Creating the First Batch of Indigenous Inhabitants

All the core researchers in the base had seen Sadako's footage.

No matter where they fled, Sadako's clones would pursue them.

The base's combat personnel had also all gone mad under Tomie's spell.

With Sadako and Tomie invading, the research base had now completely fallen!

And this place was also, in a sense, the core of the entire city.

As part of Shen Hui's plan, Tomie used a researcher under her control.

She played the footage of Sadako through the research base's supercomputer.

The supercomputer was connected to various electronic devices throughout the city.

In this technological world, in this technological city,

there were electronic screens of all sizes everywhere.

At the same time, they all began playing the same video.

A deadwood forest, a withered well, a pair of hands, a woman in white with disheveled hair...

The Electronic Curse turned into a virus and began spreading wildly through the city.

Everyone who had no idea what was going on looked at the electronic screens.

When they finally saw Sadako crawl out of one, they all fell into terror.

Fear spread throughout the city,

until the entire city fell.

At the same time, Shen Hui received a message from the World Will.

[The challenged world has been completely brought under control]

[The opposing world will now begin to be merged and absorbed...]

The World Origin of this technological world began to be absorbed by Shen Hui's Death World.

This announced that Shen Hui had won completely and claimed victory.

After the World Origin had been absorbed, the World Origin of Shen Hui's Death World became even more stable and powerful.

At the same time, the deathly aura unique to the Death World

surged like a mighty river, spreading across the territory that had merged with this technological world.

The vegetation inside withered once again, and some of the people who had survived in the city

couldn't take it physically and died.

The remaining humans who survived, if they had no way to protect themselves,

would also have their life force taken by the deathly aura within a week at most.

The apocalypse was near.

The humans grew fearful, and the entire city fell into even greater chaos.

But Shen Hui didn't care about them in the slightest.

After all, they were merely created lives.

As a Creator, he shouldn't feel such pity.

[Challenge against Second-Level Technological Civilization World successful]

[World has been merged]

[Your world's diameter has expanded to 129 kilometers]

[Obtained 300 World Origin Power]

[Obtained Elementary Technology Civilization Technology Card]

[Obtained a number of technological civilization buildings]

[Obtained a number of biological lives]

...

Shen Hui looked at what he had obtained for successfully completing the challenge.

A satisfied smile appeared on his face.

The challenge against a second-level world really was damn profitable!

His world had expanded to over a hundred kilometers. Shen Hui's world was no longer some small world.

The 300 World Origin Power he had obtained was equivalent to two bottles of Low-Level World Origin Potion. It was a considerable amount.

The things he had obtained afterward were all resources from the technological world.

The buildings in the city, the things that had been created, and so on.

If Shen Hui had also been in a technological civilization world, he could have used them directly.

But his was a Death World, so he had no need for any of them.

Of course, that didn't mean Shen Hui couldn't develop a technological civilization.

But the World Origin Power his world possessed wasn't compatible.

Developing it this way would be very difficult and take up a great deal of the world's origin.

It was a typical case of putting in effort without getting anything in return.

There was one exception, though.

That was technology that naturally emerged among the world's living beings, with the Creator also guiding the direction of its development.

But technology like that would often reach a certain limit and then be blocked.

To break through and develop more advanced technology, one would have to use the World Origin.

So these buildings and those manufactured tools and such were useless to Shen Hui.

Later, he could use the World Association's services to extract them.

Then he could sell them to the association.

Finally, there were the biological lives and the Low-Level Technological Civilization Card.

The biological lives naturally referred to the humans and animals still alive in the city.

As for the Low-Level Technological Civilization Card,

it was a pretty amazing thing.

After someone awakened a technological world,

their world would merely be suited to developing technology.

To develop a technological civilization and advance it,

they naturally had to start from scratch.

But with a Technology Civilization Card, they could skip straight past zero and reach one.

It was like using a template.

Though it was someone else's template.

Of course, this kind of thing wasn't limited to technological worlds.

For example, Technique Cards, formed from the cultivation techniques passed down in a Cultivation World, had a similar effect.

They could accelerate the development of a Cultivation World.

It just wasn't as outrageous as it was with technological worlds.

But when there was a shortcut, even if it was someone else's path, most people were still willing to take it.

Moreover, it wasn't possible to extract one of these cards every time a technological world was merged.

The odds were very low.

So these cards were not only Rare, but also highly sought after.

They were the sort of things that had a price but no market.

At least, Shen Hui hadn't seen anything like this in the World Association's shop.

This would definitely sell for a good price!

As for the humans and other biological lives, Shen Hui planned to turn some of them into residents of the Land of New Life.

He would have them begin to multiply and thrive within the Land of New Life in the Death World.

He would treat the strange tales as seeds and spread them.

Shen Hui thought it over, then directly used the remaining Time Flow Rate Card he had on him.

Time in the Death World began to speed up.

One day passed.

Sadako and Tomie both withdrew.

The surviving humans began to scrape by.

They also discovered that the lives of everything in the world were rapidly running out.

If they didn't find a safe place, they would all die.

On the second day, everyone carried various supplies and began searching everywhere for a safe place.

On the third day, people began to die one after another, while others realized there was no safe place in the city.

On the fourth day, some began heading outside the city, searching within Shen Hui's world.

Although they had heard that the terrifying woman in white who had appeared before came from there,

they resolutely went anyway, for the sake of survival.

On the fifth day, people began arriving one after another.

Among them, some saw a towering humanoid shadow broadcasting along the way.

Some also saw a pig-headed, human-bodied creature leading a group of little blue pigs.

Some saw the Deadwood Forest and Withered Well from that footage, along with the white-clad woman with disheveled hair, appearing on the giant screens throughout the city.

Some also saw a beautiful young woman living here alone.

Some died in these places, while others managed to escape in terror.

On the sixth day, someone finally discovered the Land of New Life.

In this area, no life faded away, and everything was safe.

One after another, people arrived and stayed here.

On the seventh day, the aura of death erupted on a massive scale, and everyone who had yet to find the Land of New Life died.

Those who had reached the Land of New Life were all immensely relieved. They were safe, for now.