"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know whether the next bite will be X-flavored chocolate, or a chocolate-flavored X."
"I think I've heard a similar movie quote before, but something about this feels off."
In the laboratory, Lu Mouren crammed in lessons while watching TV to pass the time, chatting with Big Cat, and even having his tentacles leaf through freshly released experiment reports.
It had to be said that when it came to grinding, a multi-tentacled sensory system was indeed incredibly effective.
As Lu Mouren grew ever less human, his rapidly operating Scholar abilities allowed him to juggle four or five study plans at once with ease, despite his limited time.
He even spared two trains of thought for reading and watching television, lest the overly tedious material make it impossible for him to persist.
"...Is this the Quantum Reading Technique?"
"Uh, does something like that even exist in this era?"
Faced with his Senior Brothers' astonishment and envy, Lu PingAn casually explained.
"I'm Quasi Rule-level now. Some things have already undergone a qualitative change."
They still seemed unable to understand. Lu PingAn's tentacles burrowed around atop his head before he smiled.
"At this stage, an extraordinary being's brain might as well be decorative. It's hard to kill us completely. We're more like concentrated pollution operating as a 'rule.'"
Lu PingAn had initially been unable to understand his current state either. But after examining himself, he discovered that Wish had thoroughly optimized his condition. More precisely, it had stripped away the disguise of his flesh still instinctively performing physiological functions such as "breathing" and "circulating blood."
Quasi Rule-level and Rule-level beings were already ordered forms of "pollution." They merely instinctively maintained a "human form"; their essence had long since become utterly unrecognizable.
That was also why