An infinite journey starting from paradise

"Never mind him. Anyway, the whereabouts of Uramaru Renya can be confirmed. It's time to go and punish that dying old Deng and get back my broken arm." Lin Shangren thought.

What should we do with her? What should we do with her?

"Keep them as cattle and horses, just like the other members of the organization. It's not too late to deal with them when you've used them enough. Let Hehuan take care of it. Leave everything here to her."

"I'm talking about the heart beating in her chest right now. It was created using your flesh and blood, but it doesn't seem so simple. Perhaps there's some hidden danger hidden within it."

"I don't see anything wrong with it," Lin Shangren replied. "How about taking it out and replacing it with a new one?"

Looking at the sleeping Vermode Lin Shangren shook his head and looked at his watch. It was not yet noon. If he went to deal with Uramaru Renya now, he would still have time to return to Shuiliu Village and distribute lunch to the villagers in person.

"Forget it, let's deal with Karasuma Renya first. It's time to take over the winery completely."

Lin Shangren was just about to bring Vermouth to Hehuan, but after thinking about it, he decided to take Vermouth with him to see off Uramaru Renye.

"Although she's not a good person, she's still a victim in this matter. Let's take her along and help her avenge her family. I'll consider it my payment for her prostitution."

Chapter 449 Contract

The fourth basement floor of the Beika Town Central Hospital.

To outsiders, this hospital only has three underground floors, but in fact, there is a secret floor hidden under the morgue on the third underground floor. This fourth underground floor cannot be entered from the Beika Town Central Hospital, and its entrance and exit are far away on the outskirts of Beika Town.

In 1956, Karasuma Renya invested in the construction of the Beika-cho Central Hospital while launching the "Spare Parts Plan". He used the remains of Tokyo's air-raid shelters and secret passages during World War II to design this his most secret safe house as his last fortress before his death.

Besides Karasuma Renya, the only people who knew about this place were Vermouth and a few of his closest associates. Karasuma Renya only came here when he needed an emergency blood transfusion or recuperation from Vermouth. Similarly, he also kept his most precious treasure, the severed arm of Hayashi Naoto, the foundation of his organization's existence.

At this time, Uramaru Renye, whose life was like a candle in the wind, was lying on the bed with life-support devices inserted all over his body. The blood of Vermouth mixed with the debris scraped from Lin Shangren's broken arm was being transfused into his body through a blood transfusion device.

Unfortunately, Uramaru Renya's body had already reached its limit. Unless Lin Shangren shot him a few times, he would die.

"Who would have thought that the head of a major transnational criminal organization would be hiding in the basement of a public hospital?"

Lin Shangren appeared beside Karasuma Renya's bed, looking at the face that was as shriveled as an old coconut with a hint of mockery.

"Come on, it's time for you to finish this."

Lin Shangren opened the [Luofu Reality] and brought himself, Uramaru Renya, and the sleeping Vermouth into a virtual dream.

However, Lin Shangren did not rush to start judging Karasuma Renya, but first looked through his memories. After roughly understanding the reasons for the birth and development process of the winery, Lin Shangren couldn't help but sigh.

"What on earth is that guy going to do with this world?"

Looking back at the scene in Karasuma Renya's memory where the young man named Kuroya Naori used the broken arm to perform a shadow control-like ability and projected various small props from the arm into his own shadow, Lin Naoto couldn't help but become suspicious.

"Is this power Shadow Control or Shadow Orb?"

Lin Shangren closed his eyes and recalled the scene when he learned the shadow control technique, the strange existence that gave him the middle finger, the humanoid existence that looked like "Eternity", one of the five gods in the Marvel Universe, as if composed of multiple universes.

While thinking, Lin Shangren temporarily exited the simulated dream, and instead spread out his shadow touch, taking out his broken arm that had begun to dry up and shrivel from a secret room hidden behind a wall.

Lin Shangren injected spiritual energy into the severed arm, and the shrunken, withered arm quickly regained its vitality, even regrowing the tissue that had been severed years earlier. Lin Shangren could sense that within the arm there was indeed an alien dimension, similar to the shadowy space he had created using his shadow control technique.

However, although the two are similar, they are still essentially different: the volume within the shadow space is infinite and boundless, while the hidden space on this arm is only about twenty cubic meters.

Lin Shangren tried to open the hidden space on his arm. Just after he injected another stream of spiritual energy, a dark purple bead with the word "dark" engraved in regular script emerged from the back of his broken arm.

[Name: Shadow Pearl]

[Quality: Magical creation? Master craftsmanship? Perfect quality]

[Status: Magical, some conceptual power added]

【Producer: Dragon God】

[Note: One of the orbs formed after the Dragon God Pearl split, it possesses the power to manipulate the concept of "shadow" to a limited extent. (It can create materialized shadows, confine shadows to a limited space, and control the negative emotions of intelligent creatures.)]

The ability of this shadow bead can be said to be a low-end, rough and simplified version of Lin Shang's shadow control technique. In the shadow space created by the shadow bead, there are many other things such as magic props, low-level alchemy props, firearms and ammunition.

Lin Shangren was not interested in this. What he was really curious about was whether this shadow bead had any connection with the shadow control technique he mastered, and the "number one brother on the list" who had provided him with a lot of help before.

"It's impossible to draw a conclusion for now."

Lin Shangren expanded the system panel and looked at the task "Demon God of Destruction" in the taskbar.

Ashrose couldn't proactively contact this "Big Brother" outside their multiverse. To reach him, he currently had to rely on completing this mission. Lin Shangren closed his eyes, reading the mission description, "This is my final ripple." To fight against the Mother Goddess of unimaginable power, he needed to secure more allies.

"We must speed up the unification of Midgard. And... this world's Kaguya-sama. It's now certain that everything related to 'Another,' 'Detective Conan,' and 'Cat's Eyes' in this world is a trap deliberately set by the Mother Goddess for me. And while the content related to 'Sword Hero Legend' also has the Mother Goddess' handiwork, it's more likely the result of this universe's incomplete will, directed to grant me greater abilities."

The Mother Goddess certainly has other plans and calculations, but what about the will of this world?" Lin Shangren twirled the shadow bead. "What else does He have planned? Is that mysterious 'Big Brother' involved?"

There were too many questions and too few clues, so Lin Shangren had to put these problems aside and start dealing with Wuwan Renye.

I will not go into the specific details. Lin Shangren simply let Vermouth look at Karasuma Renya's memory in the simulated dream, and by the way, determined the burial place of the unfortunate Kuroya Naoori's body from his memory.

Hayashi Naoto planned to send Kuroya Naori, the unfortunate man who had contributed to the current state of the scientific universe, back to the world of the Dark Bible and the Shell Girl, and let him lie down in the cenotaph that belonged to him. At least there, a girl who ran an inn and looked like Yoshida Saki would regularly pay tribute to him.

As for Karasuma Renya, Hayashi Shangren generously granted him "eternal life"—he used the power of Zeno's Turtle from the Four Beasts' Dice to stretch Karasuma Renya's subjective perception of time, causing each second to feel like a billion years. Then, Hayashi Shangren used the Flame Orb to ignite his dying body. The flames consumed his life and consciousness in roughly twenty seconds, while he could savor the sensation of the blazing flames engulfing every inch of his body for two billion years within his subjective consciousness.

"Snapped."

Lin Shangren snapped his fingers, and Vermouth, who was kneeling on the ground, regained consciousness. Looking at Karasuma Renya burning on the hospital bed, she felt that everything was so surreal.

"You are a god." Vermouth looked at Lin Shangren with confused eyes. "Another god turned the world into this to deal with you? All of us... our fate... are we all your playthings? Everything I've been through... what do my mother and them mean to me?"

"Two mistakes." Lin Shangren put his hand on Vermouth's head.

"First of all, I'm not a god, much less a benevolent, omniscient, and almighty being who can save everything. I'm just a good person with some special abilities. Furthermore, I've already saved many lives and prevented many tragedies. Even if the world is what it is today because of that guy's trap for me, you have no right to question me with these questions.

Rather than that, you should think about how to atone for your sins. You should be thankful that you are not the Vermouth I know, who once took pleasure in indiscriminate killing. Otherwise, even if your body were to my liking, I would still rip out your soul and torture it for eternity.

After saying this, Lin Shangren grabbed Vermouth by the scruff of the neck and teleported her back to Seven Star Entertainment Co., Ltd. Lin Shangren planned to hand her over to He Huan to deal with. After all, it was almost noon, and he should go to Shuiliu Village to distribute food to the villagers.

……

Midgard continent, Rufen Empire.

The Rufen Empire is located on the west coast of the continent, close to the sea. It once relied on fishing and salt production as its main industries. At that time, the people who ruled this area were the jellyfish people who served the Kingdom of Ivlorien.

After that, the northern continent collided with the Midgard continent, the demons invaded, and higher races such as the white elves and jellyfish people were contaminated by magic. Humans, who were originally a slave race, awakened their magical talents. So the first human wizards stepped on the shoulders of the jellyfish people to occupy this area and gradually established the current Rufen Empire.

The Rufen Empire retained most of the urban buildings on land during the period of the jellyfish people's rule, and even the capital built in the coastal area was preserved. This made the Rufen Empire's capital, Brenhala, the only capital on the continent located in a national border area.

At this time, in the huge castle in the core area of ​​Brenhal, the current emperor of the Rufen Empire just finished reading a piece of intelligence that was urgently delivered this morning - a mysterious red giant appeared in the border area between the Empire and the Kingdom of Keludora last night. The identity of the giant is unknown and his purpose is unclear.

“It’s getting chaotic.”

The old king, now over seventy years old, walked straight to the window and peered out through his narrow eyes, hidden by brown crow's feet. Beyond the window, a thick haze rose from the distant juncture of sky and sea, like ink dripping into a glass, staining the crashing waves a dull gray.

"My time is running out. How can I protect you, my son?"

At the court meeting this morning, many officials in the parliament once again attacked his eldest son, Prince Diruk, saying that he was greedy for pleasure, that he had corrupt personal morals, and even directly doubted whether he had the ability to inherit the throne.

The old king knew that they wanted to put his daughter Lilia on the throne because she was powerful, morally upright, and noble... and easy to deceive. It was only because he was too kind and too murderous in his youth that he failed to curb the power of the Mage Guild and the Civil Service Group in time.

He knew very well that his daughter hated her half-brother to the point of wanting to kill him, and he also knew that his son was a hopeless piece of mud, and even if Diruk ascended the throne, he would find it difficult to protect himself.

"Let Lilia go to the border," the old king decided. "We can use this opportunity to have Diluk fake his own death and escape."

The old king was arranging a way out for his eldest son, while Diluk himself was also trying to survive.

The prince's bedroom in the castle.

Diluk sat cross-legged on his bed, a sheepskin scroll twirling in his hands. This was the contract he had obtained a few days ago from a demon hidden in a brothel in the capital. It was said that this contract could summon the demon god. With sufficient sacrifices, the demon god would grant the summoner unparalleled power. However, if the offerings failed to impress the demon god, the summoner would be slain by the demon god.

"Tsk...what should I do?"

Just as Diruk was thinking, a magic circle suddenly appeared in front of him, and then a seductive woman with her legs cut off appeared in front of him.

"Mist?"

After recognizing the identity of the person in front of him, Diluk was also shocked. How could the madam of the largest brothel in the imperial capital appear in front of him?

Wu Zi's body was immediately wrapped in bandages and a black cloak. Seeing Wu Zi's attire, Diluk became even more alarmed: "It's you?! You're the demon messenger?!"

A few days ago, or to be more precise, the day before Diluk obtained this parchment scroll, he was unexpectedly kidnapped by this bandaged man in a black robe while he was having fun with those skilled women in the imperial capital brothel. The man claimed to be an envoy of the demon clan and wanted to negotiate a deal with him:

All Diluk needed to do was sign a contract with the demons in the name of the crown prince, and they would lend him a group of elite soldiers to capture the king and queen from the castle, assassinate a group of civil servants who opposed him, and then directly declare himself the new king. All Diluk had to do after ascending the throne was find a way to control his sister Lilia and gradually train her to be a promiscuous woman.

This contract was a perfect match for Diluk, but he did not accept it immediately. After all, although he was stupid, he was not stupid enough to believe that the demons sealed in the northern continent would help him for free.

At this moment, the demon messenger suddenly appeared in front of her in such a miserable state. What was she going to do?

Chapter 450: The Art of Language

Although the six episodes of "Herme Knight Lilia" produced by PIXY have reached the level of a recognized classic in the inner world, we still need to briefly summarize the plot of "Herme Knight Lilia" here.

In the human Rufen Empire, there lived a noble and beautiful knight named Lilia, who had a useless brother named Diluk. Diluk suffered from both Oedipus complex and German osteopathic syndrome. To humiliate his mother and rape his sister, he struck a deal with the demons: the demons would help him kill the old king and seize the throne, in exchange for him training his sister Lilia into a slut.

Diluk gladly accepted it, and then used the power given by the demon messenger to transform his mother and sister into RBQ, and generously started "shared driving".

The reason the demons did this was because Lilia was actually the bloodline of the Demon King. To awaken her power, they needed to make her completely corrupt and addicted to it. Then the demons could use her awakened power to conquer the world.

In this world that blends the worldviews of many Princess Knights, the story setting of "Princess Knight Lilia" is unsurprisingly unexpected.

Over two thousand years ago in this world, the Demon King from the Northern Continent was annihilated by the Four Goddesses of Midgard, and the demons were sealed in the northern continent, unable to leave. The Demon King's consciousness was completely annihilated, and his psychic energy, which could not be dissipated, was split into multiple parts and began to reincarnate among the creatures of Midgard.

As time went by, the seal of the four goddesses on the northern continent gradually weakened, and special individuals among the demons were able to leave the northern continent and enter the heart of Midgard.

In order to revive the demon race, free their people from the seal and conquer the entire Midgard continent, those special demon individuals who were able to break free from the seal began to look for the host of the reincarnation of the demon king's psychic power, and tried every means to activate the demon king's psychic power in them, in the hope that the demon king who once led them to conquer the world would be resurrected again and lead them to revival.

The succubus named Wuzi is the demon clan member who is responsible for finding and awakening the Demon King's psychic power, and the young officer named Cecil and the knight Lilia are the people she found who possess the Demon King's psychic power.

Originally, taking advantage of the civil war on the Midgard continent, Wu Zi could slowly advance her awakening plan. However, after meeting Lin Shangren, she had to speed up the progress of her plan.

The reason was that Wuzi sensed the aura of "justice" and "wisdom" of one of the Four Goddesses in Lin Shangren, leading her to mistakenly believe that Lin Shangren was the messenger of the Four Goddesses, and that he had come to Cecillu to kill him and reincarnate the Demon King's psychic energy. Therefore, after risking her life to help Cecillu escape, Wuzi, without even recovering from her injuries, immediately came to Prince Diluk, hoping to force him to sign a contract so that she could quickly awaken the Demon King's psychic energy in Lilia.

As for why Lin Shangren possesses the aura of the goddesses "Justice" and "Wisdom," this is undoubtedly related to a certain spirit he favored in Alfheim. This connection is also inextricably linked to the thorny patterns of the World Tree that appear on the waists of Ran Mouri and Saeko Nogami. This will be explained in detail later, so I will not discuss it here.

In short, there are now two contracts in front of Diluk. One is to directly summon the evil god to offer sacrifices and ask him to help him deal with his sister Lilia; the other is to sign a contract with the demons, use their power to usurp the throne, and then find a way to deal with Lilia.

Although Diluk was dissolute and incompetent, he wasn't completely foolish. He knew his own limitations. Even if he nominally usurped the throne, the ministers and great mages in the court would certainly not obey him. Those in the military were even more likely to rebel and support Lillia as the new king.

But the situation was stronger than the person. The black flame burning in Wu Zi's hand was only two inches away from his neck. If he did not agree, he would die immediately. Diluk was forced to sign the contract with Wu Zi. After informing Diluk that they would assassinate his father tomorrow night, Wu Zi used teleportation magic to leave the palace.

Seeing that terrifying woman finally leave, Diluk knelt on the ground and breathed a sigh of relief. He couldn't help but curse those foolish demons for their complete lack of political common sense. But the situation was stronger than the person, and even if he escaped now, it was too late. The contract bound his soul, and if he broke it, he would die instantly.

Diluk racked his brains for a countermeasure when he suddenly pulled out the contract for summoning the evil god. He noticed that the contract stated that the offering to summon the evil god "must be one's own property," but it didn't stipulate that the summoner must personally offer the offering to the evil god. Diluk carefully read the contract again and discovered that the text between the lines seemed to imply that the evil god would personally take the offering. This seemed to give him some room for maneuver.

His sister, Lilia, was the leader of the White Knights, and under both imperial law and in name, they were under the king's jurisdiction and were his "private property." If he became king, even if the White Knights would never obey his orders, they would still be his property. So, if he sacrificed them directly, would the evil god be able to deal with them?

"Let's do this. Use the demons to kill the old man and usurp the throne. Then, in the name of the king, sacrifice all those who oppose me to the evil god. If the evil god is not satisfied with the sacrifice, then without those opponents, everything in this country will be at my disposal. All rare treasures will be presented to him until he is satisfied!

Yes, yes! That’s it! Hahahaha, yes, once He is satisfied with the sacrifice, I can make a wish and ask Him to help me deal with the demons! That’s great! I don’t have to die, I can still become a real king, yeah!!!”

Diluk, convinced he could exploit a bug and win it all, fell into a frenzy of joy, unaware of the fate that awaited him. Nor did he know that the "evil god" he considered his last hope was currently cultivating land on the border between the Rufen Empire and the Keludora Kingdom.

Yes, farming.

After distributing lunch to the people of Shuiliu Village, Lin Shangren distributed a batch of seeds and fertilizer that he had originally planned to plant in Alfheim. He planned to try planting them here first—this continent of Midgard was filled with magic, and who knew if the seeds from the scientific world would mutate here and produce some interesting new crops.

So, fellow villagers, please harvest the low-yield rye and oats in the fields. Uncle Lin will teach you how to grow some good things!

Farming was Lin Shangren's forte. After all, he'd studied agriculture in a previous life and had even served in Africa as a construction aid worker. His skills in determining water and heat conditions, soil acidity and alkalinity, seed selection, and land reclamation were already refined to perfection. Add to that his current arsenal of external tools: Shadow Control for plowing, turning, sowing, and fertilizing; the Water God Pearl for controlling soil moisture; and the Thunder God Pearl for electrolyzing nitrogen from the air to improve soil nitrogen content and structure.

It didn't take long for Lin Shangren to create a large area of ​​fertile farmland. However, Lin Shangren was not in a hurry to finish the sowing himself. After all, he still needed to teach the villagers various relatively advanced farming techniques.

Thus, the residents of Shuiliu Village were divided into several groups: militiamen and other young and strong laborers followed Edna and Gloria to clean up the wreckage of houses and process wood; elderly people with rich farming experience followed the Linshang people to learn new farming methods, seed habits, and how to use new farm tools; and the various craftsmen in the village followed Wilma and several white elves and dwarf women to learn the craft of weaving and iron smelting.

To promote the development of Shuiliu Village, Lin Shangren selected a number of skilled workers from the more than 2,000 survivors who had chosen to follow him and awakened them first. The human villagers of Shuiliu Village were somewhat wary of these alien races, but they were, after all, brought by the Lin Shangren and were his subjects like them. Given this, it shouldn't be difficult for them to get along.

So, despite the temporary language barrier, under Lin Shangren's influence, the Shuiliu villagers were quite warm and welcoming towards these new members of a different race. They believed that they would get along well with each other as they worked and lived together in the future.

Although Lin Shangren spent "a lot of time" teaching the villagers knowledge in the dream world through the simulated dream world created by the Luofu Real World, in the real material world, not much time had passed. After letting the villagers practice everything he had just taught in the fields, Lin Shangren was free again.

Seeing that everything in Shuiliu Village was proceeding steadily and in an orderly manner, Lin Shangren prepared to deal with other matters first:

First, he had to deal with the group of human knights he'd captured that morning. Lin Shangren had already extracted sufficient intelligence from their memories and had sorted them into categories. Aside from the female knight named Sersi Dirant, whom Lin Shangren had other uses for, the others were roughly divided into two categories: "deserved to die" and "alive." The former would be given to the villagers for target practice, while the latter could be brainwashed and controlled, teaching the villagers some close combat techniques and battlefield experience.

The second was to find a place for Miyano Shiho. After shrinking to her loli size, she would soon regain consciousness, and Hayashi Naoto would have to think about how to place her and her sister, Miyano Akemi.

By this time, the winery had changed its name to Lin, and the Miyano sisters no longer had to live under the tyranny of the organization. Although Lin Shangren's blood and the rice-green fluid could not reverse the effects of Drug A on Miyano Shiho's body, returning her to Miyano Akemi and allowing the sisters to start their lives anew was a good thing.

However, Hayashi Naoto was reluctant to let them go so easily. One reason was, of course, his attraction to them. In his previous life watching Conan, he had admired the characters of Haibara Ai and Miyano Akemi, and had originally considered pursuing them. Secondly, he was drawn to Miyano Shiho's intelligence. As a renowned scientist, while her overall abilities weren't as impressive as Dr. Agasa's, her achievements in pharmacology and genetics far surpassed his. Hayashi Naoto, on the other hand, was deeply interested in studying the genetics of various species in this world, and he felt certain she could be of assistance.

So, regarding the issue between Miyano Shiho and her sister, Hayashi Naoto decided... to be honest.

"I like you two sisters very much. I want to sleep with you and your sister, and I also want you to work for me for free..." Lin Shangren organized his words in his mind.

[My language is so clever.]

【As expected of you. (?ω?)】

"Fuck, I better polish it up."

Thinking about this, Lin Shangren teleported back to the office of Seven Star Entertainment Co., Ltd.

Chapter 451: Great Shocker