Chapter 509

Wu Pifu took the three pendants and the Golden Tree and headed toward the wooden ship.

On the way, he told Beelzebub the information he had learned while fighting the golden skeleton.

"Ah!? I'm that awesome!? Great Sage Beelzebub... a prophecy! A Great Sage! Wu Pifu, did you hear that!?" The big fly, while rubbing its little hands, excitedly flew onto Wu Pifu’s face, shouting almost against his ear.

Wu Pifu reached out and flicked it. The big fly flew up, and it was unknown what kind of force it was, but it actually flicked it back to Wu Pifu’s waist.

Beelzebub was dizzy and then furious, shouting: "Wait until I recover my original strength, I'll use you as a marble and flick you every day!!"

Wu Pifu said indifferently: "Fine, fine, fine."

Beelzebub gritted its teeth for a long time, having asked for trouble, and then said dissatisfiedly: "Anyway, you will suffer sooner or later for talking too little and having such a rough personality... Let's talk about business, this is not all of the Lost pollution body!"

"Hmm, I know."

Wu Pifu was recalling the sound the main brain had just made: "Defeated the Lost pollution body (incomplete), judging... judgment complete, obtained 860,000 points..."

Wu Pifu had originally thought that the 1 million points given by the main brain was the entirety of the high-risk mission, but who knew that after defeating the golden skeleton, he would directly obtain 860,000 points.

This also confirmed one of his guesses: that points were not a number game like credit currency that could be printed as long as one had enough authority, but a truly existing equivalent exchange item. Even the main brain did not have infinite points, which was why a high-risk mission would only give 1 million points, but in this mission, the boss-level existence encountered could give hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of points at once after being eliminated.

That was not all.

"High-risk exploration mission one achieved, obtained important clue (incomplete)."

"Citizen Wu Pifu, please continue to explore in this world and find the remaining parts of the Lost pollution body to complete high-risk exploration mission two."

There were no other rewards, but the advancement of the mission could be considered a kind of reward. After all, Wu Pifu was truly not good at exploration missions.

He prayed again and again in his heart that the next update and upgrade of the main brain would be best if it could upgrade to the point where the main brain would complete all explorations and then tell him what monsters were in what locations, and he would go and take their heads back. If it were equipped with a mini-map or one-click movement, that would be even better...

Returning from the broken island to the wooden ship, Wu Pifu continued to push the wooden ship to return to the mainland quickly. Then, he did not immediately set off to search for the resistance camp, but looking at the sky and the exhausted and disheveled androids, he set up a camp by the sea and stayed there temporarily.

It was strange to Wu Pifu that these androids actually belonged to the robot-like type, a hybrid variant of cyborgs and robots. If it were just that their appearance resembled humans, or even were as handsome and beautiful as possible, that would be one thing, but their behavior was also infinitely close to humans. For example, even though it was human behavior simulation brought by programs and chips, they could express sadness, sorrow, thinking, and even various emotional expressions... This made Wu Pifu often suspect that they already possessed life and intellect.

After setting up the temporary camp, Wu Pifu was still discussing the next steps with Beelzebub.

A lot of useful information had indeed been obtained from the battle with the golden skeleton.

First, the person who rode the dragon across the world was the target of Wu Pifu’s exploration mission, which was the individual of the real civilization that was falling in the previous era.

The situation of the real civilization falling in the previous era was very bad. This civilization was suspected to have been eroded by the Lost phenomenon. The entire civilization had only dozens of individuals left, and the transcendent was the last one.

From the battle with the golden skeleton, Wu Pifu obtained several extremely important pieces of information. First, in the real civilization, all transcendents carried polluting characteristics and must have enough non-transcendent individuals to stabilize the existence of the entire civilization. Once the number of non-transcendent individuals was too small, the Lost pollution would descend. This perfectly answered why the alchemy civilization was lost so quickly, because the transcendent individuals in its civilization sacrificed all non-transcendent individuals, which directly led to the sudden death of the alchemy civilization.

Second, when the Lost pollution descends, the first to be lost must be the transcendent individuals. The more powerful the transcendent individual, the more severe the Lost pollution attack they receive, while non-transcendent individuals are only affected.

"...Third, whether the real civilization of the previous era still exists is still unknown. From the perspective of time, the death time of the only transcendent in its clan was 7,000 years ago. Even if there are problems with different levels of the dream world and different time flows, it is still extremely difficult for us to follow the causal line to find the real civilization of the previous era."

Beelzebub analyzed for Wu Pifu the information obtained from the golden skeleton.

Wu Pifu listened silently, and after Beelzebub finished speaking, he asked: "That golden skeleton has titles, and there are five titles. Except for 'In the Lost', the other four titles all possess special abilities... What exactly are these titles?"

Beelzebub was also very puzzled. She pondered for a long time before saying: "I don't know either. At least I haven't recalled information about titles. I feel strange about this thing, and I don't know what titles are about. From the feeling, it seems like a fantasy object, and it also has some root characteristics, which is infinite self-circulation, a perfect closed-loop feeling of self... It's very strange. In short, titles should hide some big secret."

Wu Pifu nodded, and he thought the same in his heart.

At first, he learned from Chu Minghao that the main brain could issue titles, and he didn't feel anything at that time. Later, he also established multiple level-five shelters, and so far he also had three usable titles and one unusable title. Just the three usable titles almost made his combat power achieve a qualitative change. In the past, when his strength was still weak, he relied on the near-rule power of titles to turn the tables many times.

And now, the more he came into contact with the dream world and the transcendents of other civilizations, the more he could understand the heaven-defying functions of titles.

This thing... was almost like cheating. Such a powerful function and such a weak side effect really felt like a bug.

And this battle with the golden skeleton made him see titles outside the main brain for the first time, and there must be a huge secret hidden in it.

At this time, Beelzebub suddenly smiled and said: "Speaking of which, you can now be considered a world-destroying combat power."

"What?" Wu Pifu asked strangely.

Beelzebub continued: "The strength grading judged by you Gaia humans... You don't know? Because the second update and upgrade of the main brain has been delayed, especially for the transcendent power, monster level, strength digitization judgment, etc. in the dream world, there is no specific grading. Currently, Gaia humans can only know the four major levels of mortals, transcendents, sublimated bodies, and roots. This kind of general strength grading is very dangerous for people fighting in the dream world, so they have a general judgment grading system internally."

"Mortal strongest level, battlefield soldier king level, single-person army-breaking level, city-destroying level, world-destroying level, star-shattering level—this is the strength grading they gave. From this judgment, you should now belong to the world-destroying level."

Wu Pifu was stunned for two seconds and then laughed directly. He shook his head and said: "What kind of old-fashioned novel or manga transcendent level is this? And why am I considered world-destroying level?"

Beelzebub, on the contrary, said seriously: "Why not? Your previous eruption, just the vision that erupted, changed the environment. A casual move triggered earthquakes and tsunamis. If you fight with full power, an island like Resurrection Island could collapse in a few seconds. If placed in modern civilization, you are a walking natural disaster... No, do you think the so-called world-destroying level must destroy the entire planet? No, it only needs to wipe out the civilization of the world where it is located, and this is not difficult for you now. Even in the future, your battles should be careful and cautious, otherwise, a little carelessness could trigger a civilization destruction phenomenon."

Wu Pifu thought for a few seconds before nodding seriously. He said thoughtfully: "Hmm, if calculated this way, then I do possess the power to destroy the world now... Chu Minghao belongs to the star-shattering level combat power, Liang Min is about between world-destroying and star-shattering... The sublimated bodies in the dream world are basically world-destroying level combat power. Then what about the roots? Beelzebub, compared to Chu Minghao’s current strength, who is stronger and who is weaker?"

Beelzebub thought seriously, and after a long time, she shook her head and said: "I don't know. I haven't recalled any memories of roots and combat performance. However... roots are special. Although I don't know where this specialty is now, there is a memory that always exists, that is, roots can effectively resist Lost pollution, while no matter how strong the star-shattering level combat power is, once Lost pollution arrives, it still cannot resist."

Wu Pifu was silent. Lost pollution... If Chu Minghao was also polluted by the Lost, then Gaia humans would almost be at the end, right?

Just as Wu Pifu and Beelzebub were talking, A1, who was sitting not far away, seemed to be hesitating about something. After a long time, the sky was completely dark, and it was about nine o'clock in the evening. She finally couldn't help but come to Wu Pifu’s side.

Wu Pifu looked at her. A1 looked very cramped. She crossed her hands and kept pinching and pulling her fingers, looking like a young girl. Combined with her beautiful appearance and perfect figure, she really had a seductive charm. However, Wu Pifu’s current image was that of a dead-eyed little boy, and sitting with A1 made it look particularly uncoordinated.

"If you have something to say, say it." Wu Pifu said directly.

A1 hesitated, and after several seconds, she said: "My lord, I... I, and many others, our central processors may be damaged."

Wu Pifu was stunned for a moment and immediately said seriously: "Can it be repaired? What’s the problem?"

For androids, the central processor is their brain. Once damaged, it means their death.

A1 shook her head slightly and said: "Usually it is still intact, there is no other problem, but..."

"When darkness falls, we can vaguely see many terrifying scenes, but when we observe carefully, we can see nothing. This is clearly a problem with the central processor..."

Wu Pifu heard this and immediately stood up from his sitting state. He looked out into the darkness outside the camp. After just a few seconds, his face sank.

In the darkness outside the camp, unnatural darkness condensed, unnatural human shapes twisted, and unnatural fear permeated.

Lost pollution...

It did not disappear because of the disappearance of the golden skeleton. No, a more accurate statement is...

The Lost pollution has been completely activated!