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"Huh?" Kong was stunned when he heard that.
Did you just call abundance the "King of Medicine"?
Isn't the unified name given to Him by the Xianzhou people "the ancestor of plague and disaster"?
It's bad. It seems that I have inadvertently tested the side of Ruan Mei that has deviated from the main idea of Xianzhou.
Kong knew that a genius of Ruan Mei's level would definitely have her own unique views on fate, star gods, and the conflicts between the various branches of civilization in the universe, and would not follow the crowd, but if her attitude was reported in her hometown, she would definitely be nailed down.
"Would Dr. Kong be surprised that I don't hate abundance?"
Ruan Mei actually took the initiative to explain: "If I didn't have the body of this source of disaster, I wouldn't be able to pay homage to the Venerable Boshi. Sisi Kaer left a brilliant mark with his short life, but I am not that talented. I am trapped in a mortal body, so I want to touch higher things, whether it is life, dimension or life outside the world - even if one day I will fall into the body of the devil, the so-called rich source of disaster will still help me a lot, so I don't hate it."
Her tone was calm but with an unnoticeable "madness":
"I envy you, Dr. Kong, because you have reached the state that I can only hope for, even if it's just for a moment."
The hesitation in Ruan Mei's eyes would always show after she stared at the sky for a long time. She believed that the man in front of her was the most perfect life - but he did not study himself, but devoted more energy to astrophysics, which was a waste of God's talent.
What is most annoying is that others take for granted what you cannot get:
"Dr. Kong, do you think my current efforts are child's play?"
“…You can’t say that you’re putting your efforts in the wrong place… But I didn’t ascend after my physical body was sublimated.”
Sora nodded his head, "In some circumstances, the body is not necessary."
"But you enjoy the feeling of having a body." Ruan Mei was puzzled.
"Of course, I am a human after all. Just like what Screw-Gum said, some pleasures can only be experienced by organic beings."
"Then let me ask you a question... Why do you hate happiness when you pursue it?"
"Because I hate people who make fun of me and those who don't let me have fun."
Kong pursed his lips and said, "Okay, let's not talk about that spoiler. If you want to cultivate a slice of Him in the material universe, I can provide some information, but I can't guarantee that if you create Him, I will strangle Him to death with my own hands. Don't test me too often. Our relationship can be more pure in research. If you make it so that I will most likely not cooperate with you a second time, wouldn't that be a loss?"
"...I thought you would be more inclined to measure the partnership by demand..." Ruan Mei's expression became a little aggrieved.
It's not that she has no emotions at all, she just doesn't use them, or they are a little dull. She has lived a high-handed life for too long, and has forgotten how to interact with people of equal or higher status than her - and Sora has been constantly stimulating her to use these emotions. Now it seems that the correction has worked, with some small emotions revealed, including a little resentment, although it is not very positive.
"I've said it before, it's not important to me, and the system hasn't issued any missions - the world will continue to move without anyone, and there's more than one way to get energy, including cultivating orders."
"...Is this your arrogance?" Ruan Mei said softly.
"Yes, that's right. If others are arrogant to me, why can't I be arrogant back... Wait."
Ruan Mei's words were full of confrontational meaning - although she herself did not realize it, Kong grasped some dangerous information from it.
He suddenly snorted and said, "...I had a hunch, but you ignored my warning and tried to make something out of my hair using Chaos DNA. Right?"
With just those few simple words, the atmosphere took a sharp turn for the worse.
We have reached the confinement compartment.
Ruan Mei didn't answer and pressed the elevator button.
Her silence could be seen as a sign of guilt, but more likely it was a sign of acquiescence.
“… Click.”
Before Paimon could understand why Kong suddenly felt like he was facing a formidable enemy, Kong's body suddenly grew in size.
His whole body was covered with ceramic armor, except for his helmet which he took off. He used an "iron ring" to protect his head. His originally braided blond hair was spread out, making him look like a knight walking out of an oil painting.
The battle axe was hung on his back, the chainsword hummed, and the bolter was switched to full-auto mode -
As Sora was transformed into the original form, Ying also emerged from the Pure Land of One Mind, slowly giving up his one-legged meditation posture. Purple light appeared at the ends of his hair, and he looked straight at the elevator door with a naginata in his hand as if facing a formidable enemy.
"What is this for?"
Paimeng thought that Kong and Ruan Mei were not getting along well, and felt that this woman was too dangerous and wanted to get rid of her.
However, the situation was not as simple as she thought, although Ruan Mei did do something very dangerous.
"What on earth did you put into my genes to cultivate, Ruan Mei?"
Kong did not blame her, because he had encountered similar situations more than once. It should be said that such incidents of people only cared about eating and not about being beaten would happen in every world he went to, and he had no good way to stop those guys who were "looking for death".
Most of the time it was Party A who cleaned up the mess themselves, but Ruan Mei was a good friend of Black Tower after all, and the Black Tower Space Station was also Kong's base. He couldn't let it fall, so he might have to solve the trouble himself this time.
"Except for the breeding order we agreed on..., I tried to control your genetic changes, but the second petri dish produced something that seemed to be... similar to Greed."
Ruan Mei's eyes were a little dazed, as if she had suffered some blow: "...I can't handle it."
But even though she was frightened by the chaotic experimental results, she was still able to maintain her sanity and went to the main control cabin to ask Kong to help her deal with the aftermath. She still used this timid and hesitant method, which was not sincere enough - it was a bit disappointing:
"Have you ever thought about where we're going to go after we blow up the space station? You're not the only one working here. There are also Ester and Alan, and so many ordinary people."
"Dr. Kong..." Ruan Mei's voice finally trembled slightly.
"If you dare to ask me why I care about such stupid questions as mortals, I will throw you out of the station."
Sora's tone became calmer. "I know this is meaningless and you won't die, but I just want to throw you out."
"...I'm sorry." Under the wash of Kong Ping's anger, Ruan Mei's previous unwillingness to admit defeat and even her "jealousy" that he had such good resources but didn't dig deeper were all washed away.
So much so that she became even more dull than before.
"Deal with that proliferating thing first. You must compensate me and the Black Tower. The 'big enemy' that Krippo is fighting must not appear inside the wall."
The elevator door opened, and the "Space Marine" and Daigosho walked towards the experimental site one after the other, ahead of Ruan Mei.
"What will appear this time?"
Yingya rarely looked so anxious. Her naginata was always kept high up and ready to chop down at any time, and she was alert to everything below.
"I can sense an expanding aura, very similar to the commotion caused by the Fools' Many Torre stealing your body tissues - a demon with a sword? Or a fighter who can jump twice in the air?"
"The mess of data I carry with me... God knows what kind of monster it will condense into."
At the end of the laboratory's rugged circular corridor, an invisible sense of oppression intensified.
Kong saw many creatures he couldn't name running out of the corridor that had lost its power supply.
They panicked and used all their hands and feet, whether they had hands or feet.
Kong saw cats that looked extremely similar to plum blossom cakes, but also covered in "shells" like moon cakes, swarming in and huddling at the feet of the depressed Ruan Mei. There were also many creatures that looked like steamed buns and snacks, jumping and hiding in the potted plant area near her, looking deep into the laboratory with panicked eyes.
"Is it actually Greed? No, there should be something else mixed in, and the fate of reproduction is playing tricks on it, which is why the aura of this thing is so evil."
The last batch of Ruan Mei's creations emerged from the direction of the petri dish, which was already lifeless. As the hall expanded, the "mud" crowded in the petri dish at the end of his field of vision also squirmed and broke through the shackles of the container.
The liquid dripping onto the ground corroded the alloy. As its humanoid part stood up, Kong Cairu revealed a look of extreme disgust as if he had seen an "old enemy".
This is a monster whose upper body is as beautiful and slender as the humanoid gods in religion, but its lower body is buried in the rolling black mud.
Lian Ying had never seen Kong show such disgust in his eyes. Even when it came to the enemies in the abyss, he just looked at them resolutely and sadly.
"'Eldridge the Devourer of Gods', how the hell is it this? Ruan Mei, what information stream did you intercept to get it out?"
"……I have no idea."
A genius would hardly admit his ignorance in front of others, but Ruan Mei had to admit it this time.
She paused for a moment, and under the malicious gaze that made her physically uncomfortable, she took out a Ruan: "I will support you, Dr. Kong... Please... help me eliminate this experimental error."
272. He’s angry and can’t be appeased!
Mud and bones were the last things Sora wanted to see during his journey.
The former represents obstruction of travel, and the latter represents famine and war.
This "thing" Eldridge is both.
The nature of reproduction cannot overwhelm the greedy factor - because the data streams carried by the traversers are mostly hungry rules that try to assimilate data streams from other worlds.
They desire to make themselves more perfect and stronger, and in growing stronger they seek the possibility of continuing forever.
Although Party A cannot be considered a form of life, its method of self-improvement by embezzling rules and learning the unique rule systems developed in various worlds is similar to the concept of life seeking a way out.
Including Kong himself - the system and the traverser have an endless appetite for energy. He is enough to represent the greedy side. It can even be said that in terms of appetite, the greedy side is not as good as Kong, but Kong's greed can be restrained by himself.
Kong and Haiya had analyzed everything before. Perhaps it was because his hunger for energy was too similar to that of Cunhu's enemy that Clipper never officially blessed him. Otherwise, with the many things he had done as bargaining chips, at least Cunhu's fate would have favored him more. Now that he saw Ruan Mei liberated the greed in his "genes" that seemed like the source of evil, he was sure that it was necessary for the Cunhu star god to be vigilant against him.
A guy who burned the galaxy just to ascend to heaven, a guy who snatched souls just to keep the world alive, it would be difficult for him to gain the trust of the protector no matter how you think about it. It was rare that Fu Li was willing to treat him well.
In addition to greed, Kong is also infected with the original sin of mankind, and also carries the corresponding data streams from another world, including lust, rage, etc. It's just that Ruan Mei did not extract these fragments by accident, so she didn't add too much trouble to Kong's aftermath.
"Damn heretic, you really are still haunting me? I never thought I would have to deal with you again after killing you so many times."
Although it was clearly a terrifying and abominable terror, Kong casually slung the chainsaw sword over his shoulder as if he was greeting a familiar enemy, and moved to the right side of Him. The sparks and vibrations from the collision of his ceramic steel boots on the ground could make the flesh and blood squirming in the mud tremble with every collision.
At the same time, Ying raised his naginata from the left and formed a double team with Kong to attack the monster, leaving the middle door to Ruan Mei.
But the "large slime monster" named Eldridge... the assimilated half of the god's body on it always pointed the burning tip of the gun at Kong, as if Kong was the only enemy that could catch His eyes.
"Reserve your strength, Aying. It's very expensive to build a space station. Don't draw your sword."
"Om-"
As if angered by Kong's arrogance, the half-human body of the god let out a loud howl and crawled forward quickly like a snake - the tip of the gun penetrated the ground.
The alloy floor that could resist aqua regia made a sizzling sound of melting, but the figure that was too "short" compared to the greedy creature had long disappeared. It seemed that a sound of breaking through the air came with the sonata of Ruan.
"squeak!!"
The chainsaw sword was blocked by the gun barrel that was urgently retracted, and the divinity on it briefly resisted the bite of the single-molecule saw teeth, but the subsequent pressure caused half of his body to be smashed into the mud made of hair, dead branches and bones, and his white arm with a strange beauty was also broken under the huge force.
Ruan Mei's support was not simply playing a little tune for Kong to boost morale. Although she was not good at fighting, as a master of life training, she knew how to quickly stimulate people's potential through short and long waves and long-range physiological transformation. She was especially good at regulating hormones and coordinating various chemical substances of motor nerves. Even with the current "chaos" level of Kong's original casting, he could still enjoy this blessing.
Faster, more powerful, eyes as fast as lightning, this is the help that Ruan Mei brings to Kong - but for Ying, whose physiological structure is completely different from that of humans, Ruan Mei is worried about what kind of music to play for her. After playing for a long time, she couldn't match the rhythm of the thunder element and was actually embarrassed.
Ying hadn't expected Ruan Mei to help her. She drew her knife from behind the mud ball, and with lightning and thunder attached to her, she gathered her strength and swung it horizontally, chopping off the dead branches and creating a large piece of exploding black mud.
This knife almost cut Kong, who was bounced back by Eldridge's counterattack. Fortunately, the black mud was very resilient, and Kong jumped high enough to barely avoid the blow.
But the overflowing thunder cut the broken petri dish open, and originally it only dissolved a big hole, but now the supporting equipment is doomed to be scrapped.
[Yingbao! I told you to hold back a little! ]
[I'm sorry, Sora, this thing is disgusting.]
It might be the great evil being named Eldridge that made Ying feel physically uncomfortable, and the half-god who seemed to have completely lost himself was also reminding Ying that if she didn't act ruthlessly, she might end up like that. Lord Thor's every blow was fatal.
Inami cut through more than fifty protruding bones and limbs, "cutting" them off completely, giving Kong a perfect opportunity to continue his attack.