Chapter 84: Proof of Laziness

After gorging himself, Wu Chang consumed the vital energy of 60 fish-people, raising his Strength to 100.5 and swelling his size to eleven meters.

Had he not needed to preserve some willpower to resist the call from the deep sea, he could have consumed even more.

What does a three-digit Strength stat even mean?

In the Moonlight Sanatorium, even Randy, possessed by Leyman, would be dazed by a single elbow strike from him.

If the evil god's projection was this weak, how much more so a God Envoy from a C-rank dungeon?

With one slap, the Envoy's armor shattered, his entire body embedding into the dock, transforming into a flat-handed emergency exit sign figure.

Through touch, Wu Chang felt the slap land true—anything hard on the Envoy's body, be it armor, bone, or even kidney stones, had been utterly pulverized.

Yet despite such grievous injury, the Envoy did not emit the white mist of vital energy like other fish-people; instead, he went still for a moment, then revived, struggling to crawl out of the crater.

Can't afford to lose? Used a revive coin?

He tried another slap—just like before, after a brief pause, the Envoy came back to life.

This time, he understood a little.

According to Marty's words, the dock in the Inner World was the townsfolk's memory of having been pirates.

Correspondingly, the fish-people were the former townsfolk.

Perhaps unlike the fish-people, the Envoy had never been alive—it was merely a piece of code or a program designed to preserve something.

Like confronting a program that keeps popping back up, clicking the × in the corner isn't enough.

The solution is to unplug the power.

If the fish-dock had a core akin to a power source, it was undoubtedly the statue of Count Jermaine.

He changed targets, seizing a wrecked wooden ship from the sea and slamming it hard against the bronze statue.

The statue did not fall; instead, like a video with signal interference, it blurred and distorted, then quickly recovered after a brief anomaly.

After Wu Chang's strike, Count Jermaine's statue said nothing, but the Envoy lying on the ground grew frantic, accelerating his efforts to rise.

Frantic? That meant he'd found the right target.

If the statue couldn't be damaged from within the Inner World, what if attacked from both inside and outside simultaneously?

Wu Chang's True Self raised the wrecked ship again, while outside the Inner World, Wu Chang's physical body arrived at Briver Dock.

In hand, he held a massive hammer, synchronizing with his True Self, and brought it down upon Count Jermaine's bronze statue.

Boom!

With a thunderous impact, the iron hammer struck the statue as if it were not metal, but a block of transparent gel.

The shockwave rippled visibly through the air.

The ripple from the Outer World resonated with the ripple from the Inner World—crack! —Count Jermaine's bronze statue split open, and with it, the space around the statue fractured.

The space shattered like glass, revealing a doorway leading into the Inner World.

On the other side of the doorway stood his True Self in Whale Form.

His True Self dispelled the transformation and returned through the doorway to the real world; the portal connecting the two worlds closed behind him.

From the shattered fragments of the count's statue, Wu Chang found a miniature statue resembling a chess piece, carved as a running figure.

"Item Name: Proof of Laziness"

"Item Type: Special"

"Item Description: Holding the Proof of Laziness grants free access to the special space—Fisherman's Dock. Within the Fisherman's Dock area, the holder is regarded as a God Envoy, with authority to judge the guilt of targets. If a target's Good-Evil value is below 5, they are deemed guilty."

"Note: When facing a God Envoy, a guilty person's attributes are significantly reduced, the degree depending on their Good-Evil value."

The Outer World dock also counts as part of the Fisherman's Dock area; holding the Proof of Laziness grants him the God Envoy's permissions, allowing him to see others' Good-Evil values. He glanced at himself in the mirror—his own Good-Evil value read 20.

Clearing the backlog of mail at the post office equated to him completing days' worth of work in a single day, causing his Good-Evil value to surge; combined with the bonus from his town councilor status, it pushed his Good-Evil value to four times the normal level.

On Briver Island, he was unquestionably a genuine good man.

Just now, the benevolent Councilor Xiao En dispelled the resentment from an innocent soul.

With Marty's self-destruction, the Inner World was breached, and the former mailman's blood-red last words slowly faded.

Although Wu Chang did not fully follow the blood-red last words by locking Marty away for a long time to see if he'd go mad from prolonged inactivity,

he successfully imprisoned Marty, completely stripped him of his duties, and since Marty's final self-destruction was his own choice, it still counted as completion of the blood-red last words.

Completing the former mailman's blood-red last words granted him 1 point of Energy, 1 point of Willpower, and 2 points of Inspiration.

In addition, he received a bodysuit.

"Superhero Bodysuit"

"Item Rank: C"

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"Skill: Appearance!"

"Skill Description: The bodysuit adapts automatically to the user's requests, altering its appearance and model to ensure perfect tailoring and absolute comfort with the fabric."

"Note: As a superhero, a cool appearance is essential—you don't want your transformation to rip your clothes and let your little brother or little kitty wave hello to the audience, do you?"

"Skill: Energy Shield."

"Skill Description: When equipped, the Superhero Bodysuit generates an energy shield based on the user's highest attribute. The shield blocks both physical and energy damage. After leaving combat, it regenerates 1% durability per minute. If the shield is completely shattered, it enters a 24-hour cooldown."

"Note: Being durable is the most important virtue of a protagonist—even if the villain is killed by plot armor, your health bar must last until that moment."

Wu Chang tossed the Superhero Bodysuit to his True Self, who equipped it and immediately transformed into a snug swimsuit.

The swimsuit clung perfectly to his True Self's body, with slight modifications tailored to his features.

After activating the hidden mask, his True Self resembled a miniaturized version of his Whale Form.

The swimsuit continuously adjusted its fabric according to his posture, ensuring no excess wrinkles, and upon close inspection, its surface was composed of countless hexagons, radiating a high-tech aesthetic.

Having lost the D-rank item, Terralizard Hide Armor, Wu Chang had been searching for suitable armor—this Superhero Bodysuit arrived just in time.

The Energy Shield was extremely practical, especially for a player like him, whose stats were wildly imbalanced with one attribute absurdly high.

With his 92-point Inspiration attribute, a C-rank bodysuit in his hands would perform at least two to three times better than in anyone else's.

But compared to the second skill, what he needed more right now was the bodysuit's first skill.

Not every transformation skill could, like the Hulk's transformation, simultaneously keep the pants on the wearer's body.

His True Self, having just undergone the Giant Whale transformation, had thrown on a black robe in time after shrinking, but during battle his body had been utterly bare, and even now he was still in a vacuum state.

Without this bodysuit, if he were to use the Giant Whale transformation outside the Inner World later, the scene would be too beautiful to even imagine.

Crimson Courtyard, Red Wave Space, instance waiting hall lounge.

Lin Jiang suddenly stood up, ignoring the startled gazes of the crowd, and shouted excitedly:

"The pollution value of Quiet Town dropped by 10%! I knew Sword Star could do it!"

(End of this chapter)