The questioner walked up to the Alien Intelligent Individual and asked, "What is your name?"
This was a question Louis had already asked.
There were several important reasons why the UHC had the tester ask this question.
First, they wanted to test whether asking the same question multiple times would still require paying a second price.
Second, if a price still had to be paid, they wanted to test whether the amount could be controlled and quantified.
Louis had previously asked two questions in total: "name" and "origin." The price had been ten human lives.
Now, they were asking only about its name. Even if they had to pay a second price, they should be able to keep the food consumption within single digits.
The third reason was the original purpose of the food substitution test.
Food circles had been arranged in rings according to distance. If the cattle, sheep, pigs, and other animals in the first ring could serve as substitutes, that would be ideal. If not, the parasites in the second ring and the death-row prisoners in the third could fill in.
As for the fourth ring, it consisted of Xisiya soldiers responsible for maintaining order at the scene. Naturally, they would not be affected.
The moment the questioner asked the question, the mass of black mud changed.
It swiftly slid past the questioner.
The first conclusion had now been reached: asking the same question a second time still required a food price.
The black mud was incredibly fast, and in the blink of an eye, it passed the first ring of cattle, sheep, pigs, and other animals.
Given how densely those animals had been arranged, its enormous body should have been unable to pass around them without touching them. Yet it displayed a bizarre property of decomposition