Chapter 148 Broken

What is the strongest emotion in this world?

Different people have different answers, but if you ask a child who has witnessed the tragic death of a relative to answer, she would say -

It is hatred, an endless, never-ending hatred that occupies the entire empty shell.

All of Yu's connections to the world were given by her parents and brother. Whether it was common sense education or interpersonal relationships, everything she experienced was fleeting, small, fragile, yet beautiful.

How can humans kill the devil?

The Church's elite can offer many practical answers. These are the product of long preparations, diligent practice, exceptional talent, and indispensable opportunities. They are the most perfect traps constructed by the most intelligent individuals using the sharpest weapons.

But Yu has none of these.

She paralyzed the devil with her own weakness, allowing her to linger behind it. Flattery or obedience could not harm or even kill the devil.

How can I kill it?

This question remains unanswered. With Yu's limited knowledge of the world, she must first become a "powerful adult" before she can slay the demon. This requires a great deal of time and effort.

She tried hard to kill many people. These deaths may have pleased the devil, but they did not cause any substantial harm. Instead, the devil became stronger.

Even without being taught, Jade knew that animals grew fatter the more they ate. She was feeding the demon, not weakening it. But if she didn't feed the demon, she would be the one to die.

What should I do? No one gave her an answer.

But a creature of the abyss responded to her.

“Come to me and I will help you,” He said.

My parents and brother both said that creatures from the abyss cannot be trusted.

But humans are also untrustworthy. I am also an untrustworthy human, so there is nothing wrong with trusting creatures from the abyss, right?

So, desperate Yu held the invisible hand.

Countless hands dragged her into the quagmire, and the scarlet mud carried her body down and down.

She had successfully lured the devil into a trap just as she had lured humans, and now it was her turn to pay the price.

Yu closed her eyes, curled up as if she was back in her mother's arms, and wrapped her feet with her hands.

No, I can't sleep yet because the devil is not dead yet!

Yu Shu opened her eyes quickly, and the master transmitted scenes into her eyes.

The devil is fighting. It is forced to remove its special abilities and fight with the Abnormal-Master on a "fair" chessboard under the witness of the rules.

The girl couldn't understand the two abyssal creatures' understanding of the rules, let alone the misunderstandings within. She only knew that the devil was constantly being knocked down, but kept getting up and fighting back.

Die, die, die, die quickly!

The devil failed again and again, but he never retreated even though he was covered in blood.

It's useless, useless, useless. This is the master's territory, and the master is the strongest!

See, no matter how many times you get up, the Overlord suffers no loss.

As long as the rules are not broken, the Overlord is invincible.

The devil is obviously unable to make any deviation from the rules, and it is already falling towards defeat.

Will you kill it for me? Of course you will.

"Did you make a mistake?"

An unknown amount of time passed before the Overlord's cold voice echoed in his mind: "You should kill it for me."

Yeah, I should have killed it myself.

Yu could only see what the Master wanted her to see, and naturally she didn't know that the rules had been distorted by Chen Xiao'er's fluctuations, and that the Master was the disadvantaged party.

As the only human who has joined the Overmind camp and survived to this day, she is special.

If Yu had a deeper understanding of humans, she could even become the Overmind's external brain, managing some of the rules related to humans for it.

Even though Jade lacks knowledge, she can still be a valuable hub, allowing the power of the Abyss to converge within her. This is why the Overlord has preserved her until now.

Humans are truly suited to alienation.

Body, spirit, soul… Humans are not born creatures of the abyss, but they are a better vessel.

To abyssal creatures like the Overmind, humans are food, as well as coal or steel. After fine processing, they can turn decay into magic and do many things that abnormalities cannot do.

For example, now, it is about to lose.

The opposite of being almost invincible before the rules collapse is being extremely vulnerable after the rules collapse.

It was difficult to be harmed by anything outside of the rules. Even if it was reset to zero, it couldn't bypass the rules and directly attack its body. But now Chen Xiao'er was approaching step by step. It was time to initiate another plan.

Brush, swish, swish, swish.

The black and red mud gathered into cocoons, dissolving many humans who had been hunted, as well as many more abnormal remains, creating an entire enclosed space for the jade.

She will completely melt inside and then quickly grow into the Lord's strongest weapon.

The Overlord did not know that this strategy coincided with a plan of the Church. It simply discovered through long observation of humans that the human body has strong plasticity.

"Only I can help you. You must fight for me."

yes.

Yu thought this was normal. After all, the tribesmen were all like this: useless people would be abandoned, and useful people... If I were more useful, would my brother not have to die?

She didn't know, she didn't know. She frowned in her blood cocoon. The process of her body being transformed into liquid was incredibly clear. The Overlord hadn't shown any mercy by blocking out the pain. The vitality brimming with blood-red liquid ensured the transformed person remained lucid.

This is not a hurt, but a rebirth - an extremely painful rebirth.

Yu couldn't scream, her throat gone. She couldn't struggle either, her hands and legs still bobbing in the mud.

It’s almost there, it’s almost there, faster.

If it weren't for the overwhelming hatred, the girl's consciousness would have completely dissipated in the pain, but the human mind is too [powerful].

Her shallow attachment to the world could not alleviate her pain, and she had no hopes or dreams.

Only hatred, hatred that has been tempered to the extreme!

This poison transformed into the sharpest needle, which would penetrate deep into her soul and stir violently as long as she was still alive, reminding her that it was still alive!

Crash, crash.

The world is boiling, bones are born from the red marrow fluid, and layers of flesh and blood splash into a sea of flowers as if time is flowing backwards.

The master watched from above, pulling up a golden thread and slowly descending.

That is not the mercy bestowed by God on sinners, but complete control.

Rules are control.

This is the "truth" that the Overlord has comprehended over the ages, and it is the foundation upon which He forged His divine throne. The abyss is disordered, and I will bring order to it, so that I may be called a god.

Order must be established from the inside out, starting from the most basic molecules.

Whether abnormal or human, any thought and action must first be approved by me before it can take effect. This is the highest order and the ultimate [happiness] I promise.

With a rustling sound, the golden thread split from the middle, forming one solid and virtual line after another. These lines would replace the veins in Yu's body, becoming her most powerful aid and restraint.

…It should have been like this.

Yu lacked the willpower to resist the Overlord, as did most humans. This blood cocoon was indestructible, both internally and externally, for it was about to be born, its state unstable.

Pasha, pashasha——

A crack appeared in the bloody cocoon, and strong light poured in instantly.

…

"Call the police! Zero, hurry up and call the police!"

Chen Xiao'ai walked in without looking back. There were so many broken limbs around, so many that... it could even numb the human instinctive fear and disgust towards corpses.

In the "eye" of the monitoring center, this is the conversion center, the dominant digestive tract and the gestation pool.

The black and red rivers are filled with the debris of humans and anomalies. These debris will be transformed into pure nutrients to forge new anomalies.

But when Chen Xiao'er's gaze swept over, the black and red river retreated on its own, revealing piece after piece of human limbs.

These limbs were mostly hands and feet, which had a dull color from long-term blood loss and were inserted crookedly in the bulging flesh.

Chen Xiao'er walked quickly over, and the bulging pieces of flesh turned into freezers and open boxes, quietly filled with various human body parts.

“Woo…”

Chen Xiao'er bit her lips, tears welling up in her eyes.

The scene before her was completely beyond her expectations. Her worst imagination was that the factory director used the safety of his family and his power to oppress the female student, forcing her to commit suicide.

Breach of contract, illegal food additives, employment of child labor... who would have thought that it would lead to direct murder!

So the factory director sent someone to knock me and my senior sister unconscious, but did not call the police to kick out all the students who were causing trouble. I guess he wanted to destroy the evidence as soon as possible.

It is possible that the bodies were originally intact and were only urgently separated after the school sent people over.

No matter how many doubts there were, the hard evidence before her urged Chen Xiao'er to move forward.

Ling reached out and grasped Xiao'er's fingers, tightening his palm along them. The senior's long hair and shoulders shielded her from the terrifying scene.

When the two heartbeats converged, both the fear and despair were weakened by half.

The only thing that didn't diminish was the burning anger!

"I must make her, make her--" pay the price.

The word "price" is difficult to pronounce, because both reason and emotion call for a punishment that is more severe than the death penalty.

Feeling Chen Xiao'er's trembling, Ling tightened his palm slightly and used the strength of his arms to support her to move forward.

Tap, tap, click.

Chen Xiao'er stopped and looked up, almost unable to breathe.

She had only heard of the existence of "Jingguan" in historical records, but she had never expected it to exist in reality. The Jingguan here was not entirely made of skulls, but was covered with a lot of split torsos underneath.

They were obviously frozen, and even the pulp had a jelly-like texture. The pieces put together had a shaky and twisted feeling, as if they would crawl up and wail at any time.

Am I still lucky?

Her lips tingled. "Medical specimens? Or a hospital using this freezer as a morgue?"

These pieces of body that were chopped up like pork and frozen... it just doesn't make sense.

"Ah," she cried out briefly. The sound was not shrill, but rather like a confused and bewildered little animal.

"Xiao Ai."

Ling frowned slightly as she looked at the information on her iris. She was about to tell Xiao'e to stay away from these things when she suddenly missed something.

The girl darted out like a cat, running towards the writhing blood cocoon in the center. She shouted, "Someone's still alive! Someone's still alive!"

Of course it's alive, that's the incubation nest of high-level anomalies.

The apostle was extremely fast and caught up with her in the next second. He could stop her from moving forward with just a stretch of his hand.

But Chen Xiao'er pounced on the blood cocoon first. She tore it apart with both hands while talking incessantly.

Zero heard her broken words and reached out his hand worriedly. The girl tilted her head, a light returning to her purple eyes, and a tear rolled down the corner of her upturned lips.

"Someone's moving inside!"

Just a glance.

Chen Xiao'er lowered her head and continued to tear the blood cocoon. Ling seemed to be locked in place by invisible chains, allowing countless groups of suggestions to rise and fall.

[…In summary, it is recommended that Chen Xiao’ai bypass the source of danger and go directly to the Anomaly - Overlord.]

Go for it as suggested.

[No. 0: I believe Chen Xiao'er can resolve the current situation.]

Rustle, rustle.

Chen Xiao'er squatted on the ground and pushed aside one corpse after another with her bare hands. She could not smell the stench at all, and even her vomiting reaction stopped.

Because she seemed to hear someone shouting for help in a very small voice.

Even if it was an illusion, the intact, tiny "corpse" of the child that she vaguely saw in her eyes moved, she really moved!

Pasha——

The last body was pushed aside.

Chen Xiao'er really saw a body... a girl who was still intact with all her hands and feet.

The girl's chest rose and fell slightly, and she was obviously still breathing.

"……Very good."

Black, endless black and red were peeled off by a pair of arms.

So the pain had to retreat, to the endless glory.

Yu opened his eyes and saw a familiar figure in a trance.

What is the strongest emotion in this world?

The surging hatred suddenly stopped.

"……Mother?"