Passage

"The general situation is clear now. That monster should indeed be Jack, and the towering vines and the so-called treasure giant should also exist." Lu Li withdrew from the dream, while the old woman was lying on the ground, having a nightmare.

"From her memories, I learned that Jack obtained three peas in total. He used one to go to the real Cloud Castle, where Jack must have been infected by something and turned into Moon Beast."

Lu Li looked at the old woman groaning in pain on the ground, and casually flicked out a wisp of Fire of Wrath. The black flames spread across the woman's body, burning away her life until she was reduced to a piece of charcoal.

"Jack still has two more peas. Should we give chase?" Lu Li asked, looking at the charcoal on the ground with an air of "it's up to you." The other man's life was over, but another life was beginning to revive.

After thinking for a while, Jasmine nodded in agreement. Lore activated his ability, and the group quickly chased after Jack in the direction he had left, leaving only the old woman's corpse behind. After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly trembled, black hair sprouted from her body, and a gash appeared on her head.

The old woman now resembled the giant in the dream, only much smaller. Her arms suddenly split into two at the front, and she rose from the ground. No sound came from her large mouth; as if sensing something, she lunged to the other side.

Any life form that becomes powerful enough will have a terrifying ability to infect and erode, and that giant was no exception. According to the knowledge Lu Li had learned before, that giant was called the Gug.

The Gug live in a terrifying city beneath the Dreamlands, dwelling in towering round towers. They live underground because the rituals they perform to worship various great beings are so disgusting, and they happily devour whatever creature they catch.

The monster lived atop Cloud Castle. It died when Jack cut down a pea shoot and fell, turning into a pile of minced meat. Later, due to food shortages, Jack took the minced meat back and ate it during the anomaly, feeding it to the old woman.

The flesh and blood of these monsters are a highly infectious poison to humans. The old woman had eaten a lot of the flesh paste of the Gug, and her body had already undergone some mutations. Otherwise, she would probably have died long ago from Jack's torture.

Furthermore, more mutations Mutation the old woman's dreams. As the old woman died, her existence collapsed, and a new monster was born in her body. This monster could be said to be a product of the old woman's mutation, or it could be said to be a product of the Gug in the sky being reborn in her body, or it could be a product of the fusion of the two.

Following its senses, the small guppy found a small farm and rushed in. Using its four front paws, it killed the humans inside and began to eat as soon as it lay down. However, the pink eyes on its cheeks became more and more bulging and eventually fell off, from which several short pink tentacles extended.

Because the old woman had been with the Moon Beast for too long and had eaten many pieces of raw meat coated with the Moon Beast's stomach acid, she was also infected with some of the Moon Beast's life elements. As a result, after Avatar into a small Guge, she underwent another mutation and acquired some of the Moon Beast's characteristics.

Lu Li, who was running with Jasmine and the others in the distance, suddenly smiled. He had only given them a push because he thought it was interesting, but he didn't expect that it would actually mutate into a new species of life with the characteristics of two monsters.

"It seems that humans still have some potential," Lu Li thought to himself. He then recorded his experimental ideas for monster hybridization and infection using humans as the base. Many monsters mated with humans and gave birth to hybrids, which showed that humans were indeed more susceptible to infection by the life elements of other creatures.

Jack, Avatar into Moon Beast, ran and left quite a trail. Lu Li and his companions chased him easily, and after most of the day, they found their target. Jack was inside a farmhouse, exactly the same as the farmhouse Lu Li had seen in the old woman's dream.

"When something happens, the first reaction is to run home? It also brought its human mother with it the whole way. It seems that this monster still retains some human characteristics." Lu Li thought to himself as he looked at the hole in the farmhouse yard.

Even after returning home, the Moon Beast still felt extremely unsafe. So, it took out a small cloth bag from the large chest, poured out two peas, picked up one, stuffed the other back in, carried the large Moon Beast on its back, and planted another pea in the hole outside the yard.

Unlike the illusions he created using the Moon Beast's black technology, this time it was real peas beginning to grow. Lu Li and the others could feel the ground trembling slightly as they saw a small green seedling rise from the pit.

Without any particularly loud noise, the pea shoots grew at a visible speed, climbing upwards. When the Moon Beast saw the growing pea shoots, it carried its box and jumped onto them. As the pea shoots grew, they soared into the sky, and suddenly a thick white cloud appeared in the sky.

"This is still not normal. The pea shoot's hardness and quality are completely insufficient to support it soaring that high." Mond waited for a while, watching Jack rush into the clouds with the vine, before walking over and carefully touching the pea shoot, saying with a strange expression.

"I suspect that these pea shoots are actually just a kind of door-opening device." Lu Li squinted at the clouds in the sky. "That cloud in the sky might be a colony of a Moon Beast; it doesn't exist in our space."

The pea shoots seem to reach straight to the sky, but after reaching a certain height, they actually enter another space. In reality, the height isn't that high; otherwise, it's inexplicable that Jack could just plant peas here and reach the Cloud Castle.

"So, should we go up and take a look? I'm just a clone, so it doesn't matter if I die. But if you guys die, then you're really dead," Lu Li said with a sly smile.

"Go ahead. If there really is a palace in the clouds up there, let's seize it and use it as a trading base. Perhaps we can turn it into a sacred place, spread its legends, and have the people here come to find it and trade with us. This is much better than us having to find others to trade with ourselves."

Jasmine ignored Lu Li's words, but her eyes lit up as she thought of future development directions. She directly instructed Mond and Lore to start climbing pea shoots together. Lu Li pursed his lips and followed.

When Lu Li climbed to a height of more than ten meters, he suddenly felt that the space around him had changed. So Lu Li borrowed a piece of clothing from Mond, rolled it up, and threw it out of the pea shoots.

Then a horrifying scene unfolded: the garment seemed to have been torn apart by something, completely reduced to fragments. "Indeed, this pea sprout is a means of spatial linking, and after the passage was opened, this pea sprout became the only correct path."

The Gug didn't die from falling from a height; rather, it was traversing space and, due to a wrong path, was directly cut into mincemeat by space itself.