515 The Wife

Jiangcheng, outskirts.

The abandoned town continues its performance, and in the past few months, hundreds of people, including some artists, have experienced the adventures that take place in the town.

After an immersive exploration, they gained a lot of inspiration and even began to create works about the ruined city.

Because in the reality game, if you can go to a bookstore or someone's house to read books, you can learn a lot about the abandoned city. At first, people thought this was just a simple, general setting, but as the information from those who experienced it was intertwined, everyone discovered that the abandoned city was just like a real town, and what the reality game glimpsed was only the tip of the iceberg.

As we all know, a complete and compelling worldview is the foundation of creation. In addition, Lu Ban does not strictly prohibit fan fiction like some legal departments do, but opens up some creative rights. As a result, fan works about the ruined capital have sprung up like mushrooms after rain, leading to the formation of some creative circles with a good atmosphere.

But with more people, the skill levels will vary.

After the initial high-quality creations, low-quality creations also emerged.

Writer Liu Huajian is one of those who finds this particularly troublesome.

He was fortunate enough to enter the abandoned town in February and play the real-life game. Since then, Liu Huajian has been obsessed with that world. He frantically collected all the information and even read all of Lu Ban's previous works. Together with several like-minded partners, he established the Abandoned City Literature Alliance, which mainly focuses on creating literature related to the abandoned city.

In Liu Huajian's view, every NPC in the ruined capital has a story behind them. That world is decadent, but it also has a certain order. Under the heavy pressure of the prohibition, the upper class indulges in a life of luxury, while the lower class struggles. Moreover, there are also supernatural powers, making it a perfect stage.

He wrote several short detective stories featuring the detective Trist, which received considerable acclaim.

Furthermore, since most of those who pay attention to these things are young people, over time, Liu Huajian has also been referred to as "wife" by those young people.

Having spent most of his time in the publishing industry, he didn't understand why a grown man like himself was being called "wife." He figured he was just going with the flow.

But now, many newcomers produce terrible work.

For example, some fans like to create an original protagonist who transmigrates to a wasteland world, then gains a system that gives him a cheat code, allowing him to punch monsters, kick gods, and use martial arts to sweep away everything. It looks pretty cool, but it completely fails to capture the essence of wasteland literature.

Some fans have unique tastes, focusing on portraying emotional stories in the ruined city. However, the problem is that it's about the detective Trist and the mentally ill Lu Ban. Liu Huajian doesn't understand it, but he is greatly shocked.

Some fans even went so far as to transport characters from Lu Ban's past works to the ruined city, using dice to determine the characters' next actions, and wrote it in a very convincing way.

Liu Huajian felt that although these people's creations were a bit out of place, they were still within the lower limit. After all, the masses liked what they saw and heard, and he was no big deal.

However, some people don't even understand the background of the story. They directly create things like star destroyers and twelve-winged archangels in the ruined city. They don't understand the relationships between the characters either, and they randomly bring up relatives. Some self-media outlets directly try to ride the wave of popularity and forcibly apply any topic to the ruined city, which makes Liu Huajian very unhappy.

Like a recent analysis video he saw, which dissected the background of the ruined city and believed that Twisted Fate was the real mastermind. It cited a lot of evidence and made it sound very serious. The key point is that this is a well-known movie YouTuber who became popular by commenting on other people's movies and has a huge number of fans. After watching the video, these fans went to the comments section of other people's works and said that he was the mastermind, which was very annoying.

Some are even more imaginative. Some say that an empty amusement park often appears next to the abandoned town, and anyone who goes in will disappear and never come out again, even adding previous news as evidence.

Indeed, at the beginning of the year, Lingjiang rescued a group of missing people from all over the country. They all claimed to have spent some time in an amusement park and did not know how they entered the country from abroad.

According to the subsequent investigation, there were indeed no signs of them having been missing for several months, just like when they first disappeared. The investigators also failed to find the so-called amusement park. As the months passed, the incident gradually faded from public view, only being discussed in some paranormal forums.

Liu Huajian naturally didn't believe any of this; he thought it was just a publicity stunt.

Today, Liu Huajian came to the side of the abandoned town again. Although he was not selected to participate in the live-action game a second time, it was still good to just look at it from a distance and find inspiration.

However, perhaps due to the spring season, there was quite a bit of fog along the Lingjiang River today.

Liu Huajian stood on the hillside for a while, studying the layout of the abandoned town. Just as he was about to take a break, he suddenly saw what looked like an amusement park in the mist by the river.

"?"

Liu Huajian found it strange, as there had never been an amusement park here before.

Thinking of this, he curiously walked down the hillside and came to the bank of the Lingjiang River, at the entrance of the amusement park.

At the ticket booth at the entrance of the amusement park, there is a staff member wearing a yellow uniform.

When did your amusement park open?

Liu Huajian asked a question, and the ticket seller said a few words, but he didn't understand. Since he was already there, Liu Huajian bought a ticket and came in. He also received an amusement park brochure, which seemed to contain some rules, but Liu Huajian didn't look at it at all. It wasn't like he had never been to an amusement park before.

Soon, he noticed that the amusement park was quite empty, with not a single visitor in sight.

There was a teddy bear holding a balloon standing to the side.

Why is nobody here?

Liu Huajian glanced at the map and figured that the equipment probably wouldn't be turned on just because he was alone, so he chose the least troublesome ecological park.

Upon arriving at the entrance of the ecological park, Liu Huajian glanced inside.

The air was filled with birdsong and the fragrance of flowers, a scene of tranquility and peace, much like the common plants and animals that live close to nature.

A barefoot girl in a white dress is standing on the grass, feeding a fawn.

Upon noticing Liu Huajian, the girl smiled with delight.

"Welcome to the ecological park. I am your guide, and you can call me Lin."

Her smile was like sunshine, cleansing Liu Huajian's soul on this damp day.

Finally seeing someone, and such a lovely girl at that, Liu Huajian felt much more at ease. He walked into the ecological park and looked at the lush trees and various animals. He felt completely healed.

Chapter 516 Everyone is the Protagonist

As Liu Huajian left the ecological park, he felt his soul was healed. Living in a big city for many years, it was difficult to come into contact with fresh air and real plants. But in this ecological park, he was able to get close to those cute little animals, not to mention that a pure and innocent girl was explaining various plants and animals to him.

Although it seems a little different from what I knew, it doesn't matter, as long as it's cute.

More than two hours later, Liu Huajian left the ecological park. As soon as he stepped out of the gate, he saw a teddy bear walking towards him.

When he came to his senses, Liu Huajian was already standing on the banks of the Lingjiang River.

"Who was I just now?"

He vaguely remembered that he had originally come to the vicinity of the abandoned town to gather inspiration, but he must have seen something, so he came to the riverbank, and then...

Liu Huajian can no longer remember what happened.

Looking at the clear sky after the rain and the bright sunshine, and at his own reflection in the clear river, he felt that something was wrong.

At the amusement park, Lu Ban arrived at the ecological park. Lin, who was tending to the plants, greeted him with a warm smile.

Welcome back.

She was as pure and innocent as when Lu Ban first met her.

Lu Ban knew very well that Lin was a product of pollution.

To be precise, she is merely a silhouette of the past, existing solely through Lu Ban. She was a fragment of Lin who was stolen by the Time Worm from time during an explosion created by the Old Ones.

In the actual timeline, Lin had already died due to energy depletion and circuit damage.

Only Lin, who has been corrupted and transformed into a strange being, can stand before Lu Ban like this.

In return, she will never be able to leave this amusement park, just like the bandaged man, the four-eyed guy, and the little fish man who were taken in by Lu Ban, becoming part of the amusement park's operation.

She also had no memory of the final moments; everything was frozen at the moment when Lu Ban, Shuang Xin, and the others left Future City and went to the industrial park for the second time.

"It's so good to be able to see humans again."

Lin said happily.

"really."

Lu Ban couldn't say whether this was a good ending or not. For Lin, she no longer had to worry about running out of energy. As long as the [Strange Amusement Park] was still there, she would not disappear. But at the same time, she could no longer wait for the person she wanted to wait for.

With this thought in mind, Lu Ban changed the layout of the amusement park. The area where the Time Worm was located was reduced, and the ecological park was separated out.

This might be a gift from gaining the ability to melt, which has made him increasingly inhuman. To a certain extent, Lu Ban can already influence the situation in the amusement park.