Chapter 34

"Setting aside moral and ethical issues for a moment, can you really eat something like a Voidranger?"

"The Foundation says the Indestructible Reptile can derive energy from any matter it consumes; looking at it now, I suspect it might be able to survive via photosynthesis in the future."

"Can someone explain why the antimatter didn't annihilate with the normal matter? Does physics no longer exist???"

……

This live-streamed mukbang was vivid and brutal; for the vast majority of the audience, it was a brand-new experience.

On one side was the Indestructible Reptile, which had just accomplished the feat of returning from the dead and demonstrated the heaven-defying ability to become stronger just by eating dirt;

On the other side were the Voidrangers of the Antimatter Legion—though these things had humanoid forms, whether they could even be considered biological entities by standard definitions was a question.

They were also universally loathed across the entire universe.

As everyone knows, after a Voidranger of the Antimatter Legion dies, it does not leave behind a corpse, but instead dissolves into light particles and vanishes.

The low-level soldiers known as Voidranger: Reavers were warriors who had not yet perished and were reforged in the "War Forge" to gain the power known as "Destruction," with antimatter supplementing their broken bodies.

Although it is unknown why the antimatter did not undergo an annihilation reaction with the normal matter, let's just attribute it to the special ability of the Path of "Destruction."

Sensing that the state of the Voidranger beneath it was not quite right.

The Indestructible Reptile's speed of breaking its shell, biting, and devouring was clearly faster by more than a notch.

It looked like it was frantically stealing the offerings.

Even with such effort, it still failed to save the Voidranger's remains.

Having successfully salvaged a few mouthfuls, the Indestructible Reptile could only watch longingly as the remaining parts vanished.

Even though this was an enemy that had killed it once before, at this moment, it was reluctant to see it disappear.

The sense of déjà vu in this plot.

Even Silver Wolf, who was secretly invading the Xianzhou, couldn't help but comment:

"This plot looks a bit like a tragic romance."

Kafka: "?"

Meeting Kafka's puzzled gaze, Silver Wolf recounted a few frequently used tropes and plot points.

Even though Kafka was well-traveled and knowledgeable, this kind of thing still exceeded her cognitive scope.

Her eyes widened, her expression becoming rich and colorful, with the words "you can even play it like this" written all over her face.

Kafka blinked, then quickly composed her expression, returning to her usual inscrutable appearance:

"A very novel story. Which literary master's work is this?"

Silver Wolf blinked, summoned a light screen out of thin air, and pushed it in front of Kafka:

"【Floating Life Mysterious Yellow White Emperor】."

"This author really likes using similar plots."

"Like the wedding night, where the wife of the Daoist tribe must kill and eat her husband to conceive offspring."

"Oh, right, for this work 'The Mouse I Hunted,' I highly recommend the Black Cat and White Cat; this CP is just too good to ship."

Kafka: "……"

Flipping through the webpage, Kafka felt as if she had seen a new world, her brain seemingly undergoing a cosmic big bang.

A moment later, she pushed the light screen back and raised a hand to rub her brow:

"You'd better be normal; I'm scared."

Silver Wolf casually closed the webpage and continued blowing a bubble with her gum:

"It's fine, I saw that 'Mysterious Yellow White Emperor' had high ratings recently, so out of curiosity, I checked out his work. It's quite interesting."

"Recently, there's a character in his work called 'Cold-Faced Great Green Dragon' that's written quite funnily."

Kafka: "……"

Hopefully, "Mysterious Yellow White Emperor" is not alluding to 【Blade】.

In the footage.

The commotion caused by the Indestructible Reptile naturally attracted more Voidrangers.

Besides the mindless Voidranger: Reavers, there were also the slightly more intelligent Voidranger: Tramplers.

The latter were powerful beings capable of walking on air.

The Indestructible Reptile realized a new enemy had appeared and had just turned its body to face them head-on.

When something resembling an ice pick flashed by, striking its forehead; ice shards splattered everywhere, but it also pierced through its forehead.

And so, the Indestructible Reptile died again.

It died inexplicably, and it died beyond the audience's expectations.

But the audience had already witnessed the whole process of it being insta-killed, reborn, and then insta-killing back.

They were already unfazed.

And Jing Yuan, seeing this scene, also frowned slightly.

He realized the immense potential for war that this creature possessed.

It could not be truly killed, and it harbored a strong hatred for life.

This meant.

Any attempt to kill it would ultimately facilitate its evolution.

Therefore, one could only limit its mobility through means of sealing and torture.

And before it found a new way to counter, timely switch to the next method.

If the Xianzhou were to handle it, they wouldn't do any better than the Foundation.

"A very troublesome creature."

"Even the Aeon of 'Permanence,' on the Path of 'Permanence,' hasn't gone as far as the Foundation's containment object."

"Or perhaps, such vitality represents the true path to immortality?"

Thinking of immortality, thinking of permanence.

Jing Yuan rarely showed a serious expression; he sat cross-legged before his desk, tapped a white stone with his index finger, and a moment later, he smiled.

"I wonder what the members of the 'Disciples of Sanctus Medicus' would think if they saw one ugly monster after another achieving immortality……"

"While they have to take the Vidyadhara marrow and transform into non-human forms just to achieve immortality."

"Ha, never mind. The leader of the 'Disciples of Sanctus Medicus' would surely say that the containment object is so ugly because it is walking on the wrong path."

"Then, members of the 'Disciples of Sanctus Medicus,' what will you do? If my Cloud Knights stand guard strictly and apply a little disturbance, how big a fish will be startled at such a moment?"

Having said this, Jing Yuan placed a stone.

The white dragon coiled across the board, cutting off and devouring the black stone's territory, already occupying an absolute advantage.

In the sky's footage.

The dead Indestructible Reptile truly underwent a mutation.

Its skin gradually faded, becoming pale and shriveled.

And beneath the skin, new tissue seemed to be generating.

Time ticked by, second by second.

Just at an inadvertent moment, its heart beat again.

Sensing the change, red exclamation marks seemed to pop up over the heads of the Voidrangers.

The Voidranger: Reaver raised the blades on its arms and struck fiercely;

The Voidranger: Trampler stood in mid-air, the three energy orbs circling its body merged into one, and it brought its hands together toward the center, erupting with a blue energy cone.

The white sloughed skin was severed and pulverized.

But that was as far as it went.

In the expectant gaze of the audience.

The remaining sloughed skin peeled away one after another, and an Indestructible Reptile, slightly smaller in size and clad in silver-gray exoskeleton, appeared.

This exoskeleton was very similar in appearance to that of the Voidrangers, yet completely different.

All attacks landing on this layer of exoskeleton were basically immunized!

"Roar——"

The Indestructible Reptile let out a long howl toward the sky.

Subsequently, it took the opportunity to bite toward the Voidranger beside it.

"Crunch——"

The Voidranger successfully dodged, but the blade growing on its arm was bitten off.

The Indestructible Reptile chewed casually a few times and swallowed the blade. ===== CHAPTER 36 =====