Chapter 768: They are not experimental materials, but external wombs for the Grotesque Mother Tree

They are not experimental materials, but external wombs for the Grotesque Mother Tree

Wang Mou moved, and his efficiency was far faster than everyone imagined.

He bypassed Cheng Shi and Hu Wei, stepped forward, and gathered his 【Truth】 power to grope over the ruins. Soon, everyone felt the aura of the magic arrays dissolving and shattering, one after another, as fast as lightning, too fast to take in.

The players present were not only shocked by the density of the magic arrays here but also marveled at the doctor's skillful technique. Almost all players interested in magic arrays were observing his method of dismantling them at close range. Wang Mou did not hide his secrets either; while handling it with ease, he even found time to answer a couple of questions raised by the scholars around him. If not for the fact that every second counted, this scene would have looked like an academic exchange meeting for 【Truth】 believers held in practice.

At this, even the 【Foolishness】 believers in the team shut their mouths. Everyone could see that, at least in terms of attainments and knowledge of 【Truth】 magic arrays, this slice was not much worse than his main body.

However, the more active Wang Mou was, the more Cheng Shi's guard against him increased.

He did not believe the doctor was simply opposing his own main body, but for a moment he could not guess what Wang Mou was doing, so he could only continue to watch from the sidelines, meeting all changes with constancy.

After this incident, Cheng Shi raised his danger rating for Wang Mou a little more. This 【Truth】 believer was very bold; he seemed certain that his origin was a secret he and Cheng Shi could not make public. Cheng Shi was indeed calculated against—whether out of the idea of protecting the Blind Man or the position of being unable to speak openly about the slice-universe speculation, he could not clarify Wang Mou's origin in front of everyone.

Thus, a stalemate between a scholar and a fraud was reached.

And in this testing ground, there was far more than just this one stalemate. The giant tumor could not take down Xiang Honglin for the time being, and Xiang Honglin had no way to deal with this monster that could "fatten" itself at any moment, so the movements in the distance became smaller and smaller, looking like they were about to fizzle out.

Just at this moment, Wang Mou unlocked the most crucial magic array, causing this illusion of ruins to collapse one after another, opening a passage leading underground. In an instant, the rows upon rows of giant tanks in the underground testing ground appeared before everyone with almost no obstruction, making everyone's eyes light up!

Only the doctor and Cheng Shi frowned, seemingly not happy.

And it was also at this instant that the battle in the distance completely ceased. All the tentacles in the entire testing ground instantly straightened, faced the direction of Hu Wei and the others, and let out a heaven-shaking hiss!

"Hiss—hiss—"

"Roar—"

The giant tumor shot out countless tentacles from its entire body, once again repelling Xiang Honglin who was attempting to approach it, and then, like a leaking balloon, it violently shrank into the ground, traveling through the dense network of tentacles underground.

It was just that its movements were so violent that even from far away, everyone in the testing ground saw a trail of bulges exploding all the way, winding toward a certain direction.

The players with keen five senses clearly realized that something big was happening after noticing this scene. Most of the players who came in had ideas about this experiment, so upon seeing this evil entity rushing madly toward a certain place, they all cautiously followed its trail.

And the people in Hu Wei's team realized that the time window they faced was not much, so one by one, they hardened their hearts and roared:

"The Mother Tree is returning for support. Time is short, enter quickly!"

"Inside the tanks are players. Open the tanks and take a few away; that's enough for us to study for a while!"

"What's hidden here is the method of 'God-making'. Do not hesitate!"

Under the immense pressure of the Mother Tree's return, the team, which had little cohesion to begin with, directly disbanded on the spot, turning into streams of light and scattering toward the underground testing ground.

Hu Wei's eyes narrowed. He did not stop them, but pulled Cheng Shi and Wang Mou, directly threw out his greatsword, and let the flowing firelight carry the three of them into the deepest part of the underground.

"Where could the method of combining divinity be hidden?"

At such a tense moment, Hu Wei stopped pretending. He had come exploring everywhere precisely for this thing. Although this was not the control center, all the logic of the experiment should be reflected in the experiment, so he also felt that some secret should be hidden here.

But Cheng Shi did not think so, because after seeing these big tanks underground, he knew his previous guesses were all wrong.

This could not possibly be any replica experiment of the Star Dagger!

You must know, the reason the Star Dagger experiment succeeded was because the monstrous Zaiyingji'er came up with a wild, unconventional way of solving the problem. He used the faith between mortal lives as a buffer to divert the divinity tug-of-war between false gods, allowing himself to gain a breathing space in the fierce competition for faith, thereby becoming the thief who cut open the pockets of the gods.

But now? Not to mention whether this Grotesque Mother Tree could be considered a "false god," nor where that Blood Moon, which hadn't been found yet, was hidden—even if they were all there, how did 0221 handle the divinity tug-of-war between these false gods?

The intensity of the divinity tug-of-war would not weaken just because the gods' "volume" was insufficient. Even if 0221 now understood divinity combination better, he had absolutely no possibility of surviving this fierce tug-of-war in a mortal body.

So this experiment was wrong—everything about it was wrong!

Cheng Shi frowned tightly and kept looking around. Seeing that the players in those giant tanks had various tubes attached to their bodies, and instruments were intermittently extracting something from their bodies, he had originally thought these players were transporting flesh and blood nutrients, but as he watched, he discovered something strange.

Because he clearly saw that only when bulges appeared on the experimental materials did the tubes begin to extract from them. And this meant that what the instruments were extracting seemed not to be their flesh and blood, but their... "children"!?

Was what was gestating in those bulges 【Birth】 newborns?

This scene caused the pupils of the three people present to shrink simultaneously. They looked at each other and discovered that their understanding of this experiment was all wrong.

Even Wang Mou, who was certain he understood this experiment, was shocked by this scene.

He rarely showed an expression of shock and doubt. He broke free from Hu Wei's restraint and observed carefully in the surroundings. Not long after, this knowledgeable doctor's brows narrowed, and he said heavily:

"I was deceived.

This is absolutely not the Star Dagger, and even less the slice experiment of Serius that I thought of. This is clearly that faith-splicing experiment that was abolished and banned by the Life Extension Department back in the day!

He is indeed making a god, but what he is making is not a 'self' that steals ownerless divinity like Zaiyingji'er, but...

Something that truly resembles 【Birth】!

This main body of mine, who is so unfathomable, might be creating a new 【Birth】!"

"..."

"..."

Hearing this, Hu Wei and Cheng Shi looked at each other in confusion. After their expressions stalled, they both frowned and thought simultaneously:

"Oh no, he's also a poor student."

Ah, this...

Cheng Shi's eye twitched. Ignoring the awkwardness, he hurriedly asked: "What do you mean? What is a faith-splicing experiment, and what is a new 【Birth】?"

Wang Mou walked a few more steps into the depths, observed the surroundings, and said with a serious expression:

"In the era when the Tower of Reason was first built, the resources held by the Scholarly Chair Committee were simply insufficient to support all large-scale experiments, so every department was trying to find ways to approach 【Truth】 through their own methods.

And the scholars of the Life Extension Department, as 【Truth】 believers who awakened from the path of 【Life】, already had some accumulation in the study of various lives. The Tower of Reason's first 'God-making' project also came from their hands, only the god they made back then was not a false god, but a true god!"

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"Scholars at that time had already realized that faith was a necessity for becoming a god, so they boldly hypothesized: if enough faith were spliced together, would it be possible to pile up a quantitative change into a qualitative change, thereby allowing a composite to become the true Him?

Of course, we now know that finding the correct method of divinity combination is the path to becoming a god, but the Tower of Reason at that time had not reached this conclusion, so they put the hypothesis into practice and started that splicing experiment which could be called a faith massacre."

"Faith massacre?"

"Correct, it was a faith massacre. The faith-splicing experiment was not simply splicing faith, because the existence of faith relies on a carrier. It is not like divinity, which ceases to exist once it leaves its carrier. So the simplest and most effective way to splice faith is...

Splicing the carriers of faith, which is to say, splicing the flesh and blood of those followers of the gods!

Splicing flesh and blood of the same faith together and ensuring they remain alive—could the resulting flesh-and-blood aggregate become a new carrier after the faith undergoes qualitative change, thereby giving birth to a true 【Him】?

This was the first 'Question of Truth' raised by the Life Extension Department on the road to pursuing 【Truth】.

To answer this question, the scholars of the Tower of Reason almost trampled over all the natural alliance tribes within the country's borders, especially the tribes that believed in 【Birth】, because these 【Birth】 followers were not only numerous but also prolific. As long as they were kept in captivity, they could obtain endless experimental materials...

Just like now, these people in the tanks are probably not the real experimental materials. In my opinion, they are just manufacturing machines for experimental materials.

Of course, this term is perhaps a bit too cold. Out of the warmth of humanitarianism, we can also call them...

External wombs for the Grotesque Mother Tree.

They were not caught to be used as consumables, but to 'bear children' for the Grotesque Mother Tree!"

"..."

That is indeed very warm...

And also very hellish.

You mean, these players are trapped here just to give birth to "children" for that Mother Tree thing?

Hearing this, looking at the tanks all over the ground, Cheng Shi's eye twitched, and he couldn't laugh anymore. ===== CHAPTER 769 =====