Chapter 92: Fate

"Captain!" Kenuo saluted his captain.

Captain Leimengduo glanced at Kenuo and nodded slightly, "You've come just in time; come with me now to examine the corpse."

"Yes!" Kenuo's expression turned solemn in an instant, and he followed Leimengduo deep into the Law Enforcement Bureau.

"Use the 'Desireless Badge'!" Leimengduo reminded him.

Kenuo placed his hand on the badge he wore on his person, and a strange power surged from the badge, acting upon Kenuo.

His expression began to turn cold, devoid of any fluctuations of emotion or desire, as if he had become a "Puppet" or a "machine."

"Why must emotions be forbidden?" Soon, the three of Chumen learned the answer.

After walking through the darkness for a short while, they had arrived at a hidden room underground.

A corpse with an extremely distorted and bizarre shape appeared before the three of them.

Many bright kerosene lamps illuminated the room, revealing every detail to everyone's eyes.

The corpse was a full three meters tall, its body fair-skinned, covered in many tumors and flowers, resembling a strange tree.

Only, the true trunk of this "strange tree" was composed of countless naked corpses.

Judging by the expressions of pleasure unto death on those corpses, it was not hard to guess the way they had been fused together.

Scattered around the corpse were dozens of tentacles, each one resembling a brown tree branch, with withered flowers still coated in mucus at their tips.

This tree-like body was visually shocking; anyone who saw it would be dominated by the desires suddenly rising within their hearts.

"This..." Both Amon and Bethel were stunned by this bizarre corpse.

In terms of strength, this corpse might not have reached the Demigod level; what truly shocked them was that it radiated something they were already very familiar with: the Corruption of an Outer God!

"Mother Tree of Desire..." Chumen shook his head slightly, not expecting to see this thing.

"Added to the 'Circle of Inevitability', this world has at least the Gifts of two Outer Gods."

It was a "Gift," not a Corruption.

This was a very important distinction.

If one were to truly speak of Corruption, everyone here had actually already been corrupted by the "Circle of Inevitability," carrying Its aura, and could only survive within "Inevitability."

"Is it this terrifying outside the planet?" Having arrived for less than a day, they had already encountered the Corruption of two different Outer Gods; this fact dealt a massive mental shock to Bethel and even Amon.

"The function of the 'Desireless Badge' is to forbid all emotions, so as not to have one's own desires stirred by this thing; otherwise, one would likely be corrupted and then fused into this strange tree."

As for the Corruption carried by the followers of the "Mother Tree of Desire," the aura of the "Circle of Inevitability" on Kenuo and Leimengduo was sufficient to resist it.

This was similar to the mechanism by which Dream Phosphor resisted the Corruption of Outer Gods; only an "Oldest One" could oppose an "Oldest One."

"'Desireless Badge'? I wonder how many lives it took to figure out this rule." Chumen shook his head and sprinkled two trails of Dream Phosphor, placing Amon and Bethel under his protection.

The two cold, emotionless law enforcers examined the tree-like body according to procedure and recorded every situation.

Afterward, the two did not linger in the slightest, quickly leaving the hidden underground room while simultaneously deactivating the power of the "Desireless Badge."

"Desire Cultists again!" Kenuo looked at the record sheet in his hand, his indignation finally flaring up, yet he was helpless.

"It is indeed troublesome..." Leimengduo sighed, but his tone was also somewhat relaxed.

Kenuo sensed his captain's relaxation, and feeling puzzled, he couldn't help but ask, "Captain, you..."

"Cases like this shouldn't be within our scope of duty." Leimengduo smiled and lightly shook the record sheet in his hand.

"You mean... 'Inevitable Attendant'?" Kenuo thought of something, his expression brightening with clear yearning.

"You've been at the Law Enforcement Bureau for a while now, but you haven't seen them yet, have you? Come, I'll take you to see them." Captain Leimengduo smiled and led the way.

"This... doesn't seem to follow the rules!" Kenuo felt yearning, but also some fear; "Inevitable Attendants" were people of extremely high status in the Law Enforcement Bureau, and only captains were qualified to know of them.

And "Inevitable Attendants" were only invited to become Beyonders and become "Inevitable Attendants" once their own professional rank reached the "Master" level.

What was a "Master" rank?

The "Master" Sheriff among law enforcers, the "Master" Head Chef among chefs...

"I am about to become a Sheriff, so I am qualified to take you." Captain Leimengduo smiled.

Kenuo immediately had no more concerns.

Chumen watched all of this and revealed a smile; under his guidance, nothing could be hidden, and everything was presented in its entirety.

Now, he truly needed to see these "Inevitable Attendants."

"Interesting!" Amon was also observing all of this and had basically understood everything within it.

Bethel also associated this with the meaning of "Inevitability" and suddenly realized the truth.

"What have you understood?" Chumen spoke up to test him.

"The key lies in the two words 'Inevitability'." Bethel himself was still at the Sequence 3 level, and his grasp of information was far inferior to Amon and Chumen, so only now did he understand.

Not to mention Chumen's control over information, which he had already understood the moment he walked out of Kenuo's house.

And Amon had already scattered his avatars, though he could not "Parasitize" and thus found it difficult to obtain more information, he had still seen enough people.

Hearing words like "Master," "professional rank," and "Inevitable Attendant," he also understood it all in his heart.

"This is a world of 'Inevitability'," Bethel organized his thoughts and answered.

"Everyone likely has a profession they are born destined for, or one inherited from their ancestors; this is the beginning of inevitability."

"This is a kind of predestination!"

"And achieving a certain level of success in this profession is also taking a step further in 'Inevitability'; after reaching a certain degree, one can receive the favor of someone, obtain a Gift, and become a Beyonder!"

"Similar to the Acting Method, they are approaching That One!"

"This is a Beyonder advancement system similar to Sequence Potions!"

"Very good!" Chumen nodded in satisfaction; Bethel's personality was slightly rigid and dull, but he was still very insightful in these aspects.

Such a civilization under the Corruption of the "Circle of Inevitability" was full of a sense of deformity; in Chumen's view, this method of predestined professions was unreliable to the extreme.

But as it happened, under the power of that Oldest One, it had become Reality, and even formed an "Inevitability" civilization.

"'Inevitable Attendant'? What kind of system is this..." The three of Chumen followed Leimengduo, winding through the underground paths until they arrived at a surface church.

"Inevitable Attendant?" Chumen's gaze narrowed slightly as he saw a member of the clergy wearing divine robes, kneeling before a symbol composed of intertwined thorns, praying devoutly.

"Circle of Inevitability"!