This isn't a souls-like game at all.

A large steel door at the back of the room suddenly opened, revealing an elevator.

"I'm going."

Ye Yiyi nodded, stepped into the elevator and pulled the lever.

"Mikaela, we will remain in the control room and will communicate with you in real time using our slaves."

As the elevator was descending, Ye Yiyi heard Xiao Bo'er's voice coming from inside Yuan Yuangun's body.

The white-haired man's voice followed closely, like a cold electronic sound.

"Also, I've upgraded its firmware. You can now communicate with it simply through speech and issue commands."

Does this count as a firmware upgrade?

Ye Yiyi looked at the round ball in her hand thoughtfully and asked.

"What is a space-time catalyst?"

A sweet female voice came from inside the round body.

"The Space-Time Catalyst is the core of the Folding Tower's base structure, crafted by Master Craftsman Xiti. Inscribed within it are the mysteries of the Universal Light's magic, capable of restarting the Folding Tower's construction process."

"What is the folding tower used for?"

Ye Yiyi asked again.

"The Folding Tower's full name is the Cosmic Folding Tower. It's a giant magical catalyst built based on cosmic magic, natural craftsmanship, and ingenious technology. Its exclusive magic, [Cosmic Jet], can be used to combat the dangerous forces that exist in the universe."

"Cosmic jet..."

Ye Yiyi raised her eyebrows and thought that the name was a bit too casual. It didn't have that kind of awe-inspiring feeling that made one feel super awesome and powerful as soon as they heard it.

"Can this cosmic jet remove the curse of stagnation?"

he asked next.

"There is no relevant data to prove that cosmic jets can eliminate the curse of stagnation. Corresponding verification and data acquisition are needed."

A sweet female voice answered.

That's true. After all, the folding tower has never been built and there has been no actual combat. The effect is only an expectation and needs to be confirmed through experiments.

But for some reason, after hearing this answer, Ye Yiyi suddenly didn't have too many expectations for it.

With or without it, the ending in the game is achieved without the Collapsing Tower.

In other words, it makes no difference whether you have it or not.

Even if the folding tower is ineffective against the stagnation curse, Ye Yiyi still has a way to achieve a good ending.

The greatest use of the folding tower is to deal with other "dangerous forces in the universe".

For example, the Zhoujue Meteorite does not exist in the game.

Thinking of this, Ye Yiyi sighed slightly, waited for the elevator to stop, then walked out of the door with the Moonlight Gun, then passed through a metal tunnel and came to the bottom floor of the base structure.

Looking around, one can see a circular steel mountain that looks like an inverted funnel and is nearly a hundred meters high, standing in the center of this circular pit.

Ye Yiyi looked up and saw that the giant white cocoon and the autumn-shelled locust were still floating high in the sky.

But compared to before, the countless white cocoons have completely merged into one, leaving only a giant spherical cocoon with a diameter of more than 100 meters.

"Looking at this situation, the thing in here might not be the boss I'm going to fight next."

Ye Yiyi muttered to himself, and then spoke to Yuan Gungun.

"If I attack that cocoon now, what are the chances of completely destroying it?"

"The success rate is zero."

The emotionless voice of the white-haired man came from inside the ball.

"The induction field detects a massive amount of undeath flowing within the cocoon. Any attacks you make will be transformed by the undeath, becoming nutrients for the cocoon's growth."

"A huge amount of immortality, ah..."

Ye Yiyi shook his head and sighed.

This is the nature of immortality. Whether it is the "Shedding Spirit Waterfall" or the "Spirit Waterfall Immortal Sword", these immortal magics can transform external attacks through immortality, and then enhance the power of the magic itself.

The immortality in the giant cocoon comes from the transformation of the power of the autumn locust corpse by the Cordyceps sinensis fungus. Instead of destroying the giant cocoon, it is better to directly destroy the autumn locust corpse.

But the sacred cursed object is eternal and indestructible, and it is a complete mechanical weirdness that cannot be destroyed by conventional means.

"So what am I supposed to do? Just watch it hatch into a worm? Can't I just fix this before it breaks out of its cocoon?"

"Go to the central cosmic catalyst and activate it as soon as possible. Perhaps we can use the Light-Tending Shadow..."

The white-haired man paused, then said, "The insects have noticed your presence. Two individuals, suspected to be Kinsects, are heading your way."

"Only two?"

Do you think that just two Kinsects can kill me?

Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows and looked over, and saw two insect men that were at least seven or eight meters tall flapping their wings, creating a strong wind, flying from the inverted funnel-shaped steel and landing not far from him.

"boring."

He raised the Moonlight Spear and was about to cast a spell when he heard one of the insect men shout loudly.

"Honorable Messenger of Immortal Life! Your Excellency Michaela!"

"Messenger of the Prototype of Life! Lord Osukopoulos, please come forward and meet me!"

"?"

Ye Yiyi put down the Moonlight Gun for the moment, looking puzzled.

How did this group of people know that he was the messenger of immortal life?

When the oath of the Immortal Life Messenger was signed in the Temple of the Prototype of Life on the Tongtian Tree, there should have been no one else present.

How did the life prototype messenger know this?

"Osukopoulos, do you two have any impression of this name?"

He asked Yuangungun questions openly in front of the two insect people.

"Have."

Xiao Bo'er's voice came out without any fluctuation, "Osukoburos, stationed at the Seed Temple in the far north, serves as the life prototype messenger of the immortal life seed spirit lotus."

"It is said that it committed blasphemy and was expelled and imprisoned from the temple."

Blasphemy and sin?

And the lotus with seeds?

Ye Yiyi raised his eyebrows. It turned out that the skull of the Ancient Saint Insect was specifically used to deal with this guy?

Could this be the guy that the insect people are talking about as the great sage?

He is actually in this folding tower?

Not only that, but he also directly invited me over?

Is it because he thinks he is not dying fast enough?

"interesting."

He carried the Moonlight Gun on his shoulder, curled up the corners of his mouth to reveal an inexplicable smile, and raised his chin towards the two tall insect men who were kneeling on one knee.

"Lead the way."

The Kinsect lowered its head, then stood up and flew high up, and Ye Yiyi followed closely behind, waving his wings of light.

On the way, he heard Xiao Bo'er's voice coming from the round room.

"Michaela, are you planning to cooperate with Osukopoulos?"

“It’s not a collaboration.”

Ye Yiyi shook her head.

"But since they've invited me with such courtesy, I have to give them some face and see what they want to say and what they're up to."

"I think he's just stalling for time."

The white-haired man continued, "The sensing field has detected that the flow of energy in the cocoon has accelerated. The soul energy has begun to take shape, and he is accelerating the incubation of life in the cocoon."

"Of course I know he's stalling for time."

Ye Yiyi nodded, retracted his wings of light and landed on the broad platform at the top of the Steel Mountain. He glanced at the insect people in front of him, and then his eyes fell on the one in the center wearing a long white robe, standing with his hands behind his back and his back to him.

As if aware of Ye Yiyi's arrival, the man turned around, and from his strange face that looked like a blooming lotus, an eye burning with dark flames was looking at Ye Yiyi.

"What a pleasure to meet you, the Kingslayer, Her Excellency Michaela!"

Chapter 577: The shell of the locust plague.

"What a pleasure to meet you, the Kingslayer, Her Excellency Michaela!"

"Kingslayer... you... you actually called me that?"

Ye Yiyi narrowed his eyes and looked at the person wearing a white robe with a golden spiritual lotus pattern painted on it.

Although this guy has a human appearance and four limbs and a head, his race is not related to humans.

After all, it is impossible for a normal person's head to turn into a gray-white lotus, nor would it have stamens burning with dark black flames as eyes.

In addition, his limbs are made up of gray-white roots, hidden under the white and soft silk fabric, like a gray lotus that has become a spirit.

This shape reminded Ye Yiyi of the underground cemetery where those who received spiritual fire offerings were buried.

There, he not only saw the past phantoms of the Spirit Fire Worshipers who looked very similar to this man, but also obtained the metal masks they wore, which were shaped like lotus flowers - the Spirit Fire Cinder Lotus Mask.

The item description of the mask mentioned that it was a mask made by the Flame Worshipers based on the shape of the Wandering Lotus.

In the past, the mask once housed a tiny lotus flame, which was said to be proof of being blessed by fire.

Looking at the appearance of the prototype messenger of life in front of him now, it is exactly consistent with the meaning of the description.

The lotus face of one who is favored by fire houses the blessed flame.

But why?

Ye Yiyi stared at the dark flame burning in the lotus, his mind cold and puzzled.

Why is the flame on his face black?

"Where's the spiritual fire in your face? What's that black flame?"

With such doubts in mind, he asked directly.

Osukopoulos was stunned when he heard this, and the lotus petals opened and closed slightly.

"It's been a while since anyone asked me this question..."

There was a hint of nostalgia and sadness in his tone, and then he stretched out his gray-white root hand, gently brushed the lotus petals, and then touched the pistil burning with black flames.

"As expected, only by communicating with my compatriots from the past can I find a sense of the era of the group of nations."

Osukopoulos sighed and withdrew his hand. The black flame on the pistil attached to his palm, like a swaying shadow swallowing up the light.

"You still have not answered my question."

Ye Yiyi said expressionlessly.

"My patience is limited."

These tones and words were full of offense and contempt, but the insect people standing by turned a deaf ear and a blind eye.

This made Ye Yiyi very disappointed.

He really hoped that a bug would suddenly jump out and say to him: How dare you! How dare you, a rude man, offend the messenger of the prototype of life! Why don't you kneel down and apologize? Or something like that.

In this way, he could feel at ease and crush the insects to death, thus showing the attitude and position of the king killer.

It’s a pity that these insects obeyed the hierarchy too thoroughly and had no intention of participating in the conversation between the two “gods” from the beginning.

"Haha~"

Osukopoulos chuckled softly upon hearing this, and said casually in a relaxed tone:

"Mister Michaela, why are you so anxious? You and I are from the same era, and we are both messengers serving immortal life. Why don't we sit down and reminisce about the past?"