Chapter 65: I Die

Wu Pifu walked out of the Peace Hotel room door first, followed by Amida and Xu Shilan. They all tried their best to keep their movements and expressions natural, as if they had naturally returned to this "peaceful" hotel.

After leaving the room, the three didn't rush to walk around, but began to "naturally" look at the surroundings.

The Peace Hotel had been built for the most part. For example, the warehouse they came out of had been completed, while the main building was being built in the second-floor area. Villagers and craftsmen were coming in and out of this Peace Hotel. Clearly, they were normal native humans, not Nightmares, because they didn't go to Gaia.

"……If it's a building-type shelter, or a faction-type shelter, even native Dream World people can destroy it, while an event-type shelter must be penetrated to Gaia on my corpse. It's a pity that this is a special-type shelter." Wu Pifu said in a low voice.

Xu Shilan and Amida were silent.

With the gradual exploration of the Dream World, they also roughly knew the advantages and disadvantages of several types of shelters.

Special-type shelters have the best rewards, this is beyond doubt, but special-type shelters also have their drawbacks, that is, they have both the regional limitations of building-type shelters and the disadvantage of not being destroyed by native forces…… This is an advantage in many cases, but it is a disadvantage when Nightmares are invincible, such as now.

The three observed the surroundings silently, and then as Wu Pifu stepped out first, the other two also walked to the dam outside the Peace Hotel.

This place still belonged to the Peace Hotel range. If anything happened, they could go to the Peace Hotel room in a few seconds and return to Gaia.

At this time, villagers and craftsmen came to greet the three. The three naturally responded, but they looked around and didn't see Xu Rongyu, and the expressions of the three were not very good.

"……He won't easily leave the Peace Hotel." Wu Pifu said in a low voice.

Xu Shilan also said: "Right, according to his identity and behavior in this world, leaving the Peace Hotel will cause him great danger, and he should know that we are the biggest surprise in this world…… because we are heavenly people."

Amida didn't speak.

The three fell into silence again. Xu Shilan said after a moment: "Don't you see anything unusual around you?"

Wu Pifu looked at the surrounding sky and shook his head after watching for a while: "No, at least I didn't see any abnormalities."

Suddenly at this moment, Jiu Jiu on Wu Pifu's shoulder chirped, and the three looked at Jiu Jiu at the same time.

This little bird was truly spiritual. Of course, only Wu Pifu knew that she was actually a demon. Xu Shilan and Amida looked at Jiu Jiu, not knowing what she wanted to express, and then they looked at Wu Pifu, as if they wanted Wu Pifu to translate.

Wu Pifu thought for a while and said to Jiu Jiu: "So…… you want to talk about cross-talk or something?"

Jiu Jiu was stunned for a second, then hit Wu Pifu's forehead angrily, and then kept pecking at his eyebrows.

Wu Pifu

Qiuqiu let out a wronged chirp.

Wu Pifu nodded and said: "Indeed, you are a bit too fragile... I don't know if you can eat the heavenly treasures designated. If you can, your strength could also be improved."

Qiuqiu's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly chirped.

Wu Pifu said helplessly: "The situation is urgent now, so I must improve my strength first. Next time, definitely next time."

Qiuqiu let out a dissatisfied chirp, and then she looked up at the sky, chirping incessantly.

"Is that so? Then that is likely a 'truth' of a deeper level, not something I can see right now."

Wu Pifu also looked at the sky with a face full of sorrow and said: "But your senses are sharper than mine. If even you feel it is dangerous, then there must be danger."

Xu Shilan and Amida both remarked: "No, how exactly do you two communicate?"

Wu Pifu ignored their remarks and looked at the two of them, saying: "The worst-case scenario has happened."

Both of their faces turned gloomy; this no longer required Wu Pifu to explain further. The worst-case scenario was that, apart from the Peace Hotel, there was no longer any safe place in this world.

Amida muttered in a low voice, somewhat uncomprehendingly: "But according to what you said before, this is a Rank 0.9 world of baseline reality, so there is an upper limit to the pollution source here."

"Correct, so the greatest possibility is that the Unborn Venerable Mother has eroded this world and is still in the process of continuous erosion."

A certain perception in Wu Pifu's heart suddenly flickered, causing him to say these words. He knew this was something similar to a sixth sense. Ever since he had trained his martial arts from the Dark Jin to the Hua Jin, he had begun to gradually possess this peculiar sixth sense. This was perhaps the precursor to the budding of 'the cicada senses the autumn wind before it moves'.

Although Wu Pifu did not have the kind of danger perception that Qiuqiu had, he also felt that this piece of heaven and earth was not right. There was always a feeling of being shrouded by some terrifying entity, and now it was merely verified by Qiuqiu's words.

Xu Shilan and Amida recalled the scene they had seen when they fought against the half-paper people, where hundreds of silk threads hung down. At that time, they had felt a great terror about to descend. According to Wu Pifu's current statement, was that feeling likely because the Dream World's baseline reality had lowered?

"Then now... what should we do?"

Wu Pifu asked this question, and this was precisely the difficult problem, or even the desperate situation, that the three of them had to face at the moment.

If the space-time outside had truly been eroded and changed by the Unborn Venerable Mother, it meant that as long as they stepped one step outside the range of the Peace Hotel, they might be eroded by those countless silk threads into paper people, half-paper people, or other terrifying monsters.

Searching for Huang Lian fragments was now completely meaningless.

Xu Shilan immediately said: "Then execute Plan Number Two. Pretend that everything is fine. When Xu Rongyu or any other suspicious person arrives, no matter what they say, and regardless of whether they are the one or not, forcibly drag them into the Peace Hotel, and thereby penetrate back to Gaia to destroy this shelter!"

Wu Pifu and Amida both nodded, and then, without leaving the range of the Peace Hotel, they sat down at the edge and waited quietly for any person to arrive.

But this wait was in vain. When the day passed, Xu Rongyu actually did not appear, and the villagers and craftsmen still did not feel anything abnormal. When villagers and craftsmen came to change shifts, they all entered and exited the Peace Hotel freely; clearly, these villagers and craftsmen had not been turned into paper people.

But this did not make the three of them feel any better, because let alone Wu Pifu, even Amida, who had the dullest inspiration, felt the abnormality.

!

A certain peculiar chill was spreading between this heaven and earth. This was not cold in the true physical sense, but a special sensation originating from the supernatural, seemingly manifesting only in consciousness and the soul.

"No, this is not an illusion."

In the early hours of that night, Xu Shilan said with an extremely ugly expression: "Look."

Xu Shilan reached out her hand, and her shadow followed her body to her palm, then condensed into a ball on her palm.

Wu Pifu and Amida did not understand, so Xu Shilan said: "I said before that shadow puppetry is a type of evil art and evil method, and it is one of the three evils of the world in the Rank 0.7 Dream World. The other two evils are witchcraft, which specializes in curses and insect poisons, and 'dismemberment and harvesting', which specializes in physical torture. This shadow puppetry, however, specializes in the transformation of living souls. This set of cultivation arts can sense the living souls, wandering ghosts, roaming souls, remnant souls... and so on, in the surroundings."

"Because I only just started practicing the cultivation art, my sensing range is very small, and at the same time, the sensing speed is very slow. Only now have I finished sensing the villagers and craftsmen of two shifts, and then... this shadow ball on my hand is the manifestation of the reaction to all souls in the surroundings. The more souls there are, the more bumps the shadow ball will have. According to the number of bumps, and the different shapes and heights of the bumps, one can distinguish their 'value'. And now..."

The three of them focused all their attention on the shadow ball. Its surface was as smooth as a mirror, with only three slight bumps indicating something.

Wu Pifu and Amida both looked at the villagers and craftsmen who were busily building houses. They smiled with wrinkled faces, worked with hands full of calluses, and even imagined the future with fellow villagers while working.

"They..." Wu Pifu said in a hoarse voice.

Xu Shilan nodded affirmatively: "They have no souls. Regardless of whether it is a living soul, a wandering ghost, a roaming soul, or a remnant soul in the sense of any cultivation art... they have none at all. Only their physical bodies are real, and then something that is neither a paper person nor a ghost is making their physical bodies continue all their past actions, just like a remnant shadow of their past behavior."

Wu Pifu watched silently, and then he suddenly stood up.

Xu Shilan and Amida both looked at him, and Xu Shilan asked: "What do you want to do?"

Wu Pifu did not look at the villagers and craftsmen anymore; he turned his gaze outside the Peace Hotel and said: "The situation is very clear now. The Unborn Venerable Mother... let's assume that thing is the Unborn Venerable Mother, has eroded this world and is transforming this world toward a lower level of baseline reality. This means that something great and terrifying is brewing outside. No..."

Wu Pifu faced the pitch-black night directly and said: "Perhaps the Unborn Venerable Mother hopes to directly drag this Dream World into baseline reality Rank 0.2 to merge with its Vacuum Hometown. In this way, its true body can grandiosely cross this shelter and go to Gaia. And when that time comes, we will absolutely have no chance of survival, none at all."

Xu Shilan and Amida also stood up and stood side by side with Wu Pifu. Amida just laughed and patted the pocket on his waist. Xu Shilan asked: "Yes, that is exactly it. Not even a single paper person has shown their face. Clearly, that Unborn Venerable Mother has extremely high intelligence and is guarding against us dragging any weak and bizarre things into the Peace Hotel to destroy the shelter. But even so, what can you do? And what do you want to do?"

"I will die."

Wu Pifu glanced at the villagers and craftsmen who were still working diligently and laughing happily, ignoring the three of them. Then he stepped onto the boundary line between the Peace Hotel and the outside space, took out a large handful of N5 bombs, and stood firm, roaring like a lion's roar.

"Unborn Venerable Mother, come out and see me! Otherwise..."

"I will die!"

(End of chapter)