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...eat the world?
Even though his mind was deeply trapped in his virtual instincts, Gu Shi still responded to this sentence. The surprise and disbelief in his eyes once again catalyzed the excitement of the Death Girl.
“Hahahaha, don’t be anxious, big guy, don’t be anxious, let me tell you a story first!
"Legend has it that a long, long time ago, don't ask me how long ago it was, I'm too lazy to remember these things! Anyway, in ancient times, when there was no god of death in the world, human souls either turned into void or were eaten by void. As time went on, there were more and more voids, but humans became fewer and fewer, and were almost completely eaten by voids.
"At this time, an extremely great being appeared out of nowhere. He was the Soul King. He appeared in front of everyone as a savior. He not only killed a large number of hollows that threatened mankind, but also created the Hueco Mundo and Soul Society.
"The Soul King used unimaginable power to drive all the remaining Hollows into the Hueco Mundo, preventing the new Hollows from continuing to wreak havoc on the world. He then generously shared his power with humans, allowing the geniuses among them to become Death Gods.
"Since then, the God of Death has taken over the responsibility of protecting humanity from the Soul King. He sits in Soul Society, guides the souls of the dead, defeats the Hollows that break into the real world, and protects humans from living safely in the real world."
The legend of the Soul King is so great that no matter how you look at it, he deserves the title of savior.
However, the more the Death Girl spoke, the more mocking her expression became. After quickly and briefly recounting the legend of the Soul King, she clapped her hands vigorously, indicating that what she really wanted to say was just beginning.
"Big guy, have you ever carefully observed the world? If there are more wolves, they will eat a lot of rabbits, but will the rabbits really disappear completely?
"of course not!
"When the number of rabbits drops to a certain level, the wolves will not be able to find food and will starve to death in large numbers. As long as the number of wolves decreases, the number of rabbits will soon swell again! Predation will not cause the extinction of prey!
"So! Will humans be completely eaten up by the Hollows' growing numbers? Of course not!
“When the number of humans becomes very small, the Xu will starve to death due to lack of food. It is impossible for them to eat all the humans!
"Moreover! Once the Void dies, their souls will dissipate, and the spirit particles will naturally spread into the air, greatly increasing the concentration of spiritual energy in the air! Those surviving humans will reproduce in such a high-spiritual environment, and a large number of geniuses with strong souls will emerge among their offspring!
"These new geniuses, relying on their outstanding talents, can completely suppress the remaining Voids and gain sufficient time and space for the reproduction of mankind! Only when all the geniuses die of old age and the Voids lose their suppression, will the number of humans be compressed again!
"For a long time, the fate of mankind and the void has been going back and forth in this cycle. When one rises, the other will decline. There has never been any accident.
"Until the Spirit King appeared!"
The Death Girl was already extremely excited. She waved her arms wildly with red eyes, finally releasing the madness hidden deep in her heart.
At this moment, she no longer cared about Gu Shi's reaction. She just continued to speak loudly to vent the fear that had been accumulating in her heart for a hundred years.
"The Soul King created two containers, Soul Society and Hueco Mundo! Hollows will die in Hueco Mundo, and powerful humans who become Shinigami will also die in Soul Society. The spiritual energy that escapes when their souls collapse will naturally be trapped in Hueco Mundo and Soul Society, and will never return to the real world where humans live!
"As a result, the concentration of spirit particles in the world has become lower and lower, and the talents of newborns have become worse and worse! Before the appearance of the Spirit King, humans could still fight against the Hollows, but what about now?
"Among humans today, there are very few who can even see souls! And the Death Gods are still constantly taking human souls into Soul Society, further depriving the meager spiritual power that remains in the world!
"The chess game set by the Spirit King is still going on. The spiritual power in this world will become increasingly thin. After a few hundred years, the human soul will become even weaker. Before the body ages and dies, the soul will collapse first, and all the elderly will become stupid zombies!
“At that time, among the souls of the dead, there will be only one genius who can become a god of death in ten thousand, or even one in hundreds of thousands. The most important emotional bond between humans and Soul Society will be completely broken, and humans and god of death will slowly become two unrelated races.
"At that time, the God of Death will give up protecting the humans of this world and will no longer fight against the Hollows that intrude into this world!
"But this is still not the end! Humans whose souls are extremely weak no longer have the talent to resist the invasion of the Hollows. The Hollows will run rampant in the real world, and after devouring the last soul, they will abandon the real world where there is no spiritual power anymore and return to Hueco Mundo where spiritual power is abundant and the environment is comfortable, bringing the last bit of spiritual power back to Hueco Mundo!
"At that time, there will be no more souls in the world, animals will completely disappear, and only plants that do not need souls will continue to reproduce! And at that time, the Spirit King will wake up!
"He will recycle the container he created with his own hands and completely devour Soul Society and Hueco Mundo. At that time, all the spirit particles in the world will belong to him, and he will achieve transcendence! But the price is the disappearance of all souls!
"You are food! I am food! All souls are food for the Soul King! Do you think the Hollows are eating people? Do you think the God of Death is eating people?
“Hahahaha! We devour souls just like stuffing stuffing into dough. It’s just putting one ingredient into another. What we do is just to make the food presented to the Soul King more delicious when he wakes up!”
At the end, the Death Girl could not help herself and burst into a long and crazy laugh. Her face was so distorted and her eyes were so frightened. Ever since she had glimpsed the truth of history through various books in her family collection a hundred years ago, she had always lived in boundless fear.
Those foolish gods of death knew nothing and thought they were protecting living beings. They fulfilled their assigned duties at the risk of their lives, but they didn't know that every effort they made was contributing to the final destruction.
She wanted to stand up and loudly rebuke those gods of death to stop their foolish actions that would bring destruction, but she didn't dare. She knew that she was not the only smart person among the nobles. The four great nobles must know the truth of history better than she did. However, among so many nobles, not a single one jumped out to expose the Spirit King's conspiracy.
This is enough to prove that within Soul Society, at the top of the nobility, there must be a group of people who are secretly safeguarding the Soul King's conspiracy and obliterating every "smart person" who dares to tell the truth.
She could only suppress her fear deep in her heart. She was shrouded in endless darkness and could not see a future with even a glimmer of hope. She completely lost her way. She began to live every day of her life as if it were her last. She became wanton and crazy, allowing the desires in her heart to expand endlessly.
until……
She saw hope.
The Grim Reaper girl's red eyes stared at Gu Shi in front of her, like a drowning person who had grasped at the last straw.
However, Gu Shi, who was being watched eagerly, was not very excited. The grand conspiracy mentioned by the Death Girl was indeed chilling, but what Gu Shi heard and saw, and what concerned him the most, was -
This madwoman is afraid of death, and her madness comes from the fear of being devoured by the Spirit King.
Then.
Why can she, who is so afraid of death, take the lives of others without mercy?
Ultimately, it's just disgusting garbage.
Moreover, where did she hear such a strange setting of the Soul King? Could it be that she saw a few words recorded about the Soul King, and then based on her own aristocratic thinking of seizing everything, she made up her mind about the Soul King and thought that the Soul King was the same as herself?
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Chapter 16 Giant Tongue Whipping!
Gu Shi regarded the Death Girl as trash, but the Death Girl regarded him as a treasure that brought hope. She opened her arms and hugged Gu Shi's huge head passionately, hugging him so tightly that it seemed as if she wanted to squeeze Gu Shi into her body.
"Big guy, now you can understand my fear? The fear of looking at the world and having nowhere to escape!
"Only if you feel this fear yourself can you understand how much happiness your presence has brought me! You are my hope!
“The God of Death was born from the Soul King. The power of the God of Death comes from the sharing of the Soul King. No matter how we practice or how we make ourselves stronger, we will never be able to compete with the Soul King. As long as he takes back his gift, the God of Death will immediately turn back into an ordinary soul.
"But Xu is different. Xu was born before the Spirit King. Only Xu's power truly belongs to him. Only Xu can fight against the Spirit King!"
The excited Death Girl unscrupulously blurted out one of the biggest secrets of the Death that only the nobles knew. As she spoke, Gu Shi could see the undisguised disgust on her face, disgust towards the Death.
If given the opportunity and the ability, this madman might destroy all the gods of death without hesitation.
They hate the group they come from so much, but they admire another group so much, as if everything about the other group is a symbol of perfection. This kind of thinking gave Gu Shi an inexplicable sense of déjà vu, so much so that this scene, which should have been horrifying, suddenly had a bit of clown-like "humor" in his eyes, and he laughed out loud unconsciously.
The Death Girl heard Gu Shi's laughter. She didn't know why Gu Shi was laughing, but she seemed to be greatly encouraged and worked even harder to express her ideals and beliefs.
"Big guy, do you know that I have been looking for a way to turn myself into a virtual being for the past hundred years, but I have never achieved even the slightest success.
“Transmutation is very simple. It can be accomplished by injecting a large amount of virtual spiritual energy. However, after transformation, the personality and cognition will be distorted, and a large amount of past memories will be lost. It can be said that the soul before and after transformation are two completely unrelated consciousnesses.
"What I pursue is to be able to transform myself into a Void while still being able to maintain my own identity and retain my memories! Rather than giving up everything about myself and using my soul to create a Void that is not mine.
"Just when I was searching desperately but to no avail and was about to give up in despair, you appeared, big guy!"
The Grim Reaper girl was so excited that her eyes were blurred. She didn't know how to express her excitement so that Gu Shi could understand her feelings. Just holding Gu Shi's head was not enough to express her joy at the moment. So, she simply kissed Gu Shi's mask hard, leaving a lip print covered with her saliva and blood, and then she continued to go crazy contentedly.
“Although you have become a hollow, your self-perception has not been changed by the hollowing, and you still think of yourself as a human being!
“Although you are also affected by the instincts of the void, you are able to suppress them and maintain your sanity for a long time, without turning into a beast that only knows how to hunt!
“Even if your hollow nature is stimulated by external forces, as long as you use the Causal Lock before it gets out of control, you can immediately suppress the hollow instinct to the lowest level!
"Moreover! From your words, I can tell that becoming virtual has not caused you to lose your memories of your previous life. You are still the same person you were before your death, but you have changed your appearance, just like changing clothes!"
After listing the differences between Gu Shi and other virtual ones one by one, an extremely happy look appeared on the face of the Death Girl. She pressed her face against Gu Shi's mask and rubbed it hard, as if such contact could bring her great happiness.
[If I suddenly attack her at this time, can I bite off her head in one bite? ]
Feeling the lip print mixed with blood and saliva being rubbed back and forth by the Death Girl and evenly spread on his mask, Gu Shi unconsciously clenched his claws.
[She is really disgusting! ]
Holding his claws tightly, Gu Shi hesitated for a moment, but gave up the idea of a surprise attack.
The secondary reason that made him decide to give up was the gap in strength. Even if the surprise attack was successful, his teeth might not be able to bite through the madman's skin, let alone break his neck.
The main reason was that Gu Shi suddenly thought that if he opened his mouth at this time, this mentally ill Grim Reaper might misunderstand his meaning and think that he wanted to respond to her "confession" and decisively stick out his tongue and swish it around in his mouth.
Ugh, it’s scary just thinking about it.
Unable to resist a shiver, Gu Shi quickly patted the Death Girl's shoulder.
"Okay, okay, I know what you're thinking. That's great, you're really smart. Now can you let me go? You're making me a little..."
Gu Shi originally wanted to say that he wanted to vomit, but considering that it might irritate this madman, he changed the words and replaced them with a more euphemistic word.
"You're making me react instinctively."
[Well, the urge to vomit should be considered an instinctive reaction. ]
Gu Shi secretly praised his vocabulary in his heart, but he didn't expect that his words would once again stimulate the Death Girl. The crazy girl who was rubbing against his mask suddenly raised her head, and her eyes seemed to light up with excitement.
"Big guy, are you finally hungry? You want to eat something?"
[…Speaking of which, this lunatic said so much, and it sounds like from her perspective, I am indeed very valuable, but she still didn’t say why she was so active in persuading me to eat humans.]
Gu Shi narrowed his eyes, smiled and pushed the girl of death a little further away from him, to prevent her from suddenly attacking him with her tongue or whipping him with her giant tongue when he opened his mouth to speak.
"No, no, I'm not hungry yet, but I want to ask, why do you always want me to eat people?"
"Of course I hope you can be happy, big guy! This world is very dangerous. The weak may be killed by the strong who pass by suddenly at any time. Big guy, you can only eat more people, accumulate more spiritual power, and make yourself stronger, so that you can better protect yourself."
The Death Girl answered without any hesitation, and the answer came out of her mouth as if it was her true feelings.
But after hearing this sincere confession, Gu Shi's heart instantly turned cold. The emotions of disgust, nausea, contempt, etc. that surged in his heart all disappeared, leaving only one thought echoing in his mind.
【She's lying! 】
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Chapter 17 Actors
Gu Shi had no idea whether the conspiracy about the Spirit King was true, but he was sure that the words of the Death Girl that she hoped he would be happy were absolutely lies.
The reason was very simple. They met twice and talked many times. The Grim Reaper called him "big guy" and "big fellow" from beginning to end and never thought of asking his name.
This is enough to show that the other party does not regard him as a "person" with whom they can communicate on an equal footing. He is not even as good as a "pet" that needs to be called by a special name. He is just an "object" that has value and can be used, but there is no need to ask for its name.
Gu Shi understood this point very well, because he did not regard this madman as a human being and had no intention of asking his name.
In such a relationship, the Death Girl said that she hoped he could be happy. It can be said that she has pushed her talent for humor to the maximum level. It is as funny as picking up a stone from the roadside to press sauerkraut, and before putting the stone into the sauerkraut jar, she said to the stone, "You must be happy with the sauerkraut."
It's not surprising that the Death Girl would lie. What really concerned Gu Shi was that when she was lying, she still had that happy and fanatical expression on her face, which was no different from her previous performance.
Originally, because of the despair and madness of the Death Girl when she was recounting the conspiracy of the Soul King, Gu Shi subconsciously assumed that she was telling the truth because of her emotional excitement.
At least, it is the "truth" in the other party's perception.
But now, Gu Shi was a little doubtful.