Color from the Stars

Bai Yi stood motionless. The color in his mind calmed his chaotic thoughts.

The color had not taken over his brain. It seemed to have merely helped Bai Yi sweep away his jumbled thoughts.

[Psychological: Normal]

No longer plagued by chaotic thoughts, Bai Yi suddenly realized when he had been affected, as though some kind of barrier had vanished.

"When [Autism] first triggered, I saw that flash of color when my vision blurred for no reason while cleaning up the battlefield!"

He had been bewitched at that time.

The color had been drawn here by [Autism]!

There had simply been no trace of it, and the information panel showed nothing unusual, leaving Bai Yi completely unaware of his abnormality.

Or rather, he had ignored every abnormality!

He had ignored the drawbacks brought by [Autism], the danger within the black mist, and that bizarre mass of flesh.

That flash of color had led Bai Yi all the way here.

"Heh..."

A strained smile appeared at the corner of Bai Yi's lips. Sure enough, great gains came with great risks.

The price for the massive harvest from repeatedly triggering [Autism] had been waiting for him here.

Bai Yi "looked" at the color in his mind. It simply floated there silently, without any unnecessary movement.

He neither resisted nor fled. Instead, he continued digging toward the source of the color.

For now, Bai Yi had no intention of resisting. An existence like this had likely long surpassed the category of aberrant demons.

He had no means of countering it at all. If it had not voluntarily lifted the barrier, Bai Yi would not have realized any of this even now.

By the same logic, since the color dared to remove the barrier, it meant it did not care about Bai Yi's thoughts. No matter what Bai Yi chose next, it made no difference to it.

"It lured me here but didn't attack me directly. Does it not want to kill me? Or is it simply not time yet?"

Bai Yi rapidly considered his options. Though he could not fight back for the moment, that did not mean he had given up completely.

As long as he still had one breath left, Bai Yi would do everything he could to survive!

One corpse after another was moved aside. The stomach acid dripping from the ceiling had already corroded more than half of the bone umbrella.

At last, Bai Yi saw the true form of that color—a single oval egg!

Colors beyond Bai Yi's comprehension flowed across the egg's surface. Looking closely, it seemed as though an entire galaxy was revolving within it.

The log finally provided some information:

[Superior Species: Color from the Stars (Juvenile)]

[Strength: ???]

[Mental: ???]

[Constitution: ???]

[Sanity: ???]

[Talent: ???]

[Description: A form that wanders through space, somewhere between liquid and mist—a living energy whose boundaries cannot be clearly perceived. This is a Star-Color about to hatch. For some reason, it bears you no hostility.]

At the same time, a new page was added to the log:

[Race

1. Superior Species: Color from the Stars (hereafter referred to as Star-Color)]

There was not much information—one could even say there was very little. The screenful of question marks left Bai Yi stunned.

Yet the description did not put him at ease.

No hostility?

Bai Yi had no hostility toward food when he ate it either, but that did not stop the food from entering his stomach.

But now that things had come to this, feeling the message conveyed by the color in his mind, Bai Yi knew he could only comply. The feeling of having his life in someone else's grasp made him deeply uncomfortable.

Following the message, Bai Yi picked up the Star-Color's egg with one hand. The egg was not large, about the size of a chicken egg.

With a squeeze of his hand, the soft egg shattered easily.

Color spread out from within. The remains it touched turned into grayish-white powder one after another. Throughout the process, Bai Yi was unaffected.

The instant it touched the flesh membrane, the color was not blocked as Bai Yi had been. Instead, it passed through the membrane with ease and wrapped around it from the other side.

A familiar wave of dizziness struck him. When he opened his eyes again, Bai Yi found himself back in the basement.

Looking ahead, the basement, once obscured by black mist, now revealed its rough outline.

To the naked eye, the ground formed by the chunks of flesh beneath his feet was only four or five meters long. At the center of the flesh, a membrane-like structure floated in midair.

[Phase Stomach Sac]: A floating membrane structure. The ground within a 20×20 area around it transforms into unknown flesh. Prey that enters cannot leave the range of the flesh. Every 20 minutes, spatial folds form and drag living creatures into its stomach dimension, where the prey is digested.

At this moment, more than half of the black mist had receded, replaced by Star-Color permeating the air.

It filled the basement. At the very edges, the black mist was still eroding inward. The black mist and colors collided continuously, annihilating each other.

Bai Yi could tell that Star-Color was at a disadvantage. Before long, it would be completely eroded by the black mist.

Yet Star-Color was not flustered. It circled Bai Yi, brushing gently across his body.

This was the first time Bai Yi had ever touched color—an indescribable sensation.

The colors in his mind had not faded. They protected Bai Yi's brain, allowing him to look directly at Star-Color.

The flesh-membrane construct beside him was not so fortunate. It let out a miserable scream from some unknown part of its body. Within seconds, the scream vanished, and the flesh-membrane construct drooped limply to the floor.

At the same time, the surrounding chunks of flesh dried out and dehydrated, rapidly crystallizing into strange crystals.

Bai Yi made no move. He could only stay where he was, not daring to move around carelessly.

After circling him twice, the colors at his side began to slowly enter Bai Yi's forehead.

Bai Yi was utterly unable to resist throughout the process. As the colors entered, he felt a vast amount of knowledge flood into his mind.

Then, Bai Yi absorbed and understood that knowledge at an incredible speed: the mass-energy equation, grand unified theory, energy conversion surgery...

Bai Yi felt as though his brain were about to explode, but the colors protecting his mind kept him conscious throughout, his mental state remaining normal at all times.

But under these circumstances, being normal was the greatest abnormality of all.

[You have learned an excessive amount of knowledge. Sanity -10]

[You have learned an excessive amount of knowledge. Sanity -10]

[You have learned an excessive amount of knowledge. Sanity -10]

Bai Yi's sanity plummeted at extreme speed. When it fell to 1 point, it came to an abrupt halt, forcibly locked by his talent.

[Warning! Your sanity is below 10. You have fallen into permanent madness. You have fallen into cognitive distortion.]

[Exempted]

[Steel Spine Will activated. Sanity locked at 1/100]

The pain of knowledge flooding in and the pain caused by his talent's forced lock compounded one another. Entangled together, they left Bai Yi lucidly experiencing everything. Even the right to fall unconscious had been taken from him.

Bai Yi's body twitched involuntarily, while large amounts of vapor rose from his brain due to its high-frequency operation.

He was about to die!

Finally, Star-Color seemed to realize that something was wrong. It stopped pouring knowledge into him, and the colors slowly withdrew from Bai Yi's brain.

As Star-Color erased, one by one, all memories related to the knowledge it had forced into him, Bai Yi finally managed to recover.

[Sanity: 5/100]

[Sanity: 30/100]

[Sanity: 85/100]

[Sanity: 100/100]

[Sanity: 200/200]

As Star-Color restored Bai Yi's sanity to full through some unknown means, Bai Yi collapsed onto the ground, gasping for air.

[Sor... ry]

Suddenly, he received such a message in his mind.

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