Di Mo Hui Bei

Chapter 32: 01.32 Di Mo Hui Bei

Beside the bonfire in the dark night, facing the twitching flesh and blood, Wei Keng felt a sense of revenge.

Although logically he didn't consider it healthy or forbidden. But now?

"Now, just this once, uh, this time is an exception," Wei Keng justified himself.

Flames surged, and pieces of heated stones were inserted into the wounds cut into the Node Creature. Wei Keng found its cries too loud, so he propped its mouth open with a wooden frame, constantly destroying its continuously healing vocal organs.

After these organs, which didn't conform to his aesthetic standards, were removed, Wei Keng could vent his inner anger. Yes, after witnessing too much cruelty he had endured, if he couldn't retaliate even a little, Wei Keng felt he would have psychological trauma.

Wei Keng: "How should I put it? Thoughts need to be clear."

While Wei Keng found all sorts of 'reasonable' excuses, he placed the felled fungi and herbaceous plants into the Node Creature's internal organs. Watching the carbon-based matter continuously regenerate and reject these structures, all the Wei Kengs revealed smiles at the corners of their mouths.

From an external perspective, if one saw over a thousand people with identical faces grinning at this act, cooperating in cutting living flesh without a trace of pity, and even communicating to speed up the process, they would undoubtedly feel a chill down their spine.

As the star curtain in the sky slowly rotated.

The Node Creature, a gene colony captured by Wei Keng, was steadily weakening its life radiation. Not only that, but abnormal organs were also continuously proliferating within its tissues. Especially the nerve center, its tissues were bombarded by Wei Keng's genes, and its brain tissue structure was forced to mutate. Immediately after, it seemed to gain comprehension, no, a channel was opened, through which Wei Keng poured a large amount of emotions.

The negative, dark thoughts in Wei Keng's consciousness, forcefully breaking through part of the Node Creature's comprehension ability through Wei Keng's life radiation, were then transmitted into this gene colony, and simultaneously vented into this natural world.

Negative thinking is an attitude of ending, destroying, and even hating a certain type of existence. This is an absolutely malignant existence.

What the individuals captured by Wei Keng experienced at the Node Creature seemed like mere pain before extinction to ordinary creatures, not giving rise to anything else. However, in higher conscious life forms like humans, more complex deaths and torments could evolve into complex darkness in their thoughts and consciousness.

After its birth, this Node Creature had continuously devoured humans, even incorporating human skulls into its own organs. It already contained human genes, but it had successfully controlled them, seizing human memories and thoughts.

Now, under the powerful influence of Wei Keng's life radiation, this part of the human genes began to backlash. Subsequently, the colony was forced to accept depression, darkness, and terror that only humans could understand. It began to know what it meant to say, "Born as a human, I am sorry!"

In the past, the complex emotional consciousness of humans as higher beings, when collapsing and distorting, could not be spread.

But now, with the dark trembling of thousands of human minds with identical genes simultaneously, it would spread with the life radiation.

Blackening, Wei Keng could do it.

Now, it wasn't just this gene colony that was affected by Wei Keng; the entire area began to mutate. In the jungle, a large number of leaves fell without wind, their roots automatically breaking.

All of this began with the small creatures in the soil acting abnormally.

These tiny creatures were originally the marginal life within the life radiation's influence range of the gene colony, and thus were the individuals on the outer perimeter of the life colony that could least withstand Wei Keng's influence.

These insects and geckos in the soil mutated rapidly. Their internal cell nuclei underwent abnormal shedding, and then these shed genes, with structural changes, returned to the cell nuclei to disassemble and hyper-replicate them!

Viruses, something no longer common in this era, appeared! However, now, with Wei Keng's negative blackening, this thing once again bared its fangs and claws, becoming the crack of the losers.

In less than ten minutes, the virus spread from the activity of small creatures to plants. Necrosis began to appear in the pipelines of the plant bark, causing massive dehydration internally, leading to abnormal leaf fall. Afterward, a large number of more complex animals also suffered from plague-like shedding and twitching.

The gene colony is enduring a large amount of abnormal information. Even if this node creature in Wei Keng's hand escapes death and returns to the natural colony, the large number of erroneous fragments accumulated in its genes will cause periodic necrosis in the creatures of its colony.

This change affects all directions, causing panic among countless natural life consciousnesses.

If previously these gene colonies only felt unparalleled disgust towards the Wei Keng Collective that suddenly appeared to the south and was snatching territory, now they have truly triggered a more terrifying situation.

The Wei Keng Collective has now become toxic to all gene colonies in the entire Pandora World, starting from this moment!

This fluctuation has now expanded to two thousand kilometers, no, three thousand kilometers, affecting the entire Southeast Asia, half of South China, and large colonies in the ocean can feel this shocking change.

And such shocking changes have not happened before in the Pandora Era.

In the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, in a place called Yu Land during the Civilization Era, there are mountains and water.

It is still a mountain city now. On the uneven, undulating terrain, sky-scraping giant plants merge with building fragments from the Old Era, standing on both banks of the Yangtze River, forming a Biopunk city.

The gene colony here is not the strongest in the East Asia region, but it is definitely the gene colony that has evolved the most towards Human Society. This is because it was the last remnant of humanity's Shelter Plan before the Great Cataclysm. Because the gene concentration of humans here was the highest, it sensed the anomaly from thousands of kilometers away in the south the most. This is because Wei Keng's current negativity, to some extent, mirrors the situation when this gene colony itself was born.

Shelter Plan:

In 2365, as the Pandora Field approached the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the strongest technical forces in East Asia gathered here and constructed a nano-network that could cover the entire city circle. This nano-network was divided into six thousand layers and used massive Light Quantum Signals to sever the propagation phenomenon of Pandora World's life information.

This plan, along with the activation of forty surrounding large nuclear power plants, achieved partial success. The nano-network successfully interrupted the radiation of natural carbon-based life.

When the Shelter Plan achieved initial success, the humans who fled here breathed a sigh of relief, but more problems emerged.

And behind this city, a large number of humans, regardless of the cost, tried to get a ship ticket and crowd into this city.

However, the shelter eventually collapsed after three months. Tens of millions of humans gathered here were instantly exposed to the Pandora Field, and then this place became the largest killing field at the end of the Old Era.

Regarding how the shelter facilities collapsed, the last words left by humans in despair at that time are recorded on the rocks by the great river!

A hasty record on a red rock summarizes it like this: This is humanity's deep-seated flaws. As society becomes increasingly complicated, some social thoughts begin to deviate from the focus of social development and survival, pursuing strange theories and anti-civilization hopes.

The stones that followed recorded the details of Yu City's collapse.

A clerk from the city diligently recorded in his final entry: The shelter accommodated too many people in the end, and thus extreme Nature Terrorist Organizations infiltrated it. These organizations, under the slogan of Love the Earth, represented humanity's submission to nature when the Pandora Field spread. Therefore, all of humanity's self-rescue was unreasonable in the eyes of this organization and should be abandoned. Thus, it was this organization that sabotaged the shelter facilities from within.

However, another person wrote a different viewpoint: Of course, it's also possible that the Shelter Plan failed from the beginning. The blockade it created only blocked the most obvious life radiation phenomenon, but human consciousness had already been polluted by life radiation. This might not be apparent in a single person; perhaps that person is just a bit depressed. But in the entire society, there was decay, despair, madness, and helplessness. This was the phenomenon of human consciousness perishing in thought under life radiation.

The unconditional compromise of the Green Terrorist Organization was precisely the conquest of humanity by the collective consciousness in the Pandora Field.

Yu City was completely exposed to the natural life radiation. After the initial few days of crazy destruction and slaughter among the tens of millions of desperate humans awaiting death here, more and more people began to calm down. When humans cannot defeat something, religion will derive. And this idealism in despair seemed to have achieved some effect.

Within a few months, more and more people became calm, leaning against trees one by one, indifferent to being swallowed by nature. They faced their impending destiny in a non-violent manner.

Because tens of millions of humans ended their lives here, the human genes in the local colony are very concentrated. Almost every plant has human genes.

The flowers blooming on the trees resemble human lips and flesh, and the fish in the water have human teeth.

And now, seventy percent of the fused humans here have not deviated so much from human aesthetics as to be unrecognizable, they are just a little strange.

For example, some fused humans are symbiotic with plants, with plant vines exposed at their tailbones. During the day, the vines insert into the Mother Tree to absorb nutrients, and they move at night. Others have palm leaves growing from their original hair, which can spread out like an umbrella canopy to perform photosynthesis when the sun is abundant.

The gene colonies here express a large number of human genes and have many humanoid individuals. Therefore, among the gene colonies globally, they also possess the rare ability to manufacture tools. They hollow out the interiors of some large creatures, implanting them into tree structures like assembling parts to form transport ships, which travel down the Yangtze River to spread to surrounding areas and collect minerals. They even possess the ability of metal smelting.

The collective consciousness linked by these fused humans also inherits some social customs from humanity's Old Era, for example, they are a matriarchal society with social hierarchies. The "Priests" are the self-proclaimed title of the highest node creatures in this fused human community.

However, even so, they are still colonies and are not considered human by the human city-states downstream of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers.

Because, even though high-level fused humans are difficult to distinguish from Old Era humans in appearance, they lack the concept of kinship that Old Era high-level beings possessed. Like ant colony leaders, they can plunder life substances from any lower-level fused humans. This means that the "Priests" here are not simply transcendent positions of power like in human society, but rather the top of the food chain within the colony.

When the strong have absolute power and obligations over the weak, this is not society, but an ant nest order of the survival of the fittest.

And now, the upper echelon of the gene colony in Yu City senses a "will of revenge" emerging from their "kin" to the south, directed at the entire world.

On their skyscraper giant trees, metal copper bells are hung and are now ringing. Inside the tree hollows of the giant trees, hundreds of strange creatures with dragonfly bodies but human eyes fly into the apexes of the largest giant tree buildings in various areas.

On the jungle side, with the reminder from Bai Linglu and some research reports on the condition of this captured node creature, Wei Keng recovered from his negative state and returned to a working condition.

Wei Keng said on the system, "Sorry, I just lost control of my state for a moment."

Bai Linglu: "Your outburst is a normal reaction. As long as it doesn't exceed a certain limit, appropriate release helps clear your chaotic thoughts. Of course, 'reminding you' is also my duty. The individual memories of your combat losses have all been preserved and will not be missing. Please rest assured."

Wei Keng: "Thank you. For the next step, well, please help me with the scheme calculation for handling this thing."

Regarding this node creature, Bai Linglu had already retrieved the information and provided a plan that made Wei Keng feel comfortable.

Wei Keng began to re-examine the battle situation and continued to think in an orderly manner.

Although there are more gene colonies in the farther Northern Yue region that continue to oppose him, there is no longer sufficient reason to resolve them at this stage. Rescuing people and immediate retaliation have both been completed, and now it's time to take it slow. Having grasped the initiative, he must control the rhythm.

That is to say, his industrial production can be prepared more, he can communicate more with other human forces in the region, and he can continue to collect intelligence on the various colonies in this world.

Wei Keng's team retreated along the mountain path, most of them hurrying, carrying weapons and ammunition and striding forward.

While some of Wei Keng were being led by those in front, or gently pushed forward by those behind, holding paper and pen to record and draw. After this process lasted for five minutes, they handed the paper and pen to their future selves, and then shouldered their luggage, switching to physical labor.

Now Wei Keng uses his life radiation very flexibly. His brain, the most energy-consuming organ, can receive seventy percent of the energy transmitted from the entire group, maintaining powerful mental calculations and predicting the situations from various perspectives. For example, a leaf falling from a branch ahead, Wei Keng's thinking array can accurately predict within 0.1 seconds where it will land on the ground two seconds later.

Wei Keng can think at high speed. The energy consumption of multiple brains thinking under the support of life radiation at this time is 27,000 large calories per hour, which is equivalent to the energy of three kilograms of fat or forty-eight Big Mac Burgers.

Of course, the brain can handle such information, but if it is to form effective memories, the brain will still overheat during this process. Therefore, every ten minutes, Wei Keng switches to a different brain for recording. And Wei Keng, who has already recorded information, switches roles, allowing his muscles to become the major energy consumers, such as carrying luggage and marching.

On the way back, Wei Keng continued to rapidly consume the fat from his thighs and internal organs. What used to jiggle under his skin was now flowing rapidly under the control of his self-life radiation, keeping his body temperature at a constant 37.5 degrees Celsius.

"I will continue to fight with the communities here." Wei Keng, who was recording terrain data, reconfirmed his strategic goal.

"But I will try my best to exhibit a more suitable vitality here." Wei Keng, carrying his own remains, did not waver from his core objective.

"I still have a lot of room for improvement." Wei Keng, at the very front of the formation, continuously chopped through the weeds that had grown only a few hours prior with his Path Clearing Knife. He smelled the sweet fragrance of the grass juice and felt a sense of peace about his future.

In this contest, the greatest advantage of his cluster was the advantage of communication and coordination. The vast amount of images, olfactory, and auditory signals he transmitted via Telepathy provided "Foresight" cooperation for the actions of each individual. And Wei Keng felt this could still be improved.

Telepathy was more effective than language, but! Language was an advanced mode of Voice Transmission.

In ancient times, the "strong Telepathy" of humans compared to animals was to make sounds to confirm each other's status. Gradually, this method of roaring on the basis of simple syllables became necessary to transmit information more quickly.

After the birth of language, what used to require a long roar to let other individuals confirm "I've found a deer, not encountered a Hyena while squatting to defecate" could be expressed with just a few syllables after language appeared.

Language is the encrypted and standardized Roaring Pronunciation Tone. So, can his current Telepathy be standardized for various meanings?

The current Wei Keng recalled that when he provided Mental Perception images during battles, they didn't need to be that clear at all.

The process and possible outcomes of a battle could be expressed more simply. Images could focus on just a few points like hands and feet, sounds only needed to confirm changes, and most of the time, smell and taste, hot and cold, didn't need to be expressed. This was because even many self-bodies, under normal circumstances, wouldn't pay attention to every wisp of scent around them all the time. They only needed important, or even familiar, moods to replace a lot of information from the six senses. That is, "Mutual Understanding."

Wei Keng felt there was still greater room for upgrading in his coordination and cooperation.

The Holy Grail can only be created by a Pure Soul.