The afterlife blew up Gensokyo

Lin Mu, whose body had turned into this grotesque state, abandoned all his integrity without any remorse.

"...Can I refuse?"

Lin Mu forced a rather strained smile.

"The reason I can still maintain my self-awareness is because of the system. If you take it away, I might..."

"Oh, don't be so reserved! You're from another time, right? I'm from another time too, we're practically from the same hometown!"

Seemingly noticing the other person's awkwardness, Shi Bai reached out and patted the other person's shoulder, then sat down next to the other person with unusual decisiveness.

"Me and my good-for-nothing sister over there are wandering merchants traveling through the myriad worlds. We travel from one world to another because this world is about to be destroyed, so we are staying here briefly in an attempt to save this civilization and save this world."

"........."

Hearing the almost identical, familiar words coming from behind her, Yakumo Yukari, standing at the window looking outside, silently rolled her eyes.

Lin Mu: "Hahaha..."

...I don't believe you for a second! A max-level pro pretending to be a newbie? If I hadn't read the script beforehand, I would have actually believed you... But it seems the rumor that Dad really likes to adopt younger sisters is true?

Lin Mu mentally ranted.

"Although you are a time traveler, every time traveler harbors a dream of saving the world, right? Don't you want to save the world?"

Unaware that the other person was making wild accusations against him, Shi Bai's smile was incredibly bright.

"I'll help you reassemble your body, and you help me wake that guy from his slumber, how about that?"

"That guy?"

Lin Mu was slightly taken aback.

"You'll see once you put on these sunglasses."

With a smile, Shi Bai took out a pair of non-prescription glasses, different from the style of Yakumo Yukari, and tossed them to the other person.

"That is the truth hidden beneath the surface of this world."

"........."

After a moment's hesitation, Lin Mu put on the non-prescription glasses in his hand. However, what surprised him was that the images he saw when looking at other places after putting on the glasses were no different from what he had seen before.

"Look at the clouds in the sky outside."

He pointed to the window on the left side, where half of the glass was broken, and said succinctly.

"The sky? The sky has always been there...!?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Mu shifted his gaze, focusing on the clouds outside the window. However, when his eyes fell upon the sky, his expression froze instantly, and an uncontrollable, nameless fear silently appeared on his face.

In his vision, an indescribable and bizarre scene was emerging on the horizon. Dark rain clouds gathered in the sky, and beneath the gloomy, dusky sky, thousands upon thousands of thin, blood-red lines hung down from the clouds, making the sky look like it was covered with a thick, blood-red spider web, tearing the entire world apart.

These blood-red lines, both ethereal and real, appeared incredibly long, hanging down from the clouds to connect heaven and earth. Their upper ends were hidden in the mist, their destination unknown, while their lower ends meandered downwards, reaching towards the horizon.

Even in the small room where he was now, a thin, blood-red line pierced through the ceiling, hanging straight down towards his head and disappearing into his body... as if a blood-red tentacle had grown on his head.

When he stared at these blood-red lines, it was as if something was whispering in his ear, and bizarre images kept appearing uncontrollably in his mind.

Lin Mu frantically reached his hand towards his head, trying to pull the tentacle out of his body, but when his fingers clenched, he only touched air. The blood-red threads existed in a dreamlike reality, visible but unattainable.

—The whole world was shrouded in these thousands upon thousands of blood-red lines.

If Shi Bai hadn't removed his glasses in time, he probably would have already gone completely insane. Even so, it took him quite a while to calm himself down.

"What are those things...?"

Turning his head to look at Shi Bai beside him, Lin Mu opened his mouth, and a hoarse voice came out.

"Truth, the truth hidden beneath the surface of this world."

Shi Bai extended a finger in front of him.

"Well? Are you willing to help me awaken the gods of this world from their slumber?"

"god?"

"To this world, He is indeed a god, an ancient god in the process of being conceived. Whether it is this world or those nested worlds on higher levels, they are all in the dream of this ancient god."

"……I do not understand."

After a moment of silence, Lin Mu shook his head.

"Don't understand? You'll see for yourself in a moment."

Standing up, Shi Bai snapped his fingers.

"Let's put everything else aside for now. I'll help you fuse the Evil God Body first. Although it's only the lowest level of existence, at least you've left the ranks of the Families and entered the Evil God Clan. It's no exaggeration to say that you've risen to the top in one step. You must seize this opportunity."

"........."

Lin Mu responded with a silent reply.

"Boom——!!!"

A thunderclap suddenly resounded in the clouds outside, and the long-accumulated torrential rain finally crashed down.

"If it were me, I would never want to become such a disgusting thing."

Looking at the organs that had come bounding back from afar, Yukari Yakumo turned her head away with a look of disgust.

"Not all evil gods are like that. For example, Nyaruko-chan and Cthulhu-chan are very cute. If I have the chance someday, I would like to introduce them to you."

Standing under the eaves, looking at the blood-red rain curtain that stretched almost continuously with the torrential rain, Shi Bai curled his lips.

"You need to learn to accept these things as early as possible. If you can't even accept this much, then you can forget about anything else."

"...If the rating system were based on a scale of 1 to 10, what score would you give this world?"

After a moment of silence, Yukari Yakumo suddenly asked this question.

"Hmm... maybe 0.5 points?"

Shi Bai looked slightly uncertain.

"Actually, my impression of this world is quite good..."

"........."

About half an hour later, Lin Mu, having completed his physical transformation and changed into a new outfit, emerged from the wooden house. He seemed to have a fairly good ability to adjust himself; he even had the leisure to spray hairspray and style his hair.

"Time...right? Tell me, what do you want me to do next?"

Lin Mu, who had almost blurted out that nickname, looked full of confidence as he finally regained his physical strength.

"Is it to awaken the gods of this world? How exactly do we do that?"

"Oh, you can just lie down on that."

Pointing to a makeshift altar he had just erected with stones in the open space in front of the hut, Shi Bai spoke quite calmly.

"Uh...you're not planning to use me as a sacrificial offering, are you?"

Looking at the altar in front of the hut, which had a sinister beauty amidst the torrential rain, Lin Mu felt a cold sweat involuntarily trickle down his forehead. He realized that things were not quite what he had imagined.

"They're sacrificial offerings. Otherwise, why do you think I kindly helped you find those body parts?"

Shi Bai turned to look at him, a strange expression on his face.

"Don't worry, it's just a sacrifice. Others who want to be sacrifices don't even have the chance. You're lucky that I found you. Otherwise, you'd still be lying in that little hut."

forest:"………"

After a moment of silent contemplation, with an unusually tragic feeling, he walked step by step into the rain, and then resignedly lay down on the altar.

As Lin Mu lay down on the altar, a sudden realization dawned on him.

Oh... so my value is that of a sacrifice...

P.S.: Good morning!

Chapter Twelve Ancient God Embryo

This is a small altar built from irregular black stones.

After lying down on the altar with a death-defying spirit, Lin Mu immediately noticed something... that the altar was actually quite comfortable to lie on.

There seemed to be a surge of heat where his body touched the altar, and a strange power was flowing continuously into his body from the altar. This was not an illusion, because he could clearly feel that his control over his body was getting stronger and stronger over time.

Since his body underwent a mutation, he was no longer human, but had become a bizarre creature resembling a fusion monster. Although, with Shi Bai's help, all his body organs had automatically and obediently returned to their original state, Lin Mu knew very well that this phenomenon was only temporary. As soon as the other party left, he would be instantly reduced to his original form. However, with the help of this altar, he had now achieved a minimum level of control over his body.

But the thought of his current identity as a sacrifice made him unable to feel happy.

The torrential rain continued, and the thunder rumbled in the sky above. The downpour stirred up the river water, sweeping across the shore like a small tsunami. But no matter how fierce the rain was or how high the waves of the river were, not a drop of water could reach the altar. It was as if an invisible protective shield surrounded the altar, and even the sounds coming from the outside world became extremely faint.

In a daze, Lin Mu's consciousness, lying on the altar, seemed to sink into a dark and silent deep sea. Everything in the present world gradually drifted away from him, and a putrid smell filled his mouth.

Just as he was about to become completely absorbed, a sharp pain in his head jolted him awake. When he opened his eyes, he saw Shi Bai holding a stone in his hand, glancing in his direction. It seemed that if he didn't wake up, he was going to do it again.

"Okay, you can get up now."

After casually tossing the stone aside and saying this, Shi Bai looked up at the sky.

"It's okay? Why...!?"

He subconsciously responded with half a sentence, and just as Lin Mu was about to climb up from the altar, his entire expression changed uncontrollably.

Just as Shi Bai raised his head to look at the sky, an unprecedented and terrifying pressure descended upon him.

The air was oppressive and stifling, thick like mud. Even though he had completely transcended the human realm in essence, Lin Mu could clearly feel the fear hidden in his biological instincts rapidly consuming his entire body.

His heart pounded as if it would burst, his bones creaked, his muscles stiffened and went numb, his eyelids trembled incessantly, and every hair on his body stood on end... At this moment, all his organs fell silent, struggling to escape once again.

—This is a natural suppression that comes from one's bloodline.

Under Lin Mu's incredulous gaze, a blank space suddenly appeared in front of the small altar he was standing on, just like a child erasing a stain on white paper with an eraser. Everything in that area was wiped away by an invisible eraser, suddenly turning into a blank nothingness.

As the blank area was about to spread to his side, Lin Mu barely managed to roll off the altar. After his body was off the altar, the sounds that had been blocked back into his ears returned, and in an instant he was soaked by the torrential rain.

However, he didn't care about any of that. After desperately returning to the eaves, Lin Mu turned his head and tried to open his eyes wide to look ahead. The blank space of nothingness was gradually erasing the altar from the world... or rather, eating it up.

After completely engulfing the altar, a moment of tranquility vanished. In that void where nothing existed, a colossal object was gradually taking on a blurry outline, as if something terrifying was descending upon this place through the barrier of nothingness.

As the colossal object gradually took shape in the sky, Lin Mu's pupils suddenly contracted to pinpoints.

"What the hell... what the hell is this?!"

As the colossal object fully revealed itself, the thunder in the sky abruptly ceased, as if time itself had been put on hold, and everything fell into a primal silence.

It was a huge, irregular, semi-transparent object. Although its shape resembled a human infant, its size was many times larger, especially its head, which was enormous and took up 80% of the total size of its body.

Although this translucent infant resembled a human in appearance, its face was completely unlike any human's. Its delicate features were distorted, with some eyes on its forehead and others on its chin. Roughly counting, there were at least four or five mouths on that enormous face. Any normal person would feel uncontrollably nauseous and dizzy just by looking at such a face.

Lin Mu's gaze lingered on the giant infant for less than a second before he uncontrollably became dull and stupid. His brain began to hallucinate, making him feel that everything in front of him, except for the semi-transparent outline, was rapidly twisting and spinning.

In the silent air, a deafening, maddening roar echoed. The whole world was turning upside down, spinning, distorting, tearing apart, and transforming into something indescribable. All his thoughts were stripped away, and he no longer even had the right to think.

—Until one moment, a slap from the side woke him from that terrifying hallucination, followed by a lazy voice.

"Don't be reckless. Although it's only in its infancy, this kind of being is not something you can look directly at right now. Do you want to be completely assimilated?"

"Whirring whirring……"

With a look of utter horror, Lin Mu lowered his head and began to gasp for breath.

An existence that you're not even allowed to look at... Is this what an ancient god is?

Unlike what Lin Mu saw, what Yakumo Yukari saw while wearing the sunglasses that Shi Bai had given her was completely different. In her vision, the body that had finally revealed its outline in mid-air was constantly changing, and she could not see the true form of that thing at all.

Just like a lump of clay that can be molded into thousands of different forms, the object that Yukari Yakumo saw was constantly changing its state of being, spewing out nightmare-like colors in all directions.

"You want to dance too... oh, isn't that courting death?"

Seeing that Yukari Yakumo seemed to be thinking of taking off her sunglasses, Shi Bai was speechless and quickly reached out to stop her.

"Isn't it better to just look at images in the youth protection mode? At least for now, those kinds of things are not something you can look at directly."

"Oh……"

Without feeling any discomfort, Yukari Yakumo obediently lowered her hand.

Now that something we don't know what it is has appeared, what are you going to do next?

"Give it a beating to wake it up."