An Eye Grows on the Egg, As If Aided by Spirits

Old Cat was very cautious; it had always been rational.

Terror and dread were brewing in the damp air.

Lu Yuan calmed himself down, applied a little aloe gel to his wound, and the healing ability of the Extraordinary Tinder quickly stopped the bleeding.

The situation was still not optimistic; the Guai following behind were starting to increase.

Those black shadows, like flies smelling a cracked egg, swarmed forward.

At this moment, he saw a small, dark green creature with empty eye sockets hanging upside down behind a stalactite ahead.

A gaping maw opened, revealing a strange smile at him.

Its grayish-green body was densely covered in eyes.

Lu Yuan snorted coldly, the Donkey Head Mask flashed red light, and he used "Mental Shock."

He took a dart from his waistband and threw it.

"Whoosh!"

The small creature fled, and the dart hit the stalactite, making a "ding" sound.

"Old Cat, was that thing just now real?"

"I think there's a very high probability it was... but I can't be sure. My Spirit attribute is still 0.1, not completely zero, so perhaps only completely solid rock can be immune to mental attacks."

Guai and Demon were truly two completely different Calamities.

The power of the Demon was tangible and visible to the naked eye.

The power of the Guai lay in its strangeness.

Lu Yuan had a wealth of skills but felt a sense of despair at not being able to use them.

Even the strongest warrior, in the nest of the Guai, would be stung to death by these damned flies.

Fortunately, his thoughts were still clear, and his steps had not stopped. Following the "Always to the Right" rule, he was thoroughly exploring the entire cave.

If he found any monster lairs, he would burn them down.

"There's plenty of oxygen here. The survival of those Guai should also require oxygen... But how does the oxygen get in? Underground rivers?"

"I need to figure out what the Guai's mental attacks are based on."

"If it could make me go crazy at any time, it would have done so long ago; there's no need to delay until now."

"There must be some mechanism I haven't discovered..."

He said, "Do you think the Guai here are individuals from the Lize Civilization who have transformed? The abilities of each Guai are different. In fact, I'm fighting the entire Lize Civilization."

"That makes sense."

"Comrade, the electromagnetic waves are coming from here," Old Cat suddenly said.

Lu Yuan stopped and checked his surroundings.

But there was nothing in this place, just a relatively empty area, as if the electromagnetic waves were coming from a node in the void.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's very likely a different dimension within a different dimension," Old Cat analyzed. "In other words, a spatial overlap phenomenon. It's just that this overlap isn't perfect, which is why a small amount of electromagnetic waves can pass through. Comrade, you also have the ability of a different dimension. Can you break it?"

"I'll give it a try."

Although hiding one's abilities is key to winning a battle, when it's necessary to use them, one can only do so.

Lu Yuan activated his different dimension, and a thin film, like a soap bubble, protected him.

Unfortunately, he didn't see anything.

The Guai's different dimension and his own different dimension seemed to be two completely parallel abilities.

You don't interfere with me, and I don't interfere with you.

According to this logic, hiding in his own different dimension would still be absolutely safe.

A strong sense of security washed over him. While he breathed a sigh of relief, he racked his brain, thinking about the opponent's attack mechanism.

"Now I don't have eyes growing on me... Do I have to be slapped by a monster for them to grow?"

"Hmm?" Lu Yuan's expression changed slightly, and he suddenly noticed monsters surrounding him.

Although the different dimension was safe, he couldn't move. If they waited for him, he wouldn't be able to escape.

There was nothing he could do. He could only cancel the different dimension and walk towards these monsters step by step.

These guys were clearly extremely cunning. Seeing Lu Yuan reappear, they fled far away again.

They were like sticky candy that couldn't be shaken off. In a one-on-one fight, they were no match for Lu Yuan, but they just kept pestering him like this.

Suddenly, a small thing darted out from the darkness and bit his arm with lightning speed before quickly disappearing.

Lu Yuan swung his sword and slashed into the darkness, and foul-smelling blood splattered out.

"Invisibility ability... Damn it..."

The next moment, his palm ached intensely, and the feeling of a drill boring into flesh came again.

Even though this row of teeth marks didn't bite through his carefully sewn lizard skin gloves, the intense stinging made his scalp tingle all over.

Taking off his glove, he saw that an eye the size of a walnut had indeed grown out of his palm.

"What the hell is this game?"

Lu Yuan was in great danger. He once again bit the bullet and used his dagger to pry out the eyeball.

Blood splattered, and the eyeball fell to the ground like a bouncy ball.

The nerve distribution in his palm far exceeded that of his shoulder. The intense pain made him grimace and curse the monster incessantly.

If this happened a few more times, he would end up killing himself.

However, this injury made him think of a very strange possibility.

He once again ignited the corpse at his feet, and a raging fire burned from the hole.

The light briefly dispelled the darkness.

"Before it burns out, those monsters won't come back for a short time..."

"Old Cat, keep an eye out."

"Understood."

To verify this hypothesis, Lu Yuan pressed his butt against the cave wall and entered a brief state of meditation – he began to self-hypnotize, imagining the cave wall growing a mouth and viciously attacking his butt.

The cold wall was uneven, a mix of bloody and burnt smells, indescribably unpleasant.

Just in that hazy fantasy, his butt was suddenly bitten by something, and then began to ache intensely!

Lu Yuan opened his eyes and touched his butt. Sure enough, a bright red eye had truly grown out of his butt.

"Did the cave wall change?"

Old Cat's eyes widened: "The wall didn't change just now... but your chrysanthemum grew an eye!"

Old Cat was greatly excited: "I'm not good at other things, but I'm very skilled at hemorrhoid surgery. How about I do it?"

It even used its furry paw to wipe the cold eyeball.

"Stop talking nonsense, I finally understand the attack conditions of the [Guai]." Lu Yuan trembled as it touched him. "It's the subconscious. I just deeply hypnotized myself into believing that this cave wall was very dangerous and would bite people."

"As expected, I just got close, felt like I was bitten, and an eyeball grew out of my butt."

"At first, the attacks from those monsters didn't actually cause any physical damage."

"But being bitten always feels uncomfortable, so the subconscious unease caused these eyes to grow out..."

This hypothesis was not far from the truth.

"That makes sense. So at first I couldn't see it, but you saw eyes growing out of yourself... because you scared yourself."

"But you can't control your subconscious." Old Cat was still fiddling with Old Lu's "hemorrhoids". "Even if you realize this, you'll become even more uneasy. This place is like a gust of wind and the cry of a crane to you."

"Isn't it... After all, the monsters are real, and they can really cut off my head." Lu Yuan said with a bitter smile.

This mix of truth and falsehood, reality and illusion, was truly bone-chilling.

Even after figuring out the specific principle, there was still no way to avoid the intense panic.

Lu Yuan felt his entire body's skin begin to prickle, as if eyes, like bamboo shoots, were about to sprout from beneath his skin.

He quickly suppressed his mind and stopped letting his thoughts run wild, but the troublesome thing about humans is their overly rich associative ability... Lu Yuan couldn't help but start imagining what it would be like to have his entire body covered in eyes.

The more he thought this way, the more his entire body prickled.

This dense, ant-like biting pain devoured Lu Yuan's nerves, engulfing him in the blink of an eye.

"Ah!!" Lu Yuan couldn't help but let out a loud roar. He turned his head and saw the damned Old Cat, biting viciously at his neck.

"What are you doing? You scared me to death!"

"Comrade, I saw you were a bit delirious, so I had to stimulate you... Being bitten by me won't grow eyes, don't worry."

Lu Yuan waited for a moment, and it seemed like nothing grew...

After all, his subconscious also believed that being bitten by Old Cat was no big deal.

"Humans are really fragile. I wish I had some mental ability."

"Stop thinking about getting another ability all day... You can resurrect, Old Lu, think about how you can resurrect."

"..." Lu Yuan sighed deeply. Being able to resurrect was indeed awesome and gave him ample confidence.

He calmed down and pondered for a moment, but he didn't immediately gouge out the eyeball on his butt.

After all, the butt is relatively far from the brain, and if it really went wrong, it would be quicker to cut it off.

He wanted to know what would happen if this eye grew on his body.

There was a lot of information that could only be obtained by putting himself in danger.

While using the Extraordinary Tinder to be on guard, he sensed the information coming from the eyeball on his butt.

"A very strange feeling."

This eye on his butt could actually perceive the outside world.

Its gaze could penetrate his pants.

It was hazy...

It was as if his whole body was in a starry sky, and those twinkling stars... might also be one eye after another...

There were too many of them, possibly tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, even giving him a feeling of closeness.

Lu Yuan felt a chill and quickly shook his head to maintain a clear will.

Pioneer's Eye: [An eye on your butt formed by an unknown ability will cause your mind to become confused.]

[If more similar eyes grow on your body, you might be able to see a deeper Different Dimension, but its side effects are also obvious.]

[You are just flesh and blood, don't overestimate your willpower. Just like if you inhale too much anesthetic, you will definitely fall unconscious. If the number of eyes increases, you will completely lose control.]

Some strange double images appeared in the space. At the location where the electromagnetic waves were transmitted, there was a faint, unclear cave.

The eye on his butt kept twitching, and the speed of blinking became faster and faster.

Lu Yuan gritted his teeth and used the Extraordinary Tinder to suppress this frantic eyeball.

"That is to say, only people with extra eyes on their bodies can see extra things."

"The more eyes you grow, the deeper you can go."

"But at the same time, the higher the probability of being controlled... Basically, that's the rule."

"You mean, you need a few more?" Old Cat asked.

"Yes, although I have many resources on me, I can't exhaust them endlessly here. Moreover, my mental state will only get worse and worse."

Lu Yuan's mental state was indeed not as good as it was at the beginning. The feeling of being startled by every sound and seeing enemies everywhere became stronger and stronger.

A bone-chilling coldness surged into his body from all directions, and monsters could attack him from the darkness at any time.

And the wounds on his shoulders and palms became more and more painful, as if the things that had been gouged out were trying to grow back.

The eye on his butt transmitted a large amount of chaotic information, making him slightly mentally disturbed.

He made up his mind: "Come on, I need at least one more eye to reach a deeper level."

"Put it on your mammoth, don't put it on your butt again."

"The chrysanthemum is still useful, the mammoth is useless," Old Cat said. "That organ is really useless. It's very convenient to castrate yourself with a knife; not much blood flows. On the other hand, don't you think it's amazing and a little sexy to have an eyeball grow there?"

Lu Yuan was truly on the verge of collapse. He admitted that what Old Cat said made a lot of sense.

Cutting that thing off wouldn't affect his mobility.

But wouldn't casting himself off with a knife turn him into Lin Pingzhi?

"Death is acceptable, but not without a Kun."

"Then put it on your balls. You have two balls. Turning one into an eye doesn't make you a eunuch." In crucial moments, Old Cat never joked. "It's also convenient to cut off."

Lu Yuan fell silent.

A minute later, through self-suggestion, a heart-wrenching pain came from his balls.

Something was torn open, and blood stained his underwear.

Inside his body, another grotesque eyeball grew.

The ability of the Guai was indeed terrifying. As long as you believed you were injured, an eye would immediately grow at the wound.

Of course, you could also be extremely firm in your will, or control your subconscious through certain hypnotic abilities, to be immune to this kind of mental attack.

But you would forever be trapped on the first layer, forever unable to find the Guai's true form.

The Guai would not fight enemies that restrained it.

This was indeed an almost unsolvable ability. Only Aberrant Phenomena like the Demon could counter Aberrant Phenomena.

Lu Yuan was drenched in sweat, slowly recovering. His vision became even more blurred. A large number of double images appeared in the entire underground cave. From time to time, black shadows poked their heads out, peeking at him.

"How are you?"

"Became half a eunuch, not very pleasant, but I can still hold on."

This time, Lu Yuan finally saw the hidden second underground level. It was indeed a deeper cave, pitch black, as if leading to endless space and time.

"I'm going down."