Saving the World in an Apocalypse-Style Text Game-Chapter 764 - 372: The Game of Rules, The Flesh Temple of the Desire Wet Nurse_1
The entity ’Flandre’ observes as the absurd visages formed from the aura of Malice seep out from the dark space, projecting towards you with a peculiar laughter.
It acknowledges that you cannot withstand the invasion of subconscious malice. Even with Flandre and ’Jinmu’ now owning top-tier extraordinary prowess, they still struggle to fend off this kind of mental corrosion.
Flandre promptly strides to your side, just about to grab and escape with you, only to see you pulling out a pitch-black fruit...
This fruit holds an extreme darkness, swirling within seems to be countless malicious thoughts. Robust and ripe, it is a fully matured fruit.
Suddenly, the laughing, absurd faces decompose and shatter, melting the subconscious malice, along with the surging malice all around you, into the fruit within your hand.
The pitch-black fruit, which was already in a completely ripe state, begins to grow again after amalgamating subconsciousness and a vast amount of malice prana...
The fruit grows in size, its color becoming even more pitch black, seeming to have sporadically breached some boundary, and undergoes a significant transformation after its further development!
The plump fruit rapidly withers and becomes emaciated. The fruit peel and flesh lose their ’moisture’ at an observable rate, akin to quickly winding the hands of time, causing the fruit to weather and shrivel, turning into copious foul-smelling dust, slipping away from your fingers, scattering, and vanishing.
Once the fruit’s peel and flesh have completely disappeared, all that you have left in your hands is a seed, or perhaps it would be more apt to call it a core.
Similar to a gemstone, the seed core is shining black. Focusing upon it, you can perceive the countless rotations of malicious thoughts within, sometimes forming whirlwinds, sometimes composing unknown, peculiar laughing faces...
You have acquired the ’Evil Origin Nucleus’ (Special Item)!
’Evil Origin Nucleus’ (Special Item): Within the ’Evil Fruit’, there is a massive amount of directly affiliated ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’ Malice. For the newborn consciousness of malice, it is a dangerous and deadly lure. The fruit finally completes its mission, and its deeply hidden seed grows into a seed nucleus with infinite possibilities.
The effect of this item is unknown. Please use it with caution!
"Unknown effects?"
This was the first time that Lin Xun had seen a tool with an unknown effect.
Despite the lack of clear written guidance, it is not difficult to guess its true effect from the item’s title and text description.
What is the use of the fruit of a plant? It carries out the functions of propagation and reproduction.
Animals eat the fruit, digest the flesh, and expel the indigestible seeds, thereby disseminating and reproducing the plant’s offspring.
Under natural conditions, there are fruits that bear fruit without pollination and fertilization. These fruits either do not have seeds or the seeds are infertile, so they cannot perform reproductive functions.
If Lin Xun is likened to an animal that digests the fruit’s flesh and sends the fruit far away, then the subconscious malice he sensed earlier is the pollen of the fruit.
Thus, with this previously infertile fruit, the real process of reproduction begins.
Malice can spread through consciousness and spirit, and this world is full of such malice, with most organisms having fallen into Extreme Evil. Without intervention, subconscious malice will eventually grow into the Main God.
It appears redundant to try using the fruit’s seeds to reproduce offspring.
Lin Xun knows that as the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’ capable of corroding both the Main Gods, it will never produce meaningless fruits, or rather, it will not produce such a meaningless method of reproduction.
The only reasonable inference is...
If the colonization of other worlds by offspring is likened to colonial movement, then such colonization does not hold much significance for the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’.
Because the offspring will eventually grow into the Main God, the new world belongs to the offspring, not the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’.
So why doesn’t the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’ go and control the distant new land for itself?
Is it because it does not like it? Or because of some restriction? Such as distance, dimension, or the limit set between Chapters and Chapters, worlds and worlds by the underworld game.
Lin Xun feels that the latter is very likely. It is the only explanation as to why the underworld game can’t describe the function of the tool.
Because the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’ is trying to break the limitations and rules of the game!
This fruit is the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’s’ anchor point to locate this world, or rather, it is the real incarnation of the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’!
He suddenly realizes that his ability to come here, absorb subconscious malice and get ’Evil Origin Nucleus’, was all guided by the game’s manager...
Did the manager want the ’Extreme Delusional Evil Fruit’ to break the boundaries of the rules and come here to destroy this world?
Lin Xun feels his scalp tingle, his back covered with cold sweat, and his limbs weak.
A feeling of ultimate despair is breeding from the bottom of his heart.
"I thought the manager was here to help me save the world, but it turns out that this idea is completely wrong."
"The manager has been disguising himself as a rule keeper. But he is a thorough rules breaker who wants to break the game’s limits and rules."
"This is really a contest between the game and the rules breakers!"
"And I merely serve as their pawn..."
Lin Xun blankly stares at the ’Evil Origin Nucleus’ in his items list.
If the game manager wants to challenge the game rules, does he still stand a chance?
Should he continue to maintain the rules, save the world, and confront the manager?
Or should he join the manager, break the rule constraints, and destroy this world?
Lin Xun contemplates for a long time without reaching an answer.
