"This gun really packs a punch..."
Yang Yi spoke in surprise. He had never expected the gun to be so destructive, wiping out that creepy, twisted flesh worm he could barely describe with a single shot.
After confirming that the thing showed no signs of reviving, Yang Yi picked up some fragments of its tissue and obtained its information.
[Name: Despairing Prisoner of Truth] [Description: They were once followers and believers of truth, longing to explore the unknown and discover truth. But they never imagined that one day they would drown in the ocean of knowledge. Yet with the help of the "L̸i̸g̸h̸t̸ o̸f̸ T̸r̸u̸t̸h̸" device, they continued their tireless exploration, and the truths they discovered were carefully collected to sustain this world's "reason." When the facts could no longer be concealed and truth's terrifying face gradually emerged, what they fell into... was despair countless times more terrifying than death! Affected by the corrosion of "reason," they cannot be put into the Monster Gacha Machine to obtain Gacha.]
"...Prisoners."
After reading the information, Yang Yi frowned slightly and motioned for Su Na to take a look too.
Her expression was much the same after she read it.
Though they had anticipated this, actually encountering these despairing scholars still weighed somewhat on both of them.
By now, the entire university was probably occupied by these monsters.
Their real bodies were sealed in the buildings' hibernation pods, but their souls and consciousnesses were imprisoned within the university, forced to explore truth endlessly and feed it in return, delaying the moment when "reason" would collapse.
Only scholars who realized the truth and sank into despair were allowed to "die." Otherwise, they would be repeatedly purified by the Mental Purification Ray and made to repeat the learning process. It was simply