Chapter 932 The Weight of the Soul
Chapter 932 The Weight of the Soul
"Well done, double the cat food tonight."
Lu Li gently touched Ah Huo's head and used Hui Dao to heal its injuries.
However, his healing ability can heal wounds of the body and even the soul, but it cannot drive away fatigue.
After he returned to the basin, the expected city-state counterattack did not come. He thought that those people would give him a motherly sigh after he killed all the monsters, and he had already prepared counter-interception measures for Chuchu.
But the silence lasted for several minutes, and no new artillery fire fell, nor did any fatal motherly sigh fall from over his head.
In the long night, the stars were obscured, but the sky was surprisingly bright, because there were fires burning all around the mountains, and the sky and the earth were as bright as day.
Lu Li walked down the hillside and saw Nia sitting there with his teeth bared. Lu Li went up and slapped the big guy, which calmed him down a little.
"That weirdness just now was really powerful. It was so pure."
Nia said after coming back to his senses, and the tail behind him swung twice.
"Take it easy. I don't want you to become that kind of thing. It will take a lot of effort to kill you then."
Lu Li said.
"Hey, bro, I haven't got the screw-in parts of the fucking God of Desire yet, how come it's weird?"
Nia grinned, "And even if I become a freak, I will continue to slaughter those little chics. After all, they taste pretty good."
Lu Li also smiled when he heard this, "You should think about how to survive tomorrow first."
He could see that even the highly adaptable Nia could not continuously consume large amounts of weirdness. In order to replenish his physical strength during the battle, this reckless guy Nia ate while fighting.
But although he has strong adaptability, he is not like Lu Li who is basically immune to the side effects of weirdness on the mind. Continuous large-scale intake has made Nia's mind a little abnormal.
His physical attributes have indeed improved, and he has even surpassed Lu Li after tonight's battle, reaching 243 points, but this is not a long-term solution.
According to Lu Li's estimation, the limit of Nia's ability to rely on devouring monsters while maintaining her human identity is about 245 points. It is impossible to go above that limit, and the closer Nia gets to her limit, the more she will lose her humanity.
This is also the main reason why Aizen has not been devouring monsters recently. When he approaches the limit of his talent in this system, his spirit will be more easily polluted.
Nia sat beside the terraced field, looking at the growing sapling with dim eyes, without answering, as if she was beginning to have a hysterical attack again.
Lu Li knew that Nia's current state was caused by a strange energy. People would see some hallucinations at this time, but he didn't know what Nia saw.
Seeing that Nia seemed relatively calm, Lu Li thought that there shouldn't be any major problems, so he patted him on the shoulder, then left and found Chuchu.
"How much ammunition do we have left?"
Lu Li inquired.
Chu Chu was cleaning the launcher. "It's not enough to blow up the six city-states, but with a situation like today, it won't be a problem to blow it up two or three more times."
In fact, in terms of equivalent, the Mother's Sigh she made could probably wipe out the six major city-states, but the city-states each had their own air defense systems, and it was estimated that more than half of the Mother's Sigh would not be able to fall into the city, so it could not be completely destroyed.
In the history of city-states in the past, conflicts had broken out due to competition among company executives, and Mother's Sigh had been used before, so each city-state had an air defense system against Mother's Sigh.
People in this world are not averse to such weapons of mass destruction. After all, war and death can also bring sweet negative emotions to weirdness, and a mother's sigh does not have negative effects like nuclear weapons.
The principle of its power is not nuclear fission or nuclear fusion, but the left foot of water hydrogen stepping on the right foot, which is itself a fairly clean weapon.
"What a shame! Why not just let Sosuke bring the bomb in and we can detonate it remotely."
Lu Li said that after today's war, he had basically given up on the humans in the city-state. Just as Nia said, the people there did not need to be saved and did not deserve to be saved.
If necessary, he would kill a billion people outside to protect the few hundred humans who still had some humanity left in the tribe.
But Aizen seemed to have other plans. He asked Lu Li to wait for a while in the group chat. He believed that the city-state might still be of some use.
During the long night, after Chuchu cleaned up the place, she returned to the cabin to work. She was still working on Lu Li's immortal suit, and now it had reached the final critical moment.
Most of the frightened tribesmen did not dare to leave the forbidden area. They all knelt there and prayed, hoping that the saints worshipped by their tribe could lead them through this era.
There were also old people who knew some things from Ji Hong and were praying that the Human King could return from reincarnation, reappear in the world and eliminate the disaster.
Lu Li used spring water to wash the plasma off Ah Huo's body, then took it out of the basin, sat on a high ground, and looked out into the distance at night. The wildfire gradually died out in the cold gray fog, just like the prayers in the tribe that gradually faded away.
The night was long, and Lu Li prepared to start a new round of deduction.
Behind him, on the terraced field on the hillside, Nia suddenly stretched out his arm to the side and grabbed the intruder's throat.
In that broad palm, the prey was as powerless as a lamb, and no matter how it struggled, it could not escape this extraordinary power.
"Well……"
Her painful whimper seemed to wake up the beast sitting on the ground. The big hand loosened, and the fierce light in Nia's scarlet eyes faded, replaced by a look of panic.
Emily had seen this kind of look before when she was hunting with her uncle. It was a young deer with its leg shot by an arrow and nowhere to go. This kind of look on the strong man in front of her was strange and weird, and it was also heart-wrenching.
"leave me alone!"
Nia said unhappily, and turned her head away again, "Didn't Lu Li say that we should all stay near the forbidden area? If there is any danger, the Sword Guardians will definitely not sit idly by!"
"I…I just wanted to come check it out and see if it's okay."
Emily's voice trembled slightly, and she looked at the saplings in the field, "I...I thought we were friends."
"Who wants to be your friend? Don't forget that I'm the God of Death in Sex and the City. I've fucked more people than anyone you've ever seen, and I've killed ten times more people than you've ever planted. How could I be friends with a girl from a barbaric tribe like you?" Nia's eyes were fierce and bloodshot, which frightened Emily. "Get out of here now, before I get even more upset and pin you to the ground."
Emily had tears in her eyes. After a few seconds, she turned and ran away under Nia's fierce gaze.
The flames were still burning on the other side of the mountain, hitting Nia's back and stretching his shadow very long in front of him. He lowered his head, but saw another shadow extending out to the side.
"Don't you usually take good care of her?"
Lu Li sat down next to Nia.
"It's no good for her to be too close to me. You know, the more weirdness you devour, the less humanity you have."
Nia said as she began to feel around her chest again, only to find nothing.
At this time, Lu Li reached out his hand, holding a cigarette made of love grass, "Only for today."
Nia took the cigarette from Lu Li but did not light it. "Emily asked me why I wanted to stay in the tribe..."
"From what you said, it's because of your mother?"
Lu Li leaned back on the dirt ground behind him, but unfortunately he couldn't see any stars in the sky.
"I actually lied to you before. It wasn't my mother who sold me to the company."
Nia's tone was empty, and he sat there with his head down, like a depressed bear. "I have no memory of my father, which is normal because I was born in the red light district, and my mother was just one of the workers there."
"She wasn't very pretty, and she didn't spend much money on her modifications. But unlike other workers, she not only gave birth to me, but also didn't sell me to a farm or drain my soul coins. She raised me and sent me to elementary school."
Since Lu Li didn't interrupt, Nia continued to narrate quietly, "The kids in the school seemed to be very wealthy, so I went to be their follower, and sometimes I could get some benefits. I hoped to save some money for tuition, because my mother wanted me to finish elementary school."
"She thought that with an education diploma, I could find a decent job instead of selling my body in the red-light district like her."
Nia laughed as she spoke. "But in my opinion, people in the red-light district are just selling their bodies, while some jobs require selling their souls. In this world of trenches, there is no difference at all. If possible, I would rather let my mother work less, and I will also go to the red-light district to sell my ass in the future."
Lu Li didn't think this was funny and just listened quietly.
"Although my mother had been working in the red-light district, she was the purest soul I had ever seen in the city. She taught me many good principles, but I had already thrown them away. Later, she became seriously ill, but she still wanted to make money so that I could finish elementary school."
Nia said, "She wanted me to live longer and with more dignity, so she didn't stop working even when she was seriously ill. It wasn't until she was lying in bed and couldn't move anymore that I took her to see a doctor against her will."
"But just like what Brother Aizen said, the medical expenses in Sex and the City are incredibly high. We simply can't afford it. Even if I quietly dropped out of school and saved the money for the second half of the semester."
"It's funny, but later I found out that my mother was suffering from common flu. She would be fine if she took effective medicine to reduce fever and recuperate for a period of time. But the hospital required us to do a full set of examinations at that time, and we couldn't afford the examination fees alone."
"I didn't want to leave her, and I saw a notice posted in the hospital. It said that Yuchuan Company was recruiting high-quality test subjects. Those who are interested can bring their children to the test. If they meet the requirements, Yuchuan Company will give 1000 soul coins to buy the test subjects."
"The hospital was very busy at the time. I saw many women from the red-light district bringing their children for the test. Some of these children were my childhood playmates. They failed the test, so the women beat and scolded their children, thinking that they were useless and had lost their chance to get rich."
"I was the only child who took the test by myself. Because it was a public place, the company did not tamper with it in order to attract more people to take the test. I was lucky and passed the test with a very high index."
At this point, Nia paused, "I sold myself."
"What about your mother? Is she well?"
Lu Li asked.
Nia shook her head and said, "No, I got the soul coin, and when I got home, my mother had died of illness."
He lowered his head. "I thought at the time that my mother raised me for eleven years, never let me go hungry, and sent me to elementary school for five years. That was probably a thousand soul coins. I held that money in my hand, and I felt that those soul coins were heavy, yet too light."
"It's eleven years of my life, and my mother's life, and it's worth ten people's souls. But when the guy from the company gave me the money, the look in his eyes... well... it was as if I had bought something he liked at a low price."
Nia smiled bleakly, "Later I learned that the bastard's daily income was 10,000 soul coins, and after discovering me, he also received a bonus of 1 million soul coins."
"After I got home, I sat in front of my mother's bed for a long time. In the end, I didn't use the money to buy anything I wanted because the thing I wanted most was no longer there."
Nia continued, "I used the money to do a pathological examination for my mother and learned that she died of a common flu. From that time on, I felt that this world no longer mattered. But fate played tricks on me. I didn't die in the experiment, and I became the strongest divine warrior in the company."
"Now I know. It turns out that this world was not so crazy from the beginning. I have long been a wicked person with dirty hands and feet. If there really is an afterlife in this world, I would not have the face to see my mother..."
He looked at the terraced fields and said, "I just want to use my body to shake this crazy world while I am alive, and use the knife in my hand to defend this last pure land."
As he said this, he threw the unlit love grass cigarette in his hand to the ground and crushed it with his foot.
"Is it really okay to do this? This is really the last one."
Lu Li smiled and said that this was the thing he used to bribe the guards before, and he just found that there was another one in the storage space.
"Didn't you say that a long time ago?"
Nia stood up and looked at the dark shadow in the flames in the distance, "Fantasy can't kill weirdness."
In the distance, the demonic shadows of strange creatures looked particularly eerie under the illumination of the flames. The dark shadows extended towards the basin of the tribe, as if despair was spreading.
"It seems that Weird isn't prepared to let us rest."
Lu Li grinned, placed his hand on the prisoner demon, and walked out of the basin.
Nia held the hilt of the knife, and the tail behind him swung twice on the ground, "The night is long and hard, and the little peculiarities are trying to comfort my diamond."
They walked side by side towards the fire above, while the sapling in the terraced field was still swaying in the wind.
(End of this chapter)