Chapter 8

Wu Pifu brought the little mute to the hillside.

There was a peach forest here, but unfortunately it was late autumn, and no peach blossoms could be seen.

But next year, this place would surely be full of peach blossoms. If the little mute were buried here, she would surely be very happy.

"I said I would take you away. I didn't do it when you were alive, but even if you are dead, I will definitely take you away."

Wu Pifu murmured and stumbled. His physical strength was exhausted, and he had established an event-type sanctuary, so he could leave this dream world at any time, but he still had things to do.

Just by the peach forest, Wu Pifu tied a piece of wood to his arm and began to dig a pit with his feet and hands.

Blood sprinkled all over the mud, and the bird flew up from time to time, landed on his shoulder from time to time, and landed on the ground from time to time, leaning against the little mute.

This bird was indeed spiritual, as if it knew life and death and knew sorrow.

Wu Pifu dug very slowly. His only arm didn't even have a wrist, and his body had many fractures and bruises, and even his internal organs had a lot of damage.

He dug from morning until afternoon. Many passersby saw him, but he was covered in blood, and because the Tiger Demon Art reached the hall, he had his own power, so these passersby didn't dare to stay long and hurried away after seeing it.

When the big pit was dug, Wu Pifu carefully put the little mute into it and filled it with soil.

But there was no coffin, no tombstone, and finally he could only move a big stone and put it on the grave.

"Little mute, you wait for me... this place is too shabby, there will definitely be a grand funeral later, but I don't know if you like it or not..."

Wu Pifu coughed blood and smiled while talking. At the same time, he looked at the bird, and the bird also tilted its head to look at him.

"How about following me from now on?" Wu Pifu asked after a moment of silence.

The bird chirped twice, and Wu Pifu nodded and said, "Then I have to give you a name..."

"Chirp..." The bird continued to chirp softly.

Wu Pifu thought for a long time and said seriously to the bird, "Then let's call you Gou Dan, it’s easy to raise."

"Chirp! Chirp!!" The bird slammed into Wu Pifu’s face angrily, pecking at his face constantly.

Wu Pifu said helplessly, "You mean you don't want to be called Gou Dan, you only want to be called Chirp? But Gou Dan... or Wang Cai? Lai Fu?"

The bird chirped angrily, "Chirp! Chirp!!"

"Chirp? Not bad..."

Wu Pifu took the bird’s name, and he took the bird toward the hillside. Some passersby who had been watching him from afar saw this one-armed man, with a bird standing on his shoulder, slowly disappearing into the smoke and rain of the sunset...

"You have established a Level 2 sanctuary."

"Can carry life (non-human, non-Nightmare) to and from the sanctuary and the real world."

"You get a full random lottery (Level 1 sanctuary) reward."

"You get a personal attribute upgrade (non-breaking limit) reward."

"You get a quota to wake up 5 sleepers (non-citizens)."

"You need to return to the world where the sanctuary is located every 30 days and stay for 7 days."

"You need to achieve A%#、*... to upgrade the sanctuary to Level 3. The Level 3 reward is the digitization interface of personal information in this world and another designated world."

"Whether to return? Whether to carry the emerald bird (strange) to return? Whether to draw rewards, use upgrade rewards? Whether to wake up sleepers immediately?"

"Confirm."

Wu Pifu closed his eyes and opened them again. When he regained his vision, he had returned to the ultra-high future technology ship cabin.

This is the real world, this is Baseline Reality 1.0. Unfortunately, because of "?", this place has long become a place full of Nightmares, perhaps even more terrifying than the dream world.

Gaia, Z Zone, 6123 area.

Wu Pifu is the maintenance personnel who woke up in the 117th shift of this area, and the personnel of the previous 116 shifts have all died, or fallen into a situation more terrifying than death, such as becoming a derivative of a Nightmare, a parasite, or "strange" transformation, etc.

The entire 6123 area now has only one living person. The last two survivors of the previous shift, Wang Xiuting and Li An, his seniors, have died in the hands of a Level 2 Nightmare.

The entire 6123 area is very large. From the drawings, it includes three blocks, two maintenance main stations, six medical unit systems, twelve internal security systems, and eighteen entertainment centers for maintenance personnel to rest, play, be healthy, and sleep.

But now, the only places Wu Pifu can go are a maintenance base station and the hibernation chamber in front of him. All other areas have been completely blocked by the main brain, because those areas are full of Nightmares, strange things, terror, and eeriness. Once the blockade is opened, Wu Pifu will rely entirely on luck to bet on whether he will die in the next second, or be unable to survive or die.

Of course, he cannot open these areas, because his permission is insufficient. He is not a citizen. To open them, multiple maintenance personnel must start the opening command at the same time... and the permission level required for each area is different. Some core areas, such as the channel to the main brain, require hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of citizens to vote to open.

Wu Pifu can now wake up five maintenance personnel, but he didn't do it immediately, but walked from this hibernation chamber to the only open channel.

After Chirp came to this world, it was very curious about everything, flying and pecking, but it didn't leave Wu Pifu’s 3-meter range. When Wu Pifu walked toward this only channel, Chirp stood on his shoulder again.

Wu Pifu walked all the way, his steps became more and more stumbling, and he kept coughing up blood.

He was too seriously injured, so seriously that even using national arts to circulate qi and blood could not suppress the injury. He was walking toward death. If it were the environment of the 21st century, his best result would be to be admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU), with a certain possibility of survival, or to survive as a vegetable.

But fortunately, it is now after 2877. Humanity has experienced the Fourth World War, and technology has developed enough to span a distance of 500 light-years. In terms of medical means, as long as one head remains, and the brain damage does not exceed 30%, and the death time does not exceed half an hour, the technology of this era can be rescued.

Wu Pifu walked through the channel. The channel was not long, only about 20 meters. At the end of the channel was a room full of debris and a small amount of machinery... a maintenance base station, which is also the place most frequently used by maintenance personnel, if there was no dream world distortion.

In the center of this maintenance base station was a transparent chamber with multiple mechanical arms. This was the destination of Wu Pifu’s trip, the universal medical chamber.

"Wu Pifu, Level 1 maintenance personnel, work ID... confirmed, can be used."

The synthetic sound rang out, the medical chamber opened, and Wu Pifu said to Chirp, "Don't come in, wait for me outside."

Chirp flew to a shelf next to it and tilted its head to look.

Wu Pifu then walked into the medical chamber. After a light scan, a series of damage tables and repair suggestions immediately appeared.

Wu Pifu didn't care about these data, he just immediately looked at the last number.

"Main Brain, how many carbon-based nano-units are there currently?" Wu Pifu asked.

The information appeared directly in Wu Pifu’s mind: "There are currently 2.6 carbon-based nano-units in this base station."

Wu Pifu frowned and looked at the last number on the treatment table, which showed 2.1.

This 2.1 was to perform a complete treatment on him, including his broken arm, the palm of the other broken arm, internal injuries, skin injuries, and many neuron damages, even including the hidden injuries accumulated from practicing national arts.

After treatment, there were 0.5 units of carbon-based nano-units left...

Wu Pifu looked at some of the options, and then his thoughts moved, and those options began to be canceled, and the numbers at the time of settlement kept changing.

He found that the most consumed was an arm, which consumed 0.8 carbon-based nano-units, while the palm only needed 0.2 carbon-based nano-units.

For a time, Wu Pifu fell into deep thought. He suddenly said again: "Main Brain, display the attributes of that black ball."

"Buddha Mud."

"Legend has it that there is a wonderful soil in the world where the Buddha is, named 'Merit Eight Treasures Mud,' which can be shaped into all living beings in the world. This mud is a lower-level imitation of the Merit Eight Treasures Mud, possessing the ability to improve life potential, transform fantasy organ limbs, and endow life with 'supernatural' power."

"The defect is that it will significantly improve life inspiration."

Wu Pifu looked carefully at the attributes of this Buddha mud, especially its negative effects.

Significantly improve life inspiration...

This inspiration is not the inspiration for research, art, or learning, nor is it the so-called sixth sense of spiritual perception.

This inspiration is actually a very terrifying negative state.

In the dream world, terror and Nightmares have information-level pollution capabilities. According to what Wu Pifu knows from his seniors, some terrifying existences, even just knowing or chanting their names, are enough to turn life into distorted pollution. And the inspiration described here is the perception ability for these higher-level terrors. The higher the inspiration, the faster you die!

"But it improves life potential, transforms fantasy organ limbs, and endows life with 'supernatural' power... If I integrate this Buddha mud, I can reshape my arm and significantly improve my strength. As for the negative effects brought by the improvement of inspiration, my Tiger Demon Art can just happen to restrain it. Maybe this negative effect is a positive effect for me?"

Wu Pifu pondered secretly for a while, and finally made up his mind.

His Tiger Demon Art actually advanced to the hall in this life-and-death fight, and he established a Level 2 sanctuary. He had one more attribute upgrade opportunity, which could completely upgrade the Tiger Demon Art from reaching the hall to the next stage, "Out of the World."

Entry level, reaching the hall, out of the world, reaching the peak, reaching the holy, the five stages of the Tiger Demon Art. He could immediately go to "Out of the World," which made his resistance to demonic thoughts, distracting thoughts, or external strange thoughts significantly improved.

And the Tiger Demon Art itself takes a different path. The more demonic thoughts and distracting thoughts, the more negative consciousness, the more feedback and strength after suppression.

At this moment, Wu Pifu directly started a deep treatment of his whole body. Except for the broken arm, he would perform a whole-body repair, consuming a total of 1.3 carbon-based nano-units, leaving 1.3 carbon-based nano-units. This is the life-saving medicine for the future. Unless he can open the channel in the next step and go to other maintenance base stations, or even maintenance main stations, or medical units, otherwise, once he consumes it, he will completely lose this kind of treatment magic.

After the repair was completed, Wu Pifu finally had time to organize the harvest of the Level 2 sanctuary!

A full random lottery in the dream world, a non-breaking limit attribute upgrade, and...

The awakening of five newcomers!!

(End of chapter)