Chapter 545: Subtle Influence

(PS: This chapter has a relatively large number of words, so it's a bit late.

The spiritual civilization is very interesting, and it's not just this little bit of information. The complete description of the first lost world should not disappoint everyone.)

Wu Pifu finished reading this diary, and his heart had a general understanding of the loss of this civilization.

Actually, to put it bluntly, it was nothing more than the same set as the alchemy civilization. The superiors didn't treat the inferiors as humans; they treated the common people as food and resources, and the future they hoped for was for a small number of people to ascend to the sky, while the ground was piled with the corpses of ordinary people to serve as their stepping stones.

So the result was loss, and the superiors also ended up finished!

Wu Pifu now already knew that the most important thing for a civilization was the large number of ordinary people.

Transcendent is pollution, so the stronger the transcendent, the more reality it needs to consume. This reality not only comes from the individual but also extracts the total reality belonging to the civilization. Once reality is exhausted, the entire civilization will be lost.

Reality is only produced by the cognition and definition of sentient life, and ordinary people do not possess transcendence, so they will not lose reality, only create reality. The number of ordinary people in a civilization determines the amount of its reality, and if it is beneficial to the civilization, to the real world, and to the race as a whole, then it will feed back reality to the individual.

The alchemy civilization that Wu Pifu knew was lost in this way. The transcendents of that civilization, in order to fight against the root pollution, refined all mortals into the so-called Philosopher's Stone. The result was that although they repelled the root pollution, the alchemy civilization was lost in a very short time thereafter. He even learned from the surviving individuals of the alchemy civilization that the key word for the loss of the alchemy civilization was "child".

When a civilization begins to be lost, it does not destroy itself in an instant, but will show signs of loss, and then disasters and catastrophes will appear based on these signs, until it completely destroys the civilization and turns it into "lost".

Wu Pifu put the diary into his personal space and simultaneously looked at the exploration degree of the lost civilization. After reading this diary, the exploration degree reached 22%.

But this did not make Wu Pifu happy.

Because according to the content in this diary, it almost explained the reason for the loss of the spiritual civilization clearly.

The particularity of the magic potion transcendent path made the mortals of this civilization the resources that the transcendents relied on for survival. But these greedy non-humans were really too greedy; they couldn't even wait to accumulate slowly and find opportunities for breakthroughs slowly, but planned to kill the goose that laid the golden egg and put all of humanity together to squeeze out the juice!

Wu Pifu originally thought that after obtaining this diary, the exploration degree would be at least 50% or more, but it only reached 22%?

However...

"It's fine, points are never too many."

Wu Pifu affirmed this, and he walked out of the room. Then, as soon as he walked out of the room, he was immediately stunned.

Because outside the room, there were actually pedestrians, and not just one or two, but more than a dozen people coming and going. They were walking leisurely or in a hurry, and the dormitory corridor looked brand new, without any damage or oldness, as if the moment he crossed the door, he had pierced through time and space and returned to the past of this lost world.

However...

This was still the lost world of the spiritual civilization.

Wu Pifu confirmed this at the first moment, because the simplest situation was that he still couldn't perceive the emotions of the people around him. Clearly, they were either fragments of past information like the memory flash, or something like weirdness was playing them.

Just as Wu Pifu was in a daze, a man and a woman ran toward him at the same time. The man reached out to grab his arm and shouted while grabbing, "Leon, I've been looking for you for a long time. Where have you been hiding? Hurry, hurry, hurry, the mentor is calling us to go over immediately! A suspected third-sequence magic potion carrier has been discovered, and it's already in the early stages of beastification. Hurry!"

Wu Pifu's arm was about to dodge, but upon hearing this, he stood still, letting this person grab him, and then took him running all the way out of the dormitory area.

After running for a while, the three of them came from the dormitory area to the experimental area, then continued downward through the elevator. After a while, Wu Pifu followed them to the 40th-plus floor underground. When they came out of the elevator, they saw a huge glass cylinder in the center, and inside the cylinder was a human emitting light, struggling painfully on a mobile hospital bed.

Outside the glass cylinder, there were dozens of personnel, including security personnel wearing special equipment, laboratory staff wearing research clothes, and high-level officials and transcendents wearing other clothes, as well as an elderly person with a clearly high status. They all looked at the human in the glass cylinder with excited eyes.

Seeing Wu Pifu arrive, everyone looked at him with burning eyes. The old man even said, "Leon, hurry, use spiritual vision to find the location of the magic potion, anchor its position, so we can salvage it!"

Inexplicably, Wu Pifu knew how to use spiritual vision in an instant. He could look directly at the loopholes of the heart, then find its essential condensation point, then mark and anchor it, while salvaging it was the power of another transcendent realm.

Hearing this, Wu Pifu just stood still. After his gaze swept across the faces of the people in front of him, he looked at the person in the glass cylinder.

That was a fat man, at least three or four hundred pounds, so fat that his hands and feet seemed to have degenerated. His face was incomparably ferocious and painful. When Wu Pifu looked at him, he even shouted directly, "Save me, whoever it is, save me!"

Seeing Wu Pifu not moving, the people around were all anxious. The man and woman who had just pulled Wu Pifu here said at the same time, "Hurry up, Leon, it's up to you!"

"Leon, what's wrong? Aren't you usually very active?"

The people surrounding the glass cylinder were also discussing. A high-level official said directly, "Old Xu, what's wrong with your subordinates? Making a mess at this time?"

"Right, this is a precious sequence three magic potion!"

"If it hadn't appeared in your sector, how could it have been your turn?"

The old man also felt embarrassed and said seriously to Wu Pifu, "Leon, what's wrong with you? Didn't you actively participate in various affairs before and even write reports to me, wanting to participate in the research of symbols? If you can't even do this well, I think you shouldn't research symbols either!"

At this time, various noises and thoughts kept popping up from Wu Pifu's consciousness.

(Right, didn't I want to research symbols?)

(Wait a minute, I came here to explore all of this. Isn't this the perfect time to mix in?)

(Pretend I am Leon. Right, some kind of strange mechanism brought me back to the past of the Light Chaser. Isn't this the best time to explore information?)

(I must be fast, act immediately. Absolutely cannot drop the chain at this time, must be fast!)

Wu Pifu just stood silently. After a few seconds, the people around became more anxious, and the light on the fat man in the glass cylinder became more intense, as if some terrible change was about to happen at any time. However, Wu Pifu suddenly laughed out loud.

"Really interesting. How is this ability to imitate my inner thoughts done? It makes it seem like my personality has split into several."

Wu Pifu laughed and spoke. While speaking, he waved his hand, and the heads of the man and woman beside him exploded, and their bodies immediately shattered inch by inch and vanished.

The people around were all shocked. Several security personnel immediately aimed their firearms at Wu Pifu, and the transcendents also showed spiritual light and anomalies. Even the old man was full of shock, also showing the characteristics of a transcendent.

"So what exactly are you expecting?"

Wu Pifu spread his hands and said, "Want me to participate? Want me to think of myself as that person named Leon? And then? Subtly do these non-human things, and then assimilate me? Let me be lost? Finally, really become a part of this past fragment or fake event? Right?"

The dozens of people in front of him showed strange expressions. They looked at each other carefully. The old man said, "Leon, do you think you are not Leon? But some other existence, whether it's from another world, or from the past, future, or some other existence, suddenly came here because of a strange event and became Leon, right?"

Wu Pifu's expression remained unchanged, and he just smiled and continued to walk toward these dozens of people. The security personnel looked back at the old man and the others, and then they fired their weapons at Wu Pifu's feet.

These were energy weapons or laser weapons, and in a flash, they shot scorched marks at Wu Pifu's feet. However, Wu Pifu's expression remained unchanged, and his speed was not fast; he just walked toward these dozens of people step by step.

The old man shouted immediately, "Stupid! You are virtualizing! Beastification, weirdness-ification, transformation-ification, virtualization, object-ification, spiritual-ification, the six disasters. You are in the process of self-personality disintegration, reorganization, and iteration, accepting the influence of external pollution, which has led to drastic changes in your memory and cognition, causing you to falsely construct your self. Stop immediately, otherwise you will completely turn into an unknowable monster!!"

Wu Pifu just shook his head and said, "Stupid... Do you think I will deceive myself like you non-humans? If it is, it is; if it isn't, it isn't. Even if I don't continue to explore, I will never do non-human things. Humans can deceive heaven, but they cannot deceive their hearts! I might turn a blind eye to those in need when I am weak in order to survive, or avoid enemies I cannot defeat, but I will not deceive my heart. Right is right, wrong is wrong, human is human, non-human is non-human!"

"So you see, this is the difference between me and you. I am a human, and you are not. So as non-humans, how could you possibly deceive me? After all, you are non-human things that don't know pain, don't know joy, and don't know happiness..."

"Now, don't pretend to be human anymore, okay?"

While speaking, Wu Pifu was less than ten meters away from the security personnel.

Finally, the security personnel opened fire. The firearms all shot at Wu Pifu's hands and feet. And clearly five steps away, Wu Pifu's "Pifu" title seemed to have malfunctioned. These energy beams easily pierced through his arms and thighs, burning them off and breaking them. In just an instant, his arms and legs were completely gone.

The old man shouted immediately, "Still not hurrying to restore cognition!? No matter what identity you have virtualized, your essence is Leon, a low-level transcendent with spiritual vision. Look, your arms and legs are gone, don't you realize it yet?"

Wu Pifu did indeed feel that his arms and legs had been broken, and that clear, bone-deep pain was also transmitted to his mind. But what made people feel weird was that he didn't fall to the ground; his body was still floating... without the support of his legs, he was still hovering in mid-air!

"Very realistic, acting directly on my sea of consciousness, making all these changes seem real. But still the same sentence, I am different from you, I will not deceive my heart."

Wu Pifu's body continued to move forward, just as if his legs still existed, unharmed. Then those security personnel no longer held back, and violent beam firearms shot Wu Pifu into a sieve, his whole body torn apart. The dozens of people were all relieved, and then their eyes showed regret.

"Old Xu, it seems this sequence three magic potion can only be lost." A transcendent said regretfully.

The old man also withdrew his gaze and looked at the glass cylinder, also showing regret. Just as he was about to say something, suddenly an invisible palm pinched his head.

Behind the old man, the security personnel were turning into ashes, and several transcendents were beaten to pieces. A few people were not dead yet, and they all showed expressions of fear and shock, because a broken head, with only one-third left, was floating behind the old man, brain matter and blood still dripping. This was all that was left of Wu Pifu that they could see.

"I think I probably know what the principle of your transcendent system is."

The floating skull made a sound and said, "Construct a world that exists purely in spirit and mind, and then unfold it, covering the real material world. As long as cognition is produced within it, then this world will change with this cognition. For example, you all collectively feel that I am Leon, then I naturally have Leon's abilities, and at the same time gradually produce the subconscious that I am also Leon. And if I also do what Leon is supposed to do, such as salvaging this ordinary person, then I will be assimilated into Leon."

The old man looked at this skull and eyeball with shock. He popped a sound from his throat and said, "The ultimate stage of virtualization... what exactly are you..."

"Shut up, non-human thing!"

As if an invisible big hand squeezed hard, the old man's head exploded, his body twisted and fell to the ground, and without even using his transcendent power, he was directly squeezed to death by Wu Pifu.

But what made Wu Pifu strange was that this spiritual illusion still didn't disappear. The corpses of the people around, the wailing, and the alarm that suddenly broke out in the laboratory, all of this was still vivid. And the fat man in the glass cylinder was also wailing, his body suddenly exploded, and a ferocious and terrifying monster hatched from his flesh and blood, immediately starting to devour his exploded flesh and blood.

"...So that's it, I understand!"

The skull and eyeball moved, and Wu Pifu's voice came out of thin air, saying, "It's to kill all the non-humans in the entire laboratory, and this illusion will disappear!"

The remaining few people were struggling, and after hearing this voice, each of them paused. One of the female transcendents cried and wailed, "You monster, what exactly are you!?"

With a *pop*, her body was directly crushed by an invisible big foot, and her wailing stopped directly.

"I've said it many times, why do you have to deceive yourselves?"

"I am the human, the pure-blooded human, and you... are just a group of non-humans constructed from false minds!"

In the sound of his voice, the skull and eyeball were quickly healing into a human form, while the bodies of the remaining few people were slowly wriggling, as if they were about to turn into some kind of sludge, and their faces were full of disbelief at all this.

At the same time, in a giant pyramid far away from the laboratory, on its top floor, there were three different strange existences entrenched, which were a large mass of wriggling indefinite flesh, a mass of indescribable thick fog, and a large number of flashing light spheres. And at this moment, one of the many flashing light spheres suddenly became slightly dim.

"...Garden of God h-24-07 area appears backflow, detecting... detecting... detecting..."

"Virtualization body appears!"

"Judging virtualization body... judging... judging..."

"Unable to judge, unable to judge, unable to judge..."

"Annihilation program started..."

"Garden of God guard dispatched."