Chapter 3

"Within thirty breaths, I will have hints and analysis for anything I look at."

"Can leave the body, unaffected by anything in the present world, but the range is only about a yard."

These two pieces of information were directly realized when Li Yu looked at himself.

He suppressed his excitement and looked at his eye membrane again.

Sure enough, the smallest bubble, while maintaining its rainbow color, was no longer flickering.

Instead, the second-to-last bubble, which had been silent, began to flicker and charge at this time, but the speed was much slower than the first one.

Used up?

Once the time limit is reached, will he be beaten back to his original form?

This seemed to verify his guess!

Can it be unlocked by absorbing transcendent knowledge?

Every time a bubble is used, can it turn into a bubble body and analyze all things?

There were still many questions in his heart, but time was tight.

Li Yu couldn't afford to ponder or explore, and immediately began to use this golden finger that had finally taken effect, trying to find a way out.

First, he turned his head to look at his body. What entered his eyes was a teenager of about fifteen or sixteen, with a delicate but quite sloppy appearance, like a puppet, dazed in the vat.

Just by looking at this, information from somewhere unknown immediately emerged in Li Yu's mind:

"Child of the Forbidden God in incubation... body is repairing... five senses enhanced... strength increasing... obtaining Forbidden God recipes... obtaining flesh-eating forbidden arts... obtaining Eye of the Forbidden God... in one stick of incense time, the forbidden egg will occupy the brain..."

This information immediately hooked Li Yu's fear again.

It looked like he was obtaining many transcendent secret arts and becoming a transcendent existence.

In reality, it was a death warrant.

One stick of incense!

This was his remaining lifespan!

How to survive?

It seemed that because of the change in the direction of his desire for knowledge, new information emerged in his mind:

"High-intensity destruction of the parasitic body can force the forbidden egg to consume strange power for repair... this is the instinct of the forbidden egg... consuming too much will cause the forbidden egg to fall into a deep sleep..."

"Hope! It has appeared!"

A look of joy immediately appeared on Li Yu's face.

Almost subconsciously, he wanted to drill back into his body and then start crazily self-mutilating.

But on second thought, this transmigration benefit, which could be called a cheat code, had finally been opened. It would be a pity not to make the best use of it.

Taking advantage of the remaining ten breaths or so, Li Yu hurriedly looked at the two corpses on the ground again.

Immediately, more transcendent information jumped out:

"Dead Forbidden God believer."

"Brain matter mutated from excessive consumption of human flesh, containing highly toxic substances. Just one drop can make a person go mad and die, but for Forbidden God believers, it is a rare transcendent material."

"Bone-stripping knife demonized by drinking human flesh and blood, possessing sharpness, bone-breaking, and blood-sucking characteristics. The wielder can obtain multi-faceted amplification, but will become mad and bloodthirsty, addicted to chopping people."

"Dead Forbidden God believer."

"Intestines mutated from excessive consumption of human flesh, possessing blood-sucking and flesh-eating characteristics, can be activated into some kind of forbidden pet."

"Fallen Human Skin Scroll, token of the Forbidden God Sect, engraved with a 'Cuisine People Song.' Chanting the song can make the viewer fall into a mad cannibalistic desire."

This look really had gains, letting him discover the forbidden treasures and mutated special organs hidden on the original body's parents. Unfortunately, they were useless to Li Yu at this time.

But for the Child of the Forbidden God who had successfully possessed him, it was a great start.

He could completely take away the brain matter, prepare the butcher knife, activate the blood intestines as a pet, and go out chanting the Cuisine People Song...

Hmm?

Perhaps the sense of imagery was too strong, making Li Yu immediately develop some kind of guess.

"Good means!"

After sneering and praising, he didn't delay any longer and turned to drill into his body.

It was just right; at this time, the "Li Yu" in the vat was slowly starting to get up, his limbs were clearly repaired, the meat tentacle tongue full of teeth in his mouth was extending out, and on his forehead, two rows of scarlet evil eyes were opening bit by bit...

"Damn it!"

After cursing, Li Yu's soul returned.

The moment his body and soul merged, pain and torture several times more intense than before surged over.

Endless whispers and noises forced him to enter internal vision, watching with his own eyes as those scarlet horsehair worm-like egg filaments broke through the skull, drilled through the resistance in the dark, and were about to touch his extremely fresh brain matter.

"Don't even think about it!"

Li Yu cursed angrily, then took over control of his body.

He crawled out of the water vat using his hands and feet, directly pounced on Jiao Qing's body, ignoring the stench and blood, and snatched the filthy bone-stripping knife.

He didn't know if it was because of being parasitized or the potential stimulated at the moment of life and death.

Li Yu didn't even have a hint of hesitation, the blade aimed directly at himself.

In the next instant, in this small dark room, wails and screams began to resound, mixed with the sounds of chopping meat and cutting abdomens, and finally ended with rustling sounds like rats gnawing on flesh.

"How magical!"

"I bet right."

Following these two mutters, Li Yu quickly released the blood-covered bone-stripping knife, which suppressed the strong impulse to chop people in his heart.

At this moment, he was lying next to Jiao Qing's corpse like mud, trembling all over, breathing heavily, sweating profusely, his face as pale as paper, and next to him was a large pool of fragrant flesh and blood.

Who it came from went without saying.

And as a reward for his ruthless self-mutilation, almost all the "abnormalities" on Li Yu's body disappeared, leaving only two closed red eyes on his forehead, indicating the presence of the forbidden egg in his belly.

Although Li Yu could still sense that shit thing, and could even feel those egg filaments slowly wriggling in his body.

But he was also certain that it seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep again because of excessive consumption.

"If those two beasts knew that I wasted the strange power that the 【Forbidden Egg】 worked so hard to accumulate like this, and even chopped out so much fragrant flesh and blood, I'm afraid they would be so angry they would directly resurrect and eat these things alive."

"Hahaha..."

Li Yu had experienced the process of transmigration, creepy parasitism, and self-mutilation for survival, and seemed to have completely adapted to this body.

At the same time, he also had the original body's memories, and now cursing and laughing, it was quite satisfying.

However, after lying for a while, a strong sense of hunger came from his belly, reminding him to face the cruel reality ahead.

"Being parasitized by the forbidden egg for a long time, besides giving this body some non-human strength, also brought an appetite far exceeding that of ordinary people."

"I need to eat a lot every day... otherwise the forbidden egg will fall into madness, not hesitating to be malnourished, and will break out of the belly to find a new host."

"At that time, I will still definitely die."

Li Yu realized this, cursed secretly, and then staggered to his feet.

Along the way, he also swiped a bunch of keys hanging from Sun Sanniang's waist.

Although he had some understanding of this "home" in his memory, Li Yu was a newcomer, so he had to explore and familiarize himself with it first before thinking about the future.

With a thought, he finally walked out of the small dark room. The first thing he saw was a courtyard with a gloomy and terrifying atmosphere but quite spacious.

Li Yu didn't look at the layout of the courtyard. After looking left and right, after hesitating for a few breaths, he went to a storage room on the left covered with yellow talismans and wrapped with many iron locks.

He was now in a state like a starving ghost, and logically he should go to the kitchen to find something to eat.

Unfortunately, this was the home of a cannibal couple.

All the food was stored in that storage room that the original body was curious about but had never entered.

As the brass key jingled, Li Yu began to open the iron locks one by one. With a few clangs, the chains hit the ground, and he pushed open the door.

Almost in an instant!

A fishy stench that he had never smelled in his past or present life, even if a pile of dead fish mixed with rotten animal corpses and stinky tofu were stirred together, couldn't compare to it, surged over like a tornado storm.

At the same time, Li Yu also caught a glimpse of the scene inside the room.

His face turned even paler, and he turned around and "retched," wanting to vomit everything in his stomach.

Alas, his stomach was empty.

Except for pools of bile and bitter water, not a single bit of food could be seen.

Even worse, it seemed that because of that hurried glance, the forbidden egg in his belly, which had already fallen silent, began to stir again. Appetite doubled!

Saliva secreted in his mouth!

The evil god's eyeballs on his forehead rolled around!

In his mind, there were low whispers, chanting that Cuisine People Song.

"Damn Jiao Qing!"

"Damn Sun Sanniang!"

Li Yu suppressed the abnormality, held his breath, and cursed in his heart.

His movements were also extremely fast, picking up all the iron locks and locking them again.

Those yellow talismans seemed to have the effect of isolating the smell. Once the door was closed, the stench dissipated completely.

Only then did Li Yu dare to relax his breathing, moving away from the storage room with a lingering fear.

The memory was correct!

There were indeed many foods stored inside.

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Various meats, grains, melons, and fruits... even pastries.

But every one of them was terrible, foul-smelling, rotten, and ugly, making Li Yu think of the recipe for the Cuisine People Secret Medicine.

If it were just that, it would be fine. What really made Li Yu wish he could go and live-skin Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang again were many human fragments.

It was truly a human purgatory!

In Li Yu's mind, he couldn't help but start playing back Hong Kong movies he had seen in his past life, such as "The Untold Story," "Hell Has No Gate," and "Human Pork Chop."

In such an environment, even if there was normal food, he wouldn't dare to go in and pick and distinguish it; it must have been contaminated.

Sighing, Li Yu hurriedly ran to the kitchen on the right. At this moment, a sharp pain came from his belly. Lifting his clothes to take a look, his flat lower abdomen was covered in blood spots, which were egg filaments trying to drill out.

If he delayed any longer, the forbidden egg would definitely break out of his belly.

The kitchen wasn't locked, and it opened with a push. What entered his eyes were normal earthen stoves, firewood, large pots, and earthen jars and bowls, all covered in a thick layer of dust.

It showed that Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang, this fallen couple, had also had a period of normal human life when they first came to Wanfu City.

Li Yu didn't look at anything else, his gaze fixed on a few pieces of pitch-black cured meat hanging from the rafters, all pork, not some suspicious meat.

He stepped forward and jumped up, taking them all down.

The moment he got his hands on them, various methods emerged in his mind, and he remembered one of the side benefits of being parasitized: Forbidden God recipes.

Now, with a hurried glance, he saw that what emerged were all bizarre dishes that were hard to find in the mundane world. Looking at the descriptions, they were not only delicious but also provided many benefits after eating. Unfortunately, almost most of the seasonings and methods were not what normal humans would choose.

Of course, some could be used, but now he couldn't care less.

He didn't even wash them, just quickly wiped off the dust and started gnawing. The sharpness of his teeth now was no longer human.

Adding up to a total of seven or eight pounds of cured meat, it all went into his stomach before long.

That hunger that made him want to eat people was finally suppressed.

The forbidden egg also returned to peace.

Li Yu carried a water ladle, drinking while relieving the extreme saltiness in his mouth, while continuing to explore this cannibal's home.

Very quickly, except for that terrible storage room, he had searched every other place.

At this moment, he was in the master bedroom, sitting at the table, counting the pile of things in front of him.

What attracted him most was not a thick volume that looked like a book of cultivation, but a strange brass lamp standing at the corner of the table.

On the metal base was embedded a transparent glass round bottle, filled with amber liquid, soaking the corpse of a sticky, eyeless, mouthless blue strange snake. Around the bottle were exposed things like electrical wire conduits.

At the very top were two lamp tubes standing opposite each other like bull horns, and light slightly weaker than the incandescent lamps of his past life spilled out, actually illuminating the entire master bedroom.

"What kind of technology is this?"

Just as Li Yu's doubt arose, relevant memories emerged.

It was still the conversation between Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang. The latter complained that Jiao Qing's brain was broken to listen to the Tiangong Sect salesman's bluffing and spent ten taels of silver to buy back a so-called electric eel lamp.

Although the lighting effect was much better than a kerosene lamp, every so often, he had to spend one tael of silver to replace it with a new electric eel.

"Tiangong Wonder!"

"A few years ago, a group of Tiangong Sect members entered Wanfu City to preach and quickly gained a firm foothold in the South District. The products of their sect were all subversive, opening up sales in the city without any effort."

"The electric eel lamp was one of them."

When this transcendent information was extracted by Li Yu from the chaotic and scattered memories, his gaze couldn't help but glance at his eye membrane.

Sure enough, the second, slightly larger bubble had gained some charging.

Li Yu was even more interested and continued to organize other things.

The next item was that volume, which he previously suspected was a secret manual for Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang to practice evil arts.

Opening it now, he realized it was an account book.

Sun Sanniang had the habit of keeping accounts, starting from the first day the couple entered the city.

This made Li Yu even happier. He couldn't possibly practice cannibalistic evil arts, and this detailed account book could help him quickly recognize and integrate into this bizarre world.

Sure enough, he only flipped through half of the account book and understood his current situation.

Extremely bad!

Li Yu's original plan was to flee Wanfu City, where humans and ghosts lived together and evil cultivators were everywhere, to the three peaceful kingdoms of Qian, Li, and Jing.

Through the hands of Orthodox Gods like Haotian, Dimu, and Dangmo Heavenly Venerable, solve the forbidden egg in his belly.

But only now did he know that this path wouldn't work.

After the daily balance in the account book, there was a repeated record from Sun Sanniang that was like an obsession: redemption fee to leave the city has saved two taels, saved five taels again, saved three taels again...

Li Yu thought carefully and quickly realized:

"What kind of shit realm is this?"

"Wanfu City rule: entering the city is free, but anyone who chooses to leave must pay a high redemption fee."

"The fee for Transcendents is several times that of ordinary people, and for Sequence 8 and above, it continues to multiply."

"Jiao Qing and Sun Sanniang were almost successful in saving up, but to raise the 【Child of the Forbidden God】, they spent almost 99% of their family fortune. Now there are only a dozen taels of silver left. Let alone paying for my redemption to leave the city, I'm afraid I can't even afford to support myself."

Muttering to this point, Li Yu looked at the money he had searched from the table with a difficult expression.

A few pieces of scattered silver were thrown there casually.

A strong sense of crisis struck, making Li Yu almost lose the motivation to flip through the account book.

"The me in my past life, although not rich, at least didn't worry about food and clothing."

"Now I've hit the transmigration jackpot, not only being tortured like this, but even worrying about eating?"

It was no wonder Li Yu complained.

If he were a normal person, a dozen taels could also last for a period of time.

But it just so happened he wasn't. Because of the forbidden egg in his belly, he had to eat a lot every day to soothe it, otherwise that creepy thing would stage the famous scene from his favorite movie in his past life, "Alien."

Suppressing the restlessness in his heart, Li Yu continued to flip through.

In the process, he frowned from time to time and looked amazed from time to time.

The reason was also very simple. He saw the names of the lamb that the cannibal couple sold, what organs and brain matter were most popular, and that there were special people collecting skins and bones, etc.

At the same time, he also witnessed many bizarre and gorgeous things belonging to the non-ordinary world.

The most critical thing is!

The second bubble under the Door of Truth began to accelerate charging again.

And so, Li Yu couldn't care about being creepy and disgusting. As long as it involved the transcendent, he had to study it carefully:

"One day of touring the city, the Tiangong Sect's steam bus is ridiculously expensive, costing two taels of silver. The speed is extremely fast; I heard they all use the essence and blood of transcendent strange things as power."

"Went to the East District, the old demon Zhu Can opened a new Garuda Restaurant. He is worthy of being a Sequence 5 powerhouse on the Forbidden God path. The dishes are extremely rich, but it's ridiculously expensive. A simple table of dishes costs ten taels of silver. Damn, how shameless."

"A group of dirty nuns passed by carrying the Child-Giving Guanyin, coaxed one tael of silver from the old woman, and only then said that heretical believers are not effective. The old woman..."

"Went to the North District to buy the flesh and blood of strange things to feed that dog cub, costing fifty taels of silver, and almost got dragged into a dark alley by a group of stinky barbarians, blocked by the Master."

"One reporting-dawn bronze chicken, two taels of silver. The Master's brain was broken again, coaxed by the Tiangong Sect's shit salesman to buy such a piece of trash, saying it could be used as a 'fire clock,' and the calling effect was excellent."

"Consumed once at the Xiaohun Club, ten taels of silver. Damn Jiao Qing, bastard, said again he was coaxed by the Tiangong Sect and fell into a bad trap."

"Consumed once at the Mechanical Maid Shop, five taels of silver. The old woman wants to kill Jiao Qing."

(End of chapter)