Resurrection

"Automatic Combat Talent judgment... suicide is the optimal solution... confirming my plan..." Fragmented thoughts flashed through her mind, further solidifying Su Luo's plan.

As the hydrogen bomb moved, Su Luo ignored the already collapsed mental world and went straight into Jing Yunxin's Dreamscape, casually pulling Jing Yunxin's soul, which had begun to change, into it.

Time was running out! The frenzy retaliated with even greater force. Su Luo felt her thoughts becoming viscous Chaos again, and the details of her next move became unclear.

The [Talisman of Favor (Perfect)] within his body shone brightly, as if operating at overload, before shattering and bursting forth with cracks and fragments.

The item's unique effect has expired.

Rewind!

The minor physical Mutation were forcibly reversed, and more importantly, the consciousness gained a moment of "clarity," as if it had been briefly pulled back to shore from a mad swamp to catch its breath.

Su Luo acted swiftly, directly taking control of Jing Yunxin's consciousness.

Before reason truly plunges into the Abyss, there is one more chance!

The hydrogen bombs gathered close to Song Shige and Su Luo, especially around Song Shige.

In the real world, the destructive light of the hydrogen bomb completely engulfed Su Luo and Song Shige. The extreme heat exceeding one hundred million degrees Celsius annihilated their bodies along with everything around them, and their souls were also mostly damaged by this extreme energy.

But death takes time, not to mention that both of their souls were powerful, and only most of them were damaged.

In the instant her consciousness rose, Su Luo's "gaze" fell upon the [Tinder] once again.

The [painting, forgery] has disappeared.

The card's "attack" was over, but the eeriness and the Unspeakable remained etched in her memory and mind; Su Luo was about to fall into the Abyss of madness...

Amidst the devastation of the hydrogen bomb, two items emerged from Su Luo's System Space: [Anchored Pocket Watch (Perfect)] and [Story Instance Scroll].

The [Story Instance Scroll] is used as a backup.

[Anchored Pocket Watch (Perfect)] Effect "Anchored" triggered!

"Anchoring": Passively triggered. When your mental state deviates completely from the baseline, you can forcibly anchor once. Cooldown is three days.

Like a heavy and sturdy anchor, it crashed into the frenzied and boiling sea of consciousness, forcibly pulling back his irrational and distorted reason!

Although she was left with a devastated mental world and the lingering shadow of whispers, Su Luo's self-awareness regained its dominance.

Su Luo regained her senses and then, without hesitation, guided and controlled Jing Yunxin to activate her Talent!

Resurrection!

"So... what we just did,"

Guizishi's apple bobbed as his gaze swept over his Sanctuary, which Su Luo had reduced to nothing more than its core and foundation. "You've all died once?"

The Black Flame in Su Luo's hand precisely licked the last piece of metal component containing the unknown substance, completely purifying it.

"Yes, your Automatic Combat Talent caused you to commit suicide the moment that thing appeared. This actually confirms the feasibility of my plan to 'first completely destroy the Contamination carrier, then reset its status through Resurrection '."

The Black Flames turned towards Jing Yunxin's pure white Sanctuary beside them.

The once pristine surface of the building was now strangely covered with sticky, fleshy tentacles, which were wriggling almost imperceptibly.

Su Luo showed no mercy, engulfing the area in flames and burning away the unknown growths and potential Contamination, ensuring that no hidden dangers were brought back.

Jing Yunxin was still somewhat dazed, standing aside blankly watching her home being demolished, while Song Shige turned around and stared at the seemingly more solid [Blood City] phantom, lost in thought.

A brief silence filled the air, mingled with the faint hissing sound of Black Flames burning foreign objects, and the complex emotions of Surviving the Calamity.

As Guizishi processed Su Luo's words, his gaze involuntarily drifted to Jing Yunxin, a storm raging within him.

Resurrection four people, including himself, in one fell swoop! What kind of heaven-defying Talent?

It turns out that the most extraordinary Talent in Zone 76 belongs to someone else entirely; Jing Yunxin's value is definitely higher than that of ordinary Forbidden Class.

I'm curious to know what her Talent is, but unfortunately, this secret is probably only known to these two people in front of me and a handful of people at the highest levels of the Mutual Aid Association.

While Su Luo focused on dealing with the Contamination residue and Song Shige familiarized himself with the skill changes, Guizishi mentally reviewed the thrilling operation Su Luo had just briefly described. A key point surfaced in his mind:

"Consultant Su, I'm still a bit confused. According to you, the goal is to cleanse the Contamination through death and then Resurrection to refresh the status. I understand the idea, but... how did you manage to control and guide Yunxin to activate her Talent after 'dying'? At that time... shouldn't you have already 'gone'?"

"Excellent question. This involves understanding the process of 'death.' Within our current observational and defined framework, 'death' is not an absolute point in time, but a continuous process."

Su Luo replied to him patiently and professionally:

"The cessation of physical life in the conventional sense is not equivalent to the immediate dissipation of the soul and consciousness. Even after both the body and soul have disappeared, the dissipation of consciousness is a relatively long process..."

"The key to Yunxin's Resurrection ability lies not in the soul or the body, but in the integrity of her consciousness, and at that time we even had a portion of our souls remaining..."

What Su Luo didn't say was that if he made a mistake, he would try using the [Story Instance Scroll] to escape with his fragmented soul. As long as the world inside was complete, he could continue to use his Free Attribute Points.

Guizishi listened for a while, then realized he didn't understand anymore. "Alright, alright! Consultant Su, I understand, he's not completely dead. By the way, what was that thing just now? It felt like something we couldn't possibly handle right now!"

"It's a bit like... the Cthulhu Mythic, have you guys heard of it?"

"The Great Old Ones? The Elder Gods?"

Song Shige put away the [Blood City], uttered two words, and then continued:

"It doesn't seem like it. In the Cthulhu Mythic, it's about 'recognizing the insignificance and meaninglessness of humanity in the universe,' but what we just felt... is more like a kind of 'Contamination' or 'distortion' that directly affects the Essence, forcibly inserting incomprehensible and self-contradictory information, more like a... memetic attack?"

"Huh? You mean the Cthulhu Mythic, right? The Great Old Ones are Higher Dimension beings or something, and even just seeing their minions makes them go crazy with low sanity..." Guizishi offered a different opinion.

The two seemed to have a minor disagreement due to differences in their sources of information and understanding.

Song Shige's tone was firm. "You're wrong. The original Lovecraft novels I read in high school never mentioned rational judgment or confronting madness. Most of those who went mad were actually just unable to understand themselves; it was a mental shock brought on by the collapse of their worldview. Moreover... some incarnations of certain beings could even be injured by human ships."

"I vaguely remember it being ridiculously powerful; wasn't it said that the universe was just a dream created by some being..."

Song Shige shook his head. "The original work didn't say anything like that, and the original work is really awful, full of descriptions like 'eternal,' 'The Unspeakable,' and 'ugly'..."

Su Luo watched the infighting between the original work supporters and the fan fiction supporters silently from the sidelines, showing no intention of getting involved.

At this point, the panel displays:

[Remaining groups: 12.69%]

"Alright, the Continued Battle is almost over... I still have one Reality Interference Card left. I'll use it for revenge; I wonder if it'll be effective."

Su Luo tossed out a piece of flesh that was constantly twisting and Mutation, allowing it to absorb energy beside the Fire Domain.