Chapter 916 The strange source of power

Chapter 916 The strange source of power

Chapter 916 The strange source of power

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The building behind him collapsed in a violent explosion, with debris and metal flying everywhere and falling to the ground, killing several unlucky guys from Yuchuan Company who had just come out to smoke love grass after afternoon tea.

Lu Li and Aizen walked on the street, wiping the blood off their hands with handkerchiefs.

"Didn't we agree to keep a low profile?"

Lu Li asked with a smile.

"We've been exposed. Rather than waiting for them to organize and hunt us down, or providing our detailed information to the weirdos, it's better to strike first."

Aizen said, "We can't go back to the ranch anymore. We have to leave the city of sex as soon as possible."

Over the past month, he had been carrying out hunting operations with Lu Li every day. Relying on the convenient identity of a rancher delivering goods, they were able to obtain many strange and hidden locations.

But there is no wall that is impenetrable. It might be okay to do one or two jobs, but the two of them have hunted hundreds of strange creatures this month. It is impossible that they have not been exposed.

The city has been under martial law. After nightfall, powerful strange creatures will come out to walk around. They don’t know who is hunting monsters in this city, but they will look for those humans who look sweet.

"I haven't found the scroll yet. It would be a shame to leave like this."

Lu Li was somewhat resistant, mainly because he wanted to kill all the monsters in the city.

Continuous hunting and devouring expanded the attributes of both him and Aizen, with his growth being the most obvious.

Thanks to the removal of the limiter and his new bloodline, Lu Li's overall attributes are now as high as 236 points. If he encounters the giant blood demon he encountered in the wilderness again, Lu Li can easily crush it.

Compared to when he first came to this world, his attributes have increased by 16 points. This is a huge improvement that is unimaginable in the regular world.

But in this native world with a very high basic energy level, everything seems to be a natural process. Any instability in the foundation caused by devouring will be compacted by the high-density space, allowing him to gain transcendent power again in the ordinary.

At least Lu Li would no longer be out of breath after running a marathon, and he would be able to draw out a more dazzling sword light.

"You can't save them, Brother Lu. You have to understand what our primary goal is."

Aizen said, seeing what Lu Li was thinking.

During this period, they have tried many times to awaken the humanity of people in the city, but all ended in failure.

When 99.99% of human beings believe that chaos and madness are common sense, and that crawling under the feet of monsters as livestock is the way to survive, those who still have a certain degree of humanity become outliers.

In order to survive and not be treated as outcasts, they will gradually become corrupt like other people.

Lu Li once sponsored a boy who wanted to treat his mother's illness. The boy got the money and gave it to his mother. However, his mother did not use the money for treatment, but bought some love grass for her final pleasure.

After the boy's mother died, the boy became a drug addict and eventually ended up on the streets.

When he saw Lu Li again, the boy did not express his gratitude to Lu Li, but just asked Lu Li to give him some money so that he could buy new love grass.

"I'll have to wait until I kill all the monsters in the city."

Lu Li said.

"Brother Lu, you are oversimplifying things. Even if you and I really have the ability to kill all the monsters in the city, do you think these humans will regain their dignity and live positively as human beings?"

Aizen pointed at the people coming and going on the street, "No, they won't. They will maintain their deformed social system because slavery has penetrated into their bones, and we can't solve the fundamental problems of mankind."

Lu Li was silent when he heard this. He was not a fool. Instead, he understood human nature very well. So he knew that what Aizen said was 100% going to happen.

In essence, he is unable to solve the fundamental problems of humanity. A few days ago, when he and Aizen were hunting monsters in a food factory, they finally understood where the food source of humans in this city came from.

Food factories produce a variety of foods, but the raw materials are all made from a concentrated protein paste. Yuchuan Company will add some technology and hard work to mix it into a variety of instant foods, but in fact they are the same thing in terms of nutritional value.

When it comes to food, people in this city are quite equal. Whether they are upper class or lower class, what they eat is essentially the same, the only difference is the taste.

The high-end food of Yuchuan Company tastes better, while the low-end food tastes like rotten steamed buns. What’s interesting is that there is no obvious difference in the cost of producing these two kinds of food, but the selling prices are different.

There is no weird manipulation regarding the taste of the food and the sales strategy; this is entirely a plan devised by the managers of Yuchuan Company because they need to differentiate their own living standards from those of the lower classes, even though the nutritional value of the food is the same.

Where does this protein paste come from? It comes from a huge monster called the Soul Flesh Worm Monster. That monster likes to taste human souls. As long as you give it soul coins, it will be satisfied.

And its demand for souls is not so greedy. Its huge body like a tall building can be satisfied with just dozens of soul coins. After being satisfied, the soul-flesh worm monster will absorb some kind of energy from the void, which will work in its half-solid and half-illusory body, and finally excrete some thick pulp, which is the source of the protein thick pulp.

Lu Li felt that this spiritual and fleshy insect monster made him feel disgusted, while Aizen was curious about the fact that this creature did not seem to conform to the law of conservation of energy.

Aizen believed that there must be a set of hidden rules in this world that he and Lu Li did not understand, otherwise it would be impossible to explain how dozens of soul coins could allow the spirit-flesh worm monster to excrete enough food for 10,000 people for a week.

After careful research, he found that the weirdness at the spiritual and soul levels seemed to be able to absorb some kind of material energy in the void to become stronger and recover, and his desire for this energy was even greater than that of soul coins.

In other words, monsters are not satisfied simply by devouring human souls, they have a more core power.

However, even though Lu Li and Aizen had swallowed a lot of monsters and transformed them using the method given by the Sword Keeper to gain even more extraordinary power, they were unable to find the source of the monster's power.

But no matter what, the reality is that in this day and age, humans cannot grow food. If they only want to rely on raising domesticated wild animals as meat, it is impossible to feed so many people.

Even though people in this era do not live like humans at all, even if we don't count the mass-produced meat people on the ranches, there are over 100 million people walking around outside, just in Sex and the City.

If there were no high-yield crops, it would be impossible to feed so many people. Therefore, humans would eventually kneel down in front of strange creatures in order to have something to eat because of the most realistic problem.

Lu Li mentioned that he had a lot of delicious food on him, but Aizen told Lu Li to give up the idea because the food on Lu Li would be compressed if he took it to this world. Even if it could feed 100 million people for a day, some people would still starve to death after a few days.

Aizen's point of view is that these humans are no longer worth saving, they just need to focus on improving themselves and find a way to break through this world. But Lu Li thinks that the two are not contradictory. He hates to see humans lose their humanity, succumb to various realities, and throw away all their dignity. It makes him irritable and reminds him of all kinds of bad memories.

"Brother Lu, if you really want to change the current situation, we should evacuate now, because only by surviving can we achieve the final victory."

Aizen said, "Only when you are extremely strong can you cut down those high and mighty, strange and invisible gods at the root and bring them down to dust."

Lu Li grinned upon hearing this, "Sometimes I really wonder if those so-called ancient gods are watching everything that happens on earth."

"If they saw it, they should have wiped you and me out, right?"

Aizen took the disk they copied the data from Yuchuan Company's server from Lu Li, "After all, we will kill them one day."

Aizen set up a network in their hiding place. After inserting the disk into the new computer equipment, the data was read at high speed. They stole this data mainly because they wanted to know the strange distribution within the city and the troop deployment of Yuchuan Company.

The human technological civilization in this world is actually quite prosperous. The most advanced weapons can even hurt Lu Li and Aizen. Even so, they are still willing to be dogs for the monsters, which shows how powerful the monsters are. They can kill people invisibly and make it impossible for humans to resist.

He and Lu Li have been active in District 13 of Sex and the City. This time, they killed the people from the Desire River Company in District 13, which would soon trigger a full-scale pursuit. It would be best for them to leave the city quickly before they are surrounded.

"This is really interesting, Brother Lu, you should take a look at this."

Aizen projected the screen's light onto the wall and asked Lu Li to come over and take a look.

“This list…”

Lu Li was a little surprised when he saw the list on the wall, because this was not an ordinary list. The human photos on it looked unusual because they had all kinds of inhuman features. They were not mechanical modifications, but strange extensions.

"This is the list of a special force under the Yuchuan Company headquarters, called the Ayas Tactical Team."

Aizen tapped away on his keyboard as he spoke, pulling up a person's detailed statistics, "Take a look at his physical fitness test report."

"He is a supernatural being, not an ordinary human being."

Lu Li also became interested.

"Yes, Yuchuan Company seems to be researching how to enable humans to gain extraordinary powers, and these people are the results."

Aizen flipped through the information of these people, "It's just that I don't know if those monsters know about their existence."

“Perhaps someone is trying to find a way to escape from the weird control.”

Lu Li said thoughtfully.

"Or maybe someone is thinking about how to be a better dog for Weirdos."

Additional explanation of Aizen.

"How did they do that?"

Lu Li asked curiously, wondering what the difference was between the way people in the city acquired supernatural powers and how he and Aizen did.

Aizen typed on the keyboard. "It seems we are lucky. The copied data contains records about the experiment."

A log file appeared on the screen, recording the process of a superhuman acquiring abilities, as well as some theories, just like a researcher making a paper report.

"Brother Lu, this can explain all the discomforts in this city."

Aizen said after reading it.

"It turns out that what we saw before was still superficial. I thought soul coins were the favorite of the monsters."

Lu Li was also very surprised.

In fact, they discovered some time ago that, except for the worm monsters in the food factory, they had never seen monsters eat soul coins with their own eyes. And from the example of the worm monsters, it can be seen that the monsters do not seem to survive only on the energy of soul coins.

If you calculate carefully, you will find that the monsters in Sex and the City have to eat every day, and the breeding production line of the ranch is consistent with Aizen's research, but those spiritual monsters eat souls, which is a problem.

With this world's unique technology tree, it is not difficult to mass-produce flesh-and-blood humans, but humans with souls still have to be born from the union of men and women with souls.

If monsters have to eat soul coins every day, then the soul coins produced by natural human reproduction are far from enough for the monsters to eat, not to mention that soul coins, as economic currency, have to circulate in the market.

Although the social system of this world is very distorted, it must be admitted that the monetary system of soul coin is still very stable. There has been no currency depreciation or appreciation, and prices have always been balanced.

Therefore, in order to maintain the overall amount of currency, it must be that the monsters did not eat the soul coins, or even if they ate them, it was only a very small amount. They did not rely on this to survive, it was just a snack at most.

So where does the power of the weirdness come from? This log gives the answer, which is human negative emotions.

It is an invisible and intangible force. Even the most advanced instruments of Yuchuan Company cannot accurately capture and monitor it. They can only vaguely observe the existence of this force.

The weirdos rely on this power to survive, so the more deformed and distorted the society is, and the more likely it is to make people live in despair and discouragement, the more it is liked by the weirdos.

Previously, Lu Li and Aizen analyzed that the monsters were too stupid and could not understand a normal and harmonious human society, so the city developed into this state. Now they know that this idea is wrong and the monsters deliberately constructed such a society.

Because only in this way can humans continuously generate negative emotions in them and satisfy their hunger while ensuring the quantity.

This is also the reason why there are usually few strange things in the wilderness, because only in human gathering places can they replenish their energy and obtain endless power.

They will not attack animals because creatures with lower intelligence do not have rich emotions and cannot produce a series of negative emotions such as despair, which seem sweet to them.

(End of this chapter)