Chapter 2118: Summit Battle 6

Eat me... Hurry up and eat me!!

「Where is my hand?? Quick, pull my hand out of my brain! Hurry up!! 」

「I don't want to be with the eyes! I want to go back to the intestines to take a bath! 」

"*&*& (Get lost).. out.. go!"

Inside the brightly colored underground space, everything appeared strangely bizarre.

Colors were randomly cut and combined, with countless limbs and organs writhing together to form clumps of grotesque flesh.

Lin An clung tightly to the back of the dream mouse, his eyes blood-red. As if enduring an unimaginable mental shock, he could only force himself not to comprehend any of the images at this moment.

He could no longer describe everything before him in words.

After entering the latter part of the journey, the originally dark underground space suddenly changed. Compared to the lifeless, decaying first half, the latter half's 'sea of corpses' was evidently much fresher. Consequently, these severed limbs and fragments still retained greater power.

Spiritual energy, mental power, rules, radiation... and even the fundamental stance of some kind of organism.

These pollution remnants left by various power systems are like vomit in a blender—no one knows what exactly has been mixed together.

Even with Faith Power constantly shielding external information, the amount of information he bears is reduced to less than one percent.

But under such intense scouring, Lin An also felt his memory of the real world beginning to blur. It was like brainwashing—he almost forgot what normal life looked like.

He hadn't not tried closing his eyes and shutting off his senses.

But in this latter half of the underground space, he was like a magnetic needle, while everything around him was like magnetic stripes. As long as he kept moving, external information would directly bypass his five senses and drill into his brain.

Moreover, if these images were not enough to threaten him, the incessant sounds drilling into his thoughts had already posed a lethal threat.

「My body seems to be fleeing...! 」

Lin An gritted his teeth, his mind filled with shrill wails and piercing childlike screams.

Logical relations in language no longer exist here; there is only extreme chaos, a causeless 'curse'.

It was as if every cell and every organ were arguing with itself, endlessly voicing its own pain.

And these sounds also affected every cell inside his body. Like soldiers on a battlefield constantly hearing calls to surrender, Lin An as commander could still retain his reason, but his cells could not!

If anyone could see his current state, they would be horrified to discover that every inch of his surface muscle was writhing, as if countless worms were crawling in and out, trying to burst through his body.

If his body were not far superior to that of a war star, Lin An would have no doubt that his bones had already pierced his chest cavity, and even his heart would have drilled out through his throat.

「We must resolve this! 」

「If this continues, forget about obtaining the divine artifact. At most two or three hours later, whether I can maintain self-awareness becomes a problem. 」

「But where exactly is the problem...? No. 77 dared to let me come, so they surely must have considered this. 」

Thinking hard, Lin An, while doing his best to suppress the rioting organs inside his body, rapidly pondered solutions in his mind.

The current situation surely isn't hard to solve; otherwise, the big eyeballs would definitely remind him!

So where exactly has the problem arisen?

Is it my misuse of Faith Power, or is my method of resisting contamination flawed?

「It shouldn't be... 」

「My self-created shielding technique may be crude, but it still works. 」

「Or should I not shield at all, letting these contaminants assimilate me? Like... 」

Lin An frowned, unable to help but lower his gaze to the dream mouse beneath him.

He had long noticed that the dream mouse was unaffected, but after repeated study, Lin An did not feel its method would work for him.

「This mouse has no brain... It's lived here too long, so its perception of the world is just like this. It doesn't know what its legs and head should be like, so naturally it can't understand the difference between these corpses and itself. 」

「Even its cells don't see a problem; it's just a mouse—no matter what it becomes or how it's combined, it's still a mouse.. 」

Lin An gave a bitter smile.

Following this line of reasoning backward, the answer is obvious.

「Could it be that in the latter half I need to discard my brain? As long as I'm ignorant enough, nothing can affect me? 」

Just like an idiot cannot be changed; if changed, they're still a big idiot.

However, faced with such a conclusion, Lin An could not accept it. Or rather, even if he tried, many of his cognitions are like brands, deeply etched into every cell of his being.

「This won't work; then I can only reason backward from the principle of contamination. 」

「Is my body being altered because these corpses are utterly defective, urging my body to self-separate? Because splitting off is the perfect state? 」

Lin An's mind flashed with the ghost infant from before.

From a certain perspective, the contamination method of these corpses is very similar to that of the ghost infant.

「If we follow this line of thought... should we block it? Not block myself, but block the spread of these pollutants? 」

「No... not right. 」

The moment the idea arose, Lin An rejected this line of thinking.

Impossible.

Just shielding himself from receiving information is already difficult enough; unless his Faith Power is vast enough to envelop the entire underground and wrap every corpse, it would be utterly useless.

Even this approach would be less useful than him shielding himself.

「Look for the source? That also won't work... even if there is a source, I don't have time to cut it off. 」

Feeling irritable, after a long time in the contamination, even though Lin An's mind is as strong as ever, he now can't help but feel irritable. Caught between a rock and a hard place, he's like a mouse stuck in a trap, compared to fighting a powerful enemy!

「Time! I need time! The remaining journey is at least two days! 」

「My mind, aided by Faith Power, can endure for a long time, but my body cannot; once my flesh disintegrates, I will surely die! 」

「If... 」

「Wait...! 」

Suddenly, Lin An startled, as if enlightened, a thought flashed through his mind.

He can still think now, purely because Faith Power is sharing the pressure.

In that same way, by what right can he not use Faith Power to share the bodily pressure!?