Chapter 195

Hao Cheng and Hao Yunfeng were both lying on the ground, accompanied by retching and violent coughing, and both even vomited some meat chunks. It couldn't be seen whether they were internal organs or something else, but they were still squirming when they fell to the ground, and only rotted into a mass after a few seconds.

It wasn't just them; the two little animals were also trembling and curled into a ball, their bodies constantly twitching, especially Jiu Jiu, who had even fainted directly.

However, as the martial artists in the distance showed anomalies, all of them went toward the meteorite crater, and the bizarre atmosphere surging out from the meteorite crater immediately dissipated a lot. Although there were still some twists and turns, at least it wouldn't trigger the distortion of all things, which also gave them a chance to breathe.

"What is that? What was that just now? So terrifying!" Hao Yunfeng said while retching.

"Source... that is the Source." Hao Cheng smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't expect that in such a Dream World with normal technology, the Source would actually appear directly..."

Hao Yunfeng asked in confusion: "Source-level Nightmare? My team has also defeated one. Although it's terrifying, it's not this exaggerated!?"

Hao Cheng shook her head and said: "What you are talking about is a Source-level Nightmare, not the Source... The so-called Source-level Nightmare is the strongest one or several Nightmares that bring pollution influence in a Dream World, and they have huge hostility toward us maintainers, will actively come to find us, attack us, and even yearn to penetrate the shelter to enter Gaia. This is our definition of a Nightmare, right? The so-called Source-level Nightmare actually means the strongest Nightmare in that Dream World."

These were the Nightmares that maintainers knew about. As for the division of first-rank, second-rank, and third-rank Nightmares, it was divided according to their strength and subjective initiative, and whether their strength would drop sharply because they went to the next layer of the Dream World.

These were all common sense, and Hao Yunfeng naturally couldn't not know, but he really didn't know anything about what followed.

"Then where do these Nightmares come from?" Hao Cheng asked.

Hao Yunfeng was stunned for a moment and immediately said: "Pollution, it comes from pollution. Is there any problem with this?"

"The problem is huge."

Hao Cheng shook her head and said: "Actually, I don't know very well either. My captain is actually very interested in this and has conducted quite a lot of in-depth research. He told me that the so-called pollution is actually a special rule, energy, or something else. Its essence doesn't carry any bias; it is a neutral screening and evolutionary mechanism. As long as it can be resisted, then the pollution will turn into extraordinary power that conforms to the Dream World's worldview, civilization, and individual race, eventually completely changing the bottom structure of this world and turning it into an extraordinary world."

"There may be other secrets in between, but the point that pollution equals extraordinary is not wrong. However, Nightmares are different. Many Nightmares are actually incompatible with the Dream World and appear to be aliens. And these second-rank and above Nightmares will begin to erode and distort the world itself. Third-rank Nightmares will even cut off a piece in the world to form an independent domain, a small world, etc. These are obviously not products of the Dream World itself, but external erosion."

Speaking of this, Hao Cheng sighed and said: "My captain is actually very powerful. He studied the information and knowledge of several 0.6 Dream Worlds, and then he concluded that Nightmares are the tentacles of those terrifying great beings in the deeper Dream Worlds. Because of some reasons, these terrifying great beings cannot go to the Dream Worlds in the high-security areas themselves, so they split into seeds that conform to their domains and characteristics, and these seeds are Nightmares. The so-called Source-level Nightmare is just the Nightmare that has eroded the deepest and has the most powerful strength in that Dream World."

"The real Source is those terrifying great beings, and they all come from the Dream Worlds at baseline reality 0.3 and below!"

Hao Yunfeng finally understood. He glanced at the distance with fearful eyes. The meteorite crater was filled with fire, and there was an unstoppable sound of shouting and killing. He didn't dare to look more, immediately withdrew his gaze and said: "So... the thing on the moon is the Source?"

Hao Cheng nodded affirmatively: "At least it's a part of the Source! Actually, it was very dangerous when we fought the Black Forest goat cub before. That Black Forest goat cub actually came from baseline reality 0.3 or below, but that was a cub, a thing similar to a Nightmare, not the Source. The real Source should be the goat of the Black Forest. If it really came out, it would probably be the same as the huge pupil on the moon. Even if it's just a part of it, what it triggers is a world-destroying disaster."

Hao Yunfeng was deeply shocked. This information was something he had never heard of, and he also had great fear of the deep-level terror of the Dream World. He was silent for a long while and asked again: "Then what is the situation now? Just now we were all going to die and distort, but suddenly this change stopped. Although there is still influence now, it is within a tolerable range... Did Chu Minghao do something?"

Hao Cheng thought for a while but shook her head. She glanced at the sky, didn't dare to look more, and immediately lowered her head: "Chu Minghao is a super brain, and the strongest super brain. During the Fourth World War, he almost swept everything and suppressed everything with his own power. He is an anomaly of our humans, actually being able to fight a part of the Source in space. This is an unimaginable thing, but he probably can't disperse the pollution and erosion brought by the Source. According to the notes left by my captain, only the Source can resist the Source... It is estimated that the erosion Source of this world has appeared!"

Speaking of this, Hao Yunfeng had no doubts.

Actually, this is also something that many maintainer teams and maintainer squads have been exploring all along.

Why did Chu Minghao choose this Dream World? What is special about this Dream World? Why are there countless demons and ghosts outside the curtain, but inside the curtain, it is an environment similar to the baseline reality 0.9 Dream World?

This situation is something that many maintainer teams and maintainer squads have never heard of or seen.

So they had a guess, that is, there might be some special reason hidden in this Dream World that can shield the demons and ghosts, either some kind of treasure, or it itself has something more terrifying than those demons and ghosts.

Now it's just verified... This world itself has a Source-level existence that is continuously influencing it!

"Is it those martial artists?" Hao Yunfeng asked again.

Hao Cheng shook her head but said nothing.

Just at this moment, with a bang, several more meteorites fell on the surrounding land, and the terrifying atmosphere condensed again. Hao Yunfeng and Hao Cheng were both waiting intently, preparing to welcome the great terror from before, but they immediately saw some humanoids more than three meters tall, with pitch-black exoskeletons, horns on their heads, and red flames burning all over their bodies rushing toward the meteorite crater. And as these humanoids rushed, that bizarre atmosphere was suppressed again.

Hao Yunfeng looked at everything in the distance and lamented loudly: "They... those martial artists are all quite good people!"

Hao Cheng closed her eyes and murmured: "Good people don't live long, and scourges live for a thousand years... We have already tried our best. This is not caused by us, nor is it triggered by us. This is all fate..."

When the two were lamenting and powerless, suddenly one of the figures running in the distance seemed to have discovered this place. This was also a humanoid more than three meters tall, with only one horn on its head, and visible red fire burning all over its body. It suddenly broke away from the main force and ran toward the location of the two.

Both of their hearts jumped violently, and neither dared to be slow, slowly standing up. They saw that this humanoid was extremely fast, 150 or 160 meters per second. In just a blink of an eye, it ran to the vicinity. When they looked carefully, they could still vaguely see that its face was a human face, and it was a Hua Jin martial artist that both of them knew.

Both of them stared at this transformed Hua Jin martial artist, and then they were surprised to see that the Hua Jin martial artist's human face was full of pain, and tears kept falling from its eyes, but its mouth was grinning hideously, its teeth had also become extremely sharp, a bloody mouth, and it kept spraying black-red breath from its mouth, and a tongue a foot long kept licking its upper and lower lips.

Seeing this scene, both of their hearts screamed that it was bad. Sure enough, the Hua Jin martial artist let out a strange cry, actually raised its claws and pounced on the two, and a Yin-Sha aura came head-on.

The two were already tired and exhausted, plus the influence of the bizarre domain just now, at this time they were both weak-handed and weak-footed. Looking at the martial artist monster pouncing head-on, the two couldn't even resist and could only close their eyes and wait for death.

But just as the martial artist monster was about to pounce on their faces, a scorching sulfur aura fell from the sky, and with a slap, it directly stepped the martial artist monster into meat paste.

!

The two immediately looked over, and with just one glance, their hearts screamed that it was bad. Truly, the jackals were gone, and the tigers and leopards had come.

Right in front of the two of them, a creature about four meters tall, with dragon wings on its back, covered in pitch-black dragon scales, half-human and half-dragon, and burning with flames all over its body, but it wasn't flame brilliance, but real sulfur flames. Just by falling from the sky with one foot, it stepped the martial artist monster that looked invincible into meat paste.

Finished!

Hao Yunfeng and Hao Cheng lamented simultaneously. They even felt a scorching heat on their bodies. Just by getting closer, this monster could kill them. The sulfur flames flowed on the ground, and even the rocks on the ground began to burn and melt.

"... Don't... be afraid."

A voice suddenly sounded, and both were stunned. They saw this monster turn its face over. Although that human face was already somewhat distorted and blurred, it was undoubtedly Wu Pifu's face.

"Brother Wu!"

Hao Yunfeng and Hao Cheng called out simultaneously, and then they saw Wu Pifu wave his hand at them with difficulty, signaling them not to get close.

"I'm about to... lose control... don't... get close to me..."

Wu Pifu said with difficulty. While speaking, he was rapidly moving away. When he reached hundreds of meters away, he suddenly spread his wings and flew into mid-air. Just as he was about to spread his wings and continue flying away, he suddenly saw hundreds of those martial artist monsters appearing densely around him, some of whom he had seen, both Ming Jin and An Jin.

Each was more than three meters tall, with one to several horns on their foreheads, burning with fire all over their bodies, and each expression was struggling and distorted.

And then...

Wu Pifu saw Zhou Qingqing.

(End of chapter)