Chapter 511

Wu Pifu took the three attachments 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 too! Wu Pifu, did you hear that!?" The big fly rubbed its hands together excitedly and flew onto Wu Pifu's face, shouting almost right against his ear.

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

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

Wu Pifu said indifferently: "Sure, sure, sure."

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

"Yeah, I know."

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

Wu Pifu had originally thought that the 1,000,000 points given by the Main Brain were 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 are not a number game like credit currency that can be brushed out as long as one has enough authority, but a truly existing equivalent exchange item. Even the Main Brain does not have infinite points, which is why a high-risk mission would only grant 1,000,000 points. However, for this kind of boss-level existence encountered in this mission, eliminating it could grant hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions, of points at once.

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 corruption body to complete high-risk exploration mission two."

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

He prayed again and again in his heart that the next Main Brain update would be able to upgrade to the point where the Main Brain would complete all explorations, then tell him what monsters were at what locations, and have him go take their heads back. If it also came with a mini-map or a one-click teleport, that would be even better...

Returning to the wooden ship from the shattered island, Wu Pifu continued to push the wooden ship forward to return to the continent quickly. Then, he did not immediately set off to search for the resistance camp, but instead looked at the sky and then at the exhausted and disheveled androids, and set up a camp by the seaside to stay temporarily.

It was strange to Wu Pifu that these androids actually belonged to the type of cyborgs, a hybrid variant of biochemical humans and robots. If it were just that their appearance was like humans, or even 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 simulated by programs and chips, they could express sadness, distress, thinking, and even various emotional expressions... This made Wu Pifu suspect many times that they already possessed life and sentience.

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 realms was the target of Wu Pifu's current 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 there was only one extraordinary being left.

From the battle with the Golden Skeleton, Wu Pifu obtained several extremely important pieces of information. First, in the real civilization, all extraordinary beings carried corruption characteristics and must have enough non-extraordinary individuals to stabilize the existence of the entire civilization. Once the number of non-extraordinary individuals was too low, the Lost corruption would descend. This perfectly explained why the Alchemy Civilization was lost so quickly, because the extraordinary individuals in its civilization sacrificed all non-extraordinary individuals, which directly led to the sudden death of the Alchemy Civilization.

Second, when the Lost corruption descends, the first to be lost are always the extraordinary individuals. The more powerful the extraordinary individual, the more severe the Lost corruption attack they receive, while non-extraordinary individuals are only caught in the crossfire.

"... Third, whether the real civilization of the previous era still exists is still unknown. From the perspective of time, the death of the only extraordinary being in its clan was seven thousand years ago. Even with the problems of different Dream World layers 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 intelligence obtained from the Golden Skeleton.

Wu Pifu listened silently, and after Beelzebub finished speaking, he asked: "That Golden Skeleton had titles, and there were five of them. Except for 'Lost,' the other four titles all possessed 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 both a fantasy object and has the characteristics of a root, which is infinite self-circulation, a perfect closed loop of self... It's very strange. In short, titles should hide some big secret."

Wu Pifu nodded; 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 5 shelters, and so far he had three usable titles and one unusable title. Just the three usable titles almost brought about a qualitative change in his combat power. In the past, when his strength was still weak, he had turned the tide many times by relying on the near-rule-like power of the titles.

And now, the more he came into contact with the Dream World and the extraordinary beings of other civilizations, the more he could understand the heaven-defying functions of the titles.

This thing... it was almost like cheating. Such powerful functions and such weak side effects were really like a bug.

And this battle with the Golden Skeleton made him see titles outside the Main Brain for the first time. There must be a huge secret hidden within.

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 determined by your Gaia humans... You don't know? Because the Main Brain's second update and upgrade has been delayed, especially regarding the extraordinary power in the Dream World, monster levels, strength digitization judgment, etc., there is no specific grading. Currently, Gaia humans can only know the four major levels of Mortal, Extraordinary, Sublimated Body, and Root. This kind of general strength grading is very dangerous for people fighting in the Dream World, so they have established 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 have given. From this judgment, you should now belong to the World-Destroying Level."

Wu Pifu was stunned for two seconds before he laughed directly. He shook his head and said: "What kind of extraordinary level from old novels and comics is this? And why am I considered World-Destroying level?"

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

Wu Pifu thought for a few seconds before nodding solemnly. He said thoughtfully: "Well, if calculated this way, then I do indeed possess the power to destroy the world now... Chu Minghao belongs to the Star-Shattering level combat power, Liang Min is roughly between World-Destroying and Star-Shattering... The Sublimated Bodies in the Dream World are basically all World-Destroying level combat power. Then what about the Root? Beelzebub, compared to Chu Minghao's current strength, who is stronger and who is weaker?"

Beelzebub began to think seriously. After a long time, she shook her head and said: "I don't know. I haven't recalled any memories or combat performance of the Root yet. However... the Root is special. Although I don't know where this specialty lies yet, there is one memory that always exists: the Root can effectively resist Lost corruption, while no matter how powerful the Star-Shattering level combat power is, once the Lost corruption arrives, it still cannot resist."

Wu Pifu was silent. Lost corruption... If Chu Minghao was also corrupted by the Lost, then Gaia humans would almost be at the end of their road, 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 had turned completely dark, and it was almost past nine o'clock in the evening. She finally couldn't help but come to Wu Pifu's side.

Wu Pifu looked at her. a1 appeared very constrained. She crossed her hands and kept pinching and pulling her fingers, looking like a youthful 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-fish-eyed little boy, and sitting with a1 made him look particularly uncoordinated.

"Speak if you have something to say." Wu Pifu said directly.

a1 hesitated, and after several seconds, she said: "My lord, I... I, and many others, our central processors might be damaged."

Wu Pifu was stunned for a moment, then immediately said seriously: "Can it be repaired? What went wrong?"

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

a1 shook her head slightly and said: "It's still intact normally, there are no other problems, but..."

"When the darkness descends, 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..."

Upon hearing this, Wu Pifu stood up from his sitting state immediately. 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 corruption...

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

The Lost corruption has been completely activated!

(End of chapter)