"Have you noticed that you're very lucky?" the eyeball suddenly asked Mo Ling.
Mo Ling thought for a moment and nodded. He could not deny that his luck had indeed been very good.
"You humans have a saying: 'Hard life.' Things with uniqueness possess this trait, and so do you. If you want to secure a wooden board to a wall and only have one nail, that nail will be driven in very firmly and be difficult to pull out."
"And because a loose nail would cause the board to fall, the board—that is, the environment—will give that nail special favor and try its best to keep it from being damaged. That is why unique things have such hard lives."
"Did you ever feel that your adventures in the Abyss went smoothly? That the Abyss was highly accepting of you, and that even synchronization did not take long?"
The eyeball asked again. Hearing the question, Mo Ling thought about it and nodded once more.
That was indeed the case...
"Because what the Abyss needs is variability."
"It has devoured so many worlds and gathered change within itself, but there are commonalities between worlds. Those similar nails will make its appetite increasingly picky."
"It is like someone who has eaten too much meat and wants to taste simple, plain food. After tasting too many similar flavors, it naturally becomes more interested in certain unusual variables."
"Although the Abyss is a collective entity that acts on instinct, it still develops such feeding tendencies and shows greater acceptance toward these one-of-a-kind variables."
"Simply put, you have been marked by the Abyss..."
Listening to the eyeball's explanation, Mo Ling's heart turned cold.
This did not sound like a good thing...
Being watched by such an indescribable thing and regarded as special "food" was absolutely