Chapter 1867
Chapter 1867 - 1863: The Cost of Evolution
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"Are you adapting well?"
Looking at the "female humanoid" who was still checking her state, Lu Ping’an smiled with satisfaction.
[Hua Xueyi (Mid-Level Golden Life/Divine Creature): Newborn Divine Son....]
At this moment, from the instant she climbed out of the hatching pool, the "birth" connection was already established.
Lu Ping’an could even feel that mysterious sense of familiarity when they looked at each other.
In front of him, Hua Xueyi gradually regained her human appearance, but this time, the metallic cheeks seemed somewhat troubled, like a sculpture.
"The future is entrusted to you."
"I’ve already shouldered enough.... "
"Uh, throwing the blame so quickly isn’t good." Perhaps the "bloodline" took effect, Hua Xueyi complained with her lips pursed, like a daughter whining to her old father.
At this moment, Lu Ping’an was a bit perplexed.
"Ahem, what I meant is, I’ve already shouldered so much, one more won’t matter."
The tightly held hands signified the opening of a thoroughly bound alliance.
In a certain sense, from this moment on, Lu Ping’an already held Hua Xueyi’s life and death.... In fact, one of the pages of the "Life Encyclopedia" indeed had similar control abilities.
In the world of the Extraordinary, not being human is one shortcut to becoming stronger.
This is often a helpless act after reaching a certain height and seeing higher points that one is powerless to reach.
Of course, there are always some oddities that never intended to be human from the start.... Yet those who blindly transform their own races and base structures rarely have a good end.
The deepest impression left on Lu Ping’an was the Fishman Priest who brought suffering to Guan Xinxian’s hometown..... Once a mortal, he betrayed his ethnic group, and his ultimate fate was merely that of a puppet for the superior.
"In the dark, everything has a price.... Sometimes, it’s purely bait for fishing."
Can changing races and identities bring you everything? Perhaps, the other party merely needs a puppet and toy, and your value as this puppet only comes from your past race and identity.
To prevent a mass production of human traitors, Earth has done a lot of publicity, even creating an "official booklet on the Thirty-Six Evil Gods (don’t seek the Evil Gods of the Foreign Domain)."
But the effect isn’t great... After all, the world will never lack greedy people and fools, or rather greedy fools.
After all, Earth’s Evil Gods still require some basic Trading Rules, while the Evil Gods of the Foreign Domain just need to deceive without limits, and anyway, it’s too late when you’re trapped.
No one can guarantee that opening the door tomorrow won’t bring another Door to Exotic Realm, with a group of famished Foreign Domain sharks rolling in with the waves to your home.... The fact is, too many towns and cities have been destroyed without any forewarning, possibly due to a few stupid ones siding with Exotic Realm Gods.
They generally don’t have a good end, partly because victims hate traitors the most, and partly because having opened the "big door," they themselves became "resonance points"... They thought they were door openers, but often they became part of the door, even its core.
Such existences are thrown out as coordinates; how can they be retrieved? Consequently, with the end of the plane’s plunder, after the invaders leave, the "coordinates" are invariably left behind.
No matter dead or alive, as long as not retrieved... the guiding points, even if cut or dug out, remain a large blank space that can still serve as guides, as long as those "coordinates" do not return to their starting points.
To some extent, this is also the reason summoned demons and such immediately kill their summoners upon emerging, even if not overturned at the scene, the stories’ Foreign Domain summoners always meet the most tragic ends.
On one hand, this is indeed propaganda, on the other hand, it’s the truth.... The residents of the Foreign Domain have insufficient resources for themselves, not for extra benefits, not to cast long lines to catch big fish, why treat you, an alien, well?
"....I finally discovered what’s most amiss in this world; it’s a world without Evil Gods and cultists, nor those local betrayers."
After really thinking it through, Lu Ping’an was somewhat flabbergasted, perhaps erasing the shepherd’s style education had such peculiar effects?
Lu Ping’an faintly sensed that it’s likely there are too many World’s Reason within this set of mechanisms, even beyond the reach of his abilities.
However, if truly achieving a "pure land" within the world, then the chance of the entire world being discovered by Exotic Realm Invaders and dragged into a "Contamination" world would drastically reduce.
"But, here we come..."
Lu Ping’an was slightly surprised, yet faintly felt uneasy and something amiss.
If a place succeeded in isolation for a thousand years, maintaining stable but outdated production methods, and suddenly, it was discovered and entered by outsiders...
"Did the Sakura Islanders actively find it?"
Lu Ping’an pondered a bit, shaking his head; the possibility of this seemed very slim.
At this moment, Lu Ping’an sensed something amiss, probably not the Sakura Islanders discovering this world, but this world actively guiding humans here.
Due to repeated experiences of being conned... with overly lengthy and convoluted Explorer logs, Lu Ping’an noticed the problem.
"This feeling is a bit like the Silent Mountain Range World and Mercury 42... more like the Earth actively opening the door to greet outsiders and change! Wait a minute, something’s wrong, isn’t this world doomed?"
Completely baseless speculation, but when it really appeared, Lu Ping’an felt somewhat bewildered.
Yes, bewildered, not the enlightenment of Spiritual intuition, nor the absence of sensation, but seemingly having perception and awareness forcibly shrouded.
"...Is there a Strongman setting rules to forbid the truth?"
"Isn’t this the case of hiding nothing here!"
"No, they lack the knowledge in this regard, which indeed can effectively reduce the chance of a crisis occurring."
Lu Ping’an looked up at the sky, yet saw only a scene of blue skies and white clouds, completely problem-free scenery.
According to the intelligence from the Heavenly Realm, he knew this world was in crisis; has the crisis grown to the extent that the entire world could perish at any moment?
"God Above Gods..."
The seemingly leftover intelligence drew Lu Ping’an’s attention.
Though said to be misjudgment and rumors, things like God Above Gods are overly rare, more than one sounds outrageous.
At this moment, Lu Ping’an was already considering whether to prepare to carve out a base and flee... unlike the previous determination to fight to the end on Earth, even with a similar level of Doomsday crisis, Lu Ping’an didn’t wish to sacrifice here.
Not his world nor his country, why fight to the last drop of blood himself?
"I hope it’s still possible, hope not to face another apocalypse..." Alright, at this moment, Spiritual intuition provided a bad answer, it seemed the information in this regard had not been sealed.
— End of Chapter 1867 —