Destroying the world was never Wu Heng's goal.
All he needs is fear—the fear of him from billions of people.
The Maturin's non-interference with the universe allowed Wu Heng to completely unleash his potential.
The disaster videos broadcast by various TV stations were actually exaggerated by Wu Heng.
In the video, he used Deep Blue Star's AI technology to create fake videos depicting disasters in various cities and terrifying images of the Monster Fish Virus.
The reason for using AI synthesis is that his time in this world is limited.
It's simply impossible to travel to that many places in a short time, so we can only choose Derry and Japan as the actual outbreak points.
Derry was there to deal with the Pennywise, while Neon was there to return the strange fish. Although they were from different worlds, the strange fish did come from that place after all.
The world is still in the 1980s.
For ordinary people, the fastest source of information is the television.
In the first seven days, Wu Heng did more than just capture evil spirits.
During his time infiltrating those military bases and replacing certain individuals, he not only took over the control of the strange fish outside Derry, but also took over countless spies and agents lurking outside.
He sent the film to these people, assigned them tasks, and had them supervise each other, without even knowing the content of the film themselves.
These highly trained agents, upon Wu Heng's arrival in Derry,
They would all set off for their respective local television stations, revealing themselves and using force to compel television stations in various countries to broadcast the videos provided by Wu Heng.
It was through these spies that Wu Heng was able to have the video played simultaneously in most areas.
The horrific disaster depicted in the video cannot be verified by people around the world in the short term.
But anyone with eyes can tell that the real disaster scenes in that video could not have been filmed with special effects.
At the very least, the film and television industry of this era couldn't produce such realistic special effects.
Since it wasn't special effects, it can only mean that the apocalypse was real!
Countless people believed it.
Fear is spreading rapidly, and riots are breaking out in various places.
Revenge, indulgence, and madness unfolded in countless cities before the disaster, but deep down, these people all harbored an object of fear:
Wu Heng.
Upon hearing of the apocalyptic disaster, ordinary people passed on the word from parents to sons, and wives to husbands. The message spread not only about the disaster and Wu Heng's declaration of world destruction, but also about their fear of Wu Heng.
Wu Heng appeared on screen as a glamorous and holy priest, with Bible in his hand and a golden cross badge on his chest, all clearly captured on camera.
More than 70% of the world's population already knows about Wu Heng, the world-destroying demon king, through television and word of mouth.
He was known as " Death Father ".
He was originally to be called a 'fallen priest,' but the atrocities committed by the 'fallen priest' with the same title a hundred years ago are simply shameful compared to Wu Heng.
No one dared to give Wu Heng that tarnished title.
Fear from this planet is spreading through the air!
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'Bang, crack!'
"Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"
Inside the NBS television building, Bob stormed out of the elevator, rushed into the broadcasting room, and angrily pushed the finished machine to the ground, smashing it to pieces.
"Tell me, who sent you to frame the priest!" Bob angrily questioned an ordinary-looking employee who was being held by the FBI.
This employee was actually an armed man who disguised himself as a spy, infiltrated the building's playback room, and forcibly played the video.
The agent, bound hand and foot, lay motionless with his eyes closed, like a dead man.
These individuals have all undergone rigorous training.
"Officer, please investigate this thoroughly. The priest is definitely innocent. Everything he did was to fight against hell!" Bob hesitated, then stopped.
"Mr. Bob, you also need to be investigated. This is an arrest warrant." A police officer pulled Bob's hands behind his back and handcuffed him.
"You've all misunderstood. He's a priest, our father!"
Bob was trembling and muttering incessantly as he was led into the police car.
He couldn't imagine what would happen if Wu Heng was a demon, and what would become of all those people who died in the death contests Wu Heng had helped organize.
But,
The priest clearly spared all those who withdrew from the competition, all participants who dropped out midway, and even the staff members, including himself, all of whom received real money and mysterious holy water.
Will the devil pay the bill?
I recall the priest's genuine concern and words of advice when he left.
"The priest must have been wronged. This must be a conspiracy from hell. They have been deceived. I await your return!" Bob felt he had sorted out his thoughts and got into the police car to go to the police station.
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Meanwhile, in the Derry,
The main characters and candidates who followed Wu Heng into Derry were completely unaware of the shocking news outside.
Because there is no signal at all within the Derry, they cannot even receive text messages.
To them, the Pennywise was still evil, and Wu Heng was still the priest of light resisting the invasion of evil.
"Turn the light into darkness!"
"Turn the light into darkness!"
The crowd continued chanting the incantation urgently, and the ball of light was now only three meters away from the jar.
Wu Heng concentrated all his energy, wielding the horns of his Spirit-Touch Power, relentlessly drawing in the fear generated by the people surrounding the entire planet's surface.
In the real space beyond the reach of our senses
The fear represented by the gray streams has coalesced into a sphere enveloping the entire Derry.
A crack in the sky, a tear in the firmament.
The orange light, like a refracted wave, drove away all the flames and darkness, leaving only the fuzzy light spinning, as if observing.
The refracted wave then stopped.
It has been discovered!
The thief has been discovered; he's a thief who's trying to steal the power of the Deadlights.
Unforgivable!
A terrifying orange Deadlights turned the crack in the sky into a diode, like a light tube hanging over the Derry.
Cold, disorienting, heavy.
The entire space is changing, breaking away from this universe, and seemingly sinking into an unknown dimension.
Wu Heng felt that reality was being denied and stripped away.
He turned his head and found that the positions of Wako had changed.
The six main characters and the candidates all opened their eyes, but their gazes were blank and vacant. Saliva dripped from the corners of their mouths to their chins, their bodies drooped forward as if bowing, their limbs swayed limply, and their toes pointed to the ground.
It's like drowning in deep water!
Even the giant Buddha statue, hundreds of meters tall, is in the same pose.
The Swine Two inside the giant Buddha's body had already been retrieved into its Life Box. The one outside was just an empty shell with only plant consciousness, yet it was still affected.
'Their hearts are still beating; they seem to still be alive,' Wu Heng thought to himself as he observed the crowd.
He suddenly realized something was wrong:
He could actually see into everyone's hearts?!
Looking again, I realized...
The bones, arteries, and capillaries of the people were clearly visible, as if they were being exposed to the world's most powerful X-rays.
'But why am I looking at them at eye level!'
Another question arose in Wu Heng's mind.
A gray sense of fear enveloped him like thick armor, acting as a protective shield against the Deadlights.
Wu Heng felt his thoughts slow down, and he slowly lowered his head.
He had floated up, his body arching downwards, as if he were drowning.
"When!"
Wu Heng subconsciously controlled the gray power of fear, which enveloped his brain layer by layer.
"Call!"
He breathed a sigh of relief, then broke out in a cold sweat.
My thoughts raced again, like an angle grinder that was still turning on its own after a power outage, only to be reconnected to the circuit.
The chants of the Ritual of Chüd had ceased at some point.
As Wu Heng felt the Deadlights growing stronger and stronger, resisted by the fear he was controlling, a wave of dread washed over him.
"No, we can't wait any longer, or we might not even be able to regain our consciousness!"
He glanced at the three spheres of light hovering just 1.2 meters from the jar, and made his choice.
' Spirit-Touch Power, explode!'
Wu Heng used the horns formed by his Spirit-Touch Power to detonate the terrifying force that enveloped the entire Derry.
A dense gray ripple appeared, so dense that even mortal consciousness could perceive it, and an explosion-like shockwave, which did not actually exist, swept across the entire Derry.
Countless ruins radiated outwards, as if swept away by a flood.
Everything happened silently, like drawing on paper.
The gray storm briefly interrupted the orange light that filled the sky, and the space became real again. Everyone fell back to the ground, and the colossus shook the ground with a loud rumble.
The noise was so real that it startled the dazed main characters and contestants, who seemed to have just sobered up.
But in less than a moment, the orange light reappeared.
Amidst the orange glow,
Two more intense orange beams of light appeared, one shooting into the distance and the other towards the jar.
Because at the moment the fear was ignited, Wu Heng secretly controlled the direction of the impact.
He deliberately blasted a ball of light into the distance, and in the blink of an eye, it drifted horizontally out of the Maine.
The remaining two orbs of light, taking advantage of the moment the orange light was interrupted, slammed it into the jar.
In the story, Pennywise Pennywise can toy with the protagonist team using orbs of light, and his power of fear can naturally resist both orbs of light and Deadlights.
only,
Even though Wu Heng had gathered most of the fears of humanity on this planet,
Compared to 'it',
Still not worth mentioning.
If the gap in the sky weren't so small, and if the Maturin's universe weren't targeting 'it', even gathering the fear of a hundred planets wouldn't be able to affect 'its' power.
But these are precisely the factors that Wu Heng relies on.
If it weren't for that, he wouldn't have been so foolish as to attempt a futile endeavor.
Wu Heng's leg muscles tensed, and he lunged at the jar, embracing it tightly.
The point of impact, due to inertia, is precisely the thin portal created by the wear and tear on the spatial structure caused by the Pennywise's death.
He carried the jar containing the two orbs of light as he fell into the void beyond the thin domain.
He carried with him lingering fear, gray strands of hair cascading down the back of his head like three thousand feet of gray hair.
Wu Heng escaped the widespread Deadlights in Derry.
However, he still underestimated its power. The dense orange beam of light that was guiding the light orb was still connected to the jar and rushed into the thin domain at the same time.
The moment he embraced the jar, Wu Heng silently recited in his mind:
"Return!"
But nothing came of it; the Lighthouse did not respond.
He continued to drift in the gray fog-filled void, surrounded by countless unknown, colossal void monsters that howled and fought.
He did not return to the Lighthouse!
"Why is there no response!" Wu Heng thought anxiously, and continued to silently recite the option to return early.
"Retreat!"
"Come back quickly!"
"Go back!"
The three thousand feet of gray, terrifying power following closely behind him rapidly diminished under the beam of light from the linking altar.
Phew~!
A colossal creature appeared in the void. It was a void monster with the head of a strange bird and the legs of an elephant. Suddenly, it charged towards Wu Heng from the side, but was hit by the orange beam of light. It let out a screech and retreated, disappearing into the gray mist of the void.
Upon hearing that monster's scream...
Wu Heng suddenly realized. "I've been influenced!"
He realized why he could not return.
His mind has been thrown into chaos by the Deadlights!
Although I don't know what words I shouted, it was definitely not the correct command for the Lighthouse to return.
The Lighthouse cannot be affected by 'it', that's for sure, otherwise Wu Heng would have been captured and studied by the creator of this world long ago.
It's highly likely that the orange light influenced his thinking, causing him to subconsciously deviate from the option that allowed him to escape.
Wu Heng controlled the remaining fear, pulling his mind back to protect his head, which consumed it even more quickly.
He looked down at the jar in his hand. "There's no other way; I have to discard half of it!"
Using his Spirit-Touch Power to manipulate the power of fear, he released a ball of light from the jar.
Wu Heng pushed with all his might, sending the ball of light toward the direction where the strange bird had disappeared.
The beam of light connecting the jar was also split into two smaller orange beams, one of which, marked as a disappearing sphere, shot backward like an infinitely extending rod of light.
He communicated with the Lighthouse again. "Teleport!"
"Why are we still in the same place?!"
Wu Heng turned his head left and right to look around; he was still wandering in the gray fog.
"Could it be that the power of the beam is still very strong, and my thought process is still being affected by the Deadlights?"
Wu Heng looked down at the jar in his hand again.
I've worked so hard to get this light orb, and I only have one left. Do I really have to give it all up?
He had already devised a development path based on the situation after obtaining the ' Deadlight Orb,' so it would be a real shame to give up now.
When weighing the gains and losses,
Wu Heng, who had been drifting, saw a vortex of gray mist appear to his left front. At the center of the vortex, there seemed to be a touch of silver-green, which was the color of the Thin Domain Mirror.
A group of the weakest void monsters at the bottom level were swarming around the vortex, constantly rushing into it and disappearing.
"There's likely another world ahead. Perhaps we can use the barrier between worlds to weaken the Deadlights's link again!"
Wu Heng manipulated the power of fear, changed direction, and rushed into the vortex of gray mist.
Because of the beam of Deadlights, the void monsters along the way would avoid Wu Heng to prevent being affected by the Deadlights.
Otherwise, even if he could manipulate some power of fear, it would be nothing more than a sweet sesame seed to these terrifying void monsters.
This could be considered a case of the fox borrowing the tiger's power.
The moment Wu Heng passed through the silver-green thin mirror,
He vaguely saw himself on a cliff, facing a device that looked like a laser, and below the cliff was a small European-style town.
Countless weak void monsters roam the town, which is shrouded in gray mist, devouring its inhabitants and fighting against the human army.
Wu Heng descended with the pillar of Deadlights.
It's like throwing a firecracker into a shallow pond full of fish and shrimp.
These void monsters that descended into reality were terrified and trembled, crawling on the ground, where human armies took the opportunity to wipe out many of them.
But Wu Heng had no time to observe; the instant he entered, he shouted:
"Return!!!"
The sound came from the cliff and echoed throughout the entire town.
Wu Heng, carrying the jar, vanished from the spot in an instant.
The orange Deadlights, having lost its target, paused for a moment.
laugh--!
Immediately following a soft sound, the beam of light exploded like a flare, obliterating the consciousness of all the weak void monsters in the town. The beam of light also dissipated as it ceased transmitting power.
The reason it relentlessly pursued it wasn't because it cared about that meager strength, but because it couldn't tolerate being toyed with by an insect!
The opponent actually used the power of fear it bestowed upon its clone to resist its summons.
This is blasphemy against the supreme beings.
The reason it destroyed these void monsters was because it loathed the strange bird in the void, which had awakened the insect carrying the orb of light.