Chapter 25: 25. Even Gods Can Feel Fear

25. Even Gods Can Feel Fear

Standing beneath the Red Moon, the massive, mountain-like blood-colored flower was like a signal, warning humanity in an extremely arrogant manner that they were neither the only intelligence in the eternal void, nor were they the most powerful individuals among the myriad races of the universe.

Humanity is not great, and perhaps it is not great either, but it is definitely stronger than humanity.

The Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower spread its tangled root system to a radius of about five hundred meters; within this range, no life survived. Whether it was the Dominator of the Earth's surface, humanity, or cockroaches—hailed as one of the most resilient creatures—almost none were spared. The scent of blood and a frigid temperature slowly rose from the earth.

The failure of He Jia'an and Bu Gaojun proved that in the face of absolute power, any schemes or tricks were merely self-righteous cleverness.

And Li Yingqi, who was instantly swallowed by the vines, served as proof that temporary survival was only to welcome the next death. Facing an unknown power, one would eventually die in an unknown way; death is as inescapable as fate.

Amidst the ruins covered by the flesh-vines, several deformed humans with three arms crawled out from the broken walls. Facing the giant flower standing proudly under the Red Moon, they prostrated themselves in worship. They used movements humans could neither perform nor understand to pay respectful homage, muttering in a language humans could not comprehend, constantly praising the god they believed in.

The Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower seemed to hear the worship of those deformed beings, so the surrounding flesh-vines did not swallow them, merely passing by their feet or sides, ignoring their existence.

Just as the Three-Armed Ice Giants felt they had finally succeeded in invading this world, the great existence and immortal god they believed in suddenly displayed an abnormality even they could not understand. The giant flower, formed by flesh-conduits coiling in a specific pattern, suddenly began to tremble, and then that eerie shudder quickly spread from the heart of the flower to every flesh-vine scattered throughout the area.

The Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower suddenly suffered damage that the Three-Armed Ice Giants could not comprehend; they did not know where the attack came from or why it was so intense. The pained Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower struggled desperately; its instinctual resistance and survival consciousness made it lose concern for its surroundings. In just an instant, it completely swallowed its believers—those Three-Armed Ice Giants who had transferred their own consciousness and souls into modified human bodies—using them as nourishment to heal its wounds.

Just a moment ago, the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower had unleashed its god-like, miraculous power, shaking off the erosion of the terrifying green fire and swallowing all life around it. Yet it did not realize that even it had things it could not swallow at will, such as the Blessing entrenched within the body of Yu Lianyun.

When the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower swallowed each life, besides absorbing their life force, it would also digest their memories and souls for its own use. In this process, it discovered that in the memory of one of the human individuals it had swallowed, there existed a danger it could not understand.

It could not understand human emotions, and naturally, it could not understand human fear, hatred, and anger.

Before a long life, thoughts, emotions, knowledge, and even life and death were all meaningless to it, possessing infinite time. Desire was the only driving force for it to live on. Therefore, even when it had confronted two Avatars of the Blessing in the shelter earlier, it had not taken those two Blessing Avatars seriously.

To it, they were at most aggregates born from negative emotions due to some unknown power; although violent and cruel, they could not cause it any actual damage or harm its foundation.

However, now it finally realized it had misjudged; it had truly encountered a "ghost"!

Deep within a certain memory in the mind of a human named Yu Lianyun, there was buried a thing called a Blessing. On the surface, a Blessing was a collection and mixture of human malice and negative emotions, an existence between an alien creature and a non-living thing. But only when one personally experienced the power of a Blessing would one understand that a Blessing was actually a derivative of the most primitive emotions of the myriad universes, a progeny named fear.

Can a god feel fear?

When a god begins to bleed, it naturally understands this most simple emotion.

And just now, the god worshipped by the Three-Armed Ice Giants—its Avatar on Earth, the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower—had been deeply contaminated by the Blessing within the videotape because it had digested Yu Lianyun's memories regarding it.

The Blessing was to the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower what the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower was to humanity.

The power of the Blessing entangled it; that undying Curse wanted to bring it into the purgatory of evil fall on the seventh day by Earth's time, wanting to consign its spirit and soul to the abyss of despair.

As a "god," the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower had more acute "perception" than humans. When it saw the woman in white in the videotape's recording showing her the countdown to its life, it truly sensed its own death date.

HOWL!!!

At this very moment, the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower fell into its own madness and despair. Nearly tangible black, evil gas coiled around its Avatar body, taking root in the essence of its existence like a malignant disease.

"Can an Alien God go crazy too?" The middle-aged man in a black vest and white shirt, watching through the broadcast feed from the Xuanmi Group helicopter, observed the terrifying demonic flower wreaking havoc on the earth. It was venting wildly, its mental state appearing as hysterical as a patient who had just learned they were suffering from an incurable disease.

The so-called Alien God naturally refers to the powerful lifeform worshipped by Abnormal lives, an abbreviation for the god of the Abnormals.

At this moment, this elegant man, the mastermind behind the Xuanmi Group and revered as Group Leader by the Mysterious Investigators, had a strangely blank expression. It was the first time he had felt such human-like emotions from an Alien God. Based on past experience, he had only felt that all Abnormal creatures lacked human emotions; they were like the universe, cold and dangerous. But now he understood: they were not entirely devoid of emotions, it was just that humanity's insignificance did not reach the level required to stir their moods.

"So... you bastards can go crazy too!" The middle-aged man gritted his teeth and punched the sofa armrest in anger. The screen was filled with the architectural ruins of the Xuanmi Group headquarters and the corpses of every Mysterious Investigator who had lost their precious lives. He cursed, mocked, and was agitated.

From this moment on, the Xuanmi Group Group Leader decided he would let all of humanity know that those terrifying Alien Gods were not invincible, and those gods who could easily trample humans like ants were not perfect; they also possessed emotions similar to humans.

Look, the god is afraid!

When a god foresees its own death, in the view that "in the long river of eternal time, even death itself will disappear," whose death is meaningless to whom?

The Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower wreaked havoc on the earth for an entire night. Not until the sky brightened and the Blood Moon was defeated by the dawn did the Blood-Flesh Other Shore Flower stop its movements. It was as dejected as a child accepting the cruel reality that "there are no Ultramen in the world."

The giant demonic flower flashed all over and vanished in an instant. A female corpse wearing a red wedding dress fell from the sky, over fifty meters high. The corpse turned into brilliant stardust powder in the air and dissipated into the world, leaving only a fluttering red wedding dress that swayed and finally covered the stark-naked Yu Lianyun.

Beside Yu Lianyun were dozens of naked men and women, sleeping peacefully, lying quietly over thirty zhang beneath the horizon. When the subsequent Xuanmi Group members who rushed back to the headquarters to carry out search and rescue work saw this scene, they were all deeply shocked by what was before their eyes...