Here We Go Again

"Dinner's ready."

Feng Yu's voice came from outside the door, causing Lu Ban to temporarily put away [Weird Amusement Park].

"Oh."

Lu Ban walked out of the room and saw several dishes laid out on the coffee table.

Homemade tofu, beef with green peppers, minced pork with eggplant, and a pot of winter melon stew.

It seems that Feng Yu has made preparations for the birth of Lu Ban.

"So, how did you do it?"

Watching TV and eating, Lu Ban felt a sense of unreality.

Just a short time before his consciousness returned, he was still exploring the truth behind humanity's extinction in the desolate wasteland. He even traversed a wormhole, witnessed the struggle between the Old Ones, and even turned into a puddle of mud, almost merging with the universe.

The contrast between sitting here eating and watching TV is as absurd as the last question on a primary school summer homework assignment being to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

"What? How did you do that?"

Feng Yu countered with a question.

"Exactly, how did you give birth to me?"

Lu Ban asked.

This question is like a child asking their parents where they came from.

Feng Yu glanced at Lu Ban, but instead of changing the subject, he spoke directly.

"It's a bit hard to explain. To put it simply, I didn't turn you from that lump into a human. Instead, I reversed what happened to you and restored you to the state you were in when you first left this alien land."

"You can do that?"

Lu Ban found it very strange.

"Of course, as long as you find a Time Worm, you can steal your time back to a previous state. Don't you have one in your Amusement Park?"

Feng Yu said it casually.

"So, as long as there's Time Worm, even if I'm completely dead, as long as my corpse or something representing me still exists, time can be reversed to the point where I'm still alive?"

Lu Ban has already fast-forwarded to the point where he eats himself and then revives himself using the Time Worm, an inexhaustible source of energy, perfectly solving the perpetual motion problem.

"Of course not. If you are already dead, the Time Worm will not steal your time. When they encounter some indescribable things, those guys will be picky about what they eat."

Feng Yu denied it.

"Moreover, I am not using the Time Worm, but a special method belonging to my race, only the principle is similar."

"I see."

Lu Ban felt some sadness at the failure of the perpetual motion machine.

"This time you seem to have encountered some higher-level beings. Under normal circumstances, they might leave some kind of mark on you."

Feng Yu put down his chopsticks and said while pondering.

"Mark?"

Lu Ban briefly recalled what he had seen. Of course, the most crucial part was stored deep in his memory and could not be retrieved under normal circumstances.

"Like Anchor Point, most of those great beings exist in a superposition of being omniscient and omnipotent yet accomplishing nothing. The stronger they are, the weaker they become, and the weaker they are, the stronger they become. They are incomprehensible, inexplicable, and uncomprehending. They are beings above the level that all civilizations, all life, and all existences can perceive. You must be completely confused by this explanation."

Feng Yu said with a smile.

"Indeed, it's right here."

Lu Ban felt that these Old Ones must all be masters of nonsensical literature.

"Because the Old Ones of this level have surpassed the limits of human imagination, humans cannot perceive them. This is a good thing for humans, but not for them."

Feng Yu explained.

"There are some great beings who exist in dreams, slumber, or are sealed away. Because they are at such a high level, ordinary intelligent beings cannot even perceive them. To awaken them and restore the stars to their proper places, we need to rely on the power of these civilizations, or rather, the power of some foolish individuals within these civilizations."

"Some people will be corrupted, thus becoming able to recognize, understand, and come into contact with these great beings, and become their servants. The will of these Great Being will also corrupt and erode these people through corruption, making them help them. This is the Anchor Point."

Lu Ban recalled the missions he had experienced before and also demanded that he leave his own mark.

Although the mark was completed directly, Lu Ban still couldn't understand its purpose.

In retrospect, this mark is the Anchor Point.

Now, everyone in this world has become Lu Ban's mark. In a sense, they are also Lu Ban's followers, surrounding Lu Ban and accepting the corrupted knowledge that Lu Ban has given them.

According to Feng Yu, Lu Ban also became Anchor Point for certain Great Being.

This means that those Great Being, beings that Lu Ban wouldn't even dare to dream of, might occasionally impart some knowledge to Lu Ban.

Although this knowledge is likely to be highly corrupting, causing ordinary people to lose their minds, die on the spot, or fall into permanent madness upon contact, it is a gift to those Great Being.

It's also possible that they don't care about these things at all. Whether there's Lu Ban or not makes no difference, just like ants in a flower bed. Humans won't deliberately look for a specific ant to crush, nor will they specifically look for an ant to give it a big piece of breadcrumbs.

"The greatest function of the Anchor Point is that it will leave a certain aura of that Great Being on you. This aura may attract some Old Ones are eager to find opportunities to contact you, or it may cause some great beings to avoid you and keep their distance. It may also cause some unspeakable beings to see you as a thorn in their side and wish they could kill you as soon as possible."

Feng Yu spread his hands, indicating his helplessness.

"Congratulations. From now on, when you are active in other realms, you will be just like a mosquito in a mosquito net at night to those Great Being who still have some knowledge of them. It will be difficult for them not to notice you."

"I absolutely have to kill this mosquito before I can fall asleep."

Lu Ban replied without hesitation.

"This Anchor Point is of no benefit at all; I feel like I've been taken advantage of."

"To those Great Being, the Old Ones, and even those who transcend the gods, whether they destroy you or create you, it's none of your business."

Feng Yu glanced at the television broadcasting the news, which was reporting on a mountain accident. Several survey team members had entered the deep mountains but were trapped and killed due to extreme weather.

"However, this is also a good thing. If you want to elevate your existence, the gaze of those guys is also an aid. You don't think that you can resist the corruption of the Old Ones with the will of a mortal, do you?"

Is pollution the only way to combat pollution?

Lu Ban naturally understood this principle.

In foreign lands, only pollution can fight pollution, and only stronger erosion can fight against external erosion.

He looked at the cold, the Silent Land words on the wall, ready to study the upcoming Career Development Task.