After Diao Zhiming's death, the fantasy world did not disappear.
This made Chengshuo understand something clearly:
Perhaps, Diao Zhiming is not the only one in the illusory world generated by the unnameable creature 'bacteria'.
Other mortals are also pulled into this illusion and undergo endless reincarnation in this environment.
Only because Diao Zhiming himself is a monk in the stage of becoming a god, and his spiritual consciousness is far stronger than ordinary people, he is able to uncover the mystery in the womb during the reincarnation process and awaken the memories in the real world.
The rest of the mortals can only indulge in the illusion until they die.
In the secret room.
With a thought in Chenghuo's mind, he was already separated from the world of illusion.
He glanced at the bodies of Diao Zhiming, Thunder, Mother of Pain, Buddha and himself in the secret room.
Among them, Diao Zhiming has lost his body and spirit in the fantasy world and is now silent.
The Mother of Pain and the Buddha were both pulled into the illusion by the purple-black mushrooms, and they should be experiencing reincarnation in the illusion.
As for the Thunder
Because he had swallowed too many derivatives before, he was still alive at the moment. Although his body fell into a deep sleep, his consciousness was no longer in the body.
Fellow Taoist Lei should also be around here.
With this thought in mind, Cheng Sheng simply waited patiently in the secret room so that he could discuss with Lei Ting later whether there was a way to break the situation.
Lean less.
Thunder really passed through the lead alloy secret room wall and appeared in front of Chengshuo.
"Fellow Taoist Cheng, I knew you weren't pulled into the illusion!" Lei Lei said with a hint of joy in his tone.
"This is reasonable."
Chengshuo thought for a while and said: "The reason why the Buddha and the Mother of Pain were pulled into the illusion by the purple-black mushroom was mainly due to the influence of the power of the indescribable creature 'bacteria'."
"But you and I are different."
"Before we fell into coma, the two of us swallowed the derivatives of various unspeakable creatures."
"The forces of these derivatives are in separate camps within us, fighting with each other, creating a delicate balance."
"It is precisely because of this that we have not been affected by the unnameable biological 'bacteria'."
"Then what's going on when the soul leaves the body?" Lei Lei only has the cultivation level of the middle stage of becoming a god, and he can wait a moment to break through to the stage of becoming a god.
The number of planets he has invaded is not as great as Cheng's, and his cultivation is not as good as Cheng's, so his experience and knowledge in many things are far less than Cheng's.
In the secret room.
Chengshuo Chong Lei explained: "Our out-of-body experience should be a 'self-protection' mechanism in our subconscious."
"How do you say it?" Lei Lei asked.
Chenghuo said: "We just swallowed a lot of derivatives. These derivatives are fighting in our bodies, threatening your life and mine."
"So out of self-preservation, after the two of us fell unconscious, our consciousness left the body driven by instinct."
"Just like a person's hand will retract due to conditioned reflex after being exposed to high temperatures."
"Our consciousness leaving the body should be a kind of conditioned reflex, and it does not require brain thinking."
"It's reasonable." Lei Lei looked at himself and the living body, and said helplessly: "Then it's no accident, we shouldn't be able to return to the body now, right? After all, there are all kinds of different things in my body. The derivatives are fighting."
"That's for sure."
Chengshuo responded: "You and I swallowed many derivatives before, which caused the body to be seriously contaminated. It seems that they can no longer be used."
Lei Lei frowned: "But it is definitely not possible to keep the soul out of the body. After all, the soul must rely on the body to survive forever, otherwise it will soon dissipate between heaven and earth."
"Although fellow Taoist monks and I are both monks in the transformation stage, it can only slow down the dissipation of the soul, but it cannot truly survive out of the body."
"So, fellow Taoist, can you think of any solution?" Lei Lei rushed to Chenghuo and said, "No matter what, we must at least save our two souls first and prevent them from dissipating."
Cheng Sheng thought for a moment and said, "The only thing I can think of now is the old way: discard the current body and get a new one."
Lei Lei said speechlessly: "In the past three months, the few of us have consumed almost all the mortals in the settlement."
"No, don't call it this settlement."
"Now I'm afraid that there are only two of us alive on the entire planet 021. If we are still alive."
In the secret room.
Thunder floats in mid-air.
He spread his hands and said helplessly: "So where are we going to find the body? Is it possible that we can fly to other planets as souls? I don't have that ability!"
"Who said that a monk must be a human body to seize a body?" Chengshuo said to Lei Lei: "Although the flowers, plants and trees on this planet have been parasitized by purple-black mushrooms, they are still alive, right? We are completely You can hide in the bodies of seaweed and trees!”
"Are you crazy?"
Lei Lei puzzled: "The bodies of flowers, trees and other plants have neither neurons nor cells, so after taking away the body of plants, the monks will lose all subjective initiative. So, what is the difference between doing this and dying? Even compared to waiting In the body of a plant, I would rather die directly!"
"If it were another planet, I would naturally not have this idea, but this planet is different."
Chengshuo explained: "I don't know if you noticed it in the sky when your soul just left the body: due to the influence of the indescribable biological 'bacteria', the element of 'soil' has long been gone in the interior of Planet 021."
"Instead, there are countless derivatives of 'bacteria', that is, dark spores."
"These countless dark spores are like the rhizomes of plants. They connect the plants on the entire planet into a whole and form the so-called 'derivative aggregate'."
"Nowadays, the purple-black mushrooms derived from those dark spores have parasitized into the bodies of countless humans, even the Mother of Pain, Buddha and other monks."
"so."
After hearing what Chenghuo said, Lei Lei's face showed a look of surprise.
He continued: "I understand what you mean! Since Planet 021 has become a whole because of the dark spores in the ground, then when we parasitize into plants, we can naturally pass through the 'dark spores' network. Connect to other plants, even to parasitized survivors, and even to monks such as Buddha and the Mother of Pain!”
"Clever!" Chenghuo praised: "In this way, we can use the network of 'dark spores' to find a way to devour the consciousness of everyone else, and then wait for an opportunity to break through to the integration stage."
"Fellow Taoist, this method is theoretically feasible, but" after a conversation, Lei Lei still had concerns: "After invading the body of a plant, we will immediately lose our six senses and even all mobility, and will be completely sealed in the body. in plants.”
"If I regret and want to come out at that time, I'm afraid it will be impossible."
"So it's a one-and-done endeavor."
"If we fail, we will be trapped inside the body of the plant, a life-long prison sentence until we die."
"Is this more terrifying than death?" Lei Lei said word by word: "So, have you really thought about becoming a fellow Taoist?"
Chengshuo said with a fearless face: "We have no other choice, right? Either you and I will sit here and wait for our souls to dissipate, or we can give it a try and risk invading the body of the plant, and wait for the opportunity to devour the entire planet. The consciousness of all survivors then breaks through to the integration stage."
"Anyway, it doesn't matter how you choose me, I'm going to give it a try."
Time is running out.
Cheng Sheng no longer talks nonsense with the Thunder, or even cares about what the Thunder will choose.
He used his spiritual power to control his soul, passed through the lead alloy chamber, passed through the underground human settlement, and finally came to the ground and slowly lifted into the sky.
Mid-air.
Chengshuo looked down at the earth, and after selecting the strongest tree, he decisively used the "Insect Dream" technique, and then invaded the body of that strong tree.
Not long after he took over the tree, Thunder's soul slowly rose to the sky.
After watching in the air for a while, he started running the "Insect Dream" technique and invaded the body of a thick tree.
The "Insect Dream" technique is a technique that allows the practitioner to become an insect in a dream, and then from the insect to a dream adult for the second time. It is a technique specially used to seize others.
The "Insect Dream" technique is mainly used to seize human beings.
But theoretically, people can dream and dream of becoming a tree.
Therefore, the "Insect Dream" technique can also take away trees.
…
silence.
This is a kind of silence that is difficult to describe in words.
The moment he invaded the tree's body, he immediately lost his hearing, vision, smell, touch, and even his consciousness of everything around him.
These perceptions are only possessed by 'human beings'.
And now the body of the tree is alive and taking over its body, then it has become a living and thinking tree.
Trees are not sentient.
Therefore, Cheng Xing can only think now and has lost all human perception.
This sudden loss of all perception and the death-like silence made it difficult for Cheng Sheng to accept for a while, and an inexplicable feeling of loneliness emerged in his heart.
Survival that has lost all sense of perception cannot sense the passage of time.
So he didn't know how much time had passed since he invaded the tree.
Maybe it's only one day, maybe countless years have passed
After Chengsheng could gradually adapt to this kind of 'absolute silence', he began to try to explore downwards along the tree body.
The tree body has no sense of touch, hearing or sight.
Therefore, survival is almost a shadow of darkness during the exploration process.
Whether he is in the trunk, branch or root of the tree can only be barely perceived by his spiritual consciousness which has been weakened to the extreme.
This process is very long.
After all, Chengsheng is no longer a person, but a tree.
As a tree, he can release the spiritual consciousness in his body to perceive. This is already an exaggeration. It is normal to be slower.
If it were another planet, after surviving and seizing the trees, they might be trapped in the tree bodies forever.
But on planet 021.
I don’t know how many years have passed.
Finally, at the root of the tree, I felt an indescribable feeling of fear.
After feeling this fear, Chengsheng felt happy, knowing that he had finally come into contact with the billions of 'dark spores' inside Planet 021.
Trapped in the trees, I was already bored to the extreme, and my life was so depressing and crazy that I immediately lost all my mind in it.
'boom'!
At this moment, a loud roar erupted from the sea of living consciousness.
The next second, countless miscellaneous information poured into the living mind like a tide through the 'dark spores' inside the 021 planet.
Through the neural network formed by the "dark spores" inside the planet, Survival can sense almost all the flowers, plants and trees on the surface of Planet 021.
He could feel the leaves, flowers and even roots swaying leisurely in the wind when the wind blew through these flowers, plants and trees.
You can also sense countless purple-black mushrooms growing on the survivors' bodies.
He could feel the malice emanating from those mushrooms, creating an illusion and drawing all human consciousness into it.
The survival at this moment is the 021 planet itself, all the flowers, plants and trees on the surface of the planet, all the purple-black mushrooms growing on the surface of the human body, and the 'derivative aggregate' composed of countless 'dark spores'.
Survival at this moment is everything on the planet!
Chengshuo maintains this mysterious and mysterious state.
He used the neural network formed by the 'dark spores' to connect with a survivor in the settlement who was dragged into the illusion.
"who?"
In the sea of consciousness, the survivor who was experiencing the pain of reincarnation in the illusion seemed to feel the existence of survival, so he suddenly exclaimed.
certainly.
The sound is not made by the mouth, but by consciousness.
Chengshuo immediately responded: "Me? I am."
Perhaps it was because I had stayed in the trees for so long that I almost forgot who I was.
He hesitated for a while before answering: "I am alive, but at the same time I am also the planet itself. I am the incarnation of the will of this planet."
"Planetary Will?"
In fantasy.
The survivor who communicated with him was a teacher by profession.
At this moment, he was in class in the classroom. When he heard what Chengshuo said, he subconsciously blurted out: "Are you a god on the planet?"
"So be it." Chengshuo replied, and then said to the survivor: "I plan to devour you now, so that you can merge with me and become part of the will of the planet."
The appearance of Chengshuo is too weird after all.
The teacher survivor was dubious about Chengsheng's words. He said cautiously: "What will happen to me after I am swallowed up? Will I still be me then?"
Chengshuo's answer was concise and clear: "You will die and your body and soul will be destroyed."
After briefly chatting with the survivor, Chengshuo used his spiritual consciousness to simulate the parasitic method of the purple-black mushroom, and parasitized it into the consciousness of the survivor.
"I"
Fantasy world.
In the classroom, at the moment of being parasitized, the survivor felt that countless purple-black mushrooms had grown inexplicably in his mind.
No.
Upon closer inspection, the survivor soon discovered that those were not real mushrooms, but countless densely packed mushrooms, tens of thousands of them.
Those beings parasitized in the minds of the survivors, assimilated, integrated, and finally completely integrated with the consciousness of the living beings.
And not just the one teacher survivor.
At the same time, tens of thousands of mushrooms grew in the sea of consciousness of all the survivors in the fantasy world.
These survivors have all been assimilated and integrated.
Until finally, it is completely integrated with the living deity.
(End of chapter)
