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"This is a bit troublesome." This wasn't the first time Zhang Chengyi had encountered this situation. If there were no other uncontrolled rules nearby that created the uncontrolled rule derivatives, it meant that the uncontrolled rules were elsewhere or had already been taken away by someone.

He immediately contacted the nearby security team and asked them to check the information about the sculptor Tsuchiya from ten years ago, as well as who had interacted with Tsuchiya in the past.

"Investigate thoroughly. Find out everything that happened in this area back then," he ordered, then continued:

"Any rule that gets out of control deserves serious attention!"

Chapter 344 Catching a Mistake

Some out-of-control rules are completely unacceptable!

Zhang Chengyi stared blankly at the investigation results, inwardly wishing he could kill the bronze statue and plaster block on the spot.

He took it very seriously, having Goro Furuhata and Keiichi Matsui personally handle the task. They even wasted more than a dozen mushroom clones and used a Level 3 containment device that could recreate past scenes. The final result was a Level 2 containment device with extremely low risk.

That's some seriously terrible micro-management.

According to past investigations, the woman inside the plaster block who claimed to be the most beautiful woman in the world was the wife of the mayor of N City thirteen years ago. Thirteen years ago, the mayor retired and moved to Aogiri Town with his wife. Not long after, the mayor disappeared. From the reconstructed past scenes, it can be seen that the mayor did not disappear, but was killed on the spot by his wife and his body was thrown into the swamp in his own yard.

Who would just accept a swamp appearing in their yard and then kill someone, dump the body, and throw it in?

Upon seeing this story, Zhang Chengyi immediately went to the former mayor's house and directly found the out-of-control rule, "Swamp".

The specific effect is to attract nearby humans to kill others and throw their corpses in, turning the corpses into adipocere through long-term soaking.

It should have ended there, but ten years ago, the mayor's wife jumped in and committed suicide, presumably due to some kind of mental illness. This directly distorted the rules of the out-of-control situation, resulting in a secondary rule: "The statues created by the sculptor named Tsuchiya can move and talk."

As for what it's called, there isn't one; it's just the two characters "土谷" (Tu Gu).

After the mayor's wife turned into wax, the plan was to have the sculptor Tsuchiya, whom she had sponsored, sculpt her into the most beautiful woman in the world. Then, the wax figure would be wrapped in plaster, the wax inside would be melted, and gold would be poured in, thus creating a golden statue.

The world's number one golden beauty.

The problem is that the sculptor, Tsuchiya, died on the spot after the wax body melted, and the gold could not be poured in in time. Over the years, the gold has been stolen, leaving it as just a plaster block with a hollow human-shaped cavity inside.

What a bizarre story.

Thanks to this largely useless subsidiary rule, which has nothing to do with the out-of-control rule [Swamp], the No. 2 underground base in N City now houses a large number of statues made by the sculptor Tsuchiya.

They are quite interesting. They clearly possess self-awareness, have vision, can move, can speak, and can think. In the strictest sense, they are living beings. However, most of the time they pretend to be completely motionless and stand still. If someone wants to talk to them, they will respond. As for why they don't move or speak, the reason is simple: in their self-perception, they are statues.

Statues don't move or speak.

If you ask them some difficult questions, they'll confidently reply: "I'm just a statue; I don't understand those things."

Why not study? Why not do something else? Why not memorize information? Could you cooperate with the investigators? Could you explore other anomalies?

And so on. These kinds of questions all give the same answer: "I am just a statue."

Besides being able to move, talk, and think, these statues are frighteningly simple. For ten years, they have stayed there obediently, emptying their minds and earnestly playing the role of statues. Only the plaster block that the mayor's wife transformed into inherited the memories of her life and often wailed loudly.

To reiterate, the uncontrolled rules really do have everything, creating a race out of thin air that is unable to reproduce.

However, it's not entirely impossible. Based on the unpredictable nature of the uncontrolled rules, Zhang Chengyi speculated that he could probably create similar statues by simply finding a sculptor and renaming him Tu Gu. But at present, it doesn't seem to make much sense.

The statues are single-minded. Apart from occasionally exchanging a few words with their own kind, the male and female statues inherit human concepts of the opposite sex and secretly show affection. To humans, they are non-violent and non-resistant, but they don't even resist violence.

If you want to demolish them, then demolish them; they're statues anyway.

They have no concept of death, nor do they fear death.

Getting back to the main point, the out-of-control rule [Swamp] is really terrible. Its effect on the human mind is the most basic. If it were a church or security team that had just come into contact with the otherworldly beings, they might think it needed to be taken seriously. But now that dealing with mind distortion has developed into a very mature technology, low-level mind distortion is meaningless.

Any mentalist who has taken a mental healing course can heal him almost completely in no time.

The subsequent effects of this out-of-control rule are completely useless. The subsidiary rules are slightly interesting, but there are currently no points that can be used to exploit them.

In comparison, Zhang Chengyi's elaborate mobilization makes him seem particularly clownish.

He stared at the churning swamp before him, feeling an urge to immediately erase the memories of all the participants.

"Your Highness, should we contain the alien [Swamp]?" Goro Furuhata asked in a low voice from the side.

Well, the bronze statue is really deceptive. It can talk but you can't figure out its abilities, giving people a very profound and unfathomable feeling.

Finally, on a whim, His Highness summoned a large group of people to investigate thoroughly, only to uncover this kind of anomaly...

It's funny, it's kind of funny.

"Hey~"

Zhang Chengyi sighed, "In the future, please investigate thoroughly before sending them to me." To be rational, this kind of containment blunder was bound to happen sooner or later.

To avoid wasting a lot of manpower and resources, it would be better to thoroughly investigate the target object to be contained in advance.

Goro Furuhata bowed his head and said, "Yes."

"Laugh if you want to." Zhang Chengyi had already given up.

“No,” Goro Furuhata said earnestly.

Keiichi Matsui, standing next to him, looked completely serious, but his emotional fluctuations were almost as volatile as a rollercoaster.

Standing behind him, Toshiyuki Furuta calmly deleted any emotions and memories he shouldn't have had.

Zhang Chengyi looked up at the sky, focusing his attention on the moon.

During the past few days of investigating the bronze statue, the aircraft has launched dozens of times, and most of the previously shortlisted prospective operators have taken to the air.

After repeated testing, it was found that the mental power required for the Aero-Mushroom to navigate normally in outer space is about 171%. Regardless of the number of operators, as long as the total mental power is 171%, that's fine; that many people are not needed.

Isolating and fusing minds is not difficult. First, a temporary mind belonging to the aviation mushroom is created through the mind simulation of the mushroom clone. This temporary mind is mainly operated by an operator, and the minds of others are supplied to the temporary mind in batches. As a simulated temporary mind, it has a strong error correction ability. Once its own mind has a problem, it will re-simulate from the target being imitated.

Even if a major problem arises, disband the team quickly and let the next operator take over.

A single aviation mushroom requires at most five operators to travel endlessly in outer space.

Under Zhang Chengyi's impetus, the moon has now been completely transformed by the colonization plan.

Chapter 345 Drawing a Pie in the Sky

It turned into...

The moon is associated with fertility worship.

The logic behind the Aero-shroom is that it will create a new Aero-shroom after landing, and the remaining mycelium will accumulate on the ground and slowly release. It will use the gradually spreading mycelial carpet to devour the soil and continuously modify the surrounding environment, such as gravity, air, and water, in conjunction with various other mushrooms.

The key is the newly backed-up Airplane Mushroom.

In a short period of time, the Mushroom Man has been busy fixing more pressing issues and hasn't had time to change its appearance yet.

Extraordinary mushrooms are all built up by mycelium. Changing their shape means changing the entire structure, which is a huge undertaking and can't be done in a short time. So what if they don't look good?

Everyone thought so at first, including Zhang Chengyi, who felt that even if the appearance was a bit hard to describe, it would be fine as long as it worked.

After he resolved the issue of the bronze statue, he realized that he hadn't properly checked how ridiculous the appearance of the aviation mushroom actually was.

Now, because of the dozens of space-borne mushrooms that landed on the moon, dozens of huge, extremely unsightly mushrooms have appeared standing there. Any Earthling who looks at them would definitely find it unbearable.

Zhang Chengyi was starting to shudder to think about what those people gazing at the moon would think of him, the master of the microbial community.

The whole world is now focused on his lunar colonization plan, which he has single-handedly promoted. He believes he can see it, and so can astronomy enthusiasts who have nothing better to do than look at other planets, and countries around the world that are more concerned about when they can leave Earth's cesspool.

What will you think of him then?

The Lord of the Microbiome actually likes this kind of appearance; the Lord of the Microbiome likes men; the Lord of the Microbiome has a perverse sense of humor; is deity worship the same as fertility worship...?

And how will future human history record these key moments and important designs?

Did human colonization of other planets begin with planting plants all over the moon? Surely we can't leave behind no videos or photos at all.

"Ha~ Ah," Zhang Chengyi let out a deep sigh as everyone looked on in bewilderment.

Destroy it, I'm tired.

After a brief period of mental exhaustion, he forced himself to cheer up and, using his lab-like body, earnestly addressed the mushroom man next to him who was diligently working on how to improve the aero-mushroom:

"From now on, you will be the chief person in charge of the lunar colonization program. You will be responsible for liaising with governments around the world on various matters related to sending them to the moon."

"Really?" The mushroom man's eyes lit up. He was excited for a while, then ran back to tell his assistants the good news.

He was completely oblivious to the fact that each of his assistants was increasingly on edge.

The live photos of the moon arrived this morning, and dozens of gigantic space mushrooms are about to return. Except for the mushroom people who didn't think too much about it, most of the others guessed what would happen in the future.

"Your Highness, when will we begin the next phase of the lunar colonization plan?" the mushroom-man asked after his initial excitement.

The terraforming of the moon is nearly complete thanks to the combined effects of the replicating mushrooms and creep fungi. After a dozen or so rounds of adjustments, even an ordinary person landing on the moon should be able to survive.

Using the word 'should' is unavoidable. Both the creep and gravity mushrooms have previously gone out of control. The second phase mainly involves letting the symbiotic fungi experience it firsthand. It's best to lay a layer of other harmless mushrooms on the creep, such as the fungal rooms currently used as isolation chambers, or special mushrooms that can provide humans with the vast majority of essential nutrients.

However, mushroom houses are not perfect mushrooms. Living in them for a long time can easily cause many bodily functions to degenerate, similar to how muscles degenerate and become unable to move after being controlled by Ginger Pierre for a long time.

It's normal for problems to arise in a series of bodily parts related to absorption and transformation, such as the chewing muscles, esophagus, and stomach, if one doesn't eat for a long time.

However, these are all minor matters. When faced with life and death, other issues can be set aside.

Zhang Chengyi reviewed the plan and current preparations in his mind, and his expression became serious. "Let's officially start the second phase tonight and send up two of my bodies as well."

"Your Highness," the mushroom-man instinctively tried to offer advice.

The Lord of the Microbiome is now too important to the entire human civilization to be lost in any way.

Zhang Chengyi asked with amusement, "What, do you think you can protect me?" With more than a dozen bodies resonating together, he could roam freely on Earth using only his telekinesis and energy dissipation. He could totally cosplay Thanos from the Marvel universe, and with a snap of his fingers, half of Japan would turn to ashes.

The mushroom man realized this as well, and knew even more that he couldn't stop His Highness from doing anything, so he could only laugh helplessly.

Zhang Chengyi patted him on the shoulder and promised, "Keep it up. Once we leave Earth, your mushrooms will have unlimited potential. We'll give you a few planets, and you can grow whatever mushrooms you want."

"I remember you said last time that you wanted to create a two-dimensional world using mushrooms, didn't you?"

"After multiple minds are synchronized, the mushroom's temporary mind will become blank, and you can completely implant a lot of two-dimensional memories into it. At that time, you can grow whatever wife you want..."

Hearing the whispers of demons—oops, gods—the mushroom man became instantly excited.

"Keep it up! Keep trying!"

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In the laboratory at the N City base.

"What an insightful guy."

Zhang Chengyi sighed, "If only everyone were as pure as the Mushroom People."