My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 308 - 288: Heart Stealer’s World
"Aren’t you still single? I think you’re quite nice. How about I see if any daughters are willing to marry you? Also, some of my friends are very worried about their daughters’ futures. I’ll go ask them, should be able to gather a few dozen for you. Don’t think it’s too few, just take your pick when the time comes." The lieutenant calmly said, words that Xue Dili found terrifying.
Xue Dili: "..."
Forget it, your world is too scary, I really can’t keep up with the conversation. And with dozens of this and that, Xue Dili felt his head starting to swell. He quickly said, "Forget it, I want to be a partner of justice, love is such a nuisance."
The lieutenant immediately gave Xue Dili a ’seeing a ghost’ expression. In their world’s values, men are naturally supposed to carry the heavy burden of reproduction, so their world places a lot of importance on this. If a man has too few children, he would be criticized, let alone someone like Xue Dili.
In their world, it’s considered a heinous crime, where one would be jailed and forcibly bred 100 children before being released—a heavy criminal indeed.
In short, the lieutenant talked beside him for a long time, but Xue Dili didn’t listen to a word. Instead, he found it unbearable.
Their world is truly terrifying, such freakish culture and civilization born from extreme gender ratios made Xue Dili, a liberalist, feel fear.
The lieutenant was also patiently advising him, with the personal view that a man who leaves no descendants before venturing out is committing a grave crime. If he died outside, leaving no children, it would be a betrayal of ancestors.
Xue Dili finally understood why his boss wouldn’t allow him to discuss such matters within the Interstellar Corps. It was simply torture for everyone.
In short, amidst their bickering, they stepped into the coordinates of the Heart Stealer.
Although the two were carelessly discussing marriage and being single, they were actually prepared, even having an emergency contact device ready at any moment.
The plan was that if they entered the Heart Stealer’s world, they would investigate as quickly as possible while avoiding being controlled by the Heart Stealer. But if they came before the Apostle, they would immediately use the emergency contact, and Xue Dili would use Divine Tree to buy time while the lieutenant would directly teleport until support arrived.
However, the moment they entered this world, the two who had been quarreling instantly tensed up, but the scene before them made them pause.
It was a bustling modern world, with bustling streets that resembled Earth in the 20th century. Old motorcycles traveled along the road, flanked by quirky buildings, each house looking strange like honeycombs.
And most importantly, everyone seemed to be living normally. Xue Dili saw students, office workers, laborers, and vendors, all living their lives normally.
Xue Dili and the lieutenant were stunned. As they looked at each other, they both had puzzled expressions.
Here, if they didn’t know it was a coordinate found on the Heart Stealer, they would suspect they had crossed over to a planet just stepping into the industrial age.
But after the initial shock, both Xue Dili and the lieutenant noticed something unusual.
"Did you sense it?" Xue Dili asked.
"Yeah, I sensed it." The lieutenant pointed at the passing crowd and said, "Why do all these people have the same feeling as the Heart Stealer, yet they are all normal people?"
This was what they couldn’t figure out.
...
After some inquiry, they found out where they were.
58th street in Beifeng City, and the place they just crossed from was the home the Heart Stealer mentioned.
Xue Dili and the lieutenant both fell silent. This was truly the world of the Heart Stealer, but it was completely different from what they imagined. It was almost as if...
This world’s people had all been replaced by the Heart Stealer, and even the Heart Stealer forgot its original identity, living bit by bit according to the original owner’s life path.
Long after, forgetting its essence as the Heart Stealer.
This was the guess they came to. After confirming the location, they quickly broke into the Heart Stealer’s home at Building No. 12, where Angel Authority was being usurped.
It was a large house. Xue Dili looked around; something like an old fax machine was still working. Here, they could also find traces of the owner’s life, and there were also piles of manuscripts written by the Heart Stealer. 𝚏𝗿𝗲𝐞𝐰𝚎𝕓𝐧𝚘𝘃𝗲𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝕞
Xue Dili picked up a manuscript and looked it over. It was a story about a naturally eight-fingered youth becoming a god in a world of swords and Magic through music—handwritten, the ink seemed not fully dry.
"Hey, this Heart Stealer seems to also be a writer?" Xue Dili roughly counted the manuscripts and estimated the word count, and said lightly, "380,000 words, quite a lot. It even seems the submissions have passed, and it has started serializing in magazines."
This situation stunned the lieutenant even more. He kept pulling at his hair, saying, "Can Heart Stealers even write long stories? Weren’t they supposed to be a race that only parasitizes others and subtly distorts them? Let me see the novel he wrote."
The young officer took the manuscript and seemed to operate something on his own void terminal. He quickly deciphered the world’s characters and began to read.
The more he read, the more silent he became. After flipping through dozens of pages, he returned the manuscript to Xue Dili, saying, "There’s a problem. This novel actually has logic!"
"Novels without logic are just left with history. Why is it strange for there to be logic?"
"Isn’t this a novel written by a Heart Stealer? Why would it be strange to have logic? They shouldn’t have such rigorous logic and creativity. While I read it, as popular literature, it has no major issues, just too vulgar. Many activities with wives and girlfriends are explicitly written out, but that’s not a big issue." The young officer kept tugging at his hair, looking truly distressed,
"How could a Heart Stealer logically write a complete story? It shouldn’t be, it shouldn’t be..."
He even looked around the room and added, "What’s even stranger is that there are traces of someone’s life everywhere here. Even the water here has no dust in it, proving the Heart Stealer just poured it out and was about to fax the next part of the manuscript to the editor before suddenly disappearing, and it’s been less than half a day."
Xue Dili also looked at everything around him, nodding.
The Heart Stealer had been in the Teaching Country for a thousand years. Though the daily and yearly time of different planets might not be the same, the macroscopic time is consistent, suggesting that this is the appearance after a thousand years.
Yet, everything in this room indicates that the Heart Stealer left not long ago.
"It’s too strange, not reasonable, really not reasonable. What have we overlooked?" The young officer anxiously tugged at his hair, and Xue Dili quickly stopped this bad habit, fearing he’d pluck himself bald here.
By the time he got home, seeing hundreds of wives would likely bring chaos when they saw him bald.
Xue Dili slowly opened "Innovation Era" in his hand.
Now, this travelogue he’d originally compiled had also become a Treasure.
[Innovation Era (C+ to S+ level): An original ritual realized through a seven-day travelogue. Through the suffering and torment of people in the travelogue, the original Destruction Giant God Goliath can be summoned. More functions await development, and future parts of the travelogue can continue to be written in the future.]
Remark: Owning this Treasure allows formal Genesis to be released only with the consent of the World Consciousness, without a prior ritual.
Without any ritual, as long as you connect with World Consciousness, you can release formal Genesis, no longer having to use the once most common "Pseudo Genesis."
Once conditions are met, Xue Dili can even summon more Beasts of Evil.
The Destruction Giant God is only one of the seven Beasts of Human Evil, representing other things such as "Compassion," "Desire," "Corruption," "Peace," "Slaughter," and "Primordial."
Each Beast of Evil is strong and powerful, their strengths and concepts capable of astonishing many. In terms of position, they are entities that can rival Creator Zeus or Typhon, though their birth conditions are very demanding. However, Xue Dili’s witnessed many mutts of the world, often by chance summoning the most suitable Beast of Evil for the corresponding world.
Of course, Beasts of Evil can only rival Creator Zeus; the Creator Zeus has surpassed the standard and isn’t considered.
Like the Destruction Giant God, capable of smashing both the Divine King and the Divine Wood in the Divine King’s main field, this Treasure’s strength might be more exaggerated than imagined, also more suitable for Xue Dili.
Additionally, besides completing formal Genesis and exchanging Beasts of Evil, this Treasure has many odd small functions, like automatic defense, like automatically recording special abnormal creatures in the travelogue, and so on.
Just like recording the Heart Stealer.
The pages of "Innovation Era" fluttered, and the figure of the Heart Stealer appeared on them.
"Is this your home?" Xue Dili asked.
"Yes, yes, this is my home. I still remember I’m a writer, there are my manuscripts on it, and I’ve already published successfully. Today I’ll receive the second issue’s manuscript fee from the magazine, right? I’m not a Heart Stealer, I’m a Transmigrator!" he immediately replied.
But Xue Dili and the young officer were both silent.
"Haven’t you noticed any problems?" Xue Dili asked.
"What problems? My home is just like this!" replied the Heart Stealer.
"But, a thousand years have already passed, and your home is still like this, haven’t you noticed any problems?" Xue Dili continued to remind.
"Isn’t this normal? It’s just like this, the same as when I left. That’s normal." The Heart Stealer’s logic and thinking seemed completely twisted, even though Xue Dili had clearly pointed it out, he still thought everything happening here was normal.
Xue Dili and the young officer fell silent once more, looking out the window at the Heart Stealers living normally, suddenly feeling a chill crawling up their spines.
