Chapter 130: Fragile and Pretentious Humans

【Send it something good, 10ml, inject.】

【Injection complete. Host, please be aware that you must leave as soon as possible; your current environment is extremely dangerous!】

The moment the white digestive root system crawled onto Liu Mu's skin, the system released the Red Mist.

This type of root system, which directly transmits absorbed substances to the main body of the Great Master Flower, was destined to be thoroughly analyzed by the system and then utilized the moment it made contact with Liu Mu.

An ordinary human needs no more than 3ml of Red Mist for Mutation; Liu Mu used 10ml on this plant, harboring the intention of not wanting it to be killed outright—even if it were to be killed, it would have to be after she rescued Xu Xiaofeng.

But what exceeded her expectations was that the reaction between the Red Mist and the Great Master Flower was far more violent. A few minutes later, these roots not only failed to shrink in the slightest, but began to twist frantically like animals that had suddenly come to life, and they all headed toward the ground as if trying to break free from their restraints.

Liu Mu, who had been wrapped up like an insect in amber, accepted the dual compression from the massive root system and the soil, and the mucus shell ruptured. At this moment, as the roots pulled away, the pressure from all directions instantly fell directly onto her body.

【Warning, body is about to exceed its load-bearing limit, skill 'Corpse Shatterer' is failing, please Host perform the Fourth Upgrade immediately!】

【Please authorize Heitao A to perform the Fourth Upgrade!】

【Please perform the upgrade immediately, Host!】

——

The scarlet warning occupied almost all of Liu Mu's vision, yet she could not distinguish whether that red was the color of the system or the fresh blood bursting from her compressed body.

Even though she possessed physical strength several times that of an ordinary human, she was still so fragile under the pressure of the underground, which was measured in tons.

"... Up... grade~!" Liu Mu opened her mouth and spat out the two blood-stained words.

【Received, preparing for upgrade.

【Opening system channel, opening system host space, please Host enter the space immediately to undergo the New Human Complete Form Modification.】

Liu Mu felt as if her mouth and nose were about to be filled with soil, and her blood seemed to have begun to flow backward due to the pressure; hot liquid flowed from her throat, nose, and eyes, as if it were a study, stripping away her reason and other senses with intense stimulation.

Added to the fact that the surrounding oxygen had been exhausted by the root system, her brain could no longer think, and even the usually incomparably clear system prompts were blurry. Just as she thought she would lose consciousness in the next second, the surrounding pressure suddenly eased.

After a long while, Liu Mu recovered from the pain of her bones and tendons shattering inch by inch, only to discover that she was no longer in a pitch-black environment.

The pressure had also disappeared, but she did not feel even half a bit better; she lay on the ground, stiff as a warm corpse, with seven-colored flowing light above her head that even Mary Sue novels would not dare to imagine.

Within the flowing light, a huge reading was increasing at a slow speed of zero point zero zero zero zero something percent.

"Hiss..." She took a deep breath, then felt the excruciating pain from her internal organs, but Liu Mu still gritted her teeth and sat up, "What's the situation?"

The seven-colored light dimmed, and a slender figure converged from countless pixels, hands behind his back, bowing while sitting on the ground, his posture almost inhumanly bent.

"Host, I will now upgrade you."

Liu Mu's blood-stained eyebrows were raised high; looking through her somewhat reddened vision, she saw a 'Heitao A' on the left chest of the man's tailcoat and finally understood, "You're Heitao A? Damn, is it appropriate for an AI like you to be this handsome?"

After speaking, she coughed up a mouthful of water, and only when she spat it out did she realize she was not sitting on any solid ground, but floating in the air. Beneath her was actually a deep, dark galaxy, with flowing stars moving slowly, as if the rotation of the universe were something a short-lived creature like a human could witness; the distance between the instant and eternity was so close.

"My appearance is based on the Host's initial conception, not the system's will. Host, we shall begin now."

Liu Mu, who had not had time to make any preparations, was pressed down by the humanoid system; her prosthetic skeleton immediately emitted a sharp screech of breaking, and she could not even let out a scream before she fainted directly.

But the truth was just that cruel; Liu Mu, who always thought herself tough, was forced awake less than a second after fainting.

"You damn broken system, I'm going to fight you to the death, are you a sadist?"

Crack!

Crack——

The sound of bones folding did not stop for a single moment, and Heitao A did not explain, but instead very meticulously dismantled every single bone in Liu Mu's body.

Fainting again and again, waking up over and over, by the end, Liu Mu felt she was going crazy.

This madness had nothing to do with anger, pain, hatred, fear, etc., because she not only felt the pain of her bones being broken, but also more clearly felt the tingling of her bones healing rapidly, and the huge disparity after experiencing these two in succession.

The disparity was not between the two sensations, but the sense of loss brought about by the impending loss of these two sensations; it was a bit perverted, but Liu Mu liked this feeling of rebirth in the extreme.

During the previous two times she was suddenly killed and then reborn, she would lose consciousness and could not fully feel the sensation of her body being reborn bit by bit, but this time was different, this time the feeling...

Was real and invincibly refreshing!

But she soon discovered one thing: in this infinite folding and breaking, the body she was repairing was becoming transparent.

"What, ah, damn it, what's going on, Cha, what exactly are you doing?"

"Human body functions are being thoroughly activated, life substances are being poured back in and reorganized. Ah, sorry, Host, you won't understand these. Simply put, it's breaking the old to establish the new, letting your body upgrade to the New Human Complete Form, and accepting energy... marrow-cleansing and bone-washing, that's about what it means."

"Hahahaha, you abuse me and still mock me, Xiao A, you really are a black-hearted system."

Liu Mu soon had no strength left to argue, because not only was her body becoming transparent, but even her voice was gradually disappearing into the cold galaxy.

And she could only watch helplessly as she disappeared, as if she had never existed at all.

An ineffable panic occupied almost all of her consciousness in an instant; if she just disappeared like this, just ceased to exist, what should she do?

Would anyone remember her?

What would happen to her big sister and little brother?

Her two lifetimes of scraping by in the apocalypse, struggling to survive—in the end, was it all for nothing?

Furious, super invincibly furious!

Why!

——My hard work over two lifetimes, the large amount of wealth I accumulated, even having mines and ships, just gone like this?

No! Possible!

The speed of Liu Mu's psychological changes shocked even Heitao A, who had been repeatedly refreshed in its understanding by her operations.

You must know that the psychology and cognition of a creature like a human are very complex; even when basic skin color and appearance differ, they will produce strong rejection, and even start wars.

When facing changes in their own bodies, dangerous psychological perversions will also appear.

Truly a fragile and pretentious creature, a creature the system cannot identify with, yet there is no other choice.

Heitao A stared carefully at the data refreshing rapidly across an entire wall, its evaluation of Liu Mu quite high.

"As expected of a human chosen by the main system, truly very stable!"

Liu Mu faintly heard Heitao A's words, but her transparent body was being connected to energy at this time, and the first wave of full-body 'cleansing' followed closely, giving her no chance to be distracted by the outside world.

It was still a conscious state; what was terrifying was that this time, she was watching her own body being rebuilt amidst the flowing light and Red Mist.

She could even clearly see the appearance of her own bone marrow, as well as the dense pores of her bones, not to mention the blood vessels, muscles, and tissues.

What made her scalp tingle the most were those bodily fluids, which were initially the red of Red Mist contamination, and then bit by bit transformed into other colors.

"Ugh, so disgusting!"